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VOL. X.--NO. 38.]
ADVERTISEMENTS
Notice is 11.er eby Given,
To the Heirs and Legal Representa-
tires of
James Monroe OPllvaiii,
jATE of Germany township, Adams co.
deceased, that an INQUEST will be
held on 'Thursday the 19th day of Decem
Zer inst. on a Tract of Land situate in G er
limy township, Adams county, iirljoining
lands of Dr. J. A. Shorb, the Widow Da
vis, George Will, Esq. and others, contain
ing about 27 Acres, more or less ; also, at
House and Lot of Ground in the town of
Liulestown, containing about ono acre,
more or less, with a two.story .weather
boarded House, small Barn, and other im
provements thereon erected ; to make parti
tion thereof to and among all the Heirs and
Legal Representatives of said deceased, ij
the same will admit of such partition, with
out prejudice to or spoiling the whole ; but
if the same will not admit oleuch partition,
then to part and divide the same to and a
mong as many of them as the same will ac
commodate ; but if the same will not admit
of division at all, without prejudice to or
spoiling the whole thereof, then to value and
appraise the whole undivided.
G. W. M'CLELLAN, Sheri".
Sheriff's Office,
Gettysburg, Dec. 2, 1839. 5
LIST or RET.IILERS
Of Foreign Merchandize, within the
County of Adams,
GREEABLY to a certificate of the
same furnished to me by the Clerk
of Quarter Sessions of said county, desig
slating those who have taken out their Li
censes for one year from the Ist of May,
1839.
Beta Hera. - Glees.
Siimuel Fahnestock,' , 6
Thomas J Cooper, . - 8
George Arnold, 7
R G M'Creary, , 8
Jacob A Winrott, .8
Samuel ‘Vitherow, . . 11
Samuel El Buehler, '8
William Gillespie. '8
William Hamill, j - !I3
G. R. &J. Gilbert, ' 6
David Sheets,
Abraham King, 11
Jacob Brinkerhoff', •s
Adam Epley, .
John Picking, .. , --. , ....-'''s
Philip Miller,• '.. i. ' . lB .
George. Beck 7
William Hildebrand; • B ' '
Jacob Brown, . . ' 8
David Beecher; . ' . ~ 8.:
Thomas *Knight, ' --. '6 •
Peter Mickley, • ' -• . ' ~'' '8
Nicholas Mark, 'B
Albert Vandyke, . " 8
ASE Duncan. -- . , 8
John Miller, • • I X`
•Henry Stouter, ' . . . .4•, r 8
. John H Deingir, , '' ''-'' '8
David White, . . ' 1 " -'-• As
,.
John H Myers, 8
Gideon Griest, - 8
William Ickes 8
Wm li . . II ati j Gardner, 7
Jacob Myers,. . , 8
Enoch Simpson, • 8-
Simon Becker: 8 .
George Mitinigh, 8
John M'Knight, • ' 8
Jesse Houck, • 8
John Conrad, • 8
George Wilson, S
Henry Schriver, 7
James S Davis, 8
Moritz. Budie, 6
. Blythe & *Cleary,. • . 8
W,n Johnston, 8
Benj R Robinson, 8
Jacob Hoeflich, . 8
Eli Smith & Co. S
Pr Wrn Johnston, 8
D H Swope, 8
• Cook & Tudor, 8
Abraham Scott, 8
Henry Wasmus, 8
Wm Alexander, 8
David Myers, 8
Conrad Weaver, - ' 8
John Jenkins, ~ 8
Alexander M'Cosh, - ' 8
Michael Lawyer, ' ' 8
Alexander R Stevenson, 8
Henry W Slagle, 8 .
