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EDITORS,
SAM. G. WHITTAKER,
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Should you ask me whence this dunning,
Why these sad complaints aril murmurs,
Murmurs loud about delinquents
Who have read the paper weekly.
Read what they have never paid for,
Rend with pleasure and with profit.
Read of news both home and foreign,
Read the essays and the poems,
Full of window and instruction :
Shcisld you ask us why this dunning,
We should answer, we should tell you,
From the printer, from the mailer,
From the prompt old paper•maker,
From the landlord, from the carrier,
From the man who taxes letters
With a STAMP from Uncle Samuel—
Uncle Sam, the rowdies call him—
From them all there comes a message,
Message kind, but firmly spoken,
"Please to pay us what you owe us."
Sad it is to hear such message
When our funds are all exhausted,
When the last hank•note has left us,
When the gold coin all has vanished,
Gone to pay the paper•maker,
Gone to pay the toiling printer,
Gone to pay the landlord tribute,
Gone to pay the active carrier,
Gone to pay the faithful mailer,
Gone to pay old Uncle Samuel—
Uncle Sam th, rowdies call him—
Gone to ray the Western paper,
Three and twenty hundred dollars I
Sad it is to turn our ledger,
Turn the leaves of this old ledger,
Turn and see what sums are due us,
Due for volumes long since ended,
Due for years of pleasant reading, '
Due despite our patient waiting,
Doe despite our constant dunning,
Due in stuns from two to twenty.
Would you lift a burden from us ?
Would you drive a spectre from you ?
Would you taste a pleasant slumber ?
Would you have a quiet conscience ?
Would you read a paper paid for?
Seed us money, send us money,
Send us money, send us money,
SEND THE closer THAT YOU OWE vol
t:').eneral
A Surplus of Doctors.
According ton correspondent of the
Medical World, physicians have multi.
plied so rapidly in this country that newly
fledged M. D.'s are puzzled to find a com
munity which require their services. They
are exceedingly numerous in the Eastern
cities, while the West is actually overrun
with the sons of Esculapius. The writer
says he has recently made an extensive
exploration to and over the fur-off West,
and finds the condition of things as stated
Is all the thriving owns and settlements
in Minnesota, Kansas and Nebraska, there
are more medical men than patients. One
or two invariably monopolize all the busi
ness worth having, but even the most cele
brated are'poorly compensated, while the
prospect is not bettering. The writer very
wisely counsels his young brethren to be
come farmers.
The Usury Laws.
As usual, energetic efforts aro being made
in various quarters, to have the usury laws of
this State repealed. The movement is urged
with great energy in Philadelphia, where every
appliance is brought to.bear to remove all res
trictions on the rate of interest. We hope
that tltis proposition will not meet with fuvor
in the Legislature. The repeal of the usury
laws would, in our opinion, be injurious to bu
siness throughout the country generally, and
no special advantage to solid business men ev
erywhere.
A CURE FOR SCARLET FEVER.—As
you have published some excellent arti
cles on that scourge of youthful and in
fantile life, scarlet fever, permit me to give
to the public through your columns, a very
simple and effacacious remedy for the ter
rible sownese and ulceration of the mouth
and throat in aggravated cases. Take
equal quantities of honey and sweet oil—
both should be pure—say one table spoon
ful of each, or one tea spoonful; heat it on
a sheet of glazed letter-paper over a spirit
or fluid lamp, and give the patient,sat fre
quent intervals, small quantity, as cold as
it can be taken. it can do no harm, and
as in some cases, where the collection of
muscus in the throat and mouth almost
produced suffocation, saved the patient's
life.—New York Evening Post.
Bane-rooreo tx WINTHB.—The Auburn Ad
vertiser says that John Ford, one of the ocean.
trio citizens of that town, declares he knows
the weather is getting colder, because his feet
are so muds warmer than usual. For two win
ters now this man has gone barefooted. He
says his feet are never cold. Ho wears shoes
is the summer, but nothing can induce him to
do as in the winter.
Sir It is said that the Cincinnati ladies "do
up their curls" with hogs' tails, and when ask•
ed to marry, answer "oui, oui, oui?"
isctliang.
