Pittston Gazette and Susquehanna Anthracite Journal

              , ... 1 f...... * - •_ fiHWT . I 4 ■ ' PITTSTON dSlfo GAZETTE D \ ■ k ill) SPUBMHI iflTHMCITIi J0HRI1L 51 IDcrklij "Jirutnjinptr—(Slruntrt tu $hm, littroturp, |Witits, fjjc 3t!rrrnirtilr, Alining, JMfrjjnnitnl, nnir %imlhiral Snttrtsts of lljt Cnuntrq, Snstnirtion, SlniiBtmtnt, fct.)—3Erij llitjinrt fc  VOLUME 1.-NUMBER 3. PITTSTON, PENNA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1850.: $2.00 PER ANNUM. In short, I am a sort of peripatetic philosopher, whose first principle is founded on a trite line of Pope, which tells us that The bargain concluded, and the money paid, I hastened out to the young stranger. When I told him what I had done, I tho't he wonld embrace me. Never did I see joy so clearly, so warmly expressed. lie poured forth his gratitudo in terms I should be ashamed to record. He lagged and prayed me to tell how he could repay me. As to the money, he hoped soon to be able to refund it; but my kindness—never, never could he repay that. I was his best friend on earth : I was, in fact—but I see no use in telling all he said. Sulfice it to add, I assured him all I asked in return was his motive for thus desirng to possess an apparently worthless piano. the period had arrived which would bring freedom to her, and happipes to myself, and I only awaited her summons to throw myself at her feet, when one morning to "my great surpriso, a servant of M. Hoy's entered my breakfast-room. IIo requested me to follou him to his master. I did so. On our way, he informed me, that Agatha, my Agatha, was dying !" From the North American and U. S. Gazette. Development of a Valuable Vein of Coal in the Lehigh Coal Region, in Xjwerne County—By W. F. Roberts. WC extent of the cove measures in these basins I came to the conclusion that thp whole of this coal stratum was, at some distant date, connected, and formed one sheet, or continuous vein of coal. At least, it would appear that this was the case; that the lowermost strata of the coal formation of the coal regions herein named, were at one time connected. Since the period of the coal strata of these regions having been commenced, great yet gradual changes have takon place from slow decomposition and from the violent action of frosts, melting snows, and rapid floods, by which in some places, the axes separating the basins of coal have been laid bare to the conglomerate, and below it, in other places,the whole, or nearly the whoje, of the coal strata have been swept out of the basins— leaving the conglomerate exposed without cover; and again the conglomerate itself has been carried off", and is found, from its indurated nature, in large boulders far away from its native bed. Ater the conglomeration has been carried away, the work of decomposition, separation and washing away is more easily effected, the underlying red shale wears away very fast, as the steep sides of the mountain ranges, which bound the coal formation, abundantly testify. In consideration of the fact of the whole of the anthracite formation of Pennsylvania having been connected, and that the same coal veins may be found in the same accompanying formation wherever it exists in these coal fields, unless operated upon by faults; and having examined the accompanying strata of the coal vein on the Balliott track, and traced ttie same westward, through the track of Messrs. Scud 8 Thompson and John Livezcy, I hail all the geological evidences, and every surface indication that could be obtained or wished for, to warrant a search for the coal vein in two places where it is found—and from these evidences, I was assured of the success I met with, notwithstanding the opinion of Other Professors of Geology, who had examined, and who said there was no coahin that place, for it was below the coal formation altogether. Burial of the Broken Hearted. ma»a (s8ssras, BV MILLIE MILD. Slowly und solemnly moved the funeral train. Few,—few,followed the dark plumed hearse as it bore its light burden to the plain country graveyard. But the ground over which they passed was stained by I he hypocritic tear—for they mourned—deeply they mourned the fate of the broken-hearted one. Carefully they lowered the coflin into the narrow grave. Oh ! why so careful now ? She received not such treatment when living,—she heeds it not now when dead. The cordial that should have been given to strengthen her, you withheld.