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Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-02-11

NEAL Dow. the author of the "Maine
Liquor Law" IS in this State operating in
favor of his darling measure. tie lectured
in Spring Garden, Philadelphia, on that
subject, on Thursday night last.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-02-11
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-09

THE BUSINESS HABITS OF THE QrEEN,
A few days ago her Majesty had ordered a
piano forte for one of the royal children, to
be sent from London makers to Wind
sor, and it not arriving as speedily as she
expected she summoned the Controller Of
the Household to know the reason Why
please your Majesty, it has arrived" said
Cecil Foster, who breads the arithmetical
irritability of the British lion, shut there Is
15s. Cd. carriage to pay, and it has not
been unpacked YETI Then pack it back
again" exclaimed Vic. Reg. Fid. Def. Bri-
tann.arum Del Gratia adding, "were a
private customer they would have been
dad to send 1t free, and they shall not i'm
pose on Queen" Back accordingly went
the instrument which has never left of
playing the Stomach-Ache-O Overture ever
Since, at least in the Imagination of the
manufacturers. Since her return from the
North, also, she has found out that Castle
Coal cellars are by no means SO we'll off in
the matter of economic caloric as the bills
for that item led her to suppose and the
discovery exploded in fare up that made
the place considerably too hot for those
who had undertaken to provide comforta.
BILE freside by the domestic hearth of rega
Windsors stately Correspondence
of Liverpooi paper. 81
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-09

BY W. B. B.
Respectfully dedicated to the Wheeling Guests.
Oh! the great Railroad Chief is come, from the
East,
To Wheeling's proud bridal-her gay marriage
.Bp,. save his fierce war steed, all peaceful his
train;
His object is uuion-his weapon champage;
For, never was hero so bent to unite
The East with the West, as this spruce, gallant
Knight.
He stopped not for mOuntain,--he stayed not Tor
stream,
His pathway was iron-his motive was steam,
He cnssed the broad rivers, where bridge was I'm
known
Till hc babe them be spauned, and 10! 1t was
done.
But when he alighted at Wheeling's wide gate,
The Bride was eaeasy,-the Hempteld was late,
For laggard, in action-a craven, In schemes,
Had been woong this belle Of our bright Western
streams.
So boldly he entered the City's great hall,
There the guests were assembled, Mayor, Coon-
Gil, and all;
Then spake the Brides father; the towns civil
Lord
For the poor doubling sulter said never word
S.Oh come you in mirth, here,-or come you to
rue ~
The loss of the maiden we destined for you 2"
"Once pledged to your daughter, my suit not de-
MED,
I dallied SO lonp, others claimed her for bride;
And now am come, with this first love of mine
To partake of her feast, drink deep of her wine
There are bellies of the river, and one, not atar,
Now waiting the whistle Of my iron car
rrhe Bride spread the banquet,-the Knight att
his fill,
He drank of the wine, and he drank with will
She led TO her bridge, and, blashlng began
To tell of her boat she had chrstened Tom Swan;
He took her fair hand, ere his rival could bar,
,"Let us show them trick, ala yOhng Lochlnvar.'
So yvilv his accents.-so tempting her dower,
One Glance was enough. aud her conquest secure
While the neighbors did fret, and the suitors grew
pale,
And the poor. would-be bridegroom did nothing
but quail;
And the bridesnadens whispered each other' a
side,
ATS plain this bold stranger will lead off thu
BRIDE"
VDne speech 10 tne pityOI-OuC toao' oS 'O''''
fIe has ordered his Car, and is off to the East.
But the Bride has no fears, as she babe him adleu
For she knew his embrace not more ardent thar
true;
And she holds him besides, in a strong iron chain
And has high pressure steam, to restore HIM again
There was wonder and sadness on more than one
brow
PENNSYLVANIA, Ohio, oh where are ye new!
Poor Pittsburg is flung for her Steamboats, ne
more,
Can whistle, in scorn, as they pass Wheeling
shore.
No chimnies to foster-uo action TO bring,
For flat-boat, she'll find, will soon be the thing
She may war on our bridge, yet ask one tor her
self,
But her trade, Of the river, is laid on the shelf
So daring in effort,-so prompt with the fair,
Have you e'er heard of Knight who with this may
compare?
ELLENDALE, January, 1858.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-09
A Novel Manufacfoiy.

