1 : VV' m - m '' - i . i - . i i . ' . - . i. i i i i .... - ii i i 11 i i i - ' ' BY S. B. EOW. vol. s.-m 20: CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1857. . ' TIIE LONELY FLOWER-. Tn the bnk of a. woodland stream it grew ld wi:h iight and with silver dew ; Yet waa it life, or more, or less, Sustained by ita own soft loveliness. And the stream flowed on through a lonely dell, vl here the softened sunlight loved to dwell.; Wrapped iu a robe of forest trees. And lulled by the moan of the autumn breeze. And to it grew from day to day, A bauty and a mystery: Till, at the last, in ita sorrowful pride. It sickened, and faded, and droopod, and died. Cut the fnnlight came and smiled in tho wood, Acd still by the stream the dark trees stood ; And the stream itwlf flowed peacefully on, Though tho beautiful fiowcr of love was gone. BEGINNING LIFE, OR, EoUins Over with a Piotty Girl in a Stream of "Water. I riJA l!je by running, away from liome. Boileau, we are told, was driven into bis career by the hand of fate and the peck of a turkey. "Atilla started in life with no other cansc and capital than an old sword, which he was adroit enough to palm off for the divine weapon of Mars; and Robespierre owed his political ca reer to wetting his stockings, and there "heard the words which burn," which fired his soul, anl determined his course in life. My run ning away from home came from a minor mor tification, caused by carrying a pretty girl over tho brook. Donald Leon and myself were good friends at fourteen years of age, and we both regard ed,with little more than fiiendship, pretty He len Gmh-tm, "our eldest girl" at school. We romped and danced together, and this lasted tor such & length of time that it is with feel isgs of bewilderment that I look back upon the mystery of two lovers continuing friends. Cut tho time came, as it must, when jealousy lit her spark in my boyish bosom, and blew it into a consuming flame. No fl.ir.io can burn so quickly or with so little fuel as jealousy. One day" returning from school, Dor:u! i un dertook to assist Helen over the stream. Be fore wc reached the opposite bank, I was wish ing Donald to tho "bottom of the sea." Be ing naturally impetuous, I burst out with "Ye need no hand sae gingerly, Helen, as if ye feared a fa'. I can aye carry ye lighter than Donald can half ef ye." . Surprised at tho vehemence of my tone,our iucen interposed with an admission that we were both strong, and that she had no idea of Spiring my power. But Donald's ire was kin dled, and he utterly doniad that I was at all qualified to compete with hint in feats of car riage. On such topics boys are generally cm lilors, and by the time we reached the oppo site bank, it was settled that that point should lc determined by our singly bearing Helen a croH the ford in my arms. Helen was to determine who had carried her most easily, and I settled with myself private ly in advance, that the one who obtained the prefetence would really be the person who stood highest in her affections. The reflection stimulated me to exert every effort, and I ver i'y believe to this day, that I could have car Tied Donald and Helen on cither arm like fea thers. But I must not anticipate. We suffered all the rest of the party to pass quietly itlong, and then returned to the ford. I lifted Helen with the utmost care, and car ried her like an infant to the middle of the water. Jealcusy had inspired a warmer love, and it was with feelings unknown before that I m'.r.iced her lovely form, and felt the prcs tv.xu of her cheek against mine. All went swinxiijgly.or rather wadingly, for a moment. But, alas, in the deepest part of the ford, I trod on a treacherous piece of wood, which rested I suppose, on a smooth stone. Over.I roiled bearing Helen with me, nor did wc rise until fairly soaked from head to foot. I need not describe the taunts of Donald, or the more accusing silence of Helen. Both be lieved that I had fallen f-om mere weakness, and my rival demonstrated his superior abili ty, her for a long distance on her home ward path. As W3 approached the house,fcel ing dry and better humored, she attempted to rcnoiliate me. But I preserved a moody si lence. I was mortified beyond redress. T!iat r' -lit I packed up a few things and ran w?y. My boyish mind, sensitive and irrita ted, exaggerated the negation which it had re ceived, and prompted me to a course which fortunate'y !rd to better results than" generally attended such irregularities. I