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SOIIKIIOUt-
Somebody's courting somebody,
Somebody or other lo night,
Somebody's whispering to somebody,
Somebody's lisi'mng to somebody,
Under the olear moonlight.
Near the bright river'a flow,
Running so still and slow,
Talking so soft and low,
She aita with somebody.
Pacing the ocean's shore,
Edged by the foßming roar,
Word*, never breathed before,
Sound aweet to somebody.
Under.the'maple tree.
Deep though the shidow be,
Plain enough they oan see—
Bright eye# has somebody.
No or.n sits up to wait,
Though she is out so late—
All know she's at the gate,
Talking with somebody.
Tip-toe to the parlor door—
Two shadows on the floor-
Moot.light reveals no more-
Susy and somebody.
Two, aiding aids by side,
flout with the ebbing lidd,
Thus, dearest, may we glide
Through life,'" sayß somebody.
Somewhere, somebody
Makes love to somebody,
To-night.
1 he Mutiny In Inditt.
The F.nglish papers ere full of the details
of the mutiny in India. The massacre at
Cawnpore i confirmed in all its horrors.—
But General Havelock has since soverely
punished Nana Sahib at Fultehpore, where
the English troops behaved gallantly. At
Agra, the disaster to the English was not un
qualified. The enemy they were opposed
to lost severely. The consequence ol the
movement appears to hare been that the
mutineers abandoned the idea of assaulting
the position, and marched off to Delhi.
Another set of mutineers, wbo bad march
ed off from Seaikote in the Puiijaub, to reach
Delhi, hare teen met and routed by Briga
dier Nicholson. This affair took place on
the banks of the Raveo, on of the principal
tirereof the Punjaub. The mutineers had
already ctosaed the stream, w(jen Nicholson
fell upon theui, loroed them back, and com
pelled litem to take shelter on an island.—
Here he carried their position, slew a large
number, and drove the remainder into the
stream.
At Delhi no progress hid been made, the
British waiting for reinforcements. The Se
poys have made two sorties, but were beat
en bark.
Mean Hod furrier.
The Philadelphia Bulletin has the follow
ing description ol a "Steam Hod Carrier,"
whioh was in operation on a new building
in that city on Thursday:
''The motive power was a small locomo
tive-looking iteam engine, upon wheels,
which, although stationary at the time, look
ed at though it eould be moved readily from
point to point. A mammoth hod, holding
twelve or fifteen limes the quantity of bricks
and mortar whiob could be carried by the
•toutesl laborer, waa whisked to the lop of
the building in a trice by the same hod car
rier, with the aid of a crane and a block and
taekle. One man attended the engine, an
other loaded the mammoth hod, a third at
tended to its rafe delivery op eloft, and
without toil orfusa or sweat the little steam
engine did the work of fully filteen men.
HKAVCN.— Can mortal minds concaiye the
glory of that upper sphere, where the sun
never goes down and night oan never come f
Where the river of life rolls its crystal waves
arouod the high white throne of the gteat
Eternal. Fairer flowers than any Flora's
hand bae strewn on earth, bloom in the
fields of immortality. Cherub forms float on
the waves of music, swept from the golden
harps of God's elect. Earth's brightest soo
beams ere bat dirkneet compared to the light
that catenates from the sun of righteousness.
Frail mortals deem it shadowy land! Not
so I There no clouds come to dim the light
of elernal day! Sorrow never flings its dark
mantle o'er the sinless dwellers there. Ship
wrecked mtriuer, tossed on life's tempestu
ous sea! Weary pilgrim, treading the path
that leads to death ! Let not earth's fleeting
pleasures deceive you; trust alone in Heaven.
—Kate Clair.
Pern is still agitated by one of those fre
quent revolutions which are the bane of our
stater republics on this Continent.
A Brother of Mrs. Cunningham, it is stated,
Is oow confioed in jail at Riverbead. He ie
said to be a very bad obarecter.
In Philadelphia there is a widow lady who
has iwaniy-five children, ell Uvihg at heme,
MJ none of ibem married.
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PAi, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 30. 1857.
REPORT OF R. W. WEAVER, ESQ.,
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT,
Of Columbia County fir the year ending June
Ist, 1857.
