Raftsman's journal. (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, October 31, 1855, Image 1
FREE AS THE WIND. AND AMERICAN TO THE CORE. . p. BY HV BUCHER SWOOPE. CLEARFIELD, WEDNESD AY, OCT. 31, 1855: YOL. 2.-K0. 11-TOTAL, 66. , BEAUTIFUL STANZAS. ' Ift my bower so bright, as I lay last night. The moon through the fresh leave streaming. There were sounds iu the air, bat I could not tell yor if I was thinking or dreaming. where. ?Twaa the sound of a lute, to a voice half mule. That sank when I thought it was swelling. And it came to my ears, a if drowned in the tears Of the being whose woes it was telling. The tones were so sweet, I thought it most meet They should not be tones of gladens; There are notes so fine. that, were melody mine, They should only belong to sadness. And the air-ereature sang, and the wild lute rang j Like a bell, when a cherub is dying I can tell no more, but the tale wa3 of woe, For the souads were all lost in the sighing! And still it rang on, till the stars were gone. And the sun through the dew was peeping; When I woke in my bower, every leaf every flower, Every bud, every blossom was weeping '. . ; Harp of a Thousand Strings. We find the following in a New Orleans pa Where they picked it up we should like j per to know." It is one of the most unique sar inons' we ever read, and it may be long before oar readers are treated with 'another such.' So 'dip in, gentlemen. The scene is laid in the town of Waterproof : I may say to you, my brethering, that I am not an edecated man, an' I am not one of 'em as believes that edecation is necessary for a O'ospwl preacher, for I believe the Lord ede eates his preachers just us he wants 'em to be edecated 5 an' although I say it as oughtn't to ay it, yet, In the State of Ind'urtiny, whar I live,' thar's no man as gits a bigger congrega tion nor what I gits. ' Thar may be some here to-day, my brcther ing,; as don't know; what persuasion ' I am uv. Well, I must say to you, my brethering, that I'm a Hard-Shell Baptist. Thar's some folks us don't like the Hard-Shell Baptists, but I'd rather have a hard shell as no shell at all. You see me here to-day, my brethering, dressed up in fine clothes; youmou't think I was proud, but 1 am not proud my brethrring, and altho' I've been a preacher of the gospel for twenty years, au' aitho' I'm eapting of the ilatboat ' . , that lies at your landing. I'm not proud my j brethering. I am not gwiue to tell edzactly whar my tex ; stantaneous chance, with incredible quickness msy be found; suffice it to say it's in the leds j t,f eve aj quickness of hand, with iiieompre of the Bible, and you'll find it somewhar be- j i,ensii,0 delicacy making them wheel about twecu tl;o first chapter or Generations, and the i j,;,,, as jf they were the obedient servants of last chapter or the book of Revolutions, and , j,;., v.;ii. - s,lc, exquisite skill makes one's ttf.yoa'U go and sarch the Scriptures, you'll j own jianj3 seem utterly clumsy and insulli- uwt only fiud my tex thar, but a great many 1 other texes as will de you good to rad, and my tex, when you shill find it, you shill find it to read thus: ' : "And he flayed on a harp nv a thousand : strings sperits uvjust men made erfeck." j sustained flight, broke out with a murmur of ' My tex, ruy brethering, leads me to speak ; encouraging applause."' Then followed in ffsperit3. Now, thar's a great many kinds of ' uipk succession oilier not less remarkable tpi.rit.1 in the world in the fuss 'place, thar's i fSAs 0( strength, agility and sk'.U feats on the sperits as some folks call gosts, and thar's ' i0e8i with swords, with stones, with ribands the sperits uv tiirpen-TiNK, and thar's the feats, indeed of all sorts, and all done with sp writs as some-folks cnH liquor, a:i I've : a apparent case that madethnn not U-ss plea got an good an .x: tiklo of th-'iu kind of sperits ; ?-lnt -than wonderful to see. . The Jugglers .u in? JUtboat a ever .was futeh down the Mis- ; aeCiiied snttle and lithe as spirits, iss:ppi river ; Lt thar's a great many other j tieJ or wrt1H(.,oti with joint or limb, kinds of spi-rifs,' for tin tex says, i- -: j X..r founded on tbo brittle strength of bone " "He 'played on a harp "nv ; ?VV-o--i-and Like cumbrous flesh. ' ' ' .7 . strings, spirits nv just men made xerfek." ' j But the most wonderful performance that . But 111 toll you the kind uv sperits as is I we saw this morniug, was a leat of pure Jag ment in tho tex, is pirk. That's the kind ur ; gliug. of which I have never been able to find sperits as is mout in the tex, toy