The Wabash Courier, Volume 17, Number 49, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 August 1849 — Page 1

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And the home of my childhood's dream I roamed once more by Vernotl's »thore, Through Nature's wilds—% choice, And saw them grow bright 'neath the pencil's

Or listened thy Wisdom's voioe— [light, I sighed—butsoon, o'er the reckless main. We'll rove, we'll rove, those scenes agsin!

IasijUtD, June, 1848.

THE HOT SEASON. BY D*. 0. W. HOLMES.

Tba folks that on the first of Moy, Wore winter coats and hose, Began to say, the first of June, "Good Lord! how hot it grows!" At last two Fahrenheits blew up,

And killed two children small, And one barometer shot dead A tutor with its ball.

Now all day lortg the locust sang Among the leafless trees Three new hotels warped insido out, i'he pumps could only wheeze And ripe old wine that twenty years

Had cobwebbed o'er in vain. Came spouting through the rotten corks, Like Jolly's best champagne!

The Worcester locomotive did Their trip in hslf an hour The Lowell cars ran forty milea

Before they checked the power Roll brimstone soon becami a drug, And ldcofbcbs fell All aaked for ice, but everywhere

Saltpetre was to sell.

Plump men of mornings ordered tights But, ere the scorching moons, Their candle moulds had grown aa loos©

As Cosaack pantaloons! The dogs ran inad—men could not try If Water thev would choose A horse fell dead—he only left

Four red hot rusty shoes.

But soon the people could not bear The slightest hint of fire Allusions to csloric drew

A flood of savage ire The leaves on heat were all torn out Front every book at school. And many blackguarda kicked acd caned,

Because they said—"keep cool!"

Tbe gaslight companies were mobbed, The bakers all were ahot. The penny presa gan to talk

Of lynching Dr. Nott And all about the warehouse stepa Were angry men in droves. Crashing and splintering through the door*

To smash the patent stoves!

The aboliiiqn man and maida Were tanned to such a hue, You scarce could tell them from their friends.

Unless their eyes were blue And when I left, society Had burst its ancient guards. And Brattle street and Temple Pl»*

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MORTALITY IN ST. LOUIS.—The Reveille publishes a statistical table of the mortality iu St. Louis from the fd day of January, 1849, to the 9th of 1849. taken from tho official reports of the City Register. The aggregate num. ber of interments during that penMi has been $,537, of which 3,262 were deaths from cholera. This shows a mortality of nearly 1000 per month, sweeping off a number sufficient to people a consid erable city in half a year-

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(Written in the Groves of Blanuy Tracing each wild and beauteous path In Blarney's winding Groves, Tbe ivied caves, the mose-clsd rocks

Where oft the Fairy roves Watching the limpid silver rilla Gushing in gladsome play From the emerald sides of a hundred hills,

Kissed by the golden my— *Tl« there, 'tis there, where the Bard should dwell. Brother, I've paused and prized thee well!

Gazing on scenes surpassing fair, From tbte battlements frowning height, Worthy thto Artist's fondest care—

So rich, so sdft, so bright Seas dashing Ibdm to their mountain homeLakes calm in the daisied vale. Reflecting but heaven's cerulean dome,

And wooed by the balmy gale 1 ceased to pine at my huhible lot, Till I turned, my brother, and found thee not!

Then to America's forest shade, By famed Potomac's stream, Thought carried mcback to the Indian glade,

Eatre of a Country School Teacher into the City of New York. In obedience to the demand of a long since established custom, making it the duty of those who cater for the press, to pay particular attention to such characters as may be of general interest, we take this opportunity to "dot down" a few items with reference to a certain pedagogue, whose origin is traced to county, New York. We do not pretend, however, to so much power of rhetoric or description, as would be necessary to render even meagr^ justice to the subject of this narrative. Though each sentence was but a delicate fold in the most magnificent drapery of eloquence, we should fail in this attempt, to place our hero upon that eminence in public esteem, which is justly his due. But let us delay no longer, the introduction of so important a personage tp the patient reader.

Among the various incidents of note which occurred in 1822. in the State of New Yurk, was that of the birth of a male child and, to use the language of many old matrons of the vicinity, "niver was such a lad born before." His sparkling black eyes and towering forehead, were marks of distinction often alluded to by the doting parents, to say nothing of a Roman nose and a slightly curled lip, which were set down as illustrative of decision of character.

