Vain of Wewapapers.
It if laid that the father of an interring
family near Detroit, Mich., not long since stop
ped the only newspaper which he allowed
himself or family, and solely on the ground
that he could not atlord the espouse. This
man chews $14 00 worth of tobacco a year.
Exchange paper.
No wonder then he is etHpid enough to die
continue his newspaper. His torpid tobacco
ridden brain, must loathe intellectual ailment
as much as a sea sick man does pork. Such a
man cannot understand that the real value of n
newspaper is greater than the pitiful two or
three dollars a yes r which tnay be its pr'ce.
As a contemporary remarks, a nr.-wtpnper is a
grhool in a family, worth ten dollars a year.
Even the most barren paper brings something
new. Children read or hear the content!, gain
intelligence of the atVairs of the world, and ac
quire uteful knowledge, ot more importance to
tlit'tn in life than a present of fifteen acres of
land. 1'arcnts arc not aware of the vast im
portance ofa newspaper in a family of children.
We have made the remark before, and we re
peat it, that take two families of children o
(jually smart, and both going to the same school,
let one of them have the tree use of a news
paper, and it would excite astonishment to
mark the difference between them. Pull one
half, as it respects the business of the world,
and the ability to rise and make one's self re
spectable in it, is derived from newspapers.
What parent would not wish his children re
spectable 1 Who would be willing to have his
neighbor's children more intelligent than his
own ? Vet how trifling is the sum a paper
costs 1 It is even in these hard times abso
lutely contemptible in amount, and no man c
ver felt it, excep in its beneficial consequen
ces, w ho ever paid his subscription regularly.
Harrislurg Teleg raph.
Look Atoir. Some years ago, Dr. Good
man of Philadelphia, (now deceased,) related
thntina voyage to sea in early life, he had
seen a lad who had just began to be a sailor,
going out to some projecting part of the rig
ging. His arms were supported by a spar, and
he was looking below him for a rope which ran
across, on which his feet, should be. The rope
llew from side to side, and it was evident that
the poor fellow was becoming dizzy, and in
danger of falling, when the mate nhoutrd to
him with all his force, "I-ook aloft ! you snea
king lubber !" Ey thus turning away his eyes
from danger, the dizziness was prevented, and
he found his footing. And this incident the
Doctor said, often occurred to his mind in after
life when his troubles grew heavy upon him,
and he could hardly find ground whereupon to
trend. At such time he heard the mate's shout
in his cars, and turned his eyes "aloft" to the
prize on which he had placed his hopes. We
cannot part with this beautiful illustration,
without asking each of our readers to apply it
to a still nobler purpose; tosteady themselves
in all the tempests ot adversity j by looking
towards that life in which there is rest and
peace evermore and when our flesh and heart
shall fail us, and we find no support under our
feet to seek it by "looking aloft" to Ilim who is
the strength of our heart, and our portion forever.
Printers' Outstanding ArtoiNTs. A thou
sand such accounts, at ten dollars each, amount
to ten thousand dollars a handsome sum these
times, were it all collected. The same num
ber at five dollars each, amount to five
thousand dollars. Ought not, then, every sub
scriber to a paper to do as he would be done
by, and thus fulfil the golden rule cancel at
once his printers' account, more or less that
he may not be one of the thousand, or the one
hundred, or even the fifty, who may think that
because the debt is small, it is of little conse
quence to the printer. This is no dun but
the statement of a question inequity, for the
solution of none else but Uigec whom it may
concern. 7'ic Fraternity.
Stranok if Trie. A party of gentlemen
from the Southern settlements, a short time
since, on their way to this place, were short
of provisions, and fortunately discovered two
bears with their cubs. A fire was commenced
upon the younger branches, and they were both
wounded but the old ones assisted them ofl,
running by their sides, and stopping occasion
ally at pine trees, fiom whence they were seen
to tear otf some bark. The pursuit was con
tinued by the gentlemen, firing upon the young
er animals until they were killed, and when ex
amined it was found that the bark was instat
ed in their wounds by their careful mamas.
This is a circumstance well worthy of note.
St. Augustine Florida) Sties.
THE AMERICAN.
