Pittston Gazette and Luzerne Anthracite Journal

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Poisoning Poisons* One of the Philadelphia Tcmpefanoo Societies has engaged Dr. Hiram Cox, (he Cincinati inspector of Liquors to deliver a course of lectures showing op the horrors * of the trade in strychnine whisky. This gentleman was appointed by the authori- •D tics of Cincinnati to dive into the grog , shops and liquor stores there, and apply chemical tests to the liquor they had on sale. Though hampered and opposed at every turn, he was not to bo thwarted. The revolations which followed his invea* " tigations were perfectly astounding. They r carried consternation even among the y drunkards, and so. diminished the sale of liquor by proving that nineteen-twentieths of it was deadly poison, that numerous distilleries were closed for want of business, and the liquor dealers besought him 3 to quit, delaring that he had cut down a their sale $1,000,000 per annum. He ,t showed that most of the liquor sold in Cincinnati was so highly charged with ' deadly acids that it immediately attacked and coroded a knife blade, and in some eases left on it a coating of copper, as if deposited by a battery. In nearly 1,000 stores and grog shops where he applied the test he found the liquors adulterated with poisonous ingredients. He mentions'' a score of young men wh(? have been sent D to their graves by less than three month* t drinking of this poison. Older men have been killed off, by dozens, in the same way. Two-thirds of all the insane cases in Cincinnati proceed from the same cause, many 5 of thein being boys under 16 years of ago -■ One of them became incurably insane by • 1 single debauch on this adulterated stuff.-—' • Much of the liquor inspected contained only 17 per cent of alchohol, when it should have contained 40; the rest being ' represented by sulphuric acid, nitrid ether, fusil oil, nox vomica, Guinea pepper, and - other pungent poisons, to give it strength; These compounds Dr. Cox pronounced so deadly that a single pint was sufficient to cause speedy death. The venders were ae- I cordingly prosecuted, punished and their groggeries closed. The very few who were , found to be selling pure liquor were allowed to continue. But the effect of these exposures on the traffic was salutary. Thousands immediately quit drinking on learning that nothing but poison was dealt out [ to them. They will now be repeated here by Dr. Cox himself. Our eity needs a pur/acsuoll as uiuvbao Oluvluraul, _ D thousands of doggeries in which the same ' rot-gut compounds are sold. Our temper-' I ance men intend applying for a Iaw authorising tho appointment of a Chemical Inspector, on the Cinainnati plan, so that if strong drink must be sola among ns, it shall at last be the genuine unadulterated article. TIE RUINED CITT. The shadow of a thousand springs. Unnumbered sunsets, sternly sleep Above the dust of perished things Ttmt form this city's blasted heap, Dull watch the crumbling coluins keep Against the fierce relentless sky, Hours, that no dial notetli, creep Like unrememlDered phantotilSjby; And still this city of the dead Hires echo to no human tread. slander case was called, Mary Ellison was left without an attorney; all had withdrawn. The pigmy pettifoggers dared not brave the wit ot' Pike nor the thunders of Prentiss. " Have you no counsel T" inquired Judge Mills, looking kindly at the plaintiff. " No, sir, they have deserted me, and I am too poor to employ any more," replied the beautiful Mary, bursting into tears. " In such a case, will not some chivalrous member of the profession volunteer ?" asked the Judge, glunciAg around the bar. Tho thirty lawyers were silent. " I will, your honor," said a voice from the thickest part of the crowd situated behind the bay. At the sound of the voice many started half from their seSts, and perhaps there was no heart in the intense throng that did not beat somewhat quicker—it was so unearthly sweet, ringing and mournful. The first sensation was changed, however, into laughter, when a tall gaunt, speotral figure, that no person present, remembered to have seen before, elbowed his way through the crowd and placed himself within the bar. , His appearancc was a problem to puule the sphynx herself. His high, pale forehead, and his small, nervously twitching face, seemed active with the concentrated essence of genius ; but his infantile blue eyes, hardly visible beneath their massive arches, looked dim and dreamy, and almost unconscious, and