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CHOICE POETRY.
LUCIUStUIX
Jennie siahed, and Robin squeezed her
Pretty little trembling hand,
Then with outstretched arms he seized her ;
Half reluctant form, and—and—
" Loose me !" but he clasped her tighter— '
"Jennie, say, will thou be mine?" I
Then tier bright face grew much brighter,
And she whispered, " I am thine."
•
Then they clasped each other fondly, j
Close together as two bricks;
And tbey kissed each other soundly,
And I left them in that fix.
Won't Take Twenty Dollars.
Borne waggish students at Yale College, a
few years since, were regaling-, themselves
one evening at the Tontine, when an old
farmer from the country entered the room
(taking it for a bar-room) and inquired if be
could obtain lodging there. The old fellow,
who was a shrewd Yankrc, saw at oi-co that
lie was to be made the butt of rlreir jeslsi
but quietly taking off bis lint, and telling a
. worthless little dog he had with him lo lie
under the chair, be took a glass ol profferred
beverage The students anxiously inquired f
alter the health of the-old man's wife and
•children, and the farmer with affected sym
pathy gave them the whole pedigree, with
-numerous anecdotes regarding his lurm,
slock, Sfc.
"Do you bolong church?" asked
otto.of the wags.
' v Yes, the Lord be .praised, and so did my
father before me."
"Well 1 suppose you would not tell a lie," I
■replied the student.
" Not for the world""
" Now what ' Will yon take for that dog?"—
pointing to the farmer's, who was not worth
his weight in Jersey mud.
" 1 won't take twenty dollars for that
dog."
"Twenty dollars! why he is not worth
twenty cents."
" Well, I assure you 1 would net lake
twenty dollars for him."
" Come, my friend," said the student, who j
with his companion was bent on having
some capital fa-p. with the old man. "Now
you say ynu won't tell a lie for the world, let (
rae see if you will not <k> it for twenty dol
lars, I'll give you twenty dollars for your
dog."
I'll nol lake it."
• " Vou will not? Here, let mo see if this
won't tempt you to lie,added the student
producing a small bag of half dollars, from
which he commenced counting numerous
small piles upon the table. The former was
sitting by the table with hra hat In his hand,
npparenily unconcerned.
The eld farmer quietly raised his hat to
the edgo ol the table, and then, as quick as
thought, scraped all the money into it except
one half dollar, and then exclaimed:
" I won't take your twenty dollars! Nine
teen ami a half is as touch as the dog is
worth; he is your property I"
A tremendous laugh from his fellow stu- j
dente showed the would be-wag that be was '
completely " rowed tip" and that he need j
not look for help from that quarter: so lie ,
good natoredly acknowledged beat. The
student retained his dog which ho keeps to
this day as a lesson to him never to attempt
to play tricks on men older than himself, and
especially bow he tries to wheedle a Yan
kee farmer. )
—— -'
The Child and the Qaccn
Befurchtc (gatdiier lo Elizabeth, consort
ut Frederick II.) had one little daughter with
whose religious instiuction ho had taken great
pains. When this child was five years of
age, theQuoeq saw her one day while visit
ing the royal gardens at Schmnhaueon, and
was so much pleased with ber, that a week
afterwards she expressed a wish to 6ee the lit
tle girl again. The father accordingly brought
his artless child to the palace, and a page
condoled her into the royal presences. She
approached the Queen with untapght courte
sy, kitsed her robe, and modestly took her
seat, which had been placed lot her, by the
Queen's order, near her own person. From
this position she could overlook the ta
ble at which the Queen was dining with the
ladies of her court, and they watched with
ioterest to see the effect of so mqch splendour
on the simple child. She looked carelessly
oo the oostly dresses of the guests, and gold
and porcelain on the table, ami the pomp
with which all was conducted, and then fold
ing ber bands, she sang clear, child- j
ish voice, tho words:
"Jeans, thy blood and righteopsness
Are all my ornament and dress ;
Fearless, with these pure garments on,
I'll view the splendour of thy throno."
All the assembly were struck with surprise
at seeing so much feeling, penetration, and
piety, in one so young. Tears filled tho eyes |
of the ladies, and tho Queen exclaimed, "Ah, i
hjippy child I how far we below you !"
{Translatedfrom the German
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY. JUNE 28, 1855.
SPEECH OF THE Hon. JOSEPH HOWE
| In the Novo Dentin House of Assembly,
on the 31st of Frit. 1855) In opposition
| to the Prohibitory Liquor Low.
