THE STAR OF THE NORTH, .. 8. fl r . Weaver, Proprietor.] VOLUME 9. THE STAR OF TIIE NORTH (•PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORMNU BY R. W. WEAVER, OFFIfB — Up stain, in the new brick build ing, 0) the south side oj Main Street, third equate below Market. TKRItI S:—Two Dollars per annum, if paid within six months from the time of sub scribing ; iwo dollars and fifty cents if not paid within the year. No subscription re ceived for a less period than six months; no discontinuance permjlled until all nrretyages are paid, unless at the option ol the editor. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding one square will be inserted three times for One Dollar, and tweuty.five cents for each additional in seition. A liberal discount will bo made to lliose who advertise by the year. THE RELIEF BILL. An Act providing for the Resumption of Specie Payments ly the Jtetnhp, and for the Relief of Debtors. SICTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and ia hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the provisions of every Act of Assembly, or of incorporation or re-tneur poration, hcreloforejpassed, declaring or au thorizing tbo forfeiture of the charter of any Bank, Saving, Trust and Insurance Company or Corporation having banking privileges, or inflicting any penalties, or authorizing any compulsory assignment, for or by reason of the non-paymont of any of its liabilities, or the issuing or paying out the notes of other Banks incorporated under the Uws of litis Commonwealth, though no! specie-paying, or its loaning or discounting without the req uisite amount of specie or specie funds, since the first day of September, Anr.o Domini one tbpassnd eight hundred and filly-seven, be and tha same are ltnrchy suspended until the second Monday of April, At)no Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and ell foifeitures and penalties, or liability there to, heretofota incurred, or that may be here after incurred, or that may be hereafter in curred, before the said 2d Monday or April, under such acts ot Assembly or of incorpo ration or re-incorporation, for or by reason o!; the causes aforesaid, or any of them, are hereby remitted, ttnd so much thereof a pro hibits any Bank from making loans and dis counts, issuing its own notes, or the notes of other Banks incorporated under the laws of this Commonwealth, though not specie-pay- j ing, or declaring dividends during the sus pension of specie payments, or from loaning or discounting, without the requisite amount of specie or specie funds as aforesaid, he end the same is hereby suspended until the day and year aforesaid, and any such Bank, . during such suspension cf specto payments, may declare dividends to an amount nor ex ceediog six per cent, per annunuon capital; and this act shall extend also to all Banks, Having, Trust sod Insuranco Companies and Corporations with banking privileges, char tered or re-chartered tinder any law, for peri ods hereafter to commence, and to the pay ment of slock to all Banks iticrporated by the Legislature at its last session. SEC. 2. That, in addition to all statements and returns now required by law, each and every Bank in the cities of Philadelphia, Pittsburg and Allegheny shall, on the first discount day in January next, and weekly thereafter,and every other Bonk in this Com monwealth, on the same day, and monthly thereafter, make up a statement to bo veri fied by tho oath or affirmation ol the Presi dent ot Cashier thereof, showing—first, the amount of its loans and discounts; second, the amount of specie in possession of and owned by such Bank, and the balance due from other Bunks, in distinct items; third, (he smounl of its notes outstanding; fourth, the amount of its deposits, including individ ual deposits end the balances due to other Banks; which statement shall be published in the next succeeding issue of a newspaper of the county in which the Bank is located, or if there be no newspaper in such county, then a newspaper in some neighboring coun ty ; and any violation of this law, or failure to comply with its provisions by any Presi dent or any Cashier ol any Bank, shall be a misdemeanor, and each of the said officers •hail, upon conviction thereof, ba punished by a due of not less than live hundred dollars, nor moro than one thousand dollars, at the discretion of the Court—one-half to be given lo the prosecutor, and one-hall to the county in which such Bank is located. SEC. 3. The said Banks are hereby requir ed, until the second Monday of April afore aaid, to receive at par in payment of glldeb'- dua, or lo beooma duo lo them, respectively, the notes of all the solvent Banks of the Oom monwealth which paid specie for all their li abilities on and immediately prior to the first day of September last, and which shall con tinue solvent; and the said Banks ate also hereby authorized lo pay out, in all their bu eintss transactions and discounts, the said (idles to