his clothing so shabby that the court almost hesitated to let the ease proceed under his management. " Has your name been entered on the rolls of the State t" demanded the Judge suspiciously. " It is immaterial about my name being on the rolls," answered the stranger, his thin lips curling up in a sneer. " I may be allowed to appear once by the courtesy of the court and tho bar. Here is my license from the highest tribunal in America," and he handed J udge Mills a parchment.tives that all trembled as with ague, and two of them actually fled in dismay from the court house. A MARVELOUS MEMORY. A DREAM OF HOME. One of the finest passages in Dr. Hayes' "Arctic Boat Journey" is in the twentyeighth chapter, under the head ofThoughts of Home. The doctor was on a visit to a spot where some weeks before he had talked with his companions of home, and schemed for the deliverance of the party from their icy prison. The sun was no longer in sight to warm the sky, and to put a glow iato the heart of the wanderer. The moonhad usurped hia place and her silver face seemed to reflect nothing but the coldness of the ice fields which lay beneath her." Dr. Hayes thus describes his experience at this time: The Eyes. Borne peoplo have photographio memories. If they see a face once, under any circumstances calculated to impress it upon their receollcction. it remains there forever. The memories of others are like looking glasses from which the image passes as the substance is removed. An eye can threaten like (ha loaded gun» or can insult like hissing or kioking; or in ita altered mood by beams of kindness can make the heart dance with joy. The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.— When a thought strikes up, the vision la fixed, and remainsJooking at a distance ; in enumerating names of persons or countriea—as France, Spain, Britain, or Germany—the eyes oan wink at -each new name. There is an honesty in the eye which the month does not participate in. "The artist," as Miohacl Angelo said, "must have his measure in his eye." Eyes are bold as lions—bold, running, leaping. They speak all language ; they need no encyclopedia to aid in the interpretation of their language ; they respect neither rank nor fortune, virtue nor sex but they go through and through you in a moment of time. You can road in the eyes of your companion, while you talk with him, whether your argument hiw, though his tongue will not confess it. There iB a look by which a man tells you he is going to say a good thing, and a look which says when he haa said it. Tho excitement of the crowd was becoming tremendous. Tbeir united life and soul seemed to hang upon the burning tongue of tho stranger. He inspired them with the poison of his malicious feelings. He seemed to have stolen nature's long hidden secrets of attractoon. He was the sun to the sea of all thought and emotion which rose and fell and boiled in billows as he chose. But his greatest triumph was to come. A curse is writ on every stone. The Temple's latent pillar lies Like some white Mammoth's blenching bone, Its altars know no deities. Fine column* of a palace rise And when the sun is red and low, And glaring in the molton skiea, A shadowhuge these columns throw, Tliat like some dark collossal hand In silence creeps across the sand. One of the most extraordinary specimens of the former class of memories we have ever heard of is said to be possessed by a gentleman of New Orleans. It is indeed, if our authority may be believed, "wax to receive and marble to retain." Our informant states that some months ago this New Orleans phenomenon—who, by the way is an officer in the United States Army— accosted an individual on the levee with "How do you do, my dear fellow, glad to see you looking so well. But that was an awful scarc we got, was it not?" His eyes began to glance furtively at the assassin Hopkins, and his lean, toper finger, to assume the same direction. He hem med in the wretch with a oircumvolution of stronger evidence and impregnable argument, cutting off all hopes of escape. Ho pilled up huge bastions of faots. Ho dug beneath tho feet of the murderer and slanderer, ditches of diemmas such as no sophistry could overleap, and no stretch of ingenuity could evade; and thus having, as one might say, importuned his victims, and girt about like a scorpion in a circle of fire, he stripped himself to the work of massacre^ The Senate slumbers, wondrous liive Of councils wage, of muMIu schemes; But doe» no lingering tone survie To