After much reflection upon the subject,
he had not been able to bring bis mind tip
to assume the responsibility of voting for this
bill. He approveil of the efforts made by
the Temperance Societies, and wished them
success, so long as they sought to reform by
persuasion] by BrgUhTenl. nnd by example.
When they attempted impossibilities—when
they sought to coerce the poople into temper
ance, he conscientiously believed tiiej would
fail—he believed that all the good thev had
dono would be perilled by a resort to harsh
ness and coercion.
The Deity had not prohibited the use of
wine. On thp contrary he had given the
grape to man with immeasurable other boun
ties. Our Saviour bad not prohibited the Us 6
of wine. He had eat with thosa who had
drank it, and had, by a miracle, replenished
thoir cups at the Marriage Feast. The apos
tles had not forbidden the use of wine, tts
use was denounced in the Koran; by the Pa
gan Mahomet, but was not, so far as he cotild
perceive, in the Bible. What, then, the Al
hiigiity bad not done or attempted—-what
He could have done with so much case, yet
had refrained from doing—he thought it not
wise lor man to attempt.
The evils flowing from the excessive use
of wine he deeply dtiplored, as he did the
evils flowing from the over-indulgence of
any other passion or propensity. But who
could argue from excess of any kind that the
rational enjoyment of God's gifts was there
fore sinful? Who Would venture to argue!
tlist because mischief was done by many of!
God's gifts that they shod LI, On Uat account, !
be circumscribed of prohibited by human
laws? The atmosphere that fans the check j
of beauty—that invigorates the frame—that |
flutters the leaf upon the tree—that dimples j
the surface of the lake—that gives variety j
and majesty to the ocean; when accumulated ]
in masses, lashes itsell into the tempest and ;
strews the shore wiih If e wreck of hjlihan I
lib and property. The leasSred member,'
standing amidst the wreck of navies, and the '
whitening bones ol the human victims, might
eloquently describe the scene; but would ho, '
if he coujd, attempt to restrain the eccentri
cities of nature, or to fprbid to man,by human 1
laws, tiie benefits of navigation? flow beau-!
tiful is* water! (the Temperance n.au's own j
element.) yet how dangerous. The rain I
which fertilizes the fields sweeps away with its |
excess, bridges, mills and human habitations.
If not drained ofl it souts the land, and breeds
the pestilence in cities. The fire that warms j
our hearths—that clears our woodlands--llial ]
smells our metal*—that drives our steamers ;
and locomotives, is not lesA dangerous-
Would he deny to man the use of these ele
ments because the casualties by fire and (
flood are most disastrous? Would he for
bid their use because people are burned in !
cities: drowned in llio rivers; because a boil- j
er bursts at sea, or an engine sometimes runs '
off the track, or kills hundred s by violence 1
ol a collision? William the Conqueror, it is !
Hue, once denied to the people of England
fire and light after the curlew tolled, but the '
abhorrence in which the act is held would
not encourage anybody to follow his exam-'
pie. I
Woman is God's best gift to man. The :
fascination which she spreads around her
how difficult to resist—tho passions she in- j
spires how intimately interwoven with all
that arouses to exertion, and rewards us for
our toils. Yot, when even love is inJulged j
in to excess—when reason is overpowered—
when passion hurries or. to folly, how nu-!
j morous the victims; how blasting the effects.
! Yet, who would, reasoning from the perils
I of indulgence, and the dangers of society,
; deny to man the companionship which alone ,
j makes existence tolerable? The learued ,
, member for Annapolis might draw from tho
' sinks of vice, or even from the agony of a
single victim, some harrowing pictures; but
would ho on that account imitate the Turks,'
and lock up all the women? (Roars of laugh-
tcr) The victims of indulgence in opium I
I have never seen, but even spirituous liquors
j do not produce the extent of physical suffer-j
ing and moral dislocation that results from tho
abuse of this drug. But would the learned |
member deny lo society the use of that which
allays the delirium of fever—which sooihes
the infant upon tho mother's bosom, and
saves more lives than it ever destroys ? Take ]
gunpowder, which blasts our rocks, loosens
our plaster, defends our country, and kills
our game. Mark the mischiefs and miseries j
it produces when its mysterious power is
abused. But who would argue (hat, because
boye blow themselves up, and tyrants
*se gunpowder for unworthy purposes, its ,
use should be forbidden ? Would the learn
ed gentleman, even with the battle-fields of,
Bulaklava or lukermann before him, attempt j
lo restrain, by human Inws, the manufacture ]
and sale of gunpowder? Who denies that!
law is the safeguard of out lives and proper-:
lies; tbat courts ure indispensable institutions;
that lawyers uro the tearless advocates ol
the innocent and oppressed ? But has not
even law been abused ? liow many petti
foggers defile the courts ; ensnare the igno
rant; waste metis' estates, and embitter their
lives? Waller Scott's Peebles and Planes
lanes, and Diekens, pictures of the Court of
Chancery are familiar lo us all. These are
but sketches illustrative ol the evils insepara
ble from the dispensation of Eqnity and Law
by the most perfect tribunals of civilised coun
tiies.
