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A reasonablededuction will be made to those who advertise by the year. IV. All Lettersand Communications addressed to tho Editor by mail must be post-paid, or they will not lxi attended to THE GARLAND. —"With ewectestflowersonrich!4l, From various gardens withosre." reit THE STAR. AND . REPUBLICAN. DAN* R. To a Lady-leaving Gettys burg.: Wdhing have expected thcitiite which has coma, When yiiii;daarest frieud,taist leave us and home. The chain that ha's 'long•twined artiund .us must , • 130VOr • t Perhaps wo shall'see . thee, O'never, no never! But Heaven commands and why should wo sigh, Though the last'link be brolton' of earth!s tend'rest tiol Yet how callit• bo, biti with pain that wo tell Ono that wo loved long and dearly, a lasting fare• well! You leave tie door friend, but memory will live, And oft to us sweet recollections 'twill give; Yes oft 'twill recall our childhood's bright hours, When rambling thro' forests and meadows and bowere. How pleasant 'twill bo when thus we look back, To the bright gloams of sunshine that lighted our track. These pleasures have vanished and leave a ead spell; We must bid them a final and lasting farewell! How oft we together in music's sweet strains Have chanted to Him who omnipotent reigns; And oft with each other our breasts did we blend To Him our maker our father and friend. But when shall we see these bright pleasure■ again? The last link which bound us is broken in twain Long yet may we hoar the'loud tolling bell, But thou must depart,larewell, 0 farewell! Thus far on life's journey you've gladened our way, And fain would wo urge you yet with us to stay. But duty has called you, 'tie this that demands; Obey then its. voice and regard its commando. • The' soon you must leave home and parents most dear, Yet fond recollection will oft , linger here. Sweet home of your childhood, here long could you dwell, • dßut now you roust bid it a lasting farewell! We wish yoti kind friends, good companion and home, Where Pere you may live, where 'ere you may But never on earth's spacious bounds will you find, A home dear as this you are leaving behind. We bid you adieu, then, dear friend, for a while, May Heaven upon you propitiously smile.. Hall its sweet prospscta thy sorrows dispel, You need not lament When you bid us farewell. May God be your father, protector and friend, His blessings upon you forever descend; And may wo all meet in that haven of rest, Tho home of the pilgrim, the abode of the blest; Where parting and sighing for ever is o'er, Afflictions and sorrow there grieve us no more. Adieu then dear friend till the last tolling ball Shall summon us from time. Farewell! 0 farewell! J. A. B. Feb. 25, 1840. 1EaC3(951112/&MEHOW3o From the Philadelphia Casket. THE YANIIEE ENGINEER. DT CALBD CLAMDIYZ. Whatever sceptic cold enquire for, For ev'ry why he had a wherefore Very fond I am of steamboats and stage - coaches. Not altogether on account of any inherent love for them, but from two ad ventures which happened to me, the first, while travelling on the former, the last while inside of the latter of these convey ances. That which occurred on board the steamboat being uncommonly' short shall have precedence; it is necessary to a cor rect understanding - dray second or 1 should not tell it-- a ; once upon a day, I ern- On'fiiiard one of these smoky craft that ply daily between Burlington and Phil adelphia. It furthermore fell out, that of • for having accomplished my business I was ' returning, when lo! on reaching the city, before our boat could bo fastened to the Wharf, a young damsel, who was standing too near the unguarded side of the boat, feßoverboard. A sudden impulse, wheth er of chivalry or of madness, I know hot which, animating my bosom, I leaped into the river, and with the assistance Oa strong arm, and a stronger rope, theene end of which was thrown toward me, -the damsel was rescued. I saw no morethan one 4) thing, namely, that the maiden, espite the fright, was very comely and fair to look up on; after assuring myself of which, I made the best of my way for the ithore, tearing that if I stayed 1 might be annoyed with thanks, and the admiring looks of all the little boys in the neighborhood of the scene. By . good fortune 1 escaped almost unnoti ced; but not, unaccompanied. The grate ful and earnest gaze of the rescued girl was with me still, and an , angel in the shape of blue eyes appeared to accompany me where soever I went. Yet 'though I made divers inquiries, and sought by every means to discover her residence, `nevertheless I found it to be impossible, and was about to give up in despair, when bychance it happened that I was forced to:take a journey into the interior of our'Stiife.. It was on the , oUith et November, in the year of our Litird 'eighteen hundred and—no matter wen, that I found myself a passen gar in the,mail coach that plied daily be tween Dbncan!ti Island and Millerstown.