THE STAR OE THE NORTH. K. W. Weaver, Proprietor.] VOLUME 9. THE STAR OF THE NORTH IS PUBLISHED EVERT WEDNESDAY MORNINU BY R. W. TV BAY KR, OFFICE—Up stairs, in Ihe netc brick build ing, on the south side oj Muin Street, third •yuare below Market. TER MS:—Two Dollars per annum, if paid within aix montha from the lime of sub scribing ; two dollars and fifty cents if not paid within the year. No subscription re reived for a leaa period than six months; no discontinuance permitted until all arrearages •re paid, uuless at the option of the editor. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding one square will be inserted three times for One Dollar, and twenty-five cents for each additional in seition. A liberal discount will be made to those who advertise by the year. €t)oi(e Jpoetvg. THE CONFLICT FUR TRUTH. The willing mind will ever Deem heavy burdens light, The noble spirit will never Cease struggling for Ihe right. Though Ihe conflict may inorease, And might should brave the strife, Right's Champions shall release The prison bars of life. On, on the Banner sneedeth, The battle ory of Right, No blood-stained-fields it ueedeih, No cannon's thundering might. (Whence red eyed fury dashea Hia atorm of deadly rain,) No cities laid in ashes ; No mangled heaps of slain. But dauntless minds that fail not To strive in fadeless youth, That fatesehood may prevail not Against the Cause of Truth. Lead on, Ihe darkness breaking, Their beacon light to spread, Unnumbered hearts awaking, From mingling with the dead. On, on, the war-cry speadeth, "Soldiers of truth arise!" The simple peasant heedctlt, And error'a ranks defies. The veteran, gray and hoary, •a The beardless, nobis youth, * Swell bark that shout of glory, And arm, and strike lor Truth. Fiercely the conflict rages, For soul is majched with soul, The "battle-fields" are "pages," And "thoughts" tho "artillery's roll." Oppression, crime, and terror, Marshall'd in added might, Strike on, yet shrink with terror, When n.et by Truth and Right. Still is the conflict raging, lint yet shall victory grace Those arms ol Rood are waging For Justice to the race. Slriko, then, thou voterun hoary, Strike, then, thou beardless youth, Strike, true mon, all for glory, For Justice, Right, and Truth ! Ulve lltui n Trade. If education is the great buckler of human liberty, well developed industry is equally the buckler end shield of individual inde pendence. As an unfailing resotftce through life, give your eon, equal with a good edu cation, a good, honest trade. Better any trade than none, though thore is ample field for the adoption of every inclination in this respect. Learned professions, and specula tive employments may fail a man, but an honest handicraft trade, seldom or never— if its possessor chooses to exercise it. Let him feel, too, that honest labor-crafts are honorable and noble. The men of trades— the real creators of whatever is most essen tial to the necessities and welfare of man kind—cannot be dispensed with; tlioy above nil others, in whatever repute they may be held by their more fastidious fellows, must work at the oar of human progress or all is lost. But few brown handed trade workers think of this, or appreciate the real position and power they compass. Give your sou a trade, no matter what fortune he may have or seem likely to in herit. Give him a trade and an education —at any rate a trade. With this he can al ways battle with temporal want, can always be independent and better is independence with a moderate education, than all the learning of the colleges and wretched tem poral dependence. But in this free land there can be ordinarily no difficulty in se curing both the education and trade, for every youth thereby fitting each and all to enter the ranks of manhood defiant of those obstacles which intimidate so many trade less, professionless young men. Such are the peculiarities of fortune, that no mere outward possession can be counted so ab eolutely secure or protective to man.