C II 0 N I G L I, BURG EW -- - -.. H. C. HICKOK, Editor. 0. N. WORDEN, Printer. LEWISBUKB CUUONICLE Issued a- Wednesday morningt at Lewisburg, Union county, Pennsylvania. TERMS t,50 per C"L8''1 actually advance; el 74. if paid within three months: iOO if paid withm a veal SUoIr not piid before the jm expires : S cenu fur hntfli numbers. Untatriptimu tir six months or leas, u, treld la adrnnce. LixvDtinuances optional Wltn the rullUher,xeptwhentheyrarirMuP: AnTsmsfKHrra hsndrnmely inserted at 60 erah per square, one wek, $1 four weets, i a year ; two Jquan-a, t farai months. $1 tor . rear. Mercantile adeertie i .dU."t exc-ediue one fourth ofa eolumn. JIO a year JOB WORK ami casual auvcrusenienta to be Paul lor when banded iu or di'lieerod. OuMcMcTW!s on all soloeeta of eeneral inte rest D within the ranp. ff lrty or svrtanan ntest. All letters most one post-part, accompanied by tbereal wldress of the wribr, to receive ntu-ution. -Thoe Telatine exrlusirelv to the Editorial Department, to be di rected to llaxat C. Uichok. Ksq., MAjr and those on business to (. X. Wow. IVMiAr. UIHe. on Market stroet, betwe. n .-eonj I and 1 Third . orei the iVs.t-0.1ice. O. X. Oltlr..S, Fn.neU. To an Old Haple Tree. ST MBS. J. B. MMOC. Of MOMROBE. I bay loved tbee from my childhood, thou old and B STown tree! And a thousand p nlle memories Are liused with thoughts of thee. Sweet risione of that olden time. When, with joyous heart I strayed To seek the oarliet white flower. By the streamlet ' Death thy shade. There, whan, at springs soft breathings, The snow-wreath fled away, Earh ereen an moMy knowl waa gemmed With patikhjo-berrie gar , The May-nower and the iolet Peeped from their bed of mould. And the dark wake-robbin nodded By the kdiere-tongue of geld. The feathery fern waTed to the breete. With wild wood fr:itrnce fraught. While tbe Lrown tbru.-h, fc r hex callow brooa, lu sheltering w rl sousht. And among thT fpreauins branches, In their wfl,' pale erecn array. The eonn-sparrow trilled bi earliest notes And the blue bird poured hia lay. Cwe lored thee! when the (rlad syrlng brought Her gtfu of bloom and mirth, Sor leaa when summer's lovelinaai Came flashing o'er the eath. For tbeu hart worn right regally, Thy coronal of green, Ai d rtood a m mrch of the wool, In the suulijLt's glorious sheen. And when the change came oVr tbee, In the penciee autumn dsve W hen Tale and upland. pi aad stream, Were eeilcd in sober hale, TThou d-' t thy anreeous robes put on Of crimen and of goid, And proudlv yb-H honor, up Thou mi(jht't not longer hold. Majestic still, though shorn, thou'st rtood With thy light tracery : Revealed, In lairy peneillinsa, gainrt TkTO clear and Max lit ky. Then the wint ry sun came brightly down, Aud hnK-ering oVr ,',,f'TV . , Earh tiny twig, with fr. t o'er-wrousht. In glittering genu aecmvd dreeaed. AwJofVwhen throoih thy atunly bougha, The rtora-.-king wild ba raved, I've joyed to aee how nobly thou Hit Tiolenee hart braved. Bnt a spoiler baa been buy 'mongst Thy b-ethren of the (bade. And I aigb ttnark the ravagee Tbe wooOnuui'a Baa made. Thou ftanJ'tt almont alone, old tree! The stream baa shrank and dried. And the bow era, beneath the ion's fierce glare, From their eld haunt have died. Thow too. ere tong. M cherished Mend, - Slust bow thy atately beadl :-So naea rmea earth iu lereHeet And nobteat, to the dead. A Reminiscence. 'Rftme time in the month of May, 1826, nthile I was concerned in publishing thej j 0ften gt near, or stood in the way, so "Northern Spectator," a weekly newspaper . muci, aLSOrbed did he appear in his own in the village of East Toultncy, Vermont, j tliougbts his head bent forward, and his I was one moruiug engaged in my garden, . evcg gxcd Upon the ground, that I have the when there came to me a stripling of; cuarity to believe the reason "why he never about 14 years of age, and enquired if 1 1 turned his head Or gave me a look, ras was iheman who carried on the printing j i,ecauso he had no ideal was there ! office ? 