, BUXHLEIL
VOL, XXI-14. t
Law & Penalties against Passing
`sniALL TOTES.
ANNEX ED will be found the portion
of the'Ael of Assembly of 1860, pro.
liibiting the circulation of notes under $l5 :
SECT. 48.—That from and tete rift..twenty-find 1
day of Augnst, arse thousand eight hundred and
fifty, it shall not be lawful for any person or per.
soma,' corporation or body corporate, directly or
directly, to,issue, pay out, pass, exchange, L put In
circulation, tranefor, or cause to be issued. paid out,
passed, exchanged, circulated or transferred, any
Lank note, note, bill, certificate, or any acknowl.
edgisetnt of indebtedness whatsoemr, purporting
to be s b ank en% of of the nature,' character
or appearance of a bank note, or calculated for
circulation u a bank note, issued, or purporting
to be issued by any bank or incorporated com
pany, or association of persons, not located in
Pennsylvania, of a less denomination than five
dbllrrs ; every violation of the provisions of this
section be any corporation or body corporate, shall
subject such corporation or body corporate to the
payment of five hundred dollars; and any viola
tion of the provisions of this section by any pub
lie officer holding any office or appointment of
honor or profit under the constitution and laws of
this State, shall subject such officer to the payment
dens hundred dollars; and any violation of this
evasion by any other person, not being a public
utfrer, shall subject mach moon to the payment
q( twenty-five dollars, one-half of which, In each
cue above mentioned, shall go to the informer,
and theother half to the county in which the suit
is brought, and may be sued for sod recovered as
debts of like amount are now by law recoverable
in any action of debt, in the name of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, as well fur the use of
the proper county, as for the person owing.
The undersigned,in directing the attention
Of the reader to the foregoing section of the
Act of 1850, would inform ham that ho
will receive the notes thus prohibited, at
PAR VALUE, in exchange for goods, at
his cheap and one-price
Clothing & Variety store,
in Gettysburg, nearly, opposite the Bank.
Persons wishing to get rid of these notes
without sacrifice, and who at the same
time desire to secure BARGAINS in the
way of Ready-made Clothing or any other
article in his line, will do well to give him
a t<all lilt stock ofSUMMER CLOTH
ING is full and complete, embracing some
thing.teAlease all fancies, from fine and
superfine goods down to the cheapest and
most serviceable wear.
It is useless to enumerate the articles or
to say more. ,My Mends and customers
know my mode of dealing. I have but
the one price and charge one man no more
than the other, for the same article. I
therefore feel confident that those who
are in the habit of making their purchases
with me know that they can buy cheaper
from me than at any other establishment.
rThe subscriber has on hand a good
Rockaway Buggy ; also a second-hand
Do.. without top, which he will dispose of
at prices so low as to astonish the purcha
ser. Also, a lot of GRASS.
MARCUS SAMSON.
June sth, 1800.
ASSIGNEE'S NOTICE.
THE undersigned. baring been ap
pointed under a deed of voluntary
:assignment. Assignee of JOHN TRIMMER,
.of Reading township. Adams county, no.
Mice is hereby given to all who are indebt.
.ed to the said John Trimmer, to call and
make payment to the subscriber, residing
.said township, and to 'those having
claims, to present the same, properly au
thenticated, for settlement.
JOHN BROUGH, Assignee.
May 3.--Ot
NOTICE.
ir EWERS Testamentary on the estate
ji A of PILTER ELINI, late of Cumberland
t p.. Pa., &cid. having been gran t
ed to the subscriber, residing in Mountjoy
township, notice is hereby given to such
as are indebted, to said estate to make pay
ment without delay, and those having
claims are requested to present the same,
properly authenticated, for settlement.
JOSEPH FINK, Eer.
Kay 141850...8t
NOTICE.
LETTERS Testamentary on the
MAlEs
tate of /cozen CLAPSADDLE, late of
Mounioy towissihip, Adams county, Pa.,
descend, having been granted to the sub-
Wan, residing in said township, notice
is hereby given to those indebted to said
estate to make payment, and to those hav
ing claims to present the same properly
nitheaticated for settlement.
SAMUEL DURBORAW, Ex'r.
April 26, 1850,-6t
ITOTIOHL,
, Estate of Georg. Hitl4o 9 deceased.
EWERS Testamentary on the Es
, late of Gaoaoa Rums, late of New
rd, Adams county, Pa., dee'AL having
been ranted to the subscriber., notice is
horabygiven to all who are indebtato said
Estate, to Make pay men t w i thou tdelay, and
WIMP, having claims to present the same
proparly,authentieated, to the subscribers
:Neiding in New Oxford, for settlement.
• ~ ' WM. D. HINES,
ALEX. S. MIMES,
A , 1 111, 1850--6 t Executors.
