TKIIMS OF THE "AMKKICAK."
HENRY B. MASSER.a PuimsiUft Ash
JOSEPH EISEI.Y. 5 rRorniKTona.
. It. JtMSSEH. Editor.
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BEN Blj.O'lril-lR'S STORV.
Or How to Rrlliih Julep.
V C. F. HOFFMAN.
Are you sure thaVs The Flank over by the
sliore !'
Certing, manny ! I could tell her pipes a
tYoss the Maioura.'
'And you will overhaul her!'
...'Won't we though ! I tell ye, Stranger, so
wire as my name's Den Blower, that Inst
tar bar'l I have in the furnace has jist the smart
chance of go-ahead into us to cutoft'The Flame
from yonder pint, or send our bout to kingdom
come.'
The devil!' exclaimed a bystander who, j
intensely interested in the race, was lenniug j
the while against the partitions of the boiler j
room, 'I've chosen a nice place to see the fun
near this infernal powder barrel !'
'Not so bad as if you were in it !' cooly ob
served Ben, as the other walked rapidly away.
'As if he were in it ! what ! in the boiler !
Verting! Don't folks sometimes go into bi
lers, manny V
'I shonld think there'd be other parts of the
boat more comfortable.'
'That's right; poking fun at me at onc't;
but wait till we g?t through with this brush
with the Flame nnd Fll tell ye a regulur fixin
scrape that a mnn may get into. It's true, too,
every word of it as sure as :ny name's Ben
Blower.'
'You have seen the Flame then nfore, Strang-
cr Six years ago, when new upon the river, ;
she was a raal out nnd outer, I was at that j
time a hand aboard other. Yes, I belonged to
her at the time of her great race with the 'Go '
liar' Youv'e heern uinyhnp, of the blow-up J
by which we lost it! They made n great fuss ;
about it ; hut it was nothing but a mere fix of j
Hot water after all, Duly the springing of a
low rivets, which loosend a b.lcr plate or two, i
and letting out a thin spirting upon somo nig- j
gcrs that hadn't sense enough to get out of the
wny. Well, the 'Go-liar' took off' our passen
gers, nnd we ran into Smnshcr's landing to re
pair damages, nnd bury the poor fools that were
killed. Hero we laid for a matter of thirty
hours or so, n.i got things to right on board for j nn, that must have come on shortly before I re- ! !oras the fireman flung it wide open to feed
a bran new start. There wassome carpenter's covered my consciousness. My r'esting place 1 the flames that were to torture me. My knock
work yet to be done, but the captain said that through the night had been, as 1 have told you I ing ws unheard, though I could hear him toss
tlmt might, be fixed off jist as well whei we j nt the for end of the boiler. Well, I now I the sticks into the furnaco beneath me, and
were under way we had worked hard tlie j ,lroamed that the manhole wns still oen nnd J drive to the door when his infernal oven was
weather was sour, and we need'nt do anything ) what seems curious, rather than laughable, if fully crammed.
more jist now we might take that afternoon I yol, take it in connection w illi other things, I I 'Hal I vet hope ! I had, but it rose in my
to ourselves, hut the next morning he'd get up , luttcit-J that my legs hud been so stretched in ! mind side "bv side with the fear that I might now
steam bright and uirly.nnd we'd all come out j tic iolltf walk i haj takl. t(l(J cvcn-iag M(liV( j become the agent of preparing myself a more
ww. There was no temperance society nt ! that they now reached the whole length of the ' frightful death Yes ! when I thought of that
Smasher s landing, ami ( wont ashore upon a
lurk with some of the hands.'
I omit the worthy Benjamin's ndventures
upon lund, and, despairing of fully conveying
his language in its original Doric force, will
not hesitate to give the rest of his singular nar
rative in my oivn words, save where, in a few
instances, can recall his precise phraseology,
which the reader will easily recognize.
