EN THE SPY 86 REGISTER. SATURDAY MORNING, Scpt 9, 1848. AGENCIES V. B. PAl.l.ltn is duly authorized to rrtmive subsestp- Bons and advertisements for this pep.. l , an the cities of Philadelphia, New York, lialornorc, and Boston, and receipt therefor. B. W. Carta, Philadelphia. JACOB M. WilsruatelirElt. Lancaster city. , WILLIAM A. Petrel:. Travelling Ace nt. GEORGE PRATT, No. 151, Na.mo Street, isle,. 'York. IVitualt Taoaso.v, S. E. Corner of Baltimore and South streets, Baltimore, rr If any dt our subscribers, - in town, should not be served regularly with the" Spy," by our new carrier, they will please call at the office. I= Dux Scrim-mans will excuse the small amount of leading matter in the Spy, when they consider the -extremely low price of subscription. The adver tising patronage of the Spy is becoming very ex. tensivc, and should it continue to increase (which we have no doubt it and oar friends in Co• lambia and neighboring towns will aid us a link in increasing our circulation, we will enlargr. the Spy. 2=2 PRESIDENT OF TIM. COLU:IIBIA BANE AND BRIDGE. COMPANY.—David Rinehart, Esq., of Marie' ta, has been elected President of the Columbia. Bank and Bridge Company, in lieu of John N. Lane, Enq., resigned. .r~~p~i......__._ ASTONISHING PROMPTITUDE. OF TIAR U. S. 111/4/.. On Monday Morning, the 4th inst., WC received the Philadelphia Sun, Containing the latest foreign news—of the Monday previous. Ten miles a day is pretty good travelling; but we have Feet, it beaten. llEnt.rn os Cowaints..--We frequently hear per sons speak of Columbia. as being a very sickl- / place. For our part, wo have lived on the of the Susquehanna for upwards of twent - y years, fa different towns, and as regards health, we prefer Columbia. As an evidence of the gener.4l health of our borough, wc would state that we have been called upon to record but 6 deaths in 17 weeks. It is true there is some sickness in nor town at present, hut the majority of eases attributable to a too free indulgence in the abo nrlancc of delicious fruit Ivhich is brought to our marl:et. ~ ,,•,...e.r.,—a...---- YELLOW IfEvEn IY NEw ORLEAN2 3 .—Tho report of the Board of Health of New Orleans, for the week ending the 96th, states that 93 persons had died of yellow foyer that week, and there were in tho Charity Hospital 59 cases under treatment DISCIT /OWED VoLuxrEmts.—The Adjutant Gene- zal in Washington has issued a notice as follows : Applicants for discharges ' who would he enti 'tied to land and bounty and three months' extra pay, after serving out the lidt period of their enlist ment, arc informed, if they receive their discharge from service by way of favor, et their or their friend's request, that they forfeit their claim to any bounty." The Adjutant General also announces, that here after, when applications Pre made for discharges, and no answer is retutned, it will be understood tthat the application is denied. I= ConntsstoNAL REFORTING.—"We learn that Mr. Dyer, the Phonographic Reporter, is organizing a corps of phonographers, partly reporters and part ly compositors, to proceed to Washington next winter and report the debates. The compositors will be able to setup the type directly from the re porter's notes, such is said td" be the legibilily of this new system of writing. An immense saving of time and labor will thus be gained. ME=l TRAUD TCA.—The Pittsburgh Journal says a merchant of its acquaintance purchased a lot of Tea in the East. On Friday he opened it, and !what was his astonishment on finding that, instead or Ten, the chests contained nothing but common .chatT! From appearances, the imposition hod 'been perpetrated before it came to this country. IMPROVED RAII.RoAD SWITcII.—Mr. I'. V. Fisher, ofConn.,is the inventcr of a new Switch so ar ranged as to be operated by the engineer from the locomotive. It will be of great use in preven. ting accidents. I=l PEACH Lieu:mt.—Some of the peach growers in New Jersey arc sending large quantities of the growth of their orchards lobo made into whiskey, the crops being so plentiful that they are at a loss how otherwise to dispose of them. =I A Trappist Monasterylis about to be founded near Bardstown, (Ky.) where a tract of 1200 acres of land has been bought for the purpose. About nighty of the members of the order arc now on their way from :Nantes, and the community will be organized next spring. =I A GREAT Litxte Tow..—lt is a remarkable circumstance, says an exchange, that the little town of Westmoreland, Va., which lies on the po tomac. about seventy miles below Washington, and Las only about 20G voters, is said to have produced two Presidents of the United States ; three Judges of the Supreme Court ; three Governors and three Revolutionary Generals. It is the birth place of General Washington,;,Mr. Monroe, of Arthur Lee, the first Minister to France—of Chief Justice Marshal, and Judge Washington—of henry Lee, the great orator of the first congress, and who, but for the illness of his wife was to have written the Declaration of Independende. ENC2eB Comr-r RrrecNeo,—The National Intern. gencer cap that the return or Mirk's. Comet, after an absence ef about t!irec years, v. as discovered on Friday night, at the observatory in that city, by „Professor HUBBAIIII.. On its lest visit (1 64S i two cli , evations only were lati,3 upon it; one of Whiclt v P t I:rne, the other el The National Obs,'•rvat"TY. This time, however, we learn front Boston :"" observed at .the Carobiidgo -Observatory early to the last %yeah, ====l A fictiev PAn•n•.