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One stmare of sixteen lines or less For 1 insertion $0,50, For 1 month $1,25, {, 2 if 0,75, " 3 " 2,75, ,c 3 ti 1,00, " 6 " 5,00, PROFFSSTONAL CARDS, not exceeding ton linen, and not changed during the year. • • • $4,00, Card and Journal, in advance, 5,00, BUSINESS CARDS of the same length, not chan ged. 53,00 Card and Journal in advance, 4,00 Cr short, transient advertisements will he ad mitted into our editorial columns at treble the tonal rates. • On longer advertisements. whether yearly or transient, a reasonable deduction will be made and a liberal discount allowed for prompt pay tnent. Vortical. From the Pennsylvahia Democrat. There's Beauty Everywhere. BY ELLA LEE. Where the young spring-flower's peeping, O'er the mossy stones so old, And the winding streamlet's creeping, O'er its sandy bed of gold ; Where the pale wild rose is blooming, In the cypress-shaded vale; Where the mountain pine is looming, In defiance of the gale. Where the silver fountain's throwing Its white spray upon the air, And the sunset sky is glowing With a gold and crimson glare; 'Where the quiet stars are glancing O'er the lakelet's placid crest, And the pallid moonbeam's dancing On the ocean's troubled breast; Where the sunlight's brightly beaming O'er the tomb-stone old and gray, _Where the dew-drop's sweetly dreaming, On each flow'ret round or way ; Where the wild storm sweeps the billow, And the lurid lightnings flash; Where the zephyr sways the willow— tempest's fearful crash ; Where the coral tree is growing 'Heath the ocean's glassy wave, And the speckled sea shell's glowing Rollind the mariner's lonely grave— • All around, beneath, above thee, Rathent beauty still we find, But none we see yet half so lcively As the beauties of the mind. UNIONTOWN, Mora, 1e53. Aliticellancotio: A Race for Life. Forty years ago my father's family set tled in one of the counties of central New- York. All was a wilderness, wild, grand, beautiful. We located fiteen miles from the farthest pioneer. The woods wore around us, the tall trees and the pictu resque mountains. We had opened a space in the forest, and a cabin of the good old time afforded us shelter. It looked new end comfortable, and its chimney-smoke curled gracefully up and vanished with the shadows of the forest. Tho blackened heaps smoked and crackled, and deep in those wildwood soli tudes the wilderness blossomed and smiled in the presence df yellow harvests. A hap py home was there. The birds sang at earli est morn, and the deep river near the door murmured sweetly at nightfall. There were gentle whisperings among the trees. As they bowed their heads in the winds, a ho ly anthem floated up from the vast temples where nature breathes fresh and pare from the habd of God. The wild flowers bloom ed even by the very door sill, and the deer stopped in the forest to gaze upon the smoke of the chimney top. T'was a beautiful home in the wilder ness." The spring brought us neighbors. 'Twas a great day when a settler came and pur chased land across the river. He received warm welcome from pioneer hearts, and by the ready agency of pioneer hands, a comfortable log cabin peeped out from the dense wood-land of the opposite bank. I watched the smoke from the open roof as the sun went down, and eagerly looked for it in the morning. But it was not the smoke I cared so much about. I only knew that it ourled up, from the fireside where dwelled as beautiful a creature as ever bloomed away from the busy world.- And so I watched thesmoko,—and dream ed as I watched the river until the moon threw down its beautiful pathway of shi ( A 4 1 5 ." 'Th 14. in/1:4 /I.k •-,11-,/ " ning silver, and listened for the sound of familiar footsteps. • Across the river was the home of Carry Macon. Before the mellow haze of autumn had dropped its dreary hue on leaf or stream, I had learned to love her, and to tell her so in the still moonlight of that hidden home. The leaves faded and the winter winds swept through the forest. But we cared little for that. The snow fell thick and fast, but our cabin homes were bright, and our hearts were alive with happiness and hope. When the spring opened and the birds returned we were to be married. A Winter evening party in a new coun try. Did you ever attend one, reader 7 There are large hearths and open hearts there to bo found. Carry and I were invited to attend the party; and a rude 'jumper' had been built, and in this we started. Ten miles were soon passed, and we found ourselves in as merry and happy a throng as ever gathered