— Hoarded thousands may be swept away in a day, and their once possessors left with neither the means of independence or of livelihood. He was a wise Scandinavian King who decreed that his sons must learn useful trades or be cut off from their expected princely fortunes. They demurred, but obeyed the decree. The eldest, as the eas iest trade to learn applied himself to bas ket making. In time ho reigned in his father's stead. In time, also, revolution \ came upon, and overthrew him, and lie \ lied disguised, wandering and companion less save his wife and children, his sole re source for livelihood a recurrence to his humble, but honest and useful trade. The sons of the rich as well as the poor, should bo strengthened by this possession. If never used beyond the learning, no harm is done—while possibly it may be of in calculable good. It is a weapon of assault, of defence, which once fairly seized, can never be taken from a man's grasp. Think of it, parents; examine your boy's 'bumps,' or rather study the 'bent of their minds,' and tastes,—and as of the best and most lasting services you can do for them, apply rtiwm l the learning nf linnet tredox. BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1857. Tin: USE OF OPIUM IN CniNA. ITS TERRIBLE EFFECTS. Despite the success of Lord Palmeriton at the polls, it is highly probable that he will encounter a severe, if not a formal opposition on the assembling of the new Parliament.— Already several of (he leading Journals are preparing the way for a demonstration. One of them, the London Morning Star, intimates that a resolntion will be offered at the earliest moment, for a thorough investigation of the Opium Trade—a trade that is carried on in defiance of the Chinese Government, and which yield an annual revenue to the East India Company of something like fifteen millioos of dollars. This trade now amounts to 87,000 chests ■ year, equal in value to something like 830.000,000. This is paid principally in hard cash, and thus the Empire is drained of specie. A correspondent of the Morning Star says that a traffic in opium is carried on in China, by nearly all the British merchants looatsd there. The system is thus managed. Eighteen well covered vessels, called receiving ships, of from 200 to 500 tons, snd stationed along the coast of China, just outside the limits of Ihe five ports chief ly; and these receiving ships are kept well supplied with the drug—(in order to get it smuggled into China)-by fast sailhtg schoon ers, called clippers and steamers, which ply regularly along the coast, all heavily armed and efficiently manned by English officers, I.ascsr and Malay crews chiefly, well-train ed to arms for defensive operations—these receiving ships have stout netting, which they cover over them in timos of danger or threatened attack from Mandarin junks or private boats. The opium is conveyed to the merchants' hongs within the ports, from those receiving storeships, chiefly by night, or the dusk of eveoing, in fast sailing and row boats, well armed. Sometimes Chinese boats go to these receiving ships and purchase for themselves, und convoy it away into the in terior. The writer says that he has seen large supplies of tho drug landed by tho boats of the receiving ships in the dusk of the even ing, at the English tlong, and lias known the s:canters of tho Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company go into port and discharge large supplies at an English agen cy. It is well known that the Chinese rulers, the late Emperor, Tou Kwang, in particular, exerted every means and used all his ener gies to exclude this pernicious drug from China, finding it highly detrimental and in jurious lo his subject. He pul forth repeated edicts for stopping its ingress, and severe penalties were enacted against those who in troduced it and encouraged it. At length, finding its evils appalling, he despatched the late official, Lin, of Canion notoriely, to that port effectually to stop tho contraband traffic in the drug—the measures which he took were such as led to the war with China about the year 1843—the particulars and results of which are matters of history. Suffice it lo say, that that war was overruled, to the open ing un of the present live polls of China to foreign commerce. High funeral honors and Imperial distinctions, during life were awai ded to Lin, who had used such extreme measures lor suppressing this traffic at Can ton, as a testimony of a country's gratitude for suoh services. The victims of opium smoking and chew ing often apply for foreign medical aid at the different ports, in order to secure a remedy for tho habit—a habit which is full of peril, and will unvariably, if persisted in, destroy its victim. The writer, (rom wboso detailed statement we gather these facts, says fur ther: "All missionaries in China are agreed that the evils of this system are one of the great est obstacles to the reception of their mes sage by the Chinese, and of a closer and more iriendly intercourse with that people. At the close of the last war with China, our merchants and manufacturers were rejoiced at the prospect of an increasing commerce with three hundred or four hundred millions of Chinese customers; yet, by statistical re turns, we learn how grievously disappointed