NOTECEL
'"LEFT the service of the inbscriber in
Gettysburg, Pa., on Wednesday last,
31W,ORORE IL MORRIS, an indented
, „Apitrquilce to the Coach Trimming biota
, All . persons are hereby notified not
~,sotat him on my account, or harbor or em
-ploy One yard of Seaming-Lace, but
no thinks, will be laid for hie apprehen
-Mims and return to the subscriber.
H. JEROME WALTER,.
31, 1850-31
A;7r:—
1110TICEL
MBE Books of original subscription for
the building of the LINNIBAN
AULD, (Pennsylvania College,) have
ftittito ',laced in the hands of D. A. Buten
,Lsa, for collection. Those who have neg.
lected to pay their subscriptions are re.
Amsted to make immediate payment.
F. W. BENEDICT.
April 28, 1850,-31
[ From anthem'. Magazine kir Jun*.
Scene on the Ohio.
BY 0. V PRENTICS.
It Is a glorious eve--the stream •
Without a murmur passe. by,
And on Its breast, with fettered beam,
The sleeping Mars so sweetly lie,
'Twould seem as if the tempest' • plume
Had swept through woods of tropic bloom,
And imitated down their blossoms bright
To deep upon the wives tonight.
And aes—u bangs the moon aloft,
Her beams come gushing through the air
So mild, so beautifully soft,
That wood and stream seem stirred with prayer,
And the pure spirit, as it kneels
At natands holy altar, feed*
Religion's self come floating by
In every beam that cleaves the sky.
There's glory in each cloud and star,
There'. beauty in each wave and tree,
And gentle voices from afar
Are borne like angel•minstrelsy .;
In such a spot, at such an hour,
My spirit feels a spell of power,
And all beneath, around, above,
Seems earthly bliss and heavenly love.
On, Mary. idol of my life,
My heart's young nets, my were sweet bride,
Dear soother of my spirit's strife.
I would that thou wert by my side,
•
And I would kneel on this green sod
In love to thee and praise to God,
And, gazing in thy gentle eyes,
Dream but of thee and Paradise.
I see thy name in yon blue sky,
In every bound thy name I bear,
All nature paints it to my eye
And breathes it in my listening ear
I real it in the moon's sweet beam,
The starlight prints it on the stream,
And wave and breeze and singing bird
Speak to my soul the blessed word.
BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT.
A correspondent of the Baltimore Re
publican thus explains the music of the
water spirits:
"During several of my voyages on the
Spanish main, in the neighborhood of Par
aguay and San Juan de Nicaragua, from
the nature of the coast, we were compell
ed to anchor at a considerable distance
from the shore ; and every evening, from
dark to late at night, our ears were delight.
ed with &Mien music, that could be heard
beneath the counter of our schooner. At
first I thought it was the sea-breeze sweep
ing through the strings of my yiolin, (the
bridge of which I had inadvertently left
standing;) but after examination I found it
was not so. I then placed my ear on the
rail of the vessel, when I was continually
charmed with the most heavenly strains
that ever fell upon my ear. They did
not sound as close to us, but were sweet,
mellow and wrist, like the soft breathings
of a thousand lutes, touched by fingers of
the deep sea-nymphs, at an immense die.
Lance.
Although I have considerable music in
my soul, one night I became tired and de
termined to fish. My luck in half an hour
was astonishing ; I had half filled my buck
et with the finest white catfish I ever saw ;
and it being late and the cook asleep, and
the moon shining, I filled my bucket with
water, anti took fish and all into my cabin
for the night.
I had &It yet fallen asleep, when the
same sweet notes fell upon my ear ; and
getting up, what was my surprise to find
my "cat-fish" discoursing sweet sounds to
the sides of my bucket.
I examined them closely, and discov
ered that there was attached to each lower
lip an excrescence, divided by soft, wiry
fibres, By the pressure of the upper lip
thereon, and by the exhalation and dis
charge of breath, a vibration was created,
similar to that produced by the breath on
the tongue of a Jew's harp."
So you see the Naiads have a band to
dance by. I should like to hear the mock
ing bird try his skill at imitating this sub
marine melody. You know the Bob.e.
link with his inimitable "sweetness long
drawn out 1" At a farmbouse occupied
by my father-in-law, one of , these rich
warblers came and seated himself on a
rail near the window and began to sing.
