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LONGFELLOW.
The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains', and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.
My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the moulu'rtng past,
But the hones of youth fall thick in the blast,
And the days are dark and dreary.
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shinning;
'4'hy fate is the common fate of all, —
Into each life, some rain must fall.
Some days must be dark and dreary.
THE OLD* OLD STORY.
Bummer moon-beams softly playing,
Light the woods of Castle Keep;
And there 1 see a maiden straying,
Where the darkest shadows creep.
She is listening—meekly, purely,
To the wooer at her side;
Tis the "old, old story," surely,
Running on like time and tine.
Maiden fair, oh ! have a care;
Vows are many—truth is rare.
Ho is courtly, she is simple;
Lordly doublet speaks his lot:
She is wearing hood and wimple—
His the castle, hers the cot,
Sweeter far she deems his whisper
Than the night bird's dulcet tnrill;
sbe is smiling—he beguiling—
'Tis the "old, old story" still.
Maiden fair, oh ! have a care;
Vows are many—truth is rare.
The autumn sun is quickly going
Behind the woods of Castle Keep;
The air is still, the night wind blowing,
And there 1 see a maiden weep.
Her cheeks are while—her brow is aching,
The "old, old story" sad and briel;
Of heart betrayed, and left, nigh breaking,
In mute despair and lonely grief.
Maiden fair, oh! have a care;
Vows are many—truth is rare.
LIVE FOR*BUMEITII NG.
Live for something; be not idle-
Look about thee for employ;
Sit not down to useless dreaming—
Labor is the sweetest joy.
Voided hands are ever weary,
Selfish hearts are never gay,
Life for thee hath many duties—
Active be, then, while you may.
Scatter blessings in thy pathway!
Gentle words and cheering smiles
Better are than gold and silver,
With their grief dispelling wiles.
As the pleasant sunshine falletu
Ever on the grateful earth,
5o let sympathy and kindness
Gladden well the darkened earth.
Hearts that are oppressed and weary,
Drop the tear of sympathy,
Whisper words of hope and comfort,
Give, and thy reward shall be
Joy unto thy soul returniug
From this perfect fountain-head;
Freely, as thou freely giveSt,
Shall the grateful light be shed.
A Miorl Story by Oicken*.
Dickens tells the following story of an
American sea captain:
On his last voyage home the captain had
011 board a young lady of remarkable person
al attractions—a phrase 1 ose as one being
entirely new, and one you never met with
in the news pipers. This young lady was
bebved intensely by five young gentleman
passengers, and in return she was in love
with them all very ardestly, but without any
particular preference for either. Not know
how to make up the determination in this
dilernna she consulted my r riend the cap
tain being a man of an original turn of mind
•ays to (ho young lady. "Jump overboard,
and marry the man who jumps after you."
The young lady, struck with the idea, and
being naturally lond of bathing, especially
in warm weather as it then was, took the
advice of the captain who bad a boat mann
ed in case of accident. Accordingly, next
morning the five lovers being on deok, and
looking devontedly at the young lady, she
plunged into the sea head foremost. Fonr
of the lovers immediately jumped in after
ber. When the young lady and her lovers
were got out again, she says to the captain :
''what am Ito do now, they arc so wet?"
Bays the captain, "tako the dry one ?" And
the young lady did and she married him.
MILLIONS of massive rain drops
Have fallen oil all around ;
The) have danced on the house tops,
They've hidden in the ground.
They were liquid like musicians,
With anything for keys;
Healing tunes upon the windowe,
Keeping time upon the trees.
MUSSULMAN writers speak of an ignorant"
Arab, who, being asked how he knew any
thing about lite existence of a God, replied :
"Just as I know, by the tracks in the sand,
whether a man or beast has passed there,so,
when I survey the heavens, with its bright
slate, and the earth, with its productions, do
I (eel the existence and power o( God."
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 80, 1857.
A GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT.
