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BY S. B. BOW.
CLEARFIELD, PA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1857.
VOL. 3.-N0. 52.
SO A GOOD THEN WHEH YOU CAK.
How little we think as we travel
Thro' life np and downs, day by day.
What good each might do for his neighbor,
Did all of us go the right way ;
How' many a poor fellow, whose talents
To elevate science would tend.
Is lost to the world's gaze forever,
And all through the want of a friend.
Then stretch forth your hand like a brother.
For remember that life's but a span ;
'Tts onr duty to help one another,
And do a good turn when we can.
Some boast of thoir wealth and connexions,
And look with contempt upon those
Of lower degree quite forgetting
The means by which they perhaps roe.
Eo be kind to the poor and the lowly,
Ne'er otter a word that's untrue ;
Prize the maxim which says, "Act to others
As you would they should act unto you."
Then stretch forth your hand like a brother,
Since life's after all but a span ;
Let us try to assist one another,
And do a good turn when we can.
GlTS MISTAKE.
"For me, I adore,
Some twenty or more,
And lore them all most dearly."
Snob was the light air hammed by a young
man one evening in the month of September,
between the hour of seven and eight, as he
turned into a court leading out of Washington
street, in tho City of New York, iu which his
boarding house was located.
The character of tho &lr suited well the ap
pearance of tLe aforesaid young blade, for,
we saw him as Le turned into the court, the
light of the lamp illuminating him, be was tall
and slander, but finely formed, and his pale,
handsome features, and large bright eyes, with
large circles around them, told of late honrs
and excitement.
His frock coat buttoned to the top by a sin
gle button, pants of a si.uH colored hue, with
Test, with a chain attached to its lowermost
button, fastened to the duce knows what in bis
vest pocket ; boots, hat and dickey of the la
test fashion, and a switch cane, completed the
tout ensemble of our hero.
A3 we said before, he was humming a tune
as he went into the court. Passing up, he
censed, and his thoughts, if they had been
tittered, would have run something like this :
Some forty or fifty more, I should have
eaid. Byron was a bard case ; one of the
b'hoys decidedly ; hanged if he was not the
personification of bis Don Juan. He went on
the principle of "go it while you're young,"
and be did go it with a vengeance.
During these cogitations, be reached, as he
supposed, bis boarding house. Ascending the
steps, be sent bis hands on an exploring expe
dition in bis pocket and extricated an instru
ment resembling a portable poker with a join
ted handle. Inserting this instrument into
. a icund hale in the door, be affected an en
trance to the houe.
Oa entering he was somewhat surprised at
the disappearance of the bat tree and a table
in Its place.
"Where the deuce has that hat tree gone to
now, I should like to know," Le mentally ex
claimed, throwing oS bis hat, "how awful qui
. et it is just now," be continued proceeding to
the parlor. :
Finding it in total darkness,he was still more
surprised.
"Junof is everybody dead,. I wonder T I'll
have light on the subject, anyhow," and with
thai determination, he crossed the room in
search of a match. He placed hia band on
something that made him utter an exclama
tion of surprise.
"By everj thing that's blue it's a lady's shoe.
Extraordinary events have been transpiring
in my absence, a sofa here, striking against
one placed near the mantlepiece. Tbey bave
been scattering the personal property about at
a terrible rate. Ab ! a baby's shoe. O ! mein
Got t as the Dutchman would say."
, . "Charles, ia that you 1" whispered a soft
voice at that moment.
; " "Wbew ! what the duce is to pay now 1" be
. almost ejaculated in surprise, but recovering
himself, be answered in a whisper, "Yes, dear
est, it is me over the left," he said to him
self. ' ' '
"J see now bow it is. I'm in the wronjr
- bouse, and this damsel thinks I'm her Charles ;
no matter, I'm in for it now, and might as well
see this qneer affair through."
r So thinking be seated himself on the sofa,
fey bcr side, with one band clasped in bers.
? , "Charles," said she, "what made yoa stay
"so late 1 I have been waiting for you this half
hour.,, -- "
"The deuce you have," thought be. "Indeed
I'm vciy sorry, but positively could not get
here any sooner."
