3, 4 i H. C. IIICKOK, Editor. O. N. WORDEN. Pbisteb The Lewiskrg Chronicle. LEWISBDRG, UNION COUNTY, PENN., FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1854. VOLUME X NO. 38. Whole Number, 50G. Union cunttty, I'rnntyhnxli. TERMS M rr y-r. r actually In advancr: dreg, or " Message " to both Houses of Congress. The lat- Address of the Carrier of the Lcwklmrs I'hroniclf. . wr.T rn Toci. i custom for the Printer's boy to deliver an ad J res j once a year JuueJ n Frvh,3 SI;r.,.mj, ot lswMurtj, f0 f J)(ige wl()m , j hfi baj furnjihed wi,n Mruction and amusement. It lias also become customary for ii.7i.if ,i4 i:hii tiir-m nth-: tint u p withm i tic .'resident of the United states to deliver an annual ad- eear; SziftMrt rul I ri tiw r.-ar - mpne ; on, pt eiaete nnmher. Sut.'r'ptum r an ro th r lw In be paid Mi auraore. n !'" , : . ill . . . - . m.r.Df pmtrmt.-hii 'h-chr-.:-i mi $i ntb (. . ter custom i probably an imitation of the former and, Ite himtelr and lam new pMtroua ;ur one year viiij.; cu in od'ance. AbmmiHTi hardwrniily ir.a.rt..i M 50 ernta pr annarr on- w.t k. 2 ee..t .-at-u mle-'qirnt 'Tiwrttori $ . yeor. Two fttnarra.fi f'r tin nioii'U-, S fr a y nr. alareantil oderti-et:i-ni lu.t ric 1 n.' one fourth nf a oo'uron. $10 Ha'f H nf P. V-arlr odv-rtMewent uu-ler l.alf mj ire. iO rent- 1ST line 16 line, to n aijuar o-n-S printer. .6 br. eier. 1 nonpareil. Maamtinuann-a ot.liol.at with the Piilili-h-r. when all ddra are not i-aul: on l lu(iiln ll iiuiit. dun. Oobimuoications o'i.Ht-l I'M xr nf ml Inti rmt Bit .Kl.in th- rn.-. ..r linv or r-trl.ii cui.I.fl All hilar lnMi pi.l. .-ouiuiil J thr i.m" i.n.1 ai.JrM of Oi writ -r tt fi-f' I". mlimliun. irlio r--oUne -cluily I" l.daor.al I.'l'rtmMi. lo I dlraccoa to llm ' Hies. . . MM owl tiioor on bntinoK mitirri BO S. wtw-l. in ' r. Tho M .MIMETIC Ti:l.KflRl'll l l-olid inth-o9ir. of thm rAmc.. ' :'trn'i-j. iim mi rf iti.le to obtain Jtfown from t) havt in H..iK-e c-f llir Mail. Conn--' with lli r mpl m trrialu (Wr mi"t kiixlaot JOB PhlKTlHiS, -lin!' wi i N- rx.Ttlt.d wi.b loto-0 ana lia.alcu oliJ oil n-aronatxe trma. a.03l'r on Vark.-t K.iiar. nortli rAv. arcouil atory, Cd wuor aboro tlio Po-t Offi- r O. K. W3P.DIN. Proprietor. mm tb Wert Cboler Rrgi.tor tiaminar. JAPAN. KukfT b.futifu1 it'oi, at Uie mil T the n'i"ni, Tah" e-ft lhai li-t hv tt"Uid for tbw, IV or kHKT t d.irkt. nuit itlal t.l(tiou-, knm miln of Ui.De. tle drvaj ulteting be. Thrw p!nrifnii f.kis wlilrh I by Klf nre carrwinR. r-Joictuly Uck KrvfL-oni t .!. t-r-ie; lliy aienaiMi ltvr w. lc Df g.:ti Ui blesilllg .utvncit's bMiner liU- oir Uae vs. Ard lo at our pctatMr thnndrr rr-ounIing, uiTMnmi'xulu lv -on J t-i fair lmy; Vot alrr.ty Uf J'U.-- f lh K"Pi' " ' Aln-ftuy it Uih.lfl at th iatt ctiniii day. TTmhV rrij,c- .im,r-,)m ibe bK.tlirtbind tlnM, iWt Mtrcy anl IVimv thj br'jht aMMKiotAtr bp, TiU.ali JutrUiVtiit;lit bymuof thankaxiy.nga.Pd glfinaw.) UU jubilant Mraia flyr jmiLiut Iruin UiMt Self Restraint Not only are voluptuousness and sensu ality uuwortliy,igiioiiiiuious and pern iciou?, but no man wbo.-c avucations dciuaud of him any greut and frequent stretcb of mental exertiou, as ignorant of tbe fct that they are injurious to the mind. Or daiued, as the iuiuiatt rial part of our iia- ' ture is, to receive its ideuit, and carry on J its operations by means of material organs, it necessarily results that whatever tends to j weaken or disorder or obstruct those or- I gang, must have an immediate pernicious ' influence upon the understanding If ths lody suflfers from exce.-s, the ; mind becomes proportionately affected. It j receives its impres-ious slowly and indis- tinctly, from the derangement of the chan- j Dels through which it communes with the ; World without ; and it rv..lve, cmnp-res and decides upon theiu doubtfully and in other iinitatioos,.is often rather tame and insipid. During the past year, many important events have taken place, in various quarters of the globe. I shall cill your attention to very fvtr of them, without much attempt at sys tem or chronological order. The person who would make a chronological table of a boy's head, would be Vandal enough to make a pig-pen of a parlor, or a bear-garden of the Legislature. Tbe Emperor of Russia has made a grab at Turkey. His mouth