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XEW SERIES.
Select JJoctrri.
The following beautiful lines, from the "Dublin
fniversity Magazine," will remind the reader of the
7 last scene in Banyan's "Pilgrim's Progress
BEYOND THE RIVER.
Time is a river deep and wide.
And wiiiie along it- banks we stray,
We see our loved ones o'er its tide
Sail from our sight away, away,
j Where are they sped—they who return
No more to glad our longing eyes !
They've P*s'd Horn lile'sconlraeted bourne
To land unseen, unknown, that lies
Beyond the river.
Tis hid from view-, but we may guess
How beautiful that realm must be ;
For "learnings of its loveliness,
< In visions granted, oft we see.
The very i-londs that o'er it throw*
Their veil, unraiset! for mortal sight,
With gold and purple tintings glow,
Reflected Irorn the glorious light
Beyond the river.
And gentle airs, so sweet, so calm,
Meal -ornetimes Irom that viewless sphere;
The mourner feels their breath of balm,
And soothed sorrow dries the tear ;
Ar.d -ometirries list'ning ear mav gain
K.ntrancing sound that hither tloats;
The echo ot a distant strain,
Of harps' and voices' blended notes,
Beyond the river.
There are our loved ones in their rest :
They've eross'd Time's River—no more
They br ed the bubbles on its breast,
N'ur f-el the storms that sweep its shore.
Bui there pure love can live, can la-t
They look for i s their homes to share :
Wtim we in turn away have pass'd,
What joyful greetings wait us rue he,
Beyond the river !
What 1 Live For.
BV G. LINNETS BANKS.
I live for those who love ine,
\\ nose hearts ate kind and true ;
For the heaven that srrnlo- above me,
And awaits my spirit too,
J For all human ties that bind me,
For the task my Gotl assigned me,
For the bright hopes left behind me,
And the good that I can do.
1 live to learn their story
U ho've suffered for toy sake;
To'emulate their glory,
And follow in their wake ;
Bards, patriots, martyrs, >nge,
The nohle of all ages.
Whose deeds crowd History's pages,
And 1 line's great volume make.
1 live (o hold communion
With all that is divine;
! of e| there is a union
"l'wixt nature's heart arid mine:
To profit by affliction,
Reap truths Irom fields of fiction,
(now wiser from conviction,
And fulfil each grand design.
I live to hail that season
By gifted inn l ds foretold.
When tr i shall live by reason,
And not alone by gold:
When man to man united,
And every wrong thing righted,
ibe whole world shall be lighted
As Kden was of old.
1 live for those who love me,
For those who know me true;
1 or the heaven that smiles above me
And awaits my spirit too;
For the cause that lacks a-si-tance ;
l or the future in the distance,
And the good that I can do.
The Great Plastic.
In Did ns' Child's History of England, vol.
two, we find the following, respecting the Great
Plaugue that prevailed in the seventeenth cen
tury in the city of London :
"For this was the year and the time of the
4'! eat Plague in London. During the winter
<>l 1004, it had been whispered about that some
pee| !e had died here and there of disease called
' -Plague in some ol the unwholesome suburbs
<>f London. News was not published at tuat
time as it is now, and some people believed these !
rumors and some disbelieved them, and they
r-' son forgotten. But in the month ol May,
liitio, it began to be said all over the town that
'he disease had burst out in St. Giles, and that
Hie people were dying in great numbers. Tbis
- on turned out to be awfully true. The roads of
I. ndon were choked up by people endeavoring
to t-scape from the infected city, and large sums
were paid (dr any kind of coifveyance. The
-i-a-e soon spread so last that it was neccessary
> ' shut lip the house in which people were, and
! cut thein off from the living. Every one of
!: ->se houses were marked on the outside of the
C ' r with a red cross, and the words "Lord have
• rcy on Us! ' fhe streets were all deserted,
g uss grew in the public ways, ami there was a
'ircadjiii silence in the air. When night came
" : b L- rnal rumblings used to be heard, and those
were the wheels of the death cart, attended by
•Ten with veiled faces, and holding cloths to their
j'iouth, who rang doleful bells, and cried in a
;"i and solemn voice—"Bring out your deadAF
'Be corpses put into these carts were buried by
; ch light in great pits, no service being per
■ niied over them—all men being afraid to stay
1 ■ a moment on the bank of the ghastly graves.
