BY D. A. & C. H. BUEHLER
VOLUME XXV. I
•The Voice of Autumn.
w. o. sarANT
There coulee, from yonder height,
A molt repining sound,
Where forest:leave. are bright,
And, call like flakei_of light.
-'
To the'grouirid.
It to the autumn breeze,
That, lightlylosting,on,
Just minim the weedy , leas,
Just stirs ihe glowing teen,
And G gone,
He. motive by sedgy brook,
And visits with a sigh
The last pale flowers that look,
From out their sunny nook,
•- At the sky.
O'er shouting childrenflies
That light September wind,
And, kissing cheeks end eyes,
He I their merry cries
Far behind ; •
And wanders on to make
That soft uneasy sound
By distant wood and lake,
Where distant fountains break
From the ground
No bower where maidens dwell
Can win a moment's stay,
Nor fair untrodden deli ;
He sweeps the upland •well,
And away !
!tfoum'et thou thy homeless state,
Oh.soft repining wind
That early seek'st and late .
The rest it is thy fate '
Nnt on the mountain's breast,
Not on the tmean'a shore,
In all the east and pest;
The wind thatztope to reit,
h no more
By valleys, woods and springs,
No wonder thou shooldat grieve
Far all the glorious things
Thou touehest with thy wingir ,
And must leave
Guardlan,Angels.
'Guardian angels, messengers of sweet
solace, glorious angel visions, are ever with
us, ever around•us ; to our weary spirits
they bring peace and joy. And when the
heart is filled with pleasure, the bright vis
ions floating in the etherial space swiftly
'bear the glad tidings up to heaven on their
unseen pinions. When there are wild
dark thoughts in our hearts, when we bow
our heads in. anguish of spirit, and give
way to useless and bitter repinings,ith,
then the glorious watchers hasten With
smiles of pea s e, and triumph in the right
through Him our Redeemer. They are
ever hovering around us with noiseless pin
ions; they are ever with us, those bright
spirits Coming from the portals of heaven,
and would not the earth be a weary, sad,
darksome place, without them? In vain
swam we Newt zur - nappiness atm gvau....
No nue can dispute the holy, mystic mis
sion of these spirits of pectic beauty. We
should strive to live under such glorious
waqiurs, (hat at the time of our transition
froiiiiitis world to a better, we can with
joy Pass with the bright angels above to
realms of kve.
A Suicide.
There was a poor soul passed last Mon
day over the Bridge of Sighs which sui
cide has raised over the gulf that separates
mortality from eternity. The coroner o
ver the body could not follow the forlorn
spirit whither it , had gone, but the moralist
may; and the picture of that spirit's past
is enough to , make the bright angels weep.
Perhaps some who stood by the side of the '
bloated, faded, and distorted featureh of the
veteran "procures'," viewed the picture in
all lights. They may have thought of that
body when first a tiny infant—smiling up
on pure bosoms, fondled in loving arms,
watched with zealous care, growing bright
and beautiful and winsome. Next, as a
budding woman, carressed and flattered )
and the ornament of many a social gath
ering.
Then tempted—then lost I Then endu
ring the first pangs of remorse, and drown
ing them with the strong potation, or the
whirling madness of new vice and fresh
crime ! Then the few years of guilty tri
umph and sweet, I Thad the weariness
of satiety , and advancing ago I Then the
re-kindling of remorse and of memory and
the dreadful torturins they produce upon
t ho remnants of a neglected soul iu contem
plating a ruined existence I Then the hor
ror of all behind blinding the view to all
before 1 And the oncetiny infant, so pure
and lovely—the winsome girl--the flatter
ed woman---crawls to the garret of her
loathsome home, and, with trembling
hands. arrangeo the instruments of death I
Doeoshe fear him
Why, Death 'and she have looked each
other in' the' face miny r .a time - ,these ten
years. And she is Amid last 1 And
the coroner comes—,and' his jeering jury
—and the, reporter, who notes down for
the'eyes of . ton - thousand pareless readers,
thit Madamci 'the keppir of 'a noted
den, ciuntaitted suicide yesiiirdaY, having
been observed to be in low spirits for some
time. Low spirits , ! And 6he had been
observed ! Alai 1 that they who are
walking in the same broad road would fol
low ups their observation 'of her life by on
ly ono reflpetion op her death I
"'Touch her not Scornfully--
Think order mournfully,
Gently end humanly':
Not of the stains of der—
All that remains of her.
ss
Now, is pare Womanly.
FEIWED CininliWai t
man named Mart!ball, under sentence for
six years imprisonment for burglary, has
for weeks been , feigning insanity, in the
hope of escaping;State prison.. He worked
his jaws until he frothea at the mouth ;
he clanked his .ehains, gritted his teeth,
end. endeavored to bite every one who came
in his,rec . b. Finally:he admitted that it
was useless to carry on the farce, and sub
mitted to hie fate with a . good degree of re
signation. ' '
JEFFREY, told a capital story of Tally
rand, at a public dinner. His health was
drunk. Before the noise was over, he got
up, made a mumbling, as if of speaking,
spoke nothing, made it bow, and sat down,
at which the applause redoubled. though all
those immediately about him kneW be nev
er said a word,
We take the following paragraphs from
the Rev. T. El King's letters to the Bos
ton Tmnitcript, from the 'sea-shore. It is
one of the finest displays of word-painting
we have ever seen :
The sea had drilled its riotous forces into
massive phalanxes and orderly squadrons.
