1 ..'i I ti:iuis ov tiii: ami:hica HENRY D. MASSEK, Pun toot teas amj JOSEPH KISBI.Y. S Paor-mrroas. . It. .Tf-f SSKH, Editor. nrrici in mabkkt btukkt, heir iikkr. THK" AMBKIUAi" is published every Satur day at TWO DOl.EAKS per Annum to be i;tiJ half yearly in advance. No paper discontiii' tied till all arrearages are paid. No subscription received for a less period tlmn hi i MONTH!). All communications or Idiom on luc irit'as relating to tlia office, to insure altontion, must he POST PAID. v . ' The Sleeping fleanl)-, DT AirBKQ TESRTSU9. Vm after year unto her feet, She lying on her cnuch alone, Acroa the purpled coverlet. The maiden' jet Muck hair wan grown, On either aide her tranced form Forth alreaminir from a brsid of pearl t The slumbrous light i rich and warm, And moves not on the rounded curl. The silk-star br.iidered coverlid Knto her limb itself doth mould I. inguidlv ever; and. amid Her full blnck ringlets downward rolled, 4jilowa forth each softly-shadowed arm With bracelet of the diamond bright! Her constant beauty doth inform Htillnru with love, and d.ijr with light. She aleepi t her breathing are not heard In palace chamlicra far apart. The fragrant tresses are not stirred That lie upon her chaimed heart, She sleeps : on either hand upswells The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest; She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells A perfect foim in jierfect rest. l.ovr and l.ojsilt)-. The following duett is founded on the circum stances of i dandy having sent love-letter to a young girl, who determined to ridicule his passion, seeks the exquisite, and finds him learning the manual exercise, having been inoculated with mili tary urdor: She If I marry you, little man, First I must mention, 1 expect to receive fioru you every lie Attention! She For love as well as war, Ha its frequent sIjiiiis, And jealousy will go with my hind He Shoulder Annt .' She Hut should you like the real Prove a f lithlcs lover, My Peace I am afraid 1 should never He Jlecirtr.' She Sincerity is my plan. And I hope no disgrace: 'Tis written in my features, lie To the right face .' She In what month would you plea.-e, To marry me, sir lie March ! She Hut, sir, I am very poor, Wiihcindor to le.il: In Marriage lotteries, men go llr 'I'n the right wheel ! She All my fnulis, then, dear sir, To you I'll confess. In fashionable dollies I like to lie hiiltfruilt .' She Fin extravagant too, Willi expense I'll II, Load Sin You and consequent v Handle Carlrigc ,' She I f. irhodo That the cost of apparel Will not be He Prime .' She If quarrels must issue, Of vt oids we II have a llr Rant ! ,v,W'ill you listen to me, now And don't put me out : From one spirit to another, If you'll only keep sie.idy, Tlici-e verse to the tire I'll give, and We Make ready .' She Not lei right the torch of Cupid These lines I'll Me Present' She flame in the kitchen To kindle I meant ; To give them what they need, And put iheui -in -the He fire .' To pkkmkvb Boo.- A row drops of any perfumed oil will secure libraries from the con suming efrectjs of mould -and damp. Russian leather, which is perfumed with the tar of the birch tree, ncvet moulders and merchants suffer large hales of this leather to remain in the IJiidun docks, knowing that it cannot sustain any injury from damp. The matttierw' preserving books with pet fumed 'oil was known to the ancients. The Koniana used oil of the cedar to preserve valuable A1S. Hence the expression used hy Horace, uI)igna eedra" meaning any work worthy of being anointed with cedar oil, or in other words worthy ofbe ing preserved and renieiubcred. iireenfuld tl turtle. Indian IU iiiikk 1'avhmkm. The Ijondon Chronicle says that amongst the marvels of the times a patent has been actually taken out for 2in inf the ttrerti of lAindon with India Rub her, and many scientific jiersons are sanguine as to its success. There is to be a sub stratum of wood, on which is to be put a facing of ca touche mixed with iron fillings and saw dust, lo a depth of several inches. This, it is calcula ted, w ill resist the ill influence of all weathers, and make the most delightful