BY D. A. & 0. H. BUEHLER VOLUME.XXVLI Wishing. BY JOHN SAXE Of all amusements for the mind From logic down to fishing, • There isn't one that you can find • So vety cheap as "wishing P' A very chimp . diversion, too, If we but rightly use it, And not, as wo are apt to do, Pervert it did abuse it. I wish—a common wish, indeed, My purse was 'something fatter, That I might cheer the child ofnecd, And not my pride to flatter; That I might make oppression reel; As only gold can make it, And break.tho tyrant's rod of steel, As only.gold can break it ! I wish that Sympathy and Love, And every human passion That has its origin above, Would come, and keep in fashion; That Scorn, and Jealousy, and Hate, And every base emotion, Weee buried fifty fathotits deep * Beneath the waves of Ocean I I wish that friends were always true, And motives always pure; I wish the good were not so few, I nish the bad were fewer; I wish that Persons no'er forgot ro heel) their pious teaching, I wish that practicing was not So different from preaching I I *Wish that modest worth might be 4praised with truth and candor, I wise that innocence were free From treachery and slander ; I wish that men their vows would mind, That women no'er ivere rovers ; I wish that wives wore always kind, And lusbands always lovers I I wish, itt.fine, that joy and mirth, Awl every good ideal, May come, erewhile, throughout the earth, To ho the glorious real ; Till God shall every creature bless With his Inpremest blessing. And hope be lost in happiness, And wishing be possessing. Honor thy,Fallter and Mother. BY ELLEN 0. HOBBS. "Honor thy father and mother," is the first commandment with promise—prom ise as beautiful in its °amplification as 4 lorious in its conception. A mother's lips fleet • breathed into our ears those words , of Holy Writ, and explained their • general import t" and from the time when the story. _of gray haired Elijah and his youthful mockers first excited my young imagination, up to' mature womanhood, the respect then inspired for the white hairs of age hat, grown with my growth, and strengthened with my strength. Wo sigh us we think of the days when the • young were woat to bow before the hoary heid,'and, by gentle utiealleturervassion- - ties, strew roses in the old man's tottering path. But those kindly. meows of our , puritan ancestors have passed away. The word grows selfish as it grows old, and age-dieting eyes must turn homeward for stays to their trembling hands and totter ing limbs. Hero should they find the fulfilment of the first commandment with promise. No true, womanly soul ever withdrew 1 her gentle hands from her poor old father or mother ; no manly heart over forgot the home loves of his wayward childhood, or ceased to hear the echoes of a fond . mother's prayers. Often the cares of this world. and the deceitfulness of riches, may choke up the inborn affections of narrow souls ; but few and far between is the fondly loved child, who can be so untrue to himself or his maker, as wholly to forget the mother who bore him. Yet, oven with the holiest dictates of our rea sons and souls, as with the wider applica. Con of the commandment, has fashion in-1 ..ainuated influence; and the sun, per- :charm, who loft his fond parent's humble home reluctantly and tearfully, to make his way in the world, forgets, when for tune favors, to welcome his rustic mother to his own luxury, with which he left her in his childhood home. Her dim old eyes, perchance, do not catch readily the mean angless courtesies of life; nevertheless, they look none the less lovingly upon her child than when they watched over his helpless infancy. Her withered hands may bo largo and bony, and may never have known a jewel ; but none the less gently did they smooth the weary pillow, or bathe the heated brow, in the dependent days of boyhood. Ah ! she's ?,:the same fond mother still ; her ago and work-bout form, old in rustic garb, conceals a heart full of never-dying love, and ready for now sac rifioes. And, thanks to the Groat Being who gave us the commandment (with prom. ise, now and then there stands up a noble man, true to his inborn nature, who, throwing off the trammels of fashion, how ever wide the gulf which separates him, in the world's eye, from the humble poverty .. , of his boyhood—who is not ashamed to love, before his follows,. the humble moth er who gave him 'birth, 4 4 My mother—permit . me to present ' her to you," said an elegantly dressed, no. Ile-looking 'young man to a friend for ~.„.,Whom he had crossed a crowded drawing root% with Marigold parent leaning on his arm. There was a dead: silence for full live minutes. The 'moral beauty of the ,picture, pervaded every soul, and melted away the frost work from world•worn hearts. 'Twas the old foreground of a fashitmable resort, whither hosts had come, with all their selfish 'passions, to i seek n vain for health and pleasure.