BY GEO. \V. BOWUW.
NEW SERIES.
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From Young America.
Till: MOTHER'S SORROW.
IJV RAt-l'H.
Little Nellie sleeps -o quiet;
With the flush yet on her brow;
Arid the little hands are folded,
And her voice is siient now.
And the eyelids droop o sadly.
O'er the cheek so pale ami chill,
Oh ! it pains my (mart to breaking
Thus to see her lie so still.
1 shall miss her in the morning,
When bird voices fill the air,
1 shall miss her voice at evening,
W hen shall come the hour ol prayer.
1 shall never hear her limping
, "Keep me till the morning light,"
* She has gone from earth to Eden,
Where the day is ever bright.
I shall never hear the patter
Of her little feet again, .
Up and down the hall and stairway,
Like the gentle fall of rairi.
1 shall miss her ever, ever,
As along life's path I go,
And my heart is burdened ever,
With this sad, this mighty woe.
Yet 1 trnst again to press her
To my heart in clasp eternal,
Where the grave and death are never,
And the path is ever vernal. *
"YEARS AGO."
The joys of youth, how soon they die—
The dearest ever first of all
Another heart, another friend,
Thus one by one they fall.
But life must change from day to day—
And though its course he slow
llow little is tju-re often left
To tell of 'years ago ?'
But oh! when days have fieri and gone—
When hearts have changed and brows arc gray.
Ilow.sueet the fond remembrance then
Of moments past away;
llow true the charm, when like a speli,
The scenes we pride to know
Come back like shadows o'er the soul,
In dreams of 'years ago.'
llow sweet again when faint arid old,
Anil life its course hath nearly run,
To know, amid the selfish world,
We yet are loved by one ;
Then with that heart to speak again
Of all we would forego;
To live nn-w the failed past
As in those 'year> ago'.'
ONE BY ONE.
One by one the sands are flowing,
One by one the moments fall;
Some are coming, some are going,
Do not strive to grasp them all.
One by one thy duties wait thee,
Let thy whole strength go to each ;
Let no future dreams elate thee.
Learn thou first what these can teach.
Hours are golden lir,k c —God's token—
Reaching heaven : hut one bv one
Take them, lest the chain be broken
Ere the pilgrimage !>e done.
Prohibition in Michigan. —The Detroit Free
Press, alter speaking of the failure of coercive
temperance laws in other States, says:
"Let us look at home. In Michigan, prohi
bition was first adopted and the coercive law
passed bv the black republicans as a matter of
votes; it has since been abandoned, and the
law emasculated bv them, also as a matter of
vot'S. Every where else the black republicans
have treated prohibition as a matter of votes.—
They have made the great temperance reform a
foot-hall for the very worst party uses."
Rev. Mr. Kalloch preached in Rockland,
Me., on Sunday last. The crowded condition
ol ttie church is cited as evidence of the confi- i
dence with which the citizens regard Mr. K.— :
Exchange.
If Rrigham Young had occupied the pulpit
in the jdace of Mi. Kalloch, the crowd, we
suspect, would have been still larger.
Two young girls in Patterson, New Jersey,
were arrested on Monday, convicted and lined j
for stealing flowers from a cemetery. Much i
pains had been taken hy a mother to ornament
the grave of her son, and just as ttie flowers
were blooming most beautifully, they were all ,
taken awav by these thoughtless voung girls, i
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Among the distinguished strangers in St. '
Louis on the 9lh irisl. were Chevalier Bosch
Spencer, Belgian minister: Count de Sartiges,
French Ambassador; Mr. W. Corcoran, of Wash
ington: Hon. Josiah Quincv, Jr., of Boston, and
Gov. Izard, of Nebraska. They arrived on
Sunday arid took lodgings at Barman's Hotel.
We learn from the Boston Transcript that
Airs. Patton, the woman who so heroically navi- |
gated a ship into California after her husband
lust his mind, is now dangerously ill in that ci
ty with typhoid fever, consequent upon the fa
tigues and ex|)osure incident to the voyage, and '
her untiring devotion to her husband. Capt.
