RATES OF ADVERTISING. Four lines or lees constitute half a square. Ten HIM or month= four, constitute a square. Balfsq,.,oneday- 30.25 One sq., oneday,3 o . lo ,‘ one week.— 1.00 " one week. --. 1.24 4i one month_. 2.00 " one month. - 3.00 ', three months. 3.00 ill three m onths. 5.00 " sizmontha— 4.00 4, six months.- 8.0 0 L 4 one year....... 4.00 41 one year.-.- 10.04 l id" Business neticesinserted in the LOCAL ow.lncli. or before marriages and deaths, Five owns pea LINZ Wench insertion. To inerchantsand others advertieingbytheyear 'liberal tea zs will be offered_ irr The nninbarof ineertione must bedeeignatedon the ivertisement. ths will be inserted at the same Er Ablrlillgetl and Dea as regular advertiseraents. - goyim Otationerp, !SCHOOL BOOKS.—School Directors, Iv icbera, Patents, Scholars, and others in want of School Books, School Stationery, &c., will finds complete assortment at N. IK. POLLOCK & SON'S BOOK STOBB, Starket Span s Horzisban, comprising in part the follow- i VIADNID3.--Mcatiffees, Parker's, Cobb's, Arisellls SPILLING - BOOKS.-1 1 .1e4agey's, Cobb's, Webster% Ttowa's, Byerif s. Combry's. ENGLISH ORA matall3.—Dulliores, Smith's, Wood ledge's, tdonteith,s, Tuthill's, Hart's, Wells'. FUSTORiIts.--Grimshaw's, Davenport's, Frost% Wil senia, Willard's, Goodrich% Pinnock's, tioldsokitb's and ABITHMETBC'S.--Greerdad's, Stoddard's, llmerson't4 Hose's, Coburn's, Smith and Duke's, Davie's. ALGEBBAS.--Greenhaf% Dade% Day's, Bay's, Bridge's. DlCTlONARYS.—Worces'er's Quarto, Academic, Com prehensive and Primary Dictionares. Wearer's school, Cobb's, Walser, Wet ster'e Primary, Webeter's Brief School. Webster's Quarto. headman. NATURAL PliltaSOPHlEri.—tkornatoelt'S, Patten, Swift's. The above with a great variety of others can at any time be found at my store. Also, a complete assort ment of School Stationery, embracing in the win le a com plete outet for school purposes. Any book not is the store. proctored tt one days notice. Er Country Merchants supplied at wholesale rates. ALfdLdRACS.--Tohn Baer and Son's Almanac for sale ai I. M. POLLOCK & SON'S BOOS STORE, Harrisburg. Itr Wholesale and Retail. myl U-PHOLSTER I NG. 0, F. YOLLMER Is prepared to do all kinds of work in the UPHOLSTERING BUSINESS. Pays particular attention to MAKING AND PUTTING DOWN CARPETS, MAKING AND REPAIRING MAT TRASSES, REPAIRING FURNITURE, Ac., am. He can be found at all times at his residence, in the rear of the William Tell House, corner of Raspberry and Blank berry alleys. sep29-dly T_ET TE R, CAP, NOTE PAPERS, -U Pena, Holders, Pencils ; Envelopes, Sealing Wax, of the best quality, at low prices, direct from the manu factories, at moral) - SCHEPPEE'S CHEAP BOORSTORE LAW BOOKS! LAW BOOKS I .1-A -LA general assortment of LAW BOOKS, all the State Reports and Standard Elementary Works, with many of the old English Reports, seams and rare, together with a. large assortment, of second-hand Law Books, at very low prices, at the one price Bookstore of E. M. POLLOOK tk SON, Market Square, Harrisburg. I= JiUigcellaneous. AN ARRIVAL OF NEW GOODS APPROPRIATE TO THE SEASON! SILK. LINEN PAPER PANS! FANS!! PANS!!! ANOTHEB AND SPLENDID LOT OF SPLICED FISHING SODS! Trout Flies, Gut and Hair Snoods, Grass Lines, Silk and Hair Plaited Lines, and a general assortment of FISHING! TACKLE! • GREAT VARIETY OF WALKING CANES! Which we will sell as cheap as the cheapest! Canes!ead Loaded Sword Hickory 1 4 Enery Canes! Canes! Canes! Canes! HELLBR'S DRUG AND FANCY SPORN, NO. 91 NASEST STREET, South side, one door east of Fourth street je9. WE OFFER TO CIISTOMERS A New Lot of CABINS' r1711.013C5, Of Beautiful Styles, substantially made A Splendid Assortment of GENTLEMEN'S WALLETS. A New and Elegant Perfume, KNIGHTS TEMPLARS' LBOQUET, Put up in Cut Glass Engraved Bottles. A Complete Assortment of 'HANDKERCHIEF PERFUMES, Of the beat Efanufsetnre. A very Handsome Variety of POWDER PUFF BOXES. trum.wlt'S DRUG STORE, 91 Market street CANDLES!!! PARAFFIN CANDLES, SPERM CANDLES, STRA.RINE CANDLES, ADAMANTINE CANDLES, CMEmICAL SPERM CANDLES, STAR (suPsitioa) CANDLES, TALLOW CANDLES. A large invoice of the above in store, and for sale at anscstwily low rates, by WM. DOCK, tn., & CO., Opposite the Court 1101180 Mg GUN AND BLASTING POWDER. JAMES M. 1V HEELER, HARRISBURG PA., AGENT FOR ALL POWDER, AND FUSE 111AELITABITIBBD ST I. R. DUPONT DE NEMOURS it CO., WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. OA large supply always on hand. For sake atmann factnrees prices. Magazide two miles below town. 4rOrders received at Warehouse. n 077 TUST RECEIVED—A large Stock of tt) SCOTCH ALES, BROWN STOUT and LONDON PORTER. For sate at the lowest rates by JOHN H. ZIEGLER, 73 Market street. jaall IBII!! FISH!!! MACKEREL, (Nos.l, 2 and 3.) SALMON, (very superior.) MEAD, Mess and very fine.) KERBING, (extra large.) coD FISH• SMOKED HERRING, (extra Digby.) SCOTCH HERRING. SARDINES AND ANCHOVIES. Of the above we have Mackerel in whole, half, quarter and eighth bbls. Herring in whole and half bbls. The entire lot new—DIRECT FROM THE r missies, and will sell them at the lowest market rates. . DOCK, JR., & CO. sepl4 WM WOK° ay WOOD! I—A SUPERIOR LOT IL just received, and for sale in quantities to suit pur chasers, by TAMES M. WHEELER. Also, OAK AND PINE constantly on hand at the lowest prices. de e& FAMILY BIBLES, from 1$ to $lO, L o a n, a nd handsomely bound, printed on good paper, with elegant clear new type, aold at meh3l SOH WY? Bit'S Cheap noolvt-no. BOURBON WHISKY.