THE STAR OK THE NORTH.*_ It. W. Heaver Proprietor.] VOLUME 2. TUB STAR OP THE NORTH Is published every Thursday Morning, by R- IV. WEAVER. OFFICE—Up stairs in the New Brick building on the south side of Main street, third square below Market. TERMS :—Two Dollars per annum, if paid within six months from the time of subscri bing ; two dollars and fifty cents if not paid within the year. No subscription received for a less period than six months: no discon tinuance permitted until ail arrearages are paid, unless al tho option of the editors. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding one square, will be inserted three times for ono dollar, and twenty-live cents for each additional insertion. A liberal discount will be made to those who ad vertise by the year. THE IRON HORSE. There were noble steeds in the days of old, 1 They wore tierce in battle, in danger bold: | They clank'd in armour, and alone in gold, 1 Andlliey bore their ridurs with lordly pride; Put the Iron Horse, there were none like him! Ho whirls you along till pour eye is dim, Till your brain is crazed and your senses swim ! Willi fjie dizzy landscape on either side. Ho springs away with a sudden bound, His hoof, tinshodden, spurns tho ground, Like the first faint clouds of a thunder show or; And a stated moment ho ever hath, When lie rushes forth on his iron path, Ami won to him who shall rouse his wrath, Pycurbing him in beyond the hour! While other steeds must he champing bay, ! Must repose by night, and bo fed by day, Lot the Iron Uorse have his lovel way, And ho asks for uo more than his fire and : water; Ho wears no bridle, nor curbing chain, lie brooks uo spur, and lie needs no rein ; Onlv set him foilh oti tho opon plain, And he'll be tho hist horse to weary or loi- I tor! | At all seasons and times ho will fearless bravo I Whether hot shines the sun, or the north i wiutfs rave; Uo flies o'er tho earth, and ho tides tho wave, \ Like a shadowy cloud o'er tho harvest ! fields: He neighs aloud, as ho dashes by, Add the fire spurts flash liom his gleaming 1 eye, , And vales resound, and the hills reply, To tho tapid rush of the flashing wheels, i ' His breath is not as the shoe's blast, As it hisses forth through his iron teeth, ' And it rolls up slow, when fiojiurrios past, Like the morning mist, in a snowy wreath. And you'd hotter stand in the van of war. Where the vollied death shots fly fire and, far, AUJ tkiulcniujs fid', em the light is o'er. Than to t-ross path tint ho flies upon, Whenever the lime d anil lon brattling ear, * Like a thunder gust, ciniies roifriug on '. On out mountain ridges his chariots gleam. He follows the track of ihe widuing stream : lie carries ns forth from our ouriy homes. To the fairy scenes of tho glowing West. , Where the Father of Waters iu giain'.cur reams, Through broad savannahs in verdure dress'd Away! away! with his ceaseless roar, The valley and stream he will hasten o'er; i Away ! away ! whore tho piurie lies, Like an emerald sea, 'ncatii tho fair blue skies, Willi naught iu view save the waving grass, Tho flowers that bend as his chariots j as-, And in black and fearful Host afar. The countless herds of the bufliilo, That start at (Tie gleam of his shining car,- J And uWay, loud bellowing and thundering , Willi a t peed that uo foot of the door can' pass. The prairie horse shall toss the mart)*, Tear tho ground with their hoofs and neigh aloud, When this stranger bleed o'er their boo do- ' * main Comes rushing on liko a flying cloud ; But ho huol.'i them not as he onward speeds, With a tread as loud as a thousand steeds, A sound shall be hoaid through tho liiouii- \ tain eaves, A sound through the gloom of the pathless glen, Like tho hollow murmur of breaking waves, : Or the measured tramping of mail-clad men; 'Tis the IRON HORSE , tie hath passM the I huu ud Of tho wild sienas that fenced him rouud ; ■ He lialh no more on the land to gain, His path is free to the western maiu! Special Verdicts. —The verdicts rendered by jutics uio sometimes rather queer documcn Is, as most lawyers have had means of know ing, but there was ono returned by a Catar augus county, (N. Y.) jury rocontly more laughubio than any other we havo heard or read of. It upjwars that three men were tried in that county lor shooting and mortally wounding a dog, and the written verdict of the "twelve.good men and lruo," wus iu the following words, to wit: —"All threo guilty ; plaintiff's damages assessed at sixpeucc ; ard each of the defendants to havo another shot at (he dog 1" ty A lady took umbrago at the use by a gentleman of a very common word, of wliiuh the primary and most obvious sense wus unexceptionable, while its most remote „ and unusual signification was indelicate.