has long been watering for this same Turkey as much as mine ever did for a slice of wedding cake, which the boss, or the j"iirs, were rather slow in cutting np and distributing. The Czar has got a mouthful ; but, so far, he finds it rather hot. The only thing that the Russians have to brag on, is their late Naral victory, in the Black Sea, which makes a very pretty complex question in tho Kulc of Three, as fol lows : The Ku.ss.iau9 meet the Turks with tweuty-four ves sels1 to the Turks fourteen. Thus situated, they destroy thir teen Turkish vessels, and lose seven of their own. I demand what would have been the result, bad tbey met 14 to 14 f While the Hear is thus endeavoring to devour the Turkey, European Diplomacy is mating its usual fuss and cackle abuut the nutter. So far as I can understand it, the Diplo matists are trying to persuade Turkey to keep quiet to be eaten up in a serene and dignified manner, and thus "preserve the peace of Europe." If Diplomacy succeeds, and if Tur key consents to be swallowed without resistance, the time may come when America will stand by and exhort England, France, and a few others, to be swallowed too. Wonder Low they will like a dose of their own medicine, i. e. of their own Diplomacy ? liut, alas for America ! when ber turn come?, she will have to be swallowed " solitary and alone," without the aid and consolation of " enlightened Diplomacy." The Japan expedition has been beard from.- Commodore Perry went to Japan. Some of the servants wanted to make him believe that Japan was'ot at home. But they conld'nt fool the Commodore. lit knows all about the tricks of fash ionable socielv. They had to invite him in, and he left bis card and told 'cm he'd call again. 1'erbaps, some of my readers would like to know precisely what Commodore Per ry is after ? Well, if I find out. I'll let you all know. I was thinking he might be looking fur a lot of Japaoed tin ware. I f he should fiud any, I hope he will bring me a very Dice box, with a very nice lid to it, to carry my papers when it rains. If I get such an article, or any thing else worth men tioning, it fehall be duly acknowledged in my next message. The President recommends that Congress make an appro priation to pay tbe alleged owners of tho Spauish schooner Aiuistad. To match this, and not be out-doue in generosity by the Prenident, I would roepootfully i we shall hear Dr. Heutou's opinion of its cae; and if it dies, l move that Dr. Benton preach the funeral serunn. Uut I must leave these trifle", and touch upon matters which concern our own State of Lewisburg. And,firt,as to grading the streets : If the middle of street in some places had not been cut down so low, it would have been, at this mo.ucnt, " higher np in tbe world ;" and if tbe money spent in improving the streets Lad been laid out in fire works for the 4th of July, the result of the expenditure would have been far more lirilliaitl ; and if some other person, besides Mr. Ross, bad been chosen to superintend this business, then, some other person, and not Mr. Ross would have had tbe responsibility and bother. Thus fellow citizens, even at tbe risk of sacrificing my immense popularity, have I spoken out, on this great question. I might, like other statesmen, Lave sailed between Seylla and Charybdis ; I might have carried water on both fhoulders; I might have looked one way and rowed another; bufrl se.irn all temporizing, all non committalism. Live or die, sink or swim, survive or perish, I shall maintain the views I have here laid down ; and if in consequence, the people of this part of the State get some other boy to be Priuter's Devil, and send me to Congress, still will I maintain my integrity, and carry with me even into that horrid exile tbe proud consciousness of having boldly avowed my principles. The "Lewisburg Savings Institution" is, I understand, in successful operation. Good luck to its officers, and to all its depositors ! May it develop a spirit of industry and of eco nomy which shall eventually secure comfort and independ ence and happiness to thousands of Families to Young Men and Young Women ! If any gentlemen or ladies wish to see a chap of about my size make a small deposit in that Institution, let them kindly forkovcr a few of their supera bundant