THE STAR OF THE NORTH. 1. W. Itm, FraprloUr.] VOLUME 9. THE STAR OF THE NORTH I* MSLISHVI) EVERT WEDNESDAY MORNIKU BY K. W. WEAVER, OFFICE—-Up stairs, in Ike new brick foiiftl ing, on Ike south side oj Main Street, third square below Market. X ER 91 S:—Two Dollars per annum, if paid within six months from the time of sub scribing ; two dollars and fifty cents if not paid within the year. No subscription re ceived for a less period than six months; no discontinuance permitted until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the editor. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding one square Will be inserted three limes for One Dollar, and twenty-five cents for each additional in reition. A liberal discount will be made to those who advertise by the year. THE RELIEF BILL. An Act providing for the. Resumption of Specie Puyments by the Ranks, and for the Relief of Debtors. SicnoN 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and llouse of Representatives of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and is hereby enacted by the authority of theiame, That the provisions of every Act of Assembly, or of incorporation or re-incur poration, heretofore passed, declaring or au thorizing the forfeiture of the charter of any Bank, Saving, Trust and Insurance Company or Corporation having banking privileges, or inflicting any penalties, or authorizing any rompuisory assignment, for or by reason of the non-payment of any of its liabilities, or the issuing or paying out the notes of other Banks incorporated under the laws of this 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 thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, be end the same are hereby suspended until the second Monday of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and all forfeitures and penalties, or liability there to, heretofore incurred, or that may be here after incurred, or that may be hereafter in curred, before the said 2d Monday of April, under such acts ol Assembly or of incorpo ration or re-incorporation, for or by reason of the causes aforesaid, or any of them, are hereby remitted, and so much thereof as 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 ing, or declaring dividends during the sus pension ol specie payments, ur rrom loaning or discounting, without the requisite amount of specie or specie funds as aforesaid, be and the Bame is hereby suspended until the day and year aforesaid, and any such Bank, during such suspension of specie payments, may declare dividends to an amount not ex ceeding six per cent, per annum on capital; and this act shall extend also to all Banks, Saving, Trust and Insurance Companies and Corporations with banking privileges, char tered ot re-chartered under any law, for peri ods hereafter to commence, and to Hie pay ment of stock to all Banks incrporated 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 Bank in this Com monwealth, on the day, and monthly thereafter, make up a statement to be veri fied by the oalb or affirmation ol the Presi dent or Cashier thereof, showing—first, the amount of its loans and discounts ; second, the amount of specie in possession of and oavned by such Bank, and the balance due from other Banks, in distinct items ; third, the amount of its notes outstanding; fourth, the amount of its deposits, including individ ual deposits and 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 snch 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 •hall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, at the diicretion of the Court —one-half to be given to the prosecutor, and one-half to the county in which such Bank is located. SEC. 3. The said Banks are hereby requir ed, until the second Monday of April afote- Mid, to receive at par in payment of all debts due, or to become due to them, respectively, the notes of all the solvent Banks of the Com 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 are also hereby authorized to pay out, in alt their bu siness transactions and discounts, the said notes so long as the Banks issuing the same shall remain solvent; but in case any Presi dent, and a majority of the Board of Direct ors of any of the said Banks shall certify 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 Governorshall there upon appoint three judicious persons, not in terested in said Bank, as Commissioners to investigate the conditition of such Bank ; and the said Commissioners shall, after taking an oath or affirmation to perform the duties of their appointment with fidelity, forthwith pro ceed to make the said investigation, and re port the result thereof within ten days to the Governor} and if the offictrs of the said Bank shall refuse to permit the said Commissioners 0 to make such investigation, or to produce any book* or documents necessary for that pur- BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1857. pose, or if the said Commissioners!, or a ma jority of them, shall report that the said Bank if in a solvent condition, or conducting its affairs in violation of law, the Governor shall thereupon issue hie proclamation declaring the charter of the said Bank to he forfeited, and