went to Edin lnrgh,where I found an uncle, a kind hearted, childless man, who gave me a place in his house, and employed me in his business. "Wealth flowed in upon him I became his parlncr went abroad resided four years on he continent ; and finally returned to Scot land, rich, educated, in short, everything but married. One evening, while at a ball in Glasgow, I wag struck with a young lady of unpretending appearance, but, whoso remarkable beauty and high-toned expression, indicated a mind of more than ordinary power. I was introduced, but a Scottish name had long been unfamiliar to my ear, and could not catch hers. It was Helen something, and there was something in her Tace, too, that seemed familiar something suggestive of pleasure and pain. But we became well acquainted that evening. I learned without difficulty her history. She was from the country, had been educated, her parents had lost their property, and she was a jroverness In family In the city. , I was fascinated by her "conversation, and was continually reminded by her grace and re finement ot manner, that she was capable of moving with a distinguished-success in a far higher sphere than that which fortune seemed to have allotted her. .. lam naturally neither talkative nor prone to confidence? but there was that in thisyoung lady which inspired both, and I conversed with her as I had never con versed with any. Her questions of the vari ous countries with which I was familiar, indi cated a remarkable knowledge of literature and incredible store of information. . We progressed in intimacy, and as our con versation turned upon the causes which induc ed so many to leave their native land, I laugh ingly remarked that I owed my own travels to falling with a pretty girl into a ford. I had hardly spoken these words, ere tho blood mounted to her face, and was succeeded by qnite a remarkable paleness. . I attributed this to the heat of tho room laughed and, at her request j proceeded to give the details of my ford adventure with Helen Graham, which I did, painting in glowing colors tho amiabili ty of my love. Her mirth during the recital became almost irrepressible. At tho conclusion she remark ed "Mr. Roberts, is it possible that you have forgotten me 1" . I gazed an instant remembered and was dumbfounded. The lady with whom I had be come acquainted was Helen Graham herself. I hate, and so do you, reader, to needlessly prolong a story. Wc were soon married. He len and I made our bridal tour to the old place. As we approached it in our carriage, I greeted a stout fellow working in the field, who seem ed to be a better sort of laborer, or perhaps a small farmer, by inquiring some particulars relating to the neighborhood. He answered well enough, and I was about to give him a sixpence, when Helen stayed my hand, and cried in the old style . "Hey, Donald, mon, dinna ye ken ye'r old frcn's J" The man looked up in astonishment. It was Donald Leon. His amazement at our appear ance was heighteued by the style ; and it was with the greatest difficulty that we could in duce him to enter our carriage and answer our numerous queries as to our old friends. Different men "start. iw life" different ways. I believe, however, that mino is the only in stance on record of a gentleman who owes wealth and happiness to rolling over with a pretty girl in a stream o( water. What are we to do for Sloak ? A falling off in the sugar crop jn Louisiana of two thirds a continued abandonment of sugar es tates in the British West Indies the unpro ductiveness ot the Central American regions, in consequence of political troubles, and the largely increased prosperity of tho world of consumers, have led to a riso of nearly one hundred per centum in the price of one of the most valued necessaries of life. Nor is there the least prospect, in the opinion of those best qualified to judge, that this enormous rise will be followed by a corresponding fall fi.r years to come. The necessity will stimulate renew ed attention to our Northern sugar the ma ple. It is already moro largely grown than is suspected. New York and Vermont are lar ger sugar producers than Louisiana. Canada makes seven pounds of sugar for every four that she imports. Scientific skill, applied per scvcringly to our backwoods article, may ena ble it to supersede the prodnco of the cano. But still higher expectations are formed from the experiments which have been made with the sorghum, or Chinese sugarcane. It has been grown