on a frontier. The huge fire cracked on the wide hearth, and the old fashioned fun and frolic rang out until a late hour. The moon hitd gone down when we start ed for home, and the snow began to fall ; but we heeded it not, for we talked as fast as the stout horse sped on the forest path. Carry grasped my arm and whispered, “hilt!" The wind shrieked over the tops of the dark pines,and I laughed at her fears. But she nestled closer to my side, and talk ed with less glee. In spite of all my efforts, a shadow would creep over my own spirit. The road wound among a dense growth of pinea which shot uptyards, and veiled even the sky from our path. The old pines swayed and moaned in the increasing storm, and the snow fell fast and thickly. I touch: ed the horse with the whip and he moved briskly through the woods. Again Carry grasped my arm. I heard nothing save the storm, and yet I startled as the hcrse gave a quick snort and struck into a gallop.— With a heart full of happiness, I had not yet dreamed of danger. Again the horse snorted ;n alarm. There was a sound above the storm. I felt my cheeks grow white and cold, and the blood rush quickly to my heart. Clear, wild, terrible, it burst dut in an unearthly howl like a wail from the world of fiends. I heard it. Its dismal heart-chil ling echoes had not died away on the storm, when it was answered from a score of throats. Merciful God! a pack of wolves were around us. In those dark woods at night, and the storm howling over-head, a score of hungry throats were fiercely yelling at each other on the feast. For a moment my senses reeled. But I feat Carry leaning heavily on my shoulder, and t aroused. But what hope was there? I had no weapon, and the maddened devils were in the path before and behind us. There was but one chance, and that was to push ahead. This was a slim chance,,and I grew sick as I thought of Carry. The quiet cabin and the happy hearth at home flashed swiftly through my brain. At that moment a dark shadow glided iip by the side of our sleigh, and so Wild and develish a yell I have never heard since. My flesh crawled on my bones. A cold shiver ran to. icy heart and crept to my' head as though the hairs were standing on end. Two orbs glared out like demon lights, and I could hear the panting of the heart Filially grasping the lines and shouting sharply to the horse, we shot away. The horse needed no urging. At the act that infernal °horns again burst out in ear nest, and their dark forms leaped in length ened strides on either side of us. • The speed was fearful, and yet the yelling kept pace. Turning to speak to Carry ? I saw a dark form leap into the path, and as we sped ahead, his teeth shut with a vice-like snap, missing Carry, and stripping her shawl from her shoulders. With o shriek she clung to me, and with one arm I saved her from being dragged out of her seat. I became m - adde;d—reckless. I shout ed to the horse now reaking with foam.— We went on at a fearful rate. The stumps and roots and uneven places in the road, threatened every instant to wreck our sleigh. Howie wds three miles distant. 0, for a world to give for home ! ' As the road struck the river bank, it turned shortly almost on the brink of a fearful precipice. Here was a new danger. It was a difficult place, and there was not only danger of upsetting, but of being hurled into the river. There was a path' across this angle of land whore logs had been drawn out. It was a mile nearer thil,way to a clearing, than by the river. I durst not at tempt it with a sleigh. On we sped. That infornal pack, neck and neck with us, and now and then jaws shutting like steel-traps, close to our per sons. Once around that angle, and I should hope. How madly I shouted to the noble brute. We neared the turn in that race for life. Heavens ! the infernal devils had cross ed ahead and hung in deep masses. A de- HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1853. mon instinct seemed to possess them. A few rods more ! The wolves seemed to feel that we had a chance, for they howled more devilish than ever. With a sweep the horse turned in spite of me. The left runner struck high on the roots of a pine, and the sleigh swung over like a flash, burying us in the new snow. Away sped the horse, and my heart • sank as I heard his quick footsteps dying out towards home. The maddened pack had followed the horse, and shot by us as we were thrown out upon the bank, for a number of rods. A shriek from Carry arrested them in their career; in an instant they were upon us. I gave one long, desperate shout, in the