the said Bank shall be deprived of all the benefits of this Act, and the Direclors 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 eighieen hundred and fifty, and the expenses of such commis sion, including the compensation of the Com missioners at eight dollars per day each, shall be paid by the Bank against which it is issu ed, unless the report shall be lavorable to its condition, in which case they shall be paid by the applicants ; Provided, That r.o Bank shall be required to recetve 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 Governor, until the Commis sioners shall roport in lavor of 6UCh a Bank, after which the lions ol eucb Bank shall again be received as required by the provisions of this section. SEC. 4. That tbe several collectors of taxes, tolls and other revenues of the Common, wealth, ond also County Treasurers, are here by authorized lo receive, for Stale purposes, the notes of the solvent Banks of this Com monwealth, though not specie-paying Bunks, in payment of the said taxes, tolls, and reve nues, and the State Treasurer is hereby au thorized to receive and receipt for the same in the same manner as though the said Banks were specie-paying. SEC. 5. That the deposits by the State Treasurer, or to the credit of the Common wealth, in the several Banks and other corpo rations, ai'd all Bank notes which are now or may hereafter be ih the Treasury during the period of suspension aforesaid, shall from lime to time, on demand of the said Treasur er, be paid by the said Banks or other corpo rations respectively, in specie, in such a mounts as may be required by tho said Treasurer to enable him to pay Ihe interest accruing on the public loans of the Common wealth. SEC. 6. That upon all judgments heretofore entered in suits commenced by writ or oth erwise, or which may be entered during the period hereinbefore mentioned, in actions in stituted by writ or otherwise, in any court in tbin Oommorav".lil rr Ffra ony l.lurmon or justice of the peace, on judgment obtained before said officers, if the defendant shall be possessed of any estate in fee simple, within the tespective county, worth, in the opinion of the court, alderman or justice, the amount of the said judgment over and above all in cumbrances, and the amount exempted from levy and sale on execution, he shall be enti tled to a stay of execution thereon, on judg ment now obtained, or lo be obtained on suits now brought, for the term of one year from the date of the passage of this act, and on all others for one year, to be computed from the first day of the term to which the action was commenced ; ami every defendant in such judgment may have the same stay of of execution thereon, if within thirty days from the passage of litis Act, or within thirty days from the rendition of any future judg ment, he shall give security to be approved of by the courl or by a judge thereof, or by such alderman or justice of the peace before whom such judgment was obtained, for the sum recovered, together with the interest and costs: Piovided, That this section shall not apply to the wages of labor nor lo debts upon which slay of execution is expressly waived by the debtors, nor to judgments upon which a stay ol" execution has already been taken under existing laws : And Provided, That Ihe provisions of this section shall extend to judg ments entered or lo 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 ol the premises so bound, as well as to the original obligor or mortgager: Provided further, Thai said stay of execution shall not apply lo 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 banks 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 are accepted as herein provided, but no Bank or other corporaliari shall be em braced within ita provisions more than thirty days after the passage hereof, or alter any Bank shall have suspended specie payments upon its notes and obligations unless the stockholders of such Banker other corpora tion shall, before the ex,><ra'ion of the said thirty days, or within thirty days after uuy Bank shall have suspended specie payments upon its notes or obligations, at a meeting to be called by the Direclors thereof lor Ibat Durpose, on len days' public notice, in one or more newspapers, accept the provisions of this act by a majority ol voles of said stock holders, to be voted and counted according to the provisions in the charter of such ac cepting Bank, or other corpora'ion regulating the election ol Directors, but lo make such acceptance valid there shall be filed in the office of tbe Auditor General of this Com monwealth, a certificate that this act has been duly accepted, under the common seal of such Bauk or other corporation, attested by tho signature of the President or Cashier. And each of the slid Banks accepting the provisions of this act shall also pay into the Treasury of the Commonwealth,on or before tbe first daygrf January, Anno Domini one Ihousaud eight hundred and fiity-eight, or within thirty days after any Bank shall accept the provisions of this set, a sum equal to one-fourth one of per centum upon the cap ital slock of said Bank, in addition to any amounts they aro 