In place of the rabble of breakers, billowy
batalions wore charging 66 shore. What
power, what majestpof motion, what vast
beauty of curve and curl I Watch these ,
rolling undulations in the distance. What ,
joy of expectation I See thorn heave near
er—the liquid valley; deepening, the slopes
darkening us they • approach—the forward
line pushed on until it mounts for its final
blow, whitens or. the ridge, shakes its lift
ed threatening edge, bends and flings itself
with deliberate fury upon the smothered.
groaning shore. The gurgling foam is
caught, as it retreats, by the next line.
which rides up in greater pomp ; just us
it curls, a fresh puff of thAlaud breeze lets
loose a mane of mist from its' long array,
and like ten thousand horses and horsemen
with streaming hair, it rushes with impet
uous roar far up the granite ramparts. We'
can't keep our hats on while the tbirdrank
frowns behind it ; we swing them with
wild delight, to see it gather, and rise,, and
knit, its forces into a threatening column.
a quarter of a mile in length ; and then,
we scream impotent cheers as it tumbles
its serried thunder, and hurls a mass of
briny and bracing fragrance into the air.
We exclaimed that it was wrong to have
such a•sublitne exhibition for nothing ; and
my friend, with enthusiastic waggery, pro
posed to throw his note for a hundred dol•
tars, at sixty days, into the surf. -
How can the splendors of wave-motion
that are played off before us be described Y
Doubtless it is possible. A Turner in rho-
Not to find 1
orio could do, ft, as well us a Stanfield or a
Turner iu color. I have no doubt the En
glish language has words which can be so
artistically ordered by a master, as to re
present the curious surges that sweep in
pyramids up those small rocky coves.—
They do not bend at. the top, and pour out
their foam in a crescent 'cataract. They
move up with a vast base, and as they near
the shore, the creamy surf rolls over the
top, or breaks from the side, as from a liquid
volcano venting its fleecy lava, and flows
down the blue advancing slope, till the
rocks break the whole mass into whiteness.
On another spot the billows try their skill
at architecture. A whole line curls up
gradually in exquisite scrolls, such us only
gusty snow-storms eau rival ; they coun
terfeit fantastic volutes of capitals ; they
suggeat, 'in the pale ditneirAio944lWM,
graces of ornament, which Corinthian col
umns have never upheld in marble.
But, it is images of battles, picture's of
forming squadrons, chivalrous combat, andl
gallant assault, that keep uppermost in the - I
mind. Sometimes; as they come careering!
on, in joyous strength, wit h flashing plumes,
the crowning part of t hecolurun, its knight
ly leader to the attack, would be arrested
by .a sunken rock, and we would see him
reel a moment, and then rise as in his stir
rups, and deal a more savage blow at his
granite enemy. It is a battle, a war of
ages—this contest of the billows and the
shore. A drawn battle, too, between the
passions of the one and the patience of the
other. All that the waters wash from the
edges that resist them, displaces its own
waves: If the rocks see the surges retreat
before thorn on one shore, the sea is gain
ing on another coast. A. continent sinks
in the pacific, while the valley of the :Via
sissippi is lifted above the sea and drained.
An editor who coufe.ses, by implication,
to largo ocular experience of.a timo•hen
ored custom for which the present fashion of
ladies' bonnets offers tempting facilities.
sums up the fruits of his practice in this
wise :—liardly any two females kiss alike.
There is as much variety iu the manner of
doing it as in the faces and manners of the
sex. Some delicate little creatures mere
give a slight brush of the lip. This. is a
sad aggravation. We seem about to have
"a good time," but actually got- notating.'
Others go about it likes hungry man afters
beefsteak, and seem to chow up your coun
tenances. This is disgusting, and soon
drives away a delicate lover. Others strug
gle like hens when hurrying themselves
with (Vt. The kiss is won by great exer
tions, and is not worth as much as the
bb it costs.
Now, wo are in favor of a certain shy
ness When a kiss is, propesecl, but it should
not continue too long ; and, whoa the, fair
one "gives in," lot her administer, it: with
warmth and energy. Let there tai soul init.
If she close her eyes and tfigh 'deep innue
dfately after it, the - effect is greater. She
should be canful nor, to "slob ber" a kifts,but
give it is a humming-bird, runs its bill into
a honeysuckle, deep butdelicately. There
is - nmb' virtue , in a' kiss whei well delis
orod. We have the memory of ono we re
ceived in our youth, which has lasted us
forty years; and we believe it will be the
last thing we shall think of when we die.
CAPITAL STORY.—.T . he Cllttlb. IHer
ald tells a capital tory of Judge Tappan.
formerly -a United
,States Senator from
Ohio, anti who is, unfortunstelyi cross.
"A number of years ago he was Judge
of,a newly organized county court, in the
eastern part of the State. -In those • days
of primitive simplicity, or perhaps poverty,
the bar-room of a tavern was used as a
court-room, and the stable as a jail. One
day, during the session of thecourt the
Judge had occasion to reprove two of the
lawyers, who were wrangling. An odd
looking old customer, who sat in one cor
ner, listening, apparently, with great satis
faction to the reproof, and presuming on ,
an 'old 'acquaintance, and the Judge's
well-known good humor, sung out—,
"Give it to 'em old gimlet-eyes ; !" '
"Who was that ?" inquired the Judge.
