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    VOL. XXIV.
Ocrofala, or King's Evil,
t it omatitutional disease, corruption of the
by which this fluid becomes vitiated,
weak. and poor. Being in the oirculatdon, it
puvades the whole body, and may burst out
in disease on any part of it. No organ is free
from its attacka, nor is there one which it may
net deetroy. The scrofulous taint in variously
caused by merourial disease, low living, dis
ordered or unhealthy food, impure air, 111th
and filthy habits, the dopmeing vices, and,
above all, by the venereal infection. What
ever be its origin, it is hereditary in the con
stitution, descending °from parents to children
unto the third and fourth generation ;" indeed,
it seems to be the rod of Him who says, .1
will visit the iniquities of the fathers upon
their children."
Its effects commence by deposition from the
blood of corrupt or ulcerous matter, which, in
the lunge, liver, and internal organs, is termed
tubercles; in the glands, swelling.; and on
the surface, eruptions or sores. This foul cor
ruption, which genders in the blood, depresses
the energies of life, so that scrofulous constitu
tion. not only suffer front scrofulous com
plaints, but they have fur less power to with
stand the attacks of other diseases ; conse
quently, vast numbers parish by disorders
which, although not scrofulous in their nature,
are still condoned fatal by this taint in the
system. Most of the consumption which de
cimates the human family has its origin directly
in this scrofulous contamination ; and nanny
destructive disease. of the liver, kidneys, brain,
and, indeed, of all the organs, arise from or
ore aggravated by the same cause.
Ona quarter of all our people are serefulow ;
their persons are Mended by this lurking in
fection, and their health is undermined by it.
To cleanse it from the system we must renovate
the blood by on alterative medicine, and in
vigorate it b 7 healthy food and exercise,
Much a medicine we supply in
AYER'S
Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla,
the most eilbetnal remedy which the medical
skill of our times can devise for this every
who prevailing and li •al malady. It is com
bined front the most active remedials that have
been discovered for the expurgation of this foul
disorder front the blood, and the rescue of the
g -- stent from its destructive consequences.
Renee it amid he employed for the cure of
not only mauls, but also those other affect
tiers which arise from it, such as Enurrtva
and Sxix DIARA,RS, ST. ANTIIO:4VA FIRM,
Res's, or Enrerna.ie, Pummel, Purret.as.
lhoransa, BLA nrs and Dons, Tenons, Terra.
and SALT Enr.eas, Smut HRAD, Rmovrortir.
fLIMLIMATD3II, STPIIILITIC and SlencutuatDni-
MAAEA, DROPSY, Dram:Para, Denn.trr,_ and,
Indeed, AIL we Comm-re Atlanta ram :Yenta.
: ma.
'MD OR rMPORE DLOOD. The popular belief
su ‘• impurity of the blood" is founded in truth,
lir scrofula u a degeneration of the blood. The
partieular purpose and virtue of this &agape
rills is to purify and regenerate this vital fluid,
...rithout whiek sound health is impassible is
matantinated eorstitutimis.
.A.rosp!a CL41.....-4.2 _ Vol, ..
FOR ALL THE PURPOSES OF A FAMILY PHYSIC,
taro so composed that diocese within the range of
their action can rarely nithttand or erode them
Their pone:rating properties search, and cleanse,
and igomte every portion of the human organ
iSM, correcting its diseased action, and motoring
As healthy vitalities. As a consequence of these
properties, the invalid who is bowed down with
pain or physical debility is astonished to find his
health or energy restored by a remedy at once so
simple and inviting.
If ot only do they cure the every-day complainte
of every body, but also many formidable and
dangerous disease.. The agent below named is
pleased to furniah gratis try American Almanac,
containing certificate. of their cures and directions
for their use in the following complaints: Coaline
seem,
Heartburn, lieculaehe arisingfilm disordered
Stomach, !'saws, Indigestion, Pam in and "forbid
(election of the Botrcia, Flatulency, Lose of App.
tile, Jaundice, and other kindred complaints,
arising from a low state of the body or obstruction
of Its functions.
