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Ooiimcxicatioxs soliitrd on all nubjpctn of general inte ract nor within the ran of party or eetariaa enntet. ; All letter mast com uurt-patd. aceompanied by the real I a4drea of the writer, to reneire attention. wThoee relating exdUMefly tt the Eiit-rial Department, to hedi vwated to llKcar 0. IIickok, tdilur and those on Darin to O. X. Word, rabtuhr. OFFICE in Beaver's new block on Market 8quare, north side. 2d storr. left hand door. O. N. WORDEX, Proprietor. LEWISBURG, UNION COUNTY, PENN., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1853. I VOLUME X NO. 29. - Whole Number, 497. THE GLOBE: The Official Paper of Congress, aud Paper for the People. It will be seen by the annexed extract from a letter of General Washington to David Stew art, dated New V.irlc. 17th Mroh, I7u, that the idea of such a paper as I propose to make the Globe originated iu the mind of the father of his Country. He said: It is to be lamented that the editors of the different Gazettes in the Union do not more generally aud more correctly (instead of stuff in" their papers with scurrility and nonsen scial ileclauition, which few would read if they were apprised of the contents) publish the debates iu Con".r?si on all preat national Questions. The principles upon which the difference of opinion arises, as well as the de cisions, would come fully before the public and afford the best data for its judgment." Spark i Writing of Wathtngton, vvl.10, p. 81. The Daily Globe and The CoxflRKSsiosAT. Clock. In surrendering my interest in the organ of a great political party, I cherished the pur pose of continuing the Congressional Globe, and. if possible, to perfect it into a full his tory of the actions of Congress, giving the de bates accurately and fully with the proceed ings all stamped with the verity of an offi cial record. From the passage in the letter of General Washington, which I have quoted, it will be perceived that he thought this office m ght be combined with that of a regular newspaper; and it iscerlam mat tne avidity 01 the public for news of the less important kind greatly contributes to give wings to the weighter matter which may be called Con gressional news. Having succeeded in my purpose of per fecting the reports of the debates in Congrss and giving them the official stamp, I now pro Tie" 'hews of"th'e day.in such haste as shall out strip full and accurate intelligence sent from the seat of Government in any other form whatever. It will even anticipate the scraps at news forwarded to the cities winhiu two bandied and fifty miles of Washington by Tel egraph. Before the events thus transmuted are published in the morning papers ,(for in stance, of the city of New York,) the Globe containing it will have reached the post office of that city by the Express Mail of the previ ous night. The process by which this will be effected I now lay before the public. I will have a corps of sixteen Reporters in Congress; esch in succession will take notes during five minutes, then retire prepare them for the Press, put them slip by slip in the bands of compositors, and thus.while a debate is going on in Congress, it will be put in type, and in a few minutes after it is ended it will be in print. I shall by this means be enabled to send by the Express Mail of 5 o'clock p- m. for the East, West, and North, and by that of 9 o'clock p. m. for the South, all the proceedings of Congress up to the ordinary hour of ad journment. Thus the accurate debates of Con gress will reach the cities two hundred and fif ty miles from the Capital before their daily morning papers are in circulation. The miscellaneous news I shall be careful to gather from remote sections of the country by telegraph. I will obtain from the Executive Departments, through official sources, the mat ters of moment transacted in them, and, thro' gents employed for the purpose, all the city news of consequence in sufficient time to be put into the Globe and mailed in the Express Mail trains In this way I hope to create a new era in the dissemination of newt from Washington. Hitherto no newspaper has at tempcdto give authentic accounts of things done at Washington before the public mind at a distance had received its first impressions from irresponsible telegraphic dispatches, or by letter-writers biased by peculiar views. Washington has now become so great a center of political interest during all the year the proceedings of the Executive Depart ments and the information collected by them even during the recess of congress is of so much importance to the interest of every part of the country that I shall continue the pub lication of the daily paper permanently, with a view to become the vehicle of the earliest and most correct intelligence. It is a part of my plan to rednee the price of the daily paper to half that of similar daily papers; and thus I hope to extend its circula tion so as to invite advertisements. I will pub lish