brctheriugl any solution.' One of the old men came for Xow, thar's a great many kinds of fire in the ! ward upon the gravelled and hard trodden ave world. In Uie fuss place there's the common ; nue, leading with him a woman. He made sort of Ore you light your cigar or pipe with, j her kneel down, tied her arms behind her, and and then thar's foxfire, and camphire, fire be- blindfolded her eyes. Then bringing a great fWi you're ready," and fire and fall back, and ! bag net made with open meshes of rope, he many other kinds of fire, for the tex says, I put it over the woman, and laced up the mouth " IIo played on a harp of a Ziosaand strings, J fastening it with knotted intertwining ' cords sperits, uv just men made perfeck." .. , . ' ! j in such a way that it seemed an impossibility But 111 tell you the kind or fire as is ment for her to extricate herself from it. The man in the tex, my brethering it's hell firk ! air ! then took a closely woven wicker basket that that's the kind uv fire as a great many uv you will come to, ef you don't do better nor what you hare been doin' lor ; . "lie played on a harp nv a Aoand strings, sperits uv just men made perfeck." Now, the different sorts uv fire in the world ' may bo likened unto, the different persuasions j of Christians in the world- Iuthe first place j we hare the 'Piscapalions.'an' they arc a high ! ailin. and . liighfalutin' set, aud they may bo j likened unto a turkey-buzzard, that flies up in-j to the air, and he goes up, and up, till he looks j no bigger than your finger naiV arl the fust thing you know, he comes down, and down, J and down, V&d is a fillln' himself on the car- j kiM cf a dead boss by the sid of the road, and, ?IIe played on the harp of a thousand strings (. And then thar's the Methodis, and they may be likened onto the squirrel running up into a tree, for the Methodis beleeves in gwine on iron, one degree of grace to another, and final- iy on to perfection, and the squirrel goes up nad up, and he jumps from limb to limb, and branch to branch, and the first thing you know he cuius kerflumix, and that's like the Metho- Uis, for they is alters fallen froiji grace, ah ! and, f "Ho played on'a harp uv a ihouiani strings, epcrits nv just men made perfeck." And fhen. niv brethrinz. thar's the TTnrd '1 , w - - Shell Baptist, ah!- and they have been liken- .d unto a possntn on a simnion tree, and thun- dcrs may roll and the eafth may quake, but that possum clings thar still, ah ! and you may uliake one foot loose, and the other's thar, and youni'iy shake all feet loose an' he haps his tail aronndHic limb, an he clings, an clings furev - rr, for "He played on a harp uv a Aoit-and tTi?!j.f, upcrits uv jtint men made perfeck." The Juglers of India. . . Front the first of a series of articles entitled "Sketches of India," now publishing in the Crayon, we extract tins following : One morning alter I had passed some days at Madras, I went to the "garden house" of one of my English friends, to see an exhibi tion by some Jugglers who had been sent for the night before to come up from the Black Town. The Jugglers of Madras are famous as the best in India. They form a cast by them- selves. Their skill is the result of the prac tice of successive generations, and their art is a hereditary one. It was about six o'clock in a clear September morning, and our party con sisted of live or six spectators. Coffee having been served, we took our seat on the veranda on the shady side of the house, and the Jug glers, of whom there were 15 or twenty, men, Womeu and children, ranged themselves he fore us on the grass at the further side of the avenue, ten 01 twelve feet wide, that run be tween us and them. Behind them was a green field, where, at some distance, grew a few trees ami lowering shrubs. There was nothing near them that could afford hiding place or shelter. The men wore nothing but the dhotes or tight cloth about their loins; two of them were ve ry old, with white beards lying upon their ; dark skins. The woman were clothed in the common bright, loose dress of the lower class es, and the children were quite naked. The inipliments of their art, their musical instru ments, and the flat, and circular baskets in which were their snakes, for the Jugglers are also snake charmers by profession, lay around about upon the grass. One of the young men began the exhibition with some common tricks of slight of hand, remarkable only from the fact that his dress and the ground afforded him no aids. Then another came forward and throwing four brass balls into