Saturday, .Yew. 18, 1843.
f1 J- '...J ' !1 ... t'SU i
Foa Sale. A fresh supply of printing pa
per, viz; 100 roimt similar in sire and quality to
the sheet on which this is printed. AIo GO ream
nf super royal, 21 by S3 inch, all uf which will
be old at the mill price.
rry V. B. Palm nit, Fso.. at his Real Folate and
Coal office, No, 59 Pine Street, Philadelphia, au
thorised to act a Agent, and to receive and receipt
for all monies due this office, for subscription or ad
vertising. Cj" There will be preaching in the Methodist
Church, in this place, on Sunday evening the I9ih
inst., by the Kev. Mr. lUt.nwtx, agent of the Bi
ble Society.
rjj' GaoanArur or Pknsstlvaki a, by Charen
B. Trego, Esq., &r. We have perused this most
excellent woik with pleasure, as well as profit. It
ia a vast storehouse of useful information, admira
bly irranged ; and ought to be in the hands of eve
ry citizen, and made text book in our common
schools. We hope the school directors of our bo.
rough will examine the work, and introduce it into
our schools at once. Mr. Trego, aa Assistant State
Geologist, had a fine opportunity fur gathering the
information necessary for such a work, and has made
good use of it. He gives not only the geography,
history, soil, climate, genlngy, botany , zoology, popu
Ixtion, education, production, trade and internal im
provements of the atstr, but has added a separate
description of each county, its geographical features,
soil, miner I pri dui Is. geology, trade, manufactories,
town I, streams, conoid, tail roads, education, Mu
tinies, and in short every thing worthy of note.
This work contains just the kind of information that
ought tu be possessed by oil classes uf the cnmmu-
j nity, and we take pleasure in tiansfering to our co-
lumns the following senaiblo and well limed re
I maiks upon that subject, from the Philadelphia
! Daily Sun :
"Perhaps, of all subject, our citizens neglect
none so much, as an intimate acquaintance with
the statistics of their own Mate. How tew a
. , ., ' mong us know the extent of our manufacturing
OCJ'NKwCor.vri-nrK.TS.-A number of 10 j i,Iutry or the value of our quarries, our
counterfeit notes on the Mechanics Hank of Bul l- 1 iines, and other mineral resources, that stamp
more, have been put into circulation in this county ! Pennsylvania with the character of wealth, for
ages to come T liut it our own citizens are so
rERrrri'AL Motion. There is a clock maker
in Charleston, Mr. Stein, who has almost dis
covered perpetual motion. He some time since
constructed a clock that ran for one year, with
out winding up ; this clock was its own pendu
lum and gave on its face, the time at London,
Paris and Charleston ; it was raffled out at sixty
chances at five dollars each, and is now in
England. The Mercury udds
Mr. Stein is working at present at a clock,
which is moved by a spring and ran also be
propelled by weight ; it has only four wheels
and its mechanism is very simple, it makes on
ly 4J evolutions during the term of ten years,
and it need not be wound up in that time. Mr.
Stein avers, that if he puts an additional wheel
into this clock w ith one hundred teeth, it will
go one hundred years without being wound up,
and nevertheless the whole clock wants only
five pounds weight to be kept going. Mr. Stein
will have a clock of the above description rea
dy in four mouths time, and will then give all
friends of curious mechanism an opportunity to
judge for themselves.
The Pkophet in a New Character. Joe
Smith the Mormon leader, has opened a Hotel
at Nauvoo. The following odd resolutions, a
inong otheis, were passed at the opening, on the
3.1 ult.:
Resolved, Ci n. Jtseph Smith, whether we
view him as a Prophet at the head of the
Church, as General at the head of the Legion,
Mayor at the head of the City Councilor as
b Landlord at the head of his table, he has few
equals and no superior.
Hisolnd, Nauvoo, the great Emporium of
the West, the centre of all centres; a city of
three yearn' growth, a population of 19,000
fouls, (!) congregated from the lour quarters of
the Globe, (!!) embracing all the intelligence
of all nations, (!!!) with industry, frugali
ty, economy, virtue, and brotherly love, unsur
passed in any age ofthe world, a suitable home
for the saints (!!!!)
