1 IT 1 1 1 I U. JACOBY, Proprietor. Troth and Right God and our Country. : CTWo Dollars per Adnam. VOLUME 12. BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 1860. NUMBER 38. F 0 El Will ii iiiio - r STAR OF THE NORTH PUBLISHED 1TERT TTEDHESPAT BT WM. D, JACOBY, Office on Haiti St.r3rd Square below Market, TERMS : Two Dollars per annum if paid within fix months from the time of subscri bing : two dollars and fifty cents it not paid Within the year. No subscription taken fur & less period than six months ; no discon tinuances permitted until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option oi the editor. The terms of advertising will be at follows : One square, twelve lines, three times, 51 00 Every subsequent insertion, ...... 25 One square, three months, ....... 3 00 One year, 8 00 UDY BIRO.VS REPLY T3 LUSO JBYKO.i'S FAUBWEll. . Yes! farewell farewell forever! Thoa thyself has fixed our doom, Bade hope's fairest blossoms wither, Never again tor me to bloom. Unforgiving thoa hast calied rae Didst ihoa ever say torgive? Poor the wretch whose wiles beguiled thee, Thou alone didst seem to live. Short the space which time has given. To complete thy love's decay ; By unhallowed passions driven, Soon thy heart was taught to stray; Lived for me that feeling tender Which ihy vere so well can 6how, From my arms why diJst thoa wander! My endearments why forego! Oh! too late thy breast was bared, Oh! too soon to me 'twas shown, That thy love but once I shared, And already it ia flown. Wrapped in dreams of joy abiding, On thy breast my head hath lain, In thy love and truth confiding Bliss I ne'er can know again. The dark hour did first discover - In thy soul the hideous stain Would these eyes had cli-ed forever, Ne'er to weep thy crimes again. But the impious wish O, Leaven 1 Ficm the record blotted be ; Yes, I yet would live, O, Byron, For the babe I've born tor thee ! Ia whose lovely features (let me ' All my weakness here confess. Whilst the struggling tears permit me) Ail the father 1 can trace He whose irna-je never leaves me, He whose image stdl I prize, Who this bitterest feeling gives me, Still to love where I despise. With regret and sorrow rather When our child's first accents flow, I will teach her to say Father, But his guilt she ne'er shall know. Whilst to-mrrow and to-morrow Wake me from a widow'd bed, On another's arms no sorrow Will thou fell, no tear wilt shed. I the world' approval sonshl not, When I tore myself from thee ; Ot its ptaise or blame I thought not What's i: praise or blame to me ? . He so prized so loved adored, From ray hear: his image drove, On my head conienjpt has poured, And preferred a wa.:iou's love. Tbou art proad, but mark me, Byron, - I've a heart proud as thine own ; Soft to love, but bard as iron When contempt is o'er it thrown; But farewell ! I'll not upbraid thee, Never, never wish thee ill Wreched though thy crimes have made me, If thou canst be happy still. Tbe Press and Dead Heads. One of our exchange. speak a great deal of truth in the following: Railroads, steamboats and stage-coaches complain of dead heading that is to say, of editors and clergymen, riding so much without pay. The newspaper press endures more of this dead heading than all three of these modes ot conveyance combined. The pulpit, the bar and the theatre; corpora tions, legislative assembles, societies, reli- r gious, benevolent, agricultural, mercantile establishments, venders of quack medicines, railroad companies, steamboats, stage lines, and every variety of individuals, including - political parties and politicians, draw large ly on the liberality of the press. The press is expected to yield to all these interests ; it is required to give strength to all weak in stitutions and enterprises ; it is asked to puff small preachers into overshadowing pulpit orators ; to puff small politicians and unprincipled demagogues into great men and patriots ; to magnify incompetent rail- road officers into railroad kings ; : it is ex peeled to herald abroad the fame of quacks, of all cases, bolster up dull authors ; im mortalize weak Congressional speeches ; it is required to give sight to the blind, bread to the hungry, talents to fools and honor to thieves and robbers ; it is asked to cover op the infirmities of the weak, to hide the faults of guilty men and wink at the fraud dent schemes of sconndrela, it is expected to flatter tha Tain, to extol the merits of those who deserve nothing but the scorn and contempt of all good citizens ; it is re- ' quired, ia a word, of the newspaper press, to become all things to all men ; and if it lock for pay, or 6end out its bills for sub scriptions and advertising, it ii denounced as mean and sordid and its conductors are wanting in liberality. There ia no interest oa the face of this green earth that is ex pected to give so much to society, without pay or thanks, as the newspaper, press of tha country. ;- r .