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w x. jmssbb, Editor, ;
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, ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SUZ7B VSXTT. PA.
Business attended to in the Counties of Nor
thumberland, Union, Lycoming and Columbia.
Refer to I
P. & A. KOVOCDT,
I.owta & Dabbo,
Somsbs & Shodobass, PMlad.
RitHOLDS, McKabiaud k Co,
Sesame, Goon Sc Co.,
JOSEPH W. JONES,
No, 18 North Ath street, a few doori above Market
street, .
HAS constantly on band a very large assort
ment of Looking Glasses, Baskets, Cedar Ware
nd Fancy Good, which will be sold wholessle at
the very lowest price.
N. B. Looking Glasses insured to any part of
the country, without charge.
Not. 1, 1845. 6m ' '
ALEXANDER L. HICKEY.
TR UN K MAKER,
Ko. MO Chestnut Street,
PXXXXj ADB XiFXXX A.
WHERE all kinds of leather trunks, valises and
carpet bags, of every style and pattern are
manufactured, in the best manner and from the best
materials, and sold st the lowest rate.
Philadelphia, July 19th, 1815. ly.
1TEW CAB.PETI1TG3.
THE subscribers have received, and are now
opening a splendid assortment of ike following
goods -
Saxony, Wilton and Velvet Carpetings'l
Brussels and Imperial 3 ply do CAR
Extra superfine and fine Ingrains do PET
EnglUh shsdrd & Damask Venetian do ING.
American twilled and liu'd do J
Engl.jh Druggetts and Woolen Floor Cloths
Stair and Passage Bookings
Embossed Piano and Table Covers
London Cheuille and Tufted Ruga '
Door Malts of every description.
ALSO
A large and extensive escortment of Floor Oil
Cloths, Irom one to eight yards wide, cut to fit eve
ry description of rooms or passages.
Alio, low priced Ingrain Caipetinga from 31 to
62 cents per yard, together with a large and exten
sive assortment of goods usually kept by carpet
merchants.
The above goods will be sold wholesale or retail
at the lowest market prices. Country merchants
and othera are particularly invited to call end exa
mine our stock before making their selections.
CLARKSON, RICH & MULLIGAN,
Successors to Joseph Blackwood, No. Ill Chesnut,
corner of Franklin Place.
Philadelphia, Feb. 22J. 1845.
UMBRELLAS &, PARASOLS,
OHSAP FOB CASH.
J. V". ST'.IlT'S
Umbrella and Parasol Manufactory.
JV. 37 North'Thitd street, two doors lelow the
CITY HOTEL,
Plilladelplala.
A LWAYS on hand, a large stock of UM
BRELLA8 snd PARASOLS, including the
latent new style of Pinked Edged Parasols of the
test workmanship and materials, at prices that will
make i'. an object to Country Merchants and others
to call and examine bis slock before purchasing
alsewhere. ' Feb. 22, 1845. ly
SIIUGERT'S PATENT
VASHIHG MACZI1TE.
THIS Machine has now been tested by more
than thirty flmilica in this neighborhood, and
las given cnti.a satisfaction. It is so simple in its
lunstruction, that it cannot get out of order. It
-onlaiua no iron to rust, snd no springs or rollers to
;et out of repair. It will do twice aa much wash
ng, with less than half the wear and tear of anj of
he lite inventions, and what is of greater Irupor
ince, it easts but little over half aa much as other
trashing machines.
The subscriber has the excl iMva right for Nor.
turaberland, Union, Lycoming, Columbia, Lu--rne
and Clinton counties. Puce of single mi
Sine $6. II. 0. M ASSER.
The following certificate is from a few of those
bo have tbee machines in use.
Sunhury, Aug. 24, 1844.
We, the subscribers, certify that we have now
i use, in our families, "fcbugert's Patent Wash'
g Machine," and do not htsriate eiying that it ia
most excellent invention. That, in 7abing,
will save more than ona half the ususl labor.
hat it doea not require more than one thlid the
ual quantity of soap and water; and thatthere
no robbing, and consequently, little or no wear.
