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From the People's journal.
THE BATTLE OF CHANGE.
ST 01111111111111 ITATICAT.
A stenetrarre, very extensively engaged
in commerce, and located upon the Long
Wharf, died February 18,1000, at the age
of seventy-five, intestate.- His eldest son
administered upon the estate. This old
gentleman used pleasantly to say, that, fbr
many years, he had fed a very large wis
her of the. Catholics, on the shores of the
Mediterranean, during Lent, refering to
his very extensive connection with the
fishing business. In his day he waicer
tainly well. known ; and to the present
time is well remembered, -by, some of the
:.old ones down along - shore," from the
Gurnet's Nose to' Race Point. Among
his papers, -- pieltege, of - eery considera
ble size, Vas found after his death careful
ly.tied op, and labelled as follows :
"Notes, due-bills, and accounts against
sundry persons, down along shore. Some
of these may be got by suit or severe dun
ning. But the people are poor ; owes of
them have had fishermen's luck. My
children will do as they think best. Per
' haps they will think with me, that it is best
'to burn this package entire."
"About a month," said, my informant,
I ..after our father died, the sons met togeth
er, anj, alter some general remarks, our
elder brother, the administrator, produced
this pack age, of whose existence we were
already apprised, read the superscription,
and asked what course should be taken in
regard to it. Another brother, a few years
younger than the eldest, a man of strong,
impulsive temperament, unable at the 'Mo
ment to express his feeling by words, while
he brushed the tears from his eyes with
one hand, by a spasmodic jerk of the oth
er, towards the fireplace, indicated his wish
to have the package put in the flames.—
It was suggested by another of our num;
ber, that it might be well, first, to make a
list of the debtors' names, and of the dates,
and amounts, that we might be enabled,
as the intended discharge was for all, to
inform enelt as might offer payment, that
their debts were forgiven. On the follow
ing day, we again assembled—the list had
been prepared—and all the notes, due
bills, and accounts, whose amount, in
cluding interest, amounted to thirty-two
thousand dollars, were committed to the
TO MT MOTHER IN HEAVEN: I flames.
Oran Ilmaglite are heaving in the world's wide
breast ;
The, time is laboring with a mighty birth;
' The old ideas hill.
Men wander up an4.down in wild intent.;
A sense at dings preparing for the Earth
Broods over all.
Titer* lea a gloom on all things under heaven-7A
(loos portentous to the quiyt men
Who see no joy In being driven
*ward from change, ever to change again;
Wko never walk but on the beaten ways,
And love the breath Of yesterdays
-11108 who would rather alt and sleep
Whew sunbeams through the ivies creep,
Raab at his door pad sll alone,
Eisislisas of neat or distant wan,
Thin trakiandlisten to the moan
tlf storm-vesed Wefts, nodding to the stars—
Or bast./kr off, tba =dam** MU
Of billows, whits with smith, battling against the
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shore,
Deep on their troubled ands the shadow lies;
And in that shadier come and go,
Wbilelltfol lightnings write upon the skies,
And mystic voices chant the coming woe,
Titanic phantoms swathed in min and fiame—
The mighty shapes of things withodi a name,
Mingling with Sums more palpably defined,
That whirl and dance like leaves upon the wind;
Them, marshaling in long array their hosts,
Rush forth to battle in a cloudlike land,
Thick Phalanxed on throes far aerial coasts,
As swarm the locusts plaguing Sainarcand.
Oh who would live, they cry, in time like this I
Atime otcoudict fierce. and trouble strange:
When old and new, over a dark abyss.
Fight the great battle of relentless change !
And still before their eyes diacrowned kings,
Desolate chiefs, and aged priests forlorn,
FO4 ht,—confused—with all incongruous things,
Swooping in rise and fall on ponderous winds—
While here and there, amid a golden light,
Angelic faces, sweet as Summer morn,
Which gleam an instant ere extinguished quite,
Or change to stony skulls, or spectres livid white.