'I answered that I was. Hcj At the end of about four years, he went asked me if I wanted to take a boy as an Chataaqne county,where, I think he so oppTetitice ? I told him I had thought of j0Urned about a year, employed as a jour- .it, and asked him if he wished to become j neynian printer, but lost all his earnings a printer : Ulc tow me tc cau suue "t-. tion of Icarnine the printing business. He had -come some ten miles on foot that morning from a liumblc home in the vicinity of West Havca, to make this ap plication. I had not at first paid much ' attention his address and now turning, J to the young stranger, I saw standing before me a light, slender form, dressed in ithe plain farmer's cloth of the day, and without the fastidious taste of Neau Nash or BrommeL II is hair of a light hue, shading upon the orange, lay thinly upon his broad forehead, and over a head rock ing on shoulders apparently too slender to ; anpport the wcignt ot a memuer bo uis portioned to his general outline. On en tering into convcrsation, and a partial ex amination of the qualifications of my new applicant, it required but little time todis cover that be possessed a mind of no com lnon order, and an acquired intelligence far beyond his ycars. He had little oppor tunity at the common school, but he said -'he had read some" and what he had ihewell understood and remembered. In addition to the ripe intelligence manifested in one so young, and whose instruction -had been limited, there was a single-nindedness, a truthfulness and common souse in what he said that at once commanded iy regard. After conversing with him a while, I told him to go to the office and talk with the foreman. He did bo, and soon returned with a line from the foreman, saymg he thought we had better i try the lad. He soon entered the office, after having bound himself an apprentice 4or four yean. On hia first -entering the office, there ms quite a sensation among the older ap- vrentiees and journeymen. They thought they had caught a green one, and resolved on a treat of fun. But the new comer naid no attention to what was passing. He took his copy and composing stick from the foreman and stood up to the desk of types, " intent on thought, and all the world blank." He had not stood there nany days before his office companions appealed some what to doubt, and the more tame ones began to sniff a little of young lion. But they could not entirely forego the anticipated pleasure of initiating their new friend, so, as his hair was of a lighter hue than they thought became the trade of ink and types, applied the "black balls," until they thought the impression pace jn our columns on account of its on would come off intelligibly. This was 1 ginality. We give it publicity, also, for done while he stood at the desk of types ; j benefit of singing choirs who are some but none of these things moved him, nor did he lose a single "cm" by the operation. Attaint tli ia lima tfiA lntn l?PT T, .1 T?,.l.l . ,,,1 woll.Wrl iw.nlr.mnn X . - it and a practical printer, was employed to edit and conduct the naner. Ihis opened , a desirable school for intellectual culture to our young debutant. Debates ensued historical, political and religious ques- tions were discussed, and often while all hands were engaged at the font of types ; and here, the purpose for which our friend i "had read some," was made manifest. Such was the correctness of his memory in what he had read, in both biblical and profane history, that the Rev. Mr. R. was often put at fault by his corrections. He always quoted chapter and verse to prove the poiut in dispute. On one occasion, the Rev. Mr. R. said that money was the root of evil, when he was corrected by the "devil," who said he believed it read in the Bible that the love of money was the root of all evil. A small town library gave him access to boots, by wuicn, togemor wun ue cJ thcrn a differcnt pIace and name. reading of exchange papers of the office, j awoke) (saiJ Mr. IIowe,) and lay mu he improved alibis leisure hours. Ue. on the gubJect fof gome thnej and became a frequent talker in our Tillage my thoughts turned to lyceum, and otten wrote dissertations. former . dqarted Fririu ap- In the first organization of our village d me and tLeir convcrsation wa9 temperance society, the question arose as auJ.,ole At one of tilem gtood to the age when the young might become , :ntertrret drcarr., and said it members. Fearing lest his own age u.m 1 j'e u n i 'n- v. i might bar him, he moved that they be re- (olscrved ttc in. ceived when they wore old enough to ' te are all dea(1. X thcm g0 t0 drink which was adopted nem con. j neavcn-s gate m4 iBOck for admission. Though modest and retiring, he ns Gabriel opened the gate, and often led into political discussions with I who are you, can you gingr, our ablest politicians, and few would leave j u ,., u Then you can not be adm;tted the field vifhoct feeling instructed by the',, We d;J ging f(r a time re. soundness of his views, and the unerring were discor,raged.'