"It was this 'ere old hose," answered
,the chap, raising himself up. ,
"Sheriff," said the Judge, With great
gravity, "take that. oldhoss arid put hid in
the stable."
Wave-motion.
A Chapter . on Modem
GETTYBI3I7RG, 'PA.; FRIDAY EtRIING, OCTOBE'II 20, 1854.
It isn't all In bringing up.
The writer of the following is evidently not fin
hued with the generelitv of.thetheorithat educa
tion makes the man, end it is very clear that he
touches the subject graphically as well 21 poet
ically •
It lan': all in "bringing up,"
Let folks say what they Will ;
To 'diver-scour a pewter eup7.
It will be pewter still.
E'en he of old, wise Solomon.
Who said, ..train wchild."
If .1 mistake not, had a ran
Proved rattle-brained and wild.
• A man of mark. who fain would pass
Fur lord'of sea and land,
May have the . training of a son,
And bring him up. full grand •
May give him all the wealth el love,
Ofcollege and of school,
Yet' after all may make no More
Than just a decent fool.
Anether, raised by Penury
Upon her bitter bread,
Whose road to knowledge is like that
'I he good to heaven must tread,
Has gra a spark of Nature's light,
He'll fan it in a flame,
Till in its.burning letters bright
The world may read his name,
If it wi'r'e all in "bringingup, i '
In counsel and restraint. ,
Some rascals hid been honest men- 7 .
NI been meet f a Mat,
Oh ! Van% all in "bringing up,"
--Let folks say what they will ;
NeiNct may din, a silver cup—
It will be silver still.
STOLEN, FEUIT.-Iti Mr. GUDoing's
‘!Skeiches," a new English book, ho tells
this story of Dr. Ogden, Professor of Ge-
()logy :t--
The Doeior had taken a greatfancy to a
lad who had been in his servidi three or
four years; he was much pleased with his
management of a garden which was attach
! ed to his house, and of which he was par
ticufarly fond. A cherry tree, which had
been planted some time, which should
have produced very choice fruit, had on
stantly failed. To the doctor's groat de•
light it'at last showed signs of bearing,
and about a dozen cherries after a while
began to assume a temptinjs appearance.—
Returning ono day from his ride, he miss
ed some of his cherries, and accused the
boy, of haying taken them. "I have not
touched thlim, ' replied the boy, "as true
)as . .God's in heaven," (a very common
mode of assertion among inferior people at
that time.) "That's a good lad ! sit thee
down, and I'll give thee a glass 'of wine,
I for thou wouldst not tell me a lie !" Go- 1
ing to a closet, he put a potty strong dose
of antimonial wino into a glass, which the
boy drank off, and_waa rgauqr:lai'm in caii
vorsation. At length the boy was making
a hasty ratreat, saying he did not feel well.
"Do not quit the room," said the doctor,
"sit thee down thou wilt soon be better;"
and ringing the bell, ho ordered a jug of
warm water, which he administered very
freely, at the same time providing a basin.
The cherries soon made their appearance,
as the Dr. anticipated, to the greateonster
nation of the lad. “Whoro's the God in
heaven 1" said the doctor. Thou miscre
ant ! get thee out of my house I" He quit
ted it the same day, but.not till the Doctor
had shown him his will, in which he had
left him two hundred pounds
“We were to poor to pay.”
Yes, it was a lovely-spot—that village
church-yard I such a one I fancy, as in-
spired the "Elegy in the country church
yard." Tht4e was less pomp and show
than in our city burial places, but what of
that?—as Jeremy Taylor says, "we cannot
deceive God and nature, for a coffin is a
'coffin, though it bo covered with a sump
tuous pall. "•So a grave is a grave,
though it be piled ovdr with sculptured
marble."
Then that little girl! How her image
comes up before mo—bending over her
brother's grave. I marked her when we
entered the spot whore she was kneeling.
I approached cautiously—there was some
thing so sacred in the picture of a child
weeping at a; newly
. made grave, that I
feared my presence would break the rap
ture of her mournful musings. I know
not how longl might have stood, apparent.
ly rending the rude grave , stones, had not
the child rahied her eyes, andr timidly
said :—. •
"Our little Willie sleeps here: 'We's
too poor to got a tombstone; we and the
angels know where he lies, and mother
says that's, enough:"
"Are you not afraid to be here alone
I asked.
"0, no ; mother is sick, and couldn't
come, so she'said 'I mast come and see
if the violetS were in bloom yet." •• •
""How old was your brother ?" I asked,,
feeling interested , in the child.
"'He was only seven years old; and he
was so good; and had 'such beautiful eyes;
but he couldn't sue a bit."
"Indeed 1 Was be blind?"
"ou seete was sick° a long time; yet
his eyes were 'blue and bright as blue
skies with stars in 'ern -and we did .not
kaow he was getting blind, until one day
I brought him a pretty rose, and. ho
asked :
" , le it a white row, D6ra ?'
" you see it, darling ?' asked
mother."
No, I cannot see anything. I wish
you would . open the window, it is so
dark.'
"Then we knew that poor little Willie
was blind; but ho lived a lung time' after
that, and used to put his dear little hand
on our faces to feel if we were - Crying, and
tell us not to cry, for he could see' God,
and heaven, and the angels.. 'Then never
mind, mother and Dora,' he'd say,
see you too, when you go away from this
dark place."'