long as the Banks issuing lite same ahall remain solveni; but in case any Prsi dent, and a majority of the Board of Direct ors of any of the said Banks shall cerfiTy to the Governor, under oath or affirmation of the President, his apprehension and belief that any Bank in said certificate named is in an unsafe condition, the Governor shall there upon appoint three judicious persons, not in terested in said Bank, as Commissioners to investigate the condilition of suoh Bank ; and the said Commissioners shall, alter taking an ostb or affirmation to perform the duties of their appointment With fldblity, forthwith pro ceed to make the said investigation, add re port the result thereof within ten days to the Governor; and if IheofflcvTS of the said Bank shall rofuse to permit the said Commissidners IO mike suoh investigation, or to produce any books or documents necessary for that pnr- BLOOMSBUffG. COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1857. | pose, or if the said Commissioners, or a ma- I jority of them, shall report that the said Bank , is in a solvent condition, or conducting its ' affairs in violation of law. the Governor shall i thereupon issue his proclamation declaring j the charter of the said Bank to be forfeited, and the said Bank shall be deprived of all the benefits of this Act, and the Direclora thereof . shall forthwith make an assignment In the [manner provided by the Act entitled "An Act regulating Banks," approved the 16th day of April, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty, and the expenses of 6uph commis sion, Including the compensation of the Com missioners at eight dollars per day each, shall bo paid by the Bank against which it is issu ed, unless the report ihall be favorable to its condition, in which case they shall be paid by the applicants ; Rtovided, Ttiai. ro Bank shall be required to roceivo the notes of any Bank against which a certificate may be made as aforesaid, at any time after the delivery of the same to the Coventor, until the Commis sioners shall report in lavor of such a Bank, aftsr which the nous of such Bank shall again be received as required by the provisions of this section. SEC. 4. That the several collectors of taxes, i tolls and other revenues of the Common- J wealth, and also County Treasurers, are here by authorized to receivo, for State purposes, the nolee of tho solvent Banks of this Com monwealth, though not specie-pay ing Banks, in payment of the said taxes, tolls, and reve- ! nues, nnd the State Treasurer is hereby au thorized to reuetve and receipt tor the same in the same manner as though the said Banks were specie-paying. SEC. 5. That the deposite by the State Treasurer, or to tho credit of the Common wealth, in the several Banks anil other corpo rations, and all Bank notes which are now or may hereafter be ia the Treasury during the period of suspension aforesaid, shall from lime to time, on demand ol the said Treasur er, be paid by lite said Banks or other corpo rations respectively, in specie, in such a moitnts as may bo requited by the said Treasurer to enable hint to pay the interest accruing on tho public loans of the Common wealth. SEC. 6. Thru upou all judgment* heretofore entered in suits commenced by writ or olh- j erwise, or which may bo entered during the | period hereinbefore mentioned, in actions in* stituted by writ or otherwise, in any court in ; this Commonwealth,.or before any alderman 1 or justice of the peace, on judgment obtained before said officers, if the defendant shall bo possessed of an) e.'tate in feo simple, within the tespective county, worth, in the opinion of the court, alderman or justice, the amount of the said judgment over and abovo alt in cumbrances, and the amount exempted from levy and sale on execution, ho shall be enti tled to a stay of execution thereon, on judg ment now obtained/or to be obtained on suits now brought, lor the term of one year from the dale of ihe passage of this act, and on all others for 0110 year, to be computed from the first day of tbo term to which the action was commenced: ami every defendant in such judgment may have tho same stay of of execution thereon, if within thirty days from the passage of this Act, or within thirty days from ihe rendition of any future judg ment, ho shall give security In be approved of by the court or by a judge thereof, or by such alderman or justice ot the peace before whom such judgment was obtained, for Ihe sum recovered, together with the interest and costs: riov'uled, That this section shall not apply to (he wages of labor nor to debts upon which stay of execution is expressly waived by the debtors, nor to judgments upon which a stay of execution has alrendy bpen taken under existing laws : And Provided , That the provisions of this section shall exiend to judg ments entered or to be entered, as well upon bond and warrant of attorney as upon mort gages to secure the same, and to any subse quent grantee or owner ot the premises so bound, as well as to the original obligor or mortgager: Provided further , That said stay of execution shall not apply to judgments or mortgages, or on bonds secured by mortgage, unless the interest thereon shall be paid with in sixty days after Ihe accruing of the same, in such funds as the bunks are authorized by this act to use. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect immedi ately, except the third section, which shall not go into operation until the provisions of this act ate accepted as herein provhhuL no Bank or other be em w-oetr within its provisions more than thirty days after (he passage hereof, or alter any Bank Shall have suspended specie payments upon its notes and obligations unless the stockholders of such Bank or other corpora- j lion shall, before the expiration of the said . thirty days, or within thirty days alter any Bank shall have suspended specie payments upon Its notes or obligations, si a meeting to be called by the Directors tnereot lor that purpose, onhen days' public notice, in one j or more newspapers, accept the provisions of i this act by a majority of voles of said stock holders, to be voted and counted according ■ to fhe provisions in the charter of such ac cepting Bank, or other corpora'ion regulating the election ot Directors, bat to make such acceptance valid ttiere shall be filed in the office of Ihe Auditor General of this Com monwealth, a certificate that this act has been duly accepted, under the common seal of such Bank or other corporation, attested by the signature of the President or Cashier. Andetdh of the said Banks accepting the provisions of this act shall tlao pay into the Treasury Of the Commonwealth,on or before (be first day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and filly-eight, or within thirty day* after any Bank shall accept ih© provisions ofi ibis scl, a sum equal to one-foarlh ot one per centum upon the cap ital slock of said Hank, in addition to any amounts they are now required by law to pav. SEC. 8. That the 47th section of the act ap proved April 16, 1850, entitled "An act to regulate Banks," be and the same ia hereby repealed : Provided. That all suits brought or now pending,'for forfeiture or penalties under the section hereby repealed, shall not be af fected thereby. SEC. 9. That the Legislature hereby reserves the right and power to alter, revoke, or annul the charter of any Bank or Batik", corpora tion or corporation", accepting the provisions of this act, whenever in their opinion the same may prove injurious to the citizens of the Commonwealth,>n such manner, howev er, as to do no injustice to the corporators. SEC. 10. That no Bank, Savings Fund, In surance, or Trust Company shall, directly or indirectly, purchase, or bo concerned in the purchase, of the notes of any of h inoorpn. rated Banks of this State at less than their pr value; and any and every of the officers of said Institutions violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a mis demeanor, punishable, upon conviction, by a fine of noi less than five hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, one half to be paid to tha informer, ami the other half to the use of the Commonwealth. SEC. 11. That no stocks, lionds, promissory notes, personal property, or oilier valuable securities by|rolhecated or held in pledgei either with power of attorney attached or otherwise, for ctedit or money loaned, shall I be sold for the period of six months from the I passage of this act without the consent of the debtor, debtors, or party hypothecating or pledging the.same being fits! had and obtain ed in writing. SEC. 12. That the notice requited for pay ments, provided in the charters of Savings Fund and Trust Companies, on all sums ex ceeding one hundred dollars, be, and the same is hereby extended for the period of two months during tho period ot suspension of specie payments authorized by this Act. APPROVED October thirteenth, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. JAMES POLLOCK. CERTIFICATE. OFFICE or THE SEC'V OF THE COMMONW'LTH, ) Ilanisburg, Oct. 14, 1857. j PENNSYLVANIA, E AS I do hereby cerlilv that (he foregoing and annexed is o full, true and correct, copy of the original act ot the General Assembly, as the same remains on file in this office. In Testimony V/heteaf, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Secreia , -,'y " Office to bo affixed, the day and ' B '-S ear above written. A G. CUUTIN, Secretary of the Commonwealth. From the London Times. Opinions ol Ihe English Dress on the FN naucinl 1 roubles In the United Males. The nnap of the United Slates 111 any En glish alias twenty or even ten year 3 old is about as much out of date as the geog'a phies which occupied hall the middle of Eu rope with "Polonia," which described a somewhat less area as the kingdom of Mos> covie, and gave to a few broken outlines ot coast in 'lie Indian ocean the single name of "New Holland." Regions that in our