they have been, for a3 the illicit traffic in opium has increased, so legitimate commerce has diminished. The British people will doubtless inquire the reason of this. The solution of it is easy—for this illicit traffic in opium carries with it, like every other wrong course of action, its own punishment and consequences —and in this instance the dis grace of it is reflected *upon the nation at large. The Chinese, it must be admitted ) are the best jadges of what is noxious snd injurious to them, if they declare by their rulers and literati (as they have most promi nently done in Ibis instance) that any cause of proceeding is injurious to them, we are bound, I apprehend, to accept their testi mony, and are bound, as right minded per sons, more especially as professed Christiana, to respect their wishes; as moral agents we violate the first principles of Christianity, to endeavor to force a noxious and prohibited drug, like opium, upon them for the sake of gain." He states further, Ibst be has for the last seven years witnessed this sad trsffio in China, and seen tho effeols of it upon the Chinese people. The great majority of opi um-eaters of the commoner claes resorted to publio places callad Quangs, or opium-dena, who are provided with every convenience for the indulgence of the fearful praotic#.— The effect* of the drug, when taken in small quantities, are fascinating, exhilarating and exciting. But the repetition aoon begins to tell upon tha moral energise and powers, as well as upon the physical conformation. "The Chinese generally, as it well known, live in lions, those of iho same blood nod kindred have a common home end establlsh menl, mutually support, and are dependent on ot:e another. The males, of oourie, are the chief props and mainatay of the whole clan or community, just aa we read of the patriarchal system in the Old Teiument Scrip ture,—they feel, act, and aympathize with each other, and are often very numerous; each member is bound to contribute hia aid towards the welfare of the whole. The old men of elders are the governors, and respon sible heads of the communities or clans, and are held accountable to society and to the authorities for the welfare and conduct of every memberof the olan. This system thus supplies the of a poor law in China, and in this way China is governed in its easiness the more easily and effectually.— Now, it is a fact, so far as has yet been as certained, that opium smoking in China is coufined, almost exclusively, to the male population, the sinews, the strength, labor, and capital of the people on whom the fe males, children, and aged men are dependent for sustenance; hence we cannot fail to per ceive that if the moral and physical energies of the males be undermined, how much mis ery mdst be directly entailed on their de pendents, and how much the material and social welfare of the Chinese is involved in the practice of opium smoking. I have my self had to discharge an excellent Chinese servant simply because he smoked opium; and 1 have known the British consul do the very same thing, because they could no longer bo trusted. An agent of one of the principal English firms in China told me that he had discharged an old Chinese ser vant because he was an opium smoker-—re marking to me that servants become rpnle useless when they use opium. "Ii is a fuel well known to modical men in China how great an evil is this opium smok ing to the Chinese, and their record may be soen in Iho published works on China, in pamphlets and periodicals, especially in the "Chinese Repository." The medical faculty in England know well that the use of this narcotic habitually destroys the procreativo powers of the male. The Chinose them selves designate the drug a "black dirt," "black poison," "foreign poison," &o. All missionaries in China are agreed that the opium (radio in China is the chief obstacle to the introduction of Christianity into that empire, and a mora friendly intercourse and commerce with that people. When they present Christianity to the Chinese they are olten met with euoh rebuffs as the following: 'How is it that you profess to give us a good religion while your countrymon are deluging us with a poisonous drug?' A literary man once was asked what proportion of persons he supposed smoked opium. He replied about eight-tenths. This may be true in cit ies and towns perhaps, not so in tho country. On the whole the more this system is inves tigated the more it is apparent that to the Chinese, politically, morally, socially, and religiously, it is an immense evil, and reflects most seriously on the British nation and our rulers." POVERTY