TERMS OF TIII3 AMIiniCAX."
HENRY B, MASSER, 3 Pmtisiiiins ar
JOSEPH ElSELY. iPnoMimii.
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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.
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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.