Tciims or Tin: amkricax." H. n. MASskr, f JOSEPH RISKLY. P PCIIIUHIIIU ASP norit itor. It. It. JTMSSEtl. HilU or. Office in Ccntri Alley, in Ihe rear of 11. It. Ma tier's Sore. TH E ' A M ERICA i" i published r verv Satur day at TWO DOLLARS per annum lobe pnid half yearly in advance Nn paper discontin ued till all arrearage are paid. No subscription received for a loan period thn u mojths. All communication or letters on business relating to the. office, to insure attention, must ho PONT PAID. FE1T1TE?. &, CO. Manufacturers of I'MREUAS, PARASOLS, and SI'S SHADES, A'o. 1R1 Mmhcl Strut; P h I I it I c I h I n, ' NVITE the attention of Merchant. Mannfar liirers, eVc, Ac,, to their cj extensive, ele- ft-nit, nrw stock, prepared with great rare, anil of fered at the lowest p"isihlc price fr rai-h. The princinlenri which thin concern i establish eil, in to consult I lie mntu.d inlrirat of tin ir ru-to-merg anil themselves, by manufacturing a good r t e'e, selling it at the lowist price for r.ish, arid realizing their own remuneration, in the amount of sale and quick return. Possissing inehutihle f.icilitica for mnnufac lure, ilicy are pifpaied to supply nrdct lo nnv ei tent, and rcspecfully solicit the patronage of Mer chants, Manufacturer anil Den'ers fXj" A larsje assortment of the New Sljle Cur tain Parasols. Philadelphia, June, I. 1 R4 1 ly HERR'S HOTEL, roiin:ui.Y trihioxt- nor.si:. No. lift flirtntit Sficct, PHILADELPHIA. I , TM1H M:RSCKIER. rrcenily of IfiYffi A Readii g.P.i.. would inform the pub- feiLlic that he has tilted up ihe nlioe cap j !LiLljft2oi"ii and coniriii.n i stnlilisliinent, hihI i will alway he r. ad v to cuter! in vi-itor. Ilisrs. lahlished rrpu'n'ion i i the line, it Is hoped, will afford full a'surance, that his guest will he sup- j pl'e.l wi'h every comfirl and nneoinmoclatioii i whilst his house will he conduced under such ar lancemei tj n will srcti'C a ch .r.ctcr f..r the first -responsibility, ami saiisliiclory ei.tertttiiunent fur in tliviilu.ds ar il fam I e-. Charge for hoarding f I prrdy. a "DANIEL HEKR. Philadelphia. Mav 25. IStl tv To Country lit rt haul. Boots, Shoes, limine! s, Leghorn and Tiilin Leaf Hals, li. . & L. li. TAYI.Oll, it the S. E. rornrr of Mmli l and Fifth S!s., nilXiAHELrillA, FFER for sa'e an ixlenme ht,oiuncnt of the ', T"FEII f..r a'i an iilenMie hfetornncnt of the . V. H,11) .,rl... .li of which thev sell at , anal- I 'ahoie arMch , nil of which they sell at unusual fy low p. ices, and particul .iU invite the attention ! f buyer vKilioB the ciu , loan '""'";' '' j their slot k. t,. . & 1,. II. i Ail. UK. Plnlailelphia, Mav as, IStt.-lv - - ' ' , ?'lL?lt;ft": , 'h"! tZ i h.ite iNnilliiim eiliiid, !. ii i in ft lands of Jisse C. llnrton, JoMi l.egrniii ami oiliers, will tie soul ch ap, if npiilicaiinn i- made s .on to the suhsciiher, Sunl urv; Aug 31. H.II.MASKr.lt. 57l4 M:i:i The highest price will he ' given fur r'lax Seed, bv Aug. 31, I k 14. H. . MASSER. "M1TTA(!E lilllLES. Five copies of t' e Col l.ige It il ill-, ihe chlMpi sI honk ever puldished, CDIila'niiig the comnieiiiarv ,o the Old ami New Trstametit. jnl leci ivid and f.ir s de, fur six dull its, Ity June IS. II. II. MASSr.lt. HLNOVAL. I) OCT OH J. II. MA8SKH, RESPr.CTKCLLY informs the cil- t."3 izena of Sunhury ami its vicinity, that he h s reunited lilt olhce to llie wlute Irtaikling in M i-t Sou ie, eKst of Ira T. meiil' st.iie. nnd iinnud a'cly opjio-ile the yoA (rilice, where he will I happy to receive cms in the line of his pro'ession Sunhuiy, Mav 4th. IK14. l ) AVID V. V A X S' Talent Fire and Thief Proof Iron Clic.sts, Slate lined Pcft i":era1ors, with Fillers atlaelied when ieftiired. ST.1TS ?t. V AT SO IT, .Vo. TO South third St., iijijmsite the Frfhangc, fHILADELPHIA, rW-w MAM rACI UHK unit 11 Kviss' eli..iWV Bier and Prvi. tl 'i'lf'"" ,; I'brsHinl Patent Pr. W JhriEmiuin Tire and Thiel Prool I fl rr.in t'-ts r ve-ervmg Book, Papers. I) ids, Jewely, - (Jold, Stlvrr, eVe &c, mi!e rf Hod-1 Iron, (mid not ovirPhii k o ninety-live Ut of every one hundred now in use and for rule re made.) urh first rule I. "ck Md Davi.l llvins' I all-lit Kevnole jiwr. similar to the one jniui'ii- d al the PtiiVidelphia Eichauge, fur three months : in the Mimmer of twl?. when all the Key were nl imeiiy in oe iiseo, aim uit- i.iirsi urn. ,.