'"The folks bave all gone away this evening,
and we'll wake the most of our lime," she
eaid. .
"Yes, by jove we will," was the reply, as he
' embraced her and imprinted several kisses on
her lips. i
"I wonder who I'm kissing in the dark,"
(thought be, during the operation." -;
"Why Charles I think you ought to be
, ashamed of yourself ; you never did so before."
; "Charles must be a modest youth," thought
. our hero. , '.'
-- "Charles," you must not do ao; what do you
. mean V .
"I'm making the beat of my time," was
the reply. . - , : "
'- 'You remember the last time I eaw you, you
said you would tell me to-night when we should
be married," the damsel said.
A, whistle nearly escaped the .lips of Gas,
(such was the abbreviated sponsorial of our
beroVI should say immediately," he thought,
"but she might mistrust and that would be no
go."
"The time, dearest," he answerd, "will be
when most convenient to yourself."
"Oh ! how glad I am !"
"What a pickle I would be in if the folks
would pop in all of a sudden," he thought at
that moment; and as the thought passed thro'
his mind a latch fumbled in the door.
At this ominous sound, bis lady companion
sprang to her feet, greatly frightened.
"O, dear, what shall I do f" was her excla
mation. "Here comes the folks."
"What shall I do V asked Gus, springing up.
"O, deaf? O, dear!" she exclaimed, "where'
shall I bide you T There is no closet, and you
cannot get out of the room before the folks
will see you. O, mercy, I shall lose my place.
There, the door is opening quick hurry
hide under the sofa."
He didn't think of a better place, but pop
ped down on the floor, and commenced crawl
ing underneath. His progress was greatly ac
celerated by her feet, which she applied most
vigorously to his ribs.
"Thunder ! what a plantation she has got,"
said Gus, as she came in contact with his side.
He found the space uuder the sofa very nar
row, so much so that he had to lay flat on his
face.
"Hist ! there they come one two three
daughters, the old man and woman and two
gents, friends of the ladies, I suppose. Here
they are down on the sofa. How I would like
to grasp that delicate little foot. I wonder
how long I have got to stay here f I hope the
conversation will be edifying."
In this manner his thoughts ran for the space
of an hour. By that time he felt his situation
anything but pleasant, not being able to move
an inch. There were no signs of their depar
ture, judging by their lively talk; and not
knowing how long he would bave to stay in
such quarters, caused him to anathraetize them
severely ; and he got worn to such a pitch that
he let an oath slip accidentally thro' his lips.
"Hark ! what's that T" exclaimed one, but
the others beard nothing.
"Jcsu Maria !" thought Gus, "what a nar
row escape. "If any of the rest had heard it,
I should have been discovered ; then a pretty
plight I would bave been in. I should have
been taken for a burglar."
While thus congratulating himself on his
escape, a shawl belonging to one of the ladies,
which hung over the back of the sofa, slipped
behind. It was soon missed, and a search
was commenced.
"It must have fallen behind the sofa," said
the owner.
"I'll ascertain," said one of the young men
rising from the sofa. Seizing one end, ho
whirled it into the middle of the room.
What a scream ! The young ladies nearly
fainted away at the sight of Gus on his face.
"Burglar! thief! robber!" cried the head
of the family, retreating toward the door.
"Very complimentary,' saidGus, looking up.
The two young men seized and raised him
to bis feet.
"Give an account of yourself, now came
you here ?" said one of them. v
"Thieves ! Jobber ! watch !" screamed the
ladies.
"Stop your noise !" shouted the old man as
Gus commenced an apology.
"Ladies and gentlemen,' said he, "yon bave
found me concealed under the sofa in a bur
glarious manner, but upon my soul it was for
a very different purpose."
He then went on and gave a lucid explana
tion, and in such a manner that it set the whole
company in a roar of laughter.
The girl was then called and questioned in
regard to the matter-
"1 shall now see at any rate what I've been
skylarking with," thought Gus, as he heard
ber steps coming'towards the room.
A moment more and a daughter of Ham, as
black as the -ace of spades, strode into the
room.
