LEWISBURG
CHRONICLE
BY 0. N. WORDEN & J.
II. C. IIICKOK, CoKREsroxDixG Editor.
Z)t fttoisbnrn Chronicle.
FKIUAY, DEC. 21, 155.
Something for the New Tear.
We liave been requested to say to our
readers and let each one tell a neighbor
that the instructions issued by the
Tost Master Gcueral in relation to the
prepayment of all letters by stamps, takes
effect the 1st of January, 1850. Absolute
pre-payment by "stamps or stamped enve
lopes" is required on all letters to places
within the I'uitcd States, after this month.
Great care should be taken, as well in pre
paying the proper amount on letters above
the weight of half an ounce, as to place
stamps on single letters before dropping
them in the Officc.othcrwisc the Tost Mas
ter is not authorized to send them.
The Post Master General intends to
carry the provisions of the law into effect,
and calls upon the Post Masters to provide
themselves with stamps and stamped enve
lopes. It is not intended that Post Masters
shall affix the stamps, but to keep them on
hand, so that all persons having occasion
to use, may readily obtain them.
Whether agreeable or not, this is the
rule, and must be regarded.
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Pennsylvania Telegraph.
This journal, advertised in another col -
umn, we think will supply the want, long
felt, of a thorough State Newspaper at the
Seat of Government. Col. M'Cllre is
one of the most energetic business men,
and able and popular editors of the day,
and will we suppose devote himself to the
work exclusively. Of Senator Sellers'
ability as a writer, we know nothing, but
if he writes as well as he runs, he'll do.
The Company has ample means to carry
out their great undertaking. The price to
clubs (under the advance system,) is not
half what similar papers have been sent
out for heretofore. The Tdrgraph should
start with 100 or 200 subscribers at the
Lewisburg Post Office.
A Lesson". It will be remembered that
by a "fusion" of Softs, Hards and "Liquor
fellers" in New York State, Samuel L.
Scldcn bad about 10,000 maj. over Corn
stock (Am.) for a Judge of the Supreme
Court of that State. The State Board of
Canvassers, however, we see it stated, have
declared Comstock elected, in consequeuce
of incorrect returns. In New York county,
where Selden had a very largo majority,
his whole vote was returned far Samuel S.
Selden instead of L. Now whether the
L. was mistaken for an S., or whether the
Clerks were so much opposed to the Liquor
Law that they repudiated the L. by occas
ion of ower-0 be-joy-ful-ing, or otherwise,
it defeated him. Samuel L. SAelden also I
had some votes
intended doubtless for '
Samuel L. Selden. So that, although the
three "Samuels" together had more than
George F. Comstock, j et Sam Comstock
is 15,000 to 20,000 ahead of any one of
'em, and the. whole "Sam" Ticket is
counted "in."
-We sec several gentlemen suggested
in various tarts of the State as the next j
Democratic nominee for Auditor General, j
Mr. Banks we do not sec named. N Hat is ,
meant by this? Mr Banks has cotfesscdly !
no superior in his party for capacity ana
integrity ; and nts experience is worm
something.
any change
may have an
i j .i.
overtwaru iu, ... j .-
unjust If Banks is the best man they j
have, let them honorably try to retain i
him ; if Brawley is not the best for his j
station, let them try to get a better. Do 1
not punish one for the sins of the other.
Sheridan's Calendar The following
old dish of rhyme on the weathcr,has been
styled "Sheridan's Rhyming Calendar,"
and, although intended for England, will
apply well to America, this year :
January snowy, ") July moppy, "
February flowy, August croppy, j
March blowy, ) September poppy, )
April showery, ") October breezy,
May flowery, November wheezy, V
June bowery, J December freczy. )
i-In the Chronicle of 2lst Sept last,
is a "Wild Wood Song" of former days,
the authorship of which was said to be
unknown. A gentleman frem Delaware :
. .
Co.. N.Y.. informs us that Wm. Beach, of j
Franklin, in that county, was the author.
He was a man of a poetical turn, but of
irregular habits, a basket-maker by occu
pation. Ha removed to Indiana, and died,
at an advanced age, a Methodist preacher.
