THE STAR OF THE NOKTII. W. 11. JACOB?, PlHKptlerw.] VOLUME 11. riisilhfOkD 'iTvrtiv WVDMBIDAT rr WM. U. JIMEY, Affile on Into*!., trd Square below Mwkrt, TERMS n—Two nollarsperatrmrm if ipajd Svithin six months frotti the thrtfe of tftfbsfcrib-; lug: two dollars and'fitly'els.'if nOtpUid wilh •in the year. No subscription taken for a less •period than six months; no discontinuance gsrmitted until all arrearages are paid, un- SB at Are-option of the editor. Ihe terms of advertising will be as follows: 'One square, twelve lines, three times, 81 00 Every subsequent insertion, 25 'One square, three months 3 00 *One year, 8 00 €i)oi(e Poetrfl. IHE YANKEE LOVER'S SOLILQ.IIY- As thin n a hatchet I've grown, And poor as Job's turkey, by golly; 1 stand like a scarecrow alone, Syi victim to love's melancholy ! 1 feel most confoundedly blue, Life's rose is turned to a thistle ; My sweetheart has turned' Out untrue, And sacked trie as slide as a whistle '. Though lively and keen as a rat, And playful as any young kitten, She has got the sharp ClxWs of a cat, [ten. And baa showed 'em to me thro' the mit t)f our village girls she's the belle, And plump as a partridge she grows : Her lips for two cherries would sell— Her cheeks are as red as a rose ! Like two bran new dollars heteyes, Her nose is turned neater than wax, Her bosom with Venue's vies, Her hair—it is finer than flax. t courted her day after day, In the hope her affections to win, But my trouble is all thrown away— Like a fool, I have been taken iu 1 I am laughed at by all 'of our folks— They expected a wedding to follow, She turned out a tarnation hoax, Her heart hike a pumpkin, is hollow! As thin as a bean pole I grow, And Crabbed atrd cross as a beat, My heart—it is love-cracked, I know— I shall lie down and die in despair 1 AiyHnm. Mr Editor, —I see in yonr issue of the 12th Instant an appeal to the clergy in behalf of 'the inebriate asylum. I, fo'r one, wish promptly to respond to that appeal. I will give twenty-five dollars toward building a penitentiary in which. to place the drunk ard-maker, to be safely kept at hard labor {the avails of which shall go to the sup port uf the drunkard and his family) till he shall give good security that he will never again -a#.ict the comunity by selling the 'drunkard's, drink, or by manufacturing drun kards for a virtuous people to take care of. What say the sober part of community to this proposition ? Will you be silent while the rum interest takes shelter professedly tinder the broad seal of the eonrtiwtton, and the traffic is takevi to the bosom ef stale laws, and a large class of respectable feh how citizens take the victims of the horrid traffic to an asylum, and then appeal to the virtuous for their support f Such Is the ef frontery of rum, such the consistency ef the state, such the proprety of the appeal made *o the clergy. The state legalizes the traffic in rum, knowing certainly that krundeness will be the result, and while the rumselter goes tin whipped of justice, the virtuous part of com vrttnity must be taxed in a thousand ways for its support. This is a grand outrage I What would be thought if the stale should take it into its head to legalize the breeding o! wild and detructive beasts, to be turned out to make their depredations in the com munity 1 Would there not be heard an un mistakable cry against the outrage f How much louder wou'd be that cry of an out raged community, if in addition to this wrong, they should be taxed in a thousand ways for its continuance, and still in addi tion bo asked to contribute of their virtu ously gotten means to prepare an inclosure in which to place and lake care of these animals, and if possible render them harm less, and then to be turned out to be caught up by gentlemanly breeder to be made by him as ferocious as before, and all this at the public expense, while the breeder is enriching himself, and moving about as a gentleman 1 In such a esse if the community could not got legal redress and protection they would protect themselves, dispute the law, and all would say amen. It would not ap pease their indignation to tell them the bu siness is legalised, and to put a stop to it would be a guilty interference with a man's business. s. Change this supposed case, and substi -6k lure men for beasts, and the application of . the argument is not difficult. Our fathers and sons are converted into something as ferocious as wild boasts,while Ibe man who does this respectable work is irifijfcling 10 the wickedness of that work itself robbing his victims and their At the same time we are told than&eee men ate gentlemen, and their busmtemuet not be interfered with. The statjUes the rameelter to ita bosom, and eigflßgstiy says, Do my favorite pete no outraged people earnestly demand protects against this greatest out rage 1 they be free.