— But hero wan s variation—a bit of truth to' i naturo in the motloy mingling, of From a little farm•honse, , pent in by forests, 'way up in the Granite State,' that young man had gone forth with brave heart and stalwart arm; • strong, liko his - "native hills, he had already made a name Polished circles opened for him,'and gentle tips bade him welcome.-- - Yet-none - the less carefully did his manly arm Support his homely, tottering mother ; --tiontrthe -less softly and tenderly-did -he -, her—queer though sho looked--"my mother," amongst the proud beauties, who bad stmna for his favor. Her dress was art4quated, fot the good gilts of her eon ---luukbotufemilimutilatod by rustle hands; yet only ono heartless girl tittered, 'dos. pito the broad-frilled cap. and well-kept shawl. Her voice was rough, and often her expression coarse and inelegant. Used to the social mug at home, she asked for her neighbor's goblet at table, and was guilty of many like vulgarities. She was not in interesting woman, save in her vigoroua age, and her beautiful love of her son.— Yet for a week, the son watched over that mother, and gained for her kindness and deference, in the very face of fashion, walked with her, drove with her, helped her, like an infant, up a difficult moun tain aide of twenty miles, humored her ev ery caprice, and each day found some new friend, whose heart ho might thrill by thou gentle words, "my mother." To him she was the gentle mother who rooked him to sleep in childhood, an.' true to the great commandment she had taught him, ho was making the path smooth for <her dependent years. • One there was, in the gay throng, whose eyes flashed haughtily, as they rested on tho homely toil-worn *roman ; but she was a noble soul, and truth and right gained an instant victory over life long projudieos. Quietly and elegantly she crossed the room, laid her snowy little hand, with such a gentle, thrilling touch, on the arm of her lover, and whispered a word in his ear. Will she ever forgot tho look of love-triumph iu his eyes, or the molting gentleness of his tones, as ho pro stinted his beautiful high-bre d betrothed to his old gray haired, doting mother ? 'Twos a holy sight--that of polished, glow ing beauty, grasping the - hand of wrinkled, homely ego I When the summer guests had gone, many a' ono remembered and watched that young man, whose filial de votion had in it a moral sublimity. And surely to him the commandment proved with promise. Living by one's Wit. Nine persons from Basle down the Rhine. A Yew, who wished to go to Sehalampi, was allowed to come on board and journey with them, on condition that he would conduct himself with propriety, and give the captain eighteen kroutzors for his pasting°. Now, it is - true, something jingled in the Jetv!s pocket when ho struekl'is hand against it; bat 'the only money therein was a twelve kreutzer piece, for the other was a brass button. Notwithstanding this he accepted the offer with gratitude , for, thought ho, "something may he earn ed oven upon the water. There is many a man who has giown rich upon the Rhino." • - During the first part of the voyage the passengers were verv.etAili,nth— b,„; ' b re iiiTCLllila wallet under his arm —for he did not lay it uside=was the sub.. joot of much mirth and mockery : as alas! ib often the case with those of his nation. But tho vessel sailed onward, and passed Thurrington and Saint Volt, the passen gers one after another grew 'silent, ga zing down the river, until ono spoke out: "Come Jew, do you know any Pastime that will amuse us ? Your fathers must have contrived many a ore during their long stay in the wilderness." "Now is the time.," thought the Jew. "to shear my sheep." And he proposed that they should sit round in a circle and propound curious questions to each other, and ho, With their permission, would sit down with them. Those who could not answer the queitiOns should Pay the ono who propounded theta a twelve kreutzer pieoe, and those who answered them perti nently should receive a twelve kreutzer piece. The proposal pleased the company, and hoping to' divert themselves with the Jew's wit or stupidity, each one asked at random whatever entered his head. Thus,,for example, tho first ono asked : "How many soft boiled eggs could the giant Goliah eat on an empty stom ach 1" All said that it was impossible to an swer that question,aud each paid over their twelve kreutzers. But the Jow said, "One ; for he who has eaten one egg cannot eat a second on an empty stomach," and the other paid him the twelve kroutzers. The second thought, wait Jow, and I will try you on the. Now Testament, and think I shall win my pio'ce : "Why did the Apostle Paul write the second epistle to the Corinthians 7" Tho Jew said, %because he was not in Corinth, otherwise l o would have spoken., to them." So he won another twelve.) kreutzer piece. When tho third found the Jew so well versed in the Bible, ho ' tried him in a dif ferent way. "Who prolongs his' work to the greatest length possible, yet completes it ,in time." "The ropemaker, if he is'' industrious," said the