George Range, 8
Joseph Curl, 7
Eusobius J Owings, . 8
John Aulehaugh, . 8
Wampler & M'Farland, 8
asList of those who have not taken out their
License since the Ist of May :
John M Stevenson, ag't. 8
Peter Sheets, ~ 8,
thigh M'Sherry, 8
Henry Bittinger, 7
William Arnold, ... 8
Lawyer & Robinson, - 8
Hamilton Longwell & Co. - 8
S B Mead, 8
~. . James A Thompson, 8
„„
:':....,9„,NWard & Hamit, 8
Aillyi e s, FlJohnston, 8
1 3 ; H. ' MoCLELLAN, Treas'r.
i . : T ., I ressurer's Office. Z
`oettysburg, Nov. 18, 1839. S
LAW' NOTICE.
C. BAKER
V . , ILL practice Law in the several
V Cour's of Adaius county.—Office
in Cliarnbersburg street, ono door west of
Mr. Rtielder's Store.
Gettysburg, April 510, 114519. }v-5
lazeduailrazatinalie aIa?kiPLIEDAX aziviznanzaurp e zomezataarti ad 9
ADVERTISEMENTS
LVEIDISTons , IVIEETZNG.
EIE undersigned, Auditors, appointed
by the Orphans' Court of Adams co.
to audit, adjust and proportion the balances
remaining in the hands of C. F. KEENER
and Jour( MEALS, Executors of IIEIVItY
RIFE, Jun. deceased, to and among the
respective creditors of said deceased, will
meet for that purpose at the house of James
A. Thompson, in Gettysburg, on Saturday
the 14th o/ December next, nt 10 o'clock,
A. m. of fluid day.
WM. N. IRVINE,
J. F. MACFARLANE,
GEO. SEIRYOCK,
Nov. 18. tin
ORPHANS' COURT SALE.
IN pursuance of an order of the Orphans'
Court of Adams county, there will be
sold at Public Vendue or Outcry, on Sat•
urday the 14th day of December next, on
the premiies, the following described Real
Estate, late tho property of DENNIS Mc
GUIRE, deceased, situate in Franklin
township, Adams county, adjoining lands of
David Chamberlain, John Robinson, Peter
Heck and others, containing about
43 aCRES,
more or lead, on which are erected a
TWC.STORY
',
LOC? IT:AIWA ;;;:g.
and log Stable, with other out-
5 4
baildings. About one half of the land is
covered with good TIMBER.
KrSale to commence at 10 o'clock of
said day, when duo attendance will be given
and .terms made known by
DAVID CHAMBERLAIN,
Adm'r of said deceased.
Nov. 4.* is
NEW ESTABLISHMENT.
3 1 AOTOVT.
HE Subscribers begs leave, respectful
ly to inform-the citizens of Gettys
burg, and surrounding country, that he has
ommenced, the above business, together
with HOUSE PAINTING, AND TUR
NING, &c. dm, in Chamhersburg street,
nearly opposite the Apothecary and Book
store of Mr. S Buehler, where he will
at all times be prepared to execute all orders
in the above bustnels tllith neatness and de
spatch; he will also kedp a supply ofChairs
of every description .constantly on hand,
which for neatness and durability cannot be
rpassed by any manufactured in this sec
tion of country. He hopes by strict talon
tied to business and a desire to please, to
meta and receive a share of public patron
age. ADAM KITZMILLER.
Gettysburg, Aug. 13, 18:39.
Gouley's Vegetable Medicines
UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS!
No medicine has, perhaps, ever mot with such
decided and general success as
Gioialey's Vegetable Bitters.
Tms medicine has been but a few years
before the public, and the demand for
it has already become so great, that the sub
scril,er finds it difficult to supply the numer
ous orders which he is constantly receiving.
Innumerable Certificates in his possession
bear testimony to its medicinal virtues and
attest the fact of its having preserved the
lives of hundreds bdth in this city and else
where.
His VEGETABLE COUGH DROPS,
a new article, are also getting into general
use, having been productive of the most be.
neficial effects in hundreds of families of the
first respectability in this city and vicinity I
and although they have in one instance, but
without any foundation or truth, been pro
nounced poisonous, HUNDREDS of certificates
can be produced of their having performed
positive and effectual cures in the most obsti
nate cases, both on young and old, and he
now challenges any one to produce satisfac
tory evidence that there is one particle of
any ingredient in their composition that can
injure a person in the lowest stage of any
disease.
