NEW SERIES, VOL. I, No. 16.] CHARRIEK WESTBROOK, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Printing Office—Front Street, opposite Darr's Hotel PsLitigation Office—Locust Street, opposite the P. 0. Thrum —The COLUMBIA Sry Is published every Saturday morning at the low price of ONE DOLLAR A YEAR IN ADVANCE, or one dollar and fifty cents, if not paid within one month of the time of subscribing. single copies. THREE CENTS. TERMS or ADV MTN, NO—Advertisements not exceed ing a square three times for Sl, and 25 cents for each additional inseriinh. those of a greater length irk pro portion. tek-A liberal discount made to yearly adver tisers. Jon PRINTING—Such as Hand-bills, Posting-bills, Cards. Labels, Pamphlets. Blanks of every description Circulars, etc.ete., executed with neatness and despatch and on reasonableterms. FIRE! FIRE!! FIRE!!! ORR'S CELEBRATED AIR-TICrET STO72S. J. TYNDALE, No. 97, South Second Cj. 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Agency of the Canton TEA COMPANY. ;.7.77. 4 The undersigned being the authoriz. d -r:!.ji_Ag_ents for the sale of the SUPERIOR itrigF,AS, imported by the Canton Tea Company, of the City of New Yok, invite a trial of their Green and Black Teas, embrac ing the best selections this side of China. Every Package Warranted. J. D. & J. WRIGHT. Columbia, April 7,1847.7-tf Agency of the PEKIN TEA COMPANY. , - .7-, THE SUBSCRIBER keeps constantly frit:4l on hand an assortment of Fresh Teas, im 'ALA ported by the Pekin Tea Company. Any eas sold by me that does not give entire antis. taction, can be returned and exchanged, or the money will be refunded. C. WESTBROOK, Locust street, Columbia, Pa- April 7,1847. REMOVAL. P. SCH REINER has removed his WATCH and JEWEL ... J.-. Establishment to the W.ll..ritr F — ftotse Bi.cx, recently fitted up by him, between Barr's and Black's Hotel, Front Street, w here the puhlic can be accommodated, as heretofore, with all articles in the Jewel lery line, at the cheapest rates. Columbia, J uly 17, 1847.—tf. TIN PLATE and SHEET IRON, of the beat brands, for sale by RUMPLE 81 HESS. Columbia, April 7, 1847.--tf THE COLUMBIA SPY From the Spanish of Juan Ruiz de Him PRAISE OF LITTLE WOMEN. Inn Hale precious stone - what splendor meets the eyes! Ina little lump of solar, how much of sweetness lies! So in a little woman love grows and multiplies: You recollect the proverb nays—A WORD 11:17 . 0TIIE WISE. A pepper corn is very small, but seasons every dinner More than nil other condiments. although 'tic sprinkled thinner; Just so a hula woman is, if love will let you win her. There's not a joy in all the world you will not find within her• And as within the little rose you find the richest dyes, And Ina tittle grain of gold much price and value lies, As from a little balsam much odor cloth arise, So in a little woman there's a taste of paradise; The sky lark and the nightingale, though small and light of wing, Yet warble sweeter in the grove than all the birds that sing; And so a little woman, though a very little thing, Is sweeter far than sugar, and flowers that bloom in Spring. My room opened upon a little terrace,—the flat roof of a lower apartment in our inn at Jerusalem, and from this little terrace I was never tired of gazing. A considerable portion of the city was spread out below me; not with its streets laid open to view, as it would be in one of our cities; but presenting a collection of flat roofs, with small white cupolas rising from them, and the minarets of the mosque springing, tall and light as the pop lar from the long grass of the meadow. The nar row, winding lanes, which arc the streets of eastern cities, arc scarcely traceable from a height; but there was one visible from our terrace,—with its rough pavement of large stones, the high house walls on each side, and the arch thrown over it, which is so familiar to all who have seen the pie- tures of Jerusalem. The street is called Via Dol. orosa, the Mournful way, from its being supposed to be the way by which Jesus went from the Judg ment Hall to Calvary, bearing his cross. Many times in a day my eyes followed the windings of this street, in which I rarely saw any one walking; and when it was lost among the buildings near the walls, I looked over to the hill which bounded our prospect ;—and that hill was the Mount of Olives. It was then the time of full moon, and evening after evening I used to lean on the parapet of the terrace, watching for the coming up of Ole large yellow moon from behind the ridge of Olives. By day the slopes of the Mount were green with the springing wheat, and dappled with the shade of the Olive clumps. By night, those clumps and lines of trees were dark amidst the lights and shadows cast by the moon; and they guided the eye, in the absence of daylight, to the most interesting points, —the descent to the brook Kedron, the road to Bethany, and the place whence Jesus is believed to have looked over upon the noble city when he pro nounced its doom. Such was the view from our I. N. RISDON terrace One of our first walls was along the Via Dolu. rose. There is a strange charm in the streets of Jerusalem, from the picturesque character of the walls and archways. The old walls of yellow stone are so beautifully tufted with weeds, that one longs to paint every angle and projection, with their mel low coloring, and dangling and trailing weeds. And the shadowy archways, where the vaulted roofs in. tresect each other, till they are lost in the dazzle of the sunshine beyond, arc a perpetual treat to the eye. 