A man in Orange county was found one night climbing an over-shot wheel in a fulling mill. He was asked what he was doing. He said he was 'trying to go up to bed, but some how or other these stairs won't hold still.' There are many unlucky wights who are laboriously endeavoring to climb fortune's ladder on the same principle. =Power of Imagination.= An amusing incident recently occurred at Williams College, which is thus related by a correspondent of the Springfield Gazette: The professor of chemistry, while administering, in the course of his lectures, the protoxide of nitrogen, or, as it is commonly called, laughing gas, in order to ascertain how great an influence the imagination had in producing the effects consequent on respiring it, secretly filled the India rubber gas-bag with common air instead of gas. It was taken without suspicion, and the effects, if anything, were more powerful than upon those who had really breathed the pure gas. One complained that it produced nausea and dizziness, another immediately manifested pugilistic propensities, and before he could be restrained, tore in pieces the coat of one of the bystanders, while the third exclaimed, 'this is life. I never enjoyed it before.' The laughter that followed the exposure of this gaseous trick may be imagined. =True Policy.= Under all circumstances there is but one honest course; and that is, to do right and trust the consequences to Divine Providence. 'Duties are ours: events are God's.' Policy, with all her cunning, can devise no rule so safe, salutary and effective, as this simple maxim. * * * * * Six thousand pounds of Saxony wool have been purchased in Pennsylvania, at sixty-two and a half cents per pound. A LIST OF PATENTS _Issued from the 20th of July to the 28th of July, 1846, inclusive._ To M. W. Obenchain, of Springfield, Ohio, for improvement in Carding Machines. Patented 20th July, 1846. To Russell Wildman, of Hartford, Ct., for improvement in Machinery for forming Hat Bodies. Patented 20th July, 1846. To William Sherwood, of Ridgefield, Ct., for improvement in Carpet Looms. Patented 20th July, 1846. To Richard Garsed, of Frankford, Pa., for improvement in Operating Treadle Cams in Looms for Tweeling. Patented 20th July, 1846. To James Ives, of Hamden, Ct., for improvement in Locks for Carriage Doors. Patented 20th July, 1846. To Jacob Peebles, of Concordia, La., for improvement in Brick Cisterns. Patented 20th July, 1846. To Jacob Shermer, of New Valley, Md., for improvement in Winnowing Machines. Patented, 20th July, 1846. To George Levan, of Gap, Pa., for improvement in Doubling and Twisting and Reeling. Patented 20th July, 1846. To Joseph Stevens, of Northumberland, N. Y., for improvement in Fences. Patented 20th July, 1846. To James Boss, of Philadelphia, Pa., for improvement in Ever Pointed Pencils. Patented 20th July, 1846.