Let us skip over a few years, and again introduce the bud of promise at the age of eighteen. He had stood at the head of his class for two winters past, and how long he would have maintained this mark of improvement, there is no telliug, had not the eood people of the vicinity been inspired with the true spirit of progression, and determined to have a school teacher out of their midst. The trustees, after due deliberation, duly installed our young hopeful tutor and instructor at the old district school house. For two short years he sustained himself with honor, in this elevated sphere, when he determined to travel and bidding adieu to friends, and that relic of his early distinction, where romping girls and boys had been long subjected to his guidance, both in manners and mind, he embarked for the city of New York, and in a few days was landed at a pier on the North River. Having never beheld a city before, it was not the least surprising that he should be a little daunted at the sight of so much mngnficence. But it was not his turn to remain long undecided. Mounting himself upon the back end of a private carriage then passing, drawn by a pair of splendid grays, he was whirled up Broadway in a most perfect state of unconcern, much to tho amusement of the passing crowd. The vehicle, in its perigrinations, reacheJ street, where he dismounted, and casting a grateful look at the driver, strolled along the side-walk until the door of No. —, labelled BOARDING, attracted his attention. VVhileexamining the premises, a handsome silver knob caught his eye, and which he grasped firmly, evidently for the purpose of more minutely examining it, when, to his surprise, the tinkling sound of a bell within, caused him to start back with amazement. He was puzzling his poor brain to tell what it .-ill meant, when a sprightly chambermaid threw open the hall door, in obedience to his unconscious summons, and discovered & hale six footer, with a knapsack thrown carelessly over one shoulder, his "pedal extrem~ it its," to use a modest term, about three feet astride, taking up the whole doorstep, and both hands up to his elbows in his britches pockets. "Do you wish to see the lady of the house, sir," demanded the girl with as much gravity as she could command. "Wall, guess don't care if 1 du," was the response, and off went Bridget, only having time to hear the following soliloquy: "Tamal smart gal that. Guess they're nice folks here and can appreciate a chap of larnin."

Bridget was not more than nut of sight, when the stranger entered the hall, and soon ushered himself into the parlor, amid a trio of young ladies, disposed of his knapsack by placing it in the corner behind the door, soated himself and took off one over-shoe and gave it a toss which sent it over the heads of the ladies into another corner, and then the other was sent into the corner just opposite.— Thus relieved, he perched both heels upon the back of a chair, and struck op that old favorite, "Yankee Doodle." as it was whistled in olden times, before notes, bars, and quavers were introduced. It was thus employed that thegood hostess found her guest. She heard his story and protestation* of being the second son of a good old honest farmer, of ... county, and ordered his effects gathered up and stowed carefully away in an eight by ten garret room, which was assigned him as a sleeping apartment. We pass over many amusing scenes which actually were enacted, between his arrival and bedtime, only pausing to relate tbe last occurrence tf the evening.

The household, boardersand all,were loth to retire even as early as usual, because of an anticipation, heightened by the movements of the elephant, that something ridi beyond reasonable expectations, was yet to be brought upon the carpet. They were not destined to long suspense. Tbe animal toon began to show «igoa of uneasiness, and talk much of his "raosl" and* in tbe midst of his impatience, threw off both shoes and stockings, produced a monstrous jack knife, and commenced paring his hoofs after tbe latest fashion. Tbe reader need not be told that the distinguished guest retired amid roars of laughter* or that tbe imprtssiona made

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by his appearance in a New York community, have never been forgotten. w. A. H.

P. S. We defy the Buckeye State, or any Western State, to produce a specimen of humanity equal to him whom we have given but a faint idea of.

A Daughter of Hungary.