'rho pavement is the worst I ever walked on ;—large, slippery stones, slanting in all manner of ways. Passing such weedy walls and dark archways as I have mentioned, we turned into Via Dolorosa, and followed it as far as the Governor's House, which stands where Fort Antonio stood when Pilate there tried Him in whom he found, as he declared, no guilt. Here we obtained permission to mount to the roof. Why did you wish it I For reasons of such force as I despair of making understood by any but those to whom the name of the Temple has been sacred from their earliest years. None but Ma hammedans may enter the enclosure now ;—no Jew nor Christian. The Jew and Christian who repel each other in Christian lands are under the same ban here. They are alike excluded from the place where Solomon built and Christ sanctified the Tem ple of Jehovah; and they arc alike mocked and in. sulted, if they draw near the gates. Of course, we were not satisfied without seeing that we could see of this place—now occupied by the mosque of Omar—the most sacred spot to the Mohommedans, after Mecca. We could sit under the Golden Gate, outside the walls; we could measure with the eye, from the bed of the brook Karon, the height!' of the walls which crowned Morit', and from amidst which once arose the temple courts; we could sit were Jesus sat on the slope of Olivet, and look over to the height whence the glorious Temple once commanded tho Valley of Jehoshaphat, which lay between us and it; but this was not enough, if we could see more. We had gone to the threshold of one of the gates, as far as the Faithful permit the infidel to go; and even there we had insulting warnings not to venture further, and were mocked by little boys. From this threshold we had looked in ; and from the top of the city wall we had looked down upon the enclosure, and seen the external beauty of the buildings, and the pride and prosper. ity of the Mohammedan usurpers. But we could see yet more from the roofer the governor's house, and there we went accordingly. The enclosure was spread out like a map below us; and very beautiful was the mosque, built of variegated marbles, and its vast dome, and its noble marble platform, with its flight of steps and light arcades; and the green lawn which sloped away all round, and the row of cypress trees ender which a company of worshippers were at their prayers. Etnt how could we, coming from a Christian land, attend much to present things. when the sacred AND LANCASTER AND YORK COUNTY RECORD. THE HOLY LAND. I= Part Ill.—Jerusalem—The Temple COLUMBIA, PA. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1847. past seemed spread before our eyes? I was looking, almost all the while, to see where Sheepgate was, through which the lambs for sacrifice were brought; and the Watergate, through which the priest went down to the spring of Siloam for water for the ritual purification. I saw were the Temple itself must have stood, and planned how far the outer courts extended,—the Court of the Gentiles, the Court of the Women, the Treasury, where the chest stood on the right of the entrance, and the right hand might give without the left hand knowing; and the place where the scribes sat to teach, and where Christ no taught in their jealous presence as to make converts of those who were sent to apprehend him. I saw whereabouts the altar must have stood, and where arose night and morning, for long centuries, the smoke of the sacrifices. I saw where the golden vine must have hung its clusters on the Holy Place, and where, again, the innermost chamber must have been,—the Holy of Holies, the dwelling-place of Jehovah, where the High Priest might enter, and I he only once a year. These places have been fa- I miller to my mind's eye from my youth up;—al. most as familiar as my own house; and now I looked at the very ground they had occupied, and the very scenery they had commanded, with an emotion that the ignorant or careless reader of the New Testament could hardly conceive of. And the review of time was hardly less interesting than that of place. Here, my thoughts were led back to the early days when David and Solomon chose the ground, and levelled the summit of Mount Moriah, and began the Temple of Jehovah. I could see the lavishing of Solomon's wealth upon the edifice, and the fall of its pomp cinder invaders who worshipped the sun; end the rebuilding in the days of Nehe miah, when the citizens worked at the walls with arms in their girdles; and in the full glory and se curity (as most of the Jews thought', of their Tem ple while they paid tribute to the Romans. 