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From the " New England Offering.'"
Uloonward Gusliiugs.
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0, virgin moon :
' O. nnpfinlv mnnn !
w, J
Turn, turn thy pensive glance from me.
J'llscan thy circling glories soon ;
But now Tm busy getting tea !
Fair Luna ! thou'rt no partial queen :
Thou smil'st on lovers in a flutter;
And just as tenderly, I wean,
On me, when munching bread and butter.
O.say, within thy mystic bound,
Whose wonders unto man ne'er waked,
"Was e'er a doleful maiden found,
Who burnt the cakes she should have baled?
Hark ! sphery music glads my soul !
Sure, from thy realm those numbers sweep.
Peep louder ! ah ! too shrill they roll :
0, baby, won't you go to sleep
Farewell I a weary weight of care
Now draws me earthward : no wild wishes
Or dark regrets my spirit tear,
But 0, havn't washed the dishss !
Our own Fireside.
I've wandered far, I've wandered wide,
O'er country vast and sea ;. . - : -..
But still my own fireside
Is the only hearth for me. 1
It seems to throw a brighter glow,
To warm the heart's full tide; -
It bears a spell that cannot dwell
But by that fireside !
The hearth of friends has welcome kind;. "
And words that cheer the heart,
And eyes that all a language find
And say " Thou welcome art ;"
But, oh, though free the welcome be :
Of friends by years allied ;
Can it bestow the warm, warm glow
Of our own lov'd fireside.
Lat Appeal
A shoemaker in Portsmouth talks thus, to de
linquents. We hope he will have, no occasion to
Hack-ball any of them, or apply the. strap11 oil" of
hich, in olden time, the writer somewhat remem
bers! On your taps ! The sole purpose of this notice
is to the end that those indebted to me may be in
duced to wax the thread of his honest andeavors
to improve their understandings, by calling at his
counter, examining the footings of their bills, and
closing up. He trusts that this may be "the last
necessary call upon those indebted to him, as he
ieels it bootless to attempt a progress in business
hile his all is in other hands than his own-.
The Wise in en not all Dead yet'.
We heard of one youngman. bound to Califor
nia, who took his blanket and slept one night on
a open Dorch. The next morning he concluded
not to go.
Another took a yoke of oxen, and traveled about
six miles through the mud. He found it was a
pretty hard day's work. The next day he gee
liawed them back again, and that evening took his
name off the Emigrants' list.
A young man got about forty miles, after .being
utfrom home ten'days. He began to count the
cost for the first time, and his calculation led him
,0 see that if he was to travel at that rate all the
ume all the gold might be taken up before1 he got
to the Sacramento. He concluded to return to his-;
lather's house. "
A domestic, newjy engaged,, preserved to
"is masier one morning, a pair of boQts, the
kg of ojie of which was rrufh longer. ihan the
o'her. Nf
"How comes s y.ou raicalhat these, boots'
fe not of die same length, V ,
- '1 roally don't, KpOjwJ( Stri Jbja- whal bothers
tnine most iutbaii2fo pair down -lairrtreiin
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How to Escape the Cholera.
Although we have no symptoms of Cholera
among us, yet we can hardly escape the visitation
that is afflicting so many of our sister cities. It
becomes us, however, to prepare at onco to give
it such a reception as will render visitation as
mild as possible. We therefore publish, for the
information of the public, the sanitary regulations
of London, based upon one of the most minute in
vestigations that ever was made into the circum
stances attendant on an epidemic disease. The
editor of the London Lancet says : "these simple
measures are worth all the nostrums or specifics
which have ever been vaunted for the cure of
cholera."
" Let every impurity, animal or vegetable, be
quickly removed to a distance from the habitations,
such as slaughter bones, pig sties, cesspools, ne-
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cessanes, ana ait oiner domestic nuisances."
We do not believe that animal petrifactions are
ever connected with epidemic diseases, but there
can be no objection to their removal from habita
tions.
Let all uncovered drains be carefully and fre
quently cleansed.
