VOl.l JEE 33. NEW SERIES. THE BEDFORD GAZETTE IS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY MEYERS & BEN FORD, At the following terms, to wit: 51. 50 per annum, cash, in advance. $2.00 " " if paid within the year. P a 'd within the year, i 3-7* No subscription taken for less than six months. tXF*No paper discontinued nntd all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the publishers. It has fteen decided by the I. mted States Courts, that .he stoppage ol'a newspaper without the payment oi ar rearages, is prima Jacit evidence of Irarid and is a criminal offence. [J3®"The courts have decided that persons are ac countable for the subscription price of newspapers, if they take them from the post office, whetherthe y ! subscribe for them, or not. POETftiY. CHILDHOOD. BY H. W. T.OXOFEI.LOW. Come to me 0 ye children ! For I hear you at your play, And the questions that perplexed me Have vanished quite away. Ye open the eastern windows, That look towards the snn, Where thoughts are singing swallows And the brooks of morning run. In your hearts are birds and sunshine, In your thotighs the brooklets flow, But in mine is the wind of Autumn And the firs! fall of the snow. Ah '. what would the world be to us, If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light aud air for food, F.re their sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into wood— That to the world are chi'dren ; Through them its feelings glow Of a brighter ami sunnier clime That reaches the trunk below. Come to me, O ve children! And whisper in mv ear, What the birdi"and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our coutrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your p~— -j And tne giauuess ol your Ioos ? You are belter than all the ballads That ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are d eail. miscellaneous. SKETCHES OF FORT DUQUESNE it FORT PITT. November 25tb, 1858, being the occasion of the Centennial Celebration of the occupancy of Fort Duquesne by the British and American troops, under Gen. Forbes, was commemorat'J in magnificent style, by the citizens of Western j Pennsylvania, at Pittsburg. As a matter of in terest at this time, in connection with this e- vent, we give the following sketches, wliic!) we copy from the Pittsburg I rue Press: HISTORY OK FORT DUQUESNE. This' important post was erected by the j French, in the year 17.0f, and named in lionor of Captain Duquesne, who acted a mast con- , spicuous part in the French and Indian war. Numerous other forts had been built about the j same time, extending from Lake Erie to the Ohio river. These encroachments of thej French, on what was regarded as English ter ritory, created much agitation in the culoni.-s, as the purpose ol the 1 rench was evidently to prevent the extension of the English colonies; west ot the mountains—and furthermore, it was regarded as the first step in the coosumma- , lion ola plan of the French Court, to place all j North America nnd r French dominion. L n-j der these circumstances, Governor Diuwiddie, ol Virginia, selected and despatched George j Washington, then in his twenty-second year, as a messenger to the French commander with ; *nst-uctions°to asceitain the forces of the ene- ; iny. the nature and location of the fortifications, J and to learn it possible what gave occasion to; the expedition of the I rench. The result of the expedition of \V asliington, (being his first public service) is familiar to e very American reader, as it is fully set forth in a journal kept by himself. On the "d-d of No vember, 1753, he arrived at the mouth of 1 ur tle Creek, on the Monongahela, and Irom thence he walked down to the present site of Pitts burg. Here his journal reads thus : —"I sp°r.t , some tinie in viewing the river and the land in the fork, which I think extremely well situa ted for a fort, as it has the absolute command of both rivers." But we need not dwell further upon the journal. During Washington's absence, steps had been taken to fortify and settle the point form ed by the junctiou of the Monongahela and Al legheny rivers, and upon his return he "met seventeen horses, loadened with materials and stores, for a fort at the forks of the Ohio,' and soon after, "some families going out to settle." This beginning by the English colonists, was SkWki3r made by the "Ohio Trading Company"—but, upon (he return of Washington,and the trans mission of the intelligence that the French were determined not to yield the West without a struggle, Gov. Dinwiddle immediately set a bont making preparations lor war, and a com pany was to he raised and "to proceed at once to the forks ol the O.'tio, there to complete, in the best manner, and as soon as^possible, the Fort begun by the Ohio C vmpany, nnd t in case of attack, or any attempt to resist the settle ment. or obstruct the works, those resisting Vere to be taken, and, if need be, killed."