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 is hereby repealed : Provided . That all suits brought or now pending,dor forfeiture or penalties under the section hereby repealed, shall not be af fected thereby. SEC. 9. That the Legislature hereby reserves tho right and power to alter, revoke, or annul the churter of any Bank or Banks, corpora tion or corporations, accepting the provisions of this act, whenever in their opinion the same may prove injurious to the citizens of the Commonwealth, in such manner, howev er, as to do no injustice to the corporators. SEC. 10. That no Bank, Savings Fund, In surance, or Tiust Company shall, directly or indrrectly, purchase, or be concerned in the purchase, of the notes of any of the incorpo rated Banks of this State at less than their par 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 not less than five hundred dollars, nor mure than one thousand dollars, one ball of to be paid to the informer, and the other half to the use of the Common weahh. SEC. 11. That no stocks, bonds, promissory notes, personal property, or other valuable securtlies hypothecated or held in pledgei eilper with power of attorney attached or otherwise, for credit or money loaned, shall be sold for the period of six months from Ihe passage of this act without the consent of the debior, debtors, or parly hypothecating or pledging tbe same being first hud and obtain ed in writing. SEC. 12. That the notice required 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 the period ol suspension of specie payments authorized by this Act. APPROVED October -thirteenth, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. JAMES POLLOCK. CERTIFICATE. OFFICE OF THE SEC'V OF THE COMMON w'LRTI,) Harntkurg, Oct. 14, 1857. J PENNSYLVANIA, SK. Ido hereby certily that the toregoing anu annexed is n full, true and correct copy of the original act of the General Assembly, as the same remains on file in this office. In Testimony IVheicoJ, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Seereta r -.ry's Office to be affixed, the day and L 1" 8 Lear above written. A. G. CURTIN, Secretary of the Commonwealth. From the London Times. Opinions ot the English Press on I lie Ft* nuiicitil Troubles in the United Mutes. The map of the United States in any En glish atlas twenty or even ten years 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, acd gave lo a few broken outlines ol coast in '.he Indian ocean the single name of "New Holland." Regions that in our school map of the "Slates" were traversed by the Oltoways or the Ojtbbeways, Si DUX or the Mohawks, or generally "the Red Indians," are now as thickly fretted wilh railways as Lancashire or the suburbs of London. The wonder is first how the railways were made; then, how they can pay. YVe are told to look to the vast cilies that have sprung op in Ihe wilderness, and to Ihe lakes and the canals. Then certainly the railways must help one another; yet one cannot help notic ing how often one route has two or three competitors It is Hue that even here we may go lu Birmingham, tu Nottingham, or to York by different routes; but this a thick ly peopled country, coutaiuing a good many peo| le who can travel for pleasure, in sea son and nut of season, ill bad times as well a in good. Then it is a comfort to those who have invested their savings in a Michi gan or Illinois railway to bear that it has been done so cheaply and rudely that no Englishman in this country would trust his limbsto its light rails and timber bridges.— Yet, considering the mileage, something enormous, anil the fact that the population of the Sales, after all, is not so great as that of the British Isles, and not nearly so weal thy, the most sanguine believer in improve ment and progress must have his misgivings as to the paying qualities of these long thin lines. But how were they made' It was State Bonds and Canal Shares that Sidney Smith invested with such a halo of notoriety. The Slates borrowed and then repudiated.— This was but an elementary stage of Ameri can progress, and the British public has long since flattered itself that it is awako to the dangers of simple repudiation. How is it done, then, in these days? Our correspon dence from Now York throws some light on this difficulty. That gay and lively cl.y adds now to its other excitements a panic, which our correspondent likens io various gregatious terrors and mishaps, such as bi sons rushing over a precipice,and sbeep run ning through a hedge-gap- But it is evident that a panic in New York has us redeeming features; for there ore people there who thrive on a panic, and can even get up one. It is evident, too, that a panic is well com pared to a rush, lor it has a direction, and thai direction is as gainfol to one side as it is ruinous to auolher. It repreaenls a run of money, leaving a void at one quarter of the compass, and giving to another rather more Truth and Itlsht Cod and our Country. than its due. 