13 ci)fori) 3iui)iircr Hi Chronicle.
BY DAVID OYEE.
Beautiful Kiceedinslv.
;The Louisville Journni says of the fol
lowing exquisite piece of pnetry. —"We
defy any tasteful lover of poet.y to read the
following line? withont exclaiming—• How
Lsautiful " "j
llr see! thy sieved image keeps.
My MUaight dreams are ali of tU : •;
p nature then in silence sleeps,
And siUael iimodi o'er land and sc.:
Oh! i" that still, mysterious hour,
Hovr oft from waking dream* I star'.
To :I i.l thee but i fancy fl over,
Tho cherished idol of my heart:
"Tfnui hast each thought and ure-im iC mine
l!a*e I in turn ono thought of thine.'
For war thine my driauis will be,
tYhato'er may he my fortunes here,
1 ask not ove—l crav > from thee
Only one boon—a gentle tear.
M iv klwued visions from above.
Play brightly niiind :,.y happy heart.
And may tlie heaiues of. peace and low,
Ne'er from tlie glowing soul dpart.
Farewell my dreams are still with thee,
Hist tliou one tender tliouglit of in - ?
My joys like summer birds may fly.
My hopes like sunnier blooms dejitrc,
but th ire is on • flow ;r th it cann<>< die,
Tin rmly memory in my heart;
No iliws that flower's cup may till,
N'o sunlight to its leaves be given,
Ilii! it will live and flourish still.
As deathless as a tiling of heaven.
My soul greets thine, unmarked, uns.olghir.
Hast thou for me one gentle thought !
Farewell! furwell! my far-off IVicini,
Between Us broad, blue rivers flow,
And forests wave, and plains extend.
And mount vies in the sunlight glow;
The wind tint breaths* upon thy brow.
Is not the Wind th it b->ath:s >u tu ine.
The stirbnm i'liuitig on the: now,
Are not tho boatns th .t on ine shin y
J?-it memory's spell is with ru.• \et
Can'st tliou the holy j ast Itirgctf
The bitter tears that thou and I
May shed whene'er by anguish bowed.
Faulted into the noon tide sky,
M -out and mingle in the cloud;
And tlms, my luneb beluvcd friend, thvueh we
Far. far apart must live and move,
Our souls, when God shall Set tlunifree,
Can mingle in the world 6f love.
This were an ecrtacy to ine—
Say, would it tie a joy to thee!
N'ew Haven. Gt. Vimustx.
A liitCTK (-AiiKH.— Benjamin Patterson
was convicted, last week in the ''neater
ilonnty Criminal Couii. of one <if the most
brutal outrages ever cotuuullud in this neigh
borhood. lie attempted t>> ravi-h a vuang
woman, named M try Worlaunt, while ac
companying her home through a wood, and
upon lrer resisting him, lie attcuipte-i to
kill her. He beat her oil the head with a
stone till he thought alio was dead. aud
then wcut to a house and told thoiu site was
lying dead up lu the woods hut he did n ,
know wire could have done it. Miss \\ ork.
man, who although at the fioint of death,
recovered slowly, wis the chief witness in
> 'ourt against Patterson. Her forehead is
covered with sears, which sac will carry
v.ith her to the grave. II: was sentenced
to ix years at b>ird labor ia the County
Prison,—R ailing iiuz'tlt 10//#.
Cl/'The New British r.unmauder in the
( iitnea. G'ti, Sir William Codring' n, G
now in his 50th year, lie is tlto eldest sur
viving son of Admiral Sir Edward Codriug
.ton, tiic victor of N wariiiu. He entered
'die Coldstream Guard ■ in the year 1821, and
was connected with them for thirty-three year
without seeing any r experience, yet he
rose train rank t rank until he became a
Major Geneittl io Ivi 1, just at the ruiw
nionccnrent ot the wir with Hu.->ir. lie
went to the East a> an Amateur, but o if" the
return of the fJaart>T-*>f rs?6t Gem rrl, Iwrd
Tic Hos. ou account of ill Brig.ulicr
General Aircy sue reeded hint, aud Gen.