— It wake cold, drizzly morning when 1 star ted: The sun was jut rising, Or was about to rigi, for it, was his proper tiro; though he,,,hid.hiciden his round,, rosy taco in a dense tog, its a lazy man would conceal his own in his bed-clothes. Thu coach was a vehicle which was certainly not Tory built,;by a great deal.hirt was infinitely better than the cattle that .were draw it along the road. They absolutely defied description. The taller of the two, whose age was somewhere in the, 'neighborhood of a quarter of a cen tury, was a raw boned animal, blind in one eye, and wearing a coat as rough and rag ged :as a Sailor's Flushing jacket. His companion in bondage, was a little, shit, plump brute, just released from his cottage, who had not assumed" the gravity of age, and accordingly frisked and jumped in his traces to the great annoyance of his elder and more staid neighbor. The harness which bound them to the vehicle, was of that kind which requires careful handling, and no small degree of magnanimity on its own part, to prevent it frorn falling into pie. cos. Yet, despite the bad appearance of things presented,. I was obliged to suffer it, for 1 could find no bettor conveyance. 1 was not alone. Another individual was , with me, on whose countenance, manners, and habiliments, was written the word 'Yan kee!' He was a tall, spare man, with a pier cing, eye, and a restless 'sot of features.— His apparel, which was evidently the work of a country tailor, consisted of a coat,short skirted, and garnis hedl `with flat, round brass buttons; a vest, the - ciipaoous pockets of which wore stuffed to'repletion; and a pair of 'Oh! no we never mention thorn's,' which being too short for their owner, were coax ed to the feet bymeans of narrow leathern straps. His terminations downward were cased in a pair of cowhide boots, well cleaned and greased; while the upper ex tremity was a thin mass of short-cut, much. combed and well.sleeked hair, over which was the smallest kind of a small hat. Discovering evidence , in my,prOininion's restlessness of his desiire speak, 1 leaned back op ,my seat,and waited patiently till it should please him to open the conversation, I did not wait long. Hitching himself on ward, till his hall:disjointed - frame was di. rectly opposite to mine, .he first looked out of the coach window, sand then peered into my face.. 'A dreadful nice country on our left,' said he 'mister—mister--Ohl ,Ilve heard your name, but forget it'---and he looked as tho' he expected us to revealour patronymic. "No matter about names,' was my an swer, 'it is too champaign just here to please me.' "low shampain! oh! yes! Well, I like a tee.to•tnller, though I take a leetle of the stuff' myself. I wish I could dew without it, that's a fact, but it don't hurt no one, a little, jest in moderation. Perhaps you like the land jest afore ud now? 'No!' was my reply, 'it is too rocky.' 'Tew,rockyl well, I admire to hear you talk, I dew,' ejaculuted my fellow passenger. 'You'rejeteabout as hard to please as my aunt Jerushy, and she was an awful crooked critter, that's tt' fact. You never heard on her. I eposel She's of the Cummins of our parts.' I signified, my ignorance of his aunt by a shake cil,the head, and he pro ceeded. 'l'll jest and tell Simi all about it. We had an, aiv,fpl cross clog and his name was Jupiter,"bay we always' called him Jupe. Oh! he was such a tarnation cross dog. Well, one night somebody or other tried to get 'in our house that had'nt oughter, and Jupo kicked up an awful rack et, and kept it up the hull night. The hull Min on us could'nt get a wink of sleep.— Next mornin' aunt Jerushy went out to him, and she did give him the most all.fired lickin' you ever did see. 