VOL. 49.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
Of the County of Hientingdon. from the 3d day
of January, 1853, vp to the 2nd day of
January, 1854, including both days.
Receipts.
Amt. in Treasury nt last settlement, $3638 18
1847..1. 11. Stanelmaker, Franklin, 38 09
180. Mordecai Chilcote, Tad, , 8 93
1949• .7. Darts Hight, Henderson, 45 07
" David Manntain, Hopewell, 6 13
1351. Jesse Yocorn. Brady, 79 83
" John TAM., Murree,.
Dnniel Teague. Ctomsve ll .
" Jame. Cree. Dublin,
" Puthe Shorter. Shirley.
" John Brown. Springfield,
11 Jr!. Cook. Ti1;1
" Thom. Denn, Walker,
1852. .Tames Forreo, Tinrree,
Asborylll'Cov,
John R. Goniell,
John Kriel., Cloy,
John 11 . n . lipeer. Cromwell,
" Brice Dili, Dublin.
Daniel Womphelorf. Franklin,
. 1 John H. Donald... Hopewell,
JIMIC9 S. Oaks. Jarkson,
" l'itielme . l Lowe, Morris,
4 . Samuel Bottil:e, Penn.
" Andrew Anderson. Porter,
" George Bowman, Shirley,
" John Wiliel,Sprinefield,
" Alex. C. Their. Tell.
4. Solomon Hooch. 'rod,
T.evi Smith. Unifin,
" John Couhe,yok..,
3.,1m Ever, NV...damn:lrk,
,4 Wm. Moore,
1853. James Ewing. liarree,
Jitmeti Miller, Brady.
'''''''''''' Greenbitid, Case,
Itichnrcl Mnilen,Clar
" (le - arca Swart;. Cromwell,
" Hubert Peter... Dublin,
Wm. se/twain, Franklin,
" Luke Vonrhees. Herelersen.
" Leonard Weaver. Hopewell,
" James Stewart. Ja.•kcoe.
" Michael Fetterlinof, Morris,
" Jacob Brumbancli. Penn,
" Benjamin Nett Porter,
" John Lone. Shirley.
" Selu Lark, Snrinefiuld,
" John Jones, Tell,
" I,lel Raker. Tn.l. 138 12
Ilrtlber. Walker, 583 00
" Walter %%writ, Warriorstnark, 699 50
_ .
John Ilewit, West,
Amount of County tax on Unseat
ed Lands.
Amount of School tax on Unseat..
et' Lands.
Amount of Road tai on Unseated
Lands.
Amount of Redemption money on
Unit:m.l Lands received
since last settlement,
Amount of .11.7 fees And fines re
eeived front Wm. B. Zeigler,
Sheriff tor 1852,
Amount received on nand
fUlidry persons given ti,r env
omelet over three thousand
dollars which the Itchltte a •
erns!' Juniata river nt Ilunting•
don shall cost,
Amount of fines received from I).
Africa, Esq.,
Expenditures.
Attorney General and others on
criminal prosecutions,
Constables for making returns
and advertising the spring
elections,
Grand and Traverse :furors,
Court Cryer, Tip Staff, &e.,
Assessors orders,
Judges, Inspectors, and Clerks
of elections,
Inquisitions on dead bodies,
Sundry persons for premiums on
Wild Cots and Foxes,
Road and Bride views. 1017 00
" damages to J. Corbin, 75 00
" F. Lloyd 25 00
_ .
160 00 456 00
State for laving out,
For building bridge nc•:oss
Trough Creek at Para
dise Furnace,
Fur building bridge across
Stone Creek near Couch's
Furnace,
For bridge across Juniata
River at Huntingdon,
For bridge across Black
Log Creek its Coomwell
township,
For repairing bridge at
Hawn's.
To James G win.F.so.. Tree.
sorer of Juniata Bride
Co., fur bridge above
Huntingdon, •
Commissioners—
Robert Stitt, 190 00
Isnne Pei shtal in full, 51 AO
Eliel Smith, 149 00
Samuel Wigton, 90 00
Thomas Hamer, 15 00 503 50
Interest on County Bonds, Le—
Wm. B. Lens, 420 00
Win. Orbison, Esq., 135 00
Henry Fockler, 30 00
Thomas Fisher, 114 00
James G win, 90 00
John Shaver, 18 00 777 00
Amount paid on Bonds for
Poor House Farm,
Amount paid Auditors—
Kenzie L. Green,
David Parker,
Ralph Crotaley,
Clerk--
250 00
359 25
2645 00
209 00
74 71
250 00 3917 9G
1507 50
15 00
16 50
16 50 56 00
Henry W. Miller, R 00
Cl'k. to Conirs in full for '52, 40 00
on account far '53, 240 03 3000 00
Commissioners expenses for
horse hire So., in attend.
ing Triennial Appeals,
County Printing—
William Lewis,
J. A. Hall,
S. T.. Glasgow,
J. Sewell Stewart,
Repairs to Court House S Jail
Counsel to Commissioners is
full for 1R32,
Counsel to Coin m issioners on
account for 1853.