the air, kept theia in constant mo lion, now making them circle round his head. rw tlirninr them in onnosite directions 1111- ...... o t tjcr arll!S aj OVKr i,js shoulders, now cha- sing one with another, never missing the in- c5ent All the while-that this Juggler was playing so beautifully with the glittering brass balls, one of his companions beat upon a dull drum, while the others looked on, and now audtheu, at some peculiarly successful or Ion narrowed toward the top, lifted the woman in the net from the ground, and placed her in it, though it was not without the exertion of some force that he could crowd her through the uarrow mouth. Having succeeded in get- ting her into the basket, in which, from its small size, she was uecessarily in a most cramped position, he put the cover npon it and threw over it a wide strip f cloth, hiding it completely. In a moment, placing his bad under the cloth, he drew out the net quite untied, and disentangled. He then took a long straight, sharp sword, muttered some words to himself while he sprinkled the dust P" the cloth, aud put some upon his fore- head, then pulled off and threw aside the cov ering, and plunged tho sword suddenly into the basket. Prepared as in some degree we j were for this, and knowing that it was only a deception, it was yet impossible to see it ! without a Cold creeping of horror. The quiet i and energy with which he repeated his strokes j driving tne sword through and through tho j basket, while the other Jugglers looked on, t apparently as much interested as ourselves, i were very dramatic and , effective. Stopping after he had riddled the basket, he again scat tered dust upon its top, lifted the lid, raised the basket from the ground, showed it to us .imtv. and threw itaway. At the same mo- 1 J J - ! ment we saw the woman approachiug us from a clump of trees at a distance of at least fifty ! or sixty feet. j Thoughout the whole of this inexplicable i feat, the old man and the woman were quite j removed from the rest of tleir party. The j lasket stood by itself on tho hard earth, and j so mucii'beneath the verandah on which wp were itting, that v could easily we U around it, By what trick our watchful eyes were closed, or by what means the woman in visiby escaped, was an entire mystery, and re mains unsolved. The feat is not a very un common one, but no one who had seen it ever gave me a clue to the manner in which it was performed. ; Pantalettes vs. Pantaloons Further Fluttering of the Petticoats. Last Wednesday there was another grand petticoat pow-wow, at Cincinnati. The es pousers and advocates of the Woman's Rights Movement, held their sixth annual Conven tion in that citj-. The attendance was not large, but the as sembly preseuted a somewhat unike appear ance. Many of the ladies wore bloomers, and the gentlemen shawls. On the platform were Mrs. Hannah W. Tracy Cutler, Mrs. Martha C. Wright, Mrs. Ernestine L. Rose, Mrs. Ade line Swift, Mrs. Lucrctia Mott, Mrs. Lucy Stone Bhtckwell Mr. Joseph Barker, and Hen ry B. Blackwell. After the election of officers the speeches commenced. Lucy Stone Blackwell said : In education, in marriage, in religion in every tiling disappointment was the lot of wo man. It should be the business of her life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart, until she could bow down to it no lon ger She could wish that her sex, instead of be ing walking show cases instead of asking from their fathers or brothers the last new gay bonnet, would ask their rights. (Applause.) Mr. Wise, of North Carolina, read an ad dress which was long and learned. It treated principally of geology and women. He seemed to claim for woman more even than she does. He said "women are generally, more competent to vote than their husbands and sisters better fitted to judge than their brothers, . the mother more capable of exercising the elective lranchise judiciously than her boob' son." Mr. Denton became loftily magniloquent, and seemed to rise with the occasion. He had often heard his sister say, "Would that I had been aiadc a man!" WhyT Because men had prescribed their sphere to women. He would not permit anything in Heaven above or in the earth beneath, much less any man, to prescribe his sphere to him. He concluded with saying that the time had come for all men and women "to stand 011 the shin bones of our own manhood and grow up to -the infinite Heaven." Mr. Boyce, a Hungarian Jew, took an agri cultural view of the question. He said it had been repeatedly urged that woman's province was to be a mother. He would