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 chare-hold ers. Let us suppose tho British 'capitalist,''— generally a man who has earned his money slowly, and his experience still more slowly j —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 State guarantee with a flaw in it; to the danger of rival lines, and of lines made sim ply to assist in the making of lines, which will ruin them when made; to the dangers of management, of amalgamations, of leases < and sales, which may or may not leave the general shareholder in an unpleasant condi tion. Let the Englishman either devote the autumn of his days and tbe flickering light of hir declining income to gaining an insight into these curiosities of American enterprise, or let him have the sense to consult a bro ker, who can point out these dangerous places oil that smooth, seductive surlace.— Still there remains one peril which hitherto hag not been so fully illustrated, anil which many of our readers must be learning to their cost. Railways in the United States, and a few other undertakings, appear to have an unlimited power of borrowing in a market of which the ups and downs are wholly beyond all English ideas. All the great lines have been borrowing in the New York market ort 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 much the same, to their cost, but the highest rate uf interest here is not nearly so high as there, and we have not seen a great company going about from douse to bouse begging for an immediate loan to pay the interest duo on its bonds, and Lombard Street crowded with speculators whose lives depended on the re- ! stilt. On the Ist day of this month Wall St., I New Yotk, was in a 6tate of delightful ex- ] citement. "The September coupons on the j Erie second and third mortgage bonds ma- | lured, and the company were without means to meet then, unless the Banks would ad- ■ vance $600,000. It was not till midday that the Banks agreed to do it." Had they de- j dined it appears the little confidence left at i •• TO U I-I ■-*. < J 1 it is evident that humanity and patriotism! were alowed to sway the decision. But for I this appeal, and but for some tender ele ments in the philosophy of Wall Street, what would have become of the Erie shareholders, [ when the second and third mottgages would have to go without their interest? The re-1 suit was, the "second and third mortgages" i got their September coupons. But now about the shareholders ? Those of our road- ' ers who may hapden to have embarked I their ail in this company will be interested to bear that it has been at its wits' ends to pay a hundred thousand pouuds, ami iiiat it had to borrow for tho purpose on a day when "the best commercial paper could nol be ! done below 12 and 15 per cent., and by far j the largest business was at 2 per cent, a j month." But these panics are petiodical, and at no such great intervals. There is not j a railway in the States that has not to go | through a few of them. But whee a railway I can borrow as much as it pleases en its own ! acceptances, and when the rate of interest : for loans is at the usurious rate staled above,! 'it results that the inevitable operation of a United States railway is to draw the money | out of the pockets of the stockholders into that of the Wall street moneylenders. No! railway, certainly not any American railway, can ever yield profit to cover such interest; and. us the interest must be paid, the profit must disappear. In (act, the best comment oil this sort of transaction is the value of the shares in the market. What is a shafe worth when it be i comes merely an authority to half-a-dozen ' gentlemen to contract any debts they please, at any rate of interest they may find neces sary ? Railway stock, which was supposed to have fallen quite low "enouglj, had gone down ten or twenty per cent, lower at the last date, and was still going down. The truth is, American raiLways have been burn ing on both ends, buth on their income and on their outgoings. The crops have not been quite so good; traveling, therefore, not quite so brisk; while railways have had to borrow money against a host of needy com petitors. There is a crowd of speculators in sugar, cotton, and in corn ; there are States with debts rather above their present means, and wanting more money still; and there are banking companies with means that would not bring them much credit in this country, bu< which have won American confidence. At the beginning of tbe month there was a crash of them, and as one reads the list ane seems to bo reading a page of some commer cial romance, and nol a matter-of-fact re port. What would Englishmen, simple as they are, have expected irom the "New Yo-k Life and Trust Company?" What pru dence, or even honesty, was likely to be lound in projectors capable of such a jumble of words. Yet this Company bad 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 tbe coffers of the Wall St. money-lender. Then the Mechanics' Bank ing Association gave way to the storm, fol lowed by a dozen private houses. Several of the railways were holdiug meetings to look their difficulties in the face. Meanwhile, it is evidently tbe game of a nuraetoua and I powerfnl body to keep up the panic, by means which neither the taste nor the law ol this country would allow. The journals make pleasant remarks on the "weakness" of such a "concern," or