Bo got to me—oh ! not to me appear
I gloom. I see a brighter sky,
If the healthful motion of the sphere;
Andlyingtiown upon the grass, I hear
Far, he away, yet drawing near,
A low, sweet sound of ringing melody :
I see e swift•winged arrows fly ;
I seeahaide *MI the combatants;
I know the cause for which their weaponsflash,
I hear the martial music sod the chants,
The shock of hosts, the armor clash,
A. thought assets thought;
but Au beyond I use,
Adown the abysses of the Time to be,
The weil,wou victory of the Right;
The flying down of useless swords and spears;
The reconcilement ardently desired
Of Universal TROTH and Murex—
Whose long estrangement, fillingearth with tears,
Gave every manly heart, divinely fired,
A lingering love, a hope inspired,
To reconcile them, never more to,sunder.
Far, far away above the rumbling thunder,
I see the splendor of another Jay.
Ever since infantlime began,
There has been darkness over man:
It rolls and shrivels up I It melte away !
DV 111011/111 VI T D.
Dear wilier, in the silent hours of night,
When stars around me shed their chastened light,
I think of thee, and mourn thou art not here.
With while to blew, and kindly word to cheer.
Ah, mother, life is but a thorny way ;
When longest 'tie at beat a little day,;
A (keen ofsunshine, and anon a donut
The bridal robe, soon followed by the shroud
Deet mother, sadness fills my sleepless eye,
And tears fast follow the unconscious sigh )
But still the heart o'eurtielmed with heavy pier,
In thought of thee, lieu mother, finds relief.
Bear mother, be thou still the watchful guide,
In honor's path of him who was thy rids;
So shalllny feet, from snares of error free,
Treed only paths of truth, toward Heaven and thee..
- Wan rxs Arrurr.—Mr. Willis, wri
ting to the Home Journal from Cossen's
new hotel on the Hudson river, relates the
following :
"Within a stone's throw from the por
tico of the hotel, upon a knoll half hidden
with trees, stands one of the most beauti
fel structures of its kind in this country—a
Moe church, of English rural architec
ture, built by the painter Robert Weir.—
The story of its construction is a touching
poem. When Mr. Weir received ten
thousand dollars from the Government for
Lis picture on the panel of the Capitol, he
invested it, untouched, for the benefit of
his three children. On the death of these
three--soon after, the money revert
4mi to him, but he had a feeling which for-
bads him to use it. Struck with the fa
eontblenein of this knoll under thd moun-
Anowil e
Wu aa to for a place of worship, mud
, y the alUsge near by ,he applied
al* it Mr. Conene, on whose property
litatookwhe at once made a kr* gilt of it
dor she purpose. The painter's taste and
thew /russet to work, and, with the mon
..sy lid hies by his children, he erected this
st,rplissed heautifkl structure in a memo
utility-. Its bell for ere.
sting isstrice sounded a few minutes ago—
AO.teat indented, •apparently, with the
I,,,iiiiilhatiowned all, and making sweet
Antsis liming. the mountains that look down
suet_ ilir.,Weir named it "The Church
4 the Holy Inaocents."
Tinto. mil roasvita.—Lost wealth
nay be regained by a course of industry
aka wreekof health repaired by temperance
-i..krgotten knowledge restored by study
..ai.sdlenated friendship soothed into for
giveness—even forfeited reputation won
Iblek by penitence and virtue. But who
ever again looked upon his vanished hours
4 . recilled his slighted years, and stamped
then with wisdom—or effaced from hea
iieit's record the fearful blot of a wasted
Sigournev.
Uspresstons are made on childrer as
ttioks, by constant droppings of the lit
,de influences. What can one drop do !
Ton scarcely see it full; And presently
it rolls away or is evaporated ; you can
tata, even with a microscopee, measure the
Utile indentation it has made. Yet it is
4161 constant repetition of this trifling agen
cy which furrows, and at length hollows
out the very granite.
PAYING AN - ODD DEBI'.
"It was about four months after our
father's death," continued my informant,
"in the month of June, that, as I was sit
ting in my eldest brother's counting-room,
waiting for an opportunity to speak with
him, there came in a hard-favored, little old
man, who looked as if time and rough
weather had been to windward of him for
seventy years. He asked if my brother
was not the executor. He replied that he
was administrator, as our father died intes
tate. 'Well,' said the stranger 'l've come
up from the Cape to pay a debt I owed
the old gentlemen.' My brother," contin
ued my informant. "requested him to take
a seat, being at the moment engaged with
other persons at the desk.
