BY S. B. KoV. CLEAEFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1860. VOL. C JVO. 22. . - : ALWAYS LOOK 03T TEE SU2nrflSIE Always look on V """" i k life cbcker d t u - UUUt I- j A light.-oe heart bids caro dej A 1 time fly pleasantly , Why sit and mourn o cr fancied it USD Ujn "wv " Care is a self-consuming thing The hardest nerves can near, Always look on the sunny side, Aud though you do not una AH things according to your wi. Be not disturbed in mind ; The greatest evils that can con, i ,.. i;.rlitr f:ir to bear. -.lit. 1 1 - i m TVhcn met by fortitude and strtlgth, Instead of doubt ana tear. Always look on the sunny side-l There's health in baruile y And much to soothe our wormrar In toping for the best. The gloomy path is far too d ru for hapv.V teet 10 tell of iain and sohtud Of friends estranged and dM Alwaysflook on the stsnny side And never yield to doubt : The wavs of Providence are w And fVith will bear you out. If you but make this masiti y And in the strength abide. EeUtviug all is for the bos. Look on the siiuny side. THEPBIKCE'SLOOl. fkom tue ctRMA.v 0 n. z5Chjb. It is well known that, upon the cctJi of his .father, Duke William succeeded tthe gov ernment at fifty-two years of age. w prin ces of In time wero possessed of niuch knowledge, we might almost siy, fernin. IViv had travelled so much over L'uit.e not but serjysly to inm d to dp of merely from court to court pn piiei'T tuc-ir iuniro dignities elf, lie needed but little ; all was (lev the pursuit of knowledge, or to the I . . .l...llFl)n II. I". 1 i-I. I. I. . - 1 iiicunHiuii. ..X "'""n'u uis iiepneinp m the wine plain way. Uis wife had dl jn early life, and. for the sake of domestic lice, ,c bound himself by no second marriageAFor tlie wutUfu son (H ftis Protijer, he kot.F. f ovt-inor ana a. tutor, onlv a valet : V. himself, only a va!etc.ook, and secretary, tt ' had little love for his nephew; it might alsoN, L slid, that he hated, hitu. Why, is unknown. Princes seldom cordially love their heirs, be cause they see in them impatient successors, . or the future destroyers of existing institu tions. 4 The oi l duke was! a stern, self-willed man. Every thing in bii house, as well as in the whole statu, went Ly rule, like clockwork. No orio dared to do more than his appointed task, bo one less. The duke himself attended to all aflair. oversaw every thing, interfered in all details, and thus lost tlie oversight of the whole, as is always the case. Want, distress, and oppression increased in all corners of the dukedom j although all the interior magistrates in .dc reports upon reports every month, from which the higher authorities again drew up new retorts, and these, having been reduced to one general statement or table, were handed to the prince, who fancied, when he examined these tabular accounts, that he was surveying the whole external condition of his domains. The good man! lie imagined that lie was makiiij; his government work like a machine. He took credit to himself lor the simplicity of the niechatiiym, ami was not displeased when anyone professed' to understand it, altliough it belonged only to great minds, like his, to manage it. It never occurred to him, that his mechanical government was the most heartless cf all cr ovf-rimi-nt : that his people remained in their ancient ignorant state, whilst their neighbors were making rapid advances in the arts, sciences, and in national prosperity and power, and that there was as little progress in his academv as in his manufactories. "Where's the rub ? It costs me money e r.ongh," nsked 'he old duke, one day, in a full assembly of bis court. The question pas sed from mouth to mouth, but no one ventur ed to give to the patriarchal inquiry an hon est ansver. " At last, rose the Baron Leinan, an enlight d young roan, appointed but a few day be fore to the office of private secretary. The baron judged that this was the best moment yet preseuted to express his gratitude and reverence for the duke, and, accordingly, he replied : ".May it please your highness, only more air, more freedom, is wanted from above, and more activity, instead of paper, from below. Ar ruies are machines; but those who show the best on parade, will be broken to pieces on the field of battle, when they meet other armies, in which one great thought animates every luiiiv luuai." . Hero a superanuated field-marshal shook his gray head, bowed low to the duke, and said, "The state, like an army, must, shall, can be nothing but a dead machine. The spir it of the regent animates one, the mind of the general theufber. Thus, whilst the prince leads his millions or auxiliaries to one point, he is all-poweriul : and the general, too, is in vincible, wben his hundred thousand soldiers only await liis nod. He is. ftie soul, the men body of tho soul." "It is exactly thete, as it appe;S tome," replied the Baron Leinau, modestly, --that the great misikc lies, which must be fatal both to state and army. Men are regarded as mere in.