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TWO TRAVELERS,
h. man passed over the road
In the early day of Spring,
When the grandest flower that ecr bloom
ed Was brightly blossoming.
. And never a word be spoke, ,
And hit face was marble cold,
Bat millions of men above him wept,
And millions of bells were tolled.
And the cities were draped in black,
And the towns were wrapped in gloom,
"For lie is dead," the people said
"Who made the flower to lloom,"
Down many a swart hy face
Unnumbered tear-dtops flowed.
"For be Is gone," the bondman spoke
"Who lifted our weary load."
And they buildcd hlm a tomb
Afar In the silent West,
And that beautiful flower that men call
Peace
Spread its leaves above his breast.
II.
A man passed over Iho road
Ere the summer days were dead.
And the leaves of the flower that bloomed
In Spring
He trampled with ruthless tread
And many a word he sp ike.
And his arrogant face wns flushed ,
And laughed aloud with the noisy crowd
W hen the leaves of the flower wei e crush
cd.
But dowu many a swarthy face
Flowed tears of bitterest ptiin,
"For he Is come" the bondman spoke
'To forge our chuins ngniu."
He must seek the the tomb some time
Afar in the silent west,
But will ever the flower which men call
Fence
Spread its leaves above his brenst?
tioou Aiivn i:.
Dccauso vou flourish in worldly affairs,
Don't bo lmuglity and put on ulrs,
With insolent pride of station!
Don't bo proud, and turn up your nose
At poorer people, in plainer clothes.
But lciiru, for the sake of mind's repoie,
That wealth's a bubble that comes and
goes I
And that nil proud flesh, wherever it grows,
Is subject to irritation.
Select Reading.
JI'IMIR HE.MtY W. Ml I.I.I AW.
Tlic following biographical sketel
of our candiiliite ibr Supremo Judge
has been carefully prepared, anil was
delivered at a public meeting held in
Pittsburg ii few davs since, bv C.B. M
Smith, Esq. It will be a gratification
for every Union voter to have the
pleasure of supporting such an abl
and pure minded gentleman. Head
the biography.
Mr. Smith was received with, rap
turous applause, and proceeded to de
liver the following biographical sketch
of our worthy candidate. He said :
I come here to-night, my fellow
citizens, to perioral what is to me a
pleasant duty to joiu with you in
giving our adherence to the platform
of principles adopted by the great
Union Republican party of this State,
at the Convention lately held in Wil-
lianisport, and in manifesting our satis
faction and pleasure in the nomination
bv that Convention, ot our lellow-eiti
en, Hon. Henry W. Williams, as a
candidate for election to the highest
judicial position of this Common
wealth.
While I shall express my cordial an
proval of the principles enunciated in
that wise, moderate and patriotic erect
of political laitli, winch breathes, in
every line, a love for freedom and
human rights, and mixed with no de
mand for vengeance, by saying that I
would hardly add to, or detract, one
word therefrom, I shall leave its dis-
cussion to those' able gentlemen who
may follow, and devote the brief time
allotted me upon this occasion in speak
ing of the personal, moral, political
and iiidicial character ot our candidate
and it is, perhaps, fitting that I should
iln this, as I have known Judge Wil
liams longer, and more intimately, than
any person in this house.
My acquaintance with him com-
mencea in cone; in iooo, as ciass
i .11 t afin - 1
' mate, and since that time I have stu-
died with him, taught with him, and
practiced in my profession with, and
under him. I have known him as a
student, aa teacher, as lawyer and as
Judge ; and what is more, during all
that time, I have known him as an
intimate, personal friend. I have
known him more thoroughly than I
have ever known any other living
roan, not excepting my own brother,
and I say here to-night, in presence of
this large audience, that, even were i
so disposed, I could truthfully speak
no ill ofhim.
Judgo Williams is of tho good old
r. revolutionary Whig stock, which
achieved our national independence in
1776. and from his ancestors he has
- inherited a steady love of . liberty, in
dependence, freedom and national un
ion, which ha? been strengthened by
the great events of these latter times.
, He was born in the beautiful valley of
the uonneciicui a oiatu tout nag given
.' birth to such men as Henry Baldwin
. f . . va j r ir.ii J
V alter X or worn, vtiutick niuuury auu
"William Strong and is now in the
Aill prime and vigor of manhood.