*•' the general fever, children ran away from
'Heir parents, and parents trom their children.
otlle who were taken ill, died alone and with
pit any help. Some were stabbed or strangled
! '. v i'ired nurses who robbed them of all their
honey and stole the very beds on which thev
Some went mad, dropped from theirwjn
-1 tan through the streets, and in their pain
an j frenzy, threw themselves into the river.
| 1 hose were not all the horrors of the time—
The wicked and dissolute, in wild desperation,
sat in taverns, singing roaring songs, and were
stricken as they sat, and went out and died.—
The fearful and supernatural sights—burning
swords in the sky, gigantic arms and darts -
Others pretended that at night vast crowds of
ghosts walked round and round the dismal pits.
One madman, naked, and carrying adraziei full
of burning coals upon his head, stalked through
the streets, crying that he was a prohet commis
sioned to denounce the vengeance of the Lord
on wicked London. Another also went to and
/ro, exclaiming:—"Yet forty days and London
shall be destroyed !" A third awoke the achoes
of the dismal streets, by night and by day, and
made the blood of the sick run cold, by catting
out incessantly, in a deep hoarse voice: "Oh the
r great and the dreadful God!"
Through the months of Julv, August and
September, the Great Plague raged more and
more. Great tires were lighted in the streets,
in the hope of stopping the injection: but there
was a plague of rain, too, and beat the fires out.
At last the winds that usually rise at that time
called the equinox, when day and night are •-
qual I' ,ui a I over the world, began to blow
and urity the wretched town. The deaths he
ir . to decrease, the red crosses slowly to disap
pear, the fugitives to return, the shops to open
again, pale, frightened faces to be seen in the
streets. The plague Lad been in every part of
England, but in close and unwholesome London
it had killed one hundred thousand people."
The Burnin? of the Steamer E. K. Collins-
The mails bring us the particulars of the loss
bv fire of the steamer E. iv. Collins, near the
mouth of the Detroit, on Monday last, a brief
account of which came by telegraph a dav or
two ago. The tire undoubtedly originated from
tiie steerage passengers emptying their pipes
filled with burning tobacco into the light
wood-work of the decks. When the fire was
first discovored, it spread with such rapidity
that every effort to check it proved unavailing.
Mr. C'ary, a passenger, sa vs-:
"He was sitiing in the upper forward cabin
reading when the alarm of fire was given be
tween 10 and 11 o'clock. Mr. C. was proba
bly the only passenger up arid dressed when
the fire broke out, and he immediately passed
down the cabin gangway to (lie main deck. As
lie reached that deck he saw the smoke in the
cabin be love the main deck, but it had not
reached the door leading from that cabin to the
main deck. Mr. C. immediately ran up through
the cabin and up the arch to the hurricane
deck to the pilot-house." amfloldthe wheelsman
that the boat whs on fire, ami begged hint to
[nit her ashore. The request was made three
times, and the last time Mr. C. begged the
wheelsman for God's sake to put her ashore arid
save the jives of the passengers; and to enforce
his request, pointed the wheelsman to the
Hairc s then bursting out around the smoke-pipes
upon tire deck where thev were. The wheels
man made no reply, and the boat was not put
firr the shore,or it the attempt was made, it was
after the engine bad been stopped and h•-r head
way about gone. Mr. C. jumped down upon
the lower hurricane deck, and then went down
to a sfaiinchion to the main deck, w here he
found a life jiasseuger slool, end seizing that he
got down over the outside of the bow as low as
he could, where tire fire reached nothing but
lus left hand, with which he held on.
Mr. C. got off his coat and boots, and while
doing s i a number threw then,selves overboard,
one man knocked Mr. C.'s hat of! as he went
over. Many were saved by getting assistance
from llie shore. One whole-souled Irishman
succeeded in saving no less than three women,
by swimming ashore with them clasping his
neck.
Mr. C. held on as long as able, and until bis
hand was so burned that he was forced to leap,
taking his stool with lurn, which sustained ft TIT?
until he was picked up by a boat from shore,
and placed upon the propel lor Fintry. When
Mr. C. was on the main deck, before be
found his stool, he heard the order given by
some one to port the helm or the wheel, and
looking up saw two persons standing in front of
the w heel-house, and the smoke completely cir
cling around the wheel-house, and he thought
the wheelsman was trying to turn the wheel,
but from what the engineer afterward stated,
the engine at that time must have been stopped.
A Mrs. Morris was picked up by the same small
boat, having floated with a life-preserver, put
on bv her husband. Mr. M. was also saved.—
The boat picked up at tiiat time three or four
persons.