We find the following curious descrip.
ton of the manner in which ladies muffs
are manufactured in London, In magazine
before us. The writer gives the following
as the manner in which the "rubbing" pro-
cess the skins used for ladies' muffs, boas,
&C., Is conducteds
The workmen are ranged IN tubs along
the sides of an apartment or shed, or amy
kind of clubhouse, in yard, or some seclu-
ded spot in London. Every tubber, with
the exception of those who may be unwell
and who may then wear a loose Jacket,
which, however, tells against tine etficien-
cy of his works altogether naked! The
tub IN which The man works, reaches to
his waist, and thick yellowlsh cloth is
thrown over its top, which the workman
keeps, every now and then, gathering a.
bout him, and which lie can draw about
like bag, so that while at his labor, the
upper part of his body alone is visible:A
&c stranger, the effect of visit to such
a workshop, to which it is not easy to gain
admlftance, is startling. Pale, brown, and
hrsute men, move up and down in their
tubs, stamping and alternating their feet
with little cessation sometimes in silence,
and in many cases with little or no expires.
sion in their faces. Each of these men are
''tubbing," that Is, he is treadIng Or stamp
ing, first upon one feet ard then on tafe
other, on SKINS which are the compliments
cf has tabs. These skins are for the sam,ly
of fariers who employ the master SKIN
dressers. There is no water or other fluid
used in Tubing, but the Aeshy part Of the
skins are all battered, and with the cheap
est butter or scrapings, and in some places
rancid butter, when such things are pur.
chasable in sufficient quantity. Saw dus'
Is used, which gives the butter frmel
tread, and tends to aid, by its friction, in
securing the skin. Upon these tubbec
skins, so prepared, the men tread for lone
time-and the pespiration which some
times pours from then. is considered bettel
and reader for the cure of the skins THAI
any butter OF other fatty compound, which
are looked upon as merely auxiliary tt
what oozes from the workman's body
And in this way meas sweat is forced fol
hoars together into the skinny part Of thu
fwrs which are to be ladies' muffs, boas ant
tppets. -r
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-09
MISCELLANY.
From The Home Journal
The Spectre Bridegroom

MANY have read the story OF the spectre
bridegroom, and admired the humorous I'M
asination which could narrate in so pleas.
ing manner such as an amusing history
while il takes from the wonder OF the read
er, it perhaps will add little TO the inter-
est of the story, to learn that it was found
ed on facts. and really happened IN the sill
ly court days of Louis XIV of France.
Besenval, courtier IN the latter parts of
the reign of this weak monarch, and his
good natured but unfortupate successor, re-
iaies The story in this wise:
M. de st. Andre, an employee of the
government, who afterwards rose to the
rank of Lieutenant General, on one coca
sion took passage in one of the public con-
geyances from Strasburg for Paris. On
the way thither. he made the acquaintance
of Young man, whose name | have fer
sstten, who was travelling the same road.
/ recollect this M. st. Andre, says Besen-
val. He was tall man of fine appearance
with an austere manner, never relaxing in
to laugh this demeanor gave partcu-
lar zesi to an extrayagant fondness for fua,
in which he continually iDdu!ged.
Fisding himself in company with the
young man, they soon became Intimate
friends, and were mutually informed OF all
the family, and of each other. M. st. An
DIRE learned from his new friend, that he
was thea on his way to marry a rich heir
ess, the only daughter OF an especial friend
of his father. The less young people agree
upon subjects of minor Importance the
more they are likely to dwell upon such
matters as interest them seriously. nj. de
st. Andre thus became intimately acquaint-
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-09


