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Sabbath geaaino.
Dust.


From whence does it all come You
may sweep your room twice every day
and you viii find that a eioud arises
every time the broom and the floor
make acquaintance. You may dust
every article of furniture, every book,
every picture; you may wipe all about
the book-shelves and the floor with a
damp cloth; and yet, after an your la
Dor, there win be best. Dust flying
In the air dust settling on the books
anb tables; dust on the pictures, on
the fowers-dust, dust everywhere.
It IS diseouraging.
You think, perhaps, that it's be-
cause the room in which you sit is so
large; you think that If you were in
snugger quarters there would not be
so much of this annoyance; you there
fore move into a smaller apartment,
but you are worse off now than You
were before. You can't turn around
quick, nor even heave sigh, without.
setting in motion ten thousand tiny
particles of dust. You may sweep
till your broom fails, and dust till
your arms fall Of and the story win
be always the same. Even out at sea,
where the good ship rides the pillows,
thousand of miles from land. the dust
gathers. 1t mattere not how much
the sailor rubs the masts and hoIystone
the decks aCall gather, even amid the
salt spray of the sea. It is forever
lying and settling wherever there is
any sollb substance on which it can
alight. Where it comes from is no
mystery, when we remember what sort
of things are ever about us, and what
sort of things we are.
" Dust thou art and unto dust tbox
shalt return. is written on clothing
on wood, and iron, and steel, Just as
truly as is is in our fraiI, perishing
flesh; and the changing and sitting
back to its despised original is going
on before our very eyes, in each thing
that we look upon. Constantly
rapidly, others with a slower waste.
but certainly, all things are returning
whence they came 'Tis enough to
make one fear the dust-to make one
feel a horror at the atoms falling on
ones garment, and ones limbs to read
and understand their language. That
language is all of decay and death
OF earth, the grave, and worms: of
darkness, forgetfulness and despair.
This, if one cannot look beyond the
dust, and see, and take hold upon, the
eternal life.
How carefully and purely should we
step through the world, did we but
read, as we walk, all that is written
for our admonition and warning But
we go hastily, with careless eve and
dumb heart, taking little heed when
we should be most studious. Many
there De who have deep skill to read
the dark sayings written on ancient
rocks, who have never yet understood
the plain language of the gathering
dust.
The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1860-01-11
B. B. BLACKWELL, EDITOR.
goet's sGuok.
iron THE PREss.l
MAGGIE LEE.
BY KATE W.

The flowers are all faded and dead, Percy,
The flowers you twined long ago,
The roses red that you wreathed on my brow,
With the vioIets white as snow.
But this lilac with its dropping buds, Percy,
Tho faded I treasure yet;
And that happy day when you gave it to me-
Through life may never forget.
The sun was low in the west Percy,
The roses blushed in their pride,
When you gave to me these clustering buds,
And asked me to be your bride.
Paul Allen is rich, they say, Percey,
Yet he looked so sad and lone
When I told him never, no, aever, could go,
AS his wife to his gorgeous home.
knew that you were poor, Percy,
Yet your love would gladden. my life;
And told Paul Allen with blushing cheek,
That could not be his wife.
Maggie Lee was my precious friend, Percy,
And loved the joyous girl @
How used to smooth her sunny hair,
3 And Irvine each golden curl.
Maggie Lee does not love me nor, Percy,
'oue pdsSes me ny WIN pTlue,
And she looks SO fair in her costly robe,
For she is Paul AIlen's bride
Maggie Allen has her diamonds bright, Percey,
And rides with her coach and four
And today, but you scarce will believeit, love,
They stopped by Our cottage door.
Little Willie was playing outside, Percy,
Just under my lilac tree
Our precious babe with his bright black eyes,
You say he looks like me.
And Paul Allen stepped out of his coach, Percy,
And asked of our darling child;
Some roses red, for the lady while she
Looked out from the carriage and smiled
DO not blame me for going out, Percy,
And culling a nosegay bright,
And weaving friendships token midst roses,
Sweet roses with their crimson light.
And I twined some Vernal Grass, Percy,
To Maggie Lee it will say,
"a She is happier far with her beautiful child,
Than you with your diamonds to-day.
Paul Allen took the flowers Percy,
And bright tear dimmed his eye,
AS he culled spray of my lilac buds,
Then breathed low goodbye.
But Maggie said never word, Percy,
And so scornful she looked at me, Iheart,
AS the coach passed on-aud I thought in my
Oh, taithleSs Maggie Lee.s
know that I'm not so fair, Percy,
As Paul Aliens naughty bride;
But would not give these dead lilac buds,
For her beauty and wealth beside.
P01G, Illinois air. .s~q
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Puzzles.