— While Trent's little band ol forty men were working away, in hunger and want, to fortify the point at the h-ad ol the Ohio, to which both the French and English were looking with so much interest and jealousy, a few Indian scouts were seen, but no enemy seemed near at band. Indeed, ail was so quiet thalTrazer, an old Indian-trader, who had been left by Tient in command ol the new fort, ventured to his homo a! the mouth of I'uitle Creek, ten miles up the Monongahela. But, tho' all was so quiet in that wilderness, keen eyes had seen the low entrenchments at the fo ks, and swift I eel had borne the news to (lie French camp up the Allegheny \ alley. On the 17th of Apii I. 1751, the occupant? of the unfinished tort at the head of the Ohio, were astonished at • lie sight of sixty bateaux and three hundred canoes, on the Allegheny. The boats contain ed a thousand men, seveial pieces of artillery and ample stores. Ensign Ward, then in charge of the Fort, was "summoned" to surren der by the French Commandant, Contrecmur, and as resistance was useless, he surrenlered his works, passed up the Monongahela, and thus left ""the forks" in possession ofthe French. The French claim to the land lying in the entire valley of the Ohio, as s-'t up by Contre cmur, was the first act provocative of the long and bitter hostilities which followed. "The seven years war," says A'bach, "arose at the forks of the Ohio; it was waged in a!! quarters of the world; it made England a great imperial power; it drove the French from Asia and A merica, and dissipated the scheme of empire, so brilliant aud so extended, (hey had so long cnerisnei'7. ■ In tho following year, 1755, the famous though disastrous expedition of General Brad dock, was projected and executed. On th<* '2oth of April, he left Alexandria, to inarch upon Fort Duquesnc, whither he hat! been ex pressly ordered ; and the 7th of July fd'owing, he was met by the French and Indians, at what is now called "Braddoek's Field." We need nnt recount the incidents of the defeat, which formed the most terrible reverse that the Brit ish arms had encountered in America. The Colonists suffered dreadfully at the hands oi the French and Indians after the defeat of Brad dock. Whole settl-m- r.ts were destroy id, and manv men, women and children, were cruelly massacri d. The next prominent event in the history ol Fort Duquesne, was the defeat of Major Grant, in September, ISSS, at the point known as Grant's Hill, uow within the city limits. He had been sent in command of eight hundred men, to gain further information in reard to the condition of the Fort, but underrating the numbers within the garrisson, his foices were attacked and routed, with a loss of two hun_ died and seventy killed, forty-two wounded and himself taken prisoner. Washington, in speaking of this engagement states that ":t was a very ill conceived, or very, ill-executed plan perhaps both but it seems to be gmeial !y acknowledged that Major Grant exceeded his ordeis." We pass on to the successful expedition of General Forbes, who arrived with '2700 Pennsyhanians, ISOO Virginians and 1000 British regulars,on the evening ol the 2+th ol November, 1756, at Turtle Creek, ten miles n bove Fort Duquesne. A council of war was held here, the result of which was that it would be impracticable to proceed —the provisions and foiage being exhausted. The General, upon being informed of this, swore lie would sleep in the Fort, e.\t night, or in a worse place. About midnight, a tremendous explo sion was heard, and Forbes swore that the French magazine had been blown tip. 