Patton, we regret to add, has lost both his sight
and hearing.
Governor Bragg, of North Carolina, under a
resolution passed by the Legislature of that State, i
contracted with W. J. Hubard,ol Richmond, for
the casting of a bronze statute of Washington,
after the one now in the Capitol of Virginia.
The work is to cost $lO,OOO, and when finish
ed is to be placed in front of the Capitol at Ra
leigh.
H SI VT B\YABI> TAYLOR THINKS OF TR AV
ELLING IN THE ARim REGIONS.
Bayard Taylor has returned to Stockholm
from his northern trip, and in a letter to the
Tribune, dated February 16, IhOs sums up the
relative pleasures of travel in the Arctic and in
tropical zones :
"It was precisely two months since our de
j parture in December, and in that time we had
performed a journey of '2,-200 mites, 250 of
which were by reindeer, and nearly 500 inside
•of the Arctic Circle Our frozen noses had peel
ed off, and the new skin showed no signs of the
damages they- had sustained—so that we bad
come out of the fight not only without a scar,
! but with a marked increase of robust vitality.
"I must confess, however, that, interesting as
: the journey has been, and happily as we have
endured its exposure, I slum Id not wish to make
it again. It is well to see the .North, wen af
! ter the South; but, as there is no one who v isits
I the tropics without longing ever alter to return
again, so, J imagine, there is no one who, bavin
seen a winter inside the Arctic Circle, would
ever wish to see another. In spite of (he warm,
gorgeous, and ever-changing play of color hov
ering over the path of the unseen Sun—in spite
of the dazzling auroral dances, and the magical
transfiguration of the forests—the absence of
true daylight, and of all signs of warmth of life
exercises at last a depressing influence on the
spirits. The snow, so beautiful while the sun
, rise-setting illumination lasts, wears a ghastly
monotony at all other tiroes, and the air, so ex
hilirating, even at the lowest temperature, be
comes an enemy to be kept out when you know
his terrible power to benumb and destroy.
"To the nai ive of a warmer zone tins pres
ence of an unseen destructive force in Nature
weig.-s like a night-mare upon the mind. Tim
inhabitants of the North also seem to undergo a
species of hibernation as weii as the animals.—
Nearly half their time is passed in sleep; they
are silent in comparison with the natives of the
other parts of the World: there is little exuber
; ant gavety and cheerfulness, but patience, indif
ference, apathy almost. Aspects of nature
which appear to be hostile to man often devei
ope and bring into play his best energies, but
there are others which depress and paralyze his
powers. Jam convinced tnat the extreme north
like the tropics is unfavorable Jo the best men
i tal and physical condition of the human race.—
The proper zone ol man lies between 3d and 55
deg. north.
"Toone who has not an unusual capacity to
enjoy the experiences of varied Iravel, I should
not recommend such a journey. With rue the
realization of a long cherished desire, the sense
of novelty, the opportunity for contrasting ex
tremes, and the interests with which the people
inspired me, tar outweighed all inconveniencies
ami pi i vat ions. In tact, 1 was net fully aware
of the gloom and cold in which I had lived un
til we returned far enough southward to enjoy
eight hours o! sunshine and a temperature above
the freezing point. It was a second birth into
a living world. Although we had experienced
little positive suffering from the intense cold,
except on the return from Muoniovara to Hupa
-1 randa, our bodies had afta.iy accommodated
themselves to a low temperature, ami the sud
. deii tiamsitiou to 30 deg. above zero came upon
us like (lie warmth of June,
"Mr. friend, Dr. Kane, once described to me
the comfort he felt when the mercury rose to 1
deg. below zero, making it pleasant to be on
deck. The circumstance was then incompre
hensible to me but is now quite plain. 1 can
also realize the terrible sulieiings of himself,
and his m-n, exposed to a storm in a terrq 'ta
i ture of 47 deg., when the same degree of cold,
with a very litiie wind, turned my own blood
: to ice.