-.-,. , , .. There is a" certain amount of indelicacy and want of consideration in crowding ma teria! and external happiness on those who have emerged from a sombre condition, to which we know they are destined certainly to return. Sometimes the bright spot cheers the memory, 'bat more ollen destroys con tent by contrast. - ; '" ' A Toast "The Ladies! They divide ocr sorrows CzziU cor joys, and treble oar X -.- The Bnssian Wolf Hunt, We transate the following story from a late number of M. Alex. Duraas'newspaper. It is an extract from one of his letters from St. Petersburg: 'Wolf hunting and bear hunting are the favorite pleasures of the Russians. Wolves are hunted in this way in the winter, when the wolves being hungry are ferocious. Three or lour huntsmen, each armed with a double barrelled gun, get into a troika, which is any sort of a carriage drawn by three horses its name being derived from its team, and not from its form. The middle horse trots with his head hanging down, and he is called the Snow-Eater. The two others have only one rein, and they are fastened to the - poles by the middle of the body, and gallop, their heads free they are called the Furious. The troika is driven by a sure coachman, if there is such a thing in the woild as a sure coachman. A pig is tied to the rear of the vehicle by a rope, or a chain (lor greater security) some twelve yards long. The pig is kept in the vehicle until tha huntsmen reach the forest where the hunt is to take place, when he is taken out and the horses started. The pig, not being accustomed ta this gait, squeals ; and his squeals soon degenerate into lamenta tions. His cries bring out one wolf, who give the pig chase ; theti two wolves, then three, then ten, then fifty wolves all post ing as hard as they can go after the poor pig, fighting among themselves for the best places, snapping and striking at the poor pig at every opportunity, who squeals with despair. These squeals of agony arouse all the wolves in the forest, within a circuit of three miles, and the troik is followed by an immense flock ot wolves. It is now a good driver is indispensable. The horses have an instinctive horror for wolvea, and go almost crazy; they run as last as they can go. The huntsmen fire as fast as they can load ; there is no necessity to take any aim. The pig squeals the horses neigh the wolves howl the guns rattle ; it is a con cert to make Mephistopheles jealous. As long as the driver commands his horses, fast as they may be running away, there is no danger. Bat, if hit ceases to be master of them ; if they balk, if the troika is upset, there i no hope. The next day, or the day after, or a week afterwards, nothing will re main of the party but the wreck of the htroika. the barrels of the guns, and the lar ger tones of the horses, huntsmen, and driver. Last winter Prince repnine went on one of these hunts, and it came very near being his last hunt. He was on a visit with two of his friends to one of his estates near the steppe, and they determined to go on a wolt hunt. They prepared a large tleigh in which three persons could move at ease, three vigorous horses were put into it, and tney selected for a driver a man born in the country, and thoroughly experienced in the sport. Every huntsmau had a pair of double barrel guns, and one hundred and fifty ball cartriges It was night when they reached the steppe ; that is an immense prairie cov ered with snow. The moon was full, and shone brilliantly ; its beams refracted by the snow gave a light scarcely inferior to day light. The pig was put out of the sleigh and the horses whipped up. As soon as the pig fell that he was dragged he began to squeal. A wolf or two appeared; but they were timed and kept a long way off. Their num bers gradually increased, and as they gain ed in strength they became bolder. There were about twenty wolves when they came within gun range of the troika. One of the party fired; a wolf fell. Ihe flock became alarmed and half fled away. Seven or eight hungry wolves remained behind to devour their dead companion. Tbe gaps were soon filled. On every side howls an swered howls ; on every side sharp noses and brilliant eyes were seen peering. The guns rattled, volley after volley ; but the flock of wolves increased instead