-,it-i, i- thout-h the rip. iim. nt wus ttied ly al least 16(10 persons. Our of iho mme l-w k w uied by U.ililier. at ihe Delaware Coal Office, in Walnut street, alxite Thud, hill dij nut succeed. (Jj Hiiisling Machines, Iron Doors, superioi I.mkt. and all kind of (inn Rail in: Si-hl and Co. ying Piesse. and Sinuhwoik gem rally, on Imml or nunuUcturrd al the shurti'sl notice QCj CAITTION I do hi rely rimtiin ll per. son g liosl iiinUii u. iiiii!, si-Uihk, or cau.ing lo be s.ilil, any Keyhole Covris for Plre Prool Ctn sis, or Door, of anv kind similar in principle t.i my Patent, of 10 1 h July, 184 I, and also agninai Liniiig Ili'friiif raloi wnh Sl.ile, for wh.ch my Patent i daieil Villi Mtrch. IS44, a any iufriiigrmeiit will be Vlt wiih according lo law. DAVID EVANS. Philadelphia, April 13, IR44. ly rORESTVILLS imisM kiuiit iiv i lock. FI1IIE ulfCiirer ha just n ceived, for sale, a few of (he above celeliraied Eilit Day Clocks, winch will be sold at vrry reduced prices, for ca-h. Also, uiior 30 hour Clock', of ti e lest niuke and quality, whiih will l old for ra-h, al 4 60. Also, superior Urns H0 hour troika, at f . 00. Dec. 8, H43. H. II. MASSEU. "of ONE WAKE fr sale. j 225 Stone Jug, from I quart lo 3 gallnns, 60 Sloiio Jura, from 3 lo ft gallon. Pur sale, cheap, by Oct. 14 li. li. MASsEH. SUNBOTY AMERICAN. AND SIIAMOKIN JOURNAL; AWIute i acqnirPcencinUin decision of the IT 2Iaser &, rJscly. Robert Jossel vn, of Holly Sprinen, Mississip. pi. i the author of the following simple exqui site verse : TIIK FADED FI.OU'KR. "I keep it still, the faded flower, Through lonp; and cheerless years, In memory of that happy hour, Which time the more endears. When from thy hand the gift I took, And saw the tear-drops start, And clasped with fond iind gentle look, The giver to my heart. "That flower, like lier who gave it, then Wu loveliest of iln kind ; And vainly might I seek again So fair a (lower to find ; Cut brief alike the joy and bloom, It withered in a day, And reft of hope and wrapt in gloom, I bore it far away. "In distant lands, midst care and grif, That flower was yet more dear, And often every cherished leaf Wos moistened with a tear ; And still I keep the faded flower, And hold, while life shall last, The memory of that happy honr, Which consecrates the past." Mr. Souimon Wkine, the rich banker, who died lately nt llambiirir, expressed a wish to be buried at the break of day. without noine orror tepe, and that no discourse tdiotild be ftmnntitv cod over hi tomb. 1 1 is executors conformed to these im-t met ions ns far aspossihle ; but, during the procession of thn mourner to the cemetery of the Jews in that city, more than a thousand . i- . . , . . r""n" um nineiy.io carnages, j. n. c U'oded convoy. On the day of the fit- nrr.l very few persons attended on Change, j and little or tin h Isino-s was Irannaned 1 1 : ' ' , ! iraiiwciM. "' , was remarkable for his sentiments of lnsttce nnd 11 " 1 ble fire of Y2 did not ruin the credit of Ham- burg. Ry his aid anil representations the Hank 1 of Hambiire wns induced to continue its cash j tiftlie rKm was a bar, tended by a rascally look and specie payments during all the period of ; wrt.,L.u wJO ,lt ,, lin,or!i , ( ,ro. that great disaster, nnd he placed at thodispo- j ,,,,, CH o( UH c,tmcrs, and as the drinking tnl ol the Government Ulf a million in hrd ! 