Amount paid for Postage,
Stationary and dockets for
piddle offices,
Fuel far Court House & Jail,
Merchandise for Courthouse
and Jail,
Dr. Jacob Hoffman for Medicine
and attendance on prisoners in
Jail,
Jacob Cresswell for running in
part the line between Hunting.
don and Bedford counties, 6 00
Refunding orders to sundry per-
sons for laud sold at Treasu.
rer's Sale,
Sundry persons Road tax on un•
seated lands,
Sundry persons School tax §,9, un
seated lands,
,William B. Zeigler, Sheriff, for
summoning Jurors, boarding
prisoners and conveying cost-
$2 50
99 75
3 75
5 00 191 00
191 00
20 00
30 00 50 00
at .14 litgoin JAIIITITat
" I SEE NO STAIt ABOVE TILE HORIZON, PROMISING LIMIT TO GUIDE VS, BUT THE INTELLIGENT, PATRIOTIC, UNITED WIIIO PARTY OP TIES UNITED STATEB."- (WEBSTER,
viets to the Penitentiary,
Sundry persons Redemption mo
ney nn unseated lands.
Mrs. Jane Kiem for cleaning
Court House, 30 03
Mrs. Jane Kiem washing for
prisoners, 17 00 47 00
Amount paid Directors of the
Pour for huildin7 Poor House,
Treasurer's Commission on 532,-
4.19 17 at 11 1 - ner cent.,
Balance in the Treasury,
12 58
511 00
5 54
118 no
SI 70
5114.443 00
In testimony of the correctness of the chore
neenunt, we hnve hereunto set stir hands this
19th dnv of Jantiory, A. D. 1854.
ELTP.T, SMITH.
S MITI, WIGTON, Commis'rs.
THOMAS HAMER,
52 29
tia on
G)) 1.11
203 19
89 31
3 39
394 37
Account of the Directors of the Poor
Huntingdon Corty, for the
year 1853.
Receipts.
Balance in hands of the Trea*er
at the last settlement,
2791 bushels of wheat sold in 18.12
at $l,OO per bushel.
Interest from isett, Wigton & Co.,
on $l7B 481. 6 7571
132 14 15 bushels of red wheat. sold
in 1853, at $1,20 per bushel,
Ifio 91
630 on
161 01
440 31
488 21
153 57
655 75
759 47
155 61
77 66
161 92
176 32
273 25
145 58
11:15 52
Expenditures.
Directors of the I'uor for services—
James Saxton $3O 00
James Clark 12 00
George Hudson 30 00
John Brewster 39 00
Samuel Muttern 603 $ll7 00
Amount paid Henry Hudson for plan
and specifications for Poor House 18 00
Amount paid Lycoraing Insurance
Company 2 62
Amount paid A. Hal for printing 400
Amount paid James G. Lightner an
necount his contract for building
Poor House 700 00
Treasurer's Commissions on $1304
94 at 1/ per cent 22 57
Balance in hands of the Treasurer 124 70
sin no
24n on
55 on
)R5 no
119 00
100 00
477 50
1002 31
225 00
cnn no
230 00
403 19
235 00
525 00
65 53
170 00
711 75
$14,561 OG
We the undersigned Auditors of the County
of Huntingdon. do hereby certify that we bane
examined the orders of the Commissioners of
said County, and the receipts for the same, for
and during the past year, and find a balance
in the Treasury of three hundred and one dul•
lard and eighty cents.
And also that we have examined the account
of the Directors of the Poor of said County,
and find a balance in the hands of the Trensu•
rer of one hundred and twentyfuur dollars and
seventy cents.
Given tinder our hands at the Commission•
en Office in Huntigslon. January, A. D. 1851.
DAVID PARKER.
HENRY BREWSTER,
RALPH CROTSLEY,
Feb. T, 1854 County Auditors.
43 74
li 05
40 90
83 00
45 00
10 00
WHEN I AM OLD.
When I am old—and nh ! how soon
Will life's sweet morning yield to noon,
And noon's broad, fervid earnest light
Be shrouded in the solemn night,
Till like a story well nigh told,
Will semi' my life when I am old.
$15,443 00
930 12
2GG 33
When I am old this breezy earth
Will lose for one its voice of mirth ;
The streams will have an under tone
Of sadness, not by right their own ;
And spring's sweet power in vain unfold
Its rosy charms when I am old.