—A very Supe rior Article of BOURBON WHISKY. in quart bot tles, in store and for sale by JOHN H. ZiEG Stree t. mars 73 Market Street. HARRISON'S HOUSEHOLD SOAP. L 1.50 BOXES OF THIS PBBFECT SOAP. For sale at Manufacturer'a pricts. A. ROBINSON & CO. mar 6 T_TAVANA ORANGES !I! 1 1 A prime lot just received by oda. WM. DOCK, .TA., I Co. FOR a superior awl cheap TABLE or SALAD OIL go to KELLER'S DRUG STORE. THE Fruit Growers' Handbook—by WARlNG—wholesale and retail at FERIA meb3l SCH RI EA Bookstore. APERM CANDLES.—A large supply just received by Amos WM. DOCK. & CO. GARDEN SEEDS ! ! !-A its AND COMPIATS assortment, just received and for sale by ,b2l • Wbf. DOCK, Ja., dc CO. CRAlti BF:IMT ! !-A SPLENDID LOT e p received by o - VALANBERRIES--A very Superior lot 0 " 26 -1 WM. DOCK, 7.5. a COa WM. DOCK, SR., & CO. Z e • - . fl 7 l I t • t - nt • ' • -11 -rjig,errj VOL. 3. ,Iniscellantous. TAKE NOTICE! That we have recently added to our already full stock OF SEGARS LA NORkL&TIS, HAW SARI, EL MONO, OF PERFIIME'RY LA BANANA. FOR rue HANDKERCHIEF: TURKISH ESSENCE, ODOR OF MUSK, LUBIN'S ESSENCE BOUQUET FOR MR HAIR! EAU LUSTRALE, CRYSTALIZED POMATUM, MYRTLE AND VIOLET POMATUM. Fos rail COMPLEXION TALC OF VENICE, ROSE LEAF POWDER, NEW MOWN HAY POWDER, BLANC DE PERLES. OF SOAPS; BASIN'S FINEST . MOSS ROSE, BENZOIN, UPPER TEN, VIOLET, NEW MOWN HAY, JOCKEY CLUB, Raving the largest stock and best assortment. of Toilet Articles, we fancy that we are better able than our com petitors to get up a complete Toilet Set at any price de sired. Call and see. Always on hand, a FRESH Stock of DR OHS, MEDI CINES, CHEMICALS, arc , consequent of our re ceiving almost daily additions thereto. KELLER'S DRUG AND FANCY STORE, 91 Market Street, two doors East of Fourth Street, sep6 South side. JACKSON & CO.'S SHOE STORE, NO. (log MARKET STREET, HARRISBURG, PA., Where they intend to devote their entire time to the manufacture of BOOTS AND SHOES of all kinds and varieties, in the neatest and most fash ionable styles, and at satisfactory prices. Their stock will consist, in part, of Gentlemen's Fine Calf and Patent Leather Boots and Shoes, latest styles; Ladies , and Misses' Gaiters, and other Shoes in great variety; and in fact everything connected with the Shoe business. CUSTOMER WORKwill beparticularlyattendedto, and in all cases 'will satisfaction be warranted. Lasts fitted up by one of the best makers in the roweiry. The long practical experience of the undersigned, and their thoroUgh knowledge of the business will, they trust, be sufficient guarantee to the public that they will do them justice, and furnish them an article tha will recommend itself for utility, cheapness and dura bility. Ejan9] JACKSON & CO. TILE AMERICAN BYRON! •GUADALOUPE: A TALE OF LOVE AND WAR. A Poem in the style of DON JUAN, and - equal in spirit, matter and manner to that brilliant production of the ‘-Burrisin 8a50. ,2 By a well known citizen of Philadelphia, who served with distinction in the late War with Mexico. PHI•'rS EIXTENTY-FITE CISNTS. For sale at . SCREFFER'S BOOKSTORE, marl) No. 18 Market Street. Harrisburg. Pa. A . NEW FEATURE IN THE BFICE TRADE!!! IMPORTANT TO HOUBBKERPERS!!! E. R. DURE EE & CO'S SELECT SPICES, In Tin Poi' ~..t , ined with Paper,) and fall Weight.— BLACK PEPPER, GINGER, NUTMEG, WHITE PEP PER, ALLSPICE, MACE, CAYENNE PEPPER, CINNAMON. CLOVES, MUSTARD 111 This age or adlifltc - resteO und tasteless Spices, it is with ennfidenee that we introduce to the attention of Housekeepers these superior and genuine articles. We guarantee them not only ABSOLUTELY AND PERFECTLY pups, but ground from fresh Spices, selected and cleaned by us expressly for the purpose, without reference to cost. They are beautifully packed in tinfoil, (lined with paper.) to prevent injury by keeping, and are FULL WEIGHT, while the ordinary ground Spices are almost invariably short. We warrant them, in point of strength and richness of flavor, beyond all comparison, as a sin gle trial will abundantly prove. Every package bears our TRADE MARE. Manufactured only by E. A. DURKEE & CO, New York. For sale by [feb27.] WM. DOCK, 3R., &CO C OAL! COAL!! ONLY YARD'IN TOWN TELIT DELIVERS (COAL BY THE P A TENT WEIGH CARTS! NOW IS THE TIME Por every family to get in their supply of Coal fox the winter—weighed at their door by the Patent Weigh Carts. The accuracy of these Carts no one disputes, and they never get out of order, as is frequently the case of the Platform Scales; besides, the consumer has the satisfaction of proving the weight of his Coal at his own house. I have a large supply of Coal on hand, co-:Z.:ltlug of B. M. CO.'S LYKENS VALLEY COAL all sizes. LICHENS VALLEY cs W'LLKESBARRE do. ►• I/ BITIIMINOUS BROAD TOP do. All Coal of the best quality mined, and delivered free from all impurities, at the lowest rates, by the boat or car load, single, half or third of tons, and by the bushel. JAMES M. WHEELER. Harrisburg, September 24, 1860.