—\Vc arc told that a eo•c'el4'ar ay of six, consiating of aman and wife, two tc%lligli• tem a sister and a nephew, recently. dined toget.%er in the town of Orono, Maine, all or icbom with one exception, arc residools of that place, whose Wright was 1214 poun,de,—heinr, an arrrage weight rf ',boot 9n7 nnnnde et; h. =I rL THE RECEPTION „ff Ltint. cocfran , r , ..rd Ms Men, Messrs. Al isogy Grove, Hii#, Zeigyr, TT' , Haney, Moore, MU and Stenismer. t f .04 Early on•Saturdaylest, our town was astir,itid the hum of the work-a-day world gave way to the "bur 7 note bf ProPtiration." The' Sub-Committee appointed for that purpose, crossed - the 33ridge to Wrightsville, while the citizens, avid Susquehanna, Council, No. 31, 0. of U. A. M., farmed in order to receive our guests. At 10, - thecars containing the Committee of Reception and the returning soldiers having arrived, the' profession took up the line of march, to the stirring notes of the Mechanics` Brass Band of Columbia; and, in accordance with the programme published In our last, proceeded tO'the Town Hall, where Col. Gossier, on behalf of the citizens addressed them, Lieut. Cochran, on. the part of his brave come. reds and himself, replied in -a-neat speech, which, with that of Col.Gossler, tvill be published in our IBM After some excellent music by the Band, the line was again formed, and passed through several streets, to t 1,9 Washington Hotel, where a climber was prepared for the occasion by "mine host,” Herr; to which the guests and people did ample. justice. After tho removal of the cloth, no regular orgoni. stilton WdS had; but Cul. John Barr presided over a very joyous and good not , :.rod company. Several toasts, but cow of which have been hand ed to us, were d':attlr, with all the honors. The regular tow,a, furnished by the committee, were as follow Is',—The Memory of Wut , hington—May it bo crobahned in every American heart, while the waves of the Potomac shall wash the peaceful shores of Mt. Vernon. 2nd—The Signers of the Declaration of Inde pendence—They have passed from among ua, but their names shall abide for ever. 3rd—The French Republic—May its citizens be as happy as those of the United States, and may the liberties of bath be perpetuated to the latest generations. 4th—The President attic U. S sth-- 4 1'lle Governor ci Pennsylvania Gth—Tlie Army and Navy. 711,—Our Country—The Model Republic, the borne for the oppressed of all nations. She has given a glorious illustration of the fact that man is capable of self-government. May the monarchies of Europe "go and do likewise." Bth—The Patriots of the Emerald Isle—They have the sympathies of every true American. May they never give, up the struggle until they shall have shaken of the tyrant's yoke, and taken their stand amongst the free and independent nations of the earth. • 9th—Our Army in Mexico—They have covered themselves with unending laurels. Their deeds of daring shun live in story whilst American liberties endure. 1011—Pennsylvania. Volunteers They have shown by their services in Mexico, that they can be relied upon in any evergency. If Uncle Saes should want them again, ho may be sure of finding them in the right place, as there are a few more left of the sa i nie sort.", llth—Our Guests—They have, nobly sustained the American character while in Mexico. We'now bid them welcome to their homes. May the re mainderof their lives be as peaceful as the past has been patriotic 12th—Our Host and Hostess—May fortune al ways eater as bountifully for them, us they have done for us. 13th—The Ladies-- The only soldiers to whom Yankee boys surrender. Their mode of warfare differs front th tt:of Mexico, in Ow. they do most execution when they present arms. Lieut. T. D. Cochran replied in a few brief and happy rernurbs to the llth regular toast, and then gave the following : The Ladies of Columbia—As beautiful us the flowers they covered us with to-d.iy; and the men of Columbia. as noble in heart and feeling as their Indies arc beautiful and good. God bless them all. The few of the volunteer toasts that have reached us, are as follows: By J. J. Cochran—Our Neighbor over the line— Her soldiers have proved themselves worthy repro. sentatives of the Old Maryland Line, and of the Defenders of North Point. Capt. Marryott, of Baltimore, the youngest cap. tain of the Volligner Regiment, eloquently respond. ed to this sentiment. He stated that lie had been led to believe that his companions in arms would meet with a warm reception, but that the reality far exceeded his expectations. Ho concluded with offering the following : The citizens of Pennsylvania, and particularly sidcrable addition to the stock of American wealth ; but it appears from the returns of the coal trade those