—From Ik* Christian AdvSttftad Journal. ' 'Well, Alick, how'Plpur brother Ike gettin on these times V' "Wb, first rate.— Got a start in the world— a widow with nine children. Much smoking kills live rmmd cams deed swine. BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1859. tosttrotW MetffiJß. Pursuant to public notice a targe meeting -of rhe friends'of the Tyrone and Lock Ha ven Hail road assembled in the court room in Bellefonte on Wednesday, the Ist day of Jane. The Hon. A. G. Cr.rtin was called to the choir, L. A. Mnckey end Thos. Wilson, ▼ice presidents, and E. C. Humes, Secretary. Mr. Curtin, on taking the chair, remarked that he observed a number of strangers present—among them Thos. Kimber, Jr., president of the •CattaWissa andthe William sport and Elm its Railroad?, a gentleman of liberal views and acknowledged ability as a railroad man, and H. A. Fonda, the able and efficient superintendent of the Cattawrssa Railroad. He also observed the Messrs. Os borne, 'engineers and 'Contractors ot great experience both in this country and in Eu rope, who had visited the road and the country, and Who were competent to give a 'correct opinion Of the line of the road, its character, and probable advantages. He also observed among others an old veteran in railroad enterprise,<a pioneer and a pa tron of railroads, Col. Joseph Paxton, of Cattawissa. These men had come here to attend this railroad meeting, and he hoped we would hear from them. The officers ol the road were better able : to state the direct object ol the meeting and to the/m be now referred the subject. Dr. llnderwood said a tease had been' made with the Cattawißsa Railroad Compa ny to run the Tyrone and Lock Haven. Railroad, and that he had invited the officers : of that road to visit this section of the coun- j try,examine our enterprise, and if worthy of, assisiance to aid us in its Completion* The 1 road, he said, was still progressing and was nearly ready for the track, and it was time that measures were taken to complete it.— The Messrs. Osborne had passed over the fine, and examined its character in an en gineering point of view. They had passed through some of the valleys, went into the west of the Alegheny mountains, 1 observed the coal interests, the iron mines and iron works, lumber mills and flouring mills, and made a detailed report, which laid on tire table, and he hoped it would be read with interest. In conclusion, he beg ged the chair to introduce to the audience Thomas Kimber, Jr., president oi the Cat tawissa, Williamspott, and Elmita Railroad Companies, The chairman of the meeting having in troduce Thomas Kimber, Jr., President ol •ho Catawissa, Williamsport and Erie Road. Mr. K. said that he (elt much obliged to the chairman, and to Dr. Underwood, lor having explained to the citizens of Belte fonle the his Visit at tnis time wbrch was by no means to attempt to im part any information to them 011 subjects With which they were far more familiar than he could possibly be, much leej to make any formal address to a town meeting, in order to arouse them to a conviction of their true interests in regard to the Tyrone and Lock Haven Railroad. He had come wholly unprepared for so public a reception, and would feel great embarrassment on the occasion, were it net that the critical position of out common in terests required a frank and full interchange of oppinion at this juncture, and an earnest co-operation for our mutual welfare. Moreover, with the aid of his friends Richard and John was enabled to make an important proposition to the meeting ; which if accepted, would un questionably ensure the immediate con struction of three fifths of the Tyrone and Lock Haven road—and place the comple tion of the entire line beyond any reasona ble doubt. jflj Mr. Kimber stated that his acquaintaiflP with the subject was of very recent date, having commenced about three months since, by the introduction of Dr. Underwood, the enterprising and indefatigable president of the road, to whose economical manage ment and perseverance under evil and good report the stockholders owe the safety and steady progress of the work. He had heard,through his friends in Phil adelphia, interested in the Snow Shoe Com pany, of Dr. Underwood's ability, and had been urged by them to lend a helping hand to the road; but it was not 'all the president called personally and pointed out its claims upon our sympathy and co-operation, the importance of its cotemporoneous