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"SIP T.ord bath need of thr”-e flowrcts gay,' The reaper said, atul truiled; 'Pear tokens of the earth are they . heic he was once a child. "They shall all h!onni in fields of light, 'transplanted he my rare. And saints, upon their garments white, The‘e saele4bl4l.,:,ozns wear." And the tnntber go‘c'e, in tear; and pain; she most tl;d love; She knew !..be. , lion'tl find them all again, In the 11(21,13ot' light, above. Oh, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The reaper canie that day ; 'T“ as an angel I i,ited the green earth And took the tlowrets away. MISCELLANY. LEGEND OF 'UDE \VNS.IIDKON /I Ir II I. 1 I' A II it It was here in tlic e wilds of the Wi4:a bikon, on the day of the battle. as the noon day sun came shining thronoh the thickly clustered leaves, that two men met in dead ly conflict near a rock that rose, like the huge wreck of some primeval world, at least one hundred feet above the dark wa ters of Wissaliikon. The man with the (lark brow, and the d a rker gst ey eve, flashing with deadly light, with muscular form, clad in the blue hunt ing Crock of the Revolution—is a Conii nental named Warner. His brother was murd , ted the other night at the trassacri, of the Paoli. That other man, with long black hair. droppity , along Iris cadaverous . flee, is clad in the half military costume of a tory refugee. This is the murderer of the Paoli. named Dabney. They had met there in the woods by accident; and now they fought, not with sword or rifle, but with long and deadly hunting knives, they go turning, twining and twisting: over the green sward. At last the tory is down ! down on the turf, with the knee of the continental upon his breast—that upraised knife quivering in the light—tltat dark grey eye flashing death into his face ! "Quarter ! I yield !" gasped the tory. as the knee was pressed upon his breast ; “.spare yield !" "Aly Iwother," said the patriot soldier in that tone of deadly hate ; "toy brother cried for quarter on the night of Paoli, and even as he clung to your knees you struck that knife into his heart. Olt, I will give you the quarter of Paoli !'' And his hand was raised for the blow. and his teeth were clenched in deadly hate; lie paused for a moment, add then pinion ed the tory's arms, and with rapid stride d rw rop t l him to the verge of the rock, and held him quivering over the abyss. "Merry !" gasped the tory, turning black and ashy, by turns, as that awful gailf yawn ed below. "Mercy ! I have a wife, at child! spare me!" Then the continental, with his muscular streniTth gathered for the effort, shook the murderer once more over the abyss and then hissed this bitter sneer between his 'teeth— , 'My brother had a wife and two chil dren. The morning after the night of the Paoli, that wife was a widow—those chil dren orphans! Wouldn't you like, to go and hcg your life of that widow and tier children ?" , The propm , .al made by the continental, in the mere mockery of hate, was taken in serious earnest by the horror-stricken to n'. Ile beg g ed to be taken to the widow and her children, to have the painful privi lege of begging his life. After a moment of serious thought, the patriotic soldier con sented. Ile humid, the tory's arms yet tighter, placed him on the rock again, and then led him up the woods. A quiet cot tage, (unbosom :al among the trees, broke on their eves. They catered that cottage. There, be- , side the desolate hearth stone, sat the wi dow and her children. She sat there, a matronly 'Woman of about thirty years, with a face faded by care, a deep dark eye, and long black hair hanging in dishevelled flakes abqut her shoulders, On one side Was a dark-haired boy of some six years ; on the other, a little girl, one year younger, with light hair and blue eyes. The Bible—an old venerated vol ume, lay open the mother's knee. And then the pale-faced tory flung him self' on his knees, confessed that he had butchered her husband on the night of the Paoli, but begged his lite at her hands ! "Spare me for the sake of my wife—my child !" - De had expected that his pitiful moan would have touched the tt idow's 'heart ; but nut a relenting gleam softened her pale flee. - "The Lord shall judge between us !" she •said, in a cold, icy tone, that froze the tutu . - dert;r's heart. "Look ! the Bible lays op 'n iti my lai ; I will that volume, and then