Slepp and Death.
The Angels of Sleep and Death, locked arm
in arrr., wandered over the earth. It-was even
ing. They laid themselves down ujwn a loftv
hill that overlooked the habitation of man. A
moufnful stillness reignpd around, broken only
by the evening bells whose sound came only
from distant hamlet. Silent and speechless as
their wont, these beneficent guardian angels of
mankind lay in close embraces-till night's dark
mantle fell around them. Then the Angel of
Sleep rose from his mos>v couch and scattered
with noiseless hand the invisible seeds of slum
ber. The evening wind carried them to the
silent dwellings of the weary husbandmen.—
Soon sweet sleep enfolded in its gentle embrace
the inmates of the rural cottages—fromthegray
haired sire, whose tottering steps it supports, to
the irilant in ils cradle. The sick forget his
pains, the mourner his sorrow , the poor his cares.
All eyes were closed. His task being finished,
this benovelent Angel again lay down by his
sterner brother's side. "When morning breaks,"
cried he, with happy innocenep, "all the world
will bless me, as their friend and benefactor.—
Oh! what joy, to do good in secret and unseen.
How happy are we, invisible messengers- of the
good spirit! How beautiful is our quiet of
fice"' Thus Spake the Angel of Slumber.—
, i Ihe Angel of Death gazed upon him in silent
- sadness, whijffi tears, such as immortals weep,
stood in liis lalge dark eyes. "Ah !" said he,
; "would that I, like you, could rejoice in cheer
- ful thanks : butthe world calls me its foe and
i joy-destroyer." "Oh ! my brother," bus we red
. the Angel of Slumber, "will not every goodman,
1 upon awakening, recognize his friend,
i and gratefully bless thee ! A kpt brothers
• and children of one father spake.—
The tearful eyes of the Anglo-of Death shone
I with a gleam of pleasure, while be pressed his
i his gentler brother more tenderly to his heart
Destruction of a Town.
A letter in the Madr id Tribune of September
1 7, gives an account of a terrible and extraor-
I cfiuary catastrophe that had occurred at Durocu,
I a small town in Arr.-.gon, i-ituale in a rich and
fertile valley, abounding ir\corn and wine.—
' From its situation, in a deep hollow, complete
ly surrounded by mountains, this place is pecu
liar to inundation; and, as a remedy, a tunnel
was cut in 1 5(10, by a Frenchman named Pier
rie Bedell. The tunnel is a magnificent work,
234-0 feet long, 24- feet wide, and 24 feet high.
The enterprise was patronizad by the Pope,and.
assisted by alms from all Christendom. Previ
ous to ils achievement the waters that flowed at
j. wet seasons from two hagues,of'mountain, rush
ed througli the streets of the tow n on the way
1 to the river.
Jt appears that on the 11th of September, at
three in the afternoon, an immense water-spout,
rising from the lake of Gallocanta, remained fur
i a considerable time hovering over the shore,
■ about a league from Doraca. When it burst the
■ whole district was converted into a lake. The
waters poured down in the direction of the tun
nel in a stream much larger, it is said, than '.he
Ebro or Tortosa, and, seen from an elevation,
appeared like moving mountains of liquid. Th*'
dtmj-nsions of the tunnel, which has a very de
cided slope, weie insufficient to allow the pas
sage of the vast mass, which then moved past,
forming a spacious sea. This extended itself
towards the town, at two hundred yards from 1
which it was arrested by the causeway that has !
frequently saved Daroca when menaced by per- j
ils of a similar nature, but less magnitude.— j
Above this causeway the waters rose, heaping ;
themselvr s upon it say the account, to the height j
of three yards, and then plunging down on the j
unfortunate town.
The gateway, although an unusually large j
one, was not large enough to allow their en- !
trance, and another great lake was formed
against the walls, which presently began to
crmpbfc under its presure. "What then oi
carred, says the letter, "is an inexplicable
thing. The waters fought with and overthrew :
those houses whese position opposed their cur
rent. They carried away the fountain of San j
Pedro, and opening great trenches and ! ursting
open the doors, of the Pocado and of several :
shops, they spread through squares ami streets,
inundating wine cellars, ware houses, and trie ;
_ first floors of the houses: in some reaching up j
to the very roofs. Throwing down walls and
abandoning everything, the inhabitants fled to j
the mountains, whence they looked on at the
horrible catastrophe.