Having administered his medicines in al
most all diseases to which the human fami
ly are subjected, he never, in a single in
stance, found them to produce any injurious
effects, but, on the contrary,they have been
attended with the most complete success.
N. B.—As the Fever and Ague is very
prevalent at this season of the year, he can
confidently recommend his
VEGETABLE BITTERS
as a CERTAIN founE,and invites all who tray
be afflicted with this dreadful disease to
make trial of them.
The attention of Masters and Owners of
Vessels Is called to this medicine; it will be
found of great benefit nmong their crews,
and a sure preventative of many of the di
seases to which the mariner is subject during
long and tempekuous voyages.
LOUIS GOULkiY,
No, 21i Baltimore street, "
near the Centre Market,
between Harrison end Frodeerick streets.
Nov. 25. / y
Office of the Star 454 Banner:
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THE GARLAND
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—"With sweetest flowerienrich'il,
From variousgardenscull'd with core."
TO WHAT SHALL WE BUILD ?
"It is a good thing for us to ho horo : if thou
wilt, lot us horn make three Tabernacles, one for
Thco, ono for Mosos, and one for Elias."
[illarrucw, xvlr. 4.
Methinks it is good to be here ;
If thou wilt, let us build—but fur whom ?
Nor Elias nor Moses appear,
But the shadows of evo that encompass the gloom
Tho abode of the dead and the place of the tomb
Shall we build for Ambition ? Oh, no!
Affrighted he shrinketh away :
For see, they would pin him below,
In a small narrow cove, and begirt with cold clay,
To the meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey.
To Beauty ? Ah, no ! Shn forgets
The charms which she wielded before ;
Nor knows the foul worm that he frets
The skin which but yesterday fools could adore,
For the smoothness it held, of the tint which it
wore.
Shall we build to the purple of Pride,
The trappings which dizen tho proud
Alas ! they are all laid aside ; -
And here's neither dress nor abandonment al-
lowed.
But the long winding-shoot, and tho hinge of the
shroud.
To Riches Z Alas ! 'tis in vain
Who hid, in their turn, have been hid :
The treasures are squandered again . ;
And hero, in the grave, are all metals forbid
But the tinsel that shone on the dark coffin-lid
To the pleasures 'which Mirth can afford
Tho revel, the laugh, and the jest
Ah ! hero is a plentiful board,
But the guests uro all mute as their pitiful cheer,
And nonu but tho worm is a reveller here.
61'120.
Shall we build to Allection and Love
Ah, no ! they have withered and died,
Or fled with the spirit above,
Friends, brothers, and sisters, are laid side by
side,
Yet none have saluted, and none have replied•
Unto Sorrow 1 The dead cannot grieve
Not a sob, not a sigh, meets mine ear,
Which compassion itself cnn relieve.
Ah, sweetly they slumber, nor hope, lore, nor
fear ;
Peace, peace, is the watch-word, the only one
here ! -
Unto Death, to whom monarchs must bow 1
Ah, no ! for his empire is known,
And here there are trophies enow.
Beneath the cold dead, and around the dark stone,
Are signs of a sceptre that none may disown.
The first tabernacle to Hors we will build,
And look for the sleepers around us to rise !
The second to F&iru, which ensures it ful.
fil I'd ;
And the third to the Lams of the groat sacrifice,
Who bequeathed us them both when ho rose to
the skies.
BY MAJOR CALDER CAMPBELL.
I lov ' d her with the purest love,
That ever human bosom knew ;
The green leaf to the vernal grove
Was never half so true !
For, oh ! she was the sweetest flower
That over graced a Highland glen ;
And proudly did I own her power,
For she was artless then.
Sho left her home amongst the hills,
And in the world she grew
A worldly, flaunting thing of pride,
Unsteady and untrue;
Gay robes and jewels deck her now,
She seeks the gaze of men,
And is no more tho flower I loved,
For she was artless then !
When Eva brought woe to all mankind,
Old Adam call'd her woe•man ;
But when she woo'd with love so kind,
He then pronounced it woo-man !