of the borough of Columbia—Their reception i of their fellow citizens returning from the war, in Pennsylvania that the value of this commodity shows that they arc worthy of being represented by brought to market in that State is annually equal such heroes. ; to the above large amount :—that last year, for ex ample the value of her anthracite brought down to This toast Waft happily replied to by J. F. Irons- ton, Esq., who said that the duties of citizens and soldiers were reciprocal—that as the achievements of our army in Mexico had boon illustrious with out a parallel in history, the community at home was bound to give them an enthusiastic welcome and that in this, Columbia had done no more than her duly. Dot he would propose the health of one to whom be knew every Pennsylvania soldier felt grateful—one whose name had been honorably borne from Vcra Cruz to the gates of Mexico, by a noble company of Volunteers—one, who in his place in the Senate, and in his powerful influence with the Departments at Washington, has ever been the advocate of the subaltern and private, as well as the commissioned officer. The lion. Simon Cameron—The friend of the Pennsylvania Volunteer. The enthusiastic manner in which this toast was received by all the aoldies present, showed that it struck a responsive chord in every bosom, and that the culogium with which it was prefaced was well bestowed. By D. F. G riflith—Lient. T. D, Cochran and his men—As soldiers they may be judged by their acts of bravery in the battles of Mezieu—as men, they may be judged by their feeling towards their fellow ,Nett„ always ready to comfort the sick and wound. cd—•as citizens of Columbia, we are proud to wcl come them home j ',::' By E. F. Hunt —lrf land - . .44„, , ay sbeAave he '.op pressors "aOssini . 'irt the tiittest Petrla Pas 1 PM' Tayloriguld boa; ilatitrip. %"' .,- By a gueal—Thigun of V.iiberty—A res . ; the! West. Matflome 1171;tdern .liitua bi ' eta still; until'lt shallainisfe dis44lecrthe'pertentiouacleud that now lowers over the Estern.world. By W,S.MedOrklia"—;Lieut.,Horrice:Halderrkiin7 We would that he were with us in body, his heart and soul aro here.„ . , , By .1 guesi.-tieut. Tlsomart Welsh—jet. notlie'r of the fewer to' wlitch the Old" KeystoriC' owce is lustre. , By E. F. Hu M: 7 -Thc Irish Patriots—When they come, to use pikes, may they have SHIELDS as well. By G. W. Schroycr—Tbe U. S. Army—Tficy never Ed to war but to conquer. Speeches were also made in reply to toasts by Capt. G. C. Haller, 4th Infantry—by Lieut. Martin, Voltiguers,—W. Lee Campbell, Esq., of Lancaster, and others. They'wero well received by the Large concourse of citizens, and were very eloquently delivered. =3IM2 AN ODD CALCULATION.—Whet a noisy creature • would man be were his voice in proportion to his Iweight, as loud as that of a locust? A locust can be heard at the distance of 1-16 of a mile. The golden wren is said to weigh but half on ounce; so that a middling sized man would weigh down not short of 4,000 of them ; and it must be strange if a golden wren would not outweigh four locusts. Supposing, therefore, that a common man weighs as much as 19,000 of our locusts, and that the note of a locust can be heard 1-16 of a mile, a man of common dimensions, pretty sound in wind and limb, ought to make himself hoard at the dis tance of 1,600 miles; and when he sneezed "his house ought to fall übout his ears." Supposing a flea to weigh one grain, which is more than its ac- Wed weight, and to jump one and a half yards, a common man of 150 pounds, with jumping powers in proportion, could jump 15,000 miles, or about the distance from New York to Cochin China. Ar. istophanes represents Socrates and his disciples as deeply engaged in calculations of this kind around a table on which they are waxing a flea's legs to see what weight it will catry in proportion to its size, but he does not announce the rzsult of their experiments. We are, therefore, happy in being able to supply, in some degree, so serious an otitis. A FREAK or NarunE.- 7 The Detroit Advertiser says a severe thunder storm passed over this city night before last, and several places were struck by lightning. A very singular occurrence took place at Mr. Roberts' store, on Atwater street. Mr. R. was steeping in the front part of his store, and du. ring the storm was suddenly awakened, feeling'. tremendous pressure upon his head, and want of breath. The room was filled with fire or lightning, flushing in all directions, exactly, resembling the flashes of L lightntng (tom the clouds: kresently a loud explosion took place in the room, apparent. ly as loud as a six pound cannon, bursting all the windows over the doors in the front end of the building, and filling the room with a strong sul phurous smell. It was discovered in the morning that the lightning cams through the roof, shivering a heavy plank standing in a partition. The roan . ) was full of splinters flying in the air when Mr. R. first awokc,and what is very singular, was the explosion some time after the bolt entered the roof. No marks of the lightning- leaving the room, in the same shape in which it entered, could be found• =Z= 031110SITJES.