Seasons of war, of eivil strife, and of pub
lic tumult, often draw forth the bat as well
as the worst qualities of human nature. The
Camas of heroea who have borne a promi
nent part in this world's struggles, who have
shed their life-blood in their country's cause,
or have dared to raise their voice in behalf
of a sovereign doomed to death by his peo
ple, have been handed down with honor to
posterity; end well it is that names sncb as
these should be immortalized. But, in life's
more hidden paths, bow many a noble deed
has been achieved, how many an act of
self-sacrifice silently performed, which will
never be known until that day when every
bidden thing shall be made manifest! It is
one of these unknown or long-forgotten he
roes whom we are now about to introduce
to our readers in the hope that his brief but
eventful history may not prove nninteresting.
Amortg the attendantaof the hapless Queen
Marie Antoinette, there was one named Val
entin. In her service he began the career of
self-devotion which he pursued through fife.
At the Tuilleries, on the fatal 21st of June,
1791, he lought in defence of his sovereign,
and was carried, wounded, from the palace.
Time passed on, and Valentin, recovered
from his wounds, sought another service.
He offered himself to the Marquis of Car
accieli, formerly Neapolitan ambassador to
the French court, but now a ruined man.—
The Marquis at first declined his services,
assuring him that his broken fortunes would
not admit of his keeping a valel; but Valen
tin seemed to feel a par.icnlar attraction to
wards this Neapolitan nobleman, and well
nigh insisted on attaching himself to his for
tunes. Evil days, however, were in store
for the once wealthy and popular ambassa
dor. Compelled by poverty to live in one
of the most crowded streets of Paris, he fell
into ill health, and during (his lime of sick
ness was unable to procure the most ordina
ry comforts, and even necessities of life.
The faithful Valentin, who, in his earlier
years, had been a turner by profession,
caused the Marquis to be removed to an airy
apartment belonging to o chairmaker in the
Faubourg St. Antoine. Here he not only
paid the rqnt of the room by working for
the landlord, but also earned euough to
maintain the suffering mister.
Day by day, however, tbe illness of Ihe
Marquis assumed a more iterious character;
increased care and more abundant nourish
ment were required by the invalid. Poor
Valentin, with a mistaken, perchanco yet
generous pride, would not make known Ihe
destitute condition of the Marquis to any
amongst his former wealthy fiiends; but
when his own earnings proved insufficient,
he appealed to the government of the day
for help; his application, however, proved
fruitless, and Carraccioli died in penury and
want.
When Valentin Blood by his mauler's
corpse, he fell as if he had nerer till then
known how dear Carrsccioli was to his heart.
He could not endure the thought that this
nobleman, ol illustrious name and ancient
lineage, should be committed to a pauper's
grave. He accordingly hastened to a notary,
sold, for the sum of £l2, a small properly
which he had purchased with the ravings of
hie earlier years, discharged the few debts
contracted during the illness of Carraccioli,
and with the remainder of this sum, paid
lor the unpretending funeral of the once
honored ambassarlot of Naples.
About this time, Madame Junot, Duchess
of Abrantes, was setting up her establish
ment on her return front Lisbon, whither she
had accompained her hnsband on an em
bassy to the Portuguese, court. A good old
Abbe who had become acquainted with Val
entin, and knew the generous self-devotion
he had manifested toward his late master,
mentioned the circumstances of his past his
tory to Madame d'Abianles, and the very
next day he was engaged in ber service.
The heart of the faithful servant was quick
ly won by the sympathixing interest with
with which his new mistress listened to his
recital of the wrongs and misfortunes of the
Marquis, and his gratitude knew no bounds
when she erected a movement over his mas
ter's tomb.
In ibis happy servitude, time passed quick
ly with Valentin, until, in the year 1804, he
inherited a small property in his native pro
vince. He was then about fifty-five years of
age, and Madame Jnnol, on learning his un
expected good fortune, congratulated him on
being now in a position to retire from the
service, and settle in a house of his own,
with a modest competence.
" Do you, then, intend to dismiss me
from your service, madame?" exclaimed
Val'entin in a sorrowful tone.
"Dismiss you! My poor Valentin, why,
what or. earth could put such an idea into
your head ?" exclaimed Madame Junot.
" I thought my lady spoke of going away."
"I only congratulated you on the prospect
of being henceforth your own master," re
joined theDucbess; 'but if you are not dispos
ed to enjoy your liberty, that is no business of
mine, and certainly, it yon wait for me to
dismiss you, you will remain with me forev
er.