trenchment strong, against ahundred argu'
ments. II is true also, that religious men
in general, have been accustomed to talk
gloomily of the present state. do no
mean such religious men, as the wise and
holy saints Of old. Let the rejoicing apos-
ties, rejoicing in the midst ofthc greatest ca
Flamities let the mild .cheerfulness o. their
divine Master stand 4smdnuments against
the perversions Of lstef times. 1t has
strangely come to be thought mark of
great piety towards God to disparage if not
to despise the state which he has ordained
for us and the claims of this world have
been absurdly set up, not in comparison,
but IN competition, with the claims Of an
other, as if both were not parts Of our sys.
tenn as if man could not make the best
of this world and of another at the same
time; as if we should learn 10 think better
of other works and Cispensations of God,
by thinking meanly of these. Jesus and
his apostles did not teach us to contemn
our present condition. They taught that
every creature and every appointment of
God, is good and to be received thankfully.
They did not look upon life, as SO much
time lost they did not regard its employ
ments as trines unworthy of immortal be-
lngs they did not tell their followers, TO
fold their arms, as If in disdain OF their
state and species but it is evident they
looked sobery and cheerfully upon the
world, as. the theatre of worthy action, of
exalted usefulness aud Of rational and in
rocent enjoyment.
Let him, then, who says this life is not a
blessing; let him who levels his satire at
humanity and human existence, as mean
and contemplate; let him, who with the
pInlosophic pride Of a Fotaire or Gibbon
looks upon this world as the habitation OF a
miserable race, fit only for mockery and
scom; or who with the religious melancholy
of Thomas Kempis or Braiaard, over
shadows this world with the gloom OF his
till it seems dungeon or
pasoa which has no blessing to offer but
escape from it--let all such consider that
they are extinguishing the primal light
of faith and hope and happiness. If life is
not blessing, If the world is not soodly
world, If residence in 1t is not favored
condition, ther religion has lost its basis,
truth its foundation IN the goodness of God;
then it matters not what else is true or not
true; speculation is vain and faith is VAN;
and all that pertains to man's highest be-
ing is whelmed in the ruins Of misanthro-
py, melancholy and despair.
The argument in this view is well de-
serving of attention. Considereda as mere
Iy speculative point, it is one nevertheless
on which every thing hangs. And this in
deed is the consideration, which have
been stating--that the whole superstruc'
lure Of religious truth is based upon this
foundation truth, that life is blessing.
(Concauded neat treek.)
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-09
mz, The Alexandria, Va, Gazette learns

as- The Alexandria, Va, Gazette learns
that variety of what are called spiritual
manifestations" took place at the house OF
the Postmaster General in Washington, the
other evening, in the presence Of Hon John
Bell, Gov. Davis, Prof. Henry and other
gentleman. Tables moved without appa-
rent agency, danced to the tune of f"Yankse
Dondle," and otherwise gave evidence OF
being possessed by some extraordinary IN
nuence. The Ga.ele does not understand
that any prolessed ghost seer or medium
vas present. .H .1
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-09
TO Parents.

lie who checks child with terror,
Stops its play and stills its song,
Not alone commits an error,
Bat a great and moral wrong.
Give it play and never fear il,
Active life is no defect;
Never, aeger, break its spirit,
Curb it osiy to direct.
Would you stop the flowing river,
Thinking it would cease to how4
Onward it mast aow forever;
Better teach it where to go.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-09

rs A curious "strike' has taken place
in Cleveland. The lawyers Of that city
have banded together and increased their
fee bill several per cent. The people have
therefore determined to discontinue going to
law.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-09
From the ". Y Evening Post.
Affecdote Of Webster.