cry shame on such a statement, and be hoped to rebuke it now into silence. ''Was woman nothing but a rich soil on which to raise a crop" - - Mr. Ernestine L. Rosa delivered her views on marriage, courtship, cradles, buttons and stockings. She said; Among the poorer classes, the female was taught a little house keeping, and oh, how little ! to darn stock ings, sow 011 buttons, and, if necessity should require, to rock the cradle. Among the bet ter classes, a little music, a little dancing, a little bad French, to paint a little just enough to practice on her own face. , She would rot underrate housekeeping. It wonld, in time, no doubt, rank as one of the arts and sciences. It had been degraded be cause it had been left in the hands of woman. She then discoursed on the happy period of courtship. It was happy, because, during it, man let himself down to the capacity of wo man; but disappointment followed, because he supposed he was marrying a woman, but dis covered she was only a child, a poor, weak, feeble being, with hands too small to use a broom; and with a false- delicacy that caused her to faint away at the mention of a leg of a table. Applause and shouting. All the men and women made ."remarks" on the subject, and, on the whole, had a "good time of it." : ; Short Sermon on Money. My hearers this is not only a great but a mysterious world that we live and pay rent for. All discord is harmony; all evil is good; all despotism is liberty; and all wrong is right -c-for as Alexander Pope says: "Whatever is, is right," except the left boot, and wanting to borrow money. You may want sense and the world won't blame you for.it It would glad ly furnish you with the article, had it aBy to spare, but unluckily it lias hardly enough for home consumption. However, if you lack sense you are well enough off after all; for if you commit a faux pas, as the French say, you are let go with the compliment, poor fool he does not know any better. The truth is, a great deal of brains is a great botheration. An empty skull is . bound to shine in company, because the proprietor of it hasnotyw-it enough to know that there is a possibility of making a nincompoop of himself, and therefore he dash es ahead, bit or miss, or generally succeeds beyond expectation. Let a man be minus brains and plus brass and he is -sure to pass through the world as if he was greased from ear to ankle; but rig up for him a complete machinery of thought, and it is ai much as he can do to attend to it. He goes to the grave, ruffled and tumbled, curses life fcr its cares and moseys into eternity, pack-saddled with nitntal misery Oh for the hppiness of fools. How to be Happy. I will give you two or three good rules which will help you to become happier than you would be without knowing them ; but as to be ing completely happy, that you can never be till you get to heaven, The first is, "try your best to niaks others happy." "I never was happy," said a certain king, "till I began to take pleasure in the welfare of my people ; but ever since then, in the darke&t day, I have had sunshine in my heart." My second rule is, "be content with little." There are many good reasons for this rule. We deserve but little we require but little ; and "better is little, with the fear of God, than great treas ures and trouble therewith." Two men deter mined to be rich, but they set about it in different ways ; for the one strove his best to bring down his desires to his means- The re snlt was, the one who coveted much was always repining, while he who desired but little was always contented. My third rule is, "Look on the sunny side of things." Look up with hopeful eyes, Though all things seem forlurn ; The sun that sets to- night will rise Again to-morrow morn. The skipping lamb, the singing lark, and the leaping fish, tell us that happiness is not confined to one place. God in - his goodness has spread it abroad on the earth, in the air, and on the waters. Two aged women lived in the same cottage ; one was always fearing a storm, and the other was always looking for sunshine. Hardly need I say which it was whose face was lighted up with joy. Signs for Marriageable Ladies. If a man wipe his feet on the door-mat before coming into the room, you may be sure he will make a good domestic husband. If a man in snuff ing the caadles, snuff them out, you may be sure he will make a stupid husband. If a man puts his handkerchief 011 his knees while ta king his tea, you may be sure he will be a prudent husband. In the same way, always mistrust the man who will not take the