of dimin ishing, and soon it was not a flock, but a vast herd of wolves in thick serrid columns, which gave chase to the sleigh. The wolves bounded forward so rapidly they seemed to fly over the now, and so lightlj not a pound was heard; their num bers continued to increase and increase, and increase ; they seemed to be a silent tide drawing nearer and nearer, and which the guns of the party, rapidly as they were dis charged, had no effect on. The wolves formed a vast crescent, whose horns began to encompass tbe horses The numbers in crease! so rapidly they seemed to spring out of the ground. There was something weird in their appearance, for where could three thousand wolves come from in such a desert of snow ? Tbe party had taken the pig into tbe sleigh;, his squeal increased the wolves' boldness. The party continued to fire, but they had now used above half their ammunition, and but two hundred cartriges left, while they were surrounded by three thousand wolves. The two horns of the crescent became nearer and nearer, and threatened to envelope the whole party. If one of the horses should have given eat, the fate of the whole party was sealed. ''What do yon think of this, Ivan V said the Prince Repnine, speaking to the driver. "1 would ralher be at home, Prince." "Are you afraid of any evil consequences?" "The devils have tasted blood, and the more yoa fire the more wolves you'll have." "What do yoa think is the best thing to be done!' 4Mako tha horses go faster.' "Are J re of the horses?" "Are yoa sui Are yoa sure of He quickened the horses, and turned their heads towards home. The horses flew fas ter than ever. The driver excited them to increased speed by a sharp thistle, and made them describe a curve which inter sected one of the horns of the crescent. The wolves opened their ranks and let the horses pass. The Prince raised his gun to his shoulder. "For God's sake, don't Are !" exclaimed the driver; "we are dead men if you do!" He obeyed Ivan. The wolves, astonished by this unexpected act, remained motion less for a minute. During this minute the troika was a verest from them. When the wolves started again after it,' it was too late, they could not overtake it. 4 A quarter of an hour afterward they were in sight of home. Prince Repnine thinks his horses ran at least six miles in these fifteen minutes. He rode over the steppe the next day, and found the bones of more than two hundred wolves.- Scenes at Palermo. The wretched state of the poor sufferers at Palermo, who have lost their all in the bombarment by the Neapolitan troops, Is clearly shown in tbe following extract of a letter from Palermo ; "This morning I was determined to witness with my own eyes the distribution ot bread which is made daily in Garibaldi's house at 8 o'clock, and which takes place literally in his antecham ber. The poor creatures enter at one door two or three at a time each receiving a loaf weighing about two ponnds, and then they go out at another. It was indeed a heartrendering scene ; for often some one of the poor sufferers wept bitterly, and, crying, begged for yet another loaf, for a son, or father, or husband, or wife, who had been wounded by the falling in of the bom barded houses, and who was unable to come in person to ask for his or her share of the charity. Yoa saw mothers with two or even three children in their arms, just a month old, or a year, or very little more, a prey to shame as they ask for two or threw loves ; but a few days ago their little business, or the industry ot a husband, was sufficient tor their support, and now five of the bom bardment has utterly beggard them, and made miserable victims of these orphans, these mothers and wives. "I accosted a well dressed man, who was wailing thera wilh the others. With a tim id, bashful expression, he assured me that be wafc wailing till the crowd cleared away, in the hope ot obtaining an audience with Garibaldi. I offered to speak to the senti nels for that purpose, that he might pass sooner and more easily ; but, with an air ot embarrassment, he declined the offer, so that I could at once perceive he was wait ing only to receive charity, like the rest. At that very moment his turn came, and he received three or four loaves, which he hastily concealed under his coat. Being aware that I had observed him, he said to me, with tears in his eyes, "You see, Sir, to what I am reduced by the cruelty of the Bourbons." On questioning him further, he told me that he had five children, all girls, the eldest only six years old; that he kept a draper's shop, which had been burned to the ground, as