'I his revived the spirits of the English and provinci al soldiers. The Indians who had watched the approach of Forbes' army, reported at the Fort that they were "as numerous as trees in the woods." The French, numbering about ! four hundred men, became terrified "and dis heartened, and setting fire to their magazines, barracks, etc., pushed off their boats, same up, and some down the river. All the improve i ments made by the French had been burnt to ■ the ground,and the next morning—.Nov. 25th,) i Forbes' army took peaceable possession ot the I important post of Fort Doquesne, the erec ! tion of which was the cause ol the bloody war. Thus was Fort Duquesne evacuated, and thus did the Forks of the Ohio pass into the BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING DECEMBER 31, 1858. possession of the English. With the fall o' Fort Duquesne, and the capture of Niagara, all direct contest between the British anil French in the West was closed, the hostility ol the Indians was abated, peace was restored to the border of the English colonies, and settlers be gan slowly to push fuither into the Indian country. nisTOKv or ror.T citt. Genera! Forbes died at Philadelphia on the 11 tit of march, 1759, and he was immediately succeeded by Gen, Stanwix, who, in Julv of the same vear, proceeded totheh ead of the Ohio, lo canv out the orders of William Pitt, then at the head ol (lie British government. Pill was strongly impress-d with the importance of speedily restoring, if possible, the ruined lor! Duquesne, and in case it could not be re paired, he favored ihe erection of an adequate defence upon the site if the old I rt. According ly Gen. Stanwix immediately (perhaps in Au gust, 1759) commenced the building ol fort Pitt, s > named in honor of the limn prime minister of England. The fort was of five sides—the two facing the country were suppor ted by a ivv itment of biick vvork, nearly | perpendicular, supporting Ihe rampart on the outside. The other three were by a line of pickets, fixed on the outside ol the i slope of the rampart. Around the whole work was a wide ditch, which would he filled with water when the river was at a moderate stage. Tile draft of the woik was made by R. Rutzer, and to show the anticipations ot security entertained at the time, vve-quote the fallowing from a letirr written at the tori, under date oi September 2J, 1759 : "It i? now near a month since the army has been employed in the erection of a most formida ble fortification, such a one as will to the latest t posterity secure the British empire on the Ohio. , There i? no need to enumeiate the abilities ot i the chief engineer, nor Ihe spii it shown by j tiu troops, i executing this important task . the f>rt will soon be a lasting monument ut both." The siege of Fort Pitt, in 1703, was the most prominent one in its history. On the '27 th of May, of that year, bands of Indians appeared liritflt- taiJVJ •*** J- • - - ■* stragglers, and filing on ttie garrison, a delega tion of chiefs nnpeard and demanded the sur rendei of the fort- T hey refused friendship to the English, and gave them to understand that it th< y did not abandon the fort they would ,il| be scalped b} overwhelming numbers, then on their way for that purpose. Cap!. Ecuyr could not be caught in this trap, hut he effect ually frightened the Indians by telling them that he had men enough to defend the fort, and that thousands of men were coming to his assis tance. The Indians were thus beaten at tin ir own game and fled down the river. In Jul v of the same year the Indians age in appeared near the fort, in considerable numbers and again attempted to get possession by strata gem, They stated tiiat they had a message from the great Pontiac, who was coming with his bands to strike the English at the lurks of the Ohio. Ecuyer told them that he could defend himself for three years against all the Indians in the woods and that if they came about his home he would fire of bullets at them. Disappointed in getting possession of the Foil by stratagem, they commenced an attack in flu* night, firing under cover of the river bank. — A constant fir--, fur many day?, was poured u pon the Fort, and it was often on fire from their arrows. The Indians lay so closely along the bank, that they could not be wounded from the garrison, and any one who appeared on The lampart was sure to be a mark for an arrow or a hiiil> t. The garrison of Fort 1 'itt consisted of three hundred and thirty men, besides moer than two hundred women and children who had la ken refuge therein. The supply of provisions was too small to hold out long against the terrible sreg, and Col. Boquet, at J'hiladalphia was ordered to march to its relief. He collected a small force, of about five hundred men, and entered upon his most perilous undertaking, and with the most painful forebodings of the people.