I or tearing. 'ITiat it knocks oflTuo buttons, and
it the finest clothes, such as collars, laces, tucks,
.Is, &c, may ba washed in a very ahort time
thout the Icart injury, and in fact without any
parent wear and tear, whatever. We therefore
wr fully recommend it to our frienda and ' to the
blio, aa a moat useful and labor saving machine.
CHARLES W, HEGINS,
A. JORDAN,
CHS. WEAVER.
CHS. PLEASANTS,
GIDEON MARKLE.
Hon. GEO. C. WELKER,
BENJ. HENDRICKS,
GIDEON LLISENR1NG.
aa's Hotil, (formerly Tremont House, No.
16 Cbesout street,) Philadelphia, September
1st, 1844.
have used Shugert's Patent Washing Machine
ly house upward a of eight months, and do not
late to tay that I deem it one of lift most use
in d valuable labor-eaving machines ever inven
I formerly kept two women continually oe
ed in washiug, who now do as much In two
I as they than did in one week. There ia no
r or tear in washing, and it requires not more
one-third the usual quantity of soap. -1 bavo
number of other machines in my family, bat
is eo decidedly euperiot to every thing else, and
I Us liable to get out of repair, that I would not
ithout one u they should cost ten times the
they are aotd for. DAME L H E RK.
PERIOR Port wine, Maderia and Lisbon
rinea. Also superior Brandy and Gin, Lemon
.p. Also tew barrels of Bica Fisa, for sale
fy-.t HENKV MAS8ER.
i 1
Ab,oluU ".'"cence in the decision, of the
By Masser A. Elsely.
. From the Daily Times.
A HassaehasMts Freemi's Address to the
Estmr of Oregon,
ST JISSB . now. -
, Give up your country ! Who are you
Who dare her title deed to sever T
Pause ere the guilty act you do,
Lest you be stamp'd with shame forever.
Your fathers' sunken gravea ahall apeak,
. Their withering acorn from fields of story,
And wild shall be the Eagle's shriek
Of vengeance 'mid the stars of glory.
Stand for your native land again
Each hallowed hearth, each holy altar
Tour fathers shook the Lion's mane
Why should yonbasely cringe and falter T
When met the free, the tyrant foe, ' ' '
On hill or plain, or lake or ocean ;
Nor struck for liberty a blow,
With iron nerve and warm devotion t
Then speak like freemen, yon who dare
To guard your native hills from danger ;
A righteous God your watch shall share,
And save you from the hireling stranger.
Your fathers won the western world ;
'Tis your'a the broad domain to cherish ;
Theii let your banner be unfurled,
And bid the foea of Freedom perish.
There's not a spot 10 wild and bare,
That sleeps beneath the Eagle's pinion,
Though winda and watera revel there,
That is not worth a King's Dominion.
On that bleak spot in yeari to come,
Man's westward march shall be completed ;
Then Eorope'a hive shall cease to hum,
And silence reign where life retreated.
Tho' craven wretchea seek retreat,
The acorn of valor and of beauty,
The Revolution's drum shall beat, ,
And call a million hearts to duty;
From dark Nebraska's forest home,
To the wild banka of the Del Norte '
. From east aud west the hosts ahall come.
To atrike for fifty-four and forty.
liower and Spang; BatU In Consumption.