. 4 so one day be closed his eyes and fell
asleep, and mother said he was asleep in
Jesus. Then we 'brought . him here, and
buried him ; and though we're too poor to
get a tombstone, yet we can plant flowers
on his little grave, and nobody'll trouble
them, I know, whet they learn that our
tulle Willie sleeps ' ,
Zeal without knowledge, is like haste to
a man in the dark.
"FEARLESS AND REE."
Bringing in thu.tillurns. Days,Without Nights. t The Bummer is - Ended.
In a county hard by. isA demon was Dr. Baird, in-o-ledture recently, gave I In commenting upon the 'eventful num.
held for the office of High/Blinn: Three some interesting facts. There is nothing mer from which we have junt'emerged, the
popular candidates were 0- be field andlthat strikes a stranger more forcibly, if N York Mirrornays that nit has been shard
their chances of "nieces, eteyt about equal. ihe visits Sweden at the season of the yearand a hot one. Fires, failures, disease and
.s
Never, it is said, did t , yeomanry of when the days are the longest, than the.
death have brought losses and mourning to
ihatcounty enter more h y into a politi- absence of the night. Dr. Baird had no ' thousands—tbe culemity of abort crops and
cal canteen than on this - ion. -Thou- conception of it before his arrival. Het high prices "makes the poor man look
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sands upon thousands of dollars had been arrived at Stockholm from Gotienburgh, I anxiously to the corning winter. Many
staked on the resulsand is circumstance. 400 miles distant, in the morning, and in! who began thO season. In the fullness of
perhaps. lent much to the enthusiasm the afternoon went to see game (donde— health and beauty, have , perished with the
manifested by the people - had not taken note of time—and returned' early flowers, and hundreds who went abroad
On the morning. run • provided with at midnight ;it was as light as it is here i decked rob the gay orders of joy and lupe
fleet horses, were des, fed to all the half an hour before sundown. You could ; are pow robed in the sombre attire .of grief
different polls of the co ty. who were , to see distinctly. But all was quiet in thel m
and mourning Autun hart scale to many
bring in different retu i.,to the county- streets ; it- seemed as if the inhabitants a heart even in the spring time of life,
seat. a hotel in which , the headgear- Were all gone away, or were dead. No ;.and the earth has become to thousands of
tars of the three panic :v - signs oflife—stores closed. its pilgrims literally 'the volley of , the shad.
We' ill pass by the ; amusing an d The sfin goes &'en at Stockholm a lit- ow of death.' They who have passed
I exciting occurrences o he ay, and recur tie before 10 o'clock. There is a great il- through, this trying season unscathed by
!to the closing scene of ,e , . ght:, le:Wooden all night ; as the sun passes sickness and misfortune, whom the Death
The returns were a intwith the sump -I
round the earth towards. the north pole. Angel has not even brushed with his wing,
Lion of one township, odahe contest thus and the refractioe of its rays is such that I should make their lives a hymn of thanks.
far was so close tha the desparity be. you can see tamed 'at midnight, withoutgiving to the Infinite God who has dealt
tween the highest add the'' lowest candid artificial light. There is a mountain at i with them so gently and so graciously I--
date*. was less than . votes. Th e r a te! the Bothnia, where on the 21st of Juno,l 'tweed of looking , on tip dark side of the
of the three candidate huoitipon that one! the SUIT does hot go down at all. Trai-lfuture, they should look up in ' gratfful
poll. Each candidate d claimed a hand. ellen go there to see it . A steam oonfideuce to the Bsaper whose sickle has
some majority in the maining township goes up from Stockholm for the purpose! left them to. flourish a little longer' hi the
—but as etch had be deceived by the of carreing those who ere curious to wild fi eld of dine, while thousands as full of
votes °rifle balance , t And& in this was nese the phenomenon - 11 "occurs ()Idyl health and promise as they, have been cut
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matter of extreme on - ..The three com- one night. 'The sun. goes dotal; to the down and withered in an hour."
petitors, became excee netaleaded : the horizon, von can see the whole face of it, • , --------------:----
friends of each were i own into a state and in five Nannies it beginalo rise. , The Notional Bobs Show.—The Cinein
of painful anxiety. and heemorting gentle- e At the north Cape, latitude 72 degrees.lnati Times has adult amount of the National
men felt as though the had 'embarked - on the see doed nut set in several days. ' in.! lieby show held last week at„Springtiold,
a hazardous enterprise: `.: - .___ L. I June it would be alio#2s .degrees above ! Ohio. _There were 127 babies in all exhi.
In the stillness dab night. the clatter-I the horizon it midnight, The Way the; bited, from - various States of tho Union.—;
ing of a horse's feeesiresfsietly h ear d i n people know it is midnight thee see die ThisTinlee nays:
the distanee. The silk! . of "he's tont. sun riee. The chaeges in' thesehigh latd , Ttie baby teet revirented a nosed, amusing
ing,"gave general noncom? the . &cu= itudes. - from - Ad Winiec mire no and nitoresting sight. The mothers end
As the messenger nearsifflitern—his noble! great that we ean hav e ' n o 'conception of juurses were seated and had die ''little der
animal flying as it were under .whip and ! them at all. In the winter time the nun lings" all ready for inspection—that is; as
spur—they fell back on 'either side and! disappears. and it is not seen for sseelte: near ready as could be. To see so many
opened a paseage to ritestile-him-Au he 4 Then it frames and shows its face. After- babies together was novel ;to note the me
dashed, regardless • of .Isonandire i -an t tlwarns-it-remaies-ten, fifteetss-or-tweety - lerrial - efforts to present thettsiii the best
battling bp suddenly width thiebm light! nilnotes. anifilien deectinds, and finally it ,tnood was amusing, and to gaze upon their
of a lamp, with a wateh - itt hie - . tend. he; does not set at all, but makes's circular !innocent faces and purest of charms was ,
exclaimed—" Five huirdrell. dollars that; around the heavens. ' Dr. •Baird was ask - , certainly interesting.