Such an apparition of darkness struck our
hero dumb. For a moment he was a model of
amazement, but a roar restored bis shattered
sense and he then became fully aware of bis
ridiculous position. .
"Where is my hat 7" he faintly articulated,
and rushed quickly from the room.
Until sleep closed his eyes, did that roar of
laughter ring in his ears,and when sound asleep
the vision of a "niggeress" flitted before him.
Takixg it Coollt. The following is the
latest joke upon John Bull :
John was travelling on some Western rail
road, when a tremendous explosion took place,
the cars at the same time coming to a sndden
halt. The passengers sprang up in terror, and
rushed out to acquaint themselves with the
mischief all butMr. Bull, who continued read
ing his newspaper. In a moment somebody
rushed back and informed bim that the boiler
had burst.
"Awe I" muttered the Englishman.
"Yes," continued bis informant, "and six
teen persons have been killed." '
"Awe V grunted the Englishman again.
And and" said his interlocutor, with an
effort, VJTur. owo man" TOur MfT"""118
been blown into a hundred pieces. .
".iws bring me tkt pitct that Aai wewy e
my portmanteau I - '
A DESCENT INTO THE CATACOMBS.
The catacombs are underground passages,
where the ancient Egyptians buried their
dead. The crocodile was regarded by them as
sacred, or rather, perhaps, they had sacred
crocodiles, and these, like the bodies of the
Egyptians themselves, were embalmed and de
posited in the caverns used for burial places.
The following thrilling account of a descent
into the Catacombs is from William C. Prime's
"Boat Life in Egypt and Nubia:"
The descent into the cavern was by sitting
on the edge, swinging off with one hand on
each side of the hole, and dropping into the
depths below, where a soft bed of sand received
us, in a chamber just large enough to hold the
eight persons of whom the party consisted all
standing in a stooping posture, while we lighted
our candles and arranged for progress. I tossed
my tarbouchc and takea tip to my dragoman,
Abdel-Atti, and left my head bare. Then
following the principal guide, I lay down flat
on my face, holding my candle before mc, and
began to advance with as close a resemblance
to a snake's motion as human yertcbree will ad
mit of. .My own guide and Abdallah followed
me ; the English gentleman next, and the drag
oman and guide bringing up the rear. I pro
gressed slowly and with great difficulty, con
stantly bruising my back on the sharp points
of the rock above mc, some five or six yards.
Legh calls it eight, but I think it is not so much.
We were now able to stand up again in a steop
ing posture, the ceiling being a little over four
feet high, and thus advanced eight or ten yards
further until we reached the chamber of which
Mr. Legh speaks. I am of the opinion that
we had now arrived just under the bed of the
torrent I have spoken of, and that the entire
cavern which I afterwards explored, is a natu
ral fissure in the rock, running under the point
of meeting of two hills, and following the line
of the valley between them. This is, of course,
a conjecture, as I did not take a compass with
me to determine the course. The chamber
was a small, irregular, cavernous room, the
floor of which was covered with shapeless mas
ses of stone that had fallen from ttie reof. O
ver these we stepped with some difficulty. I
need not remark that the darkness was pro
found, and the air so close that our candles
burned but dimly, so that each man was o
bliged to hold his own at his feet to determine
where to set them. Crossing the room, we step
ped over a chasm between a mass of rock and
the wall of the chamber, to a point in the wafl
which presented a rugged edge, and from this
into a narrow doorway, about four feet high.