hope of arousing the folks in the cabins. I had no time to shout again. Their hot breath burned upon me, and their .dark masses gathered around like the shadows of doom. With a broken limb, I wildly kept them at bay for a moment, but fiercer and closer surged the gnashing teeth. Carry lay in sensible on the ground before me. There was one wore chance. A stunted pine grew upon the outer edge of the bank, and shot out nearly horizontally over the river below, full a hundred feet froth the surface. Dashing madly in their teeth with my cudgel, I yelled with the waning energy of despair; grasped Carry with one arm, and dashed retlessly out upon the pine ; I thought no of the danger; I eared not. I braved one danger to ecape a greater. I reached the branches; I breathed freer as I heard the fierce howl of the baffled party. I turned my head, and God of mercy ! long shadow was gliding along on the trunk of our last refuge. Carry was helpless, and it required all the strength of intense despair, to hold her and remain upon the slippery trunk, I turned to face the wolf— he was within reach of my arm. I struck with my fist, and again those fearful jaws shut with a snap, as my hand brushed his head. With a demoniac growl he fasten ed upon the shoulder of Carry. Oh ! for help, for a weapon- r -foot hold Ein earth, where I could have grappled with the monster. I heard the long fangs crunch into the flesh, and the smothered breathing, as the wolf continued to make sure his hold ! Oh, it was horrible ! I beat hini over the head, but he only deigned a munching growl. I yelled, wept, nursed, and pray ed, but the hungry devil oared not for curses or prayers. His companions were still howling and whining, and venturing out upon the pine. I almost wished the tree would give way. The wolf still kept his hold upon Carry. None can dream how the blood hissed and swept thrdugh my knotted veins.. At last the brute, hungry for his prey, gave a wrench, and nearly threw me from the pine. Carry was helpless and insensible. Even the crunching teeth of the monster did note, awaken her from the deathly swoon into which she bad fallen. Another wrench was made by the wolf, and Carry's waist slipped from my aching grasp, leaving me but the hold upbn the skirt of her dress. The incarnate devil had released his hold but as if aware of the danger beneath retained his gripe on the shoulder of Carry.- The end had come ! My brained reeled! The long body of the wolf hung downward like a dark shadow into the abyss, fast wearing out my remaining strength. The blood gushed warmly from my nostrils and light danced and flashed upon my eyeballs. The overtaxed muscles of the hand would relax, and as instantly close convulsively upon the eluded skirt. I heard a; tearing as if of :Stitches. The black mass writhed and wrenched as if to deepen the hold. A sharp crackling mingled with the humming noises in my bead, and the dress parted at the waist ! I shrieked as I heard the swooping sound of the felt of the black devil and hie victim, as they shot down, down, into the darkness. I heard some thing like the bay of the old house dog and the firing of guns—and heard no more. Weeks and months passed away, before the fearful delirium of that night left me. I returned to consciousness in my father's cabin an emaciated creature, as helpless as a child. My youth had passed away, and I was prematurely old. The raven black looks of twenty years had changed to the silvery ones of eighty years of ago. Look at this arm that clung to Carry ! It is withered. I have never raised it since that night. In my dreams I feel again that fearful night, and awake, covered with the cold calminy sweat that gathered upon me while on that pine. The neighing of the horse, as he dasbed into the clearing, had aroused the peOple at home. The empty and broken sleigh told a brief story. The howling of the wolves arose on the blast, and with guns and the old house dog, they rushed to the scene. They found me senseless on the trunk, covered with blood, and a wolf febling his way towards me. In turning at the sound of their approach, he slipped and went down upen the ice. Our people long looked for Carry Ma son, but did not find her tilt next morning. They then went down on the ice and found her corpse. The wolves had not pinked her crushed bones. I. thank God for that. The fall partially broke the ice, and the oozing water, had frozen and fastened her long black hair as it had flouted out. The wolf had not released his death grasp and his teeth were buried in her pure white shoulder. The spring sunshine