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NEW SERIES.
NEW AGRICLTl T a\L SETTLEMENT.
TO ALL \VANTING FARMS,
A RARE OPPORTUNITY IN A DELIGHTFUL
\NI) HEALTHY CLIMATE 25 MILES SOUTH
EAST OF PHILADELPHIA, ON THE CAM
DEN AND ATLANTIC RAILROAD,
NEW JERSEY.
An old estate consisting ot several thousand o!
gcres of productive foil has been divided into barms
of various siites to suit the purchaser. A pOpula
t.on of some 1-7 fteen Hnndndy iron, various parts
of the middle States and New England have settled
There the past year, improved tbeir places, and
raised exetlUnt crope. The price ol the land is a
thp low sum of from sls to S2O per acre the soil
ol" the best quality for the production o
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THE REST FRUIT SOIL IX
'J'HE UNION. The place is per:ctly secure from
frosts—the destructive enemy of the farmer. Crops
of grain, grass and fruit are now growing and can
be seen■ By examining the place itself, a correct
judgment can be formed of the productiveness of the
jand. The terms aie made easy to secure The rapid
improvement of the land,, which is only sold for
aetual improvement. The result has been, that
within the past year, some three hundred ho" es have
been erected, two mi'.is, one steam, lour stores, some
fogty vinyards and peach orchards, planted, and a
arge number of other improvements, making it a
le'irable and active place of business.
THE.MARKET,
as Die reader may perceive from its location, is the
BEST IN THE UNION,
Products bringing double the price than in loca
tions away from the city, and more than double the
price in the West, it is known that the earliest
and best fruits and vegetables in this latitude come
from New Jersey, and are anuuaj.'y exported to the
extent of millions.
In ice at n.g here, the set Tier has many ad van ta ges
lie t within a few t:our< rule f She great cities of
New England and Middle ro v., >■ . - y /
yof m*iit of rod-fort and rivih z-'ioli is r-t kft'i :
lie can buv every article he wants at t >o cheapest
~r.C e . an i sell his produce for the highest, (in the
Wen T! i is reversed,) ' e has schools for his chil- •
,)ren, divine >-,■>•<>, and will enjoy an open w mteir,
and delightful climate, where levers ar- utterly un
known. ' The result of the change npon those troin !
the north, has generally been to restore them To an j
excellent state bl health.
In the way of building and improving Inmoer
ran be obtained at the mills at the rate >. $lO to
sls per thousand. Bricks from the brick yard j
opened in the place, every article ran be procured
in the place; good carpenters are at hand, and there j
is no place in the Union where buildings and im
j.rovemen's can be made cheap*r.
The reader Will at once be struck with the j
advantages here'preseiitcd, and asg himsel; why the
property" ha- not been taken up before. The reason
is, it was never thrown in the market; and unless
These statements were correct, no one would be in
vited to examine the land beiore purchasing. I his
ail are expected to do. I hey will tell land under i
cultivation, such is the extent of the settlement that :
they will no dbtibt, meet persons from their own.
neighborhood; they will witne-s the improvements .
anifcan judg" The character ofthe population. li
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prepared to stay a day or two and be ready to pur
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THE HUSKERS.
CY JOHN' G. WHITTIER.
Heap high the farmer's- wintry hoard !
Heap high the golden corn !
Xo richer gift ha? Autumn poured
from out her lavish horn.
Let other lands exulting gleun
The apple from the pir.e,
The orange from the glos7 green,
Tbe cluster from the vine ;
We better love the hardy gift
Our rugge l vales bestow ;
To cheer us when the storm shall drift
Our harvest fields with snow.
When spring time came with flower andFuc,
And grassy, and young
And merry bob'links, in the wool,
Like mad musicians sung,
We dropped the seed o'er hill and plain,
Beneaih the sun of May,
And frightened from our spiouting grain '
i he ro'-ber crow? away.
AH through the long bright days of June,
Its leaves grew tb>n and fair,
And waves in hot mid-suinmer's noon
Its soft and yellow hair.
And now, with Autumn's moonlit eves.
I*s harvest .ime has come,
We pluck away the frosted leaves, i
AnJ bear the treasures home. ! <
Tl."-, richer than the fabled gift
O golden showers of old,
•Fair hands the broken grain shall sift.
And knead its meal of gold.
Let vapid idlers loil in silk s 1
. i .ill i
Give us the bowF ol 'irni-lfirrra inm,
Isy homespun beauty poured.
Where e'er the wide old kitchen hearth
Sends up its smokj' cuffs, „
Who will not thank the kindly earth,
And bless our coro-ted girls.
Let earth withhold her goodly root,
Let mildew blight the rye,
(Ave ,o tbe worm tbe orchard's fruit,
The wheat field to the fly,
"ut let the good old crow adorn
The hill- our fathers trod :
Stiii !e't us lor His golden corn
Send up our thank toGod 1 ..... ]
POLITI C A L .
THE
S2ar|cr's Ferry 3n&m*rcction.
STRONG KANSAS TESTIMONY AGAINST BCOW.\.
