UL h BURG RON LEWIS H C. HICKOS, Editor. 0. K. WORDEN, Printer. T!iP I-cwNisirs Chronicle- issued r,.ry Wedne-div m ining at L.cwi.-1'urg, Lnton roon'lv. Pennevlvania. .. . Tsnsn. fl-SU i r year, for cash actually in a.lwe.ce; $1.7:.. paid ''" lhr,' ,n0,,.,b' ' 4 ifpiiJ within the vrar ; 2.5 if r'" '' the er tapires ; ir.fe numtiers. 5 c ut. feuU .;,',.;..,w i,,r i month r less to be paid in .1 li .iPtiiiuanrrs nrl'mml wiih the fuMi-hrr oxcart when the V ar "P- Auvrni-mei.N ha"J.m-ly oiseited c- per f-. Hr.re one k. l 'th r?d 5 f,,r Vear ; a .eJur.-.l price for lnn2er'i.dverti,ment. .....,r.. 7 MiTMiiiil adverti.-icment mil rie.T.Jin onr-f.-urth of column, qu.rt.rlv, 1 ;-ual advertisements and Jab work to be paid fir when haminl in or .Mivircd. AH commnniratinnaby n-tl most come post paid, accompanied ly the address of the writer, to receive audition. Those relatin" exchi'dvety to the- E.lilorial lJcparimcnt. to he directed to H. C. 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TU birila Ihnt ewectly ang in May, Ai.d enroled rbrou!;h the grove, Anai-ninsr the aweetest lay Of hap'ines-s and love Tlie flowny LliKim of ernal Spring, So svret on Mcm'iy'a page. Have n ournful flown upon ibe wing Of 'l ime's declining age ; Ar.d now the rust of tim an J care Has on my bosom frit. And nil ihe visions, once so dear, Have lost llieir magic spell ; The promir-ed bliss of future 'i'bal youth once sweetly gae. Are nothing now but empty toys, A butible on ihe wave.. Tide, tbrn, ye blooms of Summer gone. For you I shed no tear, Xor you, ye songsters of the morn. Whose notes were once so dear ; For Autumn, in her yellow leaf. More soothing seems to me. She mourns and mingles in my grief Willi sweeter sympathy. Dot Autumn soon wilt flee away, Vet leave a richer gloom. And Winter, with her shortened day. Consign ber to the tomb ; III hnil her with renewed delight, the in my griefs will join. And through the long and gloomy night Our mutual Star shall shine. The beauties cf the op'ning Spring Grieve o'er some hope that's fled. And Summer's fulness can but bring Fresh memories of the dead ; Kind Autumn, in her yellow leaf. Although w:ih me she mourn, Can not join sweetly in my grief Like howling Winter's storm. LtwisRT-Rn, SepL 18.r)0. M.J.. Extravagance Is Wickedness. I We may call it the impulse of a gener ous soul; we may palliate it under the name of a regard for the dercneies and proprieties of life a regard for the taste ful and elegant a love for art and litcra ture a disposition to avoid the charge cf being sordid an I mean; it is always i lie same, when we look at the naked fact. K. man or womm has a right to live be yond their nvans. It is a very easy thing to be generous and benevolent with money i hat one has never earned to acquire the reputation of a connoisseur in architecture, if it is done at the expense of the unpaid la bor i.f tin carpenter, the mason, or the pain'er. Whenever a man lives beyond his mean1;, he always must do it at some Ik.iK 's expense somebody must pay the bill ; and so complicated and related are ihe iVpcndeneies of trade, that we can ne ver know whence this expense will in the end be drawn. In the great majority of cjses, it is borne by those who are least hble lo bertr it, nv the hard-working and hard-firing poor. Many a failure in bu siness, which is charged to the chances of a mercantile life, is traceable directly to r.trivaarce in living. Manv a wife or daughter, sailing in thoughtless gayety dowu the tide of fashion, dreams not that Ihv :he means which stipperl her useless and wicked expense are wrung from the poor laborer, or wormed by the "law's do lay," ar.d the thousand tricks that are ma tun d in the mirts of trade, from the wid ow, the helpless, or the orphan. Even wcj.led love itself becomes in such circum- siance the strongest temptation to draw the hu'jand en to vice and crime. Thought less extravagance is the foible of the one he loves. The husband can not meet the reproaches of the idol of his heart ; he can ii t fx. a r to see ber put to shame (false iho1 he knows it to lie) by a wealthier rival in the race of f isl.ion, and be yields when his better judgment condemns. - Idulgenee btrrn!hcDt the pasion in that heart which Uiht to lie his safeguard against lempta lion expense follows expense. If the sup plies are stopped, domestic broils destroy bis peace; ly continues to yi-lrf diffi.