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TIM 'Convicts Is published every Monday
morning, by - .thaw J. Brans, at $1 76 per
annum IV paid strictly ti anvartcs—s2 so per
anal:silt not paid in advance. No subscription
diseintiltnedoanless it the option of the pub
lisher, Tail all arrearages are paid.
AorinTritirtrts inserted at the usual rate...
JOB POINTING done - with neatness and dis
patch.
Orrice in South Baltimore street, directly
opposite Wamplers' Tinning Establishment—
" Commits" on the sign.
Edward B. Buehler,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, will faithfully and
promptly attend to all business entrusted
to !mu. Ifs speaks the German language.--
Office at the same place, in South Baltimore
street, near Forney's drug store, and nearly
opposite Danner .4 Ziegler's store.
Gettysbhrg, March 20.
--
c J. C. Neely,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, will attend to eolleee
Lions and all other business intrusted to
its are with promptness. Office nearly opposite
laline.t.4x:k's More, Baltimore street.
Gettysburg, April 11, 18:>9. tf
A. H. Dill,
ATTOTINEY AT LAW, will attend promptly
to collections and all business entrusted to
tit
- Office between Fahnestocks' and Danner k
Ziegler's Stores, Baltimore et., Gettysburg, Pa.
May 1K,9. tan
Wm. B. McClellan,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.--Office on th e south
side of the public square, 2 doors west of
the Sentinel office.
Gettysburg, August 22, '53.
D. McConaughy,
,eA.-
rronxEy AT LAW, (office one door west
of Buelller's drug and book store.Charn
rsburg street.) ATTurINEY AND SOLICITOR FOR
PATENTS AND l'i.m;tuNs. Ilounty Land War
rmatt, Il.tek-pay suspended Claims, and all
Giber el.tinis ng tint the Government at Wash
le. on, I). C.: nko Ame ri can'Claims in England.
Land IV.tuituta located and a old , or bouglit,and
Ligh,st prices given. Agents engaged in lo
t- lung w, arrants in lowa, Illisois and other
we,tern States. Sea:P.ll,ply to him personally
or by letter.
Gettysburg, Nov. 21, '53.
Dr.A. W. Dorsey,
FORMERLY of Carroll count, Md., hartng
permanently located in Gettysburg, offers
Lis professional so - % ices to the citizens of the
town and surrounding country in the practice ut
the various branches of his profession. Office
and residence, Baltimore street, next door to
The CoSilpt/tr unice, IC /Lore he may he found at
all times when not professionally engaged.
RICVERENCES.
Prof. Nathan It. Smith, Baltimore, Md.
Augnstas Wrlviter, D. D., Baltimore Sid
itr. J. L. Warfield, Westminster, Md.
Dr. W. A. Mathias, "
Jaroh Beene,
K. Longwell, Esq.,
Gt•o. E. Wainrier, Esq., "
Thornrux Bowen, Gettysburg
Oct.::,, IssB. Gin
J.Lawrence Hill, X. D.
As his °flee one or atlit
door west of thetT.
Lutheran church in
Ch taibersburg street, sod opposite Picking's
store, where those wishing to have any Dental
0 t ieratio n performed are re.pectfully invited to
call. REPFEti:NCES: Drs. Horner, Rev. C. P.
Krtntli, D. D , Rev. H. L. Baugher, D. D., Rev.
Prof. M Jacobs, Prof. M. L. Sturver.
Getty sburg„ „April 11, "33.
Humphrey's Specific
TIONIEOPATHIC IZENIEDIF:S.
11011E0PATIIIC REMEDTES
_ _ _
So. I.—FEVER PILLS—For Fever, Conges
tion. and Inflammation of all kinds.
PILLS—For Worm-Fever,
Worm-Colic. and Wetting' the Bed.
No. '2
No. 3.—BABY'S PILLS—For Cone, Crying,
F'thing, and Wakefttlness, and Nen - oust:was of
.A4llllts.
NO. 4.—DTAIITIIE.I PILLS—For Dtarrhea,
Cholera Infantu m. nd Summer Complaint.
Nu. S.—DISENTEIIY PILLS—For Colic,
Griping, Drentery. or moody Flux - .
No. 03.—(411 L ERA PIL LS--F or Cholera,
Cholera llorluis, Vomiting.
No. T.—COUGH PILLS—For Coughs, Colds,
hoarseness, Influenza. and Sore Throat.
No. Ft.—TOOTHACHE PILLS—For T,nth
ache, Face:idle., and Neuralgia.
No. .9.—HEADACIIE PILLS—For headache,
Vertigo. Heat and Fellness of the Head.
No. I O.—DYSPF.PSIA PILLS--For Weak and
Dorangel Stomachs, Constipation, and Liver
41.2nrupiaint.
No. 11.—F011. FEMALE IRREGULARITIES
—Scanty, Painful. or Suppressed Periods.
No. I".—FEMALE PILLS—For Leueorrhcea,
'Profuse Men , e; and Dearing Down.
No. 13.--4JROFP PILLS—For Croup, Hoarse
Cough, Dad Breathing_
No. I4.—SALT HILEI'M PILLS—For Erysiii
el is, Erup;jon.. Pimples on the Fare.
No. I3.—IIIIEUMATIC PILLS—For Pain,
Lameness. or Surenet-s in the Chest, Back,
Loins, or Lillll,S.
A.—For Fever and Ague, Chill Fever, Dumb
Ague, rind mismanaged Agues.
P.—Fur Piles, Blind or Bleeding, Internal or
External.
o.—For Sore, Weak, or Inflamed Eyes and
Eyelids : Failing, Weak, or Blurred Sight.