successfully in thirteen States, from Vermont to Louisiana', from Georgia to Minnesota. It possesses marked advantages over the common sugar cane, in ripening three months sooner, in growing readily from seed, and in opposing but little obstacle to the ex traction of the saccharine matter. A careful agricultural chemist estimates that, with prop er cultivation, it will yield 100 to 2900 pounds of sugar to the acre ; and another has himself obtained 4C8 gallons of syrup to the acre. We advise farmers who want to make money to givo a little thought to this sorghum, and also to the maple. There is a fine fortune for the man who shall supply our breakfast tables with a pleasant, wholesomo article of North ern growth. Ix Central Africa, says the Missionary Liv ingstone, the women have the upper hand. They feed the men. The wife is obliged to supply her mother-in-law with fire-wood. A man who has five wives, having returned home, asks something of No. 1. No. 1. refers him to No. 2. No. 2 desires him to go to the one he loves best. He is handled about from one to another, till he becomes quite enraged ; but all he can do is to go upon the top of a tree and cry aloud, "I thought I had got five wives, but I find I have got five witches." If a woman beats her husband she is punished in this way : Both arc taken to tho market place and tho wife is compelled to take the husband homo on her back, amidst the people. On these oc casions tho women generally cry out, "Give it to him again." Worth? Trtino. A poultice of common white Limo beans applied to tho throat, whiio hot, it is said, will euro quinsy. KYD'S LAST VISIT. A TRADITION OF EASTEBX NEW TORE. It was a wild October night, in the autumn of 1699, the storm-clouds studded across the sky, almost totally obscuring the light of the young moon, and the wind swept in eddying gusts through the forest gorges, and sobbed mournfully, around the old- manor-house of Coeyman, situated on the rocky shore of the Hudson, some ten miles from Albany. All was hushed in the mansion, and the night dark ness brooded heavily over it, save when from a single window, a light gleamed dazzlingly, throwing a broad, glittering belt along the gravelled garden walk In the room whence shone this beacon light, sat a lady yet in the prime of life, magnificently attired in tho cos tume of that period. '' 1 Tho room itself was elegantly furnished, and tho richly carved walnut and damask of the finest texture bespoke the wealth and taste ot the owner. Upon her lap lay an opea volume bound in vellum, aud heavily adorned with silver, the leaves of which she turned listless ly, and as she. glanced into the surrounding darkness a shadow swept across her brow, and she murmured to herself, "No, he will not come to-night, some acci dent must have befallen him. I will' but even as she spoke there came the sound of has ty steps aloug the walk, a man sprang lightly up the steps, and the knocker was applied with vigorous strokes to the oaken door; springing from her seat she obeyed the sumsnons, remov ed tho heavy bar, drew tho bolt, threw open the door, and admitted the visitor. Her w arm greeting was responded to with a "Yes, yes, Margery, all in good time; but I've tired, tired you with waiting for me,havn't I ?" and withont pausing for a reply, he con tinued as he laid his sword and pistols on the table, "I would have been in bettor season, but tho hounds were on my track, and I cared not to be overhauled with my precious cargo." The speaker and the lady addressed were sin gularly alike in form "and feature. Ho was i clothed in a tunic of red silk,with blue clothes, and black morocco boots, with a broad, red fold of the same material falling to the instep! His hair, that rivalled the aven's wir-g ii blackness, cltjstsje l in luxuriant carl wnin,, nis necK ana stiouiacrs ana nis lace, bronzed by the sun of southern climes.and embellished by beard and moustache, wore a reckless ex pression that was heightened by the changing light in the dark gleaming eye that had struck terror to many a beholder. For this was none other than the dreaded Rover, Robert Kyd, the lajjy his sister, the Madame Coeyraans. As he ceased speaking, he folded his arms across his broad chest, and gazed moodily in to the fire. As his sister watched him, her countenance expressed tho greatest emotion, and going to him and laying her hand upon his shoulder she said, as her eyes filled with tears, 'Robert could our mother have foreseen the