— Now, that it is too late, you pour it with a lavish hand over her grave. PRINTED AND PUBMNHKD WKKKl.V ny «. HI. ltichart 8 I*. S. Phillip*- '■ The proper study of mankind is man." But as I hnve little to do with the story I am about to relate, 1 will at once plunge The "GiJtKTTE" is published every Friday, nt Two ■ into my subject. Dollars per annum. Two Do,.w» One of the first objects ofli-red for sale • Cknts will be charged if not paid within tnt j year. after my entrance, was a jiiano, an instru- N6 paper will be discontinued until ell arrearages . worthlcss tllnt j wng not a are paid. Advertisements arc inserted conspicuously at little astonished at hearing a sharp compe- One lDcr Kwuarc of fourteen lines for . , »-.i three insertions: an,I Twunty-fivk Cent* ad- tlton suddenly arise, and the hitherto moditional for every sutDsci[uent insertion. A lib- no|onous tone of the auctioneer—the slow eral deduction to those who advertise lor six month, or the whole year. bidding repeated by linn—in a moment Job Work.—We have connected with our estab- .)0ur with a volubility which Would lUhment ft well delected assortment of Jon 1 YPP., which will enable us to execute, in the neatest, style, every variety of printing. Being practical! printers ourselves, afford to do work on at reasonable terms as any other office in the county All letters and communications addressed to th CazeUc must be post paid, ami endorsed by i responsible name, to receive attention. No 2 Office Weal side of Main Street, xennd Story of the " Long Store " of Wisncr if- Woul. Messrs. Editors :—The estate on which the development was made of a valuable vein of anthracite coal, referred to in my last letter, is the property of Messrs. Scull 8 Thompson, and John Livezey, Esq., of the city of Philadelphia. The south boundary of the property is one a hall north of the town of Hazleton. f Through the centre of the south part of/ the estate, the Big Black Creek flows from east to west, a distance of nearly two miles, and Little Black Creek runs in the same direction through the north part of the tract, a distance of three-fourths of a mile. The property is known as the " Black Creek Coal Instate," and contains one thousand surface acres. It is bounded by Consul Ridge on the south, and Buck Moutain on the north. See its situation marked upon the map of the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, published by me in March, 1840. For a few moments the young artist paused, overcome with grief; becoming at length more calm, with an efTort he continued :— " In her last moments she desired to see me, and I was now sent for to take leavo of her. I low can I ever paint the 8c6tle which met my view as I entered the chamber where all 1 loved was about to be snatched from me, or the feelings which then shook my breast ? 1 will hurry ovor not have disgraced many of our first-rate sons of the hammer. " It is a long story—a harassing one ; but I will tell it you." Ill Fro null auctions, it is customary for the actual worth of every lot to be publicly stated by a appraiser as the object is put up for sale. The piano had thus bee n valued at one hundred and fifty francs; the chances were that it would of course, be sold at considerably under that stun. Why mourn ye, that one so young hath been taken from the world, when she knew nought but Buffering and anguish ? " Will you come nnd lunch with me ?— Desire the instrument to be sent home to your lodgings, and returu with me to Meurice's." When she mourned, you wept not for her. When her sufferings hath ceased, then you weep; yea, weep for what your own work hath accomplished. Rudely yo caught the fragile flower and it withered within your grasp! " On her bed, evidently in the last stage of rapid consumption, lay my once lovely and blooming Agatha, more pale than Parian marble. lie instantly agreed. After meal, he thus related his story : PERSEVERE. 'v — J " One hundred and eighty f' cried a merchant opposite to me, evidently drawn on to tliis exorbitant-bid by opposition. " I nni the son of respectable parents.— Plunged into a ruinous law suit by the misconduct of one of his nearest relations, my father found his peuuniary alfiars so dreadfully embarrassed that he determined on bringing me up as a music master. In my earliest years, I had ever displayed a taste for that art, and on the very instrument you saw this day I first learned to play.