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral,
NOR Tit& SIAM .118 OP
Coughs, Colds, Influenza, Hoarseness,
Croup, Bronchitis, Incipient Consump.
lion, and for the relief of Consumptive
Patients in advanced stages of the
disease.
So wide is the field of its usefulness and to nu
merous are the cases of its cures, that almost
everyection of country abounds in person. pub
liely who have been restored from alarming
and riven desperate discanco of the lungs by its
nee. When once tried. its superiority over every
other medicine of its kind is too apparent to escape
observation, and where its virtues are known, the
public no longer hesitate what antidote to employ
for the distressing and dangerous affections of the
Whmonary organs that are incident to our climate.
ile many inferior remedies thrust upon the
community have failed and been discarded, this
has gained friends by every trial, conferred benefits
en the emitted they can never forget, and pro
duced cures too numerous and too remarkable to
be forgotten
PREPARED BY
DR. J. C. AYER & CO.
LOWELL, MASS.
fuux R! All, Agent ttinitingdon, Pa.
Xov.
$4O 00
Pays for a full course in the Iron City College,
the lurgoet, most extensively patronized and
heat organized School in the United Staten.
35/ students attending daily.
March, 1859. _ _
Usual tints to complete a lull coure, from 6
to 10 weeks- Every Student, upon graduating
to guaranteed to be competent to manage the
Books of any Business, and qualified to earn a
salary of from
$6OO to $lOOO.
Students enter at any time—No Vacation—
Bevies/ at pleasure.
,61 Premiums for beet Penmanship
_ awarded in 1858.
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For Circular and Specimens of Writing, in.
close two letter stamps. and address
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are the Agents for the Notranat." and the most
influential and largest circulating Newspapers
in the United States and the Canadas. They
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rat..
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Saud four stamps and get 80 pages particulars,
gratis. EPHRAIM BROWN, Lowall, Mass.
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SELEGT POETS ,
TUI BIAIDEIVS PRAYER.
at :. G. WRITTIER.
She rose from her delicious sleep,
And put sway the soft brown hair,
And hi a tone as low and deep
As loves's first whisper, breathes a prayer;
Her snow•white hands together pressed,
Her blue eyes sheltered in the lid,
The folded linen on her breast,
Just swelling with the charms it hid.
Alll from her long and flowing these
Escaped a bare and snowy foot,
Whose step upon the earth did press,
Like a pure ancw.flake, light and mute ;
!trd then from slumbers soft and warm,
Like a young spirit, fresh from heaven,
She bowed that plight and matchless form
And humbly prayed to be forgiven.
Oh, Oud I if souls unsoiled as these,
Need daily mercy from thy throne—
If she upon her bonded knees,
Our holiest and our purest one ;
She with a face so clear and bright,
We deem her some stray child of light;
If she, with those soft eyes and tears,
Dar after day in her young years,
Must kneel and pray for grace.from thee,
What far, far deeper need have wo I
How hardly.
if win not heaven,
Will our wild errors be forgiven I
EETS .
A MAN IN THE . SEIVERN. •
The New York Sun of Friday last, con
tains the following story of city life :
It will he recollected that during them.-
' ly part of the past winter, the tides at our
wharves wore extremely heavy, and at one
tins. all along the Eng' River side, for the
space of a mile or morn, the rats were
compelled to leave the piers in shoals of
thousands, winking for the time rare ac
tivity among rat terriers and wharf loafers,
to their destruction. A communication.
just received ( - tom a Western source (the
postmaster at Chicago.) enclosing a letter
front a German, now in that city, writing
homeward, seems to make it nether: is
that one of the queerest incidents of New
Y rk if,, which his ever been recorded.
at about that time took plooe in this city.