'l'! larn you,' said she, 'to keep up such a noise the hull time, you pesky, troublesome critter. You make a noise for aohtin' agin—that's all' —and then she walked into him agin like a thousand o' brick. The dog kinder sorter understood her, for next night he slept as sound as a rock, and in walked some tarnal ugly chap, and clapped ,his pickers and stealers on almost every thing he could find. Next mornin' folks were up bright and nirly, and there was a mess to be sure. Oh! Jeliu Jones! how aunt did splutter. 'That good-for-nothin' dog of corn,' sed she, %int. worth his keep, the lazy, sleepy critter. 'Sam,' see she to me,'go and lick the brute like all natur'—lt did tickle men few,! tell you, and 1 burst right out a laffin; Butlet's Hudibras. •6 The liberty to know, to utter, and to argue, freely, Is above oft other AllertiesP—Mwrax. ellewsevittattrzus. ZPMairetrazar sae acas. G. WASHINGTON BOWEN, EDITOR Ir. PROPRIETOR. I giiess I'd a better snickered in my sleeve though, for she fetched me sich a lick on the chops, 'what dew you mean,. you impu dont scamp;' said she, rale riled, 'what dew you moan by this laffiin', go, dew, what I tell you, or I'll skin you within an inch of your life.' I shot up about the quickest. Now,. you're jest such an awful critter as aunt Jerushy, there aint no pleasin' on you no way you can fix it.' Not liking to rest under this imputation, I told my companion that I liked neither ground that was too level, nor that which was too rough, preferring, as in all other things, a just medium say, squire,' resumed he, 'you aint no lawyer, I spose?' I shook my head and sini led. 'Oh! you're not a doctor, nor a min ister, nor a schoolmaster perhaps?' 'Neither,' I replied. 'Oh! 1 see! you aint an injineor or a canawl contractor, air you?' 'Neither of these, my friend;' was the response. 'Then,' said he, while his countenance bore all the marks of baffled curiosity, 'what on airth air you?' 'A man of leisure,' replied I hesitating a little—•and now—permit me to return the question: W hat are you7' 'Mel old.—why I'm an injineer on' the State-works down to Columby.' "Ilion I imagine you are a violent politi cian,',said 1. 'Then I rather guess you are mistaken,' respoOded the engineer, 'darn politics! Ev ry body talks of politics, and the whole country is in a great hurry to change their rulers, as if they over gained-by such swop. ping•' 'And do they not?' inquired I. In courso not,' was the answer, 'they have to give tei' much boot.' 'They have, my friend,' said I, 'to use your own expressive phrase, to give too much boot, but they gain something by it. The burthens of the public—that prince of donkeys —are always lighter after the ac-. cession of new rulers.' 'Ohl yes, certainly, they're jest like now school-masters. They don't lick the boys at thst,and for a While all goes on as smOot he and slick as sugar-house molasses. But only.wait till their dander get's riz at some thin', then they lay it on like all natur. and so atter gittin' their hand once in, they lambaste folks every day afterwards. And then don't they ketch it. Oh! no. As for the schoolmasters, All the wimmen come out• and call them thehardest lot o' names; and as for the emitters, and congrissmen, and presidents and so torth,don't they git it from political old wimmen. Ohl switchell Nhat a lot o' names: hero's and tyrants, and false hearted patriots; and recreants and miscre ants; and villins and swinglers; with other names tew tedious to mention, and as the aucsheneer sed, when he was asked for a catalogue of the vartues.' 'Yon are right; you are right, indeed, I answered, 'abuse is certainly heaped upon every public man, and it is',a great and cry ing evil. Pray heaven, it may not shake pry country to fragments, and jeave her once mighty name to bp the plaything of forgetfulness , ' 'Well, you air Lakin' on, at a great rate, I declare, and eenamost about nothin' at ad. As for the abusin' it does a man nation sight e' good. It fixes his flint the right way. The more you abuse a man, providin' he don't turn right round and abuse you, the better it is for him. People air apt to ex amine, and if a man's bad, and you say he's a leetle worser, their sympathy gets, riz, and they vote for him. Why, when Dea con Jones wanted to got to the legislatur' he guv old Sal Slocutn,and shu was u whole team in the slanderin' line, ten