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..tom
.I'4, Commas is, pkw,ese Crory Monday
esoag, by 'firm! 'I. &tea* at $l,ll Per
wag. if oad steictliAt Lavaca-42,00 per
s4lsiii if not paid #4llTosidc xo subeerip•
tiOa discos:lAA rile* at the option of the
pOi: I ,4oliiiirorvgai are paid.
.ADVElttitetiplrii Wetted at thai visual rates.
Jos 'Pair fiatf foie pigs aeataass sad dia-
POdif
.44 1.0 amounts prices.
9 17 4 .011 0, t4osth Bt tiakore otreet, directly
apposite Warpler's Tianlug lktubliahtueut, one
a, halt *twos from the Court Holum—
KAllittats on the alp.
li)e, i'oef eotTei..
Feies4sillo.
SY LILY itrixertow
He who yields not to friendship's sway,
By casting though' of hate away,
Is only half a mad ;
He knows not what true pleasure is,
Aad no true happiness ls his.
Oh 1 who can friendship's yoke withstand ?
Who can refuse love's outstretched hand?
Lire for himself alone?
He tires, indeed, in misery,
Who has no friendly sympathy
'Tis fr i endsh ip cheers ns while on earth,
'Tilt friendship keeps us round the hearth,
And makes us happy. there.
Who want true friendship while they lire,
Must in their turn true friendship give.
I have a loving, faithful friend,
And many pleasant hours I spend
In her dear company;
And when I cease to cora then I
Will cease to Luz and wish to die
Trip Lightly Over Tr•abilir.
Trip lightly over trouble,
Trip lightly over wrong ;
We only make grief double,
By dwelling on it long.
Why clasp woe's hard so tightly?
Why sigh o'er blossoms dead?
Why cling to forms unsightly?
Why not seek joy Instead?.
Trip lightly o'er - sorrow,
Though this day may be dark,
The sun may shine to-marrow,
And gaily sing the lark ;
Fair bope has not departed,
Though roses may have lied;
Then never be down-hearted,
Hut look for joy instead.
Trip lightly over !edam,
Stand not to rail at doom ;
We've pearls to strings of gladness,
- Ou this side of the tomb;
Whilst stars are nightly shining,
And heaven is overhead,
Enzourage not repining,
But louk for . joy instead
liie., INtbdier.
Letter from the West.
Conwpriescs of eh. Compiler.
Oita% Btures, ou Kaskaskia River, MO
Mly Ist, 18.514.
H. J. STADIA:, Eso.—llear Sir:—l arrived
here two oda? s ago, and according t• promise,
will try to give you the gleitlingsr.of my voy
age from Pittsburg. down the Ohio river to its
mouth; and up the Mississippi, to this place.
1 reached Pittsburg on Friday morning, the
20th of April. An encounter on the levee with
the "land sharks, - (they are called "street run
ners- in tut. easy is almost luevitable. They
try AA get you to take passage on their boat by
telling ;ou everything but the truth. I there
fore advise green uorlis - ..trego on t mrd • d
contract with the captain or clerk, and take
his card, and let the shark, storm. I took pas
sage on board the steamboat S. B. Rochester,
Capt. Neair—s.s_ to Cin( innati, and $ to St.
Louis—and was furnished a ith state room And
calin passage., and three meals per day. Our
boat left port on the 22d. at 3 o'clock, P. M.,
well loaded, containing 4:6 tons of freight,
156 cabin passengers and 44 deck, and 33 offi
cer* and crew hands. Amongst the . crowd
were two ministers of the gospel, with their
fandlies, hound for Kansas. There were also
in the company gentlemen from twenty differ
ent counties in Pennsylvania, some with their
families, and others young mechanics with their
tools. We had fine weather to start with, but
it changed in the morning, and continued so
until the fifth day.
It is supposed that no river in the world
rolls for the same distance such an uniformly
smooth and placid current. Its banks are gen
entity high and steep, rising fn bluffs and
cliffs, sometimes to the height of three hundred
feet. Between the bluffs and the river there is
generally a strip of land of unequal width,
called button,. These bluffs exhibit a wild and
picturesque grandeur, which those who have
never viewed nature In her primitive and un
changed state can hardly imagine. These bot
toms where cleared are under cultivation, but
too fertile for any crop except corn.) and where
not cleared are densely covered with forest
trees of gigantic size, casting their broad shad
ows into the placid stream. The luxuriant and
mammoth growth of the timber in the bottoms,
the meandering and frequent bends of the riv
er, and the numberless and beautifully wooded
Islands, all of which in rapid succession shift
and vary the scene to the eye as you float down
amid the endless mate before you, are calcula
te4ka fix open the mind indelible impressions.