. He correctness of his statements of pohticJ th hand tQ the piough,v an- Hav'ing a thirst fox Wledge, he bent his mind and all his energies to its acqui sition with unceasing application and un tiring devotion and I -doubt, if in the whole term of his apprenticeship, he ever spent an hour in the common recreations of young men. lie used to pass my door as he went to his daily meals, and though by which ue naU nqpea to Deitor ms -cu cumstances. We next ce liim in the city of IJcw York a stranger in a strange city, friend less and alone, in quest of employment as a foreman printer. At this time he wrote me the first letter giving an account of himself since he had left Poultney sta ting his object in going to the city, and the many obstacles he met with in the way of obtaining the employment he desired. Now, all the rest of the acts of Horace Greeley, from first to last, are they not written in the "New Yorker," "The Log Cabin," "The New York Tribune," and the contemporary literature of his country ? except we have lately seen him at the as sembling of nations, speaking of America at the Paxton dinner, or, as an American Lion, shaking paws with a British Lioness at a levee of England's nobility. Hon. Giarlts W. Marsh. Every Village has its Paper. Lyell in his travels in the United States, seemed surprised that every village should have its own newspaper. It is known no where else, bnt the reason is, that no where else does man get so much of what he ought to have, and which is conducive to his comfort. The luxuries of life are monopolised by great men and great cities everywhere else, here they are diffused more equally. And why should not news paper follow the same laws f Has the in habitant of the country village or borough no wants to be supplied, or wishes to be made known? Has he no events, the memory of which he wishes to be pre served ! Must he hold on the even tenor of his way. unnoticed or unknown no voice to announce Lis entrance. or his exit 1 The country newspapers can only supply this want The properly conduct ed country newspaper is the place where a man can meet where all that concerns himself. Its readers know all that has happened, and are allowed to form their own opinions. They are especially con versant with their own affairs, and are the best of all reformers, for they know when anything goes wrong at home. ' LEWISBDRG, UNION COUNTY, EEXN., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1851 Father Howe'i Dream. Rev. Mr. Howc,Utely of Hopkinton, is known to nave been an original man. His waking thoughta were peculiarly hia own, and his dreams may be expected to partake of the same dualities. This dream we times name w iaii oui vy iuo way. At one time during his ministry, the singers all took offence and left the choir. In .1 O..I I...I. L .I..tn,l l,o f,11nnr. We nCil Oltuuaill uu ' in ft dream which had the desired effect ot ,lng "".am, uit.u tlsw"ub them to their places. He dreamed that a spirit from the other world appeared before him, and informed him that there was singing enough in heaven m uc" i na nat oue vl lu "uo; 11 1 L -A .1. M Aa esscnnai aisuncuons, uctweca uga -u- av,IS conslsw m lnls lna6 U,B ,u,"":t light in singing while the latter have no inclination to engage in this heavenly em ployment. The angels, (continued the spirit) were all created in holiness : but in process of tiniA nart of them became tired of employing their faculties in singing the songs of heaven. When these were urged to use all their talents in the ser vice of God, they said they had no encour agement to sing, or, in other words, no pay ! They would not trust the Lord to reward them, but must be paid by their f. . 