Codrington w.iv appoints! over Aitty's
liiigwle. He figured at Ahn, Thkiruisnn,
and the lat attack on tiie Kcdan. The
latter was commanded by him.
ly'The I'ittslurg Post tells of a family,
consistingof .1 husbmii, a wife and tiirea
elii'uron who toft Pittsburg last spring for
;lowa. Ou Monday the .father returned'
hating in t.c brief t|.u elapsed hurried
Li, v. iic ami all his cfctklww, who had died
it their Wester.' nome of sv-dnwd fever.
Z.S~ An Irishman and a Freiachtn-o were
■to bo hanged together. Tim latter was
strongly stated by his sitisfactimi, while
Paddy took it very iisty and told his com
panion to keep sip his pluck, for it was
nothing at ail to be hanged. "Ah," re
plied the Frenchman, -'we be uue grande
difference between yoy and cue, foi ze Trim
man are used to it."
A young gcntlctuea ** t bail, in winding
at our rim room ran bi JUead agaisstai lady.
lie begin a kind of dandy-like apoiegy for
hi* h- ( 4-ivork:---"i.r a. Word, sir," inter
rupted thi> Uuly, *iw-i * not hard enough to
hurt ii.i bo<ly. ,J l#asdy ttemppepred atuong
the crowd. ♦ • - " '
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An Article for the Times.
■ j I tre scire est pr cnusas scire. —BACON.
"Knowledge is power," is a maxim which
has often been repeated by the unlearned
i as troll us the learned; by Ac humble cot
tager whose lonely hours pass ipnetiv aw.iy
amid tho works of God, as beheld in the
mountains, hills au-1 ..roves by which he is
; surrounded, as well as tlie proud ntbieasan
1 wLcwe dwelling is in the palaco of earthly
j splendor, and whose hours are speßt in lux?
ury and ease amid the gaieties of city life.
"Knowledge is powe-," says, Use iveary stu
dent us he sits by his midnight lamp, and
turns over the dusty pages of ancient lore,
!or with feelings cf wonder, pauses as he
looks into the mysteries an J powerful truths
brought to light by the ahi of moder* sci
entific discoveryso too the grave profes
sor, as he sits pondering over the my-rter
' ius of life, or the eternal law? of nature,
teels that all else in this life, Lsbufta phan
tom when compared to tlie marvelous won
der? which are challenging hi? most pro
found regard in the physical, the mora! and
'nfellectual world.
, lutuuntcly connected with this maxim,
j there is another which is very nearly the
same in meaning, though of a suetohrgty
more practical chararter, and that is "Know
j Thyse4t." In ancient times this was re"
garded as one of the wLest maxims ever ut
tered by man. A Grecian philosopher,
known as one of the Seven M'ise Men of
: Gniece, speut a considerable length of time
in fathoming its vas.t meaning before he
' gave it to the world as one of his maxima.
It wa- afterward written over the renowned
: Temple of Apollo, aad was regarded by all
the wise meu of that ago as one of the
most pregnant maxims ever composed.—
•Since that time it Las lost much of its ori
ginal force, from the fact that it is used
without any earnest regard to its truenican
j ing r \ significance. This is but natural; for
j it will he remembered that it is a standing
. maxim in tkehistcry ot nutnnniry cuot **r
| miliarity breeds cotrtempt." Strange as
this may seem, it is no less true. The
) truth of the maxim is not the result of a
1 long and perplexing course, of logical reas
oning, bat of a practical character, and de
rived from the pages of history, as well as
every day observation and experience.
! .Men arc little disposed to coucern them
selves about those things which do not ad
vance their interests in tiie more common
walks of life; and the truth of this mnxim
, consequently exorcises little or no influ
ence over their minds. This calls into no
tice another item of information which is
very intimately connected with the two max
ims already alluded to, viz: the mind
of titan is so constituted as to become
wholly absorbed in the subject which mOre
than all others engages his attention. This
is proven by the most common observation.
IF then it were made an object to knew
ourselves, to become acquainted with the
world in which we live, the laws by which
it is governed, the telation we sustain to it,
I .say, if subjects of this kind were more
generally considered, there would ho less
room for the cunning and crafty to impose
on the unthinking.
It may be said, perhaps, by some, that tt
is making a broad and unjustifiable assertion
, when it is said that ignorance and supersti
tion is doing a sad work in our country.