"Most of our physical sensations are relative,
and the mere etuiim-rati >m of so many degrees
of heat or cold gives no i lea ol their effect upon
the system. I should have frozen at home last
winter at a temperature which I found wry
roof rtabie in Lapland, will m\ solid diet of
meat and butter and my garments of renui-er.—
j The following is a correct scale of the physical
; effect of cold, calculated for the latitude of 65
deg. to 70 deg. north:
*'ls degrees above z^ro —unpleasantly warm.
"Zero—Mild and agn eat>le.
"10 deg. below Zero—Pleasantly fresh and
i bracing.
"20 deg. below zero—Sharp, but not severe
ly cold. Keep your fingers arid toes in motion,
I and rub your uuse occasionally.
I "30 deg. below zero—Very cold: take par
ticular caie of your nose and extremities; eat
: the fittest Ibod.and plenty of it.
"49 deg. below—lntensely c'dd: keep a
wake at all hazards, mutiie up to the eyes, and
test your ciiculalion frequently, that it mav not
slop somewhere before you know it.
"50 deg. below A struggle f.r life."
There is a family residing in this city, named
Connell, from Ireland, who are laboring under
; the most singular and perplexing delusion.—
Ti.ey say tfiat remittances have been sent to
I them fiom Ireland, and that the letters l ave
been taken out by other persons and rifled.—
j The amount is variously estimated at between
i $1,900 and $2,500. The most singular pait
' of the story is that whenever a court is held
in our city they imagine that their own case
j occupies pretty much the whole time of the
judges and counsel. The brother of the wo
j man who claims to have been defrauded out of
the money attends the courts, and actually sup
i poses that the lawyers are speaking to his case,
j The decisions are taken by him as confirming
j his own rights.— Trenton True Jlmeriain.
The Lake Superior Chronicle has received
information confirming the report which that
paper published on the 14lh of April last,of
the murder of Mr. A. McEwen by the Indians.
The body of the murdered man was found in
Wood river, near where the road to Taylor's
: Falls ciosses it.
FRIDAY MORNING, BEDFORD, PA. JUNE 26, 1897.
Terrible Calamity.
Burning cf the Steamship Louisiana in the
('iitj oj .Mexico—Thirty-. Vine Lives Lost.
An extra of I lie* Galvaston .Aries, of the 3D;
tilt., furnishes lull details of the sad catastrophe, !
from which we make ihe following extracts; j
"We have to record one of the most dreadful
calamities that has ever happened in this coun
try. !he steamship Louisiana, Captain Shep- \
herd, is now a total wreck, having been burnt :
some six or eight miles south-east of this city, in .
the Gulf, about one o'clock, A. M.
Onr citizens were aroused bv the unusual fire ,
alarm, as the fire was in full sight. The first b
intelligence was the arrival of a boat from the j
unfortunate steamer, about sun-rise, bringing j
some dozen passengers, our fellow citizen, Mr.
Grover, being among the number.
Mr. Grover says that he had a berth on the !
starboard upper deck—that the first alarm was;
persons asking where the fire was: about one j
o'clock he stepped out of his room and discover-j
ed smoke, but no fire—passed around the stern j
of the larboard side, where he saw from twelve ,
to twenty persons preparing to launch the quar-.j
ter-lioat. A moment after the flames hurst tn> j
amidships; returned to the starboard side; saw a
few low eiing down (lie quarter-boat on that sidejq
wen! to his room, picked up his shoes and coat. '
and returned ami slid down with others into the i
boat on the larboard side. The engines were-:
still running, hut fortunately the boat was low
ered down without filling.
After getting adrift they looked to discover if
they could find any person to take on board, but
could see nobody. There were twelve in the j
boat. Mr. G. learned from on- on the boat that ■
the tiller-rope w as broken—was probably burnt
of]', in consequence of which the steamer was !
unmanageable at the commencement of the fir<. j
I'he first (-hurts of the Captain and officers np>-
peared to be to reach the fire engine but did not
succeed. All the commuriication between the
I irward and after part of the boat was cut off by i
the fire, which must have broken out near the'-j
furnace.