prove their presence more than dream* 7 Ho light of revelation beams Around that voieelesa Forum now. Time I«ears upon his restless streams No reflex of the haughty brow That oft haa frowned a nation s fate Here—where dark reptiles congregate. "I looked on every side with a yearning for something outward to lighten the heavy whioh oppressed my spirits; for duker times, and times of greater responsibility, I knew were near at hand ; but desolation and the silence of death were everywhere around me, and better than ever before, better probably than ever again, I felt what it was to depend upon one's self and God. "Sir," said tho accosted, gravely, "you have the advantage of me." Where, where, ia now the regal rag That clothed the monarch of yon tower, On which the rank weed flaps ita Hag Across the dusk this somlier hoar J Alas I for pomp, alas 1 for power, When time unveils their nakedness. And Valour's strength and Beauty s flower Find naught to echo their dlatreaal And Snttery—lino delusive breath Helta in the iron graap of lieath. "Had the advantage of you, you mean— but not much, you were down nearly as soon as I was." "Sir," said the party addressed, still more gravely, "you speak in riddles. Be good enough to expound." "Ah !" responded the phenomenon— "don't remember me, I suppose 1 Quite natural. We had only ft passing glimpse of each other." Then came a reaction, which will be readily understood by the intelligent reader. I arose from the rock upon whioh I had been seated, and again fixed my eyes upon the sea. The stern silence which had been almost maddening became now a source of inspiration. In the reflux of thought which followed, I forgot the cold moon, leaden stars, the frowning cliffB, the desolate waste, the chilly glacier, forgot my loneliness: and I was back again in the World of life, and power and action— The frozen sea grew into a fertile plain; the hummoeked ridges were resolved into walls and hedges, and a southern panorama of sunny fieldis spread itself before me. A crack which meandered to the southwest, which had recently opened to the tide, and from which her curling up wreaths of "forest smoke," favored the illusion. Clusters of little hummocks suggested herds of cattle and flocks of sheep. Larger masses were converted into trees; and a long bank of snow whose vertical wall threw a dark shadow on the plain, was the margin of a denso forest. Farther away, a pinacled berg became a* church with spire and belfry ; another wore the appearance of a ruined castle; while still further to the southwest, where the stream seemed to discharge itself into the ocean, stood a giant fort under whose bristling guns lay a fleet of stately snips. Around all that I saw wcro clustered home associations, and objects, which, years before, had suggested to my boyish mind the serious purpose of life ; and I turned away with renewed strength to fight the battle through, and with ronewed determination ip behold again those seenei which my imagination had grouped together on the desolate sea." Vain and forgotten are all tho fine offers of hospitality, if there is ncf holiday in the eye. How many inclinations are avowed by the eye, though the lips dissemble !— How often does one eonie from a company in which it may easily happen he has said nothing; that no important remark has been addressed to him, and yet, in his sympathy with the company he seems not to have a sense of this fact, for a stream of light has been flowing into him throiigh his eyes. As soon as men are off their centres the eyes show it.— There are eyes to bo sure, that give no more admission into the man than blue berries. There are liquid and deeper wells than a man might fall into; there are asking eyes, and asserting eyes, and prowling eyes, and eyes full of faith, and some of good and some of sinister omen. The power of eyes to oharm down insanity, or beasts is a power behind tho eyes that must be a victory, achieved in the will before it can be suggested to the organ ; but the man at pcaoe or" unity with himself would move through men and nature, commanding all things by the eye alone. The reason men do not obey us, is, that they see the mud at the bottom of our eyes.— W J«KikeCi on the hero would consent uD nls will being served; he would be obeyed. Then it was a vision both glorious and dreadful to behold the orator. His actions, before graceful as the wave of a golden billow in the breeze, now grew impetuous as the motion of an oak in a hurricane.