8ml fiddling went on. the fury of the company money to enohle it to meet all dt'tnands. He I wox,,j fi,.rcor( tltl ,(l0 KC(.,,.. was as unreal prevented the exchange brokers also from rai- j aid hewildirm' as if we bad Nut nhh-nly sing the rate of discount higher than four p' n.-li n-.I into tho rev.-llinc halls of the Prince cent. la tho prennibleof his will, wIik Ii was ! certified on the 2d instant, the deceased had i rcckrmed that il was with the modest dowry of his wife, which scarcely amounted to KMHIO marks, or about f0, he began business, which prospered w ith him so much as to rcisder him the possessor of n fortune of 02,(Kin,0''ffof marks, or shout I,rin,(lOII sterling. The reading of the legacies occupid more tlinn an hour and quarter. Not a single establishment of charity or public utility was forgotten by the testator, lie brrjtienlhed over l(MMH') marks, say almut JC"'0, to the reconstruction of the churches of St. Peter and St. Nicholas of Hamburg, which were destroyed by the crcnt conflagration of J ' ISP. All the debts below 400 marks, say 3(1, ' .. 3 ' owing to htm, were annulled by his will. I.ENorii of I.ifk in Ammxi.s. A neurolo gical table of statistics relative to the length of life of the animals at the Jardin den Planter, contains the following: ' The average length of lift! of the panther, tiger, nnd lion, in a men. ngerieat Paris, is six or seven years. A lion, linu-nt-pr lius tiepit I a-riitv.oinn unit n liiim.su I .. , . , . , , . seventeen. I .ions winch are carried about and exhibited to the public, are found to live mttcli longer, generally seventeen or twenty years. ( ery encouraging to young Irons in society.) p,ie w,j,e n.aT t, Siberia lives only three or fourycurx; but the black bear, being of a more robust constitution, survives to the age of seven or eight. As to family of bears, know n by Ihe ...... . m . .. 1 f name of Murlin-vtontr 11 1 urhre they live from seventeen to twenty jfors, in id behold a long series of generations. The hyena live only lour or five years ; dromedaries and r.uni'U thir ty or forty ; the elephant when free reaches the age of one hundred, hero il reaches only the ago of a quarter ol Unit space of time ; the giraffe, which is now in Jardin des Plautei, has been there'scuMiteen years, and still enjoys excellent health ; monkeys only survive four or five years, and it is mentioned as great phenomenon! that one lived at fiibraltar fur seventeen years." AuronoTE or John Ranuoi.mi. The cele brated John Kamlulph o.ice took up a Kocinian pamphlet, in a hook store in Baltimore. With an indescribable look, and that penetrn.d shrill ness which none whoever heard it can forget, ho exclaimed, "What a Christina religion is this! Chrietiauity without t divine Saviour! It is like a famous play-bill in Hngland, in which some strolling players announced the flay of Jlamltt with t5c part of Hamlet Uft vul." majority, the vital principle of Republics, from which Siinbury, orlliiimljci laiul Co. Snbttrrancart Scene In New York. "Ircnn-n?," in the last New York Observer, quotes from the notes of a friend the following and tccount of h recent explnrntion of one of the living hells in that city, which corroborstes the reports heretofore made by Dickens : It was midnight. We had made tin appoint ment with an officer of the city police, one of the oldest and truest of that department, to meet ms t the House, and we were all ready. The neighborhood wo proposed to visit, was tin cafe lor any mnn to enter in the night, unless well protected, and we had therefore taken such precautions ad the first law of nature dic tates in such cases. Turninir down L to O street we came to a large white-washed door, at which the officer tapped as if (riving a signal to be tindcrs"tood within. The door was cautious!) opened, and wc stood enveloped in darkness, but the sound of dintant music broke upon our ears. We groprd our way to flight of uloirs, Wn which wc marched, the officer beinrr at the