ANI) PAUPERISM. Those terms are 100 ofien considered syn onymous, and used indifferently the one for the other. But they really represent two dis tinct and widely diverse things. As a gen eral rule poverty is iho result of misfortune, while pauperism is a crime. The one is produced by various causes beyond the con trol of the individual—the other, by a disin clination to live by labor; the one is the ina bility to procure the necessaries of life by any means within the individual's control, however earnestly and honestly be may strive. The other is a determination never to work so long as a living can be obtained by begging, lying or stealing. The one is generally retiring, and has to be sought out. The other impudently thrusts itself into our bouses and places of business, appealing, with all manner of falsehood, to our sympa thies. Poverty suffers uncomplainingly in its cold, desolate home. Pauperism pushes itself into our notice at every turn. To re lieve the poor man or woman, who has been struck down by some misfortune, or who cannot find remuneration for willing labor, is a sacred privilege—a true act of charily, blessing the giver and receiver—lightening the sad heart—encouraging and lifting up— saving from despai', perhaps from crime, the honest poor one;—while on the other hand, yielding to the importunate demands of pau perism, is but encouraging idleness and vice. We have been led to make these remarks by looking over "The Eighth Report of the Ministry at Large, in Roxbury, Mass." The able and indefatigable man who fills the po sition of minister at large in that city, Mr. James Ritchie, gives in this report a some what extended summing up of his eight years' experience with poverty and pauper ism. We should be glad to present to our readers the whole of his reasottiug upou the subject, if we bad space; but must conteut ourselves with giving the conclusions to which he arrives, and which be sums up under eleven heads, as follow*: 1. That pauperism in our community is voluntary and necessary. 2. That it ia very much increased and fos tered by alroagiving, end the multiplicity of aid eocieuee having aeparate and independ ent action. S. That it need* to ba dealt with ootuid eralaly, but sternly and unconoptomiatngly. 4. That the regularly constituted munici pal authorities are the proper ones to have control of it. The Mayor ot our city his proposed the appointment of an agent, and I understand the Board of Overseers concur tliot'in, whose duty it shall ho to keep an Truth and Right Cod 3w Country. office and attend to all th applications for the city's aid. No doubt a .ompotent agent will be selected, who will krep a record of all eases, and to him apploants should be referred. 5. lit our community all "stances of want of food, fuel; and clothing vhicb are repre sented to the benevolent ai extreme, are elective, being the choice of such extremity rather than to lake the prodsion offered by the constituted authorities. 6. That iu eaoh and al these instances the public provision is beter, both for the applicant and for the conmumty, and the interference of private cbaity is only evil, and that continually. 7. Thai aid, oiihaa pob' cor private, af forded from year lo year to the time indi viduals, ji destructive of individual inde pendence and happiness. 8. That all assistance should be tempo rary, and only bestowed where sickness cr other casualties have cut off ordinary means of support. 9. That any assistance is better than that which dirsctly affords supplies. 10. That the support in winter of those who caa only be employed in summer, per petuates a dependent class, and onures only to the benefit of those who in favorable sea sons procure their labor at lesa than living wages. 11. That the refusal of aid to such, would support ibsm independently, and would en sure to those who remained a sufficient de mand fot their labor, and an adequate sup port for their families. Recognizing most fully the distinction wo have made between poverty and pauperiam, Mr. Ritchie says tho first is to be relieved, the other to be cured. What is best in these matters in Roxbury, is best elsewhere, and it would be wall if our cilizene should, in all cases shut their hearts, Imnda and purses to beggers of all descriptions. Let them re member that honest poverty never systemat ically begs. A strict adherence to this rule would result in one of two things—partly, perhaps, in each—it would compel the lazy pauper to work, or to seek a living in some othor locality. There is no possibility of harm or wrong in this action. Send the ap plicant to tho Directors of the Poor, an Jho will surely be