"The old man sat down, and putting on
his glasses, drew out a very ancient leath
er pocket book, and began to count over
hir money. When he had done—and
there was quite • parcel of bank notes—
as be sat, waiting his turn, slowly twisting
his thumbs, with his old gray, meditative
eyes upon the floor, he sighed; and I
knew the money, as the phrase runs.
came hard—and secretly wished the old
man's name might be found upon the for
given list. My brother was soon at leis
ure, and asked him the common questions
—his name, etc. The Awiginal debt was
four hundred and forty dollars—it had
stood a long time, and, with interest, a-
I mounted to a sum between seven and eight
hundred. My brother went to his desk,
and. after examining the forgiven list at
tentively, a sudden smile lighted up his
countenance. and told me the truth at a
glance—the old man's name was there !
My brother quietly took a chair by his
side, and a conversation ensued between
them, which I never shall forget. 'Yokr
note is outlawed,' said my brother ; was
dated twelve yeses ago, payable in two
years; there is no witness, and no inter
est has ever been paid ; you are not bound
to pay this now; we cannot recover the
amount' Ilir; said the old Man, wish
to pay it. It is the only heavy debt I have
in the world. It may be outlawed here.
but I have no child. and my old woman
and I hope we have made our peace with
God, and wish to do so with man. I should
like to' pay it,' and be laid his bank notes
before my brother, requesting him to count
them over. .1 cannot take this money,'
said my brother. The old man became a
larmed. 'I have cast simple interest for
twelve years and a little over,' said the old
man. .1 will pay you compound interest,
if yousay so. The . debt ought to have been
paid long ago, but your father, sir, was
very indulgent---he knew I'd been unlucky,
and told me not to worry myself about it.'
"My brother then set the whole matter
plainly before him, and, and taking the
bank bills, returned them to the old man's
pocket-book, telling him that, although our
father left no.formal will, he had recom
mended to his children to destroy certain
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notes, and due bills, and other evidences o.
GETTYSBURG, PA. FRIBA EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1849.
debt, and release those who might be le
gally boand to pay them. For a mom , p
the worthy old man appeared to be iM—pe
fied. Alter he had collected himileif, and
wiped a few tears from his,eyes, he stated
that, from the time hiti'fietard of our fath
er's death,.he had .riked and scraped, and
pinchthl and spired, to get the money to-
gether, forihe payment of this debt. 'A
bout ten days ago,' said he. 'I had made up
the sum within twenty dollars. My wife
knew how much the payment of this debt
lay upon my spirits, and &drilled mete sell
a cow 'and make up the difference, and
get the heavy bonbon off my spirits. I
did so—and now what will my old woman
say I I must get back 'Atha Cape and tall
her this good news. She'll probably say
over the very words she said when she put
her hand on my shoulder as we parted—
./ have never seen the righteous man for
saken or his seed begging bread.' After
a hearty shake of the hand, and a blessing
upon our father's memory, he,went upon
his way rejoicing.
"After a short silence—taking his pen
cil and making a cast--.There,' said my
brother, your . part of the amount would be
so much—contrive a plan to convey to me
your share of the pleasure, derived from
this operation, and the money is at your
service."
Such is the simple tale which I have
told, as it was told to me.—Boston Trans
cript.
LEPROBY.—The awful disease of leprosy
still exists in Africa. Whether it be the
same leprosy as that mentioned in the Bi
ble I do not know ; but it is regarded as
perfectly incurable, and so infection, that
no one dares to come near the leper. In
the South of Africa there is a large lazar
house for lepers. It is an immense apace,
enclosed by a very high wall, and contain
ing fields which the lepers cultivate.—
There is only one entrance, which is strict
ly guarded. When any one is found with
the marks of leprosy upon him, he is
brought to this gate and obliged to enter in
never to return. No one who enters in
by that awful gate is ever allowed to come
out again. Within this abode of misery
there are multitudes of lepers in all the sta
ges of the "disease. Dr. Ilelbeck, a mis
sionary of the Church of England. from
the top of a neighboring hill, saw them at
work. lie noticed two particular' yspwing
peas in the field. The one had no hands,
the other had no feet—these members be
ing wasted away by the disease. The one
who wanted the hands was carrying the oth
er who wanted the feet, upon his back,
and he, again, carried in his hands the bag
of seed, and dropped a pea every now and
then,' which the other pressed into the
ground with his foot, and so they managed
the work of one man between the two.—
Ah ! how little we know of the misery
there is in this world. Such is this prison
house of disease. But you will ask who
cares for the souls of the hapless inmates ?
