4 t : BY S. B. ROW. CLEARFIELD, PA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1858. VOL. 4 HO. 26. i (A HE'S COMING. , . The following, clipped from the Louisville Jour nal, is about aa sweet a little thing of the kind as we hare ever seeu : He's coming! the blushing rose Whispers it low to me, . And tho starlight hastens with It, Over the twilight sea. All trembling, the zephyrs tell me, On light winds hurrying past, And my own heart, quickly beating, Coming, coming at last. The soft-lipped waves of the ocean, Gathering at my feet, Breeze-borne from the coral islands, Murmur the secret sweet. There's not a dow-stoeped blossom, Or glistening orange tree, But furnish their leaves glee-laden, To breathe this joy to me. List! that is the sound of rowing Stealing along the air; I must gather round my temples The weight of this braided hair, And trust to the growing darkness, And evening shadows dim, . To hide with their wings the traces . Of tears I've shed for him. HE DID, AND THEN HE DIDN'T. James Smith wasn't a good man at least everybody laid so, and that must be true tho' he was an accommodating neighbor, and went to meeting Sundays, and had been knovtn to tell bis experience, the wickedness of which drew many a sigh and groan from the pious old d. aeons, lie used to drop a dime regu larly into the contribution box, and sometimes a quarter ; but then that wasn't all. He was bid to be guilty of paying more attention to a couple of Fpaikling black, eyes, than to the devout teachings of the minister, and the sigh which now and then escaped his breast, was uui exactly ot a go-to-meeting character. Kate Hopkins had the eyes above alluded to,' and had a good bringing up ; but they were a little too black and mischievous for the wel fare of her heart. She boarded at James' house. (James was a married man.) She, too, went to meeting regular, but was particu larly fond ot going evenings. Mrs. Smith kUid at home then, and took charge of three - or four little curly-headed children. Mrs. Smith began to think (though she didn't say anything about it) that her husband was get ting pious rather too fast, or that the minister preached better sermons in the evenings than in daytime. Mrs. Smith was an obserring wo man, and had noticed that James and Kate would come home slower than th'i rest of the congregation, and some other little things she did not think best to say anything about. I did not say that Mrs. Smith was a jealous wo man, but she certainly had some very strange freaks. One Sunday evening, just before meeting was out, she tho't she would while a way a few minutes, just to kill time, by sitting under a grape vine by the gate. It was a warm night the new moon, too small to stay up lute, had disappeared entirely. Presently the sound of footsteps was heard; the steady mea sured tread of old men with thick boots, and young men with their best new calf-skins; ar.d the stamping of still smaller ones, which made such a racket that she would have liked to have run, but she didn't. It was soon still, however, and no one had disturbed the gate ! She could not have been mistaken in this, for she was close by it, and it never opened without a long grating or growl ing noise, as though it hated to be disturbed. Hark ! the careful step of a man approaches, olid the patting ot a little gaiter boot falls soft ly on the night air. It Hears, though slowly, 'and the qnick hearing ears ot Mrs. Smith caught something like the sound of muffled whispeis. They came nearer, and finally ntoppd. Mrs. Smith held her breath, while Hr. Smith turned his back toward her, leaning partially against the fence, and Kate, as near as she could see, leaning partially on him. O, that her ears I ad been dear, that her little flut tering heart were not susceptible of such agi tation. Was she in her right mind ? or had some wild fancy taken possession of her tho'ts? She was not crazy, and her ears could not well misunderstand at reaching distance. Smith spoke first, after a moment's pause: i . "There is but one thing left for us to do!" "And that 7" softly whispered his compan ion, clinging closely to him all the while. "Fly! fly with me dearest, away from this Unhappy spot, where I can pour out my love at yonr feet, and forever bask in the sunshine of ' your charms. The world will be naught to me ' unless I can clasp you to my heart, and not feel tho pleasure, to be momentary and fleet ing." "I am yours forever," sighed Kate, leaning her head upon his shoulder, ''and whatever bo .yonr wishes, I will only be too happy iu obey - ingthem." r-. "To-morrow night, then," answered Jamos, "you will meet me at the foot of the lane, at ' 10 o'clock, where I will have a carriage in rea diness, and ere the day dawns upon us we will :Jm out of the reach of harm or danger from Nancy, and I shall not care for any one else." "I will be there at the