In this cbunty the schools geheiklly begin
lo open about the first of November, and
cloee aboot the first of March, without hav
ing a term of publio school ill summer. This
is unfortunate, as reducing the time of school
visitations to four months, sod those the
most inclement of the year. It also prevents
the attendance of young sobolars; and evbn
of Ilia older scholars with that regularity
which is desirable and profitable. There ia,
however, some improvement in thin respect,
cod in sevetal of the most thinly settled dis
triots, the directors have resolved upon a
summer torm.
Examinations and Teat here—ln November
last I made a series of appointments through
the county, to meet and examine teachers;
but, as in previous years, the attendance of
teachers and directors was not so general as
it ought to have been, to indicate and inspire
that interest in publio education which an
intelligent community ought alwaya to feel.
The teuchets stay away, because many ol
them know that they are only apprentices in
the profession, though in most cases they
hare improved all the scant opportunities
lor mental improvement that were in their
reach. Most of them frankly confess their
incompetency, and excuse it by the want of
proper instruction. In many oases I have
found it necessary to instruct teachers, rather
than to examine them. In order lo find
teachers for all the schools of the county, I
was still compelled lo give certificates of a
lower grade than was desirable ; and indeed
to some teachers so deficient, that they con
fessed thqy would have preferred to go to
school as scholars, instead of teschors. Hut
1 know that our county is not worse, in this
respect, than many others; and the evil can
only bo cured when Normal schools are once
established.. We improve slowly, each year,
by heavy effort ; but it ia only in a pace with
the general progress of knowledge in the
community, and the schools do not, as they
ought, lead the publio mind.
Within the time of my official service the
wages of teachers have raised, so as to be
now quite up to the grade of qualifications,
and in many cases are rather above. It is
io be hoped that the pay will remain up,
and the teachers will now prepare themselves
to earn it, by organizing a teachers' institute.
True excellence will always command good
wtget.
Wiihin the past year 1 granted one hun
dred end twelve temporary certificates, and
three permanent ones. Ten applicants were
relused certificates. Tho teachers of last
year, in most cases, hold these certificates
with some improvements. Their ages, time
of service, and relative capacity, would rank
very much ss in my statistics of last year.
80 also would the condition of the school
hourea, and their destitution of furniture, for
there has been very little change in (his re
spect.
Visitation*.— l visited all the schools I could
withiu the short months they were open,
and found in most of them a decided im
provement since my first visit in 1855.
Twenty five schools I could not reach while
they were in session. Catawissa is the only
district in which I found retrogression from
the excellent graded schools of last year.—
I found twenty little abecedarians, and ten
diflerent reading books, in a school which
the teacher was expected to make " Qrsl
rate."
In general the manner of aludy and recita
tion has become more natural and more
comprehensible to the scholars, and they
have come to think more upon the subject of
their lessons. There is, however, still great
room for improvement, and in no branches
more than in arithmetic and composition.
I have found that the most benefit resulting
from a supervision of the public schools is
in the work at home, where almost every
dsy some teacher, director or citizen came
for information, o; with a bill of complaint.
It ia in explaining the workings of the com
mon school system, in reconciling difficulties
and misunderstandings, and in preventing
feuds and law-soils, that most good can be
done. Still, visitations are necessary, and
it is highly desirable that those of the Suner
inlendent should be followed by others from
the directors.
The examination of teachers has a very
good moral influence in driving incompetent
persons out of the business of keeping school,
and in exciting among fit teachers a laudable
spirit of pride to sustain a respectable exam
ination, and obtain a good certificate. Al
though the school law of 1849 required an
examination of teachers, its directions in
that respect were not generally observed in
(his county, and where an examination was
attempted it was very superficial and imper
fect.
Progress.—Three years ago there were no
graded achoola In the county; oral arithmetic
waa almost unknown aa a school exercise,
and music unheard, except in one or two
schools. There had been no pnblio school
examinations or exhibitions of any free
school in the county, and co association of
lbs teachers for progress or improvement.—
Now almost all the towns have graded
schools; oral instruction is applied as a strong
element in every district of the county;
music it a common branch of instruction
and refinement; publio examinations and
exhibitions are coming to be considered as
necessary incidents ol the term, and wiihin
my time of eervioe there bate bean six
meetings of tea chars' association.