" Cameron, .sq., 01 i.cwisourg, uas
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been elected i'resiucnl 01 me iau. 01
Northumberland. John Taggart, i.sq., j
who for a long series ot years nas Deen me ;
able and efficient President of this institu
tion, retires with the good wishes of all the
business men, who have transacted busi
ness at the Bank, while under his Presi
dency. Danville Democrat.
Tbo Tribune says George Law spent '
110,000 to carry New York State for the !
Know Nothings at the late election. The
Arjus says if he has so much spare cash, ;
he had better come to Easton and settle
the washer woman's bill he forgot to pay,
when ho left there a few years ag. So '
"Murder will out I"
UJ .... r-y - , i w0, three, or even lour uours ui B1Uw . - f , . , . t
f II it is simpiy ma tucy , boll; not too much.- 0ne uime. will T . . . . a ' ,
excuse for throwme iimirrM t ,!, a K h -nrn meal or ! . . - ' b . . '
R. CORNELIUS.
The Itcauly or I.lle.
Trulr tli- liphl i wwt, and plriKant thing it 1 for
the -yrt to hrti.-lit tlie tun " Kishj Si'LoMuft.
Life is beautiful. Its duties
Cluster 'round each passing day)
Vhn tneir sweet and solemn voices
Warn to work. In watch, to pray.
They alone such blessinss forfeit.
Who throneh sloth their spirits cheat,
Or, in srlfih stupor sitting,
See the rust their armor eat.
Life is beautiful. Affections
Thrill with joy its golden string.
In its pcn blossoms nestle,
liirdlike 'mid ils tranches sing ;
Smiling, rork its cradle slumbers,
Guard with pride its youthful bloom.
Fondly kiss its snow-white temples,
Dew the turf that decks its tomb.
Life is beautiful, with promise
Of a crown that can not fade ;
Life is fearful, with a promise
Of an everlasting shade.
Mav no thoughtless worldling scorn it,
Wandering wide in folly's maze ;
Duty, lore and hope adorn it.
Let the latest breath be praise.
ONE DIME.
'Tis a little sum 'tis often given for a
drink or cigartis soon burnt out and
was,ea- " laKC3 lcu almcs 10 maj"
j dollar' and dollar 13 COmm0a Pr,C0 for
! a B'1Delc mcaL II 18 soon f cts
j re not lastinf "tea lt Prod"ces
dyspeps.a, and then it often costs a hun-
dred dimes to purchase medicine that does
ot cure the disease.
1 To thoso who never dine for less than a
i dollar, how unsatisfactory would be adin-
j ner for a dime. Header, have you ever
: reflected how many entire families in this
city, where food is so dear, dine every day
for less than one dime ? Did you ever
think of bestowing one dime for charitable
purposes, and how much good that would
do? What if every subscriber to TlIE
Weekly Trihuxe should give one dime
with his subscription, to be applied to the
necessities of the needy and deserving poor
jn tu;a c;lT u;j y0U ever consider what a
suln lt WOuld be ? Look at it 137,000
subscribers at one dime each is S13.700.
What if it were applied to purchase bread,
'say at five cents a loaf? It would buy
j 1,740,000 loaves of bread. What if we
1 should announce that such a quantity of
; bread was about t j be given to the poor
in this city ! The whole land would re
joice. How much can be done with one
dime !
j Let us sec what we would do with it if
we had Lut one only one dime in the
world and yet with that must provide
j for a family consisting of a mother and
i four chil Jren for a whole day. We would
j not buy bakers' bread at sixpence a loaf
i very small loaves, too, never weighing
! over a pound, however moist or however
i adulterated with corn, potatoes, or buck
i wheat, which are harmless or with plaa
! in. nf lime. alum, sulohate of zinc.
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many otuer aeicteriuus
substances. No,
wp would not buv bakers' bread with our
dime, nor would we buy fine flour at six
or seven cents a round, else some of the '
children would go hungry. We might
buy corn meal and make a cheap cake, or j
I , not of mush, or a larger pot of porridge,
. , . tw0 pounJ8 0f homminy, ,
, nnr oul . fetd tLe fami, !
on(j fuU mcal lut to thu lMcT articlo J
tbere h one 0i,jt.ction. Where is the fuel
u come fro;iJ t0 cook thh mcss?for COrn
mofe tLan an). otuer gra;n rcquires cook
uoininv
na sce TLcy rc(luire icagt cooking, but
thcv cost w;th ai tnu;r water and they
are more ti,an j,tf watcr two cents and
a nair a pounii at rcta;L
Then they are not cheap food after all.