-ul-ties thicken around him he struggles.spe culates, hazards his all on the cast of a die he loses ; if he escape positive crime, his mercantile honor and sta::liev, his hoi, hi energy all are cone. This is no f mcy figure would that it were ! Let the fate of Webster be a warning to moth ers and daughters, as well as husbands and fathers, against the sin of extravagance. N. Y. Recorder. The Prlds of Ignorance, AXD TUB rums OF SCIKNCK C0NT1SASTKD. But, says an objector, the natural phil osopher ttttem himself inordinately. Tell me not of the. pride of scientific men. We have, it is tiue, some few cases of the pride of learuinc ; but a multitude. of the pride ff ignorance. The grossly ignorant man, imnjininp himself placed at the very centrp of the ear'b's fancied plain, and exactly benea'h iIih highest point in heaven's arch, with iirms ti.kiuibo, struts firth, ns the princi pal occupant of the material universe This is manifest lo common observation Something like this is, also, seen among the different classes in t'.e ssme school, and in communities, amons individuals of dift-renf grades ol civillza'ion. j An accurate knowledge of men and things, naturally represses pride and ad vances humility. The diligent student ol nature, ns he g" in d'-epr and dreper knowledge of the great hook of fJod's is- dom, c"odnes and power, necessarily sees nil finite glory dwindling and Hiding; he must see himself, toi, depreciating in com parison with the ex'ent and grandeur of the olj'-cts which successively occupy his vast and illuminated field of view. Again, it is evident, thai the more we learn of wha other men have aeeom-1 plished, in pursuits and circumstances like our own, and the more clearly we discover how much we depend on others for what we possess and accomplish, the moreeffec tually will (not our pride) our humility be cultivated. The philosopher is in circumstances pe culiarly favorable to make him feel and acknowledge his heavy indebtedness to his predecessors nnd cotemporaries. He can not fail of being convinced, that were any generation ni men entirely destitute of transmitted knowledge, they could hardly within the ordinary limits of human life, find t'rme to dress themselves and erect permanent dwellings. They must com mence life as savages, and, at death, have nothing better than blankets and wigwams to bequeath to their savage successors. Had not Kepler inherited the avails of Ty cho Brahe's labors in descriptive as'ron omy, it is certain he could never have been distinguished, in physical astronomy, as the legislator of the skies. Without a leg acy from his ancestors.even Newton must, comparatively, have been poor, and the scientific wealth amissed and transmitted by Newton and others has been the sna king of their heirs, now the illustrious, philosoj hers of Europe and America. i But if you chance lo meet with a stub born case of pride in n philosopher, do not hastily dismiss the case as incurable. He ri be cured of any ex'raordinary degree of pride, if he has a breath of the spirit of rue philosophy. But do nothing, I be' seech you, to lessen his amount of science; rather follow the good ol J specific of Tope: Give him to drink more deeply. Direct his attention to tbe treasures of science al ready amassed. Show him the schools. the laboratories, and observatories, of Europe and tbe United States of America; show him their libraries whose shelves are bending beneath ponderous tomes, the faithful records of literary and philosophical research ; show him the rich gifts of sci ence to agriculture, commerce, and the whole sisterhood of the arts of peace; show him not only what has been accom plished, but show him every enlightened part of the earth, at this moment, bosy as a bee-hive, in all the departments of philos ophy. Then conduct bint into those ex tensive fields of sober enterprise, which sound philosophy has projected ; and you give him the position which Newton held when tinder the conviction, that all which philosophy has done, in comparison