properly cared for. Or, better siill, contribute to tho funds and procure the right to rend an upplicant for charity to somo charitable society, where his wants will be investigated. There is no fear tbat the beg gars will starve, for, as a last resort, the Almshouse la always opon 19 mil ud in it the destitute are amply provided with all tho necessaries of life not only, but with many other things which the street beggar cannot find without its wall. Its inmates are instructed as well as fed, worked (if able to work) as well as clothed—better cored for in every respect than the unfortunate poor who had rather suffer and starve than beg or steal. Refuse to give, and the really desti tute will find a reluge, while the lazy but able-bodied beggar will emigrate. We may thus free ourselves from a nuisance while we really perform an act of charity. The cases of poverty remaining would be very lew, and the dollars and cents now thrown away upon bold-faced pnuperism would be amply sufficient for their relief. CAN we AFFORD TO LIVE IN IT? Occasionally some millionaire builds a mansion, which is the admiration of the town, or erects a country hcuse, which, with its grounds, is the pride ind boast of the neighborhood. In time the great man dies, becomes insolvent, goes abroad, or retires to his hobby ; and then the property is put up for sale. Everybody crowdslo see the dwelling or drives out to the country house. The pic tares, the furniture, the bat-house, or the grounds, are by turns the tfeme of admira tion. The night of the sale arrives. The auction room is crowded. To judge from the sea of faces looking up at the crier, one might think that the competition would be enor mous. But the fact is the reverse. The auc tioneer expiates long before be can obtain a single oiler; the property, at first, seems about to be knocked down t> the first bidder; and when, at last, other offers are made, they come almost reluctantly, and though the hammer falls amid a general cry 'how cheap,' the purchaser looks as if be already half re pented of his bargain. And why? Simply because it is one thing to buy a costly house, but quite another thing to live in it. .Men, before they purchase a stately mansion,ehould ask themselves wheth er they can afford to keep it in appropriate style. A hundred thousand dollars for a dwelling makes necessary thousands of dol lars for furniture, thousands for dtess and equipage, and thousands more for servants, parties, Newport and Saratoga. There ia a fitness in tbiDgs, demanded by public opin ion, wfaich requires these expenses, aud to this opinion, nine men out of ten sooner or later practically yiekl, even if they, or their wives, do not embark in the extravagance at onoe. But usually there is no backwardness in this respect. Fitaooodle purchases a new house, with rosewood daors, walnut stair oases, stained-glass windows, and, before ha bas fairly recorded hie deed, Mis. Fiirnoodle wants the walls frescoed nd paneled with •alio, and ten thousand alter superfluities. The estimated cost of the uew movement is soon trebled; the annual outlay grown in proportion ; and M. Fitauoodie ie either ru ined, or condemned to groan, forever efter, over hia increasing expenses. What is true of the would-be-lash iooable ia just aa true, however, of persons with more limited mesne. If men, worth only e hund red tbouaand dollar j or two, ape the million aire'* nyle of living, <0 4c merchants, professional men, even clerks and mechanics, ape those richer than themselves. The weak ness of wishing to live in a fine house ia al most universal. The fine house, too, is rela tive, for that which a millionaire scorns, the young merchant thinks superb,and that which the merchant looks down on, the clerk pinch es himself to obtain. It is amazing how many | families live in dwellings beyond their means! The miserable shift* to which such families are driven in order to keep up appearances, are melancholy to think upon. In the end, 100, the head ol the family dies, hiving laid by nothing, and the widow and children sink into a hopeless poverty, the more poignant to them, because of the mortification attending it. It would be well If the question was oftener asked, when moving Into a hotter bouse is proposed, "can we afford to live in ill"— Ledger. Important I,aw Decision* Tha following extracts wsolip from an opin ion reconily made by the Supreme Court in Bano at Harrisburg. At the decision involves important principles of commercial law, par ticularly whsn applied to partnerships, and the individual acis of partners. We publish it as a matter of general interest: THE BANK OX MIDDI.ICTOWN, lln Common vs. [ Pleas ol l.an- PSTEK HALDEMAN and K. B. I caster co. Ver* Gituun. j diet for Pl'ff. Writ ol Error to the Supreme Court, May Term, 1857. OPINION OP TIIK SUPREME COURT. KNOX, Justice:— l'eter Huldeman and Ed ward Grubb wero partners in manufacturing iron at the Henry Clay Furnace in Lancaster County, from June, 1853, to November, 1851. On the 21st of October, 1855, Peter ilalde man in his own name and that of his partner, E. B. Grubb, made a draft for six thousand dollars, for sixty days, directed to Haldeman Brothers, Philadelphia, payable to the order of Peter Haldeman, and by him endorsed.