The Condition of Pawn. A French r.nti
Miuisterial Journal thus describes the condi
tion of Paris : "The following i the aspect of
the capital ofthe civilized world at the approach
ofa winter which may become disastrous. Freud
is increasing in price every fifteen days.
A multitude of operatives are destitute of em
ployment. Tho depobits withdrawn from the
savings' banks exceed the receipts by 100,000
francs a week. Tho sales by authority of jus
tice, protests, executions, bankruptcies, depo
sits with pawnbrokers, closing of shops, chil
dren abandoned to the care ofthe foundling
hospitals, and the admission of sick to the hos
pitals, are increasing every day. The govern
ment, however, are expending fi()01('00,(K)0
francs to surround Paris with bastilles."
Stroso Ixni fTMi vr An individual whose
trade is office-begging, writes to a friend ofthe
eame profession the following letter: "You
had better come cut to Surpamon county, 111.,
for iUnighiy incfa men gtat offices hue."
Reversing Tnr: Seasons. A company with
a capital of 2.",000,000 francs, is about being
established in Paris for the purpose of forming
a very large and extensive covered garden.
The plants, shrubs and flowers of the temper
ate and torrid zones will be introduced, and the
air ofthe garden heated in such a maimer as
to allow them to bloom and blossom the whole
year. The invention is said to he a new one.
It will be a grand affair. There are to he with
in the walks, baths, libraries, bull rooms, res
taurants, and various other places of luxury and
amusement. Reformer.
recently. The notes are tolerably well executed.
(Jj TlIK Ec.LF.CTlC AXP MfSEUM OF FnnilHS
Litehatcse. The November number of this ex
cellent periodical contains a rich variety of selec
tions from the Foreign periodicals. Ilia one ofthe
best, if not the vety best, and cheapest publications
of the kind that issues firm ibe Press, The read
ing matter ofthe present number alone is worth the
years subscription.
0 Mh. Wehsteh made another of bis great
speeches at Andover, Ma s , hut week. He de
clare himself in favor ofa National Dank, and
Protection. The. speech is rather a turn atf.iir
remarkably deficient in a proper knowledge of
our resources!, how much more so are our neigh
bors, who undertake to censure, satirise, and
ridicule us for our poverty and our avarice !
We challenge any man to consult this volume
of Mr. Trego, and then say, that Pennsylvania
has not a superabundance of wealth and indus
try, by winch to pay all In r debt", ami alter
wards construct new improvements ! Let this
volume be read let it be diffused fur and wide;
for the further it spreads the more will Penn
syivania be honored for her industry, respoeted
tiir her wealth, and applauded for her enterprise.
It will be seen in the pages of this volume, that
though we have no jry of business men, we
have a population of business men, diffused
throughout the en'.ire limits of the State ;
whoe energies secure her abundant wealth,
mu.L uti t- dmdI r.art nT trflflM from his former
. , , r.i. I. i and wliOfC honor will provide her with the
speeches, anil smoothes down some of the unpal.ita- . , ', ,, ,. , , , ... ,
' ' I means of payiu" every dollar ot debt that she
hie things in bis Fanruil Hall speech. Mr. Well- pvcr rontrnrt,., fr tie benefit of her thankless
st r may now be conideed f ,iily in the whig tanks ! nnd ungrateful neiohlKirs. On this score alone,
Mr. Treifo has entitled himself to public grati
tude: beside furnishing a work admirably adap
ted to inspire in the hearts ofthe rising gene
ration a true feolinf of State pride ; and teach
every I'ennttlvanion how to appreciate the
Commonwealth, of which he can bonst with
pridj, of being a citizen."
MISCELLm. 1
RilMorlnl, Condensed a, nil Selected.
A shock of an ea-thquako was felt in Maysville,
Ky., on Sunday night week, about 10 o'clock.
The exports of to to Great Britain in the year
ending June 30, amounted to black, 40,0011,000
lbs., green, 7.C00.000O lbs ; total 47,000,000 lbs.
The Supremo Court of New York has declared
its opinion in favor of the constitutionality of the
bankrupt law.
Dr. I.ardner has arrived at Boston and is lec
turing on moonshine. Understands the subject.
