TERMS OF TIII3 AMIiniCAX." HENRY B, MASSER, 3 Pmtisiiiins ar JOSEPH ElSELY. iPnoMimii. if. ft. JUtSSKtl. tCdilor. ottitx in X4RK(T itiiit, ir taccn. TH E AMERICAN" tipablishci every Satur day at TWO DOLLARS per annul to be )ail half yearly in advance. No jispct discontin ued till Ait, arrearage are paid. No subscriptions received for a less period Ann aix mo.itbs. All communications w letters on business rotating to the office, to insure attention, nui be POST PAID. S?omn mental earthquake hath moved a rustic mountain of thought, and indue time brought forth the following mo-o-nstrous nice thing; Jlicfi. Star. A nnllntl. Somowfii Dkath nc Pkts Grat au T.ii ANN r QcF.nL. My soti- is of a nice young man, VVho-e name nan I'eler Gray, The State wher Peter (tray was born Was Pennnylvani-a. This Peter Oray did fall in love With such a nice young girl; The name of her I'm positive, Ws Lrrianny (jui il. Whin they were going 1o he wed, Her father he said "mi," And brutally did hp nil her off lieyond the Uhio. When Peter found hia love was lost, He knew not what to any; He'd half a mind to jump into The Su?quehant-a. A trading he went to the West, For furs and other skins: And there he wns in crim-on drest By bloody In ji-ins. When Lir.ianny heard the newa, She flaiuht-way took tu bed, And never did gi t off of it Uniil flie di-i-ed. Yc fathers all a warning take Each i no as has a girl And think upon poor Peter Uiay And Lizianny ljuerl. I linve no Iiifliiriire.' What if the little rain should ray, So small a drop as I Can ne'ei refrrsh those thirsty fields I'll tairy in the sky ! What if a shining beam i f noon Should in its fountHin stay, LSt'cause its feeble light alone Cannot create a day I Polh not each rain drop hi lp to form The aoul refreshing shower, And every ray of hulit to warm And beau il'y the flowei ? I The following we find in the Boston Post : To , Thine eyes are Muck like Schuylkill coal ; Thy teeth are white like Ii tier paper ; Thy bustle's like my darling soul, 'I'is like a curved Carolina later. Here is a conceit : heath and nr.srnnr.i Tio v. In trance of love I swooned awny ; .Within her arms I buried lay. ' She waked me gently With a ki-s , Her eyes revealed A heaven of bl ss. TI1K DltlMvAltD'S UIIil.K. 'Mr. President,' said a short, stout man, with n good-humored countenance, and a florid com plexion, rising as the tast speaker took his seat, 'I have been a tavern-keeper.' At this announcement there was a movement through the whole room, and an expression of increased interest. 'Yes, Mr. President,' he went on, 'I hnve been a tavern-keeper, and many a glass have 1 sold to yon and to the Secretary there, and to dozens of others that I see here' glancing around upon the company. 'That's a fact,' broke in '.he President ma ny n gin-toddy and brandy-punch have I taken nf your bar. But times are changed now, and w e have begun to carry the war right into the enemy's cump. And our war has not been tin- successful, for we have taken prisoner one of .t. a..ii.-, v..-,... .,., i i .in. luiii-Di iili a im.i, iiriuin . Olll JJU till, friend W , let us have your experience.' 'As to my experience, Mr. President,' the i ex-tavern-keeper resumed, 'in rum-selling ami rum-drinking for I have done a good deal of both in my day that would be rather too long a Btory to tell to-night, and one that I had much rather forget than relate. It makes mo trem ble and sick at heart, whenever I look back on the evil I have done. 1 therefore usually look .hr..1 .iib tt.o ir,f,t.;.. ..lm -ui i ..... " w V Willi. WVJ W e men. I 4But there is one incident that 1 will rc'nte. For the last five years a hard-working mec'nanJc with a wife and several small children, came regularly, almost every night, to my tavern md spent the evening in the bar-room. He came to drink, of course, and many a dollar of hia hard earnings went into my till. At last ho became a perfect sot working scarcely one-fourth of 'he time, and spending u 1 1 lie arned in liquor. His poor wife had to take in washing to support herself and children, while lie spent his time, and the little he could earn, at my bar. But his appetite for liUtir 'vas so trong, tint his week's earnings were usually all gone by Tuesday or Wednesday, ami then I had tochalkupa score against him, to be paid off when