—5ep25 HATCH & CO., SHIP AGENTS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 138 WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, DEALERS IN FLOUR, GRAIN, PRODUCE, COTTON, WINES AND LIQUORS, TOBACCO AND CIGARS. no 06-16 m DYOTTVILLE GLASS WORKS, PHILADELPHIA, NANUFACTURN OARILOYS, DEMIJOHNS, WINE, PORTER, MINERAL WATER, PICKLE AND PRESERVE BOTTLES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. IL B. & G. W. DENNERS, 0e19411y 27 South Front steret, Philadelphia. WARRANTED TWELVE MONTHS! ANOTHER LOT OF MORTON'S UNRIVALLSD GOLD PENS! PERSONS in want of a superior and really good GOLD rex will find with me a large assortment to select from, and totve the privilege to exchange the Pens until their hand is perfectly suited. And if by fair means the Dia mond points break off during twelve monthr, the pur chaser shall have the privilege to select a new one. without any charge. I have very - good Gold Pens, in strong silver-plated eases, for $l, $1.25, $l5O, $2.00 For sale at Sell P PER'S RnORSTORE, mar 26 No. 18 Market Street, Harrisburg, Pa. A T C QSTIII BOTTLED WINES, BRANDIES, AND LIQUORS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION! Together with a complete assortment, (wholesale and retail,) embraiing everything in the line, will be sold at east, without r&csres j a m Pl3l. DOCK. A CO. VALENTINES! VALEATINEs!! A large assortment of COMIC and SENTIMENTAL VALENTINES of different styles and prices. For sale at SCHEMA'S BOOKSTORE, febO 18 Market Street, Harrisburg, Pa. SMOKE SMOKE! ! SMOKE! 1-49 not objectionable when from a CIGAR purchased a KELLRIVB DRUG STORE, 91 Market street. sepl9 HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1861. finzs of &awl. PENNSYLVANIA R&I.LROAD. SUMMER TIME TABLE. _ — 17.1111.1: - wricl .. er 4 7441-4 FIVE TRAINS DAILY TO & FROM PHILADELPHIA. ON AND AFTER MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1861, The Passenger Trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will depart from and arrive at Liarriaburg and Philadelphia as follows: EASTWARD THROUGH EXPRESS TRAIN leaves Harrisburg at 1 15 a. m., and arrives at West Philadelphia at 5.10 a. in. FAST LINE leaves Harrisburg at 6.20 a. m., and ar rives at West Philadelphia at 10.05 a. m. PAST MAIL TRAIN leaves Harrisburg at 1.15 p. to., and arrives at West Philadelphiat at 5.10 p. zn. These Trains make close connections at Philadelphia with the New York Lines. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN, No. 1, via Mount Joy, leaves Harrisburg at 7.30 a. m., and arrives at West Philadelphia at 12.30 p. m. HARRISBURCr ACCOMMODATION TRAIN, via Co. lumbia, leaves Harrisburg at 4.10 p. m., and arrives at West Philadelphia at 9.25 p. m. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN, No. 2, via Mount Joy, leaves Harrisburg at 4.20 p.m., connecting at Dillerville With HARRISBURG ACCOMMODATION TRAIN, and arrives at West Philadelphia at 9.25 p. m. WESTWARD THROUGH EXPRESS TRAIN leaves Philadelphia 10.45 p. m , Harrisburg 3.05 a. m., Altoona 8.05, arrives at Pittsburg 12.40 p. in. MAIL TRAILS leaves Philadelphia 7.30 a. in., Harris burg 1.10 p. m., Altoona 7.05 p. m., and arrives at Pitts burg 12 20 a. in. FAST LINE leaves Philadelphia 11.45 a. m., Harris burg 4 05 p. in., Altoona 8.40 p. in.. and arrives at Pitts burg 1 00 a. m. HARRISBURG ACCOMMODATION TRAIN leaves Philadelphia 230 p. m., Lancaster 6.05 p. m., Columbia 6.40 p. in., and arrives at Harrisburg 8.05 p m. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN leaves Philadelphia 4.00 p. in., Lancaster 7.44 p. in., Mount Joy 8.28 p. m., Eliza bethtown 8.48 p.m., and arrives at - Harrisburg 9.45 p. m. Attention is called to the fact that passengers leaving Philadelphia 4.00 p. m. connect at Lancaster with MOUNT JOY ACCOMMODATION TRAIN, and arrive at Harrisburg at 9.45 p. m. BAWL D. YOUNG, Supt. East. Div. Penna. B. B. Harrisburg, April 12, 1861.—dtf NEW AIR LINE ROUTE NEW YORK. - 4--Lf;l4 - - 7.-Asok - - '`, 5lZ:3" Shortest in Distance and Quickest in Time BETWEEN THE TWO CITIES OF NEW YORK AND HARRISBURG, VIA READING, ALLENTOWN AND EASTON MORNING EXPRESS, West, leaves New York at a. in., arriving at Harrisburg at Ip. m. , only 6. hours between the two cities. MAIL LINE leaves Now York at 12.00 noon, and ar rues at Harrisburg at 8.15 p. m. MORNING MAIL LINE, East, leaves Harrisburg 8.00 a. m., arriving at New York at 5.20 p. m. AFTERNOON EXPRESS LINE, East, leaves Harris. burg at 1.30 p. in., arriving at New York at 9.45 p. m. 0.....nti0na are mans at Harrisburg sal p. the Passenger Trains in each direction onthe Pennsylva• ilia, Cumberland Valley and Northern Central Railroads All Trains connect at Reading with Trains for Potts ville and Philadelphia, and at Allentown for Manch Chunk, Easton, Ste. No change of Passenger Cars or Baggage between New York and Harrisburg, by the 6.00 a. in. Line from New York or the 1.15 