-t and the sDirit is thought less of thu arms and legs. An army, animated by a great idea, even when Jbeaien, sua us art like the Cecueaa serpent ; new heads sup ply the plae of those cut off, and continue to be formidable. A dead machine of an army nau. And so, fo the same fane, spoke all. ,The next day the baron received a gracious order to travel for some years, and after that, to present himself at court.' JOURNEYS AND ACQUAINTANCES. The Baron Leinan struck his forehead mad ly, for he saw that he had done wrong, not in fact, but in form. It is always wrong to be imprudent. "You old fool, will you never be prudent? Will you always stand in your light V Such were his exclamations whilst ho was packing up, and the tears started to his eyes. But it is necessary to observe here, that the aforesaid old fool was just four-and-twenty years of age. There are older fools, but this does not excuse the young ones. He set out on his journey to learn to make pens, or tho like. He had no parents, but he had property enough, and so was free in the lml senae of the word. He went to Switzerland. The majesty of the mountains impressed him ; but the insti tutions of that country, patched together with a variety of privilege and what not, repulsed him. lie went to Paris. France had, as yet, no X apoleon. Thev were rpfi ninnr ftw.ra nni.n the finances ; licentiousness, poverty and dis tress appeared everywhere. IT nvnt tr t . don. The free snirit nt th ed him, and he remained there for some time. une day, as he was walkincr throno-h tbn streets.he heard a brisk alterrat ion trninrr nn in a bookstore. He had scarcely turned bis p,. in a;. ...i . - ... uiicvuuii, uen ne recognized a fior man Kemieman, wnom. he had rftm t DUOllC. and n in li irl mia TirMCfcliin nv 1iiM T I , w.. j i iu x ub stranger was now en gijeu ma dispute with the bookseller. 11 Man cuucu uounr. sin. tcnU.. it- . ivi.uhe, llc was nanasome younc man. modest, nnrf . . , , ' " MLS, Ml Vll.J J The count, as soon as ha oncriif in-,t thl ! ln will'i.nJ 1 ... ... iu.uuc-,, luniui ana me latter im ujcuiaieiy approacned. "l am in a most nernlexinfr dilomm.i " K!iid . - .r-i . " iuc tuuui. in uerman. t)Ointinf tii tho hnnr seller. "I have bought. sortmentof mans, ensravinors. designs, am . - G C J rare ooon.3, tor no very large sum. It was two rnontha ;o. T fnv him m T ....... rAi'ivpiT t;a!ih.at tr- time. I ought to have ,"!Pce a fortnight arro. Jus t.iA.i- h.. r .o . ':r,r.s me A" ""a iciuiii iu vreriiiany uume uiiy, ana mat l shill nnd funds at Amster aasto defray my expenses, but he sends me not farthing. I owe this man three hundred loiu ors, and he refuses to take back ray putase. iie even threatens me with the law i up scarcely twenty louisd'ors to pay my pa..re to Amsterdam. Uan you help me V baron bethouglit himself for a moment you are in ir.nrts, said tho count, -'-just ouyiese inings lor me, lor I would not wil una iije them. When I get home, I will senv.u the money." Tf baron shook his head thoughtfully "We is your home, Sir Count 1" 1 count answered somewhat confusedly andned the quarter whence the baron had bee fcpe'lea in order to learn to make pens 1 baron looked sharply at him, shook his heawd said : "After I left the university, I liveqll half a year in that very place, but l ne heard ot the noble family of Streiten be ergl Tlr bretended count blushed deenlv. "But will not believe, on my word of honor, that send you the money the moment arrivmy piace oi destination, lie it where it ma? asked he, with a quivering voice " should I not believe you " replied the birjL sj will lend you the money, but upon ilcondjwn." "Upy condition, exclaimed the count, "I w;llyou my promise in writing ! You have rcatto be somewhat distrustful, as I -" "JNot iie least, btr Count, lour open countenif gives me the fullest confidence Iruly, li tit to be able to jmlgo whether such a c.-nance can deceive." "No, r baron, you are too generous You havnse to be suspicious, as you have already Ik an untruth from me. But I ivi'l prove to jthat I really am from the place 1 say, ann yon are so far right, there is no I will tell you count a j'ou rea no conse The c turned w colli! have ma, vili, on the contrary thun- . st "Hold vonr tonzue. impertinence s .dered tho old duke, "and do not presume to teach a iield-uiarshal, you, who scarcely know bow to make a pen.". The Baron Leinau blushed fiery red, both from shame and ansser, as the duke motioned him to the door. Bowing with flashing eyes, lie retired. ' : ' 'The duke 'threw after him a lock of con . tempt and indignation. The -court noticed " the look, and everyone Involuntarily imitated oSt. ... The field-marshal went on to speak of the freedom of certain young people, who did not know how to -restrain themselves, and who