—The Rockingham, .Va.,- Register, gives an account of 'something now' in the curios. ity line:—" The celebrated "Runkle Family,' of Rockingham, we understand will start in a few days down the Valley, with the Intention of visit. ing different portions of the United States. This family, consisting of two brothers and two sisters, will be found to be objects of no ordinary curiosi. I ty—being, in all probability, the largest family of human beings ever exhibited in this or any other country. Their united weight is 1400 lbs: Ono of the young ladies is so fleshy as to be unable to walk and when moving of her own accord, goes upon her hands and knees. They are of the ordi. nary height, and their mother is an unusually small women; the father however, is an ordinary sized man." Cott AND GOLD.- A curious fact is stated in the Philadelphia North American. From the annual Report of the Directer of the U. S. Mint it ap. pears that the value of all Mc gold coined in the U. S. Mints for twenty-form years prior to 1897 was 5111, 741, 653, or somewhat exceeding tho av erage sum of half a million a year—a very con. tide water—nearly 3, 000, 000 tons—was actually equal to the value of all this gold dng by in the South during the whole twenty-four years. From this it appears that our Northern ( Maryland as well as Pennsylvania) coal mines arc more valua ble gold mines than those of the South. = A FETE.—Tho French papers publish glowing accounts of an entertainment given the 3d of last month by ex-editor Marmot, President of the Na tional Assembly, at the Hotel of the Presidency in Paris. Three hundred ouvriers were occupied in the preparatory arrangements; ten maitresd, hotel ordering the banquet and presiding at the collations of the evening. Four thousand guests were invited. Vocal and instrumental concerts were among the entertainments, in which the fi nest pieces by Von Weber, Mozart and Rossini, were executed by the mod melodious artists of Paris. It was, as it were, a resurrection of that world of art invisible during the six months of intestine disquiet ; the first smile of returning con fidence, the revel of the saloon after the violences and the tyrannies of the street. = CArr. LEwis W. SMILII, of the Bedford Guards, who served through the entire Mexican war, is one of the Whig candidates for Assembly in that coon. Oarats oviatet.cer.zs.—ei:he ma es in - hick infusoria obtaika admittanclitito vaOs flu ±i hls been a subject of debate sonattlyears : startling id - of appritaneok - Vgene4on batteer: broached. Vri•inbet thou they „w Binned from minute particlin Maid whith gridually began to move, and obtained life by degrees.— Gruithlaisen reticle& the:y procoi r ected ? front' the ex tractive matter, acle r d on by the infuser/medium. The most generally received opinion is, that these aiiiinalst or their germs, float about, as atoms in the atmosphere, and become vitalized .or-revived-on be ing deposited in a medium favorable to their devel opement. Instances' of tini'Malt, more highly or ganized, apparently dying when the fluid has been dried up feria 'length of time, and ag,tiharesutning the state of active life ori"heini furnished with a drop of water, are familiar to the microscopist. It may be observed in Rotifer mulgaries, or the com mon wheel-animalcule, and ;n the Vsbrio an eel-like animal, causing the ear-cockle or blight in wheat. Both of these animals may be brought ' back from apparent death to active life alter having been kept in a perfectly dry state for several years. What favors the animalcules being deposited either in the germal state, nr from their bodies being dried and floating in the air, is the fact, that in a series of well-conducted experiments, performed by Schulze some years ago, where water wag distilled and well boiled, in order to destroy any animal life it might contain, and vegetables, for the same reason, exposed to the heat of an oven, and the air admitted to the vessel, which was hermetically scaled, through strong sulphuric acid: on the ves sel being placed in the sun, after the lapse of sonic time, not a single animalcule could be detected, though a jar by its side, made of the same mate rials, but open to the atmosphere, was found to swarm with living beings.—Sti. Am. = NATURAL. Putuvumesox.—Great excitement has of Tate prevailed at Liegnitz in Getinany, caused by another mysterious locomotion of the Wanders te in, or migrating stone of Riesengebridge. This stone has repeatedly been known to haw: changed its I place, without the action of any outward agency ' whatever. It stands in the Agnetendell, near the village of that name, and consists of fine grained granite of yellowish grey, composed of white quartz, red feldspar, with a slight admixture of black glimmer. This block of stone has suddenly moved above twenty-five yards from its former place, The last locomotion dates from the year 1822, and its migrations are the more enigmatical, as they take place, not on a slope, but on perfect level ground. It is impossible to conceive the cause which thus repeatedly forces this rock front its place of rest, and constrains it to such violent leaps as that in 1822 and of this year, which took place between the 18th and ileth.ultinto. Di LIKE. Hes Looss.