head, till we came toano titer door gnnrdrd by a porter, who proved to he the presiding genius of the estoblishment. He knew the officer at a glance, and was as com plnisnnt as if a new customer had come ; and on being informed that we were on pleasure excursion through his dominions-,he threw open his infernal ball-room door, and there, as sure as life, was a pjjht such as the disordered brain j of a madman mijht conjecture, hut which we had never ventured to believe was one of i nijjhtly similar scenes in th's christian city. A I motley multitude of men and women, yellow and white, black and dingy, old anil younr, ugly and no not handsome; find forbid that beauty should ever bloom in such a hot-bed as this but there they were, a set of male and female Ilacchnnnl dancing to the tambourine nnd fiddle, giggling and laughing jn n style pe ruliar to tin; remote descendants of I lam, and making "night hideous" with their lascivious ir Tolk fw .Wradatinn olthe heathen. 0cav,R,. powwows, and pagan carnivals ; and Mi i f)). 1C ftlnin 10 . .. ". .... . . . ,, denths ol Atrtcn and Asm. H.tc wc were . ,,,., .i... ,.i ,i. :... n.ii :.. ,i. centre of ,h lirM rtt in the most christian rMinlry on the earth, and here was a sirht to make the heart sicken and bleed. On one side f darkness. Wan.lvTing through this horrid group wns a , w.h(1, wo r,.ro,rni, S!))1,-a rrsrc. tnlde family, but his bloat.vl fr; and h' nod-shut eyes, and the Innee familiarity withwhicli he addressed the company, showed 1hat be was nt home among them, and w as already near the nadir point of his downward career. We thought of the mother that gave him hirth, and whose heart would be wrung with agony at the ruin of her son, were she not one of the many mother in the ranks of fashion nnd pride, perhaps at this moment flaunting ; a more splendid ball, yielding to the voluptuous bland , , . r , . , ,; ,j-..,. ,i. ishments of elegant vice, and listening to the 1 .. . . ... . . . ,, i flattering tongue that will lure her to meet her j lost boy at the door of a lower hell, i That gaudy girl, (said the officer.) docked with so much finery, makes il her profession to : decoy men into houses kept for tho purpose, and ! there she robs them. Many men from the j country, prompted by curiosity, follow surh per j sons as you see her to he, nnd before they are nware oi ineir danger, tney ore in a snare trim I which escape is impossible, 1 , . 1 ' Resistance isu-e- less, nnd lo complain to the police is attended with nn exposure worse than the loss of the money. In tact, the robbery of their victims is the -hiif pursuit of this class of women of whom that girl is one of the queens. Hut we were glad to emerge fiom this den, and breatiie again the pure air of heaven. A uiiiii oiiii; inoiM, iiiiuivu ua i iiijihi Ul I 1111 r . , 1 l....l.f no... n......l ..n .... It I . C I ' L . flood no u 'i illi'd liic II irmiis, mill wuai a conirust to the murky atmosphere from which we hud just escaped ! It was a beautiful night, The mild moon soiled in glory over us, end the stars "whose ri Hi l v and distance innke them vaiu," danced like celestial virgins "in the blue ethereal sky," and we could scarcely believe that, under such a canopy, there Could be kUcti tci'ni t as we had just left. The Piirss. "A journalist," said the great Napoleon, "is a grumbler, a renstirer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of na tions. Pour hostile new spapers are more lo be feared than an hundred thousand bayonctts." In our own rountry there is not man in office, from the President down to thn ambition keep er of a, floating light, who does not need its tup port and dread its opposition. An Irish piper say: 'At present the Scotch poor are not led I they exist on Iho recollec tion of what they ale in fotnier years.' there Is no appeal but lo force, the vital principle Pa. Saturriuy, IIaili aa, IN4r. WASIIIXGTO.