dollars to go round and call him names. She arned her money tew, mind 1 tell you. Well, people had never hearn tell o'.the deacon afore, and they begin to inquire about' him. Some folks said, it was a taunt! shame that arch an old git-out should abuse an honest man, and he oughter to be sustained, and they voted for him. Others agin sed lie must be a man of consequence, or 114 enemies would'nt find out sick means to blagyard him, and they voted for him. And the deacon's private friends, without distinction of party, got riled at hearin' him slanged about in this way, and they voted for him. Atwixt 'em all, he got an arnazin' lot o' votes, and was elected jest as slick as a whistle. Arter the lection, some .people come to him, and said he had'nt oughter stand Sall's lies, and he'd better, now he was elected, have her up before the court for libellin'. The deacon had like to snick er right out, but he put on a long face, and talked away a spell about his impregnable honesty, that only sbone brighter for such a rubbin, and talk of that kind, until every body left him, convinced he was the most sufferin' patriot in all "Attn.' I laughed heartily at the anecdote, and said, should like to hear the political ex perience of the deacon as recited by him self. It would make a saleable volume of it.' 'Ohl hol' exelaimed the engineer, is a tone of triumph, 'you're an author; air you'? Jest as like as not now, you've been takiu' me off the hull time, but I rayther guess you won't find nothin' what aintereditablu.' should hope not,' I replied. No very likely on so short an acquain• tance,' said he, in reply, though you might tow. Surveyin' character on hem' newly presented to your view is like examin' a statue or a pictur' at a distance. When you get near it, apparent beauties are de fects, and those which were apparently de• fects air arter all beauties.' I Well,' said you are a shrewd fellow truly, and I think your opinions are exceed ingly correct.' '.None of your flattery, if you please, miater: said my companion, while a cun ning smile mantled over his features. 'But, hallol here I am near.home, and as he ut tered the last words the coach stopped. 'Noir,' he exclaimed, turning to me ' you appear to be a clever chap, and as you aint in no great hurry, I should calculate, sup pose you stay at my house a few days. I'v got a couple of first rate horses, and you can .ride over to M illerstown, jest whenever ye're a mind ter. Oh ! come along:seeing I hesitated, see what you are thinkin a bout, don't mind our short acquaitance, you're jest as welcome as the Governor, come along,' and before I could decide to refuse or not, ho dragged me out of the stage. Needs must when the—yanked engi neer drives,' said I to myself; and comfor ted with this pithy apothegm, I bade the driver assist me in takiogdown my baggage. This done, my new acquaintance requested me to be tolerably patient, as his own con veyance would be there shortly. And tru ly enough he spake, for in a few moments, country light wagon, driven by a young negro, made its appearance. Now Joe, said the engineer, lift these trunks into the wagoir. Get in, air, Mis ter—Mister--- Clambake,' said I, supplying the word. ' Mister Clambake,' continued be, ' end we'll soon got to home.' Obeying his re quest, I found mySelfconveyed ata rattling pace toward his domicil. During the way, my entertainer comen ced discoursing on divers topics, and among the rest mankind engaged his attention. 'The women are curious critters, that's a fact. Joe, but long sorrel, will you. There's somethin' about 'em, I don't know what it is, that's a peg above anyihin' the masters of natur, can produce. My darter Mary, for instance, she left me the wildest country gal in, all natur. I sent her toßos. ting to school, for four years and better. In the meanwhile, I moved down -to this place, for I got it mighty cheap, and as 'I obtained a situation on the state improve• merits, I thought it was a first rate chance. Home she come lately, and she was altered amazin. Of course, as I'm a father of here, I think a little more of her than any body else, but there was a great many said last Sunday, she was the prettiest gal, and the most like a lady, of any in church. But lest look at that orchard. It's next to mine ; and now observe the difference a iween the two. My trees is almost Inca