How are tbese evils lo be mitigated or re
movod ? I would say, by discussion, by ex
posure, by cxuroplo, by honest and success
ful attempts lo separate tlie securities and the
legitimate practice of law from its abuse.—
The learned advocato of this bill, to be con
sistent, should close the courts, imprison tho
lawyers, and forbid the manufacture of law,
or its importation from foreign countries.—
Woman, from her first appearance on the
scene ol life, had" brought sorrow and suffer
ing with her. In her train came rivalries,
and jealousies, and war and strife. Let the
learned member go into his own country,
where the pretty faces, peeping through the
apple-blossoms, are lovely to behold. Even
there—are there no broken hearts, no pale
faces, no blighted lives, no damaged rcputa- j
lions? No girls with Burns, pretty excuse;
upon their lips—
' A deat, loved lad, occasion sung
A treacherous inclination ?'
No youtli9 pleading, in the intonation of pas- •
sionate repentance, that even—
light that led astray
Was light from Heaven ?' I
° , I
Yet would the learned gentleman, in view of;
all these evils, point to the pretty girls, and |
suy—'Touch not, taste not, handle not.'— :
| Would he, for fear of mischief, coop them
I all up like cows in a Belgian barn?
The world has come down lo the present ,
period from the most remote antiquity with :
the Wine cUp in its hand. David, the man '
after God's own heart, drank wine. Solomon, j
the wisest of monarchsand of human beings, I
drank wine. Our Saviour not only drank it, I
but commanded Christians lo drink it 'in re- !
membrance of him.' In strong contrast with j
our Divine Redeemer's life and practice, we
hearofthe Scribes and Pharisees,who drank it '
not—who reviled our Saviour as a 'wine bib- '
ber,' and the 'companion of publicans and !
sinners;' who would have voted for tho Maine '
Liquor Law as unanimously as tbey cried,'
[ Crucify him.'
Such people have existed in all ages OflliO
frorld. Tho desire of human beings to die-'.
talc to each other what they should eat, and I
drink, and wear, has been evinced in differ
ent countries at different periods. The zeal
ots in tjie Slate ol Maine are mere plagiarists ;
after all. Sumptuary Laws, itied in many
countries, and at different periods of the ,
world's history, aro now universally condem- ]
nod by the good seuso of mankind. Laws
restraining drunkenness are nearly as old as ]
drinking.' It is curious lo seo what strange
experiments have been tried at times. Za- I
leucus ol Locris, 450 years before the Chris- j
nan Era, ordained "that no woman should
go attended with more than one maid unless '
she teas illlink, and that she should not weat
gold or embroidered apparel unless she in
tended to act unchastely. ' This sage Law ,
giver punished adultery with the loss of both i
eyes. His own sou broke the law, and the 1
old gentleman, Unwilling to deprive his son ol .
both eyes, compromised tho matter by put- '
ting out one of his own.
As early as 747, laws were passed in Eng. j
land restraining ill unkenness in the Clergy
And Conelanline, king of the Scotts, (who
was a sort of Neal Dow in his day) punished
it with death
llis laws nassed away as this law will pass,
and a good deal of whiskey has been drunk ;
in Scotland since, lu England,in 995, an el
fort made to restrain drinking by law, 1
but it failed. Taverns were only introduced
in the 13th century. In the reign of Edward
the HI, there were only three allowed in all
Loudon. Now there are thousands. Kd-
I ward the IV tried lo restrain them in 1552, ]
40 were then allowed in London, 8 in York, !
but 4 in Oxford. They were not licensed till
j 1752. 'ihe history of wine is curious. Its'
' invention is attributed to Noab, who certain- I
: ly had seen enough of the evils of waters.-- 1
The Chinese made wine Irom rice two thou
' sand years before the birth of Christ, and al
though it must be allowed that they have tea 1
enough, they make and drink it yet. Wine j
was but little known in England till the Ro
man conquest. We are told that it impairs
' our strength, yet the people who drank it;
conquered those who did not. It was only sold
| by Ihe apothecaries (as if now proposed again)
in the 13th century. In 1427, Henry the VI
a sensible king, tried to restrain its adulters-1
tion, and we read 'that 150 bulls and pipes
Were condemned and emptied into the gut
' ters in London, for being adulterated.