And now with folly and with prido
Their husbands' pockets trimming,
These ladies are so full of whims,
Thet people call them whim•men !
"FEARLESS AND FREE."
the CourWouse.
SONG.
WOMAN.
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From the Literary Sorxreuir fcr I SUL
TIM CANAL BOAT.
11 V W 32. E. 11 CIITO:t.
Reader! are you a traveller?
do not allude to a few hours transit
between the chief cities of the northern
States, in a well appointed steamboat or a
cushion•seated, stove-warmed railroad car,
with sufficiency of opportunity afforded for
obtaining regular meals. 1 speak of trav
elling, not of pleasure jaunts or business
trips.
Have you ever crossed the Atlantic in a
short-handed, ill-funded, crazy brigantine?
have you descended the Mibmissipot in a
broad-horn, or ascended the Ottawa in n
bateau manned by Canadian voyagers!—
have you encountered an "oxe-eye" off the
Cape of Good Hope? have you traversed
the Pampas of La Plate, or battled with a
sand spout on the banks of the Ucayali.?
have you ever topped Mount Blanc, or the
Cordilleras, or tho Himalaya mountains?
have you wintered in an Esquimau: hut, or
summered in a Florida swamp? have you
beet, bug-bitten in a London inn, flea-bitten
at a Parisian hotel, mosquitto bitten at Al
giers, or chigo-bitten in Patagonia? have
you felt the breaking-up of the monsoons in
the Indian ocean, in the lungs-compressing
khamseen of the Persian gull, the withering
harmattan in the interior of Africa, or the
hot simoom on the borders of Arabia? have
you ever journeyed over a corduroy road
in a Kalamazoo stage coach? and, to give
the climax, have yen ever travelled in a
packet-boat on the New York or Pennsyl . -
vania canals?
You indignantly repel the insinuation! 1
am aware that such a means of progress is
now voted slow and low. but before the gen
eral use ofsteatn,t he canal boat was a choice
infliction upon wayfdrerv. 1 have jan-nuy
ed many a weary mile in tha long coffin
shaped - floats, and as they are almost among
the things that were, I shall record my ex
periences for the benefit of the next genera
tion.
Let us imagine ourselves on bond a crock
boat on either canal; a machine from eight
to ten feet in width, and between 1E ixty and
evenly feet in length. You can almost
stand upright in the cabin, which extends
about four fifths of the length of the boat.
Settees or cushioned seats rim round the
sides of the cabin, and a liquor tar, a kitch.
en, and the sleeping apa.tments of the cap•
lain and mate occupy the stemmost portion
of the remaining space. The extra hand,
or spare drive, sleeps in the kitchen with
the male cook. A portion of the forward
part of tho boat is divided off by a curtain,
and is supposed, in courtesy, to be the la
dies' cabin.
The bridges across the whole lines of the
canals are built with the most exact regard
to the minimum height of the decks of the
boats passing underneath. The close-fitted
proceeding compels the passengers who aie
bravo enough to walk the deck, or cabin
roof, to bob down one half their persons
whenever the helmsman calls "bridge."—
This is an amusement of censiderable niter
! est, varied occasionally by
_the absolute ne
cessity of dumping your whole carcass flat
upon the deck wherever a democratic far
mer has built tits pons asinoram a foot or
two lower than the usual standard, as if re
solved to abridge the pride of the stiffueck
ed.
The captain of the canal-boat is general
ly a down-easter, and, like other captains,
occasionally accommodating, but most fre
quently very surly. He has an immense
idea of his own authority, and loves to show
his power over the passengers and the dn-
Vera, although he is "hail fellow well met"
with the locksmen and storekeepers by the
canal side. I have seen a captain mad with
rage because an unfortunate horao sat down
at the dinner table before the bell had been
rung, or his mightiness bad taken his seat.