— The acquirement was then intended a« an accomplishment, but when, subsequently, my parents fell into poverty, it became my only subsistence. There is no passion which more ardently increases than the love of music. Each day my study be. Came more pleasing, and, as I overcame each difficulty, a desire to encounter more obstacles hourly sprang up in my breast. In irword, I applied myself so dilligently, and with such success, that 1 was fortunate enough to carry off the first prize of the Conservatoire, for my execution of Thalberg's " Moise." . My delight at this fortunate circumstance only served to make the art I professed more dear to me. My parents soon afterwards died, and I was left alone in the world, to shift for myself. I'll not give up; no! grim despair " As I entered, she attempted to raise her head but, alas ! she was already too powerless to do so. Her relations and friends—or rather fiends, for they had brought her to this by their cruelty—-made way for me to approach. I did so: and kneeling down, I kissed her cold hand as 1 presently offered up a prayer to heaven to receive her soul. Should never forge a chum for me, While than I breathe my native air, What fell disease hath called her thus the world ? Listen, kind reader, and I will tell thee:—An infant was found buried under leaves and dirt; when, or when', or how, it matters not. A cord was bound Within a land of lilwrty. No! dastard were that soul that cow'f», Within a freeborn land, like ours. A coal .vein is opened in the tract next east, and adjoining the northern part of the Black Creek Coal Estate, on the south bank of Little Black Creek, one quarter of a mile east from the State road leading frorr. Hazleton to Wilkesbarre, three miles north of Hazleton, and two-thirds of a mile east from the east boundary line of the "Black Creek Coal Estate." A part of this vein of coal has been somewhat extensively worked for country supply. The vein is composed of several strata of coal the whole thickncss of which have not been proven. Only one stratum has been wrought; this is from seven to eight feet thick, of superior quality, equal to the very test produced from the other mines on the Lehigh. Overlying the stratum of coal wrought, appears to be two other tenches of smaller size, the outcropping of which is exposed over the mine in a decomposed state. Underlying the stratum of coal wrought, another tench of coal was bored into, but its thickness was not proven.— The mine in the Balliott tract, (previous to the success met with as mentioned in my former letter) wa/ the only development made upon this jmrtyiular vein of coal in the Little Blacks-Creek Coal basis—and this was generally considered to be the same vein as that worked on the Hazleton Coal Company's estate. Although this mine has teen visited from time to time, and especially within the In*1 two or three years, by a great many coal men from Pottsville, Philadelphia and other places, yet its geological position, in comparison with the vein worked by the Hazleton coal Company, was not looked to. A dense swamp intervenes between the Coal mine and the north boundary of the Coal formation, which prevents an examination of its true geological position being made in an easy and direct way—therefore, supposition instead of fact has been laid hold of and adhered to, as respects its geological position; for it is even now at the present time asserted by persons competent to judge, but who have not taken the trouble to examine for themselves, that the vein of coal opened at the Balliott track is the same coal vein as that wrought on the estate of the Hazleton Coal Company; and this assertion is made from no other reason whatever but because most people says it is so-and what everybody says must be true. It wag the purpose of these visitors to examine the quality of the coal produced from the mine on the Balliott track, and I believe no one ever left the spot dissatisfied in this particular, tt was for this purpose that I visited the mine the first time. " Oih hundred and eighty-five /" echoed close to my car, The tone in which this sum wos named, made me turn towards the speaker. The evident emotion with which the words were uttered, instantly aroused my curiosi- I'd not give up ; though every frown That Fortunes face is wont to wCJ», Should rob me of the small renow 11^ tightly round its neck ; so tight that it died in conscfjucucc. No crime has ever been discovered j but suspicion, that hateful monster, singles out some one as the guilty person. Is there in the wide universe a character so base as to destroy the happiness of any human being," as daring to breathe that accursed word, " I suspect." Oh! hateful, hateful word ! blot it out ye that record tlje passing events! That may have been my humble share; Should thwart my every wish and will, Fortune! through allt I'd woe thee still. "One hundred and ninety/" " One hirndred and lunety-five /" " In an instant, a languid smile played npon her angelic features, and, pointing to my piano, which stood open in the room, she expressed by signs (for her voice was completely gone) a desire tlmt 1 should •Shanio on the weak and craven heart That bows beneath each transient sorrov Without the nerve to pluck the dart " Two hundred!" roared out the now maddened dealer; " two hundred !" And greet the sunshine of the morrow. Without the will, (for will is power,) To pluck the thorn anil cull the (lower. " Two hundred !" repeated the auction- oer. " Will any one bid any more ?" It is against you, sir," added he, sneaking in ft tone of soil insinuation, turning to the touch it For w'1"' * i • ttu ...,s loninn, is manhood given 1 For what his varied powers of Ininilt For what his every hope of Heaven, " I flew to it, and with feelings of grief beyond description, I fdayed over the melancholy air we had agreed upon as the record of our feelings. My heart seemed to respond to every note, and I could almost fancy I heard her voice in every tone.