Pittston Gazette and Susquehanna Anthracite Journal

              THE PITTSTON GAZETTE Ill) MfflAMA lITHMCm JOMML 31 Wftkli) to JHim, littrnta, tjjt ffirrrnntilf, Alining, JMnjjnnitnl, nnti Sgrirultnrnl 3ntrrats nf tfje Srafrnrftmr, liwroit, J:t.fiirljurt k  VOLUME l.-NUMBER 13. PITTSTON, PENNA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1850. $2.00 PER ANNUM. were pending in the April Circuit Court for 1840. remained apparently abstracted during all the previous speeches. Still and straight, and motionless in his seat his pale smooth forehead shooting up high like a mountain-cone of snow; but for that eternal twitch that came and went perpetually in his sallow cheeks, you would have taken him for mere man of marble or a human form carved in ice. Even his dim, dreamy eyes were invisible beneath those gray, shaggy eyebrows. the best calculated to iniure vengeance CHANGE OF FEELING. Reminiscence of Fulton's Frit Steam Voy- Choosing Husbands. THE The jury rendered a verdict for fifty thousand dollars ; and the night afterwards Hopkins was taken out of his bed by lynchers, and beaten almost to death! age. " When a girl marries, why do people tnlk of her choice T In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, has she made any choice ? Does not the man, probably the last she would have chosen, select her 1" ipfjifsiraKi The interest naturally felt by the community as to the issues became far depper when it was known that Ashley and l'ike of Arkansas, and the celebrated S. S. Prentiss of New Orleans each with enormous fees, had been retained by Hopkins for his *'OI there are looks and tones that dart Some twenty years since, I formed a travelling acquaintance, upon a steamboat on the Hudson river, with a gentleman, who, on that occasion, related to me some incidents of the first voyage of Fulton to Albany, in his steamboat, the Clermont, which I have never met with elsewhere.— The gentleman's name I have lost, but 1 urgrd him, at the time, to publish what he related ; which, however, so far as I know, he has never done. PBINTtiD AND PUBI.1SUKD WEEKLY BY «. SI Ic ha i t 8. II. S. Phillip*. An instant sunshine to the heart." There are few persons of susceptibility who have not observed the powerful effect which m sometimes produced upon the heart, by a simple word, a look, an attitude, under peculiar relations of thought or feeling. There are momenta when the soul melted by the influence of some mighty spell receives impressions which in its cold and guarded hour would have passed unheeded. Things we are accustomed to consider as too insignificant for notice, become, when connected with some new associations, possessed of the most brilliant and attractive beauties; and objects over which our eyes have glanced a thousand times regardlessly, will suddenly arrest them as if by the power of fascination. 0,1iC West side of Main Slrrct, second Slnry »j the " titure " of Wisner if- Wood. r As the court adjourned, the stranger made known hi* name, and tailed the attention of the people, with the announcement—" John Taylor will preach here this evening at early candlelight!" A very clever correspondent has sent us a letter containing the above query, and she makes out her case ably. She say* : " I have been married many yeara j the match was considered a very good one, suitable in every respect—age, position and fortune. Every one said I had made a good choice. Why, iny dear Mr. Editor, I loved my husband at the time when I married him, because he had, by unwearied assiduity succeeded in gaining my affections ; but had " choice" been my privilege, I certainly should not have chosen him. As I look at him in hia easy chair, sleeping before the fire, a huge dog at his feet and a pipe peeping out of one of th« many pockets of his shooting coat, I can but think how different he ia from what I would have ehosen. My first penchapt was for a fashionable clergyman, a perfect Adonis. He was a flatterer, and cared but little for me, though I have not yet forgotten the pang of his desertion. My next was a barrister, a young man of immense talent, smooth, insinuating in mannera ; but he too, after talking, walking, dancing and flirting, left me in the lurch. Either of these would have been my " choice," had I so chosen ; but my present husband chose me, and therefore, I married him; and this, I cannot help thinking, must have been the way with half the married folks of my acquaintance." Tti# "OiiRTTt" if puMialicd every Friday, at Two 0m.tuts |fr annum. Two D"I.i.ar« and Fifty C*nt» will be charged if not paid within the defence pap'r will We discontinued until all arrearage! The trial, on the indictment for murder ended on the 8th of April, with the acquittal of Hopkins. Such a result might well have been