with what it is destined to accomplish in ages to come, amounts to nothing more than the examination of a fe m pebbles and pearls thrown up on th shore of a brood ocean, from the undiminished treasures of its im mense bed. If our patient is not yet recovered, im merse him in the great deep of space. Show him something of the extent ofJe. hovah's vorlci. Bid him look at himself, and then at the earth, whose extended ra dius spreads the earth's surface into an ap parent plain. Next, equip him with the quick wtngs of light, putting him upon a rate of traveling equivalent to twenty four diameters of the earth, in a single second. LEWISBURG, Within eight minutes he fin !s h msel alighting upon the Sun, compared wi'h which, intend of the earth as a standard of hulk, he has the mortification to perceive that his body has shrunk, from thed:m"n sions of three cubic feet, to the I-2C0h part of a cubic inch (physically, a con temptible insect!) Here let him step long enough to ask the question, wlrch J millions of years will not answer : Wh it wonders, what treasures are contained in that deep ocean of liaht ! Thenc, let him, with undiminishd velocity, speed his way to Sir ins, whose matchless orb, at the end, perhaps, of a three years' fbght, ho beholds under his feet, exerting open a splendid retinue of phnets, in the powers of light, heat and gravitation, the energy of fourteen Suns, such as the tine in whose lijibt we are rejoicing. If still, lliere is anything of our philoso pher's pride (or of himself) remaining, let hiin arrange himself within the sublime circumference of the galaxy ; let him. wiih the most powerful telescopo in use, f py out some (aint nebula most delicately fringing the absurdly imagined borders ol infinity, and not unjike the sub'ile Jvnpnr which the keeneyed littlu girl can possibly J discern issuing from the throat of the sing ing sparrow. But send him not thithei with only the speed of light ; for with that. thousands of years might not suffice for thej'iurney. Give him la'hcr the iiiyslo. rious power of the imagination, by which he can assume, with equal facility, and in equal times, stations indefinitely near, and infinitely remote. Prom the station first assumed, he sees that nebula resolved into brilliant points ; from the next, he rees each of those points bright as Arctu rus or Capella, and from the next station, he beholds it a glorious sun ! What had been deemed the centre and circumference ol the material universe, have reciprocated iheir positions, and from one of those foreign suns, he looks back af:er the local ity of his native earth, when, lo ! the vast orbit of Neptune has closed in upon the fo cus occupied byourSun.the sun himself has dwindled to a point 'hat point has van ished, and taken with it all earth born philosophers with their works, the scene of their labors, and the entire sphere ol their observations. How naturally, must our philosopher now adopt the language of the sublime prophet, with reference to the in finite Creator ! "All nations, before Him, are as nothing, and they are counted to Him less than nothing and vanity." Our poor patient shudders and involuntarily shrieks, as he sees himself and his whole race on the very brink of comparative an nihilation. His pride drops from its dizzy pinnacle as a wounded birJ. Examine it, my intelligent friends ; is it not dead ? lnavgvral Jtddrtti of Prof. Stephen H'. Taylor, of the Iwisburg University. Selected for the Chronicle. THE aiEDJAEPS J Let me go to my home in tbe far-distant Weet, To tbe snenes of my ehiMbood in inoorenee MrMed, -tVhere the tall eedars wave ami tbe brfcht waters flow, Where my father repoee ! t me go, let me go! 2 Let aae go to the spot where the eataraet plays. Where eft I have sported in boyhood's bright days. And greet my poor mother, whose heart will o'erflow At the sight of her child let me go, li t me au! 3 Let me go to my sire, !y whose battliHwarrvd side I hare sported so oft in the morn of my pride. And exulted to conrroer the hieoli-nt foe To mj father, tbe Chief, let aae go, let me go I 4 And 0 let me go to my flashing-eyed maid. Who taught me to love 'Death tlie green willows' shade, Whose heart, like the