The larboard boat was being launched when |
we went into the other. He saw persons on !
the forward part of the steamer throwing things ;
over—the hatch doors, &c., for tin* purpose of i
saving themselves. The working of the engines j
caused the steamer to leave the boat rapidly, so :
that those on the boat were unaUe to see or heflr S
distinctly. The boat landed on the beach, near ,
the point, about sunrise.
The steamship Galveston, reached lier-wharf ;
about half pat seven A. M.,and among others, '#
brought Mr. Clias. 11. Huge.-, the puisemydEkhe
Louisiana. (SHF *•
Mr. Hugcs confirms Mr, Grower's rlatemefm#-*
as regards the origin of the li/' j , which broke'
out in the fire r am, tvventv minutes past one.
He states that the passengers were all asleep j
when (lie fire broke out: that the larboard boat
caj -:z"d. and thinks some six or eight persons
were lost at the time. Mr. H. and the engi
neer, Mr. Finn, jumped overboard on the hatch
door, which they had thrown over. He savs
at that time, there were some thirty around him
on boards and furniture which they had thrown
over.
The Galveston and other vessels subsequently
flicked up a nttml t-r of other persons. Several
vessels were then employed to plv through the
Gulf in hope of picking np others that might he
floating about.
There was a large n ail on board, and we hear
of several large sums of money also !o>t, lie! ng
ing to passengers, together with one hundred j
and fifty beeves that were on board.
\ M.VA.KI2 TAlil'L.
Savs (he lawyer: "Animalssometime® very
rmartv approach reason in their cunning."
"I got interested in the study of serpents
down in Arkansas, where I spent the most of a
year. I don't know why, but I was constantly
watching them in new situations, and surround
ing tin m with novel expedients. Of all kinds
I experiment,-d most with rattlesnakes and cop
per! eads.
"One afternoon I s-afod myself on a little
knoll in the woods to smoke and read—loi I al
ways had a hook or newspajiei with me—and
had been enjoying myself for some time when 1
espied a copperhead n aking for a hole within
ten feet of where I sat. Of course I threw down
mv book and cigar, and proceeded to try a new
experiment. As soon as f stirred the rascal
made a rush for the hole: but 1 caught his tail
;m he got nearly in and jerked him some twenty
feet backward. He threw himself in a coil in
no time, arid waited for me to pitch in. But 1
concluded to let him try his hole again.—
After a while he started for it, stopping when ]
started, to c il hims dftip; but as I kept pretty
quiet lie recovered confidence and again went
in. Again 1 jerked him out. No sooner did
lie hit the ground than he made a grand rush
for the hole in a straight line for mv legs!—
But that didn't woik, for 1 got out of the way,
and gave him another flirt!
"This time he iav still a while, appearing to
reflect on the course to be taken. After get
ting his head a little way in, he stopped and
wiggled his tail, as if on purpose for ir.e to grab
it. 1 did so; and quicker than a flash he drew
his head out and came within a quarter of an
inch ofstriking me in the face. However, I
jerked him quite a distance, and resolved to look
out the next time. Well he tried the same
game again, tiut it wouldn't work— l was too
quick for him.
"This time he lay in a coil half an hour, with
out stirring. At last, however, he tried it once
more. He advanced to within five feet <>l the
hole very slowly, coiled again, and then the
rascal got the start of me by one of the cutest
things you ever heard of.
"How was that?" we all exclaimed, in one
breath.
"Why," said the narrator, sinking his voice
to the acme of solemnity, and looking as honest
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
and as sober as any man could look; "why lie)
just turned his head toward my hand, and went ;
down the hole tail first!"
From the E!air County Whig.
.Joltia 11. Wfsjfrode.
