By D. A. & .0. 11. BUEHLER.
VOL. XX-36.1
BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
A FRESH SUPPLY.
111 H. BUEHLER respectfully announ
• ces to his friends and the public gen
erally, that he has recently made a large
addition to his former full supply of all
kinds of
Classical, School & 7\,
Miscellaneous ..
BOOKS,
together with a general assortment of STA
TIONERY, for schools and private uses
--all of which will be sold at the very low
est prices.
Gettysburg, Oct. 26, 1840.
TRE TWO EXTREMES PROVI
DED FOR !
HATS AND OAPS,
lit
IA P® 01:12bM670
WM. W. PAXTON
HAS commenced the BOOT & SHOE
Business, with HATS & CAPS,
and has now on hands a large and com
plete assortment of
HATS AND CAPS, BOOTS AND
SHOES.
of every description, suitable for men, wo
men and children, which he will tell at
low prices for good pay. Call and exam
ine the Stock of Goods. It is not neces
sary to describe minutely, for—Remember
that every article that can make the head
and feet comfortable and handsome, in all
seasons of the year, can be had at his
Store, two doors below the Post-office.
oryNery superior New York and
Philadelphia Silk and Beaver Hats con
stantly on hand.
Gettysburg, Oct. 19, 1849.—tf
NEW POTTERY,
n' eat Charrabersburg Street, Gettysburg,
Penn'a
THE subscriber respectfully inform
the citizens of Gettysburg and the
public generally that he has operied a
New Pottery,
at the end of West Charnhersburg street,
where he will be prepared to supply or
ders (wholesale and retail) for CR( WKS,
POTS, and all kinds of Earthenware, on
the most reasonable terms. The atten
tion of the public is invited to his estab
lishment, andorders for Ware respectfully
solicited.
JACOB NOTTNAC:EI,
October 26, 15'49.-3t•
V' it kLt Bit E F Ali m
Jl7' PR1V.177; STILE
PINIIE subscriber offers at Private Sale
the FA HAL on which he resides, sit
uate in Liberty township, Adams county,
(Carroll's Tract,) lying upon the public
cross-roads, leading from Gettysburg to
Waynesburg. and from Emtnitsburg to
Fairfield, containing
t 3OO ailziatatac.
more or less, of patented land, of which
200 Acres are cleared and in a good state
of cultivation. The balance is covered
with the very best Timber. There is a
good proportion of Meadow. The
provements are a two-story
B ROUGH-CAST
ea
• • Dwelling House,
with the back-building attached, a large
Barn, (part frame and part log) wagon
shed, corn-crib, and other outbuildings.—
There is a never-failing well of water, with
a pump in it, convenient to the door. The
farm is well supplied with running water.
The fencing is good, and the farm is in the
very best order.
_ . .
JOSEPH HUNTER
Aug. 24, 1849.-4
NOTICE.
ETTERS Testamentary on tho Es
tate Of GEORGE FLEAOLE, late Ot
Mounjoy, tp. Adams co., dec'd, having
been granted to the subscriber, notice is
herobygiveu to all who are indebted to said
Estate, to make payment w ithou tdelay, and
to those having claims to present the same,
properly authenticated, to the subscriber,
residing in same township, for settlement.
ENOCH FLEAGLE, Ex'r.
Oct. 28, 1849.-Bt*
EIGHT TEACHERS WANTED.
Tram School Directors o f Cumberland
-m• township will meet at the public house
of CONRAD SNIDER in the borough of Get
tysburg, on Saturday, November 24th
inst., for the purpose of receiving applies.
tiona for the teaching of the several
schools in the township.
By order of the Board,
'JACOB BEAMER, Sec'y.
Nov. 9.-z-31. •
AT, THE OLD STAND )
BUT Lira .IVEW Sirup:
J. G. FREY
RENDERS his acknowledgments to
his friends for past favors, and has
the pleasure of announcing that he is again
located at the old stand, on Washington
street, "one square south of Thompson's
hotel, where lie will be prepared, as here
tofore, to do all kinds of
Coach, Cloth, & Sian Painting.
lICPCAIRIA.GE REPAIRING done
at short notice, nand on reasonable terms,
for which Country Produce will be taken.