and durable pave ment. Rye paste is more adhesive than any other pusto because that grain is very glutinous. It is much improved by adding a little pounded ulum, while it ii boiling. This makes it al most as strong as glue. South. I'lunttr. W'ho is wise! Ilo that learns from every one. Who is powerful 1 Ho thai governs his his I ' 1 Who is licit! He that is content' passions, SUNBUKY AMERICAN". AND SIIAMOKIN JOURNAL. Absolute acquiescence in the decision of the tnnjmity, the vital principle of Republics, from which there is no appial but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent ot desp .lisin. .lrrrr.Hoi. From the New York l'lrbian. TWO YKAlt 1ST VAN DIKMAN'M I,.M. T 4 A MBS VEHMKl, VRI OF THK CAPTIVM. Letter 1. The author, by way of introduction, states that the facts he now make public, arc not for the purpose of exciting angry feelings between the peo ple of (treat Hrl'ain and this country, hut to inter est tha lnevolent and true hearted in favor of the unfortunate prisoners in bondage. He states that he was taken prisoner at the "Short Hills," and carried before 8fr 'deb. Arthur, and promised a pardon if he made certain disclosures, which he refused. In November he was taken to England, fioin thence to Van Dieman's Land, from which he escaped through the aid of a few Ameri can sailors. lKn our arrival we were sent into the in terior to work upon the grcat road leading a crofls the inland, from Molmrt Town to Lntince town, and remained together for sixteen months on what is termed Convict Stations Through the unwearied exertion of tny emi nent countryman, Joseph Hume, M. 1, who spared neither time nor money to effect our liberation and promote our comfort, and incon sequence of pressing letters from him to Mr. Iiwrence, a member of the Council, since dead, wc were for the three lirt-t months pre served front associating with thieves, robbers, murderers, and the scum of the jails of Kngland, but after that wc were penerally mixed with felons, pardoned or reprieved felons being our overseers. Ve were heavily ironed in most cases, an iron band round each leg, joined by an iron chain, and employed m digging trenches, breaking stone, saw ing blocks for pavements, and dragging stone and timber like cattle, tor wc had neither horses nor oxen. At the Lone ly IJant Station, every four of us had u hand cart, and our task was to haul a load of llint stone, nearly t cubic yard, a mile, through rain aid sleet, and return fourteen times a day. Thus wc had fourteen heavy horse-loads to draw daily, in all a distance of fourteen miles, and the cart to drag Iwck the other fourteen being1 '..'H miles a day, I having fourteen lbs. of chains on, while our fare was nearly two iouuds of coarse brown bread, with n pint of water gruel to breakfast and another to supper, anil about half or three quarters of a pound of meat and half a pound of vegetables at dinner. At night, after eleven hours of severe toil, we were locked up in miserable huts, and as it is rainy in winter, wc were often dripping wet, but never allowed to go near a lire. One shirt at once was the royal allowance, and we had Saturday afternoons, and a little soap allowed us, on which to wash and mend our wretched garments. When wo took oil and washed our shirts on S iturdays, we had to go without them till they dried on Sundays. Although in the prime of lite, accustomed to farm work, and strong-made, I have otten been weary almost to fainting, and never once in those two tedious years' did I go to bed other w ise than hungry. During a passage ol four months on my return to this free land, I fared very differently in the American whaler, the seamen of w hich so generouely rescued me, The punishments to which we were aubjoct- ed were cruel, and the more so because in tlicted by pardoned Drilish Felons, rclcastl tor the purpose, on account of their known harsh liess and unfeeling character. Nearly all the American prisoners have been confined in solitary cells, and fed tor weeks on bread and water there many of them nearly dozen of times. The treadmill is also used as a perswader. Not a few have been in the chain