— "I beg pardon," said the offender, apologeti cally, "I ccr.aindy did not mean whut you was thinking of !"—u retort which was us philosophical us it was just and severe. The Value of Murrml Men.— "A little more animation my dear," wluapered Lady B. to the gentle fiaeon, who was walking languid ly through a quadrille. ''Do leave me to manage my own businoss, mamma," replied iho provident nymph, "I shall not dance my ringlets out of curl, for a married ruau." 'Ot comic not, my lovo, but I was not a wtttc tvho V'tK partner was.' 1 • > BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1850. [Translated from the German for the 'Starr"] BY VAY-IUII-ESS. THE FOUR SEASONS. "Alas 1 wish that it would always romain : wiotor!" said Ernest, after ho had made u J man ot snow, and taken a sleigh-ride His 1 | lather desired him to write this wish in his muiuorandum-book ; and ho did so. Will- ! ( ter passed away and spring came. Earnest i stood with his father near u flower-bed on | which were bloorayig the hyacinth, the nri- I cula, and tho narcissus. Ho was entirely ; beside himself for joy. "This is a joy of ! spring, said his father, "and will soon pass j away again.''—"Alas! I would that it wore always spring!" 'Write this wish ill my memorandum-book," said his father; and ! he did so. Spring passed away and sum mer camo. Ernest went with his parents and several playmates to tho nearest Village. | on a warm summer day; and they remained \ 'hero the entire day. All around them they , saw green corn-fields and meadows, deco rated with thousand fold flowors; also pas tures in which young lambs wcro dancing, | and wanton foals wcro skipping about.— ! They ate cherries and other summer fruit, ' and enjoyed tnemselvos right well during j the whole day. "Is it not true " asked his { lather, on their return, ' that tho summer has also its joys ?" "Alas," replied Ernest, "I | would that it wcro always summer." lie was also obliged to write this wish in his father s memorandum-book—At last autumn ! came. Tho whole family spent a few days in their vineyard. It was no mofo so warm as in the summer ; but the atmosphere wat mild arid the heaven clear. Tho vines were hung wiih ripe grapes. On the hot bed [ wore seen melons; and tho boughs of the trees were bent down with ripe fruit. Indeed ! it was a least for our Ernest who liked noth ing so well as fruit "This fair season," said i his father, "will soon bo over for winter is already near at hand, todrivo away autumn." ! "Alas," said Ernest, "I wish that it would stay away and that it worojalways autumn." j "Do you really wish sol" asked his father. "Really 1 was his roply. "But," continued his father, whilst ho pulled his metrorau dum-book out of his pocket—-"Look ono ' momout and read what is written hero"- 'I Would that it were always winter"—"And now read hereon this page, andsoo what *is written —"I would that it wcro always spring —"And whalisofi this pago?"—"I would it lit n wer.i always summer." lie continued, "do Mm know who wrote this?"' "lliiit, 1 wrote'' replied Ernest. "And wlo.ti.il inu wish jiiut now ?" "I wished toil ii might always !>o uutum." "That is singular enough," said his lather. "In the winter you wi.-hcil that it might always be winter, in the spring that it might always be j spring, i.i the summer that it might always I o summer, and in autumn that it might al j w ays bo autumn. 'Think u moment what follows there from"—"That all times of the ' year ano good."—"Truly they are all rich in j joy and manifold blessings. Also that the great (iod must understand the making of worlds better than we poor mortals. Had it depend ild upon you last winter, \vj would! havo had uo sgringno summer, and 110 au tumn. Veil would have covered tho earth with eternal snow, simply iu order that you eouid sleigh ride and make men of snow. And how many oilier joys we would then 1 have been obliged to do without! It is' well that tho way things should bo in the I world docs not depeiuHipon lis ; how soon j would wo deteriorate it it wo could. 