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CLEARFIELD, PA , WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER .13, 1858.
BY S. B. K0.
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- NUMBER ONE.
'Ti very odd. indeed it is.
ThU busy world to scan.
And wiluess that most every man
- Wo see goes cn the plan
Of showing up his neighbor's faults,
" ?o all can read who run
- Forgetting, ni ind yon. Ml the while
The faults of Number One. '
I don't profess to be a saint.
Yet think tho great command
Of -love thy neighbor as thyself."'
Tho lioblest ever planned. .
It breathes a spirit so divine.
That.-could it once becomo
Hut well observed, how very few .
Would care for Number One.
We"rc all alike : no chanee go by
ilf reaching out for 'wore,'
iiot satisfied if Plenty casts
, Her burden at your door.
.We push and scramble, jostle Out
Our rery mother's son
Put whi.i's the odds? our gate yon know,
' Of course, is Number One.
JTi Grmlv set, and rooted deep ;
But wouldn't it be strange
If we should think 'twould be as well
To try and make a change !
lint then, you see, the very fact
That we had first begun,
Would be enough to choke us off
from being Number One.
'Man's inhumanity to man.
Makes countless millions mourn ;"
While hearts still striving hard with Fate,
Pai3 through the conflict, torn
Ev anguith, sorrow, pain and woe.
"And ask but death to come.
To save them from the grasping clutch
Of greedy dumber One.
The r.oblo motive of the soul.
Sowed broadest there, in trust,
If sr-rinkled with sweet Charity,
Will blossom in the dust."
- Then garnered by the hand of Time,
When Life's frail thread ia spun
They'll fill the granery of rest,
Inscribed A, .Number One.
THICKS OF A .MEDICAL KTUDENT
lir THOMAS F. FITZS1MM0SS.
. It was in the yearI839 that my father took
the liberty of binding ino to an apothecary,
wko was then transacting business in one of tho
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ninit crowat;a. IIIOIIUU tuililiuij nun mt uiuat
fasliionable thoroughfares in the metropolis
I had attained the age of twelve when I enter
ed the store, and visious of liquorice feasts
and lots ol l)-dee-col-log now danced through
my brain. Although 1 was jiot allowed to
r.huose the profession I would' like to follow,
still I was perfectly satisfied, and went to woi ii
l&e a hero. Tha first week Iwashed the win
Uows, broke the bottles and spoiled medicines;
hut the seaond week, Dr. Bolus, chief-cook,
owner, and. bottle washer ol the establishment,
' came to the sage " conclusion that I was "old
and ugly enough," to commence what he
termed the rudiments of the profession at
:.once. Accordingly a mortar was put into my
hand, into which Bolus had placed some
black buttons," as I then called them, and he
showed me Low to reduce the "black buttons"
to powder.
"Now, my boy," said Eolus.Vho was across
thin, long bacfc religious, consumptive speci
men of a human abortion, "now my boy, you
must remember that theso are the beans of
nvrvomica, and that they possess numerous
and excellent medicinal qualities. But as the
present chief object is for yon to remember
the Latin terms, so do not furgot that these
cylindrical substances, convex on one side and
concave on the other, are the beans of nux vom
ica." "Oh, yes,"' said I, brightening tip, and im
' agining myself an accomplished apothecary in
a moment, "oh, yes, I'll remember ; those are
Abe beans of nuts, nuts vomit yer, that's it."
"Nuts what I" asked Bolus, sharply.
' "Nuts vomit ycr," answered I, with au inno
ccnt stare.
"Be cared.l, child, in your pronunciation,"
said he, "or I may bo under the painiul ne
cessity of boxing your ears," and thus syiri,
lie left me to powder the "tints vomit ycr,"
winch I endeavored to do until late in the
evening without success,torthc obstinate beans
seemed to be made of India rubber.
' It would only bo tiresome to the reader for
flic to recount the numerous awkward mistakes
I connnitta. Juring the first two years of my
Apprenticeship, and iiiotoovlt, they would be
devoid of interest; therefore, wo tvill pass
ihfm over, and asain commence our tale."