shining coins, and I will soon have a "nest-rgg" in that concern which, by the time I am twenty-one, shall pro duce for me a small flock of golden chickens. Our neighbors, Frick, Slifer & Co. have met with a severe loss, which everybody deeply regrets ; but they are not the men to ait down in despair and mourn over it. Their motto is, "Try again !" and their courage, their energy, tltr indus try, will yet repair the loss, and vanquish even tbe perverse obstinacy of fickle Fortune. At least, so ardently wishes the Printer's Boy. Our College, and oar Schools, are going ahead, dispensing useful knowledge to the young male and female Democracy of the country. Many a chap, not much better-looking than the undersigned, is sitting at his comfortable desk, engaged j B,rap got oul of tLe ouinibus, and hobbled nam Littl. feral for VaaBt'o fraud'.' What Came of an Omnfbns Ride, AND "ONE PULL TO THE RIGHT." Same time ago, (no matter when ; little folks shouldn't be curious !) I was riding in an omnibus with some half-doz;n well dressed ladies and white kidded gentlemen. At a signal from somebedy on tbe side walk, the driver reined op his horses, and a very old mm, with tremulous limbs and silvery locks, presented himself at tbe door for admission. Tbe driver shouted through tbe sky-ligbt, " Room for one more, there, inside;" but the gentlemen looked at the old man and frowned, and the ladies spread out their ruffled skirts, for his hat was shabby, and bis coat very threadbare. lie saw bow it was, and why there was " no room," and meekly tnmed to go down tbe steps, when a fine looking young man, who sat next to roe, sprang to the door, and seizing him by tbe arm, said, "Take my place, sir; you are quite welcome to it. I am young and hearty ; it won't weary me to walk" and kindly leading tbe old man to the vacant seat, be leaped from tho steps and walked briskly down the street, while I looked admiringly after him, saying to myself, " That young man has bad a good mother." We drove on, and the more I looked at the man's silver hairs, and fine, honest face, the more indignant I felt, at tbe way he bad been treated. Whether be read my thoughts in my countenance, or not, I can't say ; but, after most of tbe passengers bad got out, he moved up to me and saul, " Good boy good boy wasn't he T My j dear, (and here bis voice sunk to a confi dential wnispcrj l nave got money enougn to buy out all the upstart people that filled this omnibus, twenty times over, but I like this coat and bat. They are as good as a crucible. Help me to find out the true metal. Good moruiug, my dear. Thank I you for your pity, juit as much as if I needed it" and the old man culled the John rubbed bis eyes, and looel at his mother; his mother lookeJ at me; and I looked at Loth of them; an I then we laughed and criel, till we near'y had regu lar hysteric. But w bo was the Friend" J That was the question. We were all born Yankees, and did our best at " guessing ;' but it didn't belp us. Well, at any rale, it was very nice, all round. I hada't to be rout ed. No, ncr John, nor hi dear old moth er. And pussy purred ronnd as if she had as much reason to be "'glad as any of us ; and the canary trilled so sharp a ttraio that we were obliged to muffle his cage aud bis enthusiasm, with John's red silk pock et handkerchief. Mrs. Harris and I had not got our fem inine tongues still, the next day, when John came back, in the middle of tbe forenoon, with another riddle, to drive our womanly curiosity still more distracted. He was requested to call immediately so a note, he had just received, read at Mr. & Co.', aud " accept the head clerk ship, at a salary of 51,400 a year; being highly recommended by a person whose name bis new employers decline giving." That was a greater puzzle still. Juhn and bis mother bad rich relations, to be sure; but, though they had always been interfering in all their plans for making a living, they never had been known to yue them anything except aduice, or to call on them by Jaytiyht; and it wasn't at all like ly that the " leopard would cuanjrc bi When yom real or Leir of a desert, job think of a vast level plain, covered with, sand, and without trees, or gras, or aay kind f vegetation. You think, also, of this sand being blown about in thick