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It The Courts hare also repeatedly &aided that 0 Post Master who neglects to perfinon his duty ed giring reasonable notice as req u ired by the regala lions 'II the Post Office Department, of the neg lect ol a rem", to to/, Pan the office, newspapere addressed to hint, rewires the Post Master liable to the publisherj'or the subscription price. tre:ar POST M AST EltS are required by law to notify publishers by letter when their publi. cations are refused or not-tolled for by persons to whom they are sent, and to give the reason of such refusal, if known. It is also their duty to frank all such letters. We will thank post masters to keep us posted up in relation to this matter. Original Vottrn, lin. the "Journal. A HEART TO BE LET BY ADAM I,OOL, To be lot at a very desirable rate, A snug little house and a healthy estate. 'Tin n bachelor's heart and the agent is ehence. Affeetion'a the rent, to be paid in udyfinee. The owner, ns yet, has lived.itrit alone; So the fixtures are not of much valet liutsoon 'Twill be furntithed by Cupid himself, if n wire Takes a lease for the tern, of her natural lab, Then ladies, dear , lndien, pray do not forgot, Au excellent bachelor's heart's to be let. Tha tenant will have a few taxes to pay "Love, honor, and," heaviest item. “uhey." As regardsthp good will the subscr:ber'sinclin'd To have that, if agreeable, settled is kind— Indeed, if he could, such a mutter arrange, He'd be highly delighted to take in exchange; Provided, true title by prudence is 6110W6, Any heart unineumbered and free as his own. So ladies, dear ladies, pray do not forget, An excellent baultelor's bend's to be let, liuntinsplon For the "Juurnal. TO LOU. The zephyr softly, gently blew, And played amidst the trees, A:d all around wan still, and hushed, Except the rustling br4eze. I sat beneath mild Luna's ray, . And thought of her I love ; Though now she is far, fur away, My heart will with her rove. Though fur away thy form has gone, In memory thou art new, • To bring sweet joy to the heart of one, "" Whilst thou art roving there. Wilt thou a flitting thought on one Who loves thee well, be , O ow, Whose every wish is with thee gone 'Midst charms that ever glow. And sometimes from the crowded throng Wilt thou in silence turn aside To think of eon, who'll ne'er forget, Though hope and joy have fled and died, Huntingdon. Anne. l'er the .Journal. Why is it 1 MR. EDITORS : If "all the world's astage, and men are actors," Why don't the "in.,titution" o'er break down? Or else, to make it equal to its fiteter3, Why hoist the drivers got a horn to sound? The world's no stage, nor nothing of the kind, Su says old Plato, Herschel and Joe Dragon, But as it moves, we'll have you all to mind, If 'tis no quiet stage, of course it is a wagyin' Huntingdon. S. steers. Pr, t , I SEE NO STAR ABOVE THE HORIZON, PROMISING LIGHT TO GUIDE Us, BUT TUB INTELLIGENT, PATRIOTIC, UNITED WHIG PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES."—EWEBsTER, ~~C~xlYrl~. E MINIK=2 Delivered before a meeting of the Friends of Temperance, held in the borough of Birmingham, Aug. 31, 1855. BY JAMBS CLARK. life. President, Ladies As Gentlemen: Intemperance is an evil of momentous magnitude, destroying its 1000-10,000, , yes, its 100,000 . annually. Intemperance ingulfs within its secret and insidious folds its untold victims, and leads them step by step, down, down its dark and hidden ways ' to a premature grave. Do I use language too strong? Do I ley n charge to this evil, unsupported by facts—evidence, and the impartial observation of every discrimina tive mind 1 Well would it be far human ity, fur the race of man, if the views I have of intemperance with its baneful consequences, were nothing but a mere chimera of my own imagination; but, there is with Intemperance itself', a horrid reali ty, and with the consequences attendant upon it, especially to the family of the poor debased inebriate, a world wide fa talky which no language can describe.— ' Well indeed may the philanthropist mann at the ruin and desolation, that is so wide. ' ly and universally spread by Intemperance, and its certain attendants. It is a duty then incumbent upon every fever of his species. to earnestly enquire, what reme dy could be best adapted? what antidote could be best applied to remove this crying evil from our land Yes, far from every laud. That man would immortalize his name and chnraoter that could but devise a plan, by which this evil could be check ed in its intetuated course of destruction and woe. Sure destruction io the inebri ate, with woe and misery to his family, land all that are connected with him. Let • us then reason together for a short time, of the extent and wretchedness of intent peruses., its sad influences, seine of its evil effects, and of what possibly might stay it in its expansive course. It is a very com mon remark