hour," said Kate ; "and now we must go in or Nancy will bo un easy." - But before theyMisturbed tho ugly gate, Smith drew Kate to his heart in one fond lov idg embrace, and smack went a kiss upon her upturned lips. As Smith turned around he thought he sawsomething flash. The old gate swung on its rusty hinges, and the lovers took the path leading to the back door. Mrs. Smith heard his last charge to Kate, to be punctual at the hour, ai.d hastily ran to the front door, and by the time they had gained they back door she was comfortably rocking in her arm chair as unconcerned as , though nothing had happened, r That night Smith dreamed lovely dreams, how he would fly with the idol ot his affec tions and evade tho search of those whose re vengeful dispositions would tempt them to fol low; but Mrs. Smith dreamed how he wouldn't, and how much he would repent of eTer hav ing ventured upon so hazardous an experi ment ; and bow liable were human bopes to - blast, and the fondest dreams to vanish in thin ' ; air. "But how to frustrate his plans, was the Question. She didn't tleert when aha dream- -; ed, but she decided upon a plan of action, and t then oroppca nerseu into the arms of Morphe as. She arose early, prepared a eood break last, and exprentd htrttlt quite uneasy about Smith's health, as his appetite seemed to be very poor, and had been getting so for some time past. Smith tried to be particularly good that day, and had not Nancy been in his secret, she would have taken his attentions for genuine love. Smith informed his wife at dinner that he had some urgent business on hand, and that he should not probably be at home to supper. Mrs. Smith was sorry, but couldn't help it. Night came, and so did 10 o'clock, which time found Smith at the foot of the lane. A female form closely enveloped sprang into his carriage, and Smith, embracing her fondly, drove off as rapidly as his last horse would carry them. On, on, they drove, clinging to each other with all the tenderness of afl'ection, he snatching a kiss every now and then from the nectar lips which spoke only in sighing whispeis. Smith declared it the happiest mo ment in his life; and she only answered his loving protestations with a warmer embrace. Smith longed for the light once more, that he might look into her lovc-b-aming eyes and read the tender thonght she could not fpeak. Light did come at last, and when the faintest streak of crimson tinged the eastern hills with a mellow light, Smith sought once more to feast his eyes upon those sparklin? orbs which captivated him nt the meetings. He took hold of her dimple chin and turned her face loving ly up to his, when O, horrors!! Fancy, his own little wife, was looking hhn straight in the face ! Smith jumped a foot off" the seat, dropped the lines, which Nancy caught; he tried to say something, but his tongue clove to the roof of his mouth. Nancy roguishly smiled and said : 'Look into my loving eyes, Jim ;" but Jim wouldn't do it, although she declared it to be "the happiest moment in her life." "James," said she, "do you see that house yonder ? That is mine, and if you have no ob jections, we will spend the first night there." Nancy had slyly turned the horse on a dif ferent road in the right direction to reach home again about daylight. I never could learn from Mrs. Smith what Jim said when he did speak, but she says he is the best man she ever saw. But Nancy did toll one wrong story. She came home from a call just before it was time for Kate to start, crying with tears in her eyes that her husband had got thrown from his buggy and nearly killed, and that she must go and take care of him. That was the reason Kate didn't go that time, and no attempt has been made since. A IH'STER'S ADVENTUICES. A correspondent of the National Inlclligen crr, w'riting from the Allegheny Mountains iu Georgia, describes an old hunter whom he found in a log cabin, in the centre of a small valley completely hemmed on all sid.'s by wild and abrupt mountains, and one of the most romantic nooks imaginable. Ho has liv-d there for thirty years, is about sixty years old, and wears a long white berd professed to have killed in his life-time about four thousand deer, and amused the correspondent of the In telligencer with long stories of his adventures with the wild beasts of the forests, some of which the writer has condensed as follows : On one occasion he came up to a large grey wolf, into whose head ho discharged a hall. The animal did not drop, but made its way in to an adjoining cavern and disappeared. Van dever waited awhile at the opening, and as he could not see or hear his game, he concluded that it had ceased to breathe, .whereupon he fell upon his hands and knees, and entered the cave. On reaching the bottom he found the wolf alive, when a "clinch fight" ej.sued ; and the hunter's knife completely severed the heart of