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A majority of the citizens of this Re present a
: tive dntrict elected JOHN M. G IRONY and JOHN
H. WINTRODE to the late Legislature. The es
timation by which the former is held in Biair
County, is so payable, that it needs no nofice j
at our hands; the latter, in the feelings jf-the
people of Huntingdon county, is well told JJW
the fiflhiwing article from the last Huntumdtjnn
> "On: REPRESENTATIVE.— We recommend toD
j our fellow-ritizens, the propriety of getting up
some substantial testimonial of their high appre
j ciarion of the laborious efforts in their behalf, of
their late Representative Dr. John I!. Wintrode.'
We suggest, further, that said testimonial con
i sist>f a patent leather medal, with a medium ;
1 sized hole therein, in which shall be placed a
piece of red tape. Said medal to be presented
to >aid gentleman immediately. Or if this be
i not approved by said constituents of said Win
trode, then, we suggest a testimonial of thirty
j(3 cent) piece? of silver. This would be more
j appropriate and we are led to believe more ac
cejitable. We offer this suggection on the
j ground that a faithful servant deserves a 'kindly
i mention." Aside from all jokes, we cannot,
lor the life of us, see how a community could
be humbugged in working up such materia] in
to Legislators. Has the county no better?—
; To be sure she has. and let her hereafter use it.
The nomination of such men will weaken our
: strength—as the past proves—until locofocoisrn j
shall tiinmph: it must be stopped. Since Mr.
Wintrode has now some leisure , he can enlight
en the people of the county on his refusing to
• support the opposition candidate for the State '
'lleasuryship. The reasons he gave us, we did
not consider ourselves authorized to publish.—
[ Events have since transpired, which bring us :
again to the original question. "Will Dr.
Wintrode explain" to the public. We have
been beset by many good men throughout the
j county for the reasons giv-n us. We now re- i
: iterate that those reasons are unsatisfactory
j from events which have since transpired.
A pair of pretty poseys, truly.
-<UOYKK.\K sHI.IOMt AIVO
THE: HAS\ M.YE aiiLi,.
R. H. Canan, Esq.. of Johnstown, writing
Tor fhe ITarrishnrg "Patriot and Union," is pla
sting G iv. Pollock in lather an unenviable posi
tion on tin- Main Line Bill question. He is hut
proving what we have a! ways asserted, that the
i G< vernor is a weak, imbecile, vascillaUng, hyp
ocritical demagogue—a disgrace to the position
'he was accidentally s> lected to fill. Thank God
his term of office is nearly out and his manage
ment at an end.
The writer referred to, in company with oth
er gentlemen called upon Pollock, with a view
of pointing out the ohjtjtflfonable features in the
bill, hoping thereby to induce him to interpose
his Executive power. He says :
"After supper I went with them to see the
Governor. We found him alone in his room at ;
I;is hoarding house, and had a long interview I
with him. He treated us very kindly, ami ap- \
parently listened with great attention to our i
suggestions and arguments. He admitted that
there were many r>! jectionable features in the j
hill, that if fie could had the framing of it lie
: would have had it differently done.— that he had
don! t® as to some of its previsions being consti
tutional, hut that the people were so anxious for ;
, a sale that he believed the present hill would !
be sustained by a majority of over one hundred
thousand, and that.- he felt disposi d to sign the I
full. Although I felt confident he was mista-|
ken as to the people being in favor of the bill. 1
vet I believed the governor honestly thought so.:
and when I <ame home on Saturday, as many j
:of you know, 1 contended very earnestly that!
if the Governor signet! the bill it would fie from
ithe honest conviction nt his mind that the peo
ple were in favor of it. I supposed that he
would keep the full until the last hour, in order
to leym more fully the will of the people.—
When the news came on Monday that the bill
was signed, my confidence in the integrity of
! the Executive was still unshaken, hut when 1
received the information on Monday night that \
the hill was signed and the proposals for the i
sa]e in type at the time of our interview on Fri
day night, 1 came to the conclusion that if the i
Chief Magistrate of Pennsylvania, could so well
act the HYPOCRITE, he could do worse , and I i
snail no longer spend mv time in so use!, ss a task
as attempting to convince the people that Gov
ernor POI.I.OCK acted from pure motives in sign
ing a hill, containing, according to his own
testimony, many objectionable features, and!
many provisions not in accordance with the
Constitution that he solemnly swore to sup
port."