Saturday night came. The score gradually increased, until it amounted to three pi four dollars, oer his regular Saturday night's Absolute acquiescence in the decision of the Hy Manser & i:isclj pay, when I refiisvd to sell him Uny mow Ii quor until ft xvas settred. On tiro day after 1 had refused to sell him, became in with a neat momning breast-pin, trrcros'irig some hair no (lottbf, I thought of deceased relative. This ho ottered in payment of what he owed. I ac cepted it, for the pin I saw at once was worth double the amount of my bill. I did not think or indeed care about the question, whether he was the owner or not ; I wanted my own, and in my selfish eagerness to get tny own, I hesi tated not to take a little more thnn my own. I laid the breast-pin away, and all things went on smoothly for a while. But he gradu ally got behind again, and again I cut oft the supply of liquor. This time he brought mo a pair of brass andirons, and a pair of brass can dlesticks. I took them nnd wiped off the score against him. At lost, ho brought a large family bible, and I took that too thinking, no doubt I could sell it for something. 'On the Sunday afterwards, having nothing to do for I used to shut tip my bar on Sunday, thinking it was not rcuprrtublr to 6ell liquor on that day I opened this poor drunkard's family Bible scarcely thinking of what I was toing. The first place that I turned to was the family record. There it was stated that on a certain day he had been married to Emi ly . I had known Emily when I was a young man very well, and had once thought seriously of offering myself to her in marriage. I remembered her happy young face, and sud denly seemed to hear the tone of her merry 1 ttightcr. 'Poor creature !' I sighed involuntarily as a j thought of her present condition crossed tny j mind and then with no pleasant feelings 1 turned over the next leaf. There was the re nt rd of the birth of four children ; the last had been made recently, and was in the mother's hand. 'I never had such a strange feeling as now came over me. 1 felt that I had no business with this book. Jiut I tried to slide my feel ings, and I turned over several leaves quickly. I siiflercd my eyas to rest tiKinan open page ; these words m rested my attention : ' 'Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging ; whoso isdeceived thereby is not wise.' 'This was just the subject that, under the feelings 1 then had, I wished to avoid, and so I referred to another place. There 1 read ' 'Who hath woe! Who hath sorrow ! Who hit th wounds ! Who hath babbling 1 Who j huth redness ot eyes ! They that tarry !ong at the wine. At Inst it biteth like a serpent, it stingeth like an adder.' 'I felt like throwing the book from me. But once more I turned the leaves, and my eyes rested upon these words : 'Woe unto him who givrth h's neighbor drink; that puttcst the bottle to him and ma kes! him drunken.' 'I closed the book suddenly, nnd then threw it down. Then for half an hour I paced the room backwards and forwards in a state of mind such as I never before experienced. I hail become painfully conscious of the direful evils resulting from intemperance, and still more painfully conscious, that I had been a willir.g instrument in the spread of these evils. I cannot lell how much I suffered during that day and night, nor describe the fearful con flict that took place in my mind, between the selfish love of the gains of my calling, and the p mil dictates of truth and humanity. It was about 1) o'clock, I think, on that evening that I opened the drunkard' Bible ngain, with a kind of despairing hope that I might find something to direct me. I opened at the Pvitina nn.l f ii'i (Ii.aa A .. I I . ' " r0fl1 submit finding anything that seemed . . i - I to apply lircetly to my case, ( tell an increas ing desire to abandon my cnlling, because it was injurious to my fellow men. After Iliad read the Bible, I retired to my bed but could not sleep. I am sure that during that night I thought of every drunken man to whom Iliad sold liquor, and to oil their beggared families. In the brief sleep that I obtained, I dreamed that 1 .'aw a long lot of tottering drunkards, " ,l" l"l,r "'s ana children m rags. Aim a 111 mud voice said 'who hath done thid !' 