Last summer proceeding* wart commenc
ed to remove the directors of Roaring Creek
for oot opening schools and laying lax; and
that district last winter, for the first time,
aoted upon the common school syatem, and
furnished public instruction to all itsohildren.
I shall therefore have the gratification of
seeing, for the first lime in the history of the
county, that every township is acting under
the common school •system when my offici
al connection with its closes.
Tuxafton.—l believe that the people of this
county are generally disposed lo treat the
system of State instruction with fairness and
justice. The present method of sustaining
the schools is certainly the best I can con
catvo. If they were supported entirely by a
State appropriation, thia being raised by a
tax on the property of the whole Stale,
would be without any reference to the inter
est of each district, communliy|in its peaoe,
security end order; and without regard to the
duty of parental provision for instruction.—
The opposite system *of private schools is
based on a sort of poll- tax, which contem
plates only the duty of the parent, and ig
nores tha duly of the State and its interest in
the peaoo and progress of society. The poor
oould not bear their share of a poll school
tax; and, therefore, the present method of
supporting schools in part by a district tax,
and for the rest by a State tax, is a fair com
promise and disposition of the burthen. The
district tax must ltecessarilly be witb refer
ence to tha number of children to be edu
cated, based on the duty of pnrents and the
ability of children lo be of service in earn
ing a common education. The State appro
priation ia the contribution of the properly
of the State for its protection, and of the so
cial system of the State for the preservation
and progress of its civilization.
Exposure to severe and inclement weath
er last winter so much impaired my heatih,
that I did not think it right to continue any
longer my conr.eolion with the office I have
held. If it has not been profitable it has at
IRHSI been pleasant, both by reason of the
kindness and courtesy extended to me in the
county, and that also received from the Do
paitment at Harrisburg.
The Lnw rrotectlng Fruit Arc.
At the request of a neighbor and friend,
who has suffered from depredations of thieves
and unruly persons, we publish belnw the
Law to protect Fruit and punish Trespass in
this Commonwealth, as a warning to the of
fenders :
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Benate and
House of Representatives of the Common
wetdth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly
met, and it is hereby enacted by authority of
the same, That the wilful taking and carry
ing away of fruit, vegetables, plants, orna
mental trees, vines or shrubs, in this Com
monwealth, whether attached to the soil or
not, shall be deemed and the same is hereby
declared a misdemeanor, and may be prose
cuted and punished as such under.the laws of
! th>s Commonwealth.
| SEC. 2. That any person or persons Who
■hall wilfully end maliciously enter or break
down, through or over any orchard, garden
or yard fence, hotbed, hot or green house, or
who shall wrongfully club, stone, cut, bark,
break or otherwise mutilate or damage any
nut, fruit or ornameutal (tee, shrub, bush,
plant or vine, trellis, arbor, hntbed, hot or
green house, or who shall wilfully and mali
ciously trespass upon, walk over, beat down,
trample or in any wise injure any grain, grass,
vines, vegetables or other growing crop, shall
and may, on conviction thereof in action of
trespass before any mayor, burgess, alder
man, justice of tl°e peace,'or in any court of
law, have judgment against him, her or them
for treble the amount of damage proven (0
have been done, with cost of suit; one half
the damage or penalty to go to the use of the
poor of the district wherein the premises lie,
the other half of the damage or penalty to the
use of the owner of the premises on which
the said trespass shall or may be committed,
and in default of payment of the said fine or
judgment, with costs of suit; the party con
victed may and shall be committed to the jail
of the proper county for Dot less than three
nor more than twenty days ; eaid complaint
or action to be made in the name of the
Commonwealth, and the testimony of the
owner or occupant of the premises shall be
admitted as evidence to prove the trespass.
Monkish Legends.
In one of his notes to "Laeon t " Colton
gives the following account of the marvel
lous things wrought in the bosom of the
"mother church" in ancient times. Some ot
the saints, especially Dunstan,Dorainicus and
Lupus, must have been fond of a practical
joke, and pretty 'cute bauds at playing it ofi,
too, to have so far gotten the weather-gage of
the devil—for he is said to be a "full hand."
