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THE BOOK OF JOB.

The book Of job is generally regarded
as the most perfect specimen Of the poetry
of the Hebrews. 1t is alike picturesque
in the delineation of individual phenom-
ena, and artistically skillful in the didac-
tic arrangement of the whole work. In
all the modern languages into which the
book of Job has been translated, its i'm
ages, drawn from the natural scenery of
the East, leave deep impression on the
mind. "The Lord walketh on the heights
of the waters, on the ridges of the waves
towering high beneath the force Of the
wind" "The morning red has colored
the margins Of the earth, and variously
formed the covering of the clouds, as the
hand of man moulds the yielding clay"
The habits of animals are described as
for instance, those Of the wild ass, the
horse, the buffalo, the rhinoceros and the
crocodile, the eagle aud the ostrich
We see the pure ether spread, during
the scorching heat of the South wind, as
a melted mirror over the parched desert.
The poetic literature of the Hebrews
is not deficient in variety of form; for
while the Hebrew poetry breathes tone
of warlike enthusiasm, from Joshua to
Samuel, the little Book of the CLEANER
Ruth presents US with a charming and
exquisite picture of nature. Goethe, at
the period of his enthusiasm for the East
spoke OF it " as the loveliess specimen of
epic and idyl poetry which We possess. "
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sEORGE THE THIRD AND HIS KEEPERS.

1t would have been well if the errors
of the physicians had been confined to
ignorance but their negligence was still
more reprehensible. While the poor
maniac was deprived of those tender Of
fees which bis wife and daughters might
have rendered, he was abandoned to the
care OF low mercenaries: and so little
discrimination was observed in the choice
of his attendants, that the charge of his
person devolved chiefly on a German
page, Ernst, who was utterly unworthy
to be trusted with the charge of the hum
5lest of bis fellow-creatures. This man,
who had been raised by the patronage of
his Majesty, repaid the kindness of his
royal master with the most brutal ingrat-
itude. He went so far as to strike the
helpless king, and on one occasion, when
his Majesty wished to protract his exer-
cises in the gardens of Kew, Ernst seized
him in his arms, carried him into a cham
Der, and throwig him violently on a sofa,
exclaimed in an insolent manner to the
attendants, There is your king for you I"
These outrages were perpetrated in
the seclusion Of the palace at Kew, to
which the King had been removed in the
month of October, at the instance of the
Prince of Wales. His Majesty had been
persuaded to leave Windsor, to which he
was much attached, by the promise that
he should see his children at Kew. He
entered the carriage cheerfully, but, on
passing through the iron gates of the lit
tie park, he put his hands before his face
and burst into tears. Recovering his
composure, however, he talked to the
equerries who accompanied him to the
carriage in his ordinary hurried manner,
pointing out the objects in the road, and
anticipating the pleasure, long denied
him, of seeing his wife and daughters.
But, on his arrival at Kew, he found
himself prisoner. Proceeding toward
the apartments he usually occupied, he
was stopped and conducted into a large
room, where he found the pages who
were to be his keepers waiting to receive
him.
The equerries, among whom was his /
faithful servant, Gen. Harcourt, according
to the orders they had received, withdrew.
The physicians, also, who had accom-
panied the royal patient from Windsor,
having consigned him to the charge of
the pages, also thought proper to retire,
and actually returned to London the same
night. The king then impatiently de-
manded to see his family, and the prom
ise under which he had been induced
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THE EFFECTSOF INTENSE COLD ON MAN.

But there is still a degree of cold
beyond all that, which ! have not describ-
ed. 1t is when there is a strong wind
blowing from the North at a temperature
of forty or fifty degrees below zero. The
sensation with which you endure it, |
can only characterize as a continued
struggle for life. Then you not only
feel the cold but yoE tually see it. The
air is hazy with the 'fozen MOISTURE
The sky is like a vault of solid steel, SO
hard and pale does it appear. And the
wind is like blast out Of that fabulous
frozen bill of the Scandinavians. The
touch of it on the face is like cutting with
an exceedingly dull and jagged knife.
/ endured this weather during two days
of travel in an open sleigh, but very for
tunately it was blowing on my back, or ]
would have been obliged to give up the
battle. Every man met who was trav-
elling against the wind had face either
already frozen or in the act of freezing.
Those purple faces surrounded with rings
Of ice did not seem TO belong to human
beings. DIR. Kane described to me his
sensations upon being exposed for two
days to a violent storm at temperature
of forty-seven degrees below zero. AL
though the physical effect was not partic-
ularly painful, yet the mental effect was
such as to make him and his men delri-
ious for some days afterwards. The
physical effects Of an extremely low tenn
perature-perhaps the lowest which the
human frame is capable Of feeling--is
sort of slow, penetrating, deadly chill, rath-
er than an acute and painful sensation.
But after the battle is over, on entering a
warm room then the painful sensation
l experienced a curious
to this on the African desert
During the warm hours Of monday, with
the air like the blast of furnace, l did
not suffer any feeling of intense heat (;
but after sunset, when the temperature
FELL rapidly, then began to burn and
glow through like live coal. 1t would
seem from that, that the absorption of Ell
her heat or cold into the body is much
less sensihly felt than the giving Of it out
lgain.--Bayard Taylor.
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Who made the world we inhabit ?"