fawn's, lea as pure as the enow, To tbe bosom ft loves let me go, h t me go! And O let me a to my wild forest-home. Ko more from ita life-eheering pl-.urv, to roam ; Kemlh the groves of the glen, let my ashes lie low To my borne in tbe woods let aae go, let me eo! - I. B. Wouoarar Seeing tbe Girls The armexeJ queer entry is "said" to be copied from the Diary of John Adams, recently published. We always used to think John was ' some pumpkins," but as he speaks so slightingly of the girls, we doubt whether he was "any thing to brag of," after all. However he got married at last, and that was some atonemeot : . - "Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday All spent in absolute idleness, or (wbicb i worse) gallanting the girls." A Powerful Dose. Hahneman's favo rite method of giving homo; pat hie remedies was by putting a pellet of sugar of milk, as large as a mustard seed or the head of a pin, moistened with the decillioneth of a grain, or thirtieth dilution of tho expressed juice of some medicinal plaot.in a little vial, and allowing the patient lo take one smell, or at most two, every seven or fourteen days." , , The new three cent pieces which Con gress did not authorize.and wjiich of course were not issued, have received the com mendations of the press in all parts of the countrv for their great beauty and conven ience. The story of their issue was coined by an editor from his own brain, and (like many oilier issues of the same mint) is entirely spurious. UNION CO., PA., The Foest Burial. Re.f tbe. Im-c! nr ! wr hart li! tliea li.-rv Hi ; wiM ! ni '.tHli itIi; 7 T'uni p"i t mi I In' l.-l w m.iiti tin1?, W lvrr th- willi.T. .1 ripli:i.- Ik j. Ilittunt from ttty nnrivu dwi-llin?, W'li -n we rh.iintt lliv niUii'm; Few III uenrt ilh iciIiiiii awt-UiDg k'v to join thv fun.-nil hviuu. On tli- merrmr ire ronst 1, ave thee, Lorti-ly, in thy irf..llMil yrav M'h-n- tile ini' a t"in!i shall Ki-ave ttiee, Crwiii2 wh t the lirom h-n w-r. All thy love! li-t Iritlire bntttW it, U'b -11 tin T,;rn;i b:niri return Write thy name with tlow.TM. ami wrenthe It 'Kound thy lonely fori-nt urn. Itcv. tfvmcr IITEK. From the Philads'.phia Bulletin. Life in tho West the Ceraans. .Cincinnati, O., Oct. 2i. In my last notes, dated at Cincinnati, I mentioned in particular the German popu- laiion of the West, and stated that they had conceived the idea of nriiti'nining their nutinnality with all its peculiar institutions, customs and. religion. Cincinnati is the jsteamer line between this country nnd Af centre of this new desire, prhips I may ' rica. We are by no means di-poscd to say movement ; and the condition and a - pirations of the German population in Cin eiunati may be taken as a fair specimen of tho other German colonies or settlements in the West ; and in Iced in thi Enst also. There are 50,000 European Gi-rt.ans in Cincinnuti, which is warty if not quite one third of the whole population. They re side in the northern part of the city between the canal and the hills. So thoroughly is this section of iheci'y Gorman, that if a native of Germany coul J fall asleep in his own country and awake up in this part ol Cincinnati, he would still believe himself in the Fdther Lan I. Up to the present time, the Germans in Cincinnati have been very industrious and frugal and have ac quired property rapidly. It is frcquently rcmarked, that they will be the owners of the property of the city in ten or twenty years. They own a great amount of real estate now. Cut within a few cars thev have become somewhat prodigal in pleas ure expenditures, and this may impair their industry and thrilt.and totally change their worldly prospects. Time will te.