| The Stoics denied themselves the use of
wine, but their sick soon died out. The Pu
ritans tried the experiment of coaxing peo
ple into temperance and virtue, but tbey sig
! nally failed. I invite the honorable and lear
ned member for Annapolis to review tills pe
-1 riod of English history. I refer lo the time
' when a puritan cause was most triumphant,
' when Charles had beer, slain, bis followers
1 dispetsed, when Cromwell reigned in White
ball, wljen his Major Generals hold military
, command of all the Counties, when the May
| poles were struck down—the theatres closed
—the lowers shut up; when mirth was re
j strained and temperance enforced by the
j sword. Now, vras tho effect of all this?
! No sooner was the Prelector in his coffin,
• than the people of England, by a common
impulse, threw ofi a system which they re
garded as oppressive. Bo distasteful had
(heir restraints become, that the people resto
red the Stuarts, forgot their civil wars and
1 sacrifices—re-oponed their theatres and tav
erns, and so disgusted were they with Puri
tan domination that liberty was forgotten in
the general joy which (be restoration of per
sonal fteedum occasioned. The wine cup
went round, and from that day to this no at
tempt has been made to re-establish Crom
well's system. Now, what I fear is this, that
the (rtends of temperance ate about to sacri
fice all the good they have dono, ae the Pu
ritans sacrificed all the reforms tbat they had
established b% carrying restraints too far—
This law may bo partially enforced for two
•. • 5
Truth and Right God and our Country.
or three years—but it will coetce people into
| reistance, and occasion a revulsion of feeling
I lo be followed by universal license.
So far as my reading extends, 1 may assert
- that every King, every Statesman, every \Var
-1 rior who has illustrated Ihe pages of History,
drank wine. The apostles who were the
| companions of our Saviour, drank it. The
, l'rophets whose flights of inspiration still as
loiiish us, we have every reason to believe,
! draok it. Cicero and Demosthenes, and all
; the orators of antiquity and of modern lime
! indulged in the juice of the grape. Who
I can say how much of tho inspiration which
] gave them such power of language was drawn
j from its inspiration. Havo these men been
I eclipsed by the Dows, nnd Kellogs of the
j Platform ? What orators havo the Slate of
I Maine sent us forth comparable with the
: Pitts and Burkes, and Gruttane, and Foxes,
I and Sheridaus of the British Islands, every
one of whom drank wine?
j Let ILo learned gentleman glance at Ihe
, noble structures—the architectural wonders
1 that embellish Europe. Who reared them ?
i Men of gigantic intellect, whose common
beverage was wine. Let his eye range thro'
I the noble galleries where the sculptors have
I left their statutes—where the painters have
- hung in rich profusion the noblest works of
Art. Wine, we are told, clouds the faculties
; ar.d deadens tho imagination. Yet it was
I,drunk by those benefactors of their race, and
' we cannot, with their master pieces before
1 ns, believe the assertion till their works have
been eclipsed by artists ttained under this rig
j orous legislation. Has Maine turned us out
' yet a statute thalany body wouM look at,a pic
! ture that anv body would Look at lliode-
I liverers ol mankind—the heroic defenders of
' Nations. Was Washington a member of the
1 Temperance Society ? Did not Wallace
j 'drink tho red wine through the helmet bar
red*' Who willuudertaketosay that Bruce,
; on the morning on which he Won the battle
of Bannockbum—that Tell on that day when
he shot the apple ofl his son's head, had nol
tasted a glass of whiskey or a stoup of wine?
If then, Sir, all that is valuable in the past,
! if heroism, and architecture, and oratory,
sculpture and painting,—if all that has bnl
-1 watked freedom and embellished life, has
come down to us with the juico of. the grape:
| il no age or nation has been long without it,
i I think il behooves the advocates of this bill
I to show us some country where their system
j has been tried— somo race of men who
( drank nothing but cold water.