During mr first two years I had rapidly pro
gressed in all the branches of my profession,
but more especially iu chemistry ; and the
blundering apprentice, who, two years before,
knew not salt from catnip, could no- explain
prettv cleverly the medicinal properties of any
medicine, from cream of tartar to the "potassy
fcrrocysnnretnm."
k The eccentric Bolus still owned the store
and he scorned to become more and more fret
ful and feverish everv day. lie preached and
I practiced; that is to say, he gave the advice
and 1 prepared the medicine; but, not being
satisfied with practising, I determined to preach
also, and accordingly, if Mr. Bolus should hap
pen to be called out professionally or other
wise, and a patient should happen to drop in,
I would don a gravo visage, and do myself the
honor ot rcpieseuting my superior, Bolus
"Prescribe hem haw hard case," and con
tribute half the niouey to my porte monnaie.
jliinkin? mv advice was worth as much as tho
medicine. I was right, for the medicine-was
liquorice water, and my advice nonsense.
Of course, if these proceedings should be seen
,or heard of bv Mr. Bolus, I would pay the for
' teit of a sound drubbing. However, 1 usually
.managed to have "my patients" call when I
was certain Mr. Bolus would not be in the
store, although now and then I managed to get
into scrapes, from which I as obliged to tax
xnv ingenuity to the ntmost to extricate myself.
' "it was one dismal afternoon m January, that
Uolus left the store for tho purpose of making
seme calls in tbo urper part of the city, and l
was confident it would be some time ere tic
returned. Accordingly, I washed niy lace and
hands and combed mv hair a process which
seldom troubled me and taking Bolus -asy
chair, I threw my feet on the counter, and lean
ing back, I heartily wished a patient would
make his or her appearance. Fortune seemed
to lavor my wishes, for in a'few minutes a stal
wart Irishman entered, carrying his hand in a
sling- -
"Well, sir," said I, as he approached, "can
I do anything for you to-day 1"
An' are yeself the docthur ?"
' "Yes, sir,' answered I, determined to make
a spec, "what is the matter, sir T" i
" mWcII.. sur3 1 have a bloody sore finger here,
and 1 kern t see it von would le aflher ad
visin' me to have it lanshed."
"Ah, yes. Let me see, sir. Hem ;
case, sir," bad case. Afraid amputation
voidable ; lancing best thing."
"An" will yersel' lansh id, sur
.tVrtMii.lv! sir : but it will cost half a
bad
una-
dol-
lar."
Haifa dollar is id ? Faith, an it s more n
I have. Cant ye give it a wee cut lor a quar
ter, and long hie to your Honor :
"No, sir," answered J, as ir my dignity usa
been insulted. "Xo, sir ; the charge is usual
ly more ; but, inasmuch as I perceived your
situation in liie, I only asked you hall price."
The Irishman soon came to my terms, and
accordingly 1 went in search of a lancet for
the purpose of performing my first blood let
ting operation. It was in vain, however, that
I sought the lancet it was not to be found,
and 1 was obliged to resort to a dissecting scal
pel, which was not much sharper than my own
rusty jack-knife. However, uothing daunted,
and adopting the maxim "necessity knows no
law," I finally clutched the murderous weapon
and boldly rushed forth to the operation. ,
Although my hand trembled as I wr.s about
making an inci.tsion with the scalpel, I did
very well, ani I congratulated myself upon
the successful issue of my first attempt at sut-
SL'r".
The fifty cents were promptly paid, and my
patient took his departure. A week had near
ly obliterated the ocenrreuco from my mem
ory, when one morning, to my consternation
and dismay, who should enter the store but
my patient, the Irishman, with his hand still
in'a sling. Without being seen, I dodged be
hind the counter, in order to escape tho obser
vation ol "my patient," who walked up to Bo
lus, who was standing with his back to the
stove, with the query :
" Where is the docthur?
"I am the doctor, sir,
answered ' Bolus,
'what is your wish 7"
"Wish is it ?" answered the Irishman, "be
jabers, I wish you and yer lanshin' were at the
devil, bad luck to ye."
"I am afraid, sir, you have mistaken the
person."
"Devil a mistake
twin brother."
it's either you or your
"I have no brother, sir."
"Thin it's yersel' that nearly kilt"
'But, my dear sir, I do not remember hav
ing had the honor of seeing you before."
"Oh ! ye doesn't, eh ?" answered the Irish
man, drawing forth his hand which I had un
consciously poisoned by using the dissecting
scalpel, which at that moment I heartily cur
sed. "And mebbe ycr docsnt remember
cbargin' mc fifty cents fer killin' me, bad cess
to yer yaller face and pinched jaw, ye murd
herin' ould thief! Give me my fifly cints."
"Bat but but, my dear sir," sai l Bolus,
stammering; "you must undoubtedly bo la
boring under a'mistake. . I certainly do not
remember lancing your hand. Jacob ! Jacob!"
"Here, sir," answered I, as I crawled from
my hiding place, trembling lor fear the Irish
man would recognize mc; but thanks to my
dirty face and purposely disarranged hair, he
did not, and I got on scot-free.
