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"WE CO WHERE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES POINT THE WAY WHEN THEY CEASE TO LEAD, WE CEASE TO FOLLOW."
BY JOHN G. GIVEN. EBENSBURG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1850. VOL. G. NO. 1C.
MISCELLANEOUS-
Uuuiauce in Real Life.
Most, or all of our readers, must have
heard of the romantic episode in the loves
and lives of the parents of the celebrated
Thomas ArDecket, Archbishop of Can
terbury being no less a circumstance than
that the father of the Archbishop went to
fight the Infidel Saracens in the Holy
Land; and witilc there, was wounded ta
ken prisoner and was nursed by a beauti
ful young femal pagan, who, like most
young warrior nurses, fell desperately in
love with the object of her attention and
solicitude. After the elder Becket sailed
from the Holy Land for England, she
became absolutely inconsolable at his de
parture, and a short time afterwards she
secretly left her father's house, with a lit
tle money and a few jewels, went to Acre,
took her passage in a ship'bound for Eng
land, landed in London, and although she
could not speak a word of the language,
except the name of the being she loved,
and only knew a part of this, viz: that his
christian name was Thomas, she went
crying that word through the streets of the
great city until she found him soon after
which they married.
Singular as the above story seems, we
have to record one almost equally singu
lar and romantic. As one of our fast
sailing vessels was dropping down the
Mersey, with a fair wind and tide, for N.
Y. the hands on board observed a small
sail boat in the river, astern of the ship,
containing a party of pleasure, which was
upset by a squall. The ship's yards were
braced round, her topsail backed, and a
boat lowered, which made for the party
in the water. They were; all rescued
except a young lady, who becoming sep
arated from tiie rest, was carried down the
river by the rapidity of the tide, and must
inevitably have been lost, had it not been
for the watchfulness and intrepidity of the
mate of the ship, who jumped into the
fore chains, dropped into the water, swam
to the drowning girl, and being a strong
young man. supported her till the boat
came and took them both up. She was
taken on board the ship, (which was hove
to.) until she recovered, when the rescued
party were ultimately landed. Strange to
say, the parties all separated without the
name of the vessel or any of the people
being made known to the rescued parties;
and the ship was soon under way for N.
York. On her return to Liverpool, the
mate, who was a fine, handsome fellow,
and who had not failed to observe, dur.ng
their short acquaintance, that the lady he
had rescued was a very beautiful young
woman thought it might not be much
amiss to endeavor to find her out, and en
quire after her health. With this object
in view, he hurried over a pile of old pa
pers, and discovered that on such a day,
18 47. a party of pleasure in a sail boat,
inrlndintr Miss Marv . had been res-
cued from a watery grave by the crew of
a vessel bound out; but as som forty
(which had been wind bound, sailed the
same day, the name of the vessel was not
known. On making further inquires, he
found that the young lady's brother (a
surgeon) was one of the rescued people,
and they had left Liverpool and gone to
reside in the country. He obtained leave
of absence from the ship, and without any
chart or compass to steer by, he mounted
a horse and rode out of town towards
Warrington. He had not proceeded half
a dozen miles, before his horse took fright,
ran off and threw him violently on the
head. He was taken up senseless, and
carried to the nearest house, which fortu
nately happened to be the surgeon s. He
lay some days in a critical stale, fc the first
object that met his vision on regaining his
senses, was the form of the fair Mary
above alluded to. seated by his bed side,
bathing his temples and officiating as his
nurse. She blushed deeply on perceiving
that he recognized her, and hastily leaving
the room sent in her brother, and an older
but less agreeable nurse. Finding him
till too weak to converse, they assured
him that he was with friends, deeply sen
sible of their indebtedness to him, and
who were but too happy to have it in
their power to contribute to his comfort.