From the people and of . tbem, lie has
'. been nialnlv the architect of his own
fortune. His father, a well-to-do
fin-mar. held with most New England
fathers of that day, that it was better
for boys to help themselves than to be
lie Haitieiliii Pifiifeii,
JAfi. E. BAYERS,
VOL. XI.
dependent upon paternal savings, and
Biter Having lut iiisiieu ma nun u ure
means of acquiring an education, he
sent him forth from the paternal home
at an early age, to make his way in
the world and fight the battle of life
unaided, save by his own energy and
talents.
In college, Judge Williams gave
promise of his future success. He be
came at once one of the most popular
men of his class, loved and respected
by all for his correct deportment, his
kind and social disposition, his high
sense of honor, his great regard for
truth, his strict integrity, and for his
entire freedom irom envy and jeal-
ousy. lie immediately tooK High
.... i r.i
rank as a scholar, especially as a speak
er, a writer, a debator, a logician, and
metaphysician, which rank he main
tained and increased during his col
legiate course. I le graduated at Am
herst College, Massachusetts, in the
summer of 1837, and So proud has his
alma mater been of this ono of her
favorite sons that she sometime since
honored herself by bestowing upon
him the honorary degree of Doctor of
Laws. After spending tho interven
ing time in teaching, ho commenced
reading law in the office of Ex-Chief
Justice Lowric, of this city, in the
:ring of 1839, and was admitted to
ie bar of this county in May, 1841.
He practiced his profession with in
creasing success irom the time ot ins
admission to the bar, as a partner with
his precentor, until the latter was ap
pointed judge of the District Court of
this county, and then with .the late
Wm. M. Shinn, until elevated for the
first tune to his present position in the
fall of 1851.
s a lawyer, Judge Williams was a
cautious safe, honest and reliable coun
sellor, nml an, earnest, eloquent and
generally successful advocate. lie
endeavored to keep his clients out of
the Jaw instead ol getting them in, but
when in, with a good cause, all his en
ergies and abilities were Ijotit to bring
ing matters to a favorable issue. 11 is
tailings with his clients were ever
haracterized by justice and faithful
ness. line lie would never Know
nglv take a bad case for the sake of
:ec, lie never gave up a gonu one oe-
'i i i.
cause ins client was uuuuiu to pay
im. His intercourse with his pro
fessional brethren was always kind,
courteous and honorable, nes'cr resort
ing to what is called "sharp practice"
to gam an advantage over his oppo
nent. Had he remained at the bar,
few would have met with greater suc-
cess in that most (iiiicuit, laoorious
and honorable profession.
At a large nml respectable Convcn
tion of the old Whig party of tins
county, held on the 1th of June, 1851.
Judge Williams, then young in years
and in his profession, and without ju
dicial experience, without solicitation
on Ins part was nominated by accla
mation, lor the responsible position
which he now holds, and was placed
upon the iiidicial ticket of that party
with the lion. Walter forward, as
the candidate for President Judge of
the District Court anil Hon. William
1$. M'Clure as the candidate for Presi
dent Judge of the Courts of Common
1 leas, Are. J lis opponent at the elec
tion in the bill was Judge Slialcr, t
lawyer of eminent ability and learn
ing, who added to his other qualifica
tions for the position an experience of
several years uppn the bench, to whiel
the democratic party sought again to
elevate him. The result of the elec
tion showed that the action of the Con
vention in nominating Judge Will-
iims, without a dissenting voice, was
peculiarly acceptable to the people,
He ran alicad of his ticket in the ward
in which he lived, in "the old Demo
cratic llnrd Ward, and in the conn
tv, beating his able opponent 2,245,
while Judge Forward s maiority over
Judge Hepburn was only 1,228, and
Judge M'Clure s over James S. Craft
oiilv
So well, faithfully, impartially and
satisfactorily did Judge llliams dis
charge the duties of his office, and so
learned, upright and useful a Judge
did he prove himself to be, in the csti
niation ot all men, that at the enu oi
his first iiidicial term often years, in
- . . . i
1801. he was nominated by aciama-
tion by the then two great parties of
the country,' and was re-elected with
i i i . i
out opposition Irom any quarter, buci
renewed evidence of popularity and
appreciation in one'sown neighborhood,
and among men of all parties, are
very rare, and most clearly lorcshadow
the very flattering vote which the
iudgc will receive from the people of
this county on tho second luesday ot
Uctobcr next,
Judge Williams' manners and bear
ing are always pleasing. In social
intercourse, he is the life of the circle
in which he mingles. Cheerful, lively
and witty, never by look or word, in
tentionally, wounding the feelings or
speaking ill of any one, he makes
friends of all. His extensive reading
and large information upon all sub
ject, make his society sought for by the
learned anu scicnunc. in nis History,
in the classics and in the natural and
metaphysical science, there are few
more thorough and extensive students
than Judgo ilhams,
Judge Wilb'anis' moral and religious
character is beyond reproach, lera
pcrate and chaste in all things, truth
ful in his words and honest and upright
in all his dealing, neither by word nor
by act docs he ever offend publio de
cency, or bring the cause of sound
morals and true religion into reproach.