well as his house, and that with the greatest difficulty, he had succeed ed in saving the lives of bis little ones by hiding them behind a garden wall, where they remained for three days, with no other food than a little fruit. "All the property that he had in the world was destroyed, and as ill-luck would have it, on that day he happened to leave even his purse, which he usually carried on his person, in the shop, so that he was left lit erally without a single farthing, and the two or three relatives to whom he could have applied for aid was absent from Palermo. I asked him to let me accompany him on his return to the hovel where, I understood him to say, bis children had now found shelter. They were five sweet-looking lit tle girls, and it was indeed a touching sight when their father gave them the bread, for which they had been anxiously waiting Unobserved by him, I slipped a trifle into the hands of the eldest girl, and, greatly moved by the spectacle, I walked away, following up a train of reflection which many others 1 suspect, will, share on the blessings of a Bocrbon dynasty and the benefits of a despotic rule. Every morning Garibaldi distributes in this way about 3 000 loaves. The like is done by a Capuchin Convent, which gives also a small cup of soup Scckc os run Ohio. Our boat stopped to take in wood. On the shore among the crowd, stood a remarkbly stupid looking fellow, with his hands in his pockets, and his under lip hanging down. A dandy, ripe tor a scrape, lipped nods and winks all about saying : "Now I'll have some fun, I'll frighten that green horn." He ojumped ashora a drawn bowie knife, brandishing it in the face of the "green 'an" exclaiming : "Now I'll punish yoa. I have been look ing for yoa a week." The WIow suddenly started at bis assilant. He evidently had not sense enough to be scared but as the bowie knife, came near his face, once of his hugh fists suddenly vacated his pocket, and tell solid and heavy between the dan dy 's eyes, and the poor fellow was flounder ing in the river. Greeny jumped on board our boat, put his hands in his pockets, and looked around. "May be," said he, 'there's somebody else that's been looking for me a week." " - .Taa Germans wonld have mads Ad a mo Another Great Fislie Event. v Heenan and Morrissey, it is announced, are to have a ring fight in abouttwo months, ihe tenth of November being the day des ignated, for which both men are in training. The New York Sunday Mercury says : In conversation at Saratoga, one day last week, Morrissey was asked : "Shall you fight Heenan again ?" He at once replied . "I certainly shall, and I shall lick him too " . He went on to say that he wanted he challenge to come from Heenan, - as Hee nan, having been defeated by. Morrissey, ought, of conrse. to issue the defiance. He siad he should at once, accept the chal lenge, and, added he, "It you've got any money to bet on the event, put it on me, and 1 "II win it for you. He continued : "1 am confident that I can lick this man Say era would have licked him eas) if he had fought him as I shall fight him.! He can't stand body punishment, and I shall give him my head to hammer away at, while 1 make my fighting at his body. I can out slay him, and I'll win the fight be sure of that. His hands will go in a lit le while, and then I can take him as I want to." Morrissey ia full of confidence, and wants only, as he says, once mors to face his old antagonist on the turf, to teach him that he is still his master. Morrissey has many friends, who are equally confident with himself, and who, with him, will stake ev ery dollar they can raise oa the issue ot the fight. Experienced fightirg men also de clare their belief that Mmissey will win the fight, and they found their assertion on the same theory that ia propounded by Morrissey, that Morrissey can stay longer than Heenan, and take all the punishment his adversary can inflict, and can then go in and lick him. On the other hand, the fiiends of Heenan have the most implicit confidence in their champion, and.will risk on him every dol lar they can muster. Heenan himself is in admirable coidition ; he has entirely recov ered from the disease that disabled him at Long Point, and is leading a 6ober and tem perate life. He does not touch a drop of liquor, no matter how pressing may be the invitation of his friends. The constant ex ercise he has with Ottignon, Aaron Jones Ed Price all isparrers of the very first class keeps him up to the topmost mark of pugilis ic science. He learns something every day, tor who could fail to impaove under the instruction of constant experience