The drivers, helmsmen, and boat hands
are an amphibious race, delighting in pea
jackets, surlines, and strong cigars. The
cooks, like all other floating blacking cuis
iniers, are universally the ugliest specimens
of niggerosity extant. I never saw Gne,on
ocean, river, or canal,who was not as fright
Jul as a half-shaved ofd bilious baboon—and
in all canal craft the cunning of the simeous
tribe must be exerted to be able to cook a
dinner in the smallest space devottl to the
culinary arrangements. I have seen one
hundred persons fed, aboard a canal boat,
wherein the whole cuisine was not much
bigger than one of the boilers in a hovel
kitchen, and yet we were provided with the
necessary joints of meat, exceedingly well
cooked % with the customary vegetables and
attendant tarts.
The uniform and easy motion of the ca
nal boat generally sends one half of the pas
sengers to sleep within a few minutes of the
removal of the dinnercloth. The ladies
retire behind the curtain dividing their =b
in from the gentlemen's room, and the male
nappers steal forty winks upon the aide seats
or cushions on the locker's tops, despite the
printed injunctions to the contrary which
hang upon the cabin's side. Some few be
gin to read, but eventually drop to sleep over
their books, and nod in mandarin solemnity
from opposite sides, or 'lean their cheeks
upon their hands," and dose deceitfully till
awakened by their, own deep snore. Dull
ness reigns supreme—,-occasionally disturb
ed by the smokers on the cabin top, who
are prevented from sleeping by the nips of
their naughtinesses the mosquitoes, and
the necessity of noticing the constant recur
rence of the bridge' nuisance with the una
voidable bending and bobbing attic b.xly.
The supper table cleared. the cheqaer
board is in ri quisujou, and a crowd flukes
over the adversaries, and partakes of the
interest of the game. Occasionally, a wan
dering gambler exhibits a pack of cards,nnd
proposes a harmless game at poker, or a cut-
in at 100. This nuisance is rather scarce
aboard the canal boats, and appears only
when the gamblers are actual passengers—
the sporting fraternity never resort to such
places in pursuit of their prey, although
such practices aro habitual aboard the Wes-
tern steamboats.
"flow arc we all to find sleeping room
• aboard this little boat?" I agreed with the
speaker, a young man of inexperienced
manner, and regarded the proceedings of
the captain and his attendant nigger with
some attention, while they fixed the berths
and arranged the order and location of the
speakers. The first name upon the way
bill has the choice of beds—if a strip of can
vass, scarcely six feet long, and barely two
feet wide, with a mattress hailer' inch thick,
and one coverlet deserves the name of a bed.
The locker seat forms the lower berth; lines
are suspended from the cabin ceiling,‘ at
taeLed to hooks that seem hardly strong
enough to hold a bird cage; to these cords
are affixed two rows of berths, hooked en
II o inner side to some pegs in the cabin
wall or partition, about eighteen inches
apart from each other. Three persons are
thus compelled to lie on shelves within the
attitude of four feet, for no boat exceeds six
feet in height, and the lock or cabin seat is
at least a foot and a half from the ground,
and the upper passenger must have six in•
ches between his nose and the roof of the
boat. The calculation is beyond the usual
average of space.
have seen upwards of one hundred
man beings compelled to pig together in
one of these canal hosts when the accommo
dations provided wore but for forty persons.
Mattresses were spread upon tables and
stools; and coverlets and blankets, placed
Aron the floor, received the willing incum
bents.
!► decent man fedi disgust at the idea of
being compelled to bleep in a low, close ea
bin, with a triple corpuscular row suspended
on each aide, and the Boer strewed with
snoozers—all of them, in the - midst of the
dog Cava, breathing the same air over and '
over again. But, yvhile travelling, you feel
jaded, fatigued, and imagine that you mint
sleep. With considerable difficulty, you
get into your berth—an action more per
plexing than pleasing, particularly it you
are compelled to a middle or garret station.
Your fellow voyagers begin to snore around
you ; and just as you are coaxing yetir acn•
sea into a dreamy sort of quiescence, your
undermost neighbor turns in his bed, and
in bending his knee hits you a tremendous
plug in the small of you: back. It is no
use to quarrel, the man could not help it.