Not long after this conversation, Junot hav
ing incurred the Emperor's displeasure, was
superseded as Governor of Paris, and sent to
command at Arras. This change of position
of coarse involved some alteration in domes
tic arrangements, and many attendants were
dismissed from the serviee of the Duke. To
Valentin, however, was defied the confi
dential post of superintending the establish
ment which Madame d'Abrantes still main
tained in Paris. He was chosen for this
post as being one in whose integrity the
moit abiolute unit might be repoied. Mad
ame d'Abrantea wa therefore mnch sun
prised, on the eve of her depanore for Ar
ras, to see Valentin enter the apartment with
an air of deep agitation. His countenance
was pale as death, and when he attempted
to speak, his voice faltered, and it seemed as
thongh he conld not otter a word. Ur.able
to conceive the cause of his distress, Mad
ame d'Abrantes said, in a soothing lone:
"I hope, Valentin, yoo are not vexed at be
ing left behind in Paris; yon know it can't
be helped; the Duke and I chose you for
this post on account of the unbounded confi
dence we plaoe in your integrity."
"Oh, no, Madame, it is not that," faltered
forth the poor man; "1 know that it is right
that I should stay; indeed, I should have
asked leave to say, even if your grace had
not oommanded me to do so. It is not that;
it is that peo| le say my lord and lady are in
disgrace with the First Consul, just as my
poor old master was in disgrace with the
Neapolitan court, and my lord and lady are
going to take the children with them; it will
be an expensive journey; and just at this
moment the general has had such heavy ex
penses, this must take him by surprise. In
short, Madame, forgive me, but 1 have been
to M. Tricard, the notary, and I asked him
for my money, without telling him my rea
son for wanting it; and here it is. If my
lord and lady will only be so good as to use
it just as though it were their own."
"Never," exclaims Madame Junot in her
Memoirß—"never can I forget this moment;
it is graswn upon my heart rather than upon
my memory, and time can never efface it.—
Had I needed the money, the recollection
that Valentin was my own servant would not
have caused me to hesitate for a moment in
accepting his generous offer. 1 iell that his
noble conduct through life had raised him to
an equality with myself—to the highest rank
in the social scale."
Junot himself had entered the apartment
while this conversation was going on be
tween the faithful Valentin and iiis mistress
He listened in silence to the generous offer
of this noble hearted man. who was not
even aware of his presence. But when Val
entin laid upon the table the four bags, con
taining his 3,700 francs—his little earthly all
—the kihri hearted General could no longer
contain himself, but, stepping forward, clasp
ed the worthy valet to his heart, as though
he hao been bis own brother. To Valentin's
great sorrow, however, M. and Madalnc
d'Abraotes declined the pofTered sum, ol
which, in fact, they did not in the slightest
degree stand in need. He seemed, however,
so deeply pained by their refusal of his ofTer,
that at last Juuot exclaimed: "Well, Valen
tin, I will ta' e your money, but only on one
condition—my man of business shall pay
you 10 per cent for it so long as you live."
This condition was faithfully fulfilled; but
upon the death of the Duke, Valentin, know
ing his master's property to be incumbered
with debts, insisted upon ot receiving more
than 5 per cent, interest for his money.—
Madame d'Abrantes knew him 100 well to
grieve his faithful heart by pressing the mat
ter any further in this her own hour of dis
tress; but, on the return of the Bourbons, she
told his history to the Duchess nf Angouleme
who bestowed upon him a pension ol £5O a
year, in consideration of the rervice he had
rendered to the Queen Marie Antoinette in
1791.
About this time Valentin's health becom
ing enfeebled, he retired from the service of
Madame d'Abrantes, and eeuled at Hellville.
Here he lived to a good old age, beloved and
respected by all who knew him, and hiving
nobly earned, in the course of his eventful
life, the honorable title of a "good and faith
ful servant."
Cheap Machinery.
The great public want in regard to ma
chinery just now, is that it should be cheap
ar.d simple in its construction. Every odd
and uncouth contrivance, every difficult and
unaccountable motion which the ingenuity
of man can devise, seems to be worked into,
or hitched on to much of the machinery of
the present day, and the machine using pub
lic are groaning under a complication of
cams, spur wheels, eccentrics, &c., too tedi
ous to enumerate, and decidedly too much
so to be either profitable or convenient. All
these superfluous attachments the users have
to pay for—once in bard cash, once in pow
er to operate them, and several times more
by keeping them in working order. The
best thing inventors can now do for the pub
lic is to simplify and perfect what has al
ready been invented. The man who eo
simplifies a plow or a wagon that it shall
be equally useful at a dollar less cost, is a
greater public benefactor than he who in
vebts a complicated machine capable of
wonderful performances and Unheard-of ex
ploits.