The subscriber is thankful far past fa..
TOM, and hopes. by attention to businea j i,
and a -dinire to please, to merit and If e
coiv e a cuutinuauco of public-patronage.
J. G.; FREY.
Gettysburg, lan. 12, 1840.—tf
From the North American and U. S. Gazette
HUNGARY.
)T /ULU I. L. CA PULL
Away beyond the surging sea, beyond the wave-
worn strand,
A people bellied valiantly for their beleaguered
land,
From all her sunny slopes rang forth, arousing
men from rest,
The shout of the oppressor, and the cry of the op-
prowled
But the untamed spirit of her hills dwelt fetter-
less and free,
Beside the hearths and in the homes, of hapless
Hungary ;
And up, as lions from their lair, leaped forth each
stalwart ion,
The hardy hunter of the wolf, the brown-browed
husbaridman,
While like an alpine avalanche they gather in
their might,
For freedom and for fatherland to wage the une
qual fight.
By the darkly towing Danube, by the turf clad
land of Drava,
The clarion pealed a summons for the Slithering
of the brave,
Mid the blue Carpathian mountains rang the toc
sin clear and high,
And their everlasting echoes shrieked in many
voiced reply.
No coat of mail the Magyar wore, no terror did he
feel,
For strong in justice, and in right, his very heart
was steel :
He listened to his chieftain's words, while tear
drops dimmed his eye,
An thus, unto her children's hearts, he plead for
Hungary :
"My comrades, sorrow shrouds tho land that
smiled upon your birth,
The music by her hearths is hushed, the voices
tuned to mirth,
Are Cent in her darkened homes : amid her bit
tames
She calls uloud upon her lona, for aid and for re-
d
With falchion, and with &leaflet, with clarion,
trump and drum,
From Styrian and from Noric Alpa, behold the
foeinen come—
The banners of the Hapsburg house are to the
breeze flung back—
Imperial Vienna's hosts are following on the
track—
And forth, upon unholy wing, from alpine eyrie
grey,
Soars the royal Austrian eagle, like • vulture to
her prey.
They trample on our hungary, a hold, intruding
train !
They fill her sunny valleys up like ranks of ripen
ed grain
The reaper, in midsummer, fella to earth the gold
en wreath—
My brave huzzars, be huebandmen, in this har
vest field of death I"
Then rose a roar of wild acclaim, WO the surge
of stormy seas,
Then bright-hued banners streamed abroad, and
pennons kissed the breeze—
Then marching squadrons fiercely met,and ming
ed in their might,
While Death's dark angel rode the blast and
brooded on the fight.
Oh ! virtue, valor, were ye vain ! Oh! Justice,
did ye sleep 1
When tyrant called to despot then, as deep calls
unto deep.
And with joint forces, like the waves of the insa
tiate sea.
Bore down to ruin and to wreck the hopes of
Ilt.N OAR r.
BURR AND HIS DAUGHTER
The history of every nation is fraught
with romantic incidents. England has
the story of her Allred ; Scotland of her
Wallace, her Bruce. her Mary, and her
Charles Stewart; Ireland her Fitzgerald ;
France her Man with Iron Mask, and Ma
ria Antoinette ; Poland her Thaddeus, and
Russia her Siberian exiles. But we very
much doubt whether any exceeds in inter
est the touching story of Aaron Bur and
his highly accomplished and beautiful
daughter, Theodobia. The rise and fall
of Burr in the affections of his country
trymen, are subjects of deep historical in
terest. At one time we see him carried
on the wave of popular favor, to such gid
dy heights that the Presidency itself seem
ed almost within his grasp, which he only
missed to become the second officer in the
new Republic. He became Vice Presi
dent of the United States. How rapid
his rise, and then his fall, how sudden,
how complete. In consequence of his
duel with Hamilton, he became a fugitive
from justice, is indicted for murder by the
Grand Jury of New Jersey, flies to the
South, lives for a few months in obscurity
until the meeting of Congress, when he
comes forth and again takes the chair as
President of the Senate. After the term
expires, he goes to the West, becomes a
leading spirit in a scheme to invade Mex
ico, (very few will believe he sought a dis
memberment of the Union,) is brought
back a prisoner of State to Richmond,
charged with high treason, is tried and ac
quitted, is forced to leave his native coun
try and go to Europe. In England he is
suspected, and retires to France, where he
lives in reduced circumstances, at times
not being able to procure 'a meal of vic
tuals.