gangs, Some aro now al Port Arthur, in the coal mines ; but the triangles, ever before our eyes, w as the object of our greatest horror. With tire exception of the venerable Chaun cey Sheldon, now ?ti years of age w ho com manded a troop of horse under (leneral Van Rensselaer, in the last war, on the frontier, I scarcely remember one American or Canadian who has not been flogged by felons, from Iwo dozen of lashes with the cat-o'-nine-tails, up to six dozen. The triangles accompany the party to work, and are made of thice long pieces of wtsjd set up and meeting together at the top a ring is run through any of these pieces near the top a strap is run through the ring and tied round each w rist of the suflurer, whose arms are thus extended at their full stretel ai in cases of crucifixion, his legs are then firm ly fastened to a cross-bar near the ground The freeman of the m.-ip world stripped stark naked, except his pantaloons is then exposed to the lash of the felon of the oil. The flagella tor is ordered by the police officer to give two, four, six dozen of strokes of the heavy whip, as the case may seem to him to require, on th butlWer's naked back, who is hen unloosed from his degrading posture, and ordcied Mistunt, ly to his woik, whatever it may be. O, how ardently and ciMnc;.ily como of our ' pnre-hearicd patriot piayeii that the Ul o! j their fathers, in his puod limo and way, would i deliver them Jruin U.ii degradation, even if H SiuilHii-y, Xortliimibcrlaml Co. were by tin early death on that far distant shore ! The prayers of some were heard, and others are fast following to the tomb. A num ber are far gone in consumption, and according to the best information I could procure, direct and indirect, more than half of the political prisoners, though fine stout men when thev left these shores, arc now rtiutured and other wise injured, caused hy hard work, lifting heavy stones, and hauling heavy loads, in wet weather, over the soil clay. Even Eliznr Ste vens, of Iehanon, Madison county, N. Y., a well built, stout wan, of tine appearance, six root high, and but twenty-seven years old, is ulready ruptured, and I'auiel Heustis, one of the heaviest, stoutest men in Watertown, though in health, is a walking t-keleton. I was tw ice tied to the triangles and flog ged. First, for finding fault w ith our w retch ed food, and next time for hitting a blow at n felon-overseer, who, in the mere vvantoness of pow er, had thrown me violently over a heap of stones. John Augustus Swansburg, of Jefferson coun- ty was six or seven times stripjtcd and tVogged for being, as they said saucy. Hiram Sharp, of Salina was flagellated be cause he would not touch hio cap to the euper- iiitendeut, an English trans)Mrted felon, and say 'sir to linn when he spoke. Hut even after being (logged unmercifully he would not j touch his cap to him. Hiram Iiup, of Jellersou county, because he grumbled or refused to work one cold morning, movements, and endeavor to influence the gov rather frosty, he having no shoes, was flogged f eminent of the United States in the matter. In at the triangles ; as was Stephen Wright, son to a Methodist minister there, because when ; Mr. Stephenson, late American Minister in sick the IKictor refused to exempt him, and the j Iiidon, w rote from thence, "I see no prolmbil overseer ordered him to wheel a heavy loaded j ity of relief, except through the intervention harrow up a palnk, which he failed in doing j from weakness. A stout felon then wheeled j up the barrow. Young Wright got six dozen i on the naked back, and was sent to stone break- j g. I.ynus W. Miller, a fine youth from Chauta- pic county, was fed 11 days on brown bread and water in a rulilary cell, because he abso- j lutely refused to do work assigned him on a Sunday. He offered lo work harder, if possi- j ble, any other day, but assured his employers that his education and his principles alike for- j bade him from performing unnecessary labor j on the christian Sabbath. ' Owen W. Smith, formerly agent to Smith i . Merrick, of Oswego, was flogged at the trian-' gles because he had not loaded our hand-carls j heavily enough with stones. Elijah Woodman, formerly of Maine, a mag- trate, and member ot the legislature, more te- eently of Uper Canada, where -he had a large property, has been cruelly Hogged several limes; and has at various periods been conti- tied in a solitary cell, and fed on bread and wa ter. This tine old man has kept a journal of the whole proceedings of the Hntisli government, giving its cruelties and crimes in detail, with the dates and names. And his offence was a refusal to give it up to Sir John Franklin, the t iovernor. 