Who will venture to enter again t Who
will forsake father and mother, houses and
land, to carry the message of a Saviour to
these poor lepers t Two Moravian Mis
sionaries, impelled by a divine love for
souls, have chosen this lazar house as their
field of labor. They entered it never to
come out again. And, lam told that, as
soon as they die, other Moravians are quite
ready to fill their place.
HOW TO ACQIIIRIII WEALTH AND A WIFE
I AT oNcs.—"A scheme has been projected,"
says a Barcelona paper, ••by a poor bat tal
ented young man here, anxious to form a
matrimonial alliance with a lady, likewise
without fortune, which has for its aim the
assurance of a competence to the contract
ing parties. For this. purpose the would.
be bridegoom proposes making a raffia of
himself, and with this view has issued five
thousand tickets at a dollar each. ' The
female who shall draw the prize, no mat
ter what her position may be, will be
entitled to full luformation respecting the
physical and moral qualitiesof the gentle.
man, who, on his side, will also be agord
ed the same advantages. If both agree to
conclude the projected alliance, they will
possess a capital of five thousand dollars
to support the charges incident to matri
mony ; bueshould either - object s - the mo
ney is to be divided equally between them,
each being thus furnished with a dowry to
enable them to make a choice in which
chance snail take no part. The plan is
an ingenious one, though i& accomplish.
ment is beset with difficuties. To what a
pitch has calculation and speculation reach
ed 1"
GREAT MEN 1--Great men stand like
solitary towers in the city of God, and se
cret passages running deep beneath exter
nal nature, giving their thoughts intercourse
with higher intelligence, which strengthens
and consoles them, and of which the labor
ers on the surface do not even dream.
'THE HARVEST.—A countryman sow
ing his ground, two smart fellows, riding
that way, ono of diem called to him with
an insolent air, " Well, honest fellow, 'tis
your business to sow, but we reap the
fruit of your labor." To which the emu
tryman replied, " "fie very likely you
may, for I am sowing hemp."
“PIARLEBB AND FREE.”
moNzny's Mezroar.--Authors gen
ieem to thia ki khat the monkey race
ere not capable of fling lasting impres
sions but their ory is' remarkably
tenacious when awl g events call it into
action. A MOD , hioh was permitted
to run f r ee hod, - endy seen the men
servants in the gweili ittry kitchen, with
its huge fire-phase, e down a powder-
horn that stood on chimney.piece, and
throw a few grains to the are. to make
Semima, and the ,of the maids jump
and scream, whbsis, ey always did on
such occasions very ttily. Pug watch.
ed his opportunity; when an lifter - stilt
and he had the kite entirely to himaself,
ha clambered up, * possmution' of the
powder. n, perched himself
very gingerly on' obi side of the horizon.
tid wheels placed flee ithe support of rano&
pans, right over the waning ashes of an al
most -extinct wood.ike, screwed' off 'the
top of the horn. and r e versed it over the
grate. The explosion sent him half way
up the chimney. Before he was blown
up, he was a snug, trim, well-conditioned
monkey, as you would wish to see on s
summer's day . ; he emne dowtje carbons;„
ted negro in miniature, in an avalanishe of
burning soot. The thump with which he
pitched upon die hot ashes in the midst
of the general flare-up aroused him to a
sense of his condition. He was missing
for days. Hunger seism drove him forth,
and he sneaked into the house, close sin.
ged, begrimmed, and looking scared and
devilish. He recovers/ with care, but
like some other great parsonages, he nev
er got over his sudden eleiation and fell,
but became a sadder, if sot:wiser monkey.
lf ever Pug forgot himailf and was trouble.
some;you had only to mks down a pow
der-horn in Ids presenco, and he was off to
his hole like a shot, streaming and clat
tering his jaws like a ptir of castanets.