These legends abound with stories of pro
digious things, some of which are very ludi
crous such as St. Swiihin's making whole a
basket of eggs by the sign of the oross: Pa
trioious making the stolen sheep bleat in tbe
thief's belly after he had eaten it; then, St.
bacon, which in great charity, aha
gave to a hungry dog, and was, after the dog
had eaten it, restored again in her kettle. Of
the like nature is the story of St. Duustau,
who took the devil by the nose with the tonga
and held him until be roared with pain
Dominicus made him hold the candle till he
burned his fingets. Lupus imptisoned tbe
devil in a pot all night. A consecrated hoet
being put into a hive of baas, to cure them of
tbe murrain, woa *0 devoutly entertained, that
tbe beee built a chapel in the hive, with a
steeple and bell; erected an altar, and laid
the hoet upon it, and eung their canonical
hours Ilka monks In a cloister."
Troth and Right—God and our Cooutrj.
TUB QiJI^TIHO.
The day is set, ihe Mi** met,
And at the frame an* Mated ;
In order plao'd, they work in batte,
To est the quilt completed.
While finger* fly, theit tongue* they ply,
And animate theit labor*,
Dy counting beaux,discussing clothes,
Or talking of their neighbors.
"Dear, what a pretty frock you've on"—
•"I'm very glad you like it."
"I'm told that Mis Micomiaon
Don't apeak to Mr. Mioat."
"1 raw Mite Bell the other ilgy,
Young Green"* new gig ndorning
"What keeps yout sister Mo— away V
"She left town this morning."
"Tts time to roll"—"my ngrdla'a broke"—
'•So Menacn'a stock la sailing
•'Mary 1 * wedding gown'* bespoke"—
"Lend mo yout eci*ora, Kllen."
"That mutch wUI never cume about"—
"Now don't fly in a passion•
"Hair-puffs, they say, are going out"—
"Yee, curls are all the fashion."
The quill is done, the tea begun—
The beaux are all collecting ;
The table's cleared, the music heard—
His partner eacli selecting.
The merry band in order stand,
The danoo begins with vigor)
And rapid feet the measure beat,
And trip the mazy ftgnro.
Unheeded fly the moments by,
Old Time liimself seems daucing,
Till nights dull eye is op'd to spy
The steps of inorn advancing.
Then closely atnw'd to each abode,
The oarrisge* go tilting;
And many a dream has for its theme,
The pleasure of the quilting.
From the Home Journal.
liITKRESTING TO I.ADIES.
PERSONAL BEATUY —ITS RELATION TO MOItAt.
BKAUTY ANU TO ART.—nV OEMO C. SCOTT.
Immediately aftsr tho Creation, the Father
of all looked on Ins wotk and saw that it was
good. Since the Fall his best children have
looked on the same and pronounced it beau
tiful. Despite Ihe great calamity, the mark
of God's finger is still upon us ; for man,
though he went forth from tliu presence of his
Maker and shunned Ilia eye, was never for
saken by Him.
Now, although Goodness and Beauty were
not synonymous terms, yet in this essay wo
shall endeavor to show how intimately they
are Connected. The Pagans represented
Psyche, or the Soul, as delicately beautiful,
with a force that almost seemed to speak, so
eloquent was it—which, indeed, could bo
read, for it symbolized innocence, loveliness,
and goodness ; and the books which we now
peruse merely symbolize the thoughts devel
oped in Ihe souls of writers. Not so Venus ;
fuller and more lusciously beautiful, she cre
ated merely sensual desire, and inspired the
best of her worshippers with almost inextin
guishable yearning to become like hor, loose
zoned and careless of all higher aspirations-
Bnl when Psyohe was born, (or, in other
words, the soul was lighted up,) pleasure
loving as the Greeks were, they were not so
degraded that they could not perceive the
greater worth of their new acquisition, and
they left the shrine of Venus with all her fac
inations, for that of her inestimable rival.—
Thai they returned the better from their jour
ney who may deny, seeing that the children
of her worshippers became philosophers of
Greece, the humanizers of Rome, and the
art teachers of the Universe.