C.—Fur Catarrh, of long standing, Or recent,
either with ohstructionor profuse discharge.
C.—Fur Whooping Cough, abating its
violence and shortening its emir,'
In all -kCCTE DISEASES. sueu as Fevers,
Inflammations, Diarrheas, Ily , entery, Croup,
Ehetim'atism, and ;,ueh eruptive di:eases a,
Scarlet Fever. Measles, and Ery,ipelas---the ad
vantage of giving the proper remedies prompt
ly is obvious, and in all such cases the specifics
net like a charm. The entire disease - is often
arrested at once. and in all case , the violence
of the attack is moderated, the disease 4horten
ed and rendered le , s dangcron , . Even should
a physician afterwards have to be called, he
va ill take the case at decided advantage from
the precious treatment.
COUGHS AND COLDS, which are of such
frequer4t occurrence. and which so often lay
the foundation of diseased lungs, bronchitis,
and consumption. may all be at once cured by
the Fever and Cough Pills.
In all CHRONIC DISEASE., such as Dys
pepsia, Weak Stomach, Constipation. Liver
Complaint, Piles, Female Debility and Irregu
larities, old Headache, Sore or Weak Eyes, Ca
tarrh. Salt Itheum k and other old eruptions. the
case has specifics *hose proper application will
afford a cure in almost every instance. Often
the cure of a single chronic difficulty, such as
Dyspepsia, Piles, or Catarrh, Headache, or Fe
male Weakness, has more than paid for the c.u . e
ten times over.
PRICES.
Full set, 20 large vials in Morocco Case
and Book $5 00
Full set, 20 largevials in Plain Case ,k [look, 4 00
Case of 15 numbered boxes and Book 2 00
Case of any 6 numbered boxes and Book. 1 00
Single numbered boxes, with directions... 25
Single lettered boxes, with directions 60
Large plantation or physician's case, 1
and 2 ox. vials . 13 00
Or) innuntrs By XAtL.
Look over the list; make up a ease of what
kind you choose, and inclose the amount in a
current note or stamps, by mail, to'otir address,
Jo, No. 562 Broadway, New York, and the medi
cine will be duly returned . by mail or express,
free of charge. Address,
• R. HL'MPFIRSYS C 0. ,&
No. 562 Broadway, New York.
Sold in Gettysburg by A. D. Beim's; and
by all druggists.
July 4, 1859. 3m
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'itibsoriber has reilininii t 'his 1 1 7 1oUg
1 sad Machine Shop from the, Foonety
building tti Baikroad street, 43,P944431.Tate67
BbleksmithAWN back ofi-gie
whey, iwis.letme.pre.pared than ev'er"to
tsm& - td castolisash.YJinighs alwely.on
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*or a l: Ash° shortest malice, said
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twyfrellimailigtrbd rerpairlsOloors.
pray 10.dYIDr WAIN,
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By H. J. STAIILE
417 YEAR.
Poet's Corner_
PAPA, WUAT I A NEWAPAPER, AND
WHAT DOEPO IT CONTAIN t
Organs that gentlemen play, my boy,
To answer the taste of the day, my boy,
Whatever it be,
They hit on the key,
And pipe In full concert away, my boy.
News from all countries and climes, my boy,
Advertisements, essays and Hi" mes, my boy,
Mired up with all soma
Of flying reports,
And published at regular times, my boy.
Articles able and wise, my boy,
At least in the editor's eyes, my boy;
A logic so grand
That few understand
To what in the world it applies, my boy.
Statistics, reflectitms, reviews, my boy,
Little serape to instruct and amuse, my boy,
And lengthy debate
Upon matters of state,
For wise headed folks to peruse, my boy.
The funds as they were and are, my boy,
The quibbles and quirks of the bar, my boy,
And every week,
A clever critique
On some rising theatrical star, by boy.
The age of Jupiter's moons, my boy,
The stealing of somebody's spoons, my boy,
The state of the crops,
The style of the fops,
And the wit of the public buffoons, my boy.
List of all physical ills, my boy,
Banished by somebody's pills, my boy,
Till you ask with surprise,
Why any one dies,
Or what's the disorder that kills, myboy.
Who has got married, to whom, my boy.
Who were cut off in their bloom, my boy,
- Who has had birth
On this sorrow-stained earth,
And who totters fast to their tomb, my boy.
The price of cattle and grain, my boy,
Directions to dig and to drain, my boy,
But 'twould take me too long
To tell you in song
A quarter of all they contain, my boy.
M - Lscellaziec)l3_._
Wouldn't Get Mad.
Old Harry Brewer, or " Hot Coin Harry,"
MA he was More familiarly known about the
east side of town. was for many years a shin
ing light in one of our African churches ; and
was, by long odds. the most powerful exhort
er of the congregation. Old Harry was, most
undoubtedly, a good christian ; and proved it
by living up to the precepts he taught,. His
extreme good nature was proverbial, and
many a bet was lost and won by the young
men of Grand street and the Bowery, in vain
attempts to make Harry lose his temper. "Go
way, boys, go way!" was his answer, when
they played their wild pranks upon him. "De
good Book says: When any smiles on de one
cheek, you must turn him de oder."
The nearest approach that Harry was ever
known to make towards losing his temper,
WAS about ten years ago. He had a plan
whereby he preserved his corn perfectly fresh
and green till December or January ; and at
that season of the year, he would go out and
make the streets resound with his cry of 'Hot
Corn ! hot corn! pipin—just come out de bil
its' potl" and he realised a handsome profit
from its sale.
During theyear In question, ITirry was un
fortunate, and his corn decayed ; and out of a
large quantity he had put away, he only
saved enough to go out with one or two nights.