this boy shall open it, and place his linger at random upon a line., and by that line you shall live or die !" This was a strange prdposal made in the full faith of a wild and dark superstition of the olden time. For a moment, the . tory, us ashes, was wrapt in thought. Then in a filtering voice he signified his consent. "Raising her dark eyes to heaven, the mother prayed the Great Father to direct the linger of her son. She closed the book —she handed it to that boy whose young cheek reddened with loathing as he gazed upon his father's murderer. Ile took the Bible, opened its holy pages at random, and placed his linger on a verse. Then there was a silence. The conti nental soldier, who had sworn to avenge his brother's death, stootrwith dilating and parted lips. The culprit was kneeling on the floor, with a face like 4iscolored clay, and felt his heart leap to his throat. Then in a clear, bold voice, the ‘vidow read this line front the Old Testament. It 'vas short yet terrilde: ":Chal man shall die!" Look! the brother springs forward to plunge the knife into the murderer's heart ; hut the tory, pinioned as he is, clings to the widow's knees. He begs twit one more, trial may be made by the little girl, that child of live years with golden hair and laughing eyes. The ‘vidow consents. There is an aw ful pause. IVith a smile in her eve, with out knowing what she does, the little girl opens the Bible as it lays on her mother's knee, she turns her laughing lace away, places her linger upon a line. Thai awful silence grows deeper. The deep drawn breath of the brother, and the hroken gasps of the murderer, a lone disturb the stillness. The widows• and dark eyed boy are breathless.. The little girl unconscious as she was, caught a 'fuel ing of awe trust the: countenances around her, and diimd breathless, her lace turned aside; and her tiny tingers'resting on that line of life or death. • At la, -;t, gathering - courage, the witlow bent her eyes to the pare, and read. It was a rim:A:rum the New 'Testament: himself in business,- -Kate was rick in e:•.- pedients ; she proposed to carry on' the joke with Uncle 'John while her lover was, • in the mean time, .to. accomplish his oh jest. Kate acted her part admirably; the I old gentleman was in cc:it:a:jos, and would then have been ready to give away half his prOperty, and bless at least half' the women. He readily settled a handsome sum upon .1011%. r .bnif • as he delivered to him "signed 1 and sealed," "Now, my boy," said Uncle .. John, ."I wish that you could find as gootli a girl as Kate Dudley' for a wife." "I wish So, too," replied John, meekly. "Well, there ain't another such a one in the world," said my Uncle, "and I intend' to marry her if she will have me, and I am sure she will ; she loves me—l know site does—she knoWs how to appreciate me." Cousin John professed himself much pleased with his Uncle's prospects, and wished him a world of happiness with his dear Kate. "I shall pop the question this very day," said Uncle John, "and will have a wed ding, and you must stay, my boy." " h l believe I must leave town to-day; I'm anxious to get settled in business." "But you will come to Kate's wedding?" insisted the old gentleman. "Yes, certainly," replied John, with a scarce concealed smile. He soon stole an opportunity to inform Kate of his gobd tune, and of his U rides intentions, and to make seine arrangements for themselves, and then left us, anxious to appropriate his money as soon as possible. That evening, my uncle invited Kate to walk with him by moonlight so you see-the old fellow had a spark of romance after all. I was sure to he in my room when they returned, for I never could have encounter ed them with a sober lace. I soon heard n r THE BEV. nn. zar.r. Kate ascending the steps with a very sedate Truth and justice are immutable and step ; but as soon as she had entered my eternal principles—always sacred and ap- room, and closed the door,, she burst into pheable. In no circumstance however ur- an immoderate fit of suppressed laughter. gent, no crisis, however awful, can there • "Well, Kate," said I, as soon as we be an aberration from the one, or a dere- had controlled ourselves a little, "How did fiction of the other, without sin. With re- you come off, Kate ?" snect to every thing else, be accommoda "Ohl capital I" exclaimed Kate. POWEIL or brAnts.vrioN.