I call it a doorway, for it resembles one, though
I could find no signs of artificial origin about
it. It was almost square, and opened into a
sort of gallery, the floor of which was covered
with broken rock, and interrupted by huge,
deep fissures. A ledge at the side afforded tol
erable walking for some distance, ia a stoop
ing posture ; and then we again lay down on
our faces, and crawled through a passage twen
ty feet in length, entering the largest chamber
in the pit. .. - I
It was a very irregular chasm, perhaps sev
enty or a hundred feet in diameter. Entrance
to it was almost forbidden by clouds of bats,
that met me in the narrow passage through
which I was crawling, dashed into my face,
wounding my face and cheeks, clinging by
scores to my hair and beard, like so many thou
sand devils disputing the enhance to hell. I
can give no adequate idea of the chamber of
horrors in which I now found myself. Pro
foundly silent, we had crawled along, each
man having a fast beating heart, and- listening
to its throbs ; and now as I emerged into this
room, the loud whirr of the myriads of bats
was like the sound of another world into which
I bad penetrated.' I staggered to a rock, and
sat down, when a piercing yeli started me to
my feet. It rang through the cavern as if the
arch fiend himself were there, tormenting some
poor soul. But it was only one of my poor
friends, who were making their first entrance
to an Egyptian catacomb, and had never before
encountered the bats, with whom I was thor
oughly familiar.' The man who was in advance
was overwhelmed by the army that met him as
he approached tho room.
"What is it f" I shouted. . .
"These bats ; they are devouring me." "
"Push on ; they'll not harm you." .
"My light is gone, and I can see nothing."
; "Here is my light come towsrd it.'.' I had
relit my candle, which had been put out as his
was, and was now seated in the centre of the
cavern, on a black rock, holding it up before
my face. As be emerged into the room, and
caught sight of me, he uttered a bowl of ming
led astonishment and terror.
"Pluto or Sathanas, by all the Gods!" said
his friend, coming up behind him and looking
at me. My appearance must have been pictur
esque, in my primitive costume, now begrim
med with dirt, and seven bats (they counted
them) hanging on my beard, with a perfect net
work and Medusa coil of them in my hair. I
was very little disturbed by the harmless little
fellows, although before coming to Egypt, I
scarcely knew of an animal in the world so dis
gusting to my mind. But the atmosphere, if
it may be so called, of this chamber, was be
yond all description horrible. It was not an
air to faint in there was too much ammonia
for that.- It was foul, vile, terrible. I confess,
that as I found myself panting1 for breath, and
drawing long, deep inspirations, to very chok
ing, without "reaching tfce right place" in mj
lungs (I think every one understands that) I
trembled for an instant at the thought of go
ing further. It was but an instant, however,
and the desire to see the great repository of
the sacred animals overpowered the momenta
ry terror.
" Abdallah ?"
.."Ya, llowajji."
"If anything happens, if I fall down, give
out, or faint, don't you run. Tell the guides
that I have ordered Ab-del-Atti to shoot them,
man by man, as they come out, if one of them
nppcars without me. Do you pour this down
my throat, and drag me out of the entrance.
You understand 1"
"Aiowah, Ya llowajji. Fear not ; I will do
it."
"Iiecollect that if I die, you all die, that is
arranged for, as surely as you, one of you, at
tempt the entrance without me, Ab-del-Atti is
ready for you."
The guides had listened attentively, and
having seen me hand my pistols to my trusty
dragoman before coming down, they believed
every word of it, although it never occurred
to mo until this moment.
The gnides were all at fault here, precisely
as they were ia Mr. Lcgh's time, and that of
every traveller since. This chamber had been
the end of most attempts to explore the pits.
The intense darkness is some excuse for this,
since our eight canllles wholly failed to show
a wall anywhere around or above us. The
men proposed that we should tit still, while
they tried various passages opening out of the
room. To this I objected, much preferring to
trust myself at a juncture like this. In that
intense blackness it was not easy to find the
wayjwe had come in ; for, of course, there was
no guide north or south, except my recollec
tion of tho shape of the rock on which I was
seated, and its bearings as I approached it.
The reader will bear in mind that the whole
floor of the room was covered with immense
masses of rock, among which we moved about
in search of outlets, leaving a man on that
rock to mark its locality. After trying three
passages that led nowhere, I hit on that one
which the guides pronounced correct, and the
party advanced. For the benefit of future ex
plorers, if any such there be, I may explain
that it is the first passage which goes out of
the chamber to the right, as you enter it.
That is to say, keeping the right hand wall
wilt bring you to it, leaping a chasm at its en
trance. This is the chasm of which Legh
speaks. I found it only about six feet.