It will not do to spend our dime for pota
toes. What then ? It is no easy study to
learn how to procure the most human food
for a dime; to ascertain how many hungry
mouths may be fed how many empty
stomachs satisfied, for one dime. It is a
study too much neglected. It should be
taught in all Public Schools. Certainly
in all Charity, Industrial and Ragged
Schools where children are fed as well
as taught. What better wisdom could
von teach them than how to procure the
most food for a dime ? It is a little coin,
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out it can do maue to expauu. n w
be real charity genuine chanty practi.
cal charity to teach such scholars econo
my in food ; not how to eat less, to live
noon less for. Heaven knows, some of
them live upon little enough now but to
teach them what to buy, in case of cmer
artnnv with & littlt ioin nnlv nnn dime.
6 Jt 1
w fa w karned that le and
wfl -t tQ We ,carne(j u of
won,antnat iS) the practical operation
f ;tthouh ghe gays gne carncj it 0f
us, from something she read about ccono-
mizing food in The Tribune.
"I had," said she, "ono day last week,
only one dime in the world, and that was
to feed me and my four children all day ;
for I would not ask for credit, and I could
not borrow, and I never did leg. I did
live through the day, and I did not go
hungry. I fed myself and family with
one dime."
"How ?"
"O, that was not
too."
all. I bought fuel
iD! to mane li paiaiauic auu wuuieauuie. . , , . . , c ...,. .,u r
. l.ii i t. i -
. n.. : .:" ''- - j this X cut up into bits, and soaked
tt nab tueu i uiaujca i jjui.
fihptt
"What, with ouc dime ?"
"Yes, with one dime. I bought two
cents' worth of coke, because that is cheap-
er than coal, and because I could kindle
it with a piece of paper in my little fur
nace with two or three little bits of char
coal that some careless boy had dropped
in the street just in my path. With three
cents I bought a scraggy piece of salt
pork. Half fat and half lean. There
might have been half-a-pound of it the
man did not weigh it. Now half my mo
ney was gone, and the show fir breakfast,
ainner, ana supper was certainly a very
poor one. With the rest of my dime I
bought four-cents' worth of white beans.
By the by, I get these at night, and soak
ed them in tepid water on a neighbor's
stove till morning. I had one cent left.
I bought one-ccut's worth of corn meal,
and the grocery man gave me a red-pepper
pod.
"What was that for?"
"Wait a little you shall knew. Of all
things, peppers and onions are appreciated
by the poor in Winter, because they help
to keep them warm. With my meal I
made three dumplings, and these, with
the pork and pepper-pod I put into the pot
with tbo beans and plenty of water (for
the pork was salt) and boiled the whole
two hours ; and then we had breakfast,
for it was time for the children to go to
school. We ate one of the dumplings,
and each had a plate of soup for breakfast,
and a very good breakfast it was."
"I kept the pot boiling as long as my
coke lasted, and at dinner we ate half the
meat, half the soup, and ono of the damp
lings. We had the same allowance for
supper ; and the children were better sat
isfied than I have sometimes seen them
when our food has cost five times as much.
The next day we had another dime it
was all I could earn for all I could get to
do two pairs of men's drawers each day
at five cents a pair and on that we lived
lived well. We had a change, too, for
instead of the corn meal and beans, I got
four cents' worth of oat meal and one
cent's worth of potatoes small potatoes,
because I could get more of them. I
washed them clean, so as not to waste any
thing by paring, and cut them up and
boiled them all to pieces with the meat
and meal."
"Which went furthest?"
"I can't say. We ate it all each day,
and didn't feel the want of more, though
the children said, 'Ma, don't you wish we
had a pieee of bread and butter, to finish
off with ?" It would have been good, to
be sure ; but bless me, what would a
dime's worth of bread be for my family ?
But I had another change next day."
"What, for another dime ?"
"Yes ; that was all we had day after
day. We had to live on it. It was very
hard, to be surcj but it has taught me
something.
"What is that?"
I'"ur " "" " 6"-"
Reaper than lacy do, if they only knew
h t0 economize their food. You have
told them how, but they are slow to learn
or loth to change from foolish old practi.
"What was your next change ?"