.p[pp,g3t LIMIEO
Light is daily coming in upentlTeWorld
of mind, and by the help of clearly estab.
lished lads, arguments may be adduced
which will have a stronger tendency to
compel men to take care 01 their health,
than any which have arisen from con
science, money or duty; that is, the argu
ment of Shame. Let men fully understand
that certain bodily affections to crime, and
that crime thus committed confines to the
penitentiary, then may the community
woke up more fully to the sentiment,
HEALTH IS A DUTY.
and therefore, the neglect of its preserva-
tion, a sin, which in the natural progress
at things, lease to loss of health, and life,
and honor.
In a recent trial of a forger, who han
dled millions of dollars in a year's busi
ness, the defence was that he was insane.
Among the evidence offered was that he
could sleep only three or four hours out of
the twenty-four. In a previous number
we stated, that a growing inability to sleep
was a clear indication of approaching in
sanity, and on the return of sleepfulness,
*the intellect becrtme clear, There were
other symptoms. There was the sound
of trip-hammers in his ears; blacksmith's
sparks before his eyes, and and there was
a pain in the head a large portion of the
time. These symptoms, lasting so long,
had at length so affected the brain, ns to
destroy all perception, or comprehension
of the effects of crime ; and when the or
gan of a man's percep:ion is destroyed, he
will plunge headlong, and with utter reck
lessness, into any kind of wrong-doing
of which circumstances threw in his way
—arson, robbery, murder, anything; and,
if not detected or prevented, the crime,
whatever it may be, will grow into a habit,
and habit is second nature; consequently,
he will revel in it, it becomes his meat and
drink, and he would rather do it than not.
Hence the prisoner declared without hesi
tation, that if he were released he would
do it again; that he rather liked it, and no
thing could ptevent him but cutting off his
hand, if it came in the way, to forge paper.
It was shown in the trial, that there
was insanity on the father's and mother's
aide ; but no indication of it on the part of
either father or mother. It is well known
however, that insanity, as well as personal
natures, overleaps a generation or two.
Often a child bears a striking resemblance
to a grand parent, without a lineament of
parental feature.
The acts of the prisoner were admitted
by his counsel, and the question of guilt or
innocence, rested on this—was he insane
or not
The use which we wish to make of these
developments is practical, and is of high
importance. A wise and stern medical
treatment would have deferred, if not pre-
vented, the combination of events. And
how
The prisoner was under the habitual in
fluence of constipation, and an anodyne,
which intensified this constipation every
hour. while the principle of the medical
practice in this case, was to let the bowels
take cure of themselves—which they did
not do. This individual was never seen
by his business associates without a cigar
in his mouth ; he smoked fifteen or twenty
a day. The immediate effect of smoking
tobacco falls on the brain, excites it; dur
ing that excitement lie could not sleep, and
the reaction .vans so low that he could not
sleep ; only a troubled repose was possible
during the brief transition from one to the
other. During the excitement, the brain
ran riot in the direction of the opportunity,
and expended its energies in that direction,
but during the reaction, power was not left
to carry on the bodily functions.
The effect of constipation -is to thicken
the blood, to make it more impure; hence
more unfit for healthful purposes. The
more impure the blood is, the thicker does
it become, the slower is its progress, and if
nothing is done to alter this state of things
stagnation and death take place. Stagna
tion means accumulation, for the moment
the blood stops in any part of the body, the
coining current flowing in, causes un accu
mulation, precisely as in the closing of a
canal gate, or the damning up of a stream.
This accumulation in the blood-vessels dis
tends them, causes them to occupy more
room than nature designed, consequently
they must encroach on their neighbors.—
The neighbors of the blood-vessels are the
nerves; hence the nerves are pressed a
gainst ; that pressure gives what we call
“pain." As there are nerve's every
where, a point of a needle cannot be pla
ced against the surface of the body without
some pain, which shows the universality
of nerve presence ; hence, we may have
" LIBERTY AND UNION, NOW AND POBEvER, ONE AND INSEPARABLE: "
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1857.
pain anywhere, and will have pain.if there
is pressure. This accounts for the steady
pain in the head. The excitement of the
day sent the blood to the broils too fast, the
repose of the night was too short to allow
of Its removal ; besides the energies of the
system had been overtaxed, and there was
not power left to remove a natural accumu
lation, let alone the extraordinary.