The splendid scenery is muck softened by a
clear moonlight, when the imagination adds to
*he . reality and pictures things unseen—not
)getting the effect of the startling whistle of
La upward bound boat giving notice of her op
reoneh, and tb• answer of your own boat as a
*Menai to -pasi right or left, echoing amid the
darkness where the wild whoop of the red man
Itiiimrd no more.
.. Ant piece of *obi oa the river is Parker,-
btrogi ma the tensions of tlin Baltimore sad Okio
187 lollies below Pittsburg, at the
. iiiesdr:otAittle Kanawha. It Is a beautiful
plitiosl, *ad looks as if It would be a point of
trade, bolding oat great induce
tines& tel:potiag.nien who do not wish to go
therireit: •
Sat -oboes Cinetanatil, the Queen of the
'Witt; Og . rifkii dowse, where we stopped
*4. a id** egg Sunday nsetuirg according to the
&busman, au! before the rise of the ran all
bands weieratirork, au If it. were Itonday.
:IMitisees, den,* • %Elm wagons, wheelbar
- tows; 'news - Muir mid, 'apple peddlers, all
diiiithestuariusilivltrotels,larnainz, !re:lumps,
11 1 .!*ritt) alLit w.ptka.boists loading and la
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40TH YEAR.
Creek, * a abort distance above the Falls, and
stands on a spacious sloping plain. It has a
good levee, and fine principal streets, running
parallel with the ricer. Main street is nearly
two miles long, and •rry compactly built.
Ina commercial point of liew, this is one of
the most important towns in Kentucky. All
boats must stop at this place when the water
Is high to get a pilot for the Falls, and in low
water they must pass through the canal, pay
ing according to the load, which would have
cost our boat $6(.; but we crossed the Falls,
and the pilot got $lO. The price is from $lO
to $35, according to the stage of water in the
channeL We went over very smoothly, some
of the men in the saloon not discoveriag that
we were crossing.
The next place of note Is Evansi Me, 77G
miles down, above the mouth of Pigeon ('reek.
This is a thriving town, situated is • bend of
the river, 54 miles south of Vincennes. It is
the seat of Justice of Vandeberg county, Indi
ana. Next ii Ilendersonville, 788 miles down,
situated at Red Bank. It is a pleasant and
healthy looking place, and the seat of justice of
Henderson county, Kentucky. Next comes
Shawneetown, 842 mi:es below. This village
formerly belonged to the ShaWnee nation of
Indians, from which it takes its name. It is
pleasantly located in Gallatin county, Illinois.
A few miles above this, the Great Wabash
river empties into. the Ohio, which makes •
large acquisition of water. Eleven miles lower
Cumberland river empties—the largest in Ken
tucky, and is navigable for steamboats as high .
as Nashville iu ordinary stages of water. Next
is Tennessee river. This is the largest branch
of the Ohio, and is navigable for large boats
more than 400 miler. It rises in the north
west part of Virginia, and traverses the width
of east Ten . The next is the month of
the Ohio, 959 miles below Pittsburg.
Cairo is situated in the fork - , fronting the
Ohio and Mississippi Oven, and is the terminus
of the Railroad to Chicago. It is protected by
a levee along both rivers. If not so protected
it would be afloat at this time. All the houses
outside of the levee were full of water, some
tenantless and fastened to trees to Seep them
from floating away. The river was very high.
Fp the Mississippi nothing was presented to
the eye but water and the green wilderness.
For forty miles, to Cape Girardeau, no banks
could be seen.' In places the water spread out
many miles in the country, covering farms and
surrounding houses, confining families to their
homes for many days.
From Cairo to Kaskaskia, on the Illinois side,
lies the American Bottom, extending from 3
to 7 miles hack from the ricer to the bluffs.
The soil is among the richest in the world, but
it in part orerflows, - which is a great drawback
on this place. The floods of '44 and '5l ruined
the place. Although there was no overflow for
eighty yeirs before, the people sirs still afraid
to risk.
I trill now conclude this long scrall, sitting
As I am three miles front the Mississippi, on the
bluff, in sight of all the boats passing to and
fro ou the river, and wishing I had all the
Adams county folks that are afraid of the
backwoods with me ibis afternoon to see the
country and satisfy thetuselvet. The expense
of coming here is but a trifle--coating $lO
front Pittsburg to this place, (eighty miles be
-10 v St. Louis,) with state . roftm and good board
ing, whilst those who slept in the saloon on
good =tresses came for sB—e, mere song.
Yours respectfully,
OXPORD FARM'S.