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The Way they (lit Rich in the West. A
friend of ours just returned from Kansas,
where he has resided two years, tells of high
prices of provisions in that region. Flour,
month, was selling at t>l4 per barrel, molasses
Si 50 a gallon, pork 25 cents a pound, and j
other things at the same rate. The crops last i
year were poor, winter severe, killing many ;
cattle, and the army of emigration so large as to j
devour all before thern. To the question, how J
did you live i —the answer was prompt. — Live,
said he, live on cracked corn; corn for breaklast;
corn for dinner; and corn f<r supper. I have
just learned to live: and if T had practised here j
for ten years, what 1 was forced to there, even
at low wages, should have been a rich man.
JS'ew Haven .Municipal Election. —NEW HA
VEN, June 3 At the municipal election held
here yesterday, the Democrats carried all bran
ches of the city government by about 500 ma
jority.
<ivc him a Trade.
If Education is the great buckler of human
liberty, well developed industry is equally the
buckler and shield of individual independence.
As an unfailing resource through life, give your
son, equal with a good education, a good hon
est trade. Better any trade than none, though
there is an ample field for the adoption of eve
ry inclination in this respect. Learned profes
sions and speculative employments may fail a
man, but an honest handicraft trade seldom or
never—if its professor chooses to exercise it.—
►Let him feel, too, that honest laborcrafts are
'honorable and noble.; The men of trades—the
real creators of what is most essential to the ne
cessities anil welfare of mankind—cannot be
dispensed with : they above all others, hi what
ever lepute they may he hehf by their more fas
tidious fellows, must work at the oar of human
progress or all is lost. Rut few brown-handed
trade-workers think of this, or appreciate the
real posit ion arid power they compass.
(liveyour son a trade, no matter what fortune
he may have or seem likely to inherit. -Give
him a trade and education—at arsv rate a trade.
With this he can always battle with temporal
want, can always be independent—and better
is independence with a moderate education, than
all the learning of the colleges and wretched
temporal dependence. But in this free land
there can be ordinarily no difficulty in securing
both tlie education and trade, f r every youth,
thereby fitting each arid all to enter the ranks
of manhood defiant of those obstacles which in
timidate so many tradeless, professionless young
men. Such are the peculiarities of fortune,
that no mere possession can he counted so abso
lutely secure or protective to man. Hoarded
thousands may be swept av.ay in a day, and
their once possessors left with neither the means
of independence or oF livelihood.
He was a wise Scandinavian King who de
creed that his sons must learn useful trades or
be cut off from their expected princely for
tunes. '] hev demurred, hut obeyed the decree.
The eldest as the ease t trade to learn applied
himself to the basket-making. In time he
reigned in his father's seat. In time, also, rev
olution came upon, and overthrew hint, and he
iLd disguised, wandering companion less, save
his wife and children, his sole resources for live
lihood a recurrence to his humble, but honest
arid useful trade.
The sons of the rich as well as the poor,
should be strengthened by this possession. It
is a weapon of assault, of defence, which once
fairly seized, ran never be taken from a man's
grasp. Think of it, parents : examine y our
boys' 'hutnps,' or rather study the "bent of their
minds," and tastes, —and as of the best and most
lasting services vow can do ibrthern,- appl vthem
to the learning of honest trades.
From the New Haven Register.
A GLOR 101S RETROSPECT.