But there is a law of our body, whereby
pressure from any cause not only gives
pain, but may destroy the part pressed a
gainst, and consume it, by dissolving it in
to a gaseous and fluid substance, which in
this condition will be conveyed out of the
body. A band put around an arm of a
foot in circumference, will, if tightened
every day, in a time not long, reduce the
circumference to six inches. Constant
Pressure cannot be exerted against any
portion of the human body without impair
ing its structure, or causing its diminution
and final destruction. These are princi
ples of universal admission. They are first
truths in medicine. From some unknown
cause, this accumulation and pressure was
determined to n particular portion of the
brain, where fearlessness of consequences
is situated.; and we believe, if the prison
er's brain could be examined this day, that
portion of it, most probably small in the
beginning, wit found almost wanting
having been desMyed by long continued
pressure, or to be of abnormal structure.
We believe that a medical treatment,
which would have smrnly interdicted the
use of the cigar materially at first, and
gradually thereafter, until its final extinc
tion, together with securing a natural con•
dition of daily diet—and kept him there--
would have saved him and all his from the
subsequent calamities, Artificial excite.
meats, whether from tobacco, opium, or al
colt I, if largely persevered, will work ru
in to mind, body and soul. It is right that
it should be so. o.nnipotence has-ordain
ed it. tf a man is in a physical condition
which impels him to do what is illegal, or
if he be in a mental condition which im
pels him to do what is illegal, the question
whether he is to be punished or not de
pends upon the manner in which he be•
came subjected to that condition. If such
condition be the result of birth, or by a fall
or stroke, or other occurrence out of his
control, lie should go free .of penal suffer
ing ; but if he placed himself in that condi
tion by the unbridled indulgence of his
appetites or his passions, he ought to be
made to suffer a just penalty, whether he
knew that such indulgences tended to such
a result or not. It is a man's duty to in
form himself of physiological as well as ci
vil law. Ignorance of the former ought
not t) work his escape, any more than the
latter does; otherwise a man has only to
get drunk to secure impunity from any
crime which may be committed in shut
condition ; thus all penal statutes become a
farce, and anarchy rides rampant through
land.
So also, if a man perverts his moral
sAnse, and by a course of vicious reason
ing persuades himself that he ought to
commit murder, and thinks of it so much
as to feel impolled to murder some one, he
is properly amenable' to the law of the
land.
It is no very difficult matter for ordinary
minds to persuade themselves as to any
desired course—that it is right ; that there
is no harm in it ; and that, if they meant
no harm by it, no blame could be attached;
but if for such flimsy considerations, men
are to be excused from penalties, there N
an end at once to all law and all govern
ment,
The conclusion of the whole matter is
this. Every man should be held responsi
ble for his deeds, unless they are clearly
proved to be the result of a physical, mor
al, or menthl condition which he had no
agency in originating, or exaggerating to
the criminal point. Hence the prison
er was convicted.
Kr 'Shun, mine Shon,' said a worthy
German father to his heir of ten years,
whom he had overheard using profane
language, 'Shen mine Shon, come here,
an' I viii dell you von little stories. Now,
mine Shon, shall it be a true story or
makes believe ?"Oh true story of course !
answered John.' 'Ferry veil den—dere
vas once a goot, nice oldtshetleman (doom
like me) andt he had von dirty liddle pay
(shoost like you.) Andt von day he heard
him abwearing like a young fillian, as he
vas. So he vent to der winkle (corner)
andt dook out a cowhides, (almost as I am
toing now,) and he dook her dirdy liddle
plackguard by der gollar, (dis vay, you
see !) and voloped him, shoost ao ! And
and den, mine tear Shon, he bull his ears
dis way, ;Ind shmack his face dat way—
und (tell hint toga mitout his subber, shoost
as you vil4 do dis efening.'
REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENT,
The hero of the following thrilling sto
ry was embodied in the person of a stout
blacksmith, aye, an humble blacksmith,
but in his stout frr me, hardened with toil,
throbbed as generous en impulse of free
dom as ever beat in the bosom of La Fay
ette, or around the heart of mad Anthony
Wayne.
It was in the full title of the retreat that
a follower of the American camp, who
had at least shouldered a cart whip in his
country's service was dragging a baggage
front the field of battle, while lame short
distance behind, a body of continentals
were pushing forward with a body of
British in pursuit.
The wagon had arrived at a narrow
point of the byroad leading to the south,
where on either side, affords just space
sufficient for the passage or the baggage
wagons, and not an inch more.
His eyes were arrested by the sight of
a stout muscular man, apparently some
forty years of age, extended at the foot of
a tree at the very opening of the pass.—
He was clad in the coarse attire of a tne•
chanic. His coat had been flung aside,
with his shirt sleeves rolled up from his
muscular arm, he lay extended on the
turf with his riffle in his grasp, while the
blood poured in a torrent from his right leg
which was brokon at the knee by a cannon
ball.
The wagoner's sympathies were arres
ted by the eight. Ele would have paused
in the vory instant of his flight, and pla
ced the wounded blacksmith in his wagon,
but the stout hearted man refused
not go into your wagon,' said he,
in his rough way, 'but ['II tell yoil what I
will do. Do you see yonder cherry tree
on the top of that rock that hangs over
the road ? Do you think you can lift a
man of my build up there? For you see
neighbor, he continued while the blood
still flowed from hie wound, never med
led with the Britishers until they came
trampling over this valley, and burned my
house down. And now I'm all riddled to
pieces and !taint got more than Id• Minutes
to live but I've got three balls in my xat
tridg..l bpx, and {4a just ;trap me up against
that tree, and I'll give the whole three
shots, and then,' exclaimed the blacksmith,
die,'
The wago.er started his horses ahead,
and then with a sudden effort dragged the
wounded man along the sod to the foot of
the tree. His face was to the advancing
troopers, and while his shattered leg hung
over the bank the wagoner rushed on his
way, when tha doomed blacksmith proceed
ed to load his rifle.
It was not long before a body of Amer
ican soldiers rushed by with British in
pursuit. The blacksmith greeted them
with a shout, and raising h;s rifle to his
shoulder he picked the foremost from his
spirited steed with the exclamation:
•
'That's for General Washington!'
In a moment the nil's was reloaded; and
again it was fired, and the pursuing Brit.
lab rode over another of their :lien offi.
cers.
.That's for myself,' c ' ith
and then wi.h a hand feel.
ing of approaching de dad,
raised his rifle fired his I. an.
other soldier kissed the sod uiv
eted in the eye of the dyin:.; cksmith.
'And that,' he said, y voice
with strengtheneil almoit into • • -bout, 'is
for mad Anthony Wayne!'
Long after the battle of Brandywine
was past, the body was discovered against
the tree with the features frozen in death
smiling grimly, with his right hand still
grasping the never-failing rifle.
And thus died one of thodhousand brave
mechanic heroes of the reirplution ; brave
in the hour of batik, undaunted in the
hour of retreat. and undismayed in the
moment of death.
UNCLE TORY AT A DISCOUNT.-A la
dy, whose kndness to animals amounts al
most to a mania, was ono day sadly annoy
ed by a blue bottle fly. Calling her maid
she bade her catch the fly, and without
hurting it, put it out of the window.—
Seeing the girl hesitate to raise the sash,
she inquired the cause. 'Why, madam,
it raws so very hard,' answered the mis
chievous creature. ' , True," replied the
mistress, 'put the poor thing in the other
room.'
EDITING A PAP;LL OUT WEBT.—The
editor of a paper published at Lake Su
perior, after having been without a mail
three week; says :
Should the mail not arrive this week,
we shall make our regular issue next Tues
day ; for this number was made up from
an old magazine a religious almanac of last
) ear ; and so long as thin material holds
out, we shall be independent of the mails.
flVitffa
Aqua-fortis Operating on Old Joe.