the animal. On dragging out the dead wolf into the sunlight, it was found that his lower jaw had been broken, which was probably the reason why he bad not succeeded in destroying the hunter. At one time when he was ont of ammuni tion, his dogs fell upon a large leor, and it so happened that the latter got one of the former into his power, and was about to squeeze It to death. This was a sight the hunter could not endure, so he unsheathed his large hunting knife and assaulted the black monster. The bear tore ofl" nearly every rag of his clothing, and in his first plunge with his knife he com pletely cut off two of his fingers instead of in juring the bear. He was now in a perfect frenzy of pain and rage, ana in maKing anotn er effort succeeded to his satisfaction, and gained the victory. The bear weighed three hundred and fifty pounds. On another occasiou he had Urea at a large buck near the brow of a precipice some thirty feet high, which hangs over odc of the pools in the Tallulah river. On seeing the uuck drop, he took it for granted that he was about to die. He approached the animal lor tne purpose ot cutting his throat, when he raised to his leet and made a tremendous rush at tho hunter with a view of throwing him ofl the ledge. But what was more remarkable, the animal succeeded in his effort, though not un til Vandever had obtained a fair hold of the buck's antlers, when the twain perlormed a Kommcrset in the pool below. The Uuck made its escape, and Vandever was not seriously in jured in any par icular. About a month sub sequent to that time nc Kineu a duck, which had a bullet wound in tnc lower pari oi us neck, whereupon he concluded that he had fi nally triumphed over the animal which had given him the unprecedented ducking. But the most remarkable escape which old Vandever experienced, happened in this wise. He was encamped upon one of the lofty moun tains in Union county. It was near the twi light hour, and he had heard tho howl of a wolf. With a view of ascertaining the direc tion whence it came, he climbed upon an im mense boulder-rock, (weighing, perhaps, fifty tons,) which stood on the brow of a steep hill side. .While standing upon this boulder, he suddenly felt a swimming sensation, and to his astonishment he found the rock was about to make a fearful plunge into the ravine half a mile below him. As fortune would have it, the limb of an oak tree drooped over the rock, and as it started from its tottlish foundation, he seized the limb, and thereby saved his life. The dreadful crashing of the boulder as it de scended the mountain-side came to the hun ter's ear, while he was suspended in the air, and by the time it reached the bottom he found himself on the very spot which had been vacated by the boulder. Vandever said that this was tho only time in his life that he had really been frightened ; and he also added, that for a dav after his escape he did not care a finger's snap for tbe finest game in th wil derness. - CONGRESSIONAL REMINISCENCE, The Albany Evening Journal, in an interest ing sketch of scenes and incidents that occur red in the old Representatives' Hall, duriug its thirty years' occupancy by Congress, thus describes one of the warmest and most memor able occasions ever witnessed in that old Hall : "On the 18th of January, 1837, tho House adopted the usual rule to lay Anti-Slavery pe titions on the table ; this being denominated the "Hawes Gag," to distinguish it from the "Patten Gag," and the "Atberton Gag." On Monday ,the yth of February, 1837, Mr. Adams having occupied an hour or more in exhaust ing his pile of Anti-Slavery memorials, paused, and looking significantly at Mr. Speaker Polk, said, "I hold in my hand a paper purporting to be a petition from certain slaves. If I should present it to the House, would it go on the table under the order of the 18th of January ?" The Speaker seemed bewildered, and. had just time to stammer out something about the gravity of the question, when the entire Pro-Slavery side of the Chamber ex ploded with the most intense wrath. "Let him be expelled !" screamed a score of voice. "Let him be expelled !" shouted Dixon II. Lewis, . nose huge body, weighing five hun dred avoirdupois, came waddling and wheez ing towards the clerk's desk. The whole corps of oligarchs were on their feet, screaming, swearing, gesticulating like demons. Polk plied his gavel and called to order in vain, while the spectators in the overhanging gal leries, caught the spirit of the scene, and were going wild with excitement. Quick as thought, resolutions were prepared for the expulsion of Mr. Adams, based on the assumption that he had presented a petition from slaves for the abolition of slavery. Ere they were fairly be fore the House, they were offered in a modi fied form by Mr. Waddy Thompson, now de manding the severest censure rather than ex pulsion. There upon