Jew. In the,. Meanwhile they drew near to a village, and one said to the other,: ' , that is Brandaeh." The , fourth asked, ' , in what month do the people of Brimloch eat the least ?" • The Jew said, «in February, for that has only twenty-eight . days." The fifth laid, ' , there are two natural brothers, and' still only ono of them is my uncle." , , The Jew said, "the unolo is your fath er's brother." A fish now jumped oat of the water, and the sixth asked, "what fish have their eyes nearest together ?" , Tho Jew said, "the smallest." The seventh asked, "how can a maw ride from Basle to Borne in the sum mer time, in, the shade, when tho sun shines ?" • The Jew said, "when ho coolies io a plaeo where there is no shade, the most dismount and walk." - , . The eighth - nakody-liwhen-a mart..ridea in winter time from Borne to Blisle, and hae—forgotton--hiir - gloves,' how - muat' — he manage se. that Ina hangs shall not freeze ?", Tho Jew said. ' , he must make fiats of atom." Tho ninth wes the last, This one oak fghow CIO five perms divide five eggs GETT,YRBURG, CA., FRIDAY E so that oaoh man shall receive ono, atod still one romain in tho dish I" The Joi'said, "the last one can take the dish with the Ogg, and can let it lie there as long as be pleases." But now it came to his . tunt„and he, de. termined to make a good sweep. After many preliminy compliments. ho asked with an air of mischievous friendliness-- "How can a man fry two trout in three pane so that a trout may lie in eaoh pan ?" No ono could answer this, and ono after another gave him twelve kreut acre." But when the ninth desired that ho should SUPWOr it himself, ho frankly ac knowledged that ho know not how the trout could bo fried in such a way I Then it was maintained that this was unfair in the Jew, but ho stoutly affirmed that there was no provision for it in the argument, save that ho who could not an ewer the questions should pay the kraut sore, and fulfill tho agreement by paying that sum to the ninth of his comrades, who had asked him to solve it himself.— But they all being rich merchants and grateful for the amusement, which had pulsed all hour or two very pletuututly for them, laughed heartily over their loss and at tho Jew's cunning. Tug NISWFOUNDLAND Dods WEN. OIaaNOS:—.BV OLD ORA.Y.-•.-I. was always fond of Jogs. Goldsmith in his beautiful style, makes a touching and eloquent plea for the dig, where in alluding to a sort of mania for dog killing, which prevailed at the time of which be speaks, in conse quence of an unreasonable apprehension of the spread of hydrophobia, he says a mong other fine things that the dog is ihe only animal which will leave his own kinUoluniarily to folloW than. It is true, that the truth shouftiliiiid - man to be the dog's protector and friend. = The American brig Cecilia, Captain Spumes, on one of her voyages, had on board a splendid specimen of the New foundland breed, named Napoleon, and hit magnificent size and proportion, his intelligent, head, broad white chest, white feet and white tipped tail, the rest of his glossrbody, being black, made him beau tiful as.his peerless namesake, who, no .doubt would have been proud to ,possess him. He was owned by, a seaman named Lancaster, who Was naturally enough ex tremely fond of him. Captain Symmes, however, was not partial to animals deny kind, and had an unaccountable repugnance to dogs, so much so indeed, as if all his ancestors had .."7 - I!Vorm. bitten like his unfortunate predecessors. i This dislike he one day developed in a, most shocking - Manner, for as Napoleon had several times entered his room and by wagging his great banner of a tail, knock ed paper and ink off his desk, on the next occasion the captain siezed a knife, and cut half the poor animal's tail off. The dog's yell brought his master to the spot, and seeing the calamity and the au thor of it, without a moment's hesitation he felled Captain. Symmes to the cabin floor with a sledge hammer blow, which , had it hit the temple, would forever pre- I vented the captain from cutting off any more dog's tails. The result was Lancaster was put in, irons, from which, however, he was soon, released. Captain Spumes partly repen. ted his cruel deed, on learning that Napo lion had once saved the owner's life. The white shark, as all my nautical, friends are well aware, is bne of the very largest sharks. It , averages over twenty, and I have seen one twenty-seven and a half feet in length. It is generally consid ered to be the fiercest and most formidable of all sharks. • But a few days elapsed ero he became the hero of a most thri ling occurrence, the very thought of which has often thrill ed me with horror. During the interval the noble beast was not at all backward in exhibiting his wrath at the captain by low growls when he approached. n vain did hie master, fearful for the life of his dog, essay to check these signs of his anger.. Captain Symmes, however made all the allowance he could, and of fered no further harm to