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better time 'miter was model Ten miles ; ed how thy'. manage(' In regard, to wee, There Hasa mother, her eyes directed al
n onit - twenty minutes - 1 oft a three ; persons; and what they considered a day, ternately on the judges and on a little
year old e'en at that 1" ''4 . , Ile cnuldehot 'say, but supposed they cherub which lay iu .ber 1ap.;:..8y .her. sat
A death-like stillness pervaded the: worked by the limo.. and -twelve hours 'another holding up proudly it lovely little
crowd as the runner continueff r , to expati- would be considered a day's work. ' girl, whose flaxen curls and sweet , blue
ate upon the speed and. qualities of ,lits Birds and aiiiimils lake their accustom- eyes would soften the heart of the greatest
colt—a matter in which mmehet blinself, ed test at the usual beers. The Doctor. baby-hater iu Christendom. Next Co her
seemed to feel any interest, - jest at that! did lint know how they learnt, the time, was a nurse eedeavoring to quiet a stout,
time— interest Ike crowd at , t ei a lson goes down or not. The, hene take to• who insisted onpulliog the. et blaelsringlete
whichtl c i v e returns being' the -only
,thing . brit they had, and go to rest whether filet black.eyed, rosy-checked "one, year old,"
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juncture. Fhe returist!" interrupted a. the trees s h out 7 w e i n ie. p,, AL, and staylof another one, about its own tti , e. .One
voice in the crowd. ;'77tirty eight ma- there ulna the sun is well up, in, th e mom I lady pointed with pride to the elit;bby legs
jority!" answered the runner. -'.sn'tir . ! ine l- 1 411 te e Peopii g et - it, the habit a l l of her thirling boy,.tvltile another glowingly
c w o h n o i t " s ' o d ni ena i a r n el d i e o d w th geot sTe kir vo . i .7, : norm see t
it! rising l ate i n '
7 ,, te rn e : i . )e 'l e "` .. 'n fie nreine. Dr.lreforrred to the delicate but well-formed fee
wart sur-1 turns of her sweet babe. Ono boasted of
hearty, bet
who die 4 . I s,„ w iLs. es i s s nia ., prised to seet to elm shining into his h, te ; nr , 4, 0 k ritgid _ a jev,l e,.1......,e1 4 ,, m
free"ke viltirrierl'nnur urtnir"llmitanirul ''. ' ' ' AT
tell you ;bat one thing 1 know, amitffiedi - iriliTly i o to or I, inse - ite -• ss t , itet t o ta h t ka - t b - at s ac i 1 ,..
that you can just bet your life on the hose." , a woke it was five • o'c l ock , but there was fl u: , t • t .b.; f bh- • .
prat WS to 1 o 011 eX 1 item ens fret;
%Ve have since trequernly hesrd of this; din person in the streets. . The Swedes in cinainaati; it is the daughter of Mr. Boo
lean, who is now universally known and I the cities are not very industrious, owing ry Howe. It is really a sweet child, and,
called in this neighborhood , by the cogno- .
prubably to the climate- Genesee Whig. without pretending to be a judge, we must
men ul "the man who brought in the re-! coincide with the eneral inion. •
turns. —O. S. Detnuerat. gop
Large and fat children seemed to pre
doininate. Otte from Indiana, five , mouths
old, weighed 27i pounds. Another, four
mopths old, weighed 20 pounds. A pair
of twins, of Clark couuty, attracted mob
attention. They were very pretty, and as
'near alike as two peas. An elderly lady
was Treece t with her seventeenth bot'sy, only
two months old. She claimed nothing ex
traordinary iu the child, hut ,thought she
'wail deserving of a premium.
Remarkable Coincidence.
A correspondent of the Peuershurg
Virginia) Express, writing from Charles.
own, in that Slate, relates the following
series of incidents, which, if true, are
certainly very singular:
"Washington was accustomed. to wear
two seals on his watch—one of gold and'
the other of silver. Upon both' of them
the letters 'G. W. were engraved, or
rather cut. The seals he wore as early
as 1754, and that day he ` loot the 'silver
seal. The gold one remained with the
general until the day of his dmth, and was
then given by him to his neritew, d gen
tleman of Virginia, who careldly
„reserv
ed it until about seventeen years ago,
when in riding over his farm; he dropped
it, and could never recover iti The.other
day, the gold seal, lost seventeen years a
go, was ploughed up, recognied front the
letters 'G. W.' on it, and reitored to the
son of the gentleman to whhn Washing
-1 ton had presented it. . 41 alumt the same
moment, the silver seal. lostill 17. - )4. just
one hundred years ago. 1,4'1 plowed up
t i 3
on the site of the battle in !rich Brad
dock was defeated, and in ike manner
was recognized from the let rs *G. W.,'
so that in a very short I e the two
re l
companions will soon be ag a united.—
I have this whole statem t from the
most reliable source possi le—namely, i
from the gentleman himself, ho has thus
restored to hint these precio mementoes
of his great ancestor . The Bair its but
one more proof of the oft- ated maxim,
that truth beggars fiction in s ngeuess---
I repeat there is not the slit est exagger
ation or misstatement in the atter. and no
room for mistake. In leg praseology,
*the proof excludes every er hypighe
sit "
NIL z DIMPIRANDCII.