Jarksontown, in Huntingdon county. Pa., was to
tally destroyed by fire on Monday of last week.
Strangers irt !'cw Orleani. Eery ship and
steamboat which arrives, brings numbers of paa
scngers. The ships Sea Lion and Caspian, from
New York, had nearly 500 pasengers.
Wm. Wheeler artived at Albany, on his way to
Ohio, on Friday, where he found he had been
robbed of f 323, (he accumulation of three years of j
hard labor on a farm.
A paper was recently read before the French A
cademy, to prove the existence of copier in the hu
man body, in its nominal state. It was known be
fore that there is no lack of brass in many faces.
The colored people of Michigan wets to holJ a
State Convention on the Sfl.h ult.
A new sugar refinery in ?t. Louis, turns out
1500 pounds of refined sugar per day.
An American artist is about to visit Sweden, for
the purpose of taking a portrait of Miss Bremer.
Rtvolution in Nova Scotia. Lord Falkland has
ilissohcd ibe Legislative Council. The Wiits for
calling a New General Assembly b -ar teste 30th
u 'tit no, returnable on Thursday, the 1 1th day of
January next.
Tho Louisville Journal of Sjturdiy la-t says,
122 (100 of cancelled six years l-uti.ls, were burnt
by ibe Secretary of State of Kentucky, in presence
of the Governor, judges and reporter ofthe court of
appeals, attorney general, auditor and treasurer.
No man ever prospered who defrauded the print
er or scolded bis wifo.
The Iron Trade ef Pennsylvania.
Mn. FniTon : As Pennsylvania possesses, in
the greatest sbund inre, all the elements for becom.
ing the chief seat of the iron trad of America, it is
greatly to be regretted that a want of due enterprise
is but too perceptible among the manufactures of
that great staple. In Englind it is daily becoming
the chief material foi building canal boats, steamers,
ships and houses. Our esteemed f. How citizen,
Gerird K.dston, Esq., in a late letter, saya that a
re p"Ctallo London builder ofTers to Contract for
building iron churches by contract, at 10s. per sit
ting, while those erected by Government had cost
from 0 to 9 per seat. He adds that many ships
hnve been luilt of the same material, and that in a
few years iron steamets and canal boats will entire
ly supersede those of wood. It seems that our i on
masters arc entirely supine to this new and impor
tant means fur extending their business, for the too
long neglected introduction of iron boaU on the
Schuylkill Navigation being at length decided upon,
the contractors have been unable to complete a single
one, for want of proper materials among the sur.
rounding iron works! ! Meanwhile, Pittsburg has
become so expert in making angle-iron, plates,
fir., that she ia reaping a golden harvest from
building steamer-', revenue cutters and frigates for
the government all nj iron ! New York is con
centrating amon her own wotkshops all a;mitar
Ini-ii.eiis for the Atlantic coast receiving her angle
inn from tho Tredgear Works at Richmond. Are
tin se important m inufaclures to be entirely lost to
Philadelphia and Eaatern Pennsylvania, or will our
citizens arouse themselves to their great value, in
time to preent their transfer to our more enter-
prisirg neighbors! Viatoii.
Dicknell's Reporter.
Slilpvrrerli.
FonrrNATr. Fcpr of One Hrnnr.n isn
TwtiTr rivF. Pehsons. The Packet Ship Shef
field, C iplain Popb im, from Liverpool, on the 5th
ult., for New Yoik, while enteiing the harbor on
Saturday, during the gale, ran ashore on Homer
Sho.ils, bilged, and soon tilled. The vessel was in
charge nf a pilot at the time she struck. It wa
' blowing a gale from the E i-t and very fojy. The
Oreoos Indians. The Oregon Indians be
lieve in the doctrine of metempsychosis. The
ptcsont race of beatts, birds reptiles and fish
were men who once inhabited this earth.
These they suppose still to retain their pecu
liar language which they can impart to those
people into whom they may pass. Such peo
ple arc esteemed conjurors or medicine men.
They seem also to entertain notions of witch
crnlt, similar to thoc of the Pilgrim Fathers.