1 le wrote on slips of paper, but where he put those strips the cell and the whip failed to disclose. The free emigrant settlers, and not a few- editors, were our firm friends not so the con victs. 1 am not a Free-Mason, hot tnany of us w ere satisfied thai it was a real benefit to us that some of our number belonged to that so ciety. In whit way I may now not state. Matthew Whiting, salt manufacturer, Liver pool, near Syracuse, brother-in-law to Chaun- cey Shelden was one day lied up to the trian- ' r1it.j as tut itt.kut BOi'nrolu tviaat in iliMisi . ai k-nrti s.v-, . - trivial offence. It was a humiliating sight, to . ... ovuauuiu i ion ui lining aim mint, niu , a . b . ' oeneve, . large lamiiy, i,.", ",. on, urns disgraced and suffering Many of the young prisoners would gladly have taken his place, but had we spoken a word, out turn would have come next, witltout mitigating his sufferings. Alvin Sweet mentions the death ot Evsander Curtis, of Eyne, in Jefferson county, but he I docs not tell how he came by his death. The ' particulars are these : j Curtis was sent to the convicts' hospital in a high fever, where the doctor told hiiu he was slumming sickness, hut that should not serve his turn, and he sent hint back to the station to hard labor, pulling at the hand carts. Poor Curtis implored the overseers in the most pite ous accents, to let him lie on the bare ground, as work he could not. Hut the overseers msis- ted, and when Curtis could stand no longer, he lay down by the road-side, wad carried at night to our miserable prison and locked up. Next morning he was taken back to the hospi tal, where he expired in treat agonv in a fow hours. j Newr insult the humble, for mie day they Win. Nottage, from Lorain county, Ohio, may ho your supciiors. lieu. Washington when injured severely by the accidental blast- j actod upon this just rule ol rectitude, "l)o ing of a rock, was curried at once into the in- j you bow to negroes," said a gentleman to this letted hospital, ty pus or some other deadly to- j noble Virginian, as they were saluted by a sir ver Ikmiilt then raL'iiur. mid ullhoin'h cured of ' vaut whom Washington recognise!. "c," his wounds, he there caught the cpedeuiie, whitlj tarried him oil'. Had they been humane Ia. Sulimlu.v, July o, IHVi. eti'jtigh to carry him to another hospitul or plaoe, his: recovery was certain. John Thomas, a merchant of Ogdensburg, or Madrid, who had his toes, and the halt' ot one of his feet cut oil, was carried in to the same hos pital, hut survived. 1 was educated in the I'resbytcrmi persua sion, in the Church of Scotland, but there were none ot its preachers near us. .on w ere al lowed but those of the Church of England. Mr. lteasley, a humane and kii.d-hearted Me thodist preacher, came from a distance to ex hort several limes, but the established minis ter got jealous of his popularity, and he was turned oil much toour regret. For such as Mr. lloasly there is much need. Van Dieman's l.and is one oftho wickedest, most profane, im moral and degraded places on earth. I will en deavor toconcliidc my statement of fact in ano ther letter, but as 1 have alluded to some as be ing consumptive, I may here name 11. Marsh, brother of the Hev. John Marsh, Methodist preacher, lormerly of Chippewa, Alvin II. Sweet, of Winfield, Herkimer county, Moses A. Dutcher, of Hrownsville, Aaron Dresser, of Alexandria, Leonard Delano, of Watertown, Andrew I .ecper, of Antwerp, and Daniel Dis combe, of Chaumo!it,l all of whom arc wasting tinder that disease. It is probable that this letter will be copied on the frontiers. Let me earnestly advise all who may reud it not to do so for purposes of retaliation, but to discountenance all frontier one of his letters, a copy of which I have seen, of our government You had better, thereforo address the authorities at Washington on the subject." My heart's desire is to bring back the cap- lives ; and Irontier troubles, while they will ef- feet no good object, may be madea pretext for continuing the dreadful tortures of which I have begun to give you a faithful recital. 