'l'athcr, 1 Willi t our worship's pardon : sumo times at tho bakor's, and sometimes at the grocer's." , "Vou may be as witty as you please, sir, bat 1 mean simply to ak, how do you do ?" "Tolerably well, I thank your worship, hope your worship is well." "Why my child, what is lite matter ?" ex claimed a lady to her little boy who rushed I into the house, out of broalh, a short time after dark. 1 "Wha-what's that, mother," said tho lit- I tie follow, pointing to something white | swinging back and forth in mid-air. - "That," replied the motlior, "that? why t that's lather's sliirt upon the clofhos lino." "O, 1 thought it was a Oabhin /" gasped ' the little fellow, much relioml.--OAiu Led ' fff * ! A COMPLAINT AGAIMST THE RAIL ROAD. "fcrveiitesipio auras velut o fortiaceprofun ik> Oro trnhit, ctirrusqno suos condcsccro sen tit." MKTAM. 11. 229. My privacy has been invaded by tho Rad road Company, coining through my promi ses and cutting usundoi my bam from my house, turning my back into my front, and setting fire to two haystacks by sparks from tho locomotive. Upon tho bene qui Intuit ben e vixil plan of Ovid, I soon after graduation determined to cultivato retirement, and thought I had attained it; but who cap cal culate on anything in tlioso days of galvan ism, steam, and Hiuiiiiiion I and Budc lights, to say nothing of I'uine's which has been snuffed out. SinciJ the paroxysms of my commencement speech, and the horrors and publioties of tho ensuing hall, where 1 fig. urcd according to the mode of that day in clubbed hair, and small clothes, I resolved on a hermitage; but ".lie steam car has ruin ed all! Who would havo thought that tho cosiest nook iu the Jerseys could have been trans muted ns by magic into a focus of observa tion? Diligently did I eschew all high roads. There was not a post office within ten miles. A swamp on one side and a mountain on the other made my locality, 1 tiiought, as inac cessible as the vale of Rasselas. My books were piled on ray front potch, when I had done turning them over under the willow tree I played old tunes on my single-key-ed flute with no more dread of molestation than Alexander Selkirk. My back yard, now my front, was an Arcadia of milk-pans, and a tame calf browsed on the grass. As to tai lor's bills, they extended only to the Wed ding dress when Amy was married, and my old coal 6 and clouted shoes gavo me that so lace which Lucullus with his two thousand vestments never knew. Alas and alas ! My twilight is turned into noon-day. My house is liko that of Spurius, who, as Plutarch says desired his builder to make Itim one into which all tho city of Uomc might look at will. 1 cannot enter into my clo3, for pri vate chambers wo have nono.' Tho hcwl and shriek of the steam whistle gives mo night-mare panics alior ray first nap, and tho smoke of llio Jmoving volcano eclipses nay skies. My wife and daughters aro twice a day dressed and seated upon our ci-dc vant back piazza ; and lam fain to rot rant to a neighboring lam to avoid a" roconnai sauco by curious passengers. To complete my misery a station has been fixed a half a mile front us, which turns our rural solitude into a mimic lorum. The Company fias paid me for my ,half a cro of land, but what compensation on earth can indemnify mo for the loss of sovereign ty ! I was a man of pence, gloriing in the noli me tangcre nook which nobody knew anything W now all the world is passing every few hours, peering into my windows and scanning my petty gardon, counting the hen coops, tho peices in tny laundry, and the very dishes on tny frugal board, and ogling my respectable but too inquisitive wife and Jaughlcrs. who havo never been able to satiate their curiosity in regard to this intrusive wonder, nor abide at any in-door work from the time they hear the swuids of the cars. 1 am loth to fly to Snake llill or Schrardon burg, where 1 am told ancient virtue is still unmolested, uml too rigid to change my liabiis. —Chagrin has eatou out tny comforts. Home is no homo, in sight of a railway. I havo already sent my Zimmerman to auc tion. My eveniug walk used to bo iu the very line now overlaid with the iron plague. My orchard is divided into twain. In short, I feel stripped and exposed to tho gaze of ati impeiUnent generation; whoso whole business it seems to bo to career from place to place by means of lids perverse miracle of degenerate art. Think not, that I have ever compromised my dignity by entering one of