life there is hope, is an old i
is sometimes curiously ills
sons given up ... die are of
the !superior energy of a nu
hope, but many keep off th
tors, for a time at least, by
determination. Old Maj
won his brevet in the war
suddenly taken down with
It was at the time of its a arance on
this continent. and our p sicians had
very little experience. Th Major sank
rapidly, and a consultation its called.—
Several doctors, after "cluing their heads
together." came to the concision that the
patient was fatally sick, par recovery.—
No one, however, would make the a
nouncement ; when the Mior, suspect
ing the case, .turned to a oung doctor
present and said : "What lathe report 1"
"That you can't live." "lit a chance 1"
asked the Major with seve ty. "Yes."
t i
continued young hopeful. "j t one chance
in a hundred thousand." *Then why
the don't you work ay on that
chance I" returned the jor with a ;
voice of thunder. The hi was taken I
and the invincible soldier as saved.—
The white hairs and the g sing sword I
of this old soldier waved a' g the victo. i
rious lines of our troops in exico ; but I
he at last had to yield to ate. if not more I
courageous, yet more insatele, and now
he sleeps open his native tanks of the'
Hudson.
The Drunkard's Child.
lam a drunkard's little buy, •
All friendless and alone,.
I pass each hour without one joy,,
I lie all night and inoan.
. • •
I tremble throinrh the lire'lobg days
With tear lest father come,
And when I hen Waste?, I pray
' Gistito protect our home. •
My mother starts and turns so pale,
I'm frightened more and 'more,
To see the drunkard's bathseme form
Fill on the mildewed floor;
I weep, and vieep, till tears are dry,
My hot
,head reels with pain:
I clasp my mother's neck and cry
We nefer shall atolls again. •
With hnpe they 'ay thei world is bright,
me it never smiled, t .
But darkness like a starless nigh r.
Unfolds the dtunkanl's child.
Ah ! yes, one lit:le gleam of .light,
Shane out from heaven above,
Lit e'en for me one taper bright,
It is a mother's love.
A little Rimbaud and little Wife.
The Sandusky Register is responsible
for this , •
"Two little childreM—a boy and i girl,.
aged four and three years respertively 7 .
Iwere missed by their lamilies, and 'search
made for them. everywliere but in vain,—
: The day passed,: end ! considerable alarm
existed. Persons were out -in all - diem
: lions, and the bell-ringer had been .setit
for,-when, passing - a thicket of'buslare in
the, garden, the mother Monett she heard
low. voices near::-= Pulling **ay. t Se leaves
there were the truants...with their . night
clothes on, locked in one another's arms,
and comfortably stowed away fOr the night.
The precocious /over: were stirred from 1
!heir nest, , but the boy expressed the ut. 1
I must indignation ; fur, said he, "the hired 1
min had married me and sissy, and `that
bush house was hia'n, and they wore
grin' to live there till it rained." The
denouemeul was so comical ' that it was
concluded to let the babies be married um i
til they had a failing off, which occurred
the next day, and now they live apaet—a
separated man and • wife." "-_.: .
,-t,
ile there is
age. and it
rated. Per.
saved by
e who has
ing of ter.
eir superior
Dash. who
1812, was
cholera.—
The following detailed account of the tern-;
wile catastrophe to the Arctic is furnished by
Mr. Geo. 11. Burns, the express Me.s.senger of
Adams Jo Co.. who Was on board. and form
nately escaped the perils of the disaster.
Statement if Mr. Burns.—The steamship
Arctic. with 226 passengers, exclusive of child
ren, 175 employees, a valuable cargo. and hea
vy mail, is lost. Of the more than flow hund
red souls who left Liverpool on the 20th ult..
full of hope, gayety and health, many return
ing from an European tour of pleasure, only
thirty-two are known to have been "saved. and
not more than one hundred can, by any possi
bility, have escaped a watery grave.
In addition to all this, another large steam
er. freighted with hundreds of human beings.
I haa..in all probability, met a like fate. The
;details of the horrible disaster ore as follows:
SHAMEFUL DISHONEBTY.-48 a proof On Wednesday. September 27, precisely at
of the dishonest adulteration of liquors in i 12 o'clock. M.. in a den,e fog, we came in con
this country, the New York Sun says, ; tact with, a
.bark rigged iron propeller, with
that more • Port Wine is drank in the U.
black hull,boats .
and black pipe. , She was
salmon colored bottom, lead colored
States in one year than passes through the poop
and
bound eastward, and had all sail set, with a
custom=house in ten; that more champagne strong. fair wind. The speed of the'Arctic at
is consumed in America alone than the t the time was about 13 knots an hour. The
whole champagne district produces ; that shock to us appeared slight. but the damage
cognac brandy costs four times as much to the other vessel was frightful.' Capt. Lure
in France, where it is made, than it is re.. instantly ordered the quarter boats cleared
tailed for in our grog shops,: and that the
~' sway, and the chief mate, boatswain and three
sailors went to her relief: before other boats
failure of :he whole grape crop in Madeira," left. the order was countermanded: The Arc
produced no apparent diminution in gun- 1 tic then described a circle tivlce round - the
tits or increase in the price of wine. I wreck, during which time I caught a glimpse
A Minister. was, once speaking In a
brother clergyman of his gratitude for a
merciful deliverance be had just experi
enced :
"Ae I wax riding hereto-day," said he,
umy horse azumbled, and came very- near
throwing me from a bridge, where the fall
would have killed me, but ;I escaped un
hurt."
