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From Life Illustrated.
MORNING.
Morn again, with golden pencil,
Tints the curtain of the east;
And again, in robes of tinsel,
Slandeth at her holy chancel,
Making ready for the feast!
Gently flushing,
Gently blushing,
Like a bride before the priest!
Oh ! what holy thoughts come o'er us,
As we drink the morning's balm 1
As we view the fields before us—
As we join the pleasant chorus
Of the morning's holy psalm !
As we wamier,
As we ponder,
(; In the morning's blessed calm.
Thoughts of other happy hours
Come to us with memories rife;
And again we seek the bowers
Where we used to gather flowers
In the morning march of life !
Memories greet us,
Pleasures meet us,
Vet unstained by care or strife.
Oh ! how much of life is wasted
In this so-called world of bliss ;
How much pleasure-gain is blasted—
How much happiness untasted—
How much pleasure do we miss, I
Jut by keeping
Dull eyes sleeping
Such a holy morn as this f
Happy ! happy ! blessed morning !
May my soul retain the view ;
Ere the evening-lamps are burning,
May the holy-picture warning,
Teach me to begin anew !
Guide me cheerful,
Make me prayerful,
Till life's pilgrim-day is through 1
A STRING SONG.
BV B. r. TAYLOR.
The miracle of Spring is begining.— Leaf
less indeed, stand the great woods, and
shivering in the cool wind. The joints of
rheumatic oaks creak dismally and there
is a moan in the maples; the skeleton or
chards are brown and gray upon the south
ern slopes, but the snn is shining, and the
clock of time ticks in the heart of April.
A January fire rolls and roars up the
chimney's capacious throat in the evenings,
but.the birds are abroad, and their songs are
in all the air.
Hardly a whisp of hay remains in the
broad deep bay of the barn, and the cows
decline to give down, and the lambs are
going where the good lambs go, though the
lilacs are budding and the willows have
fringed the streams with green.
How full of the dear old music of sum
mer, are wood,and orchard, and field. Even
the great empty barn, with its ribs of oak,
is a twitter with Swallows, which dart in
and out of the diamond doors in the gable,
and the mud plastered cottages that are
built along the rafters.
The Robins are singing the self same
songs they sung a thousand jears ago, and
the Lincties are untarnished and golden as
ever. Down by the marsh, the. Bobolinks
are ringing their little bells, and swinging
to and fro upon the little bushes that sway
in the wind.
The brown Thrushes aro building their
nests in ihe fence corner, and the heaps of
brush; a Baltimore Oriole flickered like a
flake of fire through the garden, this mor
ning and drifted away behind the barn ;
we frightened up a poor Whip-poor will
yesterday, from among the the withered
leaves, and we found a blue-bird's nest be
gun, in a hollow stump in the pasture
A little gray couple are busy building in
a cleft of the bar-post, and a small Trogan
in Speckled jacket is about to begin house
keeping in llie loaded end of the well
eweep, that goes up forty times a day, and
cotnes down with a bang. Why didn't the
little idiot take up his quarters in the bucket.
The other day, John hung his jacket upon
the fence, and this morning he shook out a
nest from one of the pockets.
There is singing every-where ; from tho
tuft of gray grass, there comes a small tune
of two notes and a rest, and then two more;
from the second rail of the fence, a gush of
melody ; from the roof-ridge, a soto ; from
the depths of tho air, as of angel calling un
to angel. The birds and the buds make it
yApril, aud April it shall be.
MISTAKE.— The town ol Horicos,
is in a state of excitement—a
I9MB case having almost taken place
appears that one of the citizens—
a of high social position—had
made to meet her in her own
room in the morning. To
avoid mounted an out-house,
climbing upofljttjgiof of a back building,
raised the tn and beheld
the ladies husband iiwji— be being sick
had not gone out. was not
pleasant to either especially
as the 10 o'clock no good
reason for entering a by the
window, and his position forbid
the idea that his object wasf^^HL^
4 BLOOMSBURG; COLUMBIA COIJNTYTPA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1859.
A TOUGHING STOGY.