!r. Whiteman states that one of them f hnt
himself through the abdomen, laot July, having
lone the fame thing two years before. After
shouting himself, lie prepared to depart, mount
ing his horse and was off. He returned again
in a shorttime, pretending to be a new man.
His body was preserved Irom the Eliot by a ve
ry thick leather shirt. This is equal to some of
Joe Smith's Mormon miracles.
i g iin. Whether he wi I throw up his cap for Hairy
of ibe West is another cpicstiim.
Miciuei. Walsh, ibe Subterranean leader,
has lieen sentencul, in the rity of New Voik, on
four indictments for bin I, on one of which he is sent
to the Penitentiary foi two months.
Gi.ad to s:r. it. The publication of Ha
zard's L'wrrEu States Commercial aid Sta
tistical RtnisTEB, will be resumed on the first
of January next. It is a very valuable and useful
woik, and should not, we think, I e permitted to
languish for the want uf support.
The Next Coshsess, The law requires
that members nfih House of l!eiresentatives shall
le elected by tingle districts, yet New Hampshire.
Miraouri, Georgia, and Mississippi have elected
their aeeral delegation by general ticket. A
question will no doubt arise as lo the right f ihexe
menileri to a seat in the House. Some of the
newspapers are already hi ginning to discuss it.
Cj' 1'fatii Wamiiant. Gov. Thomas has
signed the death wariatit of William S. ( 'hrise, con
victed of mutder in AlUgh' ny county court. Mil.
He is to be eirrutc.l on Friday the Still inst., at 5
lock.
Gov. Uarry.of Michigan, has set apart Thursday, j steamboat Wave wis sent down to the wreck, and
the 3(Hh inst, to be obscived as a d ay of Thanks- j took the passengers to the city. The vessel js a
giving and prayer throughout the Commonwealth, j total wreck, carg.i may be saved in a lUmag-'d -t ite.
The annual consumption of tobacco is 108,000,- I Many ofthe passengers lost their baggage. Tho
0110 pounds equal to seven pounds for eveiy man, j Sheffield was rather an old ship. Her load chiefly
(Cj Death or Cletesoen, Tint Scvlptos.
This promising young Attistdied on his homeward
paksugc, at sea, the 28th of September, on board the
ship Due d'Otleana, while coming from Leghorn
to New York. Ho was an American by biith, and
bad b ft this country for the purpose of studying the
old masters and perfecting himself in his profession.
Wooden Ciocks. With all the many cute
tricks of the Yankee pedlar of small notions,
w hoever was cheated in the purchase of a real
Connecticut wooden clock 1 In what country
or climate, from the Rocky Mountains to the
tlinmiaylah, not forgetting the celestial empire,
do not their whiz and chime proclaim the great
ness of these United States J This day of
bronze and tinzel may haveshrouded their once
familiar faces in the dust of the kitchen, but it
has left unsullied their vivacity ; aril the fame 1
they have thus gained is wide-spread. Tiie
bhip Splendid of New York, lately cleared with
an invoice of forty tons measurement. These
clocks will be scattered overall Europe; and
the merry tick we have so often heard in the
cottages of New England, sporting with the
calm hours of midnight, will soon be re-echoed
in the hamlets of England, the mountain huts
of Scotland, and the cabins of Erin's isle. We OTj' Fathi.b Matthew. This celebrated Advo.
cannot tell wbut dibtant part of the earth this j cat of Teinpeinnce, l itely stated in London, ihul ( (3 men and 25 women and children) also sailed in
simple, perhaps rude invention of our northern j he had reciiwd btteis from the Magistracy of , thu expedition. The remainder mime 10 or 15,
Liverpool and Maucbe-ter, where I 10,000 persons , were tiee colored persons, wno.convmced mat mnr
bad taken the I ledge, Haling that already an im- limited freedom here would be greatly increased by
cry- Rock i Mui's riM Pass. Lieutenant Tre
mnnl, of the I.'. S . Army, in his recent explora
tions under the eiders of the Government, has disco
veted a pass in the Koiky Mountains, aim 'St in a
direct line from lh North Western angle of Miss
souri to the vnlli y ot the Columbia Itiver. It can
be approached from the mouth of the Sweet Water.