Professor Elliotson, of the University of Lon
don, in speaking of phthisis' pulmonalia or con
sumption, goes on to mention the best preven
tives, as invigorating the body as much as pos
sible by fresh air, daily exercise out of doors,
groat regularity in sleep and in all good habits,
committing tiO tori of excess in anything, care
fully guarding the body with suitable clothing
to every part, and mentioning, of course, some
things that are utterly inconsistent, as the drink
ing malt liquors and wine, (although he admit
the last, in moat cases does harm,) says, "If we
can do all this, we may in many cases prevent
phthisis, especially if in addition we can make
patients use the cold shower bath ; many can
not bear a cold shower bath at first ; but they
can bear it tepid, and by degrees they can bear
it cold. I saw a young gentleman whose bro
ther died of phthisis; he expectorated blood, at
the same time aa his brother ; and they appear
ed equally disposed to phthisis. In one, the
disease ran on very fast, and be died. The
survivor waa spitting blood continually; and
the pupil .of bis eyes was large. I prevailed
upon him to begin the use of the shower bath ;
and he has done so all the winter. The result
is, that he haa lost hie cough, spita no more
blood, and is now a strong young man ; no doubt,
if he takes care of himself and commit no ex
cess of any description, he will go on well. I
do not know any means so powerful in "harden
ing" the body as the cold shower bath; but
it is to be remembered that we cannot "harden"
every pereon, and that we may kill many in the
attempt. Some ladies, in order to strengthen
themselves, will go out of doors in tho most
frosty weather; and by that means often injure
themselves. We may make the most delicate
hot-house plant hardy'by lowering the tempera
ture gradually ( but what will harden one will
kill, another, and what will not "harden" one
person at all would be quite sufficient to harden
another, and therefore the greatest care ahould
bo employed. Some try to "harden" them
selves by having the window open ; and they
glory in having anow on their coverlets; some
can bear it, but a great number could never
bear any thing of the kind.' Still I am sure it
is proper treatment "harden" people as much
as can be borne."
Further on, Professor Elliotson says, very
properly, that when the shower bath cannot be
borne, sponging, tepid or cold, ia highly useful
and productive of great comfort, especially when
the hectic is oa. It ia also the most efficient
means 'of preventing hectic swears4, and as to
the time moat euitable, the patient's feelings of
comfort ahould always be consulted. ' ", ;
Water- Curt Journal.
The business of carpet weaving In Auburn
five employment to torn 700 or 600 individuals,
AND SHAMOKIN JOURNAL.
majority, the vital principle of Republic, from which
Banbury, Northumberland Co.
Correspondence ef the Public Ledger.
FROM WA SHI MOTOR.
Oreof Excitement in the House Mr. Inger
toll and Mr. WebsterSecret Sir vice Afo.
nry Serious Charges against Mr. Web
ster The Oregon Question Mt Clayton's
Resolutions.
Washirctos, April 7, 184d.
A most exciting debate occurred in the House
this morning, which occupied the whole day, on
ceftain resolution offered by Mr. C. J. Ingersoll,
which will ba found below, and which will be
prefaced with some remarks of the moat pointed
character in reference to Mr. Webster.
Mr. Ingersoll said, I have put the few wotda I
desired to say into writing, tht there may be no
misreport or miatake about them.
I would not ask the indulgence of the Hoose
for my personal vindication j but the occasion
involves the most precious privilege of members
of this House, in which the people are represent
ed. Ita freedom of speech haa been grossly at
tacked, through me, by a Senator, Mr. Daniel
Webster. Of him, as a Senator or an individual,
I never have spoken here. Of Mr. Daniel Web
ater's misconduct as Secretary of State I have of
ten spoken, mostly to censure it, in the instance
which provoked him this session, with a severity
which I acknowledge justifies retort.
All I rise to do is, to ask the House to indulge
me with a word of explanation of some resolu
tions, to which I suppose there can hardly be ob
jection. If adopted, I presume they may be answered
by next Monday, and then I ahall pray permis
sion to speak on the subject.
One of them ia designed to bring officially be
fore thia House the Journal or Minutes of the
Committee of Foreign Affairs, in February, 1813,
when the honorable gentleman from Massachu
setts, Mr. Adams, waa Chairman of that Com
mittee. '
According to good precedents and authorities,
I am entitled to read these minutea to the House,
without its leave. But aa doubta may be enter
tained, I prefer to obviate all objections by ob
taining its sanction in form.
These minutes will prove that Mr. Secretary
Webster made known to members o" that com
mittee, by a written communication, the Presi
dent's wish for a spectal mission to Great Bri
tian, which special mission, I think will suffici
ently appear, was to settle the Oregon question
by yielding what Mr. Webater haa lately denied
our right to claim.