There Is another ahecdote Of Webster
which has Just been told me, and which il
worth preserving. Just before he died, ant
after his recovery was despaired of, one o
his physicians approached his bedside ant
asked how he found himself. II feel like
the Jackdaw in the Church Steeple," wa
the strange reply. The physician with
drew sadly from the bedside to another par
of the room, where some members of the
family were standing together, and, shaking
his head, confessed his apprehensions tha
the brain of the dying statesman was affect
ed, that the stately oak was perishing d
the top. He could see no method in the
answer which his question had received
One of the ladies present, who knew Mr.
Webster better, did not believe his MIND
was wandering, and quietly stepping to the
bedside, asked him what he meant by say.
ing he felt like the jackdaw in the church
steeple. 'Why, Cowper: don't you re-
member :" was the reply. She did remem.
Der Cowper's delightful translation of one
of Vincent Bourne's little poems entitled
The Jackdaw. send you copy of the
verses, which some of your readers may
have forgotten or never read, that they
may perceive the perfect fitness and point
of the reply.
THE 5ACKDAw.
There is bird who, by his coat,
And by the hoarseness of his note,
Might be supposed crow;
4 great frequenter of the church,
Where blshop-like he finds perch,
And dormiitory too.
Above the steeple shines plate,
That turns and turns, to indicate
From what point blows the weather.
Look up-Your brains begin to swim,
'1'is in the clouds-that pleases him,
He chooses it the rather.
Fond of the speculative height,
1Xther he wings his airy flight,
And thence securely sees
The hustle and the raree show,
That occupy mankind below,
Secure and at his ease.
You think, no doubt, he sits and muses.
On future broken bones and bruises,
If he should chance to fall.
No; not Single thought like that
Employs his philosophic pate,
Ortronbles it at all.
He sees that this great round about,
The world, with all its motley rout,
Church, army, physic, law,
It's customs and its businesses,
Is no concern at all of his,
And says-what says he?-Caw;
Thrice happy bird! too, have seen
Much of the vahties of men;
And, sick Of having seen 'em,
Would cheertully these limbs resign
For such pair Of wings as thine.
And such a head between 'em.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-09

o. Hopes and cares. anxiety and fears,
divide our life. Would you be free from
these anxleties' think every day will be
your last, and then the succeeding hour
will be the more welcome, becauseun ex-
pected.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-09
THE STAUNT0N SPECTATOR
BYJ. A. & l.. II. WADDELL.
TERMS.

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the erpiration ofMe year. No subscription aeIiI
Be discontinued but at the option Of the Editors,
until all arrearGges are pad
no .4u COMMUNICATIONS to the Editors by mail
rnta be post paid, or they ,oM not be attended to.
90 .aDYER TISE.NEN'TS Of thirteen lines
(or less,) inserted three times for one dollar, and
t,ssntyfve cents for each subsequent continuance,
Lmger advertisements iisertea IN the same proper
ton A liberal discount made to those 'eho adrer-
liss By the gedf.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-09

HIGHWAY ROBBERY BY A WOMAN 4
woman in New York, named Hester White,
met man at dusk on Monday evening, in
an open street in that city, knocked him
down, and rifed his pockets of twenty-eight
dollars.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-09

s5-Are you stepping on the threshold of
life! Secure q good moral character
Without virtue you caanct be respected
without integrity You can never rise to dis.
tinction and hoaeF, @ .-,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-09

&r The shortest and surest way to live
with honor in the world is to be in really
what we would appear 10 be.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-09

LIFE IN THE TRopIcs.p-,Mr. Butler, a
pleasant lecturer on entomology, in dec
ture delivered at Louisville, thus describes
some OF the laxuiies of the torid zones.
.'The bette rouge lays the foundation of a
tremendous ulcer. I'm moment you are
covered with ticks. Chigoes tary them-
selves in your flesh, and hatch colony OF
Young chigoes in few hours. They will
not live together, but every chgoe sets up
separate ulcer, and has his own Pri-
vate portion of pus. Flies get entry into
your mouth, into your eyes, into you: nose;
YOU eat flies, drink flies. and breathe flies.
Lizards, cockroaches, and snakes, get into
your bed ants eat up the books; scorpions
Stag you on the foot. Everything bites,
stings, or bruises; every second of your
existence you are wounded by some piece
of animal life that nobody has ever seen be-.
fore except Swammerdam and Meriam.-
An insect with eleven legs is swimming in
YOUR tea-cup, a nondescript with nine wings
is struggling in the small beer, or cater
pillar with several dozen eyes in his belly
IS hastenlng over the bread and butter =
All nature is alive, and seems TO be gattr-
erine all her chronological hosts to eat you
up, as you are standing, out of your coat,
waistcoat and breeches. Such are the
trop;cs. All this reConciles us to our dews,
toqs. and drizze--to our apothecaries rush-
inc about with gargles and tinctures-to our
old British constitutional coughs, sore
throats, and swelled faces"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-09