THE WIDOW'S SON.
Few were the youths throughout the king
dom of Prussia that were allowed to stay at
home in the eventful year of 1813. A war,
more terriabfe, more vindictive than any
one that had ever visited the continent of
Europe, was raging through the land, and
the country could spare none of its defend
ers. Also the king had called his people to
arms by means of that famous proclamation,
which will be considered for evermore as
one of the noblests documents in German
history. They were true to the call—old
and young; they left their homes, rushed to
the colors, took up arms, and never laid
them down tdl they had driven the enemy
under the walls of Paris.
The inhabitants of Silesia, well-known
for their loyalty and patriotism, had not
stood behind,amidst the general enthusiasm.
There was not a family in the province that
had not contributed its contingent to the na
tional affair, and many a heart was throb
bing painfully, whenever a new intelligence
was spread of another of those dreadful bat
tles, which, by riding the country from an
odious enemy, threw sorrow and affliction
upon many a quiet and peaceful home.
On a sultry summer evening, in the year
before mentioned, an old woman was sit
ting before her humble cottage in the little
Sdesiam village of Burnheim. She had put
the distaff aside, and was reading the Bible,
which lay opened on her knees. Whilst
she was reading the holy words in an under
tone to herself, her ears caught the sound of
quick footsteps, and a long shadow emerg
ed from behind the cottage. Tho old wo
man trembled violently ; the moment after
wards her uplifted eyes fall upon the figure
of a handsome and well-made lad in milita
ry attire.
"How are yott, mother?"
She arose, and threw her trembling arms
around his neck. "God be thanked, my boy (
that I see thee again ! But how pale and
haggard thou lookest/' She went on; after
a pause ! "To be sure, thou must be very
tired, and hungry too !"
She led him in the room to the old arm
chair, and urged him to sit down and repose
himself a little, whilst she herself would
prepare him some supper.
"What did he like best? Should she
make him an omelet, or roast a chicken ?
Oh, it was no trouble at all ? Dear me, how
could he talk of trouble ? she was but too
glad to do anything for her own dear boy.
Yes, she would go and get him a chicken."
The old woman, all bustle and activity,
left the room.
The youth did not betray so much pleas
ure at this hearty reception from his aged
parent, as might have been expected. He
was restless, and ill at ease: it seemed as if
something was heavily weighing upon his
heart; and when his wandeiirig eye fell
upon the portrait of his deceased father,
which was hanging right over the chimney
piece, presenting that worthy gentlemen in
the staff uniform worn by the king's garde
de corps half a century ago, he felt as if the
old sergeant waR looking at him with a grim
frown upon his honest countenance; just as if
he experienced ahearty inclination to stepout
of his worm eaten, rosewood frame, to seize
the old knotted hazelstick in the corner,
with the brass knob at top, and to apply it to
the back of his offspring for half an hour
or so ; as, in fact, he had been in the habit
of doing, many a day in his lifetime, some
eight or ten years ago. His restless son felt
so much overcome by this latter reflection
that, when the old woman came bustling in
again, after the lapse of some minutes, with
the chicken under her apron, she found her
own dear boy with his head in his hands,
leaning listlessly upon the table.
He sat up when she came in, but did not
look at her. The old woman became atten
tive. In the joy of her heart, she had never
thought yet of asking him any questions
except those concerning his appetite. Now,
it began to strike her that the present period
was rather a strange time for a soldier to be
on leave of absence.
"Churles !"—No answer.
Tito old woman trembled violently. She
dropped her burden, and walked straight
up to him. Her honest wrinkled counten
ance was full of anxiety and apprehension.
Looking him full in the face, and clapping
her hands together, she cried out in agony :
"So help me God, Charles you are a deser
ter !"
"I couldn't stand it any longer, mothor,"
uttered her wretched son, in a broken voice,
byway of apology.
"You couldn't stand it !" said the old
woman, exasperated beyond measure; "you
couldn't stand it! and hundreds of thousands
of your brethren do ! Fy, for shame and
with her old, honest, trembling hand, she
gave him a smack on the face.