The night was raw and sleety when I regain
ed the deck of our bunt. The officers, instead
of leaving a watch above, had closed up every
thing, and shut themselves in the cabin. The
fire-room only was open. The boards dushed
from the outside hy the explosion had not yet
been replaced. The floor of the room wns wet
I scarcely a corner which afforded '
, the dnv'ing orm, I was aliout I
. resigned to sleep in the open !
bent only" upon getting under the -j
anil there was
a shelter from
leuving the room
air, and now bout only upon gelt m
lee of some bulkhead that would protect me a
gainst the wind. In passing out I kept my
arms stretched forward to feel my way in the
dark, but my feet came in contact with a heuvy
iron lid: I stumbled, and, ns I fell, struck one
of my hands into the 'manhole,' (1 think this
was the name he gave to the oval filliped o
pening in the head oltho boiler,; through which
the smith had entered to. make his repairs. I
fell with my Tm ll.rust so tar into the aper
ture th I received u pretty smart blow in the
fur.e as it, came in contact with the head of the
boiler, audi did not hesitate to drag my body
after it, the moment I recovered from this
stunning effect and ascertained my wherea
bouts. In a word, I crept into the boiler re
solved to pass the rest of the night there. The
place viae dry and sheltered. Had my bed
been softer, I would have hud all that man
could desire ; as it was, I slept and slept sound-
'I should men'ion, though, that, before
At.iji..,. n.r I ntflr:ll tlmfi ulilM,.l lilt IMt.
e . . .i r .i I e
silion. I had tone first to the further end of
the boiler, then again I had crawled back to
. . . ii . i r i .i .
the manhole, to put my hand out and feel that
it was really still open. The warmest place
was at the further end, where I finally establish
ed myself, and that 1 knew from the first. It
ws foolislf in me to think that the opening
through which 1 had just entered could be clos
ed without my untiring it, and thut too when
nobody win astir but myself; but the blow on
th side of my face made me a little nervous
perhaps ; bcbidcs, I never louldbcur to be shut
SUNBTOY
Absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the
Hy Mnsser & l:lscly.
up in any place it always gives a wild-like
leeling about the head. You may lnugh,
Stranger, but I believe I should suffocate in an
empty church, if I once felt that 1 was so shut
up in it that I could not get out. I have met
men afore now just lika me, or worse rather
much worse. Men that it made sort of furious
to be tied down to any thing, yet so soft-like and
contradictory in their natures that you might
lend th-mi any where so long as they didn't feel
the string. Stranger, it tikes all sorts of peo
ple to make a world ! and we have a good ma
ny of the worst kind of while men here out west.
Hut I have seen folks upon the river quiet
looking chaps, too, as ever you see who were
p0 tectonlly caranklerankerous that they'd
f''001 l'c doctor who'd tell them they couldn't
live when ailing, and made a die of it, just out
of spite, when told they must get well. Yes,
fellows as fond of the good things of the enrth
as you or I, yet who'd rush like mnd right over
the gang-plank of like, if once brought to be
lieve thnt they had to stay in this world whe
ther they wanted to leave it or not. Thunder
and bees ! if such a fellow as that had heard
the cocks crow as I did awakened to find
darkness about him darkness so thick you
might cut it with a knife heard other sounds,
too, to tell him it was morning, and scrambling
to fumble for that manhole, found it, too, black
closed black and even ns the rest of the i-
j ron coffin around him, closed, w ith nutaiivet-
hole to let (Jod's light and air in why why
he d fwnuHiini right down on the spot, as I
did, nnd I am tasliumed to own it to no white j
i
The big drops netu-illy stood upon the poor j
fellow's hrow, ns he now paused for a moment i
in the recital of his terrible story. He passed j
his hand over his rough features, and resumed j
it with less agitation of manner.