1 1 nv.Gsm n t ja Til Almiflitv. therefore. . . a nanriu r,f TInrT.;ntnn wered Gabriel, "and looketh baclt, is not fit for the kingdom of God ; you can not be admitted here." "We would have sung, if there tad been suitable encosr- agementT -" Those who viU not sing -on earth," returned the angel, thaU not sing in heaven. Yon can t be admitted here. Depart, Depart !" "Upon tnis tn0 S; opened and swallowed them up. Then I awoke, (said Mr. Howe,) and behold it was a dream ; but the thing was certain, and the interpretation thereof, sure. Commercial Ctisit. The Dry Goods Reporter, of the 2d inst., published in New York, predicts that a pressure, if not a orisis, in -commercial affairs, fa at land. Cwo leading causes for this state of things are given : First, the lessening of the rates -of the tariff has led to great importations, for which we must pay in specie, as our pro ducts are not wanted m Europe to any great extent. Some of thera they will eot have at any price, though we exclude none of theirs. Miserable Dutch looking glasses, slalcs. marbles in casks, and wretched German clocks, flat champagne and sour claret from France, a great variety of al most useless articles from England, inun date our markets, all of which are to be mainly paid for in specie, while our own manufacturing industry is depressed, and our surplus productions are left npon our hands. All can see very plainly, if they will, that this is a perfectly natural result of the reduction of the tariff, and must, as the Reporter avers, contribute to produce commercial pressure and disaster. Second, our California trade, which promised much at the commencement, but which now bids fair to break down the stateliest houses, and to overwhelm even the merchant princes. As a general rule, says the Reporter, almost all the consign ments to California, within the last two years, have proved unfortunate and ruin ous. The obligations originally incurred for the purchase of these goods have been extended along to the present time. Pay day has come, or is close at" hand. The greatest exertions are making by many to keep up their credit abroad, that they may recover their losses by future gains. But the specie rolls away by millions to Euro pean creditors. Our flour they will not take at any price, our tobacco they ex clude, our cotton "they depreciate. The consequences are inevitable. We are so vastly in debt, that the whole of our specie is likely to leave us, unless some Knronean convulsion produces a sense ot insecurity among foreign capitalists. In view, then, of the results which seem to be at hand, we may nuke up our minds . .. . e e -I J -e i that we snali near oi lanures, iuuiiwiuub, and other troubles peculiar to a money pressure. Sound men of business need not fear these mntterinss : they will ai once in sail or lie to. while the storm passes by them. No country in the world tha imports more than it can pay for can expect prosperity. Give. IT ml. t. ajIKPCMIt. " Jl it awn Uutd to five Vim to rewire." OlTe prayera; the erenlne hath begun; Be earlier than tbe rinine aim; . . Remember thoee who feel the rod : Remember thoee wbo know not tied. Hia hand can baandlesa bleMinga fire: BraaUae prayera; tluoogh them the tool ahaU lire. Glee alms; the needy eluk with rln; . The orphan! mourn, the crushed complain. tiira freely; boarded (told ia cust, A prey to robbers aud to rust. Christ, through bis poor, a claim doth make; Una gladly lor thy Savkic'i sake. Oire books; they lire when you are dead; Light on the darkened mind they abed; Uood seed thev sow, from a(e to age, Through all tills mortal pilgrimage. They nurse the genu of buly trut; They wake u allied when you arc dust. Gire smiles, to cheer the little child, A strauger on this thorny wild ; It bringeth love, its gnard to be ll helpless, asketb love from thee. HoweVr by turtune's gift unblint. One smiles to childhood s guileless braaat. Gitb worts, Itind words, to those who ert ; Kemonie doth need a comforter. Though in temptation's wiles they fall, Condemn not we are pinners ail. With tbe sweet charity of speech, win words that heal, and words that teach. Oire tbonght, gi re energy to themes That periJi not like folly's dreams. Hark I from tbe Inlands of the sea, Tbe missionary cries to tbee; To aid him on a heathen soil, Uire thought, gire energy, gire toll. A Cider-Drinker's End, In the early settlement of Pennsylvania, three men of the same name came from Connecticut, and settled in a row along a mill-stream. They all commenced alike in the woods by patting up their log cab ius and felling the trees, clearing the land, aud tilling the soil as they obtained an aliening for culture; and seemed to have an equally fair prospect of comfort and usefulness in the future. One of them was a member of the Con gregational church, and lived to see all his ten children professors of religion. Another was a Methodist, and had the confidence and respect of the