p. M. from Harrisburg. For beauty of scenery and speed, comfort and accom modation 7 this Route presents superior inducements to the traveling public. Fare betw eenN ew York and Harrisburg, Five DOLLARS For Tickets and other information apply to J. J. CLYDE, General Agent, dels Harrisburg. pHILADELPHIA AND READING RAILROAITI WINTER ARRAN G EMENT. ON AND AFTER DEC. 12, 1860, TWO PASSENGER TRAINS LEAVE HARRISBURG DAILY, (Sundays excepted,) at 8.00 A. M., and 1.15 P. M., for Philadelphia, arrivingthere at 1.25 P.M., and 6.15 P.M. RETURNING, LEAVE PHILADELPHIA at 8.00 A.M. and 3.30 P.M., arriving at Harrisburg at 1 P. M. and 8.16 P.M. - FARES :—To Philadelphia, No. 1 Cars, $3.25 ; No. 2, (in same train) $2.75. FARES :—To Readinr, $1.60 and 21.30. At Reading, connect with trains for Pottsifirat, Miners-- rifle, Tamaqua, CatillriEel, /cc. FOUR TRAINS LEAVE READING FOR PHILADEL PHIA DAILY, at OA. M.,10.45 A. M., 12.80 noon and 3.43 P. M. LEAVE PHILADELPHIA. FOR READING at 8 A. 41.,1.00 P. M., 3.80 P. M., and 5.00 P. hi. FARES:—Reading to Philadelphia, $1.75 and $1.45. THE MORNING TRAIN FROM HARRISBURG CON. NECTS AT READING. with np train for Wilke:Mame Pittston and Scranton. For through tickets and other information apply to J. J. CLYDE, dels-dtf General Agent. PHILADELPHIA AND RWADING RAILROAD. REDUCTION OF PASSENGER PARES, ON AND AFTER MONDAY, A PitlL 2, 1060 COMMUTATION TICKETS, With 26 Coupons, will be issued between any points desired,. good for the holder and any member of his family, in any Passenger train, and at any time—at 26 per cent. below the regular fares. Parties having ()Melon to use the Road frequently on business or pleasure, will find the above arrangement convenient and errnomical; as Four Passenger trains run daily each wry between Reading and Philadelphia, and Two Train. Or' , r between Reading, Pottsville and Harrisburg. Ce Be ciao, only one morning train Down. and one afters' sty train Up, runs between Pottsville and Philadelphi r and no Passenger train on the Lebanon Valley firm+ Railroad. For the above Tickets, or any Information relating thereto apply to B. Bradford, Esq., Treasurer,Philadel phis, e the respective Ticket Agents on the line, or to G. A. NICOLLS, General Supt. Nelsen 27, 1860.—mar2B-dtf NORTHERN CENTRAL RAILWAY. NOTICE. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. SPRING ARRANGEMENT. ON AND AFTER. FRIDAY, MARCH IsT, mu the Passenger Trains of the Northern Central Railway will leave Harrisburg as follows : GOING SOUTH. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN will leav% at.. 3.00 a. in. EXPRESS TRAIN will leave at . 7.40 a. ta- MAIL TRAIN will leaveat ...... 1.00 GOING NORM MAIL TRAIN will leave at 1.40 p. m. EXPRESS TRAIN will leave at —8.50 p. to. The only Train leaving Harrisburg on Sunday will t the ACCOMMODATION TRAIN South. at 3.00 a. M. For further information apply at the office, in Penn Sylvania Railroad Depot. JOHN W. HALL, Agent, Harrisburg, March let-dtf. DRIED BEEF—An extra lot of DRIED BEEF just received by no 9 WM. BOOS, JB., & CO. BURLINGTON HERRING ! Tug received by WM. DOOk, Sc. 00 ocl Ett ',patriot & Union. THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 18, 1861. ANECDOTES. OF DR. ABERNETHY. Prom "Jeaftresou's Reek about Doetons,” lately pub lished by Rudd & Carleton. Abernethy is a by-word for rudeness and even brutality of manner; but he was as ten der and generous as a man ought to be. as a man of great intelligence usually is. The sto ries current about Abernethy are nearly all fictions of the imagination; or, when they have any foundation in fact, relate to events that occurred long before the hero to whom they are tacked by anecdote-mongers had appeared on the stage. He was eccentric—but his ec centricities always took the direction of com mon sense; whereas the extravagances attrib uted to him by popular gossip are frequently those of a heartless buffoon. His time was precious, and be rightly considered that his business was to set his patients in the way of recovering their lost health—not to listen to their fatuous prosings about their maladies.— He was therefore prompt and decided in check ing the egotistic garrulity of valetudinarians. This candid expression of his dislike to unne cessary talk had one good result. People who came to consult him took care not to offend him by bootless prating. A lady on one occa sion entered his consulting room, and put be fore him an injured finger, without saying a word. In silence Abernethy dressed the wound, when instantly and silently the lady put the usual fee on the table, and retired. In a few days she called again, and offered her finger for inspection. "Better ?" asked the surgeon. "Better," answered the lady, speak ing to him for th first time. Not another word followed during the rest of the interview. Three or four similar visits were made, at the last of which the patient held out her finger tree from bandages and perfectly healed. "Well?" was Abernethy's monosylabic inquiry. "Well," was the lady's equally brief answer. "Upon my soul, madam," exclaimed the de lighted surgeon, "you are the most