these vehi cles ! The car of l'hacton would not bo more dreadful, and 1 would sooner yoke me to the horses of the sun. Dear old Lord Monboddo ascribed the decline of Europe to the effeminate use of coaches; what would liavo been thought of a steam car riage ! A pedestrian of sixty years' jirac tice, you may be assured that wbon I ex changed crabsticks, it was for Doll, my ca sy ambling nag, on whose back I might jog and read without fear of losing tuy ironrim nied glasses, and who has olton grazed a long tho shlos of groon lanes, when lior master was deep in tho Alciphron of Bisltop Berkoly. Übinatn gentium sumus ? What o vil spirit possosses our people ? What gad fly has bitten thoin into tho furor of locomo tion. Wltcnco come the thousands who look out of those impudent windows as they stream by like lightning? Whither aro they going? Who pays for the transit and the time ? Who cares for thoir forsaken households ? How do they find food and lodging? How ftany hecatombs of nout cattlo must add to the smoke of our capitals? ltusolvc these questions, 0 gifted ones, for an injured, invaded, and bowildorod solitary. I have in vain turned over Adam Smith for a clearing of my doubts. The anciont civil lav# provided for action in case o( stUlicidimn, or injury by the drop ping from a neighbor's caves: but hero is eaves dropping on a gigantic scale, anil lam ly secrets revealed to a world in j motion. Cieero tells of a suit brought by a Korean a gainst one who, -by buflUhg on the opposite bill, obstructed his prospect: but all my prospects arc blackened by what issuos from —' " * "**—~~r~ 'ji Xnivh ausl BsUl—JCQidiairfr ur ionntr}> this fiery Leviathan. I have read in Coko, that every man's house is his castle ; but mine isacastlo invested by foes, and attack oilfcrro el ignc, by rails and sloam. In rail ing, indeed, I could match thorn; but be fore I could begin my abjuration tho audi ence would have vanished, and I should talk to tho air. Imagine the beautiful ruralities of Ameri ca cut up by a reticulation of railways such as covers tho recent maps of England ! Since Alarie there has'boen nothing so barbaric. A greon sequestered lap of land will soon bo as rare as tho I'hamix or the Dodo, and wo shall understand half ol our classic or descriptivo poetry, no mrre than wo do tho characters on t!: brick* id' Babylon. City merchants, I hear, breakfast at homo forty miles oil', and then get to daily business in Front Street or tho Bowery. This is tho next thing to flighting ugainst nature. Half tho old manor-houses within twenty miles of the great towns, whore lofty trees and lawns of velvet and wildernesses of shrubbery- be spoke the quiet abode or noble hospitality of better days, aro bought up by cits, who spend iu them thoit nights and Sundays. O tempora! 0 mores! I say nothing of mar kets. My foolish daugnlcrs grudge me tho very egg I used to take with my breakfast • and my strawberries go in little baskets to Washington market. Sorry am I to add, they must needs go themselves ! And I wish you could see tho fashions with which they lelurn. My good woman, though deaf as a post, (no disadvantage, they tell mo, in the cars.) has been loii£ providing horsclf a sorios of caps, wherewithal to make a grand agpcaranco on a. projected visit to a cousin in Bridge street; and I expect soon to be called on to sell anothor piece of land to pay the costs. In tho book l)e Finibus, the philosophic lloman says nothing of one groat constitu ent of human happiness ; it is oxpressed in tho phraso— Let me alone. There ate scatter ed up and down, in every country, hundreds Of old fellows, who live honestly, pay thoir taxes, and, till lately, havo slept iu their beds at night and ploughed ia the furrows ef thoir sires; troubling no one, plotting no inva sions of Cuba, content that tho Union bo un dissolved, prying into no one's larder ot desk, picking holes in nobody's coat, read ing old books, and wearing old doublets : all they ask in return lor theso virtues is that they bo let alone. They go to bed early, dint- * noom and pipe in .shady places, while the cows arc coming homo ; affect becchcn shadows in tho woods, springs whore they drank in childhood, and angling in dark, out-of-the-way brooks. For their self-possession and ease of conscience they donyand. exemption from domiciliary in spection. But what shall I say! This flaming'vaporous Asmodeus has taken the rools