In the early part of Deceniber, Harry's
voice' was heard in the Bowery singing his
well known song; and in ono of the bar
rooms a bet was made that Harry could be
throwit off his guard. In a few moments.
Harry entered the bar-room, and set - his
bucket on the floor ; but before he could get
ready for business, ho 11111 s pulled around in
all sorts of ways. One pulled him by the
whiskers, another by the coat tail ; and al
together he was being made anything but
comfortable. Bat all that could be got from
Harry was :
" Go ways, boys, go way!"
All attempts to provoke him farther, fail
ed ; and, as a last resort, one of the young
men took up his pail of corn and said:
" Harry, I've a good notion to throw all
your corn out into the Street !"
'• Hush ! hush !" said Harry, " don't talk
dat Ivey, for you make rue feel bad ! fur if
you fruw my corn in de street now, you must
ruin de old darkev. Ain't bad no wood to
saw hardly this fall. and no white-washing.
My wife been sick dis two months, and my
corn's all rotted ; and I ain't got nuffat' to
'pond on, but de Lord!"
"Well, Harry!" said he who held the
bucket, "you have got a good backer, so hero
goes the corn !" and suiting the action to the
word, he threw the corn into the street.
Harry looked very sadly after his proper
ty ; and, as he picked up his empty bucket,
he said
" De Lord's will be done ?" and then start
ed on a brisk trot from the scene of his temp
tation, as he resolved not to give way to the
wrath he felt rising within him. In Eliza
beth street, a new building was in the course
of erection, and into the cellar of this build
ing Harry descended, while the young men
who had followed him, crept stealthily after,
to see what he would do.
Away back in a far corner Harry went,
out of hearing from the street, and there, Up
on his knees, he gave vent to his feelings in
this wise:
‘e Oh, Lord! I'se most tempted to git mad,
but I won't do it for 4 the sake of a pail oh
corn. Dew was de wickedest boys that I
eber got amongst; but you made 'em, and I
won't oomplain. It's a hard case, and You
know I ain't hab no work moat dis fall, and
Ilannah's sick ; and I only hab a little corn,
and dem wicked boys trirowed it most all
away. But I won't git mad at 'eni ; for you
hab said ',hat justice= yonrn. But give 'ow
justice, and make 'em repent of dere evil
ways. Take 'eta, oh, Lord! and hold 'era
Ober the bottomless pit, and shake 'em ! and
if your a mind to, singe 'ern a were little;
but, oh l good Lord, be very careful, and
don't let 'ens fall in ; and when feels au
hot dey 'gin to repent, dem let 'eni go agin,
and dey'll be betUr men l"
His prayer ended, Harry came forth, look
ing as good natured as ever; and the young
men, who were in waiting for him, took
him, back into the bar-room, and the pro.
coeds of the bet, Ave dollars, was handed
o'er to him, which amply remunerated him
for the loss of his stock in trade.--.N. I.
Mercury: -
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GETTYSBURG, PA.: MONDAY, JULY 18, 1859.
Sailing in tho Air.
Mr. ITyde, the reporter of the St. Louis
Republican, who was one of the voyagers in
the balloon Atlantio, has written for that
journal a narrative of the voyage. Wo clip
therefrom the following extract:
Every vestige of St. Louis had now vanish
ed from our sight, and we were drifting at a
wonderful rate of spool towards our far-off
destination. Ido not think I ever before ex
perienced such exhilemtion of spirit—such
real joy. Our motion was perfectly steady.
There was no rocking of the boat or car, no
rustling of the silk—nothing, indeed, but the
receding forests and fields beneath, to tell as
we were not poised between earth end sky in
a dead calm. To have been apprehensive of
danger would have been next to impossible
—to have felt tear would have been, not cow
ardice, but pusillanimity. My feeling was
that ballooning, besides being the most pleas
ant and swift, was the safest mode of travel
knnwn.
Steaming down a rapid current in a boat
on a lovely evening. with sublime bluffs, ro
mantic caverns and green foliage on either
side, glistening waves below and a mild sky
above, is grand and delightful: Sailing on
an unruffled lake, parting the placid waters,
and skimming like a gull with gentle fleet
ness, is ineffably glorioos. But these enjoy
abbe methods of travel. 1 felt, yielded in pcint
of dainty plesenreableness to the bird-like
grace and mint-ea/Pre surroundings of aerial
navigation. With ns no breath of breeze
was stirring. Tlfe buovant down of a this
tle. released from the willow car, would have
fallen to the boat by its own specific gravity.
In all this calmness our monster bubble float
ed through the clouds. Twilight was on the
earth, and gave to the color of the soil the ap
pearance of 'frozen lakes. By this time the
sun had set to the inhabitants of the earth,
though to us it was four or five degrees above
the horizon.
A Touching Incident.
Many of our readers have heard Gksian E.
Dodge, of 110.1 tan, sing the historic song—
" Snow Storm." At a late festival in Ohio
he wan present, and was called on to sing.—
By accident he chose this same song, and
before commencing narrated the following
facts as the basis on which the song was
written : In the year IR2I, a Mrs. Blake,
with her husband and child, were crossing the
Green Mountains during a snow storm, and
lost their way. When discovered by some
persons in search of them, Mrs. Blake was
frosen to death, and Mr. Blake almost flacon
scion.. Near the body of Mrs. Blake was a
little hillock of snow, on removing which was
found a bundle, which, when unwrapped,
was found to contain the babe alive and well,
wrapped in the clothing the mother had taken
from her own person. When taken up, the
child looked into the face of its rescuer and
smiled. While Mr. Dodge was singing, a lady
and gentleman in the audience were deeply
affected end wept copiously. The majority
of the audience sympathised with the couple
and wept freely alb°. The gentleman was the
lion. 11. G. Blake, son of her who had perish.
ed in the snow, and brother of the babe, and
the lady was his wife.
