The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-09-22

our marriage notices came the printers fee a
cake and hottie of "Old Madeira" The
money was duly appropriated cake and
bon-bons properly appreciated but the old Ma
deria bothered us. Nothing stronger than tea
and coffee has passed our lips for number of
vears-haye made solemn VOW never again to
taste alcoholic, spirituous, fermented or vinous
liouors-never expect to be i'll enough to need
the critter "-and what shall we do with this
hottie of Old Madeira? We wouldn't like to
sell it-couldn't be hired to drink it and it's
against our conscience to give it away You
have all heard of the man who won the elephant
at rattle and didn't know what to do with it.
Botheration! what shall we do with this bottle
of "Old MADEIRA !"-Paterson Guardian.
FREAK OF A LUNATIC. Marshal Baldwin, of
the New Jersey Railroad Company, while pas
sing between the Centre and Market street de-
pots on the track about O'Clock yesterday
morning, discovered man sitting in chair di-
rectly between the rails opposite the crossing to
Taminend. He accosted him, when the man
said he could not leave, that he Was galvanized
to the chair and fastened to the track, and that
he could not get up. Mr.. Baldwin then forced
him from the track, and placed him in charge of
an individual who said he would care for him.
The man, whose name was not learned, was
about fifty years old, and appeared to be insane.
colored man said he had taken him from the
track a few minutes before but that he returned
soon after 1t is believed that had he not been
discovered as stated, he would have been killed
by some passing train, as he evidently would
not have stirred without force.-NewdrE Mer-
curry.
A CURIOUS CASE, involving the crime of trea-
son, has just come to light at Berlin. A work
man in the royal mandatory of the percussion
mixture used in the preparation of the cartridges
for the needle gun, betrayed the secret to,
it is said, French agent. He attempted to
forward quantity done up as bales of paper.
At the railway Office, attention was attracted
by the extraordinary weight of the packages,
which were opened, and found to contain large
quantity of detonators. An agent of the secret
police was at once despatched from Berlin, and
both the workman and his tempter are said to
have been secured The composition is secret,
and all the employees in the mandatory are
required to take oaths of allegiance and secrecy.
His betrayal of trust is thus case of high trea-
son.
THE STORMS ENCOUNTERED BY THE STEAMER
PERsIA-New York, Sept. IA gentleman,
who came as passenger aboard the royal mail
Il
Persia was disabled as terrific. Her crank pin
was broken on Monday evening, about 10
o'clock She lay to until the next afternoon,
in hopes the storm would abate so that she
could repair but finding no Improvement in the
weather, it was decided to put back to Cork.
After proceeding in that direction a hundred
miles the weather moderated, the breakage was
repaired, and the steamer put about again.
When reaching again the same latitude in
which the disaster occurred, the Persia encoun-
tered storm more terrific than the first one,
but she ploughed her way through uninjured,
except the crushing of one of her warehouses
The Persia has the heaviest freight she ever
brought to this port.
THE SAN JUAN DIFFICULTY Victoria
papers of the 22d of August state that five
companies of infantry, four of artillery, with q
battery of eight thirty-two Founders from the
United States steamer Massachusetts, had land
ed on San Juan Island.
The House of Assembly of British Columbia
on the 18th adopted an address to Governor
Douglas urgently requesting him to enforce upon
the English Government the necessity of de-
handing from the Government of the United
States not only the immediate withdrawal of all
troops, but strenuously and at all risk, of main
taining her right to the island, well as all the
other islands in the same archipelago now
clandestinely dishonorably, and dishonesty in
vaded
A motion was also adopted urging the Gov
ernor to form volunteer military companies.
All was quiet up to the latest dates.
South CAROLINA FORESTS DYING.-The
Laurensville, (South Carolina) Herald furnishes
the following curious item
We have noticed considerable amount OF
dead and dying timber on the roads in the low
or portion of the district, and heard accounts of
its extension to a considerable extent in that
direction. The dying is not confined to any
particular kind or class of trees, but small
bushes as well as large trees show their dead,
yellow and withered leaves which give the
woods rather sad calico appearance. Wheth-
er or not this is to be attributable to the late
severe draught, we do not know, but it is ascri-
bed generally to this cause.
The WoMAN's RIGHTS CONVENTION had a
couple of days session at Saratoga Springs last
week, and resolved that women, like men,
have right to do anything and everything
which is in itself morally right" Well, asks
the Springfield Republican, why do they not
go and do what is right as they've mind to,
and stop talking about it? Antionette Brown
breaches Miss Blackwell doctors, Mrs. Oak
smith lectures, Harriet Hosmer makes statutes,
and Alice Cary, writes for the Ledqer.u and
nobody denies their right, tor it is based on their
ability. Womens rights are woman's abilities
and wishes, nothing more, nothing less
LIEUT. BEALE, who returns home on the 29th
ult. during an absence of ten months has travel
ed about eight thousand miles, and opened