Home, 100, embraced external beauty ere
she sought internal. She worshioped Venus
before she became Christian; but she never
forgot her Greek instruction. She adored her
churches, and her sons sought out the fairest
; slaves to wait at their tables, which love of
the beautiful brought Christianity to the An
! glo-Hritish children for sale to Rome, and
there in the market-place Gregory admiring
them, pronounced theso remarkable words,
"Son Angti, ad angeli " (not Angles, bot An
gels.) That they must have been beautiful
who can doubt when they called forth such
an exclamation from the father of the Church
—from ooe who dwelt in the old metropolis
of the world, into which all the spotls ol ev
ery nation had once been emptied.
That when England became Christianized
she did not decrease in besuty, is sufficiently
evident from the many records which have
come down to us. The statutes which re
main of the ladies of the thirteenth centnry
in their graceful draperies hare almost al
ways beautiful faces ; and the Troubadours
of France who perpetually abuse the Eng
lish, cannot help calling the women the 'most
fair of earth's angels.' Flaxman, too, a mar.
who prided himself on being classical, was
constrained to praise these monuments of
English beauty. But just abcut Elizabeth's
reign, art in England perished for aDove two
huodred years. A few portrait painters re
mained, because English beauty could not
be destroyed forever. And in Elizabeth's
reign, too, personal beauty culminated in
her great men and women, and with the
wane of art declined loveliness of mind, body
and soul.
But the love of art haa again risen in Eng
land, and with it will her sons and her daugh
ters return to the beealy of their ancestors, for
mind moulds matter. It it the brain of the
potter, and not the hand, which fashion# the
beautiful vase; the hand is the slave—lirabet
Helot of the graceful Peyehe—and is often
untrustworthy; not oarrytng out the artist's
conceptions. It ie the fiat ol Cod that make*
lire what it ie. Man ie only the inetiumeot,
and he likewise ie often unmindful of hie
true).
That it it the mind which moulds the mat
ter, we may eaaily convince o ureal tree by a
little ordinary reflection. We walk iwto the
oi'y, end these we tee auaious hi bet
makes these but business' We meet the
crowds leaving an execution, and in them we
behold specimens of humsnity which almost
make us ashamed of the namo man or wom
an—what tr.akef these but vice? We visit
a well condnoled orphan asylum, the off
spring of various tempers and temperaments,
and there we perceive joyousness and inno
cence, for no child is born with an anxious
face; no infant ia sent Into the world with s
hang-dog countenance. Even where the
stamp of vice has begun to set its set!, it may
be effuced by care. Her Majesty has in her
possession some photographs of boys snatch
ed from the streets, whose faces allet a few
months training were scarcely to be triced
in those portraits of their former features.—
l'honlography so nearly speaks the truth, thai
it is likely to become a great adjunct to art
eduoation. Truo if enlarges the prominent
features, and deepens the shadows as the
world exaggerates the great charac'eiistios of
a man; but it cannot ornate mind. Look ut
Albert Durer'i 'Man of Sorrows'—that heav
enly face with a suffering body—and compare
it with the phontograph recently imported—
a vicious blase actor in a greasy wig ! Sun of
heaven, they use thee badly when they put
thy life-creating beams to such uses. Then,
too, there is a fine piece nl spectacular en
graving, published by the Galvanographic
Company, called 'Don Quixote ;' but where
is tho amiab'e Don 1 A ruffianly 'pstcrer' in
a chair surrounded by stage properties, with
his eyes turned up, is there, having left his
vocation of selling 'bull-roarers' on'y'apettny
for the sitting.
Wonderful as the discovery of phonlogra
phy, and minute an are itsdelineelions, ii can
oidy copy. Art can create, but can create
only up to the conception of a painter. Lei)'a
women hare no minds; Lawrence's ladies
smull moralities—like their painters. Geo.
Moreland loved pigs, Meniere beer-drinkers,
Sir Joshua Reynolds children, and their art
has been graced in accordance theiewilh ;
while the amiable Fra Angelico, although so
successful in his 'Paradise,' —when he came
to paint Satan and his crew in the 'Last Judg
ment,' drew only distortions, and Giolli was
so successful with his Mandonna—the Moth
er of mothers—that the very women of Flor
ence wept as it was carried iri procession to
church. What a stride between this angelic
face and the first portrait drawn in charcoal
by tho hand of love which turned to diamonds
to light up the cotiage of a forlorn girl! Par
see like, we give thanks to the sun for hav
ing destroyed that prolific race which distorted
the 'human divine' at five shillings per sit
ting; thanks, many thanks to it, for having
dissolved the portrait clubs, which soweo
inanitios broadcast over '.be land at five guin
eas per head.