2799 02
769 64
CriG 91
124 72
370 50
When I am old I shall not rare
To deck with flowers my faded hair;
'Twill he no rain desire of mine
In rich and costly dress to shine;
Itri2ht jewels and the bri.,ditest gold
Will charm me not when I am old.
then I am old my friends will be
Old and infirm, and bowed like me;
Or else their bodies 'neath the sod.
Their spirits dwelling safe with God,
The old ehareh•bell will then hove tolled
Above their rests, when I am old.
When I am old I'd rather bend
Thus sadly o'er each buried friend,
Than see them loose the earliest truth
That marks the friendship of our youth,
'Twill he so sad to have them cold,
Or strange to me when I am old.
"Thy Word is Truth."
la one of the proverbs of Sulomon we find
the most comprehensive and satisfitctory expo
sitions of the philosophy of advertising,that cv
er was or could be written, vie:
"There is that seattereth and yet in , rmseth,
and there is that withholdeth more than is meet,
but it tendeth to poverty."
And the words of Paul to the Corinthians
aptly expresses the same idea:
"He that soweth sparingly shall reap also
sparingly, nod ho that soweth bountifully shall
rzap alsu bountifully."
tar Two young men waited upon the lute
Peter S. Duponcenu, Esq., to nsk his profes
sional as4istance. One of them commenced—
"Mr. Duponeenu, our father died and made
his will."
"Is it possible? I never heard of such a
thing," nnswered Mr. Duponceau.
"I thought it happened every day," said the
young man.
_ _
38 18
"It's the first case of the kind," replied Mr.
Duponceau.
"Well," said the young man, "if there's to
be any difficulty about it, we bad better give
you a fee to attend to the business."
The fee was given and then Mr. Duponceau
observed—
"Ohl I think I know what you mean. You
mean that your rather made a will and died.—
Yes ; yes! that must be it !"
90 11
199 81
jper "Six feet in his 1;;otsl" exclaimed Mrs.
Partington. "What will the importance of
this world come to, I wonder? Why, they
might just as reasonably tell me that the man
had six heads in his hot?"
3G 98
21 87
MN. l'artington, in a characteristic para
graph about Fern Leaves, says: know the
Fern family from their very roots. They most
ly live in the woods; they are a sweet, good
race, but carry their bends pretty high; and
Fanny is no deception to the general rale."
86 09
100 37
VS. A lazy fellow up North spells Tenuec.
see; 10.n.e. He goes in for x•pd-n•c-e.
Sir :I life of regret fullows neglected youth.
HUNTINGDO .
From the National Intelligencer.
Republic at Guatemala.
775 99
26 12
We have been favore with a pamphlet copy
of the message of Gen. Carrera, Pre4ident of
the Republic of Guatemala, to the House of
Representatives on the opening of its first ses
sion, on the 25th November, 1853. We are
gratified to perceive that it presents a cheering
view o , the ,present improved condition and
prospects of the Republic. The fidlowintr ex
tracts from the document may possess interest
to many of our readers. It opens as flillows:
'•lt is very gratifying for me to see this res
pectable Congress now reassembled, in order
to continue the useful laborsthat were com
menced last year. The regularity with which
these meetings take place is an evidenee that
the establishment of our institutions advances
without any obstacle, and justifies the hope
that the governmenemay gradually acquire sill
id il Y. twreeabl v to the hoses of the constitution."
"In the interior of the Republic tranquility
has been preserved, and the increase of private
and general welfare keeps pace with the resin
ration of confidence in the stability of public
order. The desire to retrieve past losses has
been generally awakened. There is a tenden
cy to return to habits of order and regularity,
and the spirit of enterprise spreads and expands
everywhere. Trade has had a visible increase,
and it con be asserted that within the last ten
years the amount of capital employed in coin
!tierce has doubled. Agriculture is being de
veloped, notwithstanding the want of roads fur
speedy communication. The manufacture of
sugar has been increased to a considerable ex
tent."
2300 00
4A3 flB
801 80
525 111
279 53
159 52
$9BB 89
"Should this fortunate movement continue
without nny interruption, it may be depended
upod that within a very few years the aspect of
the country will have been materially changed.
"As regards our relations with the other
Central American States, I have the satisfac
tion to incorm this Congress that the same fra
ternity and good understanding previously ex.
i,t'ng is maintained with Costa Rica. That of
Nicaragua has also evinced to this government
the most friendly anxiety to cooperate to the
restoration of peace between us and Honduras."
"A treaty was concluded with Salvador,
n, !deb, having been duly ratified, will he sub.
mined to Congress. I consider this event of
great importance. The relations between the
two States being so close, it was earnestly de.
sired that peace should he fortified, through a
solemn net, removing thereby the fear of any
new rupture. We have not been able to conic
to an understanding with Honduras."