"Mother!" exclaimed the young man
starting up, with the blood rushing to his
iace.
"Fy, for shame !" she went on, without
heeding him in the least, "to bring such
disgrace upon the whole village ! What
would he say !"—she pointed to where the
old warrior was hanging over the chimney
piece, whose stern countenance, illuminated
by the rays of the evening sun, seemed in
deed to assume an unusual expression of
solemn indignation. "Sit down, I say! you
—deserter! It shall not be said that your
dead father's house, in the village of Buru
heim, is a place of refuge for runaways,
whilst the whole country was up in arms !
Dou't you stir sir ! I'll be back in a min
ute and with this, the brave old woman
left the room, looking the door after her.
She was not alone when she came . back
about half an hour afterwards ; the coun
try parson, the schoolmaster, the country
judge, and a half a dozen more of the dig
nitaries of the village, were with her. The
little room was quite full wheu all these dis
tinguished visitors had entered it. Charles
sat in the old-arm chair, quite motionless,
his face covered with both his hands.
The honest villagers had made up their
minds at once what to do with the deserter;
they looked upon his crime as an ignominy,
by which he had not only disgraced himself,
but also their community at large, and they
were not the men to put up with such an af
front. The schoolmaster, who was a poli
tician, and subscribed to a newspaper, hav
ing informed them that the head-quarters
of the commander-in-chief oi tlm army were
but about two days' march from the village,
they had resolved at once to escort him
thither. The Judge proclaimed the young
man a prisoner in the name of his majesty
the king, and called upon him to follow him
to a place of security for the night, as on the
following morning they would in a body con
vey him to his Excellency the field-marshal.
General Bluchor. He rose, and followed
them without opposition. When they were
all gone, the old woman took up the Holy
Scriptures once more ; but it was in vain
that she strove to read ; her eyes grew dim
and the letters were all swimming confus
edly before them, so she put it down -and
wept bitterly.
Early on the following morning, a strange
procession was seen emerging from the lit
tle village of Burnheim—four old peasants
escorting one young soldier. The country
judge, with grave air marched a head of them,
whilst the schoolmaster, who had obstinate
ly insisted upon accompanying tho expedi
tion brought up the rear. The prisoner,
with downcast eyes and fallen countenance,
was walking between the two other patriots;
and as he had pledged his word not to make
any attempt at flight, they had consented to
leave his hands untied. When the expedi
tion, after a day's march, put up for the
night in a small hamlet, they were told that
all the villages around were crammed with
Frenchmen, so they were obliged to take a
long roundabout way ; and it was not be
fore the morning of the fifth day after their
departure, that they reached head quarters.
"Where is the residence of the comman
der-in-chief?" asked they of one of tho or
dinance officerSjAvhowere galloping through
the streets in every direction.
"Why, in tl.o chateau, to bo sure, whore
the two huzzars were mounting guard, on
horseback "
When they had entered the yard, they
were not in the least discouraged at the
sight of whole scores of adjutants, and or
derly-officers of every rank and arm, all of
whom seemed to have some urgent business
with the commander-in-chief for no sooner
had any of them been dispatched, than he
was seen mounting again and tearing away
with his horse's belly to the ground. It never
entered their heads tor one moment that the
general might consider their own business
to be of somewhat smaller importance, al
though the schoolmaster argued fromwhathe
saw that something of consequence wasgoing
011 just now. The worthy man was right so
far ; the commander-in-chief was about to
give battle on the following day. When
they had been waiting patiently for a couple
of lio'irs, and began to feel somewhat hun
gry, the country judge, conscious of the im
portance of Ins mission, ventured at last to
accost ore of the officers of the general's
stafT, who was passing by with a packet of
sealed letters in his hand ; but that haMy
functionary did not even stop to give ear to
the address of the head man of the rural
deputation, but merely grumbled something
about the propriety of their going to Jetico—
or further.
Our worthy inhabitants of Burnheim,how
ever, were not the men to give way so soon,
and renewed the charge accordingly.. This
time it was a middle-aged man, with a be
nevolont countenance, whom they made ac
quainted with their request, to see the field
marshal on most urgent business.