comple tion with the Suntiury and Erie to Lock Haveo, and the large tribute that it would bring to the Cattawissa and Elmira road, that he had felt it incumbent upon .htm, amid overwhelming care to attempt a vig orous effort on behalf of the enterprise. Mr. Kimber proceeded to say that he invited Richard and John Osborne to vis™ the location of the road, to report on its condition and prospects ; and if they saw their way clear, to tender proposals for its immediate completion from Milesburg to Lock Haven. They had accordingly given a thorough investigation to the whole sub ject, and the resnlt of their examination was now laid upon the table, in a clear and very encouraging report. This pamphlet contained most valuable information with regard to the resources of the district thro' which the road passed ; and which we be lieve would be foui.d prepared with more than professional accuracy and caution; and in fact its statements would fall below the mark. He would not detain the meeting with a recital of these advarifcges, of the various calculations of speculative profit which the subject invited. They know all these alg ready, they had gauged the iron ore veins, I sounded by plummet the depth of their coal mines, and estimated the millions of feet on every square mile of their rich rim- I ber lands. They had built lateral toads,and ; saw mills and furnaces to work up and pre -1 pare for market theit tioh mineral and agri cultural materials. It needed therefore, no argument or dem onstration to convince them 'Of the impor tance of better, and cheaper, and more rapid means of transportations of the man ufactured article to the most profitable market. More especially was this unnecessary in view of the fact of the great progrtßs that had been made by them in the construction of the Tyrone and Lock Haven road. It was ■erideirt that the citizens of the vicinity were, partially at least, convinced of the import ance of gradually completing a railroad communication With the great lines North and South. But there was one very important view of the case, to which ha wonld like earnestly to call their attention, and that was the great question of TIMK ! It is a well iSiown principle of mechanics that What is gained in time must be lost somewhere. And it was generally true in great oonstTOcirous, that to work against lime implied a greater expenditure of energy or meaus than would be required for more gradual operations. It might be so in this instance ; but it was possible that to press through the Lock Haven road with vigor and dispatch, so as to complete the connection the ensuing au tumn, would prove on the whole, even the most economical financial step they could take. Iran was unprecedentedly low, and wa ges and material were low. Let the war news fade away—or prove, as was likely, the harbinger of great prosperity to our ag ricultural, and hence for all our interests— and wages and food and iron, and material of all kinds would rebound to a far higher extent than would be needed to balance any discount on the present negotiations of your bonda. But whether in the immediate calculation of profit and loss this were the case or hot,it was certain to prove in the ultimate and comprehensive estimate of the results the soundest policy, and the truest economy to finish (he road at once, at any reasonable cost. Why, one of the reports of your excel lent and faithful engineer, Mr. McMinn, to whom it is impossible to award too much praise lor his skill and devotion to the in terests of the Company, in the location and constructiou of the line—one of his early reports states the facts, which 1 believe to be an under estimate, that there ate one hundred thousand milliou feet of lumber, at a moderate calculation, within an area cf fifteen miles square, in Centre county And that this lumber is worth in the stump only Si 50 per 1,000 feet, or 81,500,000 r but that at the terminus of your road at Ty rone or Lock Haven, it is worth manufac tured 812,000,000. Now,this manufacture involves no expen diture out of the county —the cutting and saw ing are all paid for within its limits ; and therefore the whole difference between the present estimated value, and the realized returns for the finished commodity is clear gain, to the county, of 810,500,000. And so long as this result is delayed it is a conse quent clear loss to the county. What might not be accomplished with this ter. million dollars in Centre county, if realized within the next twenty years ! How your coal mines would be developed ! How iron furnaces and rolling mills would spring up all over the country 1 How busy flour mills, and saw mills, and