A cat-bird, (our New England mocking
bird) perched near and began to imitate
the notes. The short, quick, .beb-o'.link,'
'bob-o'link, he isoultlpaster very well ;
.but when it came to the prolonged trill of
gushing melody, at the close - of the strain,
the imitator stopped in the'midst. Again
the botrogink poured fourth his soul in
song; the mockingbird hopped nearer,
and listened most inte n tly. The bob-o'.
link, as if conscious that none could imi
tate his god-given tune, sent forth a Clear
er, strouger, richer strain than ever. The
mocking-bird evidently felt that his reputa
tion was at stake. He warbled all kinds
of notes in quick succession. You would
have thought that the house was surround
ed by robbins, sparrows, whippowills,
black-birds, and linnets. Having shown
off his accomplishments, he again tried his
poireil on the altogether inimitable trill.—
The effort he made was prodigious : but
it w as mere talent trying to copy genius.
He couldn't do it. He stopped, gasping
in the midst of the prolonged melody, and
flew away abruptly, in evident vexation.
Music, like every thing else, is passing
from the few to the many. The art of
printing has laid before the multitude the
written wisdom of ages, once locked up
in the elaborate manuscripts of tho clois- I
ter. Engraving and daguerreotype spread
the productions of the pencil before the
whole people. Music is taught in our
common schools, and the cheap accordion
bring" its delight to the humblest class of
citizens. All these things are full of pro
phecy. Slowly, slowly, to the measured
sound of the spirit's music, there goes
round the world the golden band of broth
erhood ; slowly, slowly, the earth comes
to its place, and makes a chord with hea
ven.
GETTYSBURG, PA. FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 14 ! Imo.
Sing on, thou true-hearted, and Ate not
discouraged I If a heart be in perfect tune,
and a flute or other instrument of music
be near it, and in perfect tune also, thou
canon not play one without wakening an
answer in the other. Behold, thou shalt
hear its sweet echo in the air, as if played
on by the invisible. Even so shall ether
spirits vibrate to the harmony of thine.--
Utter what God giveth thee to ray. In
the Bunny West Indies, in gay and grace
ful Paris, in frozen Iceland, and the deep
stillness of the Hindoo jungle, thou wilt
wake a slumbering echo, to be carried on
forever through the universe. In word
and act sing thou of united truth and love ;
another voice shall take up the strain over
the waters ; soon it will become a WORLD
concert ; and thou above there, in that
world of light and love, well pleased wilt
hear thy early song; in earth's sweet vi
bration to the harps of heaven.
THE ALMOND BLOSSOM.
"Dear Mamma," said a little girl to her
mother, u they were walking together in
the garden, "why do you have so few of
those double almonds in the garden ?
You have hardly a bed where there is
not a tuft of violets, and • they are so
much plainer. What can he the reason !"
"My dear child," said the mother, "ga
ther me a bunch of each. Then I will
tell you why I prefer the humble violet I"
'I he little girl ran off, and soon returned
with a fine bunch of beautful almond and
a few violets.
"Smell them, my love,'' said her moth
er, "and try which is the sweeteat ?"
The child smelled again and again, and
could scarcely believe herself that the love
ly almond had no scent, while the plain
violet had a delightful order.
"Well, my child; which is the sweet
est 2"
..0 dear mother, it is the little violet !"
Well, you know now, my child, why I
prefer the plain violet to the beautiful al
mond. Beauty without fragrance, is, in
my opinion. something like beauty with
out gentleness and. good temper in little
gills. When any of those who speak
without reflection, may say to you : What
charming blue eyes I What a fine com
plexion !" without knowing whether you
have any good qualities, and without think
ing of your defects and failing, which ev
erybody is born with, re:nember then, my
little girl, the almond blossom : and re
member also, when your affectionate
mother may not be there to tell you, that
beauty without genleness anti good tem
per is wortldess."—London Child's Com
panion.
THE HARDEST KICK YET
There Wan attorney practising in our
courts, who has attained a great notoriety
among numerous things for bullying wit
nesses on the opposite side of cues when he
is concerned. As it would not be polite to
give his name right out in the crowd, we
will merely call him .Way ke,' for short.—
There was a horse case—a very common
case upon our magistrate's dockets—try
ing before Esq.. Snellbanker, one day, in
which Wayke happened to be engaged.—
A slow and easy witness had been called
to the stand by the plaintiff, who, in a
plain, straight forward manner, made the
other side of the case look rather blue,—
The plaintiff's attorney being through,
Wayke commenced a regular cross exam
ination, which was cut short in the fol
lowing manner:-"Well what do you
know about a horse; are you a horse doc
tor ?" said the barbarian in his peculiar
contemptuous and overbearing manner.--
"No, I dont pretend to be a horse doctor.
but I know a good deal of the nature of the
beast." "That means to say that you
know a horse from a jackass when you
see them," said Wayke. in the same style
—looking knowingly at the court, and
glancing triumphantly around the crowd
of spectators, with a telegraphic expres.
sion, which said, "now rvd got him on
the hip." The intended victim, gazing
intently at his legal tormentor drawled out
—"Oh ye-as—jest so—J'd never lake you
or a horn." The Supreme court of the
United States could not have preserved its
gravity through the scene that followed.—
The lick back produced a regular stam
pede, and the bushel of suspender buttons
that stuck to the ceiling above brought a
regular shower of plaster upon the heads
below. Every body was convinced, that
whatever the attorney might be, the wit
ness was a host-,-Cincianati Despatch.