rational woman I ever met with!" To curb his tongue, however, out of respect to Abernethy's humor, was an impossibility to John Philpot Curran. Eight times Curran (personally unknown to Abernethy,) had called on the great surgeon • and eight times Absr nethy had looked at the orator's tongue (telling him, by-the-by, that it wet the most unclean and utterly abominable tongue in the world,) had curtly advised him to drink less, and not abuse his stomach with gormandizing, had taken a guinea, and had bowed him out of the room. On the ninth visit, just as he was about to be dismissed in the same summary fashion, Curran, with a flash of his dark eye, fixed the surgeon, and said—" Mr. Abernethy, I have been here on eight. different days, and I have paid you eight different guineas; but you have never yet listened to the symptoms of my com plaint. lam resolved, sir, not to leave the room till you satisfy me by doing so." With a good-natured laugh, Abernethy, half suspect ing that he had to deal 'with a madman, fell back in his chair and said—"Oh! very well, sir; lam ready to bear you out. Go on, give me the whole—your birth, parentage and edu eation. I wait your pleasure. Pray be as minute and tedious as you can." With perfect gravity Curran began—" Sir, my name is John Philpot Curran. My parents were poor, but I believe honest people, of the province of Mun ster, where also I was born, at Newmarket., in the county of Cork, in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty. My father being employed to collect the rents of a Protestant gentleman of small fortune, in that neighbor hood, procureS, my admission into one of the Protestant free schools, where I obtained the I first rudiments of my education. I was next enabled to enter Trinity College, Dublin, in the humble sphere of a sizar—" And so he went steadily on, till he had thrown his auditor into convulsions of laughter. Abernethy was very careful not to take fees from patients if he suspected them to be in in digent circumstances. Mr. George Macilwain, in his instructive and agreeable "Memoirs of John Abernethy," mentions a ease where an old officer of parsimonious habits, but not of impoverished condition, could not induce Aber nethy to accept his fee, and consequently fore bore from again consulting him. On another occasion, when a half-pay lieutenant wished to pay him for a long and laborious attendance, Abernethy replied, "Wait till you're a gene ral; then come and see me, and we'll talk about fees." To a gentleman of small means who consulted him, after having in vain had recourse to other surgeons, he said—" Your recovery will be slow. If you don't ft - el much pain, depend upon it you are gradually get ting round ; if you do feel much pain, then come again, but not else. I don't want your money." To a hospital student (of great pro mise and industry, but in narrow circumstan ces) who became his dresser, he returned the customary fee of sixty guineas, and requested him to expend them in the purchase of books and securing other means of improvement. To a poor widow lady (who consulted him about her child) he, on saying good bye'in a friendly letter, returned all the fees he had taken from her under the impression that she was in good circumstances, and added 501. to the sum, beg ging her to expend it in giving her child a daily ride in the fresh air. He was often brusque and harsh, and more than once was properly reproved for his hastiness and want of consideration. "I have heard of your rudeness before I came, sir," one lady said, taking his prescrip tion, " but I was not prepared for such treat ment. What and Ito do with this?" " Anything you like," the surgeon roughly answered. " Put it on the fire if you please." Ticking him at his word, the lady put her fee on the table, and the prescription on the fire; and, making a bow, left the room. Aber nethy followed her into the ball, apologizing, and begging her to take back the fee or let him write another prescription ; but the lady would not yield her vantage ground. Ot operations Abernethy had a most unsur geonlike horror—" like Cheselden and Hunter, regarding them as the reproach of the profes sion." " I hope, sir, it will not be long," said a poor womau, suffering under the knife. " No, indeed," earnestly answered Abernethy, "that would be too horrible." This humanity, on a point of which surgeons are popularly re zarded as being devoid of feeling, is very gen eneral in the profession. William Cooper (Sir Astley's uncle) was, like Abernethy, a most tender hearted man. He was about to amputate a man's leg, in the hospital theatre, when the poor fellow, terrified at the display of instru ments and apparatus, suddenly jumped off the table, and hobbled away. The students burst out laughing; and the surgeon, much pleased at being excused from the performance of a painful duty, exclaimed, "By Gad, I am glad he's gone !" The treatment which one poor fellow received from Abernethy may at first sight seem to mili tate against our high estimate of the surgeon's humanity, and dislike of inflicting physical pain. D r . an eminent