He was now convalescent, and sinking
into a sound sleep they left him. He
awoke very late the next day, much re
freshed; but as neither the host nor the
6ister made their appearance, he inquired
for them, and learned that they had both
been called up in the night, and had gone
some distance to attend the dying bed of
a near relative. Not thinking it necessary
to explain to the old nurse, he did not
tell her whom he was, but waited anxious
ly for the re-appearance of Mary, whom
he had already began to feel an inexpres
sible interest lor. The next day he was
surprised by the visit of his captain, who
stated that the horse had found his way
tack to the livery stable without a rider,
uh:ch the owner reported to the vhip: he
aad tried to find out what had become of
the mate, but could not until that very
day, when he had heard at an inn that a
sailor had been hurt, and was lying at
T 's. The captain added that the
ship had been suddenly ordered to sea,
had taken in her cargo, and was re ady to
sail with that afternoon's tide. There be
ing no time to lose, the mate wrote a letter
to the surgeon, which lie left unsealed on
the table, and in which he said all that
was necessary, including an intention to
revisit them on his next voyage: a car
riage was procured, and he, though feeble,
went to Liverpool, and that evening sail
ed in his old vessel for New York. The
letter left by the mate, unfortunately, was
never received by those for whom it was
intended, being as was believed, obtained,
read and destroyed, by a young lawyer,
who had made Mary an offerof marriage, &,
been refused, but still visited' the house.
Thus, on their return home, Mary and
her brother were still without the least
clue to their local habitation or name of
their preserver, with this exception, that
the lawyer in the course of an incidental
conversation, had sneeringly observed,
that the mate was a "poor weak yankee,"
but denied knowing his name.
Mary fretted and pined away, and at
last took to her bed, for almost uncon-
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.nierica, aim lanueu in dosiuii, iienee ;
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thev came on to New lork. 1 he pass-
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acre, and the hope of meeting one whom
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she loved, restored her to comparative'
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health and strength, and they put up at a ?
private borJin house in Pearl .tree- i
Thus had Martravelled double the d- i
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tance of liecket s mother, without know-
inn either the christian or surname of her
beloved. In the meantime the mate arri
ved in New York, was transferred to the
command of a merchantman in the south
em trade, was cast away, fell ill, wrote to
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house, was told all about Mary,
and that she had sailed about seven days
before his arrival, for Boston. He took
passage in the first vessel, came on to N.
York, and without knowing that they
were in the house, actually put tip at the
same place, and slept beneath the same
roof with Mary and her brother. In the
morning, when he descended to the break
fast table, where he found the family al
ready assembled, the first object that met
his view on entering the room, was the
form ot the fair traveller. She saw his
face uttered no exclamation, but sprang
from her scat toward him, and would have
fallen, had he not rushed forward and
caught her in his arms, exclaiming "Good !
God, Mary, is this youl
as sne
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fainted
away. u hen sne recovered, mutual ex-,
we are happy to sav, that they were mar-
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rien, and set off the same eveninsr to spend ;
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the honev moon at Albany, and bv this
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time, doubtless, know one another as well 1
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we are happy to sav, that they were mar-
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as though they had been acquainted for
years.
Chemistry of lhe Stars
This singular head forms the subject of
an article in the British Quarterly. The
design of it is to show that the forms of life
existing in this world are not repeated in
the other planets and heavenly bodies.
The article is destined to be read with
unusual interest. The data from which
it reasons, are the variety in weight, su
perficial phenomena, forms and color of
the heavenly bodies. It is shown to be
impossible that a system of animal and
vegetable life, resembling that of our globe,
can exist on many of them. The dry and
rugged surface of the moon, volcanic, yet
without sea and without atmosphere, the
varying quality of sideral light, and the
chemical poverty of meteorites or air
stones, as far as their component substan
ces have been discovered by analysis, are
among the data on which it is argued that
the stars arc not telluric, that they do not
resemble the earth 111 their composition,
and, therefore, that life must be otherwise
associated and sustained on the surface of
those orbs, if it exists at all, than on onrs.
The chemistry of the stars, it is infer
red, must differ from the chemistry of the
earth; the grandeur of the universe and
the grandeur of Omnippotence are not ob
served, but vastly illustrated by this gener
al fact of diversity, a diversity that is al
ready seen to surpass all previous thought
and all possible conception. Yet there
nay be as wide a range of vital as of che
mical diversity, and the reasons of analo
gy urged in behalf of the hypothfesia that
the stars are inhabited, are in no way in
validated by the discovery that they are
not- or that many of them arc not adapt
ed to the sustentation of such living being?
a? dwell on the surface of our earth.
serious caraner, ana oemg eviueu. mat have nQl , d elhei and cblor7form
she could not survive long unless she saw as anaeslhetJC3 hr lhree years; and aIrea.
the object of her affections, her brother at . ,u .