"Jacob," said Bolus, addressing himself to
mc, "do you remember of ever seeing this
gentlemen in this store before."
"Xo, sir!" answered I, boldly, for I never
told the truth where a lie would answer, and I
had but few qualms of conscience ; "I never
saw him before !"
"There, sir," answered Bolus, turning to
the Irishman. "You are undoubtedly labor
ing under a mistake."
"Thrue," said the Irishman, beginning to
doubt himself; "mebbe Im mistakin', but if
I am I must be drunk."
"Possibly," answered Bolus, quietly.
'Yis, I "must be drunk," and so the Irish
man took his departure, believing himself to
be intoxicated.
This unlooked Tor occurrence somewhat ruf
fled the usually grave, but peevish Bolus, and
turning to roe be gave me a ringing box on the
ears with : "Go wash your face, you dirty lit
tle scamp." And these were tho thanks I re
ceived for giving my evidence and getting him
out of a scrajic ; and I really believe that at
that moment I would willingly have given all
my ill-gotten gains to have seen the Irishman
return. Although I complied with the ord :r
without grumbling. Still I determined to have
my revenue, and only waited for a favorable
moment to make n practical illustration. I
bad then been studying chemistry some time,
and knfw Wl that the slightest concussion
would ignite chloride ot vassium, stilpher
and saltpetre, when mixed, and cause an
plosion ; and this knowledge I determined to
use in furthering my plan of revenge.
I was nM obliged to wait long, and I secret,
ly chuckled in anticipation of my revenge.
A few days alter 1 was ordered to powder some
brimstone, but not known to Bolus I had pre
viously prepared my infernal compound.
Bolus always made it a rule to examine my
work, and usua'l gave it the finishing touch
himself, and to make 'assurance doubly sure,
I had not half powdered the brimstone when I
submitted it to his inspection ; not, however,
until I bad secretly thrown in a handful of my
explosive compound.
"Doctor." said I, handing him the pestle,
"I eiin't nowder this anv more, will you sec if
i -
it is fine enough ?"
As 1 spoke, Bolns eamo forward, but seeing
the brimstone barely broken, bo returned tho
pestle and a slap on the ear, (which I duly re
gistered in my memory, determined to repay
with interest,") aud told ice if I did not pound
harder hu would nound me.
Here was a nice predicament. If I did as I
was told, I would, in all probability, blow my
finders oft. and so fall into my own snare
However there never was a way to get into a
scrape that there was not a way to get out, (at
least so it appeared to me.) for instead of
noundinsr the ingredients at tho bottom of the
mortar .1 cave tho sides such tremendous
whacks, that I absolutely elicited the admira
tion of Doctor Bolus, who soon arose to make
a second examination. Imagine Ins surprise
to behold the contents still unbroken.
'What on earth is the matter with this," said
he, as he took the pestle from ,my hand to
strike the fatal blow, "I never saw the like."
In another moment his arm descended, and
an explosion such as I never heard before was
the consequence; blowing his shirt and coat
sleeves from bis arm, aud burning him severe.
ly though not seriously. .
"Water! water!" he cried m agony
"Ja-
cob, get me some water."
t o n,nii.ftt tho desired article was in my
hand, and at Ws request poured it plentifully
rtvpr tU! WOUauwu l""iJ; ""-;
what had I done ? In the confusion'of the mo-
ment I had snatched up the wrong bottle and
had bathed his arm with the spirits of harts
horn. This was too much for the nerves of poor
Bolus, and in the agony which followed, faint
ed. Here was another predicament. What
could I do ? I could not run tor a physician,
and leave Bolus insensible, so I again had re
course to the treacherous ammonia ; not, how
ever, until I had saturated his arm with lin
seed oil and lime water.
Under the influence of the restorative, he
soon recovered, and then came the tremendous
whacks I anticipated niy fatal mistake would
produce, although Bolus, who was a worse
chemist than myself, always remained in igno
rance as to the cause of the explosion.
In a month Bolus had recovered and could
again attend to his regular business. I recei
ved the usual amount of whacks per diem, all
of which I managed to return in one way or
another with interest. I was then only fifteen
years of age, but young as I was, my heart
had been hardened and made resentful by the
cruel treatment I experienced at the hands of
Bolus. I had no pity, no remorse, and alt my
thoughts were engrossed by schemes for re
venge. I always had some new tries piaiincu
and ready to be put into execution, and, with
the exception of one or two, such as adultera
ting Bolus's tea with senna, and his coffee with
aloes. I rarely repeated them.