The Liverpool correspondent of the N. Y. Morning Star gives the accompanying description of the brave conduct of one of the women of Hungary, while lighting in the ranks: •I heard a most romantic story from an Austrian officer who had just returned on leave from an Austrian Dragoon Regiment—a young Iri^h gentleman of good family, who won laurels for his bravery in the Sardinian affair last year, and who lost an arm in one of the engagements in Lotnbardy. Before he left Vienna, a brother officer told him that in carrying the columns of his regiment (the 21st) in one of the late engagements they charged a company of Magyar riflemen to dislodge them from a certain pass. During the charge a young soldier with hands as delicate as a lady's and skin as fair as a lilly. seized the staff of his colors, and made a desperate effort to pull it out of his hand. The Austrian officer made a cut at the wrist of his opponent, which disabled his right arm. The delicate young warrior seized the staff again with the left hand, and made another attempt to deprive him of his colors.— In this he failed and was taken prisoner. When the right arm was unstripped to be dressed by the surgeon, it was found to belong to a beautiful girl of noble blood, who fought in the ranks of her brother's regiment.

WOMAN AND MARRIAGE.—If there is a tie deemed sacred on esfth, and holy in a brighter land, it is that which binds man to his kindred spirit to become as one in unity and love and yet it rarely happens that he properly appreciates the kindness and sincerity of the female heart, by setting a right value on a gem so productive of happiness to the possessor. There is nothing in life so pure and devoted as the unquenchable love of woman. More priceless than the gems of Golconda, and more devout than the idolatry of Mecca, is the unsealed and gushing tenderness which flows from the fount of the female heart.

It may here with propriety be asked, what so often enhances the sorrows of the female heart, causing many anxious days and sleepless nights? Is it not the inconstancy of man? For whose sake does she depart from her kindred, and bid adieu to the home of childhood? For whom does she leave the loved father, and the doling mother, and the sweet sisters who played with her infancy? To whom does she cling with fond embrace, when all but she have forsaken him?

FROM THE GERMAN OF JEAN PAUL.— The srinislike God, sending abroad life, beauty and happiness and the stars like human souls, for all their glory comes from the sun.

Does not the echo in the sea shell tell of the worm which once inhabited it and shall not man's good deeds live after him and sing his praise

The mind makes all the beauty on earth, as the sun all in the heavens. What is the universe but a hand flung in space pointing always with extended finger unto God

The pitying tears and fond smiles of woman, are like the showers and sunshine of spring alas I that unlike them she should often miss her merited reward—the sweet flowers of affection.

How like rain is the human heart— having no beauty in itself, but beneath the smile of God showing forth with all the rainbow's glory or how like a star, which though but dust, can yet be cherished into a semblance of the fountain of its light.

The songs of birds, and the life of man, are both brief, both soul-filled, and both, as they end, leave behind whispers of heaven.

Two young ladies, beautiful and accomplished—Mary Louisa and Virginia Star, one 19 the other 21 years of age— were bo«h engaged UJ be married on Monday last. On the Saturday night previous both went to Iloboken. and there imprudently partook of ice creams, strawberries, and other fruits. The hour appointed for the wedding found both of them cold in death, and their bridal garments for a winding sheet.—N. Y. iBx.

SIFTOOLAK INCIDENT.—In the cemetery occupied by oer forces during the siege of Vera Crui.is a neat chapel, with all its ornaments, clothing, etc. Although our men went in and out at pleasure, not an article was displaced by tbem. The Mexican batteries fired into it. however, and a shot grazed the head of the figure of the Saviour, displacing tbe crown of thorns, which fell at the feet of the figure.

THE BLUSH.—What a very mysterious thing is the blush upon the humtn face! How truth telling, how unaccountable, that a single word, a thought,a look, should bring the unimitable color to the cheeks, tike the tints of a summer sunset upon the sky. And only in the face it is seen the hand, the feet, do not turn red in modesty, or in guilt only the face sbows ttaelf the mirror of the soul. And in the blush how much is to be learned of modesty, of consciousness, of praise, of anger, oi* guilt, of sensibility The woman without the Mush at times upon her cheek, the woman no more! for with it has departed the parity of her soul.

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Jenks and California.

•ril tell you what it is my dear,' said our friend Jenks, to his wife one evening after they had retired to bed, I atn positively in favor of this California business.' 'J**. "V" •There you go agitTn:rs1ie replied, 'I never saw any one nkeyou.' •Well now don't get excited. We can talk over this matter dispassionately,

'Now, Mr. Jenks, I can tell you once for all

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p'shaw,' exclaimed our friend.