"Why, they had chosen their time rather
badly, indeed ; the general was extremely
busy. Couldn't one ol the secretaries do as
well 1"
"By no means they must see the general
himself."
"Was it an information concerning the
enemy which they wanted to deliver ?"
"O no ; something much more important
—fropi fiurnheim," added the school master.
The middle-aged officer with the benevo
lent countenance, laughed, and said he
would try. After the lapse of about half an
hour, he camo back, and beckoned them to
follow. They were ushered into an ante
room, and directed to wait lor his Excellon
cy.
The door opened after another half houi's
waiting, and an old man, with gray hairs,
iron cut features, and bright eyes, entered
the room; it was the commander, Old Fath
er Blucher, as the soldiers called him.—
The country judge stepped forward, and
bowiog very low, delivered the speech a
bout which he had been pondering ever
since they had left their native place, and
which, of course, he thought to be very el
oquent. He stated ail that has been told al
ready in the course of this narrative ; how
the deserter's own mother had givou infor
mation of her son's crime ; how they had
resolved at once to bring him back to head
quarters ; and concluded his address with a
hope that his Excellency would not be in
duced to think worse of their village, be
cause of one that had rendered himself un
worthy of the name of a Prussian. The
Truth and Bight tiod tiouutry.
I tears came trinkiing down ilia honest cheeks.
The general looked very grave indeed.—
I Those large bright eyes of his roamed for
an instant over his rural audience with a
strange expression. Ho knew at a glance
what sort of men they were he had to deal
with ; then his looks rested for a while on
the beut figure of the young man, who with
his downcast eyes and care worn face ap
peared the very image of misery and dejec
tion. He knew his case to be a hopeless
one ; deserting colors in time of war is a
capital crime, and Father Blucher, with his
iron will, was the last man in the world to
be trifled with.
On a sudden, the features of the old hero
assumed an expression of harshness. Turn
ing round, towards the speaker of this sin
gular deputation, he ipngh voice
and in a very abrupt niamt^t"Mr. Judge,
you are an ass."
The villagers started as if they had been
stung. After all the anxiety and trouble
they had undergone for the cause which
they considered to be a just one, they had
expected a somewhat more cordial recep
tion.
"But your Excellency"—remonstrated the
amazed dignitary.
"Hold your tongue, 1 say, you are an ass.
I know better; m Burnheim there arena run
aways. And yon, my sou," he went on,
with his iron features relenting a little, and
with that same strange expression in his
large bright eye, "you will show ihem to
morrow, on the battle-field, what a Burnheim
man can do ; you will not V'
The young man dropped down on his
knees, and was stammering a few broken
words, which the (iaieuiL did not hear,
however, for when the lad rose again with
high flushed cheeks, and sparkling eyes—a
far different man—Blucher had already left
the room.
The worthy peasants, whose perceptive I
faculties were by no means equal to their I
honesty, began at last to get a glimpse of I
the General's real meaning. The country
judge was the first to throw his cap high in
to the air, and to give three hearty cheers
for Father Blucher; who, with one single
word, had extinguished what they consider
ed a stain from their beloved village, com
forted the broken heart of a mother, and
preserved a pair of arms for the defence of
the country—arms that could not fail to do
their duty now.
When they had given vent to their enthu
siasm after their hearts' content, and taken
leave of the young rjatfc who was carried
away by an aid-de-carnp of the general's
staff., they made up their minds to buy some
provisions in the place, and to return again
to the village. They had, however, scarce
ly reached the yard, when they were over
taken by the tame middle-aged officer who
had announced them to the commander-in
chief, and asked them what in Heaven's
name they were going to do now.
"Why, going back again, to be sure. To
Burnheim, you know !" elucidated the
schoolmaster.
And did they think that his Excellency
would allow anybody to leave head quar
ters without having had a dinner first i He
had already given orders to that effect, and
they had but to (ollow the non-commission
ed officer here, who would show them the
way.