that three f itsrths of all crimes committed can be traced directly or hell reedy to the sin end evil of intemperance. It this was correct, it would be bad enough, but, as bad as this proportion would be, it comes far short of the reality ; now fur the proof of this assertion. In 19 counties its the State of New York the convictions for crime it: 1854, were 16,196, and out or this number, 14,336 (87 per aunt,) were ' i caused by intemperance. Of 653 persons 1 that swore its one year committed to the house of correction in Boston, 453 were drunkards. Of 3000 persons that were in one year admitted to the work house in Salem, Massachusetts, 2900 were brought ;there by intemperance. Of 502 males in I the Alms Home, in Nosy York, net 20, I says the Superintendent, can be called so -1 ber ; and, horrid to humanity, of 601 fe- I males, not as many as 50 were exempt 1 from drunkenness. There has only been three murders committed in New York in the last 15 years, out of a vast number, I but, were traced to this curse of humanity, I intemperance; and in the same length of I time in our own Philadelphia, but 19 mur ders.werc there perpetrated, save those tflgiseil by liquid fire. Yes, nine tenths of all the crimes of our land, and all the expense of litigation for crime, oats be, •: yes, has been, traced to the excessive use of this body and soul destroyer; and by official statistics published in other lands, the proportion of crime inputable to intem perance is even greater than in the United States. The tile of England, the brandy of France, and the schnapps of fiermany with the wines of Southern Europe, do their work for the Prince of Darkness with encomium) dexterity, ]n short, whenever qnd wherever the will, yields to the blind linfatuatton of intemperance, the heart chills, becomes a cold heartless despotism, smitten by Ged, and withering beneath his curse, is califs's', of committing crimes, at 1 which, philanthrophy and humanity stand aghast I like figures for proof, they are not apt to lie, particularly, whets returned on oath by the Marshal's to the Superin tendent of census of the United States.— $ 1 25 1 50 These returns give the number publicly engaged in the liquor traffic. Did they but give the number of moderate, gentle manly drinkers, with those that had advan cud a step farther, and, then a step down, down to the full equipped troops of his Satanic majesty, the vast number would in deed be appalling. Why ladies and gentlemen, the number of distilleries of rum in the United States in 1846 were 10,3013, with 406 breweries; they manufactured 64,670,357 gallons of fire ; there was then 12,223 men engaged in this iniquitous business, and a capital of $9,147,898. That the extent may be more plainly illustrated, I will here observe, that this government, so celebra ted for making iron, has but 804 furnaces, and in all but .10,497 tnen engaged, and a capital of but $20.432,131 invested, that is, but 5 men with $2OO capital making iron, the great blessing of our country. to 2 men with $lOO capital making whis key, the infernal curse of every land. To make a comparison still mor4 plain, there was raised to the United States in 1849, the year for which the census was taken, 65,797,896 bushels of potatoes. only 2 per cent more bushels of potatoes, (that save many from starvation) than gallons of rum; that is the awful cause of so many of our famines. It is impossible to arrive at a correct conclusion of the amount paid an- Dually for liquors to drink. We may bow -1 ever, approximate to something very near the truth, by taking ono particular place where au account was kept. In Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, containing a HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1855. population of 06,838, there was spent in 1854 over $4,000,000. Brooklyn is con venient to the city of New York, a great place of general resort on the Sabbath for! loafing whiskey-dririkers; it is probable' therefore that $1.000,000 may be attribu-1 ted to the City loafers yearly, leaving 2,- 000.000 for the residents of Brooklyn to consume—being $20.73 for each individu al; large or small, male or female. If all portions of our country equalled this, the sum worse than thrown away, according to the census of 1850, would have been i *450,534,6703, being a sufficient sum to furnish every soul on our earth with a Bi ble worth 50 cents, on the first day of January every year, or a sum sufficient to erect a church and Schoolhouse in ev ery city, town, village, and besides this, every Post Office in the United States at a cost of $0,000; pay to every clergyman in! our country a salary of $lOOO, and there would yet remain a sufficient sum to pay $42,51, for clothing and educating every white child in the United States, between the ages of 5 and 20 years. 