— The route lay through an unbroken forest, for two hundred miles, infested with savages lap more numerous and more determined than those which destroyed the fated army ot Broddock. Col. Boquet pursued the route opened by Gen- Forbes five years before, and on the march they relieved Forts Bedford and Ligonier. both be leagnred by the Indians. Less than a day's march west of Ligonier by the dangerous defile of Turtle creek, Boquet determined to march to Bushy run, rest until night, and pass Turtle i reek under cever of darkness. When within half a m'lle of Bushy run, the army was attacked in the front and rear, and a determined battle en sued. Again and again were the Indians driv en back, and again was the attack renewed.— The troops were exposed the the fire of an al most invisible foe, and there the contest raged for seven hours, until darknes suspended hos tilities. They lay upsn their arms all night and at daybreak the attack upon them was re- Freedom of Thought and Opinion. a ewed with great fury, and continued without intermission until noon. By a skillful manoeu vre, which completely deceived the Indians, Col. Boquet finally succeeded in pouring a vol ley on them in flank, and then charged them with the bayonet which caused them to flee in dismay—an ! the rout was complete. About sixty Indians were killed, and a great number wound-d. After the battle, the army marched without interrupt! in, twenty-five miles to Fort Put, relieved the garrison, supplied them with am?, p rov isions and ammunition, and thussecu /tp it against the dangers of another siege. It is said that the works of Fort Pitt cost the British crown .£60.000, and it maybe so since it was pronounced "a most formidable fortifica ti?n, such a one as would to the latest posterity, secure the British empire on the Ohio." The "••British empire on the Ohio" was destined soon to be overthrown, notwithstanding the "formi dable fort," an-J fifteen y ears later it was aban doned by order of the British government.— Nothing now remains of the fort, excepting the "old redoubt" built in seventeen hundred ana isfv-lbur, by Col. B oquet. It sti'l stands, the oaiv remaining memorial of the British posses sions io the Mississippi valley. | f ' Support \our mechanics Thtftv is no truth more undeniable than j that it is the bounden duty of every communi ty losupport its mechanics. They are a vvor- j thy and indisiensablp class of men, and we find | no town or village flourishing without their aid. j Indeed tlierr absence is always a true index of j (he condition of the place whether it is advancing in wealth and importance, or sin king into dec iv. Wherever we pass through i a village, and here the carpenter's hammer, the clink of the Blacksmith's anvil—that village, i we av to ourselves, is prospering. It cannot j be otherwise, for the producers are actively emploved, and outnumber* ihe consumers; Whenever this is the cese, the people are grow- j iiii wealthy, and at the same time training the i rising generation to habits of industry and morality. If a city or village pursue the oppoileof this cou'se—neglect its mechanic? j and support those of some other place, those j who are left, and compelled by force ot circum- , stances to remain, will become idle and profli- j gate : they will cease to produce, and become j Consumers :in a few years they become beg- 1 fa's :pi' their children become ignorant and j VICIOUS, JI 11. .V . P. . ' V 'o the assertion that we ought, as a nation, to give The |>rcx. ence to domestic manufactures, the fact is equal- j ly true with regard to the community, and j both are sustained by the same argument. If a merchant would have around him sub-; stantial customers, let him by every means in ; his pow* r, support the mechanics in his village, ! and as the\ become more wealthy, their ens- ' torn will increase, especially in those articles in which he makes the greatest profit; for it is ; undeniable, that a? men become more wealthy, they also become more luxurious, and no mer- j ! chant will deny that articles of luxury always j | afford the greatest profit. The habit of impor- j ting large quantities of cheap foreign articles, j in competition with our village merchants, is I ; hoit sighted and wrong, both as regards the j i mechanic and consumer: if the merchant will : look further into the operation of things, he ] would find that he had crossed the path of his j own interest by doing so. Let the merchant , bring the case to his own door, and he, perhaps, mav better understand it. Suppose that every individual who possesses i means, and who uses in Ins family four or five hundred dollars worth of goods per annum, should, instead of buying of him at retail, go to I some cit v wholesale establishment and purchase j his vcars' supply, would he not in bitterness' ! condemn such an illiberal course, would he not sav to iiiin, in truth, that he was warring igamsl his own interest, by destroying the busi ; ness of his own town, and giving it to another : ; and that his littleness would react upon him in i double fold bv decrease of his property and busi ness? So in the same to the merchant. YY'e ,-av then all classes support each other, and by mutual exchange?, keep that wealth at home which necessarily expended abroad, tends to i destroy the business of our neighbor, and which in-turn destroys your own.