— The draft ytaa discounted by the Bank ofl Middletown, and the proceeds paid to Peter Haldeman. It was protested lor non-pay ment, and this suit was brought by the Bank against Haldeman & Grubb, to recover the amount due and unpaid upon the draft. Edward B. Grubb defeuds upon the ground that the draft, although in the name of Peter Haldeman and himself, was really made by Haldeman for his own use, and that the pro* ceeds were not used in the business of Hal deman & Grubb, but were appropriated by J llsMemir. to hie individual perpoaea. Tha | case depends upon the question, whether the Bank was bound to enquire as to the author ity of Haldeman, to draw the draft in the firm's name. It is not pretended that the Bank had actual notice'that the discount was for Halderman's separate use; bat it is alleg ed that the form of the draft was sufficient to put the bank upon inquiry. The draft was made payable to Peter Haldeman's order.— Was this an indication that it was not drawn by the firm in the usual course of its busi ness f Certainly it was not; for, although it may not be the ordinary form in which bills are drawn, it is by no means an unusual transaction where the object of drawing a draft is to raise money for a firm, that it should be made payable to the order and en dorsed by one of the members of the firm.— The law merchant, founded as it is upon the usage and custom of merchants, should con form to the business habits ol the people where it is to be applied, rather than to com pel the business coromnniiy to follow arbitra ry rules not in conformity with the common understanding of business men. Where a draft or bill is drawn in the name of a firm by one of the partners, is offered for discount, the presumption is, that drawing the draft was a partnership transaction, even although it was made payable to the order of one of tha members ol the firm. Actual knowledge that a bill or note pur porting to be drawn or made by a firm was given wirhout the consent of some of the partners, but the presumption that the paper ia what it puiports to be, cannot be overthrown by a mere mailer ol form, in ia seriing the name of one of the members of a partnership as psyee. Where a firm note is given for au individual debt, the person to whom tbe debt was due is effected with no tice that tbe note was not given in a partner ship transaction, and therefore bis right to re cover from the firm will depend upon the as sent of the partner or partner*, other than the original debtor. But such • note would clearly be good against tbe firm in the hands of a bona fide bolder. The free circulation of mercantile paper is esaeotislly necessary to ihe prosperity of the business public,and all defence made against it, which is not cleatly founded npoo princi ples of substantial justice should be disre garded. If the paper is fraudulently rut iato circulation, let him who has actual knowl edge of the fraud, or who has been grossly negligent in obtaining such knowledge be atfected by the frawd. But if notice ato be implied from the name of thepsyeeof the bill or note, other implications of e*;ual of greater weight will be made irons other cau ses, and the rule would be that no octe wouU dire take a note or bill without first akin* the ad*ice ol counsel learned in ihw iaw merchant. OT Mr. Mills the writer of a practical treatise on horse-shoeing, puts a gutsa pee cha protection across the sole of the K*>t. and secures the shoes on the Kweteet by only three nail* on each. He has Mfcawed this practice iu his operation* ol horsw-ahon tug tor severs I years and fin .S it a err eb Kctivw ettn 'IIIK NBUATIVK AND POSITIVE. | It isn't all in " bringing up," I.et tolks say what they will- To silver-scour a pewtet cup, It will be pewter still; Even he of old, wise Solomon, Who said, "train up • child," II I mistake not had a son l'rosed rattle-brained and wild. A man of mark who fain would pasa For lord of sea and land, May have ihe training of a son And bring lura up full grand— May gis htm all the wealth of lore, Of college and of sohool, Yet, alter all, may make no mora Than just a decent fool. Another, raited br penury, Upon her bitter bread, Whose road to knowledge it like that The good to hoaven must tread, Has got a spark of Nature's light; He'll tan it to a flame, Till iu its burning letter's bright 'The world may read his tiara#. If it were all in Übringing op," In counsel and restraint, Some rascals had been lionest men— I'd been myself a saint, Oh! 