Pittston Gazette and Susquehanna Anthracite Journal

              PITTSTON *(» GAZETTE, Job Printing and Killing. Che Jittston (Sajfttf, AND WM bare r«wllj procured and bare now u operation in our offlwi, a Ruling Machine, for ibr pursue or manufacturing nil kind* of Ruled Wurk.»uch •• Clink Roll", Pay and Time Kofi*, Mining AlDmruvtt,MiO iudred ererythlag belonging to that elauof work, nearly nil of which baahliberto bee* wiUlo the fiiy. We can rule paper to alt Kauaerof way»,wHliboCk the blue and red line*, and do the printing as required. We hope td bwve it bona in mind by Uiom needing eucb jobs. We bellera we have produced the flr*t and only work -of thlndescri,*- lion avar fMcuted in Northern Pannsylrtiiria. Tbe inaskia«« for tIHa kind 0f work are eDpCiDslr«; and wetruat Ibos# baring 11 to do will glre as a trial. Anything In tb» sine of Blank work or priutlng wo have fully prepared outselves tawecute, w» trust, tp t(ie satlefactipn of all. Susquehanna Anthracite Journal. PUBLISHED weekly by a«orCo M. ZllobArt. Jenkim' nt» Brick Building, one door louth of Clark'* ttore—up itairt. AND SUSQUEHANNA ANTHRACITE JOURNAL Tfc» OA7.KTTK *n4 JOURJf.1I, Ii puhllahed every Friday, ftt Th DtlUrt »«r mnnum. Two dullara and I ft; ceau will be charged If not paid within the )w, Mo paper will be dteeoatlaued until D11 arrearage! are paid, at oar option. BLANKS Th« following lltt of Blunlu aijnlnn hnfoand at on* kOh ■, uud will baaold upon lb* moil rts«toaab\v Wrun: NAMES OP BLANKS. W»mwt», Humnjuon, - Prouimry No(*», Judgment Nolo, CheckRolla, Time Roll?, lllank Deri, Mortgage., itc., fee. C.M.RICUAKT. $etotelr to % Coal interests, folitits, $etos, "Crftratare, attii #eneral Jntelligeitee. , ADVEBTISEMENTS. Dm a* tare of twelve lluea, or lax, oh n three laiertlona, 01. Hh.r Iff CulMlabto 8nl»». JudjnmjnlCunlrucU, •' Lwm, " Uuliill, Marriage CtmlHealM. KX«ciiUOM, Albufcniault, SuUpuuaa#, Card of 8 llnoa or leae, yearly, Oaa (quare. yearly, - - - • • Ona hair eolani yearly, • • . Out column, yearly, . . - . ts 00 1U ou ao so PITTSTON, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1856. %r A.xording to an act of Congreaa, no poatag* can hacharged oa thii paper to aubacribera reaidlug in the Ceanty, aor to thoee withlu the county, whote nearert real once la without the county. VOLUME VI.—Wo. 47. | ( WHOLE No. 317. (iazett* older. '•nltliM'Btnek. I Fietstoii, July 11, l8.-itt.-ir. j justness Carta. Bonnie Jfemle Ronton. Tuhe—"Boiuije Annlo Laurie." 'There's nobody here bft you and I, sir." "Nobody 1 Do you 'spose I can't see T1— D'ye think I'm dru*kt There, look there!— two of them by jingo." "Well, air, I must oonfcss, I can't but us two." . , "You can't, eh t" and York dragged the landlord to the table. "Look there, then ; there's the rttcals, now. One of'em is cnough like yon to be your brother—and th-other is the most God-forsaken, mean-looking white man that I ever saw!" we.cannot lift a finger without moving the dU' - tillt- Wt3 La fc -* Jtno* "l'8 i» rathor shocking to one's ideas of Italian women. I am sure I -was prepared to viQw thom ia a favorable—nay, in a poetical light j but amid all the charms anuexcitements of this romantic lund, I cannot see otherwise. The old women are hags, and the young women are dirty, slipshod slat... T?'k ftbout , Italian uUWs J* Among our lower classes there are five boautiefl to one geod looking woman here. It is nonsense to expeet a beauty among a population that lire in filth, and eat tlie vilest substances to escape the horrors of starvation. But it is otherwise as a form. In form the Italians excel us. Larger, fuller—they ni t urally jrquire a finer gait and bearing. It is astonishing that our ladies should persist in that ridiculous notion, that a small waist is, and, por necessita,-must be beautiful. Why, many an Italian women would cry for voxa'on'. K*'1® P°B_se*sed such a waist as sotue of v » . painreason of 'Sat con- mandcd without delay. Pulling up her gown, she pinned it on iicr petticoat; then, letting fall her gown, tbo bi dge was invisible and thus the plan was frustrated, to the great annoyance of the pariah law-makers.—Hobtrig.business Curtis. ant spheres. Solemn is the thought but no nore solemn to the Christian Mother than thC thought that every word that falls from hM lips, every expression of her oountenano*, wen in tha sheltered walk and retirement, may leave an indelible ipipression upon the young son Is around her, atad form as it were the-utiderling strain of education which pooples Heaven with that celestial being, and ww to the white tvow Af the angel next to tne grace of God it* crown of glory. PBINCE ALBKRT LOCKED OUT, CARPENTERING AND BUILDING. HK. Kbkht, desires to announce to the public (hat he Is now prepared to take contracts for Building and FuTnishihg MaterialsXor Houses and other descriptions of buildings at the most reasonable flguro. By arrtvngomenU which he lias recently concluded with lumbermen in the State of New York, be la enabled to procure bills of Lumber altnoatieady to put together for any description of building* whatever, at the shortest notice. He lias now and will constantly keep in his employ the best or workmen, and hopes to be able to give entire satisfaction as to his work, and to accommodate to a greater extent than has ever heretofore been done in this Valley the desire to havo houses splendidly and substantially completed. His long experience and general acquaintance with the peoplo of this place and vicinity, he trusts, will bo sufficient to secure for hira a reasonable share of the best work required in this neighborhood. When the aea is tempest cast, Faith withers in the storm, Life ehilla in the seething blast But there's hope in the dawning morn. There's hope in the dawning ijiorn— A Notion's hope is she, With Bonnie Jessie Benton Our nation will be freo. PHYSICIAN AND SURC1E0N, Dr. fanford Law tan, l»t« R^»iClcn| l'hvilcian of the Connecticut General SMpttal, »t NEW HAVEN, oilers bli profmlonrl Mrrlce* to tbo inhabitants of PltUton •ad »toiol»y. D'run Ibe Republican Stale Gated#, INSULAR AMERICA. J»EJf**lfcVCJM—The Faculty of IheMudical Inalilnio 11 Yale (Ibllece I the lDr». I»o«of Now llaren; T. dtntng, «««_ awl Be».