-t this. But while these Germans are thus thrifty as toother matters, their monils and re ligious condition is deplorable. Not i hat they do not outwardly acknowledge the Bible and religion, but they so interpret the one and practice tho other ns to make them subsidiary to thr ir free m rals and manner. And the influence t f this state of things is becoming visible on the American population. The Protestant idra of ihe Sabbath, is gradually giving wny to the Roman Catholic idea of its being n Any of recreation and miith. With this change in the observance of the Sabba'h will come a train of evils heretofore b'.:: tn-'e known in our country, and hich will ch mg our National character. While in Cincinnati I obtained seme ac curate information from a w. II educated German Protestant Minister Ion: resident there. He says : The German population in the city and suburbs have four daily and eight weekly papers in the German Linguage ; and ihey re as well supported as similar Englih nnpers ; there are ttiree large Uerman bookstores and publishing houses, two cir culating libraries, a German reading-room. and a Gennun Theatie. i he State of Ohio has nia!e liberal provisions for edu- caiing me viern.'in ruiiurrii hi iibb vjL-niiun .i - l.:t.i .1.. r i language, as well as in Ihe English, in. the public schools. Each Gernirtn Roman Catholic Church, (of which there are seven) have a large parish school-house, in which the youth of iho congregation are taught in the thorough Catholic German m inner. Som-' -f tho Lutheran churches also have their parochial schools ; nnd even lhe ll tionelist congregations have their schools. All this tends to create, as they say, a New Gcrmanv in the United States. To this is to be added their political influence, j Tliev now determine the elections lo a great extent. Some of ihem are rr.einliers of the Legislature and of the city councils; and it is owing to their influcnee chiefly that no restraining laws or ordinances can be enacted in reference to selling intoxicat ing liquors. The gentleman cf whom I have this in formation says, there are three German pleasure gardens in Cincinnati, one of hich receives several hundred dollars each Sabbath simply for tickets of admiss ion. In these gardens, they, drink and gamble all day.espccially in the afternoons. Even the German theatre is occupied every Sabbath from 2 o'clock (after morn ing service) until laie at night, by the so cialities of a " humoristic coffee parly." Of these Sabbath afterncon ceffee parties, hear a German paper : " Mr. Strnsser. (the director of the Theatre) deserves great credit for having started this noble enter prise, and we give him our hearty thanks in tho name of the whole German popula tion. The tedious American Sunday will now become to us what it should be, a day of recreation and pleasure, and we shall feel ourselves transplanted into our Father land. ' We felt most agreeably disappoint ed when wo found the Theatre rrowded with ladies and gentlemen, in spite of the NOV. 0, 1850. .-tormy atid rainy weather. The ladits and gentlemen vird with each other in producing (leasureby music, singing, nnd dramatic (Torts : the diinks nr.d eatables were also of the Lest kind. II irr-ih for New Germany.'' African Steam Lines. I l.e entertainment y won of (J real Britinnof a pr. ject for ihe eslab- lishnient ol a powerful line of -team vessels between that country and the African coast, ostensibly for the conveyance nf u month!) ma:l and t! e more f fT-ctual t-heck-iim of tlie si ive traffi is strong proof, we hink.ofllie value that the commerce be- (wcrn i.e two coun'ries is capable of be 'coming. It nitv, in addition, be regarded L4 corrubora'ive of ihe juslne of the po- I gj;;nn tnkmbv the advocates of a mni! !,Hlk invidiously on the enterprising spirit exhibited abroad for ectiring a eliser con nection with a cruntry, the great mercan tile wealth of whii-h is yet, eomparn'ive'y spak:ng, untouched. This spirit should have on us no other tlnn a stimulating cf fect. BesiJes, for years, if not Bges to come, the trade with Africa can aHmit ol no very clo.se competition. The pmmisid vaitncss of this trad', whilst excluding all idea of monopoly, must cni,f:n!ie to e.xei o new enterprise bv its unlimited rewards. Ii is unnecessary that we should" exbiliii statistics to show how hrg"ly Eng'tind h,. benefited by her persevering though fre quently iiiterrup'ed c.trrmnieation with tue in'erior parts of th.il g" at C!n!:nefi nor to make pl:nn hnv, with better kn I edge and nv re ready means f a . irercm'ili risks will be remembered tbi.t ihe Congressional erunmit'ee to whom the question of es' i!il:.