tho debate began, and raged violently for three days, Thompson, Drorngoole, Wise and Underwood leading ofl for the slaveocracy, while Lincoln, Cushing, Phillips.Grangcr and others, defended Adams. During the height of the tempest, the rotunda, the galleries, and the passages of the Capitol being filled with an excited throng, the col leagues and friends of Mr. Adams felt great anxiety not only for his fate in the House, but for his personal safety. Meantime, the reso lutions were going through various modifica tions, all tending to soften their terms and mitigate their conclusions. All this time, the old Roman sat unmoved in his place, the calm est man in the Chamber, with the incendiary petition safely locked up in his desk. At length it lcgan to leak out that the paper was not exactly such a document as the slavehold ers in their hot basto had imagined it to be. Whereupon, Drunigoole of Virginia, still fur ther modiGed thej-esolutions by betting forth that the mt mber from Massachusetts, had "giv en color to the idea that slaves had a right to petition," etc., a phrase on whichAdams roast ed him alive. Finally, the Pro-Slavery side of the House began to suspect that they were pursuing the negro in the wrong direction ; that if there was a colored individual in the case at all, he was more likely to be found in the paling than iu the petition, and so they stopped to take breath. Then Mr. Adams rose to address the House. With great delibera tion, his voice pitched on a shrill key that pen etrated to tho corner of the galleries, and with a frail bit of paper lustliug in his aged hand, he called the Speakers attention to the ques tion he had put to him three days ago, which still remained unanswered, viz : "Whether a paper purporting to be a petition from slaves, would, if ke were to present it, go on the table under the order of the 18th of January V Looking around with a mingled expression of sarcastic cunning and lofty scorn, which Lord Chatham would have envied, he cried in a voice of thunder, but in a sharp hissing tone such as lightning might be supposed to em ploy, if it spoke at all, "Jnd am I to be expell ed from this loquacious, babbling House, for simply asking a question ?" For the first time, the thought flashed on friend and foe, that Mr. Adams had neither presented the paper nor proposed to present it. Everybody felt queer, while some grave men looked like lank, sheep suddenly denuded of their fleeces. It had now got wind that the paper was a forgery, the work of some stupid slaveholder in Wash ington, and purporting to bo signed by Scipio, Sambo and other bogus negroes, asking the House to expel Mr. Adams from their body. And now "the old man eloquent" took his turn in the debate. How he demolished one opponent after another, scourging, flapping, scalping, impaling to his heart's content how rank upon rank of chivalry went down in heaps before his trenchant blade how he spitted poor Drorngoole, and roasted him before a slow fire of sarcasm, when he told him that "giving color to an idea" was not a Northern but a Southern practice.one of the peculiar domestic institutions of Virginia with which he had no desire to interfere how the House screamed with laughter as Drorngoole essayed a grim smile in acknowledgment of this delicate al itisio'i to the bleaching chemistry employed by the South to eradicate the dark tints in their variegated population how he wound up his triumphant philipic by warning his young ad versaries "never again to run on an errand till tbey knew whither they were going" and how the House firmly refused to lay the reso lution on the table, but brought their authors to a direct vote, and finally trampled them down by a decided majority. Are not all these things written in the chronicles of the old Hall of the House of Representatives 7 In Januarv, 1812, another attempt was made to expel or disgrace Mr. Adams for his prac tical defence of the right of petition. Among tho numerous memorials forwarded to him was one from Haverhill, Massachusetts, asking Congress to take initiatory steps for the dis solution of the Union. lie presented the pe tition on the 24th of January, at the same time rcmarkins that he was opposed to grant inz its praver. As in the previous out-break of lS37.the nro-slaverv side of the Chamber, which had been threatening a dissolution of the Union every day lor the last dozen years, now threw itself in a foaming rage at the bare Kmrrrpstion of takin? it at its word, iom .uar shall, tho eloquent, but eccentric, member from Kentucky, gravely proposed to impeach Mi. Adams for treason : HenrV A. Wise, even yet famous for his absurd heresies, demanded his expulsion from the House ; while milder members only-called for severe censure. Mr. Adams demanded a trial. Of the thrilling in cidents of that controversy, which extended , through twelve bitter days, there