The passage which we now entered was so
low that I found it necessary t creep on my
hands and knees, and sometimes to crawl,
snake fashion, full length. It continued for a
distance that I hesitate to estimate. It is
wholly impossible to guess at the progress one
is making ia such postures. Hennikcr, I
think, makes it four hundred yards. I should
think a thousand feet was a large estimate, but
it may be as much. The air was now worse,
lacking the ammonia. It seemed to be pure
nitrogen. : The lungs operated freely, but took
no benefit or refreshment from it, while the
heat was awful, and perspiration rolled down
our faces and bodies, soaking our clothes, and
making mud on our features and bands with
the fine dust that filled the atmosphere. At
length the passage became so narrow that my
progress was entirely blocked. - My broad
shoulders would not go through, and I paused
to consider the matter. The hole was about
eighteen inches wide, and a little more than
two feet high. Evidently, Mr. Legh did not
pass beyond this. I was obliged' to lay over
on my right side, presenting my body to it
narrow way, up and down, and pushing with
all the strength of my feet, as well as polling
with my hands on the floor and rocky projec
tions, I forced myself along about eight feet.
In this struggle my brandy flask, which was in
my trousers pocket, being under me, was bro
ken to pieces, and my sole hope, in the event
of a giving out of my faculties, was gone. At
the time, I thought little of it, laughing at the
occurrence, as I called out to those who fol
lowed me ; but afterwards I remembered the
accident with a shudder. The only argument
that had allowed me to persuade myself to at
tempt this exploration, was a promise that I
would take brandy with me, which no one else
had done, and, if necessary, secure -artificial
strength thereby. It was gone now, and I was
more than a thousand feet from light or air,
in a passage that did not average four feet by
two its entire length.
A vigorous push sent me out into a more
open passage, and a sort of doorway opened
into a gallery on a level two feet lower. Jump
ing down this step, I was, for the first time in
nearly a half hour, where I could stand up.
right. My English friend shouted for help be
hind me. His light was gone out, and he was
literally stuck in the hole. I returned, touch
ed jny candle to his, and gave bim a hand to
drag him through, and in a few moments. we ;
were all standing together. We now advanced I
some hundred feet, in a stooping posture most
ly, but occasionally crawling as before, and at
length, as we crept, the rough and very low
parts of the gallery and the roof began to lift,
and I found I was actually crawling over rnuwv
mies. There was just here a sort of blind pas
sage, at the side of the chief passage, In which
the French expedition bad -carved their names.
The wall was covered with a jet black substance
like the purest lampblack, which the point ef
a knife would scrape off, exposing the white
rock. Numerous stalactites hung from the
ceilings, all jet black, and some grotesque sta
lagmites at the sides of the passage startled
me at first with the idea that they were sculp
tures. This black, sooty matter I cannot ac
count for, unless it be tho exhalations in an
cient times from the crocodiles which were
laid here, for we are at last in tho depository.
The floor was covered with crocodile bones
and mummy clothes. A spark of fire falling
into them ould have made this a veritable
hell. As this idea was suggested my English
friends, whose experience in the narrow hole
had been sufficiently alarming, vanished out of
sight. They fairly ran. Having seen the mum
mies, and .seized a few small ones in their
bands, they hastened out and left uie with Ab
dallah and my two guides. Advancing over
the mummies and up the hill which they form
ed, I found that I was in one of the number of
large chambers, of the-pth of which it was,
of course, impossible to get any idea, as they
were piled lull of mummied crocodiles to the
very ceiling. There was no means of estima
ting the number of them. When I say thtire
were thousands of them, I shall not be thought
to exaggerate, after I describe the manner in
which they are packed and laid in.
Climbing to the top of the hill and extin
guishing all lights but one, which I made Ab
dallah hold very carefully, I began to throw
down the top of the pile to arcertain of what
it was composed, and I at length made an o
pening between the mummies and the ceiling,
through which I could go on further, descend
ing a sort of hill of those dead animals, such
as I had come up. In this way I progressed
ome distance, in a gallery or chamber that
was not less that thirty feet deep.