«r. Parke, of PlUaton ; Or Boyd.of Wilkri •an*; C. 0. SlMtmaker B«q., of Khipt-jn, »nil I- I'- ■hoeiaiker. Km, of Wllkea-Harre. |-jf Oflco. in Mr. ueoulM'd uew bulldlut, opposite BO.iKDI.yQ fJUCK, at Mr. UnfurUs, W« Pltuton. Plant of Slavery Extension—Erection of a Great Stave Empire on the American Continent—Revival of the African Slave Trade.. TUB BURNING DF TIIE STEAMER NIAGARA—HEROISM OF A MOTHER. The jmtest heroism displayed on the oooar sion, of which we have any knowledge, fM shown by a mother in her effort* to save the lives of her eight children, the eldest of whom was was only fourteen, and the youngest one year old. Sho was pielted up by the Traveler insensible, and nearly perished, but was restored by great exertions, and Brought to this city. Sho aid not know, last evening, whether or not any of her children were saved, but heard three wore taken ashore ia the only boat that pulled off from the burning steamer. If so, thoy will reach hero this morning by the Arctic. She and her husband are at the Merchants' Hotel. As the nfalight gilds the ocean, - And the (tar* gem the night, And the moon pays her devotion With smiUw of joyfol light, With smiles of joyful light, On ft lnnd of majesty. The smilo of Jessie. Boston To nmke our Nation free. A foreign correspondent of the Daily Timet relate* this amusing anecdote in one of his letters: "A good story, that I have nkver seen printed, was related by a gentleman in one of those pleasant after dinner talks on the deck of the Asia, and if you like to print small gossips of the Queen aud royat family, you shall have it. Pi ince it seemcth, did once get into Wi habits of staving out late at night and not ooining home till morning, whereat her Majesty, his wife, grqw much anxious and grievml. It was not certain thatbe was at the eider cellar, nor could sho prove that he did not come hortie in a proper condition for she endeavored to get into his rooms on Bomo such occasions, and failed most signally. By way of episode, the story' is that the reason of her failure was this: She knocked and said ' Albert, open to your Queen.' But Albart was silent 'Albort, your Queen is at the 4opr.' No reply And so she tried, morning after morning, until one day after trying that form of address Several times she suddenly bethought her to say, 'Albert, will you- lot Victoria in f W hereupon the door, flew open and she rushed into his arms instauter. But _ his breath was unimpeachable that morning, though he had come home somewhere about the small hours. It wouldn't do and she tried a new plan. She ordered the gates of Windsor to be closed at eloven, aud do one to bo admited without calling her, and theji (die' went to her room. All night sho waited, but no husband came, and after a brief dose, and with a furious hcadaclie, she sent for the keeper of the gates and learned that the Prince had come home at throoor four, and learniug her orders, had left word that he would by no means disturb her and went his way for ajolly night of it. This occured again the next night his Grace the Duke of Wellintou was startled at an early hour by a visit from lits Royal Highness. His Grace the Duke drdve out rapid y to the Hon. Mr. Blank'* and, a council was held. The question was important ; 'Can the Queen look Prince Albert out? It botherd the dignitaries. They had no precedents, and so they decided it by saying, 'Of course not,' and the gates were left open, and the prince had hi* evening# to himself, as any good Dutchman that loves lager bier ought to have." When Mr. Calhoun, at Mr. Tyler's Secretory of State, was exerting all his power* and all the influence of the fiovernmeht to bring about the annexation of Texas, he with bin characteristic frankness and boldness, avowed as his leading motive, the desire to prevent the abolition of Slavery in Texas, which bo thought would endanger tho safety of slavery in our South-western states. Then it wan that the policy of this government waa changed. Then it wan that the old policy of non-interference by the general government in behalf of slavery, was abandoned. Then it was that the United States adopted tho new unconstitutional, sectional policy, of mainlining and extending slavery. i:— Jnlr 10. ISM. MEDICAL CARD. Dtt. EVANS. (Ute of the University of Dublin, and the London Hospitals,) respectfully tendon his professional servloes to tlM Inhabitant! of Pittston and vicinity. Office nearly opposite th© 4CKeystone Store of J. Bowkley & Leysbon. A«k. 1, 1856—6m. our ladies acquire, o»ljr by the longest, pa fullest process. I h(kV*«Dught the reason this difference, and can see no other than t t[ie Italians have their glorious statuary tinually before them as models ; and he endeavor to assimilate themselves to whereas our fashionables have no model oept those French stuffed fibres in the dows of the