In - the pretty village of Haddonfield,
New Jersey, some years ago there resided
an old fellow who was familiarly known in
the town end country around as "old Joe."
He had no particular occupation, except
doing "chores" or errands—nor any parti
cular location. He ate where he could get
a bite, and slept where he could find a lod
ging-place. Joe was a regular old toper,
and Jersey lightning had no more effect
on his insides than so much water. He
generally made his head-quarters at the
lower tavern, for there were two in town.
He would sleep and doze away the after
noon on an old bench in one corner of the
bar-room, but was always awake when there
was any drinking going on. When he
was not asked to drink he would slip to the
bar, and drain the glasses of the few drops
left in them. One afternoon, Dr. Bolus,
the village, physician, was in the tavern,
mixing up a preparation. He placed a
tumbler half-full of aqua-fortis on the bar,
and turned around to mix some other in
g•edients. A few moments afterwards he
had occasion to use the poisonous drug,
when, to his dismay, lie found that the
tumbler had been drained to the last drop.
'Mr Wiggins,' exclaimed the Doitor, in
affright to the landlord, 'What has become
of the aqua fortis I put on the bar a few
moments ago ?'
don't know,' replied the landlord, 'u n
less Old Joe slipped in and drank it.'
In this suspicion they were both soon
confirmed, for the hostler said he had seen
Old Joe take the fatal draught. The Doc
tor knowing that he must certainly die,
after such a (lose, instituted a search at
once. After some hours spent in looking
through the barns, out-houses and wood
for three or four miles around the village,
he was abandoned to his fate. It was a
cold night, and as the village topers assem
bled around the blazing hickory fire of the
bar-room, nothing was thought of or talked
on but the unfortunate end of poor Old
Joe. Some four days having elapsed and
nothing having been heard from Old Joe,
they all came to the conclusion that he was
' a goner. The Doctor, about this tune, had
to visit it patient some eight miles distant ;
what was his surprise when about f i v e
miles distant from' the village, to see Old
Joe in front of a farmer's house splitting
wood.
'Why Joe,' said the Doctor, riding up
to the fence, 'I thought you was dead and
buried before this.,
'Why, whet made you think that, Doc
tor t , said Joe, leaning on his axe handle.
'Didn't you drink that dose I left on old
Wiggin's bar, a few days since
.Yes,' replied Joe, half ashamed to own
it.
'Do you know what it was V • asked the
Doctor.
'No,' returned Joe.
'Why, it was aqua-fortis—enough to kill
a dozen men.'
'Well, now, Doctor, do you know that I
thought there was something queer about
that darned stuff, for after I drank it, every
time I Glowed my nose I burned a hole in
my pocket handk,rchiep
Milking by Machinery,
A New liamishtre Yankee has recent:
ly applied for a patent for a milking ma
chine, arranged by attaching four long
flexible tubes to an air tight-pail, upon the
side of which is a small air-pump. The
tubes are applied to the teats by means of
India rubber sheaths or sacs. The wor
king of the air produces a vacuum, and
the milk runs out into the pail. The in:
venter is quite sanguine of success, but if
our theory be correct that the cow will not
continue a full secretion of milk without
mechanical manipulations on the bag and
teat this machine will also prove a failure.
Experiment will be the only safe test of
their value.
If those machines era brought into mar
ket, let them be tried by milking a num
ber of COWS alternately, with and without
them. Thus, three or four cows mny be
milked with the machine for two weeks,
and two •veeks without them, and the a
mount of milk be carefully measured and
noted down each day. At the same time
an equal number of cows should 'ors milked
without the machines while the others are
milked with them, and vice versa. This
will show whether any increase or dimin
ution is to be attributed to the manner of
drawing the milk, or to other circumatan
oes, such as vibration in kind, quality or
amount of food.
Nu' A story writer says "Florabelle
clasped her wide white brow with her two
hands as if to still the thunder of thought
booming through her brain!" How her
head must have ached with such a noise
iu it. Florabelle must be the young lady
whose "eyes omit lightning flashes."
Rascality Abounding.