and birds, and green leaves had come again, as I tottered out. My sister led rue to a grave on the river's bank—the grave of all my youth ful hopes, and all that I loved. The wild flowers were already starting on the sa cred mound. I wept over them and bless ed them, for they were blooming over the grave of Carry. The Garden. The last number of Blackwood contains a capital article with the above title, and the season is one in.which those who delight in this pleasant pastime begin to look around the garden. It is not unbecoming in one of the best writers who adorns the pages of this Magaxine, to say that he feels his affections gradually concentrating on hls garden, for if divine wisdom placed the perfect man in a garden to dress and keep, it, the place and duty must have been di vinely congenial with the exercises of an unclouded reason and an undepraved heart. The love of man's primeval calling seems yet to linger fondly in the bosom of .the exiled race; boyhood and the succeeding period of immature manhood, with their tutnultary passions and noisy pleasures,' show themselves alien to the tranquil de lights of the garden; but “years that bring the philosphie mind," and that chasten hu manity with their mildening influence, con duct the belated pilgrim back to the gar den, and teach him there to fled pleasures serene and unalloyed. We often wonder why se many who have around them a spare piece of our mother earth, neglect to adorn it with the flowers and plants which will shed upon them, in the Bumper time, "an incense—breathing morn." There is nothing which tends more to throw around a home, however humble it may be, an air of elegance and taste, and to give bite residents real reflfieniont; than the cultivation of a garden. It is a school in which none are taught the vices of the world, and we cannot question but that many aro kept pure, amid the toils and temptations of life, : by the calm enjoy ment of horticultural pleasures. We trust that these on the outskirts of our town, who possess the necessary plot of ground, will adopt this cheap inethcd of ornament ing their houses. It is not all who . can boast fine residences or costly fur/ante, but there is not a home, however humble, which eann?t, be deocorated by those natu ral attractions which bloom alike in the gardens of the rich and poor. As the spring opens us, let many who have almost forgotten their early hours, - when they rambled through fields fra grant with perfume, recall, by the culture of flowers and plants, the earlier and bet ter periods of life. Mt them tilled around their homes the sacred influence of natur al beauty, and deck the rooms devoted to family union, with flowers which charm and soften the erring or the tempted. No.one can tell how much happier one can go forth from such a home, than from ono of wretched amid squalid poverty, in which no form of beauty enters. The hours devo ted to the garden will not be lost. The pleasure thus gained will last when the wintry winds have withered up even the lilac embus of Autumn. There will still remain a breath of fragrance and a form of beauty which the first glance of 4 . 1'14 can waken into life. Politeness tii Dunning. An old gentleman had owed a firm for years; at last, after every-body's patience and temper were exhausted, a clerk named Frank undertook to get the money. Frank galled upon the gentleman, and met mttil' a polite reception, and the usual answer, with the addition, "You need not trouble yonrself, young man, .about the matter; I will make it all right." • "0,.n0," replied Frank, "I could not think fat' a moment of compelling you to call at the store for a few dollars. It will not be the slightest inconvenience. for me to stop in, as I pass your place of bniiness six times a day, to and from wy meals, and I can call every time I go by." "Here," said the oid fellow to h'is book keeper, alarmed at the prospect of being dunned six tiiues a day for the next six monthr, "pay this impertinent rascal.