l am in the dollar, but not In the dime,
| am in the mortar, but not in the lime;
l am in the ground, but not in the
sand,
L am in the corset, but not in the band;
Lam with the doctor, but not with
health,
I am in poverty, but not in wealth;
am in the horse, but not in the team,
/ am in the border, but not in the
seam
/ am in the lottery, but not In the
chance,
/ am in the ball room, but not in the
a.. . dance;
am with the scholar, but not with the
wise,
/ am in the rainbow, but not in the
skies
] am in the collar, but not in the
sleeve,
] am ia the morning, but not in the
eve;
If you can't guess, next week I'll tell
So, until then, Pllsay farewell.
Children, | pray, my name declare,
For surely without me
You neither would be tall nor fair,
Nor could you clearly see.
Graceful you never would be deem'd
Nor amiable, nor smart; ed
And tho you might be much esteem
You'd never gain heart.
To cards and dancing I'm friend,
At balls I'm often one;
And though On vice / meier attend
Virtue / always shun.
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Apnth q department,
FOR THE PREsS.1
Enigma.

1 am composed of 80 letters.
My %, IA, Is, %, is a small ami
NAL. ASA.
2, I, 4, is Of the feathered tribe.
" s, 81, 26, is an animal.
" II, So, 10, is what 1 now have.
"24, II, 8, is used in Summer.
I" IT, 6, 26, 20, 13, is kind of
grain.
81, %, II, 80, means not work.
Is, %, 8, l. means not fast.
16, 1S, are vowels. .......
+" Is, is a consonant.
My whole is a true saying.
Answer next week.
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Pray, excuse me-" said a well
dressed young man to young Indy in
the second tier of boxes at a theatre !;
" | wish to go up stairs and get some
refreshments don't leave your seat. =
A sailor seated in the box near his
girl, disposed to do the same thing,
arose and said Harkee, Mol, I'm
going aloft to wet my whistle-don't
fall overheard while I'm gone
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A Darkey preacher arose to an
nounce his text as follows -" In de
fust pistol of Glover, second chapter,
and two hundred and ninety. four
verse Hold up, doctor! /" cried
out one of his hearers you got in
de wrong book; you mean de pistol
Of Timothy, s'pose I? /" The preach,
er hesitated a moment, with very
profound look, and said Well,
must cave in dis time, though know'd
dat de text was somewhere among de
grasses
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Answers.

Answer to week before lasts enig-
nla-Yoath's Department.
Answers to week before lasts Puz-
zles-I will go to see You before tea.
OIL you have two eyes beyond COM
pare.
In beauty you excel your mother
Eve.
/ will see you before night:
am between two fires.
These lines may be read in four diff
ferent directions, and always produce
the same words, and in the same or
der.
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Thackeray and Jones.

Our correspondent who furnishes the
following, knows Mr.. Jones very well,
and was present at the dinner when
the conversation is reported to have
occurred. Let him repeat it in his own
way:
Jones is man of more whiskers
than wit-more wealth than wisdom
more corporosity than capacity and
Jones is pompous, and lisps. Jones
once met Thackeray (when he was in
this country at dinner-party, when
he relieved himself, and delighted his
audience, by the following display of
his highly polished manners and COLO
quial powers:
JONES, (pushing across the table a
dish of onions, speaks. Try an on
ion, Mr.. Thackeray =
"THAo. Qaconically) Never
JONES, (curiously.) why, don't
you eat onionth, Mr.. Thackeray ? don't
you like them?'
THAc. Yes, sir, like them but
not the odor which they leave upon
the breath
JONES. Oh, Mr.. Thackeray thoth
are the red-skin onionth, that you are
thinking Of. Thith kind-the thilver-
thkinth [silver-skins don't do tho.
I'll tell you how I know. The other
night wath going home, and, ath it
wath after my thupper time, | thought
| would thtop and get thomething to
eat. Tho | went into thaloon, and
called for thome beefthteak and onionth.
And when ! got home, thoon after I
entered the houthe, my wife thayth,
Mr.. Joneth, ! think the gath it'll leak
ing / thmell livery thtrong.' | thaid,
Do you think it it'll ? I don't thmell
| it. But the thald, / am thure 1t lth
I thmell it wortte and worthe.v Tho
| took lamp, and tried the gath
pipeth, but couldn't pertheive any leak.
Pretty thoon the came clothe up tC
me, and then the exthlaimed, Oh
Mr.. Joneth.! it it'll your breath anG
/ you have been eating onionth-and
thought 'twath the gath The nextl
4 night / thought i would like thom'
more onionth, tho | thtopped at TIL
thame plathe, and thith time the wait
err brought me thome thilyer-thkinnet
onionth, and when | got home Mrs
Jonetll didn'tlthIneIl the gath TIL
you thee, Mr. Thackeray, | hav
proved that the red-skinth oniont
thmell, but the thilYer-t hkinncd dom
thmell'''
MARRl Ep- Miss Jane lemon to Nj
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THERE are stone bridges in China,
three and four miles in length. and an
arch of the enormous space of six hun
dred feet.
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Oh, whistle, daughter, whistle