is no time to speaks On the fifth or sixth day (we are', writing wholly from memory,) Mr. Adams en tered upon the defence. We have a distinct recollection of the mighty themes shadowed forth in his outline, and which he proposed to discuss at length ; and of the important docu ments for which he called under an order of the House his themes and his documents em bracing the whole circle of slavery. Having laid out work enough, as he said, in response to a question from a Southern member, to oc cupy two or three months, he began by an ex amination of the positions of his assailants, seriatim. His reply to' Marshall was magnifi cent. In the course of it, while responding to Marshall's proposition to impeach him for treason, he turned suddenly upon him Mar shall plumed himself upon his birth and supe rior intellect and said : The framers of the Constitution have not left it for the puny mind of the member from Kentucky to define what treason is. They have declared it solely to consist in levying war against the United States, and giving aid and comfort to their en emies. Let him study the document !" In his reply to Wise, he was terribly severe. For once he made the haughty, brassy Vir ginian blanch and quail. Wise took an active part in this attempt to degrade the old man. It .will be remembered that, on the occasion of the Cillcy duel, the House appeared to be de termined to expel all the members who had participated in that murder. Wise was one of the number. At a critical stage of the con troversy, Mr. Adams made a speech against the constitutional right of the House to expel a member without a formal trial, and subse quently made a successful motion to lay the subject on the table. Thus Wise was saved. On the present occasion, in the course of his reply to Wise's bitter attack, he fixed his eye upon him, and pointing his skinny finger at him, said : "At a period not far remote, when the member now sitting in that chair, entered this Hall, pale and haggard, his bands all drip ping with the red blood of a fellow-member, and this House in its indignation was about to expel him from its presence, who interposed the shield of tho Constitution in defence of his privileges, and saved him from disgrace 1 And is this the return he renders me for that service 1" When the old man was uttering these terri ble words, Wise, who was sitting erect at their commencement, taking notes, began to settle down lower, and lower, and lower, all eyes fixed upon him, till at their conclusion, his abashed counteuance was completely hid den beneath his desk. No convicted culprit, standing in the dock, and writhing under the sentence of a judge, ever exhibited a more pitiable spectacle than did the cowed Virgin ian. We must forbear further details. Suffice it to say, that at the end of the twelfth day, the slaveholders, beaten at all points, and driven from the field, whilo Mr. Adams was only on the threshold of the discussion, were glad to lay their own resolutions on the table, and give up the contest. . A NEW FIELD. For several years past theTerritories of Kan sas and Nebraska have filled a large place in the public eye ; but there is another region which bids fair, ere long, to divert to itself the public gaze. Mr. John K. Bartlett, late United States Boundary Commissioner, has written a letter recently to Lieut. Mowry, the delegate n Congress from Arizona, which shows that this new and hitherto unknown Territory is destined to become one of the most important and flourishing portions of our vast domain. It has, on the South, a frontier of about six hundred miles, and is occupied by a mixed race of Mexicans and Spaniards. According to Mr. Bartlett's account, the agricultural re sources of the territory are rich aud abundant, being probably unsurpassed by any portion of our country, J. he mineral weaitn ot the coun try is also said to be extensive and varied. The Sankita mountains are said to abound in silver. West of the mountains are both cop per and silver. Other mines in the Territory, as yet unopened, are thought to contain gold, silver and copper, cannabar ana lead. Some of the grain regions are quite remarkable, and the territory as a whole is represented as pre senting extraordinary advantages and induce- . . i . menis to ine naray emigrant. Our readers are,doubtlcss, aware ofthe steps which have been taken towards the formation of a territorial government for Arizona. Dur ing the last session of Congress the subject of the organization of the Territory was first agi tated, and a bill introduced by the late Sena tor Rusk, which passdd the Senate, creating a judicial district and land office ; but it did not pass the House for want or time, ine people of the Territory have now sent a petition to Congress which asks more than the bill provi ded for. They desire to be seperated entirely from the Territory of New