, J . . . i i - r tv dy aa eter steam engine is at work in
her urgent request, took ship for North i i r r
Seieoific Wooden
The genera! faith in science as a wonder-worker
is at present unlimited; and
along with this there is cherished the
conviction that every discovery and in
vention admits of a practical appli
cation to the welfare of men. Is a new
vegetable product brought to this country
f'oui abroad, or a new cheini cal compound,
or a nominal physical phenomenon recor
ded: the question is immediately asked,
cui bono? What is it good for? Is food
or drink to be got out of it? Will it make
hats or shoes, or cover umbrellas? Will
it kill or heal? Will it drive a steam en
gine or make a mill go? And truly this
cui bono question has of late been so sat
isfactorily answered, that we cannot won
der that the public should persist in put
ting it, somewhat eagerly, to every dis
coverer and inventor.and should believe
that if a substance has one valuable ap
plication, it will prove, if further investi
gated, to have a thousand Gutta percha
has not been known in this country ten
years; and already it would be more dif
ficult to say what purposes it had not been
applied to, than to enumerate those to
which it has been applied, "Guncotton
had not proved in the saddest way its pow
er to kill, before certain ingenious Amer
icans showed that it has a remarkable
power
of healing, and forms the best
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don. Ul other sciences we need scarcely
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tpeau. Chemistry has long come down
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lrm her aro;iuc altitudes and elective
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auinities, and now scours and dyes, bake:?,
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CJ kfn d compounds drug, w.lh
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cury dismissed from Olympus, acts as
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. i letter-carrier and messare-boy. Eventhe
mysteryious magnetism, which once
seemed a living principle toquiver inthe
j compass needle, is unclothed of mystery,
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ana set todrivin turnintr athes. 1 he
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publ.cjperceive all these and has unlimited
iaitn in man s power to conquer nature.
The credulity which formerly fed upon
unicorns, phoenixes, mermaids, vampires,
krakens, pestilential comets, fairies, ghosts
witches, spectres, charms, curses, uni
versal remedies, pactions with Satan,
and the like, now tampers with chemistry,
electricity, and magnetism as it once
did with the invisible world. Shoes of
swiftness, seven league boots, and For
tunatu'swishing caps, are banished even
from the nursery; but an electro-magnetic
steam fire balloon, which will cleave the air
like a thunderbolt, and go as straight to its
desiination as the crow flies, is an inven
tion which many hope to see realized, be-
) tore
railways are quite worn to pieces.
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iJd belore the Admiralty, the Atlant
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Talent and Iudustrr
More is to be expected from laborious
mediocrity than from the erratic efforts of
wayward genius. There may be a harle
quin in the mind as well as in body; and
I always consider him to be of this char
acter, who boasted he could throw off a
hundred verses while standing on one leg;
it is not to such a source as this we are
indebted for good poetry. Demothenes
elaborated sentence after sentence; and
Newton rose to the heavens by the steps
of geometry, and said, at the close of his
career, that it is only in the habit ot pa
tient thinking he was conscious of differing
from other men.
It is generally thought that men are sig
nalized more by talent than by industry;
it is felt to be a vulgarizing of genius to
attribute it to anything but direct inspira
tion from heaven; they overlook the stea
dy and persevering devotion of mind to
one subject. There are higher and lower
walks in scholarship, but the highest is'the
walk of labor. WTe are often led into the
contrary opinion by looking at the magni
tude of the object to its finished state
such as the Principia of Newton and the
pyramids of Egypt without reflecting on
the gradual, continuous, yea almost creep
ing progress, by which they grew into ob
jects of the greatest magnificence in the
literay and physical world.
In the one case indeed, we may fancy
the chisel that wrought each successive
stone, but in the other we cannot trace the
process by which the philosopher was
raised from one landing place to another,
till he soared on his towerirg elevation;
it seems as il the work was produced at
the bidding of a magician. But Newton
has left as a legacy the assurance, that he
did not attain his elevation h dint of hea-
but by dint of homely
reach of all.
viitue within the
Thc Present Age.