-V. "The nnd of the snme year (17fX) witnessed the resignation ofthe Presidency of the United States of America by Oeneral Washington and his vnluntnry retirement into privnte life. Mo dern history has not so spotless a character to commemorate. Invincible in rerolution, firm in conduct, incorruptible in integrity, he brought to the helm of a victorious republic thesimpli city and innocence of rural lite ; he wns forced into greatness by circutnstnnces, rather than led into it by inclination, nnd prevailed over his enemies rather by the wisdom of bis designs and the perseverance of his chnracter, than any extraordinary genius for the art of war. A soldier from necessity and patriotism rather thnn disposition, he was the first to recommend a re turn to pacific council when the independence of his country wns secured, and bequeathed to his countrymen on nddress, on leaving their government, to which there is no composition of uninspired wisdom which enn bear a compa rison. He wns modest w ithout diffidence, sen sible to the voice of fame without vanity; in dependent and dignified without either asperity or pride. lie was a friend to liberty, but not licentiousness, not to dreams of enthusiasts but to those practical ideas which America had in herited from her Knalit-h; descent ; nnd which were opposed to nothing so much as the extra vagant love of power in the French Democracy. Accordingly, alter having signalized his life by successful resistotice to Hnoliidi oppression, he closed it by the warmest advice to cultivate the friendship of Orent Pritnin.and by his casting vote, shortly before his resignation ratified a treaty of friendly and commercial intercourse between Iho mother country and its emanci pated oflVpring. He ws a Cromwell without hi ambition ; a Sylln without his crimes; and, after having raised his country, by his exertion to the rnnk of an independent state, closed his enreer by a voluntary relinquishment of Ihe power which a grateful people had bestowed. It is the highest glory of Pugland to have giv en birth, even amid transatlantic w ilds to such n man ; and if she cannot number him among those who have extended her provinces or augmented her dominions, she mnv at least feel n legitimate pride in the victories which ho a ehieved, nnd the great qualities which he ex hibiti'd, in the contest with herself, nnd indulge with satisfaction in the reflection that the vast empire, which neither the ambition of Imis XIV nor the power of Napoleon could dismcm her, received its first rude shock from the eon rago which she had communicated to her own oll-pring; nnd that, nmid the convulsions and revolutions of other states, real liberty has h rin'ii in that country alone, w hich inherited in its veins the j;enuine ariucip'os of I'ntish five Join. MUstm's History af Furope. SlMiVI.AR Cl'BK 1R 1 1 f'Af eCHK 1 had I violent headache, which the captain undertook to cure, nnd he ci rlamly succeeded, lie made me sit down, seized hold of my caput, and, pla cing a thumb on each of my teniHiral arteries, pressed them in such a way an to almost stop the whole cirou'ntion of my blood; lie then di rected me to hear? s nrtg i;i as I etiuld, nnd I walked in lo dinner completely cured. I have seen ladies in this country, w hilst ;ut fering under such malady, appear with a wafer stuck on ench temple, w hich, I presume, was only a milder way than my friend the captain employed of driving off this tormentor. My Adventures, by Colonel Maxwell, K. H. Speak Kimm.y. Speak kindly lo thy bro ther man, for he has many enrvs thon lit is t not know ; many sot foV thine eye hast not seen; and grief may ho knowing at his heart strings w hu'li ere long W ill snap them in sunder. O, speak kindly to him 1 Perhaps a word from thee w ill kindtethc light ol joy m his overshadow ed heart, and make his pil'iway lo the tomb a plea sant one. Speak