foreseen by comparing the talents of the counsel engaged on either side. The Texan lawyers were utterly overwhelmed by the argument and eloquence of their opponents. It was a fight ofdivarfs against giants. *# [tftV.l arc inserted conspicuously at QD'»* DollaK per Mumre of fourteen lines for \ \r»e insertions; and Twextt-fivk Cunts adi.it jnfel far every subaequent insertion. A libt *1 (?c;lnctiun to those who advertise for six . itb ihe Whole year. The crowd, of course, all turned out, and Taylor's sermon equalled, if it did not surpass, the splendor of his forensic effort. This is no exaggeration. I have listened to Clay, Webster, and Calhoun—to Dewey, Tyng, and Bascom; but have never heard anything in the form of sublime words even remotely approximating the eloquence of John Taylor—massive as a mountain, and wildly rushing as a cataract of fire. And this is the opinion of all who ever heard the marvellous man. But now al last he risea—before the bar railing, not behind it—and so near to the wondering jury that he might touch the foreman with his long bony finger. With eye* still half shut, and standing rigid as a pillar of iron, his thin lips curl as if in measureless scorn, slightly part, and the voice comes forth. At first, it is low and sweet, insinuating itself through the brain as an artless tune, winding its way into the deepest heart like the melody of a magic incantation ; while the speaker proceeds without a gesture or the least sign of excitement to tear in pieces the argument of Ashley, which melts away at his touch as frost before the sunbeam. Every one looked surprised. Ilis logic was at once so brief and so luminously clear, that the rudest peasant could comprehend it without effort. * I chanced, said my narrator, to be at Albany on business, when Fulton arrived tbcre in his unheard of craft, which everybody felt so much interest in seeing. Being ready to leave, and hearing that this craft was to return to New York, I repaired on board, and inquired for Mr. Fulton. I was referred to the cabin, and I there found a plain, gentlemanly man, wholly •lone, and engaged in writing. —Wi have connected with our estabD•;» ncnt well selected assortment of Job Type, whirli will euable u# to eiecute, in the neatest •tyle. every variety of printing Being practical print"rC ourselves, we can afford to do work ona» reasonable terms at any other office in the county. 1 If iters and communication* addressed to the 4»ii' v must be post paid, and endorsed by a • sponsible nanle. to receive attention. The slander suit was set for the 9th, and the throng of spectators grew in numbers as well as excitement; and what may seem strange, the current of public sentiment now ran decidedly for Flopkins. His money had procured pointed witnesses, who served most efficiently his powerful advocates. Indeed, so triumphant had been the succcss of the previous day, that when the slander case was called, Mary Elliston was left without an attorney—they had all withdrawn. The pigmy pettifoggers dared not brave again the sharp wit of Pike and [he scathing thunder of Prentiss. Who has not felt a soul-inspiring strain of music wafted slowly o'er the moonlight waters when all was still as midnight, and not the murmur of wind or wave broke in upon the dream of melody ? yet that strain had oft been heard amid the busy haunts of society, without drawing forth from the heart one responsive echo, but now it is in harmony with all around, and breathes upon the spirit with a bland and almost resistless enchantment. Who has not gazed upon forms which seemed the realized creation of mid-summer's dream, which shone but once and then vanished away for ever ; seemingly as if it were lighted from some purer sphere, and breathing the bloom and freshness of another being ? yet perhaps eyes as bright, forms as lovely, are continually surrounding us, but we gaze upon them coldly for they come not before us sparkling with fairy splendors. O! there is power beyond expression, in the last glance of those whom we love, when the light is just fading from thtir eyes as the spirit flutters to be gone. There is an energy in the last tone of parental admonition, when the tongue falters and the lip quivers in its mortal agony, which fastens upon and clings for ever to the memory, and there is a sadness in the farewell of departing friends when they expire, which seems not the word but the sigh of departing life, resting like a cloud upon us and casting even in the sunshine of hope and happiness its solemn gloom upon our minds; yet faint and powerless would have been the glance and the tone, unconnected with the awful ideas of eternity. Letter to Country Oirls. BY MRS. SWISHELM. " Mr. Fulton, I presume." From the Xewnrk Daily Advertiaer. " Yes, sir." Well