'How long I may have remained there sense-
1,., I don't know. The doctors have since
told me it inu-t have been a sort of fit more
likeanajHiplexy than a swoon, for the uttack
finally passed oil' in sleep Yes, I slept, I know
that, fur I dreamed dreamed a heupo' things
afore I awoke these -'i-mni. h.nv-
ever, that I have hern -Me in remit .li.;.ik- '
boiler and extended tlnuiigh the opening. j furnace with its fresh fed flames curling bo
At first, (in my dreaming reflections) it was np,,tht,,c ir("' "1"'" which I stood, a more fright
a comfortable thought that noonc could now ful ,kB,h cvcn t,m" ot" ,"'m" b,,lK'd n'
shut up the manhole will t awakening me. Iive! discovered that mallet a short
But soon it sec.ed asthou -h my feet, which ! t""C ""0,M'r ut no matter, I would by .Haul
were on the outside, were becoming drenched feSrt ,0 ll,e "'y eP,,ri,"t''t "ow
iu the storm which had originally driven me I ',l was this I remembered having a marline
to seek this shelter. I fell the chilling rain "l"6 n,y pocket, and in less time than I have
upon my extremities. They grew colder and taken in hinting at the consequences of thus u
colder, and their numbness grmluully extended haJ n,aJe a" impression upon the
upward to other parts of my body. It seemed hiler, and soon succeeded in driving it through,
how ever, that it w as only the under side of my j The wuter gushed through the aperture
person that was thus strangely visited. 1 luiil ' wmiII they we it! No, the jet could only
upon my buck, and it must have been a spe- ! lay against the wooden partition which must
cies of nightmare that afflicted me, for I knew j hide the stream from view it must trickle
Bt ,0,,n,wt 1 WM ,,reaM,i"?' ' Ml 11 mipossi- ;
W ' r4"C ,"t',f' A vi"1""t ,U "f coughing j
' '' lvm of volUion.-The
which ,"',J ,iwn S "''"' I
me, hud rushed into my mouth ; I awoke to
hear the rapid strokes of the pump which was
driving it into the boiler !
'My w hole condition no not all of it not
J'it my jirrsiut coud.tion d ished with new
horror iini me. But I did not again swoon.
The ehoiiking sensntion w hich had made me
fuiut, w hen I first discovered how I was entomb
ed, gave way to a livelier, though less overpow
ering, emotion. I shrieked even as I started
from my slumber. The previous discovery of
the closed ajierture, with the instant oblivion
that followed, seemed only a part of my dream,
nnd i threw my urnis about and looked eagerly
for the opening by which I had entered the hor
rid pluce yes, looked for it, though it wus tlie
terrible conviction that it was closed a second
time brought home tome which prompted my
frenzied cry. livery tense seemed to have ten
fold aeiiteuess, yet not one to act in unison with
another. I shrieked again uud again implo
ringly desperately savagely. I filled the
hollow chamber with my cries till its walls
I seemed to tingle around me. The dull stroke
I . " , ....
of the pump seemed only to mork at, while they
I deadened my screams,
At lust I tuve invsolf up. It is the strug
gle against our fate w hich tren.ies the miiid.
We cease to fear w hen we cease to hope. I
gave myself up and then I grow calm !
'I was resigned todie resigned to my mode
of death. It was not, I thought, so very new to
nwhkcn unwonted honor in a man. Thousands
h ive been sunk to the bottom of the ocean shut
up in the holds of vciocla boating themselves
AND SHAMOK1N JORUNAL.
majority, the vital principle of Republics, from which
-Suiibiiry, Xurtluinibciiaiid Co.
1 against the battened hatches dragged down
from the upper world shrieking, not for life but
for death only beneath the eye and amid the
breath of heaven. Thousands have endured
that appalling kind of suffocation. I would die
only as many a better man had died before me.
I could meet such a death. I said so I
thought so felt so, t mean, for a minute or
more j ten minutes it may have been or but au
instant of time. I know not nor does it mat
ter it I could compute it. There wait a time
then when t was resigned to my fate, but good
(iod ! was I resigned to it in the shape in which
next it came to appal ! Stranger, I felt thnt
water grow hot about my limbs, though it was
not yet mid-leg deep. I felt, nnd, in the same
moment, heard the roar of the furnace that was
to turn it into steam before it could grow deep
enough to drown one !