school map of the "States" were traversed by the Oitoways or the Ojibbeways, Sioux or !he Mohawks, or generally "the Red Indians," are now as thickly fretted with railways as ; Lancashire or the suburbs of London. The wonder is first how the railways uuua mads; then, how they can pay. We are told to look to the vast cities that have sprung up in the wilderness, and to the lakes and the canals. Then certainly the railways must help one another; yet one cannot holp notic ing how often one route has two or three competitors. It is true that even here we may go to Birmingham, lo Nottingham, or to York by different routes; but this a tliicli ly peopled country, containing a good many peo| le who can travel for pleasure. >" ■*" son and out ol sus.m, in bad limes as well as in good. Then it is a comfort to those wlui have inve-led their savings in a Michi gan or Illinois railway to hear that it has been done sn cheaply aud rudely that no Englishman in this country woujd.i""-< his limbs to its light rails jmA-s-mflSr bridges.— Yet, CODSW 1 '""" "' IB mileage, something enormous, and the fact that the population of the Elates, after all, is not so great as th4t of the British Isles, and not uearly so weal thy, ttie most sanguine believer in improve ment and progress inusi have his misgivings as to the paying qualities of these long thin lines. But how were Ihey made 1 It was State Bonds and Canal Shares that Sidney Smiih invested with such a halo ol notoriety. The Slates borrowed and then repudiated.— This was hut an elementary stage of Ameri can progress, and the British public tins long j since fluttered itself thai it is awake to the l dangers ol simple repudiation. Row is it done, theu, in these days 5 Our correspon dence from New York throws some light on this dilficully. That gay and lively cl y adds now lo its other excitements a panie, whieb our correspondent likens to vatious gregarious terrors and mishaps, such as bi sons rusk ing over a precipice, and sheep run ning through a hedge-gap. But it is evident that a panic in New York has us redeeming features; lor there are people there who thrive on a panic, and can even get up one. It is evident, too, that a panic is well com pared lo a rush, lor it has a direction, and that direction is as gainful to one side as it is ruinous to soother. It represents a run of mouey, leaving a void at one quarter of the compass, and giving to another rather more Truth and Eight God Couutry. titan its doe. A panic is not merely a spe cies of commercial pathology; it is an act of intention, strength and skill, with authors, motives, victims, and all the rest that consti tutes action. Let us see, then, how a panic at New York operates upon American rail ways and their numerous British share-hold ers. Let us suppose the British ''capitalist generally a man who ha earned his money slowly, and hie experience still more slowly —alive to a few of the perils that environ American speculation. Let him be fairly np to a pretended Slate guarantee, or an infor mal Slate guaran'ee with a flaw in it; to the danger of rival lines, and of lineif made sim ply to assist in the making of lines, which will ruin them when made; to the dangers of management, oi 'as, ol leases and sales, which may or mky not leave the general shareholder in an unpleasant condi tion. Let the Englishman either devote the autumn of his days and the flickering light of hie declining income to gaining an insight Into ihnsn curiosities of American enterprise, or let him have the sense to consult a bro ker, who can point out these dangerous places oit that smooth, seductive surface.— Still there remains one peril which hitherto has not been so fully illustrated, and which many of our readers must be learning to their cost. Railways in the United States, and a few other undertakings, appear to have atrunlimited power of borrowing in a market of which the ups -nd downs arc wholly beyond all English ideas. All the groat lines have been borrowing in the New York market on their own acceptance, and have done so easily, as they have generally been willing to pay the highest rates of inter est. Our own companies have done pretty mueh the same, to thoir cost, but the highest rate of interest here is not nearly so high as there, and we have not seen a great company going about from house to house begging for an immediate loan to pay the interest duo on its bunds, and Lombard Street crowded with speculator whose lives depended on the re sult. Oil the Ist day of this momh Wall St., New York, was in a state of delightful ex citement. "The September coupons on the Eiie second mid third mortgage bonds ma tured, and the company were without means to meet then, unless the Banks would ad vance £6OO 000. it was riot nil midday that the Batiks agreed to do it." Had they de clined it appears the little confidenco left at New York would have gone altogether, and it is evident that humanil*. aiejs were alowod to sway the decision.