0! the proud Mohammedans before my eyes were like the proud Jews, who mocked at the idea that their Temple should be thrown down. Isaw now the near where they stood in their pride, and where before a generation had passed away, no stone was left upon another, and the plough was brought to tear up the last remains of the foundations. Having witnessed this heart-breaking sight, the Jews were banished from the city, and were not even permitted to see their Zion from afar oft. In the age of Constantine, the were allowed to approach so as to see the city from the surrounding hills;—a mournful liberty, like that of permitting an exile to see his native shores from the sea, but never to land. At length, the Jews were allowed to purchase of the Roman soldiers leave to enter Jerusalem once a year,—on the day when the city fell before Titus. And what to do How did they spend that one day of the year? I will tell; for I saw it. The mournful custom abides to this day. I have said how proud and prosperous looked the Mosque of Omar. with its marble buildings, its green lawns, and gaily dressed people,—some at prayer under the cypresses, some conversing under the arcades ;—all these ready and eager to stone to death on the instant, any Christian or Jew who should dare to set his foot within the walls. This is what we saw within. Next we went round the outside till we came by a narrow crooked passage, to a desolate spot, occupied by a desolate people. Under a high, massive, and very ancient wall was a dusty narrow space, inclosed on the other side by the backs of modern dwellings, if I remember right. This ancient wall, where the weeds arc springing from the crevices of the stones, is the only part re maining of the old temple wall; and here the Jews . come every Friday, to their Place of Wailing, as it is called, to mourn over the fall of their temple, and pray for its restoration. What a contrast did these humbled people present to the proud Mohammedans within! The women were seated in the dust.— some wailing aloud, some repeating prayers with moving lips, and others reading them from books on their knees. A few children were at play on the ground; and men sat silent, their heads droop ed on their breasts. Several younger men were leaning against the wall.—pressing their foreheads against the stones, and resting their books on their clasped hands in the crevices. With some, this wailing is no form : for I saw tears on their cheeks. I longed to know if any had hope in their hearts. they or their children of any generation should pass that wall, and should help to swell the cry "Lift up your heads, 0 ye gates, that the King of Glory may come in !" If they have any such hope, it may give some sweetness to this rite of humiliation:— We had no such hope for them ; and it was with unspeakable sadness that I, for, turned away from the thought of the pride and tyranny withing those walls, and the desolation without, carrying with me a deep-felt lesson on the strength of human faith, and the weakness of the tie of brotherhood. Alea! all seem weak alike. Look at the three great places of prayer in the Holy City! Here are the Mohammedans eager to kill a Jew or Christian who may enter the Mosque of Omar. There are the Christians ready to kill any any Mohammedan or Jew who may enter the church of the Holy Se. pulchro. And hero aro the Jews pleading against their enemies,--'Remember, 0 Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, raise it, raise it, even to the foundation ther-of: 0, daughter of Babylon that art to be destryed, happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be that taketh and dashcth thy little ones against the stones!" Such are the the thins done and said in the of Religion! Pail IV.—Jerusalens.—A Morning Walk There is little pleasure in visiting the places within the walls of Jerusalem which are reported by the monks to be the scenes of the acts and suf ferings of Christ. There is no certainty about these; and the spots about which there can be no mistake are so interesting, that the mind and heart of the traveller turn away from such u may be fabulous. About the site of the Temple there is DO doubt; and beyond the walls one meets at every turn assurances of being where Christ walked and taught, and where the great events of Jewish histo ry took place. Let us go over what I found in one ramble; and then my reader will see what it must be to take walks in the neighborhood of the city ofJerusalem. Leaving the city for Bethlehem gate, we descend. ed into the valley of Ilionom or Gehenna. Here there arc many tombs cut in the rock, with entran ces like door-ways. When I speak of Bethany, I shall have occasion to describe the tombs of the Jews. It was in this valley, and close by the foun tain of Siloam, that in the days of Jewish idolatry, children passed through the fire, in honor of Moloch. This is the place called Tophet in scripture,—fit to be spoken of as it was, as an image of hell.— Here, in this place of corruption and cruelty, where fires hovered round living bodies, and worms prey ed upon the dead—hero was the imagery of terror —" the worm that dieth not, and the fire that is not quenched." The scene is very different now. The slopes are terraced, that the winter rains may not wash away the soil; and terraces were to.day green with springing wheat; and the spreading olives and fig trees cast their shadows on the rich thougn stony soil. Streams were lead from the pool of Siloam among the fields and gardens; and all looked cool and fresh in the once hellish spot.