plank roads, and railroads, would be in producing and manufacturing'and transporting your agri cultural and mineral wealth ! Why, even this old rickety canal, which no<v looks hardly worth the powder neces sary to blow it up, might gather something of the overflowing treasure ; and a lively imagination might picture steam naviga tion on its waters, and twenty-four self act ing steam gates opening and shutting at the bidding of this spirit of enterprise. But look at the subject farther: every year's delay in the average realization of this 810,000,000 is a loss of interest on this sum to the county. Let ua estimate this at six per cent, and there is a dead loss, irre coverably sunk every year of 8600,000 to the district. And this is on timber alone,on fifteen miles square of land. Apply the same test to the timber along your whole road ; more than that, apply it to the hun dreds of millions of tons of coal and iron om in your region, and the imagination is startled at the figures which are brought out. h Even the most economical and prudent Bf your stockholders and citizens would urge the work forward, and would say com plete the arch—whatever it may cost for the Keystone matters little. One remarkable advantage possessed by a region pierced by a railroad is this : The distant markets for grain or produce, or coal or iron, or lumber are brought to your doors—and the lull prices at the frontiers of the State are realized, less the simple cost of railroad transportation to the markets. You have but to pick up a New York or Philadelphia paper and get the ruling val ues of grain, or lumber, or iron, or gas coal, and step to the railroad agent in your town for the rates to that place, and you have the clear net profit of the transaction in hand at once before your eyes. There can be no mistake. Sell the produce by telegraph, deliverable in three days at New York, and make your contract with the railroad, and draw on the shipment, and you are safe.— Tilth ut Rlifhi—to* Mr CowKry. Good* may decline ; delay* over ihe con tract may oceut, posiibly, bat you are idem nified from lose, and Can derate your time and your capital to freah Operation*. Mr. Kimber then proceeded to *bow, by an accurate outline map of the ■connecting roads, that both the grades and dhrtaltces were in favor of tbe Lock Haven outlet for their coal and produce, as well as the pas senger travel to and from the Eastern cities. Taking the centreuf the Tyrone and Lock Harem road as the average starting point— which Bellefonte represented quite nearly -—and it would be found that to Harrieburg, the common intersection of the two routes, on the Way to Baltimore, the Lock Haven ' route had the advantage of three miles Of | distance, and in grades To Philadelphia H paasengers ' took the Northern Xer.tn# from Williams- I port. But to New Vork there was a saving from Bellefonte of 81 miles, besides the de lays in transit in Philadelphia from one line to the other, even if connections were Oth erwise complete. So that the Tyrone and Clearfield road could actually transport their lumber to New Yotk, over the whole line of the Tyrone and Lock Haven road, 51 miles, thus paying this regions large tribute, and thus be in New York by a shorter and cheap er rente than any other line afforded them. Still mote important were afi-these con siderations to the Snow Sfcae Company, whose valuable improvements entered the Tyrone and Lock Havm road at about a central point—and hence Who would reap the maximum advantage from comparative cheapness of the eastern route. And when to this was added the fopt that the northern markets were also open to the Snow Shoe gas coal, and that Binghanton, Syracuse, Albany and other places noW using West moreland coal at their gas works, would thus be supplied by our route with Snow Shoe coal, at prices of transportation which would defy competition. Surely this great interest would impel the stockholders to aid materially in the efiortto complete the road, at least from Milesburg to Lock Haven, a eoon after tire oppening of the Sunbury and Erie road to that point as it was possible to accomplish it. One word now with regard to the alter native line from Lock Haven to Williams port. On riding up yesterday through the rich agricultural country above and below Jersey Shore, one could not but be aston ished at the policy which had chosen to hug the barren blqfi* other side of tiie river to a loss of the local trade which ol itseli would almost justify a road on the left bank. Still, there the railroad was, and though pledges to the amount of 8200,000 had already been made to the stock sub scription for tlmt line, and