'The answer, in a still louder voice, directed. I felt to me, tmotc upon my ear like a peal of thunder ' 'Thou art tho jnan !' 'From this troubled slumber I awoke to sleep no more that night. In the morning tho last and most powcrfuteonflicl came. The question to he decided, was 'Miiill 1 oneri my tavern, or at once a bandouthe dreadful tr.itlie in liquid poison !' 'Happily I decided never to put to any man's lip the cud ot contusion. MV next step was to turn the spigot of every keg, of every barrel of spirits, wine, beer or cider, and let the con tent escape on the floor. My bottles and de canters were likewise emntied. Then I came ami signed your total abstinence pledge, and what is belter, never rested until I had persua ded the mull whose Bible had been to much Uao UHBUMY AMERICAN. AND SHAMOKIN JOURNAL. majority, the vital principle of Republics, from which Simliury, lYortliunibcrlaiid Co. to tno to sign (he pledge likewise. And now, Mr. President, I am keeping, at my old stand, a Temperance Grocery, and am making resti tution as fast as possible. There are at least half a dozen fh miles that my tavern helped to make poor and wretched, to whom I furnish a small quantity of groceries every week, in ma ny cases equal to the amount that used to be spent at my bar, for liquor. Four of my old est customers have already signed the pledge by my persuusion, anil I am not going to rest until every man that I helped to ruin, is resto red to himself, his family and society.' A round of hearty applause followed his ad dress, and then another of the reformed drink ers took the floor. A KltiailTIUI, KXPKIUMKXT Was tried with gunpowder at Belvidere, in Warren County, , J. on Friday afternoon, which threatened the most fatal consequences to several individuals. The case as stated by the Journal shows remarkable temerity on the part of the persons concerned, and the result is fraught with profitable warning: It appears that a large hollow iron shaft for a water wheel was cast some moiithu since at the foundry of David P. Kenyon, in Belvidere ; which proving defective, was removed to a hollow about a quarter of'a mile from the vil lage" fiir the purpose of being burs', to pieces willi powder, in order that the fragments might he melted down and cast over. This was tit tempted on Friday afternoon. Mr. K. and some of his workmen charged it with several Hunils of powder and forced in an iron ba'l weighing some 2" lbs., bv the side ot which they drove in a large iron wedge, supposing that when the powder should be exploded the I ball would be forced along the wedge, until be- coming obstructed, the expansive force of the powder would burst the shall asunder. Having ! no idea that the ball could possibly escape, they j were careless, ami in tho opinion of most per- j sons, blaiiitably careless, of the direction in which the cylindrical shaft was pointed. As it happened, it was aimed towards the village, The match w as applied ; an explosion follow- ed. nut instead of bursting the shaft, the hall nnd wetlgc were forced out with irresistible vi- olence, the ball being hurled in the direction of Mr. Craig's Hotel. In its route it passed near the head of one of the persons who had been concerned in loading the shall; struck the earth in the street south of the Court House, near were some boys were pluj ing ; thence glanced upward, passed through the roof of the shed in the rear of Mr. Craig's pre-j I'is leisure, in a secure position whichlieh.nl niises; dashed through a window in the second j taken up between my shoulders. At this hi story of the house, through the partition which J teresting juncture, I was seized by 'he button separates the back and front rooms, forced its way "hi through the front of the house, and tell to the ground a few rod distant. A'ear where it fell some persons were passing, and some children were playing, but noue of 'hem was injured. In the front room through which the ball passed, tieorge W. Smyth, Esq , his lady, and a young ludy, were silting ul the time, The hall went a li'tle to the front of Mr. Smyth, ami directly over the head of Mrs. Smyth, missing her by only a few inches. She had just resumed her seat, having the minute before been standing in point blank range ofthe shot which would certainly have dashed her to pice- es. As it was, her head was covered w ith oust anil fragments