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
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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.