'Where is the use of one's working one's soul out here, for a bare living, when by going to California, one may clear a fortune in a year or two, and come back to his friends and family to enjoy it.' 'Now stop,'said the wife'I wont' permit you to talk in this way. Your are a married man, and as such you have no business to take it into your head to go to California, or any where else without your wife.' 'Come, come, now, Mrs. Jerilts.!i,ii You know well enough

•Yes, I do know well enough that any woman is a fool who will——' 'Ah, my love!' 'Oh, go along! Dont talk to me of love! A man who is so whimsical!— You're all the time speculating. The other day you wanted an office—of another occasion you was going to get up a Life Insurance Company because you thought they made a great deal of money with very little trouble, then you got the ridiculous notion in your head to start a newspaper, just as if more than two thirds of the papers don't break down after the first year or two—then you were going to set up a town in Jersey, when you know how many poor men have beggared themselves and families in trying to build up this State of Jersey •All fools my dear—a set of jacks.— Any man, I don't care who he is, with a thimble full of brains, can start a town and make a fortune by the enterprise.' 'Then,' resumed Mrs. Jenks. who paid no attention to this outburst of her husband—'then you wanted to buy a steamboat and run her against a regular line •Yes, and I could have cleared a a fortune a: it in a few years—but you wouldn't hear to •Just as if,' continued Mrs. Jenks,'you could hold up against a regular organized company—they rich and you poor.' •Couldn't I have interested others? And would not the whole public have run with us? We would have put the fare down, and thrown in a dinner or a lunch, or given a gold pencil case as a premium to the largest number of passengers, or something of that sort, I tell you, we would have brought that odious monopoly to its knees. We'd made the monopoly howl, to use the strong language of Dr. Bird.' •But suppose they'd made you howl —how then.' •Now where's the use in talking that way? You're enough to make a man nervous.' 'Yes, and your enough to drive one crazy with your visionary schemes.' •Now, my dear,' expostulated our amiable friend, 'that's going a little too far.' •Not half so far as you would like to go. What am 1 to do if you go to California?' 'Why, you could go home, could'nt you?' •Yes, I could, but I won't,' she sharply replied. 'You will not?' 'No! I will not that's a settled ease. The world shall not laugh at me and say she had to go home before she was married a year.' 'What will you do then?' 'Do? Mr. Jenks,' she exclaimed, Mr. Jenks? 'What my dear?' replied our friend sitting bolt upright in the bed. 'Look at me,' said she impressively, raising herself upon her elbow and shaking her finger at him—'You shall stay where you are, or if you go, I'll go with you.' •Nonsense, Mrs. Jenks.? •Common sense. Mr. Jenks.' •Pooh, Mrs. Jenksl' 'Pooh for you Mr. Jenks!' •Your crazy, Mrs. Jenks.' •We're well paired, Mr. Jenks.'

At this juncture our friend began to whistle'Hail Columbia,' whilst his wife vigorously hummed an appropriate air. After a lapse of five or ten minutes, Jenks said— •But. my dear, really now, wouldn't you advise me to go to California?' •No,' she replied with a sob, 'you know I wouldn't, and you area bad man, so you are, to torment me in this way in my present critical state of health. You know how weak 1 am, and if mother should—oh

Now stop! Don't go oft In that way. 1 thought I could easily make a fortune in California. Of course I won't go if you don't. wish it. Come, now don't cry.' •You're area hard-beartod man •Now. my dear •Bather——'' •Well, there say no morel* •And you won't indulge in any more speculations!' •No, 1 will not. •Now 1 like you for that. If you were a single man, I would not object to your going to California. Single men may do as they please, but, it is the duty of husbands, if possible, to remain at home. And besides this passion for wealth it lamentable in mankind. As kind old unele Tom says, 'contentmecrt

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not riches, makes one truly happy.' Here the whispering became indistinct, and, it is believed that Jenks, notwithstanding his promise to the contrary. did actually steal off and go to California that night—in a dream,

On some future occasion we may relate all Jenks heard and saw in the gold region.