milliner*' shops. Why, if at tisf should presume to make a statue witi shape that seepns to bt regarded with us the perfection of harmonious proportion, would bo lAughed out of the city. It ii standing objection again the taste of our men the world over, that they wOuld pr cally asn(;rt that a French milliner undcrsta Jan. 18, 185C. 279. She rides on th' forest mountain, Like the nimble bounding roe ; She comes to the sparkling fountain Where stroams of freedom flow- Where the streams of freedom flo w With grace of high degree, Comes Bonnie Jessie Benton To make our Nation free. MECHANrCAL ENGINEERING. Spfcifoation Plans and Estimates for Steam Engines Boilers and Machinery of every description will be made with despath on application to GEORGE D. WEST, Consulting Vechanical Engineer, at tbe l'ittston Foundry. Pittston, Luzerne Co., Pa- April 25, 1850. Dnco «hem ; ex- C. R. GORMAN, M. D., TD •spectfully tenders his Professional ser- JLVvices to the citizens of Pittston and vicinity. omce in tbe Post Office, Pittston. Aug. 2, 1850. tfinart the The Kiuue CalhounTte policy produced t!ia epeal of the Missouri Compromise. The auhors of that faithless act, justified it on the iretext that • freedom in Katuifts would enlanger slavery in Missouri, and therefore, hat slavery should be established in Kansav. The same policy now develops itself again n the Ostcnu manifesto. Mr. Buchanan justifies the seizure of Cuba, on this same pretext that freedom in Cuba' will endanger the ?afoty of slavery in our neighboring states. Whenever it becomes apparent that Spain is nbout to abolish slavery in Cuba, then we shall bo justified in seizing it, in order to prevont the emancipation of the slaves from extending to our own neighboring shores. Here Mr. lSuchauun proposes so far as he is concerned to stop, and when Cuba is acquired to hand ovor the government to  Jireckenridge. What are we to expect then f Gen. Quitman, an influential Southern statesman, in his speech in Congres, in April last, pointed out three other projects of conqucst or seizure,—all to be justified jn the samo pretext of the danger of the Southern portion of the Union, of having any neighbors except such as maintain Slavery with a resolute and poworfiil hand. lie specifies particularly Mexico, Central America, and St. Domingo—all of which, having free institutions are dangerous neighbors to this slave-republic, and must be obtained, either by fair means or by vialenco, in order that Slavery may be established there, and thereby, cease to endanger tlip Institution in our slave states. The names of those affl icted parents are Mc. and Mrs. Hamilton Chalmers, of Olouster county, New Brunswick. They had, by great industry and ocouomy, laid up a few hundred dollars, and were moving to Minnesota to buy a small farm, and'lost everything-they had in the world on the world on the boat, but a few shillings in their pockets. But tlicy  they caro uothing lor that; if they had their children they could begin life again at the bottom of the ladder with a good heart. We sincerely hope that *Dmc of their lost onos may be restored to tlicm. Mrs. Chalmers says that when the fire broke out sho was outside the stoerage cabin on the main deck, with her husband audohildren. She saw the stern boat lowered, and observing in it a woman whom she knew, she thought if the boat reached the shore and she herself did not, that woman would be like a mother to her children, so she cominenoed throwing her smaller children into the boat, intending to koop the baby by her, because she could easier support it in the water than the others. She had thrown two into the boat whon It shored off. She had one in her hands to throw,but it was too large a one to throw to the boat, accordingly she seised the babe, supposing she had strength to throw it to the retreating boat. She had not, however, the baby fell into the water a foot from the boat; she sere imed to the woman in the boat to save it, and had the satisfaction of seeing her reach out, grasp it, end draw it into the boat. She then dlrcctod her efforts tD the five children about her. She pushed the oldest boy, twelve years old, into the water, with directions to swim alter the small boat and cling to it if they would not let him in. She think* he did actually reach it, but cannot be certain. She then put her oldest child, a girl of fourteen, into the uting to Hoinoiiiing- "lie has heard since nr riving here that a girl of that age was rescued, and thinks may 1 e it was this one. She then had three small cllldreii remaining. Her husband got into the water, and she passed them down to Um, and ho placed them on one of the capsizcd boats ft Dating ivear. She then got down by a rope. On reaching the water she found the waves had washed two of the children off the small boat. She managed to catch them both with one arm and hold them up, still clinging to the rope with tho other hand, and maintaining her hold in the midst of all the desperate struggles around her. At lust the rope burned oft above, and she sank down, down, dowu with others who had been.clinging to the same rope. When she came up again, she had lost one child. She managed to throw her disengaged arm over a stick and hang on to it with the child ia the other. She then looked for the child she had lost, but although many head were around hor, and some of them children's heads, they were all so begrimmed with the oil and ashes and soot on the surfaco of tho water that she oo'd not distinguish their features, and they sunk