" Let the grounds in and around the habitations
be drained, so as effectually to carry off moi3ture
of every kind. j
" Let all partitions be removed from within and
without habitations, which unnecessarily impede
ventilation.
u Let every room be thrown open for the ad
mission of air; and this should be done about
noon, when the atmosphere is most likely to be
dry.
" Let dry scrubbing be used in domestic cleans
ing, in place of water cleansing.
" Let excessive fatigue and exposure to damp
and cold, especially during the night be avoided.
" Let the use of cold drinks and acid liquors
especially under fatigued, be avoided ; or when
the body is heated.
' Let a poor diet, and the use of impure water
in cooking or for diink, be avoided.
" Let the wearing of wet and insufficient cloth
ing be avoided.
Let a flannel or woollen belt be worn about the
abdomen.
N. B. This has been' found very serviceable
in checking the tendency to bowel complaint, so
common during the prevalence of cholera. The
disease has, in this country, been always found to
commence with a looseness in the bowels, and in
this stage is very tractable ; it should, however,
be noticed, that the looseness is frequently attend
ed by pain or uneasiness ; and fatal delay has 6f
ten occurred from the notion that cholera must be
attended with cramps. In the early stage here
referred to, there is often no griping or cramp, and
it is at this period that the disease can be most
easily arrSsle'd.
" Letpeisonal cleanliness be carefully observed.
" Let every cause tending to depress the moral
and physical energies be carefully avoided.
" Let crowding of persons within houses: and
apartments be avoided.
' Let sleeping in low or damp rooms be avoided.
" Let fires be kept up during the night in sleep
ing or adjoining apartments, the night being the
period of most danger from attack, especially un
der exposure to cold or' damp.
: Let all bedding and clothing be daily exposed
during winter and spring to the fire, atid in sum
mer to the heat of the sun."
Dr. Drake, a physician -in Cincinnati, whose
acquaintance with this disease is said to be as ex
tensive as that of any practioner in the West, has
published some suggestions on the subject, which
we think worthy of notice :
1. That leaving the city can do no possible good.
The disease is not contagious. The cause of it
has already spread through the city, and been re
received into the bodies of the inhabitants. Those
who escape to the country are more likely to be
ill, than if they remained' at home.
2. Epidemic cholera has no premonitory symp
toms. The diarrhoea, which is supposed to be its
forerunner, is the disease itself, in its first stage ;
as positively so as when it has advanced to vom
iting, or coldness and collapse.
3. The disease may be generally stopped, if
met in tiat early stage ; if it cannot then, it can-not-afterwards.
It cannot even then, if the pa
tient continues on "his feet. His life depends on
his lying by.
4. All persons who have worn flannel during
the winter, should keep it on'until the epidemic has
passed away,
" Pa, aint I growing tall ?"
l Why, what's your height sonny V1
iJVhy, I'm seven foot, lacking a yard.
Hain't ihat some, old host 1"
j Pa' fainted.'
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The Natehei Courier' askY, whettier per
facilv rabid -Locofoco editor can be honest."
We can'l tell few or non ofihieth have e'var
tried.- &i
State Treasurer's Report.
Treasury Department, )
Harrisburg, May 16, 1849. J
To the Commissioners and Treasurer of the Coun
ty of
Gentlemen : To sustain the honor and credit of
the Commonwealth, another effort is required to
meet the interest falling due on the public debt.
With a view to promote the prompt payment of
the respective quotas of State Taxes, by the- sev
eral counties, the most liberal construction will be
given to the forty-second section of the act of 29th
April, 1844.
The abatement of five per ceni. will be allowed
to any county making payment in time to be avail
able for the interest falling due on the first of Au
gust. The reputation of Pennsylvania is the reputa
tion of the Union. This should be borne in mind;
it is an incentive to action. To neglect the one
is to sully the fame of the other; a base work to
which no Pennsylvania will lend himself.
Abroad Pennsylvania has long been recognized
as the monied meridian of the Union. Hence the
interest felt, and the dependence of sister States
upon our policy and punctuality a stain upon our
own credit, resulting at once to the prejudice of
all. Though it be a laborjo restore and preserve
untarnished this faith, yet it is a work of parriot
ism and of duty, from the performance of which
no man should shrink ; therefore, it is confident
ly expected that the officers of the respective coun
ties will cheerfully co-operate with this depart
ment in a hearty effort to sustain the credit of the
State.