him. One morning as the captain was stand- irg on the bowsprit, he lost his foothold and fell everboard, the Cecilia then run• ping about ten'knots. • "Man overboard ! Captain Symms overboard !" was the cry: and all rushed o get out the boat as theyt saw the swim mer striking out for the brig, which was rounded to; and as they felt especially apprehensive on account of the White shark in those waiters, they regarded his,situa lion with the most painful solicitude. By the time the boat touched the we tet,'their worst fears were realiied, for at some distance beyond the swimmer, they behela advancing upon hitn the fish stoat dreaded in those waters. "Hurry, hurry ! men, or we shall be too late," 'exclaimed the mate. "What's The, splash which caused. this inquiry was occasioned byjthe plunge of Napoleon into•the sea, the noble animal having been watching the cause of the tumult Imp the bows of th'e vessel. • He had 'noticed 'the captain's fall and the shout, and for a few Moments had vented his feelings in deep growls as it conscious of the peril of his late enemy , and grated at it. , His growls, however, were soon chang edinto those whines of sympathy whiol so -often show the attachment of dog to man, when the latter is in danger. At last he plunged in. ,and .rapidly making his way to the now nearly exhausted captain, who awarry:of his double danger, and being but a passible swimmer, made fainter and fainter strokes, while hisadva. eary..elosetl rapidly upon him. “Poll, boys, for - "dear`, life ! - was: the 040 - 9( the mato; as the boat now follow. ed the dog, whose huge limbs propelled him gallantly to the scene of danger. Slowly the fatigued swimmer made his way, while ever and anon his head sank itt the waves, and behind him. the back (tribe - ticiniclotte auiU d toW what fearful progress "FEARLESS A he was making, while anteater, in the bow of the boat stood wi s knife in his upraised hand, watchin alternately the captain and his pursuer nd the liithful animal who saved his o life. ' "Great God !" exclai ~ d the men who marked the speed of the liodid tnimal. "The shark; arid have 0 'Or both if we don't de opr.ibest." The scene was of short Mien. Ere ti i the boat could overtake th , g, the enor mous shark bad arrived wit , three oar's length of the captain and sullenly turned over on his back, preparator; to darting on the sinking man, and reeking him in his vast jaws, which now Aitdayed their rows of long triangular teeth: , The wild shriek of. the Capin announ ced that the crisis bad come.tßut Napo leon, who seemed inspired v..i, increased strength, had also arrived, intwith fierce hood leaped upon the gloat! belly of the 'shark, and ,buried his ' di. in the monster's flesh, while the ; at ; swiftly neared them. '' ' 4 . "Saved !if we'ere half as, Sit as that' .. . dog is 1" cried the mate, as saw the vo• , redone monster shudder off e sea, and i t smarting qtaith pain, turn o* again, the e, dog retaining his bold and I eottttng•sub merged in the Avatoi• At this juncture the boa Uneasier, ' his knife in his' into the water wherd the cal sunk from view . Out a few moments dal dog arose to the stirfoce, al. Lancaster with the insensible: captain. '; .. 't ' l .Pull them in: and' give As an earl" cried the mate, “Ini; that (WWI, is prepar ingis for another launch." 01 His orders were obeyed, a the second onset of the marine monster ' foiled by the maie's splashing water inlis eyes, as p be come again, and but a ON 'auton de too late to snap oil the aaptain'Alegs, while his body was drawnlnto the grat, "Foiled a second time, the rk passed the boat, plunged and was S. no more, but left a track of 'hlood on ii surface 'of the water, a tokeuwof the se city of his his wounds from Napoleon The ,bolt was pulling towarda the brig, d not ma ny hours elapsed before'thh • ptsin was on dock again, feeble from hishfforts, but able to appreciate the services.lot' our:can ine herb, and most — bitterly tOilatnent hie own cruel act which had nattilated him forever. • ' i•t • . ". would give n3y right a , !" he ex t claimed, as he patted the $ Vfoundlatid who stood by his side, if I no il r l only re pair the injury done toillat 5 lendhl fel low. I ancas le r yott'ertdoit' 11' avert: .- - vetigeattadit.is. ,. though -it ws - a source of grief to me ait long as 1 live." SOMETHING TO SWEAR ny.—Father Shoham), an old Universalig preacher in illabama ' is called by the people "the walking Bible." In a county court -it was discovered on a certain oecasiOn,that there was no Bible in tho court house to swear the jurors upon. The Judge, casting his eyes on the ven erable preacher, said:; "There's Shoham), ho has the Bible in his head, they can lay their hands on him, and that will answer every purpose." We have heard - or a custom-house at the south, where a directory was used for several weeks in the. adnunistmtion of oaths as thO copy of the Bible at the col lector's desk was removed on' account of its dirty appearance. A LUOKY ESCAPU.