How annoying it is, when seated
alone in your office, to have some one
open the door, look all round the room
to be sati•died that you are its only occu
pant, and then ask, " Mr. (your
partner perhaps) is not in, is he ?" The
custom is as common as it is ridiculous
and annoying. The Buffalo E.rpreA.l
in
stances a case in that city, where one of
these askers of needless questions way
effectually taken down. .1 member of
a law firm in that city ft; sitting at his
desk, bnsily engaged in important busi
ness, when the door opens—Mr. Anger
walks in, takes his seat, and says in a
drawling tone, "Mr. isn't in, is
he ?" The question was useless, of
coarse, as there was no one else in thy
ro mi but the two; but the counsellor
arose and with great urbanity replied :
" I will see, sir." Ho looked - under his
chair, behind the stove, into the "pigeon
holes" of his desk, and saving " I don't
see him, "
sat down and went to writ
ing. "Hold on, 'Squire," said the visi
tor, "you have tatight me a lesson, sir,
and I'll send you a peck of apples "
and departed. .
Scolding from the Pulpit.—The prac
tice is quite too common with some
preachers--says an exchange—who aim
to do good by manifesting indignation
at the real and imaginary faults of
those to whom they minister. The
consequeirce of this is to provoke rath
er than win and reform the - emng
auditors. We have listened in sorrow
to such discourses from good men, who
have unconsciously fallen into this er
ror. They seem to labor diligently
and earnestly, without much apparent
beneficial result. We have thought
that if attention were called to this sub
ject, it might not be unavailing to both
speaker and hearer. Let the preacher
Leech Gospel doctrines from a soul
filled with love to God and man, and he
*ill have no occasion for the soelding
method, and souls will be easier won.
—Love draws, its opposite repels.
afie , Widl i " said his honor, to an old
novo wbio had been hauled np for steal
ing a 14414, what have yoa to say for
ye watt"' dis, boss, I
was amy as a bedbug when stole dat
ierieinet, , eas 1 might, Witt stole a big
r iaht abhsaieaatt Datahoirs
AIM I ems- laborts' ander de
tratnendua."
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A Common Fault Rebuked.
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J tmontir, No and tantill *Anal.
GETTYSBURG, PA.: MONDAY.; MAY 17, ISSB.
It is Easy to Spoil a Son.
There are but very few that can bear
the hand of indulgence without injury.
In our country, in most instances, those
who are to be great and useful, must
make themselves so, by their own ex
ertions and often by vigerous effort.—
Nine cases out of ten, the young fellow
who is provided fur—that his "father
is rich "—will relax his exertions, and
become a poor foul, whatever may be
Lis occupation.
There is nothing so destructive to the
morals and, wo may add, to the peace '‘
of the community, as the neglect of
parents, rich or poor, to teach their
sons the importance of being early en
gaged in some act ice employment. Too
many of the citizens of every place,
under the influence of false pride, suffer
their song, after quitting their schools,
to lounge about thaipublic offices and
taverns of their places of residence,
rather than engage in some important
branch of the mechanical arts; or force
thorn by dint of their own industry and
energies, to seek their fortune in other
pursuits. Nothing is wore detestable,
in our eye, than to see a healthy good
looking youth breakin e ,tv loose from the
restraints of honorablo industry, ro
turning to his father's domicil for sup
port, and loafing about it, rather than
pursuing some occupation which will
not only eupport welt but give grati
fication to hut worthy parents.
We would say to every father who
has such a son, bo he rich or por—
rather drive him to " cut his curd of
wood a day," than suffer him to spend
his time in idleness. "An idle head is
the devil'', workshop,"—and we may
add, that idle hands are the impiements
ho employs to execute his dark designs.
How to Load a Gun.
We all know how savagely a gun
kicks once in a while. We have very
apprehensive feelings when we shoot a
gun that some one else has loaded, or
that we have loaded for the first limo,
and without instructions. There are
few farmers, we opine, but have guns
that they use occasiona Ly. We give the
following rule, from the pen of* gun
maker: Try it repeatedly with charges,
consisting of equal bulks of powder
and shot, till yon conic to a quantity
with which the gun will not recoil, or
but slightly. This wilt give you the
proper quantity 'of shot. With this
load howevea, the gun will scatter in
all directions. To correct this, reduce
the quantity of powder until you find
that the shot is carried 'as close as you
desire. A gun loaded thus wilLnever
burst. To make it carry farther use
shot of a larger size. No gun should
be tired more than twenty times with
out being wiped out. When in the
field, it. will he much safer to carry the
piece always at luzlf-rock. In travers
ing thiekets, and crossing fences, hold
the piece 'before you.--,Entery's Journal.