—An amusing in. tint;; but here be unyielding and invined etc John commenced with a few coughs William's College, cident recently occurred at , ble. Rather carry your integrity' to theand hems, and asked no ill would like to dungeon or the scaffold, than receive in ex- which is thus related' by a correspondent , Of the marry. I said yes, If I could find one that chaege for it liberty end yon i s:erinetield (Mass.) Gazette. • I loved. He then asked if I thought he ever be called upon to make your electisV-r The professor of chemistry, while ad- was too old to marry. Oh, no; said ', between these extremes, donut hesitate.— I min isteringin the course of his lectures ! just a good age. Ile then said he never ! the protoxide of nitrogen, or as it is corn- thought of marrying until recently, and It is better prematurely to be sent to heav en iii honor, than, having lingered on earth, ! moo ly called, laughing gas, in order to as- that there was but one woman in the world at Jest to sink to ruin and infamy. In ev- 1 certain how great an- influence the imagi- he would ever wish to marry, and that cry situation a dishonest man is detestable, , within had inn producing the effects copse-, was Miss Kate Dudley. I replied very and a liar is much more so. q tient on respiring it, secretly filled the In- amiably, that there was but one man in Truth is one of the fairest attributes of dia-rubher gas hag with common air, in- the world, that. I would ever wish to mar the Deity. It is the boundary which sep- s t ea d o f gas. It was taken without suspi- rv, and 'that was Mr. John Morris. The crates vice from virtue; the line winch di- c i o u, and effects, it anything, were more old fellow is in ecstasies," continued she,' vides heaven froth hell. It is the , chain powerful than upon those Who had readily , "and I should really pity him, when the de- • which binds the man of integrity to the breathed the pure gas. One complained , : nouement comes, if he had anybeart; but throne of God; and like the God to whose that it produced nausea and dizziness, a- I nun sure it will not kill him ; he will bus- I throne it binds hint till this chain is dissolv- nother immediately manifested ,pugilistic tic about for a while, and then re-adopt his I cd his word may be relied on. Suspended propensities, and, before he could be re 7 ! old motto, "Well, women are duced queer , on this your reputation, your life is sale. strained, tore in pieces the coat of one of ' creatures: I never could understand them." But against the malice of a liar there is no the bye-standers, while a third exclaimed,l"And now," said Kate, laughing "I must security . . lie can be bound by nothing. "this is lite; I never enjoyed itbelore."— !go honie and get ready." His soul is alrethly repul s ed t o an iintneas-! The laughter that followed the exposure of; She made Uncle John .think it was best) arable distance from th7t D e ity, a sense of this gaseous trick may be imagined. ".,1 to go home the next day. The day was whose presence is the security of virtue. 1 Sir' Humphrey Davy, being once about ; appointed for the wedding, and Kate bade 1 He has sundered the, last of those moral administering this gas to a person afflicted ! "good bye," and in four weeks, the day be ligaments which bind a mortal to his duty. with paralysis, applied the bulb of a titer- ',fore Uncle was to have set out to Claim his And having done so, through the extended monster to Iris mouth,, in order to aster- ' bride, lie received a paper announcing the reason of fraud and falsehood, without a fain the temperature of his system. The pa- marriage of "Mr. John Morris and Miss bond to check or a limit to confine him, he tient, being ignorant of the manner of ta- I Kate Dudley." ' range,s—the dreaded enemy of innocence , — king the gas, felt instant relief, and. by' "How, did the old gentleman beat it?" holding the thermometer a short time long- inquired James, eagerly, whose lips pollute even truth itself as it passes through them, and whose I;reallt er in his mouth, a complete and permanent 1 "Oh, he did first as Kal.e.said he woulc . blams and soils and poif:oes as it touches. cure way Git;ette. stormed terribly at _first declared that "Lore ,your enemies!" Alt, that moment was sublime. Oh, awful book of God ! in whose dread pages we see Moses talkitur with Jehovah, or Jesus waiting by Samaria's \yell, or wandering by the waves of dark Galilee. Oh, aw ful book ! shining to night, as 1 speak, the light of that widow's home, the glory of, the mechanic's shop—shining where the world comes not, to look on the last night of the convict in his cell, lighting the way to. God, even, over that dread gibbet. Oh, book of terrible majesty and child-like love—of sublimity that crushed the soul into awc-4 .