"Oh, yes, I was about to tell you that.
Well, I went to the butcher's the night
lit-
declare
and
over
night an all-important process for soup,
or a stew cooking it in the same water.
Then I bought two cents' worth of pota
toes and one cent's worth of meal that
made the eight cents ; two had to go for
fuel every day, and the paper I got my
purchases in served for kindling. The
mcal I wet up into stiff dough, and work
ed out into little round balls, about as big
as grapes, and the potatoes I cut up into
slices, and all together made a stew, or
chowder, seasoned with a small onion and
part of a pepper-pod that I got with the
potatoes. It was very good, but it did
not go quite so far as the soup, either day,
or else the fresh meat tasted so good that
we wanted to eat more. But I can tell
yon, small as it may seem to you, there is
a great deal of good eating in a dime.
So there is what a pity everybody
don't know it What a world of good
might be done with a dime.
Reader, have you got a dime- that is
to spare only one dime t Give it to that
poor widow. Give it ? No; you owe it
She has given you twice its value, whether
you are one that will feast to-day on a
dollar, or be stinted with a dime. She
has taught you what you never knew
before the value of one dime.
What a pity so many should be thrown
away. What a pity we could not teach
this lesson of economy in food to the thou
sands who will suffer before Spring for the
dimes wasted, through ignorance, when
dimes were plenty. Knowing how to use
a dime might often save a family from
suffering from beggary from degrada
tion, "lis a small coin it will buy five
copies of this paper. What if you invest
it here and give this to those who would
profit by learning how they can live, and
satisfy the hunger of five persons all day ,
fur one ii ME. X. Y. Tribune. ' ;
froisbnrg, Union County
TI1K KAIL.
Jobs Hokitwell, who never does anything
ill, has 'carried out his principles' to the letter
in the subjoined Epistle to The Knickerbocker.
I met him in the cars.
Where resignedly he sat
His bair was lull of dust.
And so was his cravat.
He wa, furthermore, embellished
By a ticket in his hat
The conductor touched his arm,
And awoke him from a nap.
When he gave the feeding flies
An admonitory slap.
And his ticket to the man
la the yellow lettered cap.
So. launching into talk,
We rattled on our way.
With allusions to the crops
That along the meadows lay
Whereupon his eyes were lit
By a speculative ray.
The heads of many men
Were bobbing as in sleep.
And many babies lifted
Their voices np to weep;
While the coal-dust darkly fell
On bonnets in a heap.
All the while the swaying cars
Kept rambling o'er the rail.
And the frequen; whistle sent
Shrieks of anguish to the gale,
And the cinders pattered down
On the grimy floor like hail.
When suddenly a jar.l
And a thrice-repeated bump.
Made the people in alarm
From their easy cushions jump,
For they deemed the sound to be
The inevitable trump.
A splintering crash below.
A doom-foreboding twitch,
As the tender gave a lurch
Beyond the flying switch.
And a mangled mass of men
Lay writhing in the ditch.
With a palpitating heart
My friend essayed to rise;
There were bruises on his limbs
And stars before his eyes.
And his face was of the hue
Of the dolphin when it dies.
I was very well content
In escaping with my life.
But my mutilated friend
Commenced a legal strife,
Being therennto incited
By his lawyer and his wife.
And he writes me the result.
In his quiet way, as follows i
"That his case came up before
A bench of legal scholars.
Who awarded him his claim
Of $1500."
Poisons and Antidotes.
It not unfrequently happens that serious
distressing results are occasioned by the
accidental employment of poisons ; and it
occurred to us that we might possibly do
a service to some of our readers presenting
them with a brief and compendious list of
the more common poisons, and the reme
dies for them most likely to be close at
hand.
Acids. These cause great heat and
sensation of burning pain, from the mouth
down to the stomach. Remedies, magne
sia, soda, pcarlash, or soap, dissolved in
water; then use stomach pump, or emetics.
Alkalies. Best remedy is vinegar.
Ammonia. Remedy, lemon juice or
vinegar, afterwards milk and watcr, or a
flaxseed tea.
Alcohol. First cleanse out the stom
ach by an emetic, then dash cold watcr
on the head, and give ammonia, (spirits
of hartshorn.)