Besides these I invented numerous ways of
teasing him. When bis tongue got started I
would whistle Yankee Doodle, and when he
struck me, I would accidentally break a bottle,
or graduate, or spill some expensive solution
on the floor; by these and many othr ollcnces
the reader can easily lorm a correct opinion of
my character. I can now call to memory one
day that I accidentally let a bottle fall on Bo
lus' foot, spattering his clothes with sulphuric
acid ; be gave me a severe whipping, and as 1
always moderated my revenge according to
the amoui.t of injury received, so I determined
the punishment should be fevere. As the rea
der will perceive, it was not painiul, but was
at least provoking and ridiculous. The next
morning was the time foi its execution.
Luckily I had made up an unusually large
quantity of the tincture of galls, and having
saturated his towel thoroughly, I hung it lip
to dry and then folded it up carefully and laid
it in its usual place. I then powdered some
nitrate of silvcr.and mixing a small quantity of
the sulphate of iron with it, I threw in into his
washbasin and calmly awaited the result.
All the afternoon aud evening I was exceed
ingly careful to perform his bidding with alac
rity and precision ; and Bolus seemed to be
pleased withjmy willingness, for as I was about
retiring for tho night, he gave me a glass of
root beer a beverage in which 1 had but few
opportunities to indulge. However, the thot's
of mv revenge were sweeter than the beer and
his kindness had iio etfect whatever upon me.
I then retired for the night, and, after a re
freshing sleep, I arose and had the fire kin
dled and the store scrupulously neat ere Bolus
made his appearance. Luckily the dye did
not color the skin immediately, and Bolus re
mained for a short time in sweet unconscious
ness or the trick that had been played upon
him.
About eight o'clock I was sent of an errand,
and I was confident that before I returned my
compound would have worked the desired ef
fect. I lingered on my way back to'the store,
almost afraid to enter, but fearful lest my pro
longed stay might create suspicion, I at last
made my appearance.
At first. I did not credit my own senses; I
did indeed intend to blacken Bolus's face, but
I did not intend to make a tattooed cannibal
ol him , but there he stood, tho very picture
of despair, striped and blacker than any Ethi
opian I had ever beheld. First he would view
his hideous physiogomy in the mirror, and
then plunge his hcad in a large tub of water,
which stood behind the counter. It was in
vain that I endeavored to strangle the laugh
which spontaneously arose to my mouth ; my
risable propensities were not to lie subdued,
and I burst out in a loud and prolonged ha !
ha! Icoull not help it, fori never beheld a
more comical p:cturc than Bolus presented, as
be stood behind the counter.
In all probability, Bolus thought he was bad
enough witiiout being lauglied at, ami ue could
brook anything better than making his troub
les the object of mirth or ridicule ; and seiz
ing the heaviest bottle near him, which hap
pened to be the sulphate of quir:ine, worth !?4,
he sent it whizzing at my head, but, (lodging
it quickly, bang it went through an expensive
pnne of glass and was smashed to atams on the
sidewalk. - or course Bolns became more
enraged when he saw the Vrmic;.i hU "folly"
had cost him, but, a crowd having collected at
tiie door, be was obliged to retreat to his
"sanctum sanctorum."'
It was in vain that Bolus scraped and scrub
bed his hands and face with a coarse towel, the
obstinate color still remained ; but one morn
ing a feeling, such as I never felt before
sprang up in my bosom, and I dropped some
iodine ol potassium in his wash basin, and for
a month after, his appearance would lead a
person to believe that he was fast recovering
from a severe attack of the jaundice.
It is useless to repeat the many tricks that
1 played during my apprenticeship, and always
at the expense of poor Bolus ; and I will let it
siiftice to say that they were numerous but as
everything has an end, so has the first chapter
of this tale. Bolus soon died, and at the age
of twenty I entered college.
Cocnterfeit Money.
Forty-two new counterfeits of various bank
notes have been put in circulation since last
month a pretty certain proof that the talent,
labor aed risk of those concerned in this ille
gal trade meet with a substantial leward.
Were counterfeiting unprofitable, men would
not engage in it ; but, when it is found that
banking institutions are careless about the
matter, and tho commercial public generally
rather indifferent on the subject, counterfeit
ers will proceed with their woik at all hazards.