-hing mud simmer 1 e tween tbiscoun'ry and Africa was referred, adverted in teir report to t';o aid lU adoption would afford in the ror.s'immaticn of the ptans o! the d "oui. ation 6 ch 'j 'I On the in'i.Tate re'ition bctw.cn the m and tbj other, it wis supposed that K good pr.rl of the require! succrss was dependent. It is son filing iniii!ar hut tho colored race those in reality most interested in the future destinies of Afric- should be so lightly nlTL-c'tdby thcesidencrs con'iiua'ly bting presented in favor cf co!or."zri..n. He will do a service to this coun'ry as well as Africa, J nlm sbi'l .loHr vtliin rtnonenibe ivi, of iho colored race Iq the advantages of emi gration to the fertile an l,'o ihem, cengeuiul shores of Africa. Sat- In'el Product of California. Ii is supposed that California has sent nto ihe world during the past two years, full 0.,e Hunt-red and Fifiy Millions of j 1 ,",lar:, -: 8o!J dust' " Litfh c'"'ed : thus moooooui 20,ooo,uoo j 15,00'Xino , Shipped to the Uui'eil Ptalea Taken to Oi.'g, n. by miners Taken lo Me;iro, by miners Taken to Fnslaiul. overland Taken lo I'nlmid via Panama ZU.UOU.UI'U . Shipped to England ia (tune Hum to.ouo ooo , shipped to Sjuth America 25.000.0uo . Shipped to Sindwicb Island. 5 DOO CH'O Shipped lo oihcr pa t of lhe woilJ lU.OOO.Om) Total $i50,ooo,ouo It would seem from this that but a sn.all ..r ,u.. t... r ..i.:..: portion of lhe product has, up to this time, reacn"u hib v. ton u otinrs. i itc.u cum i t . i. l' : i t.. . . r- .i o 1 has shiken the tree, while "ihe rest of ( mankind" has picked up the fruit. How ( much C.ilif irni i has cost Uncle Sam and .his children, is unknown probably not a less sum in all (outl iy and waste) thau Two Hundred Millions of Dollars. New Use of tie Telegraph. It gives Jiofre of storms ! Thus, the telegraph at Chicago and Toledo notifies shipmasters at Cleveland and Buffalo, and also on Lake Ontario, of the approach of a north-west storm. The result is practically of great importance. A hurricane storm traverses the atmosphere ni about the rate of a carrier pigeon, namely, sixty miles an hour. A vessel in the port of New York, about to sail fur New Oflenne, may be tel egraphed, twenty hours in advance, that a souih-west storm is advancing on lhe coast. from the Gulf of Mexico. Thus dangers may be known and avoided. AVe are only on the threshhnld of the real, substantial advantages which may be rendered by the i eleciro telegraph. Texas as it Is. The stale tf woman and law, in West ern Texas, is rather lamt ntable, as eten by the following remarks io a le ttr from one of the Boundary Commission, dated at San Antonio de Ik-xar : This once Spanish town, situated on tbe Guadaloupe, expelled its original set tlers, and, by an act, forbade them any privilege of settlemei.t within "its vieiniiy. Since the last Mayor was murdered by the inhabitants, in a to nbroil, or some petty legal affair, no one has sought the office, the authority of which can not be enforced. "The fewwhitewomenthat dwell in these hovels are like automatons, with no hf. -like or muscular action, snd whose empty w.unding words are as ihe hollow workings of a biokru sucker iu a pun p handle over a dry well." rum the north American. Great Suffering on the Plains. 5700 i f r1 fur n Vip 'f II'r twd rr fu'i Vlve S 1Q r i'nuivl the CM-.- un 1'billK liirfr. Ntocktos, Cab, Sept. 30, 18 5 . I have ju t conversed with a gentleman from New York. who. vti'h three of his brothers, arrived here yesterday, after a j f ,,,. j,llirnev across the coumrv. lie s'ates ihiaw about 70,000 persons are on . - - j ihe road now. The four Inlhers started villi two six muie teams, plenty of pr vi sions, clu luiig, money, c, ami uruved al K'.uckton with the loss of almost every ihing. He st.i'es that on both branches cf the riatte tin Cholera prevailed ti a hurrilde extent, liui.dreds dj ing daily. The wat.-rs of thu Plu'to are tLick and muddy, and he attributes the escape i f hi party from i.k uess to their precautions in boiling thu wa ter orcoilee before drinking. The graves of emigrants, he ays, werj thick at every 'mpping place near tho I'lutte. Iu cross ing ths Great Basin this aide of tho Great SjIi Lake, their sufferings were iadescrib- b'e. The sand was knee deep,tbe sun broiling hot ; not a tree was to be seen ; there was no water, and their protUions were ail jni.e. Fortunately, nfter pasing over aruiit 100 miles of this hideous deceit, they hail eo ne ncirss a man l o bud gone; 40 miles further, found a j:ood .