off their houses, and laid their secrets open to the day. A sound- of tremendous roaring is in their oars, and in this world they can no longer look for a tranquil day. Even tho ono silont Sabbath is meiamorphnsod in to a time of special merrymaking ami jaunt ing, and the Sunday passengers plftn rbially drink more, shout more, and stare more, than thoso of all tho six working days put togotho.r My choler is by uo means disgor ged ; tumetjecur; but strength would fail mo ; ami I do but augment tho bitterness by thus stirring up tho bile. Ttrt! me, 0 tell mo, of some corner, so hemmed in by na ture, bo begirt wifh Scrbonian bogs, so rug ged with crags, so arid with sandy wustcs, that the army of surveyors, contractors and diggers shall never convene to mutilate or deform it. Reveal to nio some basin a mong mountains, whore I may sit at sunset in cucrpo, with none to molest tno, or may lead my colls to water at the brook, without having tlioin sot to scamper away at the ap parntion of tho uncouth, snorting anaconda that now crashes through our vale, breath ing out firo and fury. Comfort me by no ting some limit to this advance of civiliza tion, art and insolonce. which has begun to sacrifice all homely delights on the altar of a corporate Plutus.—Give rue tho hope of yot conning my Latin authors in quietude and independence, however humbly; 'Die, qui bus in torris, et oris inihT maguus Apollo.' TCUY TESTY. AM*. Few insects are more difficulty to oster minate than the little rod ants with which many houses are infested. They in ly be kept under, by frequent scalding with boil ing water, the cracks and places from which they issue. To smear tho cracks of tho closets between the shelvos and the walls with corrosive sublimato will destroy them ; but as it is a deadly poison, it must be used with caution. Dishes and jars containing articles that tho ants seem to like should bo sot ill pans of salt and water, and tho pan should be surrounded witk a ring of suit. If they infest the sideboard, let tho feet bo sot constantly in tin or iron cups tilled with salt and wator. A circle of tar sproad around each foot of the bench that holds the hivos, will prcvont ants from recalling the boos and destroying the honey. Moths. Tj keep moths from Jwoolno clothing, car pets, and furs, place the articles in linen shoots or bags, sowed closely together, first b -aiing thorn, so as to clear oil' all mollis and eggs. Cumphor or locacco scatterod throilgu light trunks, where they ure packed is also u protection. THE MEXICAN. His counrry is subject to frequent revolu tions, when his property is liable to betaken by force by the belligerent parties; beside the imposition of forced loans, causing con tinual four in tho minds of those who havo money : the authorities of the States gpt tho general laws at defionce, thus giving riso to continual reclamations, interrupting the bu siness of ruining tho citizen, beforo ro dress is obtained; the laws are not thorough ly understood or justico oqtiully administer ed-: crimes are not promptly or udequatoly punshed ; the principal highways are infes ted with rubers, robberies and murders are frequent, by armed bands, in towns a"d vil lages, and no oflici. Or cusuros are taken to prevent thcifi or arrest the guilty. The poor man is subject to the aruilrury disposition of thoso iu authority—forcod to do porsoual service on public works in the times of the revolutions, and to fight against his own people ; ho may bo arrested on tho verbal order oT any Alcade too indolent or ignor ant to write one—and a refusal to obey such subjects him to be beaten by tho brutal per son bearing it, to collect n sirajilo debt by legal process, tho loss of time togothor with the expenses renders such proceeding of no avail to him ;he canot go from one town to another without subjecting himself to deten tion unless he obtains a passport, which BOBiclimes takes as much time as to make the journey; to travel, lie must havo a li cense to carry arms, without which he is li able, to detention and the loss of them, ho cannot obtain redress for a wrong com mitted by tho military; criminals, oven, should be entitlod to a speedy trial, but here a mnn may bo arrested, thrown iu jail and years may elapse beforo he is coudcmncd or acquitlod ; the dead aro allowed to putri fy or must be buried out of what is called holy ground, unless the surviving friends aro able to