advertisements of the Government The instillation of a new Administration And a new Congress portends much change in course of public affairs as the result of the nxt session. Many vast interests which were broogV p in the Mt Congress were laid over by the Democratic majority to await the cUonoraD.lnocraticEjlecuUve. Tb, ew modeling oftheutiff; the new land system; theuesuonofgmngnouie-steads, and ma king every man a freeholder who may choose lo become one; the approximation of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by a national rail read across the territory of the Union; reform in the Army, Navy, and civil offices all these great questions, with a thousand minor ones. deeply affecting mnrtitudes of men and every fc'ate in the Union, will, now being mature by public opinion, come up for the government's decision. These new issues, co-operating with old ones, comin up to be disposed of by new actors on the scenes at Washington, will be apt to modify greatly, if not essentially, the party organizations of the country. To these elements of interest another is likely to be introduced by the interposition of the agitations of Europe. After nearly forty years of peace in Europe there is an evident restlessness that now seems fraught with ten dencies threatening war; and if war comes, in all likelihood there will follow such universal change that the United States can scarcely hope to escape its vortex. Indeed from late events it is apparent that our Government is already drawn into European difficulties. These circumstances are calculated to draw the public mind towards the next Congress with much expectation. The Daily Globe will be printed on fine pa per, double royal size, with small type, (bre vier and nonpareil,)at five dollars a year The Congressional Globe will also be prin ted on a double royal sheet, in book form, roy al quarto size, each number contain ig sixteen pages. The Congressional Globe proper will be made up of the proceedings of Congress and the running debates as given by the Re porters. The speeches which members may choose to write out themselves will, trgethcr with the messages of the President of the Uni ted Slates, the reports of the Executive De partments, aud the laws passed by Congress, be ad Jed in an Appendix. Formerly I receiv ed subscriptions for the Congressional Giobe and Appendix separately. Uut this has not been found satisfactory, inasmuch as it gave an in complete view of the transactions in Congress, and therefore I have concluded not to sell them apart, considering that neighbors can have the advantage of both by clubbing in case individuals shall find it too erroneous to be at the charge of both. To facilitate the circulation of the Con gressional Globe and cheapen it to subscriber.--, Congress passed last year a joint resolu- by Captain Erskine, because the noble are then abandoned to their fate. The conduct of two English women in some i mate .of a Sydney vessel boasted of having degree mitigates its revolting features, shot six men, as he sailed along the coast Thakombau, the chieftain of Bau, having to give a return banquet, has surprised and captured fifteen women who came down to the beach to pick shell-fish for food. " On Sunday, the 9th of July, 1849, the hollow sound of the awful ' Iai,' or sa cred drum, bore across the water to Yiwa the intelligence that a cargo of human victims had arrived at Baa, and a native Christian chief (I believe Namosemalua), who had quitted the capital to bring the information to the missions, related to the shuddering ladies, whose husbands were absent at Bau, in Sandalwood bay, in Ya nua Levu, on their usual annual meeting, the whole of the circumstances of the cap ture. In the course of the day, reports as to the intentions of the authoitics were brought over, but in the evening came a definite one, that all were to be slaughtered on the morrow. " And then was enacted a scene which ought to be ever memorable in the history of this mission. " On the Monday morning, Mrs. Lyth and Mrs. Calvert, acconipained only by the Christian chief above mentioned, em barked in a canoe for Bau, to save the lives of the doomed victims. Each car ried a whale's tooth decorated with rib bons, a necessary offering on preferring a petition to a chief; for even in this exci ting and intensely anxious moment, these admirable women did not neglect the ordi nary means of succeeding in their benev olent object. As they landed at the wharf, not far from the house of old Tanoa, the of Eromango, one of the new Hebrides, merely to spoil the market of those who might come after him. In 1834, the com mander of a French vessel, to obtain fa cilities for trading, permitted an island chief to cook and eat the body of an ene my on board his very ship. What wonder that in a subsequent dispute with his ally he was himself, together with the greater part of his crew, subjected to a like fate ? The white residents, moreover, are in the- habit of purchasing and maintaining