M H n ' M H !m! Iti! rtll U lOl fci1 frtf " '
BY S. B. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1860.
VOL. Q.-NO. 26.
SPEAK NO ILL.
JTy, speak nT ill ! a kindly word
Can never leave a sting behind ;
And, oh ! t breathe each tale we've heard
Is far beneath a noble mind.
Full oft a better seed is sown,
By choosing thus the kinder plan;
For if but little good be known,
Still let us speak the best we can.
Give as the heart that fain would hide.
Would fain another's faults efface ;
How can it please o'en tinman pride
To prove humanity but base ?
5o! let as reach a higher mood,
A nobler sentiment of man;
' Be earnest in the search of good,
- And speak of all the best we can.
Then speak no ill. but lenteat be
T -ether's failings as yeur wn;
1 you're the first a fault to see,
lie not the first to make it known.
For life is but a passing day,
No lip may teli how brief its span ;
Then, oh ! the little time we stay.
Let's speak of all the best we can.
THE PRINCE'S LOOS.
THE JEWEL.
The duke had his miniature taken, and a
tomaber-e copies had been ordered to be set
In gold, with pearls and diamonds, as presents
to ambassadors, and such like, according to
the custom ot princes. Baron Leinau, as he
was walking out one autumnal evening, wrap
ped in his cloak, happened to step in at the
Jeweller's to look at ttio miniatures, and. see
how the work went on.
The jeweller, surprised at the appearance of
the president, appeared not a little embarras
sed. The miniature frames were in the next
ioom, but the jeweller seemed reluctant to
permit tbe president to enter that ioom. Un
der seme pretext he went himself into the in
ner room, and brought out vhat the baron
wished to see. Whilst the latter was examin
ing the work, the door of the aforesaid room
opened, and a young lady, with eyes swollen
with weeping, appeared. The baron felt fever
hot at the sight of her, for ho recognized his
former table companion, whom, in spite of all
his great state affairs, he had neither forgotten
or sought to forget.
lie bowed to her in silence. She passed him
In her, way to the street door, with eyes
cast down and with a blush. As the jeweller
opened the door for her, ho said : "You are
not well, my lady." Sho stepped back, sup
ported by the jeweller, and then sunk, deadly
pah upon a seat behind her. The baron, with
a throbbing heart, turned hastily towards her,
and the jeweller's wile brought a glass of wa
ter. The young lady drank of it, and in a few
moment tras so far recovered as to say : "I
am well, now. Pardon the trouble I have giv
en you." She rose, and no entreaties could
prevail on her to wait a moment longer. "At
least you must permit nie to accompany you
home," said the baron, drawing her arm with
in his, notwithstanding her refusal, and atten
ding tier through the street. 11 is inquiries
were answered only in monosyllables, and the
warm expression of his regret at renewing the
acquaintance under such circumstances was
tflet nly with cold politeness. Her arm frem
iti on his, as if he were leading her to exe
cution ; and her voice was faint, as if she was
was about to die. Having, at last, reached her
residence, he bowed with deep feeling, and
he instantly disappeared.
The president lost nearly all command of
himself. He stood rooted to the spot for a
moment, and then determined to go back to
the jeweller's to inquire about tbe unknown,
and was all impatience to learn the cause of
her sorrow. He rushed blindly on, but thought
not of the way he had taken, until he found
himself in the country, full half a mile from
his residence.
Here he first started from his dreaming, and,
instead of t lie jeweller's shop, saw only n huge
oak, rustling over his head. He could not
help laughing himself as he turned towards
the city. "What a fool I am 1" he exclaimed.
Jn a lew moments he was at the jeweller's a
gain, who led him straight into the back-room.
Here he learned the young lady's name. It
was Emma Helmold. But the cause of her
tears was made known to him with considera
ble hesitation on the part of the jeweller. The
young lady, it appeared, without the knowl
edge of her mother, whom anxiety had made
so ill that she was unable to leave her bed,
had come to sell a costly ornament ol hers, an
hereditary necklace of pearls and diamonds, in
order to meet the current expenses of her
father's household. She had told the jewel
ler trow her innocent father had been thrown
into prison, how the whole family had been
left without support, and nothing but extreme
hecessity would have induced her to part wit.ii
tne necklace, which she greatly valued. The
tradesman, had indeed purchased the orna
tnent of her, but had, of his own accord, prom
ised to keep it a year, that sho might, if sho
had opportunity, redeem it at the same price.