one after another, without her being able to recognize hor own. She then directed all her efforts to save the one in her arms, and she feels confident that she could have done so, but some man—she thinks ho was an old man —pulled her arm off from the stick which supported her. She regained her hold, aqd hor hand was again pulled off and herself pushed away by the same man. Than she sank down, down, down again. She struggled to rise and Anally did rise, but the last child was gone, though she thought until she reached the surface and saw totue contrary, that she had U still in hof arms. AS lie is a wo- DR. J. A. HANV, Office over Dr. Dorr's Urug Storo, Main 5t., Pittston, Ps. " December 17, 1852. She comes like tho blushing morn Gilding the rocky steep, Her eyo.i dew-drops adorn— Tho tears glad Nature, weep* The tears glad Nature weep* In hopo that sho will be The Bonnie Jessie Bouton Who will set our Nation free. practi— ,crntanda how they should be ramie better than nut urn horsclf.—ll'adlry'* Letters from Italy. Wim Ropr for Shafts, Slopes, Planes, &c., of a very superior quality, all sizes. Aslicroft's Patent Steam Guages; Woodward's lmpioveil Steam-ptmips (or supplying boilers, extinguishing (Iron, clearing vines ctc. Also all improved attachments and fixtures for Steam Engines, furnished at short notice by GEO. D. WEST, at tbe Pittston Foundry. April 25,1856. T. A. PEIRCE, M. D., Homoeopathic Putsician and Surgeon.— Residence. Franklin S'., 1st door above HUlman's Hotel, Wilkes Barre, l a. If arch 4, 1856—287 6m. Straighten Their Backs.—I once had u cow from which I could not get a drop of milk. I fed her, coaxed her, and tried by all the gentl# mentis I could think of, but all in vain ; the milk would not oome. I discovered that she lield hC* milk by contracting hor muscles, and that in so doing, rounded up hor back. The thought struck me, that if I could keep her baek straight, she could nut retain her milk ; and by wuy of experiment, I held the sharp corner of a small stick of wood on hor back with one hand, aud while milking with the other, found that she lutd not tho power to hold her milk. I then sawed a piece of board just long enough to reach from tho flooring over head to the cow'i back, as she stood in her natural position, fastened ono end of the board to the upper flooring, by a leather hinge, hewed the other out thin and sharp like a wedge, lot it hang down over the cow. When I commenced milking, Bhe would attempt to ratio her buck to contract hor muscles, but the wedgo-like end of the board was more than a match for her. She could not round her back, nor retain hor inilk, and in a few days was entirely cured of the ovil hatiit.—Ed. Portland Pleasure Boat. WASHINGTON NUGENT, M D., Re»iCcctfuily offers his services as physician and Surgeon, to the Inhabitants of Pittston and vicinity. Office at B. Hall's Drug Store. ... ,, RtrsitiNCEs. — Paul B. t.'oddaru, «. I'., 1'hila., Wm Corson, M. P., Norristown, Pa-, Messrs. Wells V Bean, Pittston. Like the NoHJjJicrn sihrer star That guides the sudor1* way—. Through seas and winds doth war Into the sheltered bay— Into the sheltered bny, Where hope is anchor'd free, Like Bonnie Jessie Benton, Our nation's hope is she. ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING. David Schoolkt, would respectfully announce to the public that he still continues the practico of tbe above profession. In all its branches, and holds liimseli in readiness at all times to attend to any business in the line of Surveying, Engineering, Estimating and Drafting. Nev. 23, 1855 ly. DR. II. WENTZEL, Gcbma* Physician. Would respectfully announce to the peoplo of Pittston and vicinity that after an absence of somo months, In has returned and permanently located in the place. He will be happy to wait upon any requiring his professional services. Thankful for past favors he will endeavor to merit a continuance of tho same. Office at I rcderick Helfs. Being provided with a full and complete set of instruments, and having had ample experience, he flatters himself capable of giving satisfaction in any and every department of his calling, rffice with R. D. Lacoc, Odd follows' Building. A Private Room, or tbe Effect of Punch Uriakluf. Ope particularly dark, damp, dull, dritzly and disagreeable day in the latter part of November, a tall, guunt, queer looking customer, dressed in a coat with metal buttons, with yellow striped pantaloons, and calf-skin terminations, sat solitary and alono in a eeitain little tavern in Philadelphia. Before him waa a little round table, on whose marble top was "not a little" pitcher of smoking punch, "screechen hot," und a wine-glass. The solitary individual was York —nothin' else, dear oh Id, ; nd thut was his second empty. One minute ufter, and you could n't—fact you see—have squeezed a drop out of either pitcher or glass, by u hydraulic , l'ittston, Nov. 10, 1-55—tf. Watches and Jewelry. THE UnderDi„'Cierl, bee leave to an— no'incn to the citizen* of Pillaton nnd vnilnity thai they hut e jual op»;u**d hi th.- l»ru« Store of Isaac K. Ron*. -i doure •OMlh of ih* Huilt-r llouflf, n targe nftsortniuut of F«b. 17, 1864 tf. Nor is this ull. Appealing to the fears of the South on this subjcct—and it would seem from his speech as if they felt their very existence in ooustunt danger—he pointed to tho prospect of tho abolition of Slavery in all tho West Indiu Islands as "a dark and terrible cloud," black "with ruin for the South," This language of extreme fear js his, not ours.