female slaves the common price being a musket; and the missionaries complain that Chris tian women are sometimes thus bought, and, of course, forced into concubinage, by Englishmen. Such persons are by law,sub- jected to the courts of New South Wales; but the distance and prolixity of the neces sary proceedings render the jurisdiction almost nugatory. lion making it free of postage. I annex it. as father of Thakombau, and in this instance the law may not be accessible to postmasters generally: Joint Resolution providing for tbe dittriTiution of the l.awn of Coui:res aud tbe Debates tht-reon. With a view to the cheap circulation of the lawsof Con press and the delate conlrihutine to the true Interpreta tion thereof, and to matte tree the oauiniunk-ation be tween the reprea-matue and constituent bodied: H u cmtwo' "jr fx .Senate and House of Hrpreemtntives of tv "tfd Sttito of Aun v-a in 1 'migmt otttmdii'tl. That from and after I or preaant session of Consreas, the Coocr-seional tilobe and Appendix, which contain the laws and the debate thereon shall pas free tbrolifrh the nails so loujr a tbe same shall he published bj order of Confrere: eeaeV That nothinc berelw shall be con ttrued to authorize the circulation of tile liail tilebe flee of poetaer. Approved, August 6, 1K52. As I sell the Daily Globe at half the price of similiar publications, so the Congressional tltobi-XMt.AjrpJiertrf -f. aVrut'a", latm pw per. This I can afford to do, inasmuch as the subscriptions of Congress almost covers the cost of composition, a id this enables me to sell for little more than the cost of press-work and paper. It requires the sale of about 9.000 copies to reimburse expenses. If five hun dred only were sold, the cost of each copy i would be about $104! The debates in the English Parliament cost about eleven times as much as I charge subscribers for the de bates in Congress, equal in quantity, and as well reported and printed. Tbe next e:sion of Congress will be a lone one ; and it is believed tbe Congrcextonal Globe r it will reach 4.0t)0 rural quarto pace, aa the last tons? session made 3,843; and tbe lone one before that made XtNil nival quarto pare to lie large volume earn session. If subscribers will he canttul to bie all the numbers received br tb-m. 1 will supply anv that mav mihacarrj In tbe mails. This work increases in valwe a it grows aid. Tbe first seventeen volume will now command (arc time and some of the sulovqueiit ones IWce, their original subscription price. The subscription price far the Conxreesinal Oiobe ubcIii ding tbe A.pendiE aod the laws) is sil dollars. Complete indexes will be made out and forwarded, to subscribers soon after tbe session is ended. Puherrihers Sir the Daily abould have tbeir money here by tbe 3th. and for tbe Oinrrefisional Glohe by the 1Mb of lieermtier. The money must accompany an order for either the batty or tbe Congressional lilobe. Hank notes current where a subscriber resides will be received at par. WlMtt.iGT0N, Oct 12 18i3. JOHN C. K1VEB. the person to whom they were to address themselves, the shrieks of two women then being slaughtered for the day's entertain ment chilled their blood, but did not daunt their resolution. They were yet in time to save a remnant of the sacrifice. Ten had been killed and eaten ; one had died of her wounds; the life of one girl had been begged by Thakombau's principal wife to whom she was delivered as a slave, and three only remained. Regardless of the sanctity of the place, it being taubed' Vanrra s cuanioer, who demanded with as tonishment at their temerity, what these women did there ? The Christian chief, who well maintained his lately adopted character, answered for them, that they came to solicit the lives of the lives of the j The Hootler In Paris. There is no mistaking "a Yankee"abroad. All mankind sailing from the United States are "Yankees ' in Europe, and their pecu liarities are such as to widely distinguish them from anybody. Our irresistable, amiable friend John Owens, Esq., has lately returned from abroad, and tells some of tbe richest things seen nd heard by him during his tour ont Strolling around Paris, John dropped into one of the fine, large public gardens, where thousands of natives and foreigners resort to kill time, amuse and refresh. At tbe many tables around the garden, sat in .nmerable parties, of many climes and degrees and complexions, from the pletho rio Englishman to the sullen Turk; front the rugged and hairy Russian to the dried and stolid looking Persian, Arab or China man, from Greek to German, Egyptian to Hebrew, Frenchman to Yankee. The majority of these assorted human beings were busily engaged in smoking, sipping coffee, creams, etc., or engaged in the Par isian and frightfuly(to use John's phrase) interesting game of domino ! At a con spicuous table sat a conspicuous individual there was no mistaking .i trills rJarA4lantoeworeisuch a hat in such a way. A full developed rocky mountain beaver was on his brow, or rather