— Spirit of the | AN INSTANCE OF REMARKABLE COOLNESS. — i The Knickerbocker Magazine picks up a good I many good things. In the December number we find a story which runs thus : Judge 8., of New Haven, is a talented lawyer and great wag. llehasaon, Sam, a graceful wight, witty, and like his father, fond of mint juleps, j and other palatable "fluids " Ihe father and : son were on a visit to Niagara falls. Each wis anxious to "take a nip but (one for ex ample, and !he other in dread of hurting the old man's feelings) equally unwilling to drink in the presence of the other. "Sam," said the Judge, l'il take a short walk —be back short- I ly."" "All right," replied Sam, and after see ing the oid gentleman around the corner, he walked out quickly, and ordered a julep at a bar-room. While in concocto, the Judge en ! tercd, and (Sam just then being back of a news paper, and consequently viewing, though view less) ordered a julep. The second was com pounded arid the Judge was just adjusting his tube for a cooling draught, when Sam stepped up, and taking up his glass, requested the bar tender to take his pay for both juleps from the hill the old gentleman had handed out to him ! The surprise of the Judge was only equalled by 1 bis admiration for his son's coolness; and he ex claimed, "Sam ! Sam ' —yon need no cool yon.'" Sam "allowed" tha&he didn t._ [£F~"Yoii seem to walk more than usual my friend." "Yes, I have been straitened by cir cumstances." | THE CHEVALIER FORNEY IX TROUBLE. The Chevalier Forney, in Ihese unhappy times for Democratic rebels, finds himself in a world iof trouble at Washington. In casting about for ■ relief he flies, in a late letter lo his own paper against the administration and "Bennett of the' New York Herald.'" He says we are "the right arm of the strength of the administration," i that "Bennett is , par excellence, the prime favo rite of the White House," that "Bennett bulli ! Ed" the administration "into allowing him to send a correspondent on the great submarine telegraph expedition, in the good ship Niagara;" that "he forced another of his agents into the diplomatic service in Mexico that "he got Fleurot, the friend of his family, sent as Consul to Bordeauxand "then Chevaiier Wikoff, the most intimate associate of Bennett, was sent abroad cn the secret service fund, as a roving ! dipiomat." Next we are told by this ungrate ful feliow a Forney, that "Bennett has a longing for society," and then, that although "Mr. Crit tenden is not inviteu to dine at the Presidential mahogany," "Bennett is sent lor, and escorted |to the fire side of the President, and honored ' almost on bended knee. Such are the complaints of poor Forney. The ungrateful vagabond! Has he forgotten the time—not verv long ago—when he sent Wikoff" as "roving dip'omat" to "Bennett" in behalf of this same Chevalier Forney?—that Wikoff fuilfilled his mission, and that, for "sweet char ity's sake," we did all we could in behalf of Forneys' first for a place in the Cabinet, and then for a consulate , &.c. Very true our good offices availed not, because Mr. Buchanan under- 1 stood his man, and knew his weakness much better than "Bennett." But surely, Forney cannot have forgotten how he sought our so ciety at the Everett house, and personally thank ed us tor our good endeavors. We accepted his acknowledgements as from a man in his right mind. If he was not so, how are we to discriminate between Forney drunk ani Forney sober ? Poor Forney 1 A? for tiiat dinner at the White Ham? it i? hardly necessary to say that it was marked bv that hospitality, polit-ness and coirte-y, which on all occasions may be found in the "society" of Mr. Buchanan. But it he will drop in at Fort Washington on any day in the year, and bring Forney along, reformed, repen tant and sober, they shall have a dinner far su perior to the dinners of the White House, or any other house in Washington. We pity Chevalier Forney. On the basis of his repen tance and reformation weshould cheerfully give him a good dinner. Poor Forney ' Will any , body take "the pledge" to Forney ?