, "Send the necklace back to the lady this
very moment ; you shall have the money for
itwithir. an hour But thirvery moment,"
...ed the barou, quitting the place in great
excitement.
It was already dark when tho jewejlcr took
back tho necklace to the astouished young la
dy. Sho would not take it. "You must !"
said the man. in the greatest anxiety. "The
money for it is already in my hands. I am
'commanded to return it." "How ? the mon
key J" asked Emma, with the greatest surprise,
'"the money from whom ?" The soft-heart-'
ed jeweller, whose cardinal virtue was not si
' lence, told all. Emma blushed deeply. The
jeweller laid the necklace on the table and
took his leave.
It was well that he did so, for the sorrowing
girl needed solitude. Half an hour she sat
there, with hands clasped, unconscious of the
'lapse of ' time, dreaming and weepirg. . Her
lite had been a retired one, and until this day
.she had never known the person ot the presi
dent ot the privy-councillor. When she was
in the back-room at the jeweller's, weeping
;over her sad necessity, the man came hastily
in and exclaimed "Conceal your tears, young
;lady. '"Hia excellency, the president is com
ing." .; She was frightened ; for, since the mis
fortunes cf her father, Emma thought of his
excellency only as an object of terror. But
when she entered the shop, and saw the digni
fied roung man, the same with whom she had
once supped at an inn,' the same with whom
'her heart and imagination ' had been so often
occupied with childlike innocence ah ! at
; that age, heart and imagination will occupy
themselves with dreams sometimes! enough,
when she saw him, in her surprise, she lost all
thought, all courage, and was really ill. He
fcsd attended her home, but she scarcely knew
it, and could hardly believe it when she had
reached home. But now her doubts were at
an end, for there was the necklace lying on the
table. She took it from its case, and pressed
it, sobbing, to her heart, and whispered, "I
nave inee again, ana doubly dear."
TUG GCARDIAN ANGEL.
Confiding in the kindness of her powerful
friend, Emma resolved to avail herself of it. in
imploring the favor of the duke in behalf of
ter father. "Father is saved !" said Emma,
with eyes sparkling with joy, as she stood at
the bed-side of her mother: "I will write to
the president Leinau. He is a good gentle
man." But she could keep the secret no long
er. She told her mother all about the neck
lace. The dear girl's heart was too full. And
when she described the baron, from head to
foot, he was no longer a mortal, but ademi-god.
Upon her mother this her communication had
the happiest effect. Hope returned to the
hearts of both. Mrs. Helmold was inspired
with a delightful assurance that Leinau would
be able to help them, !ind, by the next day,
she quitted her bed. Emma wrote letters all
day, to his excellency, the president ; letters,
which were torn up almost as soon as written.
For in the tender prayers of a daughter for the
welfare of her parents, a tone would continu
ally mingle which did not seem exactly to suit
the case. And yet the affair of the necklace
made a word of thankfulness very proper. But
how to 3nd the precise word that would ex
press the fervour of her gratitude, but convey
no other tender meaning whatever ? Mamma
wrote letters, too, at last : but Emma thought
her mother's letters too formal. "How," ex
claimed Emma, "can a stranger's heart soften
at our distress, if our grief docs not express it
self with cordiality ?"
Night came on, and still no letter was ready.
At last it was agreed between mother and
daughter, to do. each her best, and then the
best of both letters should be united, and the
coldness of one might temper the warmth of
the other.
In this labor, scarcely begun, they were in
terrupted by the maid-servant, who announced
to Mrs. Helmold that some one wished to see
her. Permission being given, the stranger
entered, who, after the first exchange of salu
tations, informed them, that he came b' di
rection oi tneauKe, who was unwilling that
the mother and daughter should remain in sus
pense about tho fate of Mr. Helmold.
Mrs. Helmold, her eyes streaming with tears,
greeted the welcome messenger with smiles,
and seemed almost ready to clasp him in her
arms. Emma, overjoyed, and speech less, was
ready to fall at his feet. She stood, all in a
glow of delight, with eyes cast upon the fioor,
only now and then casting a glance upon the
stranger.
"The suit against Mr. Helmold," said the
messenger, "having commenced, cannot be
violently broken off'; but let it end as it may,
his highness will instantly take Mr. Helmold
and his family under his paternal care. I
trust this assurance will quiet you, and dispel
all your fears."
"Ah !" cried Mrs. Helmold, "how gracious
is our lord the prince ! May tho Rewardcr
above bless him! But my unfortunate hus
band, may Ijaot carry this comfort o him to
day ?"