988 89
"My constant policy and my steady purpose
has been not to protract useless wars on our
part; and accordingly I have confined my mil.
itary operations to what was deemed firers..
ry in order to repel and to disarm the invaders.
This object attained, and with a view to spare
calamities to the populations, hostilities have
been suspended on our side; our troops have
been reduced to the Wing, of pence."
llaving occasion to notice the above Message
of the President of Guatemala. we will add a
few words in regard to the affairs of the Cen•
rat American States, which we are prompted
to offer in consequence of various misconcep
tions or erroneous statements, as we under
stand them to he, put forth from time to time
through New York presses. Influenced prob.
ably by private ends, correspondents of those
journals are in the habit of representing the
Guatemalian government as one which follows
an illiberal and iniquitous policy. They mis
lead public opinion by what we are well assu
red are Use ncrounts of the origin and progress
of the war, if it *nay be called a war. still
unfortunately existing between Honduras and
Guatemala, with a view to enlist the sympa
thies of our countrymen in favor of the former
State.
They assert that Guatemala has been the n?•
gressor in that war, and that she nets under
British influence, and is supported by Ena.
kind. Such representations, we are assured,
are contrary to truth, and have no foundation.
We learn the fact to be, that, after many years
of confusion, bloodshed, and calamity, brought
upon Central Americi by the disorganizing
doctrines of the radical or Jacobinic party, this
party became unpopular by its very excesses
and extravagances. The consequence was, we
understand, that it gradually lost ground in
Guatemala, Costa Hien. Salvador, and Nicara
gua; which republics are at present under the
guidance of men professing conservative prin
ciples, through whose exertions the country
hns emerged from anarchy. and a regular state
of society Tins been reconstructed. But the
few remaining adherents to revolutionary ideas
have succeeded in obtaining the control of the
State of Honduras, and front that quarter they
have been engaged in sending out expeditions
of political refugees from Guaternala,aticl other
marauders into the territory of Guatemala.—
Remonstrances were duly addressed to the
Honduras Government by that of Guatemala;
but the former. notwithstanding its official de.
(Aerations, continued to protect them, rind to
assist them with arms and money. The Gus.
tenudians were in consequence driven to ne
cessity of crossing the frontier of Honduras to
chastise and repress the marauders. The Pres
ident of Honduras saw in this circumstance a
convenient plea for declaring open war and in
vading Guatemala. He did so in the course
of last year, but was cotnpletely defeated. Gua
temala, on her part, we understand, before and
after that event, has tried every reasonable
means for the arrangement of the difficulty, and
has exhibited a spirit of forbearance and mod
eration.
It is certainly improper fur the American
press to encourage civil war among sister Re•
publics of this continent, by taking sides with
any one party. Their endeavors should be con•
fined to the interests and offices of peace and
reeoncilintion. There ought to exist no Byrn.
pnthy in this country fur those disturbers or so•
ciety who have endeavored to plant in Central
America every kind of us disorganizing doe.
trifles, socialistic, atheistic, and red republicga.
, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1854.
It is said that parties in New York, who have
business connexions with the Honduras govern.
ment, have 'men sending muskets and ammu•
nition and a few fighting men to that govern.
ment; and a late paper of that city alluded to
this incident. Such conduct, (if it he true,) is
highly reprehensible, and is a violation of our
neutrality laws deserving the severest censure.
A Touching Incident.
The affection of Indian parents for their
children. nnd the deference which they par to
the aged, is n beautiful and touching trait in
their character.
One extremely cold winter day, as r was
huddled with my little ones over the stove, the
door softly opened, and the moceasined font of
an ruffian crossed the floor s I rahied my head,
(for I was too much accustomed to their sudden
appearance at nay hour to feel alarmed.) and
perceived a small woman standing silently and
respectfully befime me, wrapped in alarm Man.
ket. The moment she eaucht my eye she drop
ped the folds of coverinn from around her. and
laid at my fl-et the attenuated finure of a hoc,
about twelve rears of age, who was in the last
atone of consumntion.
"Papnnse die," she said, mournfully clasp.
ing her hands against her breast. and looking
down norm the suffering lad with the most
heartfelt expression of maternal love, while
larze tears trickled down her fore. "Moodie's
squaw save papouse—poor Indian woman be
much Owl."
ller child was beyond all human aid. I ionic
ed anxiously upon him. nndknew by the pinch•
ed up features and purple hue of his wasted
cheek that he had not many hours to live. I
could only answer with tears her agonizing ap
peal to my skill.
"Try and save him ! All die but him." (She
held up her five fin?ers.) "Broneht him all the
way from Matta Lake* upon his back, fur
white squaw to cure."
"T cannot cure him, my poor friend. Tie is
in God's care; in a few hours he will be with
him."