— On the top of the opposite hill was the Field of Blood—the field bought as a burial place for stran gers, by the priests to whom Judas returned his bribe. For the burial of strangers, it was used in subsequent ages ; for pilgrims who died at the Holy City were laid there. It is no longer enclosed ; but a charnel-house marks the spot. The pools all around Jerusalem are beautiful; the ciol arching roof of some, the weed tufted sides and clear waters of all, are delicious. The pool of Siloam is still pretty—though less so, no doubt, than when the blind man, sent to wash there, opened his eyes ou its sacred stream. The foun tain of Siloam is more beautiful than the pool. It lies deep in a cave, and must be reached by broad steps which wind down in the shadow. A woman sat to-day in the dim light of sunshine—washing linen in the pool. Here it was, that in days of old the priest came down with his golden pitcher, to draw wafer for the temple service; and hither it was that the thought of Milton came when lie sang of— Sflon's brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God We were now in the valley of Jehoshaphat, and we crossed the bottom of it, where the brook Ke dron must run when it runs at all; but it seems now to be merely a winter torrent, and never to have been a constant stream. When we ascended the opposite side of the valley, we were on the Mount of Olives. The ascent was steep—now among tombs, and now passed fields of barley, flecked with the shade of Olive trees. As we ascended the op. posite hill seemed to rise, and the city to spread.— Two horsemen in the valley below, and a woman with a bundle on her head, mounting to the city by a path up Moriah, looked so suprisingly small as to prove the grandeur of the scenery. Hereabouts it was, as it is said, and may be reasonably be believ ed, that Jesus mourned over Jerusalem, and told his followers what would become of the noble city which here rose upon the view, crowning the sa. creel mount, and shining clear against the cloudless sky. Dwellers in our climate cannot conceive of such a sight. The Moab mountains, over toward the Dead Sea, are drest lathe softest hues of purple, lilac, and grey. The hill country to the north is almost gaudy with the contrast of color ; its white or grey stones, red soil, and crops of vivid green.-- But the city is the glory—aloft on the steep—its long lines of wall clearly defining it to the sight, and every minaret and almost every stone marked out by the brilliant sunshine against the dark blue sky. In theispaces uribuilt on within the walls, are tails of vendure; and cysesses spring here and there front convent garden. The green lawns of the Mosque of Omar, are. spread out small before the eye, with groups of tiny gay moving people. I f it is now so glorious a place to the eye, wf.at must it have been in the days of its pride! Yet in that day, when every one looked for the exaulting bless ing " Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces!" the came instead the lamen tation over Jerusalem that killed the prophets and stoned the messengers of Jehovah, and whose house must therefore be left desolate. The deciples, looking hence upon the strength of the walls, the massiveness of the Temple buildings then springing four hundred and eighty feet from the bed of the brook below, and the depth and the ruggedness of the ravines surrounding the city on three sides, might well ask when those things should be, and how they should be accomplished.— On the fourth side, the north, where there is no ravine, the Roman army was encamped. We could now see that the rising ground, once covered with the Roman tents, but to-day with the corn. fields and olive grounds. The Romans encamped one legion on the Mount of Olives; but it could not do any harm to the city; and the only available point of attack—the north side—was guarded by a moat and three walls. The siege was long ; so long that men's hearts failed them for fear, and at least one famished woman ate her own child : and at last the city was taken and nearly destroyed ; and of the Temple, not one stone was left open an. other. Now we wore in the midst of these scenes to-day 1 We stood where the doom was pronounc ed ; below us was the camp of the single legion I have mentioned; opposite was the humbled city with the site of the temple courts; and over the north was the camp of the enemy. Here was the whole scene of that "great tribulation, such as was not known from the beginning of the world." From the summit of Olivet, we went down to the scene of that other tribulation—that anguish of mind which had perhaps never been surpassed , from the beginning of the world. "Wnen Jesus had spoken these words" (his words of cheer after the last supper,) " he went forth," we are told "with his disciples over the brook Kedrun, where was a garden." This garden we entered to-day from the other direction, and left it by crossing the bed of the brook. It is a dreary place now, very unlike what it must have been when "Jesus ofttimes re sorted thither with his disciples." Itis a plot of ground on a slope above the brook, enclosed with fences of loose stones, and occupied by eight ex tremely old olive trees—the oldest, I should think, that we saw in our travels. I do not mean, that they have been growing in the days of Chirist.