last piece of toast of Sally Lunn, but prefers wait ing for the next warm batch. It is not unlike ly he will make a greedy, selfish, husband, with whom you will enjoy no"brown" at din ner, no crusrt at tea, no peace whatever at home. The man my dears who wears gold shoes, and is careful about wrapping himself up before venturing into tho night air, notun frequently makes a good invalid husband, that mostly stops at home, and is easily comforted by slops. The man who watches tho kettle and prevents its boiling over, will not fail, ray dears,' in his married state, in exercising the same care in always keeping the pot boiling. The mau who dosen't take tea, ill-treats the cat, takes snuff and stands with his back to the fire, is a brute, whom I would not advise you my dearstomarry upon any consideration, either for love or money, but decidedly not for love. But the man who when the tea is over, is discovered to have had none, is sure to make the best husband Patience like his, deserves being rewarded with the best of wives and the . best of mothers-in-law. My dears, when you meet with such a man, do your ut most to marry him. In the severest winter he would not mind going to bed first. Talkers. Undoubtetlly the highest perso nal accomplishment in the world is to be a good talker. With this charm alone John Wilkes, though a prodigy of personal ugliness was the most attractive man of his time. - "It takes me," he said to Lord Sandwich, "just fifteen minutes to take my face off." It was this power, and not his poems, nor his dic tionary, nor his heavy letters from the Hebri des, that made Dr. Johnston the autocrat of his day among men of culture, and will keep his memory green while the English language remains to prove that, in spite of his boorish ness and insolence, and absurd prejudices, he was the most . charming talker the world has seen.. It was this power, more than all others, that made the friends of Coleridge forget that he was deficient in manly honor (the most fa tal of defects,) that he was a slave to one of the worst vices, and won for him not merely the admiration, but the love and esteem of all who listened to his wonderful utterances. In our own country there have not been as yet many notable conversationists. We are a nation of speech-makers, but good talkers are exceedingly rare We talk enough, (God knows,) but good talkers require more culture, more leisure, more repose, than we shall know for many years to come. A Wife's Prayer. If there is any thing comes nearer to the imploration of - Ruth to Naomi, than the subjoined, we have not seen it Lord bless and preserve that dear person whom thou has chosen to be my husband; let his life be long and blessed, comfortable and holy ; and let me also become a great blessing and a comfort unto him, a sharer in all his sorrows, a meet helper in all the accidents and changes in the world; make me amiable for ever in his eyes, and forever dear to him. Unite his heart to me in the dearest love and holiness, and mine to ' him in all sweetness, charity and compliance. Keep me from all ungentleness, alldiscontentedness, and unrea sonableness of passion aud humor; and make me humble and obedient, useful and obser vant, that we rosy delight in each other ac cording to. Thjr blessed word, and both of us may rejoice in Thee, having our portion in the love and service of God forever. HIGHER! Higher ! is a word of noble meaning, the in spiration of all great deeds the ynipithetic chain that leads, linK by link, the impassioned soul to its Kenith of glory, and still holds its mysterious object standing and glittering among the stars. Higher ! lisps the infant on its parent's knees, and makes its feeble essay to rise from the floor it is the first aspiration of childhood to burst the narrow confines" of tho cradle in which its sweet moments have been passed for ever. Higher ! laughs the proud school boy on big swing ; or, as he climbs the tallest tree of the forrest, that he may look down on his less ad venturous companion with a flush of exnltation and over the broad fields of his native village. He never saw so extended a prospect bf ore. Higher ! earnestly breathes the student of philosophy and nature; he has a host of rivals, but he must eclipse them all. The midnight oil in his lamp burns dim, but he finds knowl edge in the lamps of Heaven, and his soul is never weary when the last ot them is hid be hind the curtains of the morning. And Ilia her! his voice thundersfcrth when the dignity of manhood has invested his form, and the multitude is