They needed not to be told twice, we
may be sure ; and were shown
into a kitchen room, where dinner was serv
ed up for them, with a bottle of wine stand
ing before each cover, they felt very grateful
to his Excellency, and very proud at the
same time, because of the honor shown to
the representatives of their viilage. But
when each of them found a double Freder
ick's d'or under his plate, their enthusiasm
burst out alresh; and many were the healths
drunk to the welfare of Old Father Blucher.
When they had all eaten and drunk their
fill, and were about to take their leave, they
fell in once more with their friend, the mid
dle-aged officer, who gave them some ad
vice concerning the best way of reaching
their village, without running any danger;
for, as he said, the coming day would be an
eventful one. He accompanied them through
the yard to the gateway, where he bade
them farewell, pointing, as he left, to one of
tho huzza re, who was flttmnlcd guard, on
horseback, before the gate.
By heavens, it was the prisoner, the boy
Charles, now fully pardoned by his Excel
lency, the commander-in-chief How proud
ha looked, with flushed cheeks and spark
ling eyes ! He dared not address them, for
he was on duly ; but he looked at them, as
to say :—"Wait, and you shall see to-mor
row !"
Nor was he faithless to his vow. On the
evening of the following day, the memora
ble 26th ot August, when the bloody victory
at Kalzbuck was gained, attd the field-mar
shal rode through the thinned ranks of his
men, who greeted him with enthusiastic
cheers, he was addressed by the command
ing officer of the 21st Huzzars; who report
ed how greatly the private Charles Fisher
had distinguished himself above all the rest,
having taken a s.andard from the enemy,
and made prisoner, \vit>*ji own hands, the
commander of the French regiment.
The field marshal stopped his horse, and
taking the iron cross from his own uniform,
and affixing it, with his own hands, to the
breast of the young man, said, with a cheer
ful voice, and the same strange expression
in his large bright eyes : —''Well done, my
son ! I knew I was right; in Burnhcim there
ure no runaways."
To some men it is indispensable lo be
worth money, for without it they would be
worth nothing.
A STUMPER STUMPED.
The subjoined anecdote of a candidate
for the Legislature of a Western State is
worth telling :
There was a stump speaker, and Abner
had been on tho platform enlightening the
utiterrified, long and londly. " Fellow citi
zens," said he, "I now come to a slanderous
report which has been most dastardly cir
culated against me, from one end of the
country to tho other. My enemies not con
tent with endeavoring to ruin my political
prospects, hare, assassin like, attempted to
blast my good name by ; their insidious re
ports." Abner then stated what the rumor
was, and continued : " 1 rejoice, my fel
low-citizens, to have it,in my power instant
ly to fasten the lie upon this malicious and
utrooious slandyr. I see one of
the most estimable citizens of the county,
whose character for truth and integrity is
above question. Squire Schooler, to whom
I allude, is acquainted with all the facts,
and I call on him here to say whether this
rumor is true or false. I pause for a reply,"
Whereupon Squire Schooler slowly arose,
and in his strong slow and senorous voice
said, " I rather think you did it, Abner 1
" Vou old scoundrel exclaimed Abner,
" why do you interrupt me while I am dis
cussing great constitutional questions with
your law personalities ?" And ho accom
panied this objugatory exclamation with
such a "surge" of gasticulation that he step
ped back beyotu'. the platform, fell back
ward on a big dog, amid the howls of which
and the deafening roars of the "sovereigns,'
the meeting was effectually broken up.
STEALING A MARCH. —Xenophon and Chi
risophus were the principal leaders of the
famous Retreat of the Ten Thousand. Chi
risophus was a Lacedemonian; and it is
well known that, among his countrymen,
stealing was not only allowed but encour
aged, provided ii was done with so much
ingenuity as not to be delected—otherwise
the thief was severely punished, not for the
theft, but merely for being found out.