— His voice became a trumpet filled with whirlpools, deafening the ear with the crashes of power, and yet intermingled all the while with a swent undersong of softened cadence. His face was as red as a drunkards, his forehead glowed like a heated furnace, his countenance was haggard like that of a maniac ; and ever and anon he flung his long and bony arms on high as if grasping for thunderbolts. Day rises with an nngy glance, As if to blight the stagnant air. And hurls his fierce and flrey lance On that Doomed City's forehead bare. The aunaet's wild and waukering luur Streams backward like s comet s name, And from the deep and sullen glare The shuddering columns rroiirh In vain, And through tho wreck of wrathful years The grim byten stalks and sneers. "Sir, you probably mistako me for some one else," returned the other, more mystified than ever. "Not a bit of it," said the man with photographic memory. You were on board the steamer—when she blew up near Memphis on the 22d of April at 31 minutes past 11, A. M. nine years ago, were you not ?" "Yes, I was, but—" A GEM. THE HUSRARD TO HIS WINL 1 ask thee not to yield thy love— For that even now is mine; I a«k thee not thy fcitlt to prove. Thy heart i« truth's pure shrine, Thou canst not paint the lilly fair, Nor gild the mine's pure gold— Nature has limmed a ru'hness there Which art can ne'er unfold. "But jio buts. So was I. You were blown s«y high. So was I. Not that I saw you previous to the explosion. My first and only iutcrviow with you was in the air. You were going up and I was coming down. The glimpse I had of you was necessarily short. Your features wero distorted by fright, our pace was killing, and I was wrong side up. Consequently niy opportunities for observation were unfavorable. Hut 1 never forget faces under any circumstances, however discomposing. I photographed you sir, and have hud you in my mind's eye ever since. The 1110- mont I saw you ou th" levee, I recognized you as the original of my mental augucireotvpe. Glad to sec you looking in better trim than when I saw you lost. But wo all liavo our ups rand downs in the World. Suppose we adjourn where we can crack a bottle of champagne for the sake of an auld lang syne." "Which said our informant, as he wound up the story, "they accordingly did." Some anecdotes are best taken with a grain of salt." The reader will probably consider the above as one of tne kind that require a little of that kind of seasonsoning.Ho drew a picture of muder in such appalling colore, that, in comparison, hell itself might be considered beautiful. He painted the slanderer so black that the sun seemed dark at noonday, when shining upon the accursed monster ; and then fixing both portraits on the shrinking Hopkins, he fastened them there forever. The agitation of the audience nearly amounted to madness. All at once the speaker ascended from his perilous liight. His voice wailed out for the murdered dead, and for the living—the beautiful Mary more beautiful every momeut as her tears flowed faster—till men wept, i nd women sobbed like children. But oh ! I hove one poor roquent, functioned by Rod*. and men— Thy power rain give to love a *c«t. Say will ye Rrant it then t She smiled anient—what w it, life 1 The favor now diiKlose Said he—my own dearent wife, Go wiri: Tin: »*»*'» nos«. The trial immediately went on. In the examination of the witnesses, the stranger "1 little ingenuity as commonly tho1' evincc - /an } He suffered caeh one to tell his own story John Taylor was licensed when a youth without interruption, though he generally Of twenty-one, to practice at the bar of managed to make each one tell it over two ! fa WM poor, but well educated, or three times. He asked few question.., and possessed extraordinary genius. The which with Uen wUinesa only served to gracesof his person, combined with the correct mistakes; and he made no notes superiority of his intellect, enabled him to which m strong memories only tend U, 5Tthe hand of a fashionable beauty. embarrass The examination being ended • ■ l j as counsel for the plaintiff «he had a right Twelve month. afterwards, the hu8band  Was employed by a wealthy firm of the city of every one he to go on a mission as land agent to tbe fo and aj| the de. West. As a heavy salary was offered, ho off bade farewell to h.s wife and infant son.