Oh, whistle, daughter, whistle,
and you shall have cow"
I never whistled in my life, and I
can't whistle now"
"Oh whistle, daughter, whistle, and
you shall have man. y
I never whistled in my life, but III
whistle if I can
We thought she had whistled.
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READ Notes by the Day." edited
by The Subscriber" on the second
page of this paper. He has been
travelling 10 Pennsylvania.
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A FUNNY ALTERA11oN.-Not long
ago over the door of shop near
Charing Cross, London. was Inscribed
!" A. Bull and Co., Importers A
wag one night took paint and brush,
and made it read thus :-s'A Bull and
Cow Imported" People called the
next day to look at the imported cat
tla
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The LdmbersU6lte Press Is the only
real live paper Ia Hunlerdon county.
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MAhRiED- Miss Jane Lemon to M.
Ebenezef Sweet.
!" How happily extremes do meet
In Jane and Ebenezer:
She's now no longer sour, but street,
And he's a Lemon squeezer.7
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I am in the dollar, but not III the dime,
l am in the mortar, but not in the lime
l am in the ground, but not in the
, 1860-11-30
THE VITAL POINT.

Men and newspapers talk 40 much OF
slavery" the ''slavery question:" "slarc-
~ extension" and the like, that the words
cease to convey 10 hearers and readers, thu
ideas which should properly attach to
them. In thousands Of minds, slavery be-
comes concrete thing, which familiarity
las made tolcrable, not series of individ-
uni outragcs and wrongs every one Of
which would move to the deepest indigna-
ton The very men in whom slavery in the
abS:rsct exci!es no emotion. This truth
was never more clearly brought out tlaan
in the present crisis; and never were the
American people in more danger Of forget
ting tho cnorulity Of the institution than al
this moment when its aspect is more hor-
rib1c and repulsive than ever before. Let
It 1'' remembered always that slavery is a
system by which men and women are
boHsht, sold, and compelled to lives Of
unfcquitcd toll; that il is in its foundations
denial Of all abstract and inalienablc
right Of man 10 himself; that it is Atheism
reduced to practice; and that the extension
ana indefinite pcrpctuity Of this system,
''n'|cr the authority and by the sanction of
The Fcdernl government in such way thai
none shall deny its usurrcd rights arc Cod
given, hence sacred, are the only conditions
upon which, according to the scccssionists,
peace between the North and tho Soutl,
can he permanent. With these facts in
mind. the North will not hesitate what
10 do
, 1860-11-30
AsscaVe from II Ten Icarss Cant;ylty
with t1:e Snulze Indians.

lffom the Muscattae {Iowl) Journal
a man calling himself James +. Kimball,
aeeonpanisd BY his wife, arrived in this eisv
List week. in destitute circumstances. and va.
generously afforded lodging and bo,rd at the
fennsylvan.a House l,y Nj. Slime kimbali
relates that he has just escaped from ten wears
captivity with the Snake Indians il. oregon.
Ills narrative is published in the Ntyier We
cons!e1sc tile main facts:
III ls4S. hc left the homo Of his father, Col
Newell kimball, Of Syracuse, n. +, for Calf
ior1ill, hy the overland route, in company with
hls ta!her-ln-law and thrre unmarried Gau:i-
tiers. When the party with which he was ray.
elm. reached Chiilicotlle Valley, Oregon, June
lo1h, they were attacked by about i.0p Snake
Indians, hut defended Themselves for several
hou1s. Killing 5oo Indians and losing e. Of their
own number, lravln. only men aud i women
alive, who surrendered to the say2scs.
Ihcy we're taken By the Indians to Mineral
Spring, at tlle head Of Chillicuthe Valley.
where Z council OF twcntyfuur braves decided
that they should run the gauntlet The next
day hImball TIN the gauntlet twice, with half
~ hours interval between each tinle-tir=t for
HIS wife and next for himself The same ,iay
MT Neil. bis 1athcr-in-faw, was also compelled
to run the gauntlet, hut Was knocked dow,
beiore rc.'chlnS the centre Of the twa lines,
When he was sentenced to be burned at tit.
stake. which sentence WIS put into execution
li'c same evening, III the presence IF the party
Auuilicr man nf the party was likewise
burned ut the stake, after Which the Indians
proceeded t. Faundeer Valley, Washington
Ierrltory. The cartivcs were washed in a
stream Ut water by sluaws till it wis thought
the white ifnuI WIS all washed out Of them.
when tlc cllici adopted them as his children.
From that time till fifteen months ago, tlpy
livctt with the Indians, wandesin;, will, them
tlrousl, different parts Of the country. Kim
t:il! beca:sc their Medicine Man," or doctor,
aiid PROCESSES to have learntAl many remark
:blc cures for cancer, rheumatism, ctc. How
l.e il1:'lly escaped he does 1lot say hut after
fifteen months travel he arrived. i, this riace
LIST week, and expects to return to New
iork IL soon rs hc tan obtain the uctus-
b1rt mca1s.
Ills narrative is a strange QUO, and VIC pre-
sunic it il true
, 1860-11-30
Mysterious Disnnnearaur.