"lie is already inforr.icd of everything, and
full of spiiits. You will have to practice some
Constraint lor a few weeks longer, before you
can have him again. But you can both hasten
lis liberation."
"We! how?" exclaimed both, while they
stretched out their hands beseechingly.
'You have only to observe the strictest se
cresy, as to the real disposition of the duke
towards you, and my present visit."
"How can we be silent I We must utter his
name in our prayers to the great Kewarder of
all good !" exclaimed Emma.
"And your name ?" said Mrs. Helmold.
"Mother, it is our benefactor, to whom we
were at this moment writing !"
The baron accepted the invitation, which
was given him, to prolong his visit, especially
as Mrs. Ilelnicld assured him that they should
be wholly alone during the evening.
"People have avoided us for some time, as
if it were a pest house," said Mrs. Helmold ;
"even those whom we thought our devoted
friends, avoid us in adversity."
"Then make me your friend in adversity,"
said the baron, "and permit nie to be your
protector,, till you recover j our protector from
prison."
Tbe baron had determined to stay no longer
than was absolutely necessary to execute the
duke's commission but the couple of minutes
took up the whole evening. How noble was
the mother, how spiritual the daughter, who
seemed to broathe in an atmosphere of inspi
ration. When Leinau had taken his leave, the moth
er and daughter fell weeping on ono another's
necks. Their guardian angel was the subject
of their conversation, until far into the night,
and all through the day following. One will
not deem it strange that the guardian angel
took the trouble to appear upon many a suc
ceeding evet jng, to inform himself of the
wishes and wants of the bereaved family.
THE SENTENCE.
"You were right, Leinau !" said the duke,
vexedly, throwing aside the report ol Hel
mold's trial : "Princes ate not half so much
inclined to be despots, as their people are to
be slaves. The wretched eye-servauts ! And
so a mere hint, a bare look was enough to put
an end to all their honesty. Law and right
which are their own sole protection,they tram
ple under foot to please me. Life, honor, lib
erty, property, nothing Is safe any longer.
Well, dear Leinau, I see slaves cannot be
friends, and princes have no friends. They
must seek them among their equals. Do you
remain faithful to me with jTour sincerity, and
scatter this enchantment about me, or I am
lost."
The duke and Leinau embraced and renew
ed the oaths of friendship.
"O friend,'fcontinued the dnke,"is it not a
borainable to drive the good Helmold from his
office, to banish him from the land, to confis
cate his property, on account of mere forget
fulness, for a few words, spoken long ago in
confidence, for publishing statements which
were in everybody's hands, and which no law
required to be kept secret ? Even the finding
of the secret correspondence among the pa
pers of your predecessor, who had taken them
without the knowledge of the State Secretary
or the Registrar, has not been enough to vin
dicate the good Helmold. It is made a crime
in him, whether he knew of it or did not know.
A delinquent in either case. But Ferlach's
noble remonstrance- shall be printed at public
expense. Let the case go before the Court of
Appeal. I will await the sentence of that, and
At . . . ...
men we will act."
But the sentence of the Court of Anneal was
in Ilelraold's favor. The duke received it
joyfully. He directed the President of the
Privy Council to be immediately called, and
said, "Leinau. innocence conauers!'?
"Because they found out ia the Court of
Appeal, noble prince, how angry you were at
tho pettifogging and abuse of law in the Su
preme Court. Had you only been able to con
ceal your real thoughts a little longer, who
knows whether Helmold would not have been
found guilty by the Court of Appear also !"
said the baron.
"I will cashier these subservient judges,"
cried the duke, "and form a new court ; at the
head of it shall be the just and independent
Ferlach. I will dismiss the Secretary Yran
delfrora his office, and the honest Helmold
shall takejiis place."
"But to raise the intelligent and upright
man to his true place," continued the duke,
"is simply a duty which I owe to the state.
We ewe him, besides, some other compensa
tion, for we have made him and his domestic
peace, the victims ol an experiment. I have
learned much by this experiment, much ; I
have learned that we princes are much to be
commiserated, that we are so situated, that we
can neither know ourselves, or the people a
bout us, that by a precipitate thoughtless de
cision, by a mere wink of the eye, we may do
more mischief than with the best intentions
and soundest wisdom we are ever able to do
good, and that scarcely one in twenty of our
subjects is great enough to love truth and
right above everything. For all this, I owe
thanks to Helmold. I thank him that, by his
means, I have learned to prize you, Leinau,
more than ever. How shall we repay him ?"