with the most eminent professors of a giv en sicence that the day affords? He tho' always a marvel of agility and quickness, becomes more and more quick and agile every day ; his wind is improved by hts constant exercise ; and when he sleps into the ring to fight Morrissey, he will prove by far the most lormidable antagonist that veteran pugilist has ever yet put up hands j Defore In a conversation with a Iriend, a few days 6illCe, Heeuan said : "The next I fihl wtm't be a short fight. The next man that fights me has to fight me three hours." It would seem from this that he has gain ed unbounded confidence in his own pow ers of endurance, or what is terineJ hi staying abilities. In his lormer fij;ht witu Morrissey, his only hope was to knock Ins adversary out of time in three rounds, tor he expressiy stated to his backers that it he could not eflect that consummation, lie could not win. He knew that alter ihe tirst keen struggle was over, his lack of condi tion would tell learfully against him, as it proved. Accordingly, he expended all his energies on the first two or three rounds, hoping to so far stun Morrissey by that ire mendous cannonade of blows he adminis tered lo bis head, that he would not be able after that time to lace the scratch Probably no skull in the world other than Morrissey;s, could have received that tre mendous pounding, and have recovered from it to answer to the call of "Time.' But Morrissey did recover, did answer to call, and Heenan failed, as he bad predict ed, and the result is known. Heenan after ward challenged Morrissey, but the defi ance was not taken up, for reason herein before stated. From ibat eventful day to this, Heenan has been anxious to again confront his conqueror, and try once again the chances of battle with him. The time has nearly come. Heenan is aware that Morrissey stands ready to accept his chal lenge, and soon as his present engagement is concluded, he will issue the defiant doc umsnt. Like Morrissey, Heenan expresses the most undounded confidence in himself. In deed, Le looks upon the battle as already decided, although he knows too well the temper of his valliant foe to hold him undu ly cheap. Confident as Heenan is, he will throw away no chance to secure the vic tory. He will train with the utmost care, omitting no precaution to bring himself in to the field in the best condition possible He will do all his work most scrupulously, and abide in all things by the commands of his trainer, who will be Jame Cusick, as of old. It is ruinous to tbe young to demand of them more than ypu are quite sure that they can accomplish with moderate industry ; it not only tends to make their minds super ficial, but, what is still less thought of iheir characters slippery, slip shod, and slip-slop. Escocragisg to thk Gihls -Naomt.Enoch's daughter, was five hundred and eighty years fjo H . j v a. " ro-"L, THE RIVER PATH. a. BT JOUN O WHITTIKR. 1 V No bird song, floated down the hill, The tangled Bank below was still ; No rustle from the birchen stem ; No ripple (rom the waters hem. Tlie dusk of twilight roand us grew, We felt ihe falling of the dew. j For, from u, ere the diy was done, The wooded hills shot out the sun, But on the river's farther side We saw the hill-tops glorified. A tender glow, exceeding fair, A dream of day withou: its glare. With us the damp, the chill, ihe gloom; With ikem the sunset's rosy bloom; While dark, through willowy vistas seen, The river rolled in shades between. From out the darkness where we trod, We gazed upon those hills ot God. Whose light seemed not of moon or sun, We spake not, but our thought was one. We paused, as if from that bright shore Beckoned our dear ones gone before; And hi i. led our breathing hearts to hear Tlie voices lost to mortal ear ! Sudden our pathway turned from night; . The nilU swung open to the light, Thro' their green gales the sunshine sho'd, A long slant splendor downward flowed. Down glade and glen and bank it rolled; It bridged tbe shaded stream wilh gold; And borne on piers of mist, allied The shadowy with the sunlit side "So," prayed we, "when our feet draw The river, dark with mortal fear, Tnear And the nighi cometh chill with dew, Oh, Father ! lei thy light break through ! So let the hills of doubt divide, So bridge wilh laiih tbe sunless tide ! So let the eyes that fall on earth On thv eternal hills look forth; And in thy beckoning angels know The dear ones whom we loved below!" Romance at Cape May. A New York paper relates the following incident, in connection with the trip of the Great Eastern : A certain well known artist, who