-- be - auty that melts the heart with rapture . ! you never shone more strangely beautiful 'Odin there in the lone ly cot of the Wissahikon, when you saved the murderer's life For need I tell you L that murderer's life was saved—the widuV recognized the linger of Clod, and evenahe stern brother was awed into silence.. The murderer went his way. Now look ye, how 'wonderful are the ways of Heaven ! That very night, as the widow sat by her lonely hearth, her orphans by her side—sat there with a crushed heart and hot eve halls, thinking of her husband, who now lay mouldering on the blood-drenehed soil of Paoli—there was a tap at the door. She opened it— and that husband, living, though covered with wounds, was in his arms ! Ile'had fallen in Paoli, but not in death. lie was alive, and his wife lay panting on his bo som.. , That night there was a prayer in the n•oodl-cmbuwerd tot of the Wist,,allikun. COUNSEL TO YOUNG MEN GETTYSBURG, PA, FRIDAY EVENING-, AUGUST 28, 1816. EFFECTS Or KINDNESS.-1 am convinced • that there never yet was an- instance in which kindness has been fairly exercised, but that it has subdued tho enmity opposed to it. Its first effort may not succeed any more than one shower of rain can reclaim the burning desert; but let it repeatedly shed the dew of its holy influence upon the revengeful soul, and it will soon become beautiful with every flower of tenderness. Let any person put the question to his soul, whether, under any circumstances he eau deliberately resist continued kindness! And a voice of affection answers, that good is omnipotent in overcoming evil. If the angry and revengeful person would only govern his passions, and light the lamp of all'ection in his heart, that it might stream out in his features and actions, he would soon discover a wide difference in his communion with Ow world. The gentle would no longer avoid hint; friends would not approach him with a frown; the weak would no longer meet him with dread; chil dren would no longer shrink from him with fear; he would find that his kindness wins all by its smile giving them confi dence, and securing their friendship. Suv.—Shy characters, who, front natu ral timidity are reserved in general society, open themseves with peculiar warmth and frankness to•a very few select friends, or to an individual of whom they think kind ly. A distant manlier is not, as is suspect ed, the result of a cold heart or a dull head: nor is gayety necessarily connected with feeling. High animal spirits, though they often evaporate in mere talk, yet, by their warmth and- quickness of motion, obtain the credit of a strong sensibility; a sensibil ity, however, of which the heart is not al ways the fountain; \vhile, in the timid, that silence, which is construed into pride, in differenve, or want of capacity, is often the' effeet of keen feeling:4. Friendship is , the genial climate, in which. such hearts dis close themselves; they flourish in the shade, and kindness alone makes them expand. keen discerner will often detect, in such characters, qualities which arc not always. connected with "The rattling tongue Of Salle 'and autlatiions uloiluenee" llANnsomc MEN.—One of our e.xchang-; es contains the following carious ramarkS relating to handsome men ;—"lf you are ever threatened with' a handsome man in the family, just. take a clothes-pounder while he's yet in the bud, and hatter his 1105. e to almininice. From some cause or other, handsome men are invariably asses; they cultivate their hair and complexion so much, that they have no_ time to think of their brains. By the time reach thirty, their heads and hands are equally soft. A gain, we say, if you wish to find intel lectual man, Just look for one with fea tures so rough that you might use his face for a nutmeg grater." rrEmPERANcE FAutx.—The rats once assembled in a large cellar, to devise Some method of safely getting the bait from a small steel trap which lay near, having seen numbers of their. friends and ,rcla thins snatched from them by its merciless jaws. After many long speeches, and the proposal of many elaborate but fruitless plans, a happy wit, standing erect, said, "It is my opinion that, if with one paw we keep down the spring, we can safely take the food from the trap with the other."