of the shattered wall, and tbe was stunned with the concussion of the air, which was so great as to force out several panes of glass from the window near her. On the whole, however, she sustained no serious injury; a most providential circumstance. The conduct of Mrs. Smyth on this trying ccasion was cool, cilm and collected, allord- ing an example worthy of imitation by her sex. She neither screamed, fainted, nor went into hystericks, but seemed lei-s anxious for her own personal safety than for that of her husband. The first word she uttered was to enquire whe ther he was hurt, even before she could deter mine whether or not she was hene f seriously injured. 'A Stkanok Mkih.v ' The Hindoo gods con gregate in the heaven of India to the number of ailO.tKHMKKI! They are of all ciders, some white, some red, some blue, and so through all the blending shades of the rainbow. They ex hibit all sorts of shape, size and figure, in tonus wholly human, or half human, wholly brutal, or variously compounded with four, or ten, or hundred ryes, heads, and nnes. They ride through tht! regions of space on all sorts ol'ani inula elephants, bulla Iocs, lions, deers, goals, peacocks, vultures, geese, serpents and rats! They hold forth to their multitudinous arms all manner of offensive and defensive weapons thunderbolts, scimitars, javelins, spears, clubs, bows, arrows, shields, flags, and chells ! India and Indian Mission. I low to Mot sr a IIoriNi: In Pern knot is tied to the horse's tail, into which the holy introduces Iter fvot uj into a tlirruis there is no appral but to force, Iho vital prin-iplo Pa. Snlunia), Oc t. n, is 12. Tho following chapter on little troubles is from the last number nf the Knickerbocker: Mllle Troutitra. It is Dr. Johnson, we believe, who says that little vexations are more trying to the temper, and harder to be borne, lhan greater troubles. We heard the other evening a querulous-looking little manufacturer illiisttate the truth of the remark, by a ludicrous narrative of small annoyances, that matle cu aggregate of large misery. 'I went,' said he, 'into my barber's this morning, with my temper soured by letters from the attorneys of five bankrupt creditors at the South west ; postage unpaid of course oh! yes; bankrupts don't piy postage to their dupes oh ;:o! I was vexed too, ut a painter, who had received half-pay in advance to paint me a new sign ; but he must go a-sailiug on the bay a-Siinday, and gel drowned just like as not on my money : anyhow he 'died' and tnmlc no igi.' I was in a dreadful hurry, for I had to raise money to take up the note, ami was short full one halt There was a young sprig in the barber's chfiir, who passed me and got into the shop about a yard before me, by acting as if he wanted tn ppeak to a man ahead of me a contemptible trick ! Well. Sir, there he sal feeling of his chin after every round ofthe razor, ami 'asking for more' till his heard was 'close'-rcnpcd into the middle of next week ; reading the whole lime the only paper that I ever io read, which he continued to do all the while the man was curling his hair and whis kers, evidently just to spite me. It was an hour before I got away from the barber's; and thru the friend who would have loaned me fit', ty dollars, in my strait, had taken the morning enrs for Newark, After attending to some ne- "essnry business at the store, I sailed out for a 's'"n '' " Wall-slreot. Every body was 'short, though each one ei.iihl have done it yrsteidiiy' which struck me as rather curious, 'l w'as not far fiom three, nnd the day was of the nastiest August kind ; hot as molted lead, muggy and stichy. I had on a pair of new i boots, which my shoe-maker, for the first time j I really Ixdieve in twenty years, had been made j toi small. Heavens! how they hit in the heels, j blistered as they were from slipping up and j down in them! My stock was continually twisting round, hindside-aforo. My shirt, too, seemed imssesseil. I cuii'd'ut keen it down he- bind. It kept crawling up, and finally rolled ' "to an inaccessible lump, saturate with perspi- j ration, and rested in the small of my back. j This annoyed me almost as a Ilea, the first I j '"id felt this summer, that was nipping me : ' '') pcrhap the most perfect specimen of n bore that can he found in .New-York; not