physician still living and conferring lustre on his profession, sent a favorite man-servant with a brief note running—" Dear Abernethy, will you do me the kindness to put a seton on this poor fellow's neck ? Yours sincerely, ." The man, who was accustomed and encouraged to indulge in considerable freedom of speech with his master's friends, not only delivered the note to Abernethy, but added, in an explanatory and confiding tone, "You see, sir, I don't get better, and as master thinks I ought to have a seton in my neck, I should be thankful if you'd put it in for me." It is not at alt improbable that Abernethy resented the directions of master and man. Anyhow be inquired into the inva lid's case, and then taking out his needles did as he was requested. The operation was at tended with a little pain, and the man howled as only a coward can howl, under the temporary inconvenience. "Oh! Lor' bless you! Oh, have mercy on me! Yarrra—yarrra—yarrr ! Oh, doctor—doctor—you'll kill me!" In another minute the surgeon's work was accom plished, and the acute pain having passed away the man recovered his self-possession and impu dence. " Oh, well, sir, I do hope, now that it's done, it'll do me good. Ido hope that." "But it won't do you a bit of good." " What, sir, no good?" cried the fellow. "No more good," replied Abernethy, " than if I had spat upon it." " Then sir—why—oh, yarr! here's the pain again—why did you do it ?" "Confound you, man," answered the sur geon, testily, "Why did I do it 9—Why, didn't you ask me to put a seton in your neck g" Of course the surgical treatment employed by Abernethy in this case was the right one ; but he was so nettled with the fellow's impu dence and unmanly lamentations, that he could not forbear playing off upon him a barbarous jest. If for this outbreak of vindictive humor the reader is inclined to call Abernethy a savage, let his gift of 501. to the widow lady, to pay for her sick child's carriage exercise, be remem bered. Appropos of 501., Dr. Wilson of Bath sent a present of that sum to an indigent cler gyman, against whom he had come in the course of practice. The gentleman who had engaged to convey the gift to the unfortunate priest said, "Well, then, I'll take the money to him to-morrow." "Oh, my dear sir," said the doctor, " take it to him to-night. Only think of the importance to a sick man of one good night's rest." CHARLES DICKENS.—Dr. M'Kenzie, of the Philadelphia Press, says of Charles Dickens : Twenty years ago, when Dickens was in the height of his popularity, his warm friend Talfourd, an able writer and critic, as well as a good lawyer, frankly told him that he would be a rich man, as well as a better author, by retreating from the entanglements and expenses of a London life. He suggested a residence such as Dickens now has at Gad's Hill, within a convenient distance of London. This would avoid Sunday dinner parties, and the extrava gances, dissipations and temptations of a Re gent's Park career, and also give him more leisure to think, and a clearer head to work with. But Mrs. Dickens had a great share of her sex's vanity at that time, and Dickens' parasites, who enjoyed his liberal hospitality, urged him to remain in London, a fashionable as well as a literary man. A friend of Dickens, who knew him from childhood, and dearly loves him to this hour, lately wrote to us thus : " There does not live a larger-hearted or better-minded man than Dickens. He is liberal to a fault. He allowed his wife's relations to hang upon him, to infest his house, and to drain his purse for years. The great fault of his character is ostentation. With all his sagacity Dickens is eternally afraid of being slighted. He never seems to be at his ease—not even in his own house. His restless eye wanders like a comet in a cage, beating the bars of his eyelashes to escape. He has al ways seemed to me as if he had something on his mind as well as in it. He danced the tight rope of display for years, just managing to keep out of the claws of the bailiffs. He has now carried out the plan suggested to him by Talfourd, and also by Lord Jeffrey, and lives out of London, but near enough to enjoy it when he pleases. What has become of all his money is a mystery to myself and others.— His reign has lasted fully twenty five years, and I am sure that I under estimate his income at an average of £B,OOO a year, Here is a gross amount of -£2oo,ooo—equal to one mil lion of your American dollars. Very little has Dickens to show for all this. He is compelled to go back to his readings, which he now hates, and commences his season on the first Monday in March, by reading his Christmas Carol and the Boots of the Holly Tree Inn, at St. James' Hall, Piccadilly. A more truly genial man than Dickens does not live. He likes to see others enjoy themselves, while Thackeray seems to care only for enjoying himself. One . constantly hears of kind actions done by Dick ens ; never of Thaekeray in that way. In possession of a good heart as well as vast ge nius, I think that Dickens very closely resem bles Walter Scott." EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL IN FRANCE.