though compe tent contractors had offered to take that subscription and finish the road on its mort gage bonds immediately after completing the road to Lock Haven, yet Mr. K. stated that he deprecated, aB a railroad man, the construction of rival routes, and if the Sun bury and Erie would give the Catlawissa company the same rights to Lock Haven, as they now enjoyed perpetually to Williams pott, hecoulij not be more instrumental in the construction of the alternative road. If, unfortunately, however, other counsels should prevail, he would pledge himseli to aid in the immedialfc. ( ompletion ol the Tyrone and Lock Haven extension to Wit iiamsport, on a basis of local subscriptions of $250,000 to the lower line. Mr. Kimber then introduced Richard Osborne, Esq., to the meeting, who submitted in full from the proposals for completing the road from Ju lian Furnace to Lock Haven the coming autumn,based on a subscription of $120,000 on the Tyrone and Lock Haven bonds at f6 cents, on notes of responsible parties running from three months to twenty-seven months from June Ist, 1859, which, with subscriptions already pledged, would ena- I ble them to absorb themselves the remain- I der of the bonds necessary to the comple- I lion ol this section of the work. Mr. Kimber stated that he had no person al interest, direct or indirect, in ihe contract or in the construction of the road in any way. But that he believed it very inpor tant to the interests in his charge that the Ty rone and Lock Haven road should be open ed at once, and he felt sure that there would never be made a fairer or more liberal pro position than Richard and John Osborne had now made to complete that section at $6,200 a mile, with so latge an amount pay able in bonds. The proposal, in fact, tendered a consid erable subscription of foreign capital to this local interest, thus diminishing greatly the efforts requisite at home; and he earnestly hoped no sectional consideration would in terfere with the cordial and earnest co-op eration of all parties interested in this great work. Mr. Osborne remarked that the Tyrone and Lock Haven Railroad, throughout its entire length, must ever look to its eastern connection as life natural outlet for all its productions, and for these reasons: Ist. Because distance was in its favor—Tyrone, its western extremity, being as short a dis tance to New York, via the Tyrone and Lock Haven Railroad, as by any other route; and goods from a middle point, say Belle fonte, beir.g nearer to NewfYork via Lock Haven by more thairBo mfles than via Ty rone. 3d The cost of transporting a ton of goods from Tyrone city to Lock Haven be ing taken at 87 cents, it would require an outlay ol about 48 cents to carry a like quan tity from east to west against grades of 894 feet,or,in other words, the total receipts on the road for a year, in piece of being SI 12,- 000, as has been shown to give a return of seven per cent, would require to be about 8210,001/ in yield the same return, if the out let for Are grade of the Bald Eagle valley be forced through its wesretn connections. What same miird would send goods and passengers westward, in order to arrive at an eastern point, and who would prefer rol ling his burdhii up hill, when by simply turning round it would uf itself roll down arid reach the same point I—'Why should the eifierprising people Who have, unaided, graded this road, hot carry the goods and passengers of its local trade over their own roads and swell its WWeijAs, rather than permit it to wander over other roads to add to their revenue 1 If therefore, distance, cost of transportation, dividends On your stock, and interest on your bonds, are quea tions involved, and which will satisfac torily settled by the connections yon have to show what I have before stated, that the traffic of your own road, from every point •on it, gravitates to Lock Haven. Like advantages are to be found in the route to Philadelphia, the difference in dis tances being, of course less. Lock Haven and Tyrone, by theirjVespective routes, are about the same distance to Philadelphia and Bellefonte, in like manner, by either route, with thin distance, that westward the grade against the trade—East it is in its fa vor. Mr. .Osborne stated that the whole sub ject bad been c'arefully examined by request of the president of the Cattawissa, Williams port, and fitte toad ; that from his express ed desire to hare this road speedily finish ed, they had Visited the country to'examine its resources, Condition of the road, &c.,and he was happy to be able, at that meeting, to 6ay that, so far as they were concerned, they had witnessed enough to convince