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Show The Dunkers in Berks, Cumber land, Lebanon, Northumberland, and adjacent counties ol Pennsylvania are queer people, having as little in common com-mon with the American character as witli the Aahantees. They are extremely ex-tremely industrious and extremely-pious, extremely-pious, aa they understrnd piety; but ttiey have littie more idea of or inch nation to progress than the mummies io the catacombs of Egypt. The Bible is their chief book, and they seldom read any other. They observe the original Sabbath, not the Christian one.Tuey partake of the Lord's supper at uignt, and wash one another's feet as part of tne ceremonies an evidence evi-dence uf numility enjoined, they think, by the scripture. Favoring celibacy, they do not enforce it, knowing that ou marriage depends the perpetuation perpetua-tion of society, aod enly on this ground do they sanction it. Formerly, Form-erly, they held all property in com-moo, com-moo, but they divide it at present after the manner of the world. They nave been in Pennsylvania 170 years nearly, and they still speak a language lan-guage that canuot be uodeistood j except by themselves. Originally, it was Dutch and German, ; bet now it is so stracge a mixture ol line two as not to be intelligible to I Dutch, Germans, English or Americans. Ameri-cans. Tney work irom 3 o'clock a.m. to S p.m. at this season, all the women and children taking part in the labors of the field. They are by no means ascetic, for they take five meals a day, and very substantial ones, during harvest, and allow nothing to interfere with their regular work and accumulation. They keep a sharp look-out, iu a word, for both worlds. |