nicely balanced upon the combative portion of his of phrenological territory videlicit the cranium. Of course his coat was loose and Customs of the Feejee Islanders. A work recently published in London, entitled " A Cruise among the Islands of the Northern Pacific," by Captain Erskine, contains some spirited descriptions of the habits and customs of the natives of that region. The captain visited the Samoan Islands, where the missionaries publish a newspaper in the native language, and where he found the inhabitants very peace able, and so little disposed to frar that, were they attacked, they would probably practice tbe injunctions of the Peace Soci ety. Yery different from these inoffensive folk, and affording a striking contrast to them, are tbe inhabitants of the Feejee Islands, among whom cannibalism prevailed uutil quite recently, and is still far from unknown. Lying off the shore at night, you will hear a drum beating a tap-a-tap, tap-a-tap, tap-a-tap it is the death drum of a cannibal feast. Not only do the Feejeeans eat their prisoners taken in war, but the same horrible doom awaits the wretched victims of shipwreck. Vainly may the stranded mariner present himself as a casual traveler requiring hospitality the hungry villagers detect what they senting the two whale's teeth. Tanoa, apparently still full of wonder, took up one of these, and turning to a messenger, desired him to carry it immediately to Na vindi (the executioner) aud ask ' if it were good.' A few minutes were passed in anx ious suspense. The messenger returned, and 'it is good' was Navindi's answer. The women's cause was gained, and old Tanoa thus pronounced his judgment " Those who are dead, are dead ; those who are alive, shall live." With their three rescued fellow-creatures these heroic wo men retired, and already had the satisfac tion of experiencing that tbeir daring ef forts had a more than hoped for effect. A year or two ago, no voice but that of deri sion would have been raised against them, but now, on returning to tbeir canoe, they were followed by numbers of tbeir own sex, blessing them for their exertions, and urging them to persevere." Medals of human societies, and what not how trumpery are such decorations -. 1 MAmv- IIL-A t f 1 1 a f compared wuu m unmuij But cannibalism is only one phase of the general blood-thirstiness of these savage Islanders. When the King builds a house, a man is buried alive at the foot of each post to insure the stability of the ed- ifiee. At the death of a chief, one or more of his wives are invariably strangled ; and the chiefs themselves, when grown old or infirm, are buried alive, their wives in such cases being put to death, and thrown into the grave to make a bed for their doomed lord. The women, indeed, often make it a point of honor to die in this manner, and reject the efforts of the missionaries to save them. In order that canoes may be fortu nate, they are frequently launched over the bodies of living slaves as rollers. There are instances of all these atrocities in the very interesting narrative of John term " salt water in his eyes," and spring Jackson, an English sailor, who lived a like tigers on their prey. So habitual in-1 prisoner in these islands for two years; deed has been the practice, that the mis- and they are amply confirmed by the cap- sionaries say the Feejeean language con tains no word for a simple corpse, but the term used implies the idea of food, just as we might have no other word than mutton to describe our sheep. It is even asserted that at periods of scarcity, families will exchange children for this horrible pur pose. But the ordinary mode of obtaining a supply in time of peace is by kidnapping, and as tbe flesh of women is preferred to that of men, these raid generally fall upon the softer sex. We shall quote one narra tive from among the man j horrors related tain s own personal observation, uut in Jackson's homely language, these horrors are too revolting for quotation. The object of Captain Erekine's cruise was the encouragement and protection of commerce ; and we regret to learn that the white traders of these eeaa are too often disgraced by treachery and cruelty worthy of the Feejee Islanders. A principal arti cle of traffic is sandalwood, and the foulest means are sometimes adopted to obtain its natives of one island being kidnapped and carried off to cut in another, where they surviving prisoners, at the same time pre- j fittin8 Lim Uke 8nirt " handspike ; his trousers alter tne same style; nis necK which presented the most extended penin sula of a bone and muscle imaginable was encircled by a gaudy handkerchief, while his totally left to nature hair topped off the unique aod striking picture of one of our ont-west friends large as life and certainly as natural After spreading himself in that pecu liarly independent, national manner, our booster friend eyes the entire range, which being done, he explodes : "Musherl"' Nobody responding to the call he calls