fter Among the ingenious machines
yet to be invented is the machine for
"cleaning house." This admirable af
fair should be under such control that
it will " put things to rights" without
creating confusion and trouble. The
man who perfects so admirable a piece
of work ought to be immortalised by a
statue of gold made from his own pro
fits. lie will be a benefactor to the
human race, especially the women folks;
and ho will be or►o for whom husbands,
no longer annoyed by house-cleaning
troubles will continually pray.
ser.t printer, not long ago, bring
"flung" by his sweetheart, went to the
office and tried to commit suicido wi'.h
the "shooting. suck," hut the thing
wouldn't go off. The "devil" wishing
to pacify him, told him to peep into the
sanctum where the editor was writing
duns to delinquent subscribers. He did
so, and the effect was magical. He says
that picture ofdespair reconciled him to
his tate.
&eV - Southey says, in one of his let
ters :—" I have told you of the Spaniard
who always put on his spectacles when
about to eat cherries, thzt they might
look bigger and more tempting. In
like manner, I make the most of my
enjoyment; and though I do not cast
my eyes away from my troubles, I pock
thorn in as little compass as I can for
myself, and never let them annoy
others."
Speed of Lightning.—A wheel made
to revolve with such velocity as to ren
der its spokes invisible, is seen, when
illuminated by a flash of lightning, for a
moment, with every spoke distinct, as
if at rest. The reason of this is, the
flash has ( 0013 am' g )ne before the wheel
has time to inake a perceptible advance.
A Spunky Governor.—The Governor
of Wisconsin now gets a yearly income
of $l,OOO. A proposition having been
recently introduced in the Legislature
to increase the salary to $2,000, Gov.
Randall notified the members of that
body that, if adopted, he would veto the
measure, whereupon the proposition
was dropped.
Violations of the Sunday Lam. in Xer
York.—According to partial returns
from the various police captains o‘..New
York city, no lees than nine hundred
and Wel:apt:lye placros in that city were
open on Sunday Lisa for the "Sale of
liquors, and dry goods and cigars." The
six wards from which no returns were
received would probably swell the num
ber to near 1,500.
iii/rit has been said• with justice,
that the 'host ishNren efbirds is an owl,
the
that.
solatan of beast*, an psi and
tire orostisoistsa,ot sae too.
Wu* imatey iAoldlect A bid; is 4
proper to mit big boy a Udder.
Maa=i=
"TRUTH IS MIGHTr, AND WILL rzavAn.."
Elephants in India.
A Calcutta correspondent of the New
York Onninerrinl Adrertixer, in giving
an account of a visit to Barrackpore,
CM
‘c We saw the recently•arrived ele
phants from Burmah; they looked in
good condition. There were ninety of
them at the stables and many were trav
eling about through the different streets
and* roads. I had a ride upon one of
the largest, who liueeled down to enable
me to mount him, and some of them
made us a salaam with thsirtrunks when
told to do so by their keeper, or 'ma
hout, 'as the driver is called. They
are intelligent animals. A story was
told me ofa number of elephants in one
of the Mofussil districts. One of them
had committed a fault in refusing to
carry a slight, additional burden, when
told by the mahout that he would get
extra grog for it. lie was tried by
court-martial in the presence of twenty
of his elephantine brethren and convic
ted, sad on the keeper's reading the
sentence, all raised their trunks in . tie
knowlodgment of its -justice I Anoth
er was appointed to flog him, which be
did by giving hint fifty lashes with a
long chain twined about his trunk, and
the culprit reeeived the whole meekly
well knowing 4(k...deserved it ! They
are so cunning as to weigh their food
with their trunks when on a march,
and if there is an ounce short they will
discover it and insist on the regular al
lowance. When traveling they each
have a gallon of grog a day, just as sail
ors and soldiers have their glass. These
animals were at Barrack pore, recruiting
after the voyage, and were soon to be
sent up the country to do service In
England's (muse.
The Last Steamboat Marder.—Tt.o
Ocean Spray was burnt, last week,
near St. Louis, with a terrible loss or
life. Sho we:: racing with another
steamer, and, aceordmg to the state
ment of a passenger, the captain
brought out-a barrel of turpentine, and
rho firemen dipped eupfulls and threw
it into the futtimec. '1 his was not suffi
cient. Thehead of the bat rel was then
broken in and bucket fulls of the turpen •
tine were thrown into the flumes. A
live eon!, diligged out from the furnace
by the rake of nn excited fireman, coat.
niunicated with the turpentine, and in
a few moments the Ocean Spray was in
a sheet of name. There is a law of :Con.
gross which punisl:es such recklessness
as this. Personally and peenmarily the
officers ate liable, and the application
of the law in this, and every other in.
stance of the kind, would tend to *-
wet the public and diminish the num
ber of thebo tbrrible disasters.
