Plymouth Advertiser, 1853-12-03

from being sent to school, and to give them a holiday. To make assurance doubly sure, they wished to know if some sleet could not be thrown into the bar gain, just al school-time, so as to make it impossible for them to walk. A body of large school girls were esr esr-nestly - nestly esr-nestly desirous of subscribing for delight delightful - ful delightful weather all the next day ; as their in instructors - structors instructors were to give them a gipseying party on the beautiful banks of the Wis Wis-ahicon. - ahicon. Wis-ahicon. . . Two domestic companions, as. servant girls wore., how called, Tiod. IuMmmI to together - gether together lo pay for a settled hard rain ic pour down from morning till night on the next Monday and Tuesday, that 'he weekly wash might be delayed, and time afforded them to prepare dresses for a ball w ich 'hey were to attend in cabs on Tiit'sJay evening. Three hundred washerwomen sent a deputation to know what would becharged fur ensuring fine weather forever. The whole body of cabmen wished to subscribe by the year for perpetual rain. Mr. Iuddleston ilenning was willing to pay handsomely for six clays rain, that it might prevent his wife from undertak undertaking - ing undertaking his quarterly house-cleaning ; at which time she and her maids always rode a raid into his library, comnvtting intolera intolerable - ble intolerable and unendurable depredations among his books and papers. He did not care how much she scrubbed nnj whitewashed nfipr7i, week, as he was going on the following Monday to Harrisburgh to ap apply - ply apply for a divorce. The business of iinibrclli-making and parasol-unking being now carried on sep separately, - arately, separately, in consequence of the nice divis. ion of Inbtr that characterised he twen tieth century, a deputation was sent fiom the umbrella-makers, ofleri.ig handsome rerms for settled rains three davs in the week, und sadden showers the other three. A depu'a'ion was sent from the para-sol-makers. requesting that the rain king would pay no sort of attention to the umbrella-makers, and privately offering a still handsomer gratuity lor continual sun sunshine. - shine. sunshine. This underhand proposal was con considered - sidered considered highly selfish and dishonorable, and their petition was laid on the table. The storekeepers of Burlington were desirous of bargaining for at least four decidedly rainy days in every week, that the lJiirling'.oiiiau women might be com compelled - pelled compelled to purchase of Ari their cotton cotton-spools - spools cotton-spools and tapes, rows of- pins and papers of needles, ins eaj of going down to Phil Philadelphia - adelphia Philadelphia every morning in quest of those articles ; and thereby greatly assisting to impoverish a very ancient and highly re respectable - spectable respectable town, which . as yet had not adopted any particular mcat.s of enrich enriching - ing enriching itself. Several market gardeners were urgent for dry weather to bring forward their melons. Several others desired rain for their cabbages. A farmer offered to pay well for a wook's fine weather till he had got in his hay-halvest. An iron-master offered to pav immense immensely - ly immensely for a tremendous rain to extinguish a lire that was raging in his pine-forests We have given but a slight synopsis of the applications that were made at the rain office on the first day of its opening. People continued pouring in and pouring out till three o'clock; after which hour no more were io be received. On con consulting - sulting consulting tho register it was found that the bespeaks for rain were exactly balanced by petitionsngainsl it. In fae.t there was a tie, and tho rain-king was puzzled how to act. Tho clerks who were very anx anxious - ious anxious that tho pluvial experiment should be tested on a largo scale, and extremely curious to see a whole rainy day pro produced - duced produced by machinery, hinted tho pardona pardona-bility - bility pardona-bility of strnining a point, and having the rain at till hazards. Hut, unlike some di directors - rectors directors of public institutions, the rain king was an honorable man, and vchc. mently opposed to the smallest derelic dereliction - tion dereliction from strict integrity. Ono of the clerks then proposed tossing up a dollar, and trusting to chance. As in these hap happy - py happy days every gentleman had a dollar, there was no difficulty in obtaining one for the purpose, as would have been the case a century before. On the contrary, not only tho rain-kitvjf, but each of his clerks pulled out a handful of them. It was