After an absence of several years he
finds means to return home. He lands in
Boston without a cent in his pocket, an
object of distrust to all. Burr had heard
no tiding of his daughter since his depar
ture from home. He was anxious to hear
from her, her husband, and her boy, an
only child, in whom his: soul was bound
up. The first news he heard was, that
hie grandchild died while he was an out
cast i ct forei g n lands, which stroke of Pro
videtAhe felt keenly, for he dearly loved
the boy. Theodosia, the daughter of
Burr, was the wife of Governor Allston.
of Sod* Carolina. She was married
when young, and while her father was in
the zenith of his fame. She was beauti-
• , .i.
fill and anipmplished, a lady of the finest
92 1
feelings, liaising writer , a devoted wife,
i fond m er, and a most dutiful and lo
ving da 'ter, who clung with redoubled
affecti to the fortunes of her father. ae
GETTYSBURG, PA. FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, 1849.
the clounds of adversity gathered around
him, and he was deserted by the friends
whom he formerly isherished. The first
duty Burr performed after his arrival here,
was to acquaint Mrs. Allston of his re
turn. She immediately wrote back to him
that she was coming to see him, and
would meet him in a few weeks in New
York. Not receiving any tidings of her
arrival, he was anxious to learn the clause
of her silence.
What had occurred to delay the vessel;
why had it not arrived? These were
questions which Burr could ask himself,
but no one could answer. The 'equal
soon was told. The vessel never arrived.
It undoubtedly foundered at sea, and all on
board perished. No tidings have ever
been heard respecting the versel, the crew,
or the daughter of Aaron Burr ; all were
lost.
This last sad bereavement was only re
quired to fill Burr's cup of sorrow. "The
last link was broken," which bound him
to life. The uncertainty of her life but
added to the poignancy of hie grief.—
Hope, the last refuge of the afflicted, be
came extinct, when years had rolled on,
and yet no tidings of the beloved and lost
one were gleaned.
Burr lived in Nhtv York until the year
1830, we believe, when he died. The
last years of his life were passed in
comparitive obscurity. Some few old
friends, who had never deserted him, were
his companions; they closed his eyes in
death, and followed his body to the grave,
where it will rest till the trump of the Al
mighty shall call it into judgment.
Such is a brief sketch of the latter part
of the strange and eventful history of Aa
ron Burr. Nbne of the family now live ;
it has become extinct; and his name but
lives in the history of his country, and in
the remembrances of those who knew
him.
IMPROVING CHURCH MUSIC
A correspondent of the Newark (N. J.)
Advertiser, writing from Braintild, et., tells
the following "good one"—"By the way,
a good story may be told of our chorister's
attempt at improving the psalmody as well
the music of our church. He set some
music of his own to one of the Psalms of
Watts, a fiery familiar Psalm, in which oc
cur these lines :
.0h may my heart in tune be found
Like David's harp of solemn sound."
Calling on his pastor, who has more
music in him than you would think, the
chorister asked his approbation of a new
version of these lines which would .render
them more readily adapted to the music he
had composed. He suggested to read
them as follows:
"Oh may my heart be tuned within,
Like David's sacred violin."
The good pastor had some internal ten
dencies to laugh in the man's face, but
maintainig his gravity as well as ho could,
he said that bethought he could improvethe
improved version, admirable as it was. The
delighted chorister begged him to do so,
and the pastor taking hie pen, wrote before
the eyes of the innocent parishioner, these
lines:
"Oh, may my heart go didle, didle."
Like uncle David's sacred fiddle."