'You shudder it teat hideous. But did I
shrink and shrivel, and crumble down upon
that iron floor, and lose my senses in that hor
rid agony of fear? No! though my brain
swam and the life-blood that curdled at my
heart seemed about to stagnate there for ever,
still I knrw ! 1 was too hoarse too hopeless
from previous efforts to cry out more. But I
struck feebly nt first, and then strongly fran
tically with my clenched fists against the sides
of die boiler. There w as people moving near
who trnrsMiear my blows! Could not I hear
the grating of chains, the shuffling of feet, the
very rustic of a rope, henr them all within a
few inches of me I I did, but tlie gurgling wa
ter that wns growing hotter nnd hotter around
my extremities, made more noise within the
steaming chaldron than did my frenzied blows
against the sides.
'latterly I had hardly changed my position,
hut now the growing heat of the water made
plash to and fro ! lifting myself wholly out of it
was impossible, but I could not remain quiet. I
stumbled upon something, it whs a mallet !
n chance tool the smith had left there hy acci
dent. Willi what wild joy did I seize it with
what eager confidence did I now deal my
first blows with it ngainst the walls of my pris
on ! But scarce had I intermitted tlieiu for a
moment when I heard the clon of the iron
! " l" the decks before the leakage would
."'vcred Should I drive another hole to
' " ! h?' 1
W,,ll,,n T"! , V T", ' '
ed so hot had become that which remained
should more escape, Mould 1 not hear it bubble
and hiss upon the fiery plates of iron that were
already scorching the soles of my feet !
'Ah! there is a movement voices I hear
them calling for a crow-bar the bulkhead
cracks as they pry off the planking. They have
seen the leak they are trying to get at it !
flood (iod w by do they not dampen the fire!
Why do they call for the the the !
'Stranger, look at that finger ! it can never
regain its natural site but it has already done
all tlio service that man could expect from so
humble a member .Sir, that hole vimll ham
bet it pluggtd vp on the inxlant, unless had
jammed nnjjlnger thru tig h
'1 heard the cry of horror as they saw it with
out the shout lo drown the fire the stroke of
the cold water pump. They say, too, that I
was conscious w hen they look me out but I
I remember nothing more until they brought
a julep to my bedside afterwards, And that ju
hp . '
'Cooling ! was it V
'Stuam;i:h ! ! !'
Ben turned away his head and wept lie
could no tay more,
"You seem to Ihj full of the milk of human
kindness," as the monkey suid m hen he suck
ed the OKi unut
'I'm always severe iijx n black Vjg,"as the
shark said hen he snapped oS tufle's under
piuuiiig.
AMERICAN.
there is no app.al but to force, the vital principle
lu. Saturday, Oil. 1-5, isi'J.
Rallnnulnff Eilranrtllnarjr t
A daring feat was accomplished on Saturday
last, by a citizen of our neighboring town of
Gettysburg. Mr. John Wise, the American
Aeronaut, par rxcrltrncr, had announced his
intention to make his 39 Hi loon Ascension, on
that day, from an enclosure in Gettysburg
and with his usual punctuality, was ready on
the day and hour promised. His balloon was
inflated his ballast, grappling iron, &c., duly
stowed, and he was about to step into his basket
At that moment, Mr. John McClellan, a young
gentleman of Gettysburg, enquired of Mr. Wue
whether it would not be possible for two per
sons to ascend with the power then in Hie bal
loon. On receiving a negative reply, Mr. Mc
Clellan seemed much disappointed said he
was determined to have a ride, and enquired
the price at which Mr. Wise would permit
him to make the voyage nlone. 'One hundred
dollars, Sir.'snid Mr. Wise, who did not aj-
pcat to consider the enquirer to be in earn
est 'I will give you fifty dollars !' 'Agreed
fork over !' Tlie joke was 'carried on,' nnd
the cream of it was soon transferred to the
pocket of the Aeronaut and his substitute was
snugly seated in the car, vociferating his di-
rection to 'cut hxse !' Mr. Wise thought that
nmtters had now gone fur enough, and request
ed his customer to get out, ns the time had ar
rived at w hich he had promised to be off". But
he refused to do so, and iusUt.-d that he hail
regularly hired and paid for a passage 'in this
U)at,' and go he would. As Harney O'lteardon
said to the mnn iu the moon, when the latter
respectable personage told him to 'lave his
hoiild." 'The more he bid him, the tn'ire he
wouldn't !'