— All the rats present loudly squealed assent, and slapped their tails in applause. t 'il'he meeting adjourned, and the rats retired to their homes; but the devastations of the trap b"ejing by no means diminished, the rate • kere . forced to call another,,"conven tion."., The elders had just assembled and had connueneeci thadelibmations, when all where,startled by a faint voice, and a poor rat with only three legs, limping into the ring, stood up to speak. All were instantly silent, when stretching out the bleeding remains of his leg, he said : "Aly friends 1 have.tried the method you proposed, and YOU see the result! Now let me suggest a plan to escape the trap—Do not touch !" "FE.I It I, ESS AND Pith Unele John's Courtship. "Women arc diced queer creatures—l never can understand them,"—used to be the constant exclamation of my uncle John, in relation to the fair sex, said El- len. • • - ' I "But really, did the old gentleman never thing of marrying t" enquired James. 1 "Oh, yes, he had a sweetheart once, did he never tell you about it V' and Ellen burst into a lit of laughter. "I can never help laughing % think of:Uncle John's i courtship con , she. "I had a dear friend. hate Dot , whom you have heard Ime mcn:ion. Sle was a merry roguish i creature. as Kates always are. We be- I came a amainted at school, and she went home with me to spend a vacation. My cousin - Slorris, my Uncle's namesake, had just graduated at the sante time, to spend a i ' ie NC weeks and get into his Uncle's good !graces, Well, as fate would have it, my Uncle`John Morris, and my cousin John Morris, hush fell in love with my sweet friend. Uncle .liihn's passion was a per fect miracle, for he had always declared that no woman should ever rule him; and as for the sentiment of love,•I think he was perfectly innocent of ever cherishing it, but he took a wonderful fancy to Kate. She would talk and laugh with him ; and would make hint talk and laugh with her; she would walk and ride with him ; and admire his favorite horse,'and praise his taste in his house and garden, which no • one else could praise; and with an air of ! such perfect artlessness and good nature as completely entrapped Uncl John, and he declared, before site had been with us a week, that she was the only woman he ev er saw without deceit; he could under stand her. - — Well: in flue meantime cousin John and Kate were talking real love to each other, and they knew it:Uncle should suspect it, it !'would entirely defeat the object of my cou sin's visit, which was to induce the old gentlemakto give him funds to establish A CAPITAL LOVE STORY. that rascal John Morris should never have a cent of his money (forgetting that he had already given him all he desired,) cursed the women and himself too, and final ly settled down into his original habits on ly repeating oftener, and with more emphasis, his favorite motto.: "Well. wo men are duced queer creatures, I never could understand them !" "Did; he ever forgive them ?" inquired Jurnes7. "No: he seldom mentions them, and then always designates them as "rascally John Morris, and his wife." Co:crEmrr of .CoonT.—An amusing incident occurred in a court room, some years, in one of the back counties of Mis.; souri. The court was seated, and a cause about to be tried. Now, his honor the Judge was a man well stricken "in years, yet he could ride a race, shoot a Ellie, and shuffle and who, as, well as the "next,man," and he who. presumed to trifle with the dignity of "die court" on these occasions, generally suffered .tome. Well, as 1 ways saying, "his honor" was seated, and a cause about to be com menced, when, in a voice of thunder, the sheriff proclaimed silence. There was a pause : the judge looked up and saw an elderly- man near the lawyer's table who had not yet uncovered his head. The court could not brook such disrespect to to the ermine, its dignity- was assailed, and his honor called out jn the authoritative tone— "Mr. Sheriff, remove that man's hat!" That functionary, who had until now stood in a corner leaning .upon his rifle, stepped up and politely knocked off the. offender's hat with his murderous weapon; whereupon Mr. Badger (Badger was the offender's name) seized