course her son would follow, how 'think you she 'would have felt V At the. mention of his mother a tear for a moment dimmed the eye of tho Rover, but dashing it asido as if ashamed of tho weak ness disp!ayed,he answered with a light laugh, "Why, Margery, you believe the talc my calumniators have forged that I am indeed a pirate, tho terror of the seas ; and yet there's many a coroneted head reposes to night in old England that has shared the profits of my voy ages, and have now their bloodhounds on my track, and would gladly see me die a felon's death, and leave a felon's memory ; but I will foil the villains yet. I have deposited the last of my wealth beneath the soil of the man or grounds. I have burned my vessel, deter mined to quit the sea forever, and become an honest man. Our noble Governor, the Earl of Bellamont, has promised me bis protection if I am pressed too hotly ; for the rest I trust to these,'' and ho touched his arms significantly. "But no more of this subject at present, dear Margery, for I am very weary and hungry, too," and he threw, himself wearily upon a couch, while his sister, not caring to arouse any of the domestics, left tho room, whence she soon returned bearing a silver tray, on which were displayed many tempting viands,, which quickly disappeared before the attacks of the Rover, who, as he finished, held high a goblet of rich old port, exclaiming as ho did so, "Here's forgutfulness to the past, and a bright future to us." And quaffing off the contents, he arose, saying, "It is getting late, Margery, so I'll to bed and pleasant dreams," and he glided from the room. The morning dawned clear and bright, and as the sun's first beams gilded the window of his room, Kydd sprang from his couch, and making a hasty toilet, ho descended to join his sister in tho garden. And as they wander ed along the paths, and beneath tho giant oaks that adorned the manor grounds, their memo ry went back to the merry old times in Eng land, when they, light-hearted and innocent, passed the sunny days of childdood in joyous mirth. Many days, says the legend, did the Rover thus abide atCoeymans, in sweet communion with the memory of his childhood's home. And when at last ho left, it .was with many promises of a speedy return. But alas ! for his plans of future happiness, he. presented: himself inadvertantly In the streets of Boston, was seized, sent to England, tried and exe cuted. " Centuries have passed, and all traces of tho manor bouse of Coeymans have disappeared, but tradition still points out its site, and tells of an old stone house, and of a spectre in rust ling silks and high-heeled shoes that glided through its lonely halls long after Madame Coeymans went to her grave. WASHINGTON GOSSIP. ; ' ' ' ' February 23. Senator Wright, of New Jersey, submitted his long expected report in favor of the gener al adoption of iron as a building material" by the national government. It fully sustains Guthrie's policy of discrimination in favor of American iron in the purchase of government material, or of extending incidental protection to this interest in the disbursement as well as in the collection of public-revenues. It is.re garded as on? of the most significant party movements of the day, and as having some reference to the five hundred thousand votes given by the iron men for Buchanan in Penn sylvania and New Jersey at the Presidential election. There is some talk among the members of making a move to repeal the Iowa bill passed last session, granting land for railroad pur poses, as it is alleged that it was passed by fraud and corruption. Gen. Cass is putting on the airs of youth in view of his appointment to the Premiership. He has mounted a claret-colored coat, and has suddenly discovered that he is quite too young to ride to the Capitol. Ho has accordingly a u.mdoued his carriage, and walks daily to the Senate with short and brisk steps worthy of Mercury just lighted on tho heaven-kissing hill. ' ' - Private letters from Mexico have been re ceived here, which state that a highly impor tant treaty has been, or is about to be conclu ded between Mr. Forsyth, our Minister, and tho Mexican' Government, whereby a large share of Mexican Territory, embracing iht whole of the State of Sonora, is to be ceded to the L'ni t&l States, tor the sum of $13,000,000 three millions to go towards the payment of Mexi can claims. Certain concessions in favor of American commerce aTe also embraced in the treat'. I learn that tho