g. Happiness is not in cottage. nor a
palace, nor in riches, nor in poverty, nor
in learning, nor IN ignorance. nor in passive
life but in doing right from right motives.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-09

o. We should take prudent care for
the future, but so as to enjoy the present.
It j. no part of wisdom to be miserable to-
day, because we may happen TO be so to-
morrow.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-09
A REMARKABLE MANA eentler

A REMARKABLE MANA gentleman
writing from Monaghan county, Ireland, to
an acquaintance of ours in this district, gives
a remarkable instance of longevity. Owen
duffy, when one hundred and sixteen years
old, lost his second wife; he subsequently,
married third, by whom he has son and
daughter. His youngest son is two years
his eldest ninety He is now one hundred
and twenty-five years of age, and retains in
much vigor the use Of his mental and corpo.
raj faculties. He walks frequently to ibt
county town, distance ofsome eight mles
This statement may be relied upon as strictly
true, Anderson IS. G. Ga=sHe.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-09

MORE UNCLE ToMMITUDEs.-There seems
to be no end to the tricks Of the Uncle Tom
ties. We learn from the English papers
that swarms of Abolition agents are now
traversing England, telling piteous story
about Mrs. Stowe, whom they represent as
living in garret in state of wretched
destltution and suffering. These fellows,
it is said are collecting pence and sixpence
in abundance by this imposition. John
Bull is made to sweat handsomely for hi.
maudlin sensibilities.-Bosion Courier.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-09
POETRY.

For The Spectator
The Railroad Chief.--A Parody.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-09

Vs. Robert Burns, the Ayrshire poet and
pioaghmau, who died ne elected and an
friended is likely in his defendants to min
gle with the aristocracy of Britain, we see,
by our late English files. Major Burns
or Colonel-at present holding high situ-
alton in lndla, has his patent of nobility
made out, and viii shortly be gazetted as
Baron Ellisland, the name of Burns farm.
1t is thus the British peerage seek to wipe
out the stain upon their appreciation OF ge-
MUS. As Moore said of Sheridan, they per-
nit
"That bailiffa shall seize his last blanket, to-day
Whose pail shall be borne up by princes to-mor-
row."
The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-01-14
CalancerV Sale.

HD virtue of a decree of the Superior Court
Il , of ChaneeryJe in the case of John
Bacon ct al vs. Thomas Black and others, |
shall expose for sale at public auction, in Yazoo
city, on Monday, 18th January neus, the follow
ing described praperty, to-wit: the following
slaves, Abe, liza and their children Margaret
8 years old, Tempo, Z, Bush Roy, 6, Cyrus, %
Washington months old. Also, Phillis and
her children Stephen, II years old, Sally Ann,
IL, Hester, 10 Madison, 6, Robert and Martha
each months old. Also, Peggy and joe
Also, the following valuable tract of land
lying III Yazoo county, miles south If
Benton, being the same cultivated by Doctor
Black, to-wit: North half section 23;sWest half
Of northwest quarter of section "a; west half Of
southwest quarter section 24;.north BALI of east
halfof southeast quarter section l5. Also three
acres adjoining the above off the northeast corn
er of forty acre tract. Also, FIVE acres on
the northwest corner Of the east half Of south
west quarter section %. The west half of the
southeast quarter section g. Lot Nod, Lot
No. 2, southeast quarter section IA; west half
of northeast quarter section 10; northeast quar-
ter section ID, except acres square on south
east corner Of SAID quarter section; west half Of
northwest quarter section IA; east half south
west quarter section IA, all being in Township
10, Range West, containing 1909 acres more
or less.
TERMs Land win be sold on credit of IL
months -the slaves on credtsof months.
Bond and approved security required.
MILFON BOURNE Commissioner.
December 10, 1852. 22-5t.