them that it would be a safe investment for them, end that there was abundant proof of the road from its own resources being re munerative ; that faith such feelings, desi rous of carrying out the wishes of Mr. Kim ber, they were prepared to become large subscribers to the bonds, undertake to put the work through, and get the road in run ning order this fall, and if the present own ers of the railroad would take among them selves a few shares of tlveso securities, the city of Philadelphia will this autumn be brought within two hundred and filly miles of Bellefonte, while at this moment she ie more than one hundred miles from Lock Haven, and near four hundred from Phila delphia, estimating the time of traveling as per railroad. The proposition for putting the track on that portion of the road between Lock Ha ven and Julian furnace, was discussed by Hon. James T. Hale, fe. Blanchard, T. A. Mackey, Dr. Underwood, and others. Col. Joseph Paxton was now introduced to the meeting : Col. Paxton said that a certain prosperity awaited the Tyrone and Lock Haven road from the day of its opening. In the course of his long, but pleasant day's ride IVom Lock Haven to this place, he had been greatly struck with the progress this wild valley had made since his last Visit, some twenty-five years ago. The cultivation of a large portion of the district passed through Was eqUat to that ot the oldest settled and most improved coun ties of the State : and the iron furnaces and. saw-mills everywhere in operation or afaalt ing the opening of tire road to commence operations, insured the very first year an adeqnate return for the bondholders, and ab ler that year would unquestionably remun erate the ecockholders, for their investment. He desired to assure every capitalist pres ent, that at seventy-five per cent, the price proposed to offer the bonds at to subscribers and in view of the ample time given for their payment in cash, every subscriber would, in his judgment, make money by the operation, in addition to the great aid he would render to the road and to his oth er interests, Me lelt sure every putty present, or who should hear of the proposition, who had money to invea?, would conclude with him that these bonds at seventy-five per cent, were a safe sure reliable inuestment. They had all the security of a mortgage on real estate, with a vital income, coming in every year, to pay the interest and di minish gradually the bonded debt. Col. Pax ton added that his experience of railroads, since their first introduction into this country, some twenty-five years ago, had been very considerable,and he felt glad to assure the gentlemen interested that he had never seen a cheaper, a straighter, or a belter planned road than the Tyrone and Lock Haven road. He had himself paid out in easb, for the construction of a single mile on the Cattwissa road, more than the aver age cost of six miles of this road when completed. And yet the Cattawissa was now earning and paying the interest on the 'bonds, and in a year or two would pay a di vidend on her stock. He felt sure, there fore, that this road, on the small construc tion cost of SI 6,000 per mile, would imme diately and amply pay the interest on the whole stock and boodf and he earnestly recommended the subscription to these bonds, as a very desirable investment for families or estates, aa well as for the par* pose of completing the road as proposed at this time. , On mjHion of Dr. Wm.JUtjderwoodjit was. Remluid, That, in the opinion of this meeting, the proposition submitted by Tos. Kimber, Jr., and the Messrs. Osborne, is liberal, and If responded to by the people of Centre county, Will insure! the comple tion of the road. Buotved, That James T. Hale, W. A. I Thomas, M. T. Milliken, P. B. Wilson, W. ' F. Reynolds, John Irwin, J. I. Thompson, T. Wilson, Wm. Fesfron-, Jr., JaCob Graffius, John Jones. Jno Chatham, DottOr J. M. Mc Coy, are hereby appointed to take immedi ate means to sell bonds of the UOnipany, and in all other respects batty out the ar rangements proposed to complete the road, and that they are earnestly requested to ItHfil the purpose Of this appointment with in ten days. Rnolvtd, That we are deeply obligedaftO Thos. Kimbet, JY, and the Messrs. Osborne and Colonel Paxton, for their visit to Centre county at this time and their generous iu tentions. ; 'Where isJMentrtrJlfl I | Very few maps contain hie place upon which renown has fallen for a second,time, in conjunction with contests between the armies of France and Austria. Montebello is a very rtianificent Village,"and So near to Casteggio that its name is rarely found in ordinary geographical