presumed to give advice (here he looked rev erently at the duke) to tho wisest and most beloved of all princes. ; The chancelor, who r wanted to eee a nephew of his in Leinau's - place, he also spoke, alluding to his nephew ,by the way, as be remarked that all young people were notj so forward. And the court marshall spoke, (too, whose homely daughter tad failed tg captivate the young Baron Lei- family ofteiteuberg there. who I ani "No, fount," interrupted tho baron ; "withoutther preliminary, will you accede to the cion upon which I will lend you the monJ "Certaj Here is my hand upon it." "Goodjvish you to pay the money to my agc-nt w lou reach home. I will give j-ou his addrtjBut in the next place I desire that neitf w, nor to-morrow, nor ever, you tell me y agent what your name is, or where yettially reside." So saying, the baron driut his pocket-book and gave the note. "ii is a nine more man ed," added he, "but that is of 3e to you or to me." braced him cordially, and then eieyes ro me ooonselier. bust the latteauiiined the note, the count pres sed the Li's land, and said, "We must be come becqliinted before I quit England. Uoraa ni V hotel. Diuo with me. A glassp jnpakie will perhaps warm your ssjyoutill permit one, whom you istflped nt of a disagreeable dilem- sao. mi you go with me t" pt t buUre you on foot, count J" " mi "J. Perrit me to call a coach." T aroi left thhop and did not return. The intwaited fV him two hours in vain. Thtt morning apte came from the baron, in nh.he excuse himself for not having retiM to. (he hotelier's, on the plea of hav forgotten, atU moment, that he was in l jidst of amniments for a journey to lius .He gave thaddress of his agent, and e the count aWf farewell, and left Lor the same morrlg. T onnt was hurt at the baron had al low im no opportuv of thanking him, aiidvementing theirViendship." "But," he J joyfully, "BardLeinau's friendship is n Ho is a magnVruous man. a true The Briton isU eapable of such ings. In short, e Briton is proud, rman noble. TheVa the difference. glisbman despisesbis inferiors, the honors what is voW in every one." ount laid Leinau'stters among his s, "i or the man is i friord he re- He then went outVid searched for : J . -1 ...I ... . . a icsiucn.cc uuui ue und it. But in Leinau had vanished TO BE C0XTINCEI Gef noil' I m the! Th tret li.J UJ II 'tfi1 e joker calls Holloway d Brandreth lars of the medical profdion, APOSTACT 07 THE DEMOCRACY. csince the Democratic party succumbed to uie stave power, so . completely has it turned its back upon its original principles, that it now relics solely upon identity of name to convince its dupes that it is the same organi zation which Jefferson founded.and which was so long the rival of the old Federal party. In deed, the Democracy of to-day is liable to the same class of charges hurled by Jefferson and his followersagainst the Federalists, and which led to the rise of the forme? upon the ruins of tho latter. Assuming tlW validity of those charges, the chief difference between the Federalism of 1800, and tho Democracy of 18G0, is, that the former was mainly composed of intelligent and virtuous citizens, marshaled under honest and patriotic statesmen, while the latter, though embracing many consfcien cious and well-meaning men, is largely made np of ignorance and depravity, led chiefly by plunderers and peculators, demagogues and disuniouists. Let us contrast, in a few obvious particulars, the Democratic party of our time, with that organized by Jefferson sixty years ago. The Democratic party owed its origin in large measure to a conflict between the indi vidual States and the Ted J - . v Will V II t CalOUS Of tht nttpmnt Ail f-npnonVkmonto the latter upon the independence of the for Vner, its earlier years were distinguished for Us defense of the rights of the States against tho usurpations of the Central Power. Aiming to curb the undue influence of the latter, it kept a vigilant eye upon the National Execu tive and Judiciary, thwarting, when it could, every effort of tho President and the Supreme uuiih iu enlarge lueir powers. How widely has tho party diverged from these old landmarks ! Democracy now-a-days glories in its advocacy of the unbounded au thority of the Executive and the Judiciary H ith no more right in the President to seize upon the Government of a Territory than to set up a Monarchy, and with no more power in the Supreme Court to establish Slavery in the .National domain than to create a Iving, we have seen, and we do now sec, the Democratic party defend, justify, and applaud the Execu tive and the Judiciary iu their attempts to ear ly into tun euect these monstrous usurpations usurpations more criminal than those that ... V '."VI"1 nl- Tiiiia Y Vi ms head. Once the vigilant antagonist of the Central Power, Democracy has sunk to be its supple slave. Originally, the party exalted the rigjits of