decided that heads should signify rain, and tails fine weather. Just as the rain king was proceeding to throw up his dollar, one more carriage was heard to stop, and immediately after afterwards - wards afterwards there was a lap at tho door. It was opened, and Mrs. Highflyer, a lad of very great fashion made her appearance, expensively and modishly dressed. She swept directly up to the rain king, and said te- him" I hope I am not too late I could not think of coming at the same time with he populace, and 1 knew J" could be admitted at any hour I pleased. I wish to explain that I am going to-morrow evening to have a select and splendid party, comprising the very cream of the elite of Philadelphia ; in short the aris- tociaey of the aristocracy. To my ut ter horror I have just received a letter from some ot tuosc country cousins whom it is everybody's misfortune to have, informing me 'that if the weather permits, they purpose to- start early to tomorrow - morrow tomorrow morning, traveling slowly in their own vehicle, as one of the girls is delicate, and that they will arrive at my house in the evening for a week's visit. There are three sisters and a brother. I took all my children and spont last sum summer - mer summer at their farm, for tho benefit of fresh

THe LITTLE TRESS OF HAIR. TbisUtUetiewef Wr, oh! who csa tell. The vilJ emotions tht my Worn swell. When to y tWiVingbr-vt, with piiniul joy, I clMp this wUe of my darling boy. Long, Ling my tfrwl one hfu sweetly slept la hi low couch. Ths r -se an-1 ri-Avt IIto rniny summcrU.K.ra.J above his Iica-1, An. the tone weeping-willow lo;ig has shed 1(4 night! tear ; so like mother" grief Who weep In folitu l", an 1 shuns relief. The bright calm mona Us holy light lias ..lie I Full oft npahW grave ; Iho brcexe with ra.ry trcaii Sweet mnic oft huth ina-le, as tho' 'twere joy To lull the slumbers of my bly boy. Tliii little lock of hair! it opes the tomb, Anl calls my loved one f rt!i. Again the bloom Is on his check I hear bin langh, His patting footstep and bis questions grave, I sec the briglit blue eye, the radiant face. The silken hair, ana1 feel his warm embrace. Ho lives! I clasp again my precious boy, Again Ms smile I mm, an l all hi chilJish joy, Tint cruel mcm'ry breaks the enchanting spell, go pale an l coM he lu-s. The tolling bell, The pall, the hearse, the slow an-J measured tread, The last long lingering look into his low'y bed, The pang my bleeding, stricken heart opprcscd, When the cold clods fill on his gentle breast. Withering my inmost soul, (ind with dread weight, Flashing the fearful whole that I am desolate. lVace, peace, my soul, my throbbing heart be still, And calmly sink into thy Maker's will, Drink, drink the cup, and bitter though it be, Thy Savior holds it, llo will strengthen thee. This little lock of hair ! It seems to pay Mother look up, mi l in et?rnnl day, See thy sweet bud of promise blooming there, Thy cherished one. A crown of glory fair A durus his brow, and in his t i.y I.a id A golden harp. See with the cherub band Ilebowsbcforethcthrnne. Hark now heiings J'aptured hosnnnahs to the King of Kings ; And now his harp note swell so sweet and clear. Mourn not dear Mother, strive tj meet mo bore. r.i'ght little tress of hair! I'll treasure thee, 1'ur off thy yilent voice shall comfort mc. l'.est on my heart till my dear boy I see. When mortals t-luill bo clothed w,th im immortality - mortality immortality ! 1'i.Y.Morrii. Xoveinber, IS'lI. THE RAIN KING : (Ml THE A OLA NOG AT NEXT CEXTUItV. BV MISS I.K.-LIK. Tnt'yj&fyUm' progress. So many new SJfrs had been a tided 10 he flag oflhe grca'jNiepubliet tli.it Texas, Mexi Mexico - co Mexico and California, Canada, Novia Scoiia, nliefc Netvf nnidl.unl were clas-ed am ng the old, or perhaps among the middle nged states!. And "iho cold and pitiless Lmrador," having now ilio requisite .imoiint of population, had just applied to be taken into the union. Everything re required - quired required for cr.mf rt or fur luxury, for use or fjr oniameiit, tvas now cultivated or manufactured at home. Ladies despised French silks, and gentlemen detested English rlotlis. 