Mexico, from which, they allege, their interests are entirely dis tinct, and to be taken under the more direct protection of our Government, as a seperate organization. It will thus be seen that Arizona will, ere long, be opening its gates for immmigration from the States ; fiords of population will doubtless pour into so rich aud so promising a region, and soon she may be knocking at the door of the Union for entrance, as a State. May we not indulge the hope that such scenes as we have witnessed in Kansas may not be repeated there instead of coming into the Union in the midst of shocks and commo tions, and the smoke and fire and blood of civil war, she may be welcomed to the fraternal cir cle quietly and peacefully, causing no section al disturbances no partisan divisions, or per sonal animosities. God knows we have seen and heard enough of these things at every step which unfoitunate Kansas has taken to wards our Union door. Pat all Over. A poor emaciated Irishman, having called in a physician as a forlorn hope, the latter spread a huge mustard plaster, and clapped it on the poor fellow's breast. Pat, with a tearful eye, looking down upon it, said, "Docthcr, docther, dear, it strikes me that it is a dale of mustard for so Utile male." "Billy Jenks," said a bullying urchin to an other lad, "next time I catch you alone, I'll flog you like anything." "Well," replied Bill, "I ain't often much alone ; I commonly have my legs and my fists with me." "You are a Yankee," said a fellow, taunt ingly to his neighbor. "Well, sir, lam no more responsible for having been born a Yan kee, than you are for having been born an aes." HOW TO TELL. Here is a bit of advice to young ladies, set ting forth how they may know whether a gal lant is really courting them, or only paying them polite attentions. The confounding the one with the other has been the source of very much trouble, both before and since the era of Mr. Pickwick and Mrs. Burdcll : A young man admires a pretty girl, and must manifest it. Hc can't help doing so for the life of him. The young lady has a tender heart, reaching out like vine tendrils for some thing to cling to. She sees the admiration, is flattered ; begins soon to love ; expects some tender avowal ; and perhaps gets so far as to decide that she will choose a white satin under that gauze, &c, at the very moment that the gallant she half loves is popping the question to another damsel ten miles ofl ! Now the difficulty lies in not precisely un derstanding the difference between polite at tentions and the tender manifestations of love. Admiring a beautiful girl, and wishing to make a wife of her, are not always the same thing ; and therefore it is necessary that the damsel should be on the alert to discover to which class the attentions paid her by the young gentlemen belong. First then if a young man greets you in a loud, free and hearty tone ; if he knows prcr cisely where to put his hands ; if he stares you straight in the eye, with his mouth wide open ; if he turns his back upon you to speak to another ; if he tells you who made bis coat ; if he squeezes your hand ; if he cats heartily in your presence ; if he fails to lalk very kind ly to your mother; it in short he sneezes when your are singing, criticises your curls, or fails to be foolish fifteen times every hour, then don't fall in love with him for the world ! He only admires you let him say what he will to the contrary. On the other hand, if he be merry with everybody else, but quiet with you ; if he be anxious to see if your tea is sufficiently swee tened, and your dear person well wrapped up when you go out into the cold ; if he talks very low and never looks you steadily in the eye ; if his cheeks are red and his nose only blushes, it is enough. If he romps with your sister, sighs like a pair of bellows, looks sol emn when you are addressed by another gen tleman, and in fact is the most still, awkward, stupid, yet anxious of all your male friends, ycu may go ahead and make the poor fellow happy 1 Young ladies! keep your hearts in a case of good leather, or some other tough sub stance, until the right one is tound beyond a doubt, after which you can go on and love, and court, and be married and happy, without too least bitot trouble. The Dead Sea. The old story, that no crea ture can live in or near the Dead Sea, is ex ploded. The last traveller in that region, a l rench sauanl, writes as follows: "From the summit of the mountain we have just descried this strange sea, which all writers describe as presenting the most dismal -aspect, appeared to us like a splendid lake, glittering in the sunshine, with its blue waves gently breaking on the sands of the softest beach. Through the transparent water appeared a white tint, which enlivened tho shore. We guessed at once that this was owing to the salt crystaliz ed under the water, and, when