community for his intelligence, piety, and stability of character. He too lived to see all his chil dren professors of religion, and one son a preaeher of the everlasting gospel. The third was not to." Like the sur vivor of the deluge, he u began to be a husbandman,'' and planted an orchard and drank of the cider, "and was drunken." He had no children. The little fatherless boy that he obtained at a distance, ran away from him as from a monster of bru tality, when twelve or thirteen years of age ; and that boy and his twin brother are now proclaiming the gospel in the Methodist-connection. More than oaoe this man. fell into the stream near which he lived, by the influence of his " good old cider,' as it was termed. On one occasion, two of his boon companions took him out of the creek when his life was nearly wasted by strangling. ' So great was their alarm at this revolting spectacle, that they imme diately quit a practice so destructive and unbecoming a man. But Mr. contin ued cider-drinking. Aud while his neigh bors of his name supported then- numerous families genteelly, aud supported society also, and had put up eouitortable framed dwellings, his cider-drinking habits con strained him to remain in his log house, though it was sinking beneath its own weight by decay. - After a long time, however, he began to build ; but on a plan so large and ill-adapted to the sise of his family and the length ot Ins purse, mat he " was not able to finish." Luke 14 : 30. His habit gained so rapidly upon him that he could not finish his house, though he finished his work of suicide. Delirium tremens seised him at times. Finally, his end was as public as awful. He had gone to a camp-meeting on a neighbor s held. There he was seised with the delirium tremens, and ran away in a paroxysm of insanity, shouting and crying, and alarming his acquaintances, lie hasted tnrougn tne standing corn, and slunk away through all the rooms of a neighbor's capacious house, to one most retired and secluded; and there begging the neighbors that followed him to keep off the devils, and slapping him self violently with both his hands, crying out with the most acute piin, "The bees are stinging me to death," he died of mor tification, an awful warning against intem perance, which the by-standers can never forget ; no, never, never I liesist the beginnings, ot intemperance. Venture not with the first drop. One man I knew to fall on his face in the dusty road, and strancle with the dust Another, not thought to be intemperate, six months al ter he commenced tavern-keeping, died of mania potu. leaving a wife and five or six chUdren in poverty and want. O beware of the intoxicating my. America Mas. na-The New Yotk Morning Star of the 26th nit, referring to the yet partially hid den sources in the Tjnited states, of the late enterprise, more absurd even than wicked against the island territory of Soain. savs: . "We are informed, and believe, that the authorship of this document ( the coun torfnit Proclamation') can be fixed npon certain parties in this city. . The story of the origin of the invasion, and the means used to keep up the flow of rhino into the Patriot treasury,' is as yet but half told. It will all come out one of these days. In the meantime, the facts and vouchers are in safe hands." ..... , . Yanked Silabae In England, ru Van. Kilabee." now ob a profession al tour in England, has commenced wri- tin" a series ot nome ieun a.. Daily Advertiser. His first letter is capital. We make an extract from it : Well. I've been in London over a weeK, and have made good my time. I ve not stnnd with mv hands in my pockets won dering where I should go, or who I should eo with, as some of the Yankees do. I - -va- . T a bolted off, " slap bang." rirsi, j. " the Exhibition, of course, where everybody goes, the first thing, and la I fwen a stu .. a pendous pile of glass the world never saw. It looks like an over-grown hot-hoose, and I believe that will be its ulterior use at the close of the present affair, t As to the eon tents of the building, I ean't begin to tell what my eye Ir'.ngs in at one little glance such a medley of statuary and satins, fabrics aad feathers, pearls and petticoats, machinery and mobs, silver aad sandwiches, all mixed up like pickles in ajar. The American department don't quite come up to the chalk, but as the Times newspaper said some time ago, a nation with a