The amount of money withdrawn from the
Treasury to pay the outstanding indebtedness
along the line of (he public works, the accumula
tion of years, and some other appropriations for
useful and laudable objects, diverts a considera
ble share of revenue hitherto applied to the pay
ment of interest. To replace the amount of funds
thus withdrawn, and to provide for other anticipa
tions of the public revenue, will require the ener
getic assistance of the officers, charged with the
supervision of the finances of the several counties.
A high sense of public duty, I am confident will
stimulate them to make exertions commensurate
with the wants of the State, and which certainly
will be creditable to' them as officers.
That the present moment is a crisis it would be
wrong to conceal. If we can, this season, over
come the difficulties which environ us, then no
human agency can endanger the credit or cripple
the resources of Pennsylvania. Before the year
expires the Treasury will be in the receipt of rev
enues, provided by recent legislation, which are
estimated to be moie than equal to the late ap
propriations, and will leave, after the present year
nearly the entire revenue of the Slate, less the ex
penses of Government, to be applied to the pay
ment of interest on the funded debt, and the sur
plus toward the completion of an important public
work.
From the facts mentioned, and other causes of
moment operating, the public credit will hereafter
repose on a more reliable revenue.
The General Assembly, at its late ses'sioh act
ing under the patriotic and salutary recommenda
tion of the Governor, established a Sinking Fund,
with a revenue sufficiently large to make it prac
tically and efficiently useful. Under its auspices
the State debt will be reduce'd ; the public credit
permanently restored ; and the people at no dis
tant day relieved from the taxes now levied upon
their property.
In the future we have every thing to hope. A
brighter daV is" davvihe upon us. The eventful
year is the1 present one. It is the change from an
old to a new system 'from a state of inertness to
one of progress ; and to meet the exigencies of
the time the State expects every citizen to dis
charge promptly the duty imposed oh him by
State pride and patriotic feelings.
Respectfully,' your obedient servant,
G. J. BALL, State Treasurer.
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Editors' Diet. The editors of the Nash
ville, Tenn., are bragging of eaiing green peas
the editors of Memphis are luxuriating on
strawberries and qream while the fraieniiy
in Louisville, Ky., are swallowing cholera pre
ventives, "at all hours of the day and mghi.
The rage for writing pOeiry is universal, a
bout these days. A modern poet says :
" Oh she was fair ;
But sorrow came and left its traces there."
What became of the balance of the harness,
he don't state.
Methodist Book: Concern. From a re
cent exhibition of this vast establishment, in
New York, its assei.s appear tp be $643,217
60, while its liabilities amount to $8,403 94
only. The profin of trie concern are annually
divided among" the ieyetal conferencei;
The Siamese twins are aftlie Apollo Room,
410 Broadway, N, Y,
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Doctors' Bills.
The folly of dabbling in medicines is very
pleasantly hit Off in the following humorous
piece :
" About four years ago I was happily marri
ed to a very prudent lady, and being of the same
disposition myself, we made a very prudent
couple. Some lime after our marriage my wife
told me that doctors' bills were very high, and,
as we coiild hot always expect to be free from
disease, she thought it beat to purchase some
doctors' books, 'and thus,' said she with a smile,
'we can steal their trade at once.' This I a
greed to, and made it my particular business to
attend all auctions of books, in order to buy
medical books a't the lowest rate. In fine, in
less than twelve months 1 had bought a cou
ple of 'Dispensatories,' 'Buchan's Family Phy
sician,' two or vhree treaties on the art of pre
serving health; by different authors ; seven
treatises on the diseases of children, and divers
others of the greatest note. My wife spent all
the lime she could spare from the economy of
her household in studying them, and as soon
as my store was shut up in the evening, I ed
ified myself with a few receipts from my Dis
pensatory. " As sfion as spring arrived my dear wife
informed me that she found it positively en
joined by some of our writers that we must
swallow a large dose of cream of tartar and
brimstone, to be taken every evening for three
weeks, in molasses; this the whole family com
plied with ; first I myself, who, being the head
of the family, I reckon first ; my wife, my
brother Dick, who lives with me, my son and
my daughter, my negro boy, and the servant
maid. This cure we all went through to the
entire satisfaction of my wife, who had the
pleasure to find her medicine had. the desired
effect.