again. " Musher 7 I say you m usher, you 1" Not a word aays anybody; backwoods goes off again. " Now that fellow hears me, but 'aint coin' to answer. I say musher I A-a-aint you going to hear ma V " But bold on," says he, " let me look at my book here, that feller aint a musher, them chaps with white aprons on aint no mashers, they're something else, let me see" and he fell to turning over the leaves of his " French in six easy lessons ;" it was a long hunt but he finally finds the place. "Ah, here you are waiters, w-a-i-t-e-r, gassoon, (garcon 1) that't it, them fellers at the table smoking their piper, drinkin' sour wine and playing them dominoes they're mushers, the other chaps doin' chores around they're a gassoons; I say, gaaoon I gossoon ?" A waiter comes bustling up to the hoosier, and with the politest possible bow, says be : Monsieur T' " Mousher, no gassoon V " Oui,' monsieur." I want some dinner, gassoon." " Oui, monsieur." " I want soroe'en rood, too." " Oui, monsieur." " Some'en good and plenty of it" " Well, now, what a-you got good, fuss rate 1" " Monsieur?" " I say what have yon got good?"t " Monsieur?" continue the yanrxm, in total ignorance. " Don't you onderstand me I I my I want dinner." s "Binn-a?" Dinn-a? yes dina-.v--I wants dinner." M0ui, Donneur.tt 'Then why in thunder and saw logs don't yon fly round an4 get the things?" " Qui, monsieur. ' . , . I say, hop around, stir your stumps, don't you onderstand me, because if you don't only say so don't stand there grin nin' like a cat over a fish kittle ! Con sarn you, I see you don't on-derstand me at all, why don't you up and say so r" M Monsieur ?" " I say, I want dinner." "Dinna?" " Yes, dinna I want good dinna, best dinna you've got here I am, the gassoon starin' me in the eyes, two shillin'a worth of French in my hand (book,) can't speak a word of the blasted language, this feller can't talk Chocktaw nor American, pock et full of money, and I'm starving to death I Call this a country V " Gassoon ? hold on a spell, I see you don't onderstand me, you orter said so, right off, you see ; but hold on, here it is, no that ain't it lord what a book, ea-a-nt find anything you want; here's the French way in the for'ard part, and tbe English way back here ia the end of the hull book take a feller three-e-e weeks to find tbe English meaning for the French. Yester day mornin' I. went into a coffee (cafe!) as they call tbeir grocers here, to get a drink, I axed the feller for a horn of old red eye ; it was just half past seven, wl en I axed, and not on-till a quarter before five that afternoon, did 1 find out here in this book, that he hadn't got any !" " Ah, here you are, gassoon." " Oui, monsieur." " Soups, soups good guess, I'll go some soup, what's he say for soup ; here it is, no it aint" O o-o-o !" says the gassoon, getting a faint idea of what the hoosier was after. " Sou'p-pot'asAe (potage !) monsieur !" " Potash ? Blast your picture, do you calkelate I want to eat potash f Potash you darn'd skunk ; 'taint no use in talk ing. But hold on, when I was over here in England they bad a nice fish, round they called 'em turbots ; I gue-ts fish aint skeerse no whar where they have got" water guess I'll have a turbot; some fish gas soon, " tout fish ?" Fce-ish ?" " Fee-ish ? yes, fee-ish, turbot." " Tur-bot, feeish !" echoes the bewilder " Well, rot you, go ahead and get the fish get anything, plan'.y of it, anything, but your infernal frog nesses, ca-a-ant go the frogs no how. Go, stir around, bring on the fish !" Fee-ish?" " Feeish ? Yes, thunder and saw logs, are you goin' to hang around here all day, and let a fuller drop right down here in his boots ?" " O-o-o-o I" says the waiter, more light breaking in upon him. Oui, oui, mon sieur. And away he runs, presently re turns, and with a bow and grin, presents : " Monsieur tlerlot 1" The hoosier pushes his rocky mountain back to the very precipice of his head, spreads his eyes and jumps up ! He takes hold of she tier-lot, gingerly as though it was a live lobster; he looks at the waiter, then at the tier-lot I " Well, if this aint the darndest go yet; a fish 1 I ash for a fish, a tur-lut I " Tier-lot, eui, monsieur I" " I asked this whelp for a fish, and essentially blast his buttons he got and briny me a nasty boot-jath I In less than ten minuts, this feller would have sprinkled a little flour, grease and stuff over thi boot-jack, and gin it to me to eat! Blast these Frenchmen, rot sich a country as this, a feller with a pocket full of money might starve to death iu his boots, afore he'd git a mouthful to eat." Hoosier rushed out, and the last seen or heard of him he was yelling at an En glishman, "Say, look a-here, mister, where the duce is them bull yards, (Boulevards) they talk about T I'm bound to sheer tip somo thing to eat." Longfellow says: Ahl this beautiful world. I know not what to think of it Sometimes all is gladness and sunshine and heaven itself is not far off. And then it changes suddenly, and