IA burning Mmintarn exists near
Pottsville, Schuylkill county, which
has been on fire for twenty-one years.
The mountain contains a vein of anthra
cite coal forty fret in thickness. The
origin of the tire is attributed to a cou
ple of miners who having some work
to perform in the drift, in the depth of
winter, built a fire—they being cold--4n
the sang-way. Tho flames, destroying
the prop timbers, were catried by a
strongeurrent rapidlyalong the passage,
and the fire communicating to the coal,
all subsequent efforts to extinguish it
were ineffectual. Tho men were cut off
front escape, and were undoubtedly
suffocated to death. Their remains
ware never found. Thousands of tons
of coal have undoubtedly been Consum
ed, and thousands of tons - army feed the
fire, before it is checked.
Condition of the Big Ship.—Tho Le
viathan, it is stated, Will not be able to
get to sea short of an additional c.xpen
ditare of .£172,000, which sum added
to the present, liabilities of the company,
amounts to £211,282, to meet which
the directors propose to issue debenture
preference shares to that sum. The
total cost of the ship will be £804,522,
or at thereto of £34 juir ton, taking the
ship at the builders' measurement 24,-
000 tour.
New Hotel in Washington.—lt is stat
ed that a now family hotel is projected
in Wilshington Sy Mr Corcoran and of
wealthy CaiZellti, to ho erected on the
corner of Pennsylvania avenue and La
fayette square. The land will Cost
$170,000, and the house and furniture
shout $200,000 more. Mr. Stetson, of
the Astor House, it is said, will take a
lease of this house when completed.—
The location is nearly opposite the
President's house, and in the heart of
the fashionable quarter of the city.
Prefer., Dcath.—Loefner, tho Cincin
nati murderer, whose sentence has been
commuted to imprisonment for life,
is greatly dissatisfied because he is not
to be hung.
Mir Twenty slaves belonging toJadge
Back, of Ky., wore accidentally drown
ed by the upsetting of a boat, a few
days ago.
!fir They moan to raise a tall lot of
students in Wisconsin. Its board °fed
ucation has resolved to " erect a build
ing large enough to accommodate five
hundred students three rtories high."
jTho man who carried out his
moral resolutions, did not brims theta
back again.
siirA Hotel keeper Already *eked
permission of a naval Officer to board
hie vessel.
IPiirWhy is petticoat government
stronger now than formerly? Because
it is iron-hooped.
liirPanch ssys as scent, iirsrrikAted
to irri in any ernuits, is s Iroaistn's
age.'
1
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The Pocket Book.
Scene First—A young gent is dis
eo7ered surrounded by his friends, who
are gcsting with him regarding his at
tentions to a certain young lady.
Young Gant—"Boys, I'll tell you
how it is. Yon see I care nothing for
the girl--it's the old man's pocket book
I'm after."
Chorus of Friends—"lTa! lin!"
Second Scene—A Parlor—time 11
P. M.—young lady Rented, young gent
rises to depart, hesitates as if bashful,
and then slowly remarks:
" Miss excuse me, but you
must be aware that my frequent visits,
m÷:.-attentions, cannot have been with
out an object."
Young Lridv—" Ah, yes, so I have
heard; and I shall be only too happy to
grant ou what you desire."
(Takes from the table a paper parool,
and anfoldM it, dimplayink a large old
fashioned and empty morocco pocket
book.)
" This Thave been informed, is-that
object. Permit me to present it, and
to congratulate you that you will in
future haste no further occasion to re
new these visits and attentions."
Young gent swoons.
A Turtle Story.
About tbe year 1785 three men that
were-at work for my father, found a
I t iox tortloin the field where they were
employed.. Each ono cut the first let
ters of bioname on the under shell, and
let bias gwwtiore they found him. Fif
teenyeare
a fter, One of my brothers
found the •enme turtle, near the same
Sixand:marked him with J. P. 1800.
Six years after, I found him near the
same, place, and carried him to my
father, anal showed him to tha
1 then marked him E. U. 1806, and let
him go below, the mil!, one mile from the
plum where i found him. Eight,years
after, I found him in the same field
where I irst found him ; ho had got
b.iek : to his old home again. I marked,
him this timo E. D. 1814. Eighteen
yenn4after, ono of Rufus limit's family
found him, and carried him home; Mr.