'West India goods' were effaced from (he sign-l.oards of the Yan Yankee - kee Yankee grocer?. We were our own Wes Indies, The gold and silver mines ')f the south were .. energetically worked, and they yielded abundantly. The Carolina plan planters - ters planters were no longer obliged to pack up bag and baggage, and run away with their wives and children from the malaria of their own rice-fields. Those unwhol some swamps had long sinee been drained and converted into fragrant graves of that nll-iniportantshrnb whose foliage supplies he cups that cheer but not inebriate.' Old Virginia was at last tired (and very laudably so)of raising w hat one of our tie tie-dical - dical tie-dical professors annually denounced, in lecturing to his class, as 'that infernal weed, gentlemen.' The Fonda war was really over, the great-grandsons of Tig. i -tail , Wild-Cat and isliort-grass having all come in, and stayed in when they came. Amy Dar Dar-di.i's - di.i's Dar-di.i's horse had been paid for ; and the Gi Gi-rard - rard Gi-rard College had been finished, and was almost ready to receive the descendants of the orphans whose admission had been contemplated by the Great Disregarded. In Philadelphia parlance 'the far west' was no longer expressive of the region merely bey o id Broad stree: : but it exten extended - ded extended two or three miles - ov. r Schuylkill, and was made accessible by a dzen beau beautiful - tiful beautiful wire bridges. It was a hamlso np, like likeness - ness likeness of that portion of that British me me-tropolis - tropolis me-tropolis denominated the Borough : but being inhabited by persons whose business was to supply the daily and indispensable wam of the community,, it, of course, was not considered genteel by the ladies of Philadelphia. Here, however, were located the Rain works, a new establish ment, witii vast and powerful machinery, so constructed as to produce dense clouds of vapor ready to descend either in show showers - ers showers or in settled rains, as might be expe expedient. - dient. expedient. At this "period, intellect, no lonser sat isfied with the measufbd step of a march, was now striding over America, and ex ex-ctflplyfying - ctflplyfying ex-ctflplyfying its power in numerous inven inventions - tions inventions and improvements, such as the pre preceding - ceding preceding age would have deemed it impos impossible - sible impossible to effect, and insane to imagine. -The . theory of a certain ingenulous and highly scientific philosopher, who flourished to towards - wards towards the middle of the nineteenth cen century, - tury, century, had r.o v been brought to practical perfection, it hiving bean fully proved by successful experiment that,, viih the agen agen-cy - cy agen-cy ol steam power, wet weather might bo furnished ad Uberalum these'artificial clouds hairing all the properties of real . ones, except that they could not promise

grmmlfr 3, 1851 fruit, anil rich milk, and new -In id eggs ; but they need not have been such fools as to think of taking me it my word, when I told them, at ycrling, I shook! like to see them in Philadelphia, . As for pro producing - ducing producing thrm to: my super-select friends, to morrow evening, it is quite out of the question. I shudder at the thoughts of their countryned heads, t and their six-months-old finery. And as for keeping them back, that is equally impossible ; as the more they know there is a party in the house, the more they will want to be atjt Therefore, as their coming de depends - pends depends upon the weather, f have resolved on bespeaking the greatest rain, particu particularly - larly particularly for to-mcgrrow, that machinery can produce. Let it be the most driving, the most violent, tli3 most unceasing, the most determined, and the most extensive that can possibly be made; lei it pour in torrents for at least thirty miles west of the city. Provided it is first-rate, and really stops their coming, I will pay the highest price for it. For if I see one ol these Appleshaw facos in my rooms to tomorrow - morrow tomorrow evening, I shall run away to Or Oregon - egon Oregon to hide my mortification." Tho lady now slopped to take breath ; and tho min king, though he did not in his heart approve her motives, was also in his heart glad that her application, at the eleventh hour had produced a majority of one ; and tnat therefore, he could consci conscientiously - entiously conscientiously order a capital rain for to-morrow, to be continued at discretion during the week. Next day the machinery was put into extensive operation. At daylight a heavy steam-cloud overspread Philadelphia and the country beyond it to a great distance ; and descended in a long hard rain that lasted all day without intermission, at a vast expense to that cver-regardless-of-expenditure city. liranch "clouds had been deputed at the same time to do their duty in New Jersey and Delaware. The results were not quite so satisfac satisfactory - tory satisfactory to the applicants at the rain office, as they had anticipated. By reading all ii'ght at the Doomed f Dedliam, and ihe B.ind Hunchback of N-hashnminy, Miss Louisa Vigil's ryes had become