'l'here can be no estimate made by titan of the sin and iniquity perpetrated by the desecration of 1 that day which is set apart to be ker. holy' in drinlcing, awl its evil attenclantssits com mitted by the New Yorkers, in expending their million of dollars in Brooklyn. This: estimate will be made by One greater than man. Is it to be wondered the public mind has become so incensed, so excited, I 'night say, so alarmed, at the awful extent of 1 the liquor traffic and cornsumption. with; the attendant crime and expense. If men! will still persist the manufacturing, fur -1 tusking, and drinking of this certain poi- son, forbearance on the part of an insultud community to resist and redress this alar ming grievance, would seem to he an ac quiescence in iniquity. I would here ask, bas there not been an indifference maul- 1 • rested by the professed friends of temper once to their own true interests, a reckless and encouraging course pursued to the sel-1 ler and drinker, by our supporting them in' their business, pursuits, professions arid callings, to the exclusion of sober and well disposed citizens; but more on this point hereafter. In 1849 there were 26,840 clergymen of the different professions. Admit all' were faithful in their Master's cause, what mural and religious 'streams would have 1 been poured forth ; what a mighty work of good act'omplished had it not been for the retarding influence of intemperance, with 1 I the breakers, rocks, sand bars, and deep 'ravines, all arranged to defeat the good work of reformation, and to fill the pook.l ets of the liquor manufacturer. Why, in 1 that same year—,lB49—there were in the ; United States 22,485 licensed tavern-keep.l 1 ers, 24,470 licensed doggeries, under the ' name of groceries, with 5,179 assistant bar keepers, snaking in all 52,434; just 2 li quor sellers to each clergyman. If it ; were possible to ascertain the number of unlicensed dens of iniquity, sitr'as of pulls- - ties, or, in more polite and fashionable lan.; guage,dfillking saloons, supported by the sale of intoxicating liquors, each clergyman; each minister of the Myst High, would have some half dozen ministers of hid Sit. tonic majesty, to counteract all Iris effbrts for good. The most moderate calculation makes the number of drunkards in the United States snow 800,000, and of lime that go to a drunkard's grave some 400,000 ; annually. Whitt a solemn thought. With in the limits of our boasted country -,19ii., NO of our number are cut down annum.y. by the drinking of rum, while these words, taken from thet Book, the. truth of which none dare question—are proclaimed far i end wide that, "Drunkards shall not inher it the kingdom of God." Oh ! what a horrid thought. Drinker, think of this before it is too late. The misery, the agony, the distress, the calamities produced by intemperance are not confined to the drunkard alone. If they had to bear all within their own scor ched and obdurata heart, within their own bloated and disfigured carcass, it would be bad enough ; but, the innocent and unof• fending must sutler ; the weeping parents, the heart stricken wife, the disgraced, im poverished and often out cast off spring, nll have to suffer for the iniquity of the inebriate Could we but realize the nu. nies of those parents, who, with cure, nur• tared their dear Tittles ones, training them in the path of duty, promising themselves consolation in their declining years. Could' we but read their thoughts, when this dear ly loved one first took the social cup. He thought there was no danger of his ever becoming a drunkard. He could just take a little or leave it alone as he pleased.— Rut ith ! very soon it afforded in ire pion.. sure to take than to let it alone; so from step to step, he sunk, sunk, sunk to a drunkard's grave; to a drunkard's hull ! Realize it you can the feelings of those parents, when with tearful eyes. *and a throbbing heart, they entreated with their sou to desist, and supplicated with their God to spare him, but so maddening and bewitching was the influence of the pot. son, that nil was in vain, their son was lost, their prop was removed, and their gray hairs hastened with sorrowing, to an early and untimely grave. These scenes are of daily and almost hourly occurrence, yet, how many of us remain as Stoics, en• tiroly indifferent to what is passing around and in our midst. Then awake all, and see to it—that our duty be fully performed, that we may not be denounced in a coining day, as lukewarm and unprofitable stew ards—while Satan's emissaries are busily enlisting recruits for the kingdom of dark ness. There are other ties besides the parent thr t intemperance effects.. Let us imagine a young and tender plant, trained in a garden of love and purity, knowing no guile, being a stranger to deception, yielding her young heart , and her band,' splendour. On a certain day, the collec. her all, to her chosen one for life. lota- I tion for this purpose was taken up in a gine the parents surrendering the dearly I certain Catholic