CONSEQCENCES.
It was like a thunderbolt to many, and par- I
ticuiarly to ths supreme Uonrt, and to llerr
Von Wandel, when on the following day, the
sentence of the Court of Appeal and the deci
sion of the duke were made known, and when
it was known, too, how the President of the
Privy Council himself, by the command of the
duke, had acquainted the imprisoned Helmold
of his acquittal, liberation and elevation to of
fice and comfort, and had then taken him home
to his house as in triumph, and how the State
Secretary, Von Helmold, dined a few days af
ter ai ine taoie ot me uuKe, ana was treated
mere with great distinction, and received, as
a present, a small but pleasant estate in the
vicinity of the residence.
The lormer friends of the Helmold family
now crowded again to the house, a little while
before so forsaken. One regretted that he was
absent just at the time of the trial ; a second,
that ho had been sick ; a third, that he had
been overwhelmed with business ; and the
fourth, that he was poor. Now again appear
ed all Emma's admirers and adorers- Cards
came raining in, inviting the Helmold's to
clubs, private concerts, sleighing parties, &c.
Mrs. Helmold, not without some bitterness,
would hav,. SCnt all back. "No, dear wife,"
said '()er husband, "do not be a recluse because
people are weak ; I will love men, as former
ly, but trust them less. To be happy in this
world, one must deceive himself a little, be
lieving people to be better than they are, and
treating them in business affairs as if they
were worse than perhaps they really are. It
is a much greater misery to be all one's life
in fear of an earthquake, than it is to perish in
an earthqnaue. It is better to be deceived a
dozen times than to be continually suspecting
deceit. We will serve all for Iove,but will
not look for love in return.
THE JUDGMENT OF THE WORLD.
At the residence, as well as throughout the
whole country, every ono praised the justice
of Duke Louis, and his eagerness to indemnify
the good Helmold for the injury he had recei
ved. No one, in fact, but baron Leinau, real
ly knew the real state of the case, and all that
the duke did, was done less from generosity
than from a sense of obligation, in order to
atone for a proceeding which really bordered
on cruelty. For without his look, without the
expressions he had designedly let fall, Hel
mold would never have been arraigned as a
criminal. But so goes the world. They praise
tho acts of the great and applaud them to the
skies, but know nothing of their motives.
When spring came, baron Leinau visited the
Helmold family on their new estate. One
evening, amid the songs of the nightingale,
Emma leaned upon his bosom, and confessed
to him a return of the love which he had long
before sworn to her. The happy ones! The
blessings of the parents followed. The duke
took upon himself the outfit of his friend.
When now the president of the Privy Coun
cil rode through the streets with his charming
wife, people shook their heads and said :
"Aye, aye ! well, sho is beautiful, that can
not be denied. Hem hem! We see how it
was ! Our duke loved the baron, the baron lo
ved Miss Helmold, and so the Registrar was to
be cleared at all events, the Supreme Court a
bolished, poor Secretary Wandel dismissed,
and Helmold heaped with offices, titles, estates,
and all appurtenances. One can see through
it all with half an eye. If every one had just
such a son-in-law ! Our duke is an excellent
man, but weak very weak ! He does not see j
what' is under his nose. But we see it all
plainly enough, although at a distance but
the good duke is deceived. It is often so with
great folks."
In the residence, and in the whole country,
every one now blamed the duke's weakness,
short-sightedness, and severity towards those
who, on account of the Helmold affair, had
fallen into disgrace. They now blamed him
with as mnch injustice- as they had applauded
him before. Baron Lernau heard all, and
communicated it to the duke.
"I see," said Duke Louis, smiling, "it is
equally hard for a prince to know those about
him, and for the people to know tho prince.
It is almost impossible. How many misun
derstandings, political blunders, errors and
troubles of princes spring from these sources!"
THE END.
At Womelsdorf, Berks county, Pa., a few
days since, a boy about six years old was bit
ten in tho nose by a small pet dog. The,
wound was only a slight scratch, but the lad
was taken sick the same day from its effects,
vomited considerably, and by next day at noon
was a corpse.
There are 1,555 iron works in the United
States 882 furnaces, 488 forges, and 225 roll
ing mills which produce annually about 850,
000 tons of iron, worth in ordinary years $50,
000,000. Mississippi, California and Oregon
only have no iron work.