eloada and no water U be seen in any direction. This is your idea of a deter t, is it not ? Well, it w not altogether the cornet OS. It is trne that in almost every desert there are these sandy plain, yet there are other parts of a far different character, equally deserving the namo of tlrrL Although the interior of the great Saharra has not yet been fully explored, enough is known of it to prove that it contains lajge tracts of mountains and hilly country, with reeks and valley, lanes, rivers and springs. There are also fertile spots, at wide dis tances from each other, covered with trees, and shrubs and beautiful vegetation. Soma of these spots are small, while others are of large e xtcnt, and inhabited by indepen dent tribes, and even whole kingdoms of people. A fertile tract of this kinds is ' called an on tit. Of a oimilar character is the Great American Desert; but its surface is still more varied with what may be termed " geographical feature.' There are plains some cf them mere than a hundred miles wide where jou en see nothing but whits sand, often drifting about on tbe wind, and here and there thrown into long riJges such as those made by a snow storm. Tbern arc other plaios, equally large, where n Saud appears but brown barren earth. oownonJ akata.. appropriation be made, and that the money be kept in some .it.il.ln mt tli-it trlmn mnn nrn rniii'ifftrl nf fAunt.T. -ir. 11 r .1... I ... .l.u,ia. i r. - - CUe;.u-..j, .B.........- ifui,ing burglary, horse stealing, aud similar piccadilloes, lion of the machinery by which it acts. ; " , . , Ti i r .i j- -i ... ' , 1 they may be compensated for the loss of their dies, plates, The friirhtful proofs nf close connect nn i . , , . . ... tut-. . . b I false-keys', aud tools in general. Some will probably object subsiktitii; betwe.'ii tbe uiuid ami the body , , ,. , . , . . ... " " , , , I that the counterfeiters, burgulars, thieves, Sc., are violators are too fnqoeutly forced upon our atten- , ... ., . . . . . , -r, n j r of law. M ell, so were the owners of the Auustad. They tion in a maubcr which is paintul to recall ..... , . . . . ... " ' . , i l l'ad iu their possession when tney left Havanna, to sail for and loathsome to dwell upon, in the slug- ! , r . . .. . , ,r , , ! another port in Cuba, from twenty to forty persons, men, wo- cish imbecility nf the glutton, and the ut- : ; . , - i i ,t , i i i ; a'" children, whom they claimed as slaves, whom they ter intellectual proration of the drunkard. ; .. The thoughtless may look lightly upon ; kidoiippe(, nalivM uf Afric.; and no more such spectacles, but the wise man passes , u . fcy Uw luman mem vim iu eiiui. - , upon them, and the causes which have i produced them apart. He knows that j though the darkutss which any particular in study, while I am sticking types, or trotting about the streets with tbe paper. Never mind ! my turn may come yet : and, at any rate, a printing-office isn't the worst school in the world. Every day we set a batch of fresh Newspapers and Magazines running over with csay, philosophy, his tory, criticism, poetry, fun, fustian, Ac. and I have long evenings to read in. If I can't get as many new thoughts from reading, as other boys can by looking all day over those ugly Greek letters, then I'll give yon an old newspaper. Why. enr! friotirla. ltort Franklin was a printer, and became "some punkins" pretty much by the free use of his own brains! Now if any one should accuse me nf possessing the genius of that great fellow-craftsman, I should at once put in the plea of "Not Guilty." You know that whatever may be the facts of the casc,lhis pleading not guilty is my nndoubtcd Irgat privilege. No one is bound to criminate himself. And, if after a fair trial I shall be convicted, I sball bear the odium with spots, at that late day. No; it couldn t utterly destitute of vegetation. There aro be John's rich relatives, who were always j others again, rn which grows a stunted in such a panic lest upper tendom should j shrub, with leaves of a pale, silvery color, discover that their cousins, the Harrises, ! In some places it grows so thickly, inter, lived in an unfashionable part of the town, j locking its twisted and knotted branches, dined at one o'clock, and noticed trades- that a h"re-tuau can