Religious without Pharisaism or blgf-
FIRMNESSINTHE RIGHT
otry,
while he selects and cherishes
his own church connections, in which
b haa ever been a consistent, active
and leading professor, he cheerfully,
and as a matter ot principle, cuueeuta
the right ot judging anu aeiermuimg
for themselves to other men. No one
ever heard him denounce any man, or
any sect, for differing with him upon
theological dogmas.
Id politics, Judge Williams was at
the first a Whig of the Clay and Web
ster school, holding with the former
that protection to some extent was
necessary to encourage and foster the
industrial interests of Pennsylvania,
and with the latter that there was no
object in our polities so much to be
constantly kept in mind and maintain
ed, in every event, as the perpetual
n .l it, . 111
union ot tnese states. ti nen me
exigencies of tho times gave birth to
the Republican party his fir-secin
patriotism, mid his long cherished
ove ol the Union, Jed linn to cast his
votes and give his influence, so far as
it was consistent witli his otucial sta
tion, in iiivor of the principles and
candidates of that party. During the
rebellion ho supported the Government
and the armies of the Unioh by every
means in his power, upholding the
credit and authority of the former, and
encouraging by constant laitli tho glo
rious success ot the latter. Ihose in
tiniate with him will not readily for
get his energetic utterance against
treason and traitors and the strong
and emphatic manner with which he
was wont to declare that the Lnion
must and slumld, at all hazards, be
preserved. W hue no partisan or ul
traist in polities, he is in favor of im
provenient and rclorni, when the
luinges ot the tune and wants ol the
people demand them.
Ihenulieiul position which Judge
Williams hits held for over fifteen years
is as important and reponsibfe as any
in the State. It has been adorned by
some of the best legal niinils, and it is
not saying too much lor bun to say that
ie bus proved himself in every respect
the equal of them. During that time
ho has probably tried us many and as
important commercial, and constitu
tional cases, as any other Judge of his
years in the State, and as a commercial
ami const i tutiomil lawyer and Judge
he has no superior on the bench.
Quick to see the real point in the cause
presented before him, and prompt to
decide according totlic well established
rules of law and evidence, he has shown
iiinsclt a sound clear and practical
Judge, whose opinions and decisions
have been as seldom reversed by the
Supremo Court as those of any other
Judge of any other inferior Court in
the State, f hesc opinions, many of
winch have lound place in our legal
reports arc sound nml lucid expositions
of the law of the case before him. They
always posess the merit of adhesion to
the question at issue, ot clearness and
brevity. He never wanders from the
point involved, and never seeks to in
ject his own notions of law or ethics
into tho decisions of tho Courts which
ought ever to be faithful interpretations
of Constitution mid laws as they are.
He is not a Judicial law-maker, many
many of whom, to the grief of the pro
fession, wo have, but a judicial law
expounder, leaving the making of -the
laws to those whose business it it is.