one of ynlir big pod-auger sort, but a fellow that twists 1 a gimlet into you with his right hand, while ' I'o detains you by tin button with Ins left, ta- ; king it out now and then, when he thinks it is going rather hard, to blow oft" the chips, and forthwith inserting it in another place. He was telling me, in a loud voice, of a shabby trick that he had lately been served him by a j man that had just passed us, anil w hat he Irid 'hat morning said to him : 'Said P Sir, you are . a d d liar and scoundrel !' etc. ; an. I 1 could j ' ns the passers by turned round to look at i us, umi iney uinugni ne was ainiressing mis I complimentary remark to me. I din't wonder. : either, that they uliould think so, for my face 1 ititi-t have been a good tleul inllamt d w ith lui- patient endurance. Well, when I could staud it no longer, I broke away, to drop in upon the onlv friend w ho I thought, would help me out ; and what to do you think lie had 'just lent I t'very dollar he had' to the man who n my hut- ton holder h id been servin,' up tome in parcels Ii, 'particular friend ! As I came out of his of fice, the ch ck struck three. I went home more annoyed, more grieved, than T remember ever 10 have been in my life. I was now brought up to the highest pitch. I went straight to my bed-riKim, and after a long search, I found the little black rascal th.it had covered my back 11 nil shoulders thick with oblong welts of blotch es ; and was glancing at the demoniacal re venge depicted in utv countenance ns I passed bv the looking-glass, roiling my prisoner 'as a sweet morsel' under my thumb and finger, when the door-holl ring, and tho gil l came to i say that 'a gentlemftn wanted to see me I j stepped below, with Something nf exu' latioii j in my manner, and in the hill found the Nota- J ry. He handed me a protest it nil walked out ; i ami w hen he hud nc I stud to hiui, " u and your luk may go to the d 1 '. I'd rHther have the plcusure of torturing this little torment to death, than to have iho stamped note iu my pocket '." After manipulating my victim w Uh due economy of enjoyment, 1 thought I'd see how he bore it. Now would you b' ieve it ! it wasn't the lieu, it was a piece of black lint I rum the lower side of my stock. This was the bitterest disappointment of that unlucky day !" Levity is often less tisilish, and gravity less w u ?, than each of the m appcur. and imrnedia'o parent of despoliam. JrrKWao. Vol. 3 . I Whole o, lOH, Thr (irrnt ItrHnln Irnn trntnrr, Ihe Inrgest In llir ivmlrt. The following, which we copy from the Times, is a more complete description of this gigantic vessel than has yet appeared. The (irent Britain is built entirely of iron, with the exception ofthe llooring of her decks, and the flooring and ornamental parts of her cabins. She is II'Jl feet in length aloft, or upwards of 10(1 feet longer than our largest battleships. Her extreme breadth is fl feet, and the depth of Iter hold !1'J feet. She is registered SvJOt) tons, so that her hulk far exceeds that of any two steamers in tho world. She has four decks, the lowest of which is of iron, appropriated fur the teception of the cargo. Tbe oppor deck, with tbe exception of a small break in the fore castle, is completely flush from stem to stern, without building or elevation of any kind, so that, besides the masts and funnel, there will be nothing above deck to offer resistance to a head wind. The two intermediate decks are appropria ted exclusively to the use of passengers and the equipage? of the. ship, and consists of four grand sal. sins, forming together a length of di ning room of 3."MI feet, two large ladies' cabins or family rooms, nnd 1HI state rooms, each containing two spacious sleeping berths, so that besides the portion appropriated to the crew, steward's department, &c the immense number of JJfilt passengers can be accommoda ted each writ a separate bed without requiring a single sofa to be made up in any of the sa loons. The principal saloon is 1(H feet long by HvJ feet wide, and r feet 8 inches high. Be sides the vast space appropriated to the passen gers, crew, &c., and that occupied by the en gines, h.iilers, &e she has sullicient room for the storage of HMU) tons of coal, and 1200 tons nf measurement ot goods. There ure three boilers, capable of containing 200 tons of water, which will he heated by 2 1 fires, and she has four engines, each of 2."0 horse power, making in all ItHMI horse power. Some idea may be formed of her vastness, when I state that 14(H) tons of 1 1 on have been used in her construc tion. The most novel feature almut the Croat Brit ain is her mode nf propulsion, which is by the newly unproved screw-proppeller, p.iten'ed by Mr. Smith, of Ignition, (with improvements made Uxiti it,) and applied by that -o if i mi i m 1 1 with complete success to the Arc! tim tie-. '!'