"Soon after this the contagion of reading
medical books spread through all my family,
and scarce a day passed but some of them made
use of some medicine or other. My poor broth
er Dick, after he had permission to read my
books, had acquired a dejected countenance,
the cause of which I could not conceive. At
last he broke silence : 'Brother,' said he, (sup
posing that I had read more than himself,) 'feel
my pulse ; I think I have too much blood ; had
not I better gel bled? you know that if too'
much blood gets into the head it produces apo
plexy : the symptoms of its appearance, says
Buchan, are remarkable redness in the face,
and you see that is exactly the case with me.'
I could not but laugh at him,' he was indeed
red in the face, but such redness as indicated
the very offspring of heahh". Our maid, from
an education at a country school, had learned
to read ; she eanestly requested her mistress
to lend her a doctor book to read on Sunday
afiernoon. This reasonable request was gran
ted ; but, poor creature ! being not of the fair
est complexion in the world, she in a little
while became quite low spirited, and. finding
my wife and me alone one evening she came
in, and ventured to express herself thus : 'La !
mistress ; I am concerned and afraid I shall gel
the yellow jaunders, as I begin to look yellow
in the face.' Decency prevented my smiling
for awhile, but when she had left the room I
could not but enjoy a laugh. My negro boy is
always eaiing roasted onions for a cold, but as
he canno read, he has luckily escaped every
other disorder. One nighl as we were about
going to bed my wife desired me in the most
serious manner that if she should ever be ta
ken with a locked iaw that I should rub' her
jaw with musk, as she was convinced, from
comparing the argument ol a variety ol autnors,
that this was the best remedy. I told her there
was no danger of such an event, as I had Dr.
Cullen's word for it that it seldom attacked fe
males ; indeed, l am convinced thai d lock jawed
lady is rara 'avis in terris.
Hitherto our family medicines were used
with confidence and satisfaction oh all sides,
till I considered one day that our family, with
out a doctor, had' consumed more medicine in'
one year than my father's family used to do'
with the advice ot a pnysician in six years. -But
one day when my wife told' me slio though!
it would be' well 'to weigh our food before we
eat it, lest we should eat too much or to little,
and thai Sancuurious advised it for good reas
ons, I got such a disgust to our scheme that 1
lesolved gradually to abandon it. f am now
convinced of the truth of a saying or a rational
medical writer, 'one or more things must hap-,
pen to every human body lo'livef temperately
to use exercise, 10 lake physic, or be sick.'
And t am pretiy certain that if I and my fami
ly persevere in the two former courses, we need
not be in danger of the two las't,"
" To err is HuMan."
A clergyman having indulged tod freely in
filling up his glass, went one Sabbalh inio the
pulpit, and having giveri put a hymn io his con
gregation sel down, the meTody of, the sa
cred song- soon lulled him to sleep, anu uq con
tinued for' some time to 'play a treble bass sym
phony with his nose. At lepgin one ot ibe
deacons ascended lo'the sacred desk, and told
hWthe hvian was out. " Well," says he
"Tillit uf again, and charge it tojjim Htnes"
Gold Hiintfriff.
Quite an amusing story is goin ihe rounds
in Charleston, in relation to ihe escape of one
of the convicts from ihe Siate Prison, on Mon
day last. Not long since, a man by ihe name
of Something, alias Phillips, who had commit
ted sundry burglaries in the neighborhood, was
sentenced to nine years' apprenticeship at stone
hammering. This be undoubtedly thought some
thing of a hardship, and contrived his means
of escape by prevailing upon iKe Warden, as
the story goes, to believe that he could inform
him where large quantities of gold and silver
were hidden, hot exactly in ihe bosom of ihe
earth, but some four or five feet under us sur
face, somewhere in ihe vicinity of Now Bod
ford. Accordingly, by ihe permi.sidn of the
Siate Supervisors of the institution, who un
doubtedly participated.in common with the com
munity at large, in the California fever, the
Warden doffed ihe State Prison uniform of his
convict, procured, early on Monday morning;
a cab, laid therein a spade, shovel, .pickaxe and
a hoe, and in company with the City Marshal
of the city of Charlesiown, and ihe convict,
aforesaid, made all possible speed id the Old
Colony Railroad depot.