Who made the world we inhabt ?"
Just as he was probably about to an
swer the question, one of the boys seat
ed behind, inserted a pin in Joe's pants,
below the ornamental buttons on his coat.
"God Almighty said Joe, in an ele-
vated tone, rising to his feet.
"That is correct" replied the teacher,
" but there is no necessity of rising
when you answer"
Joe sat down and the teacherpropound-
ed another question.
Who died to save the world ?"
In went the pin again.
Jesus Christ !" in louder tone than
before, again rising to his feet.
That is correct, but you are too much
excited, well Wen excuse it as it is your
first attendance here. You may be seat
ed again."
What will be the doom of the final
iy impenitent ?"
The pin was again "stuck in" and
Joe sprang up in an instant, and tbun-
dered out.
Hell and damnation ~
Perfectly correct, but you should
keep your seat and not raise your voice
so. We like to have the answers given
distinctly, but not too loud, but you will
understand our customs better hereafter" +"
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AFRICAN EXPLoRATIoN-CULTGvA-
TIoN OF CoTToN.-Mr Pethrick, Brit
ish Consul in the Soudan, who is about
to proceed 10 Africa to xeplore the source
of the Nile, recently deliveredan address
to the merchants of Liverpool. Consul
Pethrick has been fifteen years resident
of the interior of Africa; and, under the
auspices of the Royal Geographical So
ciety, he is about to commence an expe-
dition from his residence at Khartum in
the hope of meeting and assisting Capt
Speke, who is starting from Lake Nay
anza to explore the yet unknown district
lying between there and Kondokoro, and
where he hopes to be able to trace the
sources of the Nile. Mr.. Petbrick be-
lieves that the equatorial region of Africa
is drained by large tributary of the
! Congo, or some one or other of the large
streams that discharge themselves into
the South Atlantic Ocean, and the result
of establishing the existence of such a
stream, he thus comments upon:
1t is TO this large and navigable river.
in the most central part of Africa, that
] look forward to establish the first fruits
of geographical discovery in connection
with British commerce. If channel,
such as is described, should prove to lead
from the seaboard into the very heart of
Central Africa, the whole produce of the
country, in addition to ivory, such as oils,
seeds, hides, indigo, cotton, gums, India
rubber, may be obtained in exchange
for our manufactures. In addition 10 In
dia rubber, have also discovered coch-
meal; and with regard to cotton, they
would observe that DIR. Livingstone sta
ted that in his quarter of Africa he found
indigenous cotton growing in the country,
without cultivation on the part Of the
people; they found that the missionaries
in Abeokuta, going up the valley of the
Niger, observed the same thing, and Mr.
Pethrick, going up the White Nile from
the northward, found the people there
growing and manufacturing cotton; and
on the gold coast, very large communities
of people we're engaged in the production
of this article. In the quarter which he
had visited, he ventured to say that cotton
was not only abundant in quantity, but
excellent in quality. He found in the
country Immediately to the interior of
Sherboro that cotton was the great staple
article of production the people there
were in the habit of producing and man
ufacturing it, and the clothes which they
were of precisely the same
quality as those which we found, from
the accounts of missionaries, up the Nj
ger, and highly valued by the people"
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"In first rate health.
" That dispatch ?"
" Had it sent myself"

itNS oPNA'
Had it sent myself"
Wretch where are you going to
take me 2"
"To the parson."
Happy couple at hotel here last night
week. Telegraphed old man all about it.
Old man comes down next day with all
necessary feelings and arrangements to
take young lady home a widow. But
doesn't do it. Young son-in-law gentle
manly and polite, loved daughter so well
couldn't help il. Young lady all tears
again, with equal proportion Of sobs.--
Kill me if you will, my father, but spare
William" Old mans feelings go down
several pegs. Thinks it no use to cry
over spilled milk get your hats and bon
nets and let's go home. Young couple
happy as infants with fingers stuck full Of
molasses candy and feathers. Fly round
after baggage old man pays hotel bill,
and all leave town together.
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NO 6.
STATE OF VERMONT