CONGRESSIONAL CHARACTERS.
i- , v
senator "Jen" Davis is a nervouslv-bnilt
man, of middle hight, thin, quivering, full of
ci.cuaoieemouons,witri a forehead of immense
AO rk s w 1 . . . Jil -
"r"'j u oreaawi ; spanning and very
deeply -set gray eyes, one of which has been
almost destroyed by the anguish of tic dolo
reux ; a hooked nose, slender, and with nos
irus aimost transparent; a mouth vigorously
oiucneu, anu cnanneiea at us sides; a deli
cate, thin lower face, betraying the pangs of
piij.-icai anmeni m every tracing ; cheeks hol
low and wasted as if by dyspepsia, and no re
sources visible to sustain the man at his pres
ent hight of labor and power except the un
conquerable spirit of rule, and an intellect
which shines out in pervading luster through
every lineament and gesture. A prematurely
gray-haired, prematurely wrinkled man a
chivalrous, high nature, turned to bitterness
by agonies of the body and the disappointment
of cherished hopes; a courteous, cultivated
gentleman, whose wit is a rapier, drawing
blood wherever it touches ; whose fancies are
never so rich as when they place some more
prosperous rival in a ridiculous or humiliating
position. A soldier of undoubted gallantry,
a scholar of high attainments, always frank
and kind to those beneath him always haugh
ty and malicious to those who can presume to
be his peers no wonder that Jefferson Davis
longs for disunion, as the only means of giving
him that ascendency which his ambition hun
gers for, and which his talents could then
command; no wonder that ho should most
bitterly hate Douglas, who is, to say the least,
his peer in intellect, and who possesses in ad
dition those popular qualites that electricity
evoking the personal devotion of multitudes
which Davis must keenly feel that be himself
does not possess.
Senator Toombs of Georjria isdairuerreotVD-
ed as a tall, swarthy, burly, rather corpulent
figure, crowned with a shock of dark brown
hair, jagged as a haystack struck by lightning
pendant as a drift of seaweed flung up to be
sun-dried on some rock by tho last billow of
a tempest. The whole head is massive and
lion-like; the forehead broad and low; the
eyes dark, large, and lustcrless, except when
excited by passion tho lower lids having a
nervous fullness and bagginess(to coin a word),
as if filled with unshed tears; the nose not
large, but standing out in bold relief; the
mouth passionate, powerful, and voluptuous ;
already a development of what will be in old
age a pelican sack of double chin ; the com
plexion sallow and changeable; the throat mas
sive and muscular ; not a bad face to look at,
and a very suggestive one to study. The man
has duration of life in his organization, and
will probably be a public character of eminence
having ripened but slowly for the next
twenty-five or thirty years. Never having
heard him speak, it can only be inferred from
Ids p'guejthat Jiis voice is a deep, rich,
double-bass, of the rumblingroaring, mutter
ing kind ; and that bis diction would natural
ly be sluggish, level, and hoarse at first men
ot his nature requiring to lash themselves in
to excitement by the sound of their own sen
tences, before the seals of Solomon can he
uplifted from the deep and moody abysses of
passion, out of which their fell storm of rhe
toric has to be invoked.
There is a general stir among the fairer por
tion of the audience as Mr. Sickles saunters
quietly in a slender figure, attired with such
Paiisian faultlessness of taste that he has ac
quired the name of the best-dressed man in the
House. Dark brown hair, brushed smoothly
away from his white, broad forehead ; full
beard and moustache, and a handsome face, all
but the eyes oh! such singular looking eyes!
As long as his back is turned, he seems an
Adonis; but the eyes spoil all. His usual
style of dress one that makes him the envy
of every dnady on Pennsylvania avenue for its
distingue perfection is a black dress coat,
with velvet collar, and light gray trowsers, ta
pering down to the small, shiney boot. His
bands arc encased in perfectly fitting kid gloves
of some dark color, which he constantly wears,
even in his seat. This habit has given rise to
a superstitious rumor that they are worn to
conceal the deep blood-stains which he fancies
arc still crimsoniag his bands. He lounges in
a sort of nonchalent way upon his seat, seldom
accosted by his fellow-members, and apparent
ly quite unaware that be is the center for hun
dreds of curious eyes. He is boarding in a
private family on Thirteenth street, and "Te
resa" is with him.
, 'Occasional,' in one of his letters, draws out
from obscurity two of that large class of men
of labor and talent who in subordinate places
make reputations for eminent men, and keep
the machinery of Governments in easy motion.
Says he .-Imagine such a personage as Jehu
Glancy Jones at the head of the Committee of
Ways and Means. Utterly unskilled in the
science of government, unblessed in intellect,
an inferior lawyer, a very awkward parliamen
tarian, ho could no more master the labor or
comprehend the details of that position than a
blacksmith could the machinery of a watch.