hardly ride through people and mechanics. j them. This sbrub is the arlemitiuA We were too sensible to believe in fair- j species of wild sage or wormwoodand the ie, and who the rui-cbief was emptying j plains upon which it f.rows are called by the '- horn of plenty in that way at our j the hunter who cross them, the sags feet, was the question. j prairies. Other plains arc int with that When we awoke the next morning, we j r"00' black aspect to the traveler, onnd in tbe back yard, a barrel of apples, f These are covered with lava, that at soma a barrel of flour, a keg of butter, and a ' distmi period of time has been vomited, bag of buckwheat flour, labeled" For forth from volcanic mountains, and not? Mr. John Harris, street." lies frozen up, and broken into small frag. John declared (after pinching himself , menu like the stones upon a new mads to see if he were really Juhn,) that he tread. Still other plains present themselves fastened the g uo inside the very last thing i the American Desert. Some are white. off down street. Some time after, I advertised for lodg ings, and was answered by a widow lady. I liked the air cf her house, it was so neat and quiet ; and then, the flowering plants in the window were a letter of recommen dation to me. Your cold-hearted, icicle people never care lor nowers, U ou may ; he ou , Mr. ,Iar. . if snow ll4,t fjilcn frcs!i, th wrte that in the fly-leaf of your primer.) , ., , . . .... ,,, .... Bot w . . M . . i . - " r - Uut wtat particularly pleased me at Jlrs. Harris , was the devotion of her son to hi and unfastened it; an I I jumped right up ....1.1.-,.. f i :..!. .1 i. t i- . mother. I exnected nn ls Lr ini. tin ' . J ... . . ' STUCK minute be opened the door, I saw that he ! me, an l I wa-t determine 1 to hold on to it, for I didn't have a bright thought was the same young man who gave up bis ; sea ,uC omniuus 10 mc om gentleman. , .. wUat now r ,aiJ JoLn) as r carred John did all the marketing, and piovi- t rmtn.l il. r.m. I dill!? as wiselv and a tr. ll na if Via .... .. . mti..K r,ml.:ihl rnnal In I hat nf th nnf.irtnnito I . . .... UO . noining, saiu 1, " only It takes Phrenological lecturer, who was found guilty by bis own confession (no other evidence) of wearing upon bis good looking shoulders one, out of the only three jrftct Phreno logical beads in the United States ! But I must draw this document to a close. There are A woman, nlrpr all in hnf mif . ..... n.s motners arm-cair to tbe pleasantcst j Bnd t0 kp lV t ,d Jed -corner; handed her her footstool, and news- j fingers at him. paper ana spectacles; iBi-rcd iter, bis arm act of intemperance or excess casts over the soul may disappear aud leave behind no perceptible traces of its visitation, yet that temporary extinction of intellec tual light but presages and is a foretaste of the degradation to which, by an habitu al repetition of ouch act.', sensuality will be sure to reduce iu victim. Who has not been a witness to such in stances of intellectual ruin? The young men and the young women who recliued on j the couch of volupiuou-iicbs yesterday, , and the thousands of old and young, all j around us, who daily dissipate, should l pause and consider how they are cxtiu- guishing the light that is iu them, aud ! sinking themselves into the very torpor of j intellectual death. j The horrors of emigration equal the : horrors of tue slave trade. A passenger writes thus of the manner iu which the dead -were disposed of on board of the ship in which be came to this country : " They were flung into tbe sea like brutes, no ser vices, no weights attached, to. covering other than that in which 'they died, and thus tbey floated astern ; one female I saw pass by with all the upper part of her body naked." In that ship seventy -five deaths occurred, and seventy-five bodies were bu ried in tbe manner described. .. I... ttfl . II or Divine, than is the President of the United States, him- I o'"' very interesting sut.jects to wnicu i woum like .o can self Bef-idc, like our fathers they had by their own right Jar attention ; but others must bave a bearing as well as arms won and caiued their freedom. If any man can by "'J""- conscious 01 spicnaiu aomues as auy o. mj com- nearahiiitf all the kennels of crime find a meaner scoundrel Fer". 