The engineer who by a simple devico
gives a slide valve a prompt, variable cut-ofl
motion, that is efficient and cheap, is emi
nently more entitled to our thanks than the
man who invents an absolutely perfect con
densation of sleam, that can only be used
at the expense of maintaining a dozen cofn
motions. A serviceable moving machine
that could be made for 820 would be a
greater success than one which would cost
81000, and do twice its work.
Let us have, then, simple inventions.—
Throw out an extra shaft here and a com
pound lever there, and so arranged the re
maining parts as to make them perform the
work. Let us see how much can be got rid
of, and yet have all that wo need.— Lift lUus
traltd.
Tratb and Klgbt God and onr Country.
GOING HOME WITH A GIRL.
"Jeems," the local editot of the Bald
winsTille Gurelle, la something of a wag.
In a racent number of (bat paper be gives
an account of "the first time he ever went
home with a girl," which ia certainly the
richest thing we have ever seen. As he
thought proper to chronicle it for the edifica
tion of the public, we give it the benefit ol
our circulation:
We were between sixteen and seventeen
years of age when the event about to be re
lated transpired and as a description of our
personal appearance of that lime ia absolutely
assential to the point of our atory, we will
give it as concisely as the subject will allow.
In reference, then to that period, to say that
we were green in the usual acceptation of
that term, would give the reader but a poor
idea of the; figure we displayed. Rather
imagine a tall, lean, cadaverous, swarthy
looking chap, with legs like a pair of tongs,
a countenance about as expressive as a plate
of Dutch cheese, a mouth that came very
near making an island of all the head above
it, a face, covered with a furze that looked
very much like the down on a newly hatob
ed goslin, with a gait that would lead the
beholder to conclude that we designed to
travel down both sides of the street at the
same lime, and you have a correct daguer
reotype of "Jeems" in the seventeenth year
of his age.
One dark gloomy night in the month ol
I December, we chanced to beat a "spelling
school," not a thousand miles from Baldwin
ville, where our eyes fell on a "fairy form"
that immediately our susceptible heart
in a Hate. She was sixteen or thereabouts,
with bright eyes, red cheeks and cherry lips,
while the auburn ringlets clustered in a
wealth of profusion around her beautiful
head, and her person to our ravished imagi
nation, was more perfect in lorm and out
line. than the most faultless statue ever chis
eled by the eculptors's art. As was gazed,
our feelings, which never before aspired girl
ward, were lully aroused, and we determin
ed to go home with her that night or perish in
the attempt. As soon, therefore, as school
was dismissed, and our "lady love" suitably
bonoetted and cloaked, we approached to
ofTer our services as contemplated, and wc
then learned an important lesson, viz: the
diffetcnce between resolving and doing. As
we neared her we were seized with a parti
al blindness—red, green, blue, and yellow
lights flashed upon our vision and appeared
ar.d disappeared like witches in phantasma
goria—our knees smote together liko Bol
shazzet's when he discovered the handwri
ting on the wall, while our heart thumped
with apparently as much force as if it were
driving ten-penny nails into our ribs. We
in the mean time, managed to mumble over
something which is perhaps known to the
Recoidtng Angel, but certainly is not to us,
at the same lime polking out our elbow as
nearly at right angles with our body as our
physical conformation would admit.
The night air blew keenly which served
in some sort to revive us, and as our senses
returned, what were our emotions on find
ing the cherished object of our first love,
clinging to our arm with all the tenacity a
drowning man is said to clutch at a straw!
Talk ofelysian,or sliding down greased rain
bows, or feeding on German flutes, what
are sich 'phelinks' in comparison to those
mighty ones that swelled our bosom tiiglt
unto the bursting of our waiscoat buttons.
Our happiness was sublime, sublimity, sub
limely, sublimated, and every person who has
ever felt the divine throbbing of a fledged
love principle, fully understands the world
of bliss couohed in the fourth, fifth, sixth
and seventh words at the commencement of
this sentence.