church in our immediate I cherished child of their lave, to the man 1 vicinity ; there was an Irish girl attending! of ?remise; all, apparently, is sunshipe; ; the meeting. that was at the time living 1 the future is looked forward to with anti- with an elder oldie Presbyterian Church.' cipations of joy; but Eh, how soon many a' After returning home she yes boasting to dark and lowering cloud eershadow the I the lady of the house of how much had hopes and prospects of this once happy been raised, observing, , Indade Madam, bride. l'he serpent has entered their I the Presbyterians were more liberal than I happy home—the husband has tasted the the Catholics, in giving money for the sup-1 accursed drug—her every power is bro't ; port of our Pope. Meny of them gave a to bear—her every influence is now exer- I shilling while we gave but a sixpence."— ted—the pledges of their 10.ve presented. 12d.—An eminent Attorney of a town not But, her effort ;is rejected. First, by the I a hundred miles from Huntingdon, who mist promise of a reformation, next, held . - for years had occupied the enviable and ferenee, then coldness, then ,neglect, and ' honorable position ul a champion of teat then by cruelty. It is as true as there is I peranee, going from place to place deliver a sun in the firmament, that intemperance' trig lectures, with burning and impassion makes a man selfish, neglectful, irritable, I ed eloquence ; none doubted his sincerity. ' fault finding, brutish, and even develish. I Yet, how the mighty iney fall ! Even It debases the mind, corrupts the heart, ! this man, who from education and study, pollutes the feelings, and destroys both ' was so well versed in the operations of the soul and body. W hat, oh ! what must be human mind, and who was considered in "the feelings of that heart-stricken wife.— ; corruptible, for pilule paltry peltsolcl mim- Could she lie down and die in peace, it 1 self to the enemy. He lent his. overpow would boa source of some consolation.— , ering influence and eloquence in a way i But no, she lives tai see and experience I calculated to support and protect in our the bursting of the fearful storm from a I village a loathsome nuisance, a den of id- summer sky. Her afflictions have no li. pity, a sink of polution, a place where mits—she must endure—the proper has drunkards congregate, where unsuspecting I no peace—everything for the future is ; youth were entrapped, where debauchery I I dark, evil, foreboding, Wretchedness and 1 rerghns, and where, from day to day, and misery. She must live to see hint, to i from night to night, nothing but the pro- I whom she had yielded a. willing heart, I faint oath and ribald jest of drunken orgies' I passing to and fro, daily—leathsome . could be heard.- The excuse given for his pearanee, brutalized in mind, unkind and mipostacy, being, that on imperfect human I utterly regardless of her and their child. law sustained such u corrupting and soul rem,destroying nuisance. An atterney who and their home nothing but an empty I hovel, destitute of every comfort of life.— has a sincere regard for Temperance and I Poor woman ! she males the attempt to' his own reputation, should and would re• f reclaim. [low is she likely to be rewarded ?use being retained as counsel for the dcba. Her kind attentions and entreatiee are re. I sed Hum Seller and his advocates. lie , ceivecl with indifference—with an angry should let that degrading duty be perform- ' and frabidden coldness, and not unfrequmni• ed by the insignificaut pettifogging whif tly with a direct repulsion. But does she I fete, whose nature and training have entire- cease in her heavenly efforts I No, ree, ly disqualified them from being worthy of nut while life endures. It is not in cc- I engaging in any respectable trial. 3.—A cordance with the nature and character true friend of temperance, morality and ; of women to cease doing good until life is the protestant religion, a few evenings ago ; entirely extinct. ...It was not woman who lin conversation welt several other gentle- I slept during the nodes of Gethsemane--1 men, wham were making loud protestations needing the Catholics, Drunkards and Li it was not woman who denied her Lord in the palace of Cuiphas--it was not woman quer Sellers, &c., in a neighboring town, who deserted his cross on the hill of coolly made this remark to these pharisui j But it was woman that dared to cal gentlemen, “That so long as they sup- testily her respect for his corpse, that pro-'. ported, gave countenance aud encourage cured spices for embalming it. and that; 'tient to Catholics, Drunkards arid Liquor was found last at night, and first in the 1 Sellers, &c., they were nothing enure than morning , at his sepu l c h re .. Time has ne e 'ibree cent professors' ". I don't consider Cher Unpaired her kindness, shaken her mt . necessary for rue to draw any conclu. constancy, or ciningcd lme'r eharacter."