! I turn to the learned member's own pro
; fe-ision. I ask him lo show mo two such
lawyers—two judges so eminent as Lords El
: don and Slowell, the one (lio wonder of the
j Admiralty as the other was of the Equity
j Court. Yet it is on record that, at the very
1 limo when these men were oppressed with
J Herculean labors—when day after day they
] were delivering judgments so masterly and
j profound that they defy alt criticism, each of
! these great jurists drank bis five bottles of
' Porta day. (Laughter.) I certainly would
[liot advise the learned member far Annapolis
tp try in this country an experiment so haz
1 Jtrdous. lu the moist climate of England
"This might be done, but not tn the dry almos
\ pbere of Nova Scotia. 1 have sometimes
, seen him, however, when a few glasses
1 would have done him good. Indeed, I some
times fancy that, both in tho Senate and at
the Bur, his wit is not us poignant or Lis logic
' so acute ns in the olden lime when lie used
to take his glass of wine,
j My honorable colleague and friend from
Cumberland, whose sincerity in this cause I
; cntitely respect, quoted lo us last winter the
, passage from Scripture—'ll eating meat cau
ses! my brother to offend, then will I eat no
more.' But would my honorable friend shut
I up all the and forbid by law
] the sale of meat, for fear somebody would
i eat too much? Again—he told us, 'we have
tried moral suasion, and have failed.' If so,
who is to bluine ? If a speaker here fails to
convince his audience, do we permit him to
j coerce them into belief by force of law?
i I resist this bill because il is a violation of
tho voluntary priuciplo. Because it is de
fended by tbeold arguments by which fanat
ics and persecutors in all ages have sought
to propagate religious opinions. Hoping lo
save men's souls, (more precious than their
bodies) Catholics have burnt Protestants, and
Protestant Catholics. The right of private
judgment was denied. The right of one hu
man being to coerce others into belief, as it
is now sought to coerco them into temper
ance, has been tried a thousand times, and
has failed, as litis attempt will fail.
REMARKABLE BALLOON ASCENSION.—WM.
D. Banmistle, of Adrian city, Michigan,
ascended, on Friday in a balloon,
from that place, at lOj in the morning, and
descended, in Clarion connty, Pennsylvania
at 24 in the afternoon, making the compu
ted distanco of three hundred and fifty miles
in the extraordinary short time of four hours.
This is his second trip, and an experimental
one with a balloon of unusually large size,
It is thirty feet in diameter, contains over six
hundred yards of silk, and is capable of hold
ing nineteen thousand cubic feet of gas, Af
ter bis ascent to the distance of three miles
and a half, the aeronaut struck the eastern cur
rent of air, which, he says, is continually
blowing in one direction. It carried him south
of the lakes, through Central Ohio. His inten
tion was not to descend until dark, as he was
above Ihe rain clouds in a clear upper sky,
but the "excessive cold to which he was ex
posed brought on the accustomed drowsy sen
sation, which prevented him from properly
managing his balloon. He was in that sleepy
slate when his "craft" anohored in a tree in
Red Bank, having descended in consequence
of the evaporatian of the gas The cold was
so sevoie that his foci were completely frozeu
Fiom lite London Punch.
ProVcrbial riillosopby-
NY SOLOMON.
I. An umbrella upon thine arm may make
it ache, but should rain come, the umbrella
will preserve thy clothes. Choose betwixt a
trifling pain and a tailor's bill.
11. Other persons were born about the
same time as thyself, and have been growing
up ever since, as well as thou. Therefore
be cot proud. j
111. Preserve few secrets from thy wife: I
for if she discover them, she will grieve, not
that thou hast kept from her thy secrets, but
thy confidence.
IV. Yet confidence may bo misplaced, as
when thou goesl out ill thin patent leather
boots,, simply because the pavement before
thine door has dried.
V. The girl who is destined to be thy wife, i
although now unknowu to thee, is sure to be i
jiving somewhere or other. Hope, therefore, i
that she is quite well,and otherwise think po- I
litely about ber. s
VI. Educate thy children, lest one of these !
fine days tbey educate thee in a school with
out vacations.
VII. O how good was nature, that plai'cd '
great Hirers near great towns I
i VIII. A traveller, journeying wisely may
learn much. Yet much inay also be learned
by him who stays at home.
IX. An insane person may lie to thee, and [
yet be innocent, and thou mayest lie to him,
and be praiseworthy. Now all persons are |
somewhat insane, but do thou beware of ly- |
1 ing, as a general rule. j
X. Heal expands things, and therefore in ;
hot weather the days aro lengthened. Mor- i
el heats sometimes expand thy mind, but
they tend not to the lengthening of thy days.
XL Say nol that thou knowest a book un
til thou hast read it all. Yet some books j
thou maycsl throw aside partially read. Here- ,
in thou judges! a criminal unheqrd.
'iron ?
XII. I do not say to *Lee, "Marry, for it
will exalt thee, " yet was there subtile mean" '
ing ir. those whose usage it was to say, 'Mar- ;
ry, come np.'