The only way to account lor the lukewarm -ness
generally manifested towards propositions
to stay the flood of . worthless money thrown
into circulation, is to believe that the losers
by counterfeiters are chiefly persons who work
for wages, upon the mass of whom the taxa
tion of counterfeiting, in the aggregate, falls
with great severity, several millions of dollars
annually being made and scattered throughout
tho country. This is a condition of things
that require a speedy and effectual remedy,
and reflection has convinced us that the only
check to the evil is to be given by instantane
ous publicity.
niVSICALIlISTOUYOFTHEEARTII
BT PROFESSOR AOASSIZ. ,
It is something to be able to show by mon
umental evidence, and by direct comparison,
that animals and plants have undergone no
change for a period of about five thousand
years. This result has had the greatest influ
ence upon tho progress of science, especially
with reference to the consequences to be draw
from the occurrence in the series of geologi
cal formations of organized beings as highly
diversified in each epoch as those of tho pres
ent day ; it has laid the foundation for the
conviction, now universal among well-informed
naturalists, that this globe has been in ex
istence for innumerable ages, and that the
length of time elapsed since it first became
inhabited cannot be counted in years. Even
the length of the period to which we belong
is still a problem, notwithstanding the precis
ion with which certain cystems of chronology
would fix the creation of man There arc,
however, many circumstances which show
that the auima'ls now living have been for a
much longer period inhabitants of our globe
than is generally supposed. It has been possi
ble to trace the formation and giowth of our
coral reefs, especially in Florida, with suflicent
precision to ascertain that it must take about
eight trousand years for ono of those coral
wallsto rise from its foundation to the level of
the surface of tho ccean. There are, around
the southernmost extremity of Florida alone,
four such reefs concentric with one another,
which can be shown to have grown up, ono
after the other. This gives for the beginning
of these reefs an age ot over thirty thousand
vears; and yet the corals by which they were
all built up are the same identical species in
all of them. These facts, then, fu-nish as di
rect evidence as we can obtain in any branch
of physical inquiry, that some, at least, of the
sticciesot auimais now cxisu-.ijj, iuvb uccu m
pvisfencn over thirtv thousand years, and
have not undergone the slightest change du
ring the whole of that period. And yet these
four concentric reefs ore only tha most dis
tinct of that region ; others, less extensively
investigated thus far, lie to the northward
indeed, the whole peninsula of Florida con
sists altogether of coral reefs annexed to one
another in the course of time, and containing
only fragments of corals and shells, &c, lden
tical with those now living upon that coast
Now, if a width of five miles is a fair average
for one coral reef crowins under the circum
stances u nder which the concentric reefs ot
Florida are seen now to follow one another,
and this regular succession should extend on
lv as far nTtli as Lake Ogcechobec, for two
decrees of latitude, this would give about two
hundred thousand rears for the period of
time which was necessary for that part of the
peninsula of Florida which lies south of Lake
Oseechobee to rise to its present sontnern ex
tent above the level of the sea, and during
which no chanees have taken place in the
character of the animals of the Gulf of Mexico
To form adequate ideas of the great physi
cal changes the surface of our globe has un
dergone, and the frequency of these modifica
tions of the character of the earth's surface,
and of their coincidence with the changes ob
served among the organized beings, it is ne
cessary to study attentively the works of Elie
de Beaumont. He, for the first time, attempt
ed to determine the relative age of the difler
ent systems of mountains, and showed first,
also, that the physical disturbances occasion
ed by their upheaval, coincided With the suc
cessive disappearances of entire fauna?, and
the reappearances of new ones. In his ear
lier papers he recognized seven, then twelve,
afterward fifteen such great convulsions of
the globe, and now he has traced, more or
less, fully and conclusively, the evidence that
the number of there disturbances has been, at
least sixty, perhaps one hundred. But while
the genesis and genealogy .of our mountain
systems were thus illustrated, paleontologists,
extending their comparisons between the.los
silsof diilerent formations more carefully to
all the successive beds of each great era, have
observed more and more marked differences
between them, and satisfied themselves that
faun:e also have been more frequently renova
ted than was formerly supposed; so that the
general results of geology proper, and of pal.
;eoiitology concur, in the main, to prove, that
while the globe has been, at repeated inter
vals, and indeed frequently, though after im
mensely long periods, altered and altered a
gain, until it has assumed its present condi
tion ; so have also animals and plants, living
upon its surface, been again and again extin
guished, and replaced by others, until those
now liring woro t-nllc.1 into existence with
man at their head. The investigation is not
in every case sufficiently complete to show
everywhere a coincidence between this rono
vation of animals and plants, and the great
physical revolutions which have altered the
general aspect of the globe, but it is already
extensive enough to exhibit a frequent syn
chronism and correlation, and to warrant the
expectation that it will, in the end, lead to a
complete demo nstration of their mutual de
pendence, not as cause and effect, but as steps
in the same progressive development of the
a plan which embraces the physical, as well as
the organic world.