MILKING us Aurrasms.—This is a
very serious operation. First, say at four
o'clock in the morning. you drive the
cows into the stockyard, where rho calves
have been penned all the previous
night, in a hutch in one corner. Then
you have to comment., a chase after the
first cow,. who, with 11 perversity common
to Australian females, expects to be pur
sued two or three times around the yard,
ankle deep in dust or mud, according to
the season, with loud halloos and a thick
stick. This done, she generally proceeds
up to the full, a kind of pillory, and per
mits her neck to be made fast. The cow
safe in the tail, her near hind leg is stretch.
ed out to its full length, and tied to a con
venient post with the universal cordage of
Australia, a piece of green hide. At this
stage in ordinary cases, the milking com
mences; but it was one of the hobbies of
Mr. Jumsorew, a practice I have never
seen followed in any other part of the col
ony, that the cows' tails should be held
tight during the operation. This arduous
duty I conscientiously performed for some
weeks, until it happened that one day a
heifer slipped her head out of an ill fasten
ed fail, upset milkman and milkpail, char
ged the Head Stockman, who was unloos
ing the calves, to the serious damage of a
new pair of (nations, and ended, in spite of
all my efforts. in clearing the top rail of
the "lock yard leaving me fiat and flabber
gasted at the foot of the fence.—Seeotes in
the Life of a Bushman.
Why is a bad dollar like a groc shop t
Because it is hard to pass.
;TEARLESS AND FREE."
„ THE Wwa OF J Acxsoit ne in
fluencen of this woniettover her busbandis
said to have been :very extraoidin47o—
was allow origil f and u uca
ted. Yet she inherited from nature those
fine and noble traits,of her sex to such
perfection: that her power and fascinations
were very great.” , Gen. Jackson was at
trhed to her in toady life, but by some
means or other the mister was interrupted,
and she married atuditer who proved a,vil
lain, and the connection most unhappy.—
Gen. Jackson brinsme.sgskri interested in
her; the consequenne was a divorce, when
he was married.
,to her. She is said to
have possessed none oiihese accomplish
ments that are sumbinid to adorn fashion.
able life ; reared in the backwoods, seeing
and knowing littlinr elegant and refined
society. Yet her fins person, strong af
fection and good MN* the three great es
sentials of a woman, enabled her to take
and hold with irresistable force the passions
of the bold, turbilletrt,strong and fiery war
rior and statesman to whom ohs was wed
ded. It was a lion held in the embrace of
a fawn. The infineneW she , exercised •is
said to have bordered on the superstitions.
lie imagined that no poweror Rots of his
could succeed, or he,rwrried out, averse to
her will or in opposition to her feelings.—
She seemed his guardian angel, by day
and by night; holding in her hands his
life, his fate, his all. An intimate friend el
his, says that so long as he lived he wore
her minatere near his heart, and never al
lotted to her except in a manner so subdu
ed and full of reverence, that the listener
was deeply impressed with her trancen
dant worth.
TEE PIPE AMR THE CIOAR.—The habit
of smoking is, we believe, a most injurious
as it is one of the most seductive in the
world. Dr. Laycock with truth,
that it has a must baneful effect upon the
stomach, the lungs, the heart. the brain,
and the nervous system. The tobacco
consumed by habitual smokers varies from
an ounce to twelve ounces per week ; the
usual qusntity, from two, to thee ounces.—
Inveterate cigar smokers will commute
from four to five dozen per week. The
first morbid result is an inflamatory eon.:
dition of the mucous membrane, of the lips
and tongue. then the tonsils end pharynx
suffer, the mudous membrane becoming
dry and congested. If the thorax be ex
amined well, *ill be found slightly swol
len, with congestive veins meandering o
ver the surface, and here and there a streak
of mucous. The action of tobacco smok
ing on the heart is depressing, and some
individuals who feel, in this organ more
than others, complain of an uneasy sensa
tion about the left nipple, a distressed feel
ing, not amounting to faintness but allied
to it. The action oflhe heart is observed
to be feeble and irrAuhr. An uneasy
feeling is also experienced in or beneath
the pectoral muscles, and oftener on the
right side than on the left. On the brain
the use of tobacco appears to diminish the
' rapidity of cerebral action, and check the
flow of ideas through the mind. It differs
from opium and henbane, and rather ex
cites to wakefulness, like green tea, than
composes to sleep ; induces a dreaminess
which leaves no impression on the mem
ory, leaving a great susceptibility, indica
ted by a trembling of the hands and irritabil
ity of temper. Such are secondary re
sults of smoking. So are blackness of
teeth and gum-boils. There is also a sal
low paleness of the complexion, and irres
oluteness of d ispos i dun, a want ofli fe and en
ergy. and in constant smokers, who do not
drink, a tendency to pulmonary phthisie.