— (J,hon & gha(Jow mi fct w boen geen to He wrote back every week, tut received fljt Ao featurM of pik6j and to hot a line in answer, bix months elapsed, bri ht of prentiss. They when the husband received h letter from had „ a tarUrD„ but his employers that explained al . h . or how it happened, it was irn- Shortly after his departure lor the West, his wife and father removed to Mississippi. P Col Aghley gpoke firet. He dealt the There .he immediately obtained a divorce of {hat c,obc dry whioh l,y act of Legislature, married.again.forth- rendered him famous in the with and to complete he Cmax of her The Albeft piuD followed cruelty and wrong had the name, of Tay- with a vein ofwlt, and a half torrent of lor's son changed to that of Marks, her ridicu,e in which neither thc plaintiff nor second matrimonial partner. . her ragged attorney were forgotten or This perfidy nearly drove Taylor insane. , 66 J His career, from that moment, became ec- PrentiBS concluded for the centric in the first degree 8wMni«k dcfcn(Jlt with a gorgeous flow of words, preached, sometimes he plead at the 1bar brjlHant M ahower of fallin„ 8tars, and at last a fever carried him off at a compart- Qf orutnry tbat brought thu # house down in cheers in .which even tho , , .. sworn jury themselves joined notwith- At early hour on the Oth of April, 8tandin j t,fe Btcrn orJcr of tho benoh._ 1840, the Court IIous , , rj-bus won(]Crfully susceptible are thc Texas, was filled to overflowing Save n the charm8 . the war times there never had been w£ e,  nessed so large a gathering in the lied  River country, while the strong feeling It was the stranger s turn He had reapparant in every flushed face will be gained apparently abstracted during all sufficiently explained by the matter fol- the previous speeches. Still and straight • . m his seat, bis pale forehead shooting high ° i f ijon p rfnn like a cone of .now, and but for that con- About the close ofl839, . g p- ti d twitch that cume and went perpetkins, one of the wealtWst planters and ual, hig gallow fttCC; you would have most influential men ot NortherniT«* taken him fm a mere Dlan of marbleD or a offered a gross insult to hll son the form carved in ice Even hig dim young and beautiful wife of his invisible beneath those seer. The husband threatened to chastise J evebrows. him for thc outrage, whereupon Hopkins Sgy J loaded his gun, went to Ellison's house and But now, at last, he rises—before the shot him in his own door. bar, not behind it-and so near the won- The murderer was arrested and held dering jury that he might touch the foreto answer the charge. This occurrence man with his bony finger. With eyes produced intefise excitement, and Hopkins, half and standing rigid as a pillar of in order to turn the tide of popular opin- iron, his thin lips curled as if in scorn, ion, or at least to mitigate the general slightly apart, and the sound comes forth, wrath, which was violently aginast him, At first it is low and sweet, insinuating circulated reports imfamously prejudicial itself into the brain, as an artless tune, to the character and standing of thc woman winning its way into the deepest recesses who had suffered suth cruel wrongs at his of tho heart like the melody of a magic hands. incarnation—while the speaker proceeds, She brought her suit for slander. And without a gesture or the signal of excitetwo cases, one criminal and the other civil, ment, to tear in pieces the argument of and both out of the same tragedy, wei e Ashley that melt away at his touch as frost pending at the April Cirouit Court for before the sunbeams. Every one looked 1840. surprised. His logic was at once so brief The interest felt by the community as and so luminously olear, that the rudest to the issue, became far deeper, when it pearant could comprehend it without an was known that Ashly and Pike, of Ar- effort. kansas, and thc celebrated G. S. Prentiss, Anon he came to the dazzling wit of the of New Orleans, each by enormous fees had lawyer, Pike. Then the eurl of his been retained by Hopkins for defense. Jip grew sharper, his smooth face bogan to The trial of the indictment for murder kindle up, and his eyes to open—dim and ended on thc 8th of April, with the ac-! dreamy no longer, but vivid as lightning, quittal of Hopkins. Such a result might j red as fire globes, and larger than twin well have been foreseen, comparing the meteors. Tbe whole soul was in his eye j talents of the counsel engaged on cither the whole heart streamed out of his faco.