so in inflamed - flamed inflamed tha' the great rainy day was wast ed ; for though it -did keep away Miss Nancy Nethercoat and her Dorcas bag, the young lady was entirely unable to got through even one leaf of the Poisoned R'$e of Scekonk. Mrs Posey's husband did stay at home with her during tho long rain, and in con consequence - sequence consequence became tired of his wife. The little school-ffirls obtained a holi day ; but romped and squabbled and made so much noise, that they were slapped, and shut up by their mothers, and sent cr) ing (o bed. Tho umbrella-makers had such a run of custom, and such a demand for their um umbrellas, - brellas, umbrellas, that their journeymen and jour jour-neywomen - neywomen jour-neywomen struck for higher wages, and would not be pacified till their requisition was granted. The maids that dreaded the wash were, it is true, enabled to work at their ball ball-dresses; - dresses; ball-dresses; but they spoiled them from not knowing how. The cabmen were gratified by the profits of the long rain ; only most of them caught cold, aed coughed themselves off their seats. Mrs. Huddleston Hcnning was pre prevented - vented prevented by the rain fiom cleaning her house that week, during which the state legis legislature - lature legislature suddenly broke up. So Mr. Hud Huddleston - dleston Huddleston Henning could not go to iarris iarris-burgh - burgh iarris-burgh for his divorce, and had to endure the whole house-cleaning all tho next week. He locked his library dooi j but the room being on the ground-floor, his wifo and her maids mounted the step-ladder, and got in at the window. There were ouly two additional cotton cotton-spools, - spools, cotton-spools, three yards of tape, four rows of pins, and a half-quarter of a hundred needles sold in Burlington on account of the rain ; tho women preferring to sit idle, ra her than not go twenty miles and back, for their sewing articles. 7'hc rain did prevent Mrs. Highflyer's Appleshaw cousins from coming lo town j b.t it also prevented the choicest of the elite from coming !o her party. There was to bo one still more select, on the following evening at Mrs. Tiptop's, and the haul, noblesse thought it better to re serve themselves for that, than to run the risk of getting rheumatisms, catarrhs, damp feet and splashed dresses by step ping out of Cariiages in a violent shower, pattering across flooded pavements, and draggling up wet doorstops. It was only in one instance that this rain gave unqualified satisfaction to the bespeaker ; and that was when it extm guished ihe fire in the pines. In short it was found every evening, on posting the books, that the applicants for a continuance of lair weather outnum bered those that desired rain. The prof. its of the en'erprize not covering the ex penditure, the stock of the Tain compa ny fell ; and there was much runious speculation in consequence. Natural rains had never occasioned anything worse than submissive regret to those who sunered inconvenience Irom them, and were always received more in sorrow than in anger. But these artific artificial - ial artificial rains were taken more in anger than in sorrow, by all who did not want them. The company was accused of unfair pro ferences ; and there wore hints of bribery and corruption. A loan was obtained at exorbitant interest, but the treasurer of the company ran away with nearly all the money ; anil is now living in great splen splendor, - dor, splendor, in California. A confidential clctk

of tradition, and the art of making wigs and f dse curl was entirely lost. There were lotions that really smoothed the skin, and emollients that filled up furrows and levelled wrinkles.- -The surgeons could not only straighten eyes, but they could chnng light gray orbs in:o lively black or amiable blue, and could rub dull ones bright, as easily as we can clean our silver. They could pare away a little from noses that were ton Urge, let down the end of one thnt was ton much retrousse, and by tho help of pincers draw forward a fiat nose, and extend one that wa3 ton i-liort, with little or no pain. Thoy could partially sew up an extra large mouth, re reducing - ducing reducing it to reasonable dimensions with without - out without leaving the slightest mark at tho cor corners. - ners. corners. They could shave oft" as much of a long chin as was required, and could cement a piece on to a short one, so nice nicely - ly nicely that the join would never be perceived. The rain office opened for the fust timo at nine o'd ck in the morning. Fifty years before, it would hnvo opened at 9 in the evening the English custom of turning night into dy having then for a lino been adopted in Philadelphia. Hut al the present period, it was again the kshion t ) keep rational hours, and to voi k by daylight and Philadjlphiani alwny do what is fashionable. The city clocks were ill striking nine in chorus, when tho numerous people as assembled - sembled assembled outside of the rain office began to go in, only ono at a time being admit admitted. - ted. admitted. The vehicle that brought them were drawn up four abreast: setting down in I'road street, and taking up in Maiket-st."