continent in its pocket can afford to be independent We've got lots of slick things here for all the talk and bluster, for John Bull loves to turn up his nose, and let him do it, he'll turn it up so far one of these days that he he won't get it down in a hurry. Among other distinguished places I lave visited, was the Tower, the great Tower where Anne Boleyn and several other wise people were affectionately invited to leave their heads, and which they id much against their wills, although I suppose they wade their wills before they went its gloomy sombre walls called up a flood of golden recollections of the days or VJueen Bess and her sister Mary,. Then old Clar ence, too, who tumbled into a butt of his favorite Malmsey, and there u kicked the bucket" We can't say whether the Duke was drunk, although it must be confessed, that when he died he was very much in liquor. We roamed with a party of others through the various apartments of the Tower, and our guide, who was a chatty, talkative little man, frisked about and showed us every object with a deal of gus to. At last he came to the great cannon and ordnance -captured from the enemies of carious nations. This piece' said our little guide, with all the pomp of a little Englishman, who ncver feels so happy as when boasting of their victories, ' this piece is from Water loo. Lord, how we did beat them there. This is from Badajos-this is from so and so," and so he ran over the cannon, dilating on the history of each with evident satis faction visible in the movement of every muscle of his countenance. I saw be was highly diverted witn Tela- Wing the exploits of his nation, so I thought j would bring him to anchor, as the Bailors say. All at once I looked carefully about we, turning my head every which way, and then looked enquiringly at the guide. " What are you looking for, sir, may I enquire ?" at length said he : " we've got trophies from ati nations," and he pointed to a numb -r of interesting specimens with their mouth gaping open like hungry bull does. Have yon, indeed ?" said I care lessly. 'I wasn't looking for French trophies, nor Spanish." Perhaps it's the Chinese 7 ' interrupt ed he. ' No, not tne Chinese," said I, " but I see you have got so much stuff lying about here, Where's all that was captured irom the Americans, eh ?' "Ah?" grunted he, looking amazingly, "Americans yes, the Americans from the Americans vou mean?" " Yes." replied I, still looking, "I don't see any from the United States where is it all f I want to see it" " Oh, yes ! that taken in America I sec ves. "Exactly," repeated beard you took a good deal at Bunker Hill, and Ben nington, and Trenton, ana tnose pice. - " lt at at 2ft "So we did," said ne quicKiy, dm was sucn oia sum - - " brinsing it home I" Jnst then a sudden thought struck him ; his eye rolled up, a little blood flew to his .kie. .nrl h -widentlv "smoked." He .UCVaU) w W took the guetuy and backed down, w nen the company were going out, he leaned over and whispered in my ear that I was a Yankee. "I am nothing else, sir," said I, "and as for the old Huff you took at Yorktown and several other places I might mention, I'll tell them to send them over to you when I get home." Trial Trip of the lint Locomotive. rT.; A Ua. the Engineer of the New York & Erie Railroad, in a speech made during the recent festival excursion, gave the following account of the first trip made by a locomotive on this continent : "When was it? Where was it? And who awakened its energies and directed ita on tbe banks oi tne jjacisawauu, commencement of the Railroad connecting . , .. T 1 the canal of the Delaware and Hudson canal company with their coal mines and he who now addresses you was the only person on that locomotive. The circum stances which led to my being alone on the engine were these ; the road had been built in the summer, and rails of large di mensions notched on eaps placed far apart The timber had crooked and waqicd from exposure to the s&n. After about 300 feet of straight line, the road crossed tne Lackawanna creek, on trestle work, about 30 feet high, and with a curve of 350 to 400 feet radius. The impression waa very general that this iron monster would either Ew.lr An- the road, or tail wouia a Vam www asm w leave the track at the curve and plunge into the ereek. My reply to such appre hensions was that it was too late to eon sider the probability of such occurrences; that