satisfy tho exorbitant demands of an inexorable priest; tho ruthloss savage con stantly iuvades tho frontiers and lias for years spread with impunity Uoath and devastation in his path. All this, and even moro, tho Mexican citizen sudors, yot folds his hands in silonco. Tho stranger partakes in a mea suro of these ovils, and used to a butter slato of things, naturly complains ; when it is as sorted with 100 much truth, ho is in possess ion of the same liberty and protection as the Moxicans, therefore he ought not to com plain. * t.OOl) ! An Irishman hud taken to reailing his Bi bio. "And indeed it ia true, and a blessed book it ia." "But," said the priest, "'you ate an igno rant man, and you ought not to read the Bi ble." "Well," said Pat, "but your riveronce must prove that boforo I'll give up reading my Bible." And so the priest turned to the placo wliero it reads, "As now born babes, dosiro the sin cere milk of the word." "There," said the priest, "you are a babo, and you ought to go to somebody who can toll you what the sincere milk of the word is." Pat was a milkman anil ho replied, "Your riveronce, 1 was bick and employed n man to carry my milk, and 1m cheated mo—he put water in it; und how do 1 know (saving your riverence,) but the priest may do the samo 1" The prieat was discomfited, and said,' "Well, Pat, I 800 ye'ro not quilo so much of a babe as I thought you. You may road your Bible, but dou't show it Jo your neigh bors." "Indeed j our rivorenc," says Put, "I've otto cow that I know givos good tniik ; and while my neighbor has none, euro I'll give him a part of it whother yourriveronco likes it or not." PRETTY Goon.—"Mother, why docs Pa call you honey 1" "Because, my dear, he loves me." "No, Ma, that isn't ig" "What is it then?" "I know." "Well, what is it ?" "Why, it's because you have so much comb in your head—that's why." Like a bell tnat's rung tor fire; like a careless auction cricrj liko, ofteutimes, a graceless liar, mischief-making tattles go ; slopping you with quakiiw foar, whispering as jou lend an oar—"Mercy on us, did you hear '! Betsey Bean Isas got a beau !" An oxchangc paper states on reliable au thority, that iu Albany tho bl&ek-Bmiths car pet their shops, and hava armed ohuirs mudo for their horses to sit in whilo having shoes fitted. This is a great age, and gra cious only krews where 'twill bring up. The editor of tho Boston Post has got a daguerreotype likeness of the girl that Bar ney was askod~ to lot alone. The man who never told an editor how ho could bettor his paper, lias gone to Schenec tady to marry a woman that never looked into a looking-glass. A slanderer of the softer sex, undertakes to prove that Satan was a woman, named Lncy Fir. Can't believe it, auy how. , Why is a Bick Jow liko a diamond? Be cause he is a Jew -ill. THE IIAI HEI.OIt'S lilt ID AI„ [a yaiiody.] Not a luugh wns hoard, nor a joyous note, As our liiend to the brtdal we hurried; Nor a wit discharged his vahjkwki-i. shot, 1 At tho llenodiet just to be married. We married him quickly, to save bis fright, i Our heads from the sad sight turning, " I And we sighed us we stood by the lump s j dim light To tuiuk ho was no more doscerinng— To think that a bachelor, freo and bright, And shy of tho girls as wo found Irim, Should hero by tho altur, at dead ol night, j lie caught in tho suaro that bound liiru ! j Fo.w and short woro the word* wc said, Though we heartily ate of thp cakes, Then escorted him home from that scone of! dread And thought—how awfully ho shakos Wo thought as wo grouped iris low ly" bed | With the ffowers, tho birch and the willow I low the shovel ami broomstick would bieak ! o'er his head, And the tears he would shed on his pillow. Said ho, '"They will talk of their friend who : lias gone— And every old Baoh : will upraid me; ! But nothing reck I, if they let me droatn on, I 'Nqath the coverlet, just as they've laid me." Bin half of our weary task was dona lCro the clock tolled the hour for the other, And we left with tiro hope that the late ho had wort " Would never bo won by another! Preserves and Jellies. General Directions.