The tiiumphsof the Democratic party of the
United States, from its earliest organization to
the present time, may challenge the history of
political organizations for a parallel. Bv the
strength and purity of its principles, it las
maintained a triumphant supremacy during
the most of the time since the adoption of the
constitution. If it has occasionally failed, it
has risen the mightier, lbr its temporary check :
it the violence of attack, by its opponents, has
in a few instances caused public sentiment to
hesitate on the propriety of measures proposed
by the dt mocratic party, it has been sme to re
ceive a heartier approbation, w hen "the sober
second thought" had thoroughly digested the
propositions. It has thus, against efforts the
mast powerful, and means both abundant and
unscrupulously applied, established as the per
manent policy of nations its own views of fi
nance, and tariff, and State sovereignty,and the
still more perplexing question of slavery, on a
satisfactory. just,and permanent basis. It has
carried creditably through wars which have
been forced upon the government, without bur
dening the treasury or cramping the people.—
But all this has not been without effort—deter
mined and persistent effort ! At every step has
the democratic party been assailed with the
most outrageous abuse, the must merciless oppo
sition. Its men, as well as its measures, have
had to pass through storms of insult, obioouv.
and misrepresentation • but, being right, their
faith did not waver—Ding right, they were
successful ! It is the ordeal through which ev
ery "party of progress" is called to pass, and
therefore is not to he regarded in the future any
more than it has been in the issues of bygone
days.
The history of the Maine Law crusade is
fresh in every mind. The democratic party
opposed it as "unwise and unjust." For this
they were stigmatized and abused without stint,
and in violence of the contest the democratic
party was overthrown! But a few brief months
have proved tlie democracy were right, and now
ail are forced to admit it!
.lufvl Death. —One night recently a servant
girl in Auburn, New York, went to sleep ha
ving a light burning, which by sue means set
file to the bed. If.-r screams aroused the fam
ily, but the bed was in (fames, and before they
could be extinguished the girl was burned to
death, and her body almost reduced to a heap
of cinders.
We undeistand (says the Boston Traveller)
that among the numberless invitations that have
been extended by the Bunker Hill Monument
Association to lie present on the 17th of June,
.Mr Bt-njam in Smith, of Wavland, has been en
tirely unnoticed. Mr. Smith is ninety-four
years old, and was a filer in the revolntionai v
armv. He was in Boston on the 4th of last Ju
ly, by insitation, ami was received with mark
ed honors.
Saved By a Cat. — Rome, it is said, was sa
ved by the cackling of a goose. So a feu nights
since a family in Charleston war. raved trotn
death by fire through the "piteous iri> fa
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* domestic cat," by which they were awakened
from deep sleep a! the dead of night. The
fire was the work ol an incendiary, and design
ed, it is believed, to destroy the whole family,
who, as it was, barely escaped with their
lives.
MASSACRE UK THE SOXoRA EXPEDI
TIONISTS.
Whether, as it is stated in some of the publi
cations regarding this tragical affair. Col. Crabb
had pledges from the present Governor of Sono
ra, and from influential citizens of the State,
that lie and his party would be allowed to settle
peacefully, or whether the expedition was of a
wholly illegitimate character, there is no imag
inable justifibation of the inhuman, wholesale
butche/y of tb- expeditionists, after, TOEY IKW
laid cfbwn their arms and surrendered {fteiii
selves to the Government forces. It was aisa(
as iiiipoliiie as it was inhuman. It is stated by
an eye-witness that for six days the Americans
defended themselves against overwhelming odds.
Driven into one of the principal houses in the
town, (Cavorca,) harrassed, exhausted, and
probably without fod, they maintained their
position, until an arrow, bearing a lighted
brand, fired into the thatch of the house, set it
>n fire, and the whole interior of the roof was
soon in Harm s.