To James A. Paddock, to services at a court
Of inquiry at Craftsbury, in case of State VS..
Burnham Hunt on charge Of resisting sherif's
officer, 500
Dec. l6. 1859.
hereby certify that the services charged in
the above account were rendered at the request
of the Town Grand Juror in a court of inquiry
before me, at which the respondent was bound
up for trial at the County Court, on charge Of
resisting sheriff's officer; and that the States
Attorney could not have been scasonably OBJ
tanned.
SAMUEL L. HOOD, Jestiee of hie Peaee.
Orleans County Court, December Term. 1850.
The within account allowed at iive dollars.
In. CUSHMAN, Court auditor.
Received an order.
J. A. PADDOCK
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to leave his palace of Windsor was, in
cruel mockery, fulfilled. The princesses
were brought before the windows the
king, on seeing them, rushed forward to
lift the sash, but it was screwed down.
A paroxysm was the immediate conse-
quence of this cruel restraint; the prin-
cesses we're hastily removed, and the
king was dragged away from the window,
entreating to be allowed to speak to his
children.-Massegs History Of England.
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NEEDLE WOMEN OF LONDON

A correspondent of the London Times
describing one of the great mantau-mak-
ing establishments in that city, communi-
Gates the following facts
Work is commenced Sery morning at
o'clock, and continued ill IL at night /;
period of sixteen hours the only inter-
walls allowed being about EN- minutes for
each meal--the total amnnt of time al
lowed for eating their food / was going
to say-but surely, "boltint y is the more
appropriate phrase-being forty minutes
per day; thus leaving fifteen hours and
twenty minutes as the pehod devoted to
work. And this, be it emembered, is
not merely during the busy season, as at
the West End, but for all th, year round,
from January TO December; FOR you must
understand that at the establishment to
which refer, the greater Eart of the
sewing is given out to slop workers in
the busy season, and all thai is done in
doors is the original cutting ont and ulti-
mate.ftting together ofthe separate pieces
cut when the slack season comes there is
always as much sewing reserved as will
keep the girls of the establishment en-
ployed up to the full pitch--so that there
is, in fact, no slack season at all for them.
And yet for this continued and unrelent-
ing pressure of sixteen hours work per
day, from years end to years end, this
firm assume to themselves the greatest
possible credit. They thank God that
they are not as other firms are at the
West End-oppress and destroy young
women. They never--not even for
few weeks in the busy season-make
trUtt pvvPrv sft up tTsr y .~9-I--s- =.
the morning Oh no! their gas is al
ways turned off in the work room by II
o'clock. Why, sir, the West End system
with its few weeks of severity, followed
as it is by months of comparative labor,
is mercy itself, when viewed alongside of
this unmitigated, "never ending, still be-
ginning slavery to which am refer
ring.
The only day of leisure which the girls
Of this establishment get is Sunday. From
morning to Saturday night, they |
are as complete prisoners as any in New
gate. They know not whether the sun
shines or the rain falls at that time. They
are not allowed to cross the threshold to
purchase pair of shoes or a new gown
ior themselves, and must employ their
friends outside to do this for them.
Nor is their accommodations indoors
such as in any way to reconcile them to
his close confinement. The workroom
n which ten or twelve of them are en-
oloyed is only about twelve feet square,
md is only devoid of arrangements for
which is more to be deplored
Is, during the evening they have to en-
counter the heat and foul air of three
laming gas burners right over their heads
,very door and window being shut by
which breath of pure air could possibly
inter. The bedrooms are also uncom-
ortable, no fewer than six perons being
luddled into one and four into another.
Is it possible to contemplate the condi-
ion of this class of workmen, as describ-
I'd by the facts quoted, without keenly
with it, and wishing that
might be done to mitigate its
evils and misery.-Scientifc american.
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Ey-" Have you any travelling ink
stands ?" asked lady of young station
,r. :" No, ma'am we have them with
ieet and legs, but they are not old enough
0 travel yet"
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6sy When Jack visited Vermont, where
they have pie for breakfast, he was ir-
reverent enough to remark that Yer
mont was great for early pisty.
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gsT A shop closed on Christmas day,
in Germantown, with the following sad
" Closed on account OF
the death of a turkey in the family"
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ABSTRACT OF STATE ORDERS,
Drarn at the Dec. Term Of Orleansr
COUNTY COURT, A. D. 1860.
STATE of VERMONT