ThV present has been denominated a
"money getting age,' an age in which
men are more devoted to riches than to
reason and philosophy. Hence some
moralists pronounce it an age of "Selfish
ness,1' while yet others have called it an
age of "Practicality," as distinguished
from that age when men worshiped the
beautiful and the lovely, to the neglect of
the more substantial elements of practical
usefulness.
This much is true. The present is an
age in which men think and act for them
selves, He who flourishes builds himself
and is the treasurer of the rewards of
his own toils his -own industry. Hence
there is a strong and powerful motive
weighing upon every mind endowed with
any tolerable share of ambition, to make a
forward march in whatever enterprise he
may engage. Although the customs, fash
ions, and stale practicalities of the present
age, may be regarded as objectionable in
a certain sense, as tending to decoy public
attention away from the pursuits of science
and philosophy, to offer up its more fer
vent devotions to the God of wealth; yet
we think we can clearly discern in the
wonder-working influences of the present
generation, powerful and irresistable mo
tives to active diligence and industry in
every practical science of the age, and in
so much of the philosophy as is made
pjactically subservient to the wants and
convenience of man in his schemes of in
vention, and in all the moving spheres of
improvement. What shall we say, then?
Shall we condemn the spirit of the present
age? No! But let us improve upon it;
let us hold it incheck, andif philosophy
and science are forgotten or neglected in
the race of riches, let us carry them for
ward, and bring them before the public
mind, and claim for them that share of
public attention, which shall comport'with
the lofty bearing and influence which they
contiol over men and manners in the social
civil, and domestic circles of society, not
withstanding the many objectional features
and unfavorable inclinations, in the spirit
of the present age. Yet it is propable that
we can ooint no era in the wortd's history
where principles of progress, and the spir- 1
it ot enterprise, and rigid, ' constant perse
verance, harmonized better, or were more
beautifully exemplified, than at present.
Although we charge upon the present the
weighty objection of being the age of prac
ticalities, yet they are practicalities of a
civilized kind, borrowed from philosophy
science and religion the power and influ
ence of which is spread out on the wings
of the wind, and wafted to every land, and
over every sea on the face cf all the earth.
Princeton Herald.
Man has the power of imitating every
motion but of flight. To effect these, he
has, in maturity and health, sixty bones in
his head, sixty in his thighs and legs, sixty-three
in his arms and hands, and sixty
seven in his trunk. He has four hundred
and thirty-four muscles. His heart makes
sixty-four pulsations in a minute; and
therefore three thousand eight hundred
and forty in an hour, ninety-two thousand
one hundred and sixty in a day. There
are also three complete circulations of his
blood in-the short space of an hour. An
elk can run a mile and a half in seven min
utes; an antelope a mile in a minute. The
wild mule of Tartary has a speed even
greater than that; an eagle can fly fifty
four miles an hour, and a Canary falcon
can even reach a greater distance in that
space of time. A violent wind travels
sixty miles an hour, sound one thousand
one hundred and forty-two feet in a sec
ond. Dr. Webster in Jail. We learn that
Dr. Webster has made frequent complaints
to Mr. Andrews the jailor, that the occu
pants of the cells in his immediate vicinity
are in the habit of shouting out to him at
nights, uttering all sorts of unkind epithets,
such as "You're the mn i that cut up Dr.
Parkman," "You're a murderer," "You're
a blood-thirsty scoundrel," fcc, &z. Mr.
Andrews had no other knowledge of this
matter except what he heard from Dr.
Webster. He one night placed two men
in the passage way that leads to the cells,
where they remained until morning, but
heard no unusual or unpleasant noises.
The day following this the doctor repeat
ed his complaint to Mr. Andrews, saying
that "last night the same outrages had
been repeated;" Mr. Andrews knowing
this not to be true, of course concludes
that the doctor's imagination is so wrought
upon, or that his dreams are of such an
unpleasant character as to produce in some
degree mental aberration. Dr. Webster
has lost much of the buoyancy of spirit
that sustained him when he first became
3n inmate of th jail. Boston" Mail t
The Union Dissolved! j
A movement in favor of the Dissolution
of the Union has begun in Boston, among
the ultra Abolitionists. The following
petition is now in circulation among the
people of Massachusetts, and is warmly
advocated by the Abolition organ, the
Boston Liberator:
DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION.