— side. Thc Texas lawyers were utterly In five minutes Pike's wit seemed the foam overwhelmed by tho arguments and clo- of folly, arid his finest satire horrible proquence of their opponents. It was a fight fanity, when contrasted with the inimitable of dwarfs against giants. sallies and exterminating sarcasms of the The .lander suit was for the 9th, and the , stranger interspersed with jests and anecthrong of spectators grew in number at \ dotes that filled the forum with roars of well as in excitement. And what seemed laughter.  strange, the current of public opinion now Then without as much as bestowing an ran for Hopkins. His money had procur- allusion upon Prentiss, he turned round cd witnesses who served his powerful advo- short upon the perjured witnesses of Hopcates; indeed, so triumphant had been thc . kins, tore their testimony into atoms, and •ucccsa of tho previous day, that when the I hurled in their faces such terrible invec- THE VOLUNTEER COUNSEL. He closed by a strange exhortation to tho jury, and through them, to the bystanders. He advised the panel, after they should bring in a verdict for the plaintiff, not to offer violence to the however richly he might deserve it; in other words not to lynch the villain, but leave his punishment to God. An Abbanqkmbnt job Codoqino in Chgbch.—A correspondent says:—"1 once spoilt • Sunday at Lyons, on my way to Italy. I attended the Fneneh Protestant Church. The form of worship is vory much like the Presbyterian, and the minister, after preaching for about fifteen minutes, stopped rather abruptly, pronounced a word which I took to be "alez," and sat down. Immediately the whole congregation, which had hitherto been extremely quiet and attentive appeared to be seised with fits of ooughing, sneering, and expeotoration—some blew their noses, some took sonff—by degrees the noises oeased, and after an inter| rat of about fire minutes the minister resumed his disoourse, and finished it without interruption. A Brahmins Account »f Hit Country; This was the nwst artful trick of all and the best calculated to insure vengeance. A Practical Joki.—In a western State one of the political parties had for twenty years been in the habit of holding their nominating congelations at the house of Mr. O . Rev. Mr. Gangooly, a converted Brahmin now traveling in this country, delivered a lecture in New Bedford. A short time ago, on the manners and customs of his oouniry. The jury returned a verdict of 850,000, and the night after, Hopkins wa# taken out of bed by lynchers ana beaten nearly to death. 19" In Humboldt's confidential letters to Von Ense, recently published, the publie are treated to a series of piquant disclosures which will spread the utmost consternation among the Courts of Europe.— Hardly a single orowned head is spared, Beginning with Frederio William IV., and endiug. with the Emperor of the French, of whom Humboldt affirms positively that ho is the offspring of an illicit connection between Queen Hortensu and the Dutch Admiral Count Verhuel. Of the King of Prussia a number of amusing anecdotes are rcloted. It seeuis he was firmly oonvinced that Henry V. would scon be restored to the throne of France, and was in constant expectation of being invited to pay him avisit at Versailles. His late ministry are characterized as a strange jumble of knavery and imbecility. M. de llavenr, the Minister of Public Instruction, was says Humboldt, the greatest fool of them all.— The Prince Consort of England also—"the handsome husband of Queen Victoria"«-is alluded to in terms tho very reverse of flattering. "I know," he remarked once to Humboldt, "that you have a predilection for the Poles, but the Poles are as unworthy of your regard as the Irish." Altogether, it appears from this oorrespondcnce that the author of "Cosmos" was much more imbued with democratic ideas thau is generally supposed, and that he felt a sovereign contempt for tho courtly entourage in which he passed tho greater portion of his life. He happened on a recent occasion, for the-first time, to be in when they had finished their business, and hear a little delegate move that " this Convention adjourn Sine die." He said the Hindoo* were divided iota thirty-four oastes, of which the Brahmin reached the highest, and the banker, goldsmith, and the shoemaker were among the1 lowest. The blacksmith is of a high oaste, because of his usefulness. If a Brahmin eats animal food, he looses his caste, whioh he can never regain. The subject of birth was next treated. The birth of a male child was always made the occasion of great rejoicing, While the birth of a female child was hardly noticed. The mother of five or six girls was always the subject of scorn and derision and never went into society.