girls, I know that, let others do as they will, you have to work, or if you do not, you would not be worthy the name of country girls. The' drawling concerns who lounge around, reading novels lisping about the fashions and gentility, thumping some poor hired piano until it groans again, putting on airs to catch husband*, while their mothers are toiling and boiling in the kitchen, are not often met in the country. This class of girls are generally confined to cities, and you would be surprised to know how many of them there are. There are hundreds of girls in every large city who parade the streets in feathers, flowers, silk and laces, whose hands are soft and white as uselessness can make them, whose mothers keep boarders to get a living for their idle daughters. These mothers will cook, sweep, wait on tho table, carry loads of marketing, do the most menial drudgery, toil late and early, with very littla more clothing than would be allowed to a southern slave, while their hopeful daughters spend their morning lounging in bed, reading some silly book, taking lessons in French, fixing finery and the like. The evenings arc devoted to dressing, displaying their charms and accomplishments to the best advantage, for the wonderment and admiration of knights of the yardstick, and young aspirants of professional honors— doctors without patients—lawyers without clients—who are as brainless and soulless as themselves. After a while the piano simpleton captivates a tape-measuring,law. expounding or pill-making simpleton. The two ninnies spend all that can be raised by hook or by crook—get all that can be got on credit in broadcloth, satin, flowers, lace, carriage attendance, 8c.—hang their empty pockets on somebody's chair, lay their empty heads on somebody's pillow and commence their empty life with no other prospect than living at somebody's expense —with no other purpose than living genteelly and spitting at their neighbors. " Do you return to New York with this A Song for the Season. boat ?" U'Hh ickal a glory amies and gott the year." " We shall try to get bask, sir." " Cnn 1 have a passage down ?" " You can take your chance with us, LoxotelllOw. Autumn Jay# "re come ngnin ! Autumn winds begin to blow ; I.envcs are falling in the glen. sir." They are loading to and fro, In the vallejr o'er the hill, Anon, he came to the dazzling wit of the poetlawyer, Pike. Then the end of hia lip grew sharper ; his sallow face kindled up; and his ayes began to open dim and dreamy no longer, but vivid as lightning, red as fire-globes, and glaring like twin meteors. The whole soul was in the eye—the full heart streamed out on the (ace. In five minutes Pike's wit seemed the foam of folly and his finest satire horrible profanity, when contrasted with the inmitable sallies and exterminating sarcasm of the stranger, interspersed with jest and anecdote that filled the forum with roars of laughter. *■ ■■D I inquired the amount to be paid, and after a moment's hesitation, a sum, I think six dollars, was named. The amount, in coin, I laid in his open hand, and with an eye fixed upon it, he remained so long motionless that I supposed there might be a miscount, and said to him, " Is that right, sir 7" This roused him as from a kind of reverv, and as he looked up at me, the big tear was brimming in his eyes, and his voice faltered as be said, " Excuse me, sir; but memory was busy as I contemplated this, the first pecuniary reward I have ever received for my exertions in adapting steam to navigation. I would gladly commemorate the occasion over a bottle of wine with you, but really I am too poor even for that, just now ; I trust we may meet again, when this will hot be " Have you no counsel ?" iitquircd Judge Mills, looking kindly at the plaintiff. Up and down the4open plain, Hustling, whirling, dancing still,— Oh ! autumn daya ore rome again ! "No, sir; they have nil deserted me, and 1 am too poor to employ any more," replied the beautiful Marv, bursting into ytulumri_d«y« arc come again! Fronts have touched the summer liowers ; lUooming rose! 1 looA in vtiin. To ace thcc still the Queen of Flower*: The Dahlia reurs her stately head, Nor fear* a rival to her »way: The fairest now, since thou art dead, Of nil the flowers that pass away I tears, "In such a case, will not some ohivalrous member of the profession volunteer?" asked the judge, glancing around the bar. The thirty lawyers were silent as death. There is both sound sense and truth in this ; but is it not better that men should choose than that they should be chosen 1 And is not our correspondent much happier with her present husband, shooting-jacket, pipe and dog exclusive, than she would have been with either the fashionable clergyman or the clever barrister ?