We English have ever been fond of por
traits, and have perhaps the largest collection
in the world, coald we gather them together;
not that we are vainer of our personal ap
pearance than other nations, but home hab
its seem to have developed in us an especial
love for portraits and landscapes. There is
scarcely a book whose sale baa not been en
hanced by a portrait of the author, if perhaps
we except l< Dilworth" and other spelling as
sistants, with which are often accompanied
unpleasant reminiscences. The portrait helps
to illustrate the writing, and a clever work
without one is like talking to a beauty behind
a curtain. But we often err in. taking those
portraits. We select any time of life, any
condition of mind, and that we transmit to
posterity as the likness of '.he man ; whereas
it is but a glimpse, little more than a shadow,
of the living form. Ask the mother if ever a
painter drew all the sweetness to be found in
her beloved cbild'e eyes; question the lover
aboot the locket at which he gazes so oft and
so earnestly, and see how he will disparage
the artist! Yet true love is not blind, as the
ancients depicted it. It looks beneath the
surface—it searches the heart, and discovers
the connection between that ar.d the face -
Hatred is blind. Like the blow fly which
seeks tainted parts, it can only discover de
fects. The poet, the painter, the musician,
and all who deal in poetic expression,should
be painted as soon as the fire of tneir eye*
breaks forth ; the historian, the philosopher,
and all who think deeply just as thought be
gins to line their brow ; the holy man in his
grey hairs; while women of all classes snould
be selected for portraiture ere Time with his
rough fingers has brushed the bloom from ber
cheeks. This may seem very fanciful to
some minds but there is as much reason in it
at in selecting the flower when in its prime
—the rose-bud for its beauty, the opening pe
tals for the scent.
We have little conception how ranch love
liness is coupled with goodoess. because so
many of the beautiful are dragged through
the sink-hole of vies, yet we still keep on
with that inherent love of the elegant which
the Father of all beaoty has planted in as.
selecting lovely wives end adorning oer off
spring with every ornament which can set off
their charms to advantage. Indeed, it is trot
easy to conceive the future destuiv ot the
human race when the reign et peace shall
begin—when the second Paradise, tor which
all sigh, shall be realised. Then the circle
of life being completed, women will reap
pear as beautiful as her mother F*e tor
beauty is normal, ugliness abnormal But
what will man have gamed f Knowledge
He had cho-w-i to kuew the tart*:, he tuues |
suffer from .t—conception of the looting te
not sufficient ; it must b* nursed and fed
with the hie spring of his bosom. Ibcthm
choice S—hut the man who a t hre soul
shall ccvn^wsr
ro recover th- loet personal beamy o< ih*
human race many yearn at inhor
as it has taken many caalamM to mekw th*
moet degraded Mtmae tkuwt ugly . '
that i ie to be attained. alt history pomm out
lo us. The Turks by intermarriage with
their lovely neighbors have turned the for
mer ugliness to elegance, while the de
scendants of the Prophet (the handsomest
man of Jits time) at Medina, on the same i
have almost transformed thorn- i
selvus, intwtegroes. During the lime tkjM.
Turks a conquering people they re- j
tained thelfk ancient unlovelincss, but seon !
after they settled in Turkey, they grfltf idle,
married women bolter educated than ihotd- '
selves, and the latter transmitted thoir beauty j
to their offspring.
Tho face of a beautiful good women at
home is like tho spirit of an angol in the
house, with tho air of heaven still about her,
and the light of tho Eternal City in her face;
but n false countenance, like veneer, cannot
stand in tho sunshine of truth hut warps and
twists, and turns into every fantastic form,
yet novor by clianco comes straight.