You endeavor to turn yourself round, and
see if sleep will take the other side of
the question ; it is an impossible act ; the
weight of the gentlemen in. the top story
has brought his sacking within an inch of
your nose. A friend berthed opposite, com
plains of the want of eleop—you extend your
crm,
and with the utmost ease shake hands
with him across the cabin. The man a
head of you, but on the same level, scratch
es the top of your head with the tip of his
toe. What can you do 1 You have no
resource but the revenge of the nigger
coachman, who, in a clash of carriages, was
told by his :Mitre:es that the end of the pole
of the following carriage had been driven
through the back of her coach : "Nebor
mind, missee," was the answer, "1 shub do
eend ob our pole right frou de back of de
carriage afore us, and dat, you know, make
us eben." In the setae way, you receive
a kick from your predecessor, and in the
agony of the time you transmit it to poster•
ny—that is, to those who came after you.
Every canal boat carries its own colony
of mosquitoes. In general, you see noth
ing of them in the day time, but in the mor
ning you invariably find six or enven bumps
on your forehead that would puzzle a phre.
nologist, with an occasional lump on the end
of your proboc is, and a core place just under
your eye. The Montezuma Swamp, cn
the Erie canal, thirtyeadd miles from Syra-
cuse, has a choice breed of these pretty
vampreys ; they are fierce and ravenous in
an unparallelled degree, and visit the vari
ous packet boats with an untiring assiduity
and never-failing appetite, "wondrous to be
hold." The Kentucky story, about witnes
sing the gallinippers sit on a pine stump by
the road side, waiting for the mail, and shar•
pening their teeth with a brickbat, in readi
ness for the attack on the passengers, is no
longer apocryphal. I heard a packet boat
captain assert that he once saw a cloud of the
real swamp-bred out-and-outers absolutely
carry offs child, three years of age, from
the roof of his boat, across the canal into
the recesses of the Montezuma. Some two
hours elapsed before the exact place where
she had alighted, could be found ; but, when
the spot was ascertained, the dear little
ab
ducted was discovered, picked to a perfect
skeleton I Several of the passengers were
so hardened as to dispute the evident truth
of this story, and laughed heartily at the
credulity of those who confessed their be
lief; in the course of the night the mosqui- ,
toes avenged themselves upon the scoffers : I
and in the morning every syllable of the
captain's narrative was avouched to be
most gospel-like and true.
Well, you scratch Writhe mosquitoes, and
hiding your head in your only sheet, again
essay to sleep. The boat bumps through
the lock, and the water rushes in at the bro
ken pane or half closed window. The inor
phine quality is again predominant ; you
sleep despite excessive - thtriit and heat.—, i
You dream that you are a roll of dry goods
on a shelf; or that you aro walking on
deck of the boat, and, hearing the ominous,'
G. I , IIIIII4IAPS, Editors.'
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call of"bricign," you attempt to throw your
self flit upon the deck, but in reality, pitch
itig off your perch, you dump your carcass
on the stomach of some sleeper on the floor.
If you have any luck, you got into a fight—
if not, you get into your berth, and again
essay to rest. The man in the layer above
you snores. Gods I what a blast I You
dig your head into your six by twelve straw
pillow, and try to force oblivion—but the
infernal auspiration comes in at your star
board ear like a huge corkscrew, and seems
to extract your brain. You forget the ame
nities of life, and again borrow the philoso.
phy of the nigger coachman—bet:ding your
knee, you give the snoring incumbent a
polthonge in the small ribs—ho wakes and
snores 1,13 more I
There is an infinite variety in the differ
ent drapasons Gf the nasal organ ; they per.
forni a perfect scale, from the roaring of the
bull of 13ashan to the nothingeess of ihe
grass-hopper's. chirp. Listen! Ono gentle
man draws.out his diatonic in a long cres.
condo, terminating abruptly at the height
of his nasality. Another, at long interyals,
gives a loud and vigorous york, like the
short, quick bark of an enraged whelp.—
That gurgling sound, speaking of liquor, is
the voice of a proboscis with mulberry car.
buncles. Do you not hear a still, small
snore, that comes from that long thin man
opposite 7 flow it sneaks into the world, as
if ashamed of its ext;ity I It is dying gre.
dually away, like the death-moan of n pul
monary flea. Other snouts emulate the
snort ore pig—the spirit of n high pressure
steam.pipe—the gentle purrings of an an•
dent tabby. flow. that stout gentleman
snores 1 His nasal blast possesses a rutrib
ling sound, like the tolling of the pebbles in
the whirls of the retiring tide. The val
iance of the window curtain feels its powers,
and waves to arid fro in the current Of the
agitated air I He has aroused himself from
his sleep liy the violence of his hwn snore.