Mr. Wise then let the balloon up a short
distance hy a rope, thinking probably, that as
there was considerable wind, and the air horse
consequently turbulent, that his nubstttute
would have his courage cooled and 'give in.'
But this was no go and thinking that he had
as good a start as ever he would have, Mr. Mc
Clellan cut the rope and wa$ off" ! After he
found that it was the determination of Mr. Mc
Clellan to go, Mr. Wise had but lime to give
him a ,'w hasty and imperfect instructions in
regard to the mnnngrment of the balloon and
in a few minutes the d.-.ring amateur aeronaut
had ascended to a height of about two miles.
Here he struck a current of air, which bore
him directly towards York. He says that the
enrth receded from him very rapidly after he
had thrown a bag or two of sand upon it that
Gettysburg passed nil toward llagerstown, and
that he'saw Carlisle, Hanover, Alxittstown, Ox
ford nnd Berlin strolling about and that soon
after, just ahead of him, he saw Old York coin
ing full tilt up the turnpike toward hun, -pnreutly
taking and afternoon's walk to Get
tysburg. Having determined tostop at York, and fear
ing, from the remarkable speed at which ouru
euully staid nnd sober town was travelling,
that she would soon puts under hit balloon,
and give him the slip, he pulled the string at
tached t the safety valve, in order lolet off a
portion of his gns. This valve is so constructed,
that when the rope attached to it is pulled, the
vulve iqiens lo the interior and again closes by
the force of the gas when the rope is let go.
Unfortunately, however, the unexperienced
Hcmnnut pulled t.xi violently at the valve rope,
tore the valve dour completely otTit hinges,
and brought it down into the car ! When this
oceuried he was more than a mile high, and
hi; immediately and with fearful rapidity de
fended, or rather! to the car ! When the
vulve door came off", the gas of course escaped
rapidly, but the balloon caught sufficient air to
forma parachute, by which the fall was moder
ated and vie are happy tosiy that the voyager
reached the earth ab int five miles from York,
entirely uninjured ! Ho mivs that assoon us I lie
vulve doorcdiiie dowa upon hun, he kne.v lliil
something hud "broke loose;" and just then re
membering that Mr. Wise had told him to be
sure w hen he descended to throw out li s grap
ping iron, he was preparing to get at it among
the numerous things in the basket, when. the
earth bounced up against the b.ittoin of the
var !"
When first seen from York, the balloon wits
almut thirteen miles off, nearly dun West. It
appealed to be b pproaching d ireetly low ord our
town, until the vulve was pulled and it had fal
len considerably. As it fell, it bOeineJ to find
a current that hire it rapidly toward the
North. The spot ut which il landed is about
North West of our borough.
The escape of Iho gas was distinctly seen
from Yoik; nnd as the balloon neared tlio
earth it hud lost its rotundity am! appeared to
the gazers lit ro R come down lu avtlij like 1
Wet sheet.
We hope that Mr. Me.Clollan will give to
the public the particulars of his voyag.
York (iateite.
What is ihe difference between a lady and
a politician ? One makes a bustle, and the o
llicr wears one
and Immediate rent of de.,nism. Jurrceaot.
Vol. 3-o. 3 W note JVo, lOT.
.Timllrr Wllry.
. In llie New York city court of Oyer nnd
Terminer on Tuesday, this individual, whose
connection with the recovery of the money sto
len Irom the Frederick County Bank of Mary
land has rendered him so notoriiNts, -was sen
tenced to theeily prison for 0 months, and to
pay n fine of -2."0
SF.XTKNCn OF COlT. In the same
Court, on the same day, Jon. C Coi.t, con
victed of the murder of Mr. Adams, wus placed
at the bir to receive s-'iitence.
Mr. Seldcn, (' mnsel for the prisoner, stated
the reason why the Court above had not re
versed the case, but maintained that Jude
Kent could yet review his decision, and he
should be glad to make an argument and to be
heard in the case.
Tne Judge replied that all forms and delays
had been gone through with, and that it only
remained for the conit to perform the last sol
emn and painful duty..