Well, we passed on pleasantly towards
our Sally's home, talking of love and dove,
and dart and part,' until, so courageous had
we become, that actually proposed 'to go in
and sit awhile,' to which our Dalcinoc very
graciously assented. Alas, for us I how
soon were we lobe reminded that the'course
of Irne love never did run smooth.'
Sally had a brother of some ten summers,
who accompanied us along the way, and
who was in wonderful hight spirits at the
idea of his sister's having a bean, and he
would walk around us frequently, giggling
in the height of his glee, and eyeing us as
closely as if ourself and Sally were the world
reoowced Siamese twins, and he was ta
king his first look. Bill, by the way, was a
stubbon, chuckle-headed boy, whose habili
ments would have made the forluue of any
two dealers in mob-rags.
At length we reached the bars, and while
we were letting them down, Bill shot past us,
and tore for the house as if pursued by a
thousand bulls of Basham.—He flung open
the door with a bang, and exclaimed at the
top of bis voice—
" Motherl Mothetl Jim C'lark u cumin Aunt
with Sal 1"
"Is he ?" screamed the old woman in reply,
' 'teal I declare I I didn't Hunk Hu tap-head
kiuw enough t"
SIGNS or PROSPERITY. —The following is a
very good evidence of good times:
Where spades grow bright and idle words
grow dolt—
Where jails ase empty, and where barns are full;
Where church-paths are with frequent foot
steps worn;
Law court yards weedy, silent and forlorn—
Where doctors fool it, and where farmers ride;
Where age abounds and youth is mulliplied-
Where these signs are, '.bey clearly indicate
A happy people and a well soveraed State.
The Philadelphia Daily Itm, which
ceased to exist a few days ago, sunk 580,000
for its publishers. So much for Republican
ism
The Unemployed--A Horrible Case-
A Quaker lady, residing in Philadelphia,
was recently visited by a little girl who aaid
her father was veiy sick and was not expect
ed to live, and that she and the rest of a
large family that waa dependent upon him
foraupport, were in a elate of destruction.—
She begged that the lady would give her suf
ficient money at least to pttrcbsse the medi
cine which had been prescribed for her fath
er, and which might probably save his life.
The kind-hearted Quakeress gave her S8 00,
and the little girl with tsars of thankfulness
murmured her gratitude and departed. A
few days after, she returned with a counte
nance more wan and sorrow-stricken than
before, to tell her benefactress that her fath
er waa dead; all the money which she had
received had been expended for a coffin and
shrnud, and she had nothing left to the fur
ther expenses of her father's funeral. The
generous lady gave her slo,and went nmong
her friends and collected $8 more for her,
and then went with her to her wretched
abode where she found the family wringing
their hands and uttering loud lamentations over
tbe body nf which lay in a coffin placed on
two chains in the center of the room The
lady, who was unused to such scenes of
woe, and was greatly afiected by what she
saw, hurriedly dtew forth her purse, and
gave a portion of its contents to the little
girl with a promise of further assistance, and
hastily left the room. When she reacted
the fool of the crazy stairs, which she had
ascended to the squalid apartment above, she
discovered that she had forgotten her purse.
She went tip immediately, and as noiseless
as possible that she might not distuib the
sacred grief of the sorrow-stricken family.—
What was her surprise and horror on enter
ing ihe room lo perceive ihe oorpso silting
upright in its shroud, eagerly counting the
gold which she had left behind her, nnnonn
| cing the result in tones which Bounded morn
' like those of robust health than the eepul
chvol account* of an inmate (almost) of the
tombs, {ihe contemplated for a moment
this phase of humanity, and then departed
as noiselessly as she had returned.
MORE AUDACITY. —The following letter, ev
idently intended for "the retired physician"
was found in our box. The owner can have
it by "proving properly, and pa> ingcharges:"
KONEY FORT Orgust 28 1857.