Cost of a Newspaper.
We read, a few days since, in one of our
exchanges, the remark that it takes nearly
one dollar and fifty cents to publish a weekly
newspaper. We should think it does. How
any paper of usual size, can be published for
$1 50, without losing money, we have not
yet been able to discover. This secret is yet
seatti book to us. •
Papers are springing np all over the coun
try, and in order to force out a circulation,
offer their issues at subscription prices ruin
ous-to themselves, and injurious to their co-
temporaries. Thug the business of Journal
ism, in localities where a r.ewspaper can be
supported, under ordinary circumstances, is
crippled, and to a very great extent rendered
unprofitable. Some men think it is glory and
honor enough to bare the name of being the
editor of a paper. Such usually find out, by
waiting, that such honors are empty, and de
void of the capacity to furnish meat and
bread fur the wife and children. The result
is, that very often the enterprise proves a
failure, creditors suffer, and the unfortunate
adventurer becomes, pecuniarily. a wreck.
It takes money to carry on a newspaper, and
it takes patronage to bring in money, and
that vatnnage must pay remunerative prices.
Where this is not the case, failures will al
ways be the consequence. So much for pub
lishing a newspaper at losing rates.—News
Letter.
A Useful Hint.
If a man faints away, instead of Telling
out like a enrage, or running to lift him up,
lay him at full length un his back on the floor,
loosen the clothing,
.pnqh the crowd away so
as to allow tho air to reach him, and let 'him
alone. Dashing water over a person in a
simple fainting lit is barbarity. rho philoso
phy of a fainting fit ii, the heart fails to send
the proper supply of blood to the brain ; if
the person is erect, that blood has to be thrown
up bill ; but if lying down, it has to be pro
jected horizontally, which requires less power,
as is apparent.
The Great Bat/le.—lt is w.rthy of note
that, in tho recent great battle of Magenta,
over which the civilized world is now agog,
the loss in killed and wounded, in proportion
to the numbers engaged, was not more than
one-third as great as in the battle of Bunker
Ilill, Buena Vista, and two or three of the
hardest fought battles of our last war (of 1812)
with Great Britain. In that particular it al
so comes after the ten leading battles of Na
puleun I. These facts are worthy of note,
because they indicate that, after all, modurn
improvements in military dostructives have
not surpassed modern improvements in the
art of guarding armies against the use of im
plements of carnage.
The Renal of Being a Good Boy.—Some
two years ago, a little boy of Newburyport,
Meal., who had no parents, and who was
frequently found by the policeman sleeping
in out-honses, was complained of and sent by
the Police Court to the State Reform School
at Westborough. Daring hie confinement,
by hie good behavior he won the love and
esteem of all the officers and the keepers of
the institution: Lately., a wealthy couple of
aged persons, on ',visit to tha school, favor
ably struck by the boy's appearance, adopted
him, gaye him their name, and also announc
ed. their intention of making him heir to an
estate if Some sixty thousand dollars.
VirPourty is only misfortune when
wishes keep the purse-strings. Poverty is
the normal concPtion Of man ; neither banks,
stock_ s clivicidzidi,' houses, nor rents were
dred*id 'Win Woe— Adam was happy, sod
vieverifftter eiSseiWnsk ia:bia lifer
•
itr"ltheio aft; ebme zobtebere of s coot
filikdonis mid-witty Thom
as Bradbury, " chit 'tire Hire'i mush in the
throat: Mt" 'lice riglit way, diet=
but tittle' a t: but if the;
to: ge thweenifej saash, thP7 Bile' $ fgaatt;;i
of trouble."
"TRUTH IS MIOHTT, AND WILL PRZVATL."
One of the Judges
While one David Scott presided in the Ju
dicial District now composing the counties of
Wayne, Pike. Monroe and Carbon, in Penn
sylvania, Judge D— aas an associate upon
the Bench. These counties border upon the
Delaware ricer, which is the boundary line
between New Jersey and Pennsylvania.—
Judge D— though a man of unblemished
integrity and high character, bad some ec
centricities, and among them a peculiar aver
sion to "niggers." To use his own words,
"He knew all about a nigger; was raised
among niggers ; and a nigger would be a
nigger any way you could fix it." One day a
black man was duly convicted of larceny,
and; called up for his sentence. The Judge
was performing his arduous duties as an asso
ciate in an arm-chair, bare footed, coat off,
and asleep. The presiding Judge. as is usu
al in such cases, saw proper to call upon the
associate in fixing the penalty to be imposed
upon the guilty man,and giving Judge
a nudge in the ribs called his attention to the
prisoner at the bar.
" Hold on, Mr. Scott !" said the Judge,
" I'll sentence that fellow. Nigger,stand up l
You've been found guilty of stealing and
ought to be hung; but this being your first
offence, the Court is disposed to let you dff
easily. The sentence of the Court is that you
be banished to the State of New Jersey, and
may the Lord have mercy on your soul I--
The Court gives you five minutes to get to the
river, and if ever you are c aught upon this
side of the :Delaware again you- shall be
hanged Constable, give the prisoner a hun
dred yards the start, and see that the sentence
of the Court is executed !"
The fellow struck a bee line for Jersey, and
has never been heard of since. And this
,is
true.
A Yankee Trick.
We remember when we were living down
east, of a neighboring farmer hiring a jolly
Irishman, who was very fund of learning
tricks. Ono day his employer asked him if
he wouldn't like to " learn a Yankee trick."
Bringing him to the end of a briA barn,
Jonathan laid his open hand against the wall
remarking—
" Pat, bet the liquor you can't bit my
hand."