—Men are proverbially inconsistent, and after marriage, when the trouble and inconvenience of children is beginning to be felt, and when, (tho most trying time of all,) the wife begins to neglect her husband for her children, unless there was formerly a vary strong attachment on the husband's side, there is little chance of happiness. Autumn days are coqDe again ! liirds have ceased their merry note*, Cooing dove and busy wren, Wander now far. far remote ; The woodland choir I hear no more, Though every tree hud once its \oice, Judge Mills repeated the question " I will, your honor, " said a voice from the thickest part of the crowd situated behind the bar. At tha tones of that voice many started half way from their seats; and perhaps there was not a heart in the inmense throng which did not beat semeihing quicker—it.was ho unearthly sweet, clear, ringing, and mournful. Then, without so much as bestowing an allusion on Prentiss, he turned short on the perjured witnesses of Hopkins, tore their testimony into atoms, and hurled in their faces such terrible invective that all trembled as with an ague, and two of them actually fled dismayed from the court house. The meadow minstrelsy is o'er, A nd lards no longer there rejoice, \C:tunm days are come again ! I / now not well to laugh or »igh, To «ee fated year bo vain, Pat on his gorgeoun rolDe» to (lie. Shine out, fair »un, and gild his way, E'en as thou dids't upon his birth : Then, !i/.c a tender parent, lay ULiin gently, gently in thc«nrth. so." The first sensation, however, wag changed into general laughter, when a tall, gaunt, spectral figure, that nobody present remembered ever to have seen before, elbewed hia way through the crowd, and placed himself within the bar. His appearance was a problem to puzzle the sphinx herself. His high, pale brow, and small, nervously-twitching face seemed alive with the concentrated essence and creain of genius; but then his infantine blue eyes, hardly visible beneath their massive arches, looked dim, dreamy, almost unconscious ; and his clothing was so exceed, ingly shabby that the court hesitated to let the cause proceed under his management. Some four years after this, when the Clermont had been greatly improved, and two new boats made, making Fulton's fleet threo boats regularly plying between New York and Albany, I took passage in one of these for the latter city. The excitement of the crowd was becoming tremendous. Their united life and soul appeared to hang on the burning tongue of the atranger. He inspired them with powers of his own passions. He saturated them with the poison of his own malicious feelings. He seemed to have ctolen nature's long-hidden secret of attraction. He was the sun to the sea of all thought and emotion, which rose and fell and lioiled in billows, as he chose. But hisgreatesj tri- A wife's affection, on the contrary, always increases after marriage; and eren if indifferent, before, no well-disposed woman can help loving the father of her chil-, dren. Children, on her side, are a bond of union, and though she may appear, for them, to neglect some of those little attentions which men seem naturally to expect, it is only because the child is the more helpless being of the two, and the true woman always takes the side of those who are the most feeble. The cabin, in that day, was below ; and as I walked its length to and fro, I saw I was very closely observed by one I supposed a stranger Soon, however, I recalled the features of Mr. Fulton; but without disclosing this, I continued my walk and waited the result. At length, in passing his seat our eyes met, when he sprang to his feet, and eagerly seizing my hand, exclaimed, I knew it must be you, for your features had never escaped me; and although 1 am still far from rich, yet I may venture that bottle now. It was ordered ; and during its duenssion, Mr. F. ran rapidly but vividly over his experience of the world's coldness, and snedta, and of the hopes, fears, disappointments, and difficulties that were scattered through his whole career of discovery, up to the very point of his final, crowning triumph, at which he so fully felt he had at last arrived. And in reviewing all these, said he, I have again and again recalled the occasion and the incident of our first interview at Albany ; and never have I done so without its renewing in my mind the vivid emotion it originally caused. That seemed, and still does seem, to me the turning point in my destiny—the dividing lines between light and darkness, in my career upon earth ; for it was the first actual recognition of my usefulness to my fellow men. THE VOLUNTEER COUNSEL. f\Va copy the following from the New York Sunday Times. The subject of it, John Taylor, was licensed, when a youth of twenty-one, to practice at