Colt was then arraigned nnd asked by the
clerk if he had any thing tossy why sentence
of Death should not be pronounced. The
Prisoner sa id he had prepared a paper which he
should be glad to have read.
Judge Kent read the communicetion aloud,
which sat forth thnt the Jury had given a ver
dict against the evidence and against the
charge of the Jndge, nnd that they had been
governed by the clamour of the Public, the
misrepresentations of the Piess, and a predispo
sition of some ofthe Jury wlw had said he
Might to be hanged. That if he could have
got his case before the Court of Errors, he felt
confident it should have had a favorable result.
Judge Kent remarked that there had never
been a fairer trial, or a more patient and im
partial Jury. They had manifested every
possible indulgence to him and his counsel, and
it was the height of injustice to impugn their
motives or conduct; thut it was his duty as
well as his inclination to shield them agiinst
all blows, and to award to them the common ex
pression that they had honestly performed their
duty.
Here Colt addressed the Court in as firm
and commanding manner il lie find been an
advocate instead of a prisoner, and snid in sub
stance, that he had njt intended to cast any re
flections upon the jury, and he did not intend,
in his written documents, so to express him
self He said, he was not the mnn who w ish
ed to break down the law, but still he was like
other men, he could not receive an affront
without resenting it, --and that he had done on
more thm he should do again under similar
circumstances. The result, however, he felt
not re-ponsible fir; they were the consequence
ofthe party ; and however deeply he lelt for
the fatal termination, they were brought upon
the party by his own acts. He, however, felt
more agony from the position he w as placed in
than he should to meet death itself. He should
leave the result to God. He had no disposi
tion to postpone a sentence that must be pro
nounced. Judge Kent said there was nothing left for
the Court but to fix the period of the execu
tion. He should refrain from expressions which
were customary on pronouncing a sentence.
The prisoner at the bur was no common person;
it was eviuenl he could meet any crisis in a
manner not common among men. He should
therefore pronounce his sentence, which v.as,
thul he be taken to the place of execution on
the llh of ovetnbcr, and there be hunq bt
the neck until he teas dead. Colt received this
list sentence with great solemnity, but with
firmness, and w ithout any expression of fear
or sorrow. His counsel and brother Miwd near
him on this trying occasion.
The trial of the noted .Monroe Fdwnrds on
another indictment for forgery, was postponed
in. til the lOth October, tor the purpose of pro
curing witnesses Irom Ihlumore. Baltimtoe
Amttiru.u
A private tri'.l 0f, ren'rifug! railway wa
yesterday gen nt the K.ry ptian Hall, PieCadil
Iv, before a number of scientific person. This
railway iK of east iron, and is about 'JIM) feet
lpaa'. It eoieuVs of two incline 1 plains HitA a
1 vertical cire'e 41 feet in crc-ntivncc, the
whole without props or artificial supKrt of viy
kind. A car, containing one person, is started
riein the top of the first and larger incline, and
by means of the momentum gained in the de
sreiU, is carried round the interior ol the circle,
the p issortgei and c. tt upside down, in perfect
safety, and thence to the end of the second and
lessor incline. The exrinientsyeserd iy ap
peared to give great satisfaction.. Suspended
lotho centrifugal railway is a written machine
or signal telegraph; words written ut one end
ofthe room had a fac-simile of them produced
ut the other, and almost simultaneous.
l.'mJon Globe.
Why is idleness like the letter C ! Because
it is Ihe beginning of Crime,
When is a no not a ik ! When it 14 m
little rtdJith,
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Swimming Masquerade.
A letter from Berlin, dated August 3, which
n find in the New York 'Courrier dca Etata
Unis,' cays :
"On Wcdncsdny morning last, we wero
witnesses ofan exhibition probably unexampled
in modern lime al lcasl in Germany a swim
ming ma-qucrade. It was got tip by the pu
pils of the Royal Swimming School of Berlin,
to celebrate the twenty filth anniversary ofthe
foundation of this establishment, which up to
the present lime Iik joduced in all 23,300
skillnl swi imiers.