Dr. Wright of Birmingham, in a commu
nication to the author, fully .corroborates
his opinions; and both agree that smoking
produces gastric disorders' coughs and in
tlamatory a ff ections of the larynx and
pharynx, diseases of the heart, and low
ness of the spirits, and, in short, is very
injurious to the respirstOry, ,alimentary,
and nervous system—City /ten.
rue Daumuao's Sos,—"Mother, this
bread, is very bard ; why don't wo have
cake and nice things as we used to when
we lived in the great house f 0, that was
such a pretty house, mamma, and suck a
pleasant garden—all filled with flowers ;
and you made such sweet music with your
fingers, and Pa would sing. Pa' used to
laugh then, and tell me pretty Stories, and
take me on his knee, and say I was his
own dear boy. Mamma, what makes Pa
so sick and look go bad! It Makes me
afraid when be stamps on •the floor and
'say's so loud, 'George, go off to bed
Mamma. will he get well again, and sing
me a sweet song, and love fits *ilia used
to do y Mamma, what make. you cry ;
Did I make you cry ! It makes me wor ,
ry to see you so sad and unhappy.—
Won't you wipe away those tears and
smile again ?" "'My son—oh my George
—my child! your father is a' drunkard,!"
Awns. our industrious and ,frugal lore.
fathers, it was a maxim that a young wo
man should never be married until she had
spun herself a Pet of body, bed and table
linen. From-this custom] all unmarried
women were termed spinsters, an appel
lation they still retain in all law proceed
ings.
To PRESERVE Barr STELES,-.AS the
warm season is fast approaching, when
meat cannot be kept for more than a day
or two in a fresh state, it will be of no in
considerable benefit to many to be infor•
ed, that if fresh meat is rolled up in In
dian corn meal, it will keep fresh three or
four days, and even five days. The..steak
should be laid down in pieces from one to
three,, pounds, and each covered entirely
with the meal.
SECRETB.—The reply of Charles the
11., when importuned to communicate
something of a private nature, deserves to
be engraven in in the heart of every man :
'Can you keep a secret!' asked the sub
tle monarch. 'Most faithfully,' returned
the nobleman. 'So can I,' was the lacon
ic and severe answer ofiCharles.,
OUR RELIGION, politics, morals, lan
guage, manners and even gestures, are
mostly derived from the parental •type.—
How careful then, ought fathers and moth
ers to be, to set us good copies.
TAXIING BACALELLOIRL
• The Buffalo Commercial publishes the follow
ing happily ocieceiliti poem. It is evidently an
involuatary drop** from the heart of 's lady
who bad suffered iota. from the fickleama of bath
@Hons. but we -think that this much abased class
deserves bettor treatment- than this, we will not
-say gentle, lady proposes. There is DO doubt that
,many holimi imvirissited no small portion of their
Qs m rind 'means in trying to win bectudlors, but
they should rather Maine thetneelver Ow not Wig
•
more intereatingi *Kiwi would propose a tax on
. . ,
the young for the ' lessee Which bachelors
have suffered in pursuing
light Oust lass irt,womw'. Reit"
. Tax them, tit them, tax theta all,
With an income vett or ettiell
TR:their mortgages and rents,
Oaesekdallersixty sreatag
That's theoll they. aught to paY.
For nreatingnat the iftledielor's way,"'
'Bo they'll cry instead of laugh, -
figuarning the"bettevissif."
Tex them for the vows they've made,
Tax them for their vows unpaid—
. For the drafts they're drawhigsfill
Oa their Oconealionsie end their wing
Tax ahem five the debts they owe,
To young Cupid and his bows
For F the use deliver darts
/sad the ben of "trdecherous arts." '
Tee them fir tha Protiono amio
Spent in writing Nifty rhyme,
To the is% &Added girls. •
Lost in blushes, and in curls—
Tax them tbrdlatentir paid
To the Sunlight and the shade—
rtwearing they Were truer far -
Than a samba= or a Mar,
Tax them for their *Wed years,
Tax them (Or the bitter tsars
Drown from eyes that aloe were bright
With a soft confiding 464—,
For the cheeks they've made so pale—
For the derp,poihrtie wail '
. • Breathed from bearti that mast endure
What no surgeon's art can care.