DOCTOR H JAMES
I eee by youra advur
lisement in the nuze papers (lint your sands
of life have nearly run out. I had no idee
sand was so skeerce in youre naiborbood.
we have hav gut a big iland liere about two
mites long where eny kwan'.ity of sand ken
be dug up & it is ewsed very exter.cuve for
bilding purpurea, if You ore most out i
wood like to gel a order to ship you sum
moore very cheep, the sand is not so fine
maybee as sum you have ceen. but if you
will blow in the nuzepapers & get theeddi
tnrs to say it is good, it wood do fust rato.—
How much wood you ew6 in a yore. Si how
much wood you give a hogshead for it and
you pay the frail.
yours Respectlully
H Bugg Sanders
Nashville.
P. S. whi jont you save the sand utter, it
runs out & ews it agarie.
P S If you wood micks scm mulases
with the sand it woodont run so fast.
H. B. S.
NELLY'S ADVICE TO GIIILS.
Girls, you want to get married, don't you?
Ah, what a natural thing it is for young la
dies to have Buch a hunkering for the sterner
sex- Well if you want to gel marriod, don 'l
for conscience sake, act like fools about it.
Don't get into a fit of nips every time you
see a hat or a pair of whiskers. Don't get
the idea into your heads that you must put
yourself into the way of every young man
in the neighborhood in order to attract no
tice, for if you don't run after the men, they
will run after you. Mark that.
A husband hunter is the most detestable
of all young ladies. She is full of starch
puckers ; she puts on many false airs, and
she is so nice that it appears ridiculous in
the eyes of every decent person. She may
generally be found at the meeting, coining
in, of course, about the last one, always at
social parties, and invariably takes a front
seat at concerts. She tries to be the belle
of <he place, and she thinks she is. Poor
girl! You are fitting yourself for an old
maid, just as sure as the Sabbath come on
Sunday. Men will flirt with you, and flatter
you simply because they have no more idea
of making a wife of you than committing
suicide. If 1 was a young man I would have
no more to do with such a fancy than 1 would
with a rattlesnake.
Now, girls, let Nelly givo a piece of her
advice, end she knows from experience if
you practice it you will gain a reputation of
being worthy girls, sod stand a fair chance
of getting respectable husbands, ft is well
enough for you to learn to finger the piano,
work embroidery, study grammar, etc., but
don't neglect poor grandma or your dear
mother; teach yourself to make bread and
get a meal of victuals good enough for a
king; no part of a housekeeper's duties
should be neglected; if you do not get a
wealthy husband, you will need to know
bow to do these things, as you would have
them done. In the next place, don't pretend
to be what you are not. Aflectation is the
most despcable of accomplishments, and
will only cause sensible people to laugh at
you. No one but a fool will be caught by
aflectation, it has a very transparent rkiu,
easily to be seen through
Dress plain, but neatly. Remember that
nothing gives a girl so modest, becoming,
and lovely appearance as a neat dress. All
the flummery and (inset work of the dress
maker and milliner are unnecessary.
If yoo are really handsome, they do not
add to your beauty one particle; if yon are
homely, they only taake you look worse.
Gentlemen don't court your facet and jewel
ry but your own dear selves.
Finger rings and folderols may do to look
at, but they add nothing to the value of a
wife—all young men know,! that. If you
know how to talk, do it naturally, and do
r.ot be so distressingly nice as to spoil all you
say. If your neck is black, wear a lace col
lar, but don't be foolish enough to daub on
paints, thinking that people are so blind as
not to see it; and if your cheeks are rosy,
don't apply pink saucers, for the deception
will be detected, and become the gossip of
the neighborhood.
Book-keeping by Doable Entry,
Listen to what a writer from Philadelphia
has to say concerning book-keeping by
double entry,:
'' There is another little kink connected
with this subject, 1 refer to tho ralhor queer
manner in which various institutions fall
through, and yet show a clear and squarely
kept set of books. You remember that in
the recent examination of Stephen Bronson,
Jr., charged with defrauding the Chicago
Bank, of whifh he was cashier, Juilgp Wil
son, who was among the victims, gave the
following testimony: I
"Have never examined the books to as
certain in regard to tho accounts. Witness
would not attempt any such thing. He re
garded the plan of keeping books by double
entry, as a scheme for swindling. False
entries could be made, and the best of book
keepers could not delect them. Witness
would as soon undertake to work tho most
difficult problem in fluxions or conic sec
tions, as to unravel tho mysteries of double
entry. If the book show a balance for Bron
son, tliey are wrong, that's all; and if the
people can bo swindled in this way, the
double entry system should bo abolished by
statute. There is a good deal of truth in all
this. The more books in a bank, tho greater
is the chance for forgery and robbery.