Hun( marked bim with R. IL. 1832,
and Icy hini go on his farm. Four years
utter; one of Mr. limit's family found
him again; in the same place where he
was first found, and left where they
found hiM. Froip the time he was
first fousia to the time he was last seen
must be eland 51 years. How old ho
was lwheti first found nobody knows,
but he appeared to be full grown. The
above n ay be rolled - upon ns the truth.
Davis.—R. I. &publican.
/tat-The following good ono is told of
a " ram Mt," who was in the habit of
coming hqme hungry, after his evening
potation
One night beside tho motel dish of
cabtAge arid pork, his wife left a wash
bowl'fikkd with caps and starch. The
lamp, hittlYmg been extinguished when
the staggering sot returned home, and
by mistake, When Protteeditir to satisfy
his hhnger , ho struck his fork into the
wrong dish. Ile worked away at his
mouthful of cups for some time. but be
ing pliable to masticate them, he sung
out to his, wife :
"Old woman, where did you get your
cabbages! They aro so stringy tha I
can't chew them."
"My gficions r replied the d
lady-, "if the stupid fellow hasn't n
and eat up m y caps, that 4 put in starch
over i night: "
siirAn. hottest son of Erin, green
upon his•peregrivations, put his head
into a lawyer's otB2e and asked thu • -
riziite
I Q j
" An' what do you sell here?"
" - Blockheads," replied the limb of the
law.
"Och, thin, to be inro," said Pat, "it
must be s good trade, for I rice there is
but one of them left."
sir" My eon," said Spriggleft senior
to Sptiggles junior, thinking to enlight
en the boy on the propagation of the
hen species, "my son, do you know
that chickens come out of eggs r
" t)o they," said Spri o o ,, les junior, as
ho licked hie plato—" I thought eggs
come out of chickens."
Thus ended the first lesson.
lar-One of the occupants of a huge
public hed•ronm in nn American hotel
shook tho room with his snoring:—
Another went up to his bed lido and
shook him.
"Are you aware, sir, that you are
talking in your sleep, and betraying all
the secrets of the Central Alligator
Bank f We hnve already ascertained
that; you are the chairman, and that—."
An ominous whisper closed the sentence
and the ehait man of the Central Alliga
tor slept•no more.
—A :pair of Irishmen, who were
recently traveling towards the Iron
City, came upon a Mile-board stand
ing,, by the wayside, with this in
seription• upon it: "48 miles from Pitts
burg." Supposing it to be a tombstone,
one of them gently tapped the other
upon the shoulder, and said, " Tread
lightly, Jemmy ; here lies the dead ; 43
years mild, and his name is Miles, from
Pittsburg."
stir" Father, what does the printer
live on ?I "Why child ?" "Because yon
havu't paid him to three years, and
still take the paper."
ik CoateatA=" I never complained of
condition," says the Persian poet
Sadi, but onoe,.when my feet were
bare;and I had no money to buy above ; •
but I mit a man wtihont feet, and be.
Mime co tent .With my let."
sCtooesty Ought to shine through
fituitrite thO what splays o,l'ow
`"
TWO DOLLARS A•TEAI
Later from Fort Scott—Movement of
11. 8. Troops.
Sr. Louis, May 10th.—A telegraphic
dispatch from Independence announces
(ho arrival thcil•e of Mr. Mason, who
left Camp Scott on the 3d of March.
Gen. Johnston was anxiously waiting
for the arrival of Capt. Marcy. The
health of the army was remarkably
good. Provisions were becoming soiree,
but supplies were expected from Fort
Laramie. Mr. Mason was detained
seventeen days on account of snow
storms. He met Col. Hoffman's com
mand 140 miles beyond Fort. Kearney.
Twelve hundred troops have arrived
hero within three days, a great portion
of whom proceed immediately to Leav
enworth.
The Republican states that Capt.
Marcy Would not be detained more than
ten days waiting for reinforcements,
and he would then be in 'a condition to
march to Camp Scott in 40 days.
Tho supply trains wore losing a
number of animals from cold. All the
streams were high on the plains.
Bids fur and Au , ards of Treasury Note. q.
—WA:BI[IINOTON, May 10.—At the treas
ury note letting to-day the bids were
from three and a-half to six per cent.
interest. Thu amount bid for under
five per cent. was about four millions
and a-half. The amount bid for at five
was about fifteen millions, with seine
above five per cent. All at a rate un
der five per cent. is awarded, and a
small portion of the five per cent. is dis
tributed to Washington and several
other cities. There were bids from
nearly all tho principal cities. The
lowest was fl•om Boston, being three
and a-half per cent. The amount bid
for from New York was large.