XIII. Cool tilings are used to cure fever, j
yet the over coolness of a friend's act will
throw thee into heat.
XIV. We know nothing, and yet it is know- j
ing something to know that thou knowest
nothing. I
XV. By a conceit, a certain red fly hath I
been called a Lady bird, and bidden to fly '
away tionro. The counsel is good, even to
hor who is neither bird nor fly. There is no
placo like home.
XVI. He who always holds his tongue, ■
will one day have nothing else to hbld. Yet !
it is not good to be over-garrulous.
XVII. The weather-cock, working easily, !
can tell thee the way Of the wind ; but if the ,
weathercoek sticks, the course of the wind
will not be influenced thereby. Remember |
this.
XVIII. If tby heart is in the Highlands, il
is not hero.
XIX. Virtuous love is wholesome. There
fore be virtuous, to make thyself worthy of
self-love. Not, of course, tbat thou art there
by prevented ftum loving somebody else.
XX. Talk to thyself, and insist on a reply,
yet not before the world,lest it think that no
body else will talk to thee.
XXI. A cat, even if she be friendly, never I
approaches thee by a direct cohrse. No
more does a truth, O friend ; but winding
round thy stupidities, and rubbing up against
tby prejudices, it reaches thee gently—and
then perhaps scratches.
XXIt. A stitch in limo .saves hiab. If |
therefore thou feelest one in thy side, be {
thankful, O friend.
XXUI. Love the moon, lor she shines
in the night, to give us light in
the dark , whereas the sun only shines in
the day time, when there is plenty of light, j
and his assistance is not wanted. Such is i
tiro difference between reul and false charity, j
XXIV Solomon knew several things, ai- i
lowing for his age, but I could teach him a I
few otlrets.
From the Medical reformer. |
A GOOD ONE: —A medical friend is respon- ]
sible for the following:—During the ragitigol
scarlatina in a certain city in Delaware our |
friend had demonstrated the virtues and efli- ;
Caey of yeast as a remedy in tho disease.—
Having boon uniformly successful in tho
treatment of an unusually large number of
cases, he was at length solicited lo attend a
child that had been under allopathic treut
niont for several days. Ho immediately
changed treatment, ordered gargles of yeast
and milk, and poultices trf yeast to the
throat. On tho return of the allopath ho
was mado acquainted with tho change as
well as the medicine used, liaising his
hands, he exclaimed—"Brewers yoast!
Brewers yeast!! why that's what the old
women put in thoir bread." Our
hearing this, suggested that as tho doctor
had been employing mercury pretty freely,
they should retort with "Quicksilver! Quick
silver! I Why that's what the old women
have on the backs of their looking glasses!"
They did so. The old doctor had nothing
more to say. J.
tT A Young Man knowing that a young
lady, of whom he imagined himself enamor
ed, understood ihe language of flowers, sent
her a beautiful rose as a declaration of love,
attaching a slip of paper on which was writ
ten, "If not accepted, I proceed to the war."
In return, she forwarded a ptckle jar contain
ing a single (tnau go).
sketch ol Uuroit Itolhschihi.
"To Miss Buxton.—Devonshire street,
February 14, 1334 :—We yesterday dined at
Ham Huuse, to meet the Rothschilds, and
very amusing it wa*. He (Rothschild) told
us his life and adventures. He was the
I third son of the banker at Frankfort.—
i "There was nol," lie said, " room enough
for us all in that city. I dealt in English
j goods- One great trader came there, who had
the markot to himsell : he was quite the great
! man, and he did us a favor if he sold us
I goods. Somehow I offended Link, and he re
fused lo show me his |iatterns. This was on
j a Tuesday. 1 said to my fattier, I will goto
England. I could speak nothing but Ger
man. On Thursday i started. Ttro nearer I
got to England the cheaper tiro goods were.