— fie foresees, in his affrighted vision, "a barbarous black empire" extending "throughout the wholo of insular America." And he thus in words of solemn warning, calls upon tl:(l country to contemplate the prospect: "Behold it as it is [says lie, sneaking of all the West India Islands, which ho calls Insular America,] and then look forward—for years and contemplate what it will be, What reflections does it not present. A world star{j ling drama is about to be cnacted ; and are wo tho guardians of our country's weal, to have no part in the uerfonnanco ? Do we not know that the dcvolopcment, the greatness, and the SAFETY oven of our bclovoj land, are doeply concerned V We can now understand what Mr. Buchanan meant when he said to the Committee of tho Cincinnati Convention, who announced to him his nomination : WoctD call the attention of the public to a Now and Improved pUn of inserting artiflrUl Teeth on Gotta Perch* base. This is superior to any article as yet used for temporary 0r difficult cases—and he has purchased the right to use the Improved Gutta rercha. Partial or full aetU of teeth will be iuserted on this plan with neatness. Office on Kianklin St, Wilkcsbarre, Pa. DR. E. SHELP, — Fine Walfh.es and Jewelry — of every dc«cripiion, which Ou-y ure offering at prlcea thut on11not beeousidured oilier than cheap. Tho prupri- Removixo Pi.asts.—Tender plants for green houses and parlors, muat bo removed from tho earth by the last of September, that *»—y —«y iwDd'iu imiiiib frauh and free from discoloration or weakness from early frosts. Hardy and half-hardy annual*, that are yet blooming in open bods in tbe time of the first frosts, may be kept much longer in llowor, by throwing a light covering over them at nights, as netting or sheets, supported by chairs, or props, or branches from breaking the stems. Those plants suffer first from the frosts, that have most sueculent (juicy) stems, (except those naturally •' tender,") ■ and those in the dampest ground. This is why professional gnrdeuers drain tho subsoil of their pntcrros, and use light, dry upper soils, ana build rockeries from which water naturally escapes. Some herbaceous plants may bo kept along many woaks later than usual in flower, by protecting them as already mentionod on severe nights, and strewing tan, litter, leaves or straw, to retain heat and throw off water. These protectors, or sand, or ashes, laid carefully over the roots, and about the eollars of delicate ligneous plants, will preserve thou from yaar to year, through ordinary winters. ••lorn, from ft lon« eurm r in lliu lnieuioa*, have tlie lulvuiiliigc of liopiiuwa roiinectloiiB with utiiiitifncMiriiiKami iillpOKnig flrnm iu NYw-York, which tivblM them to procure their articles fr«»m sourc« ■ which jtivo them every a-utinuico of ihetr being gewrtne. Kverv urticle they D(*11 will !*• r«-|ire*riitetl iu il* true light, and it* renl merit* fnirfv stilted. Their Mock comprises Wfilohw, It roue t-pill's Ear-riugs. i;«meo-uiii». Wnieh-keys, Fmgerrings, etc. etc. VVPII th"«e who di'iirti to jjroeure good Jewelry nny kind fuvi«r iihwIiIi a call. GRAY, THE POET. Tin literary habits and personal peculiaritietf at %*» «• •»»» rt»« "*■ merouH rHpronfntntions and allusions t f his friends. It is easy to fancy the recluse poet sitting in his college chambers in tho old quadrangle of Pembroke hall. Ilis windows are ornamented with migonnettc and choice flowers in China vases, but outside may be discerned some iron work intended to be serviceable as a fire-escape, for ho lias a horror of lire. Hisfurniture is neat aud select— his books, rathor for use than show, arc disposed around hint, llo has a harpsichord in the room. In a corncr of one of the apartments is a trunk containing his deceased mother's dresses, carefully folded up and preserved. His fastidiousness bordering upon efieminacy, is visible in his guit and manner —in hi* handsome features and small, welldressed person, especially when ho walks abroad and sinks the author and hard student in "the gentleman who sometimes writes for his amuhemnnt." He writes always with a crow quill, speaks slowly and sententiously and shuns the crew of dissonant college revellers, who call him "a prig," and seek to annoy him. Long mornings of »tudy, and nights feverish from ill health are spent in those chambers. He is often listless and in low spirits ; yet his natural temper is not doxponding, and he delights in employment.— ile has always something to learu or to c(*uimunicate—souio sally of humor or quiet stroke of satire for his friends and correspondents—some note on natural history to enter in his journal—some passage of Plato to unfold and illustrate—some gulden thought of classic inspiration to inlay on his page—some bol I image to tono down—some verse to retouch ana harmonizo. His life is, on the whole, innocent and happy, and feeling of thankfulness to the Great Giver is breathed over all.