— Suddenly, a chord rudely and loudly gave way —at that instant A gatha's pure soul toook its eternal flight. Suspicion pointed to one, inasmuch as she had returned home the day previous to that on which the crime bad been perpetrated. True, it was the day previous, but the little difference was easily passed over. young man beside me When earth's fair gifts have twin rcsignl 1 If not to brave misfortunes thrall Ami rise superior to them all. " Two hundred and— / Groat heave ! 1 cannot !—I have not got it!" and as the uuctioneer knocked doown the articlo to the dealer, I saw the young man, after casting a look of almost despair at the instrument he seemed so highly to prize, turn away, and, with a tear in his eye, approach the door. Then raise that drooping brow of thine, Resolve—anil then endeavor— Give sorrc-v to the laughing wind, With fear and doubt, forever! Pass onwaril and desjiond 110 inore; Thy motto be, Excclsiar! She vindicated herself to die charge— proved it to be false,—but it wa* useless.-1— No one did believe her, or profess to believe her. Semper vblique et at ommbia,D£uuiatAwered her; and they lalked of mercy and justice, but knew not either. She retired iV-om society to find company only in her own thoughts. The stroke was too heavy for her to bear, and she sank beneath it. 1 have stood upon the freshly dug hill, nr\d seon the aged man of three score and ten, lowered in his narrow house, and I have seen his sons and grandsons, gathered around their sire's grave, and heard the unsuppressed sobbings of grief that burst from their hearts for him they would meet no more until tho last trump shall awake the quick and dead. " Can you now wonder that I desire to possess an instrument whoso very note seems to breathe her voice—our mutual friend—our only confidant ? I heard that the property of Agatha was to be sold, in order to be divided between hor relations. This it was which prevented my hitherto leaving Paris. I have waited now six months for the moment when I could purchase the only object on earth dear to me. Imagine, then, sir, how grateful I feel to you, who have enabled me to obtain the only treasure I desre to jwssess in this I am a little bit of rt plrilantropist, as well as a philosopher. The young man's evident agitation—his disappointment— suddenly crcated in my breast a desire to serve him. From his dress and style, he was certainly an artist, or a musician.— His long black hair, curling down his back clcarly denoted this. His dark habilments bespoke him to be ft mourner. His youth and seeming grief at losing the piano, at once interested me ; so, stepping up to him, I stamjnered out something about my regret at seeing him outbid, and tried to console him, by assuring him that the instrument was not worth half the money " Thanks to good fortune rather than to my particular my merit, I found plenty of scholars, and I began to dream of realizing a future competence, when I was recommended, as a musical instructor, to Mademoiselle d'Olbreuse, an orphan heiress, who resided with an uncle, to whose guardianship she had been committed, in the Faubourg Saint Germain. THE MUSIC MASTEI The northern outcrop of the vein of coal opened in the Ralliott track, is, with few exceptions, in the stream of the Little Hlack creek. Nhe general course ot the creek marks the general course of the vein from the eastern to the western termination of the coal basin. The western tkrmination of Little Black creek coal basin is just outside of the " Black Creek Coal Estate." Outside or north of the outcrop of the vein of coal just described, is the conglomerate and red shale formation of Buck Mountain, the summit of which is about one hundred feet higher than the level of the creek and outcrop of the coal.. , A TALE OF FRANCE. 