! Carriages impelled oy clock-work which could be wound u) and slipped at pleas pleasure, - ure, pleasure, were just getting into vosrue, and, as yet, were considered very reche.che. llors- es were beginning to he ungenteel, and j were chiefly confined to cabs. Omnibii had long since been exploded, and would have faded into mere traditions, only that the ruins of two we.re still extnnt the dismastled body of one being jogelod ev every - ery every day by the boys in a deserted stable jard at Kensington, and the other lying on its side near the Navy yard, overgrown with the duky leaves and white flowers of the Jamestown weed. The applicants for rain were admitted one at a time, entering at the Broad-st. door, and exiting at that on Matket-st.; from tho purlieoiis of which last, the elite took particular care to emerge as soon as possible by turninir thu first corner they came to. The rain king was seated in the very prince of rocking chairs, one whose back slid up and down and whose arms expanded or contracted at the pleasure of the sitter, so that it could bo made to (it everybody. On eaelt sido of him sal a clerk, two trustworthy young men, but dressed merely in Ilackensack chaly, with shirt frills of Slabtown blond; their salar salaries - ies salaries not allowing t!iem to indulge in the rich velvet of Central Jersey and the fine thread lace of Southern Massachusetts. Place aux dames was still the order of the day, that being a fashion which it is thought the men of America will never relinquish. Therefore the females, as usual, were allowed precedence on this new and important occasion. The first person "that applied at the bureau of. tho rain oflic? was a very pretty girl of sixteen. Miss louisa Vigil, who having sat up all last night to finish the new novel of 'the Doomed ot Dedlnm' and expecttngto do the same to-night with 'the Blind Hunchback of Nchashaminy,' and having calculated on devouring -the Poisoned Rose of Scekonk' to-morrow (the day announced for its publication) she wished for a hard steady rain that might prevent Miss Nancy Nethercoat from cominji to spend her weekly day 'I he young lady haH scarcely departed at one door, when Miss Nancy Nether- coat herself came in at the other: and cheap- ened a fine day for to-morrow, that she might be able to perform her intended vis visit, - it, visit, and obtain the assistance of deal Mrs. Vigil and her sweet daughters in making up red flannel fer emigrant children. Mrs. Posey, a young married lady, was desirous of enfiracincf a violent and unre mitting rain for a week, accompanied with a penetrating cast wind, that her dear William who had a slight cold, might be prevented from going to hi9 store, and compelled to slay at home-with nor. Mrs. Maintain I horn, who had lor twentv years supported a worthless hus band that passed mosi of his days and nights at taverns, requested a week of fine weather to enable herself and daughters to execute a plan they had formed in ab solute desperation. This plan was to give their tnrnienter the slip, aad gradu ally remove to uermantown; carelully leaving no trace behind, and trusting that it would' be a long time, if ever, before he could discover their new abode, One of the rain clerks afterwards heard that these much to be pitied womon adroitly effected their purpose, and all got safely and se secretly - cretly secretly to their Germantown house. But while they were congratulating each other ou the success of their en'erprise, the old fellow came riding out on the top of the last load of furniure. A body of small school-girls had mnde up a subscription-purse for a heavy rain I to last all next day ; so as to prevent thorn