The poor leader, after a vain attempt to
defend his own parody, retired, and I guess
he will sing the psalm as it stands."
SAN FRANCISCO "IN SLlCRS."—..gonna
one that has an eye to the ludicrous writes
to the Boston Post his first impressions of
San Francisco, thus :
"Landed at a muddy, rocky, and dusty
sort of landing, and ascended a sort of
small hill, and there I was with San Fran
i cisco city before me. What a scene ! I
shall never forget it : such a crowd of hu
manity, dirty, squalid, lazy, drunken,
lounging, ragged, well-tiressetether—
merchants, speculators, blacklegs, sailors,
nigger', Indians—people from all parts of
the world all perfectly at home in each
other's company—all distinctions levelled
by gold—Jack and the cook as good as
their master—so democratic about it, too,
without being actually insulting. I think
I can correct one or two erroneous ideas
which, perhaps, you as well as others en
tertain. One is with regard to the almost
magical creation of a city, giving you, per
haps, the idea of a new place, town, or
city, such as is built in the United States
in no time. This is an error., Instead of
neat white wooden houses, cleanliness,
Elt.c., here you see the greateit collection
of pig-sty looking shanties ever beheld.
A little shanty about the size of your aunt's
old hen-house would be esteemed good
property—would be dignified with a sign
over it of so and so, "general merchants."
The benefits of society are various; bu
the fact that one roust 'throw away a good
hat or coat, because it is unfashionable, is
not peculiarly consolatory to people of
small means.
Tow; said a'judge in Missouri, to a
witness on the stand, 'how do you know
the plaintiff was intozioatai on the availing
referral to!'
llamas. I oaw him a raw minutes after
the muss, trying to pull off his troweling
with a bootjack
Vodka for the defendant.
"FEARLEBS AND FREE."
REMARKABLE ROCK ON LAKE BUPE•
REM
One of the most remarkable rocks of
which we have any knowledge has lately
been discovered in the middle of the inland
sea, Lake Superior. -By &gentleman who
has lately returned from Copper Harbor,
we learn that a shaft ' of trap-rock has late
ly been discovered, rising in the lake from
150 to 200 miles from lend, and ascending
above the water a distance of not over four
feet. What renders it more extraordinary
is, that it stands alone; and all around, so
far as examinations have been made, no
bottom has been reached by any of the
lead-lines used on the lake ; and the point
of the rock itself does not exceed as area
of more than six or seven feet square, and,
so far as observation :Of it has extended, it
does not appear to enlarge in size as it de
nt nds. It has already, he states, become
a source of alarm to the mariners who na
vigate the lake, whO take special care in
passing to give it as wide a berth as possi
ble.
It is too small, too remote and too dan
gerous to admit of a light, and therefore its
removal will doubtless pertain to the duty
of Government. A single blast from a
bore of sufficient depth would do it; but,
the surface of the rock being so near that
of the water, and the space so narrow as
to forbid any regular lodgement for work
men, they would have to be attended con
stantly by a ye, 'el of sufficient size to re
sist any suddr storm on the lake; and
would also ha . e to be kept constantly un
der way, as no harbor, or even bottom for
an anchor, is within a day's sail.
The discoveret's relate that the rock ap
pears to be a place ofgeneral resort for the
salmon trout of those lakes, as they found
them in al most incalculable numbers, ha
ving, during their short stay, caught sever
al barrels with no other instrument than a
rod of iron, on one end of which they turn - -
ed a hook. They tried, with all their
lines on board, for soundings immediately
around the rock, but without success.—
Such a vast column. could it be exposed
to view, would laugh in ridicule Cleopa
tra's needle, Pompey's pillar, the Colos
sus of Rhodes, or ally production of an
cient or modern art.