The resolutioa for information from the De
partment of State will bring forth proof of Mr.
Secretary Webster's misdemeanors in office, his
fraudulent misapplication and personal use of the
public funds, and corrupting party presses with
the money appropriated by law for the contin
gent expenses of foreign intercourse. When
discharged, aa he was, from the department to
which he was so great a disgrace, he waa a dilin
quent and public defaulter. He did not account
for the public money he fraudulently abstracted
from the department till more than a year alter
he waa expelled from it, and did not account for
most of it then by paying back the money he ab
stracted, but by vouchers from notoriously base
agents of his choice, who receipted for it, to be
expended in managing party presses.
Papera from the Department of State, some of
then) signed by him, will reveal the mystery of
what one of his corrupt agenta, in a letter to him
marked private, applauds as Mr. Webster's new
and admirable mode of settling the Northeastern
Boundary question, after the forty years' blun
dering, however honest and patriotic, of Washing
ton, the Adamses, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe,
Jarkson and Van Buren, who did not consider it
right to expend public moneys in corrupting the
press and the people.
It ia sickening, if not aad reality, that a man of
fine abilities, aa preposterously aa profanely mis
called God-like, should be exposed in his mean
and paltry contrivances and associations with no
toriously base fellows, in palpably vile misuse of
the public money.
When I spoke the offensi ve words of the Se
cretary, which appeared to have goaded him to
the madness generally betraying the guilty, I had
no idea of the extent of hia offence. Indeed, I
have not nowj for detection ia only begun aince
be called me to it, ' One of hia coadjutors writes
to the Secretary of State that he presumes the
contingent fund is ample and the Secretary'a con
trol over it complete.
These papers, when made printed documents,
will abow also the application of aome of the
aame aecret coatingent fund to the release of
Mcteod j and although Mr. Webster ia reported
to have said in the Senate that there was only one
letter on that subject, three in one and the same
day will appear.
' Whether, when possessed of the proofs of Mr.
Secretary Webster's malversation, corruption
and delinquency, his offences will be deemed im
peachable misdemeanors in office, conviction for
which must remove him from , the Senate, and
disqualify him to hold, any office of honor,' trust
or profit under the United States, will remain to
be considered. . '
; Should it be necessary to go to that extremity,
the aimilitude will be wonderful with the great
English lawyer, called by a poet, "the wiaest and
meanest of maakind." ,
' It will be aeen that the detection, if I am pot
miataken, which my former disclosures may lead
to, will merge my Individual wrong, and calm
the injustice done through me to the representa
there i. no appeal but to force, the vital principle
Pa. Saturday, April IS, 1846.
tive character, freedom ami privilege of This
House, jn the much greater importance of mis
demeanors in office. . When Congress sees the
proofs I propose to submit,' they will judge all
parties, and do what ia right. It ia useless, and
would be worse than useless, for me to apply
epithets to Mr. Webster. I desire to try him,
and be tried myaelf, by proof.
The following resolutions were then submit
ted. The proviso to the first, is the amend
ment, accepted by Mr. Ingersoll, alluded to in
the debate which ensued.
Resolved, That the President of the United
States be requested to cause to be furnished to
this House an account of all payments made on
President's certificates, from the fund appropri
ated by law through the agency of the State
Department, for the contingent expenses of
foreign intercourse, aince the 4th of March,
'41, with copies of all the entries, receipts, let
ters, vouchers, memorandums, or other evidence
of such payments, to whom paid, for what, and
particularly all concerning the Northeastern
boundary, dispute with Great Britain; also
copiee of whatever communications were mado
from the Secretary of State, during the last
session of the 27th Congress, particularly Feb
ruary, 1843, to Mr. Cushing and Mr. Adams,
members of the Committee of the House on
Foreign Affairs, of the wish of the President of
the United States to institute a special mission
to Great Britain ; also copies of all lettera on
the books of the Department of State to any
officer of the United States, or any pereon in
New York, concerning Alexander McLeod:
Provided, that no document or matter so reques
ted to be furnished by the foregoing rcsjlution,
which, in the opinion of the President, would
improperly involve tho citizens or subjects of
any foreign power.