As ALLIGATOR STORT.—The following
is a strange account °fa Lake full of alli
gators in the East Indies, taken from the
Anglo Indian papers :
u We made an exeurtinu lately to-what
is here called a Mugger Tank, a lake of al
ligators, which lies iR i small and beauti
fully situated grove of trees, surrounded
by a range of kW hills; about nine miles
from Kurrachee. After having , breakfast
ed, we proceeded to the spot where these
hiddeous monsters were congregated.—
They are held sacred by the natives of the
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country, and are regularly fed by the con
tributions of devotees. The tank is more
like an °coalmen meadow than a lake,
having deep channels intersecting each
other, and is litterally alive with these huge
u muggers," some basking on 'the knolls
and ridges, others floating on the surface of
the deep water. They were of all sixes,
front a fait or two to twenty or twenty.
feet in length, and balky in proportion.—
Having purchased a kid, and cut it up on
the batiks, there was a universal opening
of their capacious jaws. which they kept
distended in expectation of having a piece
of flesh thrown into them. and are too lazy
to make any further demonstration. The
native keeper who feeds them began call
ing to them, when they came one by one
lazily along, and waddling on to the shore,
each took what was given to him. The
rapidity with which the poor kid vanish
ed. head and heels, was truly astonishing.
They knew the keeper quite well ; and if
any one should take up what is not thrown
to him the keeper makes him drop it by
striking him over the snout with his stick.
Their jaws are certainly dreadful clap.
traps, and the crash they make when
brought together is horrible, crushing the
bones even of the head of their prey like
so much mush. It is probable, setting
aside motivesof superstition, that the in
habitants now find it necessary to feed
these voracious monsters, for, were the
supplies to be stopped. they would become
dangerous neighbors. In fact, they do at
times pick up and devour a stray child left
on the banks by accident or design.—
There are here three hot springs, one of
which supplies the tank, and is of a tem
perature of about sixty-six degrees. The
two others have a temperature of one hun
dred and eighty degrees. The, water is
sues from the tick as pure as chryoud;Ond
in great abundance."
THE GRANDEUR OF MAN.--" The birth
of an infant," it has been truthfully said,
is a greater event than the production of
the sun. The sun is only slump of sense
less matter; it sees not its own light; it
feels not its own heat; and with all its
grandeur. it will cease to be—hut that in
hint, beginning to breathe yesterday, is
possessed of reason, claims a principle in
finitely superior to matter, and will live
through the ages of eternity." Let the
immortal mind shed its lustre upon the
world.
QUEER CALCULATIONS.--The editor of
the Yankee Blade says : "It would be a
curious sight to see all the babies in the
United States under five years of age to
gether ; they would be a pretty collection
of 2,400,000. What a equalling there
be should they all get spanked at the same
time, and what a great heap of sugar plums
it would take to quiet them !"
Gamma, BEn.—The following anec
dote is going its rounds in Vienna con
cerning Bern. For many years he has
had forbodings of his death. He himself
has for many years assigned the year 1850
as the term of his existence. During his
stay in Paris be once dined with the North
American ambassador. The conversation
fell on forebodings, omens, and the like.
The ambassador laughed at them, but Bem
declared he firmly believed in them, and
related how he had thrice seen, when
in his twentieth year, his own grave
stone, with his name, and the date of
1850 on it. Bem received in Tran
sylvania several dangerous wounds, The
Physician shook his- head, but Bern an
swered it quite calmly by saying that he
had another year to live. On the faith of
this vision, Bern exposes himself to the
hotted fire, and declares that the hall
which tdiall bit him mortally will not do
so before the year 1850.
THE WORLD A nett POND.—An ex
change paper' ays, the world is a great
fish pOnd full of eeli end suckers."