Leopeld (layer, a German citizen, then
residing at 117 Avenue A, had come to
this city to seek his fortune among his
cnuntrymen. lie was a kind of king
"Chiffonier," or rAc
ke i f
ni t6n0rtf..,41,,cf, however, nat1....,"
oibsipated by the speculations which the
limey class of the French 11/1110 lately re .
sorted to, viz.: the Bourse, The trans.
actions of that enormous machine had lit
erally nut our friend Leopold. and
lie had reluctantly quitted the French cep
ital to try his luck in our "land ofze gold,"
as he termed it in his Francc-Gerinan pa.
iota,
Among all his experience, Leopold had,
at one time, been a workmen in the s tiv
ers of Paris—that underground world of
Parts ragpickers--and had become (until.
tar with its life and scenes. He knew
about its perluisites and profits too, and
i.otriewhat of its risks. Arrived in this
great city, twilling doubting of its equally
extensive subterranean avenues with those
of Paris. be become extremely noxious to
get into and about the sewers of New York
He desired to keep his adventure secret
also, in order to have the profits of the un
dertalting to himself alone. 'Phe difflcul
ty of his enterprise may be somewhat con
sidered when we reflect that the stain
sewers of Paris are broadly constructed
tunnela. some teu feet wide mid nine feet
high. They convey es much water thro'
them as does our Croton Aqueduct, and
resemble it in solidity of construction
They carry not water alone but ventilation
and air to many of the underground vaults
and perheus of the Parisian city, which
are unseen and *unknown to many of ;Is
resident.. _
For 'nom than three months Leopold
prowled around the piers in the upper
part of the city on the East River side,
with the hopes of seeing a sewer opening
out into the river. He had not sufficient
experience in city life and Croton Board
arrangements to know that entrance could
be had through the street "manholes,"
(apertures left for the purpose along the
streets, and covered over with iron covers,
opening with a key.) Such modes of in
gress in this country were under the con
trol of the municipal police, and the entry
by them was beyond the power of a poor
rag•picker.
Finally. Meyer gut into a sewer which
emptied on Houston street. and tho big
tides which followed, kept him so close a
prisoner, and by which he came near los.
ing hit. life, that, getting out, he at once
storied West, not only to dispose of his
gains by the enterprise, in putting a little
tnoney into a western farm, but to see some
relatives near Kaskaskia, in Illinois. and
then to return to Paris, rag-picking, with
a snug little sum ahead. The first expe.
rience of Meyer m New York Sewer Life
wan to get nearly ea/tided to death by an
vOintlit of oenm from the factory of Hoe
LIBERTY AND UNION, NOW AND FOREVER, ONE AND INSEPARABLE.
HL
NTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDA.Y, JUNE 22, 1859.
_ _ _
&Co , corner of Broo me and Sheriff --Betel wealth had now d itvneder ion his
streets. He stopped about that locality, imaginetiori. I
as near as could be judged, becaus e o f His wire sack was filled; his pockets
Some debris of etove-pipe which had be. were filled; his hat was filled. He took
come fudged in the sewer, and here the off his boots and strung them across his
back, and these were filled. He had bag
steam woe suddenly i let off." Ile con
tinned, however, to retreat along th gel countless treasure, and yet countless
e ex.
tensive bottom of the sewer, to escape the treasure remained unbugged. Ilowever
boiling fury of the vapor floods which he must now get out of the sewers, with
rushed along. ; his treasures, unsuspected, and then he
It must not be supposed that Meyer 1 vv " nil right.
came into the sewers unprov ided
with He speedily retraced his way to House
light, or the usual method of working these to " s'""' and passed along Grand to the
i East River. Here the high tides Oct the
street mines to advantage. He had both
and all. His trowsera and underclothing I water b ick to such a great extent. that on
were of India rubber; India rubber shoes i three different occasions he narrowly en.
i taped suffocation, And this was the up
on his feet; a wire sock at bin shoulder;
an iron rag picker in his hand; and a small .hill part of his career—how to get out.
scoop in his side pocket, with a usual min-
1 Htl waited one week—two--three—and
ing lamp, contrived to protect the seer
four! Provisione were scarce; the ventil
i
from the impurity of the atmosphere— ' ation poor; no more turtles arouno; only a
fid , e
these compoeed his nutfit. His design few scabby
like to have sstarvehventured with tn
all handisso Mey , r
wealth !