—Gather fru.'t when it! is dry. Bong 1-oiling hardens the fruit l'onr ! boiling water ovor tho stoves used, aud I wring out jelly bags in hot water (lie rno-I merit you are to uso them. I)o not squeeze ' while straining through jolly bags. Let the j pots and jars containining swcclmoats just i made, remain uncovered three days. Lay ! brandy papors over the top, coser then) light 1 and seal them, or, what Is best of all, soak a j split bladder and tie it tight ovor llrcm. In drying, it will shrink so as to be perfectly j air-tight. Keep-them in a dry, but not' warm place. A thick leathery mould helps ! to preserve fruit, but wlion mould appears [ in specks, the preserves must ho scalded in ! a warm oven, or bo lot into hot water, which i then must boil till tho preserves are ssaidod. I Always Veep Wftch of pcqpcrycn whicii arc J not scaled; especially in warm ami damp j weather. The only sure way to keep ihorri | without risk or caro, is to make them with I enough sugar and seal them, or tie bladder covers over. Tomatoe Preserves —Prepare a syrup by clarafying sugar, melted over a -slow frto, with a little water, by boiling it until no j scum rises, or good molasses may bo cluri- j ficd by adding eggs, boiling, and carefully | skimming. Tako theTomatou* while grcou, | put them in cold syrup, with ono orungo j sliced to every two pounds of lomntoos.— i Simmer thorn over a slow ftro for two threo hours. There should bo equal weights j of sugrfr ami tomatoes. Some, when t-upo- j rior preserves arc wanted, add fresh lemons ' sliced, and boil with tho tomatoes u few 1 peach leaves and powdered gingor in bags j Tomatoes when ripe, make a lino preserve, I pooled, and treated as above j but ties fruit; is apt to fall to pieces in tho process of pro- | serving, consequently raoro earo is required when it is desirable to provont this. Tomnto Catsup.—V so ono pint of good salt to one peck of sound, ripe, tomatoes. I Bruise them and lot them stand two days; then strain them dry, and boil tho liquor un- ] til tiro scum stops rising, with two ounces ol j black pepor, tho same quantity of spice, j ono ounce of ginger, one of cloves, and an i ounce of macc. Strain through a serve, ' then bottle and oork tight. ltespbcrry Syrup.— To every quart of fruit add a pound of sugar, and lot it stand over i night. In tho morning, boil and skim it for ' half an hour; then strain it through a Hun- 1 nel bag, ar.d pour it *irrto bottles, which] must bo carefully corked and sealed. To ] each bottle add, if you please, a little brandy ' if tho weather is so warm as to endanger its ! keeping. Cmrant Jelly — over the "currant* with rare, l'utthcm m a stono jar, and sot . it into a kettle of boiling water. Let it boil ! til the fruit is very soft. Strain it through a i seive. Tlron run the juico through a jelly ] ling. Put a pound of sugar to a pint of! juice, and boil it together five minutes. Sot I it in the sun a few days. Cheiries. —Takeout the stones. To a 1 ponnd of fruit, allow a pound of sugar. Put a layer of fruit on the bottom of tire pre serving kettle, then a layer of sugar, and i continue thus till all are put in. Bull till i clear. Put them in bottles, hot, and seal them. Keep them in dry sand. Currants. —Strip them from tho Stems. A! low a poutiu of Bugar to a pound of currants. Boil them together ton minutes. Tako them from the syrup, aud let trio syrup boil twenty ; minuto-', and pour it on die fruit. Put them 1 in sma 1 jars or tumblers, ar.d let thorn stand 1 in the sun a few days. To preserve Currants to cat with meat.— . Strip them from tho stem. Boil them an : hour, and then to a pound of the fruit, add a pound of brown sugar. Boil all together fifteen or twenty minutes. Raspberry Jam. —Allow a pound of sugar; to a pound of fruit. Press them with a ' spoon, in an earthen dish. Add the sugar ! and boil all together JuMpa minute? V "" iH>,iar * r 4HN NUMBER 28- Anecdote of General Jackson. 11l the year of IS 11, Gcnural Jackson hud occasion to vi-.it \atelios, in tho territory of Mississippi, lor tin- purpose of bringing Up u number of blacks, a part of whuiu his prop erty in conserjuenco of having boon seeuiity . for a friend, and tho remainder wont. hands which hiid'beeii cmploycil by a nophew, in the neighborhood ol that place. Tho road led through tho country inhabited by tho Chickasaw mid Chootuw Indiuns. m d tho station of tho agent for the Ohoelnws wn? upon it. On reaching lire agorfcy, ho found seven or eight families <>f emigrants, and two rnerubors of the Mississippi, legislative council, dutaiucd there, inidorr tho preteneu lira' it was necessary lor ihcin to have pass ports from lire Governor of Miaaippi. One ol their number had been sent fuiwurd