inaugural of Mr. Buchanan is finished. It will bo short. The policy of Mr. Buchanan respecting our foreign ministers is considerably canvassed. The applicants for tho first class missions will be numerous. It will be expected by the Pre sident elect that every minister, charge d' af faires and consul will send home his resigna tion without delay. They will all be displaced ; thero will not probably bo a single exception. Our diplomatic corps is to be entirely renova ted and rejuvenated. All the home officers will be changed. There is to be rotation. This is certainly the policy of Mr. Buchanan. Most- of the collectors, postmasters, marshals, district attorneys, &c, will be allowed to remain till their terms of of fice expire ; the remainder will bo removed before the expiration of their commissions. This information you may rely upon. General Cass received an official notification to-day from Mr. Buchanan of his appointment as Secretary of State, and despatched a letter this evening informing the President elect that he accepted the position. Both letters were understood to be exceedingly felicitous. New Litany. Here is a litany which, al though not exactly orthodox will pass among sinners : . From tailors' bills, doctors' pills, western chills and other ills deliver us. From want of gold, wives that scold, maid ens old, and bysharpers "sold" deliver us. . From seedy coats, protested notes, sinking boats and illegal votes deliver us. From creaking doors, a wife that snores, "confounded bores," and dry good stores deliver us. From modest girls, with waving curls, and teeth of pearls nevermind. From stinging flies, coal black eyes, bakers' pies, and babies' cries deliver us. Garrotixg. The Lcwistown. Pa., Gazette, of the 19th Feb., says "The first attempt at introducing this species of robbery was tried last week by a woman inveigling a man into house, and as soon as he entered it, hail him knocked down by a man in waiting, and robbed of a watch. The case came up before a ma gistrate, but was afterwards settled by the par ties. One of the peculiarities of this case was that one of the party was implicated ia a rob bery on Thursday, committed to jail on 'Fri day, bailed out on Saturday, and married on Sunday." They seem to be rayther fast peo ple down thar in Lewisteown. - Hoops. Tho Chicago Herald says : A lady down Water street, in passing a West India goods store, where a cooper was heading up some barrels of sugar, becamo so entangled with the hoops, &c, that before the cooper was aware of his mistake, ho had seized the lady's skirt and got the lady and sugar so mixed that it was a long time before he could separate them. A man having published another as a liar, a scoundrel and polltroon, the latter complains that he does not spell paltroon correctly. VEGETABLE FOOD OF MAN. During the early part of this winter, the Rev. II. Wood, of Lowell, addressed the distinguish ed Dr. S. L. Dana, requesting information re lating to the cheapest and best kinds of food. The answer of Dr. Dana has been published in the Medical World; it ia scientific as might be expected coming from such high chemical and physiological authority and it also con tains much useful information little known to the community in general. We will endeavor to present the substance of its most important points, because we believe such knowledge should be circulated through every corner of tho world, concerning, as it docs, the welfare of every human being. It has been laid dowu as a law of physiolo gical chemistry that -all fool serves two dis tinct purposes? one part for building the. body forms the blood out of which comes all the an imal tissues ; the other part forms fat, and fur nishes the fuel by which the animal heat is kept up through the process of breathing. Food contains flesh, blood, and tissue formers in proportion to their amount of nitrogen. When chemistry, therefore, determines the a mount of nitrogen ia any Kind of food, it ex presses the relative value of that food lor these purposes. Thearcli, gum, fat, sugar, and water, and occasionally a portion of woody fi ber or grain, rarely ministers to the want of nutrition. These substances are the fuel for mers, out of which fat may be formed, which is as essential as blood. .Ten parts of fat are equal to twenty-four parts of starch, grape, and milk sugar in heating power. ; -' Life cannot long be maintained by any food that fulGlLj only one part of the process of nn trition. A man fed