To the Senate and House oj Represen
tatives of Massachusetts: The under
signed, inhabitants of the town of, in
this State, deeply impressed with the ne
cessity, duty and importance of such an
act, earnestly request that you will imme
diately call a convention of the people of
this commonwealth, to determine what
measures shall be taken to effect a peace
ful secession from the American Union,
for some one of all the following reasons:
1. Because a portion of the citizens of
Massachusetts, solely on account of the
color of the skin which it has pleased an
All-wise creator to bestow upon them, on
visiting the Southern States, are seized,
thrust into prison, fined, condemned to
work with felons in the chain-gang, and
frequently sold on the auction block as
slaves, in contempt of the sovereignty of
the State, and in utter disregard of that
clause in the United States Constitution
which declares, "The citizens of each
State shall be entitled to ali privileges and
immunities of citizens of the several
S Li tea."
2. Because perfectly legal measures to
brin? these outrages to the notice of the
federal courts are forbidden by severe pe
nal enactments; and the agents of the com
monwealth, specially deputed for this pur
pose, have been driven back with insult
and violence; the federal government be-
intr annealed to in vain, through Congress,
for redress.
3. Because it is morally degrading, po-
litically disastrous, and a glaring paradox,
for a State glorying in its freedom, to be in
partnership with States glorying in their
slavery.
4. Because, by the alliance of the North
with the South, the slave power has been
ennabled to acquire the immense territo
ries of Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New
Mexico, and California, and is now plot
ting for the annexation of the Island of
Cuba, mainly for the purpose of extending
and perpetuating its supremacy.
But especially:-
5. Because, by the compromise of the
United States' Constitution, Southern
slaveholders are allowed a slave represen
tation in Congress; the right to hunt and
seize their fugitive slaves on the soil of
Massachusetts; and, to demand in cases of
cmergencv, the aid ol Massachusetts to
suppress slave insurrections. And, sq
long as the people of this commonwealth
consent to these compromises, so long
will they be morally and politically re
sponsible for all the cruelties and horrors
of the slave system.
from the Baltimore Argus.
An important Item for the Pig Iron I'anic
Makers
Three or four days ago, we fell in com
pany with an old friend, who is now ex
tensively engaged in the manufacture of
Iron. Being a little inquisitive on this
subject' at this particular time, we ques
tioned him about bis busiuess, and were
both amazed and gratified at receiving this
answer:
"Tariff, or no Tar'.ff, high duties or low
duties, I am bund to make money by man
ufacturing pig iron, because I have adopt
ed the right course to do it and with me
there is nosuch word as fail. Although
my ore is transported near a hundred
miles, and my coal not very ponvenjent to
in- furnace, I can make iron at a cost of J
eighteen dollars a ton. I now dispose of
it at twenty-five dollars a ton, and I neith
er ask nor desire more. If present prices
continue, lam bound to realize a fortune
in quite a reasonable tim."
This is the kind of talk we like, and
for the informtion of our readers, we wM
say that this iron master is a Democrat,
and carries on his business at-Havrc-de?
grace. lie commenced the mining busi
ness in the neighborhood of this city,
some years ago, with scarcely a dollar in
his pocket, and by dint of industry and
enterprise soon accumulated money
enough to become the owner in part of an
iron furnace. lie says the cuuse of the
failure of many of our iron men, is their
very expensive and extravagant mode of
living most of them driving their blood
hoises and riding in cosll equipage to ihe
field of their business operations, instead
of taking it on foot, or on a plain fifty dol
lar nag, as he does. Thes, is. the secret of
their failure, says he, and the contrary
course the secret of his success. He
wants no Tariff, w hi Isipro h ibilorxj tariffs
would not benefit the riotous and extrav
agant liver.
He gives it as his opinion that the
Pennsylvanians, with all tbrir conrenfen
ccs and facilities, co ild make iron ionic
five dollars the ton cheaper than he can,
and he cannot account for their complaint,
or "the depressed condition of the iron in -terest'there,
except by supposingthatthey
expend one hundred dollars in their fam
ilies, where ten more than would suffice.