is dark and sorrowful, and the clouds shut out the sky. In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn in your heart or on our hearths, and all without is dismal, cold and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not ; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad. : r . The clergyman who " came to a head" in his discourse was much disappointed to find no brains in it ..When young ladies put roses on their cheek, for the purpose of inducing cordu roy to go a-kiasiog, are they not guilty of obtaining goods under false pretenses s The nan who was u fired with indigna tion," bu been extinguished. A Story of Tea-Pots. When Corfu was ceded to Britain at the general division of spoils in 1815, tbe troops that were first tent out to garrison the island found a melancholy destitution of all those little comforts and conveniences of life that John Bull and his wife know so little how to dispense with. Miserable quarters, every article of furniture scarce and bad, the most common utensils for cookery unattainable, and such wretched shops, that you left hope at tbe door when you stepped over the threshold. In short, the shifts to which they were put were often so ludicrous, that tbe laugh they got at their own expense was the only conso lation they had in their misery. But of all the wants that afflicted their souls, ncne fell so heavily on their spirits as the want of tea-pots. Fancy any family in Great Britain without a tea-pot ! Probably such an anomaly does not exist; but here there were three or four regiments several hun dreds of wretched Christians without a tea-pot amongst them. But we are wrong when we say without a tea-pot there was one tea-pot, a silver one, a piece of family plate that the owner had brought out with hei to be used on grand occasions. But hat a life it led! and what a life its mistress led ! It was certainly a grand thing to be the possessor of the only tea pot on the island the position was im posing; bat tbe glory, like many other glories, was onerous in the extreme, and many a day poor Mrs. R was induced to wish that she had hid her light under a bushel, rather than have exposed herself to be eternally pestered for the loan of tbe tea-pot Besides, it could not satisfy all their wants ; when Mrs. A had it, Mrs. B was obliged to go without it ; and when Mrs. C sent for it, she was too often told thatMrs. D 's maid bad just carried it away. Then of course it only circulated amongst the officers' fam ilies ; the unfortunate soldiers' wives had not even the consolation of hoping to have a turn out of it they knew that the thing existed, but that was all they never so much as got a glimpse of it Such was the condition of the commu nity, when, one Cue morning, .asm,aj(J harbor. It was a country vessel, as ap peared by the rigging ; and as they seldom brought anything that was useful to tbe unfortunate exiles, there was not much to be hoped from it However, as the small est trifle would have been acceptable, as the beggars say, Colonel G desired one of his sergeants to go down to the qaay, and inquire what they had on board. Picture to yourself, reader, what must have been the feelings of Sergeant L , on being informed by the captain that they were freighted with tea-pots ! " What have you got V said he. " Tea-pots?" said the captain. " You'll have plenty of custom, then, my nue fellow, said the sergeant, and away he flew to spread the news. " It's the most providentialist thing," be ob served, " that ever happened ;" and iudeed, so thought everybody. The blessed intelligence ran like wild fire. In ten minutes, every woman in the garrison, high and low, and every bachelor that wanted to make a comfortable cup of tea for himself, might be seen rushing across the esplanade towards the quay pell mell, all hurried and anxious, pushing aud driving, each afraid of being last, lest the supply, being limited, should be exhausted before all wants were satisfied. " Which is the ship ?" cried a chorus of eager voices to Sergeant L , who, flushed with conscious importance, Leaded the procession. " This is her," said he, as he steped on to the deck of the little trader, accom panied by as many of his followers as could find footing, whilst the less fortunate candi dates gathered to the side as close as they could, all with one voice vociferating: "Tea-pots! tea-pots ! show us the tea pots!!" "Tea-pots!" echoed the captain, nod ding bis head affirmatively. " Where are the tea-pots?" we all want tea-pots," cried the English. "Tea-pots I" said the captain, with a smile and a bow and the crew repeated after him " tea-pots !" But, by this time, tbe extraordinary commotion had drawn to tbe shore,amongst other spectators of the scene, a certain Italian cook, who happening to have a smattering both of English and Roamie, stepped forward to offer his services as in terpreter. " He says he's freighted with tea-pots," said Sergeant L ; "do nuke him pro duce them." 