I say, such an assertion may be regarded as
i wild and prtmnlurr, but it is not. It is
just and true. To the busy' politician, or
| selfish man, whose whole object in this
world is, perhaps, to gather together a few
paltry dollars, and even at the expense of a
poor sit counting his "precious
; treaauats'' in the lonelv and cheerless closet
fof a wretched miser, or to tho ambitious,
whoee whole ho.irl it set ..n he coming popu
lar. and whose contracted maanocss would
j influence him to take advautngeof tlwi ig
j norantl say, to such imfividttals, our as
sertion will surely appear at least as being
uncalled for. But truth is truth, and there
is no reason why it should nut be proclaim
ed abroad, and if wade to reach Its*desired
eud, let ho insignificant wiser crouch down
iu the midst of his alarm, And like a lion of
meanness, feel how unjustly hp has acooinu-
Utod the- <knrc>t object of Ins bum I; or the
ambition*, if hir should feel (hit lua influ
ence is about trr ho narrowed, let. him ele
vate hi-- littleness, and aim at a more honor
able poaition among ins fellow man; or the
crafty and cunning politician, if he should
foci that jwslioo is about to bind him more
closely to the rights of a free people, let
hitn begin to look forward to thOmoie beau
tiful and royal road to the temple of truth.
Thai much, then, byway of prelude.—
from what has been said. 1 now deduce
throe propositions, which it will be my ob
ject to sustain in this papert 1, That ig
norance and superstition arc far more prev
alent in our country than is generally spp-
| posed. *2, that a eont'mj tiblu ambition
i has come tp be by Milch the ruling
principle politiaad and religious action.
3, J imt- law is too little regarded, and jus
tice—that mighty staff of human support
! too often put Rt'shanic.
iukiugnp, theft, tUc-sq three proposi
j tions in reguW order, it will, now devolve
upon me t prove that ignorance and RU
perstitiou are actually more prevalent in
our coun'ry tharf>is generally auppoaed.—
j H.is land of the Jne denonii
i uated tito koine for the oppressed and down
tn>ddn of every nation. Here, it is said,
the beautiful tiec of Liberty grows and
blooms in all Iter magnificence and gran
deur; and here the genial rays of happi
ness and prosperity dawu out in all their
pleasant and invigomittj power. This, in
deed, scetbs r.ot only to be a common say
ing Tn our own country, hut throughout the
world No country, perhaps, in all the an
ital.s of the world, haw been so much laud
ed by those who ii*wo even never set a foot
upon its shore?. In consequence of this
wide-ruling disposition, there is a constant
longing m the minds of all the dissatisfied
citizens of other uations to visit this great
emporium of the wmld, —coming, then,
with lit tic or wo knowledge of a free gov
ernment, their minds arc fiHed with great
extravagance?.
Indeed, it is really astonishing to look
over the regular rcpofts in which is given
the immense number of foreigner®, who are
landing on our slurefe yearly, and those too
who are unable to settle themselves as ac
tive citizens, but are more willing to crowd
the cities wfth their miserable presence, or
iive the wretched life of a parasite. Many
hundreds go to the west, it is true, and be
come good and useful citizens, who are
above stooping to the low and. dishonorable 1
means often resorted to by thfwte who are !
lurking nlfiut the streets and secret corn
ers of the cities. If I were to enter into a j
strict examination of the influence exerted ;
by this class of persons in connection with j
- 1: i- t —t,. j
much would bo brought to claim the atton- j
tion which would seem almost incredible to
those who "have never given the subject
much thought.
Before Entering more minutely into this '
subject, it will be necessary to remark that i
in the cities there is a lai'ge class of per- ,
son?, who are so depraved in morals, so
completely indifferent to a sense of honor, j
as to seek advantage from every ciroum- |
stance; and this class generally is iiitiutate- i
ly connected, or rather I should say iuflu- !
eneed bv the class alluded to.
Who are these Astrologers' Whence
come these
who are these nndaunted persons by whnni
an ignorant and nnrefleelive pwpulae* is so
blindly gnlled? Generally-,—not always of
course, —they are foreigners. In passing
along the streets—not ■uufret|uently smue
obscure and ill-appearing part of tin*city—
is seen a "sicti," on which is ivritteu "Won"
derful l'iscovery," &e. Wotild any sensi
ble titan think that such contemptible beings
were likely to he encouraged? Hut how is
it* yiiaine, shame to the intelligence of
cities. There are hundreds of individuals
who iin mediately go to these dens of decep
tion in order to hear their for:wo"s told!