charts. Casteggio is about thirty miles east of Allessandria, and fifteen West of the Po, while Montebello is but a few minutes' walk southwest of Cas teggio. Casteggio and vicinity has been a cele brated battle ground for more than 2,000 years. It is the ancient Chtlidtum and it was here that Claudius Marccllns WOO the richest spoils by vanishing and slaying Viridomarus, King of the Gasata In the Punic wars it was AO important military position. It Was beseiged by Hannibal, and might have defied his poW'Ot, but his torians tell us that 800 large pieces Of gold, paid to the commander, POblius, "purchas ed the fortress," (a very polite phrase for expressing bribery.) The stores and pro visions found therein were of the greatest utility K> the Carehaginians. A spring not far from Casteggio is still balled iFantona d' Annibak. It was near Casteggio, Otk the 9th of June, 1800, that the great conflict between the French and Austrians took place, which is known as the batik of Montebello, for it was in the latter little village that the arms of Napoleon I. finally routed the corps de reserve of the enemy. The Austrians defended themselves with the greatest valor in Cas teggio, and the hills near the town were taken and retaken several times by the con tending parties ; but the fortune of the day was decided by Victor, who broke the bbn tre of the Austrians, so that when Napoleon came up to the assistance of the French vanguard the victory had already been gained. The second Fremsh victory at Montebello, it appears from the meagre accounts which have been received, Was obtained by two or three thousand less troops on their side, over three thousand less otl the part of the Austrians. The contending pAHiOs in June, 1800, were 9,000 French embers to 18,000 Austrians ; on the 21st of May, 1859, the combatants were,respectively,at the highest figure which has come to us, T,OOO French men and 15,000 Austrians. The recent ac tion, however, has not the decisive Cherac of that in lftuO. It Beems to have been more the onset of two large bodies of scouts than the terrible conflict of two large armies Still the prestige given to the Arms of the allies in this engagement it moat encour aging to them ud to all who sympathise withl. Journal cf Commerce. A SOMNAMBULIST ON THE CARS.— The Ad rian (Mich,) Watchtuwer furnishes a sin gular narrative of the adventures of a som nambulist on the cars nf the Michigan Southern railroad. A gentleman An his wife look passage at Chicago in A night ekpress train for the Hast, ahd retired fu the berths Of a Bleeping car. At the Laporte station the ! gentleman arose in a somnambulic state, j walked out of the car on to the platform of j the pa.-senger house and was left there by I the train. He continued in this state until he was spoken to by some of the men be longing to the station, when be awoke and at once tealtzed his condition. The cars had been gone some time, and Wefe along way this side. The man was in deep tribula tion) and informed the men of his troubles: | His wife was on the train, and Worst ofaal t he had laid his pocket book, cOntAining $ll,OOO, in the berth, of which his wifb had no knowledge. A locomotive Was at the depot with steam up, and he Asked the en gineer tu name the price to Overtake the train. The superintendent of the western division, being at Laporte, was consulted) and it Was agreed to attempt to Overtake the train fbf $B5O, to Which was added $2O for the engineer and $lO for the firemah. They succeeded m overtaking the express at Jonesville, one hundred and seven miles from Laporte. The last 28$ miles were run in 30 minuters. A country lad says that his uncle Bert made a scarecrow so very frightful, thai one of the black feathered thieves actually went and brought back all the corn he had stolen during several days. Mrs. Partington says the only way 10 pre vent steamboats explosions, is to make the engineers bile their Wather on shore. In her opinion all the bttstin' is done by cook ing the steam on boafd. A man passes for a sage if be seeks for wisdom ; if he thinks be has fbund it he il a fool. Let ndt-thy lelt hand knOW what thy right hand doath. 