"I can tell you something more than
that," said the other. "As I rode' here
to-day. my horse did not stumble at
all." -
We are too apt to forget common mer
cies.
. .
roitChing Incidety. , ..—,' The following inei
dent occurred it the leAcuminueneement of
the' RacliesteV - , University :,---."One tutnnher
of the:graduating 31r,.11,. C. Penn,
of
Roohester, ‘ is totally , When his
theme was annoneced, President. Anderson
remarked to the audience that Mr. Peon, at
the clomie of his junior year, iu performing
some chemical experiments in private, lost
his eyesight entirely from the effects of-,tinexplosion,
explosion, but that from unflagging energy
mind by aid of a devoteit brother and mat:Lobed
class-mates he had Wen able to complete
the studies of the.course with honor to him
self and satisfaction to 'his temiehers. Ire
was then led forward by his brother, while
there was scarcely a tearless eye :in all that
vast assemabiaget of near two thousand souls.
ills subject was "The Lost. Senses,"the
object of which 'was , to demonstrate the
proposition that blindness - is preferable, .'to
deafness.. It was discussed is an'agnmeable
manner after which Mr. Fenn retired'
amid the prolonged, applause of the audi
ence-."
Seven Hundred She;p Droioned.—The
Harrisburg Herald states that on the 3d
inst. tt. drover undertook to drive about nine
hundred sheep mamas the Susquehanna riv
er. near Liverpool, Pa., and fait seven bun.
dred of them. The citizens wont to the
rescue with bdats, and with a great deal of
difficulty succeeded in rescuiug about two
hundred. ' '
HE ARCTIC DISASTER.
DOLLARS PER ANniff.
NUMBER` 32.
of more than two hundred people elnatered'ore
hei• hurricane deck- - : ' . • '. .
..At this juncture it was first ascertained that,
we had - sustained injU ry, . and.the, water was.
ixeiring'in et our bows. When the first <Mem!
came alongside to report, the captain waS 'Haft.
Ide to take him up, but headed N.lf.' W. 'in
the hope of winking land. Our position on the
previous day, at 12 o'cloclc, wits latitude:4S
30. longitude 45 27. WOhnd run about three'
Ihundred and ten miles from the time of this
olisereation until the moment of collision, and
were stiproaed to he abotit 40 miles from Cape
i Been. The pumps • were vigorously worked ,
i nnd an nnohor chain thrown overboard : but in
1 spite or all exertions, the engines stopped. and
the Water extinguished. the fires.. Pourer the
five other life boats, believed to have beekrell
I provisioned. containing the engineers., sailors,
la feWpassengers nnd nil the officers, except
the captain and third mnte, left the Ship at an
/early stage. The majority of the. passengies
I were working the pUllipi—some firing the Rig
' nnguns, and 'others Winching spars. under
ithe irection ef'Captain Luce and Mr. Dorian,
I cv
the birdlime, to form a raft.
In order to facilitate this latter work the
sixth and last boat was lowered. Dorian, one
or two firemen, three of the other passenger
Saved, and Myself, were busily engaged lashing
writer casks and settees to the main yard. two
top-gallant yards, and several smaller span; :
the captain, with a numherof gentlemen, pro
teeting the work by-keeping hack tho'creiwd.,.
when a panic seized all on boon], a rush Was
-made, passengers rind firemen precipitated
themselies hendlong over tho bulwarks on to .
the raft, and in n motnent pur little boat - %vs.;
full:and in imminent danger of being sunk,
in this emergency. Dorian ordered the rope
which held the steamer to be out. and with
our hands.'and Bien wo paddled from the raft'*
side. The mate, who throughout preserled
great presence of mind, and labored with he
roic energy. cried Out : "For . God's sake, cap:
tain, clew' the raft. so• that we can worki - I -
won't desert the ship while there's a timber
above water." • . .
But the RCM WAS now flush with the , dead
-
r
lights.' In less than three minutes from tho
time he spoke, the stern sunk—the foam' went
boiling over the- tumbling heap of human' het
inga—many were dashed forward against tho .
mod. I heard one wild yell, .(1011 ringing in
my ears,) and saw the Arctic and the strap..
gling masii rapidly engulphed. Numbers yet' •
clung to the imperfectly constructed rah: but,
alas. we could•render them no aid. Our owl*
situation was no less'precarious ; and, cruel as
it scented, we were forced to abandon them to
fate. heaven forbid that I should over witness
such another - scene. We however picked. up .
two more men; and then, with an overloaded
boat, without oars. tholepies. food or drink,
avoiding with difileultY,the fragments of the
wreck, arel.passiog many dead females, pre.:,
pared, for a night tipon the ocean. We secured
' a flouting, pumpkin and' cabbage to guard
against immediate starvation, lashed a spar to
the bow of' our boat to keep her head to the
wind and sea, and thuS drifted until daylight;
tyre night was cold and foggy, with a heavy
, swell, and, in it cramped. 'drenched and imif z
naked condition,
,w,g stapred terribly. .-.