In bis charge to the Jury, ho lays
down the law of the case with great
elearneess and leaves all questions of
tact lairly to their determinations,
Judge Williams is emphatically an
honest, impartial and just Judge. He
cannot be turned a hair's breadtii by fa
vor or by interest, from what he be-
lievesto bcthe justiceof the cause before
him. So well is his stern integrity as
a Judge understood in this community
that no counsel or suiter ever under
took to influence him in the decision
of a cause pending before him, save by
legal testimony and sound legal argu
ment. Judge t llliams is a christian gen
tleman, a ripe scholar, a sound and well
read lawyer, and a just Judgc,to whom
the celebrated lines of the third ode of
Horace will apply with as much force
and truth as any other man :
Juslum ac lenacem propositi virutn.
Hon civium nrdor prav.t jubentium.
Non vulttis Instnntis tyrnnnl,
Slente qiwtlt solide,
With such a candidate and in i
cau.e so worthy, our own and the oth
ther counties of the Western part of
State will vie with Philadelphia and
lier sister counties of the East in raising
the banner of freedom and the -Union
still higher, and in inauguratingTl cam
paign for free principles and a united,
peaceful and happy country, which shall
culminate in the glorious victories of
18G8, under the leadership of a Thorn
as, a Sheridan, a Sherman, or a Grant.
"WllAB," asked a renowned stump
orator, who was running for the office
of constable, "whar, my enlightened
friends of the Sixty-sixth militia dis
trict, was Andrew Jackson in the bat
tle of 'cw Orleans? Wnr he thar?
He wur. Ho was a ridin' up and
down on a bobtailcd Arabian, a wavin'
of a cracked sabre, up to the armpits
in blood and mud, and a given of the
British thunder; the genius of his
country a holdin of her a?gis over his
head, cotton bales pavenecring in front
to protect him from every danger, and
the American eagle, with the stars and
stripes in its beak, a soarin' aloft in
the blue empyrean, cryin' "Hail Col-umbial'"
AS GOD GIVES US TO SEE THE
WAViESBlKO, PA., .WEDNESDAY, AIGIST 14, 1807.
TUE JEW SOUTH.
peach of Senntor Wllt.n at Snratof ,
Jnljr tStb 1S6T.
Senator Wilson of Massachusetts,
recently made an excellent speech at
Saratoga, in response to a serenade by
his political friends. Ins address was
a recapitulation of past events, with
their bearings upon the present and
future, rather than an argument. He
declared that when we had war he was
in favor of prosecuting it vigorously ;
now that we have peace be wants to
rosecuto that also vigorously. He
md delivered thirty-two speeches in
the rebel States since last sjiring, and
he had spoken more plainly there than
he had ever dono in Massachusetts,
but bad never been met with a hiss or
an unkind word. He hoped that the
North would btT'generous as well as
just. Kind wojds addressed to the
South hy JNorthern people will do
more than anything else lor good. Mr.
Wilson's opinion was that the greatly
improved condition of that region was
brought about bv the overthrow of the
President's "policy." While that
stood there was nothing but bitter
words and violent deeds. But when
Congress reversed that policy, and
was sustained by the votes of the peo
ple who saved the Union the South
saw that it must submit, and this is
now being done with a very good
grace. The ballot, in the hands of
(100,000 black men, is another power
ful instrument for peace. The Repub
licans never cheated or deceived the
South, and the result will be the con
version of all these communities to i
belief in the principles of liberty and
progress.
The concluding portion of Mr. Wil
son's speech ; which we cannot give in
full, was as follows :
For one I have it not in my heart
to pursue the system' of confiscation,
or any other systems that shall bear
harder than those that have already
been adopted to bring them into the
country and make them a part of the
country. I don't wan't an Ireland or
1 oland in America. Applause.
But I want Free States, where every
man is the peer ol every other man
where every man, no matter what
blood may course through his veins,
no matter where he may have been
born, is a man whom Uod made and
for whom Christ died, and who shall
possess equal rights with everybody
else. We want Free States, free men,
and that policy that has been inaugu
rated will bo accomplished within
twelve months, nnd all those States
within a year will bo brought back
nto tho Union. They will not have
the power to dictate the policy of the
country, but they will be the radical
and progressive portion of it. We
hall see these things, ami I say to you
to-night gentlemen, not merely ns a
artisan, but as an American citizen
oving my country and my whole
country, that it 13 enough to make
the heart throb with gratitude to al
mighty God for what we have wit
nessed during the lust seven years of
progress. rCheers.1 The friends of
the country have been misrepresented
throughout this contest. No were
told that we could not conquer these
twelve millions of people. Well, we
did it. We M ere told that we had no
constitutional right or power to do it.