- . There are but three castes In India that oould not read or write. The strictest at-' tention is given to the education of boytf in India, while girls never go to school.—• The dicipline of Brahmin life in some instances was grand. A Brahmin rises as five o'clock, walks out and gathers flowers, and bathes before the sun rises.—' If the sun sees one of this class in bedy the fourteen generations of his ancestora will be punished in eternity. Women must bathe every morning before they go into the kitchen ; if they do not, people will not eat their cooking. Brahmins must keep silence while at the table; if they speak while eating they are obliged to go without food the entiro day. The marriage system was next considered. Hindoos do not know, strictly/ what marriages are. Neither the boys nor the girls have anything to do with this matter. Parents make all matches* and the parties have no idea with whom they are going to unite their destinies, unCD til they arnvo at the altar. The marriageable age of girls is from seven to tenj and that of the boys, from thirteen to twenty-five. A girl of thirteen years of age unmarried is considered an old maid past all As the oourt adjourned, the stranger made known his name, and called the attention of the people to the announcement :— "John Taylor will preach here thisevening at eaHy candle-light." The crowd all turned out, and Taylor's sermon equalled, if it did not surpass, the splendor of his forensic effort. This is not exaggeration. I have listened to Webster, Clay, and Calhoun—to Dewey, Tyng and Bacon—bat never heard anything in the form of sublime words, evenly Remotely approximating to the eloquence of John Taylor—massive as a mountain, and wildly rushing as a cataract of fire. As this is the opinion of all who have heard the marvelous man. " Sine die I" said Mr. G——■ to a person standing by, "whero's that?" " Why, that's away in the northern part of the county," said the neighbor. " Hold on, if you please, Mr. Chairman hold on," said the landlord, with great emphasis and earnestness, " hold on, sir ; I'd like to be heard on that question. I have kept a public house now for more than twenty years, and am a poor man. I have always belonged to the party, and never split in my life. This is the most central location in the oounty, and its where wo've always met. Iv'e never had nor asked for an office, and have worked day and night for the party, and now I think sir, it is oontemptible to go and adjourn this Convention way up to Sine Die!" That landlord must have beeu one of the bright lights of tho Democracy. Franklin's Proverbs.—If prido loads the van, beggary beings up the rear. Keep thy shop, and thy shop will koop thee. Ood heals, and tho doctor takes the fees. He that can travel well afoot keeps a good horse. I The worst wheel of the oart, makes th« most noise. He that falls in lore with himself will have no rivals. Tart words make no .friends. A spoonful of honoy will catch moro flies than a gallon of vinegar. Drive thy business, or it will drive thee. Conclusion or a Serman to Young Men.—I want you, my young sinners, to kiss and get married, and devo'-o your time to morality and money making. Then let your homes be provided with such comforts as piety, pickles, pots, and kettles ; brushes, brooms, benevolcnce, bread, virtues, wine, and wisdom. Have these always on hand, and happiness will be with you. Do not drink anything intoxicating, eat moderately, go about business alter breakfast, lounge a little after dinner, chat after tea, and kiss after quarreling. Then all the joy, the peace, and bliss the earth can afford shall be yours until the grave closses over you, and your spirits are borne to a brighter and happier world." Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. Value or Railroads.—At a ball recently given at the Hotel dn Villa, in Paris, a group, among which was the Secretary of Feruk Khan, were discussing the merits of the Euphrates Valley Railroad. " Your oountry," said a lady to the Secretary, " will then be very near to us," ''Yes, if the project should be accomplished."« Do you doubt its accomplishment T" "The difficulties of execution are very great and numerous. " Certainly, but the English engineers will surmount them." BS&.01d Senator Clarke of Rhode Island, speaking of California, and tho oonstant demands of Dr. Gwin, and othors upon the Treasury of the United States, used the homely figure that that Commonwealth reminded him of a cross baby—it was alternately oryingand sucking. ' Beams for Poulty,—Boiled beans arc first-rato food for poultry, particularly laying hens. It is well to mix meal with them, in equal quantities, in the boiling water, and mash all up together. Any dirty, colored, or unsalable beans will make good hen feed, if oooked, and will repay all the trouble. PreTty Fanoy.