1 io not 'risn t0 'W Puulic no,,cc- Tbe Gov- than were those Creole kidnappers to whom the President would give away the money of the people, then that man as aforesaid, who Cuds any such scoundrel as aforesaid, needn't give the Printer's by any quarter, nor within. I fearlessly put my recommeudatiou beside the President's, as by far the decentcrof the two. Howbeit, soiue is made in jest; but bis, in earnest. It may be proper for mo to notice an excitement which within a few days has agitated tbe good city f Gotham. A Mr. Parsons preached in a ship-yard. Somebody who was too drunk to know the difference beta een a ship-yard, and a public thoroughfare, went hud told tho Mayor that Parsons was preaching iu and obstructing tbe street. 1 lie .Mayor bad I crnor of the State will soot wish to address yon ; and I magnauimously stand back to give him a chance, just as a tall gentleman in the Post Office would make way and let a little shaver cothe np to get his Pa's uewspapcr. I Kind Pathoss, one and all I wish you a n.vrPY sew tear. To the Farmers, I wish good crops and good prices. To Mechanics, I wish plenty of customers, and prompt pay. To Merchants, I wish ready sales, and fair prods. To Law yers and Doctors, I wish easy fortunes, and abundant leisure for reflection. To every young Lady whose kindness of heart would prompt her to make some man happy, I wish a bus band, as kind and generous as a Printer ; and as rich as a somcthine else. To all, I wish health and contentment him arrested. And now certain grave editors thoughout tho happiness in life peace ana j.iyiui nope in ucam. country are discussing the question whether a preacher has a I gljall from time to time lay before you various fomrau right to block up the street, and thus prevent the free pass- I locations from the Editor, and the Publisher, tbe respectable An elderly lady writes a friend : "A widower with ten children has proposed and I hsve accepted. This is about the number I should have been entitled to, if I had been married at the proper time, instead of being cheated into a nonentity !" Sensible, to tbe end. 19 The tolls received at the Collector's Sos at Williamsport, fur tbe year ending December 1st, 1853, amounted to $23, 9,3 85 being an increase of $2,442 47 t-er ths amount received the previous year. 28841 feet cf lumber, aud '604,480 woAflse pssssd that office during tin just age of ihe citizens. Bishop Hughes has also done his part towards befogging the Gotlramitcft, by issuing an ecclesiastical proclamation, in which he Tells the Catholics not to go with in ear shot of any such street-preaching ; but if anybody undertakes to injure their persons, or to destroy their prop, crty, then to show themselves men. It will bo perceived I, fiom the above statement, that the Hon. Mayor, the aforesaid I'Tespectable Editors, and tbe Right Rev. Bishop, are in tbe condition of an over-anxious maternal ben who is slightly "off her eggs.'1 Mr. Parsons has not preached in the street, nor obstructed the street, nor violated the law. He has preached where he had a right to preach, and be will con tinue to preach ; for the law authorizes him to do so, and the sensible people will sustain him. He will discuss Popery or any other question, just as freely, just as roughly, or just as smoothly, as be pleases; and the Honorable.the Editorial, tbe Rcvercud and tbe Right Reverend grannies may fret or keep quiet may curse or bless may look grave or gay, just as suits their whim or convenience. Tbe great American right of speech will not be surrendered to please a foolish Mayor, a Popish Bishop, or an unreasonable mob So mote it beT It would bo highly improper in this State Paper, not to say at least a few words on the subject of tbo "Compromise." Iu approaching this grave subject, I shall do what no other public man (except Mr. Benton) has done that is, I shall rotate tit tmih. Tbe Comifroflise, at the-timo of its birth, iu 1850, was an "pneoruruon weakly baby ;" and it has been surrounded by all sorts of doctors, and stuffed with all sorts oftSediciue, from that day to this. The Doctors declare that the only way to keep it alive, is to catch niggers all the time for its amojeaeBt A Congress is bow in eejeioo, I hope heads of my two principal Departments, which