kin' down with fruit, and them sickly things ain't got nothin' on to speak of.' ' Your neighbor is unfortunate; I rejoin- ed. Unfortunate !no rich thing. Ile don't bestow enough labor on nothin about his place. He haint got elbow grease enou gh for manure. Look et his house, why it's enawost a tumblia down. tell you the upshot of the matter. fill folks don't rise beibro seven, while mine eat their break fast at early candle light.' Our conversation was no* slispenderi hq the stoppage of the coach before the door of a substantial stone home, near which stood a spacious barn and stable. Now, git out,' said he, and we'll jest be in time for dinner. Joe will attend to the baggage. We passed op a short avenue, and I saw upon the porch of the house two ladies, one old and the other young, who rushed for ward to greet my companion. He bestow ed a hearty kiss on the lips of the youngest, and turning round introduced me. I stam mered would have spoke—but was una ble, for it wrielny -divinity of the steam boat. She was as confused at first as my self, but at length observed to her lather. This is the gentleman who preserved me from drowning, and of whom you have heard me speak. • What I' exclaimed the astonished pa rent, you air the chap air you, that saved my darter. Give us your hand—Darnation seize,' said he, at the same time inflicting a tremendous shake upon my right arm, if you shall leave here for a month. Come in, come in all hands. Wife, you've got dinner readyl' find receiving an affirmative answer, he led us into the house. And so ended my second adventure, Which began in a stage coach, and terminated in a farm house. But; exclaims some astonished and an gry reader, 6 are you not going to tell us of your interview with the lady 'I Did you not make love to her? Were you accep ted 1 Did you marry her? Come enlight en us.' Dear render, if you be a gentleman, it is none of your concern, and so I make free to tell you. But, perchance the inquirer may be a lady, and then I must be civil. Now to save a world of trouble, and a great deal of unnecessary ink spilling. 1 present the following announcement, which 1 cut some two years since out of a country paper. " Married on the 19th inst., by the Rev. Escalue Taaelnwell, Caleb Clambake, Esq., of Philadelphia, to the amiable and accomplished Mass Mary Sherman, only daughter of Ichabod Sherman, Esq., of this county, and formerly of Wallingford, Con necticut. -....10 0 G..- TALL Pen•TT.—Four persons were re cently married in Matthews county. Va., whose united height makes twenty-five feet. The grooms are each six feet six inches high, and the brides six feet. Lock out for a race of giants. Cacrrow WATER WonKs.—lt appears from the semi-annual report of the Water leommissioners, just published, that they had paid, prior to the Ist of January last, towards the construction of the Croton A qu• duct, 83,917,859 82, of which, 81,243,827 19 was paid during the last half of 1839. There remained due, for work performed .uring that period, 8341,249 40 ; making a total paid or due for the six months end. ing January let, of $1,585,070 53. The expenditures of the present year, including the above sum of $341,249 40, are estitnat ed at $2,100,000.. : The entire cost of the work, when completed, it is now oalulated, will reach the modest sum of $9,000,000 being double the origical estimates ; and it will be fortunate, 'if it is not, found at last that a still further sum rs necessary. A committee of the Legislature, we perceive, estimate the entire cost ei the work at about 812,000,000. So much for " pure and wholesome Water" for the city of New York. Fifty-four sections of the aqueduct, out of ninety-seven, are already finished, and sev eral others'nearly so. The whole length of aqueduct arched complete, is about twen ty-six miles. About six and a half miles of aqueduct remain to be completed in Westchester county, and seven and a half of aqueduct and pipework on the island of New York. Whole length of the aqueduct Ito the distributing reporvour at Murray Hill ; (42d street) will'be about lei ty miles. The whole work is under contract to be finished in 1841, except that , embracing the crossing at Harlsem river, which will not he comple ted till August,- 1843., Should the entire aqueduct, wish, this exception, be finished by the close of the yeti': }g4l ~the Commis