—When the day begins to go up to Heaven at night, it does not spread a pair of wings and fly aloft like a bird but it just climbs softly upon a ladder. It sets its red sandal on the shrub you have watered these three days, lest it should perish with thirst; thence it steps to the tree wo sit under, and thenco to the ridges of the roof. From the ridge to the chimney, and from the ohimnev to the tall elm ; from the elm to the tall ehuroh spire, and then to the oloud, and then to the threshold of Ileavon; and thus, from round to crimson round, you can see it go as though it walked up red roses. t&~ A good brother ia an Eastern Church had a call to preach. Being unable to read he employed a friend to read the Scripture lesson. On one occasion the chapter selected was Genesis xxii which contains the words—'"These eight did Milnhah bear to Nahor, A&naham's brother." The preacher discoursed therefrom as follows : "Brethern und sisters, let us consider our blessing. Morning and evening our wives and daughters milk the cows and our wants aro all supplied. In the days of giod old Abraham, as you have heard, it took eight to mitk a bear and they did not get much at that." " Oh I" replied the young Persian, with an air of ouaning, "there is one against which their soience must fail; and all these deserts are peopled with ostriohes. Well, these birds, you know, digest iron: they will oat the road up!" Why# a womans tongue like a planet? Because nothing short of tho power that crested it can stop its regular course. The man who perpetrated theabove conundrum has left for California. He was pursued by forty Women, and forty broomsticks were picked up in the harbor after the Teasel left In regard to the dead in Ii the burial ceremonies «. alia, many things have beet tt«m by travelers that VtK burning of the bodies of ♦be funeral pile of the huaCn«d and accounted for by Then a Woman becomes a always remain in that they were never thought treated respectfully, BBd , in view of thesa facto, pre- This custom has recently by the British Govern- said and wrii The following is aunt Betsy's description ofher milkman: "He is the meanest man in the world," she exclaimed.— "He skims his milk on the top, and then ho turns it over and skims it on the bottom." i untruo. The widows Upon . ... band Was explained the facts that widow she must He is base—and that is the one base thing in the universe, to receive favors and render none. In tho order of nature we canuot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom ; but the benefits must bo rendored again, lino for line, deed for deed, to somebody.situation, and Bgk* A man who don't believe the world is growing better aajrs that the time may come when the lion andlambshall lie down together, but if it does the lamb will be inside the Hon. anything of, or many of them, ferred death. Bay The Boston Transcript says, that a young lady after reading attentively the title of a novel called "The Last Man," exclaimed "Bless me if such*n thing were to happen, what would become of the women V' Wo think a moro pertinent inquiry i» "what would become of the poor man?" As blossoms and flowers arc strewed upon the earth by the hand of spring—as the kindness of summer produceth in perfection tho bounties of narvest—so the smiles of pity shed blessings on the ohil • dron of misfortuno. been abolished mont. Idleness and intemperance ate dis-» triples of one master, and their mission is ruin. t&T A correspondent of the Union says:—"Though J Foster 0$ feelings against the Democratic nwiqm for Governor of Pennsylvania, however they may try to bring him out tOTlMfc £ predict that he wUl be found behind 4* ■ Ourtxn." US" Willis describes a lady, whom he saw in an omnibus, as "exoessively pretty, and tho dimples at the corners of her month were so deep and so turned in, like inverted oottuias, that her lips looked like a quotation." A great many drop a tear at the door of poverty, when they should rather drop a sixpence. Kft. The sixteenth child of Gov. Hick* of Maryland vu born at Annapolii on Thursday lost. IQuIt u said that Mr. wifl~"r»- tire" on the lilt of May neat, • millionaire in reality. This line fills out tho eolamn.