— He can beat me in politeness, and if ho wants a situation: I will give him two thousand dollars a year." Cr A celebratedr;medy is thus puffed: 'A customer called to-day to say that his wife accidentally dropped a little of our celebrated hair oil on the entry flour last night, and this morning discovered a splen did hair mat in the entry.' If you would succeed in business use Irlenty of printer's ink. (II codiiool,lXlt4) The Free Press of England. Ever since Louis Napoleon set the ex ample of trampling it, as he trampled the constitution and liberties of his country, out of existence, the freedom of the press has experienced a decline in Europe; and if he, aud the other imperial and royal gen try who have a common interest with him in the matter, are suffered to have their wey, the time will doubtless come when this lamp of hope, intelligence, and civil security will be put out, and the privilege of free discussion be known only as an in- stitution,of the new world. The coup (1' chit •wts not merely an aid to the restor ed chiefs of the older despotic states Jlke Austria and, Prussia; it encouraged many of the constitptionel governments to attack the press, limiting freedom Under the pre text of restraining its license. It has been completely brought under control in Spain; it is held in more or less check in Bel gium, Sardinia, and even in Switzerland; and indeed, real freedom can hardly be said now to exist in Eur Ope, out of Great Britain—where it is practically greater perhaps, because less tied by party tram mels and the influence of local feeling and coteries, than in this country—and where is eertaiuly deemed by the sovereigns of the continet a worse evil than it is this country. Wherever they rule, the ten dency is from bad to worse; and English men have more than ordinary reason to re joice that they possess a palladium of ra rbonal liberty which so many senseless mil lions around them have tamely suffered to e torn froM their hands. Under these circumstances, we must confess to having read with surprise the remarks recently made in the House of Commons by Mr. Disraeli deploring the tone adopted by the British press, and by certain members of the new government in late public speeches made by them, towards tho Emperor of France. As regards the ministers, the attack of the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer was, doubtless, justified as well by the circumstances as by the im prescriptible right of the "outs" to make war upon the "ins." Sir James Graham, who was one of the speakers alluded to, and who had handled Napoleon HI with- Oui gloves, might, in defence, assert his right, and dsolare that "if ho was net free to say what he thought, lie was not fit to be a minister;" yet, it must be conceded, it is neither very prudent nor very canoni cal for a member of a Cabinet to abuse.a government with which he thinks it desi rable to maintain friendly relations.— Here, therefore, Dfsradi had a show of reason on his side; but it was strange—it was worse than strange—it was lamenta ble, it was humiliating to hear him, a mem ber of Parlament and late minister, find ing fault with the British press, to .whieh too, he said, ho belonged, for this freedom wherewith it reviews the acts of the Em peror of France. Are we to take this as a sign that the infection is spreading to England that there are persons there— public men—writing men—who think the freedorn,of the press an evil which ought to be abated l Is it really to be regret ted that the British journals are allowed to say things of Louis Napoleon and his acts which are not agreeable to his impe rial taste add wishes 1 We may acquaint Disraeli, we .suppose, of any design of sug gesting a censorship, or of any set - Alamo of hostility against the most valued, and most valuable, of all British institutions, but it is scarce dossible to consider his re marks without feeling that they involve. something, of meaning and purpose, un worthy, unmanly, un-English, for express ing which he almost deserves to be hooted out of Parliament. What is there.m Lopis Napolemi or his history—or in his . relations towards Great Britian—which should elevate him above the censure q t. her journalists? and what has there been in their comments which should cause an Englishman 4 single regret? A. usurper and liberticide—the foresworn servant of a republic which he overthrew— the possessor of a throric which was built upon the ruins of civil right—wearing a crown which was waded to through blood, lawlessly and ruthlessly shed—a 'parvenu' despot who has inflicted imprisonment, and exile, and confiscation upon more political • offenders, (meaning those who preferred free France to him) than any despot of the. right-divine, which he pretends to despise —a military dictator whose ambition alarms ; and , elidangers other countries, while it enslaves his own—the journalists; of Britain would have been false to the cause of liberty which they espouse, and the interest of the English people which they defend, had they not adopted precise ly that tote towards him which was cer kain to prove the most unpalatable, because the, most appropriate and just. Could they praise him, or praise what he has done ? Could they remain silent ? To speak was to censure ~,• to discuss was to denounce.