listening with delight to his oratory burning with eloquence and ringing like true steel in the cause of freedom andright. Aud when time has changed his locks to sil ver, and when the world wide renown is his; when tho maiden gathering flowers by the way side as be passes; and the peasant looks to him with honor can he breithe forth from his heart the fond wish of the past. Higher yet! he has reached tho apex of all earthly honor yet his spirit burns as warm as in youth, though with a "steadier and paler light, and it would borrow wings and soar up to high heaven, leaving its tenement to moul der among tho laurels he has wound around it, for the never ending glory to be reached only in the presence of the Most High! Beauty of the Dutch Women. Colman, iu his "European Life and man ners," gives thw following description of tins Dutch women : "I think some of them are the fairest and handsomest creatures I ever looked upon, and made of unmixed porcelain clay. Before I left England, I thought the English women the fairest I had ever seen I now consider them as belonging to the colored races. The Dutch women mucfl exceed them. TaKft the fairest rose that was ever plucked, with the glitter ing dew drops hanging among its pet.!s ; take the fairest peach that ever hung upon the tree, with its charming blended tints of red and white, and they arc eclipsed by the transpa rency and beauty of the , Dutch women, us I saw them at Broeck and Saardam. if their minds are as fair, and their manners, as win ning as their faces, tlicn I. can .easily, under stand the history of Adam's fall. ; It was im possible, poor felow, that he should resist. Then their costume is so, pretty and elegant. A sort of thin gold helmet, fitting close to the head, leaving enough of the hair to part grace fully over the brows ; a thin but wide band of highly wrought and burnished gold extending across the forehead ; at the ends of this soma rich and elegantly-wrought filigree ornaments of gold, with splendid ear-drops of gold, or of diamonds, set in gold, with a beautiful cap of the finest Brussels lace." Mr. Colman is right. Fifteen years ago a Dutch woman behind a counter -handed '-the writei" a glass of beer, and an ostrich egg to look at, and he has never forgotten her, "from that day to this." She was all that Mr. Col man paints above. Boston Post. , ' "Fast" Times and a "Fast" Partt. One of the most striking evidences of the peculiar "velocity" of the times we live in, is the wri ting and publishing obituaricsf people before they are dead in fact while they are in ex cellent health and growing in strength every day. The foreign press is just now teeming with long and lachrymose notices of the death of "Sam," when in fact that gigantic young fellow was never more "alive ' and kicking" than at this very Moment. ' "The wish is fa ther to the thought' with these elegiac wri ters. So far from being dead, "Sam" has no idea of ever dying. He belongs to the glori ous list of immortals. He couldn't die if be would, for he has a great mission to perform. You may outnumber him for the present, but you cannot kill him any more than you can kill truth. He cannot even by annihila tion diei Our fast friends of the. "Society for tho Propagation of Humbug" may as well let "Sam" alone. Memphis Eagle. , Advice to Youth Gratis. In climbing . a ladder, always look up never down for in doing .the latter a fall is imminent. So in life ; aim to keep company with those above you ra ther than with those beneath you in intellec tual capacity and acquirement. Emulate your superiors. ' If you ean't find them you "are not fitted for their society, and better at once turn attention to the dimensions of your ears, and immerse "your muddy faculties in the mystaries ofpoudrette, or putty making. CCrispen says there's no danger of hard times among the shoemakers, because every shoe is toaVd bwfore it can be got ready for market. A Cheerful Heart. I once heard a young lady say to an individ ual, "Tour countenance to me is like the ri sing sun, for it always gladdens me with a cheerful look. A merry or cheerful counte nance was one of. the things which Jeremy Taylor said his enemies and persecutors could not take away from him. There are some persons who spend their lives In this world as they would spend their lives if shut up in a dungeon. Everything is made gloomy and forbidding. They gomourningand complain ing from day to day, that they have so little, and are constantly cnxious, lest what they have should escape out of their hands. They always look upon tho dark