near, we find that our conjecture is right. Are we now to be convinced that no living thing can'exist on the shores of the Dead Sea, as has been so of ten repeated ? We ascertain the contrary fact the very moment we touch the shore. A flock of wild ducks rises before us and settles on the water out of gun-shot, where they begin sport ing and diving with perfect unconcern. As we advance beautiful insects show themselves on the gravelly beach ; rooks are flying and screaming among the rent cliff's of the steep hills which border the lake. W hCre, then, arc all those poisonous vapors which carry death to all who venture to approach them ? In the writings of the poets, who have em phatically described what they never have seen. We are not yet five minutes treading the shores of the Dead Sea, and already all that has been said of it appears as mere crea tions of the fancy. Let us then proceed fear lessly forward, for, if anything is to be dread ed here, certainly it is not the pestilential in fluence of the finest aud most imposing lake in the world." Amusing. A few miles below ' Poughkeep sie, New York, there now lives, and has lived for several years past, a worthy clergyman, a man, however, very short in stature. Upon a certain Sunday, about eight years ago, this clergyman was invited by tho pastor of a church in that village, to fill his pulpit for the day. The invitation was accepted, and Sun day morning saw Mr. in tho pvlpit. Now it happened that the pulpit was a very high one, and accordingly nearly hid the poor lit tle clergyman from view. However, the con gregation, out of respect, managed to keep their countenances, and with over pious faces, seemed religiously anxious for the text. They were not obliged to wait long, for a nose and two little eyes suddenly appeared over the top of the pulpit, and a squeakiug(tremuIous voice proclaimed in nasal tones the text : "Be of good cheer, it is I ; be not afraid." A gener al roar of laughter followed the announcement the clergyman became confused, and turned all sorts ot colors. Many in the general up roar left the church, and it was a long time be fore the minister was enabled to proceed with his sermon, so abruptly broken off. Afternoon came, and the little man, standing on a foot stool, had a fair view of his audience. The text was announced in due form. "A little while and ye shall sec mc, and again a little while and ye shall not see me." In the course of bis sermon he repeated his text with great earnestness, and stepping back lost his eleva ted footing and disappeared from all his hear ers. The effect may be more readily imagin ed than described. A plan has been submitted to the Russian Government to form a telegraphic communi cation between that country and the United States. It is proposed to bring a telegraphic line through Siberia, then establish a subma rine communication between the Cape East and that ofthe Prince of Galles, and finally to join that line to those of the United States, a cross Kussian and British America. ;. It is said that contracts have been entered into for supplies of ice this season, at three times the price paid for the article last year. "How very hot you are," as the roast beef said to the seree-raaisn. DOMESTIC ECONOMV. Select-ISO Seed Cork. One of our agricul tural readers says, he never has any trouble a bout his corn germinating. When he is about to shell his crop, he looks out carefully for his seed. Selecting the largest and best ears, he breaks them in two, and examines the cob. If it is dark colored, or exhibits the least sign of decay, it is at once rejected. If on the ether hand, the cob is bright and sound, the corn has all its germinating qualities, and it is saved for seed. By this process the farmer is sure to have good seed. The experiment is simple snd easily tried, and as there can bo no doubt of its success, a vast deal of time, labor and vex ation will be saved to the farmer after the corn is planted. Del. Co. Rep. Food for Fowls. Fowls are, of all birds, the most easy to feed. Every alimentary sub stance agrees with them, even when it is bur ied in manure ; nothing ia lost to them ; they are seen the whole day long, incessantly busied in scratching aud picking up a living. In well-fed fowls, the difference will be seen, not only in the size and the flesh of the fowls, but in the weight and goodness of the eggs, two of which go farther, in domestic uses, than three from hens poorly fed, or half starved. It is customary to throw to the fowls in apoul- , try yard, once or twice a day, a quantity of grain, generally corn, and sometimes less than that which tbey would consume, if they bad an abundance. Fowls, however, are more easily satisfied than might be supposed from the greedy voracity which they generally exhibit when they are being fed from the band. It is well known that, as a general