there was no other course but to have the trial made of the strange animal, which had been bronght here at great expense; bnt that it was not neeessary that more than one should be involved in its fate; thai I would take the first ride aloae and the time would come when I should look back to the incident with great interest u As I placed my hand on the throttle valve handle, I was uadeeided whether I would move slowly, or with a fair degree of speed; hut believing that the road would prove safe, and preferring, if we did go down, to go handsomely, and with out any evideiee of timidity, I started with considerable velocity, passed the curve over the creek safely, and was soon out of hearing of the cheers of the vast assem blage present At the end of two or threr miles I reversed the valves, aad returned without accident, to the place of starting, having thus made the first railroad trip, by locomotive,on the western hemisphere." Anecdote of Washington i Wife. In conversation with an aged lady of Whippany Mrs. Vail the following wa gleaned. Among the visitors of her first husband's mother Mrs-Tuttle was Mrs. Troupe, the lady of a naif-pay Captain in the British Navy. She is described as an intelligent lady, of affable manners, and much esteemed. One dav Mrs-Troupe visited Mrs-Tuttle, and the scal compliments were hardly passed before the visitor said, "Well, Mrs. Tattle, what do you think I I have been to see Lady Washington" "Have von indeed? Then tell me all about how yon found her ladyship, how she appeared and what she said. "Well, I will honestly tell you," an swered Mrs. Troupe, 41 1 never was so ashamed in all my life. 1 on see, Madame . and Madame , and Mad ame Budd, and myself, thought we would visit Lady Washington, and as sne was said to be so grand a lady, we thought we must put en our best bibs and bands. So we dressed ourselves our most elegant ruffles and silk?)ind were introduced to her ladyship. And don't you think we found her knittinp, and viih specked (check) aprem on! She received us very graciously, and easily, but after the compliments were over, she resumed her knitting. Ihere we were without stitch of work, and sit ting in state, bnt General Washington's lady with her own hands, was knitting stockings for herself and husband I And that was not a a. in we ur- noon her ladyship took occasion to say, in a war that we would not be offended at, that it was very important that American ladies should be patterns of industry to theit countrywomen, because the separa tion from the mother country will dry up the sources whence many of our comforts have been derived. We must become in jnat ti our determination to do UVAHtavaw without what we can not make ourselves. Whilst our husbands and brothers are ex amplcs of patriotism, we must be patterns of industry 1 ' According to Mrs. Troupe's story, Mrs. Washington gave her visitors some excel lent advice) the meanwhile adding force ta her words by her actions, and withal in such a way that they could not take offense. In this she proved herself more worth to occupy her distinguished posi tion, than she e mid have done by all the graceful and elegant accomplishments which are often found in princes and oueens. In the relation she occupied, her knitting-work, and her check apron, were qneenly ornaments, and we may be proud Vnnee that SUCn a woniau Wnshinirton set such an admirable exam pie to her countrywomen ! Newark Ad- Tertiscr A Ban of Business. At n Greene Co. fNewYork) Agricultu ral Fair, an address was made by Col. Za- dock Pratt, from wnicn we us ing passages: . . And now I will show you the advan toge those dreary hemlocks have been to the farmers of our mouuiauii waw. I first engaged in farming, it has been my loy over niteu tnoueaua jt. Volame m, Pamfg 29. Whole Nomber 333. or other men s iaonr, u iuj w v - . . . a . thousand men have I employed, and 1 haw a 1 ikiu. fXr Mmr alone, over tWO r- million five hundred thousand dollars. .11 uaiu .uivctv - . 