sioners have deterratned - to erect a tempor ary conduit pipe; of proper, mensions, for conveying the water across said river, by which means our citizens will have the ben efit of the aqueduct one or two years sooner than they would by waiting for the high bridge to be completed. The height of this bridge,. trom its base at, the bottom of the river to the top of theptirapots, will be about 138 feet; its length about 1420 (bet. There will be 16 piers as supporters to the bridge, viz:six le the river, which is 620 feet wide at this point, and ten on the land. Those iir the river aro to be 20 feet by 40 at the base, and about 84 in height, to the spring of the arch, diminishing in their di mensions as they, rise. The.estimated cost of the bridge is 8443,4 32 . ' LATTITE, Tim } Plasm—The last nuin ber•of the Galveston Civilian contains an interesting sketch of this daring fellow. The editor says that nearly all the stories told of Lafitte are, put down as fabulous by• those who knew him, and ninny think he is still alive, no authentic account having been, published of his death. •, ,•••• Lafitte, according to the Civilian, was a Frenchman by birth, tall, finelyformed, of highly polished manztors, and in his plea sant moods no one would ever take him for a bad man.—When conversing upon a se rious subject he would stand for hours with one eye shut, and at, such times his appear ance was' harsh. Ile, stated that ho had spent one winter in 'fashionable society at Washtfigtencityi and that he had expended 980,090 during the time 4 This:distinguished loader and his gang buikquitaA ,village tipori (he present site of Galveston ea early as 181 2 . His own house was two stories high, and a very good one. The others wore only ono story, and of ptainer.coastruction. They procured their building materials from N. Orleans, with which place they kept up a regular inter- Course. In fact, Lafitte boasted that he had made half the merchants of that city rich. He uniformly alledged that his dup sedation were committed alone upon vet tells sailing under. Spanish colors, and ho is known to have hung ono of his men for hay mg robbed an American citizen; He lost four vessels and many men in a storm in 1818. Three of the vessels were lost at see, and one went ashore on Virgin is Point, on the opposite side of the bay. When he left the island he went to embark in the Columbian service, having received the tender of :a commission in their navy, since which no :authentic account of his movements has been. , pnblished.. - Ai true history of this bold and extraordinary: man would be highly interesting. No TIME FOR READNO.-GO into the house of some of our farmer,' and you will find no newspaper, no periodical of any kind; and hardly a book. Ask such men to subscribe for a paper, and they will toll you that they have no time to read one. But who is so constantly employed os to find no leisure for the employment of his mind? Not the farmer, for the long winter evenings affogl him several hours every day, which he might devote to reading. Not the mechanic, for instances are fre quent where industrious artizans have at tained an eminence in the science; merely by giving their leisure to study. One of the most eminent oriental schol am of the age, is Professor Leo, of one of the English universities, and yet all his ed ucation was acquired during the moments of leisure which he found while employed as a journeyman carpenter. CENTENARY COLLECTION. -W 0 IMO be. fore us the proceedings of the South Caro lina Conference of the 'Methodist Episcopal Church, from which we learn that the cen tenary collection, in the five distriet com posing that conference, amounts to 561,0:26 11 !—N. 1 Com. .qdr. 72 4 .7141)2,21 albo 61111. A Warning.