— That is supposed to be impossible ; though I never could learn what is the greatest age known to be attained by the olive tree. The roots of these were supported by little terraces of stone, that neither trees nor soil might be washed down the slope by the winter torrents. But little remains of these once fine trees but hollow trunks and a few strag. gling branches. It is with the mind's eye that we must see the filling up of this garden enclosure where Jesus " °Mimes restored thither"—its or chard of fig, promegranate, and olive trees, and the grass and young springing corn under foot. From every psrt of it the approach of Judas and his party must have been visible. By their lanterns and torches and weapons," gleaming in the light, they must have been seen descending the hill from the city gate. The sleeping disciples may not have heeded the lights and footsteps of the multitude; but step by step as it wound down the steep, and then crossed the brook, mid turned up to the garden, the victim new that the hour of his fate drew on. By the way the crowd came down, we now as cended towards the city, turning aside, however, to skirt the north wall, instead of returning home through the streets. Not to mention now other things that we saw, we noted roach connected with the siege :—the nature of the ground—favor able fur the encampment of an army, and the shal low moat under the walls, where the Romans brought two great wooden towers on wheels, that the men in the towers might fight on a level with those on the walls, and throw missiles into the town. This scene of conflict is very quiet now. A crop of barley was ripening under the very walls: and an Arab, with a soft, mild countenance, was filling his water-skins at the pool, called the sheep-pool, near the Damascus gate. The proud Roman and desparing Jew were not more unlike each other than this Arab, with his pathetic face, was unlike them both. As stooped under the dim arches of the rock, and his red cap came in contrast with the dark grey of the still water below, and the green of dangling weeds over his head, our thoughts were recalled to our own day, and to a sense of the beau ty we meet in every nook and corner of the Holy Land. From the ramble my readers may see something of what it is to take walks in the neighborhood of Jerusalem. WANTED TO SEE THE ANIMAL.—The publishers of a well knuwn periodical in town, have placed in front of their office, in Tremont street, a very ex. tensive sign board, npon which is emblazoned the words— LIT rELL'S LIVING AGE. A green horn, fresh caught, who came to the city to look at the glorious Fourth, chanced to be pass. ing towards the Common, when his attention was arrested by the above cabalistic syllables. Upon one side of Broomfield street lie saw the big sign. upon the other tho word •Museum.' "%Val," said he to himself, •• I've hearn tell o' them museum, but a Brin' age big or little, must be one o' them curiosities we lead about !" Ile stepped quietly across the street, and wiping his face, approached one of the windows, in which were displayed several loose copies of the work.— Ile read upon the covers, "Linell's Living Age," and upon a card, "Popular Magazine—only ouc of its kind in the country," &c. '• Magazine! ',Val, that beats thunder all teu smash I've Imam about prouder magazines, an' all that. Wal, I reck'n sec the crittur, enny how !"—and thus determining, he cautiously ap proached the door. A young man stood in the en trance. "Whcn does it open ?" asked the countryman. "What, sir?" Wot time does it begin 7" " What 7" Thst sho 7" " What show?" Wy, that are—this," this continued our inno- cent friend, pointing up to the sign. The young man evidently supposed the stranger insane—and turning on his heel, walked into the office. Wel, I dun no 'bout that feller much, but I rcck'n I hevn't come a hundred miles to be fooled— I and I am going tcu see the critter, sure." "Hello! I say, Mr. Wat's name, there—doorkeep er! Hello!" A clerk stepped to the door at once, and enquired the man's business. "Wot do I want? wy, I want to see the animal, that's all." "What animal 7" " Wy, this crunur-." "I don't understand you, sir." " Wal, you don't Ink as cf you could understand nobody, enny how, Ses send the doorkeeper hem." By this time a crowd had collected in and about the doorway, and the green 'un let off something like the following: "That chap as went in lust that, ain't nobuddy, cf _ha has got a swaller-tailed coat on. My money's as good as his'n, and it's a free country to.day.— This young man ain't to be fooled easy, now I tell [WIJIOLE NUMBEA. 