On a certain occasion during the retreat
Xenophon advised to steal a march during
the night, so as to gain possession of an
eminence that commanded the enemy's
camp. "But why," said he, addiessing
himself to Chirisophus, "do 1 mention steal
ing ? since I am informed that among yoii
Lacedemonians, those of the first rank prac
tice it from their childhood, and that instead
ot being dishonest, it is your duty to steal
those things which the law has forbidden :
j and to the end, you may learn to steal with
the greatest dexterity and secresy imagina
| ble; your laws have provided that those
I who are taken in a thelt shall be whipped,
j This is the time therefore, lor you to show
j how far your education has improved you,
j and to lake care that stealing this march we
j are not discovered, lest we smart severely
for it."
THE REAL QUANTITY or SLEEP NECESSARY.
—"Healthy men,''' say the Rev. John Wes
ley in one of his works, "require little above
seven hours in twenty-four. If any one
desires to know exactly what quantity ot
sleep his own constitution requires, he may
easily make the experiment which I made
about sixty years ago. I then waked every
night about twelve or one, and lay awake
for some time. I readily concluded that
this arose trom my being longer in bed
than nature required. To be satisfied
I procured an alarm, which waked rae the
next morning at seven, near an hour earlier
than I rose the day before, yet I lay awake
again at night. On the second morning 1
rose at six, but notwithstanding this 1 lay
awake the second night. The third morn
ing I rose at fivq, but nevertheless 1 lay
awake the third night. The lourlh morn
ing I arose at four, as I have done ever
since ; and I lay awake no more. And 1
do not now lie awake taking the year round,
a quarter of an hour together in a month.
By the same experiment, rising earlier and
earlier every morning, may one find how
much sleep he really wants."
WHEN DEATH COMES. —Death comes at
morn, when the sun is just rising in the
east; at noon when its rays are most res
plendent ; at eve when it gradually sinks
beneath the horizon ; at midnight when it is
entirely hidden from view. It comes to
the babe just commencing to prattle , it
comes to the man of middle age, when the
connecting links binding as to life is strong;
it comes lo the aged man with trembling
limbs and faded eyesight, led along by oth
ers ; it comes to the poor, struggling to ob
tain a meagre sustenance ; it comes to the
man in comfortable circumstances, by whom
life is best employed; it comes to the weal
thy, roiling inftluence and ease ; it comes
to the idiot laughing at his own folly; it
comes to the man with just sonso enough
to pass through life easily ; it comes to the
educated man glorying in his Cicero and
Homer; it comes 10 the christian who looks
upon it only as a happier land. Reader
these words are spoken to you. Will you
heed them f
A " bearded" ball was recently given at
Chicago, at which no gentleman was ad
mitted without some hairy houorto his face.
At the 6upper table, among the toasts and
speeches denunciatory of shaving, was the
following :
" Man—Full-grown, bearded, Nature's
great masterwork : too noble to be barefa
ced; too perfect to be botched by the bung
ling of barbarism."
The entertainment closed with " the
Bearded Quadrille,% a dance made for the
occasion.
i I'OWKR OF STKAM —A pint of water may
be evaporated by two ounces of coal. In
its evaporation it swells into two hundred
and sixteen gallons of steem ; with a me
chanical force sufficient to raise a weight of
thirty-seven tons a foot high. The steam
produced has a pressure equal to that of
common atmospheric air; and by allowing
it to expand, by virtue of its elasticity a fur
ther mechanical force-may be obtained, at
least equal in amount to the former. A pint
of water, therefore, and 2 ounces of common
coal, are thus rendered capable of doing as
much work as is equivalent to seventy-lour
tons raised a foot high. The circumstances
under which the steam engine is work
ed on railway aro not favorable to the
economy of fuel, nevertheless, a pound
of coal burned in a locomotive engine will
•vnporaio five pints of water. t' it evap
oration they will exert a mechanical force
sufficient to draw two tons weight on the
railway a distance of two minutes. The
great pyramid of Egypt stands upon a base
measuring 700 feet each way, and 500 feet
high, its weight being twelve thousand sev
en hundred and sixty millions of pounds.—
It is stated that in constructing this prodig
ious pile 100,000 men were constantly em
ployed for twenty years. Now, however,
| by the means of steam, the materials of this
pyramid could be raised from the ground to
their present position by the combustion of
| about 480 tons of coal.