As soon as I got to Manchester, I laid out all
i my nionev—things were so cheap ; anil I
! made good profit. 1 soon found that there
! were three profits—the raw material, the liye
j ing, and the manufacturing. I said to Ihe j
] manufacturer, I will supply you with the ma
| leriuland dye, ami you supply me with mau
; ufactnred goods. So I got three profits in-
I stead of one, and I could sell goods dreader
, than anybody. In a short time, I made my
I twenty thousand pounds into sixty. My suc
cess all turned on one maxim- 1 said, I can
do what another man cab ; and so 1 am a
match for the man with the patterns, and for
j all the rest of them. Another advantage I
: had. ' 1 was an offhand man. 1 made a bar
. gainatoncc. When I was settled in London
I the East India Company had eight hundred
) thousand pounds of gold to sell. I went to
i the sale and bought it all. I knew the Duke
! of Wellington must have it. 1 bad bought a
] great many of his bills at a discount. The gov
l ernment sent for me, and said lliey must
i have it. When lliey hud got il, they did not
know how to get it lo Portugal. I undertook
j ail that; and 1 sent it through France; and
| that was the best business I ever did. An
s other maxim on which he seemed to place
great reliance was, never lb have anything
lo do Willi an unlucky place, or an unlucky '
man I have seen, said ho, many blever
men- -very clever men—who had nol shoes
'to their feet. J neveract frith them. Their
advice sounds very well, but fate is against j
them; lliey cannot gel on themselves; and if
j they cannot do good lo themselves, how can I
I lliey do good for me ? By aid of these max-1
ims he husacquired three millions of nion- |
j ey. I hope, said , thht your children are j
I not too fond of money and business, to the '
exclusion of more important things. I am i
sure you would not wish that, t am sure
I should not wish that, said Rothschild. I I
wish them to give mind, and soul,and heart, !
and body, and everything; to business ; that ,
|is tho way to be happy. It requires a great I
deal of caution to make great fortune : and j
when you have got it, it requires ten times
as much wit to keep it. If I were lo listen to ]
all the projects proposed to me I should ruin '
| myself very soon. Slick to one business, ,
\ young man, said he, lo Edward ; stick to ;
your brewery, an'd yob may be the gteat i
btewerof London. He a brewer, and a ban- j
ker, and a merchant, and a manufacturer,
and you will soon be in the Gazette. O.ie ol I
my neighbors is a very ill-tempered man ; j
lie tries to vex me, and has built a groat
place for swine close to my walk. So, wfien j
1 go out, I hear first grunt, grnnt, squeak, !
| squeak, but this does me no harm. lam al-
I ways in a good humor. Sometimes, to,
amuse myself, f give a beggar a guinea.— !
He thinks it a mistake, and for fear I should
find it out, oil he tuns as hard as he can. I
advise )ou to give a beggar a guinea some
times—it is very amusing.
(The above is extracted from tho recently ;
published biography ol the late Sir T. F. <
Buxton. The letter was written by thut gen- 1
| llemau.)
Ueoutiful Kxtruct.
] The following beautiful paragraph we ex-
I tract from tiro address delivered before the j
i graduating class of Uutger's College, by the
Hon. Theodore F-elinghuysen, and commend
| it to the perusal of the young:
' " Resolve to do fomething useful, honor- ,
I able, dutiful, and do it heartily. Rtqiel the ,
thought that you can, and therefore may live |
above work, and without it. Among the mo.-t
: pitiable objects in society, is the man whoso
| mind has never been trained by the discipline
; of education; who lias learned bow to think
of the value of his immortal powers, and wiih
all these noble faculties cultivated and pre
pared for an honorable activity, ignobly sits
down lo nothing; with no interest in the con
cerns of his country, or even his neighbor-,
hood; to be regarded as a drone, u ithout ob-1
ject or character, with no hand to lift, and no
effort lo put forth lo help the right or lo de
feat the wrong. Who can think with any j
calmness of auch a misorable existence?—'
Never permit your influence to go into hos
tility to the cauee of truth and virtue. So |
live that, with the Christian and poet, you
may truthfully say that—
-1 If your country stand nol by your skill,
At least your follies have not wrought hor fall.' i
ty Miss Greenwood tells a story of the |
late Duke of Cambridge, who had a habit ol
responding with peculiar heartiness to any
congenial sentiment uttered in publiu meet
ings, and even in church service. During a
very dry season, as a prayer for raiu vras
being solemnly read by the mipirter, hie
royal highness called out in the emphatic
and reiterative style of his illustrious house,
" By all means, by all means, by alt means I"
then added, in a lower, but still distiuct tone,
('We shall not havo rain, however, till the
wind changes'' '
[Two Dollars per AMIUM
NUMBER 28.
From th* TVtstchester Republican.
NORTHVMBBM.AND, PA. June, JBSB.
Vear Republican 'The crops of Schuylkill,
| Hocks, Columbia, Montour, and Nortbnm
i berlund counties look very promising. The
j grain appears to be quite as good as in Ches-
I ler, and the grass much bettor, it has not
been so much injured by the winter, owing
! believe to the tact that it was much be tie j
protected by tho snow.