Rain.—T/ e Beason.--rThere is noth
ing more common than for persons to
speak of the heather as unusual. We
have heard it- said frequently that more
ruin hits fallen this year than ever be
fore. The loosoneos of such ismzuage
will bo apparent when the Let is
statist that from thc, first of January
to the tenth of this month but eight
inches and sixty-one hundredths of an
inch of rain has fallen, whilst fof - the
same period last year eleven inches and
thirty-three hundredths of an inch.
This statement is made on the authori
ty of Mr Goodman, of Annapolis, who
prepares tables of tl*weath.r, etc., for
the Smithsonian Institute.—Last year
there was fifty-one inches and 64-100 of
an inch of rain and melted mow ; dur
ing the summer months there was tweu
tv-three and 6-100 of an inch of rain.—
ham of Tuesday.
Ohst
I According to the retort of Mr. Perky
of the New Brunswick. fisheries, the
shed makeit ita appearance in Savannah
land Charleston in January, New York
in the latter part of March, Boston in
the litter part of April, and in the Bay
of Fundy about the middle of May.
The first dish which arrive ascend the
I River St. John to spawn, and then pro
ceed up the Bay of Fundy to their fa.
1 cora() grounds, to fatten upon the
I shrimp and " shad-worm." Of the
I
sea shad, none are so fine as those taken
1: - .t the head of the Buy of Fundy. The
I shad Li but rarely seen on the Atlantic
coast of Nova Scotia. It is found in
I the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but nut north
of the Miramichi. After the shad get
very fat in the Bay of Fundy, they
leave in October or Rovember, and they
have been seen in large schools south
east of Cape Sable, steering to the
southward probably to enter again upon
our southern coast of Savannah, from
whence they reach the mouth of the
Delaware about the first of March,
reaching here from the 10th to the 17th
! of the mouth.
larA lady tells this story: I have
beer, out in Indiana on a visit, and
while there I found a kitten, which I
brought home for a plaything for. my
two children. To prevent any dispute
about the ownership of puss, I proposed,
and it was agreed, that the head of the
kitten should be mine, and .the body
should be the baby's, and Eddie, the
eldest—but three years old—should be
the solo proprietor of the long and
beautiful tail. Eddie rather objected
at brat to this division, as putting him
off with an extremely small share of
the animal, but soon became reconciled
to the division, and quite proud of his
ownership in the graceful terminus of
the kitten. One day, soon after , I
heard the poor puss making a dreadful
mewing, and I called oat to Eddie:—
" There, my son, you are hurting my
part of the kitten, I heard her cry."—
"No, I didn't, mother; trod on my
part, and your part /rollers r ,
bar The Oceon (N. J.) Emblem says
that the cashier of the Bank at Tom's
river, after banking hours have expired,
walks quietly about with the institution
in his pocket during the remainder of
the day.
aiirWhy is a Nebraska shinplaster
ike an impenitent sinner ! 'Because
Won't know that its redeemer liveth.
sfs-An Irish pa , -r describing a late
duel, says " that one of the oombstants
was shot through the fleshy part of the
thigh-bone."
lliirWe never yet knew a man dia
ittto scorn the humble, who was not
lf a fair object of scorn to the
humblest.
What is the differentia between
a eat and a deetanent? One hae.ciasos
tißr iho end of its paws, and the .other
bdttliaseee at the end of Its &man
,s..lditwass begeta po,.sy.
te(h..4)Joar.— . Ii•
upon second poiwitkorgreat
"We confoss ogregVlll 7 - f t of
the exprerislea 4444 'fa aro
of political plattbrOtictbiti . '" ni is
national and slaveryseetional.''.: it will
do to "round off' - a high wending re
solution, but means just nothing:skulk
" Freedom is national "—says ouw.rt
the Indianapolis Conventions.
mean' the freedom of white 4neser
would be folly to enunciate a dpetilue
never .called in questiow since 1114 for
mation of the government. The infer
ence is ; that the Convention meant to
say that the freedom of the tepro is
national; a position hardly to be main
tained. But if the anti•alavery party
is prepared to subscribe to such a creed,
why do they not go a step furthell, and
say that the freedom of the bliitk .
is national ? They are ready to oppose
every measure fettering his freedom,
even in the nominally free Stales. He
has no right of a freeman in Indiana.—
lie cannot veto, he is taxed for &I sup
port of schools from which he is exclud
ed; and a clause was engrafted firthe
Constitution, by a majority of ninety
five thousand, forbidding free negrow,
under pain of tine and imprisonment,
from coining into the State. Let us
hear no more of such highsounding
fallacies. Let the anti slavery party
state the proposition fairly, if they are
in favor of freedom to the negro in In
diana as well as else where, and at the
next election the party will be swept
out of existence, and the anti-slavery
movement will again be confined to
such men as Garrison, Greeley, and
Julian. Whatever views may be put
forward in party platforms, it is a fact
that the negro is not free in the North
or the South, nor can he be until ute are
prepared to embrace the doctrine of
Fred. Douglass himself, that the black*
are entitled to all the rights and prixi,
leges of free born whites. Let all admit
the truth fairly, however disagreeable
to our feelings."