man over the privileges of property; holdin that the former were inherent and inalienable; the latter incidental and conventional. As it rose to power in the several States,it extended the suffrage, repudiated the property basis of representation, abolished imprisonment for debt,relaxed the severity of collection laws, and in various ways showed that it regarded persons as more valuable than property, man more sa cred than money. But, the Democracy of to day, scouting these antique notions, ignores the inalienability of personal rights, and is mainly intent on proclaiming and protecting tne inviolability of mere property. The foun der and sometime apostle of tho party declar ed that au men are created equal, and that the chiet end ot government is to protect all men in the enjoyment of liberty and the pursuit of happiness, liut his prolesscd disciples now sneer at such glittering generalities,and teach that "all property is created equal ;" that the grand object of our Governmt at least Is to protect chattel slavery in the States and plant it in the .territories, and to hunt, capture, and return to its owners such of this property as may choose to uso its own legs in exercising the inalienable right to pursue happiness. In a word, Thomas Jeflerson we quote his lan guage declared that "the American Consti tution is based upon liberty and tho Mights of Man, these being its chief corner-stones.' But George McDulile, claiming to be hispolit icai disciple, said we quote his words "Do mestic Slavery, instead of being a political evil, is the corner-stone of our Republican edifice." Here, in these citations from solemn State papers, we have the essence of the re spective creeds of the fathers of the Democ- tea wealth. Indeed, these were alwavs fa vonte battle-cries of the Democracy. Butnow the party which twenty-five years ago renewed its lease of power by this cry, is pledged to extend over the continent, and perpetuate mrougn an time, a monopoly, an oligarchy ot wealth, a combination of capitalists, whoso power, skill, resources, and tenacity of pur pose, infinitely exceed those wielded bv "Bid- die and the Bank." But w e will not multiply salient points in the radical differences between the legitimate De mocracy ot the past and the illegitimate bant nog oi our time, the latter is an apostate irom us ancient laith, a hypocrite in its pres ent pretenses, the serf of a selfish sectional- ism,the pimp of an odious oligarchy, the mere pack-mule of the Slavery propagandists. No uigner proot need be given of its apostacy ana hypocrisy than that an avowal of host itv to Lxecutive and Judicial usurpation, and a belief in the eoualitv of man in tho innl bility of human rights, in the superiority of persons to property, and ot labor to capital, auu inai Liberty and not Slavery is the corner stone of the Republic ; than that the advoca cy of radical doctrines,and reformatory meas ures, and ot enlightened progress against heartless conservatism ; than that a preference of fundamental principles to sounding names, and living doctrines to antiquated tiaditons, necessarily and beyond all controversy places a man outside of the Democratic parti'. The downward road bv which the Democratic party reached its present position is easily tra ced. Long anterior to the Administration of Jackson.it was subject to the domination of leaders dwelling chiefly South of the Potomac But it was not then Pro-Slavery. After Jack son retired from office, Calhoun rose to power, resolved to rule or ruin. His controlling idea was the inviolability, the universality, thesu premacy of Slavery. Though he had no more real democracy iu his nature than Lucifer, yet by force of intellect and .will he ruled the Southern wing of the partv, which, by virtue ot a precedent long acquiesced in, gave law to the entire organization. r rom the hour when his domination was established, Democratic ideas found no congenial home in the Demo cratic party. He gradually converted it into a mere Slavery-propagating faction. Van Biir rpn. sip and iili.int.siicp.nmLuw'1'" 'cn"allon houviii . i !.,--was used by it, and was spurned when it had done with him. Wright and Benton, each in his turn, refused when commanded to bow the knee, and each was slain in the house of his friends. Other chiefs have fallen fighting for their ancient faith, or have sought refuge in more agreeable associa tions. And this exodus of sound principles and sincere men has been going on until the party has become a mere cabal of .Northern place hunters and Southern negro drivers. racy, as reflected in the philosophic doctrine of a Virginian of the revolutionary reciine. and of their degenerate descendants, as em bodied in the medieval barbarism of a modern Carolinian. In its better days, the party affected a deep interest in labor ; claimed to bo the special friend, guardian, and champion of the laboring