Some even who arc usually denominated
intelligent eilinens are seen among the
crowd, aud if asked vrhy they go, they will
suy, for fun, Such fur.; rather such ig
norance and waut of sound knowledge uigst
snrely be pitied. .
Young men in whom the hope of the
country rests, arc found going in great
numbers in order to be made acquainted
with the events which await them in after
life;--per!iajn to find out means and shamo
ful intrigues hv which they iu|y secure one
of flic opposite flex as a companion for life.
Youug giris—for Iby no nioaus can adopt
the common American phrase young la
dies—who arc guided mure by their feel
ings than their judgcinept,, whp have had
little or no experience in life, aud who are
often insulted and even shamefully robbed
of that.character which is so very essential
to the happiness of a young women; even
young girls are thus duped, and through ig
norance made miserable and wretched
*ll the reuiaihder Of their life. Indeed,
instances have come withir. my own obser
vation in which silly girls have been so
troubled on account of tire false and exag
gerating stories which these contemptible
fortune tellefs have pretended to say would
eoinc to pass, that they were next thing to
commuting suicide.
Men about lo cuter upon a journey, or
about to uudertako some pecuniary project,
first go to these beings to know wbothor or
uot they will bo successful in accomplishing
tho proposed end.
Then, too, there are the Gipsies. These
idle, roving, aud J limy say useless class of
persons, show bow easily our citizens iu the
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY NOVEMBER 30,1855.
j country cat be made the subject# of iuipo
| sitkin. An instance, a short time ago, came
I under my observation, at which liwss really
j astonished. A whole community was
thrown into n nproar by Ure appearance of
: a set of these wandering and trifling beings.
I Men, old and young; women, girfe and even
children were all gitliered.around the fil
thy tent to hear the utarVelnu? stories of
these imposter?. .Men of wiiwu better
things wonkl be expected, nad others of re
puted intelligence, were anxious to know at
least-what they could way, in- j
deed, of gratifying excited All j
this, too, wa3 effected without uny great cf" ,
fort on the part of the gipsies themselves.
There would not be so much room for sup
posing that ignorance is so prevalent, if
they were to excite the passions by means of
oratory, and thus prove at leaiU in sonij. ,
way the validity of their pretensions; but j
this thev do not pretend to do. Tlmy trav- j
el from place to place, it would actual- \
ly seem that their presence, as if by magic, ;
is sufficient to arouse a whole community,
and draw around them great companies in
ord?r to be made tlie ignorant, dupes of |
their unmerciful deception.
Tlmj it is evident that not only in our ;
cities, but also in the country, our citizens ,
are ignorant of their own nature, and the I
nature of the influences by which they are .
surrounded.
Tims far t have confined myself more
particularly to the system of hUmbuggery
which is practised by foreigners on the cit- '
ifcti.s of this prosperous country, I might
say much more with respect to the many
pernicious, degrading, and shameful practi
ces, carriei on in the cities, which in mu*t
'
cases unite the two classes to which I pre
viously alluded, and thus forma owgttst
ing fountain from whence flow the waters of
vice, misery and destruction. But I for
bear fromsuoh a sad and cheerless task.
I now come to notice a number of super
stitious notions, which are prevalent to a
greater of less extent throughout the whole
in this cities, where,as 1 have al- j
ready remarked, intelligent ssigfit to be
more general, there is no Want of proof tin
this point, especially among the lower clns*
ses: and indeed, sometimes nvt with in the
higher and more fashionable circles. Many
such superstitious notious as were preva
lent many years ago among the inhabitants
of the Highlands of Scotland, are to he
met with even in this country, auiid the glo
rious light of the nineteenth century. Be- '
ginning with a class which are confined to :
accidental circumstances connected with
the earthy and the social rcfi/ions, I shall
afterwards notice a few which arise from the
ideal world, or, in other words, the crea
tions of fancv.