-;irii.g aud ie tiirnej with two barrels of wuitr. The a er he first sold for $1 per gallon, then $1 Pr quur, then 810 per pint, and as tbe emir mts came aTong, each almost cboktd to death nnd completely exhiius'ed, his pri ces raised, and no sum he could name within theptiwerofa poor emigrant was re fusedtobepBid. W'hen the water was near 'v all got e,a man came along who fcr three hole diys and nights had drank, but a half a pint of fluid. He was almost dead, apd begged for some wa er. The answer was, "I have notenou0h to last myse'f and ... . . . ""'nuts back to the l.rii.g." i-jO.lOO, wv, . was ou. r. o in succession lor ,lt.f , wl.dn, and hung aside the cur one l.ttL cup full of waer, and tie dealer Iaio. ,e. : lhe fr . ... , ... refused i.'. The wre'ihed emigrant ihrew down $700, all he had in the woilJ, and by nain force grasped the cup and quenched bis thirst. This statement seems iucrediblc ; but my ii.f irmant is a man ol intelligence and j probity, and his word can not be doubted- oon 'eavmg the wa'er trader, tlie party came across a company who had a little flour, which they would not part with until the, oiler of $-10 per pound tempted them to sell. One bbl. of flour was sold for eight hundred djllars, and glad enough was the purchaser to get it. Upon arriv iug at Carson's rivi r, ihev f und pn.via ioil3 p,,,D,Vt but vtry ,,, 52 50 per lb. A sin-lu nnul of two small pies, coffee, and some pilot bread, cost I'cr mun' "r0V4l"ns, it was expected, would S'jcn bo much lower on (.'arson's river, asm. inform mt m.t im- "s trains oi provisions on iae way irom this valley. Whilst crossing the Sierra iNVvaJa mountains, the imrlv , pw.. 'oped in a snow stoim, and at the last pass the snow fell six or seven iuehes in om , night. This pass is? not over 150 feet iu I. . : l.L ,:. .1 -j I width, and is on the side of asleep decliv. ity. aoove ino roan tne roc towers dl- l .i . i most perpendicularly,250 ft., whilst belov. it is almost equally abrupt. At the bottom was seen innumerable carcases of mules, cattle, snd wild animals. My informant says it is tbe almost universal opinion at Carson's river that not one third of the emigration can cross the Sierra Nevada mountains befoie the winter sets in and renders tbe road impassable. He thinks thry can winter very well in Carson's val ley. His party expected to meet wiih, and thought they were provided for, evety hardship. He says he has traveled exten sively through Europe, but no scenery there equals in sublimity and beauty many of the views on lhe laud route across this continent. Nevertheless, he declares he would give all he possessed in the world or all he hope to possess, if he could only banish from .his memory ll many horrors he felt and witnessed on his terrible j jur ney. Yours, truly. , G P. W. Astounding freak of nature. On last Friday a week, an old lady aged 81 years, died at Lawienrevil'e. says the PilUburg Journal, of a dl-ease of the bow els. Ti ior to ber death, it was discovered that a tumor existed io In r abdomen, and afer death, a post mortem examination was held, and a bony substance cf an oval shape was removed. Upon sawing thro' this it was discovered that the ossified co vering was but thin, and that within it wu contnined a fully developed female child. So ptrfectty formed was the child in all its parts, that CO difficulty, whatever, was found in deciding upon iu sex at once, and from facts afterwards leurned, tbe woman must have carried it for f.r'y yurt! The circumsiances hi.:h sustain this eiinnfMiiiun are these: Ilcr iiiece, wiih i r Volrnno HE., RTcmler 34. Whole Kumter 346. whom she lived up lo iho time o.' her death, distinctly reclltcts that at oi a trme, hrrjnunt siirpoMd l.trselfio U inti enle, and went so far as to make all the preliminary preparations for the expected little stranger ; butto the astonid mtnt cf all the infunt was never born. About this lime her hucband en d, and from that peri od until her death, her general health was good. " Written