THR FRENCHMAN OVERBOARD.—We
heard a good story the other day of a
Frenchman, who came very near commit
ting involuntary suicide, by drowning him
self in the Ohio. That classic stream has
lately been very low, there only being suf
ficient water to admit the passage of very
small-sized boats. On one of these a
Frenchman, just from La Belle Prance,
and consequently ignorant of the manners
and customs on western steamboats, had
taken passage from Pittsburg to New Or
leans. The water was very low, the
stream very contracted, and the bars very
frequent. Every few miles the boat would
get aground on one of these impediments,
while its passengers would be annoyed by
the sight of more fortunate pedestrians
wading from Kentucky to Ohio, and vice
versa. One day, the boat, as usual, struck
on a bar, where she seemed likely to be a
permanent fixture until the next spring
freshet should float her ofT. After many
expedients had been tried in vain to move
her from her position, the pilot said to the
passengers who were on the hurricane deck
—•• Now, gentlemen, all run forward at
once, and I think she'll go over just as
easy as falling off' a log." Accordingly,
all started off as if they were running for s
wager, and our Frenchman, without exact
ly knowing why, but having art indistinct
notion that something was wrong, not only
followed their example, but soon outstrip
ped the rest. Just at this moment, some
malicious individual called out " jump
jump !" which words the Frenchman hap
pened to understand. So, instead of stop
ping where the others did, to the astonish
ment of every body, he threw himself'
headlong into the river. A yawl was im
mediately lowered, and the poor French
man was rescued from his perilous posi
tion, without having sustained any injury
except a thorough wetting and a good
fright. As soon as- he could speak, he
said, with an expression of anger, which,
taken in connection with his words, was
rather ludicrous :
Vat you mean by eay ' Jump, jump 1'
You tell me to jump, and yo ur damn boat
no blow up at all, end I get one dunking
for nothing, eh I"
The Albany boat had just arrived, and
the lantlin,g was as usual crowded with cab
men, porters, loafers, &c. When the pas
aengerseommenced landing, a colored por
ter stepped up to a country looking chap,
saying : ,
- 47iCarry your baggage, sir t' . . -
'41 4 10, I rather gam not,' wag the reply
+Shan't I carry your btu*?
''Not darn yet`[ ain't got any baggage.'
The portar looked it bite I'ot:flouts, then
vei 0914 1 Y ;looped 0014140 taking, hold
bfitili foot, said with an air of aistouisbutent.
V by,
.Malea, that's ode of your feet
aiult it! bong me if I didn't *Mk it wait a
lei#er trunk('
very Ftion shomld be some sign of
peel (mites* prePlot•
Tex Tnantatoirrsa.—The thermometer,
although invented half a century earlier
than the barometer, was more than half a
century later in arriving at perfection..;--
.Hero, who flourished at Alexandria about
130 years before Christ, has described; in
his Spiriialia, escort of huge weather-glasi,
in which water was made to rise and fall
by the viciaitudes of day and night, or
rather the changes of heat and cold. This
machine had been for ages over-looked, or
merely considered in the light of a Curious
contrivance. But Sanctorio, a very learn
ed and ingenious Italian physician, who
was long professor of medicine in the Uni
versity of Padua, and labored to improve
his art by the application of experimental
knowledge, reduced the hydraulic machine
of Hero into a more compendious: form ;
and thus constructed, about the close of the
sixteenth century, the instrument known
by the name of the air thermometer, which
he employed with obvious advantage .to
examine the heat of -the - human body in
cases of fevers.
The great improver of the thermometer
was Farenheit, originally a merchant of
Dantzic ; who i having failed in business,
and being attached to chemical and manu
facturing pursuits, was obliged to gain a
livelihood by making and selling these in k ,,
struments. The division of the therniom
etrical scale had occupied the attention of
several learned and ingenious men; but it
was Farenheit who first pointed out the
most accurate means of accomplishing this
purpose. He observed how the boiling
point differed under different degrees of at
mospheric pressure, and pointed out the
necessity of fixing it at a mean barometri
cal altitude. He had also noticed that a
degree of cold much more intense than
that of ice might be procured by the mix
ture of snow and salt; and conceiving this
to be extreme cold, he commenced his
scale from that point, which is 32 degrees
below the freezing of water:— Accordingly
Firenheit's scale commences at O degrees;
the temperature of his freezing point of
water, is marked at 32°, and the boiling
point at 212° ; the space between the
freezing and boiling of water being divided
into 180°.