Now, if there were not worse fish s
mong the Muslin and inAtenunts than eels
and suckers, one could get along tolerably
well. But there.are as many kind of mon
stare on the land as there are in the mighty
deep. 1 Every kind of fish is represented
by men, from the whale or capitalist, and
shark or land monopolist, down to the mi
ser or muck worm. There is the sword
fish or warrior, and Marko of different
kinds, such as priests, / lawyers, doctors,
and other loaferr. Then there ara squibs
or political editors, squirting their blinding
ink in the eye. of honest fish ; also lob
sters, erobs,jial:fig, and so on, down from
the whale that swallows small fish, to the
Liam or muscle that burrows in sectarian
mud, or the tad-pplo of fashion that , wrig-
gifts, about in shallow water. All the inhabi
tants of the ocean are represented, not ex
cepting the mighty keialhan or. the old
re rperd himself, and nearly all are preying
on those weaker than themselves. .Talk
about nothing but eels and suckers t Why,
man 1 if there were nothing else in the
great fish pond', every man would havi en.
joyed his right to liberty and the use of
the soil long since; all would have. had 4*
home of some sort, and grinding and op..
pression would not be known—the world
would be more like a paradise than a fish
pond.
WEBTeRN ETIQUETTE.
Our Yankee -, traveller who saw the live
Hoosier has again wriiten to his mother :
""Western people go to their death on
etiquette. 'You can't tell a man here that
he lituwas you can down east, without
fighting. A few days ago. a man was, tai
ling two of his neighbors in my bearing a
pretty large story. .
. Says LAEltrenget that's a whopper?".
Says he, "I.ay there, manger I"
And in a twinkling of an eye I found
myself in the ditch, a perfect quadruped,
the worse for wear and tear. Upon ano
ther occasion, says 1 to &swan] never saw
before, as a women passed, "That.isn't, :
a specimen of your . western women is it 1"
Bays he. "You are afraid of the fever
and ague, stranger, ain't you ?"
"Very much," says I.
"Well," replied he, "that lady is my
wife, and if you don't apologise., in two
minutes, by the honor of a gentlemen. I
swear that these two pistols, (which lie
held cocked in his hands) shall cure you
of that disorder entireli—so don't fear
stranger !" 801 kneltdown and politely
apologised. .1 admire this western coun
try much; but cursema if I can stand so
much etiquette ; it, alwais takes me una
wales."—Chicago Democrat.
The late Mr. Jarvey Bush amused ue
once with a story told of a brother barris
ter on the Leicester Circuit. Al the coach
war about starting after breakfast, the
modest limb of the law approached the
landlady, a pretty cuakeress, who was
seated behind the bar, and said he could
not think of going without giving her a
kiss.
•, Friend," snit! she, ", then must not do
4 , Oh, by Jupiter, I will," replied the
barrister.
Well, friend, u thou haat sworn, thee
may do it, but thee must not make a prac
tice of ii."
TOUCIIINGI THE OIIIPATIIISS.--." Anal,
Pat, and why did you marry met Just
tell me that—fof it's tneself that's had to
maintain ye ever since Father O'Flartugan
sent mo to yer house."
Swate jewel," replied Pat, not relish.
ing the charge ,"and it's meself that hopes
to live to see the day that ye're a widow
weeping over the cowld sod that covers
me, then, by St. Patrick, I'll see how you
get along withobt me, honey dear."
CHINESE MODE OF ADMINISTERING OATHS.
—Tho witness is made to kneel, and to
break a saucer on a bar in front of him.
The following oath is then administered:
" You shall tell the truth, and the whole
truth ; the saucer is cracked; if you do
not tell-the truth, your soul will be crack
ea like the sweet."
DEVIL'S FUNERAL SERNON.—.OIIO of George Llppord,
the neighbors of the Rev. J. C. as The slippery character of George Lipper,' es a
we have been informed, thinking in play Politician, and his inflated mannerism as a penny.
a-liner, have excited considerable sport, particular.
a joke on him, met him in the street and
addressed him thus : ly as he has the vanity to imagine that he is a Min
of great consequence, and has been very oatenta
"Mr. , wish you to preach a fu-
c . tnus
in proclaiming his latest political flip-flap.—
neral sermon." Thew acquainted with George's bombastic pro
"Ah, who is dead 1" inquired the Min'. ductiona, will recognise in the following sketch,
from the Trenton Gazette, a most capital imita
tion of his style, both in the language and in the
horrible slimly of bristling exclamation points with
which he habitually tips off his popgun semen
cent
"'rite devil," was the reply..