the amount ol such a company's bills, and the "swealness" of the "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 the list is very far from complete. No doubt we have hail as bad a slate of things in this country. The peculiarity of the New York paic is that it is industriously and avowedly got up, aggrava ted and prolonged; and this is done with the most entire success and with the most lormid able results upon every class of debtors; and that to Ihits market, thus in the hands of the j money-lender, anu liable to these fearful | fluctuations, most of the American Railway Companies have to come for the means of completing their works, pacing the interest on their bonds, and the dividends, tf any, on their shares. Washington's Opinion on the Currency Question. The following letter, written by General Washington, upon the currency question, in answer to a communication from Colonel T. Stone, a member cf the Senate o( Maryland, is remarkable as setting forth precisely the same views and opinions as those for which the Democratic parly is contending at this time. The date of the letter is the 27th ol February, 1787. At this early day the com prehensive mind of tho Father of his Conn try saw the evils flowing front a currency which is dangerous when 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 VEKNON, Feb. 27,1787. DEAR Slß—Your favor ol tlie 30ILI till, came duly to hand. To give an opinion in a case 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 likeiy to create great and perhaps dangerous divisions, is rather a delicate mut ter; but as this diversity of opinion is on a subject which has, I believe, occupied tho minds of most men, and us my sentiments 1 thereon have been fully and decidedly ex- ' pressed long before the Assembly either of I Maryland or this State was convened, I do j not scruple lo declare that, if I had a voice S— - J , '• N-.. S a— en decidedly against a paper emission, upon the general principle of its utility as a rep resentative and tho necessity of it as a me dium. To assign reasons for this opinion would be as unnecessary as tedious; the ground has been so oflen trod that a place hardly remains untouched; in a word, lite necessity arising from a want of specie is represented as greater than it really is. I contend (hat it is by the substance not the shadow of a thing that we are to be bene fitted. The wisdom of man, in my humble opicion, cannot, at this lime, devise a plan by which the credit of paper money would 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 the farmer, the planter, and tbe artizan benefitted? Thy debtor may be, because, as I have observed, he gives the shadow in lieu of the substance, and in proportion to his gain the creditor, or body politic suffer. Whether it be a legal tender or not, it will, as has been observed very truly, have no alternative—it must be that or nothing.* An evil equally great is the door it immediately opens for speculation, by which the least designing and perhaps most valuable part of the community are preyed upon by the more knowing and crahy spec ulators. But contrary to my intention and declaration, I atn offering reasons in support of my opinion—reasons, too, which ol all olhers, are least pleasing to the advocates for paper money. I shall therefore only ob serve generally, that so many people have suffered by lormer emissions, tbal, 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. YVith great esteem and regard, I am, dear sir, &c., &., GF.O. WASHINGTON. A Miracle Worker. A well known French Mtssionarjr, Father Bridaine, was always poor, for Ihe simple reason that be gave away everything that be ' had. I One evening lie asked for a night's lodging ; of a curate in the village through which he passed, and the worthy man having only one bed to share with him. At daybreak Father Bridain rose, according to custom, and went to say his prajers at a neighboring church. Returning from his sacred duty he ntct a beg gar who asked lor alms, "Alas! my friend, I have nothing!" said the good priest, me chanically putting his hand in his breeches pocket, where to his astonishment he found something hard wrapped up in paper, which he knew he had not left ihere. He hastily opened the paper, and seeing four crowns in it, cried out that it was a miracle! He gave the money to the beggar, aod hastened to the church to return thanks to God. The curute soon arrived there, too, and Father Baidain related tbg miracle wilh the greatest nnction; the curate turned pale, put his bands in his pocket, and in an instant perceived that Fa ther Bridain, in getting up in thq dark, had taken the wrong pair of breeches; he had performed the miracle wilh the enrate'e crowns From the New Yoik Picayune. | DOENTICK9 IN PHILADELPHIA. Philadelphia is not in New Jersey; but in- I astnuch as tu get to Philadelphia you must go through New Jersey, and as when you I have got to Philadelphia you have got out of ! New Jersey, the sensation of the disgusted j traveler on entering Philadelphia is always I a pleasurable one. The most noticeable | tiling on the route to Philadelphia, via Cam den and Amboy Railroad, is the throng ol Jersey infants, ol