.,.. (ireat llritnin w lil he fitted with six .u ; If, .i five ol'w h.cli a single fore ami af sail only ;i I be carried, the mainmast alone being ngeii I with yards and topmast, TIm-o " ', ' Ioa as I'niiiii i re! w itii fie s . ot' '!.e . fl, al though the iiiainiin-t will he 'J"i t- i t long, nnd the quantity of canvass, though inconsiderable to what she shun Id carry as a full rigged ship, will still be as much as would cover three quar ters of mi acre of ground. ii is oimrui. to ascer.atn me prec.se nmiis ofthe speed which she is calculated to perform i.,..- t. ...--t - i--.i at sea. Probably the expectations of the di- j rectors are greater on this point than they choose to confess until an actual trial, but something considerably exceeding that of any sea-going steamship at present afloat may be looked for. The rate at which the Oriental steam vessels accomplish their voyages does not average more lhan eight miles an hour ; the Atlantic about nine, and the most rapid sea voyage yet accomplished has not yet exceeded 10 miles an hour. It is estimut.id that the Croat Britain will accomplish from 10 to Hi miles an hour, according to the nature ofthe w eatherand the sea, and no doubt is entertai ned that her average will be at least 12 to 13 in les per hour; taking the lowest of these rules, there would bean amazing increase over the greatest triumphs of steam navigation hith erto heard of, Sixi.ri.AR Cuu k. M. ScbwiTgue has re cently viiiiptcted llie astronomies I clock for the Calh' dral of Strasburg, to the repair of which lie bus devoted himself with an indefati gable assiduity lor the list four years. Il was to lie finished about the end of Sep- i I (ember, und its inauguration will make a pari ofthe festivals which lake place at the seien titie Congress. Kvvotie who has been al ! lowed to pen. -trite into tiie sancttni'y of M. Si'hwilgue's lab'Ts agree in - ing : hut it will I be an adtmrali'e piece of w. -;. en p. Mid ! its w bole n"d its o 'Us will tortn en.- '"i -, i d'-rs n'" modem l'1 The rev. Itit'ons ot' th- J -.no, the ni"' n, and the plrvset -, I'soire tiiete w til scientific precision, and t ie most ingenious mechanism gives motion nt the apponileii lime to the different figure. Seven figures represent the seven days in a week ; each appears in turn and occupies a particular place according to the hour of the day. The four ages strike the quarters, and the hideous skeleton. Death, employs himself in striking the hours. At noon the twelve apostles come in succession tolnw before the figure of Jesus Christ, who gives theni his blessing. And finally at the same hour, the Cirk raisi his wings three times, and three times makes the vuu'.U of the Cathedral rvsouuJ with hit, cro a iug. lunig n pajKT. - J' 1 i i ) mi .,um . PRICKS OP AOVrRTISrVG, t square insertion, . . f) !50 t do 2 do . . . .0 7" 1 do 3 d, . . 00 F.vi-ry suhopijtictTt rrisrYtii-.'n, . ( Yearly Advertisements: one coTurrm, JtlV; bnlf column,? IS, three squares, f H; two squares, f 9 j one square, fS. llalf-yearly s one column, ft 8 ; half column,? 12 :; three squares, f 3 ; two squares, f 5 ; one square, f 5 50, Advertisements left without directions as to ths lenqlh f tihie'they ire to be published, will be continued until ordered at, and charged accord ingly. Cjixtecn hnea make a square. A Wonder or Patient Toil. An Italian artist, Signrrr Andrea Gambassini, is now ex bibfting in Imdona model of St. Peter's at Home, on a grand scale, showing both the in terior and exterior of tht wonderful edifice to the 'minutest degree of accuracy. It is on the scale of one to a hundred, being twenty-one foot in "length anil six feet four inches in height. The signer v.'fts engaged fourteen years in 'its construction. The exterior of the models is of