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rrom the T.ewiEbnrg Va. Chronlcta.
'Jtw rwr. piD t It. die ekf o'lirwt.
li j U-fcA u iut-r d:-f.
Li-t i.'h'Ts f r.r, to Bir iiH.n- l-r
'I Lull :ul C'.- pi :Jc cf Miv ;
Tlw t'-r;rfl l-.i 1, ii potuhee njj aoul,
!-v rli-f it ii-.-in ti j'lini
lilf l--n:l. s irtt-n riv fcim-y
iiir &te ivhjiiI! min ." BrBKS.
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.
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