Resolved, That the Chairman of the commit
tee on Foreign AfJairs submit to the House the
journal or minutes of that Committee, during
the last acssion of the 27th Congress.
Mr. Dromgoole advocated the adoption of the
resolutions.
Mr. Bayley, of Virginia, opposed the resolu
tions, though he did so, not from any particular
feelings of friendship for Mr. Webster.
Mr. Ililliard also opposed the resolution, and
expressed his regret that a man who had illus
trated the American name, as Mr. Webster had
done, should haro so tew friends in thia House.
He should be the meanest of men if he did not
bear his testimony to the rigid and scrupulous
propriety in the expenditures of his department
Mr. Winthrop rose not to defend Mr. Web
ster, thai he would not condescend to do, but
in defence of the honor and dignity of the Hottee.
A member of this House had made certain char
ges against the Senator from Massachusetts.
They had, within ten days been denied in man
ner and terms not for him to comment upon.
Under the influence of the feelings engender
ed by the Senator from Massachusetts, the
gentleman from Pennsylvania had brought
forward these resolutions.
3Ir. Ingersoll here asked whether he (Mr.
Winthrop) had not publicly said, seversls days
before the speech of the Sen, for from Massa
chusetts had been delivered, that the scarify
ing process was to be applied to him, (Mr. In.
gersoll.)
The reply of Mr. Winthrop was indistinctly
heard, but he waa understood to deny trio right
of any one to catechise him there aa to remarks
made out of the House.
Mr. Ingersoll made a very significant and
contemptuous motion of the body and bands to
ward Mr. Winthrop, but said nothing.
Mr. Winthrop continued, that be believed
Mr. Webster had given his frienda pretty gen
erally to understand that the process wss to be
applied.
Mr. Ingersoll. The question which I asked
was, whether the gentleman did not use the
words himself
Mr. Winthrop. If the gentleman Is so very
desirous to know, I believe I have used the
expreEsiona I
Mr. W, opposed the resolution, and also the
amendment. He waa opposed to placing thia
matter in the handa of the Secretary of State
a friend of the gentleman from Pennsylvania
to give to him the opportunity of producing juat
auch papers as he may think proper, and sup
presslhose which nisy bo necessary to a proper
elucidation of the whole subject
Mr. Holmes, of South .Carolina, opposed the
adoption of the resolutions, on the ground that
it would be establishing a precedent destructive
of the objects contemplated - by the aecret ser
vice fund. II such a fund were necessary
that secrecy ahould be maintained.
. Mr. Seddoa advocated the adoption of the
resolutions on the ground that it waa due to
the distinguished Senator from Massachusetts
that the examination should be made. He had
been charged here by distinguished member
of this body with serious offences end though
politically opposed to him, his regard to hia
American leputation led him to desire the in
vestigation. . ...
Mr, Adams mad tome explanations as to the
and immediate parent of d-spoti'mJirrsasoa-.
Vol. GIJo. So-Whole Wo, 200.
character of the aecret service fund, and said
that so far from being used for purposes of cor
ruption, there was no fund more honorably ap
rrmSed, and with more advantage to the coun
try. He mer.tioned an instance during his ad
ministration; in which the whole appropriation
had been expended, for a single object, which
wss unknown to any one, and never communl
cated to any except bis successor in office after
the expiration of his own term that was ap
plied in reference to a commercial treaty with
the Sublime Porte, concluded by his successor.
Mr. Ingersoll. The object of the resolution
is to get a guilty Secretary of State who has
abused the power.
Mr. Adams said that if the fund had been
uned by any Secretary of State for purposes of
corruption, it must have been with the sanction
of the President of the United States, who alone
has the control of the fund, and ia alone res
ponsible for its expenditure. So far aa Mf.