was sent to brinjr him back, but never found him ; and the -confidential clerk's charges for traveling expenses, loss of time, and loss on the sale of a pair of boots, which he found too tight for him, completely swallowed up the r-raainder of the funds. The rain king became unpopular, be because - cause because he had not the mjrsculous power of pleasing everybody. The rain works are abandoned, and he his gone in the last steam-vessel to Chini, by the short cut, as it is called, through the ship ca canal - nal canal that now unites thelantic and the Pacific. ' The Ghiaese have succeeded in driving away the English, and in settling down to ihe stationary state in which they excited the wonder of the world for thousands of years. Their country still requires more irrigation than it receives, and long droughts are still frequent. ISut though the emperor's edicts generally commence with " JJcad this and tremble," he announces in them that magic may be employed, when nothing else will do. Therefore our rain king is studying that ancient and respectable art, an American ran turn his hand to anything and when he has acquired it and practised it awhile, successfully, he will most probably return to his own country : and be able to fur furnish - nish furnish every individual with exactly as much rain as will suit that individual's own particular purpose, without infrng infrng-ing - ing infrng-ing on tho convenience of his neighbor. The ISather'8 Last Les3DP. Will you please leach me my verse, mamma, and then kiss me and bid me good night?' said little Roger L , as he opened the door and peeped cautiously in into - to into the chamber of his t ick mother ; 'I am very sleepy, but no ono has heard me say my prayers.' Mrs. h was very ill, and indeed her attendants believed her dying. She sat propped up with pillows, and struggling for breath; her lips were white, hor yes were growing dull and glazed. She was a widow, and little Itoer was her only,1 her darling child. F.very night he had been in the habit of coming into her room and silting in her lap, or kneeling by her side, whilst she repeated passagps from God's holy word, or related to him stories of wise and good men, spoken of in its pages. Hush! ' said a lady, who was watching beside her couch. 'Your dear mother is too ill io heat you to-night., As she said this she camo forward and laid her hand gently upon his arm, as if she would lead him from ihe room. Roger began to sob as if his heart would break. I cannot go to bed without saying my prayers indeed I cannot-' The ear of the dying mother caught the s.itind. Although she had been insensi insensible - ble insensible to everything transpiring around her, the sob of her darling aroused her from her stupor, and turning to her friend she desired her to bring her little son and lay him on her bosom. Her request was granted, and the child's rosy cheek and golden hair nestled beside the cold face of his dying mother. '.Roger, my son, my darling child,' said the dying women, 'repeat this verse after me, and never, never forget it; 'When my fiuher and mother forsake me, the Lord will take me up.' ' The child re repeated - peated repeated it two or three times distinctly, and said his little prayer. Then he kissed the cold, almost rigid features before him, and went quietly to his couch, The next morning he sought, as usual, his mother, but found her stiff and cold. This was his last lesson. He has never forgotten it probably nevor will. He has grown up to be a man a good man, and now occupies a post of honor and profit in Massachusetts, I never could look upon him without thinking of the faith so beaut'fully exhibited by his moth er: How to Destroy an Enemy. Nanglee, Emperor of China, being told that his enemies had raised an insurrec insurrection - tion insurrection in ono of the provinces, said Come, then, my friends, follow me, and I promise you that we shall very quickly destroy them. He marched forward, and the rebels submitted upon his approach. Alt now thought that he would take ie most sig signal - nal signal revenge, but they were surprised to see the captives treated with mildness and humanity. How?' cried his first minister, 'Is this the manner in which you fulfil your prom ise! 'Your royal word was given that your enemies should be destroyed, and, behold you have pardoned all, and have caressed some.' 1 promised,' replied the Emperor, with a generous air, 'to destioy my enemies.--I have fulfilled my word, for see they are mv enemies no longer, I have made friends of them. Goldsmith's Citizen of the World. Gen. Cass has met with another pain painful - ful painful affliction in the death of his favorite grand child Lizzy Canfield, daughter of (Jnntain Canheld, at the age ot ten years. She was well in the evening, reading a book, yet that same night Gen. Cass was awakened with the terrible intelligence that sho was dying, and before daybreak sho had breathed her list. Look out for the beggar who refuses bread unless it is buttered, and who is in dignant at potatoes unless they are peeled peeled-Ho - Ho peeled-Ho alarms tho house by kicking the door.