We exercised the powers of the Consti
tution to save the Constitution and the
country, and we have done it. JS'ow
they tell us we have no constitutional
power to pass the laws for reconstruc
tion ; but we find the powers and have
passed the laws, and the laws will do
tho work. The President of the Unit
ed States may do what he pleases ; the
place that knows him will not know
him a great while; Laughter and
applause. The 4th of March, IBM,
at any rate, will come some time.' A
voice, "What alniut impeachment'?'
He may stay m till that time and he
may not. fClieers.! It will depend a
great deal upon lu's future conduct. If
he undertakes to violate the laws of
the country, and arrest the conduct of
the Government, ho will have but a
short time to stay where he is. Ap
plause. But I tell you, gentlemen, he
may do just what lie pleases, he cannot
prevent anything. fGood.1 Our
friends in the South, who believe in
reconstruction, in a united country ,and
in freedom, three-fourths of a million
of them, will bring those States back
in spite of anything Andrew Johnson
or anvbody e)se can do; I look upon
Mr. Johnson iust as I look upon liull
Run. Laughter. Bull Itun during
the war brought a sense of shame to
the cheeks of the country, but after all
it was a great lesson to the country.
Andrew Johnson seems to be a sort of
being brought into existence lor a pur
pose. He stands right there, and
every time he undertakes to do any
thing against the cause of liberty and
justice, the country rallies, and goes
turther than it would have gone be
fore. Laughter and applause.! He
got the opinion of the Attorney Gen
eral the other day. and all over the
South the rebels reared their head,
and began to hope again : but in a day
or two went the news on the breeze
that Congress would assemble, and the
rebels closed their lips. Congress as
sembled and made an additional and
stronger measure than ever before. He
may undertake to set it aside u he
pleases, or do what he pleases; our
friend in the South will take caro of
the cause of the country. And let me
tell vou that Grant is for negro suf
frage, not only in the South, but in the
North.- rCheen.1 So is Thomas
RIGHT.-Imcon.
that great General whom his soldiers'
nicknamed "Old Reliable j" so is Phil.
Sheridan, and nearly every General of
the country who has made a page of
the history ot this war. 1 find a very
large share of the men who have op
posed us individually say it is right,
but they say they have got a great
prejudiced vote behind them, and they
must pander to that. I think it be
comes statesman to speak the truth
to come out m advance ot tho people
and maintain what is right and the
people will lol low them. 1 here is no
portion of our countrymen so ignorant
or prejudiced who will not do the right
when they see it clearly, ouch is the
present condition of tho country. I
think it is a hopeful one, and it will be
better next year than it is now. The
men who emancipated four millions of
slaves and have established liberty and
justice in the land are to have the
country next vear. Whether urant
will be the candidate ot thoso men or
not, and I think ho is very likely to
be. that candidate will be elected.
There aro to-day thrco millions of
these voters in the country who would
vote for Grant or Sheridan, or Thomas,
or Chase, or Colfax, or brave old Ben
Wnde. applause,! or any of the true
and tried men who have carried the
country thro' the dark and gloomy
days of the last seven years. But no
man who opposed the country during
that war, no man who opposed eman
cipation, no man who opposes the civil
rights ot the emancipated races, no
man who opposes negro suffrage, will
ever be President of these United
States again. Applause. If there
are any hereto-night who desire to act
with the masses, and move with events,
and who wish to be with the successful,
respectable and triumphant, 1 give
them this piece or advice, that they
join the cuiml suffrage party at the
earliest possible moment.
HOW E MAN EI.KnitATED THE
'FOrTII."