Arsenic. Remedies, in the first place
evacuate the stomach, then give the white
of eggs, lime water, or chalk and water,
charcoal, and preparations of iron, partic
ularly the hydrate.
Lead. White lead and sugar of lead.
Remedies, alum, cathartics, such as castor
oil and cpsom salts especially.
Charcoal. In poisons by carbonic
gas, remove the patient to the open air,
dash cold watcr on the head and body,
and stimulate nostrils and lungs by harts
horn, and at the same time rub the chest
briskly.
Corrosive Sublimate. Give white
of eggs freshly mixed with water, or give
wheat flour and water, or soap and watcr,
freely.
Creosote. White of eggs and emetics.
Belladonna. Give emetics, and then
plenty of vinegar and water, or lemonade.
Mushrooms, when poisonous. Give
emetics, with plenty of vinegar and water.
Nitrate of Silver, (lunar caustic.)
Give a solution of common salt, and then
emetics.
Opium. First, give a strong emetic of
mustard and waetr, and then strong coffee
and acid drinks ; dash cold water on the
head.
Laudanum. Same as opium.
Nux Vomica, (Strychnia.) First eme
tics, and then stimulants.
Prussic Acid. When there is time,
administer chlorine in the shape of soda
or lime. Hot brandy and water. Harts
horn and turpentine are also nseful.
Oxalic Acid. Frequently taken for
epsom saits. Remedies, chaik, magnesia,
or soap and water freely, then emetics.
Saltpeter. Give emetics, then copi
ous draughts of flaxseed tea, milk and wa
ter, and other soothing drinks.
Snake Bites, Ac. Apply immediately
strong hartshorn, and take it internally,
also give sweet oil and stimulants freely ;
apply a ligature tightly above the part
bitten, and then apply a cupping glass.
Tartar Emetic. Give large doses of
tea made of galls, Peruvian bark or white
oak bark.
Tobacco. First an emetic, then as
tringent tea, tLeu stimulant.
ytmilmk.
Verdiuris.
Plenty of white of egg
and water.
White Vitriol. Give the paiieut
plenty of milk and water.
In almost all cases of poisoning, eme
tics are highly useful, and of these, one of
the very lest, because most prompt and
ready, is the sommon flour or powder, a
teaspoon ful of which stirred up in warm
water may be given every five or ten min
utes, until free vomiting can be obtained.
Emetics and demulcent drinks, such as
milk and watcr, &c, should be administer-1 tone, and let there be a meaning iu your ; Tho world will take notice that this
cd without delay; the subsequent man- I smile; and your girls will marry yes, i war on the part of the Free State combat
agemcnt of tho case will of course bo left ! ' marry in haste, and repent at kicure." j ants, is one of defence. The Missouriaus
to a physician. Hartford Timet.
The Senate's Committees.
Washington, Dec. 12.
The Senate has to-day been engaged in
electing its Committees severally by ballot
a most preposterous farce, as the Com
mittees were all cut and dried in Demo
cratic caucus several nights ago. Every
man is elected to precisely the place as
signed him by that caucus, and the ballot
is merely a formality to invest the caucus
doings with a mocking appearance of Sen
atorial action. Many of the Opposition
Senators disdained to countenance the
sham by voting, since nothing on their
part could have any possible effect one
way or the other.
The Territories is the most important
Committee for this Session. It is made
np of Messrs. Douglas, (Chairman,) Jones
of Iowa, Collamer, Bell of Tenn., Sebas
tian and Biggs. Of these but Judge Col
lamer can be expected to favor the appli
cation of Kanzas to come into the Union
on her Free-State Constitution ; he only
can be expected to reprobate and practical
ly oppose the schemes and high-handed
proceedings of the Slavery Propagandists.
The Jwiiciarg is the Committee next in
present consequence. It is made up of
Butler of S. C, (Chairman,) Toucey, Ba
yard, Geyer, Toombs, and Pugh all ac
tive rcpudiators of the Missouri Compact,
all upholders of the Fugitive Slave Law
all bitterly hostile, to any practical asser
tion of the Equal Rights of Men. Only
one is faintly opposed to the dominant
party, and he (Geyer) is a Missouri Whig,
two of whose colleagues in the House vote
for Richardson for Speaker. Four are
from Slave States; the others (Toucey and
Pugh) have been emphatically repudiated
by their constituents for their devotion to
the Slave Power. This is the Committee
to which any action impelled by the op
pression of Passmore Williamson, or any
Judicial question growing out of the late
outrages in Kanzas, must be submitted.