The ignes fatui. those harmless lights
which appear about marshes and low, damp
ground, are regarded as evil spirits, which
are scut to allure travellers or persons who
arc out at night, into dangerous by-paths,
and often into destruction. Then again,
the screeching of an owl at the window,
the croaking of a raven over the l ouse, a
dog howling during the night, the falling of
salt tYoin the table, —these, along with many
others, arc oiuuious of danger and death-
But without dwelling any longer on this
point, I come to notice briefly the class al
ready alluded to. This consists in spec
tres, hobgoblins, fairies, satyrs, witches,
wizards, This class comprises the ex
ercising of tWscf powers generally denomi
nated "eohjhrmg," and observation teaches
every one that there is scarcely any com
munity iu which a number of these individ
; tubs are not found; Where is'tho man
who can prove the contrary f If such, then,
|be the case, does not the maxim laid down
iti the beginning of this paper, remain hi
tflouded obscurity? What mom ignorant
nations than all these conld haw been
taught, by the'priets of atieient Kgpyt, or
the itU'gi of Persia, or the Chaldeans of
proud Babylon, or" the Brahmins of ludia,
or the Bruids of O.tul l Certainly, there
are none. They belidved in all these su
perstitious ideas, and from them have a!!
tliehations of mfidcrn times received those
foolish impressions.
lliit t have already dwelt much lugger on
this proposition flinn intended; its IrtftVgC
plain to every candid ami reflecting' mind.
There is no room Tor doubt", and it oilly re
mains for the philanthropic to amy tneui
sclves in opposition to such prevailing etis
lofn?? and with the 'co-operation of the
press this evil can be In ctntrs'e tif' time'iMi
troyed. liet Fro Lovers, As*ttl<fl*£s,
j fortune Tellers, Gipsies, (fonjniwrs, and tho
j whole host of Parasites, all of whom are
drinking the very life-blood of society,
: marring the peace and happiness of the cit
izens, corrupting aud degrading the youth;
in a word, let all immoral and ungodly
sources of influence be overcome by the in
telligent and noble-hearted vf thus glori
ous lan 1, when the eagle of liberty spreads
her mighty wings in order to ward off the
oppression of tyrants, and allure to still
higher and nobler attainments in prosperity
and happiness.
(Concluded next wceJi.}_
1 From linynrd Taylor's New Book of Travels
First lien of flic Himalaya Moun
tain*,
It was abont eight m the morning—an
, atmosphere of crystal, and not n cloud in
• the Rky. Vet something white and shifting
! gliuiered tlirough the loose foliage of some
tre"? on my right liand. My heart came
into my uiouth with tRa sudden hound it
gave, when,after plunging through the trees
like one mad; tumbling into a ditch or, the
other side, and scrambling up a great jdie
: of dirt,l saw the Himalayas before uiel
j 1 nobscured by a single cloud or a speck of
j vapor, there stood revealed the whole nioun
! tain region, from the low range of the
' Siwalik Hills, about twenty miles distant,
-to the loftiest pinnacles of eternal snow,
wtiich look down on china aui Thibet. The
| highest range though much more than a
; hundred miles distant, as the crow flies, rose
, as far in the sky as th e Alps at forty miles,
I and with every glacier and cua?m and spire
j of untrodden snow as clearly defined. Their
magnitude, therefore, was fully apparent,
because the eye refused to crpdit the inter-
ventng distance. Bu; the exquisite loveli
ness of the shadows painted by the morning i
on those enormous ws.stcs of snow, and the
bold yet beautiful outlines of 'he topmost I
cones snaring to a region of perpetual silence '
and death, far surpassed any distant view
of the Alps or an}* other mountain chaiu I
ever saw. As seen from Konrkhco, the
Himalayas present the appe.aranee of tlnec !
distinct ranges. The first, the Siwalik
Hills, are nut more than two thousand feet
'n height; the second, or Sub-Himalayas", i
rise tti eight or nine thousand, while the i
loftie-t peaks of the snowy range, visible
from this poiut, are 25,000 feet above the 1
sea. Far it, the norlhwcst was the Gtiore,
art rswareu peas, wo ten is a i most precisely
the height of Mount Blanc, but seemed a
very pigmy in comparison with the white
cones beyond it.
ANOTHER VIEW OF THE HIMALAYA?.
To the north, I looked into the wild heart
of tiic Himalayas—a wilderness of barreu
peak.% a vest jumble of red mountains _
divided by tremendous clefts and raveues,
of that dark indigo hue which you
sometimes see on the edge of a thundercloud
—but iu the back ground, towering far, far ,
above theui, rose the mighty pinnacles of |
the .Gungootre, the Jumnoutic, the Bud-,
reenath, and the Cylay, the heaven of India,
where the Great God, M iludeo, still sits on
his throne, inaccessable to mortal foot. I
was fifty miles nearer these mountains than
at lloorkhec, where I first beheld tpem.anp
with the additional advanfange of being ,
mounted on a foot stool equal to one third
of their uight. They still stood immeasura
bly above me so cold and clear, and white, ;
that, withciutkiiQwedgo to the contrary, I
should have said that they were not than
twenty miles distant. Vet as the crow
flies, a line of stl';nltj miles would scarce
have reached their summits.