STATE OF VERMONT DR.
To bill of costs accrued at court of inquir ?
holden at Troy in the County of Orleans on ths
9th day of August, A. d. 1860, before T.J. .Sart-
well, Justice Of the Peace, on the complaint of H.
c. Wilson, States Attorney for the County of Or
leans, against Geo. Tracy charged with the erime
of larceny, on which the respondent was com
mitted for trial at the next County Court within
said County of Orleans.
Complaint, .3&
officers Fees on The Warrant.
Travel from the place of arrest to
the court Of inquiry, miles, "a
Cash paid 2 necessary keepers, IL
hours each, at ,67 for each IL
hours, l.34
reading warrant, ,05
Cash paid for victualing and lodg-
ing prisoner, 40
Service of subpoena, readings
and miles travel at cts. each, ,66
Attendance before the justice curt, 81
I'd on the mittmus, 20miles trav-
el at cents per mile, l,2O
copy, 80
Cash paid jailer "a
Victualing prisoner, so
Paid 2 keepers, "a hours each, at
81 cents per each II hours, 2,67
SIS
Witnesses Fees.
II. ]. Braley, miles travel at
cts. per mile and days attend
anee at ,34 90
George Hadlock miles travel at
cts. per mile and days at
tendance at "a 90
Riley EllSins, miles travel at S
cts. per mile and / days attend
ance at ,34 "A
la Bailey, 2 miles travel at cts.
per mile and one days attend.
ance at "a ~
J,sstice's Fees
Warrant, "a
Judgment and record, 81
subpenas for 5 witnesses, 80
Mittimus, "a
Cash paid for room to hold court
in, lights, and stationery, 200
Copy of record for the Co. Court, rs
For returning files and records to
the Co. Court, 20 miles each way, 200
$40
ILLS
hereby certify that the expenditures and
services charged in the above account have been
made and done rs therein specified. Attest,
T. ]. SARTWELL, Justice Of the Peace.
Orleans County Court, December Term, 1860.
Examined and allowed at seventeen and fifteen
hundredths dollars.
/. N. CUSHMAN, Court AudStor.
Received an order for 7. J. Sartwcll
II. c. WILSON.
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fUI
l hereby certify that the expenditures and SER
Nicecs charged in the above account have been
made and done as therein specified.
Attest, II. F. ALLEN, Justice of the Peace.
| certify that James A. Paddock was employ
ed as attorney by the Town Grand Juror in the
court Of inquiry for the reason that the
States Attorney could not have been seasOuably
obtained-and that he is entitled to the usual
fee OF $500.
II. F. ALLEN, Justice Of tie Peac.
Orleans County Court December term, 1860.
Examined and allowed at tgcnty-one and nine
ty-seyen hundredths dollars.
l. n. CUSHMAN, Court auditor.
Received an order for II. F. Allen.
JAS. A. PADDOCK.
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NO. S.
STATE OF VERMONT
DR..