—A sheriff's officer was sent to execute a writ against a Quaker. On arri ving at the house he saw the quaker's wife, who, in reply to the.inquiry whether her husband was at home replied ,in the affirmative, at the same I time iequesting , hiM tope seated, and her husband would speeciliace him. The oiffeer Waited pa tiently for some time, but the Quaker did not make his appearance, and the fair Quakcress coming into the room, ho reminded her of her promise, that he should scc her husband." Nay friend,l promised that he would see thee. Lk 'ens seen thee l Ile did not like thy looks; therefore lie avoid• ed thy path, and Milli left the house by another road." =2= 1:0 - A fearful tempest and curious phenomena or• curred at Bromberg in Prussia, on the 18th of Juno, during which masses of electrical fire like broad sheets of flame encircled the steeples, towers and chitnnies. In a moment they would blaze with lurid flame and the next be buried up in murky darkness. The thunder was like roaring artillery and the rain like deafening rushing cataracts. Lofty towers and piercing spires were hurled from their foundations and buried in the earth, and the city is now one mass of ruins. =Mll= POPULATION OP CANADA.—We understand that the result of the census, just completed, of Upper Canada, will give that section of the province a population of from 699,000 to 70,000 souls; while, by the census of 1842 '43, it was only 401,061 giving an increase, in five years, of nearly 200,000: The last census for Lower Canada was taken in 1944, when the population was 699,806 souls, the increase upon which Curing the last four years, is calculated, by reference to preceding terms at which censuses have been taken, to be about 70,000, giving this section- of the province a present pope. lotion of about 770,000. The population of Upper Canada would thus appear to increase at the rate of about 40,000 per annum, and Lower Canada at that of about 17,000 per annum. Supposing these relative tales of increase to be maintained, the year 1852 will see Upper Canada with a popu lation of 859,000, and Lower Canada with only 40,000. 1962 will give the former a population of 1,259,000, and the latter only 1,015,000 souls. ===== A PROVIDENT INVEST, ENT.-Mr. Aaron Clark, of Portland, Mc., who was in Albany at the time of the late disastrous conflagration, was unfortunately crowded from the wharf into the river and drowned. Only two months since, on passing through Boston, he applied at the Mutual Benefit Life insurance of fice, 17 State street, for a policy on his life, for s6ooo—having, a few weeks before, effected en insurance with the same company, for $2500. Not being able to wait for the completion of the papers ho proceed to New York, where he took out if policy for $5OOO ; thus securing to his family, con sisting of a wife and four children, the comfortable sum of 97500, at a cost of less than 9200 1 =2 A Nice nONE FOR LAWYERS.--A curious law question, it is said, will rise out of the events of June in Paris. A National Guard, before repairing to the barricades, had made his will, which he car ried with him in his pocket. He was killed by a ball, which passed through the will and carried away with it the figures affixed to many of the be quests made by the testator. The question which will have to be decided is, how are the gaps thus caused to be filled up 7 • 1t.;4 1.1 1 4 ~ I 7 - 7 i CakOUN CLOCKS. Almost every persowas neltria 1 MO 1 of tlkleurious clocks of Strap!yirg, ank-.l..yonsqn' ‘,..r. Obituary. FrarreiV and we were of ili.eppglion thutibey. we re . , Della ibis life, in Nt'rightsville, August 3151, Toro the Yilittel. wonderful in the wort; yet wil!bave dm- nose ON son of the Rey. James 1/11d Catharine 7th year of his age. covered that there arc two ip pins. aide abniat 1 6 raff; i ~ thirtyhears ago for die Empiq Ir by tha r Hast I:PAL His *rim on earth was short, his days were company, which arifigezhapteibe mosOvendeifid. nainbckl—for death's cold and icy touch withered - The two clocks are irittieTorin of chariots , `in I the bud e're it bloomed. He was a christian, and felt each of which a lady is placed in a fine attitude, leaning her right' hand on a. part of Utichariot,t his accountability,"and felt thilt,he :was esinner— under whieb appears a clock of curious rkman. l and he' also fell his need of an inieAse . in Citrietms' ship, little larger than a shilling, that strikes, and a Saviour. He was a child of remarkable studious repeats,and goes, fur eight days. On the lady's . ness; , ob i cdient in all the revisitione of his p a rents, finger sits a bird finely modelled, and set with dia l . moods .and-rubics, with its avings..expanded-iiia for lirbom . be itiMair.s. l 9LPArekteg -!111.1.11tisual detf, flying posture, and which actually ,flutters for a of affection. for one so y,ottrag, It,is quite evident, ;considerable time, - on touching a diamond -Mutton too, riot' only fromtestimony 'ciecelatives, faitii 4 of below it; the body ' of Pic bird, in which are contain- -- - -- - others, that.he trusted his all in that Saviour. „His cal part of the wheels that animate it, is less than the 16111 part of an inch. TI,, laily , ,holds in her soul, we believe, ascended to Christ, and .he is now ' left. hand a golddn tube, little thicker aliun a large made fOrelier happy in his love, and in his praise pin, on the top of which is a small round box, to for Jesus laiiiiself hath said " suffer little children which is fixed a circular ornament not larger than to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of auck . a sixpence. set with diamonds, which goes round in three hours in a constant regular motion. is the kingdom of Heaven.” . . 