The luss has been incalculable. In the
vaults water has replaced wine, the contents
of the shops are spoiled, and many houses are
crumbling aw ay. In the plain around the tow n
the inundation lias destroyed evervthing. A
young wowan of twenty was carried away bv j
the torrent, and many children and adults are 1
missing. In the first moments the anxiety was ;
horrible. None thought of anything but count- j
ing their families, and seeing if any were absent. ;
The animals that have perished are innumerable; J
among them many of the farm horses of the un
fortunate peasants. It is horrible. "God have
mercy on us!"
An Ixoeniouk Swindle. —An unsophistira- !
fed drover,just from the country, made com-'
plaint yesterday, at the Mayor's office, of having I
been swindled out of $llOO. It appears that
fhF drover had on Saturday, disposed of his j
horses f>r the amount above named. On Sun
day lie met a man in this city, with whom- he •
went over to Camden. When they arrived on
the other side, they met a third party, who was
unknown to the drover. They had not proceeded
lar, when ibe two men got into a quarrel, and !
appealed to the countryman as arbiter.
When the pretended difficulty was healed, !
the man whom they met at C'3ir.den pulled a I
null out of his pocket, saying he was an agent of
the Emperor of Russia, authorised t. procure a i
number of bomb shells, to be manufactured in
this country for the use of his highness' army in j
the present war, and lhat the ball was a model !
of a shell which had been given him. The
stranger asked his friend to try toopenthe hall,
which was done, and a piece of paper thrown
out in the presence of the man. The man who
held the ball then bet that it contained a piece
of paper. The other party replied that he had
no money; but he would bet his gold watch that
no paper-could he found.
'1 he ball was opened and the paper found, j
This led to other betting on the part of tin* two i
accomplices, when the losing one said that ail j
he now had was a check for SISOO, which he
would change when he came over to the citv, :
or perhaps, he said, the other gentleman (mean- j
ing the drover) would cash it for him. The '
drover replied that he had $llOO. The would
be borrower then said that he would take the
$llOO, and the rest when they came to
Philadelphia, w-here he would not have the
least difficulty in getting the check cashed.—
The poor drover took the check, and gave in
exchange his $llOO. They all then started to :
take a little walk, which was directed bv the '
two wary scoundrels into the country, where
they contrived to slip the drover.
Ihe unlortunale-countryman came to Phil- j
adelphia, and made his complaint at the may- j
or's office. Officers were immediately sent in !
search of the thieves, but without success.— j
Despatches have been sent to var ions cities and
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
BEDFORD, PA. FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. 3, 1854.
The bond holders will then i re have as secu
rity for the payment of their bonds, thirty-five
miles of road, with all its superstructure and
equipment, and two thousand acres of valuable
coal land, making together a security of from a
million and a quarter to a million and a half of
dollars, nearly three times the amount of bonds
they propose or intend to issue.
From the information already in our posses
sion, particular ly in reference to the capacity
: and extent of the coal region penetrated by the
; improvements of this Company, we are perfect
ly confident in making the statement that the
; securities of it will prove among the most safe
: and substantial of any that are likely to be
found in our .market for some years to come.—
| The coal and iron region, for the development
| of which this improvement is being constructed,
i embraces an area of eighty square miles, whilst
the product from it is of such a character as to
, secure for it at once a most commanding posi
tion in tlm market. The peculiar quality of
coal to be obtained from the ffroatl Top region,
j can be found in no other locality within the
same distance from the markets where it is con
sumed: and the already large and increasing de
"voij! Cr a coal of that quality, warrants the
conviction that the business to he done by this
Company will he regulated entirely hv its capa
city lor transportation: ami, as the road now in
course of construction is of the most substantial
character, and the bed is graded for a double
track, the estimate of business and profits made
by the Directors are, of course, entitled to cred
it.
The follow ing estimate of the position of the
Ounpanv, after the completion of their road,
which we extract from the pamphlet before us,
and which w as furnished to the stockholders on
the 2sth of September, will show at a glance
the high character of the bonds which the man
agers are about to issue, and which wi!l_d<>iihf
less attract the immediate attention of capital
ists :
Estimate of the nett receipts of the. Company
after the Rood is in operation on year.