kindly to thy brother man, e Ven though sin ha marred the spirit's beauty and tinned intodiscnrd the ooee perfect harmo ny of hi being. Harshness cm never reclaim bun. Kindness will. For far dow n, Is'iieatli all hi di pravity, there still Inigt-rs a spark ol I liu spiitt'a 1 iveliness, lli.it one word limn tlit-e may kindle to a flame which w ill eventually pu rify the whole man, and make huu what he was destined to be, the true spiritual image of Ins OihI. Speak kindly, oct kindly lo all, w ithout asking who he may ho. It is enough fur thee Ii1 know that be belongs lo theeomtuuii brother hood of man, and need Ihy sympathy. Then give it to him freely ah, freely as thy Father, who is in heaven, giveth to thee. Lowell tf jering. PnorofND Ittri.V. A stranger asked a coun tryman, whom ho saw mending a road hear Ross, 'where ihj road went to 1' The country man replied, i don't know, rur ; I finds it hern when I comes to woik in the morning, and I leaves it here ut night, but w he-re il (joes to in tho mean time I don't know.' 'Here, boys, I have lour apples to divide be tween three of us, so thcte are two for you I wo, and I wo for me too. and immediate parent of despotism. Jrrilto. Vol. ft Xo. aoH hole No, 33 1. Going lo bid brfora Young Lady. As I was saying, ten years ago, Judge Dou glass, of Illinois, was a beardless youth of twen ty years of aire, frrnhly enmo amongst tho peo ple of the "Sucker State," with nn air about him suspiciously redolent of Vankeeland. A mere youthful adventurer ntnongst the "quare' Suckers one would deem the position em barrassing. Not so with tho Judge; he hail come on business. A political fortune was to be made, and no timo lost. He was about lauiicliirg on tne sea of popular favor and he commenced a general const survey the day he arrived. He soon mndc himself District At torney, member of the Legislature, Register of ihe U.S. I,anil Office, Secretary of State, and Judge ofthe Supreme Court. "How do you ndapt yourself," said I, "Judge, lo the people 1 I low did you naturalize your self as it were 1M "Oh, nothing easier : you sec I like it. It's democratic. Hut it did come awkward at first You know I am, or fnther was, bashful to ra ther a painful degree. Well, now nine-tenths of my constituents despise luxuries, and have no such thing as a second room in their hou ses-, in Denting up lor votes, l live wun my constituents, cat with my constituents, drink with them, pray with them, lnngh hunt, dance and work with them ; 1 eat their corn dodgers and fried bacon, nnd sleep too in a bed with them. Among my first acquaintances were the I, s, down under the Bluff-i. Fine fel lows the I,. , by the wny.,1 nm sure of five votes there. Well, yon perceive, I had to live there. Rut, sir, I wna frightened the first night I slept there. I own it ; yes, sir, acknowledge the corn. An ice bath in August is something; hut I wns done to an icicle ; had periodical chills for ten ilnys. Did you ever see a Venus in linsey wonlsey No." "Then you shall see Serena L s. They call her the 'White Plover ;' seventeen plump as a pigeon and smooth n a persimmon. How the devil, said I to myself, soliloquizing, the first night t sloul (herp, nm 1 to goto bed be fore this young lady ! 1 do believe my heart was topsyturviod, for the idea of pulling off my Issit belorp the girl, was dea'h. And as to doffing my other fixtures, I would sooner have my leg taken ofl with a wood saw. The crisis was tremendous. Il wns nenrly midnight, and the family had lieen hours in bed. Miss Serena alone remnined. Rright as the Fun the merry minx talked on. It wns now portentiously ob vious to me at Inst, that she had determined to ont-sit me. Ry repeated spasmodic efforts, my eoat, wai.cont. cravat, boots nnd Focks were brought ofT. During the process my beautiful neighbor tnlked to me with vinnverteil eyes, with that peculiar kind of placidity