HIDE ON AS KI.M'iIANT.
The rajah had kept his promise, itid his
Hg she olephaol had already afrived. she
knelt at the keeper's command, aud a sunt!
ladder was placed against her side, that I
might climb upon the pad as I had been
unable to borrow a howdab. I had a paek"
age of bread and co'd roast beef, to serve
tuo as a tiflfiu, but was careful to conceal it
from the driver) otherwise Iniugelf ami the
elephant, with all her trapping, must jiavc'
undergone purification on account t of the
unclean flesh. I took reluctant '.eatfc of
Mr. Kecne, seated myself astride on the
pad, with t|ie driver before me on tin;
elephant's neck and we moved off". Tim
driver was a Sikh, in a clean, white and
scarlet dress, and a narrow handkercLicf
bound around his bead. His long, well
scombsdbair was anointed with butter, and,
as his 'head was just under toy hose, I was
,continually regaled with the unctuous odors.
Ha carried" short iron spike, with which
♦lie occasionallyjiunehcil the elephant's head j
I causing; her to snort anil throw up her trunk, j
a* she Quickened,bet pace I found the
i PMNP MMHy MK , ,
motmu vcrvjii:" 1 tuit o; a very large droui-
| \iydeasant or fati- '
. guing. Though • i•. s went at the
1 nte'of hour. I noticed '
that the driver frequently spoke to her in a |
qujet, conversation il tone, making remarks'
about the roads and advising her how to .
proceed—all of which she seemed to under
stand perfectly, and obeyed without hesi
tation.
JUNGLE ORASS ON FIRE.
Toward even lug, 1 was startled by a !
roaring sound, resembling a high wind ad
vanciug through tlie forest. But soon dense
volnms of wihte smoke fccanm visible, -and
occasionally streamers of flame shot above
the tree tops. A turn in tile tiil!?, covered
1 with tail jungle-grass, which the natives had
set on fire. Tlie grass was very thick, and
from eight to ten feet high so that the eoi
flagtalion was on a great scale. Tht ftinics,
of a brilfnuit sgaflet C'OK)I% pressed along
the slope with afmyiVf a charging bat
talion, and their deep Foarwirii tbfe-inegs
aawfc ?iia'pplng hiid'craCkPiTig of the grttsS'
made a noise trulj' awful, r was str.wigly 1
reminded of mv lucky attempt at burning j
out lion.? on tlie White Xtie a year previous.
The fire had just leaped over the road, ant! i
my bearers'passed in safety. n, I
WHAT TIII'V DO Vittti rNF.V.N'T CdIIAM.S t!t !
SflANttilfA:
I .
I Between the graves and the city walls
I stands a low building 111 a clump of cedar
I trees. This i? one of the "Baby Towers,"'
| of which there are several near the city.
i All infarii's who ilie under the age iff ot.e
1 year are not honored with burial, but opart
| a package, with matting and cords, fetid
t thrown into the tower, or rather well, n? b
is, sunk some distance below the earth.^ -j
i Tlie top which rises about ten feet above
j the ground, is roofed, but tin aperture i.?
left casting in Slie "bodies. Looking into it
/ wo see that the tower is filled nearly to the
i roof w ; it!i handles of matting, from which
i exhale* a pestilent effluvium.
A C'IiNKSK PRIEBT AT HIS DE.OtIONS.
j Hearing a continual thutptpiiig noise in
j the room bejoud, we push open t'ue door
, ami surprise a Boouhist priest at his devo
tions. lie is seated at a table with % book
oj>eu before l;im, from which he is chanting
I prayers with a monotonous, drawling tone,
. while with one band ho thumps incessantly
with a small wooden hammer upon a holijw
drum of the same material. This is called
j by the same name as lite great fish upon
i whieli the earth rests and which its sound
i soothes into quiet. When at any lime,
j even for a minute, there Is no drum beaten
1 throughout the whole world, the fish at
t onoe becomes uneasy, ftfiu m- coumum.-g
occasion earthquakes. Tiie priest wears a
yellow robe, his skin is yellow, his bead
yellow* his head is shaven bald, his face is
puckurad with wrinkles, ami altogether be
;s one of oddest and funnies; old men that
. was ever seen, lie looks up, nods, wit! a
queer twinkle in his eye-', looks down again,
and up again, hut never once pauses in his
i chanting or his thumping.