Military Affair are rendered of grave
and pressing consequence by the peril of
broil and bloodshed iu Kanzas, and the
invocation of Federal interposition therein,
The Committee on this subject is composed
of Messrs. Weller of Cal., (Chairman,)
Fitzpatrick, Johnson, Jones of Tenn., Iver-
-
son and Pratt four Democrats and two
neutrals, five of the six from Slave States,
all six supporters of the Nebraska Iniqui
ty, and every one hostile to the Free-State
men of Kanzas. Such is the fairness with
which our masters prepare to consider the
claims of Freedom in the comiug struggle.
Indian Affair, touch the interests of
Slavery a?ain the Cherokee.. Win h.
come fanatical slaveholders under the joint
influence of National encouragement and
Missionary recreancy to gospel right and
liberty. A bill, proffering a bounty in
land to slaveholding by Iudians was re
ported to the last Congress. The Commit
tee on this subject is consequently com
posed of Messrs. Sebastian of Ark., (Chair
man,) Rusk, Toombs, Drown, Reid and
Bell of Tenn. from Slave States, and
all Democrats but the last. That is ma
king the thing tolerably snug.
The District of Columbia is a nice Com
mittee to be on, by one who likes good
dinners and other good things, and it is
another watchtower of Slaveholding ascen
dadcy. The District is always crying
"Give! Give!" to Congress, and it will
get nothing but sour looks from a Slave
holding Committee unless it maintaius an
aspect of loyalty to the peculiar institu
tion ! The Committee thereon is conse
quently composed of Messrs. Brown of
Miss., (Chairman) Pratt, Mason, Allen and
tleid all Nebraska men, all Democrats.
and all but Allen red-hot slaveholders.
But why pursue this analysis J Brief
ly, Slavery guards every aspiration for
Impartial Freedom as though it were trea
son to the country. Committees which
can nowise affect Slavery are mado up with
some show of fairness. iV. 1". TriOune.
OLD MAIDS.
"Oar Fire Engines may they be tike our
Old Maids always ready, never wanted."
There it is, again. "At a public meet
ing, a wag gave in this toast" did he ?
What a refined wag he was wasn't he 1
He aught to have been promoted to the
office of hooking vp rags from respectable
gutters, forthwith. But not a word about i
the gentlemanly editors who have handed
down this speech, for human edification,
from time to time not the first whisper
for a wag is a nobody, but an editor is
one of "the powers that be." "Old
Maids !" indeed ! Mothers, do you hear
that word? Have you daughters whom j
TWELFTH YEAR..... WHOLE NUMBER, 610.
$1.50 feb Year, alwats ts Advakci.
! you wih to rush into niatriiuouy, as the
horse rushes into battle, not knowing why I LiOerty and Slavery, begun !
they run ; but frightened by the consiant j Kansas is the theatre of physical war.
spurring of their friends, and that vocifer- i Hostilities between the Democratic princi
ous scream in the rear " old maids ! old , T't '"J e aristocratic element of Slave
maids !" We say. solemn!-, if vou are
j willing to see them plungj headlong into
a sea of misery, whose waves roll on un-
broken to the shoro of eternity, talk to
them daily of " fiJg. ty old maids," " 'a -
dies of unmentionable age," "antiquated
spinsters," etc., and speak in a peculiar
ho are these "old maids?" UdscI- ' re the aggressors. Tbey were incursion
fish, devoted daughters, giving their best . !s usurpers of government tubvertera
days to the service of declining parents ; j of lawful authority and sheer free-boot-faithful
sisters, lending a band to help o'er ers upon the politics and tie right of a
wearied mothers in training np their little free people.
ones, or taking their places as foster moth- Whift true men throughout the world,
ers to the little ones, when those mothers will freely give their sympathy to the men
are gone. -'Old maids" are, with few ex-1 of Kansas, and their justification too of
ceptions, plain, unobtrusive, high souled,
and intelligent women. "Old maids" have
time to become intelligent, and they im
prove it. They don't have to sit down af
ter the cares of the day are ovcr,and, weary
aud worn as they arc, rock the cradle with
one foot, while they ward off the two year
old baby with the other, both hands busy
with old clothes for five other little daguer
reotypes of lomtlotlj away iu the eatiug
saloon ; or may be, at the theatre ; or, to
put the best face on the matter, quietly
reading the last new work in the parlor.