1 pver the lady ' s head, is a double umbrella, sup- , A short time before he died be was told he was I p ortedt by a small fluted pillar not thicker 'than a dying, turning, with a heavenly expression of coon. quill ; under the cover of which a bell is fixed at a 1 considerable distance from the clock, with which termite; towards his parents, he raised his feeLle it seems to haire no cohnecion, but from which a ! and emaciated hands, and implored God's blessing communication is ,secretly conveyed tea hammer ' on his kind father and mother, and sisters. So say. that regularly strikes 'the hour, and' repeals the same at pleasure, by tout:hinge diamond button in he closed his eyes, and without a sigh or strug. fixed tc the clock below. At the feet of the lady gin expired. is a golden dog; before which, from the point of I ‘ , 111.:114,1. shall slumber in the ground, - the chariot, are two birds fixed on spiral springs, "1,11 the lost trumpeespayful sound, having their wings and feathers set with stories cal '.ll . lint:,..tiie , chuhtsw w itl . i sweet stuprike, And 111 Oka tiaN tour a trn ~ellbC.). various colours, and they appear as if flying away 1 with the chariot, which, from another secret motion, is contrived to run in any direction, either straight or circular, while a boy;that lays !told of the char. iot behind, appears to push it forward. Above the umbrella arc flowers and ornaments of precious stones; and it terminates with a flying dragon set in the same Manna.. The whole' is - ef gold, most curiously executed and embellished with rubies and pearls.—Scientific American. = A GOOD R i ne.-:LA friend of ours who has been spending a few weeks in the country," and who visited sumo of the private dwellings of the rustic inhabitants, tells of a singular old man who lives near Brookfield. He is somewhat noted for his odd expressions. He was one day visited by a small party of ladies and gentleman, who went to hear his" talk." " Now young gintleinen." said he," I will give you some directions how to tell a good wife. A good wife will be like three things. and she-will not be lake them; She will be like the snail, who stays at home, and she will not be lake the snail who carries all he has OD his back. She will be like the echo, that speaks when spoken to, and she will not be like the echo, always to have the last word. She will be lake the town.clock, that speaks at the right time, and she will not be like the town clock, heard all over town." = , Oulu: Woitc..—'flic great fire at Albany occurred on the 17th day of August. We understand the North Western Insurance Company had 18 poli cies on the" burnt district," amounting to about $19,000. On Saturday the .26th, nine days after the fire, 14 of the claims wero,carVidly adjusted, and all paid tut two; the parties refusing to rcccivo the money until d ne.—Of the two remaining claims, one is less than $lOO, and of the other the assured was out of town. Whale amount of 1055,512,000. N. J. Cour. Corn. A CABS) The citizens of Columbia, through their commit tee, tender their thanks tu: Susquehanna. Council, No. 31,0. U. A. M., and to the council at Marietta, for the promptness with' which .they responded' no the invitation of tho Cochran Reception Committee, and the gentlemanly deportment' of the members, is the procession on Saturday. Frieling anti Witheitti rhea aid, the, reception would have lacked much of its imposing- effect, they would, in return, wish the' American 'Me chanics eminent success as a body, in the objects fur which they arc associated; and as individuals, health, happinesi, and prosperity. D. ILERR, Chairman. J. W. Ftstrza; Secretary. (i-Ti)c Illarlict9. Retail reiiiiber IVlarket. COLUMBIA, Friday Sept. 7, 1848. Inferior Cull Boards audGrol> Pldnl., S 8 00 Culling 6. 