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Breach of Promise of Marriage Iff a Married Man. Wild vs. Harris.—At the Court of Common Pleas, last week, this case was argued before the judges. The plaintiff, a widow about thirty years of age, brought an action against the defendant, who is a machine maker, nnd a married man with four children, for breach of promise of marriage. The action was tried before Mr. Justice Maule, on the 19th of April last, when it appeared that the defendant contracted with the London and Birmingham Railway company to erect the telegraah posts on their line, and that in the month of January. 1848, he went to superintend the workman employed for that purpose. He took lodgings at the plaintiff's house, and becoming intimate with her in a short time offered her marriage. The plaintiff, not knowing him to be a married man, accepted his offer.

In the month of February he left Birmingham, saying he had been sent for on business, and as he did not return or communicate with her, the plaintiff made inquiries after him, and discovered that he was a married man with a family. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. with j£lO damages. Now the defendant's counsel moved for a rule calling upon the plaintiff to show cause why the judgment should not be arrested, on the ground that the contract between the parties was void, inasmuch as, the defendant being a married man, it was not in the power of the plaintiff to perform her promise to marry him, and consequently the defendant's promise was made without legal consideration. The Lord Chief Justice said the court was of opinion that the defendaut could not set up his own fraudulent concealment of his marriage to obtain a discharge froin the responsibility of the promise made by him. The verdict of the jury giving the widow £10 damages was, therefore, confirmed.—English paper.

Singular Cholera Test.

In consequence of a dispute among the medical men at Petersburgh, respecting the contagious or non-contngious character of cholera, the Czar of Russia adopted the following method to decide the question: Four murderers, sentenced to death, were puton a bed lately occupied by four cholera patients who had died, and yet the murderers did not take the disease. It was then announced to the murderers that they were about being placed on beds on which four persons died of malignant cholera, and that if they escaped the disease their lives would be spared but instead of cholera beds they were put on beds which had not been occupied by diseased persons, and yet such was the effect of fear that the four died within three days.

THE EAST WIND.—Since I committed to the press my recent speculations on the character and influence of the East Wind, my attention has been directed to the fact, that this wind is considered in Philadelphia, New York and Boston, more productive of disease, than any other one that blows—that Eugene S 'e. in his Mysteries of Paris, states distinc ly that the recurrence of easterly winds was always found to aggravate the mortality of cholera in 1833—and more especially I have been called to notice the coincidence with easterly winds, prevalent for the larger share of the past two months, with the alarming extent to which our wheat crop—until that period, uncommonly promising—has been stricken with rust.—Cist's Advertiser.

To KEEP FISH ALIVE.—The London Literary Gazette has the following in relation to keeping fish alive:

Those worthy individuals who take delight in Izaak Walton's art who, moreover, are in the habit of sending the result of their sports to their epicurean acquaintances, must learn an indispensable piece of information, viz: how to keep fish fresh. This may be done by soaking the soft part of bread in brandy, and inserting it into the gill of the fish while it is yet alive, afterwards sprinkling it over with brandy. Thus prepared and carefully packed in straw, the fish will keep alive ten or twelve days, as may be proved by putting it in fresh water at the end of that time, when, after a few hours' immersion, it will recover from its protracted drunkenness-

Are you in trouble Don't tell it to every person you meet. Not one in a hundred will sympathize with you.— Some may speak a word of comfort, to turn away and ridicule you, but precious few will laugh less freely, or engage with less earnestness in the business of life. Troubles in nine cases out of ten, are like threatening clouds which soon vanish.

RUSTIC COURTSHIP.—At a rustic mer-ry-making. Roger was seated facing Patty, enamored of her beiuiy, and stung by the arrows of the little god, ha only vented his passion in sly looks, and now and then touching Patty's toe with his foot under the table. Patty either fearing that the purity of her hose might be soiled, or determined to make the youth express a passion which he appeared ttt warmly to feel, at length exclaimed with spirit: Mf you love me, tell m6so but don't dirty my stockings

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Honey-Mbon Conversation. A correspondent of an exchange, writing from Bfandywine Springs, gives the following report of a conversation between a newly married couple from Our State. There ijs a depth of affeCtiori in it which it is quite refreshing to contemplate: ••William—dear William," replied the new husband, returning with interest the expressive glances of his spouse •Dear William!' •Adored Eliza!' I -Swget flatterer!' 'Angelic creature!'