—TIiO bfemphie Ap. peal says,—a physician of• that' place paid a morning visit, recently, to one of 'his pa tients in the upper end of the town, and on entering the room of tho sick man, the following dialoged took piece Patient.—".l say, Doctor, No got you' cheated this load of poles." Doctor.—" How 1" ' Palienl.—(ltising on his elbows and looking across the room,)-- . "40k there, Doctor, at that feller lying Hero: I got him to take that pill you loft Me, and it killed him in an hottr.! Soma idea may be formed .o lance of perfumery as article of; when it is stated that one of 11; fumers Of Grasse, in France, nually 80,000 lbe. of orange biol 000 lbs. of cassia flowers, 54, rose leaves. 32,0004 be. of jes some, 30,000 lbs. of violet 000 lbs. of tube cassia, 16,00111 flowers, rosemary, mint, lave'l lemon, orange and other odor.' like ,proporticn. "ARE you a Christian Ind a person of the followers of "No," au.sworti the sturdy lava key Indian." Re could ace t drinling and Christianty did no, ir, and was 'honest enough to in the right place.' A little of would not be amiss among the' Tax BIBLE.—ABibIo and paper in every house, a good se ry district, and on evangelical every neighborhood, and all ap they should be, aro the sure virtue, morality, civil liberty, ligion. pr77 „ lsn't it strange,” as the other day: "that Sir Is should ever have indulged i freaks?" "When did he?" ho wu dividing , the rays of I sure—for wasn't that culling u Stir" Why don't you get up son?" said an anxious father. see the flowers spring out of early dawn ?" "Yes; father, I • and• I would do the same, if a bed as they have." EQUIVOCAL AOMIIIATION.-- ing a ladrit a party with w , vor oil dress: aott bare arms,.ospro pairatiou by saying that sho outs, whole party. . A men's owniootl. breeding temerity against all other teaneers. FltEE.^ EMIG, SEPT * EMBEIrk 1855. Augustns Slitters—This case was an swered by a rusty-looking specimen of a decayed gentlemen in miserable preserva tion. The uncombed hair, the frowzy beard, the coat which had once been broad cloth, I and had probably been got up upon a plan fashionable and elegant at some remote period, but which was now mines half the collars and all the cuffs, and had been in geniously metamorphosed from a frock to a jacket by the encore monious and doubtlss hasty curtailment of its hinder , parts—the pantaloons venerable and ven tilated, though once respectable—the . 'shirt with-stains of revelry and tobacco disgusting its fair front, the bosom, of of which had been intended to &Sten with studs, but which was nbw kept together with strings of different colors—the neek kerchief With ends ragged and fluttering 'inhWinble imitation tif, the silken fringe of more aristocratic nsighbors—and the hat with a- rusty slice of crape encircling its battered cireinnference, gave this person an appearance most effectually 'described by the expressiveadjeative"seedy." : Hie hands were disguised with, so Many lay ens Of diff'erent kinds of dirt that a geolo gist would hairs been puzzeld to date ,the period' of the primary - formation, and the flingers looked quite as much like .vely diriy smoked sausages , vrithihe skins on as they.did like human digits, _Net', lied his face been washed down to the skin for' "time *hereof the Memory, of man rennet!' not - iti the contrary." , He had keptamen the passages to his.nose from dire necessity of breathing, and hunger has forced him to clear away - diurnally. the incrustations of dirt which formed 1 about his nitwit, butihe terraria' layers projected' so .far outward • every side of . that entrance of hie countenance that his victuals had to. pass, through an earthly catial)ike a swallow's holein a sandbank or to make 'a !mile on a larger scale, like ' a railway cut throngh .14 -sidehill. He is a lounger about .the markets. , docks, and in fact any place where he can procure wherewith to satsify the cravings of his Stomach. Despite his preitent unprOmis sing appdarance, he' has 'Undoubtedly at some period of his life received at least the rudiments of a tolerable education, ,and has brought himself so believe that lie is no ordinary orator, On being presented to the Judge by Policeman 1,00!, who had taken him - info custody as a vagrant,' he desired to pe permitted to lOU Ilia unforiu tatty atory. The Judge haying no time to waste denied him, but he claimed the privilege to make a plea in behalf of his {li= ti ii-vzin ri bilhault:teplita iii vol rw ved ."