--- ; `'ors of the evils which must result fronts She still perseveres as a sense of duty clic. the iuci !eine given ; they clearly explain trues, with prayers and entreaties that themselves. It may however be necessa would win back any heart, not rendered ry fur us to inquire individually of our callous, by the perverting influence of selves, "what has been our course Have such low sensual indulgenCe, as that pro- we cast in our unite with the true fleets-2s ' clueed by the use of intoxicating drinks.-- of temperance and order 1" If we have, Yet, the ear of mercy is not closed, Ile well for us. If we have not, let our lips tient doeth all things well, may in blindness, be sealed until we can cast aside ull hypo fur with him is all power, strike.the scal es ' crisy and deceit: if the avowed friends from the inebriates eyes, restore and clothe of temperance had us outs man, united, i him in his light mind again. There are, went forth, and proclaimed temperance as however, but few instances of such a re-; a release from degradation and misery, and formation, yet enough to teach, and encou- . had fearlessly carried into practice the pro rage us to persevere in the good work of ; Cession made, by yielding their support to ..reclamation. The only safe course is, to none but sober citizone,—what an encour never, never,tiever touch, taste or handle agemen tto the doll Ling and wavering; but the unclean thing. I have, intentionally, I sorry am Ito say, the very opposite has digressed from the affliction and agony of I been the general rule of action among the the wife, and home nil time drunkard, with mein of our profession. Temperance mein the closing scenes oldie once lovely, but, lot us look around us. We hear one say, now bloated, shapeless moss of humanity, ''what a pity it is Doctor suds ii-one drinks; with Ink polluted words, tilling the chain- • for he is such a nice man. I really can ; her of death. 'I here, there,--see those , not think of having any other Doctor in old, gray•hairod parents, about to sink into Imy family." Again, we hear one say : liternity--brought so low by sorrow and What a beautiful store Mr. So-and-So has. weeping, caused by the intemperance era I Why he keeps everything. He email have dearly loved son. 'There, there, see that' my custom, any how ; knowing, at the heart-broken, bereaved. wife—whose nor• seine time, he both sells and drinks of the rows no tongue can describe, with the accursed poison. Again—what a splendid mou,ning, and weeping children, and I fellow Mr. Sueln-a•one is. Ido like him friends dropping the bitter tours-- Oh! let' very well Ile shell have my vote-that's us clove from our eyes, the scene, the aw. sure; yet, with a greet long. face, add,-- , ful scene of a drunkard's couch. Let our 1 What a great pity the poor fellow Oinks. every power be brought ipto requisition in ' Yet with liquor and all, the furtherance of our heavenly mission He's the man liar them still: --temperance. Intemperance being aim Altho' bitter as gall, evil of• so much mngnitude, morally, soci• They will swallow the pill. ally, and pecuniary, it becomes the imper- Oh Consistency, thou art a jewel. alive duty of every well wisher of the hit• I sisteucy—how degrading. man Family, to pursue such n course, mud; Mr. President,l appeal to yau---I appeal adopt such remedies, as may be best cal- I to every ono present, if the case is not as culatecl to check and remove this alarming' I have described : not only here, but eve- I and eoul.des,roying scourge of man. It rywhere. Can we then reasonably expect may be proper to enquire, what has been any permanent reform from societies and the usual course pursued, the different ; penalties, while our professions are hollow plans devised, with the efforts reduced; I and a mockery. The reformation must be and let us improve by our course that plan I gin at home. Temperance men must its that has been mast beneficial. 'Phis would prove their tnanners and encourage their be the part of wisdom, fur it is folly, yes, ; friends. If men will persist in refusing to worse than folly, to labor without some' hearken to the voice of wisdom, don't en small token of success, Temperance se. I courage them by any means, in their stub . defies, temperance lectures, and legal en- ! born, headlong, downward course. Let gametes have all been tried, and to a cer- I us all adopt and Pursue to the end, this fain extent have done good; but have they . convistent course, and with the blessing of done all that might have been reasonably I an overruling Providence, some of us may expected ? Has the curse of intemper.' be spared to see and rejoice in the days ance been as effectually checked as it , and years of a temperance milleniure, shnitld have been ? Certainly we have not the evidence of the fact. There mast therefore, be an error in some way ; there has been u defect in our system or in our practice. In certain localities touch good has been done, and in others but very little. The question ilten arises•-• ‘Vhat is the cause ? Every one of us has been taught from our earliest infancy, that precept 'tiats good, but example better. , Have we then beeninconsistent in our pro fessions ? While lecturing to others have we promised the precepts we taught f If we have not, our . condtict has been that of the hypocrite, not the deceiver; fur the veil was too flimsy to deceive any one.