Hcntlbills. It teems itrange, jet it is neverlhclus true, ihai'thcre arc niauy persons who yet continuu to advertise their teiidues and public sales by written notices. Such tersons are uV.ut as far bcLiad the times as the man w ho would attempt to take his whe it to Phiia .'clpbia or Baltimore, with h:s own team, sim,ily because be would have to pay a small sum as toll and freight on the can.il or railroad. A primed band bill strikes tho sihl at once, aud literally s.ic&king, we may say ' he who runs may read,' while ii-oe t.u! of titry uu can not read, even a b gijlc hand, without some trouble. There never was a better illus tration of the " penny wise and pound foolish" sy stem, than these wriueo advt-r. tisenienta. We have known a number cf instiinces where certain ankles which verc much in demand were unnecessarily sacriRced by tb's false id-.-a oi economy. One more bidder may make a d llcreuce liuit wnulJ pay th'i printer ten times over. Auctioneers and business men under stand al! this and faihnoi to profit by it Sunlury Amtficim. A'.SoIar Laic? TAKEM BT THE I.NDJi.NS TO ES THE KOON. A few years since, an American cfikx-r was sta'ioncd at a fort near one of ihe nor thern lakes. During the long winter moo; lis he and his Wifa were indeed very 'happy, for there were whites enough in the neigh borhooJ to make a pleasant ciiclc, ar.d the In Jib ns were exceedingly frit ndly ; lul the lirat Summer evening when Mrs. B. raised ' i r-- lie tab.e iu the middle of the white floor, and lighted her pretty solar lamp, brought from her borne with so much caie, and. iho iiwitennnt was sitting in the door look ing out upon the forest, peaceful as tl.e shadow that Uy on the ground, the .pair were startled by the appearance, of many Indians, thrusting iheirdark visages in at every winjow, aud running hurriedly past the door, looking in and pointing up ward to the sky, and clapping iheir bauds and laughing with sins all mysterious as the object of their visit ; until, overcome wiih wonder and delight, they exclaimed.: Wessayab ! Uessayah ! she hat cuvghl a moon ! s he has caught a moon ! How very True ! An exci Hi nt writer iu Hunt's Magazine enumerates lhe fallowing causes of Liiu.-fs among buMne.-s men: 1. The leadiniz ne is an ambition to be rich by grasp ing too much, it defeats itself. 2. Anoth er cause is on aversion to labor. 3. The ihiid ciue is an impatient desire to enjoy 'he luxuries of life before the ribt to them has been acquired in any way. 4. An . . other cause arises from the want of some deeper principle for the distinguishing be tween rieht and wrong,' than nf n.n e merely to what is established as hi noiaUe in tbe society in which one happens to live. Which Is the FooL A gentleman, in the habit of occasional ly using intoxicating drinks, took up an ab'e temperance address and set down in his la mil to peruse it. He read it through, without sa) ing a word, when he exclaimed, " This man is a fool, or I am !" He then read it again, aoJ when again be had fin ished i',a second time he exclaimed, " This ' man is a fbol or I am A thud time he -rend it with still greater care, aud as La finished the last se n't nee, exclaim d, am the fool ''aud never tasted a drop of ardent spirits afterwards. " A Dou's Tail .V writer in a N.-w York paper thus unravels thu ph.loso, by . of a lather twistified autjeci. , eauLavfioo to bis dog mas : There is a glial dal of philosophy iu a do"'s tail It i as gicai a tel.- ale a a . . . . udy's fan- If a Uo, i pitad, h.s la.l is mmediatelv in a wag ih hun.or ; if he ht afraid, it slopes ; if angry, it o-.t. You can tell the character an1 uiiositi.n of a dog by bis tail, as wt II us I Vwiei can decipher j curs from tl buoips." ' A Fees TaA.-.sXATios. A very smart. precocious you h, in one ef the Lai u schools ol Boston, eomiug to Ihe pase, . "Qitis ccstodiet custodtt?" in oue of bis . dady reciiations, astounded hi? teacher by iranslatiog it. "Who shall have custud. of i ho custards T" , ..,-,, A f.uit cultivator ol Cleain.onl cot: nix. Ohio, is aid lo hate rralized a r fit . f mme (ban fW.OOO duting the past stamen frein ti e sttk. of percLes. ir "inr
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