Even tbe most accomplished statesman is com
pelled, when placed in the chairmanship of
this Committee, to rely upon the efforts of oth
ers. Mr. Cochran, a modest, quiet, unassu
ming man, who has served for a number of
years in the capacity of clerk to the Commit
tee, devotes himself at all times to the prepa
ration of the bills and to the collection of data
and information from the various departments
of tho Government. Those who know him
speak of him as an extraordinary intellectual
machine. His knowledge of figures is so ac
curate, his integrity so unquestionable, that
bis calculations are accepted and adopted at
once. He may be said, indeed, to be counsel
oradviser and director in reference to the
most important appropriations. No scheme,
however craftily concealed, can pass unchal
lenged by this sentinel at the door of "tbe na
tional treasury. I -understand that ho has al
ready prepared ; all the bills for the action of
Congress, and when the Speaker is elected and
tho Committee of Ways and Means appointed,
they will be immediately presented to the
House. And yet who has ever heard of Mr.
Cochran, except those who care to inquire in
to the secrets of the business in this great po
litical center 1 Another of these unknown
public servants is Mr.' John M. Barclay of In
diana, jonrnal clerk of the House of Represen
tatives. Mr. Barclay is as thoroughly versed
in ' the parliamentary secrets and details as
Cochran is in the expenditures and revenues
of the Government. As you enter the House,
when it is fully organized, yon will see stand
ing on the right of the Speaker a young gen
tleman, named Thaddeus Maurice, who may
be called tbe promoter of tbe presiding officer.
He bepu hia wrric m pgi Bn3 X to0
' was Mr. Cobb who first took advantage of his.
sKiu and talent, and from that day he has been
consulted by all the Speakers. When a new
Congress assembles, it is curiou.9 to observe
how rapidly he becomes acquainted with the
names and appearance of the members; and
those who applaud the Speaker for his readi
ness and proficiency, do not know that the qui
et, unpretending young man by his side fre
quently puts the words in the Speaker's mouth.
Cheating; the Soil. Science and practice
unite in averring that when the farmer cheats
tbe soil, he cheats himself. Science asserts
that when the soil gives up to the husband
man mere than it receives in return, it grows
poor; and experience, I have no doubt, will
confirm the fact, that it is equally unprofitable
for the farmer. Furnish nature with the ma
terial, and she will manufacture for you with
aut charge tho valuable products you may
covet. Rob her of the means of labor, and
her returns will be scanty. She cannot work
out a miracle. I believe that many of our far
mers pursue a very impolitic course. That
only is valuable in a farm which is capable of
being converted into vegetation, or in some
way aids in tho growth of plants ; and that is
the most valuable portion which may in tho
least time be transformed into garden vegetable
products. Every crop selects the most avail
able part of the soil, and when removed from
the field, tho land is deprived of tfiat part of
itself which was especially useful in producing
the crop. The soil, as it were, becomes cul
led ; each season parting with its most valua
ble constituents, and in a short time all that
was worth anything is gone. The man con
tinues to own his land, but has lost his farm.
It will usually take but a little tvbile to dis
pose of all that is valuable in the soil; the
farmer owns the same number of acres he pur
chased, on which he can pay his annual tax ;
but the farm he bought has beca sold. Proff.
Fisk'a Address.
Secrets. We laugh at a woman's tongue,
and wonder when a woman keeps a secret; but
every woman keeps a box of choice reserves
for her own private indulgence. The man's
mysteries are not hers; if he ca not ki ep them
to himself let him expect them to be blown
abroad. Her own secrets of love, of loss, of
self-denial, of unsuspected suffering, no wo
man exposes to her nearest friend. There
never lived a husband happy in the trne love
of his wife, who fairly knew all the depths of
her mind about him. Every man profits stu
pidly by the wise little perceptions that arise
so quietly, and have no utterance except in
deeds, of which we vaguely ascribe the fitness
to a special faculty called woman's tact. Wo
men, in short, keep to themselves four-fifths of
the secrets of society, and do it with a win
ning air of frankness all their own. A man
with a secret will be stony or portentious, or
Irovkingly suggestive;, he - will keep. his
mouth shut ostentatiously. A woman is too
absolutely secret to set up a public sigh over
whatever may lie buried in her mind. She
gossips., prattles, pours out what she does not
care'lo hold, with such an air of unreserved
simplicity, that all mankind is mystified, and
says, in friendly jest, "A woman only hides
what she don't know." .