There is a patriotic person in New
Jersey, who celebrates the Fourth of
July by himself. The Sussex Register
tells the story :
Our old friend and subscriber, M:
Barnes Lane, in accordance with the
custom which ho has adhered fo for
the litst six or eight years, celebrated
tho national anniversary on Thursday
upon his own hook. He plays will
facility upon the musical instruments
named below, writes his own toasts.
i , .... . ,
drinks the best wh atcr, fires his own
powder, and writes out for publication
the report ot his proceedings in a lull
round hand. Hence he very properly
styles it, in a note addressed to the
Reamer, "an independent celebration
got up to suit himself." We append
the report sent us by Mr. Liane:
"At sunrise the stars nnd stripes
were fluttering in the breeze, when a
heavy firing commenced, and continued
for a long time ; then the Declaration
of Independence was read, and then
the toast-table (an old hogshead turned
bottom upward) was prepared, when
the following toasts were drank :
"1. The Dan I Celebrate. It
get thro' with a whole shirt and a
wholo hide, well and good ; if not, let
cm rip. Une gun, three cheers. Mu
sic on file, lunc 'lankco Doodle,
2. All lmil, sweet Independence, hail !
To these we'll, tribute- pay ;
Let every nigger act tits pari,
Now slayciy's done away.
Ono gun, three cheers. Music on
banjo. Tunc 'Dandy Jim.'
"3. George Wanhington and Abra
ham Lincoln Tho two great Alios
tics of Freedom : the former deliverer
our country from British tyranny, the
latter knocked the shackles of slavery
from four millions of human beings at
ono single blow.' While gratitude re
mains in the human breast, the praise
of thoso two great men will dwell on
the tongues of all true patriots. One
gun, six cheers. Music on German
flute. Tune 'Washington's Grand
March.
"4. The Jewel of Liberty lny it
ever be kept safe in the ark ot 1' rce-
dom. One gun, three cheers. Music
on violin. Tune 'Liberty Tree.'
"5. The perjured rebel cut-throats
of the South When tho devil gets
back to where he Jell Irom, then may
they get back to the halls ot Congress
and not till then. One gun, three
cheers. Music on octave flute. Tune
Go to the devil and shake your
self.'
"G. President Johnson If the cop-
per in his heart and the brass in his
iiiee were melted together, we would
have bell-metal enough to pay our war
debt and have enough left to purchase
a ton of hemp, so much needed in the
South. Une gun, no cheers, no music,
one hiss.
"7. Jeff Davis We never bean
tell of his raising hemp, but we do
sincerely hope to hear tell of hemp
raising him before he has a chance to
die a natural death. One gun, six
cheers. Music on a'ceordeon. Tune
'Logan Water (death march.)
"8. Died very suddenly (political
ly) on the 6th of Xovemlier last,' pre
cisely at sunset, in the Fourth Con
gressional district of New Jersey, with
all the fearful symptoms of nigger
phobia, Andrew Jackson Preamble
Rogers r peace to his ashes and a slow
resurrection. One gun and a few
crocodile tears. Music on tin whistle.
Tune 'Eogue's March.' , .
"9. Our last Presidential election.
George B. McClellan got votes 21,
while his soul goes marching on. One
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
NO. 0.
gun, three cheers. iHusio on Jewish
cymbal. Tunc 'John Brown.'
"1U. the Nutmeg mate it it ever
means to supply the market with cop
per nutmeg graters, wo think now is
the time. One gun, three cheers.
Musio on bass violin. Tune 'Hail
Columbia.'
"11. Old Sussex When we look at
its mountains and its vallevs, its rocks
and its hills, Sprout Hill in particular,
we think nature formed it on purpose
tor a den ol copperheads. Uue gun,
nine unearthly hisses.
"12. The Fair Sex The lato fash-
ion affords scarcely material enough to
cover their scalps, to say nothing of
their waterfalls may we soon see bon
nets once more. One gun and a smile,
Musio on jewsbarp. Tune 'Barney,
let tho girls alone. 15, IjASE.
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The Original Xnine.
It is not generally Known what is
the signification or the aboriginal In
dian name of our beautiful Mononga
hela river. Its iianic, the most musi
cal, flows from our tongue, and ripples
over lips never oneo without bringing
to mind the poetical red man ot Cooper
or the bright Indian maiden ol Long
fellow. e love to think oi our val
ley as it was when Queen Alaquippa
reigned in peace, and extended to the
youthful nshington a friendly hand
and gave him hosnitablo welcome,
rather than when its bank was stained
and its pure water dyed with the blood
of victims to savage hate.