was to makes straight wake for the Fifth
After awhile, however, a low tide came,
Avenue. There. he reasoned, would be
the cream of hunting grounds for his trade egress to the East River was cpened, end
"
and probably his reasons were good, for he he got out.
argued that in no part of the city do so After emerging, Meyer soon found that
he had ao good legal title to his street tree
many silver spoons, forks and trinket
disappear, through [tie carelessness of set! I sures, that they were the property nf the
vents and the impurities of soap and waste I owners, and subjected to be grasped by
the oce A kind fr'end, to whom
water, an in this, palatial part of our city. p
had ren li de .
red many favors, and thereb he y
But several difficu hies beset the sewer
c
adventurer, before he could gain the prom
onverted him to just the man for the pur
pose, gave the requisite hint to the Me
ised land, lie liner the directions of the
tropolitans—that of dividing the plunder.—
streets but not the course of the sewers.
He relvaimed westward to Broadway, only
and Meyer found it would be better to leave
to find that its main sewers there turned I the city ' The next afternoon after corning
off to
the
„ ant. He
went
oiong its
ewer. out from his subterraneart life. Leopold
took the North River steamboat for Albany
ly branch and there found a crook to the
betted westward; and aiming all the seedy
north. Ho advanced northward and there
German coats which had stood a hard sea
its walls went south, In short, he became
voyage through all the Incidents ofa trip
bewildered, nod for the first time in his
Frain the Fatherland, and - a seedy counte
liic doubted his capacity to navigate un•
mince as well, that of Meyer was the most ground wherever he chose to p ine .
conspicuous. And yet the glow of ten
t-rote. This was the fifth day of his en•
thoueind dollars, or thereebouts, made in a
trance to the solvers. His little stocker
few months time, gave 114 inwerd satin
provisions was giving out.—The street
faction which made his poor suit and poor
corner air-holes of this part of the city
appearance more welcome to hitn than the
were not us frequent as he hod before
finer dress of many it brighter day previ.
me, them. and the sewers were less pari•
fled because more dietant from the rivers. i "'''
in todvi; al si , rte. lre tutu previously preset:
• with gloom
NiliCh had refreshed him somewhat; and
now Meyer felt rather like backing, nut
trout his disagreeable task. However,
push ahead he must. He was yet in
Broadway, that he knew, and opposite the
Nletropolitan Hotel, whore the savory
strain front the Messrs Leland's kitchens
poured forth, to him, delightful odors.
He pushed down Broadway, hod a tio•
lent dispute with a poor mangy dog, which
had got benighted down below and would
not let bin) pars, which dispute ho ended
rather summarily with his iron rag picker.
and then sho,d along. At the junction
with Canal street, he encountered quite a
monster terrupin;crawling upwards along
Broadway, It had escaped from some
resist, isant before dinner, got into a street
gutter, from thence into the culvert of the
se,er, and most likely poor turtle never
intended to go back for its own dinner at
all. This was quite a god send for poor
Meyer. In the streets of Paris he hird
never fancied that in those of New York,
eatable turtles could be found walking
around in the sewers, The sewer open
ings are better protected there. llowev
er, he out with his knife, and speedily
found un inlet into this hard.shell New
York politician. Some mulches in his
pocket, copies of the Police Gazette .d
Hrultl, furnished a fire, and poor Meyer
soon had souls underdone turtle steaks to
appease his hunger.
Ile now altered his course somewhat, be •
lieving that among the restaurant open
ings of the Fulton street • ating-houses he
might obtain further provender, and then
return refreshed to his up-.own explora
tions. So he travelled along Broadway,
knew Taylor's by its rich odors; stopped
to smell the candy whiffs from Thompson's
saloon; received tell minutes imaginary
nourishment from Gosling's restaurant,
and finally reached Fulton street. Here
he ran foul of the Sun office vault, with
its tremendous presses running at great
speed under the street, and making so
mighty a seise that he fOok it for thunder.