the bar of this city. He was poor but well educated, and possessed extraordinary genius. The grace of his person, combined with the superior- A TALE OF JOHX TAYLOR It is tliis relation which gives efficacy to all things and makes a consistency of feeling with the connexion of time and place. There is an influence in Ideal circumstances. Never does the savage appear in his rude and native majesty, save when wandering in his own wild woods or in his sylvan solitude; and never does the Swiss song sound with such an eloquent sweetness, as when heard amid the rocks and hills of his own native coun'ry. There is an order and harmony in nature which when properly attuned, one cord vibrates to another, until all nature joins iif the glorious melody. Would you hear the blithe and the beautiful song of the feath. ered minstrels ? Seek it not amid the busy haunts of men, but in the solitude of some far-off mountain. The great may make artificial hills and break each streamlet with • cascade, and crown each summit with a ruin ; but doe* thia compare with the foam and fury of the cataract in the quiet glade and bosom of tranquility? Would you see nature in her might and majesty, seek her upon her native throne. umph was to come. i'v of his intellect, enabled him to win the hand of a fashionable beauty.—Twelve months afterwards the husband was em- Hia eye began to glare furtively at the assassin, Hopkins, as hia lean, taper finger alowly assumed the same direction. He hemmed the wretch around with circumvallation of strong evidence and impregnable argument, cutting off all hope of escape. He piled up huge bastions of insurmountable facts. He dug beneath the murderer and slanderer's feet ditches of dilemmas, auch as no aophistry could overleap and no stretch of ingenuity evade; and having thus, as one might say, impounded the victim, and girt him about like a scorpion in a cirole of fire, he stripped himself to the work of masacre! " Has your name been entered on the rolls of the State?" demanded the judge, It is a strange but melancholy fact, that when young girls fancy themselves in love they are seldom, if ever happy, when they marry the object of their choice. The fact is, they find, in m6st cases, that the husband they have chosen is quite a different person as an individual, from the imaginary object he had appeared as a lover.— The imagination, in most girls, is stronger than the judgment, and as soon as the first idea of love is awakened in a female heart, the imagination is set to work to fancy a lover, and all possible perfections are assembled together in the girl's mind, to endow the object of her secret idolatry.— The first man whose appearance and man. ners attract the girl on the entrance of so- Urn ° ciety, is generally invested by her with a halo of these thoughts, and she fancies herself violently in love, without the least real knowledge of the man she supposes herself in love with. No wonder, then, if she marries, she is miserable. The object of her love has vanished, nevpr to return ; and she finds herself chained for life to a man, whom she detests because she fancied she had been deceived by him. oyed by a wealthy firm of the city to go on a mission as land ngent to the west. Asa heavy salary was offered. Taylor bade farewell to his wife and infant son. lie wrote back every week, but received not a line in answer. Six months elapsed, when the husband received a letter Com his employers that explained all. Shortly after his departure for the west, the wife and her father removed to Missis, cippi There she immediately obtained a divorce by an act of the Legislature, married again forthwith, and to complete the climax cruelty and wrong had the name of Taylor's son changed to Marks—that of her second matrimonial partner! This perfidy nearly drove Taylor insane. His career, from that period, became eccentric in the last degree ; sometimes he preached, acmetimes he plead at the bar; until, at last, a fever carried him off at a comparatively early age.—Eds. Bulletin.] suspiciously " It is immaterial about by name's being on your rolls," answered the stran ger, his thin, bloodless lipa curling up into a fiendish sneer. This is a synopsis of the lives of thousands of street and ball room belles, perhaps whose ahining costume you have envied from a passing glance. Thousands of women in cities dress elegantly on the streets, who have not a sufficiency of wholesome food, a comfortable bed, or fire enough to warm their rooms. I once boarded in a "genteel boarding house" in Louisville. There were two young ladies and a piano in the house—hall and parlors handsomely furnished. The eldest young lady—the belle, wore a summer bonnet at ten dollars—a silk and blond concern that could not last more than two or