‘4 It's done !" says Pat, making a vicious
blow at the palm of the hind. but it being
quickly withdrawn he succeeded in peeling
the skin and flesh frcm cff big knuckles.
" That's a d--d nasty trick 1" roared Pat,
"but howid on, I'll cheat somebody else."
A few months pulsed, and Pat's brother
came over from Ireland u green as early peas.
They both labored together, but Pat was
uneasy till he would have learned his brother
the Yankee trick.
" Jim, did you ever learn a Yankee trick?"
" Niver.:'
Put finding himself in the centre of a large
field, thought it would ben great lose of tune
to go to the bum, and reaching out his pram
hand he cried—
" Strike that, if you can !"
Jim made a desperate pass. bat Pat having
pulled away his hand, Jim fell after the blew,
remarking, that "that was an old woman's
trick."
"Try it nowl" shrieked Pat, with laugh
ter, placing tho same open hand against his
own mouth.
Jim prepared for a sockdologer, and brin
ging his massive " bunch of fives" in loving
proximity with Pat's nose and mouth, who
pulled away his hand as before, he sent him
reeling to the earth,with the loss of four teeth
and a large quantity of blood, for "learning
him the Yankee trick."
A Temperance Story.
Deacon Johnson is a great temperance man,
and sets a good example of total abstinence as
far as he is seen. Not long ago ho employed
a carpenter to make some alterations in the
parlor, and in repairing the corner near the
fire place, it was found necessary to remove
the wainscoting, when lo! a discovery was
made that astonished everybody. A bract of
decanters, a tumbler, and a pitcher, were
cosily reposing there, as if they had stood
there from the beginning. The deacon was
summoned, and as he held the blushing bot
tles, he exclaimed, " We'll, i declare, that is
curious, sure enough. It must be that.eld
Bains left them when he went nut of this
'ere house thirty years ago." " Perhnps ,he
did," returned the carpenter, " but, deacon,
the ice in the pitcher must have been &ix
mighty hard to stay till this time."
. OM. 4.- - -•-- - - ----
, A CoiLscientions Widow.
A roes peasant on his death-bed made his
will. He called his wife to him and told ber
of its provisions. " I have left," he said,
" my horse to my parents; sell it, and hand
over to them the money you receive. 1 leave
you my doe ; take care of him, and lie will
serve you faithfully." The wife promised to
obey, and in due time set out for the market,
with the horse and the dog. "flow much
do you want for your horse ?" inquired a far
mer. " I cannot sell the horse alone, but you
may have both at a reasonable rate. Give
me ten pounds for the dog, and five shillings
for the horse." The farmer laughed, but as
the terms were low, he willingly accepted
them. Then the worthy woman gave to her
husband's parents, the live shillings received
for the horse, and kept the ten pounds herself.
What a blessing, to a tradesmen is a
liberal customer! A farmer went into a store
in Boston the other day, and told the keeper
that a neighbor of his entrusted him with
some money to expend to the best advantage,
and he meant to do it where he was beat
treated. Ile had been used very ill by the
traders in Boston, and be would not partwith
his neighbor's money until be found a man
who would treat him about right. With the
utmost suavity, the trader says :
" I think Y can treat you to your liking ;
how do you want to be treated ?"
Well," said the farmer, with a leer in his
eye, " in the first place, I want a glass of
toddy,' which was forthcoming,
"Now, I will have a nice cigar," says the
farmer. fle
It was promptly handed him, leisurely
lighted, and then, throwing himself back in
a chair, with his feet as high as his head, he
commenced puffing away like a Spaniard.
"Now, what do you want to purchase r
says the storekeeper. -
" My neldtbor handed me two cents when
I left home, to buy a plug of tobsocc.--have
you got the article ?"
The storekeeper sloped instanter.
Jam of Green Gages.—Put ripe green gaged
into a kettle, with very little water, and let
them stew until soft ; then rub them through
a sieve or *dander, and to every pint of pulp
, pot,eoposud of white sup" powdered fine ;
thpq..put it', inn preserving-kettle over ~the
ire, stir it Until the whole iA of the houtiat
ence of jelly;• then take it off; pin the mar
malade is jars or. tamblars, and cover
as directed forjelly. Any post of plums
may be done in tb.is manner.
afi-ABttleert describes a taste as.* ling
'there' thil aat the toey up to theiiesd. J.
Death From the Bite of a Rattlesnake.
James Wright, an old citizen of Cincinnati,
while in the woods near Vanceburg, Ind., on
the 4th instant, getting out timber, was bit
on the hand by a rattlesnake. The Gazette
Says
Alarmed at the probable consequences, he
immediately started for the town, and ran
the entire distance. The heat, fatigue and
excitement of course allowed the poison to
circulate through his system and make sure
of its deadly work. By the time be reached
Vanceburg, he was entirely blind, and his
body and head were covered with spots of the
same color of those of the rattlesnake. The
usual remedies were immediately resorted to
and every eXort made by the attendant phy
sicians to neutralize the poison, but without
effect. He continued to sink rapidly and ex
pired between three and four o'clock next
morning.
In preparing the body to be laid out, a sin
gular phenomenon presented itself. In addi
tion to the spots referred to, there was a pic
ture of the snake itself—perfect in shape and
color, and as distinct as if daguerreotyped
there—extending from the point on his hand
where the fangs bad struck, up the arm to
the shoulder, and then down the side to the
groin. To the truth of this, our informant
assures us not only himself, but some four
or five other citizens, who saw it, can posi
tively testify.