And he was not mistaken about the Ful
ton street eating-houses. He got through
.a crevice of the masonry, quite a liberal
amount of provisions, and then wended
his way up town. He finally, by branch
ing westward from Broadway; found his
way to the fifth A venue,and there he fair
' ly picked up a small fortune in about a
month's time, Breastpins, bracelets, rugs
watches, souvenirs, knives and forks, child
ren's corals, whistles and call., beads, &c.,
lay grouped together in the sluggish
streams of the level streets. The poor
man's eyes fairly dimes(' with exeitetmtit
We had in our pusartion on Saturday,'
I
vs.. ~,.,,•.v..r procion toad by
Vie immortal Burns to the dearest object
of his affection. Highland Mary, on the
banks of the winding Ayr, when he spent
with her • oneday of parting love,' Ihey
are in a remarkable good state of preserva
tion, and belonged to a descendant of the
family of Mary's mother, Mrs. Campbell,
whose proderty :hey became on the death
of her daughter, and subsequently Mrs.
Anderson, Mary's only surviving sister,
acquired them. 'I he circumstance of the
Bibles being in two volumes, seemed at
one time to threaten its dismemberment;
Mrs• Anderson having presented a volume
to each of her two daughters; hut on their
appro•.c in marriage, their brother
Liam prevailed on them to dispose of the
sacred vtrlutnes to !inn. On the first blank
leaf of the first volume is written, in the
hand writing of the immortal bard. •t And
ye shall not • ear by my name f , Isely---.I
am the Lord - Levit 19th chap. 12th err."
and en the corresponding leaf of the second
volume, ••'f'hou shalt not forswear thyself,
but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oath
•-• Math. bth chapt 33d verse." On the
second blank leaf of each' •+olume, there;
are the remains of r• Robert Burns. Moss-
giel," in his hand writing, beneath which
is drawn a masonic emblem. At the end
of the first volume there is a lock of Hugh•
land:Ma ry's hair.
The re is a mournful interest attached to
these satire d volumes—sacred from their
contents, and sacred from having been a
pledge of love from the most gifted of
Scotland's bards to the object of his affec
tions, from whom he Nile separating, no
more to meet on this side of the grave.
The life of Burns was lull of romance, but
there is not one circumstance in it all, so
romantic and full of interest as those which
attended and followed the gift of these
volunaes. He wee young when he wood
and won the affection of Mary, whom he
describes as gat warm-hearted, charming
young creature as ever blessed a man with
generous love. , The attachment was
mutual, and forms the stihict of many of
his earlier lyrics, as well as of the produc
tions of his Inter years, which shows that
it was very deep rooted. Before he was
known to fame, steeped in poverty to the
very dregs, and meditating an escape to
the West Indies, from the remorseless
fangs of a hard hearted creditor, he ad
dresssed to his "dear girl , , the song which
begins:
" Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary,
And leave sold Scotia's shore ;
Will ye go to tho Indies,lny Mary,
And cross the Atlantic's roar?"
But neither Burns nor his Mary wore
doomed to "cross the Atlantic's roar," nor
elry
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to realize thuse dreams of tit•tual bi:ss
which passion or enthusiasm had engen
dered in their youthful imaginations._
Burnswas called to Edinburg, there to
commence his career of fame, which was
to torminee in chill poverty, dreary disap
pointment and dark despair•- while Meryl
happier lot, after a transient gleam of sun
shine of life, was to be removed to a better
and a happier world. Her death shed a
sadness over his whole future life, and a
spirit of subdued brief and tenderness was
displayed whenever she was the milieu of
his conversation or writing. Witness as
follows
" Ye banks an' braes an' streams around
The castle o' Montgonwrie,
Green be your woods, and fair your flowers,
Your waters never drumlin ;
There simmer first unfaulds her robes,
An' there they tangent tarry,
For there I took the last fareweel
0' wy tweet Uieland Mary I"
In a note appended to this song. Be ns
says trilis was a composition of mine in
my early life, before I wan known at all to
the world. My Highland lassie was a
warm-hearted charming young creature as
over blessed a man with geeerous love
Alter a pretty long trail of the most ardent
reciprocal aff mien, we met by appoint
ment on the second Sunday of May, in a
, sequestered spot on the banks of the Ayr,
where we spent a day in taking a farewell
b-fore she should embark fur the West
Highlands, to arrange matters among her
friends for our projected change of life. At
the close of the autumn tollowmg she ma
sed the sea to meet me at Greenock, where
she was seized with a malignant fever,
which hurried my dear girl to her grave!