-I^-r r - 'xir it was' also declined. A - few words ,in private, and' an expression of sytripatliY for his sorrows , drew • from him, however, the following history. . • I was, Sir, unhappy in my original con, caption; my birth was premature, my mother haying tumbled laver a candle box; I was neglected in my infancy, discarded in my boyhood, ill-treated in, my youth, abused in my manhood, and 'unfortunate at all times—my 'life has been a time' of Mishaps; when a baby I rolled out of the wash tub, the only cradle :I ever knew, and cu( my head open and my ear o ff on the • 1 coal,hod; afterwards at various times I fell into a kettle of hot soapsuds, pulled a bar , rel of potatoes 'on to my head, and cook ed the whole of my Moores' machinery by drinking boiling water from , the spout of the teakettle; as a hey, I met ,with more 1 .'than the usual assortment of boyish mis fortunes, besides the usual accidents which happen to all masculine juveniles, of being blown up with gunpowder.on the Fourth of July, and breaking their , legs sliding ' down hill on Chriamas—l had one hand mutilated by a planing• machine, had my 1 hair cut off with a circular ,saw, was car -1 ried from the cellar to the fourth story of a cotton factory, heels upward, on the hook. of the hoisting rope, which had caught in my pantaloons—was `whirled round a machine drawn by a gutta-percha belt, which, tangled in my heir, and which I revolved me for, fifteen minutes at the rate of seven times a second, lost two, fingers in a threshing machine, had My foot mash ed by a Third' av; car, and was once run I away with by a locomotive engine which I had started, and nitre:, knowhow to stop; when it came time for me to go into busi ness for myself, 1 set up in the apple and r peannt trade, but die boys kicked over my stand and stole all my stock ; I then ace . I :mitred a new capital ; by begging pennies 1 catithe cortiers,lmil went into the ballad ,business ; 1 twanged my literary stock on 'thee curbstone, but a high wind scattered my, hopes and toy songs together ; laaW 1 a chimney sweep' . walk. of with "Jessie, the Flower of Duhlane," a fat countryman stamped "The Bold Soldier Boy," "Mary Slane," and "The Seven Ages" into die mud, a ragged newsboy ran round the corner with "Kathaleen Mavotirneen," a ' candy girl eloped with "lien Bolt," The Yatikey Sailor, 'and "Lord Lovell," the rest of my property disappeared in like manner, and all that was left to me was a single copy of"Billy' Lackaday." and two of "Beautiful Jenny;'" I traded Billy for a penny cigar which • I lighted with "Beautiful Jenny," and prepared to elan in life again; I then went into the plaster image business, but the boYs spoiled my , as sortanent by stealing my "Napoleons' to throw stones at, and abstracting •all etc "Greek Slaves" to practice' at .witli pea , shooters; the fish traffic proved no more profitable; .my old enetmen the boys stole all the lobsters while I was eating the clams to keep them front spoiliitg; and my porgies got Ily-blowm before I couldfind piss& and plunged In had also d' ere the soon after, unit of the !he impor ,earrnenze; large per, .oloys an soma, 90,- 0a1b5. 25 ; were, f ' mine blos4 bs of lilac • 1.,. thyme, planes: in I' l asked ../aeket. t whiskey &tool t Limself e honesty ites. lood ne ws ol in eve . buret' in °elated as uppojt of i d pure re- a friend Newton clownish y i when t, to be rlier, my I on% you bed at they do; *a dirty _ . any. customers; I tried cobbling ,shoes, but I left, the pegs too long; I also , essay, ed gardening, and got a situation, but tho first day I pulled up the young cabbages and 'left the pig weeds; transplanted the tulips into the onion bed, and gut up the .ras-bushes under- the imprussion....that they,were last year',i pea hrush—the tin, relsonable man discharged ute,; since that . 1 have been a street-ivieeper,'a er.'a btliiard-maker, have set up pins in a howling-alley, and eleanetLeels in the', marker, and have failed in all though lay adversidea ; 1 have dune thy ,beet; 1 wag, seo ow-ueok- his :ul. • the Ili. beat • e's AI [ Prom the New York Tribune rollco Court. • Resolved, That said Delegates be recom mended to'use their hest exertions, to secure nation by the State Convention, in accord ance with the principles and policy indicated in the 'foregoing Resolutions. Resolved, That the President furnish to said Delegates certificates of election, to.. gather with the . pnkeellings of this mooting. On motion, adjourned.. •• • ! , R. SMITH, Puss's. • D. MoCosAuour Nfejf, am the victim of a hard and bitter,unre l hinting fate; my edimat!on I have picked up 'as I beat could; I learned to read thee. ter bills from ,the newsmen, and picked up my eloquence by hanging about the court rooms ; but, Sir, good by ; I hear the officer inquiring in profane Inguage for me ; I must be locked up; farewell. A dirty tear rolled through the gutter on Mr. Slitter's cheek, and with a big sigh he vanished. A Good Pamm-Ume. As the s eason .114pproaching. When young gentlemen andltdies will assemble together at evening parties—and when fin: the purpose of sociability and making tithe pass pleasantly, games and plays wiWbe introduced—•a plaY -is here s suggested which one regard as a first sato pass-t. hue, and one which will bo sure. to draw out wit where it exists. It is styled "Lexi gessima,',' and the modus operandi is as follows : Each lady rand gentleman present is re-' trim(' to write on a slip of paper any ques tion that may suggestitself, and on anoth er some simple word. The questions are dopositod, together, in ono card basket, and tho words in 4nothor. The boskots are then handed around, when oath person takes out a question, and also a word.