'tisn't all in "bringing up," f.et folks say what they will; Neglect may dim a silver cup, It will be silver Mill. ■ . . ■ !- -L UItINGINU THK COMPANY TO TERMS. Porter's Spirit of the Times publishes an excellent story by "H. P. L.," under the cap tion of " Bringing a Railroad Company to Terms." The story goes that a railroad train was thrown off the track by running over a cow, on one of the roads leading West; and while the engineers were repairing damages, one of the passengers, who knew the owner of the cow—an old dutch woman named Sal ly Uaunuhfuss—regaled the company with a story, going to show how the old lady on a previous occasion bad a pig killed by the train, and how she brought the company to terms. "Old Sally Rannehfuss always carries her point by sticking to it, therein differing from post office stamps, which my old friend," nodding to old Comfortable, "says are disre putable because they stick at nothing, and never hold on." Old Sally had, a few years ago, a pig which she juslly esteemed the pride of her pen ; so fat that he conld hardly grunt; in fact he was so well taken care of that none of these powers were called tnlo play, or, more properly speaking, work. His overcare caused his death ; for, getting out of the pen one day, he rolled dowuto the rail road track. The iron horse, coming along was unheeded by the pig who thought (per haps so!) that it would get out of his way— but it didn't. The lean earth wag liiterally larded at his death, and the iron horse fairly snotted at the pig's last grunt. Old Sally, on learning her loss, raged like a south-wesier. "Mine big, oh, mine big." "Town mit ter railroads I" was the cry From morning till night she poured out ber Borrow to her neighbors; she pouted out ber wrath on the unlucky agent of '.be road who was stationed at H It's only a mile or two from where she lives to this town— we passed it coming out this morning. Well, this agent bad the life bothered out of him by old Sally. In the midst of the busiest calcu lations regarding the sale of tickets and ma king change he would see a sun bonnet walk ing up till it filled the little roond bole of the office window, and then a voice;' " You bays me for mine big ? Yaw ! I not coes 'ray dill you hays me for mine big. 1 sbiays yuste strata in dit room dill you bays me." " Now g'way from dare !' shouted the agent. j " Come, good woman, stp wide, I want j to get a ticket,' rays a man in • great harry. Site looked a: him indignantly, never moved. t and commenced again: | "I coes 'viy ven you bays me for mine big. Mine Dig vol veigh dree hooodret bounds, and vas smasht to beecet by de: stimgine. I rsnt mine money.'' The agent is raving, the man who wants a ticket thrusts bis hand throegb a pigeoa hole nearly dislocating his elbow as old Satiy crowJed h>ra to ooe side. The agent gtvee the ticket and the wrong change, the man wants to haTe it rectified, old Sally shoots about-'mine big and, jost as the locomotive comes snorting op to use depot, the agent manages to bare old Sally dtawn aside, who at once turns the tide of battle treat the agent ' to the locomotive, tender, baggage and pas senger care, and all the inhabitants thence: standing oo the depot platrotm. and rag.eg \ at one of the engineers in part-cc-ar ahaitag 1 her fist at htm. j " I tnakt* jroa br tor m>et bts !" look*; direciljr at :ae *bo drowiw btt ct • wiib an ttcaft of Keam. wid iookt iaMMtiy d! .?hid at btt and says: •• HETIO. OLD ;*I Hitnt tbty paid ix :bai pi yet? Pat it > , thty'tt r*3 u I blase*!'' And tbia ini ua'rt t£ttt.3g with Sally'i dtltrmatatian, s3t at cost launches oct uj a lirada c: ab*> vhxa < i only aoppai b* tha "*V aboard ' at' At etc doctor, and the iltil a lev- <>. or sat fc i parting traia. j Pay tfttt d o'd Sfcir At arms, bat !M MOad kv ftatd amtd M oat M Md ta\ aad acatbar. atd oi St * I to appear. patt •** tba ty bte tr j ** tbal ba aa AtntMd Iwm bat apM a*y. v\st tcoitay. ratty a%bt, tba at*i tarn dtiboA at taHtpttd ►* Ajtaiy rtaeatMss xoodttiS. Saw'abu! Rtatd aao At due** tbtaV al Aa tc.aMit c* U< m m ttaU am <a- h wat AtacvA * •bl Sa#jb beam Aat At tbMt m fM* A'tr at nj Mar 'it rasteK [Two Dollars per Annua. NUMBER 2-3. The