in a few days, before I could even hear of
her illness."
It was at this romantic and interesting
meeting on the banks of the Ayr, that the
Bibles before us, were presented to Mary;
end he must have a heart of stone indeed
who can gaze on thorn without imagination
calling up feelings in his bosom too big
for utterance. 'On that spot they exchanged
Bibles, and plighted their ,faith to each
=q.v.ikkia 04494.quirt.ft-re - imu
the wealth if the Indies could not have I
p ie
rnoured a better or more appropriate
o,
In Lockhart's Life of Burns, we aro ft.-
formed that several years after the death
of Alary, on the anniversary cf the day
which brought him the melancholy intel
ligence, he appetred, as the twilight ad•
vanced. (in the language of his widow,)
.'very sad about soine.hing ;" and though
the evening was a cold arid keen one, in
September. he n anderet: into his barn yard,
from which the entreaties of his wife could
not, for some time, recall him. To these
entrenties, he always promised obedience,
but these promises were brit the lipkiud
nesses of affection, no sooner made than
forgotten, for his eye was fixed on heaven,
arid his unceasing stride indicated that his
heart was also there. Mrs. Earns' last
approach to the barn yard found him
stre . ched on a mass of straw, looking ab•
strnctedly on a planit which, in a clear
starry sky, "shima like another moon,"
:ter] having prevailed on him to return into
the house, instantly wrote, as they still
stand, the following sublime verses. " To
Mary in Elear-n," which have thrilled
through many breasts, and drawn tears
from ninny eyes, and which will live the
noblest of the lyrics of Burns, while sub
limity and pathos have a responding charm
in the heart' , of Sentsmen.
TO MARY IN HEAVEN.
Thou lingering star, with less'eing ray,
That luv'st to greet the early morn,
Again thou tuthei.'st it the day
My Mary from my soul was torn.
U Mary 1 dear departed shade I
Whore is thy place of blissful rest?
. .
See'st thou thy: l'Over lowly laid,
Irear'st thou the groans that rend Me breast.
That lanced hour can I forget
Can. I forget the hallow'd grove,
Where by the winding Av r we met .
To live one day of parting love?
Eternity will not efface
Those records dear of transport past ;
Thy image at our lost embrace ;
Ah I little thought we 'twas our last !
Ayr gurgling kissed his pebbled shore,
O'erbung with wild woods thick'ning green
The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar,
1. witt'd am'rous round the raptur'd Beene.
The flowers sprang wanton to be prest,
The birds sang love on ev'ry spray,
'Till soon, too soon, the glowing west
Proclaim'd the speed of winged day.
Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes,
And fondly broods with miser e• re I
Time but the impression deeper makes,
As strouns their chant.ele deeper wear.
.My Mary, dear departed shade l
Where is thy blissful place of rest ?
See'st thou thy lover lowly laid ?
llear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?
air Many pers no have a particular
ambition to seem exactly what they are not.
Wo know a rich man who bought a moat
splendid library, and iigned the contract
with his :nark.