Tax them for the hopes they're crossed,
Tax them for the dollars lola,
Buying elixir and balm,
Meant to keep the spirits calm ;
Whalltialladg thpusbt
The "confession" would be brought,
And the lover with his hand,
Would bestow his house and land.
Tax them for the wood end coal;
Used to warm their chilly - Soul; •
Tax them for that:likes aml Pies
Made to charm their lover's eyes—
For sperm candles tax theirs well 1
Oh, the number ! who can tell I
That have burned, and burned in vain,
To secures faithless swain !
Tax them for the countless threats,
Made by mothers to their ~ pets," •
When the months would paw away,
And the lover .name no day;'
Tex then, for Use ."awful smart,"
That was felt about the heart,
When the last tail beau had goal,
And the lady weeps alone.
Tea, rd tax them one arid all.
With an income great and small—
Tax their mortgagee and rents,
On each dollar sixty cents ;
'ill their truant steps should stray,
Calmly in the "muffled way"—
Then I would enjoy a laugh
With the bachelor a befter-balL"
CONUNDRUMS.
If you drive a nail in a board and clinch
it on the other side, why is it like a sick
man•i Because it is in firm.
Why are doctors like musqnetos Be
cause the y never draw blood without run•
ning up a bill.
Why is a newly opened dry rods store
like a house on fire? Because a starts all
the belles 'of the city.
Why is it better to be burned. st the
stake, than to have your head cut off at
the block ? Because a hot steak is better
than a cold chop.
When a mother puts her child to sleep,
what two places near New York dam it
remind you of. Sing Bing and Rocka
way. •
What word is it in the English hingnage,
the first two letters of which signify a man,
the three firm. a woman; the four first, a
great man and the whole, a great , woman ?
Heroine.
Why is General Taylor like a sleek of
wheat t Because he has never been threat-
Why is a Broadway dandy like the Mex.
can army.? Beetwee they awe's, ntu at
the sight of
. a tailor.„ .
Why are butchers the greater thieve'
Because they are continually 'leering
knives.
Why am pimples on a man'. fsee or
nose, like she engravings of *newspaper ?
Because shey areillustrations of Punch.
What is it that is white, and black, and
red all over f A newspaper. 4 ,
What makes more noise than a pig un
der a gate f Two pigs.
Why are hogs the most intelligent ani
mals ? Because they nose (knows) every
thing.
SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF.A TREASURE.
—On the grand route of l'ouille, in the
kingdom of Naples, there was a statue of
marble bearing this inscription in the Nea
politan dialect : "The first day of May,
at the rising of the sun, I shall have a gold
en head." The statue had already stood
there two hundred years and no ono had
yet discovered the meaning of the myste
rious
inscription. A stranger, (a Saracen,
says Castelani in his memoirs) passing
through the country, read the inscription
and thought that ho had divined its sense,
but did not communicate to any one his
suspicions. The first of May having al
ready passed, he departed, but the succeed
ing year lie arrived in the country on the
last day of April. The next morning he
resorted to the spot before sunrise, and
having remarked the spot on which fell
the shadow of the bead of the statue, at the
precise moment when the sun arose above
the horizon, he dug up the earth there,
and found immense treasures.
IT 111 ♦ SECRET known to few. yet of no
small use in toe conduct of life, that when
you fall into a man's conversation, the first
thing you should consider, is, whether ho
has a greater inclination to hear you, or
that you should hear him.—E4ddison.
SINGULAR ENACTING OF TIIR CRUCIFIX ,
lON.-A Berlin paper states that there is in
Russia a place called Annerdale, where a
most singular custom exists. Every ten
years the awful scenes of the crucifixion
are enacted by the villagers. Some arc
dressed to represent soldiers and Jews,
some as Pharisees, and many men, wo
men and children stand around as the
crowd of spectators, while on the three
crosses are nailed fixtires of wax, and at
the feet kneel women who represent the
Marys. "I'he whole scone is gone through
with in all the details, and lasts all day.—
This very singular performance, which
has been kept up since the middle ages,
is announced to take place again in the
month of June of this year, and strangers
are invited to witness it.
SCUOOL EXAXINATION.—"Fist class in
philOiophy; step out, clove your books—
John JOnes, how many kingdoms In na
ture I"
"Tour."
"Name them."
uEtigland, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.'
"Pass to the neat—Smith r
"Fotir—the animal, vegetable, mineral,
and kingdom come."
"Clootl—go up head."
"Hobbs—What is meant by the animal
kingdom 1"
"Llohs, tigers, elephants, rhinoceroses,
hippopotamusis, aligators, monkeys, jack
ues, haeltdrivere, and schoolmasters."
%Very well, but you'll take a licking for
your last rem ark."