communica tions I trust you will find nearly as important, and a inter esting, as my own. I am happy to inform the public that the most perfect harmony is maintained between those im portant functionaries and myself. We are a perfect " uuit." They think and write as they please ; I think and write as I please; and tbe public thinks of ns all just as it pleases ; and wo all, (that is, my " Constitutional advisers " and my self,) submit cheerfully to the judgment of the public, for tbe mighty good reason that we can't help ourselves, " no way we can fix it." No "hard-shell," or "soft-shell" bickerings mar the harmony of our counsels, or obstruct the smooth and onward course of our "progressive" action. The only " hardness" that bothers ns, is hard work ; and the only " softpess " we dread is, that once in a great while we may eome hi contact with a customer who is "soft" enough to think that printers ought to work for nothing. And now, in conclusion : any spare quarter, levy, dims or other coin, which you find it convenient to appropriate to the use and benefit of our Financial Department, will be most thankfully received, and most faithfully devoted not io dis sipation, not to trifling animal gratifications; but to the use ful and necessary supplies, and tho real improvement of your bumblo servant. I see and acknowledge tho truth of that axiom of Political Economy, that publio happiness is only the aggregate of individual oomfortand enjoyment. Therefore, I shall witbour kind aid.mahc an honest effort to take care of NumberOnc. But.not to number one sball my kindness always beconfined. No! The charity which "begins at home" will, I trust, some day, have the means aud tbe strorgth to go abroad, and to bless others just as you kind Patrons, will this day bless the hutnbls - PiUNIES'S BOY. up stairs aud spent his evenings by Iter j side, instead of joining other young men in racing over the city to find ways to kill time. It was a beautiful sight, in these days, when beardless boys come stamping and j whistling into their mother's presence, with 1 their hats on, and call her " the old we- j man." ,. I spent a pleasant autumn under Mrs. j Harris' quiet roof. And now, wiuter had j set in, with its nice loug evenings. John came in to tea, one night, with his bright j face overclouded. His mother was at his j side in an instant. John's master had faihd, and John was thrown out of cm- ' ploymcnt ! Then I learned, that it was only by tbe strictest economy, and hoarding of every cent of John's small salary, that the house rent was paid and the table provided. And now, so the widow said, the house must be given np, for John might be a long while getting another place ; clerk ships were so difficult to obtain ; and they j must not turns ot running in deDt. It was raeA a pity. We were all so comfortable and happy there, in that cozy little p'arlor, with its sunny bow window full of flowers, and its bright Lehigh fire, and softly cushioned chairs; thai cozy par lor, where the little round table, with its snowy clotb, bad been to often spread ; and tbe delicate tea-biscuit, and rary news papers had been so often discussed ; where John, in bis slippers and dressing-gown, with bis dark hair pushed off his broad forehead, read page after page of some fa vorite author, while the wind wns welcome to whistlo itsolf dumb outside the thresh old, and old Winter to pile up tbe snow at tbe door till he got tired of it. It vat hard ! John walked up and down tbe floor, with bis hands crossed behind, and Mrs. Harris went round the room, hunting after ber spectacles, when they were comfortably reposing on the bridge of ber fine Roman nose. A knock at the dorr I A noto for John 1 Enclosed, Cn-i $500, to pay Mr. John Har ris boom not for in comiog yea' That day I thought it would do nie good to ride alront in an omniba'. I tried sev eral. It didn't make much difference to me whether they went np street or down, or where they finally stopped. I was look ing more at tiie passengers. white salt covering the ground six inches deep, and fir fifty miies, in every direction. Others, again, have a similar appearance; but instead of salt you Cud the substance which covers theni to be soda. There are mountain, too indeed one bilf of the desert is very