The Printing Investigation. The Com
mittee appointed to investigate the printing of
the last Congress, ore bringing to light some
facts which show the most shameless corrup
tion on the part of the Superintendent. Wen
dell, to whom the contract was awarded two
years ago, testifies to having paid over one
hundred thousand dollars for the support of
party newspapers, all over the country. The
Pennsylvanian and the Evening drgus at Phil
adelphia, both Administration organs, came in
for a full share of the plunder, the former
having received six thousand, and the latter
five thousand dollars of the spoils. Bowman,
of the Constitution, required Mr. Wendell to
pay him twenty thousand dollars per annum to
wards the support of that paper, a portion of
which was paid, and an order given for the
remainder. Since Bowman's election to the
place of public printer, Wendell says he has
forgotten the many favors he received at his
hands, and has arranged to have a portion of
the work executed by Jarrett, the publisher
of tho Nnow-Nothing organ at Buffalo. Wen
dell is now poor, and has all the materials of
an extensive printing office on his hands at
Washington.
Hollow Horn in Cows. A correspondent of
the Ucnnanlown Telegraph, communicates tho
following? "I formerly did, as everybody
else did, with a case of this disease, viz : Bore
the horns,cut the tail, and turpentine the back,
which oftentimes gave relief. But for the last
two years, I havo practised differently, being
a method that I was informed rarely failed in
curing a case of this kind. It is thus : Take
one tablespoonful of fine saltpetre, one do.
of fine salt, one do. of ground black pepper ;
add to this flour and water enough to make
into pills ; it will make three about the size of
a hulled walnut. These make the cow swal
low in this way : have her tied in the stable,
take hold of her nose, open her mouth and
drop one in at a time, after she swallows give
her another in the same way,and so on. Gen
erally one dose is sufficient ; if she is not bet
ter, repeat the dose the following day. It has
never failed to cure for me. It would not be
prudent to let the cow out in a rain or rough
weather for a day or so after giving the above
medicine."
Here is an illustration of the vicissitudes of
fortune. A few years ago one of the most ac
tive and successful business men in the city of
Hudson was Leonard Wells. Everything he
touched turned into money. He once made
$10,000 in an hour, by a purchase and sale of
a piece of real estate. Fifteen years ago Mr.
W. was worth $70,000. Shortly after this luck
turned against him. He lost $34,000 by buy
ing stock in the Hudson and Berkshire Rail
road. . This was followed by other losses, caus
ed by indorsements. In less than eighteen
months Mr. W. passed from affluence to ex
treme poverty from being worth $70,000 to
being worth not one cent. He is now a resi
dent of Albany, N. Y., and earns a living for
himself and family by peddling candies, ap
ples and doughnuts. . . .
The veritable sword which Ethan Allen car
ried through the perils of many well-fought
fields, is now in the possession of one of bis
female descendants in Holmes County, Miss.
It is tbe same staunch blade that he waved a
loft, when, "in the name of Jehovah and the
Continental Congress,"- be demanded the sur-
i rodr.of Tlcoaderoja.
IMPRISONED IN A VAULT 18 TEARS.
A newspaper published at Colama, Mexico,
on the 24th of October, tells the following
rightful story, and calls upon the public to
punish the criminals "When Gen. Pueblita
entered the town of Ayo, in September last,
he exacted a forced loan from the people, and
a share of it fell upon the curate of the place.
The curate acted as though ho would pay, but
he did not make bis appearance at the point
designated for payment, and Gen. Pueblita or
dered him to be .arrested. A party of men
went to his dwelling and knocked at the door;
there was no answer.and they broke in. They
found no one in the house, and wero abont to
leave it, when they heard a frightful voice,
proceeding from the ground, saying "I am
hungry !" The officer in command went back
to Gen.Pueblita and told him about the voice.
The General appointed a commission to ex
amine the house. This commission went to
the curate's dwelling, and after a careful ex
amination, they found a movable stone in the
floor, and under this was a stairway leading
down to a vault, which was entirely dark, and
hid no connection with the air, save by the
staircase, and a small hole that served as a
ventilator. In this vault, were some books, a
few articles of furniture, and a woman who '
had been shut up there for eighteen years.
She was taken to Gen. Pueblita's quarters.