has been connected with one of the illustrated papers, and who-e talents have gained him some celebrity, was among the excursionists who first landed ai Cape May. Quite a number of those who went ashore indulged in a plunge amid the breakers, among them our artist, who, unloriunately, is not an expert swimmer, and having ventured out too far, became exhausted. He was in ihe most imminent danger of being drowned, and eery one seemed in capable of rendering him assistance, when a lady whose tcarlet bathing dress, and dar ing behavior in the water had attracted much attention, darted out through the mighty waves, seized the drowning man by the collar of his flannel shirt, aud con veyed htm sale'y to the shore, amid the deafening cheers of those who looked 011 admiring the spirit that prompted the hu mane teat. This brave and noble girl is a member of an excellent tamily. belonging to what is called the ' test society" in New York fche fir.-t learned lo swim perfectly al her futar's coudtry's seat on the Hudson river, aid many old watering places habitues well remember tier extraordinary fkill and r-eif po.ksesfion in the sport ot surf bathing, t he acquaintance beiweeu her and ihe ar UM, lima romantically begun, prospered fa vorably on the pa?ae home, and already the gosf ips say mat the parents of the hero ine have been succes.tlully consulted on an interes'.M'g subject, concerning the future condition ol the lady that will result in a tpeedy union ol talent and beauty, in the way ot marriage ol u mode, at Cape May. 1 HKtt Mk.v Suffocated in a Well. In Aiiegtien c;ty oa Friday, as we iearn from u.e l'iui.urg Coroiticle, three men named vViliiam Buttles, James Vance and Allrt-ii in.., e i.ad sunk a well in the rear ot Hfn.i.i.i llewdal-s beer hall, corner of Federal ttreet and Central alley, ihe object ol which was the draining of a privy vault in ihe viecini.y. The well having reached a suificieut depth, Alfred Bottles descended the ladJer and proceeded lo tap ihe vault. A lew moments sufficed to open a commu nicalion between the vault, and this effect ed a quantity of foul air rushed into the for-1 mer, evepowering Bottles, and causing him to tail helpless to ihe bottom ol the I 1 well. Vance, who taw him fall, hurried to his aid, but had not descended more than four or five feet when he too was overcome aud fell a senseless mass on the body of his colaborer below. William Bottles now attempted to descend, and was overpower ed and dropped off the ladder to the bottom in the same way. A Mr. Ja mes Taggart at tempted lo rescue them but failed. Alfred Bottles and James Yance were dead when taken out. Taggart was yet living, but he survived only a few minutes, and was ta ken to his home a corpse. William Bottles was also alive, and was taken to his home on Kilbuck street, wither a large crowd fol lowed him. He was thrown into convul sions during the evening, and was so low that his recovery was deemed highly im probable. He survived throughout the night, however, and may now be consider ed out of danger. - "VVht doctor," said a sick lady, "you give me the same medicine as you are giv ing my husband how's that ?" 'AH right.' From the Sublime to the Ridicnlons. I believe the only time I laughed, except j at the jokes of a greater man than myself, I during the perjod I remained an object of envy to millions, said James Madison, was on an occasion I shall never forget. 1 was called out of my bed early one cold winter morning by a person coming on business of the utmost consequence, and dressed my self in great haste, supposing it might be a summons to a Cabinet Council. When I came into my private office I found a long filled man at least six feel hih, with a lit tle apple head, a queue, and a face criti cally round, as rosy as a ripe cherry. He handed me a letter from his excellency, the Honorable o my patronage. I was a lit tie inclined to be rude, but checked myself, remembering that I was the servant of such men as my visitor, and that I mighf get the reputation of an aristocrat, if I made any distinction between man and man. "WVI1, my friead, what situation do you wish ?' ''Why-y-y, I'm not very particular ; but i somehow or other I think I should like to be a minister. 1 don't mean of the gospel, but on of those ministers to foreign potts." "I'm very sorry, very sorry indeed ; there is n vacancy just now. Would not some thing ele suit you ?" "Why y y," answered the apple-headed man, ' I wouldn't much care if I took a situ ation in one of the departments. 