—Ency. Brjt. i Y« rk rnn£ tho hell. The waiter popped his head within the dour. "King, sa?" "Of course I did. In it clearing off?" "No, SB—damp, aa—fog HO thick you could ladle it out 'th a spoon, sa. Will you have unythipg, an ?" "More punch, and strong." "Yes, »a,—immediately, sa." The waiter withdrew and in a few minuted returned with the third pitcher of punch, and York was beginning to ieol glorious, when, on raising up hi* eyes, he «aw his own figuro in the pier-glass, directly opposite. He rubbed his eves again. "By thunder?" said he, "here's some fellow sitting right before nD«. I'll swear there's impudence for you ! This is a private room, sir, for my own accommodation. * He waited a minute, expecting an answer, but his reflection only stared at him and held (277) tf. Kepuiring neatly U«»i»h. IIKMMBfcKN iL ANURIAS. D. S. KOON, ATT0««T at Law, Pltt.ton, I'a. Office with James Helm, Esq., In Upper I'lttston. July 3, 1850. Fltt'lnn. June 211, I®. HAYDEN, BROTHERS, WuoLrsAi.Ct dealers in Buttons, Combs, Suspenders, Threads, Kmhrolderies, Fancy Goods, Watches, Jewelry. Silver nnd Plated Ware, Gold Puns, Fishing  Merchants and Peddlors supplied on liberal terms. ROBERT BAU R, BooK-Binnta. North last corner of I'ubllo Square and Main St., Wilkesbarre. Picture Frames, common Gilt and Maho«»nv, ornamented and plain, made to order, of "ny'sise. Job Binding neatly executed. A. large selection ot common and fine picitnceii, Alliums, Blank books, SUtionary, iDov,els, ice., always on hand. June 17, 1858. _______ Wm. Rayrlen, ) 1 Tracy Halen, John Ilayden, 5 I Oeo. Haydun. Now .Viilford, Pa. Nov. 9, 1835. EXCHANGE & BANKING OFFICE. Tin subscribers have opened an office of deposit, discount and exchange, in this place, of Wyoming avenue, opposite the Wyo mlng House, two doors northeast of Mr. Chase's store. MICHAEL B. BROWN, H/fcaoilAaT Tailob. Between the Stores of XfJL James Welsh and James Brown, Pine St., flttston, Pa. Not. 10, 1855.  "If I can bo inbtrumcntal in settling tha slavery question upon tho terms I havo named and then add Cuba to the Union, I shall, if President, be will willing to give up the ghost and let Breckinridge take (ho reins of govern, mont," MASON, MEYERT & CO Scranton, May 18, 1855. its peace. "I was saying sir, this is jny own private room, mine sirfetching bis voioe an octavo higher than it was before. No answer was made, and he rang the bell furiously. The waiter made his appearance. "King, sa?" ' * "Yes, I did ring. Didn't I ask for a private NEW BAKERY & CONFECTIONARY A Wilts ki.e About thi Aoe or IIoescs.— A few days ago we met a gentleman from Alabama, who gave us a piece of information in regard to ascertaining the age of a horse, after he or she has passed tbe ninth year,which was new to us, and will be, wo are sure, to most of our readers. It is this: after the horse is nino years old, a wrinkle oCCmes on the eyelid at the uppor cornor of the lower lid and every year thereafter he hps ouo well defined wrinkle for each year o\»r nitie. If, for instance, a horse has three wrinkles, he is twelve; if fodr, he is tlurte«n. Add the number of wrinkles to nine, and you will afways get it. So says the gentleman ; and he is confident it will aa*«r fail. As a good many people have feorees over nine, it is easily tried. If true, the hprse dentist must give up his trade.—Southrrn Planter. CHAS. F. SMITH, FAaaiOMABLB Barber and llair-dresser, (Un der the Eagle Hotel,) l'ittstou Pa. Jan* 13,1850.  STORE. When the government is fully launched upon this carcer, wo have many revelations already of the objects it is to accomplish.—■ Thus tbe Richmond Enquirer says; "The Democrats of the South seek, not to merely retain slavery where it is, but to extend it into regions where it is uuknown," The Charleston Xows says: "The great issue of our dav in this country is, slavory'Or no slavery. The present phase of that issue is, the extension or non-extension of the institution. Whatever tbe general measure—whatever tbe political combination t'le one single dominant and pervading idea is that matter issue." ° 'IMTE undersigned informs the citizens of 1 Pittston, and the WORLD in general, thut he has opened a New B ikery and Confectionary Store, on Main street, (in Ironi of the Canal Basin, in the store formerly occupied Dr. Hall,) where he will always be found ready • wait upon his customers, with such as Good Bread, Cakes, Pies, and all kinds of Confectionary i Cronk's Beer, Lemon Boer, Saraaparilla Beer, Ginger Beer, and Meade's Beer. Please give me a call- JOHN NASH. A. KENNER'S LIVERY EXCHANGE. Nim the Post Office. Scrantou, Pa. Ready *t All timet to accommodate: with the best at horses and vehicles. SeraatM, Feb. 14, 1884-1 y. , room ?" "Yes, sa, this is a private room, sa." "It is! Why, there's a fellow sitting right opposite me now, on tho othef side of the tar ble. Hot his impudence." "Table, sa-rfellow, sa?" "Yes, there is. .Well, just never mind.— Bring on some wore puucb and a couple of gUaaw." in a vory short time the fourth pitcher and two glasses made its appeorunca. York fillod one of the glaaaas, and than shoved it over the tabk. "Will you drink ?" said he, addressing the figure in the glass "0, you won't eh ? Wall, I—I will." And so he did. "Better drink, old fallow," continued he, "your liquor is gotdng cold, und you look as if you was fond of the thine." No answer being returned, York rang the bell again." In popped the waiter. "Ring, sat" "To be sure I did. Didn't you hear'tbebb-bcll ?" •'I did." C. R. GORMAN & CO., Pitts**, Pa. Agents for Tapscott's General Emigration and Foreign Exchange. Persons residing in the couotry, and wishing to mango passage or send money to their friends (i My part of Europe may do so with safety by applying at the Post Office. Tapscott fc CoV, receipt will be furnished Pj return mall. Aug. 20, 1853. GROCERY AND PROVISION STORE. SSdtu«h.amp, dealer in Groceries, Provisions, Four, Feed etc., S. E. corner of Main and Pine streets. Goods sold for ready pay only, and at extremely low prices. "Small profits and quiok sales," is the motto by which I am determined to succeed. She was then alone on