three months—silk and satin dresses at two, three and four dollars per yard, and five dollars apiece for making them, and the entire family, women, boys and babies, nine in all, slept in one small room, with two dirty bags of pine shavings, two straw bolsters, and three dirty quilts for bedding—no sheets, no slips, and there on the wall hung the pea green and white satin, the rich silk and lawn dresses. These ladies did not work, but played the piano, aceordeon and cards, and nearly broke their hearts the week we were there, because another,who, I presume lived just as they did, called on them with a great, clumsy gold chain on her neck. None of them had one, and Labaliude, the belle, could eat no supper, and had a fit of the sulks to console her for the want of a chain. * " I may be allowed to appear once, by the courtesy of the court and bar. Here is my license from the highest tribunal iu America!-' and he handed Judge Mills a broad parchment. The trial immediately went 011. In the examination of witnesses the stranger evinced but little ingenuity, M was commonly thought. He suffered each one to tell hia own story without interruption, he contrived to make each one tell it over two or three times. He put few cross-questiona, which, with keen witnesses, only serve to correct mistakes, and he made no notes, which, in mighty memories, always tend to embarrass. The examination being ended, as counsel for the plaintiff he had a right to the opening speech, aa well as the close ; but to the aatoniahment of every one he declined the former, and allowed the defence to lead off. Then a shadow might have been observed to flit across the fine features ef Pike, and to darken even in the bright eyes of Prentiss. They saw that they had caught a Tartar ; but who it was, or how it happened, waa impossible to guess. Col. Ashley spoke first. He dealt the jury a dish of that close, dry logic, which years afterwards, rendered him famous in the Senate of the Unioni Oh ! then, hut it was a vision both glorious and dreadful to behold the orator. His action, before graceful as the wave of a willow in the breeze, grew impetuous as the motion of an oak in the hurricane. His voice became a trumpet filled with wild whirlwinds, deafening the. ear with crashes of power, and yet intermingled all the while with a sweet under-song of the softest cadence. His face was red as a drunkard's—his forehead glowed like a heated furnace—his countenance looked haggard like that of a maniac; and ever and anon he flung hia long, bony arms on high, as if grasping after thunderbolts. He drew a picture of murder in such appalling colors, that in comparison hell itself might be considered beautiful. He painted the slanderer so black, that the sun seemed dark at noonday when shining on such an accursed monsterj and then he fixed both portraits on the shrinking brow of Hopkins, and he nailed them there forever. The agitation of the audience nearly amounted to madness* It is among savage hills and cleft rocks and gloomy forests, we are to trace the naniac path of the cataract, and hear its long howl through the fearful solitude of profound silence. Such then were the events coupled with the very dawn of steam navigation—a dawn so recent as to be still recollected by many—and such as Fulton there related them wefe the early appreciations by the world, of a discovery which has invaded all waters, causing a revolution in navigation which has almost literally brought the very ends of the earth in contact.—Buffalo Commercial. It is as we stand upon the projecting cliff where the fury of the wild wave dashes high, that we may behold the castellated ruins of former years, for these are congenial scenes, and it is by a view of them that they arc impressed upon the mind. At an early hour on the 9th of April, 1840, the court house in Clarksville, Texas, was crowded to overflowing. Save in the war times past, there had never been witnessed such a gathering in Red River county, while the strong feeling, apparent on every flushed face throughout the assembly, betokened some great occasion. A concise narrative of facts will sufficiently On the other hand, the man who, with very pardonable vanity, thought himself loved for his own merits, when he finds her changed after marriage, is quite indignant at her caprise. The friends and relations on both sides share in the same feelings— " What would she have V they cry }— " she married for love, and see the conse- Not Much Left.—" I say, Jim," said one loafer to another, whose garments were in a most tattered condition, " how do you get your living V " Well, I reckon I gets it sometimes one Avay, *nd sometimes another, Mostly, I don't get it at all."— " Be them clothes your'n, or do you hire 'em, 'lowing the owner to distrain?"