1 wouldn't much mind beirg a controller, or an audi tor, or some such thing " -My dear sir, I'm sorry, very sorry, in deed, but it happens, unfortnnalley, that all these situations are at present filled. Would not you take something else?" My friend stroked his chin, and seemed struggling to keep down the soarings of his high ambition to the present crisis. At last he answered : "Why-y-y, y-e s; I don't care if I get a good collectorship, or inspectorship, or sur veyorship, or navy agency." "Really, my good M.. Phippenny," said I, "I regret exceedingly that not only all these pHces, but every other place of con sequence in the government is at present occupied. Tray think of something else ?" He then after some hesitation, asked for a clerkship, ana finally the place of messen ger to one of the public officers. Finding no vacancy here, he seemed in vast per plexity, and looking all around the room, fixing his eyes at length on me, and meas uring my height from head to foot. Then putting on cne of the drollest faces that ever adorned the face of man, he said : Mister, you and I seem to be built much alike haven't you someold clothe yon can spare ?'' Oh, what a falling off was there! from a foreign mission to a suit of old clothes, which the reader may be astured 1 gave with infinite pleasure for the only honest laugh 1 enjoyed for years afterward. The Man who Won't Pay the Printer. May he be shod with lightning, and com pelled to wander over gunpowder. May he have sore eyes, and a chestnut burr for an eye -stone. May every day of his life be more despo tic than the Dey of Algiers. May he never be permitted to kiss a pret ty woman. May he be bored to death by boarding school misses practicing their first lessons in music, without the privilege of seeing his tormentors. May his sheets be sprinkled with cows age, aud bed bugs and fleas be the sharer? of his couch. May 2:40 night mares trot quarter races over hi stomach every night. May his boots leak, his gun hang fire, and his fishing lines break. May his coffee be sweetened with flies, and his soup seasoned wilh spiders. May his friends run off with his wife, and his children take the hooping cough. May his cattle die of murrain, and the pigs destroy his garden. ! May a troop of printer's devils, lean, lank and hungry, dog his heels each day, and a regiment of cats callawaul under bis win dow each night. May tbe famine stricken ghost of an edi tor's body haunt his flumbers, and hiss "Jur2e" in bis dreaming eye. May his cow give sour milk, atd his churn rancid bulter. In short, may his business go to ruin, and he go to the Legislature. Attempt to Blow Up a Man-of-War. During the celebration of the Emperor's fete in Vienna, an attempt was made to blow up a mom moth man-of-war named the Kaiser. An account says : The atten tion of the sentinel on guard over the pow der magazine of the Kaiser having been attracted by a faint, grating noise, seeming to issue from the wood work, be gave the alarm. A search was made and crouching upon his hands and knees was discovered an individual, who, having succeeded in boring an anger hole into tbe powder mag azine, was already inserting the wire to which was fixed the match which he bad destined to blow up the vessel with every soul on board, the whole of tha 6hip lying in the neighborhood, the Archdnke and all his company, including, besides, the greater part of the town iuelf. The culprit be longed to the Kaiser, and turns out to be the officer called in the Austrian service, Second Captain, which answers to First Lieutenant in our own. He was of course, immediately seized, but before he could be Joe's Opinion of Love. Love observed Joe, scarcastically, 'love's' a himposition. There's been more peopld him posed upon by that air vord than by all the professional swindel in natur. It's a gros, a universal himposition j and' il'a on'y werry wonderful to me that ain't long ago been hexpunged. A gal says she loves yer. Werry well ; but are yoa consequent ially obligated to make a fool o' yourself No ? you've on'y got 'er hipisydixy, and vet s the good o' that ? Marry 'er, and you'll werry soon see how sweet's the love aa meets return.' But arout that, look 'ere ol'y just for an instance, a gat loves a sol gervich they all do ; it's reglar ; he's a private j still Kbe loves 'im oh ! hout and . hout! Werry well ! don't yer. think riiM giv 'iTi op for an hofficer ! Vy cos it 'ad be a better chance. Has for love, vicked nest, the swindelinest, himposition as is. The chance is rot gals look out for. Tho on'y question vith them is it a good chance"? If it is they'll have it; if it ain't, they won't unless taen'l got noothing belter. It's tbd deadest take