Book-keeping by double entry is an im
mense humbug. All our heavy defalcations
take place under this sort of liocuspocus
about Cash Dr. to Sundries and Sundries Dr.
to Cash. Money, Specie, Cash Items and
Bullion are so divided and subdivided that
nobody but the man who keeps them can
tell whether tho ledger has "busted" the
day book, or the day book "busted" tho
stockholders. Tho Central Railroad was
done out of 855,000 by double entry. Tire
Canal Bank, of the State of New York, was
ruined by double entry. Cash Items and
Bills Receivable were so mixed up that, as
you remember, Receiver White came near
being made cross eyed in his attempts to
straighten out matters. The fact is, in all
cases, the more simplicity the more cer
tainty. Tho longer you make a will ordced
the moro is the probability that thore will be
flaws in it. Queer business, thisbook keep
ing and finance, isn't it V
A DIVISION OF TEXAS.—A suluiivision of
Texas into two or more Stales, is warmly
advocated by some of the leading public
journals. No Stale in the Uniou bus in
creased in population and wealth more rap
idly within the last few years, than Texas.
Her estimated population at this limo amounts
to more than hall a million, and when the
next census is taken, it will be found suffi
cient lo entitle the State to six or seven rep
resentatives in Congress. Several reasons
are given for a division. Ttie great size of
the State, the great dissimilarity of its parts,
and the difficulty of constant communication
between all Darts, and one centre of govern-
I ment, are among the chief of them. The
| general political reason is the impoitance of
increasing the strength ol the South in the
U. S. Senule, by the addition of more Sena
tors, to check the increasing predominance
of the nor.slaveholdirig Stales, from thegrowtb
of free-soil Stales in ihe North-west. The
division of Texas into not more than four
Slates is provided for by tliarticles of annex
ation, and the woik will no doubt be con
summated in ihe course of a few years.
THAT TISTOL.—An Irishman, driven to dee
potation by the stringency of the money mar
ket and the high price of provisions, procured
a pistol and took tho road. Meeting a trav
eler, lie stopped him with " Your money or
your lile !"
Seeing that Pat was green, he said :
" I'll tell you what I'll do; I'll give you all
my money for that pistol."
" Agreed," said Pal.
Pat took the money and banded over the
pistol.
" Now," said the traveler, "hand back that
money, or I'll blow your brains out."
"Blizzard away, my hearty!" said Pal,
"divil the drap of powlher there's in it,
sure I"
HTTho total number of failures in New
York city since the first of Angust, is about
000, at;d the liabilities are estimated at nine
ty millions.
It is said that the American engineers,
who engaged to raise the sunken ships in
the harbor of Sebastapol, have abandoned
tho enterprise, on account of its enormous
expense.
The city of New York expends daily
1 810,000 on cigars, atid 8,000 on bread
[Two Dollars per Annua.
NUMBER 51.
Science and tbe Mechanic Aria.
Tnx PLANET URANUS affords one of the roost
marvellous illustrations of tbe vastness of the
astral system and of the advancement of
modern astronomical science. Though not
visible to the naked eye, rqniring a certain
degree of magnifying power to render it viai
hie as t very small siar, it ia no less than 35,-
000 miles in diameter, or more than eighty
limes the size of onr globe. It contains a
mass of matter, as to bulk, more than twenty
limes larger than what is contained in Mercu
ry, Venus, the Earth, the Moon, Mars, Veati,
June, Ceres and Pallas. Its distance from ihe
sun ia no less than eighteon hundred millions
of miles. To reach ihe nearest point of It*
orbit, a cannon ball, plying from the earth lo
that direction at the rate of five hundred
miles an hour, would require a period of three
hundred and ninety years. It moves round
the sun in the space of eighty-foor years, io
an orbit of eleven thousand millions of miles
in circumference. In consequence of its
great distance, r.o discoveries have bean
made on itssurfare ; no spots have been seen
to indicate a rotation, and therefore the peri
od of its revolution round its axis is unknown,
ft is somewhat remarkable, that satellites of
ibis planet, instead of moving from west to
east, or in the direction of all the other plan
ets and satellites, have their orbits nearly al
right angles to the ecliptic, and movo in a di
rection from east lo west.