Transportation of 300,-
000 tons of coal at a
nett profit, 0f25 cents
per ton, $7.0,000 00
Profits on transporta
tion of iron, tire clay,
lumber, produce,
merchandise, &c., 13,000 00
Rent of mines of Com
pany,say 50,000 tons
per annum at *25 cts., 12,500 00
Profits on passengers
and miscellaneous, 7,500 00
fnt ere st on 500,000
Bonds at 7 per cent, 35,000 00
10 per cent, on 350,000
stock, 35,000 00
Applicable to branch
roads or sink'g funds, 40,000
Estimate of the Revenue after the Road is in
operation three years.
Transportation of (500,-
000 tons coal nett, $150,000
Rent 100,000 tons from
Company's mines at
25 cents, 2q,000
From all other sources 45,000
220.000
Deduct interest of
bonds, 35,000
185,000
Leaving a balance of more than 50 per cent,
to stockholders.
The bonds which it is proposed to issue will
bear an annual interest of seven per cent., and
as they are convertible into stock at the option
of the holder, and have interest coupons attach
ed, payable in Philadelphia, their value is still :
further enhanced. The present high price of,
coal, and the constantly increasing demand for j
the article, are circumstances which render the s
encouragement of new works for bringing coal
to market a matter of very great interest, as 1
well as of duty : and in this view of the case,!
we should not be surprised to see these corpora- \
tions which are now dependent on a variety of,
uncertain contingencies for their supplies, turn- j
ing their attention to this Company, and the re-j
gion in which it is to operate, in such a substan- '
tial manner as might quicken the development |
of both.— Daily .Yews.
no means left undone to secure the heartless
swindlers. The drover says that he owns a
small farm, which will be all swept aw ay bv
this sudden turn ol fortune.— Pennsylvaniun.
BROAD TOP RAILROAD BONDS.
IVe have been furnished with a pamphlet
containing a statement made by the Directors
of the Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain
Railroad Company, in reference to the condi
tion and prospects of their road.
j .f v the act incorporating this Companv, per
i mission is given to the managers to issue ts-nds
|to such an -extent as is necessary to complete
and stock the road ; and, in pursuance of that
-authority, as we learn from the pamphlet.be
fore us, the Board of Managers are new about
to issue bonds to the amount of five hundred
thousand dollars, and they therefore make their
present statement in explanation of the amount
of credit to which their work is entitled. To
secure the payment of these bonds, the Com
pany have mortgaged their road, with all its
tranci.'ises, including two thousand acres of
valuable coal land, to Thomas E. Franklin,
Esq., of Lancaster county, Hezekiah Easton,
Esq., of Franklin county, and Jese Godley,
Esq., of Philadelphia, in trust for the benefit of
the bond holders. This is thp first issue oi bonds
made by the company, and being, as is known,
adequate to complete and stock the road, no
more will he at anv time issued.
From the X. O. Picayune.
IMPORTANT FROM CI BA.
The Jlssussination of Castanedu
HAVANA, Oct. 1-4, 1854. —Since I last had
the pleasure of writing to you, nothing of im
portance had occurred in our orderly and quiet
city until the night before last, when it was dis
turbed in ils propriety by one of those most
cowardly assassinations, which occasionally oc
cur amongst our benighted populace. This was
one of more importance than usual, as the un
fortunate victim, Jose A. Castanedu, was the
individual who captured Gen. Lopez, and a
gainst whom vengeance was sworn at the time.
Soon alter he received the reward, ($6000,)
which tiie Government offered for the capture
of Lopez, he \\ i nt to Sj nin, kissed the Queen's
hand, and received the honored cross of dis
tinction, Inr his and he has but late
ly returned. He had been watched constantly
for the fatal opportunity, and on the evening of
the 12th, between the hours of 7 and 8, he was
[ laying a game of billiards, at a coffee house
called Marte y Belona, outside of the cilv, and
as he was in the act of striking the ball with
Ihs back towards a blind on the piazza, he was
shot through the blind, two halls entering the
hack ot his head, which almost instantiv killed
him : and although there was a great number of
people present, tiie assassin made good his es
cape.
f>en. Concha had had an interview with him
on that day, and it is said, gave him an appoint
ment as captain of a partido. Concha feels this
as an insult to him, and has offered a large re
ward for the apprehension of the assas-in. Yes
terday afternoon he was buried. At the time
1 of starting, a mob collected, and showed a de
j t' rmination to prevent, it possible, the inter
ment. A guard of soldiers was ordered out to
protect the remains on the way to "Campo
Santo," which v.as followed by an immense
! crowd, veiling, throwing stones, See., and it was
j with great difficulty that the grave was reached.