When brought into the light, where she saw
a number of persons, she fainted. After she
had returned to her senses, a thousand ques
tions were asked of her, to which she replied
only that she had been buried in that vault for
eighteen years, without going out for a mo
ment ; that she had been married, and had
children by her busband,but she knew nothing
of their fate ; that, while imprisoned in the
vault, she had had children by the curate, but
she knew nothing of what had become of these
children ; and after saying this much became
obstinately silent. While this was passing, a
sergeant of the Pueblita Brigade,then present,
discovered that this woman was his mother,
and she recognized him as her son and em
braced him. The son then ran for his father, .
who came and recognized his wife. The hus
band, fifteen years ago, was imprisoned three
years under charge of having murdered hia
wife, this woman."
Closed for Repairs. A good one is toldjol
old Judge L. His Honor kept a demijohn of
good old Jamaica in his private office, for hia
own comfort and the entertainment of his par
ticular friends. Tbe Judge had noticed lor
some time that on Monday mornings his Ja
maica was considerably lighter than iie left It
on Saturday nights. Another fact bxd gradu
ally established itself in his mind.- His son
Sam was missing from the paternal pw in
church on Sundays. One Sunday alternoon
Sam came in and went up stairs rather bearL- -ly,
when the Judge hailed him :
"Sam, where have you bees V
To church, sir," was the prompt reply.. .
" What church, Sam 1" . .'
"Second Unitarian, sir."
"Had you a good sermon, Sam ?" '
"Powerful, sir ; it quite staggered me, sir. '
"Ah! I see," said the Judge, "quite pow
erful, eh, Sam 1"
The next Sunday the son came bome rather
earlier than usual, and apparently not so muci
"under tbe weather." His father hailed bimi ;
"Well, Sam, been to the 'Second Unitarian' '
again to-day ?"
"Yes, sir," replied Sam slowly.
"Good sermon, my boy 1"
"Fact was, father, that I conldn't get fn ( ;
church 6hut up, and a ticket on the door."
"Sorry, Sam, keep going you may get good -by
it yet."
Sam says on going to the office for his usual t-si'rt7-ual
refreshment, he found the "John",
empty, and bearing tbe following label : -"There
will be no service here to-day, this church
being closed for repairs "
It is surprising to what an extent seemingly
useless articles are utilized in tho manufactu--ring
arts. For instance
The prussiate of potash is made tn quant!- -ties
in Cincinnati, from hoofs, horns and oth
er refuse of slaughtered grunters.
Old ropes are converted into fine note pa
per, and the waste paper itself, which is pick
ed up in the gutters of tho streets, is again
re-converted into broad white sheets, and thus .
docs duty in revolving stages.
The parings of skins and hides, and the earl -of
cows, calves and sheep are carefully col--
lected and converted into glue.
Bones converted into charcoal by roasting In
retorts are afterwards employed for purifying "
tbe white sugar we use to sweeten coffee, &c.
Old copper scraps are nsed in the construe -.
tion of splendid bronze chandeliers for illumi
nating our large churches and the mansions of '
the wealthy.
Old horse-shoe nails are employed to make
the famons steel and twist barrels ot fowling
pieces. .
Oyster shells are burned in kilns and after
wards used in making cements, their base be--
ing pure lime.
One of the religious papers has the follow--ing
strong remarks on the religion of paying"
debts. They drive the nail np to the head and
clinch it: "Men may sophisticate as they
please. They can never make it right, and all
the bankrupt laws in the universe cannot make
it right. for them not to pay their debts. There
is a sin in this neglect as clear and as deserv.
ing of church discipline as stealing or false
swearing. He who violates his promise to
pay, or withholds the payment of a debt, when
it is in bis power to meet his engagement,
ought to be made to feel that in the sight of
all honest men he Is a swindler. Religion,
may be a very comfortable cloak, under which
to hide : but if religion does not make a man
deal justly,' it is not worth having."
A Novel Ltxcrt. The latest novelty ft a,
musical bed, which receives the weary body"
and immediately "laps it into Elysium." !
is an invention of a mechanic in Bohemia, and
is so constructed that by hidden mechanism a
pressure upon the bed causes a soft and gentle
air or Auber to be played, which continues to
lull thnmnat watptnl to sleeD. At the bead
is a clock, the hand of which being placed
tne hour tne Sleeper wants io nso, iuc
time arrives the bed plays a march of Spontan!r
with the drum and symbols, and, in short, with
noise enough to arouse the seven sleepers.
'- "Mrs. Snizrle, my pa wants to know If h
mayn't lend himself to your axe a little whTla
i H'4 alleri rather lend than Dorr,ow."
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