classes ; talked much of the dignity of the toiling masses ; took their side iu frequent contests with wealth at;d capital ; and, by these means, lured to its ranks a preponderating share of the working men of the country. But, since it adopted, as the prime article of its creed, the justice and righteousness of compulsory servitude, and proclaimed its chief mission to be the planting ot Slavery in all the national Territories, the Northern wing of the party, from sheer shame, has ceased to prate about the dignity of the toiling masses, while the Southern aud ruling wing sneers at farmers and mechanics as "the mud sills of so ciety," and declares that the only stable and philosophic basis of the social system is that where the capitalist owns the laborer ! Now, it is not strange that such doctrines should be broached in this country, for they have been promulgated by despots in all ages and many climes. But the negro propagan dists of America have alone been found equal to the effrontery of claiming that those who avowed them were fit to be called democrats ; while it is passing strange that anybody but Laplanders and lunatics should be sufficiently ignorant and uredulous to admit the validity of this claim." In the times of Jefferson, and even at the advent of Jackson, Democracy gloried in be- ng radical in its doctrines, reformatory in its measures, progressive in its tendencies, the offspring of ideas, the pupil of principles, apt to learn, bold to act, and eager to follow where truth and duty led the way. But the Democ racy of Calhoun and Buchanan, living only upon the traditions ot the past, and with no passport to popular favor except its name.con- ounds radicalism with revolution resists alt iberal reforms as dangerous innovations, and urges its claim to public confidence on the ground that it is conservative from conviction, and will oppose all progress in the direction of Freedom aud Equal Rights. Perhaps the strongest hold, which the party acquired upon the common mind ot the country, since the war of 1812-15, was in its famous contest with the United States Bank. It overthrew that powerful institution under the rallying shout of "Anti-Monopoly," and ty exciting popular prejedice againat AseoqU- EEM0VING A WAST. . Mr. Slack I' iddle had been married three weeks, when he made tlie tremendous discov ery that his beautiful wife had a small wart on her upper lip. Although this wart had occu pied that position for upwards of ten years, ana was only about the head of a pin in size nothing would satisfy him but its removal. Alter making numerous inquiries, one of his friends let him into the secret that caustic, dipped into water and rubbed on, would burn it off and do the job up brown. Making a graud rush for the drug-store, he laid out the sum of six cents in that valuable article. Arriving home, he took his wife and a basin of wafer into a private room, locked the door, threw off his coat, rolled up his shirt-sleeves, put his arm affectionately around her neck, and caught hold of her Roman nose with his fingers. Being rather green in this line, fie dipped his hand holding the caustic into the basin of water, and commenced the rub, not very particular where or how it went on, so long as tho spot got well coated. After rubbing a few seconds, he kindly asked : "Does it burn, Polly dear I" "No, lovey, net a bit; only keep it out of my mouth," she eentlv whispered. Thiuking the stuff' very weak, he chansed arms, so that his other hand could take a pinch at the nose game, and went to work again in fiuc style. After putting on a dose that near y covered the whole of her face, he conclu ded to let up for half an hour, and if bv that time it did not burn, to put on some more. He had been in the street about fifteen m:n- etes, trying to catch his breath and preparing for another spread, when be became greatly surprised at seeing his hand very curiously stained. Wondering where all the ink came from, he started home to sec if he had upset a bottle. Going into the room, what a sight met his view ! There lay his beautiful little wife stretched out on a sofa, with three women scrubbing her lace and, holy treasures ! such a face; her red cherry lips had changed to black, her elegant Roman nose had a blotch on each side, and her rosy cheeks were spattered w ith the same kind of "ink." As soon as her light blue eyes fell on Slack, she made a des perate spring'at his head upsetting two wo- men and a pail and before he had time to ex plain or get out of the way, her delicate almond-shaped nails marked his face nearly as bad as her own, only in a different style. It took some time to set things all right, and Mr. Slack Fiddle swears he will never take the ad vice of a learned friend, or undertake to do a job up brown again. A Good One. There is in Congress a set of .finical gentlemen who are continually finding fault