- But for this appeal, and but for some itender ele ments in the philosophy of what would have become of the Erie shareholders, when the second and third motlrjages woidd have to go without their inteiesl? The re suit was, the "second and third mortgages" got their September coupons. But now about the shareholders 1 Those of our'road ers who may happen to havs embarked their all in this company will be interested to hear that it has been at its wits'ends to pay a hundred thousand pounds, and that it had to borrow for the purpose on a day when "the best commercial paper colld not be done below 12 and 15 per cent., and by far the largest business was at 2 per cent, a mouth." But these panics are periodical, and at no such great intervals. There is not a railway in the Siatee that has not to go through a few of them. Bui when a railway can borrow as much as it pleases on its own acceptances, and when the rate of interest for loanß is at the usurious rate stated above, it results that the inevitable operation of a -United Slates railway is 10 dm— ilto money out of the pockets of the stockholders into that of the Wall street money lenders. No railway, certainly not any American railway, can ever yield profit to cover such interest; and. as the interest must be paid, the profit musl disappear. In lael, the best comment on this sort of transaction is the value of the shares in the market. What is a share worth when it be comes merely an authority to e'-mtrmeu toronfiact any debts they please, at any rale of interest they may find neces sary ? Railway stock, which was supposed to have fallen quile low enough, had gone down ton or twenty per cent, lower at the and was still going down. The truth is, American railways have been burn ing on both ends, both on their income and on their outgoings. The crops have not been quite so good; traveling, ihere'ore, not quile so brisk; while railways have had to borrow money against a host of needy com petitors. There is a crowd of specnla'ors in sugar, cntiou, and in corn ; there are Slates with debts rather abnve their present means, and watttirg more money still; and there art banking companies with means that would nol bring them much credit in this country, but which have won American confidence. Ai the beginning of the month there was a crash of tliem, end as one reads the list ano seems to be reading a page of some commer cial romance, aud ttot a matter-of-fact re pott. What would Englishman, simple as they are, have expected from the "New Yp-k Life and Trust Company!.". What pru dence, or even honesty, was -liksly to. be lound in projectors capable of such a jumble of words. Yet this Company had thriven at Cincinnati,till in an evil hour it winged its flight to New York, and became a ma chine for drawing the money of the western agriculturist into the coffers of the Wall St. money-lender. Then the Mechanics' Bank ing Association gave way to the storm, fol lowed by a dozen private house*. Several of the railway* were holding meetings to look j their diffionlllet in the face. Meanwhile, it | is evidently the game of a numatons and I powerful body to keep op the panie, by means which neither the taste nor the law ol this country would allow. The journals make pleasant remarks on the "weakness" of such H "concern," or the amount of such a company's bills, and the "aweatness" of tho "lot." The public are carefully inform ed of the difference between a company's deposits and discounts; and when a few of the more distinguished have been duly stig matized, it is added that tho list is very far from complete. No doubt we have had as bad a state of things in this country. The peculiarity of the N. York panic isthat it is industriously and avowedly got up, aggrava ted and prolonged; and this is done with the most entire success and with the most formid able results upon every class of debtors; and thol to this market, thus in the hands of tha money-lender, anu liable to these fearful fluctuations, most of the American Railway Companies have to come for the means of completing their works, paying ihe interest on their bonds, and the dividends, if any, on their shares. Washington's Opinion on Ihe Currency Question. The following letter, written by General Washington, upon the currency question, in answer to a communication from Colonel T. Stone, a member of ihe Senate of Maryland, is remarkable as setting forth precisely the same views and opinions as those for which the Democratic parly is contending at this rim a. Tha ilatn of the letter is the 27th ol February, 1787. At this early day the com prehensive mind of the Father of his Coon try saw the evils flowing front a currency which is dangerous whan considered either as a representative or a medium. This let ter should be read, studied and reflected on by every man in this country. MOUNT VERNON, Feb. 27,1787. DRAR SlR —Your favor of ihe 30th uli.came duly to hand. To give an opinion in a rase of so much importance as that