Several of the civil guard were badly injured
: —a number of the rioters were arrested, and
; no doubt will he severely dealt with. This
j Castunedo w as d-sf ised hv every one ; his char
j acter was always had, and once his life was
| saved by Gen. Lopez, when he was president
; of the military commission, by his casting vote.
Such was hi- gratitude, that he hunted the poor
man out with dogs in his hour of distress, to get
! the reward for his precious head.
Last evening the grand serenade came off in
the Plaza de Armas. There were about 100
musicians ami singers present, who performed
I and sung from 8 o'clock until 10. The square
| and surrounding streets were crowded—at least
| 1:>,000 persons being present. Ladies in their
voiantes, surrounded the square four deep, and,
■ altogether, it was one of the greatest show s of
the kind we have ever had. All seemed pleas
ed, and tire scene ended without mishap to any
one.
Gen. Pezuella and his family left for Spain
in the Spanish Steamer Ceion on the I2tb.
He leaves behind him but few friends.
There is nothing new in the politics of the
Island. Everything remains very quiet, and
no trouble of any kind is now apprehended,
and that tranquility may continue is the wish
of all honorable men.
The Captain General goes ori endeavoring to
improve in every way he can. fie has a great
work before hi#n, and by- degrees lie will no
doubt do much good.
The Excitement at Denton.
DAVE THOMAS, THE MURDERER, HC.XC RY
A MOB. —We stated yesterday that Dave Thom
as. the negro w ho murdered Mr. Win. 11. But
ler, in Coruiina Co., Md., on the 27th ult., had
been tried at Denton and convicted of "murder
in the second degree," and that the verdict had
caused so much dissatisfaction as to induce ma
ny-citizens to threaten a resort to lynch law on
Thursday last, the day on which the prisoner
was found guilty. The prompt interference of
the law, however, prevented the threat from be
ing carried into ex. cuti -n at tin* time. But, it
appears, the vengeance of the populace was on
ly temporarily stayed. We learn from a let
ter ola correspondent we received yesterday,
that a large and excited crowd assembled about
12 o'clock on Sunday night, proceeded to the
jail, broke it open, took the prisoner out and
hung him from a plank which they nailed to a
window on the outside, in the second story of
the jail building. He was suspended until life
was extinct, when lie was cut down and his
body conveyed back into the jail. Nor did the
mob stop here. They then released and set at
liberty two other prisoners, one of whom had
been sentenced to the penitentiary.
We fearn fiom another source that the
ifl was seized and tied by the mob before they
proceeded to their murderous work. This is
one of the most dangerous outrages ever perpe
trated in Maryland.— Baltimore Sun.
Convenience in Eating.
A correspondent of the .Morning Star gives
the fashion of eating in India, as follows :
"The manner of cooking and eating among
l!i p natives of India, strikes a stranger as very
wild and simple; especially if first observed on
the numerous rude little boats, which are always
floating around, and following inward bound
ships. On the evening of our first day on the
Hoogiy, we sat on the side of the vessel, which
overlooked many of these boats, and with much
curiosity observed the preparation and eating of
the evening meal. First of all, the native who
acted as cook put a quantity of rice into a small
basket, not water-tight, and reaching it over the
side of the boat, allow ed it to g<-t nearly full of
water, when lie shook it long to clean the rice,
and then placed it on a vessel set on a rude fur
nace, and left it to boil, and in the mean time
prepared some vegetable or rice, but in a wrv
small quantity. When the rice was cooked, it
was poured iuio an immense brass dish, and the
fish and vegetable which had been fried, were
TERKS, $2 PER YEAR.
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put at thp sid**: and the eaters, sifting flat upon
the boat, surrounded the dish. They conveyed
the food to the mouth with the right hand, hold
ing the head a little forward, and the quantity
of rise comsuined was really astonishing. When
the eating was finished, a small brass dish was
passed around to drink from, after which a little
water was poured upon the eating hand, to
wash it, from the same dish, and the meal was
finished: and so far as our subsequent observa
tion exteftded, this is substantially the manner
of cooking and eating among the common peo
ple generally, both at home and on journeys,
and it is certainly very convenient.
Gtn. Cass at Chicago.