ruountainons aad the great chain of the KoekyJIouatains of which you hav no doubt heard rns sheer through it from north to south. But there are other niountaius besides these mountains of every height, and sometimes in their shape and cobr presenting very striking and singular appearances. Soma of them run for miles in horizontal ridges, like tbe roofs of houses, snd seemingly so" ' barrow at their tojg (U1t oue might sit ly and by I saw the person I wanted. ! astride of them. Others, sgain, of a conio Said I, in a whisper, sitting down beside j cal form staed out in tbe plain apart from bim," House rent clerkship flour but- f the rest. ter crackers and buckwheat, all fur gir. j There are mountains where no trees are iug you a scat in an omnibus !" j seen.iior any signs of vegetation along their Didn't I know that " tho fairy" wns the j sides Huge naked roe'.sof graniteappear nice old man with silver l.Vs? Didn't piled npon each Kther. There arc peaks he bribe me to hold my tongne, by telling ! perfectly white, because they are always me that he would come anl drink tea with I covered with a thick mautL- of snow, me, so that he might get a peep at John ' There are other peaks almost as white, and and bis mother f Didn't be come T and ! yet it is not with snow. These are tnccn didn't I look as much astonished when be tains of pure limestone, or the white quarts called, as if it hadn't been all settled j rock. There arc mountains again upon two days previous? But how was 1 to ' which neither tree ncr leaf is to be scon, know that Mrs. Harris would turn out to And there are still other mouctaius ia the be an old love of bis ? How was John to j great Anjrican Desert, to wart'e the tav k now, when bo felt such an irresistible eller with Iheir strange appearance. They impulse to be kind to the old man, that his j are those that glitter with the mica aad hair bad grown gray loving his mother T now was the oil man to know why bo loved John so well, and thought him one of the finest young men he had ever seen ? How was 1 to know that I was to turn out to be what I always so mortally detested a feminine match-maker ? The Great American Desert There is a great desert in tbe interior of North America. It is almost as large as the famous Saharra of Africa. It is fifteen hundred miles long, and a thousand wide. Now, if it were a regular shape that is to say, a parallelogram you eonld at once I compute its area, by multiplying its length upon the breadth; and you would obtain one million and a half of rquare miles for the result. But its outlines are as yet very imperfectly known, and although it is fully fifteen hundred miles long and in some places a thousand ia breadth, its sur face extent is not over one million of tquare miles, or twenty-five times tbe size of En gland. Fancy a desert twenty-five tin. as big as all England ! ' Do you not thini I sdeuite. These.-. hen seen fr w a tlistaneai flashing under the sun, look though they a ri"-" were mountains of silver and cold. The river, too ; strange rivers arj they, ome run over broad shallow beds of lrgLt sand. Large rivers hundreds of yards is. width, with sparkliog wa'er. Follow thra down their course. What do yoa find f Instead of growing larger, like tue livers of yonr own land, tbey lecoine less anl less, until at length their wafers oink into the sands and you sec no ting I ut the dry channel for miles npon miies.. Go still farther, and again the water appears, and onward increases in volume, until, thou sands of mile fi o n tbe sea, large ships can. float npon their bosom. Such are tho Arkansas snd tbe Platto. There sre other rivers that no between bleak, rocky banks banks a thousand feet high, whoso bsid, naked bluff,' frwa at each other across the deep eoasro, ia aba lottem of which loars tbe troubled waters O.len these lanki (xaecd for hundreds of miles, so steop-at all points that one can ' not snjoven to tho bci F their stream t .1 . 1 . ...... ..n..n..m i " , -if a often the tr.Toar bs periihed with name, when it ..called tbe Great America- tl) n fU De?rt" , jiat la'roiina- J eotfading in his ears. Such are the Ciu- isow, my young friend wh.J J- JtUfiaska. derstand by a desert: 1 tWek Ieaqfteta. I rMM saa n i fi
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