•Dear—dear William, pkrdori me— but do you think a short walk would hurt us, as the divine Willis says?' •1 fear, loveliest of thy $ex, thtu you may be fatigued.' 'Fear not, dearest.' •Heavenly emanatio'n—bright dreams of my precarious existence—but I cannot help fearing.' 'Sweet William—' ,'r.' 'Celestial Eliza!'

Here they fell to ^iollfit kissing, which lasted about fifteen minutes. Almost breathless the lady exclaimed— 'William, dear William, why are you so sweet? Oh, the joy, the ecstacy of wedded bliss! Best beloved, will you ever lave me thus?' 'By yonder fearful—I say, tremendous orb—I swear!' he exclaimed, pointing to the setting sun. 'And as a memento of our wedding day, will you yearly bring me here— will you-cherished idol?' •Yes, my only pet—my life—^my love —I will bring you here every year—if my capital holds out!' •Oh bravest and best of thy noble sex, talk not of capital in this hour of bl'lSS.'

How much' longer they talked the writer cannot say, for he was called at this moment io welcome some friends from Maryland But he is firmly of the opinion that none but married people know what real happiness is. While the above happy couple were talking, he felt as if immersed in molasses, and every thitig since has looked, felt, and smelled sweeter.

THE DEMON BIRD.—There is a bird in Ceylon, which the natives call ularna, or the demon bird, which utters the most loud and ear*piercing screams, strongly resembliug the shrieks of a human being in severe bodily agony.— This bird's cries they say, invariably preclude misfortune, sickness or death, and are regarded by them as a certain token of coming evil. The superstitious natives believe they can avert the evil which this bird predicts, by uttering certain words of defiance, to the effect that neither they nor any of their household will heed the summons of the bird, or the demon who sent it. Although the wailings of the ulama are frequently heard in the interior, the natives assert that it has never been distinctly seen or captured and they firmly believe that it is one of the evil spirits which haunt their island. From the cry, we presume this bird to be a species of owl, as there are many varieties of the tribe in Ceylon. Some of these birds are exceedingly large, and we heard from a man of undoubted veracity, that hb had shot an owl in the interior, which measured across the expanded wings, five feet two and a half inches.

A DELICATE LIBEL.—A quiet elderly gentleman found himself one of four travellers in a railway carriage. Tlte other three were ladies, who talked from the beginning to the end of the journey—kept up, in fact, so lengthened a conversation, that it wes exactly 200 miles long! io

When nearly at the termlnls, the most voluble of the 1 adiete expressed a hope to the gentleman that the incessant colloquy had not disturbed him. "By no means, madam," slfcid he. politely "I've been married exactly five-and-twenty years-"

•Don't grumble Bill, there's a good time coming.' said a gentleman to a negro yesterday, who was up to his eyes

in business, storing freight on the cars at the Pontcbartrain Railroad depot. •Yes. Masser,' said Bill, 'but it is a long time a coming'! Who-wh-o-y doesen't you send the locomotive for it, and fetch it here at once ?'—N. O. DelLa. •ji

•'What is the chief use of bread?" asked an examiner nt a recent school examination. "The chief use of bread," answered the urchin, apparently astonished at the simplicity of the inquiry, "the chief use of bread is to spread buta a

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I'he Prayer of Asb#ik, It is said of Dr. Franklin, that durin his lohg residence in Paris, being invite to a party of the Mobility, where most of the court, and couqiers lverfe present, he produced a great Sdhstftfon by one of his bold movements, and gained great applause for his ingehuity.

According to the cUstom of that age and country, the nobles, after the usual ceremonies of thfei evening were over, sat down to a free and promiscuous conversation. Christianity was then the great topic. The church was always ridiculed, and the bible was treated with unsparing severity. Growing warmer and warmer in their sarcastic remarks, one great lord commanded, for a moment, universal attention, by his asserting in a round voice, th6t the bible was nbtonly a piece of arrant deception, but totally devoid of literary merit. Although the entire company of Frenchmen nodded a hearty assent to the sentence, Franklin gave no signs of approval. Being at that time court favorite, his companions could not bear even a tacit reproof from a man of his weight of influence4 Thev all.appealqd to him for his opinion*.....