which has warmly agitated the two branches of your Legislature, and which, from the appeal that is made, is likely to create great and perhaps dangerous divisions, is rather a delicate mai ler; but as this diversity of opinion is on a subject which has, 1 believe, occupied the minds of most men, and as my sentiments thereon have been fully and decidedly ex pressed long belore the Assembly either of Maryland or this State was convened, I do hot scruple to declare that, if I had a voice in your Legislature, it would have been giv a -r S n;nst a T)3f er e.TIISo'iUII, upon I the general principle of its utility as a rep resentative and the necessity of it as a me dium. To assign reasons for this opinion would be as unnecessary as tedious; the I ground has been so often trod that a nlace j hardly remains untouched; in a word, Ihe I necessity arising from a want of specie is represented as greater than it really is. I contend that it is by the substance not the 1 shadow of a thing that we are to be bene-1 fitted. The wisdom of man, in my bumble I opinion, cannot, at this time, devise a plan ! by which the credit of paper money would j be long supported, consequently depreciation keeps pace with the quantity of emission, and articles for which it is exchanged rise in a greater ratio than the sinking value of the , money. Wherein then, is tbe farmer, the j planter, and tbe atlizan benefitted? Ths ; debtor may be, because, as I havp observed, \ he gives the shadow in lieu of the substance, j and in proportion to his gain the creditor, or body politic suffer. Whether it be a legal: tender or r.o'., it will, as has boon observed very truly, bare no alternative—it must be that or nothing. An evil equally great is the door it immediately opens for speculation, by i which the least designing and perhaps most valuable part of the community are preyed upon by Ihe more knowing and crally spec ulators. But contrary to my intention and declaration, I am offering reasons in support of my opinion—reasons, too, which of all others, are leasr pleasing to the advocates for paper money. I shall r>—r— ok. serve generally, that so many people have suffered by lormer emissions, that, like a ! burnt child who dreads the fire, no person will touch it who can possibly avoid it , the natural consequence of which will be, that ! the specie which remains unexported will be : instantly locked up. With great esteem and regard, I am, dear i sir, Sic., GEO. WASHINGTON. A Miracle Worker. A well known French Missionary, Father | Bridaine, was always poor, for Ihe simple ' reason that he gave away everything that be I had. One evening he asked for a night's lodging j of a curare in the village through which he I passed, and the worthy man having only one ' bed in sbare with him. At daybreak Father ' Bridain ruse, according to custom, and went' ! io say his prayers at a neighboring church. Returning from his sacred daty he met a beg gar who asked tor alma, "Alas! my friend, I have nothing!" said the good priest, me chanically pulling his hand in his breeches pocket, where to his astonishment he found something hard wrapped up iri paper, which he knew he had not left there. He hastily opened the paper, and seeing four crowns in it, cried out that it was a miracle I He gave the money to tbe beggar, and hastened to the church to return ibanks to God. The curate soon arrived (here, too, and Father Baidain related the miracle with the greatest unction; the curate turned pale, put his bands in his pocket, and io an instant perceived that Fa ther Bridain, in getting up in the dark, had taken the wrong pair of breeehea; he bad performad the miracle! with the onrale'e crowns I From the New York Picayune. ItOKSTIt'KS IN PHILADELPHIA. Philadelphia is nol in New Jersey; but io : asmuch as to get to Philadelphia you must go through New Jersey, and as when you have got to Philadelphia you have got out of New Jersey, the sensation of the disgusted traveler on entering Philadelphia is always a pleasurable one. The most noticeable thing on the rente to Philadelphia, via Cam den and Amboy Railroad, is the throng of .Jersey infants, ol all sizes, who, as soon as they can run alone, are trained by their sav age parents to surround the cars at every stopping-place in capacious hordes, and beg the passengers for newspapers. Nobody ev er gives them any, and their discomfited yells pursue the train for miles; people are warned when the locomotive is coming, not by the bell or whistle, hut by the angry shrieks and howlings of the juvenile beggars at Ihe last station. Philadelphia, as a city, runs to Savings Barks and Cemeteries. A Five Cent or Sixpenny Savings Bank is on every corner; and if yon ride out ol town in any direction, you pass six Cemeteries with handsome gate ways and an inviting prospect beyond. You arc perpetually invited to make permanent investments of of your sixpences or yourself. Don't you do it. The streets are so regular that a Bostonian longs