Further resistance was unavailing, and the
survivors, (if y-one in number, marched out un
armed and surrendered to the Mexicans. Next
morning the whole body, one lad of about fif
teen years excepted, were 'hot in squads of five
and ten each. In the fiist executions it was •
found tha? the calmness of the Americans dis
composed their executioners, who shot too high
or too low, in many cast s only wounding their
victims. The hacks of the fated men were then
turned to the troops, and then they fired with
steadier and deadlier aim. Col. Crabb was re
served for a seperate death. He was taken to
the front of the house where he fought, his face
turned towards a pillar, his hands tied and
drawn above his head, and standing thus, was
shot from behind. A Mexican then cut off his
head with a knife, and carried it across the
street, to the office of the Juez, where it was
placed on a table, to satiate the gaze of his cap
tors and butchers.
But the merciless crew were not satisfied
wit: l this fearful vengeance. Four men, sick,
had been left at S. noriia hv Crabb. They oc
cupied the h use owned by E. E. Dunbar, Esq.,
on the American side of (he line. On the 18th
of April, at r.ight, a party of twenty-five Mex
icans came up from San Juan, went to Dunbar's
house, took these poor sick men out of bed, tied
tbem, and at dawn of day carried them to the
foot of the hill, shot them like dogs on Ameri
can soil, and left them to rot. A party of Pa
pago Indians, more merciful, buried them. This
violation of American soil is, at Fast, an ou'-
r.ige which out Government cannot overlook.
We fear however, from the feeling prevailing
in California at the sailing of the steamer, that
the Californians \> ill not await the slow action
of the Government, but take the task of retri
bution info their own hands. Indeed, some of
the journa's predict that Sonora will be Ameri
can territory within less than six months. The
rr assacre at Cavorca, and the more revolting act
which accompanied it, may lead to consequen
ces of which the Mexicans dreamed not in the
hour ol their savage triumph.— .V. V. Sun.
WELL SAID. —A western ladv who was not
long since a New-England girl, writes to tie*
Tribune from lowa with reference to the recent
discussion of the subject of Cookery, a lett< r
from which we make the follow ing pungent ex
tract, commending it to the reflections of whom
soever it mav concern:
"Believe ir.e that we (women) aie not so
much slaves to the tyrianny of'husbands, din
ners, children, and servants, as to ourselves, and
false ami social customs. We are afraid of each
other. We don't live in reference to comfort,
or to our own means, but to what people say of
us or think of us. and to oveitop this one or the
other. I have seen and know women fitted to
a 'orn any society in this country or any other,
that did their own work, took care of their own
children, kept bright h earth stones, and had hap
py husbands, and still f nnd lime to keep up
with the current literature, write memoran
dums, and copy poetrv. It is not necessary,
hut artificial labor that makes our women,
drudges—eternal house cleanings, beginning in
March, and iasting till May—again in Septem
ber, and lasting til! Thanksgiving. It is a pride
of appearance of being thought good livers and
crack housekeepers—for, let women say what
they will, they tie as jealous of this as poets (or
politicians) are cf each other."
A Vit.LACt: DESTUOYEP. —The Ogdensburg
(St. Lawrence county, N. Y.) Sentinel says
that "on Monday morning of last week, the vil
lage of Brasher iron Works, in that county,
containing a thriving and busy population, was
destroyed by tire. Before night the whole vil
lage, the foundry, machine shop, saw mills, and
every dwelling in the place except six was con
sumed as with the besom of destruction. A fire
that had previously raged in the woods was
driven by a wind from a point or two south of
west, like a hail storm, upon the doomed vil
lage. In one hour forty-three buildings and
from $7f),000 to $lOO,OOO worth of property
was reduced to ashes, and forty families made
homeless and houseless, without food or clothing
and without the means of employment. The
Sentinel states that the call for aid has not been
unheeded. Villages in the immediate vicinity
have done nobly tor the relief of the sufferers.—
Of the suflh rers, Mr. L. \Y. Skinner, of Ogdens
burg, is mentioned as the greatest, the loss of
lus firm being $7h,000 over insurance.
We hear nothing, savs the Panola (Missis
sippi) Star, but the most favorable account from
the win at crop of our county. It appears that
aft.-r the cold weather passed by, the wheat
took anew start, and we art informed that the
nop was in V'-r b-ttcr than it will he this ytar.