Webster was concerned, he believed that in
vestigation would result to hia honor, rather
than his injury. But the President only Was
responsible for the expenditure, and as to any
secret service money expended during the pe
riod referred to in the resolutions, he believed
the present President would know no more
about it than the House of Representatives.
Mr. Yancey contended that Congress had
the power over the question; that they made
the appropriation, and they had a right to know
now it nad been expended. And what waa
there in the present stste of things that legis
lation should be smothered 1 Certainly not the
grosa attack upon the gentleman from Pennsyl
vania, at the other end of the capital an at
tack which has so sunk its anthor in the estima
tion of all honorable men so sunk him in the
kennel of degradation that the 'hand of resur
rection can never bring him forth.' He pro
ceeded at some length, and with great severity
to comment upon the course of Mr. Webster,
snd was rather severe upon his colleague, too,
Mr. Ililliard, who had defended him,
Mr. Ililliard replied to M. Yancey.
The previous question waa here moved by
M. McClernard, which was sustained, and the
final vote being taken, resulted yeas 126, nays
23. So the resolutions were adopted!
A resolution, offered to-day by Mr. Bayley,
calling for all correspondence in reference to the
Mcleod case, is still pending,
The debate in the House to-day has been the
most exciting of the session, and is of a char
acter to produce a great sensation throughout
the country. J.
The Sikhs of India thirty thousaud of whose
troops have fallen in the Punjaub owe their
defeat to their ignorance of the bayonet. They
couldn't stand btfore that ugliest ef all war
movements a charge at the point of the bay
onet. Their artillery was magnificent, far su
perior to anything used at the battle of Water
loo. Hvmam Glory. There arrived al Hull, not
long since, a Dutch vessel, navigated by a man,
wife and four daughters, laden with bones raked
from the battle fields of Napoleon, to be sold by
the buehel-for manure to grow turnips.
' Tub Plsasubk or Royalty. The Emperor
of Russia sleeps upon a leather matrass, stuffed
with hsy, with a b g dog and a pair of pistols be
side him. The fear of a violent death aeeroa
to be always present to him and it ia only by
preserving the strictest incognito that he is a
ble to take solitary walks for which he has so
much taste.
Pbnny Post StaTEJ.--The Penny Post waa
established in London by a retired undertaker
by the name of Murry.in the year 1683. In
1711 the government diucovered that the busi
ness, which had by that time become a very
profitable one, belonged of right to themselves,
and therefore took it away from him ; but al
lowed him a pension of 200 per annum for tho
remainder of hia life.
'Resolyeo to oib Rich." A very good sto
ry is told in the United Ststes Journal of a sai
lor on board a vesel laden with Spanish dollars,
which had been wrecked. The crew were ta
ken ofl the wreck in busts, and just before the
last boat was pu.hed off, a man was sent back to
ascertain if there might not atill be some one
left On arriving an the main deck, where the
caska had been left, he found a fellow who bad
broken open several of the receptacles of base
lucre, and spresd the contents thereof oa a ta
ble cloth deck, in the midst of which be waa
seated, weapon in hand. Being told that the
ship was fast going to pieces, he replied, "The
ship may go-r-I have lived a poor rascal all my
life, and I am resolved to die rich.1 Remons
trance waa vain, and poor Jack, who preferred
the death of a rich man to tha life of a "poor
rascal," waa left to die alone in lis glory.''
!o a single year four thoussnd millions of
human beinga appear on the busy stage of life,
act their busy parts, and sink back again into
the peaceful bosom ef mother earth
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From the Natehet Free-Trader,
fthe erlgla of the tt.lrtas
In lately passing through the prairie country
we were at aome pains in searching for geolog
ical facts by which to account for tht formation
of these vast level plains and their destitution of
timber. The result baa satisfied na that the
were once covered with water, either as the bot
torn of lakes, running atreams, or ia the same)
manner of the evergladea of Florida. The up
per stratum ia loose sand or dark loam, such aa"
forma the bottom of lakes and rivers or contigu
ous marshes l the next la sand, clay, and peb
bles of large size, bearing evidence of having
been rolled about by the action of the water, and
deposited in their present position by the same
agency. Large numbers of fossil shells, of
fresh water formation, are found in every direc
tion and stratum. Besides these, Urge emtio
blocks of granite, sometimes mnny feet in cir
cumference and many tone in weight, and other
transported fragments, are to be met with scat
tered over all the prairies ; and, on the south
ern shores of the lakes, wherever the superficial
aand and gravel have been removed from thn
rocky strata, straight parallel furrows appear
ploughed in their smooth eurfsce, running in a
general southern direction, and always preser
ving their parallelism.