11 00 9.d Common " 16 00 Ist Common " , 22. ,00 Pannell ll* 30 00 Ilendoelt " Scantling, 9 oa Pine Scantling, from 14 l 18 00 Plaster Lath, '2 to 2 25 Shingles, 8 to 14 00 Columbia Retail Provision Market. Flour, $5 00 a 5 50 Wheat, 1 10 a 1 20 Rye, 66 a 60 Corn, 44 a 46 Oats, 28 a 31 Hants, 8 a 10 Dried 13cef, 121 a— 14 Butter, 121 a. 15 . Eggs, a 12i Potatoes, 4 a 50 Beer, 6 a 8 Veal, 5 a 61 rIIILADELIIIIA, Sept. 7, 1848 Pinar-85 7.5 a 5 87 for good old stock Penna and Wcstern, and 86 00 for good fresh ground; Rye flour $3 874 u 4 00 ; Corn meal 75 a 2 Grain—Wheat $1 2.0 a 1 23 for good Penn; Rye 70 a 71 for Penn ; Corn 08 a 70 for yellow Penn. Iron—Pcnna Pigs 23 a 27 per ton for Anthracite, and $25 a3O for Forge mid Foundry Metal. Bar Iron ranges from $7O to 75, and Blooms 855 to 70. Lumber—The supplies are increasing. Cargo sales of Yellow Pine Boards at $l5 a 16 per M.; Stlacluchanna,Bll a 15; Hemlock Joists, $7 a 7 50; Scantling 97 a 8. Laths—Are in fair demand, with sales of 150,- 000 Eastern at 91 20 a 1 25 per M. BALTIMORE Sept. 7, 1848 The flour market at the elcv.e was arm, after nn active demand at easier rams; sales Int $5 75. Sales of white wheat at SI 20 a 1 2.5, and red wheat 81 16 a 1 19; oats 33 a 35. l'irrsnunc, Sept. 7, 1848 The flour market ia,firin, with good Eastern and home demand. Sales at 84 81 - a 4 877. Wheat commands 80 to 81 cents; yellow corn 31 ; oats 19c. Rye is lower, and barley is heavy and inactive. °WAR WIMR G a2u O u D e S e .. u D "tthet j n'and ß c i o G u ll n T try re fr s i l aTi e d i s - , that they have this day received direct from the New York and Philadelphia Market. a large and elegant sup ply of FALL. & 'WINTER. 6091)5, which have been selected with great care, and will be sold at prices that cannot fail to please. Give us a call, and examine our stock before purchas ing elsewhere, as we arc determined to sell ate small ad vance on cost J. 1). & WRIGHT. Sept. 9, LAS Locust st., third door below 2nd at. ATTENTION TEM WHOLE. Tfriends of Gen. Taylor and Gov. Johnston arc requested to tenet at the Town Ball. in Colum bia, on the evening of Wednesday, the 131), of September at early candle /104 at which time and place, THAD! DE U S STEVENS.. Esq., and other speakers will address them on tomes of importance, Columbia, Sept 9,1.4 e. pil es —rm. distressing conipinint in all cases pros. coeds trolls a want of proper evacuation of the bowels The foul burners, instead or being thoroughly expelled front the body. are but partially so; a portion twin left as it were at lie threshold. is the cause of that vexations complaint called the Piles; and is frequently neglected 111111 it ripen, into a more horrid farm of disease called Vistula. Witchr, Italian Vegetable Pilk of the " North Ameri can College of Health, ' area trite and natural remedy for the above complaint, and will in all cases make a perfect cure ;_beettnse they effectually cleanse the body front Itto,c morbid 11111110 N which me blot only the cause of the bat of every other malady incident to man. Iit:WANE OF CoMITERFEITS AXD 1,11.1 . 4a10NS —ltemern her. that the original and only genuine Indian Vegetable fills have the written signature of WILLIAM WIIIGLIT on the top label of earl, boo. genuine for sale by FRY & SPANGLER, who are the only authorized Agents for Columbia. Also, by scents advertised in another column. agents Office, 10, Race Street, Philadelphia. Another Important Letter from Georgia.— Ite,tl u. We are doily receiving testimnny like the following, from the North, Scull,East and \Vest : Messrs-Bum:6 & Ware,—Gentlemen: I was offlicted with AStblint far fourteen years, and had tried every remedy, in the country: I had 'also been toseveral physi cians, and Pound no relief whatever. I was afflicted at limee so veverely, that the Mai d would gush from any nose, and my breathing was dilicult. Indeed, the dis ease, had gained so much on me, that I despaired of ever getting well, when I chancre to get a Bottle of " Balsam of Wild Cherry," winch effected a perfect cure, and I tow consider myself ptrfectl t • sound. Tills can he proved by numbers of men in Franklin county and viciatty, and I think it my duty to let it be known. THOMAS A. rA'rltlCK. Franktin co., Nov. 111, 1616, For sole Iv thrill IV. yowt.r., General Agent, 139, Washington Patreet, Boston; Ado, For sale by AVILLZASS, Front Street Columbia, Pa. Dr. Swaync's COMPOUND STILUP of WILD C/UPIAIIT IMPOLLI ANT LETTI:U. . . • . • Read the following hetter from Win.'Shaw, a respecta ble Dri ~, gnu hi Wilmington. N. C., a gentleman of un dotibted'veracity, in whose weird then most implicit confi dence limy be placed, another proof of the superiority of SWAYNCS Coarocvn Syntit or Wutn Canner, in Curing Coughs. Colds, CONMiNIPTICIN. Abllllllo.l3l . onctillib, Liver COnipiainr. Spitting Blood, and all diseases .of the Lungs and Bienlit. WlLmittrricrs, N. C. •Tan. ii. 1516. - DR. SWAYNE—Dean Sat:—You will plense send me twelve dozen, or more, as yon see fit, of your Seater or Wtim Citsmitv. From sales to-dnv. I have but a half do zen oil litiint; the sales are rapidly increasing and will. I have no doubt, continue to do so. An acquaintance of mine called it few days ago 'to soy he would give me a certificate of its - good ifTects. , Ile is from the country, and a minister in the Methodist Church: _Shortly after obtaining the agency, I prevailed upon him to try a bottle though I doubted whether any benefit would be derived. for he. as well as myself, thought his ease WOO continued Consumption; in feet every 'symptom was indicative.