Hark 1 "he swears a prayer or two—und
then he snores again.",
Shakespeare causes one of the monarchs
of England to inquire why sleep fOrsakes the
perfumed chambers of the great, to lie in
smoky cribs, end -rest upon uneasy pallet,.
The smokiest cabin of the poorest. bog.
burner iiF l lreland is u seventh heaven in_
comparison with the steamy and stinking
Cabin of a Crowded canal boat • The last
time that I travelled by the slow certainty
of „the fast line," I selected my six feet
of slung sleep as close to the floor ae possi
hte ; arid, as nearly, onn,hundred passengers
were to pass tho.night in the floating nui
sance, I considered myself fortunate in ob
taining a resting place when the berths
were apportioned. I consumed several-of
the dull hours of early night in burning my
tobacco on deck—iii fact, it was near mid
night before I entered the cabin, intending
to turn in—but a single sniffer the odor of
that apai tment compelled me to turn out,
and I had some difficulty in restraining the
contents of my stomach from following lily
example. It was impossible to respire the
thick and fetid breathings of a century of
snoarers. I returned to the deck, and un
buttoning my cloak from-the top of, my
trunk, I "camped out," on the deck.boards,
between a row of boxes, and by covering
myself well up, with a carpet bag for my
pillow, slept pretty comfortably till day.
break, notwithstanding a Jew flying visits
from the marsh gallinippers, and the heavy
dews of a summer's night.
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• AN ENVENTION—Mr.Thomas Trench, of
Hanover,New Jersey,is now engaged in ma
king a machine which will print two common
bibles in one minute. The machinery is said
not to be complicated. The N. York Amer
ican states that there is now in operation at
Hanover, the invention of the same gentle•
man, a printing and paper machine, in which
the rags are taken to the mill and made in.
to paper, the paper is then run on a .wheel
and taken to the printing machine, which
prints six spelling books in one minute. and
three hundred books in an hour. The
sheets are printed on both sides at ono oper
ation. Tho types are sot on an iron cyl
inder, and one revolution prints a book.—
The ink is supplied by a roller moved by
machinery.
A GREAT MAN.—A New Hampshire
paper published more than filly years ago,
cooteins an account of Dependence Bint
fiird, of Newington, who died in 1780, aged
40. Ile measured seven and a half feet
across the breast, and weighed seven hun
dred pounds. He was drawn to his graves
on a sled by four oxen, and it required 12
men to put him on. •
From the Now York Mirror.
TRANSLATED FROM THE FARMER.
THE BEES AND THE WASP.--"W hat
generous creature man must bee!" said a
young bee; "he Leeds us, gives tit, a shelter,
and spares us ever, when we du him harm.
I mybelf saw the other day, that some ofus
stung him, when he was giving us fliod, aid
yet he did not pause in his act of gencrosi.
ty. NVhat a noble creature he is!" •
o What a selfish one, rather," replied au
older neighbor. "Ile' knows very well that
ho gets his honey back from us with 1100/:‘ ;
that is the only reason why he feeds us in
winter, and forgives our stinging him."
"That is very well," rejoined a wasp,whii
happened to fly past; "man is but a selfish
minimal, after all. I should like to know it
any body ever heard of his feeding tall"
"If he did, he would Amy greater (1.11y,'
than I suppOsed him capab!e of. Noun. but
a spendthrift is ever liberal tol.dronatt guid
idlers."
Tim health of St. Augustine was fultymre•
stewed at this last advic-s.