—.A. I. Jkrnld. MR. DALLAS no . -r*o*mO!7Vr The London correspondent of the New York Time v, gives the following lively account of a late achievment of Mr Dallas: "You may not know that Mr. Dallas is a capital shot, and wields the Manton as cleverly as the pen. No accomplishment can possibly come amiss to a diplomatist, although our good people in general seem to think even good man ners and a decent knowledge of tfiei r own lan guage superfluous ornaments, unworthy the en voy of a Republican State—and Mr. Dallas' skill as a marksman served him very prettily the other day in an extemporized match with a certain veteran d iscount who is trvmg to con sole himself in the turnip fields for his defeat upon the floor of St. Stephens, and pops away at partridges with a surer aim than at Jones. — Our Minister was the Viscount's guest a! the charming country seat immortalized by that most modest of chroniclers, Mr. Henry VY ykofl, and was enjoying the morning air, when his host emerged from the mansion, gay with that inexhaustible gayety which fitly years ol Lon don life ana government have not abated, and airayed for the field in the inevitable gaiters ap propriate to the murder of birds. "He was apologizing for leaving his guest, without suspicion that an American diplomatist could think of meddling with so peculiarly Brit i.sh a sport as shooting at partridges in the tur nip fields, involving as it does, six or seven hours of pretty ham walking, with no slight pull upon the whole system, muscular and ner vous, when our Envoy most politely insisted up on setting ofi* accontied as he was, rather lor the drawing room than for the open country, and trying it is hand at the business. Ihe Y iscount 'of course assented, no doubt with such a pri vate chuckle over the coming misfortunes of his diplomatic friend as Rochefoucauld would have delighted to witne, and the illustrious gentlemen inarched ofT together with their small array of dogs and gamekeepers. The first American volley was delivered from both barrels, 'right and lett,' and brought down as many birds. Fancy the Account's amazement. This, however, might be a piece of luck. But , what could be said when every whirr and rise I in the field was followed by the same prompt and precise results, till the hour of luncheon ; found the unpremeditated game-bag of the west lem representative rather more than twice as | heavy as that of his distinguished companion ? Only I fear that we are often more fortunate j than wise—for I have known some of our am- I bassariorial corps whom 1 should have been sor ry to pitt f ither on point of skill, strength, en i durance, good humor, good manners, o<- good j sense, against the veteran ex-leader ol English I liberals'and I should be glad indeed to think ! that the half of our young men of education and position could come as creditably out of such a chance encounter as an actual Minister at the Court ot St. James. Meanwhile you may safe- I) v enroll Mr. Dallas with Chief Justice Mar shall, Chancellor Kent, Gen Scott, and other vigorous worthies to whom we once appealed against the notion that our American breed of men carries less weight and will stand less wear and tear than the ancestral British stock. We are our own worst enemies, certainly, and need onlv tak# honest thought of our own bodies and WHOLE AI.TIBER 983 V. I what they require in the way of play and work alike, to hold our own with our cousins or with all the world. But of this honest thought we have sorest need, and I trust that every yonng Yankee who on reading this feels in , wardlv "convicted 1 ' that he should have been unequal to tlie silent challenge of the Biitish statesman, will forthwith shoulder his gun and hunt the fields until he has brought himself up tc. the mark." STCPTOE'S BATTLE FIELD. — We find in the (Jregonian, of Oct. 9th, the following touching reciial of a visit toSteptoe's battle field, a spot now hallowed in history : "Colonel Wright, after reaching his camp on the Lahtoo or Nedwhuald creek, detached Maj. Crier with three companies of dragoons to visit Col. Steptoe's battle ground, to recover the two I'2-pounder howitzers there lost, and to gather the remains of the officers and men that fell in a conllict long tc be remembered. Lieut. MuW len, with his p3 ty, was sent to determine the position of, and make a map of the battlefield, .and Lient. Whi'e, third artillery, to bring back the long-lost guns. Lieut Cregg and Dr. Ran dolph, who had both been" present in Steptoe's engagement, and Lieuts. Pendre and Howard, were also sent to pay the last respects to the re mains of men so ruthlessly butchered, while acting as the pioneers for a people who will ev.