The crocodiles were lain in regular layers,
head to tail and tail to head. First on the
floor was a layer of large crocodiles, side by
side, each one mummied and wrapped up iu
cloths. Then smaller ones were laid between
the tails, filling up the hollows between them.
Then, and most curious of all, the remaining
interstices were packed full of young croco
diles, measuring with remarkable uniformity,
about thirteen inches in length, each one
stretched out between two slips of palm leaf
stem,which were bound to its sides like splints,
and then wrapped from head to foot in a slip
of cloth, wound round, commencing at the tail
and fastened at the head. Then small ones were
done up in bundles, usually of eight, and pack
ed in closely wherever they could be stowed. I
brought out more than a hundred of them, of
which my friends in Egypt seized on the most
as curiosities, but I succeeded in getting some
twenty or thirty of them to America with me.
This layer completed, a layer of palm bran
ches was carefully laid over it, spread thick
and smooth, and then a second and precisely
similar layer of crocodiles was made, and an
other of palm branches, and thus continued to
the ceiling. These palm branches, stems and
mummies lio here in precisely the state tbey
were two thousand years ago. No leaf of the
palm was decayed. There could have been no
moisture from the mummies whatever, or if
any, it had no effect upon the palm branches.
Among these crocodiles I found the mum
mies of many men.
Sitting down on the side of the bill, by the
dim candle light, I overhauled gods and men
with sacrilegious bands. It was a strange,
wild and awful scene. Among all the pictures
my memory has treasured of wandering life, I
have none so fearful and thrilling as this. It
was. hell a still, silent, cold hell. All these
bodies layn rooms, in close packages, like so
many souls doomed to eternal silence and sor
row in this prison. Five bodies of men that I
drew out of the mass lay before me, with their
hideous stillness and inaction. I dared them
to tell .me in words the reproaches of which
their silent frowns were so liberal; reproaches
for penetrating their abode and disturbing the
repose of twenty or forty centuries. .
These were of the poorest and most com
mon sort, destitute of any box. Wound- In
coarse clotb, they had been laid, in the grave
with the beasts that were sacred to their god.
One I found afterwards in a thin plain box,
but it contained no indication of its period,
and bore no marks of its owner's name or po
sition, ranch to my disappointment. ;.
"Let us gojnrtber," I eaid to the guide at
length. There is no further."
I was satisfied that tho entrance we had ef
fected was not by the passage known to the
ancients, and fiat some other outlet lay be
yond these chambers. I pushed my way over
the piles of mumies to where an other low pas
sage went on, but it was too difficult of explo
ration to tempt mt into it. It may lead to an
outlet in the desert hitherto unknown, or that
outlet may be long ago covered over , by the
shifting sands.
. What was the object of all this preservation
of the Nile monsters, it is not within the scope
of this volume to discuss. It is at least a mys
tery, for we know so little of the Egyptian theory-
of a hereafter, that we cannot understand
what part the birds and beasts were te take part
ia the resurrection." '" " V"
I crawled out as I bad . crawled in. Before
I came out froml chamber of horrors (Mad.
amTussaud'e Is noClog like it) I laid the
wreck of my brandy tisfc on a projecting shelf
of rock, where the next explorer will find It.
The cJUnce we that it wl tun tip in the Brit-
ish or Prussian Museum, as evidence of tbw
bad habits of the ancient Egyptians, thus prov
ed to be strong in death.
Isdiax Coax. Maize, or Indian Corn, orig-'
inated in America, and is not yet, we think,
cultivated to any extent on the European con
tinent. Though the people of Great Britain
Caimot be made to appreciate its merits very
fully, the aggregate exports of com in 1856,
in the form of whole grain, meal, corn starch,
farina, etc., amounted to between seven and
eight million dollars, or about one-fortieth of
the wholo exports of the country, and 6,700,
000 bushels, considerably more than half, went
to England alone.
Corn has always been an important article ia
this country, both of consumption and export.
The total amount of this produce exported in
1770 was 578,349 bushels; in 1791, 2,064,93$
bushels, of which 351,695 were Indian meal.