Immediately upon learning the occurrence,
a number of persons started to the place
where it had happened, and, upon examina
tion, found the snake in the identical spot
designated, when they came near having
another tragedy, a young lady of the party
having stepped our his lurking place, from
which a moment alter he made a savage leap
at the party, but was immediately dispatched.
Ile proved to have six rattles and a "button,"
indicating his age to be six years and a half.
IS. Ivy killed his sister-in-law near
ly twenty-fire years ago, in Roane county,
Fast Tennessee, and was tried and sentenced
to imprisonment for life. Soun after being
inchrcernted, he made his escape and went to
Arkansas, and established himself high up
on the waters of the Arkansas river, where
he became a leading citizen, living undis
turbed and enjoying the confidence of the
community to such an extent as to secure his
election to offices of high trust. He also be
came a member of the Methodist church, and
to all appearances, led a consistent Christian
life. About two weeks ago, some persons who
were acquainted with the crime of his former
life, discovered him and procured his arrest,
am! he was brought up on the steamer Kate
Frisbee, to Memphis, last Wednesday, and
will be conveyed to the scene of his crime to
suffer the penalty adjudged.+—N. Y. Tribune.
An Irishman's l'eu.—An Irishman called
at a book store in Jordan, the other day, to
purchase a steel pen. The clerk handed him
one, and after examining it a moment, lie
throw it down declaring that'• ho didn't want
to be ohated in that manner." Tim clerk
picked it up and asked:
' What is the mnttter with it?'
' broke,' said the pran ; 'I want a whole
one or I'll not pay yon'for it.'
The clerk assured him that it was whole
and a good one—but was effectually silenced
by the Irishman, who pointed out its defect,
exclaiming, ' An' will ye be alter calling that
a wholo one? Don't yo see it's split!'
serail we have to Pay is, that if after rea
ding the following verses, any of the subscrib
ers to the Compiler feel like paying in ad
vance, wo shall not °ldea to receiving the
earth. We allude, of course, to the considers-
ble number who don't practice this gulden
rule—not to those who do :
"Tell me, ye angelic hosts,
Yo messengers of love,
Shall suffering printers hero below,
Have no redress above ?
" The angel bards replied—
To us is knowledge given;
Delinquents on the printer's books,
Can never enter Heaven I"
An U9ly Club.—A club has been recently
established in Petersburg, Va.. the impossi
ble object of which is •• to make ugly people
respected." Mr. B. C. Pollard, of Hanover.
and Mr. Jas. W. Hall, of Halifax, were elec.
ted chief officers. These two gentlemen are
really awful to behold ; it is supposed that,
with " a good sight," by grinning through a
horse-collar. they could jointly double up a
crowbar.
t er" Talk about moan men," said old For,
" why, there's that Bill Johnson, he's the
meanest man I ever heard tell on. Bill was a
constable here. Why, don't you think, he
had an execution against me for a little mat
ter of groceries, and he mune out and levied
on my old woman's ducks, and wanted me to
drive 'em up and catch 'em for him, and I
told him to catch 'em himself; and so he chased
'em round and round the house, and every
time he'd catch a duck, he'd sit down and
ring its head off, and charge mileage!"
In,..An elderly spinster wrote to a friend
—" A widower with ten children has pro
posed, and I have accepted. This is the num
ber I should have been entitled to if I had
married at the proper time."
sr a r. , I know I am a perfect bear in my
manners," said a young farmer to his sweet.
heart.
" No, indeed, John ; you have never
hugged me yet. You tire more sheep than
bear."
/ a"The Is test freak of suicide occurred
last Sunday beck, near Curnminsville, Ohio,
where a German, named Ilutoff, got up at
five o'clock in the morning, went out and
chalked his last will and testament on the
collar door, convoying all his property to his
wife, and then cut his throat.
16Y-The foundation of San Francisco dates
from the 27th of June, 177 G. It was, there
fore, eighty-three years of ago on the 27th
ulk, or a week older than the "National In
dependence" of the Union in which its State
conspicuously figures.
`There are seventy thousand kernels of
cern in a bushel ; two hundred and fifty-four
thousand apple seeds in a bushel; and over
fourteen thousand seeds in an ounoe of to
bacco.
sere man, distinguished for the use of
choice language, found fault with his pud
ding as having too much "caloric" in it,whioh
the landlady took in high dudgeon, declar
ing that she never used the article.
.l Sidney Smith, passing through a by
street behind St. Paul's, beard two women
'abusing each-other from opposite homes.—
" They will never agree," auid the wit ; "they
argue from different premises."
=
sirEtoebefoucauld said that the reason
lovers are so food of one anoer'soosipany
is that they are always talk iig about then:b
athes.
TWO DOLLARS A-YEAR
Franklin's Son.
Speaking of the son of Dr. Franklin, the'
Newburvport Herald says :
"As the name of Franklin is prominently
before the public, it may not be uninteresting
to give some account of his only son, William,
about whom we think little is known by the
community at large. Unlike his father, whose
chief claim is for the invaluable service he
rendered his country in her greatest need, the
son was, from the first to the least, a devoted
loyalist. Before the Revolutionary war he
held several civil and military offices of im
portance. At the commencement of the war,
he held the office of Governor of New Jersey,
which appointment he received in 1775.
When the difficulty between the mother
country and the colonies was coming to al
crisis, he threw his whole influence in favof
of loyalty, and endeavored to prevent the Leg
islative Assembly of NeW Jersey from sustain
ing the proceedings of the Benet-al Congress
of Philadelphia. These efforts, however, did
but little to stay the tide of popular sentiment
in favor of resistance to tyranny, and soon
involved him in difficulty. He was deposed
from office by the whigs, to give place to Wil
liam Livingston, and sent a prisoner to Con
necticut, where be remained two years in
East Windsor, in the house of Captain
Ebenezer Grant, where the Theological Semi
nary now stands. In 1778 he was exchanged,
and soon after went to England. There he
spent the remainder of his life, receiving a
pension from the British government for his
fidelity. He died in 1813, at the age of 82.