In order not to misapprehend the facts, and
perhaps to fall back upon tho idea that these
changes may be the cause of the differences
observed between the fossils, ot aitterent pe
riods, it must he well understood that, while
organized beings exhibit through all geologi
cal formations a regular order of succession,
the character of which will bo more fully il
lustrated hereafter, this succession has been,
lrom time to time, violently interrupted by
physical disturbances, without any of these
altering, in any way, tho progressive charac
ter of that succession ol organized beings
Truly this shows that the important, the lead-
ins feature of this whole drama in the rtevel
omnent of life, and that the material world
alioids onlr the elements for its realization
The simultaneous disappearance of entire
fauna;, and the following simultaneous appear
ance of other faunae consist of the greatest
variety of types, in all formations, combined
everywhere into natural associations ol am
mals and plants, between which there have
l een definite relation at all times, their origin
can at no time be owing to the limited infill
ence of monotonous physical causes, ever
acting in the same way; . Here, again, the
intervention 'of a Cruator is displayed in tho
most striking manner, in every stage - of the
history of the world:
In the last two months, 1,666 people have
died with yellow ftverat Nw Orleans.
f the Burning Moun- f
tains in enmylvania.
Nearlv twenty 'years ago a coal mine at
Coal Castle, in Scuylkill county, icnnsyna
nia, was set on tire by the carelessness of some
. . l .. .... L-1 r ( it. lint
miners wno were eugagcu wi i's - ;
who paid the penalty of their fault with their
lives. Yet ever since nas inju::cium:"
to burn in the deepest recesses of its cavern
ous heart, and the mountain that contains h
still continues to emit the smoke ana gas oi
an active volcano. It does not belch forth
streams of melted lava, nor will it ever do so,
but the probabilities arc that it will coatihuc
to burn for a hundred years to come uihvm
the adventurous miners of that State excavate
the coal which feeds the fire before that period
arrives; and, intact, the process of excava
tion is now going on, and the miners are at
work hundreds of feet below the base of the
mountain and the' lowest point to which the
fire has yet reached. It has extended on the
vein of coal which is known as the Great
Mammoth, or "Juzolar" vein, ranging from
thirty to ono hundred feet in thickness, over a ;
mile from east to west. 'Ahc water luuuiujj :
from tho mouth or the old mine is as noi as
the waters or the Hot Springs in Bath county,
this State, and fornt as bold a stream as that
flowing from the White Sulphur Springs ot
Greenbriar. The cases wuicti ino water con
tains are carbonic acid gass and nitrogen
and i
tiw. minor I substances tu incii)allv sulphate of '
iron, sulphate or magnesia, or epsom sans,
ammonia, alumina, &c, with sulphuric acid
iind r.ii-hnnic acid
lim lilllliriiii naituvi imw a i
of Pennsylvania arc found to possess virtues
The mineral waters of the Burning -Mountain
not attainable to all toe materia medica of the
healing art. And cilbrts arc now being made
to render the water accessible to the public in
the shape ol baths an wells. Mr. Salathiel
Harries, a gentlemen engaged with Mr. De
Bow in developing tho coal, lead", and otber
minerals of Virginia, and now at Farniville,
in Prince Edward county, was the person who.
th imminent risk of his life, brought out
the bodies of the unfortunate men who first
set the Burning Mountain on fire. It was
a fearful undertaking, for thelestroyitigfumes
of llie azote and carbonic acid gas filled every
hole and corner of the mine. But Mr. Har
ries is a fearless and reliable- miner, aa well as
an intelligent man, who has seen more mining
life adventure and accidents ia the deep dark
bowels of the earth than any man probably
now living. He has been engaged in the
deepest mines in tbe world, and has wandered
for miles beneath the raging billows of the
sea. He was one of the first to open the an
thracite coal mines of Pennsylvania, and has
long been successful in exploring new regions
for coal, iron, &c. To such men will Virginia
owe her future existence as a mining and man
ufacturing State, in connexion with her own
capitalists and enterprising business men.
Richmond V a.) Rnqvirer.
Paul Korphy, the American Chess Hero.
Private letters to the editor of the Chess
Monthly, brings later intelligence from Mr.