side, andean never enjoy tho good. They do not follow the ex ample of tbo industrious bee, who does not stop to complain that there are so many pois onous fiewers and thorny branches on its road, but buzzes on selecting his honey where he can find it, and passing quietly by tho places where it is not. There is enough In this world to complain about and find fault with, if men have the disposition. Baked Beets. A good housewife assures us that the mode of cooking beets herein de scribed, is preferable to all others: 'Beet root cannot be too much recommen ded to the notice of mankind, as a cheap and salubrious substitute for the now failing and diseased potato. - Hitherto the red kind has been only used in England as a pickle, or a garnish for salad; even the few who dress it, generally boil it, by which process the rich saccharine juice is lost, and the root conse quently rendered less nutritious by the quan tity of water it imbilies, as well as by parting with the native syrup, of which it is thus for cibly deprived; it is, therefore, strongly rec- ommended to bake instead of boiling them; when they will be found to afford a delicious and wholesome food. t . This is not an untried novelty, for both red and white beet root are exteusivcly used on the continent; in Italy particularly, they arc carried about hot from the oven twice a diy, and sold publicly in the streets; thus they are purchased by all classes or people, and give to thousands, with bread,' salt, pepper and butter, a satisfactory meal. There are few purposes for which baked, or even roasted or fried beet root, would not be found preferable to boiled." Jg. Exchange. Cheap Flour tux Best. The New York Times has recently been discussing a question of very great importance to the consumers of flour, and the facts it has elicited - should bo universally known. It alleges that little reli ance is to be placed upon the brands found on the barrels sold in the market, and that the words '-extra Genesee" do not always indicate that the barrel bearing tbeni contains the best certain results elicited by chemists, vizi, that the whiter the flour the less nutriment it pos sesses, and the less digestible it is. Dyspeptic people have to use bread ' about one-fourth bran, which proves that the dark part of ' the grain is the most healthful. The flour which can be bought now for seven and eight dollars per barrel is stronger and sweeter than the. "extra Genesee," but as it is less white it is generally rejected in favor of the dearer arti cle. It is t into that housekeepers understood this fact, and that thty bought flour not to please the eye, but to gratify the stomach, and at the same time have respectful reference to the capacity of one's pocket. " J New Kind of Sluar. A correspondent oft the Detroit News gives the following account of the discovery of a new kind of sugar , at Provo city: "Last, week a . sweet substanee was discovered on the leaves of the trees. ' A few began to gather it by stripping off the leaves and soaking them in watery in this way. Dr. A. Daniels made eleven pounds of sugar one da'; it looks and tastes like maple, sugar. Many scores of men, woinerjand children, are now engaged in gathering it. When it was first discovered some said it was hoacydew, others said that it proceeded from the cotteu- j wood leaves, but it is found . on all kinds of leaves and on the rocks. My children hava . gathered and brought in a quantity of it, which they have taken from the leaves, as it is depos-, ited; many of the leaves have scales of this sweet substance as thick as window glass, and some a great deal thicker." ' Extraordinary Productions. The extra ordinary effects of the application of Peruvian guano to certain soils are widely known and appreciated. But occasionally the results are startling. On Saturday, Mr.-John Dorrauce brought to the room of the Corn Exchange Association some ears of corn, averaging from luuu to i-w grains 10 tne ear, tne grains be ing four or five times the size of ordinary corn. . lie also exnibitca some largo Mercer potatoes, weighing a pound each, and pumpkins, grow ing six on a vino, weighing each 106 pounds. These remarkable vegetable productions wero grown on tho farm of Mr. Dorrance, at Bell Mead, Bucks county, the guano used as ma nure being that imported, by Mr. Samuel J." Christian. AorAIf'nertcan.' "" ' ' tTP" English papers express the opinions, founded qn careful examination, (bat Great Britain will only require an ' importation of 30,000,000 bushels of wheat to supply every possible deficiency.