ia,is love, ever heard oa ; a deader vas never hiavented. Yoa take my adwice. and don't be foozled. Yenoveryer 'ear the vord love, always wiew it as a gro himposition. H if yer don't you'll be done, and on'y find out the difference Ten il't tod late. Look at rne ; jist for hinstance. I was sixty-two in Jennewerry last ; look at that ! Sixty-two, and I ain't done yet. I'm inwited to all the parties ; I'm never forgot. There's the old uns as is married, a settia' their darters upon me ; it 'ud be sich a etiance ! and all, in course cos I'm single. Kepnhliean Appeals to Irishmen. In a speech, a few nights since, from that sleps at Berlin's Hotei, to a "Republican meeting in this place, Edgar Cowan Esq. made a strong and earnest appeal to Irish' men to cast iheir rotes with the Republi cans. ' "Irishmen," said he, "who vote with the Democracy are false to their own Green Isle of the Ocean false to the literature of Erin false to its poetry, and false to that love of liberty which beats ia the breast of Irishman everywhere." We call the attention of Irishmen to tha argent and burning language ia which they have been besought to turn their backs up on the party which not long ago stood be tween them and proscription, and then, w e add, as a fit and proper commentary thereon, the fact that, on last Saturday night the Republ ican Torch-Light procession, which paraded the streets of Greensburg, and was addressed by the same gentleman, whose remarks we have quoted above,kept s ep to the music of the "Boyne Water." Irishmen should remember that even as they were appealed to to desert their party, they were met with an open, shameless in suit, and that the faith of their fathers has been derided by a party that profess tho most enlarged liberality. They would ba "false to their own Green Isle of the Ocean fase to ihe literature of Erin false to its poeiry, and false to that love of liberty which beats in the breasts of Irishmen ev ery where," if they failed to feel the keen and cutting taunts, which has thus been thrust into their very faces. Greensburg Democrat. Coal Oil Makufactcrc The extent to which the manufacture of oil from coal is carried on, will surprise many of our read ers. The number of coal oil companies atid firms in this country is said to be fifty seven ; the works being principally situated in this city and Boston, the valleys of tho Ohio and its tributaries. Besides these thero are a number of small coal oil works in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and some of tho Western cities, owned by individuals. Tho quantity of coal oil produced is estimated -at 30,000 gallons per day, or nine millions per annum, worth about 70 cents a gallon, or over b'ix millions of dollars in the aggre gate. Ihe capital expended in coal oil works and cannel coal mining is estimated at lour mil ions, about one-fifth of which has been invested in the Kanawha valley alone. This is independent of the petroleum or oil wells which continue to shed their liquid treasures in abundance. Fears had long been entertained that the whale species would become extinct, and ihas tbe world be obliged to progress the best way it could without lubrication ; but the oil wells and the oil manufactures promise a supplj ad. equate to all our wants. Already the per sons employed in this new department of industry may be numbered by thousands. Pittsburgh, paper. A Signal Instance of Lincoln's Hone tt. The New York Courier and Enquirer startles its Republican readers by ciliung a signal instance of Mr. Lincoln's honesty. In a word or two, it seems tha: Mr. Lincoln who was a Postmaster in a little town in Illinois, while Mr Barry was Postmaster General, resigned his small office, retaining in his hands about two huudred dollars of Government funds. Owing this money ho ought to have promptly paid it op when ho resigned, but he kept it. When Mr. Kendall became Postmaster General, he "drew on Mr. Lincoln for tho amount standing against him on the books of the department." Wonderful to tell, Mr. Lincoln honored the draft and paid the money. He paid two hundred dollars which he ought to have paid before, and the argument is that for paying this money he ought to be made President ! It would seem that tha Courier and Erqui rer expected nothing less than he should have stolen it. Its surprise at finding that he did not, is a significant indication of its want oi confidence in the men with whom it is associated. Had he stolen it, in tho eyes of the Courier and Enquirer, it would have been tha most natural thing in thw
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