' DH,7
TO bill of costs accrued at court of inquiry
holden at Crafsbury in the County of Orleans,
on the lst day Of August. A, D. 1860, before
Hollis T. Allen Esquire, Justice of the Peace.
ON the complaint of John Jenncss Grand Juror
of Crattsbury in said County, against Alexander
Slicer charged with being an accessory in a case
OF Larceny, on which the respondent was recog-
said County.
Grand Jiror's Fees
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Complaint S0O,34
Travel and attendance / day, SO 30
Robert II. LaRg3on, the officers Fees.
On Misunderstanding .O6
Cash paid assistants in appre-
hending prisoner, loo
miles travel, ,36
Transporting prisoner, go
Cash paid keeper "a hours, 1874
Cash paid, board Of prisoner,
meals, rs
Reryice Of subpoena, SO miles
travel 1893
readings, ,39
Attendance before justice court ,3i e,7s
JTItileses' Fees.
Frederic ,Templeton, p miles
and day, l,5i
Edwin Dodge, Is miles and
day, l,2i
day, . go
Nathan Muxley miles and
day, ,64
lday, SO 4.7o
Justices Fees.
Warrant, "a
Judgment and Recording, ,67
Subpoena for II witnesses, ,66
Taking recognizances of res
pondcnt aud surety, IT
Taking recognzances of 5 wit
nesses at ~ IS
Copies of files, records, and
recognizancCs, and return
ing same to County Court, LOS AGA
j. A. Paddock's services at court
Of inquiry, 500
n, -
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will be erected to the memory Of "the first
martyr" as the murderer is termed
Two buBdred thousand dollars worth OF
beef we're purchased few days since, at Lou
isville, for the Confederate Army.
There are three South Carolina Regiments
at the Manassas Junction.
Mr. Crenshaw has rendered to JEFF. Davis
the gratuitous use Of bis house, furniture, and
negroes for term Of three months, or longer
IL desired, for the presidential Mansion"
Howell Cobb recommends that the South
ern planters of rice, cotton and wheat shall
give their crops to the Southern Confederacy,
taking in payment therefor their bonds.
The CoDfederacy will then send their crops
to Europe and receive payment 10 cash. He
does not cay however how be intends to
evade the blockade.
A percussion cap factory in Richmond is
turning out thirty thousand caps day.
Howell Cobb recently made speech at
Atlanta, Georgia in which be prophetically
:-"If Virginia falls, we shall all
fall aud we are willing to be at the spot, to
be among the irst victims"
The Richmond Examiner of the 3lst nit, 1,
speaking Of the Federal troops, says, "Take
them all in all, their forces are as precious
set of rascals az could be scraped together
with fine tooth comb from the pot houses
and hell holes oftbe North. They have been
fertilzed by fl.h and grown up crisp, fresh
and unmitigatedly wretched from the mire OF
municipal corruption"
The Virginia papers strongly recommend
a guerilla warfare as the most effective, and
the formation of companies for
the purpose of"pickng off Northern hire.
lings"
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THE PENNSYLVANIA FIFTH.

WAsHIEGToN, June 3--The Pennsylvania
Fifth was visited by number of Government
officers yesterday, who report them in
wretched condition. Some Of them are
nearly naked. They are at Alexandra, and
are the subject of pity for the soldiers, and
the authorities who will permit them to want
fer the few comforts of soldiers life should
be turned out OF the Office they disgrace.
THE PENNSYLVANIA FOURTH.
The Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment are
mostly at Fort Washington.
AT ALExlaDRIA.
The U. S. Volunteers now at Alexandria,
are the
Michigan First, Col. Wilcox, $50 men.
Fire Zouaves. Lieut. Col. Farnham, 1857
men.
Massachusetts Fifth, Col. Lawrence, $50
men.
Pennsylvania Fifth, Col. Mcdowell, lola
men.
Light Battery, Regulars, six pieces, 100
men.
Company z. Seco,d Cav .lry, Lieut., Street
re men.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1861-06-08

WORTH KNowING.-As "hy time is nearly
upon US, we may remind our readers that il is
said that if three or four onions are boiled in
a pint of water, and the liquid is brushed
over glasses or frames, the flies will not light
on the articles washed. This may be used
without the least apprehension, as it will not
do the least injury to the frames.
SUGGESTIVE To COMPANIES ABOUT UNI.
roRMING.--It would appear from numerous
observations made by military writer's, that
soldiers are bit during battle according to
.he color Of their dress, in the following Or
der Red, the most fatal color; the least
fatal. Austrian Gray. The proportions are
Red, II; rife green, Z; brown, 6; Austrian
blush grey, S.
SOLDIERS will do well to make note ol
this: A little musk wrapped up in piece OF
paper and carried in the vast pocket is sure
safeguard against vermin of any kind infect
ing the clothes or body.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1861-06-08
ARRIVAL OF JEFFERSON DAVIS ArRIcH-
MOND.
Interesting Extracts from Virginia Popers

President Davis, accompanied by his Aid,
Colonel Wigfall, and lady, and by Hon.
Robert Toombs, of Georgia, left Montgomery
by cars on Wednesday evening last. They
made no special stoppage on the route, and
owing to previous severe indsposition of the
President, it was detirable that his trip to
Richmond should be as private as possible.
The Despatch announces the appointment
OF David Ii. Todd, brother.in law to Presi
dent Lincoln, to Lieutenancy in the Con.
federate Army. He is stationed in North
Carolina.
This brother of Jackson is announced to
be near Alexandria. with his wife, picking
off from two to FIVE Northern soldiers daily
Gov. Letcher has sent for the family of the
slayer OF Ellsworth, who will hereafter be
provided for by the State anda monument