— We only deceived ourselves. Permit me to illust - rate thin point by two or three inci• dents. First—At the tints the Pope was banished from Rome to Gaeta, the faithful everywhere raised funds, called peter pence," to solvort ill regal lAIN 4, ,4 44 A 1 I , , it I I . I I , 4 , (-411 AlysTEatous.—Some chance clip of the moveable split double action pen—we mean the scissors—deposited the following on our desk, What it means we know not, but as it is evidently fine writing, we give it a place. There is something in that conception of the velet foot oscilling wit stealthy thread, which deserves admi ration. 'Front that velvet-footed official, who os cillated with stealthy tread from midnight conclave to the State House, and who, if rumor does not lie, is again at his shabby tricks of sly detraction end pretty deceit' with the present executive—to the rosy- 1 faced keeper of the Council Chamber; door—officials of all grades (but not all, thank [leaven) were ready for the were' onslaught on their political chief. giisrtitantolls. THE SNOW OF AGE. We have just stumbled upon the follow- ! burg Chronicle 'goes in' as follows: ing pretty piece of mosaic, laying amid a ! Longfellow never created a more exqui multitude of those less attractive : I site figure than this : "No snow falls lighter than the snow of ; The night shall be filled with music, age ; but none is heavier, for it never' A And the cam that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the !crabs, melts." And as silently steal away. 'Pho figure is by no means novel, I:'a I But a friend of ours who lives in Allegha the closing part of the sentence is new ns ny, has beat him completely in parody, well as emphatic. The scripture repre- (and 'in a horn.') He had been reading cents ago by the almond tree, which bears in the papers abdut an indefinite number blossoms of the purest white, of burglaries in our sister city, and Bud '•The almond tree shall flourish"—the denly warming up with the divine afflatus, head shall be hory. Dickens says of one I seized the pen and wrote : of his characters, whose hair is turning The night shall be tilled with robbers, gray, that it looked as if Time had lightly And the villains that sleep all day splashed his snows upon it in passing. Shall open the shutters with chisel., "It never melts"—no, never. Age to And silently steal away ! inexorable; its wheels must move onward; they know not any retrograde movement, the old man may sit and sing—"l would I were a boy again," but be grows older as I he sings. He may read the elixir of youth, ' k but he cannot find it ; he may sigh for the secret of that alchemy which is able to make him young again, but sighing brings it not, lie may gaze bacicward with an eye long ing upon the rosy 'schemes of early years, but as one that gazes on his home front the deck of a departin,g ship, every moment bearing him further and further away.— Poor old man ! he has little more to do than die. ''lt never melts." The sooty of winter comes and sheds its white blossoms upon the valley and mountain, out soon the sweet spring follows and smiles it all away. Not so with that upon the brow of the tos• tering veteran ; there is no spring whose warmth can penetrate its eternal frost.— It came to stay. Its single flakes fell un- noticed, and now •it drilled there. We shall see it increased, see lay the old man its his grave ; there it shall be absorbed by the eternal darkness, far there is no age in Heaven. Yet why speak of age in a mournful strain' It is beautifnl, honorable, elo•, quent Should we sigh at the proximity of death, when life and the world are so full of emptiness ? Let the old exult because they are old ! If any must weep, let it be the y eking, at , H that are before tharn. HINTS. It'• your fiat•irons are rough and smoky, lay a little fine salt on a flat surface, and rub them well ; it will prevent them from sticking to anything starched, and make smooth. Rub your griddle with fine salt before you grease it, and your cake will not stick. W hen walnuts have been kept until the meat is too much dried to be good, let them stand in milk and water eight hours and dry them, and they will be as fresh as when new. It is a good plan to keep your different kinds of piece, tape, thread, etc. , in sep orate bags and there is no t line lost in look ing for them. Oat straw is best for filling of beds, arid it is well to change it as often au once a year. - Cedar chmts