The Gospel is preached to the people
regularly. all over our country—religious
papers and magazines are circulated in
families, and many valuable persons set
good examples before the world—but not
withstanding all this, and more observa
tion teaches us, that rascality abounds in
all classes of society. Petty thefts are
daily committed—such as robbing money
drawers, stealing clothes, and dry goods,
chickens, ducks, corn, and other eatables.
strolling vagabonds, dealing in counterfeit
money, and diseased horses, are all over
the country. Gamblers, ;ravelling and
local, and resident rogues, are all on the
alert. Pious villains, with Faces as sanc
tified as the moral law, are keeping false
accounts and swearing to them, for the
sake of gain. Whiskey shops are selling
by the small, in violation gf the law.—
Drug Stores are training up drunkards in
high life, and affording facilities for Sab
bath drinking, which can be lig no where
else. The rich are oppressing the poor,
and the poor are content to live in rags
and idleness. Country dealers in produce
come to town and exact two prices for all
they have to sell, and the owners of real
estate in towns, are asking double rates, to
the injury of business, and the growth of
towns. Banks and Corporations, intend
ed for the public good, have their favorites,
and are partial in the distribution of favors.
Families persecute and envy each other.—
Individuals slander their betters. Persons
of low origin put on airs, and falsely pre
tend to be more than they are. Cheating
and misrepresentation, are the order of the
day, generally. In politics, there is very
little patriotism or love of country, while
demagogues seek to be misled, and ouild
up their own fortunes at the hazard of ru
ining the country. In religion there is
more hypocrisy than grace, and the big
gest scoundrels living crowd int) the
Church, with a view to cloak their rascal.
ly designs, and more effectually to serve
, the Devil!
In a word, rascality abounds, among all
classes, and in all countries, The Devil
to auaktng abrona In upon d.y. light,
oul the precaution to dress himself ! And
if the proseut generation of men, could
see themselves In the Gospel Glass, they
are as black as Hell !—Parson Brown•
tow.
The Boomerang.
This curious weapon, peculiar to the
Australian, has often proved a puzzler to
men of science. It is a piece of carved
wood nearly in tha form of a crescent, from
thirty to forty inches long, pointed at both
ends and the corner quite sharp. The
mode of using it is as singular as the wea•
pon. Ask a black to throw it so as to let
it fall at his feet, and away it goes full for.
ty yards before him, skitnming abng the.
surface at three or four feet from the
ground, when all at once it will suddenly
rise in the air forty or sixty feet, describing
a curve and finally dropping at the feet of
the thrower. During its course it revolves
with great rapidity on a pivet, with a
whizzing noise. It is wonderful so baba.
rous a people have invented so singular a
weapon, which sets the laws of progres•
sion at defence. It is very dangerous for
a:European to try to project it at any object,
as•it may strike himself. In a native's
hands it is a formidable weapon, striking
without the projector being seen. It was
invented to strike the kangaroo, which is
killed by it with certainty.
An Imaginative Scene.
The night alter theelection of lion. Si
mon Cameron, must have been one full of
incidents the most ludicrous. In our mind's
eye we con see John %V. Forney breaking
for Mt. Joy, like a "whipped spaniel, with
his tail between his legs !"—Montgomery,
the Congressman from Greene, taking
Charley Black by one arm and Shesh.
Bentley by the other, and hurrying to the
Editorial sanctum of the Patriot and Un
ion, to notify Hopkins, Jr., that he had
better make 'a speedy sale of the lumber
purchased for the erection of a gallows in
the Hall of.the House, upon which to sus
pend recusant Democrats ! The train for
the West contained Hopkins, Sr., in de•
apondent mood—contemplating from the
car window well•defined "'nemesia tracks"
in the snow ! Some fifteen or twenty
other Senatorial aspirants breaking for
their respective hotels for their carpet.
bags—some for home—others for "Wheat.
land !" Hopkina. Jr., absent front Banc.
turn—upon examination of premises by
"printer's devil," found in cellar, hid un•
der aforesaid lumber ! Simon Cameron
down at depot chartering train of burthen
cars to transport oysters, charnpaigne,
Good time that night !—Ex.
ear Never contradict an angry wo
man. Never do it.