at the manner in which they are reported in the newspapers. Every now and then a member, who has been correctly reported, finding he has made himself ridiculous before the people, "rises for a personal explanation," and sends to the Clerk's desk an extract to be read lrom a newspaper, and then "ventillates" himself, tc. the immenso edification of. the House. Cae morning, recently, a great many "personal explanations", were being made, when Tbad. Stevens rose and said he desired to make a "personal explanation," and being recoguized, he sent a paper to the Clerk's desk, requesting that a certain paragraph be read from it. The Clerk, took up tho paper, glanced at it, and, with a smile, laid it down. Being asked why he did not read it, he in formed the House that he could not, as it was a German paper. "Oh, very well then,' said Mr. Stevens, "I will postpone my explana tion' till another time," Upon which the House and galleries burst into a loud laugh,' and no more "personal explanations" were made during that day. ; ; i ', v A distinguished, writer say that "nothing can he great which Is not right." Will h tell ns Trbat bo thinks of a grtat wrong T THE KEIGN OF FASHION. We find in ajate New York paper a short report of a lecture on Fashion, recently deliv ered in that city, by a lady of some celebrity. We copy portions of it, as illustrative of the tyranny cf custom over our actions : The reign of fashion may be said to have begun with the human race. Fashion has al ways played a more conspicuous part in the affairs of mankind than the law, and was a most tremendous tyrant. Its omnipotent in fluence is everywhere. It controls the shape of our cradles and the shape of our.collins ; it presides at the table, it regulates the toilet, in fact it operates in every daily action. Lord Byron said thai the French were accursed of fashion, but fashion with them extended only to dress, while with the English it is the alpha and omega of everything. England and the United Slates are the two nations whero fash ion holds the greatest sway, even in morality and religion. Even the very Gospel must be tricked out in gold and the finest velvet, or no reliance could be placed in its efficacy to take people to heaven, r aslnon has driven out of the language many coarse and vulgar terms. Libertine and libertinism are now gal lant and gallantry. A man intoxicated is now slightly elevated- A tipsy man is only obliv ious. Fashion has done everything but make men ai d women happy. Ben Johnson was not much beyond the mark when he spoke of the pains of his Satanic Majesty's regions being pastime in comparison with those of people of fashion. Peter the Great thought that the changes in fashion were made by the tailors, and wondered that the nobility would submit to their w hims. The Fashion bad once exist ed in Prance of wearinjr point lace on the shoes. No one could present himself in com pany w i;ho it three and a half yards of lace on either si oe. This fashion was contemporary with that of the lonjr-peaked shoes m Eng land. People laugh at savages who wear in gots of gold in their noses; but why is a gold ring in the nose more ridiculous than gold rings in women's ears? Large quilted shoes were used by the Earl of Anjou to hide de formed feet, and they soon became the fashion in France. The Empress Isabella, during a sicse, had sworn no - to chauge her clott iic tho siege was ended. The Kiege lasted over three years, at the end of which time the linen of the Empress had become rather vet- low. In this way had arisen the fashion of Isabella linen. Isabella linen is worn even now, but is not at all fashionable. The long, beautiful hair of Louis NIV. had caused the introduction of perukes. Pashion has been caned the creature and goddess of woman but was there anything about women more ri ilii.i.liii.ii t I, .. . . . I - . ... m. uivuiuua iiuu u.auy inings uuoui men j. lie fashion of tight pantaloons had made its ap pearance about the same time as the fashion of small bonnets. One man had dressed iu ticht Clonics to exhibit his fine form, and every body imitated his example, whether thev were oi good figure or not. Man had a fashion in politics which he changed about three times as often as a woman did her bonnet. The Vicar of Bray had held his place during the stormy days of Henry the Eighth and three of his suc cessors, by turning Catholic or Protestant, ac cording to the religion of the monarch. When he was reproved with this, he replied that he had lived - up to his principles, which were to remain always Vicar of Bray. The ancient Roman ladies used to paint and chalk in ex treme profusion. Some were afraid to leave the house in the rain lest the chalic on their faces should be removed. In the matter of expense, the ladies of former days went ahead of the ladies of the present day. In Eliza beth's day ladies dyed their hair all