"Oiler—What is the mineral king
dom t"
"The hull of Californey."
"Walk straight up head."
"Johnson—What is the vegetable king
dom I" . ,
"garden same, potatoes, carrots, ing.
yuns, entail kinds o' greens as is good tor
cookin'."
"And what are the pine, hemlocks, :Ind
elms--unt they vegetables 1"
"No sir-ee—you can't cook 'ern—they's
saw r _lopand krnin' timber."
— "BON, 014 me an apple a piece and
Yon can hare an hours' intermission—ex
cept itobbs."
SlORTikiltort.—Dean Swift was asked
to preach a short charitable sermon. He
complied.: The sermon is perhaps the
shortest one on record. We quote it :
"He that ties pity on the poor, lendeth un
to the Lord."' Sermon: "If you like the
security, down with the dust." The ef
fort was electrical. An unusually large
colleetion was takes up.
Itimotvirro WaR 1101114.-A prudent and
well diapoied member of the Society of
trienda-once gave the &flowing friendly
advice ;
•'Jehnl•' eaid,ha, "I hear thou Art going
to be married.'?
“Yee,-” espliadJohlr,,ol am."
"Well," replied the Friend, "I have only
one little piece of advice to give thee : and
that is, never mary a woman worth more
than thou art. When I married my wife,
I vras worth just fifty cents:, and. she was
worth sixty-two cents; and whenever any
difference has occurred hetwen us since
she has always thrown up the odd shit
tug."
When amen attempts to tie his cravat
around a lamp post, he may bb considered
In a rathei "how came yott so" condition':
Lamatuoirs.--oThere are three thousand
six hundrettand sixty-four known langua
ges now in use in the, world. Of these,
nine hundred and thirty-seven are Asiatic,
five hundred and eighty-seven European ;
tire hundred and seventy-six African; and
one hundred and ,twecipfour American
dialect..
"liVrieT.l,anntan in Christopher Co
lumbus." says Turgot. "is not his having
discOvered the new world. hut his having
gone s to smirch for it on the faith of un o
pinion."
Tas Santratit.—Let us thank God for
;he Sabbath--tho calm, quiet, soothing
"Pay of Seit—:-the poor man's holiday from
toil—the world's monitor of Heaven. It
'is the interest as well as the duty of every
:otie--the
, poor especially—to keep the
'Sabbath: The institution is a wise and
beneficent one, and all should observe it
with circumspection.
Let us F ive thanks, with grateful soul,
To him who sendeth all;
To him who bids the planets roll,
And sees a "sparrow GIL"
• Though grief and tears may dim our joys,
And pare and strife arrest,
'Tie man; too often, that a!loys
The lot his Maker blest ;
While sunshine lights the boundless sky
And dew drops feed the sod—
While suns and rainbnws live on high—
Let us give thanks to God.
Loox little boy went to eon
with his lather, to be a sailor. One day
his father said to him;
"Come, my boy, you will never be a
sailor if you don't learn to climb; let me
see if you can get up the mast."
The boy, who was a nimble little fel'
low, soon scrambled up; but when he got
to the top, and saw at what height he
was, he began to be frightened, and called
out:
"Oh. father! I shall fall: I am sure I
will fall ; what am Ito do ?"
"Look up, look up. my buy," said his
father, "if you look down you will be gid
dy ; but if you keep looking up at the flag,
at the top of the mast, you will descend
safely."
The boy followed his father's advice
and reached the bottom with ease. Learn
from this little story to look more to Jesus
and less to yourselves.--Chrislian Treas.
The "Portfolio," a little paper publish
ed in the Western part of Massachusetts,
thus pleasantly introduces the month of
June :
..May, coquettish, sometimes pettish,
smiling often through her tears : to rota
tion yields her elation, and the welcome
June appears, gentle, smiling, care-begui
ling, with a rose-bud in her hair, April
foolish, May is coolish, June warm-hearted
is and fair. .
TWO DOLLARS PBX' AMAMI.
I NEW SEgIES--10, tit
Duties of Supervisors.
rirThe following reetione of, Acts natio, io
the duties of Township Supervisors, &e., sto Sl*
lished by request or a Mend who thinks thitt that
public will thus be beneruted,—(Compikr.
Extract from Act of 13th of Jane, 1838, eatide4
"An Act relating to Rosily Highways wag
Bridges.
Section 6. Public roads or highways
laid out, approved, "and entered on rec
ord," as aforesaid, shall, "as soon is may '
be practicable," be effectually opened and
constantly kept in repair, and all public
roads, "or" highways made or to be Made,
shall at all seasons be kept clear of all int.
pediments to easy and convenient pees*
and travelling, at the expense of the re ,
apectivo townships.