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Franklin, in one of his peculiar ways, replied, that he was hdrdly prepared to give them a suitable answer, as hi& mind had been running on the merits of anew book of rare excellence which he had just happened to fall in with at one of the city book stores and as tjtey had pleased id mtike allusion to the literary character of the bible, perhaps it might interest theim to compare With that old volume the merits of his new prize. If so. he would read them a short section. All were eaget to have the Doctor feiad a portion of his rare book. lit very grave and sincere manher, he took an old book from his coat pocket, a"nd with propriety of utterance read to them a poem.

Th6 poem hsfd its effect. The admiring listeners pronounced ,it the best they had ever heard read. "That is pretty,' said one. "That is sublimity." said another. "It has not its superior in the world," was the unanirhous opinion.— They all wished to know the name of the new work,

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A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial says: There is an old lady in this city, who says the reason why the cholera hangs on so long is, that the landlords are too stubborn to lower the rents. 8he says that in 1832, the moment they lowered them, the cholera disappeared1* "Now if this be the case. I would suggesf that the landlords lower the rents immediately.

At breakfast Old Roger, throwing down the newspaper with violence, cxclaiined, *Dr—n that crevasse!' 'What did you say asked the landlady with a look of hdrr6r. 'Oh,' said he.'1 merely iuquired why they don't dam that crevasse at New Orleans.' There's been nothing else in this paper for six os to os

A NEW YANKEE INVENTION.—A patent is about to be secured for a new style of spring Cushions, mattresses, etc., to be stuffed witfc Jfrvfe gi^ss-Hoppers.

whether that was a

specimen of its contents. "Certainly, gentlemen," said the Doctor, smiling at his triumph, "my book is full of such passages. It is no other than your good-for-nothing bible and I have read to you the prayer of the prophet

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ELECTRICITY AND

Habak-,

"UK. ii iUllblBlra Let every reader learn wisdom from this incident, and learn to Appreciaie the unequalled sublimities of the bible.

MANUFACTURE OF NEEDLES—CURIOUS PROCESS.—In the manufacture of needlds the slender bars* of steel 'Are forged ollt by a succession of hammer^, each one less in weight and quicker in stroke than its predecessor, as the motion of the hammer is alternating, the dislocating effects of its momentum whett thrown into rapid vibration is enormous, but for the contrivance of giving the hammer a double faoe, and causing it to strike every time it rises against a block of steel abovd, from which it is thrown back upon the anvil. The vi» bration is thus produced by-a series of rebounds between the two opposing surfaces. Five hundred strokes can thus be made in a minute* whilo the power is greatly economised and the strain upon the stalk and axle are nearly annihilated.

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CHOLEKA.—WA

are informed that an electrical machine in this city, upon which daily experiments have been mrfde for some time, has for the six weeks, during which the cholera has prevailed, given not the slightest token of any electricity in the atmosphere. The performances in the machine have been watched with intense interest, and great was the delight yesterday, when, on making the customary trials, the indications of an appreciable though minute portion of the fluid were perceived. It is believed that if this continues and increases thtft thfi cholera will at once subside. The Connexion between electricity and epidemic diseases seems to be fully established, and we hope that any of Our* scientific? men who have been observing the con-, dition of the atmosphere will" maker known tfio results of their experiments. —Philad. bulletin,. July l4%mm

WoKK.-*-Faiher

Mathew's

mission to Brooklyn was attended with grand success. He labored in the city only five days, and administered the pledge to 7,600 persons Tie was to commence his labors fn New York on the 17th.

The following are infallible recipesv To make pi—play at Blind Man^s Buff in a printing oflice. To have music at dinner—tell your urife that she is not so handsome as the lady who lives across the way. To save butter—rjnake, it so sIt that no body can eat it!

PRACTICAL.—A

preacher was called

upon by some of his congregation id pray for

rain,

of which the crops stood

in great need. His reply wAs, that he would pray if the congregation desired it, but he was very sure tt would not rain until the wind shifted^ r:? oU

A ship and two brigs

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Killed a sow and two pigs, And hit an old goose on the head.— Bombardment of Stoningtou.isp

Benj. Merritt, one of the defenders of Stonington in the last war, has been removed from the light house on CajStain'r Island, for political reasons only.1—Boston Post-