Much excitement WIS occasioned in Fra.
mont, O., on Thursday LAST, bv the disan,e,1.
ance Of the wife Of Mr. John j. Tyier. n most
respectable lady. About uoon on that day, she she
pnn on yer oonnct and shawl and LETT home,
to spend the afternoon. By evening she a i,,d !
not returned, and her husband went for her
She had not been to the house of The nei"h.
hoT: On his return home he found n5,tn
from his wife saying .tliat she was hopelessiv
Insane. and that she .sas lasa and bidding lin
Search was made about the rlH,ce +hrorc1,
Intervening. She had been seen by two tIitISr-
ent persons about one o'clock nearly q mic
north Of her residence, going toward tie ,nl1sh
and river, but nothing stran4e was though fofI,.
Up to Saturday, says tue Toledo 1ueit, from
Mnlen We condcnsc this account, nothing
further has been Heard Of the untorrunnte wp.
man, but It is generally believed that she has
drowned herself,
, 1860-11-30
BONDED wANE.HOusER

The telegraph told lis yesterday, among
the Washington rumors and gacsses, that
MI. Cobb, Secretary Of tho Treasury, is
about making move for al,o1islinc tho
bonded warehouse system, on account Of
=. practical injury 10 tic revenue. If that
officer had since his elevation to place, in.
1tcad Of tanning the flames Of secession,
,ccn more mindful Of his duties, the sys-
EN- of which he now complains would
ave been abolished by the last Congress.
But even now, though late, the West will
ccept his labors, and thank him for what
q eccomplishes in the direction in whicl.
he telegraph points him.
Among the legislative contrivances for
1creasing the importation Of foreign mer-
nandisc, hence magnifying the foreign
ebt and largely increasing the shipments
gold, these bonded warehouses are tic
St pernicious. If tl1at were their only
feet, their ipjnries to the common pros :;
.rity might be borne; but it was long ago
,monstrated that they are agencies By
hich the legitimate dealers, who sell their
n inporatious Of good quality, are
, 1860-11-30

With the active agencies set on foot By dlasr.
mt Christian .aenominations, there ID no fea.
son why any: worthy poor family need suffer
many hon1s IN Chicago. Those engaged IN this
:omplacent In daIly witnessing scenes Of hu-
1nan suffering, as the physician does to bodily
pain. But they are daily getting experience
IL their work, and 10 long as the principle Of
Christianity warms the heart, there is no dan
ger Of their turning their faca away from any
poor man whom they believe to be In need.
Respectfully yours, E. B. Tu1g1E,
Nov. eth. City Missionary.
, 1860-11-30

broken up and ruined. We understand the
system to work like this: An importer in
New York sends his orders abroad for Ger
thin quantities and styles Of the merchan'
disc in which he deals. They arc
filed and the goods arc sent for.
ward. As soon as the trade season
is over, manufacturers Of all kinds, tempt.
ed, by reasons which arc obvious, to keep
their establishments in operation; make up
inferior goods for chance markets, content
ifthcy are sold at cost or perhaps tritliug
loss. These arc sent to America by the
slip load. They come from Manchester,
Birmingham, stattordshirc, Lyons, Paris,
and all the other sources Of supply, and
when landed are thrust into bonded ware
house, where, by law, they may rcnlsin a
year, duties unpaid. They are consigned
usually 10 some auction house, with orders
to sell at discretion. The result Of all is
tllat tho regular importer finds in the man
ufacturer, Of whom lie has just purchased,
his most active competitor in the market.
Almost Us soon as his cargoes arrive, the
inferior goods begin to come in; and
while Ac, in his office, is cndcavoring to
sell Mt d profit the auction houses are offer
ing wares from the same FORCES, LOOMS or
workshops, almost identical in appear
aace but inferior in quality, for what they
will bring under the hammer. It is easy
to see the effect Of that, But Us it concerns
llic importer more than any one else, we
may not complain, If he is satisfied. The
constant temptation which the system holds
Out to excessive importation by men who
have credit but no money, is that which
makes tho question one Of national impor-
lance; and, on that account, wc trust that
S1r. Cobb may meet with success.
, 1860-11-30
Moro Political Plunder-810O. .00o
Prize.
Correspondence Chicago Tribune.1