-r remember to mention with praise the num-'s of Taylor and Gaston when the fame of many shall have grown dim. "At 12, M., they reached the battle-field, which was now marked by a scene of sad deso ' lation. The bones of men lay scattered, bleach ing over the prai ie hills fir inilps a*ound : lor during the heat of battle the bodies of all could not be recovered, and, as the retreat was made at dark of night, no time was had to give se pulture to many who had fallen, and hence the fields showed that both wolves and savages had not been absent from this desolate picture. In silence and sadness they gathered the bones and remains of ail, in order to give them, a suitable burial an 1 as Lieut. Grpgg and Dr. Randolph would point to this and that spot as bearing witness to the brave acts of brave men, many a bronzed cheek was bedewed with the silent t°ar, dropped for men that had fallen in so unequal a conte-t. And taking a pair of shafts ol one the guns, the only thing remaining ol all that was left on the battle field, they fashioned and framed them with a rude cross, which they erected on the ground not only as a Christian sign, but as a token lo mark for all future travelers, the spot where . brave men met so terrible a fate, and in mourn- ful silence the command retraced their steps after so sad a mission. Mr. Kolecki and Mr. Sohon, the two civil engineers who were pres ent, made fine sketches of the battle ground arm u.v >j Fighting a Squatter. About thirty years ago, when in the now flourishing city of Hanribai, on the Mississippi river,there were but a few hutsbelonging to some hardy "squatter*' and such a thing as a steamboa was considered quite a sight, the following inci dent occurred : A tall brawny woodsman stood leaning a garnst a tree which stood upon the bank of the river, looking at some approaching object, which our reader would have readily discover ed to have been a steamboat. .\ow, among the many passengers on this boat, both male and female, was a spruce young dan dy, with a killing moustache, &c., who seemed bent on making an impression on the hearts of the young ladies or. board, and, to that end, he must perform some heroic deed. Observing our sq'iaitei friend, he imagined this to be a fine opportunity to bring himself into notice—so, stepping into the cabin, he said : "Ladies, if you*want to enjoy a good laugh, step out on the gutrds. I intend to frighten that gentleman into tits, who stands on the hank !" The ladies complied with the request, and our dandy drew from his bosom a formidable bowie knife and thrust it into his belt; then taking a large horse-jistol in each hand, he seemed satisfied that all was right. Thus equipped, he strode on with an air which seemed to say: "the hopes of a nation depend upon me !" Marching up to the woodsman, he exclaim ed : "Found you at last, have I ? You are the man I've been looking for these three weeks. Say your prayers !" he continued, presenting his pistols, "you'll make a capital 'barn-door, and I'll drill the key-hole, myself!" The squatter calmly surveyed him a moment, then drawing back a step, he planted his fist directly between the eyes of his antagonist, who in a moment was floundering in the turbid wa ters of the Mississippi. Every passenger, by this time, had cullected on the suards, and the shout that now went up . Irom the crowd, speedily restored the crest fallen hero to his senses, and as he was sneaking o(T toward the boat, he was accosted by his couqueror : "I say, you, next time you come around drillin' key-holes, don't forget your acqaintan ces ?" The ladies unanimously voted the knife and pistols to the victor. story is told of a doctor in the good ly town of 8., not a hundred miles from Ver mont. The doctor kept missing his wood and set a watch. As was expected, it proved to be a near neighbor, who soon appeared, and care fully pulling out all dry wood, started off with an armful. The doctor hastily gathered up an armful of green wood, and followed, tugging as fast as he could, and just as the man threw down his armful, the doctor did the same, exclaiming, "There, you must burn green wood part of the time—l have to," and departed, leaving the thiet to his own reflections. Never judge others, but attribute a good mo tive when yon can. VOL 2, I\o. 22.
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