— " What business is it of your'n 1" " Oh none at all ; only I was thinking that if you was merely a tenant of them things, and the landlord should distrain, there wouldn't be much left after deducting the rent. Good morning, Jim."—Day Book. ftir A greenhorn, the other day, went into the telegraph office to enquire what would be the expense of sending a letter home. Being told that it was twenty-five conts, he left quite angry, declaring " they hadn't ought to charge half so much as the post office, for it took the letter a great deal longer, and they had a good deal more trouble to send letters." explain the matter. About the close of 1839, George Hopkins one of the wealthiest planters and uiost influential men of Northern Texas, uffered a gross insult to Mary Elliston the young and beautiful wife of his chief overseer. The husband threatened to chastise him for the outrage whereupon Hopkins loaded his gun, went to Elliston's house, nnd shot him in his own door. The murderer was arrested, and bailed to answer the charge. This occurrence produced intense excitement; and Hopkins, in order to turji the tide of popular opinion, or at least to mitigate the general wrath, which at first was violent against him circulated reports infamously prejudicial to the character of the woman who had already suffered such cruel wrong at his hands. Sho brought her suit for slander. And thus two causes, one cr minal, and theoth?.ild both nut of *!»#• sai))p tragedy, quence." The consequences are, indeed, in such cases, generally sad enough. When the first delusion is dissipated, and truth in all its stern reality conies forth from the reii that has been thrown around it, both par. ties feel indignant at the false position in which they find themselves. Mutual recriminations take place, each accusing the other of deceit and ingratitude j while the apparent injustice of these accusations, which is felt by each party, alternately, first wounds the feelings, and then, if re, peated, ranclc-s the wound till it become* incurable. The poet, Albert Pike, followed, with ft rich rain of wit, and a hail-torrent of caustic ridicule, in which you may be sure neither the plaintiff nor the plaintiff's ragged attorney was either forgotten or spared. All at once the speaker descended from his perilous height. His voice wailed Out for the murdered dead, and described tjie sorrows of the widowed living—the beautiful Mary, more beautiful every moment, as her tears flowed faster—till men wept, and lovely women sobbed like children. Aquafortis and the air we breathe are made of the same materials. Linen and sugar and spirits of wine are so much alike in their chemical composition, that an old shirt can be converted into it* own weight in sugar, and the sugar into spirits of wine. Wine is made of two substances —one of which, is the cause of all combinations of burning, and the other will burn with more rapidity than anything in nature. The famous Peruvian bark, so much used to strengthen stomachs, and the poi! sonous principles of opium are made of the WRtemTs—Scientific Americm. Wonders of Chemistry. Question.—What did Jonah say when he saw the jaws of the whale extended to re- The Prentiss ooncluded for the defendant, with a glow of gorgeous words brilliant as showers of failing stars, and with a final burst of oratory that brought the iiouse down in cheers, in which the sworn jury themselves joined, notwithstanding the stern "order!" of the bench. Thus wonderfully susceptible are the south-western people to the charm oi impassioned eloquence ! £5" A hatter advertises that " Watts on the Mind " is of great importance, but what's on the head is of greater—a sentiment worthy the pen of Combe. ceive him. Answer.—lie might have said "There's n fine opening for a young man." He closed by a strange exhortation to the juryaand through them to the by-standers. He entreated the panel, after they should bringm their verdict for the plaintiff, not to offer violence defendant, however richly he might deserve it; in other words, "not to lynch the villain, Hopkins, but leave his punishment to God." This was the most artful trick of all. and A Singular Discovery. A singular discovery has been made in Madagascar. Fossil eggs of an enormous size have been found in the bed of a torrent. The shells are an eighth of an inch thick, and the circumference of the egg itself is 2 feet 8 inches lengthwise, and 2 feet 2 inches round the middle.  A Parson's Toast.—The following toast was given by a parson at a Boston tea party. The Boston Tea Party—a party at which John Bull had his tea sweetened with sugar of lead. The roof of the coal mines at Piotou, Nova Scotia, have fallen In, to tK© extent of some fourteen acres, It was then the stranger's turn. He had