— Shortly atter, lie wrote to inc to send him four or live bot tles more. Ile came to town last week. I will quote Ins own language : " Sir," said he, "1 inn a new man. and consider st a ditty I owe to the public, to tell what Dr. Swayne's Compound Syrup of Wild Cherry has done for in,, - I will publish his certificate. and as lie is generally known all over our section, I expect good results from it. With every feeling of respect, yours truly, N% M. SUAIV. Letters , such as the above are daily receiveilTrOin all parts of the country, but w e publish this no one of the many proofs of its etfiencv. Avoid till preparatiolla purporting to contain Wild Cherry, except that bearing the written signature of Dr. Swayne, us they are most likely quite destitute of the article from which they borrosv trAssine. The (original and -Dilly) genuine article 7-ftsprepitrlsi by DR. SWAYNE, cornet of Eighth mid 'Rate sm.; Phila delphia, aril for sale by agents in all puns of lire Uniti•.l States, and come parts of 'Europe. Sold by WM. A. I.LADER, Columbia, and Dr. A. milEvrrz, York, Pa. Most: Extraordinary Work.—The Married Wa. man's PRIVATE 'MEDICAL COMPANION, by Dr. A. M. MA URICEAU, Professor of Disenies of Woman. Sixth Edition. lemo. pp. !XiO. Prise SI. 2.5,000 copies sold in three months! Years of suffering, of physical and menttki mi g nioh to many an affectionate wife, and pecunianry difficult). to the hushuml, might have been stiorod:lty'a" timely posses sten of this work. . It is intended especially for the married, or those con templating marriage. us it discloses important secrets which should lie known to them particularly. Truly, knowledge is power. It is health, happiness, af fluence.: The revelations contained in its pages have proved a blessing to thousands, as the innumerable letters to tit,. author will attest. Here. also, every female—the wife, the mother;the ono either budding into womanhood or the one in the - decline of years in whom nature contemplates an important change— can discover the cause, symptoms, and the most efficie ut remedies. and most certain mode of cure, in ever.) complaint to which her sex is subject. COPIES IYIf 1. 131 SENT DV MAIL FREE 01' POSTAGE TO THE PURCHASER. Over ten thoround eopies Lave been sent by mail within three months, with perleet safety and certainty. On the receipt of one Dollar, the " Married Woman's Private Medical Companion' will be sent (mailed free) to any part Ofthe United States. All letters must be post , paid (except those containing, a remittance , ' anti addressed to tt Dr. A. M. Maurieati.liox 1221. New - ark City. Publish. ing other, It!!), Übe ray-st.. New-York. The - Marrisd \Woman's Private Medical Companion" is sold by Mel:sellers throughout the United States. For only at the. Spy Office Columbia, Pa. New-York, May 20, Pleas° take Noticc.—We lave been frequently annoy ed by a soap vender in Philadelphia, mimed Usual, who meanly copies our ztdvertisements and applies the same to his own use. Now, what principle can n man pas,ess w 110 still condescend to make use of such mean no-Wires to insure his success nod make his articles sell. A moire composition or lois stereotype matter. is ns much his properly as his stock in business, or goods, wares and eh nitric : it, then. another mar meanly adopts sun h cone position or property for his own use, what better is lie Ilona n rogue who will make illegal One of your goods? In a little handbill of ours, which we wrap around our Chi nese Medicated Soap, we Move at the head of the bill a bomoll paragraph which reads thus: MI evil lour the serpent entered Paradise. and Stalely lost its charm. But the A ftwibc gave man power over ull animal and vegetable minter. And the mystero out secret of restoring unto woman her former pure. clear nod I.m:wilful complexion, is combined in Midway's Chi t cse dedicated Soap." On looking over the Philadelphia Ledger on Monday. the kith Oct., we were surprised to see our matter mode use of for dressing up another mall's article. and that man our competitor in business, and for the public's approba tion of our respective articles. We oiler to the pliblie Midway's Chinese Medicated Soap an a sore extermina tor of the Cuticle, and a certain cure for all eruptions of the skin, As a Toilet Soap, we candidly believe it to be the most superior soap extant- As a Medicated Soap we sincerely believe it to possess qualities-mil:Mgt aoothcr soap possesses. For the cure of salt rheum, ringworm; erysipelas, chap ped, cracked and repulsive skin, we know It is certain in its effects, and is superior to all others ever-invented.— Lastly, xve never condescend to make nee of other men's composition to snake our articles sell. We furthermore warn this man, Jnlee Hanoi, not to infringe on our rights. or make use in any manner whatever of our stereotype composition. With these few remarks we leave the pub lic tojudge the merits of our Chinese Medicated Southend the merits of an article clothed in false colors to make it sell. Ladies and gentlemen,if you Irish to get Radway's Soap in all its purity, call on R. NVlLLtaits, and Wm. A. LEADER, Columbia, and Zahm & Jackson, in Lancaster. Each cake. of the genuine. must be signed R. G. ne way .1.. R. G. RADWAY, 2 Courtland auglifabtin BEM ECOMMITSICATIILI CM == =
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