employed by painters to embody their idea of the virgin. I dumped myself down in a chair, in a cold prespirntion. A distressing thought occurred to me. Does not the damsel stand on a point of local etiquette. Il mny be the fashion of these poople In see strangers in bed before retiring tlieuisv'ives ! Mny I not. have kept those bean ti'vil eyos open, Irom ignorance of whal these people eleem good breeding Neither the la dy's eye or tongue had indeed betrayed fatigue. Those large ji-l eyes seemed lodilhle and grow brighter a ihe hlaee ofthe wood fire died e wiiy hut doubtless this was from kind consi deration tor the strange wakefulness of her guest. The thing was clear. I determined to r'tiee, and without delay. I arose with firm ness, unloosi d-my suspenders, and in a voice not altogether steady, said : "Miss Serena, I think I will retire." "Certainly, sir," she quietly observed, "you wi! lodge; there, sir inclining her beautiful head toward n bed standing a few ynrds from where she was sitting I proceeded lo unease; entrenching myself behind a chair the while fondly imagining the position offered some se curity. It is simply plain to a man in his senses, that a chair of Ihe fashion of one 1 had throw n between myself and "the enemy," as a military man would say, offered almost no security ul all. No more in tact than standing up behind a ladder nothing in tho way ofthe artillery of bright eyes, as u poet would say sweeping one down by platoon. Then 1 had a dend open space of ten lei-t between me and the hod ; a soil of lb ulgi; of Lodi pisfagi; which I was forced lomake, exposed to a cruel raking fire fore nnd alt. Although I say it, who should not say tt, an emergency never arose lor which 1 hint not it resource. I had tm for this. The plan was the work of a moment, I de " "Ah ! I see you i-tornivd Ihe battery and r " "Rah ! don't interrupt me. No, determin ed by a bold ruse do guerre, to throw her at tention out of tho w indow, clear the perilous passage, and fiirtily myself under the counter- pane before she recovered her surprise. The plan failed. Yi,u tee I aai a small mun, phy- sieally speaking. R dy, limb and head, selling up b:-ine a on one hundred and seven and a I all' poui.ds, all told, iifih, blood and boms, eannvl niJiviiluu I ly or ctllcctivcly, nt up any very oiienttttiou iRicrai of AmiinrisiAxi. I square 1 insertion, . . ft) 60 I h 2 dd I 7.1 1 do 3 d, . . . 1 (ill Hvi-ry subsequent insnrlicn, 0 Yearly Advertisement! one column. 125 1 hlf column, f I S, three squares, $ IS j two iqunrrs, f9 one square, ..'). jlall-yaarly t one eolumn, (18 I half column, (13 ; three squares, 8 ; two squares, $5; nne square, $3 GO. Advertisement left without direction as to lbs tenqth of time they are to he published, will I continued until ordered out, and charged soeord. nRiy. Cj"ixteen line make a square. pretensions I believe the young lady must have been set'ling in her mind some philosophi cal point on that head. Perhaps her sense of justice wished to assure itselfof a perfectly fair distribution of the respective motives. Perhspi she did not feel easy until she knew that a kind Providence had not added to general poverty individual wrong. Certain it wns, she seemed rather pleased with her speculations ; for when I arn from a stooping posture finally, wholly disencumbered of cloth, I noticed mirclrevi ut shadows playing about the corners of her mouth. It was the moment I hnd determined to direct her eye to some astonishing circumstance out ofthe window. Rut the young lady spoke at the critical moment. "Mr. Douglass," she observed, "you have got a mighty smnll chance of legs there." Men seldom have any notice of their own powers, I never made any pretensions to skill in ground and lofty tumbling; hut it is strictly true, I cleared, at one bound, the open sptice. planted myself on the centre of the bed, and was buried in the blankets in a twinkling. "I congrntnlate you, my boy," said I, poising n cube ofthe crimson core of the melon on thn point of my knife; "a lucky escape truly I Rut was the young lady modest 1" 'Modest, sir! there is not in Illinois a mora modest, or more sensible girl. It's habit nil habit. 