Tlie Sunday l.iquor Isir-
Chief Justice Ellis Lewis, on Thursday
last heard, at the Court House, in I'otti
ville, an application made by F. W. Hughes,
Esq , for the allowance of a writ of error, in
the case of the Commonwealth ui. I-ewis
Iteeie, recently convicted of the violation of
the law of 1855, prohibiting lbs sale of intox
icating liquors on Sunday. Mr. Hughes ar
gued in support of the application, that the
third section of the law is unconstitutional,
because it -provides s second criminal pro
ceeding and punishment in the Court of
Quarter Sessions in addition lo the proceed
ing and penalty before a Justice of the Peace
provided for in the second section. Judge
Lewis declined to grant the writ of error, be
cause In the case ol lleese, the defendant had
not been proceeded against and paid the pen
ally before a Justice of the Peace before he
was convicted in Court; but the Judge sta
ted that if a case should hereafter arise where
the defendant chargpd with violating the
Sunday law, and who hid been coivicted
before a Justice of the Peace and paid the
penalty, should be afterwards prosecuted for
the same offence in the Court of Quarter Ses
sions and after pleading the first conviction
and punishment in bar for forther prosecu
tion, should be convicted and sentenced to
an additional penally in Court, he would al
low a writ of error, in order to bring the ques
tion before the Supreme Court.— Harrisburg
Telegraph.
Ancient Families.
It is well known that the Highlander! are
great Sticklers for hereditary honors, and
trace back, with the most earnest veneration,
the origin of families into the remotest ages.
An amosing instance of this tenacity to hold
to the dignity and anliqoity of their kindred,
may be found in the cae we subjoin.
A dispute arose between Campbell and
M'Lean upon this never-dying subject.—
M'Lean would not allow thai the CantipbetW
bad any right tot rank with the M'Lesns in
antiquity, who he insisted, were in existence
as a clan from ths beginning of the world
Campbell had a little more biblical lore than
his antagonist, and asked him if the M'Lean
clan lived before the flood?
" Flood! what flood 1'" said M'Lean.
" Why the flood that, you know, drowned
all the world bot Noah, and bis lamlly, and
his flock," replied Campbell.
" Pooh! you and your flood. ' raid M Lean,
,: my clan was afore the flood."
" I have not read in ihe Bible," said Camp
bell, "of the name of M'Lean going into No
ah's ark
" Noah's ark retorted Mfyan, irj con
tempt, "who ever heard of a M'Lean, that
bad not a boat of his own I"
Rents m Ckicngti —We learn from a gen
tleman just arrived from Chicago, that three
months since, ou his arrival at that city, he
tried to lease a store for a stock of carriages.
He could at that time find but one, and that
not a very eligible one. which was offered
at a rent of S3OO per month. He declined
it. and the store remained unoccupied for
months, when it was finally offered to him
for nothing. The failing of rents in Chica
go is not at all surprising. The depression
in money matters has cooled the fever of
land speculators, and thrown a large amount
of property upon the market.
T\e E.gftfi Fool m Seta Oi nuu.—boree
nine years since, a letter was received i.t
New Orleans, directed --To the biggest tool
in New Orleans." The post-master was
absent, and oa his return one of the young
er clerks in the office informed him of the
the receipt of the letter "And what be
came of it!" inquired the P M "Why
replied the clerk. I did not know who the
biggest fool in New Orleans was and so t
opened the ietter myself I" -'And what did
yoa find in itinquired the P. M "Why , "
responded the clerk, nothing but the words,
-thou art the man!"
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NUMBER 38-
WHAT IB TROUBLE.
[ A company of Bouthorn ladij7*wefe one
; day assembled in a lady'a parlor, wAen AO
conversation chanced to torn on ftp subject
!of earthly aflliction. Each liacUpr story of
! peculiar trial and bereavemest lo relate ex
cept and pale, sad looking u'Oman, whoso
lustreless eye and dejected air showed that
she was a prey to the deepest melancholy.
Suddenly arousing herself, ahe said in a
■ hollow voice, "Not one of you know what
trouble is."