itself a Sur prising clTort of ingenuity ; it is constructed of nitipie, ndjs adrfdrabTy regarded as a piece of joinery merely : the architectural forms arc sharply defined, the columns o'nd capitals accu rately cut, and the statues delicately corved in ivory. Tho model is made to open, like a cabi net, to show the interior ; being divided down tho centre, one side is detached from the other ; and tho visiter is thus enabled to form a con ception of tho surpassing splendor and richness ofthe rr,vp iVoril, and to eximine in detail the plan of the structure nnd its dpcoration. The gray marble column, the inlaid floor, the gild ed ceiling, the painied dome, nnd walls enrich ed with the treasures of painting and sculpture, are exposed to view ; the East and the transept a'sonpon, nnd by means of a mirror every re c ss of the clnpe becomes visible. The mo saic p ivirti'tit Is ciiinpnsed of various woods re senihio.tg colored marbles, but the tnsrble pan ncline of the walls are pointed by hand; the Matucs are carved in ivory, and the mosaic al-ter-pieces and other pictures ofthe dome and ceiling aro executed on copper, in tbe most finished style of miniature-painting ; not a stat ue js omitted, not a slab of marble but is faith fully represented. .V. 1". Com. Adv. Mi'i.k. Tho Erie Railroad brought to th city 93,000 quarts of milk, during the month of September. Tho milk is bought in Orang" county at two cents, and sold to dealers on ar rival here, at four cents a quart. The road earned in the whole, during the month )10,00u of which ti,f(00 was received for freight, and 81,200 for passengers. Tho milk produced at half a cent a quart, $103. The weight of the milk was ninety-three tons. .V. V. Jour, of Com. Immense Fiock of Cir.nsE. While visiting Ha-npton Reach on Friday la.-', we saw a flock of ge;r, abi'ttt ''-n miles from -'fre, number i.f mere th five hntldre" Thov wefs P'tr--":M. 'v direction, p-ov-d for ' '-' re- ''i the u'mo regu'arity. TI.ey ''I r ! v a straight line, and the f xtrei se i -ii Is of t'.' fl ick, were estimated by sevi r tl persons present to exceed one milo and a half F. rrlir Xrwslrttrr Com km. Names. The names of Newfound land hiils, harbors, coves, creeks, and bav. have rra,,v RmnsPi, U3 Th(J Hlow-me-doWn . ..rlk t,1P Come-bv Chance.Rrook. the Seldom. - enine-by-Harbor, the Punk Islands, imply a mode nf nomenclature primitive if not always elegant ; and highly expressive, if not attrac tive, as Hloody Beach, Damnable Bay, Deai1 man's Point, Ragged Islands, Ray Despair, Th Frying Pan, Cape Broil, Ikll Hill, Mount Mis ery, Wolf Bay, the Bishop's Falls, Lion's Dct Bay of Fair and Faise, Muddy Hole, rop'.'i Harbor, Goose Cove, Gander Bay ! When Thebes was burnt, Alexander save I only the house ofthe poet Pindar. When T5t" falo was burnt, thu British officers saved on. the house of an old woman, as arewavd for lur brave defence of it with a troonvstic'if. In the Pickwick papers fc plot is formed for getting Mr. Pickwick Out of pvison, and smug gling Ii i in oft' to America, until be could "return in safety. Tn urging the plau to his en Sam uel, Mr. Weller makes the followirtjvcry sag.. remarks : 'The IeTikorti v il 1 never give him up, Hair -my. ven vonce they finds he's got tnonry l spend,' and 'ven he returns can write a bool; about 'Merikeu os'll pay bis expenses, and more ttx, if hr wily blmrt Vtn t;i enough.' Sixoii.ar Notice. On a sign of an I :.. bearing the I )u l;e of Athol'.'s Arms, tipon :- -li- ie. ' e.tate, cays the Inverness Herald, v I'.i' 'ollnwing words; "The Itit.-'ss Umvs the D ike's Arris e v ry ti.or:v"g it t I've o'clock fir Glasgow" meaning a comcIi called the f)ntcht$s. Hii grace b' in; nSrined of this, pleasantly remark ed, 'I as-nre yii it is nearly true: although not for Glasgow, but to attend to such ccMfCerm as flute to my happiness, anil I sincerely with many oilier wives would do the same," The celebrated 1 ocke, when iu franco in the year 1016, speak of parasols, tV.e first w e know vf them, in a journal which he kept 'a a pretty sort of cover for woimri riding iu the sun, made of straw, something like the tin co vers fvr dishes.' A high rliurciuiian was once asked what I made his library look so thin, 'My books H keep Lent Ilia reply was.
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