not the sheriff, but the hat, and' chipping it on his head, exclaimed— "Judge, I'm bald!" " "Mr. Sheriff," said the indignant court, "we instruct you ag'ain to :remove Mr. Badger's hat from his head." The_ order was instantly executed, and no sooner done than Mr. Badger replaced the hat on his head a second time, again insisting that he was bald. The offended judge now waxed warm, and, rising up in his scat, ordered the clerk to enter a line of jive dollars for contempt of court, and to be committed until the fine was paid. Mr. ,I3adger was ,thunderstruck ! lie deliberately walked to the bench; and laying, down a half dollar before ;his honor, in a solemn manner thusq;ave his views of the matter to the law's expounder: "Your sentence, judge, is Most ungentle manly—but the law is unperative, and I reckon I'll have to stand it ; so here is 'four bits,' and the four dollard and a half that you owed me when we stopped playing “poker" this morning, just makes us squar." A LUDICROUS MisrAKE.—A story is go ing the rounds of the press, of a man to sing his life by mistake of the apothecary in pouting up a prescription written in Lat in. A mistake, nptso fatal, but from which as good a moral is deducible, is related in a western paper.. A Cincinnati grocery house. finding out that cranberries com manded six dollars per bushel, and under. the impression that the article could be bought to advantage at St. Mary's, wrote out to a customer, acquainting him with the fact, and requesting him to send "one hundred bushels per Simmons," (the wag oner usually sent.) The correspoiThent, a plain, uneducated man, had cohsiderable difficulty m decypliering the fashionable scrawl common with merchants' clerks of late years, and the most important word, "Cranberries," he failed to make out, but he did plainly and clearly read—one hun dred bushels Persimmons., As the article was growing all around him, alt the boys in the neighborhood were set to gathering it, and the wagoner made his appearance in due time in Cincinnati, with eighty bushels, all that the wagon bed would hold, and a line from the country merchant that the remainder would follow the next trip. An explanation ensued, but the customer insisted that the Cincinnati house should have written by Simmons notper Simmons. ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE A SLAVE.-Des perate Conflict.— ln Charles county, Md., a shire, named George, belonging to. Mr. John D. Bowling, ran away from his was ter last Alarih. Last week, information having been obtained of his whereabouts, a party, among whom was a young white man, named Jesse Cook,.started in pursuit of him. He was found on the plantation of Mr. Edward Beech. As he refused to surrender himself a large dog was set on him, which he killed with a WOW of a scythe. Mr. Cook then advanced towards him, 3311 en he struck him with the scythe, completely cutting through his collar bone down to the breast, and producing instant I death. The q uegro then made his escape. MATANORAS AND ITS INIIADITANTS.—One of the officers of the Louisville Legion writing to a friend iu Louisville, says:— . "The charges at Matamoras are enor mous-25 cents for a shave, and $1 50 per night for keeping a horse—other charges , are in the same ratio. The men are small and not good looking. The- women are something better looking but not splendid ‘by any means, and if they Could talk En glish as fast as they tico Spanish, I would nut live 'm , a „house with one a week for half of Matamoraa. I think their tongues rinist be. on pivot." TER:IIB.---TWO DOLLARS rill. A1'411151:I N O. 556. ,RAIJINO TURKIES.—Soon after the tur key poults have acquired their first fea t ers, they are liable to a disease which is vc fatal to them, if not attended to. This distemper produces great debility, and the birds appear languid and drooping, and Judi most totally neglect-their food. Their tail and wing feathers assume a Whitish ap pearance, and their plumage has a bristled aspect. This is - occasioned by a disease lin two or three of the-rump-feathers. On examination, the tubes of these will be found filled with blood. The only reme dy for this disease is to pluck them out, when the bird will speedily recover its wonted health and spirits. In fattening turkies for the table, various methods are resorted to. Some . feed them with barleymeal mixed with skim-milk, and confine them to a hencoop during