1 remain, Sir, the grateul Servant of your countrymen, My courageous deliverers, JAMES ('EMM EI New York, June '2't, 1 Vi. . The Fioitim Indianm. It appears from a Congressional document recently published, (No. .'17,) that the follow ing sums have been paid to ihllereiit duels, lo induce them to ecme j i" and emigrate : Echoemathla ".".0uu Shome Hailjo Opis lladjn Fus Eur Ha Fus Hadjo Passihatkimbo Solomica llolata Fixico lUlbc Hadjo Talwa Fixico Kaw inoclekichlii Ahbatustenuggee Mico Hadjo " Hj- "mut j Coa 1 u'"'Ji!t;, S.ono l",kU I usrenuggee .,000 C'Oscoochies Same Saino Same HiMpita-key 4,810 3,000 110 ro yo5 KtS.-) :oo coo 200 loo 100 loo oo loO loo I Mico Hadjo Ouhamico j Tusteuugi-ee Mico ! Puwi Fixico too 130 Nine hundred and forty comvum Indians J men, woniep and childrvn also come in tor money; and the general sum paid to these is s-K.1 each ; a few are set down at k:I, which j were probably children. The result of the whole is, that nearly 1 ll-" ,(. in addition to the expenditures for troops has been open ded in direct application of money to the Flori da Indians. - K,Mii.isii Di:kAii.n:a. The hard times . ,, . , . . ,,t ,,, I have atleeted sportsmen as well as oilier peo , . . ...,, . . , . ..o it pie. It is stated Vlmt at the late "Settling Day . THiterallV i.. I.do... alter tha Ierb K(akt.- a( 1U K)tio1 oflho men were defaulters to the enormous amount of over Four Hundred Thousand lKillars. 1 he l'ev. Mr. I'rettyman, a clergyman, was found to lie a defaulter upwards of hl,tKKK Such is Lite in England. Horseshoes are now manufactured at T.oy, on a very extensive scale, by machinery. Th Troy Whig says thai straight bars of Iron are transformed into horseshoes, groved and punched, at the Tate, tf fifteen per win ute. Mr. Hcvry Uurden is the utithor of the invention. i IJorb, am, Hokrk Shoi:.s. According to , tl,e late Coiled States Census, thero are in the United States four tin 11 ion lionet. It is said that liny require tu-iiiti fee thousand tons of Iron annually tor Shmt. t .1 In for I never allow myself to bo oul- J done in .., tvtn by a tolortd man." Vol. II o. MV. A Oralli Hot onr sloll. The Concord, (Ai. 11.) Statesmen of Friday publishes a monl singular deposit ion, taken be fore a justice of the peace at Oration, in that State. Hrtzeti Whither ami David M. Norris depose that on the night of June lit, there were watching at the death of their neighbor Sam uel Maun, ot North Benton, in a small room, the situation of which is thus described : The bed was on the north side, the tire place on the south side, the disjr way to the kitchen on the cast, and a door leading into a bed room on the west end of the room, and a set of drawe rs on the east sido of the room near the foot of the bed, and a window by the tixtt, on the north side. The window was raised from four to six inches. The door into the kitchen was ipen, and Mr. George W. Mann slept there in the south east corner of it. The door into the bed room was shut, uml Mrs. Peter Howo asrl Mrs. Maim slept there. The man with whom they were watching had been in a dying state for several days, but appeared to have perfect pousession ot his senses. Viler the house was still on Sunday night, the .lejiosilion goes on to say : Air. Witeher was standiirg by the foot of tire bed, close to the open window, and Air. Norris was sitting south of the bed some four or five ces from the head, on the west side of the room. The caudle was standing on the man tel, over the fireplace, when we both distinctly heard a groau. We are both positive it could not come from the sick man, norlhcucd where on he was, nor from another room. It was deep, lengthened