-A man named Benjamin Reynaud was before the As size court of the here, on March 21st, to be tried for the murder of his own daughter and the attempted murder of her lover. The cul prit was 66 years of age, with snow white hair and beard, a man of education, respectable position, and easy fortune; but not a Brutus, thinking with barbarous virtue to wipe out the polut.ion of a Tarquin by immolating his own flesh and blood, but a hoary letcher who killed his daugher from the vile motive that she was cognizant of his being laughed at by one of his mistresses. It was in evidence that he opened a letter from a Madame Biudraud to his daughter, Madame Gardilanne. In that letter he found himself described as the " old one" (le vicux) whom she Mdme. Bandrand, would contrive to get away for three or four nights, and she re commended nine. Gardilanne to make the best use of the opportunity to see her lover, M. Lobinhes, of whom she was, so very fond.— Hereupon Reynaud, as he admitted on the trial, formed the.deliberato resolution of murdering his daughter and her lover, and killing himself'. He left his house, saying that he would be absent for three or four days. At the village of St. Marcellin he bought a brace of pistols, which he loaded, and a po'g nard. He wrote letters to his wife at Reunion, to one of his married daughters, and to a son who lives in England, telling them of his in tention to cotnrnitt the double murder and sui cide. He fixed upon the. notary and the advo cate who were to wind up his affairs alter his death. Having deliberately made all these dispositions, he returned in the dusk of the evening to his own house, where he found his daughter in the drawing room. Not seeing her lover with her, he observed that he had probably arrived too soon, but he could wait. He then laid down the pistols and poignard upon a chest of drawers, and coolly told her that he had brought the arms there to use them ; that one of the pistols was for M. Lo binhes; the poignard for her ; and the pistol for himself. M. Lobiuhes, who was concealed in an ad joining room, heard the conversation, and rushed out. He naked for pardon, remonstra ted 'with lteynaud, and urged him not to corn- BY 0. BARRETT & CO Tin DAILY PATRIOT AND UNION will be served to ■ab scribers residing in the Borough for six ONNTS PRE WINK payable to the Carrier. Mail tabacribera, woos Doi. LARK NNINANKIDI. Tug WEEKLY will be published as heretofore, semi weekly during the session of the Legisblare, and Once a week the remainder of the year, for two dollars in ad vance, or three dollars at the expiration of the year. Connected with this establishment is an ex t ens i v e JOB OFFICE, containing a variety of plain and fancy type, unequalled by any establishment in the interior of the State, for which the patronage of the public is NO. 194. mit a dreadful act which he would afterwards bitterly repent of. Reynaud said, " I grant no pardon ; take a pen," The young man took a pen, and was asked to write, "I admit myself to be an infamous suborner." He threw the pen down and declared that nothing would induce him to write it. Reynaud then threat ened to fire. " Give me a moment," said the young man ; " let me say one prayer." A moment's hesitation ensued after this appeal, and Lobinhes rushed to a window and jumped out, but while he was jumping Reynaud fired and wounded him. A moment after he stabbed his daughter in three places, plunging the poignard up to the hilt, and leaving her on the floor speechless and dying. He then fired the remaining pistol into his own mouth, and the ball carried away a por tion of the upper jaw, but without inflicting a mortal or even very serious wound. Mean while Lobinhes, returned up stairs, andseeing that Mdme. Gardilanne was in her last moments thought of nothing burendeavoring to admin ister to her some religious consolation. In a few moments she breathed her last, and the wretched father, when he saw her bosom bared and dead, exclaimed, "She was a beautiful girl, and a charming mistress."—Cor. London Times. HOW Minus, THE EXPLODED FRENCH BANKERi GOT HIS START IN THE WORLD.—One of the stories current about the early career of Mires, the exploded French Banker, indicates the germ of that shrewdness, which was afterward developed into almost diplomatic art. The great financier ten years ago was nearly pen niless, and lived in Lyons. He managed, however, to get the control of a newspaper, (the number of scamps who have been con nected with journalism is frightful to contem plate,) and forthwith devised an original scheme to bring himself and his paper into importance. He published daily a list of all the deaths in Lyons, and appended in each. instance the name of the physician who at tended the unlucky patient. Of course, the Sangrados were alarmed; for once the doctors agreed; it would never do to tolerate this sort of thing. They went to Mires, and endea vored to prevent the publication that dis tressed them; but Mires was profoundly im pressed with the importance to the community of just such a publication. The people ought to know what physicians were unsuccessful practitioners. The doctors implored, but Mires was inexorable. They offered money, but he was incorruptible. 