the water without support. She had floated some dietance away from the steamer, but sho saw her husband upon the capsized boat, holding one of the children. That sight inspired her with fresh courage. Alas! she knew not that the little one he held in his arms was already lifeless, but it was even so. At that instant a plank i struck her breast; she throw her arms round it and tried to reach her husband, but could not propel herself in the water. She felt her strength rapidly failing. -She was entirely alone; she saw the schoouer and the Traveler,Uihtsaw also that they were far far away. She kiifcw she could not hold on to her buoy untilSthey entire upt but sho remembered having hikrd tharpersons in drowning always shut their teeth firmly. She therefore seized her dress at the bottom in front, bro't it up around the plank, and put it between hor teeth, so that it held the plank fast upon her breast. She found that it jrould support her thus, and settled calmly back to await the rosult. She remembered nothing more. She was picked up by the Traveler, and when restored to consciousness, had the pleasure of finding her husbmd at bar side: But her obttdren, where are they ? The preeenceof uiiijd and heroism this poor mothor displayed under the circumstances are truly remarkable. She related the circumstances to us yesterday without any apparent conviction that she had done more than others, but with the evident wish that ehe eould have done more for her children.—Chicago Tribune. The Richmond Enquirer says : "Oar view of the policy of this measure, as of every other, is determined by the paramount and controlling consideration of southern interests. It is because we regard the acquisition of Cuba as essential to the stabilK ty of the system of slavery, and to the just ascendency of the South, that we consent to forego our hhbitual repugnance to political change, and to advocate a measure of such vast, and in some respects, uncertain consequances. * * , We must reinforce the powers of slavery as an element of political control, and this only can lie done by the annexation of Cuba. * * * With Cuba as a member of a great Southern confederacy, slavery might bittdefianoe to its onemies." Thus Buchanan is to be elected by Unionloviug men; and when he it elected he is to acquiro Cuba, for the purpose of building up a "great Southern confederacy" on the ruins of the Union. Protection rttoK Liohtnivc.—The Journal of Commerce contains a communication from Mr. John F. Collins, upon the subject of casualties by lightning, arguing to sljow that barns in or near which manure heaps or newly-gathered crops are fermenting, arc much more frequently struck by lightning than are all other buildings put together. As a protection to houses, it has been reoommeuded that they be ventilated before and closed du- 1 ring a tempest, that lighting might not be attracted'by the ascending vapor. That vapor j ascending by day and net by night rendered buildings safor during a tempest by night thanbydoy. The writer says that of eight or ten oasualities by lightning in JfeW York and the adjoining towns, all hare ocourred in the day time, and all, with one exception, have been barn* with maniireheape fermenting near them, aud in which several horses have been killed, standing, of course,_ near those manure heaps. The excepted building was a saw mill, beside wbiob lay fermenting saw-dust and chip-dung of years' aecumulartion, and some of reuent. origin, and upon which rubbish wee piled to near half the height of flie building. The lightning struck opposite the rubbish, and » large portion passed out near it. The attention of fanners and others should be directed to this subject, in order tbat the facts may be collected upon which a safe conclusion may be founded. The suggestion of the correspondent is of serious importance, involving, a* it does, the safety of a large amount of property. Ve«Y IIard.—A iblly fellow had an office next to a doctor's. One day an elderly gentleman of tho old fogy school blundered into the wrong shop. " Dr. X inV' PORT MALLERY HOTEL. 'PHE Undersigned would respectlull/ an- X nounee to the public, tb»t he has taken the above stand, and is doing everything in his power to make It a comfortable and CfC«ir»ble home for travelers and sojourners. No effort irlll be spared to give satisfaction in all that is reaulsUe to constitute it a good home. 3. S- LILL )f, Proprietor. Feb. 1850 GEO. W. BRAIN A AD & (SO. " rocjers, 103 Murray, noar Wc«t Strset, K New York. Geo. W. Br.vi.nard, Aug. 2, 1850 " Don't live here," says P-——, who wag in the fuH scribble over some important, papers, without looting up. " Oh! thought thin was his office." " Next door." "• Pray, sir, can vou tell me, lias the Doctor many patients?" " Not living." David Beldkn CHARLES TILLMAN Jon 27, WW- Fashionable Barber and TTair Dresser, Opposite the Eagle Hotel, Plttaton, I'*., Customers attended to with the utmost care and despatch, 1'ublic patronago respectfully solicited.Plttaton, April 14, I85C, SCRANTON HOUSE, SCRANTON.PA. DK. Ktmio, proprietor. Carriages will be in readiness to convey guests to this bouse, on the arrival of the passenger trains at the Railroad Depot. Sept. 33, 1861—ly. "Didn't I order a p-p-privatoroom? Eli t" " Yos, an, this is* private room, sa." "A pretty private room this is, with a fallow sitting right opposite, that won't take a glaaa of pxuch with you when its offered, and a red uosed man at that! O, well, never miud, bring more tumblers and wuto puuch. I'll t- Irtry him again." Pitcher number five ih accordingly bro't in with due state. The old gentlemon was sever heard of in the vicinity, but the story was, and Dr. X threatened to sue Y- —for libel. Howevor, he came to think better of it. rpuosi wishing anything designated above 1 will please give the subscriber a call, who is prepared to malte drawings for buildings, write specifications, Sic. May be found by Inquiring at the Eagle Hotel. H GEO. W. LUNG. ARCHITECTURE. WYOMING HOTEL. X}T G V; Mereerau, No. 883 Greenwich St., Jj near Duane, New York. /*ly 15, 1848.