'What hive you brought ?" said the cook lo the captain. ' "Tea-pots 1" replied the eaptain. "Ah," said the cook, turning to the anxious expectants, " he say he bring H- petosdat meen, in his language, noting! Delay often makes one wise. Speed of Railways. The Great Western Express to Exeter, England, travels at the rate of 43 miles an hour, including stoppages, or 51 miles an hour without stoppages. To attain this rate, a speed of 60 miles an hour is adop ted midway between some of the stations, and in certain experimental trips, 70 miles an hour have been reached. A speed of 80 miles an hour is about equivalent te 35 yards per second, or 35 yards between two beats of a common clock. All objects near tbe eye of a passenger traveling at this rate will pass by his eye in the thirty fifth part of a second ; and if thirty-five stakes were erected at the side of the road, a yard asunder, they would not be distin guishable one from another; if painted! red, they would appear collectively as s continuous flash of red color. If two trains with this tpeed passed each other, tbe relative velocity would be 70 yards per second ; and if one of the trains were 70 yards long, it would flash by in a single jeeond. Supposing the locomotive which draws such a train to have driving wheels seven feet in diameter, these wheels will revoivc five times in a second ; the valve moves and the steam escapes ten times a second but as there are two cylinders, which act alterta ely, there are really twenty puffs or escapes of steam in a sec ond. The locomotives can be heard te cough" when moving slowly, the cough being occasioned by the abrupt emission of waste steam up the chimney: but twenty coughs per secoud can not be sep arated by the ear, tbeir individuality be coming lost Such a locomotive speed is equal to nearly one-fourth of a cannon ball ; aud the momentum of a whole train moving at such a speed, would be nearly equivalent to the aggregate force of a nuaw ber of cannon ball equal to one-fourth, the weight of the train. A Hint to kopers. One ef the safeguards against evil thoughts is employment Children that can read never need be at a lees for occu pation ; they can not only read to them selves, but they can read to a sister or a brother who is younger, aud who has not learned to read Therejgj nfthig ttltf If my grand-father saw people moving about in a moping way, with sluggish step, the hands hanging from the wrists, a listless yawn, and a vaeant countenance, or one that expressed only a mixture of indolence and tretfulness, he would say, ' Come, cheer up ; look as if it was really a pleasure to you to be alive and active. Do not creep like a ben-turkey on a snowy day.' 4 1 here are two sorts of evil, said my grand-father, ' about which a wise man will never make himself miserable : those which can be remedied and those which can not The first he will set himself dil igently to mend, and the very effort will make him cheerful ; the second he will set himself quietly to bear, and time and pa tience, if they do not make the yoke abso lutely easy, will, at least, inure the shoul ders to bear it A man of wisdom, ener gy, and piety, may kuow what it is to be sad aud sorrowful, but he will not yield to desponding indolence ; he will not go mo ping about like a hen-turkey on a snowy day . The Old Negro's Logic A clergyman asked an old servant his reasons fur believing in the existence of a God : Sir," sajs he, " I see one nan set sick. Tbe doctor comes to him. rives him ' o medicine ; tbe next day he is better; he gives bitn another dose, it does him good ; be keeps on till be gets about his business. Another man gets sick like the first one ; the doctor comes to see him ; he gives bin tbe same sort of medicine ; it does him no good, be gets worse ; gives him more, but he gets worse all the time till he dies. Now that man's time had come to die, and all the doctors iu the world can't cure him. Oue year I work ia the corn field, plow deep, dig up grass, and stake nothing but nubbins. Next year I work the same way ; the rain aud dew comes, and I make a good crop. " I have been here going bard upon fifty years. Every day since I have been in this world I see the sun rise in tbe east and set in the west Tbe north star standa where it did the first time 1 ever seen it ; tbe seven stars and Job's coffin keep on the same path in the sky, and never turn out It ttiu t so with man's work II makes clocks and watches j they may run well for a while, but tbey get out of fix and stand sUck still, Uut tie sua, and moon, and the sUr keep on the same way all the while. There is a power which makes one man die, and another get well ; that sends the rain, and keeps everything in motion." What a beautiful comment is here fur nished by ao unlettered African a the language of the Psalmist : " That Heavens declare the glory of God, aad the nVaaa-. ment showeth His handiwork. Day juua day uttereth speech, aad night unto nicht showerl. knowledge,
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