"Well. and you wish me to preach a fu
neral sermon."
do." •
"Very well, I will do it."
So the time and place were Ihed for the
service, which being being in a private
dwelling, seats were provided for the au
dience, the front one of which the min
later kept from being occupied till the peo
ple had all collected. Ile then addressed
them in the following manner :
•"It is a custom where I have generally
officiated on funeral occasions, to reserve
the front seats for the friends of the de
ceased. I have accordingly kept these
in reserve for the connections of him whose
funeral sermon I am requested 'to preach,
who le, as you are probably aware, th e
devil.
“Now, before I commence, I wish his
children and mourners to come forward
and occupy these seats.”
As no one o beyed the call, he remarked
again— , 4l do not- know but that the old
gentleman has a number of children pre
sent, 'And Should be glad to have them
comply . with the usual custom of mourn
ers." "1 though it would turn out so t the
father is not dead, or his children would
shim proper respect to his memory, so I
shall address you on another subject."—
He then preached them a faithful sermon.
We heard this story and did not believe
it,:but afterwards meeting with the minis
law himself, we inquired if it was true, and
he said it was.—Olive Branch.
Africa needs to be explored. There are
not less than three opinions upon the point
of its population. By some it is stated at
forty millions, and by others at ninety mil
lions, and again at one hundred and thirty
"Husband, do you believe in the special
judgmenta'of Providence upon individuals
ht this life ?"
"Yes, my dear." •
6.1.)0 you indeed f Did one of the judg.
menu ever happen to you ?"
..Yes, my Jove."
•t When srae it, husband 1"
esWherr I married you, my dear."
Wire fences have been iittroducal upon
farina in. many ports of the country, and
prove very - useful as well as ornamental.
The testi►nony in their favor is very
strong. They can be built cheaper than
common fences; and answer every purpose
as well it not better.
The average duration of life amongst the
working classics of England—the most
numerous elaues--is estimated at about
twenty-eight Years—the duration of the
aristocracy is estimated at forty-six.
The Emperor of Russia has issued a
pnielatriation olrering R reward of twenty
thousand dollars for the head of Gen.Bein,
the Polish. General, at the present time
heading the Hungarian army.
"What's the matter, John? hove
a Bible at mo and hit my head." Well,
you are tho only buy of the family on
which the Bible ever made an impresion—
ory us long as you please,"
There are one hundred and six thou
sand and seven hundred poor, sick, crimi
nal and debauched people in Berlin, the
model city Of. Germany.
A PpuTicrisN.—There is a man in Illi
oois, named Barrow. who has - ehanged his
polities so often that he has now got the
sobriquet of wheel-Barrow.
"Do make yourself at home, ladies,"
said a lady one day to her visitors. “ I
am at home myself and I wish you all
were."
A Frenchman wishing to tell a fat lady
she was very considerate, said :—"Mad
am, you aro very considerable."
The Austrian soldiers receive but four
cents a day. Killing their brethren for
four cents a day l What an occupation !
The passions, like heavy bodies down
steep hale, once in motion, move them
selves, and know no ground but the bottom.
By . (wooing the tongue of the patient,
physicians find nut the diseases of the
body, and philosophers the diseases oflthe
mind.
While you are in the habit of intempe
rance, you often drink up the value of au
acre of laud in a night.—Father
There have been six thousand seven
hundred and eighty-two suicides in France
during the last thirty years.
It is computed that the rats in tlie
States consume six million* o( dollars
worth of grain a year.
A theps (Greece) bus tug opty.tu9 jour
nals. '
Gaze nut on the hietTligho of olhOrb•
TWo DOLLARE PER 'APIIVIIk.
INEW SERIES-NO. 134.
THE ROMANCE OF HUMBUG.
A TN*ULM; STORY •T °WILDE PAIDLIP
It was night in the •Quaker City IV
A small man in rolling eyes and big
shirt collar, sat at a desk above which.
gleamed a vivid fire, issuing from a curi
ously wrought Iron tube.