Broad Top (oaL
A\ e have, on several occasions, duruig
tiie last year givc'n to onr readers such in
formation as came within our knowledge, in
refccnce to the character and quality of the
coal produced from the Broad Top coal re
gion. The results of experiments her-to
lore.made with this coal, have invariably
proved its very jrren; adaptation for steam
purposes, and its superiority iiver all ctkr
hinds under the ordinary Steam Boiler.
A short tone since, a small quantity of it
"Was furnished to Mr. J. 13. liaktr, the Su
perintendent of the Philadelphia and f'ol
timbia llailroad, with a ▼it-\r to have tested
its adaption to use on locomotive engines. l —
result of Mr. B's experiments, itaeoms
are not less satisfactory than those boroto
fore made by other parties; its superiority
over Anthracite as a steam-generating COH 1
has been established, mid admitted by a
very large tiumbi.r x>; persons, apd the re
sult of the experiments made under the di
rection of Mr. Baiter* prove it to" excel.' tor
Locomotive use, any bituminous coa! lnlL
erto. tried on tub ?tufe I load. For the lioii
fcfit of tfiose of oar readers' who are interes
ted in tTTe coal proiuolions of the Stale. Wo i
,
are permitted to copy the following letter
and table* Vy.lMr, 8., whieli fi-is 1 ecu tfd
jdressed to Mr. Lang, one of die TL rectors
fnf tiie Huiitingaon and Broia Fop Bailfoad"
(lompany: [Daily .Yctcs.
\ColuMoi<i an ! P RaiirodJ, )
Kovemb?r'2flß.. t: ' ' J ' '
JAMES B. LANE, ESQ. —Bear Sir -In
A
the early part of October I received IJjUO
pounds oi' etni*Bjtuuii no u coal you had
forwarded fi oai.theßroaJ Top t'oa! lleelou>
with the view of ascertaining wh
; coal from that firtld was .suitable fuel for |
locomotive engines. The accompanying ta
ble contains the result of the experiments
nude with it, and,two other kinds of bitu
: mitiops coal. . „ v ...
During the pst. year wt have- been r.siug
bituoiiuyus on many of our engines, e\clu
; sively, to groat advantage when it could be
, obtained of suitable quaality. No wood is
i required with Pittsburg coal, as with equal
parts of Itailidaj'fbufg qiiscd together—to
use tiie former alone is rather too jostly,and
but part of tho time only, c#n we get a sup
| ply of two kind- prcpetly mixed. Thc.twf. i
kinds niisod is preferable, and much more
'economical than Pittsburg*
VOL. 28, NO 18
(j HoUklajaburgcoul cannot bo used alone
i ! witjput usiptf Ijr# qua Minos of wood, arid
! I Wfestructjty to the fo T Xi
Hind of coa! wanted by the railroad in tho " "
I eastern pare of State is a bituminous,
i ej'al 'to I y U stcaui, and
4 this quality, I tbiui;, tlx? Broad Top
' contains, and if it oha be fefnished likorti.;*;
! n'likdi ws rwoh-ed, there will be no ewiw
* ti.ybi vr-dotr Authnoitc up 'any of i|; C ml!-
i roads east i f tho Al!fgi.-r>y mouiitniiv -
provided fix; jtkoad Top can oe Hupplied at
4reasonable rates.
I The coal nas nn'nAibn] nonr
| aud it tcipg dlscov^rv^
; that it was so sitpeiijr for hlaijtsiaitii pur
-1 pose. ? the smith? could not refrain from i..-
; iiiif souie'of it otr their fire? thus tcdurii (
■ | the'quuntify to larcfly snffieient foranex
■ penment; had there been enough for tin.