11 Extensive Sale of Objects of Ctiriosity, Picre Hooks, Clocks, anil nil other Furniture, ic property of a lady lately deceased." Such was the announcement in Giqnami's Messenger, which first struck iy eye as I sat listlessly looking out ofhe reading-room window in the Hue Vivieie, alternately glancing at the journal I h'e mentioned and the heavy drops of rainas they pattered against the panes of — Inwardly, 1 had been drawing a comjrison between my present situation undiat of the gentleman similarly situated nd geographically described by Washinon Irving. As far as actual position wasmccrned, I yielded without hesitation t"he stout gentleman, for he had at least, a ck of ducks to watch and observe ; wheas, in the court yard of Monsieur (laligni, not even a blade of grass showed i-lf, to break the monotony of the scene. It may seem strange that, in ag«metropolis like Paris, where every one onfcssedly resorts for amusement, I suld thus feel lone and dull, puzzled—awlly puzzled—how to kill time; yet many lenglish traveller, I feel confident, will bame tout, that nothing is so solitary, so cabegetting, as the consciousness of ouf be* an utter stranger, "unknowingand unknCi," in a large and populous city- The words, however, I had just rd, at once struck out a new path of pleast for me to tread. Many men love attding auctions ; many go to them withotiany desire to purchase, for the mere debt of gazing on the exciting scene; butone, ever, I believe, liked lounging in k of those marts as well as myself. NontDuld «vcr have been more anxious to incase his cabinet of virtu than myself, one was ever more delighted at the idea the amusement he was about to share, iihan I, when I came to the advertisement iiuestion ; so quickly putting on my ha and placing my cane nnder my arm, in ttrue John Bull style, I hastily quitted thoom, and calling for a cab, was, in less tl» ten minutes, safely landed at the auctioioom " Agath;v.d'(.)ldbreuse, sir, was a divine creature ; I can scarcely holi®v« th»t olio was ever designed for this world. So perfect in every way—in mind, in talent, in person, equally gifted. She was one of the few beings whom we sec, and cannot designate otherwise than as an angel.— You will pardon my raptures ; you will perhaps, blame them; but they are only just tributes to the worth of one now in heaven ," and the youth paused for a moment, .but, checking his emotion, he hurriedly continued :—" It may readily be imagined, that such a being soon became my best pupil. Indeed, I have no hesitation in saying she soon excelled her master. world." After a few common attempts on my part to console him, the artist arose, and assuring me I should see him again before he left Paris, took up his his hat and quit- And I, too, have seen the man who had been wealthy in the goods of this world, borne with pomp and show to his last resting place. All these have 1 seen, but never before was I ail'ecled so much as when 1 beheld ihe broken-hearted one lowered into the peaceful grave. Youth and beauty that had been blasted by the foul mouth of slander; and when the last clod of earth had been thrown upon the grave, I tuftied away to muse on the justice and mercy of the world.-—Lancastnr Herald. paid for it. " I know it, .sir ! I know it ! But 1 would have given every thing 1 possessed ted me. The next morning I was silting before my fire in the act of reading several letters from England, when my new friend and protege rushed in. . \ During the former owner's occupation of the Black Creek Coal estate, much search was made for coal by shafting 8c., but no coal was discovered. The shafts were sunk indiscriminately, within and without the coal formation, but not of sufficient depth, in most instances, to dcvelope the stratification in place, which is generally,covered over with from ten to twenty feet of decomposed soil. to obtain it." " Why not, then—?" I paused; the youth eyed me from head to foot ; he seemed to be doubting within his own mind whether my questions arose from kindness or mere curiosity; whether it would be right to reply candidly to a stranger, or no. For an instant, lie assumed a haughty look of wounded pride, and was about to turn away, when, more properly reading the real motive which urged my question, he suddenly changed his demeanor, and with a look of despair, yet candor, replied : " You would ask mo, sir, why I did not continue to bid for an object so prized ?