Picture of Lucknow, India. go on that train. It is a question of life
" The horrors of the hot winds nod the and death to ms. Cony ou get me to it /
positive miseries of the Indian slimmer are i Have you got an engine here 1 Where is
almost forgotten under the influence Of the superintendent 1"
such delightful weather as Lucknow en- The section master had an office near
joys at present. The only drawback to the by, and 'he two went to find an official and
pleasures of the breeze whioh sets in every procure an engine. The traveller stated
morning Is found in the clouds of dust, his case—he must go on—could not delay,
composed of powdered brick, lime, and and off .red the officer $250 if be would
fine sand, which renders a single cloth tent I
put iliill on board the train. This strange
intolerable, and eyes a personal aggrava I demand and strange offer caused the eta.
tion. If but one gentle shower would fall tion master to hasten and do what he could.
for a few hours, we might have some I The fire was not out of the engine that had
comfort, tut the tantalizing clouds gather drawn the train to that poitite-the bargain
overhead only to let down a few heavy was settl .d...a draft given un New 'York
drops, and then let in the sun, the power for the $250, and in ten minutes the tray.
of which at noon is now so great as to make ; eller started with an engine to overtake
exercise on horseback very disagreeable.' the train.
The evenings and mornings aro delight- After rushing on for 30 or 40 mes, som
ful, but the interval between thodimintition connection gave way about the il engine. e
of the heat of the sun and the darkness i The ergine was stopped and a wooden pin
is too short for a long ride or drive. Morn -was fitted to supply the deficiency. With
tag and evenlitg the whole of the main this, on they flew. Tho train had of
streets and roads in and about Lucknow, course, many miles the start of them, ano
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are sieduleusly watered by an unuy of 1 despite the wooden pin, the engineer crow
jbbeesties, who scatter with their hands I ded on steam, and tore through the tour.-
ets of water from the mouths of their we- ! try at a fearful rate. 30 miles of the die•
ter bugs (or mussucks) with the regulari-1 lance passed was ran in 27 minutes but
ty of machinery. " Society " then turns 1 the engagement was that they should over.
out in its buggy, It is small as yet in i take the train, and overtake it they did,
numbers and a new face, particularly if it but not till 100 miles had be.iu run, and
be feminine, makes, a sensation. The they were approaching Toledo.
buggy is the favorite vehicle—a sort of Ha , ieg at length overtaken and stopped
gig with a moveable hood; now and then l the train and hurried on beard, the travel
an aspiring subaltern (lathes by in a quaint ler teem eagerly to a birth in the sleeping
old fashioned dog cart. In the good old , car, and took theref-om a carpet bag con
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times it was customary to put policemen wining $275,000. His treasure
at the end of the drives to prevent natives
!his
a molested it, and d was safe
ismissing
going along the course in their hackeries his faithfhul d
cou Tier, he went on his way
and bullock carts, and when the roads are rejoicing at the success of his perilous and
completed here, th . swine measures will exciting adventure.-- Cleveland Plain
probably be resorted to. As yet, our car-
dealer,
ringes may be counted on our fingers.--
There is the chief commissioner's open
carriage, with the official scarlet liveried
servants. and the escort of a few armed
troopers, the Rajap of Kuppertlalleh's,
who often appears on the course with a
retinue of sower* afAeLhi .4,, ... ...—,
of lice civil servants and a few o ffi cers ana
some ball dozen horsemen. Such is our
'drive.' In former days I am told that
Lucknow presented a very different specta
cle. The streets were crowded with the
processions of grandees going to court or
pitying visite, each preceeded by mace
bearers, and surrounded by swordsmen
in livery, by richly accoutered elephants
bearing nobles in golden or silver howdahs.
by a thronging, jostling muss of gaudy
palanquins belonging to merchants, bank
ers, officers of state, and gentlemen, by
continual promenades of dancing girls, of
musicians, of marriage parties, of reli•
gime; ceretnonios—m feet by all the out•
ward signs of one perpetual fete, in which
the giddy crowd swarmed, dressed, laugh
ed, sang, and lived without a thought of
aught but pleasure. The impress of that
life is stamped on Lucknow yet, bet it is
like a inasquerode attire on a corpse. 'fire
"cheek," or prncipal street--narrow and
tortuous—is tilled from 3 o'clock till nook
with a sweltering swarm of human beings.
throe gh whom an elephant effects his
passage with difficulty ; but at the same
time a seat on his back affords the best
means of seeieg the city. So for no I can
see, the traffic which attracts this enormous
crowd consists principally of sugar candy,
i sweetmeats, pipe stems, tobacco, rose ws.