Tun Blow* or Aoz.—A. good woman
never grows old. Years may pass over
her head, but if benevolence and virtue
dwell in her heart, she is as cheerful as
when the spring of life first opened to her
view. When we look upon a good wo
man we never think of her age ; she looks
as charming as when the rose of youth
bloomed on her cheek. That rose has
not faded yet ; it will never fade. In her
family she is the life and delight. In her
neighborhood she is the friend and bene
factor. In the church, the devout worship.
per and exemplary christian. Who does
' not respect and love the woman who has
passed her days in acts of kindness and
mercy ; who has been the friend of man
and God ; whose whole life has been a
scene of kindness and love, a devotion to
truth and religion I We repeat, such a
woman cannot , grow old. She will al
ways be fresh and buoyant in spirits,,and
active in humble deeds of mercy and' be
nevolence. If the young lady desires to
retain the bloom and beauty of youth, let
her love truth and virtue ; and to the close
of life she will retain those feelings which
now make life appear a garden of sweets,
1 ever fresh and ever new.
'WARMEST AND THE KORAN.—The KO.
ran imposes morality and justice to all
men. "Children of Ismael," said Ma
hornet, •there is but one God, sovereign
of the world ; ho calls himself merciful ;
adore no other God but him. Be ye
bountiful towards the orphan, the poor,
the slave and the captive. Be ye just to
wards all men, for justice is the sister of
piety." Here we have the creed of Ma
hornet from the lips of the great warrior
and poet himself. His last dying speech
and confession, made from the pulpit of
his mosque, is a true indication of his char
acter and sense of justice : "Mueselmen I
lam about to die I No one has occasion
now to fear me. If I have punished any
one among you unjustly. behold, here I
sin that you may' punish me ! If I have
deprived you ofyour property, here is my
purse that you may pay yourselves. If 1
have humiliated any of you, I give my
self over to your justice, that you may hu
miliate me in my turn." The people burst
into tears and groans.
Lova or CIIILDRENI...- , Tell me not of
the trim, precisely arranged homes where
there are no children :..where, " as the
good German has ii, “ihe fly traps always
haogstraight on thewall ;" tell me not of the,
never disturbed nights and days, of the
traquil anxious hearts; where children are
not ! I care not for these things. Gbd
sends us children for soother purpose thito
merely to keep up thcnutti-p,to enlarge our.
hearth, to make us unselfish, and full of
kindly sympathies and alFections ; to give
otwAeule higher alms, and to call out
facultiee; to extend enterprise and
exertion; to brieg round our fireside bright
faithas and happy smiles. and loving, tender
hearts. My soul blesses the Great Father
every day, that has gladdened the earth
with little childrbn."
TDE Fm,-00.
sn 1 / 140 4 11 .%0111r.
The. Messrs., Hubert kept i very exten
sive jewelry establishment in one of our
large cities, mid better-rmrity of
their store against fire end other casualties,
they employed one of their clerks to sleep
in it at night. The idea oldie store's be
ing attacked-1;y robbers was not fora mo
ment entertained, but it .was for other ob . -
fects that young Wring, the cleric, slept
there, for he was not supplied with any
weapon to repel an ;lock of thieves.
one dark, dreary night he wee awakened
by a singular noise which riseOltiti that
which a party'of burglars might produce
in an attempt to enter the building, and
looking tower* the back windikivs,,he
soon satisfied.. himself that One or more
persons were endeavoring, as quietly as
possible , to effect an entrance at that quar
ter. They had already remoied 'On of
the sash and.shutters with their canning :
ly devised instruments, and must hive
been 'at work some time before be was a
wakened.
Now young Loring regretted thit
had no weapon, but not through fear—that
was not a characteristic of the young gene
tletnen—but that he might 'pepper the
rogues a little. At first he determined to
cry out and arouse the watch,, but as they
had advanced so far before he was awake,
he thought he would drive them off by
stratagem I He slipped On his clothes
quietly, and approaching the spot where
the thieves were busy, he saw the hand of
one of them passed inside into the store,
in its owner's entleaVors to guide itimall
handsaw with which he was cutting an
aperture for his body to pasts through.