j ,„,„.., ,„ , .1.-o m ~....rives, IrsilU ,
VittA4 11171 - ChSby the COrIiCiOIISSOSS that we had •
-4 - le:leered to do eur:dtity.to,.a, - ' , fellow men..
suffice - it to sly that at 5 o'cloc k-on'w. lter-, -
noon of the 28th, ere,espied a sail, and - raised
a handkerchief to attract attention. We were
successful. With the rude substitutes for oars
which we had . constructed during the day by
lashing planks to capstan bars, with a view of
attempting to gain land when the sea subsided,'
we pulled towards the ship. On our way we
passed the'reinnant of the raft, with one tnan
on it appnrently'alive. . .
The barque proved to be • the Huron, of St;
Andrews, N. 8., Capt. A. Wall, bound for
' Quebec.. Our amen safe on board, the 'noble
hearted Dorian. with seine of the Huron's crew,
returned to_the raft and rescued the poor fel
. -
low who for twenty-six hours had clung to the;
spars. He stitteS that after, the steamship sunk.,
he counted seventy-two men'and four women
on the raft; but at Si o'Cluely he was the only ,
0110.nlive, - In tin morning two bodies were
beside him. muchmaten by'flshes, and at -the -
time he saw our boat he was on the point of
voliintarily dropping into the sea to, end his -
agony. Coming from the raft Dorinn, encoun-
[
tered and examined the life car of the Arctic,
llt contained , a bottle Of water. someeheese and
la lady's garment. ” ' • . .
1 By the-humane captain of the Huron: and
I Mr. Willington Cameron. a son of the owner.
we were received with great kindnetts.. our
wounds dressed. tires kindled, end fend and
clothing provided in abundance, During, the
night of the 28th, Capt. Wall hung wit extra
!lights. fired rockets, and kept a horn blowing,.
in hopes of falling in With the rest of the boats.
I Bet Ins endeavors were fruitleiss. On the even- t•
.
ang of the, 29th, he spoke the ship Lebanon,''
Capt. Story, hound for N. York, by whom nigh;
r teen or our nintiber were taken Off. kindly wet ,
corned and well treated. We have this rim- ,•
ment reached New York. by pilot boat Clint.i
(inn Berk. No. It), to which we were trans-
,
ferred from the Lebanon, and to the 'crew of': -'
which we are tinder great obligations.
Among those whom flast saw on the qurter..: -
deck, whilst fastening fire preservers to the fe- •-
males, And who must have sunk with the ship.' -
or perished on tire raft,
.were Capt. Luce and
son, Mrs. E. K. Collins,. Master Wit Collins.
Miss Collins, Mr. Brown and tamilY, (connec-.
,
lion of the senior of the firm of Brown, Ship . , '
I ley .b. Co, Liverpool,) Mr. Thomas. importer
lof hosiery. New York : Mr., Adams, Brooklyn:
iMr. Bowen, Cincinnati, Mr. Charles Springer.
Cincinnati : James Muirhead, Jr., Petersburg, . .
Va.: Mr. HeWitt. Mrs. Hewitt and daughter, ,
'Fredericksburg, Va.: Mr. Wood. N. Y.: Mr.
Ysaki. Mr. Schmidt, Miss Morton. Falinouth,
!England : a nephew of Mr, Bloodgood, hotel
keeper,e Philadelphia, residing in Albany : 'the
Duke do °raiment, of the French Embassy: .
l2d steward, wife and child;. Annie, a colored. - -
girl, Aria 'Mary 'a stewardess. Miss. ; Mr. Petrie . ; ,
and lady, Stewart Hollin, Washington. D. 04....
J. Cook, Opelousas, La,, with runny more
*hose names I did not know, but whose'reit 7 ' '
. tures are indelibly imprinted on my . meniory.'
i Governnient despatches from France' and''' -
England, entrusted to my care by Mr. Bach.. .' .
anan. I could not save. . . '1 - •
Respectfully, Gso. 11. Buns&
I • Arlsms & Co.'s E - Fpressti.
, Now York. Oct. 10, 1854.
The number on board the Arctic( was allM,
Passengers,
Crew,
Total. , ,431 ,
But 57 of this number are known to heure4,.1....,
' Further Pariteulars--safety of 1.4e-froat X
peller.-Furt.er Rescues tfthe.Aeshietif
ftemPhx, Oct. 12.—We hare dateafreanpr a e n T
foundland to the 4th. Which innotificeAe . •
sal of the french screw steamer Vesta'. it St.
Johns. on the 3d inst.. with her krelititst and
bows shattered to _pieces, she'beimrthe Wriatel
that came in collision with the Arctic.' ;She
picked up and twought into port 31 of littAtr• --
. tic's crew: . '• .'
The Vesta lost 13 of her passengers. sup vassal,
Lobe dime Who were rundown by the
,
in small boat. .
s b •
Three of the aretie'oats have not yet bisti - t''''.
heard
,from, but being life hoots. they are ae
posed to hive • bout.pielced up. Tbo ps>tt a
seat in search returned on theld without enti , . ; •
ceas—not having found the slightest ink* . , :
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