this time ; others merely confine them to a house, while a third class allow them to run quite at liberty ; which latter practice l - - from the experience of those on whose judgment we can most rely, is by far. the best method. Care should however be ta ken to feed them abundantly before they are allowed to range about in the meriting, and a meal should be prepared for them at mid-clay; to which they will generally re pair homewards of their own accord. They should be fed at night, before roosting, with oat meal and skim-milk; and a day or two prey ions to their being killed, they should eat oats exclusively. We have found from experience, that when , turkeys are ' purchased for the table, and cooped up, they will never increase in bulk, however .plentifully they may be supplied with food and fresh water, but..ou the contrary, are very liable to lose flesh. - When feeding them for use, a change of food-will also be: found beneficial. Boiled carrots and Swe dish turnips, or potatoes mixedi with a lit- . Ile barley or oat-meal, will be ffreechly ta ken by them. A cruel method is practiced by some to redirer turkeys very fat, which • is termed cramming. This is done by for ming a paste of crumbs of bread, flour, Minced suet, and sweet milk, or even cream, into small balls about the bulk of a marble, which is passed over the throat af ter full ordinary meals.--Boston Cultiva tor. To DESTROY SKIPPERS IN BACON: Take a sufficient quantity of elder leaves and beat them in a mortar, adding a little water. Rub the flesh of the meat with the bruised leaves and where small holes appear pour the juice in them. This ap plication will effectually destroy the skip pers, and will communicate no bad taste to the meat. This simple remedy is within 'the reach of every housekeeper, and will cost nothing to try it. PIINNSVINANIA TOBAcCO.--The Colum bia (Pa.) Spy of Saturday last says there is a large quantity •of tobacco planted in that neighborhood this season. The plants look remarkably fine. Tobacco isNbecom ing quite a. Valuable production in this vi cinity, and well repays 411 the toil and trou ble of those who raise it. We think that' the crop of corn is going to be large this yea''. The fields look very well, and if nothing occurs to mar the promise be tween this and the time when it is to be secured, the yield will be great indeed. FUNERAL OF A COLORED PREACHER AT THE Sotren.—The Augusta chronicle and Sentinel of the Ist inst says : "One of the largest funeral processions we ever witnessed, numbering upwards of 800 persons, of our colored population, passed through our streets yesterday, in paying the last sad tribute of respect to JacoCWalker, a colored clergyman who had for many years officiated as pastor of one of the African churches of this The deceased sustained through life a high character for piety, and while he was much esteemed among the whites for his exemplary character, he maintainal a deep hold upon the affections of his race, who testified in a most laudible Manner, their love fur him in consigning hint to the tomb." ANOTHER CURE FOR IlvonoNiomA.—A writer in the National Intelligencer says that spirit of hartsborn is a certain remedy for a bite of a mad dog. The wounds. he adds, should be constantly bathed with it, and three or four doses, diluted, taken in wardly during the day. The hartshortt decomposes chemically the virus insinua ted into the wound, and immediately al ters and destroys its deleteriousness. The writer, who, resided in Brazil for some time, first tried ijr the bite of a scorpion, and found that YE removed pain and inflamma , don almost instantly. Subsequently he tried it for the bite of the rattlesnake with similar success. At the suggestion of the writet, an old friend and physician in Eng land tried it in..cases of hyprophobia, and always with success. AN UNGALLANT EDITOR.—An editor of some paper in New York very ungallantly says that he knows a lady who• was twee , ty years of age ten years ago, and at the preselit time she is only twenty-three l• A BLIND GRADAATE.-Alllollg the grad uates of Dartinouth College this year, is a blind young man from the South Boston Institution. • Missoent. 7 —The Constitution formed by the'convention of the people of .Missou ri. to revise the constitution of the: State, has been rejected, it is believed, by a dees dedinajorit)% • •
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