"Old maids" have no wrinkles in their fa
ces before they are thirty-five they are
net like crooked apple trees at frty, and
as withered as dried apples at forty-five.
Xo, no, single women retain their beauty
and elasticity of spirit until an advanced
age ; for, those little, drooping, tiny vexa
tions, which wear away the hearts of the
married so early in life, need never reach
them. Single women, as a class, are not
"fijgety, cod hard to please ;" on the con
trary they are patterns of paticnoe, and
everything "lovely and of good report."
But they are often reserved ; for all eyos
are npon them, and they are unpleasantly
conscious that they must hold in check
their own warm, trustful natures, and call
no man brother, lest some human hornet
buzx the thing abroad.
"Old maids" are the friends of the lone-
; 'j 40,1 6a'J Jct even in the highest
social position, they feel, at times, unkind-
ness and neglect ; and women, who should
love and respect them, forget their great
worth, and join in the laugh at their "od
dities and old maidish ways." What won
der, then, if "wags" dare take their names
upon their lips in promiscuous assemblies?
and better men, who should kick them
! out 8taDI DJ mi listen '"tncij? and what
wonder, when women read such dirty
"toasts" " that which heads this article,
"out a blush and a frown, that editors
UBd room for tUcm ia thcir "columns of
! C Jt al I 1' 1 1
luu olm 5U ,UCJ are uanaiea rouna over
tho world, and the sensitive spirits of a
Iarre clas nf excellent wnmpn nr wnr.TwI. !
cd, a"ain and aMin. by the hundred times
,. , "-"ia
I
i -1 " " j . . ..v uvu b unit; ti; (
! rliif uinjrl.. v.mn tti... J . f 1 :
j or '"?,) who tas not had, more than
' cncei an opportunity of marnapj. W hen
wo liwa uiuuuu us, uu sec a countless
. , . . ' ...
nost of married women degraded into mere
.., ... , . , .
ch.ld s nurses and kitchen maids tor their
inferiors ; men too stupid too know their
worth, or appreciate thcir self imraolstior,;
we thank God that a blessed few remain
who have not purchased tickets in the great
matrimonial lottery, whose most substan -
tial prizes bring with them sorrow and
care, as well as happiness. Yes, we re -
joice for thcir sakes, and for tho world's,
that there remains, unfettered with house-
hold cares, a noble band of womcn,"ready"
for every good word and work; pattirn
daughters, unselfish sisters, foster mothers
of poor orphans, angels at the bedside of
the sick, stars iu the mental firmament.
"Never wanted." We have not the least
doubt but that very "wag,"
whose sublime 1
itticism has been so much admired, offer
ed himself to some ten of them,(we'il war
rant, if he wrote lovo letters, he didn't pay
the postage,) and that "toast" was the re-!
sultof long studied revenge, bocause they .
wouldn't have him. Poor, old, crusty j
beuedict that ho is a left banded blessing
be on him. May nobody pity him when j
he is down with the gout, nobody help on
bis overcoat when he can't get his bands
to bis head for the stitch in bis back ; no
body read to him when his eyes are dim ;
may his shirts be buttonless, his nightcaps j
bestriuglcss,his handkerchief un-bemmed, i
may his bread be sour, his coffee be settled j
with lamp oil, and his beef be burned to a
cinder; may bugs, fleas, caterpiliers, and
' mice share his miduight pillow ; and may
all these things, and more also, be upon I
i .. e... u v.. -t - i --r :
. tuc uia. cuiiui w yu i.ui in La uia aiiiuuti fli I
j ter this date ; and may all these things be
upon hitn all others, who utter, irrever
ently, that honorable title "Old Maid."