Togchad by unseen Bagera, . Yield their wvy to the breese Chiming in Vita birds and bees, 'Slong tha Autumn tinted trev Where the sunshins lingers. ' Gd, thy greatness here I fee ' Heeds my heart thy love's appeal, Et thy forest shrine I knee!. All toy tin confessing I ' ; Hera with strength my toxd imbue, Light thy aitar fires anew, Aid me to be pure and true. . Father, witli thy blessing. ,'; -, XT A Lucky Dream. A correspondent of the United States r Guzette gives the following curious ae- ', count of the manner in which makings rounu snot was originally discovered. We believe it to be new to many of our readers: 'My father was a plumber in the city ofrew l'ork. and for a lorn? time rnnU "think of nothing but how to make round , shot. Kound shot was the burthen of the night as well as the day. One night he ' was awakend by a blow in the back from my mother, who exclaimed, 1 have found out how to make round shot. I dreamed I was going into a shop lo buy Ihe child (myself.) a hat, when, on hearing a hiss hissing - ing hissing noise proceed from an inner room, I was informed that they were making round shot; cn going in, I looked up, and . saw a man pouring mel ed lead through a sieve at the top of the building, which fell into a tu ontnelloor, and on taking soma of the shot into my hand, found they wera perfectly round! My father exclaimed in eestacy, You have found it out' Imme Immediately - diately Immediately he set the melting pot to work, and on pouring some of the melted lead from the top of the stairs he found the shot much rounder than any which he had be before - fore before made. At daylight he poured some from the top of the leading tower in the city, succeeding much better; and on pouring some from the shaft of the mine he found he had obtained round shot." Important to Man Why is it that the rainbow and cloud come over us with beauty that is not of earth, and then pass away and lccve us to muso on thoir I acted loveliness ? why is it that the stars, which hold their festival around their mid night throne, are set above the giasp of limited faculties, forever mocking us with approachable glory?' And why is it that bright forms of human beauty are presen presented - ted presented to our view and taken from us, leaving the thousand streams of affection to flow back in Alpine torrents upon our heart ? We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth. There is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will set out before us like islands that 'umber on the ocean, and where the beau- 1 1 ful beings that now passes before us like the meteor, will stay in our presence for forever. - ever. forever. There is a renort thnt wo have another Seminole war. the Ct vprnnr of Florida having expressed his determin determination - ation determination to drive the remnant of the Seminoles from the State, in accordance with the views of a large proportion of his con. stituents. The leadinc inhabitants of South Florida, however, have held a pub lic meeting at soto in Hernando Co., at which resolutions were passed, protesting against the proposed removal, by force. It is said that the Enslish and French chess clubs have made a novel match to be played shortly at the Hippodrome. A gigantic chess board will be marked out upon the turf. The castles will !n carried on the backs of real elephants, and every other piece will be represented by an equestrian performer dressed in character. The kintrs and nueena will bo in gorgeous robes, the knights in full armour, and the bishops vill represent the me "true cnurcn militant. ' A MAN sometime a?o was asanullpd in Berwick. Alaine. was remnvnd over tha line to his residence in New Hampshire, wnere ne nas since died. Judge Howard, of Maine, has charged the Grand Jury of York COlintV. that the murderer cannot be indicted, at common or statute law, wnere tne deadly wound was inflicted in one State, and the man died in another so the murderer will escape punishment by this new difficulty. Quite a sensation was produced in a church in South Boston, during service, last Sunday, by the sudden appearance of a human leg in the ceiling overhead, ac accompanied - companied accompanied by the falling of eight feet of plastering and lath. A truant boy was the other of the mischief- There is a difference between hn and wisdom; he that thinks himself tho happiest man, really is so; bnt he that thinks himself the wisest, is senerallv ihn greatest fool, Happiness is not in a cottage, nor a palace, nor in riches, nor in learning, nor in ignorance, nor passive lifej but in do doing - ing doing right from right motives. , : ; Miss Pitkin says the reason she has never married, is, that she never yet the man for whom " she'd ,Je wil"-, ,o . cook three meals of victuals every day of her life." A good reason : v The greatest Wisdom . that a man can 1 learn, is to forget all sorrows, and cherish the good of the last, and mend hia ways in the future. -'' ---;rt , f Modesty is more becoming, and allwtys esteemed more valuable than beauty. Beauty perishes, but modesty never de cays. , " J ;-' ; v--' -