The child was seized with a drendful fit of
coughing which I expected would terminate
his frail existence. I gave him a teaspoonful
of current jelly, which he took win nvid . tr,
but could not retain a moment on his stom•
.11."
"Pupouse die," murmured the poor woman,
"alone...alone I No papoose ! the mother all
alarm I"
She began readjusting the poor sufferer in
her blanket. i got her some food. and begged
her to stay and rest herself; but she was too
distressed to eat, but her face:expressed the
keenest anguish, she 'took up her mournful
load. pressed for a moment his wasted, burn.
ing hand in hers. and left the room.
My heart followed her a long way on her
melancholy journey. Think what must have
been that womatis love limber dying son, when
site had carried a lad of his age six miles.
through the deep snow, upon her back, on
sorb a day, in hope of my being able to do him
some pond. Poor heart broken mother! I
learned from .Toe Muskrat's squaw some days
after, that the boy died, a few minutes An,
Elizabeth Iron. his mother, got home.—Rough
ing in the Bush.
*Mud Lake, or Lake Shernong, Indiana
Our Evenings.
Evenings at home are among the most de
lightful and the most profitable privileges the
business and working men can enjoy. if they
arc judiciously provided for. Here is a pro.
gramme:—A frolic with the baby—n quit chat
with wife—an agreeable book—nuts and apples
may be—all around a bright fire in in rosy
room. On that, ••bill of fare," let the hatchet.
or consider, and resolve to mend his ways.—
But while he is considering on the question, be
may not be altogether without social pleasure,
which combine intellectual profit, We like a
class of melting held in Phiadelphia. and
would recommend them to our citizens. In
the Quaker City a society of forty er fifty per
sons meet every Tuesday night. The mem
bers ore of all sexes and all ages from fourteen
to sixty. Their room is neatly furnished and
cheerfully lighted. They give the first hour
of the evening to free social intercourse; the
next to the discussion of religion.polities,and tbe
social and industrial sciences; and the last hour
is devoted to conversation, music and dancing.
as file several parties aro inclined. Visitors
are welcomed, and often make one-third of the
company. They are at liberty to participate
as freely in all the engagements of the evening
as the members themselves. These meetings
are found equally attractive to a great variety
of tastes, which has the abet of balancing all
their exercises and merriment, and keeping
them in healthful harmony.
A Mother's Prayer.
"When I could first remember," said John
Randolph to a friend, "I slept in the same bed
with a widowed mother; each night befOre put.
ting me to bed, I repeated on my knees before
her, the Lord's prayer, and the apostle's creed;
each morning kneeling in the bed, I put up my
little hands in prnyer in the same form. Years
have since passed away; I have been a skeptic,
a professed scoffer, glorying in my infidelity,
and vain of the ingenuity with which I could
defend it. Prayer never crossed my mind but
in scorn. I am now conscious that the lee•
sons above mentbmed, taught me by my dear
and revered mother, are of more value to me.
than all that I have learned from my precep•
tors and compeers."
Be .Otte of the best double pans we have
ever heard, says the Yankee Blade, was perpe•
tmted by a clergyman. He had just united in
marriage a conple whose Christian names were
respectively Btmjamin and Ann. "How did
they appear during the ceremony?" inquired a
friend. "They appeared both annie•mattd and
Lenniefited," was the ready reply.
A Remarkable Story.
One night, while Sir Even Napean was Un•
der.Secretary to the Home Department, he
felt the most unaccountable wakefulness that
could he imagined. He was in perfect health,
had dined early, and had nothing whatever on
his mind to keep him awake. Still he found
sleep impossible, and from eleven till two he
never closed an eye. At length, weary of this
struggle, and no the twilight was breaking (it
was Summer,) he determined to try what would
be the effect of a walk in the park. There was
nothing hut the sleepy sentinels. But, in this
walk. happening. to pass the Home Office set•
eral times, he thought of letting himself in with
his key, though without any particular object.
The book of entries of the day before still lay
on the table, and through listlessness he open.
ed it. The first thing he saw appalled him—
•'A reprieve to be sent to York for the coiners
ordered for execution." The execution had
been appointed for the next day. It struck
him that he had received no return to his order
to send the reprieve. He searched the ..min
utes"—he could not find it there. In alarm,
he went to the house of the Chief Clerk, who
lived in Downing street, knocked him up it
was past three.) and asked if he knew anything
about the reprieve being sent. In great alarm,
the Chief Clerk could not remember.
"Yon are scarcely awake.' said Sir Evan.—
"Recollect yourself—it must have been sent.
The Chief Clerk said that he now recollected
he had sent it to the Clerk of the Crown, whose
business it wins to forward it to York.
"Good 1" said Sir Evan, '•but have you his
receipt and certificate that it is gone?"
uN o. n
"Then come with me to his house; we must
find him, it is so early."