As might have been expected, his opposi
tion to the cause of liberty, so dear to the
heart of his father, produced an estrangement
between them. For years they had no inter
oourse--when in 1791, the son wrote the
father. In his reply Dr. Franklin says:—
'
Nothing has ever hurt me so much, and
affected me with such deep sensation, as to
find myself deserted, in my old age, by my
only son ; and not only deserted, but to find
him taking up arms against me in a cause
wherein my good fame, fortune and life were
all at stake. "
In his will, also, be alludes to the part his
son had acted. After making some bequests,
be adds: " The , part he acted against me in
the late war, which is of public notoriety, will
account for my leaving him no more of an es
tate he endeavored to deprive me of."
The patriotism of the father stands forth all
the brighter when contrasted with the defer
tion of Me son.
Reunion in ifeasen.—`t I am fully persuad
ed," says Baxter, " that I shaft love my
friends in heaven, and therefore know them ;
and this principally binds me to them on
earth. If I thought I should never know
them more, nor love them after death, I
should love them comparatively little nuw, as
I du all other transitory things."
ItarThe Postmaster General has ordered
that all " supplements" or " extras " folded
in regular issues of daily or weekly journals
—not actual bona fide editions V such publi
cations, conveying intelligence—subject the
whole package to letter postage.
afirOu the fourth of March we inaugurate
our President; on the fourth of September
we closed our revoluticit ; on the fourth of
July we celebrate our cutting loose from
Great Britain ; and no the foursh of August
we celebrate our being tied together a,,,,tutt.
1114-Let no man be ashamed to work. Lot
no man be ashamed of a hard fist or a sun
burnt countenance. Let him be ashamed
only of ignorance and sloth.. Let no man be
ashamed of poverty. Let him only be asham
ed of dishonesty and idleness.
Interesting to Wires.—lfyou want to make
a sober man a drums, give him a wife that
will scold him every time that he comes
home. If you Would make a sane man crazy,'
follow the same course.
/@►'Some one was telling an Irishman that
somebody had eaten ten mincers of ice cream,
whereupon Pat shook his head. "So you
don't believe it?" With a shrewd nod, Put
answered," I belay° in the crame, but not
in the saucers."
rarA short man became attached to a tall
woman, and somebody said that he had fallen
in lore with her. Do you call it falling in
lore !" said the suitor ; "it is more like
climbing up to it 1"
Mar Profound silence in a public assem
blage has been thus neatly described :—"One
might have heard the stealing of a pocket
handkerchief."
N i r o Can you read smoke, ma ?"
" What do you mean, child ?"
" Why, I've hoard mime men talk about a
volume of smoke. and I thought you could
read any volume."
fla' - Why cannot a deaf man be legally con
•icted? liecause it is not lawful to condemn
a man without a hearing.
/11116 r An English paper, in giving an at,-
count of a fire, says : "This is the third
time the same row of buildings has been to
tally consumed."
War It may be said in illustration of the
sweetness and the sting of the English lan
guage, that its very alphabet begins with A 13.
bar`There is a man in Algiers who tells
such good stories that hie friends say it is
dangerous to walk with him in the forests,
fur all the hyenas come round him to laugh.
,Whatever the wind may do in the win
ter, it cannot be denied that in spring it
"turns over a new leaf."
The man who "took a walk," the
other day, brought it back again ; but the
next day ho took a ride, and went off with it.
ser. What church do you attend, Mrs.
Partington 1" .• Oh ! any paroduz church
where the Gospel is dispensed with."
*WA year of pleasure passes like a float
ing breeze, huts moment of misfortune seems
an age of pain.
IfirThe transit across the English Chan
nel is supposed to be the sick travail alluded
to in the well-known Latin quotation.
/WA celebrated naturalist says that asses
are the moat vilified of all animals. We
know that fozes are the most run down.
gerThe four great evils in life are said to
be etanding•collars, stove-pipe hate, tight
boots, and tobacco.
Arno water in Lake St. Clair is rising
of late years, so that good farms are now un
der water. •
sirA lino of railroad, from St. Lents to
the borders of she mineral region in Northern
Mexico, is tallied of.
ilerthwatey . is the head that wears a trig
is a gale of wutd. •
raro g neft
Referring to the files of this paper of fuer
years ago, we find that it was engagid in a
very excited contest with what was oaited
%note Nothingisst. The platform on wide&
this society stood was partially stated in the
following, oath and obligation, pertaining to
the first degree of the Know Nothing order,
which oath and obligation we are confident
that some of our editorial neighbors took and
subscribed. We need not remind the reader
that this paper rer . y strongly opposed both
the oath and the principles of that order.
OCTSIDI OBLIGATION.
Yon do solemnly swear (or affirm) that yon
will never reveal anything said or done in
this room, the names of any persons present,
nor the existence of this society, whether
found worthy to proceed or not, and that ail
your declarations shall be true, so help you
Gud.
NO. 42.
Ans. I do.
Marshal. Where were you born?
'Marshal. 'Where is your permanent resi
dence?
[lf born out of the jurisdiction of the United
States the answer shall be written, the candi
date dismissed with an admonition of secrecy,
and the brother vouching for him suspended
from all the privileges of the order unless
upon satisfactory proof that he has been mis
informed.
Marsha L Are you twenty-one years ief
age?
Ana. I am.
Marotta]. In religious belief are you a
Roman Catholic ?