Sect. 27. The supervisors aforesaid .10411'
have power, and they are hereby enjoined
and required, at the expense of the respec
tive townships, to purchase wood, timber.
and all other materials necessary kw the
purpose of making. maintaining and re• '
pairing the public roads or highways, and
to em ploy, oversee and direct a sufficient •
number of laborers to execute promptlY
and effectually the provisions of the law,
and the orders and decrees of the court)
having jurisdiction, concerning such raids.
Sect. 28. The supervisors aforesaid
shall have power and authority within
their respective townships to enter upon a
any land or enclosure lying near to the
said roads, and to dig, gather and carry up
on said roads any stones, sand or gravel
found on the same, which they may think
necessary for the purpose of making, main- •
mining or repairing the said roads, when
the genie cannot conveniently be obtained
by contract at reasonable prices, doing no
unnecessary damage to the owners of the
said lands, and repairing any breaches of
fences which they shall make.
Sect. 29. Whenever the supervisors and
the owners of any materials which may
be wanted for making, maintaining re
pairing the roads aforesaid, cannot agree
upon the price to be paid therefor, the val.
ue of such materials shall be estimated bt
any two of ouch three persons as may be
agreed upon by such supervisors and own-
ere.
Sect. 30. If the supervisors and owners
cannot agree upon any persons to estimate
the value thereof, the owner may apply to
a justice of the peace residing near the
place where such materials were takelsor
may be, and thereupon such justice shall ,
appoint three judicious persons, one '
the nomination of the supervisors, one
other on the nomination of the owner of
such materials, and the third upon his own
suggestion, and the decision of the persons
so appointed, or any two of them, shall be
entered upon the docket of said justice and.'
shall be final : Provided, That if either'
party shall, after due notice, refuse memo—
glect to nominate as aforesaid, it shall be
the duty of the justice to appoint one other ,
person in his stead.
Sect. 32. The supervisors afosesaid
shall also have power and authority u a
foresaid, to enter upon any such lands or
enclosures, and cut, open, maintain or re
pair all such drains or ditches through the
same, as they shall judge necessary to car.
ry the water from said roads.
Sect. 67. If any person. shall stop, fill .
up or injure any drain or ditch, made by.
any supervisor, for the purpose of drain,
ing the water from any public road or
highway, or shall divert or change she
course thereof, without the authority , et
the supervisors for the time being, such
person shall, for every such offence, for
feit and pay a sum not less than four dol
lars, nor more than twenty dollars. .
Sect. 68. If any person shall stop er
obstruct any public road or highway, or
shall commit any nuisance thereon, by 1.14
ling trees, nicking fences, turning thereat!,
or in any other woy, arul do not, on notice
given by the supervisor of the. respeetiv•
township, forthwith remove the nuisance
and repair the damage done to such a road..
such person shall, for every such offence;
forfeit and pay a sum not less than tea dqh
lure, nor tours than forty dollars: Pron.
ded, That nothing in this section shall 4
deemed to debar an indictment for
such nuisance, as in case of wisdeetestuor
at common law..
Extract from Act of 15th April, 1834, "Mating , to .
county rates and levier , and township raw aril
levies."
Sect. 34. Provided, That before isittr
ing the duplicate and warrant for the, col
lection of road taxes, it shall be the ditty
of the supervisors of every towneliiii to
give notice to all persons rated for etch
taxes, by advertisements or otherwile, to
attend at such time and placeias . the at
pervisors may direct, so as to give each
persons full opportunity to work out think
respective taxes.
Extract from Act of 15th April. 1834, .ftellatruse I*
counties and townships, and minty aad town
ship otlicars." •
Sect. OIL If any supervisor shall soy
lect or refuse to perform any duty regalia
of him by law, he shall forfeit sad pay, a
sum nut less than four dollars nor mood.
ing fifty dollars, to be recovered in a ma
mary way, by action of debt in the saw
of the Commonwealth, before any justify
of the peace of the county, to be applied to
wards repairing the.highways of said town
ship : Provided, That such supervisors
may appeal from the judgment of such
justice to the next court of quarteraes
alone, who shall take such order therm
as to them shall appear just and reassmable,
and the same shall be final and coneJusim
A follow stole a wood saw, and is
old the Judge that he only took it
oke.
"[low far did you carry [117440AP
Judge.
o'fwo miles," answered the prifinyou
is carrying the lake 100.414. Air
marked the Judge. NO Ildseeel 111110
committed for Curt eremmittalikts,
insusal4e ' 4l
A New Weuritut.— o fora.
Pee!, it is stated, has bees of ishtl GI
lodises to insert the powsuret eds.*/
We should roitties so hair such ea we*
Belmont smog us, by Which *odd
secure the payload o( wispy old Immo
diet am wet worth the fret rod win.