Let the iron panicmakers everywhere,
take note of this. Itis no whig Roorback,
but the solid truth plainly and soberly
told. If they want any mere evidence
from his hps, of the prosperity that will
attend the iron master of reasonable da
sires and ordin ary economy and prudence,
we can, no do ubt, prevail upon him, to
speak to t em over his own sig rature and
also to give them a few lessons which wilt
be of infinite service to them if they will
open their ears to his counsel.
To the Honorable, the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
in Congress assembled:
At a Convention of the Editors of Penn
sylvania, held at Harrisburg on the 1st
inst., the undersigned were appointed a
committee to memorialize your honorable
bodies, for the passage of an act permit
ting the free circulation of newspapers
within the Congressional District where
they are printed The passage of such
an act is asked by the people of every
section of the Commonwealth. Under
existing laws, taxing newspapers for any
distance, however short, and allowing the
city papers to be carried and distributed
gratuitously outside of the mails, the citi
zens resident in the interior of the State
are subject to an onerous taxation, and tho
Country Press is seriously injured. Such
a clog upon the dissemination
of useful
and general intelligence should not be suf-
fered to exist. No undue advantage
should be extended to one portion of the
I public press at the expense of another.-
! The general education of the people, beinj
! one of the chief aims of our institutions,
j the postage law of our country should be
framed upon a liberal and enlightened.
basis, and believing that this object cannot
be accomplished under existing laws, and
that the present system of postage is un-
just in tne extreme, we numoiy petition
your honorable body lor redress.
The following are the committee whose
names are attached to the above memo
rials. W. II. Hutter, Easton Argus.
A. R. McClure, Juniata Sentinel.
Josiah Core, Easton Democrat.
II. J. Walters, True Democrat, Lewis
town. N. Strickland, Republican L Democrat.
J. Nelson Smith, Mountain Echo.
T. T. Worth. Lebanon Courier.
Isaac G. McKinley, Democratic Union,
Harrisburg.
Theo. Fenn, Penn. Telegraph, Ha.-risb'g.
James Clark, Journal, Huntingdon.
J. B. Bratton, American Volunteer.
II. A. Mish, Franklin Intelligencer.
Jerome K. Boyer, American. Democrat,
Carlisle.
M. D. Holbrook, Lancasterian, Lancaster.
J. L. Ringwalt, Monroe Democrat.
John C. Seltzer, Lebanon Democrat,
Lebanon.
Alex. McKeever, Upland Union, Del. co.
W. P. Copper, Juniata Register.
Jonah P. Hetrich, Easton Whig.
E. Beatty, Herald fc Expositor, Carlisle.
George Fry singer, Lewistown Gazette.
II. S. Evans, Village Record.
J. M. Cooper, Valley Spirit, Chambers
hurg. Geo. W. Ilammersly, Union & Tribune,
Lancaster,
Buston Statistics and Financrs.
The new city authorities of Boston
were installed on Monday, Mayor Bige
low's report gives asummary of the city's
aflairs. The following are the principal
statistics; Public shools, 104 ; pupils in
attendance, 20,000; cost for instruction,
fuel, repairs, &c , S33 L11? Yeailv
rnortality of the city, 5.00, The ceme
teries of tiie city are full and new burying
ground is asked fur. The expense'of the
Police and watch departments for the year
was SI13 000. The water works when
carried to East Boston, will have coit
81,510,000.
The city debt exclusive c f that contrac
ted for water, amounted. 011 the 31st day
of December, to SI.U23.S63. It is esti
mated by the auditor mat the deM, even
if unanticipated expenditure sh&llbe au
thorized, will amount at the close cf tho
financial year, (30ih cf Apr.I) to the euro
of $1,726,03.
(57-A single stroke of an axe is of little
consequence, yet by continaal application
of that 'small "power, properly directed,
what amazing effects are produced!
The sturdy oak and lofty pine do not
simply own its power, but whole forests
lie before tt, and the wilderness becomes a
garden.
Industry, well directed, will give man a
competency in a few years. Tha greatest
industry misapplied is useless.