'Tis true, he was willing to sell out his newspaper. But the doctors could not afford to buy it ! so the publication continued, and the blood-letters suffered; the town laughed, and the medical fraternity found its gains diminishing along with its reputation. They went again to the horrid Jew editor.— Would nothing move him ? "Can no prayers pierce thee ?" But., like his co-religionist, Shylock, he answered, "None that you have wit enough to make." They proposed large bribes, but still in vain. He would only sell his paper; and finally, rather than lose their practice, the knights of the lancet were obliged to raise a, fund of fifty thousand francs and bay the newspaper that persisted in publishing such odious information. With this fifty thousand francs, so iniquitously obtained, Mires went to Paris, to seek his fortune. Can any doctor wonder that his career was terminated in a. dungeon ? • . ROW THE JAPANESE RESTORE FADED FLOW- P.E.S.—After a bouquet is drooping beyond all remedies of fresh water, the Japanese can bring it back to all its first glory by a simple and seemingly most destructive operation. A writer at Nagasaki says : I had received some days ago a delightful bunch of flowers from a Japan ese acquaintance. They continued to live in their beauty for nearly two weeks, when at last they faded. Just as I was about to have them thrown away, the same gentleman, (Japanese gentleman,) came to see me. I showed him the faded flowers, and told him, that though lasting a long time, they had now become use less. "Oh, no," said he, " only put the ends of the stems into the fire, and they will be as good as before." I was incredulous ;so he took them himself and held the stems' ends in the fire until they were completely charred.— This was in the morning; at evening they were again looking fresh and vigorous, and have continued so for another week. What may be the true agent in this reviving process, I am unable to determine fully ; whether it be heat driving once more the last juices into the very leaflet and vein, or whether it be the bountiful supply of carbon furnished by the charring. I am inclined, however, to the latter cause, as the full effect was not produced until some eight hours afterwards, and as it seems that, if the heat was the principal agent, it must have been sooner followed by visible changes. Tus JACKALS OF INDIA.—Rev. J. M. Tho burn is itinerating in India with a native friend, whom he calls "Samuel." In the last Pittsburg Advocate he has a letter written from "Huldwahee," concluding thus : The jackals are very plenty around this village, and they make the night hideous with their howling. A jackal is a little larger than a red fox, and resembles a fox somewhat, but is more clumsy and wolfish-looking. They feed on carrion and offal, and are not only harmless, but really useful . in this hot climate, where such scavengers are greatly needed.— Their manner of howling is peculittm. They come quietly around the village in all directions, each running alone, looking for something to eat, and all keeping very quiet till some one gives a quick sharp yelp. Then another takes up the cry, and then two or three more, and so on, till it seems that hundreds are screaming in every direction. One yells like a boy whoop ing through the village, another howls like a moaning dog, another yelps like a fox, twenty others scream in a chorus, and finally all join in an uproar like a thousand cats fighting and screeching, with a hundred boys looking on and screaming with delight. At this point the uproar becomes hideous beyond description.— This lasts for two or three minutes, when all becomes quiet again, till some one gives the signal for a fresh bowl. COST OF AIITILLEAY.—The cost of Dahlgreen's great nine-inch iron guns is seven and a half cents per pound. As they weigh 9,000 pounds each, the cost of a gun is $645. The eight-inch Columbiads weigh about 8,500 pounds; the ten-inch, 16,000 pounds each ; both are sold at six and a half cents a pound. Forty-two pounders, weigh 8,000 pounds ; thirty-two pounds each. The pounders, 3,300 to 5,600 twelve pounders are sold at five cents, the others at six cents a pound. Sea-coast howitz ers of eight and ten inch bore, weigh front 8,500 to 0,500 pounds each, and are sold at six and a half cents a pound. Siege howitzers of eight inch bore are much lighter, weighing 2.500 to 3,000 pounds, and are sold at the same rate as those above mentioned. Brass guns are much lighter, the army pattern twelve plunders weighing only 4,300 pounds ; they are, however, sold at forty-six cents a pound. The Dahlgreen brass guns are still proportion. ately higher priced ; the patent mountain twelve-pound howitzers, weighing 220 pounds, are sold at seventy-five cents a pound. Shell sell according to weight. at from four to six cents a pound ; shot at three and a half to four cents. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, SUNDAYS EXCEPTED,