A sandy plain, one hundred and twenty miles
I in length, by a grsdual and regular ao nt conducts
lo the summit of the pats, nnd the traveller, wi'houl
ex( oriencing any fatigue by toilsome ascents, sud
denly finds himself about seven thousand feet above
ibe level of the sea. The breadth of the. pass has
not et been ascertained, and is ssi.J in nowise to
n si tulle the winding a:ont of the passes of the
Allegheny.
The Newnik Advertiser says "It is confident
ly said that letters have been received at Washing
ton from our charge (Gen. Murphy.) representing
that be has in his hands copies ofthe alleged cor-
ris-pondence between President Housl in and r r
tnin Drilii.li representatives. He ibis as it liny,
it seems more than probable that the Texas ques
tion will be introduced by iho Message. B-it it
is not at all po?sihlo that Congress will seriously
entertain a proposition to annex Texaa lo the L'.
States. The northern Slates certainly will never
consent lo it "
The New Orleans papers of the 21 inst. a'so have
a rumour nf an angry interview between the Uii-ti-h
Minister and the American Consul at Galves
ton, in relation to Dritish projects. A meeting of
! the American residents bad been called."
i
I A singu'ar case has been trying late'y in the
Ntw i oik Court ot Chancery. A gay young
hi ircss, just passed the joyous nge of sweet sixteen,
fills in love with a young limb of the law, a stu
dent whom she met at a ball, and ia perruaded by
htm lo pay a visit to a neighboring pa'son. The
marriage ceremony i performed, and so far they
are man and wife. Her parent, of whom she i-
the only daughter, aic about, a few weilc aftei wards,
to det art with hi r on Southern tour, when the
K mt'-husl ai d deflates I is marriage, and claims h's
bridp. To this all parties, cicept the anxious lover,
olject, it seems, and tho Law is inv,.k d to settle
the Love affair. The grsve decision is await, d with
anxiety by ail patiis. The young practisirin the
Court of Cupid wants his wife and her fortune.
The parents want In keep their daughter, and she
wants to keep her liberty.
Fmiohasts to Liberia. Alluding t i the cm
larkntionnf 80 colorej emigrant ti I.i'.-erij, th
Baltimore Clipper says that of the numler, "30
were manumitted by the Rev'd. Henry Goodwin,
a Protestant Episcopal clergyman, residing in
Charles county. This gentleman was present on
the occasion, and manifested the greatest intfte-t
in their behalf. They weie all will clothed, and
preserved a clean and healthy appear.ineo. We
believe there, wore only about eight men, the rest
being women and children. Miss I'eggv Hodges,
of Caliert county, at the time of her ilesth, about
three years ago, manumitted 30 slaves, 2S of whom
woman and child in the country !
The coijwaint ra of New York bad a procession
in lhat city on Wednesday, in honor of their patron
saint it buing St. Crispin's day.
The keeper of the New Jersey Sinte prison, re
ports 1S5 prisoners an increase of IS during the
year. The year's earnings of the prison have ex
coeded the expenses f2,G0 HO.
consisted of dry goods, coal, iron, and salt; ve-sel
ami cargo fully insured in Wall street. She brought
twelve cabin, and ninety-three steerage passengers.
It may be regarded as a special providence that tho
wind abated during the afternoon, an I changed a
round to the westward, thus enabling the sutPr, rs
to remain on the wieck, and aff irding an opportu
nity for the Wave to receive them. To this cir
cumstance alone ure the one hundred and twenty
Mariicd in Springfield, III , Mr. lames Prnlfit, j five souls indebted for their safety. The cabin
meii-h.iut, to Miss Emily N. Laudon. The happy I passengers were as fdlows : Mr. E. F. Sanderson,
bridegroom ought to do a cash business, since he ' .,jv slj iPrvant; Dr. Coulter and lody ; Mr.
ran eiect only "small Profits" at first.
Capper Mine. The mineral wealth of ihe great j
West, is vast and of increasing Importance. The '
oie will jicld 33 per cent, of pure copxr. J
1'tior Vimth Has been provoking the ire of the j
13 jllimoreans, by appearing liefore them on the
stage while '-iiidi-posed," I. e. drunk. He was j
greeted, says the Sun, throughout the play, by cries
of "turn him out," accompanied by hisses. j
More. Siamese Twin Minister. Two children
h ive been born in Lexington, Indiana, it is so l,
with the breast bone united the whole length.
