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contains about one hundred houses beautifully situa-ted, but I think Milton is the most so. Crossed theChillisquaque about five miles above Northumber-land. Thirty miles. 18th. Set off early on foot and left my companionsto drive my mare. Directly crossed Shamokin Creekand walked from the town fourteen miles to Thuhns-man's tavern, the others coming there. About threemiles from said tavern crossed the Mahanoy, and justby the inn, the Swope Creek. Thence to Little's tav-ern and ferry, twenty-one miles, having walked aboutnineteen miles to-day. About midway of the laststage crossed Mahontongo, and about a mile back from Little's crossed Wiconisco. Almost all the way from Sunberry here is, in my opinion, very poor land,both mountains and valleys, notwithstanding someof it heretofore hath been celebrated as excellent,being much of it set with scrubby pitch pine. Thefields in general look poor and dreary and the cattlemostly poor with their hair standing the wrong way. Thirty-five miles. 19th. Pursued my journey on foot, ten miles, inwhich I crossed Peter's Mountain, where I mountedmy invalid mare and rode four miles to McAllister's. The greater part of this stage very poor and someof it exceeding rough land. When we arrived at McAllister's, I discovered on the sign in large letters,The Practical Farmer, which together with whatI had heard heretofore of the man's extent and pro- ficiency in agriculture, raised my expectations of see-ing something extraordinary, but was very much dis-appointed, the garden and barn excepted. Break-fasted and rode six miles down the river through abeautiful country to Harrisburg, a beautiful town onthe bank of the river, which I suppose contains 300 houses; thence to Middletown, nine miles, land verysimilar to the last mentioned. This town, I suppose, contains about one hundred houses; thence to Eliza-bethtown, eight miles. One mile after leaving Mid-dletown, crossed the beautiful Swatara. Here wepropose to lodge, and had it not been for the statemy riding dependence was in, it would have been avery pleasant day's travel of thirty-seven miles. 20th. Walked nine miles, my company comingup with me, got on my mare and rode to Wm.Webb's, ten more. At Lancaster Thomas Stewardson took a passage in the stage and I rode his horse home,the mare following twenty-six miles home, where Ihad the satisfaction to find my family in health;having been from home six weeks all to one night, and traveled 950 miles. ISAAC COATES, SR. THE ingenuity which society exerts to surroundwith a glamour of romance the horrible business ofwholesale slaughter, is worthy of a better cause. Itwas a lady--the Marchioness of Londonderry--wholast week presented new colors to a military companyat Dublin. If it were possible to produce a photo-graph of the carnage of a battlefield, no lady whosaw it would ever touch any part of the trappings ofthe agents in it.--The Christian. OUR minds are filled, not by what we put intothem, but by what we give out from them.