--i- The,' question is to be answered on the same slip of paper on which it is propoun ded, and, eustincorporato the word Which it written on the other slip Of paper, care being observed to undorticorikithis word that the reader may designate it.. The questions and, answers are: then again de positedin 'a basket; And ono of the com pany is appoitttod to . iNd them. For example :• A "goutletnan• gets the question--“who shall we have forjour next President, 1'46 word is "Winter." lie answers : May the winger of ourdiscontent be nude glorious summer by the son of York , -.;Millerd A' lady sgets 'the question-" What is love ?" Her word. ,is "Potatoo," S a he an swors—"Love, like pataloe,' shoots from the oyes.,. Another lady gots the same question for it is a vary common 0120.' Her word is "Shanghai." ,fiGraoious, Peter l" mt. claims the gentleman noir to her, "how can you associate love vith.a Shanghai ?" "I will show you," says the lady. She writes—M.4ov° is a ehieketi-hmtdd sort of a .foultlig, but not, of the Shanghai order, I A gentletuanof My acqueintatme _once got the question--" What becomes of the ries ?" liia Word—lf I may no call it— was .41artiu Vett Burt-n." Ile ieptied-- "After, like run Puto, liguriog itt the pullers fe_Atarlir (lotted iod, like • ... g ,--.-tnnano t unst rp , ear • publiu view, and go deice to the shades of Nike wan t. I ' Irma' theaS ex utopias ;Oil will perceive, that the piny is not only a Very /Everting ono, but one that will 'develope wit wher ever it exists. A RIMEDY.-A young Widow waa ask ed why she: was going- lo get married so noon alter the death of lidr first husband. ..0, la," said she, " I.do it to prevent fret sing myself to death on account of ilea- Tom !" I Prom the Adams Sentinel. 'WHIG MEETINGF . . - At a mooting of Whigs of Adams county add iu the 'Borough of Gettysburg, on Tues , lay .the,4th day of September, inst., the following proceedings ware had : . On Malian—BOßEßT SMITH, (Chairman of the County Committee,) was elected Pre siden tof the meeting, and D. MeCorauouY I (Secretary of the County Committee ' ) was I chosen Sivrotary. • • On...motion, it was unanimously 'Resolved, , That we respond to the call made upon the Whigs of the Old Keystone to meet in COnvention, at Harrisburg, on tbo 11th of September, irist.-and that we send Whig*Delegates.to represent Whig princi ples, and vindicate Whig measures' and pol icy In said C'onvention. Resolved, Mat in the present condition ofihe political eon, the old Whig Oberland Compass, which were good enough for Washington, for Adams, for Webster, and for Clay, are good onoUgh ' for us. Resolved, Thea proper solf-respect, hon orablo pride, and a spirit of elevated pa triotism,—all imperatively require of the Whig tarty to retain its distinctive organi sation, re-affirm its. olden faith & oft-avowed I principles, and , maintain its position upon I its ancient broad and patriotio platform, unsedueed by a desire for novelty or a hun gering after office, and undismayed by the strong arm of a reckless National Adtuinis- ; trzttion. Residoe'd, That the repeal of the Mis souri Compromise was a flagrant breach of I faith by the South, and a reckless re-open-, mg of .a mixed intestine question, which can only be quieted by its restoration ; and that the policy of the present National Administration, which has encouraged vio lence, and reckless and lawless interfereuce with the peaceful exercise of the sacred right of suffrage, is insulting•t'o the people, and will bring upon itself certain and igno minious defeat. On motion of It. G. Harper, EN., Resolved, That D. AleCortAtnty, Esq., be appointed Ititpresentative Delegate from Atiatua eouitty to the State'Conveutien. On motion of George Arnold, Esq., Resolved, That 11... G. HARPER, gory. be appointed Senatorial Delegate to repreoent the eleventh Senatorial .Distriet in said Con vention. On motion of Dr.'D. Horner, - TWO D0LL4143 INUMBEE P. Remarkable Article from a pro slavery Paper. The following article, from the St. Louis lntelligencer of the 24th insight, in decidedly remarkable, end, eV one of the signs of the time, is worthy al theclopest attention : THE BITTER IFRUITO—.TM, WoIOIDE OF BLS• Our news from: Western Ifistiond is of ominous and most discouraging diameter. That region is sufferirg from mildew and blight. Its glory is dimmed, its spirit a bated, and hopes faded. The emigration to Kansas has been al most checked. Emigrants from the. Nor thern or Free States have ceased to , to Kane* because they can find as good land plsewhere, not cursed by mob law, nor ruled by non-resident bullies. Emi grants from the Southern States .do not go to Kansas, because they 'their slave property in peril, by to Ing it to a territory wheretthere iv a strung free, soil element, threatening the. senility of slaves. • , Any man of 'sense might have