' ter, eakes,silver and gold lace, embroidered
c tps. and trifling finery. The shops oc
copy the ground floor of the house, which
are rarely of more than two stories—the
basement and one above—from which one
projects a wooden balcony, provided with
lattices, and a broad overhanging bent for
the sake of shade.—London Times.
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' Remarkable Race by Railroad—Stakes
8275,000.
One day last week, as the eastward
bound express train reached Laporte, Ind.,
a passenger stepped oil while the engine
was being replenished with wood and wa
ter, and walked to and fro on the platform,
and consumed to walk until the whistle
sounded. The other passengers got on
board and the train passed off. but the gen
tleman still walked on. A few minutes
alter the train had gone, a station men saw
the pedestrian, end, going up to him, asked
in a surprised tone--
What the-.•ore you doing here 1"
The inns started, opened hie eyes, and
looked around bewildered. The fact wae,
he had been fatigued, and dropped asleep
while walking. Rousing himself, he
asked :
U Why I where am I 1"
. 4 At . Laporte."
"Where's the tram I came ir. I"
'• That left ten minuted ago."
'• Ten minutes ago and left me! I moat
Editor & Proprietor.
The Future of Polities.
The Residing Journal says : The poli
tics of this country for sonic years past
have been in a very confused state. The
o!.:1 Whig party died with . its great leader
7: - ‘ ) I elgy r end tho ~lel
ties on the one hand, and ,‘ Administra
tion " and "State Rights Democrats" on
the other. Here are four organizations,
which are just two too many, as the oats.
mai tendency of the people of this country
his ever been to array themselves into two
great parties only.
But although we have four parties of
more or less influence, and, if we trace out
their sub divisions North and South, a doz.
en besides,--they may all be classed under
too great heads—the party which upholds
human slavery, and labor for its extension,
and the: party which is endeavoring to re•
strict this great national curse, and confine
it within its present limits. The antago
nism is here marked and decided. Upon
luestions of minor importance, politicians
and people may agree to differ, but the
slave questiln in its present aspect, admits
of no compromise. As this issue is likely
to be the all engrossing one, and to over.
ride all others, it follows that there will be
two great parties only in the contest of
1860—the pro-slavery Democracy, and
Republican freemen. Other issues will
doubtless enter into the contest, but they
will be of secondary importance, and fail,
even if the attempt is made, to withdraw
any material portion of force from the main
army of the belligerents.
That we are not mistaken in these views,
we think apparent by a glance at the prep-
arations already making for the contest...,
The Southern politicians, generally so
shrewd, are hastening their own downfall
by their increased arrogance. Haring
succeeded by the aid of a corrupt President
and pro-Slavery Judiciary, in I oreimg
their pecnliar institution into the Territor
ies in defiance of the popular will, and
thus establish the dome:. tic slave trade on
a firm basis, they now demand that the
foreign slave trade be equally recognized
and protected by the government. As the
Charleston Convention will be entirely
in their hands, they will most probably
adopt a platform embracing these princi
ples. To thin the North will never yield
assent. Against a proposition so MOlllO.
trees and uncivilized good people every.
where will rally.' They will forget their
differences—their jealousies—and make
common cause in opposition to measures
which if accomplished, would make our
nation the sc , rn of all Christendom—and
they will triumph—they cannot fail to tri
umph, hi the great battle of Freedom and
human rights.
Ilurt. F. P. STANTON, Ex• Secrets,
ry of Kansas. in a letter published in the
Kansas ?Imes . , says that "he is not prep&
red to join thsi`Republican Party, and with.
out a complete re-organization and abaft.
donnymt of the heresies of the Buchanan
Administration, he cannot cooperate with
the Democratic Party."