Murdered. John McKilten. of Allegheny town
ship, Green county, was murdered at Frecporl, lat
week, it is supposed, by a man natnsd Mullin.
Paris is lighted every afternoon by 13,221 lamps.
of which 5,6'J 1 are supplied with gas, and 7,321
w ith oil.
It is stated in the Mining Journal, that 1100
lives were annually sacrificed l y what arc termeJ
"mine accidents."
Spre- kelson, lady, child, and servant; Mrs. Max
well, P,ev. Dr. Kerfoot. Mr. E. Hr.i .ks, Mr. It liley ;
and ninety-throe passengers. 'i, 7. Ledger,
countrymen shall not be found by the American
traveller, but wherever i's sound may strike the
ear, he will proudly recognize it as a time hono
red friend and monument of our national indus
try. Reformer.
0tf.rsi' and OhTRicMES. It is true ; most
veritable. A friend tells us that in passing
through the archade a lew evenings sir.ee, he
overheard the following conversation bet veen
two individuals, one of whom was evidently a
stronger from the woods.
'Were those things oysters we eat down in
that cellar 1' said the stranger.
To be sure they were,' was Ihe reply, 'what
else should they be 1'
Well, I'll be hanged, if I did not always
think that oysters were long-legged things with
feathers on 'em.'
Curranhad a saying, which seems to ns the
mense diminution of ciime had luken place. He
!o said lhat there wen) 4,000 000 acrea in Inland
into which spade had never len put since the
flood, and that he desired to sie the Iii.h as happy
in their own country as weie the English, by the
cultivation of additional thousand of acres.
j Etsrisoa Nicholas. As the Emperor
was passing through Poscn, on the 19th of Septem
bei last, a thot waa fired through lbs cariiage con
taining the aids-de-cauip, without doing any injury.
It was supposed to have been an attempt upon the
Finland's life, but it was not ascertained whether
ll e shot wus by accident or design. The darkness
i f the niybt puvnitrd the airi-sl ofthe tiffundcr.
It is said thai twenty shots have been fired at lbs
carriage of li e F.n piror and suite, at different
times, wiihovit i licet.
On the 27 ih of September an attempt was mads
key of much of our political speaking : 'When hy a physician, to shoot the Pop, at his palace, in
you cannot talk cense, talk metaphor.'
J Rome. Cause want of money.
their emigration lo Cape Puhn is, have voluntaii'y
gone out, as we trust, to experience a full real na
tion of all their hopes and anticipations."
Siiameu'L. The mill. is law of Khodo Island doi s
not except females from performing militia duly,
and seveiul have been arrested and confined for dis
obeying said law. In this respect Hhode Island is
soma centuries behind the enlightened spirit of the
age. I He law suouiu ue cuaiigea immcuiaieiy,
that this disgrace to the State may no longer exist.
The ladies have held a meeting en the subject, and
resolved, lhat, as they are compelled to perform
militia duty, they are entitliJ tu muskets a com
mittee of two has therefore been appointed to re
quest a supJy of arms from the quarter-master
general. And they have also appointed a committee
of four women to obtain a suitable women le in
struct them in military tactics. Should thsy aue
ceeJ in forming an Amazonian phalanx, those who
passed the obnoxious law may be made lo feel that
"a woman's vengeance towers sbo her .
Confession of Cellen
It was announced a day or two ago, lhat Geisler,
who was convicted for the mutder of Mr. and Mrs.
Smith, at Huntingdon, L. L, made full confession
of his guilt. ThcTuieSun gives the substance
of his confession. Geiider artived in thia country
about eighteen month aince. He admits having
killed a man in Germany, and that he was for the
crime adjudged to four years' imprisonment. He
contemplated murdering the Smiths three days be
fore be carried his intent into execution. It was
his inlen'ion to have stabbed them, but wa prevent
ed from fear of the dog. Ho then conceived the i
de of killing the dog, but thought lhat if he at
tempted it he wnuld be su-pected by the old people,
Hti l his s 'heme frustrated. He coaxed the dog on',
relumed with an axe and hammer, cut diwn his
victims with the axe, an 1 threw them i it the fire.