1 here is more m the name Monon-
gaheln to remind one of Washington's
first than his second visit: Alaquippa
rather than braddock s i iclds.
Beautiful as it is, however, this was
not the original name of the river,
In tho journal made by Rev. David
Jones, of Freehold, N. J., in tho year
1772, wo find that the "proper Indian
name ol this river is Mehmonawons-
gehelak, which signifies falling-in-bank-river,
as it is common for the
river s bank, from tho richness oi the
soil, to break and tumble down into the
stream. We have never met with
this statement before, but Greer must
have known the fact when ho wrote
the following lines in his "Ode to the
Monongahela :
" Hero then
Art cradled in the fertile vtilc, wliers swiirin
Of happy Mngs move in joyous lift-,
Anil trciisnrcs seem ubumlant ss thy sunrts,
Hero thoti lmst tosseil, nntl dashed nn l rolled
tisiuinst
The rock rihbed shores, nnd sung
Thy anthems to tho sweeping wluda, and
hesTed,
Thy troubled bosom to tho frowning cloutis,
I've seen theo bent the rocks with surges mud :
And too, I've seen thee send Ihy billows out,
And drag (his banks into thy purling dcptlu."
This Journal of Ilev. Jones was
kept by him when on a Missionary
toiir through the country from the
Miami to Fort Pitt, in 1772, and is
published in full in Cist's Antiquities
of the West. Monongahela Republi
can. American Heir to rnglliih Lstnlcl.
Every now and then some great es-
tate in Lngland falls into chancery tor
want of heirs direct, and there is a
great bother among the "collaterals"
in this country. The longer the mat
ter, has been in litigation, of course,
the greater the number of claimants.
In such a condition is the great Jen
nings estate, and still more recently, a
discovery has been made of a vast
property lying prrdu for a century
past, to which the members ot the
Brown family arc supposed to be heirs,
This estate is said to amount to some
billions of dollars; but, then, think of
tho mfinitissimal division it must un
dergo' to give every member of the
Brown' family his or her just propor
tion ! The Browns are almost as nu
merousor rather innumerable as
the well known family of Smiths. Sup
pose that the heirs expectant should
decide to go to England in a body to
see personally .after their claim. It
would be an invasion! John Bull
would instantly imagine a new and
formidable Fenian descent. The fleet
carrying these "cousins" would be ta
ken tor a modern armada. A3 yet,
however, the paper from which the
notice of this windfall is taken reports
that only one hundred representatives
of the Brown family have gathered
together in Boston to "raise means to
prosecute their claim." The raising
of means must be the easiest matter of
all. Just let every true Brown sub
scribe a dime or even a penny and
the lawyers' fees and expenses will be
magnilicently provided tor. Bircecss
to the Browiis. -Vcw York Pxt.
A French iournal tells an enter
taining anecdote of the fidelity of a
nortcr to his charge. The Empress
Eiitrpiiio recently presented herself at
the Isthmus of Suez gate of the Expo
sition before the hour of opening. The
porter refused to admit Her Majesty,
although she named M. de Lessens as
her friend. "Ah ! they all say that,"
retorted tho gatekeeper. The Em
press insisted that the great canal-maker
would instantly admit her were he
there, but could not prevail.' She
then Dlavcd her last card "But if I
were to tell voir that I am the Eta-
press ?" "I should not believe you,"
was the reioindcr. A lady of honor,
however, at length convinced the por
ter that the applicant was the impress,
and then the gate opened. Some offi
cious person proposed to dismiss the
faithful man, but the Empress inter
vened and saved him.
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WATERING PLACE BCESEM.
"John Paul." in his letter to the
Springfield Republican, written from
Saratoga, narrates a scene there part
of which he was just as natural as
lie itselt :
But you should have seen the scenes
at the hotels ; young women and old
women rushing up and down tho halls,
some screaming fire and some shouting
water, some in their stocking feet, and
and all in a shocking fright. . Verily,
' Twere worth ten years or peucemi me.
One pUnco at their array.