Steam was soon put in requisition to' accel
erate their movement to the heveii where ihey
would be; and not many anxious hours elapsed
before iheir faithful guide intimated their ap
proximation to the place of search. A halt was
ordered; the implements against mother earth
of war taken 'from the cars to apiece of woods
not far from ihe depot, where ihey alighted;
and digging in right good earnest was com
menced. Directions were given to djg, first
down four feel, and then excavate to the right
four feet, in a subteranean direction. Digging,
was practiced alternately by the Marshal and
the convict, when ihe latter slated lo the Mar
shal thai he had well nigh reached the treas
ure, and proposed an exchange, as he was
much fatigued, nd a Utile more digging on his'
part would close the labors of the day. The'
idea struck (he Marshal favorably, and he rea
dily assented to the proposition, descended the
ladder, entered head foremost the sideway pas
sage excavated by his disinterested fellowla
borer, and commenced removing carefully the
earth supposed to be in ihe immediate vicinity
of treasure. All are nowupon liptoe. The'
Warden, bending over the' small well, to be in
readiness to receive the money as the Marshal
passes it up, is at this critical moment uncere-.
moniously shoved into the hole on the top of
the Mashai by ihe convict, who instantly
draws up the ladder, and all at once comes to
the conclusion that his own personal interest
lies digging in another direction. He conse
quently took French leave without stopping,,
undoubtedly, to remind the injured parties of
the old fable of the fo't and the goat. Another
version of ihe story is, that the Marshal had
provided a large bag for the reception of the
coin, and by a slighl-of-hand movement the con
vict succeeded in bagging the Marshal'; but
from the nature of the evidence before us,' 8
should hardly credit the bagging.
The Boston Post, in account of ihe affair,
says that about sixteen years ago, th'e Wheel
ing Bank, Va., was rdbhed of about $100,000',
by ihe three robbers, of which S66.000 vvas
recovered by ihe arrest of two of ihe robbers ;'
but the remaining $34,000 was never found.
It seems that Philips gave out that among the
$50,000 which he had buried was the $34,0 CTCf
of ihe Wheeling Bank money. The President
of the Bank" was written to, ati'd he forthwith
came to' this city, had an interview with Phil
lips, which convinced him that he was the
third robber of the bank, and that the balance
of the stolen money was really hid in Barn-
stable. The Inspectors of the Prison were
then consulted', and permission obtained that
Phillips might be allowed to go to Barnstable5
and point out the place where the $50,000 was
tify. This is the expedition which resulted as1
above stated.
Benevolent SocfeticsV
The receipts of the various benevolent instf
iiitibns, whose anniversaries fiave just been.
celebrated in New York, are shown by their
annual reports to be as follows :'
Receipts.'
Am. Tract Society,
do Bible do.
do and Foreign do.
do Home Mission,
$258.44:0
251.870
390
145,925
2JU05,
110,08T
84 ,04 5
13.592
do Baptist dp.. f t , .y
Pres. B,. For. Missions,
Math. Epis. Mission Sqc.,'
Am. Seamen's Friend Socieij'V
dp Anti-Slavery SJoc,
do arid Foreign do (noi reported;)
do ColonizaUo Soc., -
3.6,00?
f2,358
24.293
lS,4Yl
H Y. State dba
Am. and For. Evang Soc:
dp Pjot. Soc,
do Temp. l)nion. -
1,350
Society, for Ameliorat'rigthqnditiofr tf
the Jews, . 3,221
u- .v - - $10401?
A sum considerably surpassing, wa.be jeveV
the aggregate contrihutions to the same Sucie'
ties in any previous year."