The light was of gas.
The small man in the rolling Cyan and a
big shirt coliiir was of gas also !
TFIRRIBLE comma:cc , l" "
"I will do the deed," hissed the anima
ted gas pipe, through his clenched teeth,
as he seized a pen and spread a white scroll
before him ! "I will do the deed!"
And that fierce man, in that Quaker Ci
ty, in that chamber, by that gas light,
wrote these fearful words—
"l REPUDIATE GENF:RAL 'CAVIAR!! !!"
Had the falls of Niagara been suddenly
turned into Vesuvius, amid the plaudits of
the concentrated thunders of the universe,
backed by the coalesced lightnings of il
limitable space, and the whole been hurled
in conglomerated night-mare upon the re
pose of Old Zack, the effect could not have
been more bewildering to the doomed Pres
ident than was that awful sentence.
EMI=
IMPORTATIONS AT NEW YORK.-..ThO
quantity of Foreign Dry Goode which
were entered at the Custom House of New
York alone for the weekending on Satur
day evening last, amounted to. NINE
HUNDRED AND TEN THOUSAND,
FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS—almost
a million of dollars in a single week, while
our Factories are closing and the people
are idle.,
A gentleman from Philadelphia, assured
us, a few days ago, that more Steam En
gines were standing idle in that city and
vicinity, than have been known within the
last ten years. This accounts for the un
usually slim demand for Coal at this sea
son of the year—but throw up your hats,
boys, and give three cheers for the Tariff
of 1846—Locofocoism declares it is the
best bill ever passed for the working-moo
-of this country.—Miners' Journal.
A mtw Issas has been raised in Spar
tanburg, South Carolina. A man named
Barrett was arrested and imprisoned for
circulating incendiary publications. A let
ter in the Post office, addressed J. E.
Thomson, was suspected to contain evi
dence of his guilt. The Postmaster at
first refused to bring the letter into court.
He was arrested and put in jail, and then
gave bond to appear and produce the let
ter. This raises the question whether the
State authorities have a right to overhaul
the mail, and cause such letters as they
suspect wbe opened. The Smith Caro
lina papers are in arms, anticipating a di
cision against them, and vow they will
resist to the last extremity" rather than
yield the ground they have taken. The
Spartanburg Spartan is quite ferocious.
—Richmond 'Ames.
ROKANCE or MATRIXONT.--TllO PM*.
town Ledger mentions a recent matrimo
nial alliance in that neighborhood, in which
the happy groom was just 29 years bid,
and his blushing bride only 88 !
The same paper records another singu
lar incident in the matrimonial line. A
venerable couple, not far from the ripe age
of "three score and ton," applied to a Potts
town clergyman to make them one in the
silken bonds : .but he was compelled to
postpone the ceremony, because the old
greybeard could not tell hint the Christian
name of his companion. Ile was a wi
dower of three months standing---she.a wi
dow of ten months.
DEATH FROM . LAUDANUM.—Mrs. Organ,
residing at 51 Elizabeth street, N. York,
being seized with cramps in the stomach
on Sunday morning, her husband procured
three cents worth each 4,camphor and
laudanum, which was administered to her
in four doses, at different tins. The
woman soon became stupid and lost her
senses, and, although three physicians ex•
cried all their skill, they failed to revive
her, and she died during the evening.
CHARLES ELLET, a distinguished girl!
engineer, says that the navigation of the
Ohio river may be made permanent
throughout the year for boats drawing &re
feat of water, by the construction of re
servoirs that would not cost over 11600,000.
Say, Jeff," mad a tlarkey to a clonal
of his, " uan you tell me the reason why
'women never have boards ?" ' .
't Why, Jonue, 1 don't know al t was
unloas it is bokose do• Lord didn't Mdkilws
tad dam to occupy the toll= position. Dot`'
day was'ut calculated for the same par.
pose as Us WWI. "
Irbst Iyha! yba.' yea an tie mcw,
ignoramus nips I ebbct souls .1144 why
dat am not de reason. de reason ma jetty
simple. it ant bokase dey cats% keep their
mouth shut lung enough to got 144114:1