to give the city a kick which shall dis arrange the buildings and make the streets run nowhere, and so give the town a home look to hirn; and a New Yoiker wandere about in a elate of mild bewilderment, and never comes out where he wants to, by rea son of making, (rom force of habit, a metro politan calculation for leeway. The parks are a feature, and are full of fountains with water in them—real water, by George, which spirts—and thereby gives you a disgusting reminiscence of New York, where the fountains eeem to be labelled, <l To be kept dry," and to be in charge of some one who conscientiously obeys orders. Besides the fountains, the parks are stocked with squirrels and deer, all alive, and all do mesticated, like cockroaches in a first-class boarding house. Don't ask me what kind of boys they have in Philadelphia—l'm sure I don't know. I'm a New Yorker, and have never had any experience ol boys who would not stone a squirrel to death as quick as they'd steal a pint of peanuts. But the Phil adelphia bovs and the squirrels fraternize, ami tba bovs fse.t lit— e--pirr*l-—Nr-v. YorV boys would reverse this little arrangement.— I honestly believe that a Philadelphia boy could live with Barnum's "Happy Family" without pulling the monkey's ears, or wring ing the eagle's head off. Just think of it, a boy, a real (toy, living ia a city; where there are parks full of deers, and peacocks, and squirrels, and tiainea hens, and lots of brick bats and paving stones lying about, and nev er sending the latter on flying visits to the former—never bringing about an acquaint ance between the brickbats and the squir rels, or making the paving-stones so intimate with the peacocks, that nothing but death could part them—never pelting the deer with clubs or bunting the Guinea hens into cor ners and smashing them with boards. You don't believe it ? you do'nt be lieve it, and that's why I recommend Green wood to catch a Philadelphia boy, and put him in the Museum with the other curiosi ties—he'd be a greater wonder than the Feejee Mermaid. He might put him in the Aquarium with the porgies. However, ! didn't see a boy in Philadelphia while I was there—perhaps there ain't any, after all. Philadelphians are proud of their city, and waul lo make it appear as large as possible, so they have adopted a plsn of numbering their houses in a way to deceive strangers, and make them think they are in a large town. They count one hundred numbers to every block. Though a block has but ten city lots in it, those ten have to be the bur den of a hundred numbers—tho even hun dred must come out at every corner. Thus, if a street a mile long is intersected daring that distance by twenty-five other streets, that street will have twenty-five hundred numbers in it. Several streets are number ed up above 3,000. Tbis, of course, gives an idea of magnitude that is by no means borne out by the facts. When a New York er reflects that BroaUwdy is numbered for over five miles, and still there are not four teen hundred numbets in Broadway, he it is a very clever trick ou the pari of the Quakers. So it is; for a street with 3.000 houses !n n will be a novelty in America long after Philadelphia has grown to ten times its present size—if it ever does. Philadelphtans have a curious fancy about signboards; they impale every letter on an iron rod sticking out from the wall about two feet, as if the buildings fell themselves to bo aristocratic, anu repelled the plebian idea of trade to that arm's length distance. Your Pbiladelphisn is a thorough going good fellow; he is civil, but not officious; generous, but wants his full change; he com passionates New Yorkers, and when they speak of their city in comparison with Phila delphia, be regarda tlflm with benevolent pity, aud declines *r.y conversation on that subject; to him Philadelphia is a paradise; to which New Yorkere are only to be admit ted by courtesy, and It is his business, as attendant angel, not to argue with the stran ger, but merely to disgust him with his own extra-heavenly heme, by exhibiting to hie astonished g<ae tbe super-eminent felieitiea and the great brag blisses of Paradisaic Phil adelphia. He ie a Quaker cockney to hie displacement of letters, and never uses the initial "w" in the proper place, but talk* of "wice," "wirtue" and wittlea" with a com '[Two Dollars per Anna. NUMBER 42. placency at great as if be were not com mitting a lingual murder at every breath - He boasts of the lagor beer of his native city, ar.d triumphantly exhibits to you pint specimens of this delectable fluid,{and glori ous stuff it is too—there's no denying that. Ir. a word, a Philadelphian is a gentleman, :*but is a little hard headed; on the subject of Philadelphia; you leave him. with regret, wishing you could put him in your pocket and carry him home. But be can't take a ; joke—he don't know what it is. I tried a joke with a hotel clerk, whereupon he in stantly called for and I escaped ! by begging for mercy