all siies, who, as soon as they can tun alone, aro trained by their sav ago parents to surround the cars at every stopping place incapacious hordes, and beg! the passengers for newspapers. Nobody ev ergives them any, and titeir discomfited yells pursue the train for miles; people are warned wl en tbe locomotive is coining, not by the bell or whistle, but by the angry shrieks and bowlings of the juvenile beggars at the last station. Philadelphia, as a city, runs to Savings ; Banks and Cemeteries. A Five Cent or Sixpenny Savings Bank is on every corner; and if you ride out ot town in any direction, you pass six Cemeteries with handsome gate ways and an inviting prospect beyond. You are perpetually invited to make permanent investments of of your sixpences or yourself. Don't you do it. The streets are so regular that a Bostnnian longs to give the city a kink which shall dis arrange the buildings and make the streets run nowheio, and so give the town a home- j look to him; and a New Yorker wanders about in a state of mild bewilderment, ami never comes out where he wants to, by rea son of making, Irom force of habit, a metro- ] politan calculation for leeway. The parks aro a feature, and are full of fountains with water in them—/eaf water, by ' George, which spirts—and thereby gives you i a disgusting reminiscence of New York, where the fountains seem to be labelled, "To be kept dry," and to be in charge of some one who conscientiously obeys orders. 1 Besides the fountains, the parks are stocked with squirrels and deer, all alive, and all do- j masticated, like cockrcaches in a first-class j 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 j 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, j am! tlie Boy's ieed the squirrels—New York boys would reverse this little arrangement. — 1 1 honoslly believe that a Philadelphia boy ; could live with Barnom's "Happy Family" ' without pulling the monkey's ears, or wring i ing the eagle's head off. Jusl think of it, a ! boy, a real boy, living in a city where there [ are parks full of deers, and peacocks, and squirrels, and Gainea hens, and lots of brick bats and paving stones lying about, and nev er sending the latter oil flying visits to the former—never bringing about an acquaint ance between the brickbats and the squir rels, or making (he paving-stones so intimate with the peacocks, that nothing but death | could part thein—never pelting the deer with | clubs or hunting the Guinea hens into cor ners and smashing them with boards. You don't believe it ? 01 course you do'tlt be-i 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 i Feejee Mermaid. He might put him io the Aquarium with the porgics. However, 1 ; didn't see a boy in Philadelphia while I was Ihere—perhaps there ain't any, after all. I Plnladelphiansare proud o! their city, and want lo make it appear as large as possible, so tliey have adopted a plan of numbering their houses in a way to deceive strangers, ami make them think they are in a large town. They count one hundred numbers to every block. Though a block bus but ten city lots in it, those len have lo be the bur den of a hundred numbers—the even hun dred must come out at every corner. Thus, if a street a mile long is intersected during ; that distance by twenty-five other streets, that street will have twenty-five hundred numbers in it. Several ntreets are number ed up above 3,000. This, of course, gives ; an idea of magnitude that is by no means j borne out by the facts. When a New'York i er reflects that Broadwdv is numbered for 1 over five miles, and still tltete are not four ; teen hundred nuinbets in Broadway, he j thinks it is a very clever trick on the part of the Quakers. So it is; for a street with 3,000 j houses In it will be a novelty in America long after Philadelphia qas grown to len times its present size—if it ever does. Philadelphtans have a curious fancy about signboards; they impale every letter on an 1 iron rod sticking out from the wall about ! two feet, as if the buildings fell themselves to be aristocratic, and rppelled the plebian idea of trade to that arm's length distance. Y'our Philadelphia!! is a thorough going good fellow; he is civil, but not officious; generous, but wants his full ohange; he com passionates New Yorkers, and when they speak of their city in comparison with Phila delphia, he regards them with benevolent pity, and declines any conversation on that subject; to him Philadelphia is a paradise, to which New Yorkers are only to be admit ted by courtesy, and it is his busiaess, as attendant angel, not to argue with the stran ger, but merely to disgust him with his own extra-heavenly home, by exhibiting to his astonished gaze the super-eminent felicities and the great brag blisses of Paradisaic Phil adelphia. He ia a Quaker cockney to his displacement of letters, and never uses tbe initial "w" in the proper place, but ialka of "wice," "wirtue" and wittier' with a corn- [Two Dollars per AUIIUB. NUMBER 42. placency as great as if he were not com mitting a lingual murder at every breath He boasts of the lager beer of bis native city, ar.d triumphantly exhibit* to you pint specimens of this