groan, and btartled lis both. Air. Whitcher stepped 1 1 the tire place to get the light, to sew what the noise came from, or w hat caused it. As he took Iho light and turned around to vard tlm bed, we both fawthe room lighted np all al once, w ith an unearthly crimson colored light. It almost extinguished the li'ht of the candle, so that its lirrht was very feeble, apparently almost out and im mediately we both saw a strange looking man standing between us and the bed, looking ap parently at Mr. Mann his dress we cannot aeserioe, uis wnoie race we out not see. i lis clothes were dark, hot we cannot give the fashion or make, nor say whether he had on boots or shoes or fiat, or not. We were both Ratisfixed both stood there side by side, as Norris had risen up, Whitcher still holding the candle in his hand and in tire in the tire place, at least none "that gave any tight, and bs the strange man stood before us, his back toward (is, and his face toward All Malm, Mr. Maun appeared much excited and agitated ; he rolled on his bed, and threw his arms about and opened his eyes wide open, and appeared frightened end to gaze upon the apparition, then lie tried to cover op his head The sick man it is stated, then declared that he l.lul forty years previously assisted his cm ploycr in murdering a man and making away with his body. He mentioned the name of Edwards, bill in what connexion the deponents cannot say. The affidavit then goes on : l!exa!led no oilier name, and we may be mistaken in this name, but think we arc not, He then snnk down, and alter turning oVcr nirce or twice, and throwing disarms about and groa ned and died. We know We were frightened afid crntld not speak, or did not, nor did the strati gcr, and as soon as Mann had Finished con tossing and was dying away he (the siren gcr) was gone. How he got in or out, we know not : one door was open but we did not see him come in or go out, nor can we believe that he did. 1'he editor of the Statesman in connexion w ith the uflnlavit tells the follow ing story. About forty, or forty-five years since, (we tell the story as toll us by individuals in the vicinity) a man by the name ofllodgdon was working in liindaft, N. II., as a joiner. The last voason he was there, he finished ot! a house 'or Jonathan Noyes, and made his home with Mr. Noyes during the time. He lent Noyes Some two or three hundred dollars in money so that when the house was finished Noyes was indebted to him about four hundred dollurs, for labor and monev. When Noves's house was completed, he went to work ujion a huuse for Air. John (iross, in the ieiiuty, his clothes and part of his tools still remaining at Noyes' house. Ho left Gross's house one evening to go up to Air. Noyes's and was never cevn alter thut time. Homo little excitement existed there, (a the old people ay) at the tune, respecting his mysterious disappearance, but aa he was a etrungcr iu a measure, it was said he had ab sconded, and Noyes soon alter pretended to have received a letter from somew here in New York, requesting him (Noyes) to sell his (I lodgdon's) tools, and other things, and send the money on to him, which he accordingly did, but whether the ptoreeds of the wle w ent to New York or any where is not known. The excitement, however, Boon died away, and nothing tnoif was taid or thought about it un price of aivi:ktisi.;. I square 1 insertion, fO BO 1 do 2 do . . . 0 75 i do I do - . i tin F.vry subsequent inserlii n, . (I 25 Yearly Alvertwements, (wifh the irivilrge ol alteration) one cohtmn f2Sj half column, $18, three sqaares, f 13 ; two square, f 9 ; one njuaie, ". Without the privilege of alteration a liberal discount will be made. Advertisements left wilhmit direction a to lbs lenith of timelhey are to be trtrWistn'd, will he runliriucd until ordered out, and charged accord ingly. CT'Sirteen Knes make a square. til 'the ticaCli-bed confession which we pub lish bc'.ow, brought the hidden mystery to light Noyes flicd a few days since, and on hi death bed, intittiftteu'lrin't he had something to ilisclosc'bef'ore he could die in peace, but Mann went a day or two before his death, and