MORO Political Pfunder-8IOO.O .OOO
| Prize.
Correspondence Chicago Tribunal
81. Louie. Nov. ii, 1860
have just learned by letter from the into
rlor Of Kansas, that fraud, whicl. las been so
prolific In that soil, is likely to bring forth
still another rich harvest, notwithstanding the
unprecedented drouth Of tue last season, Of
which some keen political part1sans will he thc
1capers. a rumor is aaoat that contract has
been recently let, secretly, At tho Indian Office.
for thc building Of t.co hmndnI Ipdiau cabin.
at Scx''sM sum Of one-hundrel thousand doIay.
-1str hundred dollars a1,;cce-for tic Sac and
Fox Indians, really not worth moro than onc
h"ndrtd dollars drtets at the ontsit7c. It SEEM.
strange that tic Indian Department r1,ou1a
have allowed itself to he ovcrreachcd, and to
have made such contract at this time. and at
Ills season OF the year, for these cabins will
have to he built this winter; but there annr,r4
to be fatality about tho present administr,.
tion in financial matters, indeed, it looks vcrr
much as if they were determined that If ,hcv
cannot kt7' the Government Mt,nslues, Mfy uW
'eass nothing rhen they 90 out to krip it-"causc
the funds am exhaust. Had tho usual mode.
bccn pursued, and public notice been given for
tbs building Of these catinE, there is moi n
doubt but that they would have been coptroc.
ted for at lcss thnn 500 ariecc-bu. in that
event political farortcs wonld not have bagred
the neat sum Of $4,000 in clean casA. The old
political adasc is reversed, sto the tunquisdoi
now belong the spoils.'' y
, 1860-11-30
Later from Mexlco.sCapture or GuAda
1ta1ara Conflrmed--Backlnx OF ths
British legation,

(From the n. O. Pica;unc.1
The United States mail steamship Tenncs-
sec, Capt. Forbes, arrived Mt this I,ort this
morning from Vera Cruz, the oIst inst. She
brings intelligence thst, inter u Ave weeks
Siege, the city Of Guada1ai iara has at length I'LL
en, and Is now gnrrisoned by Liberal forces.
The capitulation was concluded between Ger.
Castillo, Us the friend OF the Church party, aud
Gen. Zarayrasso, commander -iil-chlef of the
Liberal forces, the conditions or which, how
ever, were broken by the former, WHO 1lei
towards Tepic, followed by Generals Vol and
E5pe)o, Whose troops ut once joined tlc Llber-
al army,
The entrance Of The Liberal troops in CUT
dnlajarI Wus effected with the utmost order,
aud pains were taken at once to attend to the
wounded and sick and to clean the city. Shops
:lnu commission houses are open again the
troops arr leu III ullsse in the Upeu plaza, and
presented with new uniforms by the inhabi-
tantR.
Gcn. DeGolado was expected on the 10Th Of
November in JuanajuatO, where great prrpar-
ntions were on foot Tor welcoming him.
Seven thousand More cavalry were cxpcctcd
IN Aorcln, to march with the Liberal forces
upon Mexico. Katas md "Browpsyfller Car
yajal arc their leaders.
The British Legation At the city Of 3fexlco
Aos been sacked f,y orders OF Alirlmun aud
Ro1les, and from the million of dollars ther.,
on deposit belonging to The Enylst. load
taksn by forcc, ncitllcr respecting seal or ILL.
o. fhr British Nation. In the absence of Mr..
Mathew, the British Charge, the Spanish Min
lstgr has Protested against the Outrage.
Every eilort Is madc to defend the city-tbc
onIy spot now in the possession Ut the church
party.
The Spanish Minister, it Is said, was to leave
lo5 fccol,, iinding the region about the capi-
Ar. Mathew is at present eojouruing At Ja