to procure thorn. In tiro meantime, Iho emi grants wcro buying corn from tho agent, at ait.extravagant price and splitting ,rails for hint at a very moderate one. Indignant at tiro wrong inlliciud on the emigrants, lie ro ! proachod rho metnlicrs ril tho council for I submitting to tho detention, and usked the i agont how lie dared to ricmrpid a pass from j a tree American, travelling on a public roarl. ! I lie agent replied by* asking, with much ■ temper, whotlrer ho had u pass. ''Yes, sir," | replied the gouoral. "I always carry mine with me : lam a free bora Amarican citi zen ; and that is a |>as*port all over tho J world.' lis then directed the emigrants to gear up their wagons, and if any one attorn p led to obstruct tliein, to shoot them down, as a highway robber. Soiling thorn 'ha exam ple, he continued bis jouruey, regardfysa of tho tlireats of the, agent. After conuludiugiiig business, ho was In* formed that the Agent hud collected about fifty white men and ode hundred Indians, to slop kiui-on his roturn, iiutorshc produced a passport.—Though advised by his. friends to procuto one he refused to do so; ftatiiM' that no American citizon should over, b, subject to tho insult and indignity of prom, ring a pass, to enable him to travel a public highway in his own country.—Lrko all trav oilers among the Indians, at that fltno, ha was armed with a brace of pistols; and hav ing added a rifle and another pistol, K, commenced his return journey When with in a tew miles of tiro agenoy, ho was inform oil by a friend who had gone forward to re* connoiire, that the nguut had Iris force In readiness to atop him.—Ho .directed hia fftouU :o advance attain, and tqil the agent thru if he attempted to slop him, it would bo at tiro peril of bis life. He then put hia Macks In order, and armed them with area and dubs; at the snrno time telling thorn not to stop unless directed by him, and it any one olforcrUo oppose thorn, tocut him down. Hiding by tdeir side, ho approached the sta iron, when the agont appeared,{ and aske him whether ho meant to stop and show h passport. Jucksnn replied, "That depend upon cireunistancos. I am told that y< meant to slop me by force ; whoever a. tempts such a tiring will not havo long t live , arui with a look that was not to U mistaken, ho grasped his bridle with a f .-. or grip. Mis determined marinor had sm ; an effect, that tho agent declared ho had in intention, of sfmiping him, and lie ami h:- party wore su fierred to pass on without fur iher molestation or interruption. Ho after wards reported the conduct of the agent tp. the government, and ho was dismissed from his ugonoy. Ilcpcnltincc. A good husband will ropa r his Irons, white the weuthsr is fair, nor puj it off til. wintor; a careful pilot will take advantage <4 the wind and tide, and so put out to sea nor wait tilt a storm arise. The travelled w ill tako his time on a journoy, anil moral his pace when night comes on, lest dark iioss ovcrinke him ; tho smith will , striko wliilo tho iron is hot, lest it grow cool, and so he lose his labor; so wo ought to make every day the day of our repentance; tc rnako us i of the present time, that when wc oomu to die, we may havo nothing to do but to dio, for there will bo a time when the door w ill shut; when thoro will be no en • tnyice at all.— Spencer —r *> —- linked Potatoes. Three lbs. of jiotatoos and 2 oz. of .butter l'aro und roast the potatoes a short .timo jr. tho ovon. Then place them in a salt glazed brown dish with a little butter, and bak occasionally shaking them, to Secure the being equally browned. Mr. Fillmore, wo eve it stated, baa two brothers, who, for sometime past, residedir Washtenaw county, a hour carpenter,, tho other a blacksmith, by trad He has a i islor in Miotiigan, the wile of Jh Harris, of Coidwater, lawyer by profession, and another sistor married in Northern lndi una. lfe visited them all last summer. tkT About Uvo years ago, the first baffl ing was erected in Salt Lake City, aud aim... ily tho population numbers much ovor 55,- 000. The houses are yet all one story *- hodos, but preparations are being, for the oar'.y erection gf a lornplo and other peblio buildings, in a noble and inoredurable style. "ilere, yon little Kascat, walk up and give on accounty of yourselt; where have yo tieenl" "After the gals, lather." "Did yo ever know nte to do so when I was a boy. - "No sir—but mother did."