DEVOTION HELPS INTELLF.CT.-AII knowledge j
relates more or less directly to the character !
and works of God. All the sciences are de- j
velopments of his attributes. Astronomy, j
mathematics, natural and mental philoso |
phy,&c , are but so many ways in which j
the laws of God's great empire is made ;
known to us. The child at school learning j
the simplest combination of numbers, and !
the philosopher who soars to the sublimest |
height of science, are alike conversant with j
the works of God. The intellect of the ono !
may be to the other as half a dozen rays to j
the full beams ol tho sun;, but yet, it is
what God is, or what God has done, that
occupies the attentiou of both.
Now, as it is God's works that occupy the :
intellectual powers, so it is most reasonable
to suppose that those who oomo to the study
of these works, or, in other words, engage
in any intellectual pursuits, if they bring a
right state of heart towards God, wdl enjoy
peculiar advantages for success. The mind
being in nappy harmony with Him will
move with vigor and power. A cheering
sense of his favor will animate it. Each
intellectual attainment is anew discovery of
a Being chosen already as tho heart's su
preme good ; it is the perception of some
new and lovely feature in the face ofa friend.
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they
shall see God."
ROBBING A BRIDE OF HER BEG.— The St.
Louis Dtwocviit is responsible for the fol
lowing :
At Layer's boarding house, in St. Louis,
an unusually merry wedding came off t/n
Tuesday night, and the dance was prolong
ed till part one in the morning. The bride
and groom then repaired 10 their apartment,
but— horrible visu ! —the bed and bedding
had been sacrilegiously stolen from (he
nuptial bedstead 1 Some vindictive wretch
had gained felonious ingress at the rear,
and effected a robbery unparalleled in the
history of matrimony. It is conjectured
that so fell vengeance could only have
been devised and executed by 6ome disap
pointed lover ot the bride.
"Lives there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
The scamp who stole that bridal bed
Deserves to live and die unwed,
With maidens old to punch his head 1"
About four months since a merchant of
Bucyrus, Ohio, left for the Eestern States
for the purpose of purchasing a new stock
of goods, but becoming disposed he return
ed home a week sooner than was anticipa
ted by his wife. At a station near Bucyrus,
to his astonishment he found his wife in
company with a gentleman whom ho had
always esteemed his best friend, making
preparations for an elopement. Remem
bering an anonymous letter he had receiv
ed more'than a year ago, cautioning him
to beware of his friend, his mind was in
stantly made up ; he walked cooly up to
his hatred rival, and at one stroke severed
his right ear from his head, put it in his
pocket and confronted his wife, asking her
ii she would go home with him, at the same
time telling her that he freely forgave her
on account of her youth and their child.
She gladly confessed her error, and the
next train brought them to their home,
where they now live happily, The ear is
still retained in spirits by the husband.
' WOULDN'T BITE SUCH BAIT. —Our friend
Jones has been doing homage to a pair of
bright eyes, and talking lender things by
moonlight, lately. A few evenings since
he resolved to "make his destiny secure."
Accordingly he fell on his knees before the
fair dulcinea, and made his passion known.
Much to his surprise she refused him out
flat. Jumping to his feet he informed her
that there were as good fish in the sea as
ever were caught. Judge of the exaspera
tion of our worthy swain, when she coolly
replied: "Yes, but they don't bite at toads!"
GOOB TEMPER is the philosophy of the heart,
a gem of the treasury within, whose rays
are reflected on all outward objects j a per
petual sunshine, imparting warmth, lignt
and life to all within the sphere of its influ
ence.
[Two Dollars per Annim.
NUMBER ~TS?
Charter of the ColumLln County Agrirnltnr
-111, llortieulturnland Mccliunicul Associa
tion.
The following is a copy of an Act of In
corporation just passed by the legislature
ot Pennsylvania. It has received the signa
ture of the Governor:
AN ACT to incorporate the Columbia
County Agricultural, Horticultural, and Me
chanical Association.
SECTION 1. He it enacted t<y the Senate and
House vf Representative* of the Commonwealth
of Ptmuylvania in General Assembly met and
it is heieby enacted try the authority of the
same.