It was now four, and the Clerk of the Crown
lived in Chancery lane. There was no hackney
conch to be seen, and they almost ran. They
were just inlime. The Clerk of the Crown
had a country house, and, meaning to have a
long holiday, he was nt that moment steps iag
into his gig to go to his villn. Astounded at
the visit of the under-Secretary of State, nt
such an hour, he was still more so at his busi-
"lleavens l" cried he, "the reprieve is locked
up in my desk r
It was brought. Sir Evan sent to the post.
office for the truest and fleetest express. The
reprieve reached York, the next morning, just
at the moment when the unhappy men were
ascending the cart.
Public Opinion.
Let children he tau.tht to set a true and just
value upon public opinion. Show them how
the world has always treated its greatest men
—how it atoned its prophets—crucified its S.
viour—martyred its apostles. Show how fickle
—how indiscriminating, it is to this day—how,
i'norance speaks with the same confidence, or'
even with more, than knowledge—how the
heights and depths of the greatest minds are
measured nt once by the conceit of the small
est. Show how hard it is for peop'e to praise,
how easy to blame. Call the attention of the
young to the kind of criticisms current of both
men and things in this 'notch dreaded society,
and let them say, if they really seek excellence,
whether they ought to value such criticism ?
When they have mastered any one subject, let
them listen to the flippant, trivial, conceited,
shallow judgments of the world of their ac
quaintance upon it, and let them learn from
that to appreciate the worth of public opinion,
and judge whether the desire of fame, based
upon such public opinion, is worth striving for,
or ought so much as to influence their motives
to action. To appreciate a great man, requires,
if not one as great, still a great man, and the
judgments of the world, therefore, must be
either borrowed or erroneous—more frequently
the hitter, ns selfeoneeit usually supplies any
deficiency of talent.
"Whatever nature has in worth denied
She gives in large recruits of needful pride:'
Upon. whom does Fame bestow her rewards?
Rarely upon those who most deserve them.—
Does conscience approve the judgment even of
the most intimate friends with respect to our
characters? How then can we expect the
world or posterity to do justice? and praise or
blame that is not discriminating and just, who
would value?
A Reproof of Foppery.
Dean Swift was a great enemy to ext-ava
genre in dress. Of his mode of reproving this
fully in those persons for whom he had any es•
teem, the following instance has been recorded:
When George Faulkner, the painter, return•
ed from London, where he had been soliciting
subscriptions fur his edition of the Dean's
works, he went to pay his respects to him,
dressed in a waistcoat, a big wig, and other
fopperies. Swill received him with the same
ceremony as if he had been a stranger. 'And
pray, sir,' said he, 'what are your commands
with me?' 'I thought it was my duty, sir,' re•
plied George, 'to wait upon you immediately
upon my arrival from London. "Pray, sir, who
are you?' George Faulkner, the painter, sir.'
'You George Faulkner, the painter? Why,
yon are the most impudent, bare-faced scout,
drel of an imposter I ever met with I George
Faulkner is n plain, sober citiz .n, and a ou'd
never trick himself out in lace and other fop.
peries. Get you gone you rascal. or I will im•
mediately send you to the house of correction.'
Away went George, as fast as be could, and
having changed his dress, returned to the des•
nery. where he was received with the greatest
cordiality. 'My friend George,' said the dean,
'I am glad to see you return safe from London.
%Thy there has been an impudent fellow with
me just now, dressed in a lace waistcoat, and
he would fain pass himself off for you, but I
soon sent hip off, with a Ilea in his ear:—
MA/iv/mu a Friend.
tei."There's a woman at the bottom of ev
ery mischief," said Joe. "Yes," rei Led Sam,
"when I used to get into mischief, my mother
was at the bottom of me."
List of Patents,
Issued from the United States Patent Office
for the week ending February 7,1854--each
bearing that date:
Ebenezer narrows, of New York, N. Y.—
For improvement, in rotary engines. Paten.
ted in England, July 3, 1811.
A. Merritt Any of Philadelphia, Pc—For
improvement in dental chairs.
Edward Baryerol and William Viers, of
Philad-lphia, Pa.—For improvement in turn
ing lathes.
John and William McAdams, of Boston,
Mass.—For improvement in machines for rul
ing paper.
Jacob Reese, of Sharon, Pa.—For improve-
ment in machines for making nuts.
Michael Shimer, of Union Township. Pa.—
For improvement in winnowers.
Josiah Turner and W. C. Sturoc, of Suns.
pee, N. 11.—For improvement in winnowers.
John M. Batchelder, of Cambridce, Mass.,
and Moses G. Farmer, of Salem, Mass.—For
improvement in the mode of making battery
connection with an elcart,natnetic coil on
the travellinc earrace of a telegraphic rezister.