Marshal. Were you born of Protestant pa
renu., or wore you reared under Protestant
influence t
Amt. Yes.
Marshal. If married, it your wife a Ro
man Catholic ?
[" No," or " Yes," the answer to be valued
as the Constitution of the Stato council shall
provide. I
Marshal. Are you willing to use your in
fluence and vote only for native born Ameri
can citizens fur all offices of honor, trust, or
profit, in the gift of the people, to the exclus
ion of foreigners and aliens, and Roman
Catholics in particular, and without regard to
party predilections?
Ans. I am.
In the presence of Almighty God and these
witnesses, you do solemnly promise and swear
that you will never betray any of the secrete
of this society, nor comunicate them even to
proper candidates, except within a lawful
council of the order ; and you will never per
mit any of the secrets of this society to be
written, or in any other manner to be made
legible, except for the purpose of•ofricial in
struction ; that you will not vote nor give
your influence fur any man for any office in
gift of the people, unless he be an American
born citizen, in favor of Americans ruling
America, nor if he be a Roman Catholta ; that
you will in all political matters, so far as this
order is concerned, comply with the will of
the majority, though it may conflict with
your personal preference, so long as it does
nut conflict with the Constitution of the Uni
ted States of America, or that of the State in
which you reside; that you will not under
any circumstances whatever, knowingly re
commend an unworthy person for initiation,
nor suffer it to be done if in your power to
prevent it ; that you will not under any cir
cumstances whatever, expose the name of
any member of this order, nor reveal the ex
istence of such an association ; that you will
answer an impe,ralire notice issued by the
proper authority, obey the command of.tho
State council, president, or his deputy,
while assembled by such notice, and respond
to the claim of a sign or a cry of the order,
unless it be physically impossible ; that you
will acknowledge the State council of as
the legislative head, the rulling authority,
and the supreme tribunal of the order in the
State of— acting under the jurisdiction of
the national council cf the United States of
America, binding yourself in the penalty of
excommunication from the order, the forfeit
ure of all intercourse with its members, and
being denounced in all the societies of the
same as a wilful traitor to your God and your
country.
[The president shall call to every person
present by three blows of the gavel, when the
candidates shall all'repeat after the vice presi
dent in concert.]
All this I vol ( Ttarily promise, with II full
understanding the solemn sanctions and
penalties.
Several gentlimen who took this oath,, and
more and stronger oaths, have gone into
spasms lest the foreigners whom they then
swore to proscribe—swore to deny the nghts of
American citizens—whom they denounced
as "paupers and thieves," "the off scourings
of the Old World," "jail birds," "emisearieg
of the Pope"—they go into spasms now in
their alarm that these men may meet with in
justice at the bands of the Democrats! Wo
advise our adopted citizens to exact ono pen
ance from these recusant Know Nothings be
fore listeniny; to them at all—make them get
down on Weir knees and repeal Uuir Know
Nothing oaths backwards. MAKE THEN DNS.% Y
run OATH 1 self respect demands that our
naturalized citizens exact this much of,their
new defenders, and the leaders who took
these oaths in 1855, and fawn upon the for
eigners in 1859, will do anything. Natural
ized citizens need not be afraid of exacting
too much, just now!
The Great Batik of Solferino.—Tho groat
battle of the 24th June, it appears by the late
foreign news, was not fought on the Minch).
but on the Cities°, at the village of Solferino,
about eighteen miles northwest of Mantua.
whore tho Austrians in 1796 were defeated
by, the French previous to the siege of Man
tua. The battle of the 24th appears to have
been the severest contest of the campaign,
and was accompanied by the greatest lose of
life.
The Austrians re-crossed the Mincio. to
the east of which thoy had previously with
drawn, in full force, and attacked the Prench,
but atter eighteen hours' hard fighting and
the loss of 30,000 men, in killed, wounded
and prisoners, were compelled to abandon
their positions. The French are said to have
lost from 20,000 to 25,000. Accounts say
that their loss was so severe that they were
unable to advance against the Austrian is, who
have retired to the Historic Square, where
another great battle is impending, in which
the human slaughter will probably be more
terrible. Baron Hess, the best of the Aus
trian generals, is now in command, and with
in the fortified places so often alluded to will
be the next carnage.
Fosatasm, son of Jacob Foreman,
of Quincy township, committed suicide on
Monday morning last, near Upton, in Frank
lin county, by hanging himself by the neck
with . a plow line in his uncle's barn. Mr. F.
was a young man about 23 or 25 years of age.
liikaelf.destruction is attributed to disap
poidereent of marriage contract. It appears
that the lady to - whom young Foreman WWI
engaged was o pposed, by one of his parents,
and was thus induced to discard him, NMelt
doubtless had the effect to partially derange
his mind.
gegrA marriage in high life came off in
New York, on Wednesday last. 0.
Barnard, Recorder of the city, and Miss Fan
nie A. Anderson, daughter of a millionaire,
were the parties. About twelve hundred
persons were present, among' them some Al
the meat distinguished in the country. Most
bountiful and costly presents were made to
the bride, among them, an elegant tea.service
of solid gold.--. rd
Should misfortune and poverty Avertake
Mrs. Fanny and her husband, how many of
the" twelve hundred" will come to hey§ them,
and who among the " meat distinguished in
the county,'" hcmor" them with a call?
But, Fanny, it's ail right while,tho ..;:k1 lasts.
~An Albsay printer, tobl ubst r.
is said to b tatil instik in he
country. • - 44
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1111rW" th o o4l6 l 6Met the for
ever—worship iirtimegklhost 7 ice.st So die
proosaly. • : c- •
Proms the Illithvllle Vides.
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FIRST DEMISE OBLIGATION