Young Loring felt inclined ici'ehop off
the hand with a small hatchet that lay, hard
by, but he refrained, and lutthonght - biniself
of a powerful preparation of * Canaan vit-
riol and other penetratintsuiii gist:wept
used in the testing of the purity of silver
and other metals. One drop of this would
eat instantly into the flesh,. and produce a
poisonous sore in ten minutes time. He
cautiously dropped a little on the burglar's
hand and awaited the result.
.Bill," at length exclaimed the burglar
to his comrade, •I've got a milted burning
on the back of my hand. It's so sore I
can hardly work this saw—Phew f how
it smarts I I guess I've cut it with my
satv. Hold the dark lantern here."
"Fudge !" replied , hie comrade, "change
hands then, but don't stop."
"'fake the saw yourself, then 1 I can't
stand this pain 1"
And while the discomfitted burglar with
drew to groan over the • supposed, cut, the
other took his place with the saw, and. in
a moment after received a few drops of the
fiery liquid upon the back of the hand, and
was soon groaning with agony.
"Curse the saw—it has cut me too 1"
groaned the second thief.
And after sundry oaths mutually ex
changed, until the first and worst pain of
attack was over, they renewed the attempt
to make an entrance. • •
The clerk permitted them to go on
while uninteruptedly, knowing that at any
moment he could stop their efforts by cry
ing out, but he hoped to hear some watch
man passing the front of the store, upon
whom he would call to secure rogue': and
he resolved to wait for this until it would
do to wait no longer. But soon the burg
lars bad so much enlarged the hole that
they would shortly be able to , enter , it
themselves.
Seeing he must' do something to stop
them, the clerk crept in the dark close at
one side of the wirulew, and ,uttered a low
and fierce growl, in imitation of a dog.--
Both of the rogues stepped back at the on.
expected interruption.
"Hang it, Bill, there'll a cursed dog ,in
there. I didn't know that the Huberts
kept one," said one to the other,
"A dog? that's bad. Curse 'em, it it
was a man, why a shot or a dirk stroke
would fix him ; but a dog's quite a differ
ent thing, for if we shot him, he'd be sure
to half kill one of us !"
"Bow, wow, wow !" • cried the clerk.
•'Ooofouod,the dog l" exclaimed both.
"Never mind; go on Bill," and he thitist
his hand in once more,to wrench off, the
last piece of wood that obstructed their en
trance, when • the clerk, having already
griped himself with a large pair of pincers,
seized the robber* hand as though. in a
'vice, and setup suob so.outrageons bark.
ing that the whole neighborhood Wai alarm.
wed'.
• • •
' , For heaven's Saki, Jack. lend us e
hind here ;lids, enrol animal is biting
my hand ofn" seitt-the intrigiar tO his sou
••• Pull it awn'—pall it away quick:"
can't."
•shire it a Jerkil said the other.
""O-o-ot I °met : murder, muttlerr
This day, added to the bellowings of
this supposed dug, soon brought the watch
in good earnest, and the thief, who was at
liberty to do so, ran for his life.
The watchnian's lights showed Billy
Sikes that he had been by pair of
pincers.
TWO DOLLARS PER ARM!.
INEW SEIIIES--40.14K
This is a fact, and occurred in Nom►
York city, during the winter of 1840
and Bill Sikes served out his iinprigat
meet at Blackwell's Island.
ODD FELLOWS AND SONS OF TEMPE
RANCE.