foreseen. this result. Alabama and Georgia may hold public meetings, and resolve to sustain the . .slaieholdere -in Missouri in making Kansas a slave State, But their resolu tions comprise all their aid—which is not “materior enough for the crisis. - Whop. slaveholders of Alabama and Georgia ein lgrate, they et to Louisiana, Arkansas . and -Texas. They do not collie, with their slaves, ‘to 'Missouri or to Kansas. they that backing their friends Thus the matter stands. The:northern emigrants shun Missouri and Kansas' as plague spots of tho nation. The southern emigrants shun Missouri and Kansas,' be- . cause here is the battle ground between slavery and free soil. Tho result is, Kansas, the fairest land -under the son, is-negleete& and idle ; cuPied by a few honest and earnest but disheartened pioneers, and lorded over by a dozen or two fetidal tyrants of Missouri, who curse by their presence the land they have desolated. - • ~.," Such •is Minims—pror, neglected and •despieed—and Western Misouri stand, ins (met] by the horrible contagion Of obt lawry, and dirindleil- away u nder the4ner al leprosy of its mobocratic Madero, - We are entered by tkvo gentlemen of higlipo. shims in Westerit Missouri, but totally differing in Political' sentiment—one up holding the oligtirchy that controls the al! fairs and tramples upon' the sovereignty of the people of Kansas, the other depler ing the accursed madness of the day—=that 'manure are -gloomy enough in ,Western , (N.J.:: Seittutemet hi . stlignatit:' ,7 Money ierscarrii, pAri: pervadeur the people-, The ' fi lly thou . Sam! emigrants that ought, this eeaeott.;to have poured into Kansas, are not Were. The prairie Sod remains unbroken. • The tumid of the nxi3 and and the whoop of duo husbandman is not heard. Western Mis souri towns are not thronged with Maitre buying their 011ifii! and their equipments I of husbandry. The farmer finds nri'mlir kin for their horses, mules, oxen and cows. There is no new and large trade springing up in Kansas. The much vaunted Kan sas towns lie neglected -4 moekery 'to their owners and a laughing stock forall men: 'f . Dead--ilead--dend" may "he written oh all the country— so deep Mid disastrous has been the fall froin the high. and fond hopes of the past year. I n May last, the editor of the Intelligium cer was in Kentucky, and he met murder ous , of the most respectable and wealthy tanners of that State, such as form so large a portion - of the population of Missona, who inquired earnestly about she iiptiti lion of things in Kansas and Western Missouri. They spoke of the intention they haul of removing to Kansas or West ern Missouri ; but said they had abandon ed it utterly, for the reason - that they would never think of taking thoir to a region where law was set aside. pies see mobbed, 'and men driven 'from the country by irresponsible and unknOwn bands- of Regalators: ' They preferred the rule of law - to-anarchy. In a recent trip through several North Western .States we w - found the -same circumstances ere 'Most. industriously and fatally used' to diiert. emigration to thoSe States, and to preju dice Missouri and Kansas with every class of people.. 'Flue most aggravating stories of insults and outrages committed by Mis seurians on the person of emigrants from the Old World or from the Free States, who are 'found 'ascending the Missouri riv er, are circulated in the newspapers' all through the Free States, and it is imposi ble' to conceive of the deep hatred ; thus genersted towards our whole State lathe: Northern half of the Union.. Between these fires, Missouri is leading on her languid existence. St. Leek; M • retarded in a most.wofid - way. Our.rail roads creep at a snail's pace. We Wild ten miles whilq our Western . build one ituedred. In every department of life we feel the paralysis. Instead of bounding forward•buoyant, strong and joie ing, we sit with dull eyes and hiravy spirits, •and listen to the tick of a death watch. . These are the bitter fruits of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise—a wicked and wrongful deed- - Ast will yet bring s hell of bitter self.ruproarhei to us authors. Missouri diti nut demand that mita).— The South never asked it. Aiobieon.asi icited it—and in a moment tit politica:l in. sanity the South consented to, the wrong, and made the wrong her own. This was the auicide of o:troy. • • Every step since taken has' deepened the wrong , and enhanced the clanger. The Free. States organized Aid Societies. and sent their men to make Kansa* fres. It had been free sell, 05 , lookout rollPs" for thiriy-fiee years, and they usturally 111CONIA tU see its character cagpisL I:he South would hare been fai mots M. tliitiant if a slave territory. bees Shot by' unexpected act uf Congress, evarstlsti iako Fgoa Soil,. - 'The Free 8404 bad * right to by Warp nant dud a life•loag cospeamin bad I~IMII cepealad--sad dal, had iwright to tor bop Itiutmilkst it bed bow listerts.
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