Morphy than is to be found in our files. His
match (for 5S-"0 f rancs a side) with Herr Har
witz stands ; Morphy 3 ; Harwitz 2. The Cafe
de la Itegence, the traditional locale of Paris
ian chess, and the scene ot Philidor's, Descha-
pelle'a and Lalourdonni" triumphs, is crow
ded with spectators whenever our countryman
plays. A gentleman now in Paris writes as
lollows : "The greatest ot living French
sculptors, Lequcsne, the pupil and successor
of Pradier, has asked Mr. Morphy to sit to
him for his bust in marble. The. lmst will be
exhibited at the Exposition des Beaux art
This is I think, the greatest honor that has
yet been conferred on Mr. Morphy. But I do
assure you they treat him her like a God
lie dines with "his Koyal Highness the Duke
of Brunswick, on Sunday. The other night,
ai the Theatre Francais, half the audience
stood up and looked at him he perfectly un
conscious until it was pointed out to him. Ev
erybody seeks introductions to him, and the
old tilavers of the time of Labourdonnais treat
him with the greatest reverence." After fin
ishing bis match with Ilarwittz, Mr. Morphy
will proceed directly to Berlin and Breslau,
to meet Anderssen, I-ange .Mayer, wno, wnn
Yon der Lasa, are at present the great expo.
nents of German chess. It is a matter ol much
regret both to Mr. Morphy and ins aamncrs,
that the diplomatic
duties ot Yon der Lasa,
(who is the Prussian minister at llio Janerio)
precludes the possibility of bringing about a
meeting between these distinguished players.
The last Illustrated -Vcir, of London, gives a
portrait and life of Mr. Morphy, together With
the eight games played blindfolded by him at
tho BiruiiugUain uicoting.
A He&i&rkahle Case.
The following narrative is from the columns of
a Philadelphia paper of yesterday. "The wes
tern line, which left Pittsburgh for Philadel
phia, at noon on Wednesdas', conveyed a free
passenger, without the knowledge of the con
ductor of the train, for a distance of about 210
miles, between Pittsburg and Miflln. Upon
arriving at the latter place, the inspectors, who
arc in the habit of examining and testing the
wheels, &c, to guard against accidents, dis
covered an individual weighing about ISO lbs.
stowed away immediately under the car, upon
one of the tracks, covered witn dust ana airt
to the depth of an inch. When taken out by
the employees of the railroad company, he
was unable to stand, and would have no doubt
expired by suffocation, long before reaching
Philadelphia. This hazardous ride was under
taken to save the fare, which is about $5 50.
After giving the traveler a washing and night's
rest, the conductor s&nt him on towards Phil
adelphia." This is one of the most extraor
dinary cases which has ever met our notice.
The train referred to was the fast line, and it
is a wonder that the "individual" managed to
escape with life. lie certainly will not speak
very highly in future of the views on the Pa.
Railroad.
The lion-killer, Jnles Gerard, in a letter de
scriptive of a campaign against a monstrous
lion, states that in the Algerian subdivision
Bono that there aro at present no less than
Six of these ferocious beasts, who haye des
troyed in one year ten thousand head of cat
tle." In his hunting excursions, Gerard, now
makes use of the Devisno bullet, which ex
plodes in the body of the animal.
A woman has been arrested in Albany for
stealling old iron ; she had fourteen pounds
of it secreted in ber bosom, ner offense
weighed heavily upon ber. n
Mifouri Called to Choose.
From an editorial rn tbe Jlftiwiirt" Democrat,
of the 25th inst., we clip this passage: A
choice of destinies i3 now presented to Mis
souri. Either tne industrial system f the -South,
with its incapacity for progress with
tho condensation of its population in two casta
a immutable as those of Brahma a plantation
aristocracy, and hordes ot negroes subdivided
into communistic pla'oonswith the contrac
tion and attenuation of all pursuits, except tho
primitive one of agriculture, the interests of
which become despotic and exclusive; with
its stagnation and repression of intellect, ex
cept in politics and lawthis, or the grandeur
r.f ri-..i. MMMPtr. with ifs sublime movements,
I :. ...i;viiv it oxhnimtli-ss energies.
boundless aspirations, multiplicity or voca
tions and infinite growth in al that man cars
or toils for Missouri has now the privilege
of choosing. Her destiny is not yet fixed ;
she is still debatable land, and the principal
battle-field of the warring systems of free and
slave labor.
As iTfcx for Boys. "Be kind to your sis
ters," is the caption of a stray paragraph that
wc find floating around on the sea of newspa
perdom, like "Japhct in search cf a father."