907. you. I cum down to see the Fourth, and I've seen hint. This mornin' I see the elephant, and naow Cm baound to see this crittur. Hello there, mister!" As no one replied to him, however, he ventured again into the office, with the crowd at his heels, and addressing one of the attendants, he enquired : " Wot's the price, nabur ?" "The price of what, sir 7" "Of the show ?" "There is no show here"— "No show ! Wot'n thunder der yer leave the sign out for, then ?" "What would you like to see, sir ?" said auuther • gentleman. " Why, I want to see the animal." "The animal."' "Yes—the erittur." " Freally do not understand, sir." " Why, yes yer dew. 1 mean the Wall name out there," pointing to the door. " Where 7" " Ileven't yer got a sign over the door of a /tear Zirin'—sumthin," hereabouts 7" "Little's Living Age ?" " That's the crittur —them's um—trot him out, nabur, and here's yure putty." Having discovered that he was right (as he sup • posed) he hopped about, and had got near the door 123111 Pending the conversation, some rascally wag in the crowd had contrived to attach half a dozen lighted fire-crackers to the skirt of our green friend's coat, and as he stood in the attitude of pass ing to the supposed doorkeeper a quarter—crack bang! went the fire-works, and at the same instant a loafer sung out, at the top of his lungs, "look out the crillur's loose:" Perhaps the countryman did•nt leave a wide wake behind in the crowd, and may be he did'nt aston ish the multitude along Colonnade row, as he dashed towards the foot of the Common, with his smoking coat tails streaming in the wind ! Our victim struck a bee-line for the Providence D.p.it, reaching it just as the cars were ready to go out. The crowd arrived as the train got under way, and the last we saw of the 'unfortunate,' he was seated at a window, whistling most vociferous ly to the engine, to hurry it on.—Boston Times. == ANECDOTE or STEPHEN GIRARD.—Tho following capital anecdote, illustrative of the peculiarities of the lute Stephen Girard, Philadelphia, is from the New Bedford Bulletin. We have never seen it published before. "Mr. G. had a favorite clerk, one who ever pleased him, and who, at the age of 21 years, ex pected Mr. G. to say something to him in regard to his future prospects and perhaps lend him a helping hand in starting him in the world. But Mr. G• said nothing, carefully avoiding the subject of his escape from minority. At length, after the elapse of some weeks, the clerk mustered courage enough to address Mr. G. upon the subject." " I suppose, Sir," said the clerk," I am now free : and I thought I could say something to you as to my future course. What do you think I had better do ?" " Yes, I know you are free," said Mr. G., "and my advice to you is that you go and learn tho cooper's trade." This announcement well nigh threw the clerk off the track, but recovered his equilibrium, he said, if Mr. G. was in earnest he would do so. "I am in earnest," said Mr. G., and the clerk, rather hesitatingly, sought one of the best coopers, agreed upon the terms of apprenticeship, and went at it in earnest.. In progress of time, the young cooper became roaster of his trade, and could make as good a barrel as any other cooper. lie went and told Mr. G. that. he had graduated with all the honors of the crall, and was ready to set up his business; at which the old man seemed much gratified, and told him to make three of the best barrels lie could get up. The young cooper selected the choicest materials, and soon put in shape and finished his three barrels, and wheeled them up to the old man's counting room. Mr. G. said the barrels were first rate, and demanded the price. "One dollar," said the clerk ; "it is as low as I can make them." "Cheap enough," said his employer; make out your bill and present it." And now comes the cream of the whole. Mr. G. drew a check for 5020,000, and handing it to the clerk-cooper, closed with these words: "There, take that, and invest it in the beat possi ble way, and if you are unfortunate and lose it you have a good trade to fall back upon, which will afford you a good living at all times." =2 As Isms MAN. —Singular Petrificalion.—On Saturday last a gentleman brought into Porstmouth, from the Bloom furnace, Scioto county, a part of an Iron Man, found in the bed of ore bed! The body must originally hate been petrified in lime, but of this there remains now only the outside in crustation, which will crumble off: What way the man, is now iron. By some natural prooess,the iron must have grown out of the lime, and here is a theme for Geologists! How did this change take place ? If we are right, and the facts seem to leave no room for doubt, this Iron Man would afford one of the moat beautiful subjects for a Geological Lecture. The iron ore, in which it is found is called the cal careous formation. The process of its formation would be an instructive study.—Cincinnati Chroni cle. FACIHOM 8u: res.—The great race over the Union Course on Wednesday, between Fashion and Pas. meager resulted in the defeat of the former, to the great disappointment of the majority of the sport. ing world. Before the race, the betting was two to one in favor of Fashion. A large amount of money changed hands. Only two beats were rqn—the first in 7.45 k and the second in 7.48 k.
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