0(d men o to death. Dtath chines to yorfhg ra 9 n [TVo frollars pir 18111. NUMBER 25. fHE LATEST PAE'ODV. THE PRINTER'S CONSOLATION. Tell me, ye winged winds, That round my pathway play, Is theft a mace on earth Where rriitfers get their pay I The whispering breeze went by Wink accent filled with woe, A voice borne on the sorrowing air, In sadness answered " No " TOII me, ye Mowing streams, That smoothly glide along, Is there one cherished place, Where Printers meet no wrong ' Tho gentle brOOk replied, ] In murmurs soft and low, And winding on its verdant way, It itteekly answered " No." tell rtie, ye murky clouds, Now rising in trie wesl, Is them upon the globe One spot by printers blest ! The flashing cloud outspoke With an indignant glow, A voice that filled the earth with a w A In ibundet ArtsWered ''No." Tell hie, hard hearted man, Withholding day by day, Is thetO no honor in thy breast, The Printer's bill to pay 1 Uhansweriikg turns he round, And plain his actions show, An uttered oath capt sound is heard, His actions answer " No." Tell me, thou gentle hyihph. Who blessed life's hdurs through) is there one sacred shrine Where Printers get their due ? A mantling blush tier cheek diffused, Did tenfold grace impart, A sop, responsive sigh replied, " 'lis found in woman's heart." Tell me, angelic hosts, Ye mesnengersjof love, Shalt suffering Printers here below Have no redress above 1 The angel bands replied, "To us is knowledge given, Delinquents on the Printer's books, Can never enter Heaven." ' " ■ Remarkable Race by Railroad. OnU day last week, as the eAstem bdund express train reached Laporte Ind ,a passen ger stepped off while the engine was being replenished With wood and water, and walked back and forth on the platform, and continued to walk until the whistle sounded. The other passengers got on board and the train passed Off, but the gentlemen stilt walked on. A few minutes after the trairt had gone, a station man saw the pedestrian, and going up to him, aSked in a surprized tone— ' What the——are you ddirig here t The man started, opened his eyes, and looked around bewildered. The fact was; he had been fatigued, and dorpped asleep while walking. Rousing himself, he asked: 'Why ! where aril I V 'Where are you ? At Laporte.' 'Where is the tirairt I came in V 'That left ten menutes ago.' 'Ten minutes ago and 19ft rite ! I must gd on that train. It is a question of life and death to me. Can you get me to it ? Have you got an engine here ? Where is the superintendent V The section master had an olficet near by, and they went to find the official and procure an engine. The traveller stated his case"-he must go on— conld not delay, and offered the officer $250 if he would put him on board the train This strange raand and strange offer caused the staliod master to hasten and do what he conld. The firt was nut out of the engine that had drawn the train to that point—the bargain Was settled—a draft given on New York for $250, And in ten minutes the traveller start ed with an engine to overtake the flying express. After rushing bn for thirty or forty miles, some cbnnbction gave aWay about the en | gine. The engine was stopped—the engi- I neer found the difficulty, and in a very few minntes had a wooden pin whittled out and fitted to supply the deficiency. With this, bn they flew. The train had) of course) many miles the stttrt of them, and despite the wooden pin, the engineer crowded on steam, and tore through the country at a fearful rate. Thirty miles or the distance passed was run in twenty seven minuter, but the engagement whs that they should overtake the train, and overtake it they did but not until more than one hundred miles had been run, and they were approaching Toledo. Having at length overtaken and stopped the train and hurried on board, the traveller went eagerly to a birth in the sleeping car, and took therefrom a carpet bag containing 82T5 000. His treasure waa safe—none haa molested it) ahd dismissing his faithful courier, he wOnt on bis way rejoicing at the success of his perilous and ekciting 'adven ture. flifc ftilibwlng good story of 4 Negro's first meeting with bear is to I'd by Cot. —— Who had spent the most of hta fortune and life in this woods of Florida. The ColoM had a blafck fellow, a gtttt'd natUr'ed, happy creature, Whd, bna morning', Was strolling thtOogh IH'e woods. Whistling and roaring as bb went, When H8 spihd an individual as black as hiihself, With Much more wool Dick lookfed at his hew friend, and the bear (on his rump) at him. Dick's eyes began to Stick oat a feet. VWho's dat V' said Dick, shaking all over. Bruin began to approach. Dick polled heels for the first tree, and this bear alter him. Dick was upon the cfpress, and iHb bbsr aftei hi in—Dick thrived out on a limb, thb beat followed—till it began to bend "Now, see here Mister, it you comb any fardor dis limb broke. Deto ! dero ! I told you eb!" As Dick had said, tha limb broke, and down oame bear and nigger. "Dere, yon black debil, I told you so : dis all your fault; yer broke yor neck, knd I'll just take yer to Massa Collonel,"
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