detectable fluid,(and glori ous stuff it is too—there's no denying that. It: a word, a Philadelphia!! is a gentleman, but is a ItUlo hard headed on the subject of Philadelphia; you leave him £wilh tegret, wishing you could put him in your pocket and carry him home. But he 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 assistance, and I escaped by begging for mercy on my knees; it was of no use to explain, it would have been be yond hi* comprehension, lie regarded me with an evil eye during tho rest of my stay, and when he made out my bill he charged me an ex'ra day's board Willi an air of fiend ish malignity. Perhaps that was hisjdea of a joke; if so, I do not like Philadelphia jokes—tltey are one sided, to say nothing of being expensive. Contentedly, Q. K. PHILANUKK DOESTICKS, P. B. Advice (o the t illers of the Soil. The revolt in India is the harbinger of fstn ine ; one hundred and eighty millions of hu man beings will need large supplies of food of the prod nets of oilier regions. The army in India, the transport fleet of that army and its supplies, the necessities growing ont of the disturbed state of that great English de pendency, will call for much of our surplus beef, pork ami flour. The two last named articled ate the products of every year, but boel requires years of nourishment before it is ready lor use. The wicked, wanton waste of breeding power, which is the besetting sic of American faimers, ought to be checked.— Evory farmer ought to be required to give an account of himself, who kills a female calf. We ought to preserve every "cow call" that is dropped, for fiifd years to come. By this method we might soon have a supply of beef, not only for ourselves, but for any emer gency abroad. Beef, mutton, sugar, eggs and butter, the expensive articles of life, are shamefully neglected by the general farming interests of the w hole eoouritry. Calves are slaughtered without regard to the sex or price ol lood. Multyn is neglected every where, north and northeast. Fleece, without ;egard to meat, is the hobby, and farmers prefer to maka shoes rather than feed "oris" to sheep Hens are left like praiiie chickens, to taka care of themselves. A farmer who has 20 hens lets litem feed themselves, and buys or goes without eggs. One rainy day devoted to giving them shelter, and five minutes to direct proper food, would give them eggs to eat and to sell. Care in making butter is necesrary. It is now, as a business, neglected, and, in most instances, done in so slovenly a manner that it is impossible to get a good article st rea sonable rates. An immense quantity of but ter is made, which has to be sold low, be cause of the want of care in putting it up for die market. The few careful farmers get large profits, while thousands are disgusted with the rosult of their dairies, who are them selves alone to blame. A little atention to these suggestions would produce millions of dollars now lost to our farmers, and would help to moke labor light and the ways of life more cheerful to multi tudes.—A'. Y. Post. A Gamcl'i Iteveogc- A few years ago it chanced that a valuable camel working an oil mill in Africa, was se verely beaten by its driver who perceiving that the camel treasured up the injury, and was waiting a favorable opportunity for re venge, kept a strict watch upojt the animal. Time passed away; the camel perceiving that it was watched, was quiet and obedient, and the driver began to thing 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 oening to remain awake, observed by the bright moonlight, that when all was quiet the animal looked cautiously around, rose softly, | and stealing towards the spov where a bundle i of clothes and a bernous, thrown carelessly on the ground, resembling a sleeping figure, cast itself with violence upon them, rolling all its weight and tearing them viciously with its teeth. Satisfied that its revenge was com plete, the camel was returning to the corner when 'he driver sat up aid spoke, and at the sound of Ins voice and perceiving the mistake it had made, the animal was so mortified at the failure and discovery of its scheme that it dashed its head against the wall and died . on the spot. 1 he Bible I'wtug. Once upon • time an elderly Scotch woman gave her grandson a newspaper to read, tell ing him to read it alood. Toe only reading aloud the boy had been much in the way of bearing was at the parish k rk, and he Degan to read in the exact tone it. which he had so I often head the minister read. Tne good lady • I was shocked at the boy's profanity, and giv ing him a box on the ear, exclaimed, 'What! dost thou read the newspaper with the Bible twang V Many a minister has a twang, or a lona for the pulpit, that he never uses in converse lion. It a lawyer at the bar should address a jury in the presetting tone, he would make them laugh when he wished to make them weep, l'reaching would be far more efficient in the ordinary tone, euch as it used betwsea man and man ; but many preachers pitch on a key so variant from their natural roice, that they would not be recognized unless they could be seen.—A* Y. Observtr.
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