spent a wholc tfwy with him, and after that nothinir. more as said hbout divulging any thing, ati.I he expired apparently in Too grcrftosfl mental ngony and 'wider "horrible remorse f conci cnce.'frctjuently exclaiming O God 1 forgive me that one sin. The Edwards to mhom it is supposed "he, (Mann)'reforred, and who, many now suppose, was accessary to the vuurder, i ttrrw livintr, and has been partially dcmijoO at times ever since, as well as Mann. Tkt. M am.y Coirsk. Bo and continue poor. yotihg man, while others around you grow rich by fraud and 'dicloyalty ; be without place or power, while others beg their way upward ; bear the pain of disappointed hopes, wlult others gain the accomplishment of thrir by- flattery ; forego tho gracious prcssuro of tho hand, for which others cringe and crawl. Wrup yourself hi ymrr cwn virtue, and seek a friend and your own daily bread. If you have, in uch course, grown crav with uu- blenclted honor, bless God, ami die. Jh-inzflmcnn Inn Ciii.MiSK Fish Tho fishermen roI!ert from the surface and margin of waters the ge- atinons masses which contain thcfpnwn ; they then empty a new laid egg shell of its content and fill it with spawn, carefully rioting it up. and placing it under a Kitting fowl. A certain number el' days arc allowed to elapse, when they break the hhcll under water previously "warmed by tho tain; the frv are short lv vivi fied, and preserved iu pure water until old e. iiotigh to be adied to the pond which contains their progenitors. The salo of this srviw u is aa important feature of trade in China. Light Sovtnr.uiN. Queen Victoria hns is sued a proclamation to the effect that hereafter every gold sovereign of loss weight than rive penny weigls two grains and ti half, be not al lowed to be curreutor pass iu wry manner what soever. Queen Victoria appears determined that all kinds of Sovereigns, which pass current in that kingdom, shall be kept at or at near as possible) full tci iht ; of this hei Majes ty a determination, there can be no doubt having always exerted her authorit) to that effect. Sue. Harbor Corrector. The last issue of Her Majesty' mint is aaij to be full size, and stamped with the roya! im press ol Her Alajesty. The sovereign is novy always al pa. .Y. V. Aurora. AuTo.MSiuMu. A tavern keeper in England was doing a thriving business on the llristo road under the sign of "the Donkey ," and hi house had become noted lor its good cat in j and liberal cheer. At the time of the great pi.pi.htr tty of the Duke of Wellington, ho had tho donkey taken down and a tine potlrail it full length, of his grace, substituted. A rival inn keeper of the village, seeing his error, ha 1 tho old sign purchased, and tranferred the 'grey ass,' to a place over his own door. The o rigir.al owner, saw the sign carrying ail his old custom with it. The remedy llu e vil, he had painted in large letters directly un der the duke's portrait, "This is the original grey ass." What's in a namk! Ot all the members of Congress, says the New Orleans Dee, ll'i'se is the ra sliest aud acts with tho least w isdom. Projfil is a dead loss, and Lioode is good for no thiog. . When honest industry raises a family to opu lence and honors, iu very original lownesa sheds lustre on its elevation ; but all its glory fades w hen it has given a wound, and denies a balsam to a man as humble and as liunctl us vour ancestor. Volman. Savilles, the bimbonian, has invented a new beverage, which the w higs call "T) ler punch,' because they can't tell what it's inude of. Hot to i I'ott. School Books. An editor somewhere out West, tays that a schoolmaster iu his neighbor hood recommends to his scholars a very fne edition of Combe on the head. He says they have the organ of iW;i(iuiH4i very s'.rougly developed. Wee The following sentiment was recently given at a temperance tuble in New llainohiro. Hy John Long- Hon. Thomas F. Marsha'l Wabhingtouiaiis regret to find lain a duelli.-t They wish he had aimed liit;lur. The following toit was drank on the 4th, by a 'smasher The nht of seauh' the fit emblem of the piikpotket.'
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