VOL. XXII. NO. 7.
An' indian Story.
Speaking of Indians, we have an old
chap here wbo has lived a number of years
on the frontier, and whom we shall calf
Capt. Perry. He occasionally takes rath
er too much of the 'inspiring fluid,' and,
like others who have passed through an
eventful life is fond, when in this state,
of relating his 'hair breadth escapes;' and
also., like most others, magnifies them to a
somewhat unwarrantable extent. Being
in the 'Prooery,' the other day, while the
captain was relating one of his adventures
which happened near some lake, the name
of which I do not remember, he stated
that it occurred on the Fourth of July.—
after performing unheard of prodigies of
vallor, he was finally forced to run. This
he did, and shortly afterwards found him.
self on the bank of the lake, which was
'frozen solid all the way across.' With.
out a moment's hesitation ho started over,
followed closely by the Indians, three in
number: When about a mile from the
shore, he perceived the Indians were be.
coming scattered; and, stooping down he
picked op a hoop pole and killed them,
one at a time, as they came up.
'Why, Captain,' asked a bystander, how
could the river be frozen over on the
Fourth of July--and how came a hoop
pole that far from the shore
'Urn ! Urn !' grunted the old man,
(with a hic !) 'what do you know about
Indians ?'
MODERN DWOVERIES Coxswains°
SCRIPTURE.—At the recent meeting held
in London for the purpose of establishing
a museum for the illustration of the Holy
Scriptures, Sir Henry Rawlington, dis
tinguished for his researches at Nineveh,
BM that be bad been enabled to trace
Oriental records by means of the monu
mental inscriptions now in the British mu
seum; from the time of Abraham's depar
ture from Ur of the Chaldees, down to
that of Alexander the Great, a period of
two thousands years; and that whenever
the history
people,ca me
therei wasncontact
t t v h i e th co th u a r rof of theJewish
rninesdPnra hnt wan thaw. rap
ords and the details of Scripture—the
same names, the same succession of Kinge
the same acts.
JUDICIAL DECISION OF A BAD DINNER.
—The late Judge Dooly, of Georgia, was
remarkable for his wit :
""At one place where he attended court,
he waa not well pleased with his enter
tainment at the tavern. On the first day
of the court, a hog, under the name of a
pig, had been cooked whole and laid up
on the table. No person attacked it. It
was brought the next day and the next,
and treated with the same respect : and it
was on the table on the day on which the
court adjourned. As the boarders finish
ed their dinner, Judge Dooly rose from
the table, and in a solemn manner address
ed the clerk. "Mr. Clerk," said he, "dis
miss the hog until the first day of next
court. He has attended so faithfully du
ring the present term that I don't think it
will be necessary to take any security."
A Nowt DEBD.--Some months since,
a poor German neighbor of Gerrit Smith
was charged with murder. A singular
combination of unfavorable circumstances
induced a general belief that he was guil
ty, and the public excitement against him
was very strong. Mr. Smith visited the
suspected man is the jail, and became con
vinced that he was innocent. In the face
of a hostile public sentiment he volunteer,
ed his services as counsel for the German,
spent nearly a thousand dollars from his
own purse in collecting evidence, and ar
gued his case before the jury. By his un
tiring exertions the very dark cloud of un
favorable circumstances was cleared up,
and the innocence of his client made mani
fest, not only to the court and jury, but to
the public. Mr. Smith, with characteristic
beneficence, crowned his magnanimity by
giving the poor German a small farm and
five hundred dollars in money. Nobleness
like this is its own praise and its own re.
ward, We wish that itwas less rare.
Passzaviwo Eons.—Take a seine and
cover the bottom with eggs ; then pour
boiling water upon them sufficient to give
them a thorough wetting, permitting the
water to pass over through the seive.--
Take them out and dry them in bran, the
small end down and your eggs will keen
for ever.
War Recently, a negro, the property
of Mr. Fletcher, of Lausens ‘..lounty, Geor.
gin, told his master of a singular bank of
deposit, in which he invested his spare
change. lle confessed that he had, du.
ring three days, swallowed twenty-five
gold dollars, which he had stolen.