Thomas Blanchard. of Boston, Mass.—For
improved machine for polishing plough hand
les and other articles.
George Edward Burt. of Westford, Mass..
assignor to himself and David C. Butterfield,
of same place.—For improvement in machines
for cleaning and assorting, bristles.
Dexter 11. Chamberlain, of Bo ston, Mass.—
For improvement in bit or drill storks.
Dexter 11. Chamberlain. of Boston, Mass.—
For improvement in tonbholderß.
John J. Crooke, of New York, N. Y.—For
improvement in the manufacture of tin foil or
sheets. •
James S. Davis, of New Paris, Ohio.—For
improvement in blocks for horse collars.
F. 0. Deschamps, of Phi'a lelphin, Pa.—For
improvement of omnibus registers.
John S. Hall, of Blanchester, Pa.—For im•
provemrnt in plows.
J. 13. Hayden, of Easton, N. T.—For int
provement in metallic hem
A Model Editor.
He must linnw all about Isis own county",
his own State. Isis own county and other cam•
ties, State and country. He must know every
event of the current hour, must remember eve
rything he ever said or heard of during Isis life.
He must be familiar with all the records of past
history, and prepared to utter prophesies as to
the future a much harder task than many ima•
gine, if he wishes to avoid being thought mad
or foolish. He must be fully and thoroughly
posted in all the innumerable °logics, osophies
and ograplsies into which the limitless domain
of so called or truly called science, is divided.
He must know every great man of history.
every hero, god, or goddess, of ancient myth°.
logy and of the paganism of all time. He must
remember the name of every poet, and be able
to quote all the poetry that has ever been writ
ten, be thoroughly versed in all religious con•
troversies and doctrines of the old or latter
times. He mast understand every practical
question of all periods, .d the names and his•
tories of each agitator and party. He must
know all opinions prevalent or exploded, and
believe most of them. In short he must be a
walking eyclopedium of knowledge, a locomo•
tive megasine of everybody's belief; 1 must he
both chan4inr and unchaneeable in Isis prin
ciples. He must never be converted from his
opinions, and yet must be ready to embrace
every principle or issue propounded to him.—
Impossible as such n character is, until the
world sees such a man. it will never be satisfi
ed that it has ever seen a model editor. The
world is the most shameless, unreasonable old
rascal of a tyrant that ever sat upon a throne.
[Ohio Statesman.
Speculative Thiloscphy.
If all mankind could wink nt the same mo•
meat, the muscular effort exerted would be suf
ficient to jostle the earth out of its orbit.
If all the oaths uttered in the United States
were required to be printed, it would employ
all the presses in the country, day and night, to
perform the labor; and if a tax was levied on
them of one cent each, one year's revenue
would be sufficient to transport all the mails,
ray a double track railroad to the Pacific, and
pay the public debt of every State la the Union.
The cigars consumed throughout 'the court.
try in one year, would make a worm fence six
feet high around the District of Columbia; and
the air expelled in smoking them would drive
the Japan squadrom round tho world with
enough over to do the windwollt of all the pat.
eat medicines.
If all the ejected tobacco quids were from
this time to be dropped on the dome of the
Capitol at Washington, the hail of Egypt
would be no comparison to the pelting storm,
and the edifice would be buried deeper than
Nineveh, before the next meeting of Congress.
If all the lies told during the last Presiders.
tial campaign, could be boiled together, they
would make soap enough to wash the face of
nature.
Margaret of Burgundy.
This was the individual to whom the Duke of
Alba compared Mrs. Soule on the fitmous oc
casion of the ball at the French Minister's res.
idence in Madrid.
Margaret of Burgundy was the Wilt of Louis
the eleventh. She was shut tip in Chateau
Gaillard. for the crime of adultery. sod was
found strangled by a napkin. She was render.
ed notorious by means of one of the works of
Alexander Dumas—"La Tour do Neale." in
which she is represented in the very• worst
aginable colors. It was most natural that
young Soule should have felt incensed at the
comparison of his mother to such a character.
J 6 There is a sacredness in tears. They
are not the mark otweakness, but of powerl—
They speak move eloquently than ten thJusand
ton,sucs. They are the messengers of ova.
whelming grief, of deep caarition, and of en.
speakable love.
NO. '7.
Colds in Sheep.
These animals are not unfrequently affected
with colds and coughs during the winter season
attended with mucous discharges, or running
at the nose. The test and most effectual re•
muly with which we are acquainted, is the
p'nes hemlock, and common tar. The latter
should he rubbed over their noses, which may
be easily and effectually accomplished by
spreadidg it on a board and sprinkling salt
over it. The animals will devour the tar alt's
the salt; and not with so much care as to pre.
vent their noses from becoming pretty well
smeared with it. Careful attention and liberal
keeping will strengthen the sheep, and gener•
ally assist them in bearing up against the dig•
ease.