"Will you please, Mra. Gray," aaid the
kind voice of a lady, who well knew her
story, "toll the ladies what Jrdtl call troublel"
"I will, if yotl desire it," ahe replied,
"for I have seen it. My parent* possessed
a competence, and my girlhood was sur
rounded by all the comforts of life. 1 sel
dom know nn tingratifled wish, and was al
ways gay nnd light hearted. I married at
nineteen one t loved tnoro than all thO
world besides. Our home was retired; but
the sunlight nevdt shown on a lovelier one,
or a happier household. Years rolled on
peacefully. Five children sat aronnd our
tnble, and :1 little curly head still nestled in
my bosom. One night, about sundown,
one of those fierce black storms came on,
which nro so common to our Southern cli
mate For many hours the rain poured
down incessantly. Morning dawned, but
still the elements raged. The whole Savan
nah seemed afloat. The little stream near
our dwelling became a raging torrent. Be
fore we were aware of it, our house was
surrounded by Water; I managed with my
babe to rench a little elevated spot, on which
a few wide-spreading trees were standing,
whose dense foliage afforded some protec
tion, whilo my husband and sons strove to
save what they could of our pfoperty. At
last a tearful surge swept away my hus
band ; and he never rose again. Ladies
no one over loved a husband more ; but that
! was not trouble.
1 "Presidently my Hons saw their danger,
1 and the struggle for life became the only
I consideration. They were as brave, loving
; boys as ever blessed a mother's heart, and
I I watched their efforts to escape, with such
I agony as oqly mothers can feel. They were
so far off I could not speak to ihem, but I
1 could see them closing nearer and-nearer
10 each other, as their little island grew
smaller and smaller,
i "The sullen river r*g-d around the hags
! trees; dead branches, upturned trunks,
j wrecks of houses, drowning cattle, masses
of rubbish, all went floating past us. My
boys waved their hands to me, and then
pointed opwafd. f knew it was a farewell
signal, and you. mothers, can imagine my
anguish. I saw them ail perish, and yet
that wxs not trouble
\ "I hugged my baby close tc ray heart,
and when the wafer rose to my leet, f
climbed into the low branches of the tree,
and so kept retiring before it, tiil an All
powerful hand staid the vrsves, that they
should come no further. 1 was saved—ail
my worldly possessions were swept away;
all my earthly hopes hi gated—yet that was
not trouble
'My baby Was ail I had left on earth. I
labored night and day to support h-m and
myself, and sought to train him In the right
way: but as he grew okier. evil companions
won irim away from rr.e. He ceased to rare
for his mother's counsel: he would sneer at
her entreaties and aromzmg prayers. He
left my humble roof that he might be un
restrained in "he pursuit erif . aud.lt Us:
when heated by wine one oigat. he took
the life of a fei.cw-beiog. and ended his
own upon the scatfoid. My heavenly fath
er bad filled my cup of sorrow before- sow
it ran OTer. That was trouble ladles, such
as T hope His mercy will spare you from
ever experiencing.
There was no dry eye among her listen
ers. a-d the warmest sympathy was ex
pressed for the bereaved mother, whose
sad history had taught them 1 useful lesson
r Bet ri.'y of u Biwk — Goethe ra in
company with a mother and her daughter,
when the ianer, being reproved tor me
fault, blushed and buret _nto tears. H*
saui '-Ho* beautiful jrour reproach ha*
made jroar daughter. The crimson ha*
and those Silvery tears become her better
than any on amen, vf |Cid and pe*tis.—
These may be hang on the neck M a wan
too. bet these are never seea Lseonnected
wtth moral purity A full bwartt roe*, be
spnnk.ed with. the potest dew. is ae so
beaauiai as this child biashing beneath bar
parent's iispieusure. and shedding tears of
sorrow fur her Si nit A bitreh as the sign
which natare hangs out to show whet*
causetv and honor iwetL
E7" The iast case of fntwr that ww
have heard ot is trns As a young men
was about 'eavuig the reuse ui i asa.uuaee
pact ci mo piace. w.rere i# aau seen speed
tng the evening a catr of whit* anas wee
thrown around i.s nock and hi* hp* were
scJed The saeueonewe *f ate attack ie
pnveu him ot all power of reeaMaoc*. A*
■usual no puitewwan was to S en '*
fW God has VIM m the irorere Ctt*
swwtosn he i.r—upon tA* brwaee -hat teak*
he iowar* -he sretn ape* saw rest*
crop* that retteviw A* apong ot area* taaa
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