E. X. W. II. I'Uttto Gazette.
During the year 1853 one hundred and
sixty-five men were hung in the United
States for murder,
sevrn could read
Ot this number only ;
au 1 write. What a
lesson
The Physical Straggle, between
i labor society, have transcended debate, ani
' 'be contest of Politics, and come at lat
r where it was inevitable that they must
come to arbitrament of the rifle and th
1 revolver. The free soil settlers of Kansas,
! and the Missouri Propagandists of Slavery
' are confronted in actual battle.
any, the ex'remest vindication by th'tm of
their rights, is there not great probability
that the feeling of forbearance or of res
pect even, for the alleged rights of Slavery
in this Union, will undergo ehangc ? Can
limits be put to a physical strife once in
augurated in the United States, between
Freedom and Slavery ? If Slavery ap
peals to the rifle, would it be contrary to
God's providence and the course of Justice,
if she perished by the rifle ?
The crowning dishonor of onr Federal
Administration is at hand, if it has in
structed Gov. Shannon to sustain the Mis
souri ruffians. This tool has called out the
militia, to fight tho Free Soilers. What
ever be the wording of his proclamation,
it is a call exclusive to the lawless bullies
of the Missouri and Askansas frontier.-, to
shoot, stab, rob, and burn the inhabitants
of Kansas, opposed to the establishment
within their limits, of human bond.ige.
The Federal Republican Government ap
proves of, and will covertly, perhaps open
ly, sustain Gov. Shannon in his wicked
administration of his official trust.
We wholly mistake the temper of tho
North, if it will behold unmoved this
struggle in Kansas. If Freedom be soro
pressed there, and calls upon freemen for
help, the manhood and generosity of New
England and the Middle States, will have
died out, if strong arms do not gather
about her, enough not only to arrest tha
tide of battle, bat to turn it. But w& in
voke the spirit of Wisdom, to avert for-
J eTr the arbitrament of force between
Freedom and Slavery. Bradford Argut.
Irish Know Nothings. A Know
Nothing meeting was held in Frankfort,
Ken., on the ISth inst, at which C. D.
O'Sullivan, Esq., a native of Ireland, but
a friend to the American cause, made a
short and eloquent speech, in which he
insisted npon the principles of the justice
of the American party. Ia Ireland, he
said, he had struggled for the right of
Irishmen to govern their own coo a try.
It was for that O'Brien and Mitchell
anj nil the nthrr Trih nntrinta ht.J wm.
i i j v l mi h' .
tended ; and be should feci himself an in-
i errata and nrnnrtrirA if h aftAiil.l it.it
America what he had struggled fur in
j Ireland the right of the native sons of
j every country to rule their own land.
' "TralnA fnr ha Tr.'clv" k.l I .1-
t t . . . t.
: to of all the Irish patriots at home "A-
r , , . . .
menca for the Americans' ooght tola
: their BO(to hfre
'
What Next? There is a place of
j worship up Broadway that has just had
placards hung out at the inner doors (like
; an 'ca cream saloon) with this notification,
I in I'Ct scrawling black letters, "Stranger
! are requested not to take seats," (then fol-
j lows, in the smallest sort of type.) "until
j the sexton directs them to a pew." Tha
I next thing we expect will be, "Private
' boxes for families," and "reserved seat
I until the end of the first act," theatre fash-
in- "O temporal O mores I X. T.
Express.
'I 1UB ocieuiniu .-imcriran Pays, lue past
TM . L- ! . ' 1" . . " . .
year we have known the spinal marrow of
an ox or cow, applied by three different
persons with the most satisfactory results,
in relieving tho paiu and securing speedy
cures of their felons. This, we are confi-
Jcnr w;n he very useful information t
many persons. The spinal marrow should
be applied fresh every f jur hours for tsra
days.
Sickness is Ohio. Several parts of
Ohio arc said to be afflicted with sickness
unparalled in the history of the State. It
I is not cotGiied to particular localities, but
am)ear, t0 ba Eeneral on the hills as well
M i tae Talley.., iu towns as well as in
lhe eountry. i CCQtral Ohio, where tha
chill!i wcre never Deforo known, they hara
t,ccn shaking the people most cordially.
"
The ttfSr Stolma arrivcJ ' Cincinnv
ti, on tho 20th, haviug on board quite s
number of slaves, with their masters, on
thcir w.iy to Kansas. Tho slaves, were
landed on the Kentucky side of the river.
Alexander Malum 1'.-. , formerly speak
er of the Senate, Suto Treasurer &o., died
" "15 " narrisuur on -uouaaj
. . I : : l T T l r t
A f irged cheek fur 1000 i pi
ek at jw t-f the I liici :o ImuLs.
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