Uolume i to rain frogs : as even the most minute tadpoles were not light enough- to bn drawn up and let down by them. The gentleman who bad practically completed the discovery wa a descendant f Awbrt thrr of the great man w ho first took up the subj"ct jusi as Signora Vespucci was descended from the brother of the gr at Amerigo. He was more fortunate til d n his learned and scientific predeoes'or, in living at a timo when bank bubbles were exploded, and there was money in the land therefore ho wis in no wnn of tho jn'qst substantial Fort of encourage encourage-nnnt. - nnnt. encourage-nnnt. iTnlike liis great-grent-unele, he rejec ed not the appellation of tho Haiu King the title of king being in tho twentieth ceinury bestowed only on per- 'lis who had done something to benefit the people. The old sort of kings had become obsolete throughout the civilized world, the princes and lords had had their day. Even in England, the descendants of Queen Victoria's children were now merged into the people, and obliged to gct an Irnest living f.r themselves. The rain office was, for the present, lo located - cated located in tho lower story of the Universal Institute ; a vast marble edifice, whose ar chitecture was of tint excursive order dis distinguished - tinguished distinguished as the pure American. For the ndvantngo of a central situation, 'his building had been erected near that part I'road street once occupied by a four quar ter grass lot denominated I'enn square, but now covered with ranges of stores filled with iho fisl ionable materials for female dress. Hero were exposed to sale thef -mlards, grodenaps.and repses of New Jersey, that whole State having been laid into mulberry bushes; and care bung now alien to provide silk worms enouoli to eat the leaves, and cocooneries enough to contain the silk worms. The example of Jersey had been followed bv some other portions of tho union, where the land was sandy and piney, and through which it was formerly the custom to convey stage passengers always at night the widely scattered inhabitants being a-hamed that sirnngets should see their country in day light. So great was the change, that dyed co tons had been discarded throughout North Carolina,whose provincial citizens were seen no more in their jay-bird cos costume - tume costume ofskyblue coats andaronetta panta pantaloons. - loons. pantaloons. In fret, nearly the whole, Ameri American - can American community was now 'walking in silk attire. The fashionable stores above-mentioned exhibited the light and elegant crepe lisses, acrophancs, tulles, blonds, and illusion grruzes now manufactured on the banks of the Connecticut; the niousseline do laine and balzarine of Rhode Island (Newport had revived and becon.o nearly equal to Providence;) the organdies, painted lawns and fine laces of Massachusetts, not to mention ihc embroideries and artificial flowers of Lowell, where the many thous. and young ladies of that wonderful city (having now souls above calico) had long since devoted their talents to the manufac manufacture - ture manufacture of articles of taste and elegance. Chestnut street had for the last fifty years been given to the confectioners, whose tival palaces standing side by side, evinced that theirs still continued the best business in Philadelphia a ci'y tiiat, as we learn from an old pamphlet of that period, was even in the days of William l?enn 'renowned for tho excellence of its pies and cakes.' On the day that tlu office was opnisd Cor the first time, tho rain king resolved to take his scat there, anxious to know what effect this great invention would produce on the people. Tlu terms and regulations hae been published in the newspapers for a month past. Al! rains were lo be bespoken tho day before they

ing mounted on velocipedes that, when! the impetus was given, skimmed along ; wit hout touching the ground, always keep- ; ing tust three inches above it. The rain king was this day arrayed in a dark blue frock coat of Mount Holy vel velvet, - vet, velvet, with pantaloons of Tuckerton satin, and a vest of Cincinnati cashmere tho shawl-goat having been introduced with great success into the State of Ohio His shirt-frill was of the finest Fawtueket lace, and his cravat was ornamented with the richest Merrimack embroidery. Now that everything was made on our ownsida of the Atlantic, and our money no longer sent out of the country for the benefit of foreign manufacturer, nearly all our peo people - ple people could afford to dress well, (even per persons - sons persons of genius) and it was considered right and proper to do so, by way of giv ing cmp oyment to our own artisans. Coarse articles were only used for cloth clothing - ing clothing the paupers that were still sent in shoals from Europe. The rain king was a man of middle age and of middle size. It is unnecessa unnecessa-'ry - 'ry unnecessa-'ry to praise his loob1, for most' people were now good looking, thanks to the im important - portant important iuiprovemet.'.s in all the arts con connected - nected connected with the preservation of beauty and the modifying of ugliness. There were now dentifrices that pteserved the teeth instead of injuring them, and when the operation chanced to be necessary, tooth-drawing was performed in a manner that made it quite a lnxury. There were unguents of such veritablo efficacy that bald heads and gray hair became matters