This venerated statesman made a speech in
Chicago on Friday evening, the 20th inst., to a
large meeting of Democrats, who had engaged
the North Market Hall for that purpose, fie
defined-his position on the subject of slavery,
and examined fully the subject of the much a
bused squatter sovereignty, as embodied in the
Nebraska and Kansas act. He stripped the
question of all the misrepresentation which Ab
olitionism ayd Know Motbingism have thrown
around it, and was more than ordinarily elo
quent and powerful. lie read opinions of
SEWARD, EVERETT and others, that slavery
could never enter those territories, and referred
to the great national sentiments of W'Eusrnti
and CLAY, and feelingly eulogised the exalted
virtues of the latter. He called the attention
of the members of the W ? hig party to the pa
triotic exclamation of CLAY, that he would cease
to he a Whig when the Party became Aboli
tionized! He feared the party had become
Abolitionized.
The old General was loudly applauded, and
three cheers were given over and over again.
FRED. DO:OLA>S, the negro,*was in attend
ance, hut behaved himself throughout with the
utmost respect, although a number of Abolition
ins present made an effort to get him to reply
to the veteran statesman.
The Chicago 'limes, in speaking of the dis
graceful conduct of the Abolitionists, says:—
The negro, however, who yesterday, at Au
rora, expressed his astonishment at the want of
decency displayed bv bis abolition brethern, re
fused promptly to interfere with the rights of
the gentlemen who had engager! the room. He
said that if a negro, he knew what the proprie
ties of life were, and hoped that his white asso
ciates would not disgrace him or his cause, by
prolonging their disorderly conduct. He then
left the rr>om.
For half an hour afterwards, the mnbiteskept
up their yells and screams, cow cheering Penn
sylvania and now cheering their negro associ
ate. The Democrats still' held the hall, and
their chairman, Col. Hamilton, passed their full
determination to keep it till they adjourned.
Mr. Kerfoot, a Whig, we believe, mounted
the stand and asked the yelling crowd to hear
him : after much exertion he was allowed to
sav that he hoped the gentlemen who had rent
ed the room would be allowed to conclude their
meeting, after which, if it was desired, others
could do as they pleased. This much, fie said,
was due to propriety and order. The crowd,
however, would listen to no such appeal. They
refused to let tiie meeting adjourn. Things as
sumed a fearful aspect just now. We thought
there was more than a prospect for violence.
The great body of the meeting had dispersed.
The members of the Democratic club present,
took possesion of the stand, and avowed their
determination to protect it at all hazards. The
abolitionists gathered round, and threatened,
but did no violence. Tn the midst of the threat
ening storm, those having the custody of the
hall turned off the gas.
The Know-Nothing and Abolition gentry
then wreaked their revenge on the furniture in
the hall, seizing and breaking the chairs and
throwing the fragments out at the windows,
arid about the room, striking in their erratic
course both friend and foe.
At last, Abolition rowdyism has been baffled
in Chicago.
A DELICATE SEARCH. —The St. Louis Her
ald states a case of a young lady of the most un
doubted respectability, who entered a shoe
store in that city, and asked to be shown some
gaiter boots: a number were shown to her u hich
she examined and tried on. While the atten
tion of the storekeeper was occupied with anoth
er customer, several pairs of gaiters disappeared.
The lady concluding not to purchase, tie v. as
compelled to accuse her of secreting his shoes;
she denied, and he insisted, and proceeded to
search, and found several pair suspended by
books which were attached to the lady's garters.
He took from the hooks those belonging to him,
and lelt there several others, which had no
doubt been taken from other stores. She was
allowed to depart.
P I I! K TR I TH .
We know not who is the author of the fol
lowing admirable sentiments, but they are so
well expressed, and so fitting to the times, that
we venture to call attention to them :
PURE TRUTH. —This, flowing flom the sacred
fountain of the Holy Scriptures, should run from
beginning to end—uncontaminated with error,
undisturbed with human systems, char as crvs
tal, like the river of life. There should be
nothing fn it of the Shibboleth of a sect; nothing
to recommend one denomination, or to throw
odium on another: nothing of the acrimony of
contending parties against those that differ from
them : but pure, good natured Christianity, in
which all the followers of the Lamb, who are
looking for the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ
unto eternal life, can unite with pleasure, as in
one great common cause. Nor should anv
worldlv scheme be interwoven with the truth,
or attempted to be concealed under its folds 1
Heie should not be seen the slightest vestige of
any carnal end, in any %m or for any pur
pose, however laudable some may think it ;
nothing but divine truth immingled, unadulter
ated, and pure as it came from heaven, tit for
the whole human rate to imbibe.