I'RINTH or FLOWERS, plants and other sim
itar objects, can be obtained in great perfee
(ion by a very simple process. Tbe mode of
operation is as follows:—The original being
passed between a copper plate and a lead
plate, through two rollers closely screwed to
gether, its image, by means of ibe pressure,
is left, with all its peculiar delicacies, on the
lead plate. If the colors are applied to this
stamped lead plate, os in printing on copper
plate a copy in the most varying hues, and
bearing a striking resemblance to the origi
nal, cau be obtained. II a large number of
copies are required, which the IeSS form, on
accouul of its softness, is htcapablo of fur
nishing, it is stereotyped, if intended to be
printed at a typographical press; or galvan
ized, if at a copper-plate prees, and tbe im
pressions are then taken from the stereotyped
or galvanized plate, exhibiting great beauty of
appearance.
AN INVENTION is chronicled, applicable to
such power looms lor weaving*checked or
fancy goods of any description, wherein mo
vable tiers of shuttle-boxeß are employed for
the purpose of brtnging the various shuttles
to tho level of the shuttle race, as the pattern
may require. Tho main feature consists in
regulating tho changes of the shuttles by
means of the ordinary jacquard machine.—
The pattern cards passing over the ordinary
jacquard cylinder are so arranged as to act
upon sliding bsrs or other suitable means,
which withdraw detaining catches, so as to
allow the tier of the shuttle-boxes to descend,
or which put into action other moving catch
es, so connected with the shuttle moving ap
paratus as to cause the tier of sbtnile-hoxas
to asceud, according as the various weft
threads may be required to form tbe pat
tern.
GUTTA PERCHA is so good an insulator, and
becomes so powerfully electrified by friction,
that these properties of a substance, already
applied to so many uses, could not long re
main unknown. A good piece of gutta per
cha insulates as perfectly as a similar piece
of shellac, whether the form bo that of a plate,
a rod, or a mere thread ; but, as it is lough
and pliable when ccld, as well as soft when
warm, it serves a better purpose, in many
cases, than tho brittle shellac. By this fric
tion, gotta percha becomes powerfully nega
tive. Some of it is made in sheets no thick
er than ordinary paper; rf a strip of this be
drawn between ihe fingers, it becomes so
much electrified that it adheres to the hand
and attracts bits of paper. A plate of gutta
percha makes an excellent elactropborus.—
All kinds, however, are not equally good in
sulators— a fact to be borne in mind when
employing it in electrical experiments, end
for practical purposes of a similar ntture.
Lite in India.
Traveling in India is ofteu fraught wiib dan
gers rather dtlierem from those in Kngland.—
For instance when crosaiug rivera in a bul
lock batidy, it ii not at all uncommon, wheo
about the m iddle, for one or both to he down,
and thus upset the bandy; or sometimes ac
cidentally pop down into a bole, and frigh
ten you terribly. All these little catastroph
ies wc have frequently experienced; but
through the lender cere of our God, bare
never suffered seriously.
On one occasion when traveling in a pal
anquiu, I stopped in a bungalow lo get some
refreshments, and told the hearer to lake out
the mattrass and pillows, and make it com
fortable for us the remainder of the journey.
They did so, and 10 my horror I saw a live
snake coiled up under the second pillow, and
as warm and comfortable as possible. It had
traveled with us thirty-five miles sad from
being unconscious of its nearness, fell uo tear.
Had we been restless, and disturbed it, the
that it would have stung; bat,
not boitig roused it remained asleep, and
thus wo were most providentially preserved
from harm. I confess I felt a little nervous
at getting in again, lest where there was one,
thero might be another; but it was not so;
and we arrived at N'egmpatam in safsty.
On another occasion, when resting in a
little mud-thatched church, and half asleep,
I saw a snake hanging Irom Ihe roof, and
just over my mattrass. We bad only a little
native lamp, aud for some time I watched
the creature, thinking it was merely • piece
of rope or thatch, but when I gradually aaw
it descend, 1 was convinced it was alive, aud
directly got up, and without much ceremony,
' had it dispatched.— A Missionary'' Wife.