rule, large ani mals consume more than small ones. There is as much difference in the quantity of food consumed by individual fowls as there is in animals. It has been found, by careful exper iments, that the sorts ot lood most easily di gested by fowls, are those of which they eat the greater quantity ; they evidently become soonest tired of and are least partial to rye. It has also been found that there is considera ble economy in feeding wheat, corn, and bar ley, well boiled, as the grain is thus increased in bulk at least one-fourth, and the same bulk seems to satisfy them ; but there is no savins; by boiling oats, buckwheat or rye. Application or Knowledge. A very val uable pocket knife was once dropped into a twenty feet well half lull of water. "How shall we get it out 1 Shall we have to draw all the water from the well 7" The writer proposed to use a strong horse-shoe magnet, near by, suspended to a cord. "But we can't see where to lower the magnet, so as to touch the knife V "Throw the sun's rays down on the bottom of the well by a looking-glass," was the second answer. It was done, the knife rendered visible from the top of the well, the magnet brought into contact, and tho knife brought up all being accomplished in a minute ot time. The two parts of a pump bucket screwed to gether, were to be separated in repairing it, so as to introduce a new leather packing. But it was old, rusty and firm, and what the force of three stout men, with levers affixed to it, could not do, brains did. The outer part, or socket, (into which the other was screwed,) was heated, and the inner kept cold the heat expanded it made it large, and a force of less than ten pounds separated the two portions. Ground stoppers sometimes are fast in bot tles, and hard to move the heat of the fingers, in working at them, renders them still more so but if the neck of the bottle is warmed, (by a cloth in hot water, by hot ashes, &c.,) the stopper will loosen immediately. Nuts on large screws are sometimes in a sim ilar fix, and may be removed in the same way. A nut required to keep its place firmly, if first heated may be fastened on more securely, and with less injury to thread, than by the most forcible screwing. Rich. The "Spiritual Harbinger," a paper printed in Rochester, N. Y., and advocating the Spiritual Rapping Mania, in one of its ar ticles, used the following language : "In the twelfth hour the glory of God, the life of God, the Lord in God, the Holy Proce dure, shall crown the Trinne Creator with the perfect disclosive illumination. Then shall the creation in its effulgence above the divine seraphinc arise into the dome of the disclo sure in one comprehensive revolving galaxy of supreme created beatitudes." After copying the above paragraph, the "Ca yuga Chief responds thus : "Then shall blockheads in the jackassical dome of disclosive procedure, above the all fired great leather-fungus, Peter Nipninnygo, the Gooseberry Grinder, rise into the dome disclosive, nntil co-equal and co-extrusive and conglomerated lummaxes, iu comprehensive mux, shall assimilate into nothing and revolve like a bob-tailed pussy cat after the space where the tail was ! Can the Harbinger' un derstand our Spiritual Manifestations?" Sad Mistake. The Augusta Constitutional ist says that "Maj. Beale, the chivalrous Ver roonter. has just returned from his European tour, but his lellow-townsmcn are astonished and horrified at his altered appearance. Whea in Paris he challenged a French Colonel, and the weapons being swords, at the first stroke, the Major's nose was severed close to his face. Hastily picking up and replacing the organ, he tied his handkerchief over it. After leav- y ing on the bandage for eleven days he rcraov- ' ed it, when to his consternation he found be had placed it wrong side up and it was nw healed. Although it looks ugly, he fintfs it very convenient for taking snutf. ' Lorenzo Dow, the celebrated - itinerant preacher, once came across a man who was deeply lamenting that his axe had been stolen. Dow told the man it he would come to meet ing with him he would find his axe. At the meeting, Dow had on the pulpit, in plain sight, a big stone. Suddenly, in the middle of the sermon, be stopped, took up the stone, and said: "An axe was .stolen iu this neighbor hood last night, and if the man who took. It don't dodge, I win hit him' on the forehead -with this stone V at the same time making a violent effort to throw it. A person present was seen to dodge his head, and proved to be the gnilty pexty. '. '". GoodiieiPi.ask. There is now on ei"l . tion at the Aferchants' Exchange fn New 1 .. . a red wood plank from the MeB&ocfr-t t : ' mills, California. It measures It f 1tI:tv feet 6 inches wide, and two incheU , . - "You'll break my heart." nt"- - tee bate,..-!;, -s u L -I i: t i I.
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