on my knees; it was ; of no use to explain, it would a— k | i una ins comprehension. He regarded me ; with an evil eye during the rest of my stay, and when he made out my bill he charged me an extra day's board with an air of fiend ish malignity. Perhaps that was his,idea of a joke; il so, I do not like Philadelphia jokes—they are one sided, to say nothing of being expensive. Contentedly, Q. K. PHILANDER DOESTICES, P. B. Advice to the Tillers of the Soil. The revolt in India is the harbinger of fern . ine ; one hundred and eighty million* of bo ! man beings will need large supplies of food ; of the products of other regions. The army | in India, (lie transport fleet of thai army and 1 its supplies, the necessities growing out of ( the disturbed state of that great English de | pendency, will call for much of our surplus [ beef, pork and flour. The two last named articles ate the products of every year, but beef requires years of nourishment before it is ready for use. The wicked, wanton waste of breeding power, which is the besetting sin . of American fanners, ought to be cheeked.— Every farmer ought to be required to give an account of himself, who kills a female j calf. We ought to preserve every "cow call" that is dropped, for five years to come. By | this method we might soon have a supply of j beef, not only for ourselves, but for any emr -| gcncy abroad. j Beef, mutton, sugar, eggs and butter, the ; expensive articles of life, are shamefully neglected by the general farming interests of ! the whole country. Calves are slaughtered without regard to the sex or price of lood.. ! Mutton i neglected every where, north and . northeast. Fleece, without tegard to meat, is the hobby, and farmers prefer to make shoes rather than feed "oris" to sheep,^__^ — Hens ere toll like praitio chickens, to lake care of themselves. A farmer who has 20 hens lets them feed themselves, and buys or goes without eggs. One rainy dsy devoted to giving them shelter, and five minutes to direct proper food, would give them eggs to eat and to sell. Care in making boiler is necesrary. It is now, as a business, neglected, and, in most inslanoes, done in so slovenly a manner that il is impossible lo get a good article st rea sonable rates. An immense quantity of but ler is made, which has to be sold low, be cause of the want of care in pulling it np for the market. The few careful farmers gel largo profits, while thousands are disgusted with the result of their dairifti, who are them selves alone to blame. A little attention to these suggestions would produce millions of dollars now lost to our farmers, and would help to make labor light and the ways of life more cheerful lo ranlli tudes.—AT. Y. Post. A Cornel's Ktvengc. A fow yeorg ago il chanced that a valuable camel workiiig an oil mill in Africa, wav se verely beaten by its driver whe perceiving thai the camel treasured np the injury, and was wailing a favorable opportunity for re venge, kept a strict watcb upon the animal. Time passed away; the camel perceiving that it was watched, wag quiet and obedient, and the driver began to think that the beating was forgotten, when one night after a lapse of seven months, the man who slept on a raised platform in the mill, whilst, as is cus tomary, the camel is stalled in a corner, hap pening to remain awalre, observed by tho bright moonlight, that when altars* quiet the animal looked cautiously aroundWte softly, and stealing towards the spot whert a bundle or ctotties and a bernous, thrown carelessly on the .ground, resembling a sleeping figure, cast itself with violence upon them, rolling all its w eight and tearing them viciously with its teeth. Satisfied that its revenge was com plete, the camel was returning to the corner when the driver sat up and spoke, and at the sound of his voice and peroaiving the mistake it had made, the animal was so mortified at the failure and discovery of its scheme (hat it dashed its head against the wall and died on the ppot. The Bible Twang. Once upon a time an elderly Scotch woman gave her grandson a newspaper to read, tail ing him to read it aloud. The only —the gloud the boy had been much in the way of hearing was at the parish kirk, and he oegan to read in the exact tone in which he had so often head the minister read. Tnegoodlady was shocked at the boy's profanity, and giv ing him a box on the ear, exclaimed, 'Whatl dot thou read the newspaper with the Bible twarigf Many a minister has a twang, or a tone for the pulpit, that he never uses in conversa tion. II a lawyer at the bar ahould address a jury in the preacning tone, he would make them laugh when be wished to make (Wn weep. Preaching would be far more efficient in the ordinary tone, such as la used between man and man ; but many preachers piloh on a key so variant from their natural voioe, that they would not be recognised unless they ' could be seen.—AT. Y. Observer, 11,.• - i '-ru :•
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