It contains some good advice which we espe
cially comroeud to the boys. Boys be kind
to vonr sisters !" There is a whole volume of
EOod council in that brief line; Yon may live
to be old, and never find such tender loving
friends as these sisters. Think how many
things they do for you, how patient arc they
with vou, how thi-y love you tn spue oi au
, . - f .
your ill-temper or rudeness, how tnougntiui
they are for your comfort, and be thoughtful
to theirs. Be ever ready to oblige them, to
perform any little oflicc lor them that is with
in your power. Think what you can do for
them, and if thsy express a wish, bo ready to
gratify it if possible. You do not know how
much happiness you will fiud in so doing.
You never yet knew a happy and icspected
man who was not in youth kind to his sister.
There is a song which says : J
'Be kind to ycur sister not many may kno
The depth of true sisterly love; . .
Tha wealth of the ocean liei fathoms below
The surface that sparkler above-
Aihlterated Beyerages. Drugged and
adulterated liquors are producing their natu
ral consequences in the increase and fatality
of diseases resulting from intemperance.
Thirty-five years ago delirium treinans was a
disease almost entirely unknown in this coun
try, although wine and spirituous liquors wero
then to be found on the table and sideboard of
nearly every decent and comfortable house in.
tho land. This terrible malady is not only
more frequent, but it is yearly assuming, as
hospital physicians have shown by statistics, a
far more incurable form. Indeed, it has been
sn!TfT,,s(od that delirium tremans is nothing
more nor less than a specific disease caused
by the habitual introduction at specific poison
into the system, and that thfs poison is noth
ing but a drug, or drugs, Surreptitiously intro
duced into nearly every variety of intoxica
ting liquor -A". I": Mirror.
Texas. From the returns of the censna of
Texas, now nearly completed, it is ascertained,
that its population will not fall short aT lour
hundred and fifty thousand. No State, in any
section of the Union, exhibits a more rapid
growth or greater evidences of singular pros
perity. Iu eight years it has more than doulv
led its number of inhabitants, while its pro
ductive capacity has been developed in a still
higher ratio. The same impulse which sends
a ceaseless tide of emigration into the North
western States and Territories, is giving an
extraordin.-.ry vitality to this vast Southwest
ern region, outlying on the borders of Mexico.
A Liquor Inspector. The Legislature of
Georgia has passed a law authorizing the ap
pointment of a liquor inspector, whose duty
it shall be to examine and thoroughly test tho
poisonous ingredients contained in liquors,
and should they find any strychnine or other
poisonous drug in any liquor, the person sell
ing the same is ordered to take it out of tho
State: and it he sells any drugged liquor,
knowing it to be such, or after its inspection,
he is to pay a tine of 5100 for the first offence,
Sl!00 for ti.e second offence, $400 for the third
j otl'ence, and f 1,000 tor the fonrth.
SticiPE for Lov of Home. Tho Ktsins
Sun Ind., Yisitor, states that Mrs. JIary Mont
gomery, a widow aged about 03, who had
lived on a farm in Switzerland County, Ind.,
for forty years recently, at the solicitation of
her children sold her property, and was about
to remove to Itising Sun. Her attachment to
the locality where she had spent so long a
time, and the excitement of removal, howev
er, so agitated her, that in a fit of frenzy sho
cut her throat, and was found dead in her bed,
a day or two before the time fixed for her de
parture. The difTerencc lietwaen rising every morn
ing at G and 8, in the course of 40 years, am
ounts to 49,000 hours, or 3 years, 121 days
and 1G hours, which wilt afford eight hours a
day lor exactly ten yers, which is the same
as if ten years were added to a man's life. .
What an-important consideration is this.;
Sleep from ten at night till six in the morning-"
is sufiicieut for any man in good health ; in-
deed, such early rising is necessary to pre.
serve good health in either man or weman.
Pension FR.irn. Snspicion has for a long
time been entertained that frauds on the Pen
sion Hepartmeut had been carried on in Wes
tern New York to a great extent. - Within a
few davs, the United States Marshal has made ,
several arrests. Tho principal operator is a
man named Albro. The extent of his opera-'
tions is estimated as high as seventy-five or
one hundred warrants. Two Magistrates and
a lawyer, who are implicated, have been ar- ,
rested.
Balloon Racing. Mons. Godard aeronaut,
has challenged Prof. Stelner, ol Philadelphia, ;
to race with balloons, at Cincinnati the bal
loon going the furthest distance to be declar
ed w inner. Mr. Steiner has accepted tho
challenge. - ---
He who does best, however little, is always
to be distinguished from him who doe nothing-
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mmm
. Every man ought to have a wife. If a man.
is happy married bis rib' is worth all the other
bones in his body.