— 1 will reply to you without shame. I offered all the money I possessed in the world for it. I had no more, or I would never allowed another to possess that in- I expressed my surprise at seeing him return so soon. " Ah, sir, 'tis to you I owe all. I know that my Agatha wished mo to possess that Piano. See, see this," and he handed me a paper. It ran as follows : " I am now about to confess my folly, my presumption—were there a stronger expression I would make use of it—to oxpress my hardyhood. I fell desperately in love with Agatha, and she from pity, fori scarcely believe it could be otherwise, condesccnded to reciprocate the feeling. Oh how we loved ! Our looks must have betrayed us, for there was a deep devotion seated in our souls, which must have been expressed in our eyes. When interrupted in our moments of mutual confession of affection by visitors or by members of the family, then we wtmld together hang, over the piano, the same piano you have this day purchased for me (for she expressed a desire to learn on the very instrument by which I had acquired my musical fame,) and in melting melody expressed those outpourings of love which wo did not dare to Duties of Parents to Daughters. Parents with a family of dmttfliters should live in a style corresponding with their njpans and bring up their daughters with a view to their future position, with habits of iudustry and economy; not by aping the rich, to instil false ideas into their minds, and foster those vain and miserable longings for costly dress and display, and for vain expensive pleasures. Their education should have in view more the useful branches than showy accomplishments. Cultivate their minds, inculcate sound principles and  a pure morality with religious tendencies, and shape too their manners, if you please ; but do not waste those precious years when the character is being formed for life, in tho frivolous preparations for a drawing room display or to compete with the daughters of the wealthy and the proud in the rounds of fashionablo follies and dissipation. Parents should be awake to their duties in this respect, and to their great responsibilities. It is a mistaken idea that young girls without fortunes have a better chance of forming happy alliances or any alliances at all, by being eternally gazed at and dragged around year after year to every ball and scone of pleasure, and to fashionable watering places. They waste away their youth and freshness, and the best qualities of the mind and heart. Men of sense are justly afraid of them. Their greatest sphere of attraction is in a life of simplicity and in the enjoyment of temperate pleasures— in the social circle and around the domestic hearth. Here will be found the well regulated mind and the purest affections, thegenuino foundation of a happy married life. " Surrounded in my last moments by persons who have hitherto never shown me esteem or affection, well aware of their sordid views, I only dare confide my last will and testament to this my long cherish- The following aro the various strata sunk through at the exploration herein referred to, viz: 14 feet 0 inches of very fine coal, 2 feet of boney Coal, 3 feet of a highly micaccous slate, 8 feet 5 inches of freestone plys, from 5 inches to 8 inches in thickncs, with slate parings, 3 feet 7 inches of very pure black slate, 3 feet of thin strata of boney coal, pure coal and slate alternately ; 1 foot 6 inches of very superior glassey coal, and 9 feet of lighter colored slate. Underneath this a short distance a vein of coal six feet in thickness ed piano. " I hereby give and bequeath to Henri Aubriot, professor of music, in return for tho sincere love lie has ever evinced for me, every thing which I now, or which I nmyever have been entitled to possess. strument." In the summer of 1837, 1 was engaged to examine the " Black Creek Coal Estate," and report to the owners thereof its value as coal land. In pursuance of this object and for the purpose of making myself acquainted with the coal strata of that section, I visited the mine on Little Black Creek, in the Balliott track for the second time. The first visit I made was in 1845, a very brief one; at both times the mine was full of water, which prevented an examination of the workings. These have been subsequently examined, and conclusively confirmed the opinion arrived at from the former examination, that this coal vein was not the same as that opened and worked on the Hazleton Company's lands, but another, and an additional vein of coal of great thickness—of superior quality— the extent of which was very little known. From the knowledge I had gained of the Anthracite coal strata in Schuylkill county, and in Wyoming valley, which are nearly similar, excepting that a greater number of veins exist in the Schuylkill coal field than in Wyoming, there being a greater thickness of coal measures in Schuylkill than in the coal fields north of that region—and from the examination I had made of the coal basins of tho Lehigh —which I found were similar to the two former great regions of anthracite, to the " I beg your pardon ; but will you do me the favor to speak to me, in a moment or two, outside the door ? If you will wait for me, I will bo with you in less than five " I pardon my guardian for having attempted to force me into a marriage repugnant to my feelings, because I believe he sincerely thought it to be for my advan- is expected. / I would