Seeing Arabella at the hop in tho
evening, l could not liclieve that it
was the same young lady whom I saw
hopping about tho hall. Most ol tho
girls looked pretty in their robes de
nuit, their bare little feet peeping out
beneath the embroidered edge liko
mice, and pattering on the floor liko
summer rain. Uut all don t "peel so
well. There was the Dowager Dun-
dei'berg, under the shortest of canvas,
backing and lilling, wearing and tack
ing, and altogether making the worst
weather that ever was seen. Her high
(Juarter galleries worked and creaked,
and the seanw kept opening till it
seemed a foregone conclusion that tho
old craft at the next pitch would go
down Stern loremost. Had she but
run down her spanker, bowsed up her
jib a bit, and shown a staysail to the
wind, she d rode out the rough weath
er very comfortably, and could have
given any number of the lesser and
weaker vessels sale and sulhcicnt pro
tection under her ample lee.
You've never seen me comfort wo
man, have vou ? Ah, you should lnivo
seen me on this occasion, telling them
not to be afraid, that I didn t believe
there was any fire, that if there was it
was a mile or two off, that if it wasn't
a mile or two off it wouldn't hurt any
body, that 1 was there aiid a wholo
female seminary could find shelter on
my manly bosom, and that,
But you may say you thought I was
at the fire, putting that out. Well, so
I was, but having got the flames under
control, I ran up in the Union to see
what could bo done with the women.
You see my "flame" was there and I
wanted to "subdue" her. As it is, I
flatter myself that I've rather got tho
dead wood on about one-half the wo
men at the Union. I guess they won't
turn up their noses at me because 1 m
poor and don't wear good clothes. I
guess I know a thing or two about tho
way their toilettes aro made up, and I
guess I'll blow on them if they don't
behave very pretty to mo for the
future.
the 1'Atx a itcconn of life.
The record of a man's moral and in
tellectual life is written in his face, in
such indelible and striking lines that
anybody tolerably well skilled in tho
science of physiognomy can quickly
and accurately measure subtle, unseen,
character. There is an old maxim tlint
"blood tells," and it does reveal its
gentle or boorish, its virtuous or vici
ous nature in physical movements of
tho body nnd modes of expression, nnd
also in prevailing and related ideas.
So, likewise, character is perpetually
struggling against tho bonds of re
straint, and pushing out into the broad
daylight of actual recognition. By it
earful reticence at the right time, nnd
a sort of negative habit of life, combin
ed with a shrewd management, a man
may pass current for altogether more
than his actual value. But sooner or
later, the muscles of the face and the
speaking eye let out the secret of tho
interior life.'
It is a great rtu'dy, these human
faces looking up from the audience
room, the social circle, the street, the
the car, beaming out an effulgence of
sympathy and goodness, or frowning
under the rigors of disappointment, or
flashing out defiance and contempt for
the sources of their discomforti The
young man who aspires to nothing
higher than the character of a univer
sal "bruiser," may forget that his
coarse passions are all photographed
upon his fitce in such a manner that all
discerning people can read him through
at almost the first glance. We cannot
"see ourselves as others see us," and
that explains away very much of the
impudence and swagger of the multi
tude, which pass for genuine energy
and life. If you would know more of
an acquaintance than age, occupation,
capacity and temper if you would in
spect the secret sources where he draws
supplies of impulse and of comfort
along life's toilsome and dusty path
way, look into his dee and read th
whole eluboratc story of his strivings),
his loves and aversions, his triumphs
and failures. It is all there, locked up
in fleshy characters, in the folds and
furrows made by the plough-share of
time and toil, or tha exhausting stimu
lants of license and prodigality. We
literally turn ourselves inside out
through the face. The love, the cpm
posure, the passion, the unrest, the
hatred and revenges, the strength and
the weakness, the angel and the beast
of our natures, all collect and como to
a focus in the face, and make disclos
ures which no magical arts can conceal.
And it seems to us that when the
great Apostle said "scm.3 men's sins
are onen beforehand, going before the
judgment," he must have been lo&king
into the hypocritical faces or me oia
Scribes and Pharisees. Throughout
all her wonderful array of diversity
and magnificence, Nature abhors con
cealment, and this accounts for, and
magnifies, too, the revelations of char
acter shining through the human f ice
divine.