brakemen and engineer, fireman and conductor, had to get out, stirring around in mud up to their knees. " What's to pay V "Grease I" sung ont the fireman, and all hands, after working with sand and giasel on the rails, found that the wheels at last would take hold, and, tearing mad, got under way again, hearing, as they started, old Sally crying out at the top of her voice : " Vou bays me for my big now, ehl"— What answers were made must remain un repealed. When the conductor of the train reached II , he told the agent that he must pay for that pig, or there would be an old woman charged to the company a* a "dead loee" the I next time the cars were stopped in that spot. The next day the agent paid old Sally the full value of her pig, on condition that she | wuuld never bring the compmy to lerme again by UREASINO THE TRACK. Geographical Distribution of Disease. Considerable aitemioD has been paid, with in ilia last thirty years, to the origin and cau ses of diseases. The statistics collected on this subject bare established a fact long sus pected by the mcdioal profession, which is, that climate and temperature give a perma nent and unchangeable location lo various epidemics. Mr. Keith Johnson, in a late vrorlr, has gathered together many curious facts pertinent to this problem. The plague, for example has never appeared in the New World, nor in the Southern hemisphere, and is confined, in the Old World, principally be tween the purallele of latitude 29 and 42 de grees north, in some places it returns, with great v iolence at fixed periods. It rages, in this manner, at Conttaitinople, every nine years, in Egypt every five, at Aleppo every ten, at Andoch every fifteen, aud at Cadis every lorly-'bree. It formerly devastated much higher latitude than it doe* at present, England snd Scotland having been decimated by it more than once. Rut it bas not appear ed in Scotland since the reign of Charles the Second, nor in Eugland since the accession of the House of Hanover. It chiefly hirbora in fiat localities, rarely ascending to the high er grounds. A low, wet, clayiah soil ap pears to be the most favorable to its develop ment. The yellow fever ia believed to have beet* unknown to the civilized world till lb dis covery in America. It is a tropical disease, but often invades the temperate zone, when favored by tropical identity of (Annate, though it dissppears again the moment the mercury ; falls halow 55,0 Faliraoheit. The highest ! limits which it bee reached ia Europe am Gibraltar and Cadiz; but sporadic casea of it have appeared in England, imported there by West India ships. In the last century, it raged at Boston, New York and Philadelphia. Elevated localities, even in the torrid zone, are free from it. Tha, it has oever appeared at Maroon Town, Jamaica, nor at the Poo nix Park. The island of Grenada, Mount Card.gas, five hundred feet above the tea,w exerr.nl from it. In the mountainous parts of St. Domingo the disease is unknown. The lofneet point at wbicb it baa ever been found uas a; an elevation of twenty-five hand red feet. It is about thirty per eeoi. mere fatal in America than in Europe. Hygienic rage* lanoos, in temperaie latitude*, are a certain prevention of it, and do much, even in the tropic zone, to m.tlgate ita ferocity. Pereooe of pare Aincaa blood axe comparatively ex empt from it. As yellow fever is Ibe scourge of tr fMcal, so typhus is lite: of temperate taxnodee. fa North America it prevails between the petal lei# of 32 and 49 degree*, and ia Europe be tween those of 44 and 60 degrees; tor toe climate of Western Europe is warmer by tt degrees than that of Eastern America, ia tha same latitude. Where the mean aaaaal tem perature rises above 62 decrees, or falk be low 40 degrees, it is rareiy found. It done not requ.re ji grounds fc; its devsfoff r.i t but aei.het is a focnd ;a c>vasd regioan— Thus, it has sever appeared ai Maii.J. >Kh is two thousand iee abcvethe sea. I: rages, who the greatest violence, ia croaded. .d --ventilaied hospitals or jails, ia camps, aad among badly ted or haru-wcched pops aim*. 1; is a canons fact ;aat A eeess LO be coaan ed to the mma gcogiepa<cai and cu metal at its as the g'cuoone cteew-e ami the potato. See nary pceeaaueae axe parucsiatiy nfii ises in pnever eg tyyhas. and thaa it bas ksst re cob of its vruleace, a: bens. in Weaan Europe a 3d America. 1 bt r*< <M Ike GMt rinJtrtM CVnr-sj tStir i*c titi ?f At 2<<Nt N rat — wtrtl-Mdt- ■•! MM Stek if ur s .St i ast l.t* X? V. At A* M ja? Fre-cl riTiviiut. au nil *t*a iti tzf Ate MM jmiktad * 'A (I'HMI :#JPN St MtM, CW? 4** ci ltd. 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