are best to keep flannels, for cloth moths are never found in them. Red cedar chips are good to keep in draw. ers, ward robes,closets, trunks, etc., to keep out moths. When cloths have acquired an unpleas ant odor, by being from the air, charcoal, laid in the folds, will soon remove it. If black dresses have been stained, boil It Mindful of fig leaves in a quart of water, and reduce it ton pint. A sponge dipped , in this liquid and rubbed upon them, will entirely remove stains from crapes, LO n • hazines, etc. In laying up furs for summer, lay a tal low candle in or near them, and danger front worm will be obviated. THE TATTLER. There is no being on the habitable glubc more degraded and more contemptible ill., a tattler. Vicious principles want of him esty, servile meanness, despicable insidi ousness, form its character. Has he wit' In attempting to display it he makes hits self a fool, Has ho friends ? By unhes itatingly disclosing their secrets he will make thorn his most bitter enemies. By tel ling all he knows, he will seen discover to the world that he knows but little. Does he envy au individual I His tongue fruitful with falsehood defames his character.— Does he oovet favor from any one ? He attempts to gain it by slandering ethers. His approach is feared, his person hated, his company unsought, and his sentiments despised us emanating front a heart fruit. ful with guile, teeming with iniquity, load ed with envy, hatred and revenge. VOL. 20. NO. 36. Our Clip LONOFELLOW IMPROVED.—The Pius LADIES' BONNETS.-- . Stella," in her "auburn Letters" to the Worcester "Pal. latliutn," makes pertinent allusions to the present style of ladies' bonnets. She says : "They are ruining the eyesight of all who wear them. The rays of the sun come directly upon the eye, and the vic tim squints, wrinkles upon her forehead, sheds n few natural tears; and hurries on to the shade of the nearest building to give her eyes a moment's rest. No gentleman wears a hat without a brim, or a cap with- out a visor: but the ladies—though soft creatures that they, are—can only seek shelter behind what may be supposed to be their motto: "Grin and bear it," or as it hat been poetically rendered, "Suffer and be strong." A MEAN MAN.--We have heard ofmean men in our day but a correpsondent of the St. Louis Reveille mentions one to whom must he yielded the palm:—'Palk about mean men ! why there's that Bill Johnson he's the meanest man I ever heard tell on. —Bill was a constable there. Why don't you think he had an execution against me for a little matter of groceries, and he came• out and leveled at my old woman's ducks, and wanted me to drive 'em up and ketch 'em for him, and I told him to ketch 'ant himself; and so he chased 'em round the house, and every time he'd ketch a dock, he'd set down and wring its head off and ' N ElatlVAßS.—They're the oncomforta blest set o' neighbors that over yer know ed," said Mrs. Snigglefritz. "One never gets q minnit's peace of e'm. First, there's our Tom a heaven' stones and breakite in o' windows. '1 lien Joe, he's alleys a callin' on 'en names, an' set tin' Grip at their heels when they 'come home from tneetin'. And the critters, out there in the pastur', they're everlastin' over the bars inter their tater-patch. "What with one think and another, I'm I gettin' pesky tried on 'in, and I shan't feel a sixpen's•'orth o' sorrer, if some fine day finds 'cm It-todding,' bank where they kern from." HOGS ROOTI NO —To prevent hogs from rooting, cut across the nose, just above the gristle of the snout, by which you will se ver the nasal tendon, by which the opera tion is performed. Then split the gristle of the nose up and down the lace, and the work is done. For the long-nosed, flap eared breed, cut the nose pff eighteen in ches above the snout. frerA lad came in great haste into a drug store the other morning, and half out of breath exclaimed ; "Mother thent me dote to the hothecarypop to get a thimble cult of palingolic. Hub's as thick as dick enth, not expected to live front one end to tether," mgr. Do you mean to challenge the ju ry!" whispered a lawyer to his Irish cli. ent in California. ' , Yes be jabes3," was the answer, 'if they dont acquit me, I mean to challenge every spalpeen of 'em; I wants ye to give 'em all a hist of it too." ear If you hnve any of those homely excrescences about you, called warts, make a strong decoction of white oak bark, and apply it twice a day, In two or three weeks the warts will disappear. This fact will interest the ladies. po. - - A. western writer thinks that if the proper way of spelling tho is though, and ate eight, gna bo beau, the proper way of spelling potatoes is Poughteigh. teaux. The new spelling for softly is psolighleigh. 11111 r Tho 111Orttl Drama.—They are playing at one of the theaters in this city a piece called "Hell on Earth." Querry Isn't Hell ott Earth" represented night. It' at every theater'