This place, its you know, is beautifully til
' uated on the gracefully sloping neck of land,
: formed by the confluence of the North and
West branch of the Susquehanna; the land is
| fertile and unadulating rising gradually back
to the Montour ridge, some two or throe miles
] North.
I This ridge, I believe, was named after Ma
drjpie Montour, who came 10 this neigbbol-
J hood, prior 10 (he French war; aud married
1 the Indian Chief Coronondowans. The cei
brated Indian Interpreter, Andrew Montour
was the offering of this marriage.
The ridge contains an inexhaustable bed
of iron ore Iroin it the Montour works, as well
as those ot our estimable friend Samuel
Wood, and muny others, draw their supply.
If iron cannot be made here, to complete
with the English article, I have seen no place
in this country that it can. Hsre the ore and
Hie flux are in close proximity, and the North
Branch Canal supplies the coal, at a very low
price.
There is nothing then, but the belter paid
laborer, (which all would regret to see redu
ced 10 the English standard.) that makes the
manufacture of iron more expensive, in thiA
location, the most favored place in Eng
land or Wales.
The Suubury and Erie Railroad passes
through the town near the West Branch,
crosses the North Branch over the island, and
curves down the east bank of the river, to
the depot which is to be located a little north
of the town of Suubury. The contractors are
now at woik at the bridge, and the toad is
graded through the town,
j Suubury is built on the site of Fort Augus
ta, which was tho strong hold of the pioneers
in settling the wilderness, under the provin
cial government, and duting the French and
Indian war. Here, too, (then oalled Shamo
kin,) was the wigwam of the brave and inti
mate friend of Conrad Weiser, the celebrated
Cayuga Chief Sbikillimus.
The town of Northumberland was selec
ted by Dr. Joseph Priestly, as an asylum
from the intolerant mob, that destroyed bid
valuable library, and collection of Philosoph
ical and chemical apparatus at Btrniegbam,
because bo dared to exercise the right of
thought and action contrary to the dictation
of the established Church ; his honor, is but
the case of thousands of others both before
and since, who have sought this land of free
dom for the same cause. Some of bis sons
bad preceded bim arid selected a most love
ly spot on the North Branch where the Doc
tor erected a large mansion, designing it as
a resting place lor his brother countrymen,
who should be forced from their native soil
for opinion sake.
Dr. Thomas Cooper afterward sojourned
with him for a lime before he went South.
The grounds slopes geully down to the wa
ter, and are now donsely covered with shade
trees, but the privacy of the place has been
disturbed, and the ground muliliated, by the
North Brunch Canul passing through them.
The Doctor did not live long 10 enjoy the
fruits of his labor ou ibis beautiful spot—he
died 1804, and lies "al rest from his labor,''
as expressed on his torrb, in an obscure
graveyard, in another part of the town—bill
his name can never die ; it the seventy vol
umes otitis works should be insufficient to
pass his name down to future ages, the sin
gle fact, of bis being tho discoverer of oxygen
gas, will.
This place is tho residence of Senator Tag
gart, who is now hero with his family- He
is a noblb looking man, six feet two or three
inches in height and well proportioned : is
affable and pleasing in his intercourse with
the people, aud appears to be popular hero,
though lie has givea some offence by his
cou-se in theSenute last winter on the liquor
question—doubtless has made some enemies
too, by bis active opposition* to the election
of Simon Cameron to the United States Sen
ale. Simon lias a brother living in this coun
ty, and 1 hear it rumored here that he is of
fering an advanced price for the stock of the
Bank of Northumberland for the purpose of
getting the control of the Batik that he may
visit bis vengeance on the Senator, by remo
ving bis father who is President, aud his
1(01110." who is Teller; but this 1 canuot
credit.
You know Mr. Editor, (hat my opinion of
Suirou is not very exalted, yet I do not be
lieve be is so small a man, as 10 stoop to
such contemptible meanness as that, it would,
certainly draw a dark veil over the mane
good acts of his lite in the view of honora
ble men. Yours truly,
A VISITOR.
GP" A gentleman crossing a narrow bridge
said to a countryman whom be mot, 'I think
this narrow causew'ay must be very danger
ous, my honest friend; pray, are not peoplo
lost here sometimes?'
' Lost! no, sir, I never knew anybody lost
here in my life; there Were several droyvned,
but they were all found again.'
EP*luveuiors rarely fail of their reward.—
Jenkins invented a new style of lock piokor
and waß rewarded by a "situation" in thn
jail for a coeplc of years.
| Hon. Thomas P. Marshall has taken the
stump in Ky- against the Know Nothings,