. trial?, 1 would have had two experiment <
of each kind, which would have enabled nio
to report mom satisfartorily. Different
I treatment; Mid the engineers nievbr havliw
| n?ed any Brdad Top, T was fe-arfi;! the '£ r ,-
i man lifiglit nM trfiat if proper!v. or n.? : e i'
to as'good 'advantage, oh the fifjtt trip,"a? he
would "have done f>M a second trial. Tim
i fireman was perfectly acquainted with the
other kinils of coals, and they consequent
ly had rather the advantage of the sample
. you sent me.
Aft experienced engineer, who ha? been
.' useing eftal for many year-', Mr. fines
| Smrth, was placed on the engine, in addition
j to the regular engineer, to conduct the ex- j
pn'merits-, and it is his opinion that had *
they understood the nature of tho coal be- '
j fore leaving (hdnmbia, as they did when they
; p on!, hted the fire to go down on ripproaeh
j ing the other end of the road, several hun
dred pounds of ena! would have lee n
j .?:it*T. ■
I Tfrril yesterday; I wa? of the opinion"
| that Pittsburg coal could not he excelled
j for gene raring rteam. The fiXpcrlSietrt
, proired the superiority of Broad Top.-and
places the former secofid on the fist for steam
( purposes. Mr. Smith*, statement'is as fff!?
r * '* V <-4 b-va
"Broad jop coal matte umre srram ~
. more regfibf fire was obtained by '! thou
from cither of the other kind®-, no poking
j or rabiftgwa? required; no eliolwrvfltx fonn-I
j and but a smidl quantity of ashes in the ash
par; the combustion of the coal wa? com-
plftr. Sims clinker remained from rb<>
mixed coal, caused bv tile dirt tn the Holi
days-burg coal, though none to injurs the
draft. No clinker from the Pittsburg.
"I prefer the Broad Top, Mich as we had,-
i to Puts burg, or to any eon! I hare ever
ut*d. T could not desire a better con! for a
locomotive. The smoke from it is net near
so dense or black as from Pittsburg. A
few minutes after supplying the fire with
, fresh coafj very little smoke is observable
i and none when the valve is closed. V. it!i
Pittsburg it is different; when tha valve i
closed a blank smoke ttvues t'rons the aUea,
as welt a* though.the tire door- The atemii .
! gnu go can be kept at 130 poanda much
more easily with it than with Pit;simrg. T
I'iw tire does not rapt ire as muuh Avaiciitm
a ail can be kept more regular, aaditub* much
longer than Pittsburg. - *
"■Tile mixed toal is veil airatited for lo
comotives; it is preferable to Pittsburg alone
as fi fire made with them lusts longer and
more regular. Bfond Top. compare#Hvith
the'niisfc! cos!, is about cqmdTirf regnbiri
ly 'of fire—though I wool J prefer Broad Top
if in hithpi ar ermrse edah Broad Top •♦*
on the fire itiotffc ltk vrobi than any ooiat 1
ban* Wf used.' Wki the valve was dotal
descending theTi aile to W-' Puiiadolpbu,
thestentn gftajpc continued t ISO pounds
ph descending any of 'the grades ihe guagc
t-hoWo'd an increased pressure.' dot
trdublt'U with s:nok'e from it r.t
it was as clear as a tided
The experiment ' proved "the? coal f6 n
tmich better than I anticipated, as I v.a--
poWiiful of it ansWering'a good purpose by
jiself. If wo cpufd oßtain a sfjpjls of this
kind oFWaf, we would uv! it exclusively'
{wood only would be required Jo '•'Src
up/;
At the present
ll"ittsburg coal, using them in equal parts,
A trip -eats 9 ; W> loss tlciii' when Pip'burg
ialune is used.
• ' .-v tha: Mrs
WgcH.W Cq " al 10 b;;: ' !S h ''\$ c - >u
Br.ua T--p, and i Top is the: t r.i
Up r. \:,t 1.1 :-;cr for z? h crating
any Butuniinoua foal ru t'e .state..
If it is pottible lb dbtsiii sit or,eight toft
mQrg the. pSftrtb. I would giTo it 4 another"
trial) a> 1 desire -to eiseertavn the compara
tive v'- v t °t wood with llollidaysburg and
Pittsburg mixed and Pittsburg atcne, and
Broad Top, if it can be obtained in time,
and give Ihe re. iiU in thy Anucl Report, fu
December.
Years, vtrv Resoeetfttllvs
J. B. Bakes,
tab'" omitted.
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