-, And yet Mr. Disraeli "deplores" the tone they have adopted towards him. We nev er heard that he, or any other member or ex-member of the British government, de plored the tone they have so frequently adopted towards the people of the U. States, NO. 14. Yet in the one case they act justly, in the other they have always acted unjustly. France is in arms; America, though her demagogues often threaten, has proved in many ways that she would rather endure a little-or more than a little-than exchange the peace and trade, which England prizes as much. as we, for the strife which both countries feel would be to them unnatural. If it be becuase France is in arms, 000upy ing a highly equivocal or menacing position towards England, that Mr. Disraeli makes these remarkes, then a British ex-minister has been, at length found in his place in Parliament, deplores the freedom of the British press which is asserted at the nio meet and in the face of danger. He would have the press unshackled when no enemy is at hand; he would seleuce it in oomph-. meet to a frowning foofian. If this be the kind of sentiment which prevails, or is countenanced in Parliament, we may well believe that a change has come over the proud spirit of England. Birmah falls— Kafirland is ravaged—towns in Honduras are seized and bombarded—a treaty with the United States is violated—but the ' freedom of the press is lamented in Eng ' land when it offends a millitary chief of France.who meditates the revenge of inva- . sion. Whet, Napoleon the First complain ed of the same evil, the, British Ministers that day threw open to him their courts of law, and he was obliged to content himself with the remedy of an action for libel. If England was, we should think it suf; &dent 'to offer the same mode of redress to Napoleon lII.—N. american, A Good One, There is a good story told in a Scottish newspaper. A tavern keeper in Kelso had recently erected a shower bath in one of his rooms, part of which was fitted itp•aa a sort of a bar, or tap-room, as they call it on the other side. One evening end Irish man, who happened to be drinking alone with few enmpninons in one of the boxes, rose up for the purpose of ringing for more liquor. Looking round the room for the bell cord, his eye fell on the rope at tached to the shower bath. "Be Saint. I Patrick !" said he, "I have found the belt. lope at hest.!" and seizing it, he gave it "strong pull, and pull altogether." In an instant he was drenched to the skin; and almost frantic with rage, to the no small amusement of his companions, he roared oat: "Oh, be tho powers ;--is that the way ye play thricks on travellers ? Be Japers, if I had that big baste of a landlord for-, ninst me, I'd soon teach him betther man ners !" Seven Fools. 1. The envious maa—who sends away his wuttoon because the person next to him is eating venison. 2. The Jealous man—who spreads his bed with stinging nettles, and the sleeps in it. 3. The Prond man—who., gets wet through sooner than ride in the carriage of an inferier. • 4. The Litigous man—who goes to law in the hope of ruining his opponent, and gets ruined himself. 5. The Extravagant man—who buys a herring, and takes a cab to carry it home. 6. The Angry wan—who learns the op.. hioleide because he is annoyed by the play ing of his neighbor's piano. 7, The Ostentatious man—who illumi nates the outside of his house most bril liantly, and sits inside in the dark. A young, chap, one night came home from church, fretting and crying at a great rate about emoting, no ono knew what. The father asked what was the matter I "The preacher says wp must all be born, again, and I don't like to, cos I'm 'frail nest thee I'll be a gal !" Poor follow, "Why don't you take a seat with in the bar 1 , asked one gentleman of an other, in the new court room, yesterday. For the best reason in the world," re plied the other; "my mother always told we to keep out of bad company." That'll do. But we wouldn't like to have a case in court after saying it.—Chic. Democrat. ALONE!—But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cytuloal, where there is no love.— Lord Beacon. CC?" If you don't wiah to got angry, nev er argue with a blockhead. Remember, the duller the razor the more you cut your self. ICS What tables are most used tkrocigh.! out the world ? Vege-tables, tea-tables, and oard-tables. CC"' A miser gets rioh by seeming poor, an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.