only on that 'food wlich forms blood and tissue soon dies of starvation, and so does the man that is only fed on fuel furming food ; and if a man is deprived of cer tain salts, such as common salt, compounds of sulphur, phosphorus, potash, soda, liruei mag nesia, and iron, he cannot long survive. . And even if fed on all these three ciasses of sub stances, he w ill die of starvation, unless al lowed a certain proportion of ready formed fat, in addition to the ftt that may be formed out of the Other elements of his food. Nature has taught us the typo of oar food, viz., milk. It cont.iius the' essentials of four greatgroups of sub.tanecs on which nutrition in its widest sense depends. The elements, of milk ore, 1st, Curd, which is a blood former; it contains all the nitrogen and ail the sulphur. 2nd. Butter, which is fat. Sd. Sugar, which is a fuel former or heater. 4th. Salts soluble and insoluble the earth of bones, potash, soda and phosphoric acid. Such are the substances which Nature has prepared for our first food a mixture of four groups of substances. To suit human wants, according to its ag, we should imitate this best natural mixture of those substances de signed as the food of man. In vegetable and animal food there are sub stances representing those contained in milk. Drl Dana merely alludes to those of fish and flesh, and states (which is something new to most persons) that the flesh of fish contains the same amonnfof nutrient matter, as the flesh of oxen. Albumen forms gristle, sinews, mem brane, muscles, nails, and is found in the nerve tubes. Fat is a lubricant, assists to form cells, and it forms part and parcel of all the chemi cal changes which the body undergoes, and is required for more purposes than merely heat ing the body. Sugar never forms part of tb animal tissues, but it performs an important office in the changes of all these tissues. It forms lactic acid, and contributes largely to the formation of fat. The waste of anything essential to life, and all its healthy functions must bo supplied by a like substance. Food, therefore, is nutri tious just ia proportion as it contains the ele ments, properly mixed, which -go to sustain the body and supply its waste. What is the best and cheapest food tor this purpose t This is a great question, and one respecting which much reliable information has been wanting. Wheat, Indian corn, rye, rice, and buck wheat are the principal grains used in our country for food. Wheat holds tho highest place in the market, and its finest flour that which is deprived of most bran is the dearest, and the most admired. This cherished flour the costliest is actually the least valuable for food. The fat and salts of wheat reside chiefly in the bran, and the flour depiived of these, does not contain well mixed nutrient matter. Dr. Dana places Indian corn and rye above wheat for our food, and he surprises us by giv ing oatmeal tho highest place of all it con tains the greatest amount of albumen, its starch is equal to that of fine wheat flour, and its fat exceeds that of any other cereal grain. Buckwheat and rice are poor articles of food : one pound of beans is equal to three and a half of rice or potatoes. Cabbage contains a great amount of albumen, but no fat, sugar, or J salts, but it is excellent for mixing with other substances, such as potatoes, which contain these. Oatmeal cake, bean and pea soup, ba ked beans, Indian meal pudding sweetened with molassys. are tho vegetable food, which he esteems to be th best and. cheapest for common and general use: Scientific in;r. In ono of tho interior towns of Virginia, Miss Nancy Shrew was lately married to Mr. SamuelDevil. A shrew and a devil will make an evn tm, says an exchange.' ! TIIE MURDERER OF NOKCROSS. The Philadelphia Xorlh .imerican, in spcalc ing of the supposed mcrdvrcr of yonng Nor cross who was recently killed near" AUoona, says : nigh constable Blackburn, of this city, has been on the search of McKim for some time past. Tho oflicer, after visiting Pitts burgh and obtaining a full description of tha murderer, visited Chester and Delaware coun ties, where it was found he was charged with the larceny of 23 horses. He also discovered " that McKim had three wives, his lawful one residing in Delaware and the others in New Jersey. ; - At Altoona It was ascertained thai a man an-'' swering to the description was seen lurking about the building in which the inquest upon the murdered man was held, until a verdict of