The whole number of members of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows in the
United States, according to the last an•
anal report of the Grand Lodge, was 188,
401, and the initiations during the last
year, 29,350. The number of deaths in
the lame year were 1,102, and the amount
paid • far benefits $303,943, or an average
of 02621 to each member. The Order
of the Sons of Temperance is of much
more recent origin, and its rapid progress
has
,been even even more remarkable than
that of Odd Fellowship, owing perhaps in
a great measure, to the fact that the-fees
of initiation, do., are much less, and that
the order had its rise in one of the great
- moral reforms of the age. The whole
number of members of this order in the
United States is now 221,478. The ini
tiations for the last year, according to the
official reports, were 111,820; the num,
ber of deaths 1,200, and the"'amount paid
for benefits $230,836, or an average Of a
little over *lO4l to each member. It will
be seen that the membership of the Sens
er Tem perAnce exceeds that of the Odd
Fellowiby 83,077, and that notwithstand
ing this great excess, the deaths in the for
mer order eiceed these of thelkter bat
38. The Odd Fellows have, Moreover,
paid 0014133,050 more for benefits than
Sons of Temperance with a much kr
get membership.
Maitwa..h.The manna of old is found
to be'rvegehtble produet of arid deserts.
A sithple to now being sahib ited by Mr.
Murphy fiothere'r the French work on the
botoni of Algiers. An its dried slate it
resembles ampules of,the bark taken from
the cork !zee, of various sizes, from graina
of millet, tit Immo beans, and on being mas
ticated, fills into roughish. ukeleles' meal.
It isFkund at-day break covering the sands
for miles.and as if rained plenteously from
heaven; and being gathered is readily con
verted into bread. The French soldiery use
quantities.of it daily in this manner. As
the annintwaues in powee f ifristemetested
and die* away without leaving almost a
trace of having been. This substance, sA
closely rambling the manna of the brae;
lites, is species °Mohan, which thus grows
up in the night, and disappears with the
advance of day. •
HoLame" Masts—A committee of , the .
Massaachusetts legislature on educstioa,
mention some facts which show
nent philanthropist's. ,disinterestednima.
While he was -secretary to the boareof
Edueatibn, 'not , a cent was allowed him
for clerk tire or office tent in twelve years,
during thefirat five of which be paid his °WA
travelling charges. When funds were wax
to complete the Normal school at Bridge
water, he gave 11816.; When the boarding
house alt the Lexington Normal school
required furniture,he sold , his law ,libraot
and raised funds to buy it with ; alsoinsp.l
plying money for ,the Westfield' 5ch001...,
borrowing *looo' of Josiah Quincy, op'
good security. He paid for .eitra copies
of his own educational reports, and for "
other documents to be circulated free of
cost; and when the sale of the common
School /mind tailed to meet the eiPenwis,
he, have the difference, e'en .editieg tkiat
work gratuitously. When he was in Hu•
rope, making educational researches; .hie
expenses exceeded his salary 111200. , ,Hii
whole income wsii*/600 iyear. '
SALINSUI.Theirif fedi , e
ing that,fremiently4rasses like)* elbett ow.
er the spirit. It comes 'upon the Mullin
the bustle of life, in the soda! circle, I,o` the
calm and silent musk solitud'e. lie
power is alike, over the weak and lion."
hearted. At enetimmit is caused bathe flit
ting of a single idea acmes the mind. Again
a sound will, come, banning acme the pi t
coan oh memory, , end solemn as the death,
knell, overshadowing all the bright hope,
anti sunny feelings , of the• heart. Who •
can describe it I, And yet who hounn,t
felt its bewildering influence itio a
delicious sort of Soil'ovi. and iikit - eloud
dimming the sunshine, of the river. itr!
though casting a momentary shade „ll'
gloom it enhances the beauty of returning
brightness.
fixawr Grat..—A friend tells thot
little girl from the, melioptilis; who bad ,
risittiti a town not a thousand miles from
New!York, was filled with surprise at the ,
sight of e . girl It:Viking a cow. ul didn't
know you did in that way," she said
with round eyed wonder: NI thoaghtthey
took hold of the cow's tail, and pumpoi
the milk out of her I What's she gots .
fail for V'
"Make way, gentlemen," stied
sachusatts representative 10 the poppies/404
who were crowding him . - otti idil`pietso
is the procession the election ,4y„
"make way, we ere die reprettemintiMp.of
'the people.' "MAP catty. yeorsolf t "
plied a sturdy nimbi% of theAltroPpmer*
are the people, themselves." . ,