colors. Queen Elizabeth's hair were red. which, con sequently, became the fashionable color. La dies wore heels on their shoes so high as to set them on their toes. During those days hoops were worn, but tho hoops of the present day were insignificant compared with them. In 1740 ladies wore hoops sixteen or seventeen feet at the bottom, and nearly as broad at tho top. Two of such ladies would have filled an omnibus to suffocation. She considered that i the lives of hundreds of women were saved by the introduction of hoops, which were far preferable to the old plan of six or seven stiff petticoats. I here were hundreds of people in their graves at present over whom a coroner's jury could und a verdict of "died of petti coats." It was the only fashion which seemed to have originated in common sense. Nothing was more shocking to them than the sale of beautiful girls in the bazaars of Turkey ; yet these girls were as proud of being bought as the purchaser was of buying them. People exclaim against this as shocking ; but is not the system of disposing of daughters in matri mony to rich husbands on account of their wealth, as bad ? The half nude system of la dies here, would be shocking to eastern ladies. U ithin the mansions of the fashionable are of ten seen the greatest works of art and genius hanging on the walls simply because they cost avast sum of money and it is fashionable to have them. Fashion is the torment of nature. . THE REVOLVES QUESTION. . Prextick Relates his Washington Exr-rience.- When we were in Washington two or three weeks ago, we beard from all quarters that the great mass of the members of both' sections were heaTily lreighted .with all sorts of portable facilities for letting blood. . We believe we were rather a pet of both sections, and we hope we betray no sacred confidence in saying, that whenever Northern or Southern members got a little maudlin and threw. their aims affectionately around us fof course to steady themselves) we almost invariably felt the butts of pistols and the hafts of bowie knives press against our shrinking frame. One morning we put our overcoat in the. rack at Brown's Ilotel and went in to breakfast. When we returned, our coat ; was gone, but another somewhat resembling it lay near. We took up the latter, but put it back with horror on finding a big, frightful-looking revolver in one of the pockets. With some misgivings, 6iich as a man might be supposed to leel in opening w hat he suspected to be an infernal machine, we took up tho next, and lo, there was a big pistol in ono pocket, and something in th other that we didn't stop to examine. Finding the rack to be a well-furnished arsenal, we withdrew, and the day being cold, we remain ed an hour an! a half in the hotel, carefully scrutinizing the integuments of every gentle man that seemed to have a particularly gen tleel overcoat. At length we returned to tho aisenal, and tho coat first examined by us. still remained there. Concluding that even a fire eater couldn't have been breakfasting so long unless upon burning coals and aquafortis tea we were about calling for a servant to take tho firearms out of the pocket, (we havo a mortal antipathy to touching such things ourself) in tending to wear the coat, for it was a very handsome one until we should encounter our own handsomer one. At that moment, a very mild-mannered Western member of Congress stepped up wi:h an embarrassed look, and seeing at once that We looked like a gentle man who had lost something, remarked that he really believed be had got somebody else's overcoat. The matter was all made right at once, but we couldn't help thinking how awk ward and insecure the member must have felt, when, in the very act, perhaps, of walking about among other Congressional billigerents, he had thrust his hand into wTiat he supposed to be his. pocket, and found nothing there more dangerous to life than a dozen prelty notes from a dozen pretty poetesses. Rnmtp i a . 1 r . n f kjiau5ui,3. .i pariy oi gentlemen r meeting at a club-house in Washington a fer evenings since, turned the conversation on tho age of one of those present, when he pleaded guilty to about 70 years. They went into a calculation as to the number of days, hours,' and minutes he had lived, and amount of whis key and cigars he had consumed ; and the re sult is appended. He had lived 115,550 days, 013,200 hours, or 37,792,000 minutes. Hav ing ascertained that he commenced to drink and smoke at 15 years of age, and that he con sidered he had averaged two glasses ot whis key aud two cigars tier diem ever since, it was developed that he had used those for 20.075 days, in w hich he had consumed 40,150 drinks. (ano me same number ot cigars,) which, al lowing eo "drinks" to the trallon. cave 669 gallons, or about eleven hogsheads, at CO gal-' ions to the hogshead. The cross cost to hire.