After Cheep have been kept on dry fodder
several weeks, they highly relish green or suc•
culent food. If they are confined to the yard,
scatter over it the everheens mentioned above,
and they will he found to leave the best time•
thy or clover and feed on the pine and hem.
lock leaves. Turnips, beets or carrots, chop.
ped and fed to sheep, tend to keep them strong
and in a healthy condition, and there is lost
nothing to the farmer in feeding these occa•
sionally a few beans or a little corn. They
yield most wool and larger and stronger 'stubs,
under such treatment, and afford more profit
titan if scantily fed.—New England Ilinner.
The Printer.
A printer is the most curious being living.--
He mny have a bank and coids, and not worth
a single penny. Others may run fast but ho
gets along swift setting fast. Ile may be ma
king impressions without eloquence, may use
lye without offending, and be telling the truth;
while others can't stand when they si•, he can
set standing and ever do both at the same
time; use furniture and yet have no dwelling;
and make and put away pi and never s - e apm
much less eat it, during his life—he may be a
human being and a rat at the same time—he
may handle a shooting iron, know nulling
about a cannm n, gut. or pint tl, he may move
the lever that moves the world, an l yet be as
far from moving the globe ns a hog with his
nose under a mole hill—spread sheets without
being a house wife; he may lay his form upon
a bed, and yet be obliged to sleep on the floor,
he may use the t without shedding blood, and
from the cnr,h ho may handle the le..—ho
mny be of a rolling disposition and never de
sire to travel; he may have sheep's foot attd not
be deformed, never without a case, and knows
nothing about law or physic; always correcting
errors and growing worse every day; em----s,
without even having the arms of a lass around
him; have his form locked up and at the same
time he free from jail, watch house or any oth
er confinement.
A SoAnno.—"Sonny, where is your fitther ?"
"Father's dead,
"Have you any mother?'
"Yes, I Mad one, but she's got married to
John Danklin, and don't be my mother tiny
more; 'cause she says she's got enough to do
to 'tend to his own younq 'uns."
"Smart boy; here's a dime fur you."
"That's ye sir; it's the way I get me livin'."
"How ?"
"Why, by lain' big yarns to green 'ens like
you at a dime a pop."
IS- A lunatic in the Chicago jail, who calls
himself Lord Frazer. sent out for a bottle of
wine the other day to treat his fellow prisoners.
On being furnished with a bottle of pop, he de
clared it the best wine he had ever drank, and
in a grandilopent manner exclaimed, "Now,
gentlemen, for a toast—may we ever steal,
swear, and chent;—steal away from had com
pany, swear to the truth, and cheat the devil
of his prey." Verily there was method in that
man's madness.
16r The Kn:ekerbocker tells a good story
of a little fellow who was forbid, by his moth
er, going to the brook to swim. One day be
broke her command, and on putting on his
shirt he got the wrong side out. His mother
quickly discovered this, and knowing he had
been disobeying her orders, she askeg him how
his shirt came inside out? This was a stunt
per, under which the little rogue stammered
for a moment, but brightening up, be replied
triumphantly, "0! I—l guess I turned it git
tile over the fence."
A CANDID Wyrxxos.—lii the examination of
a ca,e on Monday, before the court of magis
trates, for assault and ba:t!ry, the counsel, in
cras•examining one of the witnesses, asked
him what they had at the first place they stop
ped'? Ile answered, four glasses of ule."—
“What next ?" "rwo glasses of wine," “What
next?' One glass of brandy," 'What next ?"
A tijla of course."—Proc. Journal.
IleX. A wag was one day speaking of a coup•
le of his ne luaintances nho had gone west
where newcomers were usually attacked the
first season was the ague, and, said he—
"Neither of these two men will be afflicted:'
"Why not ?" enquired the bystander.
"Because," was the reply, "one of them is
too lazy to shake and the other won't shake un
less he gets paid for it."
ear To plunge a fahienable young lady six
fathoms deep in happiness: Give her two
Canary birds, half a dozen moon.beams, twelve
yards of silk, an ice crests, several rosebuds,
a agneeie of the hand, and the promise of a
new bonnet. If sho don't melt, it will be be•
cause she can't.
lOW A Western Orator, in a t'ang•altagg
address to the unterrilied voters of Carapolis,
said, that to save his country, a patriot should
be willing to die, even if it took his kfr.
IS. Miss Tucker nye it's with old bachelors
as a ith old wood. It is hard to get them
Started; but when they do take dame, they bum
Vigo The celebrated Andrew Marvell, in hie
ironical libel upon the prop. aaicl, "Lead, when
moulded into bullets, is net half so. ozort%l Qk
when founded into types."