NO. 34.
A Regular Skinning.
Tho bell-weather of the Maryland
Know Nothings, 11. Whiter Davis, ri:t
ceived at 'die hands of Mr. Stephyins r of
Georgia, the other day, tliCmost perfect
skinning that was ever performed upon
an animal of that descriptions Mr.
Davis rose in the House to aid has abo
lition lends by giving a stab to the
bill offered by the Kansas conference
committee, and sr, eager was this ally.of
Giddings it Co., to effeet this o'iject,
that his zeal outran his prudence; and
he was guilty of making the most sidle
ulous statements, destitute alike of rea
son or truth. Mr. Stephens, in reply
ing to this gemey effitsion of the Know
Nothing advocate, exposed his ignor
ance and recklessness of assertion,. in
such a manner as should be a lesson to
him through all future time.
Those w:ho were in the House at the
time say that the usually inflated man
ner of Mr. Davis was changed to one of
absolute shame, stammering and confu
sion. And no wonder, for never in oar
recollection was there in the House an
exhibition of such extreme ignorance
from one of such pretensions as Ur_
Davis. Stupid indeed must be the par
ty that could find anything in this effort
of Mr. Davis to compliment or com
mend. Another such speech trill satis
fy all that read it that the Baltimore
Abolitionist is to all practical intents
and purposes it genuine Know Nothing
so far as the political haitoryiof aie
country is concerned.—Baltimer4
publican.
One of the expiring organ* of Know '
Nothingism •in this city, with that
strange hallucination which sometimes
characterizes the decaying mental raeul.
ties, employs its little energies in a la
bored article intended to show that the
Democrate party with James Buchan
an is not a nationl patty—when it is
remembered that this organ belongs to
the great national Know Nothing ['rya n
i:ation, which succeeded by frand-and
violence in carrying nne Mate with eight
electoral rotes for Mr. Fillmorep their
-
candidate, while the Democratic party
carried ninetten States with ooe hun
drc,l and seventy tiro rotes for Mr. Buchan-
an. Yet The aforesaid organ behmgs
to a great national party, and the Dem
ocratic party is but a little sectional con
cern. Isn't that funny ? and dolt% the
aforesaid organ deserved leather medal
for the brilliancy of its conception
Baltimore Republican.
Abolitionishi.--Hall's Journal of Hoeft h
(New York) is tesponsible for Ihozfol 7
lowing: " We have often gone to hear
Abolition ' stars ' lecture, maseul , inu,
feminine, and neuter; but, never saw
so much spontaneous gladness in the
face of the whole of them aa may be
witnessed in any half hour on the loyee,
at New Orleans, among the negroes
who are loading und unloading - Chi) but
ton boats."
Railroad Tunnel through a City.--It
is said that the leading railroad men
connected with the principal railroads
running into-Philadelphia were beroce
the Legislature asking no aet of iiVor
poration for uniting all the ruilroaits in
the centre of that city. It is proposed
to do this by tunnelling one ot"the
streets, from the Schuylkill to the belts
ware, and having a central passenger
depot, into which all the !incept' sailtaaid
converging to that city shall come un
der ground.
siir Crinoline Is a perilous Cashion.
.By e lation made by an otticiul
bend, pears that no less thaisfour.
teen deaths since the first of Jal,l4mrY
have occurred - from burning & oceamonPli
by the wide spreading of :lie arityilitie
into the fire, drawn thither by the
drAught, up the chimney.
agk..We occasionally come lteross
something extra laughable enr ex.
changes. A St. Louis paper to jeCtlrat
the grasehopiera.bave celAul up II ell
tire crop of Franklin county', a 0 the
Tart that was heard from ttfem;-;;Ilrey
were seated on the cornersalbs ltnees
begging every airs that :passed fa inifia Lc
tdrA, dr,w!"4:stir 04 id:( 6 b e a
light-houae, um or hi'
water that piss& tr
tionobalaski satorawk.Zxli
liarly inclifhilasik-asa vrfilieh t
by *nib 'IF pekjvw ' wined
Ibrinoftlipm-; ...744104410101*1nune
- abellost."
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Funny.
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