That I'alemon John, John Itamsey, t,. 13.
Rupert, Caleb Barton, jr., Joseph W. Hen
dershot. Win. Sloan, Levi L. Tate, J. H.
Ikeler, Baltis Appleman, Elias Dieterick,
Sylvester Pursel, J. G. Pursel, C. Bittcnben
der, Andrew Freas, G. H. Fowler, Jn->a-
Hayman, Reuben Wilson, B. P. Forlner,
Samuel Creasy, John Robinson, H. Bieen
bender, E. Mendenhall, John KielTer, Geo.
Shuman, James Masters, and all others who
paid fitly cents, are hereby declared to be a
body politic and corporate by the name and
style of the Columbia County Agricultural,
Horticultural, and Mechanical Association
to have succession, to plead and te implead
ed, sue and be sued in all courts of record
and elsewhere, and be capable to take aud
enjoy lands, tenements and hereditaments,
goods and chattels and the 6ame from time
to time, to sell, grant, demise, alien and
dispose of, and to have power to borrow
money, to use a common seal and to alter
or renew the same at pleasure, and to be en
titled to tho privileges and benefits that oth
er bounty agricultural and horticultural so
cieties are, under the general act incorpor
ating the Pennsylvania State Agricultural
Society and authorizing Agricultural and
Horticultural Societies to be established in
each county in Pennsylvania, passed the
twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-one, Provided, That
the clear yearly value of the real estate by
them hsld shall not exceed the sum of five
thousand dollars.
SECTION 2. That the officers of the said
corporation shall be elected annually here
after on such day and consist of such num
ber and kind as the by-laws of said corpor
ation may direct.
SECTION 3. That said corporation when
convened upon due notice given to the mem
bers by public advertisement or otherwise
shall have power and authority to make, or-
I dain and establish snch arid so many by-laws,
j rules, and ordinancas relating to the time of
meetings, the admission of members, the
power and duties of officers thereof, and the
ordering of the other concerns of the incorpo
ration as they deem necessary and proper,
Provided. That no by-law, rttie or ordinance
as aforesaid, shall be valid if inconsistent
with the constitution and by-laws of this
State or of the United States.
SECTION 4. That the officers of the said
Association who were duly chosen at the
lust annual election held for that purpose,
shall continue in their respective stations
until an election be made under this charter
: and the by-lays, rules and ordinances of this
Association.
FOOLPHOVERBS.— Get drunk, yourself and
say that your neighbor staggers.
Stand on your head and say that the world
is upside down.
Spend your time poking tn cess-pools,
and wonder that you get yourself dirty,
Mind everybody's business aud wonder
at their ingratitude.
Stoue a dog and wouder that he barks at
you.
Act like Satan through the week, and
wonder that you don't feel good on Sunday.
'What does cleave mean, papa 1"
'lt means to stick together,"
•Does John stick wood together when he
cleaves it ?"
'Hem ! it means to seperate."
'Well, then, pa, does a man seperate
from his wife when he cleaves to her ?"
'Don't ask foolish questions, child V,
" Does Mr. Wilson live here ?"
" Yes," was the reply of Mr. W's wife,
" but he is not at home to-day,"
" I know heVnot at home now, but he
will be very soon, for I've got him here
dead in the wagon,"
The latest case of absence of minds is
; that of a ship carpenter, who bit off the end
| of a copper spike and drove a plug of tobao
'co in the vessel's bottom. He did not dis
j cover his mistake until the vessel spit in
: his face.
i
He who goes to bed in anger, has the
devil for a bed-fellow. A wag desires us
to say that he knows a married man, who
though he goes to bed meek and gentle as
a lamb, is in the same predicament.
THE report that a Yankee had invented
a machine to take noise out of Thunder is
contradicted.
How to prevent flies from getting at your
bacon in summer—eat it all in the winter.
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty
soon overtakes her.
Why is an avaricious merchant like a
Turk? Because he worships the Profit.
REASON governs the wise man and cud
gels the fool.
TatrrH crushed to earth will raise again.