Tha only rational mode of accounting for the
appearance of these transported fragments, an'
no formation of a similar nature exist south of
the great lakes, appear to us to be through the
agency of water and Ice. During the submer
gence of these vest fields, when the lakes must
have disembogued themselves through the Gulf
of Mexico, these huge boulders were caught up
by the ice, firmly imbedded in it, and driven off
by the northern blasts or stream into a more
southern climate, and when the ice melted in
spring, they were deposited where they now
are found. Thia is to us the only means of ac
counting for their appearance, aa well as parat
lei furrowa in the rocks on the southern ahoret
of the lakes. By what agency thia state of af
fairs waa changed, whether by the upheaving ef
the prairies from the action of internal fires, or
their gradual filling up by the annual deposition
of the loose detritus washed down by the stream
or deposited from the melting ice, it is useless"
to speculate. But as the whole of the alluvial
lands of the valley of the Mississippi are of
comparatively recent formation it ia not improb
able, that the waters of the great lakes washed
the bases of the hills on both sides of the Miss
issippi, and that the whole intervening space,
now so fertile and fruitful, waa then a dark rol
ling stream of liquified mud. To us it appear
that the whole wcat la the richest field for the
geoligistin the world, and none more so tha i
those portions of the country lying between 'Li
lakes and the Ohio,
Tub CosvtsBios. A cloud was seen to pa?
suddenly over the features of Maria, The lu? .
ture forsook her dark eyes. Her spirit eeeu'.-d
troubled.
'Triumphs the lily now nn that yonngtheelc
Where bloomed the rose."
Ten times did Harvey importune btt to ac
quaint him with the cause of her a4ness--Sad
ly and ailently abe sat
And now and then ft sigh aire stole
And tears began to flow.
Breathe thre a wretch so base aa to Injure
you my dearest by word or action Tell
mri and by thine heart aa pure aa heaven, I
will never rest until I've redressed tby wrongs t
Is an awful mystery locked up in thy bosom, that
I must not know! Tell me the secretand by
tho ringlets of thy hair 111 never jeveal If,
though the blackeat tormenta rack me I tell
thine own Harvey "what liea heavy in thy
breast I"
She blushed she plsced her fair hands across
her bosom looked languidly into ber otej't
face, and softly, like the last low breathings of
an expiring saint she thus confessed i u'Til
them darn'd green opplts, Itarv
It ia the custom in Russia for a soldier who
happens to meet an officer standing in the street
to come to a halt, and not to move forward tin
til hia superior starta, if he should stand atill for
twenty-four hours.
A story ie told in the Cincinnati Fnquirer i f
a Scothmen who was dining out fur the finfe
time, and was consequently a little uneasy in ICs
bootsi During the first course be succeeded
in dropping his napkin, bread, end fork upon the
floor, and ss he made a dive for them, his coat
collar capsized his soup-plate and gave him
warm shower bath. While in thia agreeable1
eituation, his hoat called out, 'Mr. Campbell!'
A half smothered voice issuing from under the)
tablet replied, 'I wish he waa in h II,
tawe op TefcBKT. A gentler- j0 ftcw
Orleana waa agreeably surprised, tha etHr da
to find a plump turkey served up for Ilia diBM
and eoquired of his servant how It u obuioesf
Why, aa," replied black a , dtt ttrk,
been rooaio oa our feoaJa
Jt nites eo die aaor
ftlB 1 bJJ5 rant oa 4t set..".