here remark, before I clpse this letter, that no allusion whatever is made, in speaking of the Lehigh Geologists, in my former communication, to Mr. James Gallop, of Beaver Meadow. minutes." tage The stranger bowed, and, though he seemed rather puzzled at my strange request, complied. " Lastly, I beseech the person into whose hands this document may fall, to publish and make known this my last will. " Made and dated two days after becoming twenty-one years of age. Agatha D'Olmieuse. " 12th Dec., 1840. utter, " Agatlia. Lad promised to bccome my wife, but, alas! she was only nineteen, and the two years which must intervene before she could be a free agent, seemed to us an age. A few weeks only of this period lmd elapsed, when Monsieur Roy, her uncle discovered our attachment, and considering with gceat justice, that his neice was entitled to a better match, banished me from the house, threatening to remove Aagatha from France if she did not instantly consent to give her promise never to see me without his leave. I induced her to give this pledge, and we separated, hoping soon to meet again Under happier circumstanccs To keep up, however, u kind of correspondence, to express, even when distant, the sympathy of our souls, wo agreed daily, fit a certain hour, to play a certain air—a touching ballad I had taught her— on the piano. For the purpose, I left her the one I now repossess, and whose chords have so often vibrated to the tender sorrows of my udored Agatha. Already 1 knew I hastened back to the auction-room, and passing through the crowd, found the late eager dealer examining, with evident marks of disappointment, his purchase.— The heat of opposition had passed away, and ho was now curiously reviewing the fruits of his struggle. WM. F. ROBERTS, Practical Geologist and Engineer of Mines E. Sugarloaf, Luz. co., July 30,1850, The artist whose story I have hero narrated, and whose history'I have given under the name of Aubriot, is now the celebrated The House of Taste.—How easy it is to be neat! to be clean t How easy to nrrange the rooms with the most graceful propriety ! How easy it is to invest our houses with the truest elegance. Elegance resides not with the upholsterer or the draper}; it is not in the mosa-'cs, the carpetings, the rose-wood, the mahogany, the candelabra, or the marble ornaments: it exists in the spirit presiding over the chambers of the dwelling. Contentment must always be most graceful; it sheds serenity over the place of its abode ; it transforms a waste into a garden. The home lighted by these intimations of a nobler and brighter life may be wanting in much, the discontented desire; but to its inhabitants it will bo a place far outvieing the oriental in brillian- in the Rue Here was a scene for a philosopr to analyze ; the cool, the cunning deal the anxions virtuoso, the eager female, t the careless idler; the rich, the poor, tlieimbio and the proud—all brought to aommon level by a desire to possess soimrticle of furniture, or, like myself, tikill time. The pretty grisette, ogling, yly attempting to avoid the very glancftihe seeks ; the looks of anger cxhibitt by those who were outbid, and the quiflriumph of the happy purchasers—all ebined to afford me a rich treat, for I fot to tell my readers at the outstart, that I n a great studier of the Book of Naturtnd that I never behold a countenance in ich 1 do not endeavor to trace the charC of the heart to which it serves as titlc-pi— " You have made a bad bargain there, my friend," said I, approaching him. But no, it is not fair to give his real ap- " Perhaps so," replied he, for no broker ever allows positively that he has made a deer purchase. pellation, No Stranger of me. A parson who had a scolding wife, one day brought home a brother clergyman to dinner. Having gone into a seperate apartment to talk to his spouse about the repast, she attacked and abused him for bringing a parccl of idle fellows to eat up their in- " Will you part with it ? The man looked up—a cunning glace shot from his eye. I at once saw my mistake. From my readiness to take the article off his hands, he again began to think he had made a good barjgain ; and after a discussion of some minutes, only ceded the piano to me at a profit of fifty francs— though 1 really believe he would have given half that sum tojhave got any one to relieve him of it ten minutes before. come. The parson provoked at her behavior, said, in a pretty loud tone, "If it were not for the stranger, 1 would give you agood drubbing." "Oh!" cried the visitor, " I beg you will make no strungcr of nic." A recent careful examination, made by Canadian engineers has determined the level of Lake Superior to bo VJ1 feet 5 inches nLDrDvo that of Lnkr Huron- C•D• ami glory