1 think nothing of it now. Why, it' only Inst week I was nt a fine wedding party, and a large and fine assembly of both sexes lodged in the same room, with only three feet or so of ncu'ral territory between them. "You astonish me, Mr. Douglass." Fact, sir, upon my honor. You see theso people are the ?oul of hospitality, and never al low a fine social party to turn mit at twelve o'clock at night to go long distances home. All that is more cleverly managed here. An Illi nois bed has a power of elongation or expan sion perfectly enigmatical to strangers. Out four feet wide, will on occasion, flank one whole side of the lions , and is called a field-bed. ami large parties will range themselves on the op posite side ofthe house as economically as can dles in a box." "Rut, my dear fellow, this is drouthy prose, introduce yourself to that little fellow in the comer, and pas him over ; and now tell me a bout old Canandnigua." A Sound Min k Rare Thuq.-'I onee saw,' says Mr. Cecil, 'this subject forcibly illustrated, A watchmaker told mclhata gentleman hnd put an exquisite watch into his hands that wont ir regularly. It wns as perfect a piece of work as was ever made. He took it to pieces and put it together again twenty times. No manner of defect wns to he discovered, and yet the wntch went intolerably. At Inst it struck him that possibly the balance-wheel might have been near a magnet. On applying a needle to it he found! his suspicion true. The steel work in thJ other ports of the watch wnt as well as possible with a new wheel. If the soundest mind be magnetized by any predilection, it must act irregularly.' A Mack ran. Storv. An exchange piper tells the following hard story ; A brother of 'Cnpt. Ucelens,' so milch noted in the Rob Snipes letters, sent by a merchant of the village of F , in Arknnsas for a barrel of mackerel. Calling one day nt the merchant's store, ho in quired if his bnrrc.l of mackerel bad enme, fie) wns told that it had, and the merchant went down with him into his. cellnrloshoW it to him. While there, some other person called eff the) merchant's attention from the m.ickercl ; mean while some men rolled out a barrel, which tho merchant supposed tube tho right one. 'Capt. it a . i.. ..i i i v i I ' " l,nn""r " n"" fprn "n7 maraeroi. nun oeing curious, no nperieu ms parrel as soon na it wa out of Iho cellar. No mackerel wns) seen. tiathering up a pail he dipped iifTnniit six or seven pailstiil and threw away, remark- ingnt the time that 'it was very thick oriir.' tr i: i. . .. mcorei atter tins operation, mo i 'M"" - nroiner n.rew on in coat ami swore ho would find the fish ; so plunging i r. t Ihe barrel bis stripped arm, he felt all about in the brine fir them. Ry ! exclaimed he, 'there's no mackerel here, but, displaying hi.-t dri.'ping nrnv:'it's f 'worfiil strong brine, nr.d i j " 'hrfxh .'" fining info t!e ' "'ore he toll! his tale, say ing there was no fi-h in the barrel, nothing 'hut the best kind of thiclr ! 'rirtr The men-bant maintained thnt he b! brought linn a barrel of mackerel, nnd descend ing In Ihecellar. behold there lay the barn I a foiesnid. The issue of it all wns, that the cap tain's brother had rioeiiej a barrel of train eiV. and wasted About si ven pailsful of it, in his vain i search after the nsli tn the 'mighty strong bnnt !" , Kb sou oF i m: Puts. -A country edit j fling Ins rnte of advertising announces thut ' j charges una dollar for every tixfeen 1 f. ' Quit,, rxtravng-iut. The best friend are those who atimuVg each tllier tj do good.
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