—A case of importance to travellers and steamboat proprietors, was recently decided at Cincinnati. It seems that during the last season, the steamboat 'Stephen McFarland,' when on hor passage from New Orleans to Cincinnati, was run into by the steamboat 'Danube,' by which, there was not only a total less of tho Maar , land, with her cargo, etc., but the loss of a number of valuable lives. Captain Strader, the owner of the McFarland, immediately instituted suit against the owner of the Dad ube, for the full value of the boat. The tri al took place the week before last, in the Supremo Court of Cincinnati, hii Honor Judge Este, presiding. When, after a full investigation of the case, the Jury 'brought in a verdict for the plaintiff;• of $23,000, and interest being the hill amount claimed by inquirer. A Sailor walking in Smithfield Market, saw an over•drivon bull making towards him and thus hailed the animal : " Bull. ahoy Put your helm down, I say, shipmate, or,by G—, you'll be a-foul of me I" The bull paid no attention to his greeting, but speed• ily overturned him into the mire. Jick got up, and brushing his jacket, again ad dressed the retreating beast : " I told, you how it would be, •you cursed lubber!' but what's to be expected from.a fellow, that.'a spent all his days ashore?" , . It may be well said of us, that•weare the most loan•loving nation under the sun. •We borrow pretty nearly every thing--our- • dress ; our morality ; our habits of life. - We, are not an idle people, nor•a•foolish • people —but somehow or other• we. have got, hold of a notion, that nothing of our own is worth . a bras , ' farthing, end every . thing belong• ing to foreigners is worth its weight itigold. , A preacher at the west is M said,' have made tile of the following thrilling catlistro ! phe : " Brethren, 'tie tie hard:'fof a 's nue to'enter the 'kingdom - of hetiven tie , for a cod fish to climb a barber's pole, tail 1.41. - , tvards, with a loaf of bread in his mouth!" The following di•AII paragraph is from lie Houston tre'xasY'Star: The whole ke l t) , told. The:'following minute statistics orAustin 'are - saidld'he correct: On the first day of January, 1840, tho whole populltion, members of congress,. specuintors, gamblers, 'loafers end' all, a mounted ;to , 8,856--whites 711. White adult maids 550-- 7 do. femalep,oll--childrnrc: . 100--farnilos'7s—mechanioi *l-.-lawYerif 4--p hysic ia mi . 5- 7 0 , 101 g ores 8--storesrooni 14itrid.Vix , • faro banks. Contrast--or which is the beat Detnotrati —Resolution offered Mr.Nan•Buren at a meeting in Iludson,'N. York, during #fe.. last war: "Resolved, That the war is itnpolitic an o disastrous, and to employ the Militia - in la offensive war, is unconstitutional." ' Extract froth Gen. flaffison's o< cial ac count of the battle of the Thames: "We have snared greatly fOr ihe want. of prOvisiOns, and the whole army "he suW.' suited for the last three days ON p4oWrEtri 4 ' WITIIOUT SALT. Ton CoLowirto orr Su'amt Plains is said to ho generally made ` With poisonous mat. ter. The fine green coldt is ,given by, the arsenite of copper, and the yellow is madti with the chromate of' lead. - Both' theitio chemical compounds am virulent poisons: Weil, the Cuba bloodhounds have arri. ved in Florida. What • nett When. ere the brutes to enter into active cervical On what day, memorable throtigh fature• time, will the magnanirnoni"goverumept of the greatest Republic on i fitirth ''• let slip the dogi . ofwar?" On that day, let the Eitilelisglei "the . winged warrior of the air, cease to be our country's emblem. ThenceforthlWhee, emblem be the Dog 7—Louie. Journigi:* Who is Gen. Harrison f What Oky . will support him ? Te what office' can he' be elected 7-7 renton Emporium. • The son of Benjamin Harrison. The Whigs. The Presidency.—Louia. Jour. no/. Mr. Bynum's powers as a mimic are highly complimented by the correspondent of the Alexandria Gazette. He says that when M r. Bynum cried " Bah I" at the con elusion of Mr. Stanley's roma ks, he turn ed hastily round, believing that some old sheep had obtained admission to the floor 01 the flouse.—Louis. Journal. • ' A. lot of Indians migrated from Ohio: to Canada, to live in the enjoyment of Britt ish sympathy.' When they arrived,. they` heard that they were under the goveruMent of a " Squaw King," and forthwith packed up their duds' and came back. ' A Mr.ldroth has prosecuted the Ett , for of the Boston Morning Post for express ing an opinion that he was insane, and lay. his damages at s2o,ooo.—The 'Post 4:461 " If suicg a printer . for 820,000 in ttotsufft. cient evidence that a man 'a craty, there ill no use in having the Worcester hospiter The doctrines of the Wesleyan lgetho• . dists are preached in twentpeight difrereet languages; and the number of those Ivor. shiping God according to that creed icesti• mated at two millions four hundred and twenty eight thousand.
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