The value of corn and its manufactures expor
ted from the United States in 18S0, was $597.,
119 ; in 1835, $1,217,C65 ; in 1840, $1,043,516;
in 1845, $1,053,293 ; iu 1S50, $4,652,804. Tho
export increases more rapidly than the produc
tion. The export of corn quadrupled between
J840and 1S50, while the production did not
quite double.
The great amount of invention bestowed on
corn planters, corn cutters, shelters, eob grind
ers, etc., tends each year to promote the im
crease of production. It has been estimate's
that, as a general rule, seven pouuds of corn
will produce one pound of pork ; so that in lo
calities where through distance from market
or from transportation facilities, the cereal caa
not be raised at a profit for sale, it is frequently
the material used in fattening the more concen
trated form of diet, and on which, consequent
ly, the freight is less. Cob meal we believe, ia
most valuable for animals that chew the cud ;
horses and hogs, as a general thing, deriving
less benefit from the cob-grinding inventions.
With all animals, however, we believe, there
Is a preccptiblc advantage realized by mixing
the cob with the denser meal. Scientific. Imtr
Origin of the Nlshaknock or Merceh Po
tato. The annexed interesting information
was contributed to the Prairie Farmer, by B.
Buchanan, of Cincinnati ;
It is a seedling of Western Pennsylvania
from the banks of the Neshannock creek, Mer
cer county hence its name. I am a native of
Western Pennsylvania, and have been familiar
with this potato since my boyhood. It was
first made known about fifty years ago, and
was so highly valued that many persons took
it over the mountains in their saddlebags, for
seed. It is that way it was introduced into tho
neighborhood of Pittsburgh, by the late Wm.
Anderson, who took it from the farm where it
originated. In the year 1792, a settlement was
made on the waters of the Shcnango and Ma
honing, principally by Scotch and Irish. Tho
soil and climate were favorable to the growth
of potatoes, and those from that region soon
became eelebtated especially the new seed
lings of the Neshannock. .
A Great Natiosai Craiosmr. An Abing
don, Virginia, paper says there is a natural
bridge within 52 miles of that place, in Scott
county, Virginia, compared with which tho
bridge over Cedar Creek is a mere cirenm
stance. The Scott bridge extends across a
chasm more than twice 80 feet in width, and ia
420 feet deep, at the bottom of which flows a
much larger and more rapid stream than Ce
dar Creek, but it is not less a bridge, with a
broad wagon road located npon it. The sur-t
vey for the Cumberland Gap Railroad passed
through the arch of this bridge. It is, per
haps, the wildest and most stupendous curios-,
ity in the United States, and yet is compara
tively unknown. ......
. The Ohio Defalcation is now definitively
ascertained by the official examination of tho
books of the Auditor and Treasurer, at Colum.
bns, to bave amounted to $728,691 01, on the
13th of June, 1857, of which it is proven that
John G. Brcslin, the former Democratic Stat
Treasurer, was the defaulter, as, of more than
one million of dollars which be took from the
Treasury, be only returned $853,009.. It is,
however, said that, for a portioit' of the deficit
mentioned, Breslin subsequently furnished de
preciated bank paper amounting to $154G3Q.
86, leaving the State loser outright to the tuno
of $574,854 65. . '....J
E7"Nigbt running is ruinous to the moral
of boys ia all instances. - Tbey acquire, trader
the cover of night, aa unhealthy state of mind,
bad,vulgar and profane aaguagBbsceB0 prac
tices, criminal sentiments, aad lawless and
riotous beariag. Indeed it Is ia the street ti
ter night fall that boys principally acquire tbo
education of the bad, and capacity lor beoesn
ing rowdy, dissolute men. ? ?- -
rXTThe grand jury of Prince William
tp, Virginia, have found a trne Jbill ti
John Underwood, f or maintaining by sjeailffj
that ao "owner has ao right of property ia LI
slave," and he has been held to bail in thw
sum of $600 to appear at November CeeoVi ;
QTThe calender of crime bececrrr
and more horrible. The Ciiete J: -cords
the murder ia tiil c!'jrf I" ' "
nearly SO years of t, C.-J3' .f
sen sod dmu'kter tj ZT-'. '
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