He then lookej in the chest fir the money, and
whilst doing that the light went out; he returned
into the kitchen for a ligjd, and waa startled by the
fire, which bad risen in roiisrqucnee ofthe burn
ing bodies. Gn this he dashed the sxe through the
window and made hi escape. He has since told
where he hid the axe ; and says he is willing to die,
anJ the sooner the bettor. Thus far the confes
sion is satisfactory, although it shows that the les
timony on which he was convicted was not basej
on the facts. Phil, ledger.
Some time last June, a Nonpareil, a bird
never seen in its wild 6tate, further North than
tho Carolinas, escaped from the aviary of Dr.
A McWim.iam, near the Navy Yard. It re
mained a few hours in tho garden, and then
disappeared. Since which time, having nei
ther seen nor heard ot it, Dr. McW. gave it
up for lost. A short time since, the weather
having become cool and frosty, he discovered
to his surprise and gratification that the ' ,ae
wanderer had returned, and w, er.ieavoring
to get into its former Imitation, and aa soon
he opened the dojr xK flew int0 tne viary,
i n(1 rejoined ita ;0ropanion8. Xat. Intel.
lion-Mile Milliter stml Suicide!
The Cincinnati Message says : We learn by a
teller from Little Foik, ArKansrts, that a saddler
living near that place named Doyle, nvirdered his
wife on the Cuth ult., in the following manner :
He was boiling h pot of rosin and creese over the
fire, and some high wor Is taking place between him
and his wife, in a hreny of rge, be turned the
pot w ith its contents, over her hea l ! The poor
; woman's screams were heard by a neighbor the
', onlv one living within the di-tnce of half a mile
wbi reached the house just in lime to see her
I breathe her last, llei head and f ire were entirely
i coated and seared with the pitch, which had run in-
lo her bosom and down the back of her neck. The
hustnnd escaped; but the alam being given, seve
ral persons started in pursuit, and found him the
next day about five miles from the house, lying
dead on hi face in a little rivulet, with his throat
cut from carlo ear, and a bloody jack knife clnspej
lightly in his hsnJ. Doyle was a prior man, havi
ing spent, by dissipation, a small property which he
got liy hi wife.
Viesldcnt Bayer In France.
Fx -President H yer was still in Pans at the last
accounts. Ilia wile, it is stated, died on (he pis
sage to Frar.rn. Marked and flittering attentions
have 1-een paid him by the French minister, and a
letter sys : "All of them have called on him in
person, and oee of the objects of the mission now
filling out lo Hayti, is to endeavor to pr.n-u.-e him
a H'iis:..n. As he is almost j--t black, tins steals
rather strange to an American, but cl -i makes nj
itifff retire here. The first Frcii.-b dratna'ist, Alex
audei D.imas. is a lu'.l blooded mulatto, yet he is
received at Court, and wests some lulf il.-ien deco-ra'ioiis--and
at thu law and medical lectures the
shades are as laiied at a meeiiug at the Marlbo
rough Chapel, much to the dissatisfaction of the
students lioiu out Southern S alts."
I Am. He doth not say, cm their light
their guide, their strength, or tower, but only
I am. lie sets as it were his hand to a blank,
that his people may write under it what they
phase that is good for them. As if he would
say, Are they weak 1 an strength. Arc
they poor T am riches ! Arc they trou
ble 1 lam comfort. Ate they ,:ck 1 otti
health. Are tl.cy dy.ng ? am lite. Have
they nothing 1 lorn dU things. Jam wisdom
and power. justice awl mercy. Iam
grac and goodness. am glory, beauty, ho
liness, eminency, nuper-cminency, perfection
all-sufficiency, eternity! Jehovah, 1 am. hat
soever ia mihle in itself, or desirable unto
them, that am. Whatsoever is pure, and ho
ly ; whatsoever ia great or pleasant ; whatso
ever is good t.r needful to make men happy,
that I AH.Biihep Bcveridgt.