"At 5 o'clock, 1-J00 swimmers, for the most
part military, as-eniblert in the grand C.sirt of
the burrocks of the iiilantry of the guard, and
after having been addree.cd hy Messrs. Zin-
chen &. Schottz, professors in the school repai
red to tents pitched 011 the banks of the river
Spree, for the purpose of dressing for the sport.
At S o'clock, there swam out into the river the
follow ing procession : A large Iht-bottomcd
boat transformed into a power, in which were
four numerous military bands, performing fa
vorite musical pieces, a car in the form of a
sea shell, containing Neptune, with his hair and
beard formed of sea-weede, and armed with hi
trident, the car being drawn by six dolphins
and surrounded by nereids and tritons, the laN
ter blowing trumpets and beating cymbals;
numerous troop of American Indians, thuf 4i
heads dressed with brilliant feathers, the i.
necks and arms adorned with necklaces n,;
bracelets of coral, and several of them arr .,ei!
with war clubs ; Scotchmen, Norweg? ,an.
Spaniards, Italians, and Russians in their. na
tional costumes ; Bacchus mounted on a 'gigan
tic barrel, crowned with vine and ivy leaves
and blandishing his thyrsis, with which he di
rected the movements of a hundnrvj bacchan .
swimming around his throne nnj cxccur.m..
grotesque evolutions ; the king of the frogs, ft
presented by a frog of enormous size, repwu'r , -on
a car of sea weed and followed by otherr
his race of smaller size; and the proce
closed by two hundred sailors in their ap proprj.
ale costume, singing national hymns.
"This extraordinary celebration w' te, u-.
favored by delightful weather, attrs cte(j mon?
thin forty thousand spectators, wh,a traver-ej
cither on foot, horseback, or in vehicles, the
banks of the. Spree, or sailed al the river in
bouts tatpr.y adorned witli flowers an(J
garland."
Knhraimo'llie iJichir.nnd Star, whimpered to
the Corporal tne other t'ay.limt tho bull end of
a goat lout liisiorjis,
Jew-lips are sa id ia be good for health. A
friend of our. i ho has ventured, says lhat it
h-real stuff.
One of the greatest crimes of the clergv, i
said to consist in neglecting to denounce, i
the most pointed terms, the sin of cheatin'
the printers.'
Whoever has nothing more than modeil
and talent, has a ;,im capital and must burs:
It takes plenty orbrass, a good stock -of impi -dence,
and a thiiubl-4 full of brains, to 5. 1
through the world.
An e.iitor in the West insists npon it tht
confidence is not restored. His tailor,
used to tmst him for a suit of clothes, now re
fuses to trust him even for a pair of pants,
One of th,. ve-ider of the weir, life df llenrv
j ' 1 y walked up to the carriage in which
Web-ter Jefiirted from t e Amot House, an I
j earnestly said Take tne li!'e of Henry C.ny !'
1 . anuot t'.!.-; ".h. lil'.; to eminent a ciliaen,'
was the reply.
A stranger in New Orleans, being sich ofth
yellow fever, said he thought he wonM get Ut
ter, but the thought ef having 110 where todio
troubled his mind and retarded his recoverv.
He w as an Irrshman, of course.
There is 1 man in Yorkshire named Hand
who is 7 feet 2 niche high, and who is exhibi
Unc his long body fortnppence a visit. Exam
ining such & man is a high 7,.J-ed mcaturt.
"Resolve not to be poor," said Dr. Johnson ;
"whatever yoi have spend less," A cotempo
rary asfcs, "Suppose a fellow has nothing, how
can he spend .esa V We think that would
have been rather a poser for the Doctor, had he
lived to hear it.
"We're doing a stacking business," as the
hail stones coolly remarked to the window
glass. We are pncd to hear it," replied the
glass. "Pooh ! yon should make liht of it,"
lesponded tire hail .tones.
'I here are, some solitary wretches, who seem
til hd'A lT. .1... ..t l.:J
.. ,v o inaiiftiiui, oniy as CVS
left Ada.n, to nieet the devil in private.
r ivi, ; . i.;i.i ...;,i. . .i.i 1:1.. .
' J " m vi.iiu ill, m ifiu m VIU1IIIT
v inter's night !' It blows it snows, (UUowa
it note.)