murder was rendered by the jury. lie then disappeared, and was not traced again until tho officer arrived at Reading ; here it was found that be had spent several days, and then left with- two women of loose morals, alter hav ing purchased dresses, jewelry, &c, for them. From this place he went to Pottsville with hi a y fenialo companions, rented and furnished "house for them at an expense of about $890j arid here he would have been arrested but for the foolishness of a gambler who made his ac quaintance. It appears that while tie supposed murderer was on his way to Pottsville with tho women, the gambler enteicd into conversation with, one of the women, and by this means received an invitation to visit the house, to be opened by their friend. The gamblerT finding that the man had souio money, determined to inveigla him into a game, and strip him, but before b cov.M accomplish his object, he (the gambler) saw a description of Norcross's companion and supposed murderer, but, instead of having McKim arrested immediately, he commenced telegraphing. to the Mayor of Philadelphia for a fuller description, and after two days had been spent in this way, the gambler camo to tho conclusion that McKim was the man, and telegraphed to the Mayor fo send up an officer. In the meactime the gambler had informed one.ot the women of the discovery he had madeiand : requested her to keep quiet ; but she, feeling, I suppose, some conipassio'n for the man that had clothed and fed her, informed M'ltim that he-was suspected, a;id he, without admitting the truth, left Pottsville two days before the officer from Philadelphia arrived. M'Kira was seen after this in Philadelphia, but all tracs now have .been lost of him. His trunk is still at the Pennsylvania depot, and ia it is a carpenter's rule with his name upon it. The furniture whi-.U he had in the house at Pottsville, and the jewelry which he gave tho women, has all been seized by tho authorities of Pottsville, and will be sold, and the pro ceeds given to the friends of the deceased. The women that lived with him were hooted and pelted as they were going to tho depot to leave the town. M'K'uu is a', out 6 feet high, stoop-shouldered, sandy hair, bald in front, high cheek bones, and there is a scar :n tho palm and on the back of one of his hands, caused by a pistol shot. A Wicked Tow.v. The "City of Tiffin," a village of five thousand inhabitants in Ohio, appears to have gone over to the Evil One : A young man named Cofl'man, bnrncd his fath er's barn, valued at $1,200, and then stole $130 of money from the old man ; another yonth of tho name of Frazer, robbed h:s father of $2000; the body of an unknown man was found in tho streets, on Wednesday morning of last week, who had been murdered the night previously j the cholera is decimating the hogs; a series of riots, fights, &c, had occurred within a week, and the Postmaster at Melnorc, (near cnongh to Tiffin to be within the evil influence,) had recently robbed the mail of monied letters, but escaped before the officers of the Common wealth could catch him. . A Sharp Yottsgster A little boy 'on his return from Sunday School recently, addres sed his mother as follows: '-Mamma !' "Well," my dea." "M mma, the teacher says that people are all made of dust." "Yes, my dear, so the Bible says." "Well, mamma, are white people made of dust?" Yes." "Well, then, I s'pose colored people are made of coal dust, ain't they 1" Mctcallt Thaxkfcl. The Christian Intel ligencer tells a story of a young lawyer, who, while dining with Gen. Jackson, "thanked God that he had too much good sense to be lieve in such a place of torment as hell." The General replied that "ho thanked Gd there was such a place, to put such ikeptical rascal jis the lawyer in." . UsErrL IsvExrios. A countryman passing over a railroad ia Northern New York, which is proverbially slow, asked the conductor why. a cow-catcher was attached to the rear car in stead ot the usual place ; lie was informed by the officer that it was "in order to prevent tho cows on that road from running tnto the train-V ESnow much easier it is to preach than to practice. The day alter old Gloss discharged his clerk for stealing, he sold a hogshead, of colored alcohol for pure French brandy. " A lady has lately dred at Actopan, in Mexi co, at the wonderful age of 125 years.. Mexi co has had sevecty-five politics! change la this womn'sltfcrioB. . . .' .. . . i
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