- of liquors and cigars, had been 4,015, w hich would ' havo purchased about 5.200 acres -f land, at the Government price, of $1.25 per acre ; and rather astonished him by the infor mation of the extent to which he had absorb ed territory. He took things coolly, however, and fumed and smiled as of vore. The fur trade of St. Louis last year exceect-"50 vto beaoV9 ed over half a million of dollars. More tba t-be,Sii!uU.-three-fifths of the sum is the product of buf cejtxirough falo robes, w hich are sold at an avernp r a " - w , .: Managing and Feedixq Working Oxen. Oxen working on a stone-drag, on the foot of a plow, on the sled tongue, cart spire, or tw itching stones or timber, should carry their hearts up, as this enables them to do this work much easier; those that work as leaders, for ward of other oxen, should carry their heads low, and Lave the yoke the right length; let the bows suit the neck; the yono and bows to the leaders should set a little snugger than the nib oxen. Never use the whip but from ne cessity. When about to strike the young steer or ox, ask yourself, "Will he know what I strike him for ?" . Let each ox have a name, and be sure he knows his name. Never speak a word to an ox without meaning ; havo a par ticular woid to start your team by, that all may pull together. Never hurry your team while riding behind them, lest they learn to haul apart. . Oxen should be shod with a broad shoe, to travel on bard roads ; tho shoe on the fore-foot should set back at the heel, nearly, half an inch further than the hoof bears upon it. Oxen are frequently lamed by reason of short shoes. The best teed for oxen at hard work , is to give to each two quarts of meal, wet mixed with good chopped hay, three times a day, and as much hay as he will cat ; this is the highest feed working oxen ought to have, and on this they will work every day. . bout S4 each, at first ccst : 120.000 coon skinsX: C8 cents each; 27,000 mink skins, at S1,G0' N each ; 120,000 ponnds deer skins, 22 cents' per ponnds ; 10500 wolf skins 90 cents : 34.- 500 opossum skins, 13 cents each ; 1,100 otter' skins, 52,85 each; 4,000 fox skins,. 08 ceuts each ; 2,000 wild cat skins, 25 cents each the whole making a total of $550,422 50. The St.: Louis Democrat says in regard to buffalo robes, that it is an interesting factj and new to many, that all these butialo robes are dressed by In-" dian squaws, scittered over the great West. , The number of robes is decreasing annually, not so much by the lessening of the immenso'' buflalo herds, ai by the extinction of the In dian race, or the occupancy of their grounds by the whites. Some years as high as 129,000 robes are brought to St.' Louis usually about 110,000 but this year only 85,000, besides the buflalo calf skins, which are also numerous. A little boy had made a stool, no two of the legs of which were of a length. While trying in vain to make it stand upon the floor, he looked into " Ms ""mother's" lace" and asked: "Doe Cod see everything?" 'Ycs, my child." WU," replied th aon, "I guess bo will laugh when & fei this stool." - . An extraordinary case of a girl concealing-' her sex for many years, has been brought to-' light at Peitiers, France. Augustine, alias Augustus Baudouin, a young person of 17,wasl known in tho town and neighborhood as an active lad,and had been in place in respectablo houses as "odd boy." This individual wasv lately tried for robbery, and while in prison," the authorities conceived some suspicions.and ascertained her to be a female. On being ask ed what reason she had for wearing mcnV clothes, she said she had observed that men got their living easier than women ; but aha i refused to give any information as to her birth -and parentage. She was removed to the fc-' male wards, but her repugnance to appear in woman's attire among her fellow prisoners was so great, that she committed suicide by hang ing herself on an irou bar with a pocket hand-' . kerchief. " "" The Duke of Wellington, giving Orders one., day, during his campaign, for a battalion to", attempt a rather dangerous enterprise the storming of one of the enemies batteries of St. Sebastian complimented . the officer by saying that his was tho first regiment in tho' world. "Yes," replied the officer, leading on his men, "and before yonr lordsbfp'a orders', aro finally executed, it will probably bo tha1 first in the other world." . t- . The prisoners in the jail at Indianapolis", In-"-diana, are a funny set of fellows; They held a mock trial on one Qninn, charged with wifoi mnrder, recently and convicted hIra..-;They; then made a rope from strips of blankets, and; proceeded to hang him, which they very near j i i x i.c 1 : c- . -im uowu uareiy iu uuiu iu save uia uii; , . - Adapt your means to your ends. Don't wast your time in trying to piclj V j? cejs . . pair of tonga. J r ' - ' -r 11
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