—tf. MT Ox the train of ears which conveyed Senator Douglas to Galoua,a vote, as usual now a days, was taken. The canvassers did not know Douglas, and when they came to him, while going through the cars, the foillowing conversation took place: The Southern Standard, a Charleston newspaper, further developes the objects of these Southern schemos; "B-better try some, old boy," said York, coaxingly. The reflex merely looked goodnatured, but said nothing. "Well," continued York, with a sigh, "if this isn't most in famous 1 Never mind, I'll drink the punch." And so he did, every bit of it. About five minutes sufficed to end the pitcher. York rang the boll superfariously. Waiter oame. "With Cuba and St. Domingo, we could control the productions of tho tropics, and with them the commerco of the world, aud witii that the power of the world. Our true policy is to look to Brazil as tho next great slave power, aud as the government that is to direct or influence the development of the ooun try drained by the Amazon. Instead of courtiug England, we should look to Brazil aud the West Indies. The time will ootue when a treaty of allianoe with Brazil wilt givo us the control over the gulf of Mexico, and its lower eountr.es, together with the Islands; and the consequence of this will place African i-lavory beyond the reach cf f umtiojsm nt home or abroad. With firmness and detfdon we (Frai'I and the South) can open the African slave emigration again to people the uoble region of the tropios. We can boldly defend this upon the most enlarged system of philanthropy. » * The time will come when we will boldlv dcfeni the emigration before the world. A*o t have been too long ly psalm sing,- Jan. 2, 1854 BUTLER HOUSE, PITTSTON, PA. SHARPS & OLIVER, Coal Merchants. Office, West side Main St., Fittston Luzerne eounty, Pa. Juno 6, 1856. tf. Canvassers—Whodo you vote for, sir—Buchanan or Fremont? Douglas (angrily looking up from the perusal of the Chicago Times)—Vote for the Devil 1 The reeult of tho canvass was as follows: Fremont, 117 Buchanan, 15 Fillmore, 17 Tho Dovil, 1 April 1,1866. HENRY STARK, Proprietor. EAGLE HOTEL, PITTSTON, PA., HDFPOBD fc POLEN, Proprietors. Jan, 1, 1856. J. BOWKLEY & LEYSHON, Coal Merchants. Office Corner of Main and Railroad Sts., Plttaton, Pa, August 16, 1850-tf. PORT GRIFFITH HOUSE. AT Port Griffith, Luserne Co. The Subscriber having completed his new tavern bouse is prepared to sccommodate travellers and the public generally, In the best manner and on reasonable terms. The rooms are convuilent, and the proprietor will spare no efforts to make M» guests comfortable. Bis bar Is supplied with excellent liquors, and bis table with an abundanoe of the best the markets afford. Good stabling attached, MICHAEL PHILBIN. "Ring, sa?" "Why, certain. Why shouldn't IT Where's the man—-who k-keeps the placet" "Boss, sh? I'll see 'iw, sa." Shortly after, the host, a quiet little man, with a mottled, calico-pattern face, made his appearance. " W-what's to pay V demanded York, rising, and assuming an air of dignity. "Five punches—five levies, sir." "There's tho money, sir," said York, forking over the coin. "And now I want to know why, when I Do-oall for a private room, you pat me in here with somebody else t" Tax Duties or jl Mother.—Bj the quiet fireside of home, the true mother in the midst of her ehildron, it sowing, win rases of earth, the seeds of plants that shall soawtiins give to Iieaven the fragrance of their blossoms, and whose fruit will be as a rosary of angelio deeds, the noblest offering that she can make through the ever ascending and expanding souls of her children to her maker. Every word that she utters goes from heart to heart with a power of whion she little dreams.— Philosophers tell us in their speculations that Women o» Naples.—You hare heard of the brighfeeyes and raven tresses, and musiclike language of the Neapolitans; but I can assure you there is nothing like it here—that U to say, among the lower masses. The only difference that I can detect between them and the American Indians is, that the latter are the more beautiful of the two. The color is the Bame, the hair very like indeed, and as to the "soft bastard Latin" they speak, it is one I vf the ruppt abgminablo I orcr hoard JAiMliS L. SELt'RIDGK, Wholesale Dealer in Tobaaco, Snuff and Cigars, No. 88 North Third Str, 8 doors above Arch at., Philadelphia. Dodging tub Law.—At Birmingham, about the year 1775, the vestry passed an order that each poraon receiving relief should wear a badge. A number of these were oast for the purpose. The day arrived. An old woman, the first, waa brought before the board, who told her what the order was, and gave her her badge of disgvaoe. She oonrtesied, and •"""C-aseu ujr Utadlness to do as they com- LITHOGRAPHIC Engravings for Grecian Painting, Artist's .sable and Bristle brushes, Oil Colors in Tubes, Demar Varnish lie Balsam of Fir, at Hall's Drug Store, opposite the Basin. May 9 1856.