1 have cleared over ten thousand acres of. land, used two hundred thousand cords of hemlock bark, and paid over half a million , of dollars for it, used and worn out Evo hundred horses and one thousand yoke off oxen. Used two hundred and twenty thousand tons of hay, thirty thousand bar rels of beef and pork, and nearly one hun dred thousand barrels of flour, and pota toes without number or measure. " I have tanned one million two hundred and fifty sides of leather; my usual dis bursement is over five thousand dollars per day, and I have used in my business here over ten million. Every laborer re- iwiivail kia nmnov Vii PV1TV man K 1ft TV!fl- . UIJ , J , J f ny in peace ; and to the credit of this com munity be it said, that I never had a side of leather stolen, and never was chosen de fendant in law on account of my business transactions, duriug my residence among you. The great object of my living is to be useful. Live with your neighbor, not on him. Allow me, gentlemen and ladies, to conclude by congratulating you upon the rich blessings of health, power aud pros perity which surround you; aud may suc ceeding generations do a much as you have, toward national wealth and industry, which are the safeguards to our indepen dence." "Man ia a Chim9leon ani both feed on Air," Professor Leibiir. in the following, de monstrates this poetical assertion to be a scientific truth : " Seience has demonstrated that man. the being who performs all these wonders. is formed of eondens.;d air, (solidified and liquefied gases ;) that he lives on con densed as well as uncondensed air, and clothes himself in condensed air, and by means of the same agent moves the heav iest weights with the velocity of the wind. The strangest part of the matter is, that thousands of these tabernacles formed of condensed air, and going on two legs, oc casionally, and on account of the produc tion aud supply of those forms of con densed air which they require for food and clothing, or on account of their honor and . aitrhed battles . by means of condensed air ; and further, . that many believe the peculiar powers of the bodiless, conscious thinking, and sen-, sitive being, housed in this tabernacle, to -be the result simply of its internal a true . tare, and the arrangeMent of its particleii - f .Mis. while srjpuii-4irv snnniie wa clearest proof that, as far as concerns, this, . the ultimate and most minute composition ml structure, which ia bevoisd the reach t , of our senses, man is, to appearance iden- tical with the ox, or wait tit, annual . i i - i t- . e --.a. .ww lOWctra lal ana HSKViuvsHve.. n&.Tulge Catron, of the Sup. Court of the United States, takes such a view of the late expedition to Cuba and its leader, as cannot fail to inspire respect aud confidence toward that august tribunal, to which this country should ever cling, as one of the main pillars of constitutional liberty. In the course of hb late charge to the Grand . Jury, at Nashville, Teun., he unes these : words: "Had this foreign adventurer and his confederates been punished as they de- . served for the first invasion of Cuba, tbe late invasion and the unfortunate sacrifice of life inflicted on men (most cruelly and basely deluded) aad the reeent mobs and. unlawful proceedings, would not have oc- curred. Their leading cause has been.inir munity of punishment, aud the consequent belief thit none could be inflicted. Disre gard altogether, gentlemen,, the present ; slumbering excitement, and indict tor crimes already committed,. as you would do. if the excite uieuit were in full force. If -you do not, we may soon see our country . again agitated, as it recently has been ami the laws further set at defiance." Singular Incident. A recent "Winchester (V.) Unionist," says : "Mrs. Watt, Mrs. Evens, and Mrs. Davis, three pious and estimable widow : ladies of this town, all in usual health, , tailed upon Mrs. Judd, a pious Methodist : lady, the wife of mi of our citizens, who is lying at the point of death, with the , dropsy, hourly expecting the messenger for whose summons she has been long prepared. After spending an hour, iu which the tenderest and holiest sympathies of Christain hearts were freely commin gled, they rose to dt part, and uking the dying woman by the hand, they spoke say- ing to her, "that she seemed to be ncar her end, but perhaps some of them might be iu Heaven before her." Yesterday . (Sabbath) pious friends again assembled around the bed of the dying worn 1 Bl, these friends were not there. They had all three been stricken down with , the cholera during the week, and were all "in Heaven before her." . - : , " , ; 3The Devil is full of inventions. Ef last achievement is the converting of tfce innocent tomato into viHainnuv nhiFltt-. ry '" -r " .i. - ' . , . ... .f
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