Jin .Ibalitiontst paper shown him up as a Cold- j
blooded Jlssassin —Curious Facts about a j
League of Blood, and about the Harper's Fcr- j
itj Conspiracy.
[From Lawrence (K.) Herald of Freedom, Oct. ?<>.] '
The first th'tig tlie people of Kansas Heard o! !
old John, Brown, was in the summer of 1855.
A meeting of ultra Abolitionists was held at
Cazenovia, N. Y., it we recollect rightly.—
While in session, Brown, WHO is a native ot
Essex county, N. Y., appeared in that conven
tion, and made a very fiery speech, during
which he said he Had tour sons in Kansas, and
he had three others who were desirous of going
there, to aid in fighting the battles of freedom.
He could not consent to go, unless he could go
armed, and he would like to ann all his sons',
but lie was not able to do so. Funds were
contributed on the spot, principally by Cerrit
Smith.
The four sons had located on Pottawatomie
creek, in Lykins county, and in the tall ot
1855 were joined by the lather and other broth
ers. When the Wakarusa war was pending,
the old man and four sons arrived in Lawrence,
the balance he reported sick. As thev drove
up in front of the Free State Hotel, they were
all standing in a small lumber wagon. To each
ot their persons was strapped a short heavy
broadsword. Each was supplied with a goodly
number of firearms and navy revolvers, arid
poles were standing endwise around the wagon
box with fixed bayonets pointing upwards.—
They looked really formidable, and were re
ceived with great eclat. A small military com
pany was organized at once, and the command
was*<men to old Brown. From that moment
he commenced fomenting difficulties in camp,
disregarding the commands of superior officers,
and trying to induce the men to go down to
Franklin and make an attack upon pro-slavery
forces encamped there. The Committee of
Public Safety were called upon several times
to head off this wild adventure, as the people
of Lawrence had planted themselves on the law,
claiming that they had not been guilty of its
infraction, and that no armed body of men
should enter the town for any purpose whatever
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER IS, 1859.
and (hat they would not go out of the town to
attack any such body. Peace was established,
and old Brown retired in disgust.
When the news of the threatened siege of
Lawrence reached John BroWn, Jr., who was
a member of the Topeka Legislature, he organ
ized a company of about sixty men and march
el towards Lawrence. Arriving at Palmyra,
j he learned of the sacking of the town and the
position of tbe people. He reconnuitered for
' a time in the vicinity, but finally marched back
j towards- Cksawatomie. The night before rea
j clung that place, when only a few miles away,
' they camped for the night. Old John Brown
who, we believe, was with the party, singled
out with himself seven men. Thes -he marched
to a pomt eight miles above the mouth ot Po'ta
watomie creek, and called from their beds at
their several residences, at the hour ol midnight
on the 2fth of May, 1856, Allen Wilkinson,
i Wir Sherman, A in. P. Doyle, Wm. Doyle and
Drnry Doyle. All were found tlm next morn
ing by the roadside or in tin highway, aonrie
with a gash in their Heads am' sides, and their
throats cut . others with their skulls split open
in two places, with holes in their breasts and
(heir hands cut o!F: and others had holes
hrough their breasts wilh their fingers cut off.
JYO man in Kansas has pretended to deny that
old John Brown led that murderous foray,
t rhick massacred those men. Up to that period
hot a hair of old John Brown's head, or that
of any of his sons, had been injured by the
pro-slat> ry parly.
It was not until the 30lh of August, three
months after lire Pottawatomie massacre, that
the attack was made on the Ossawatomie bv 'h<*
pro-slavery forces, ami Frederick Brown, a son
of old John, was killed.
The truth of history requires this statement.
1! Brown was a monomaniac, ft date 3 back an
terior to his first visit to Kansas.
[From the Lawrence (Kansas) Herald of Freedom
of Oct. '.lib]
More than once during the summer of 1857,
w-> asserted that the reason the ''Do-Nothings"
a's we railed them, were opposed to engaging
in the Territorial election of that year, and
competing with the pro-slavery party lor the
offices of the government, was Joiin I in the
fact that ihey wished to prolong our Kansas dif
ficulties—to keep the Ternto r y in a constant
{•■rment ; that their design was revolution, and
anvthing which looked like a peaceful solution
ol our troubles had been and would he vioietil-
Iv opposed by them. We stated that those
who led off in the do nothing policy had no
material interest in Kansas in common with
the settlers—that they were "birds ot passage,"
come here like buzzards to leed on dead carcas
ses. and as soon as Hip period should come when
there wa< nothing left tor them to feast upon
they would leave the Territory. We charged
s"nt here from the charitable in rne r. i-. ™
supply the wants ot the destitute and suffering.
These men had charge, generally, ot the ave
nues to pu die opinion. drey were the
correspondents of Eastern newspapers and ol
journals at hom-. The country was continu
ally flooded with their falsehoods, and eturts
were constantly made to convey the idea that
those who were in favor of settling our troubles
qnietly, and without a resort to oloodsiied, were
cowards, or "had sold out to the jr '-slavery
party." Anl who were those men in the I er
ritnry at that time? We remember meeting a
delegation of them at Centropolts in August o
■ that year. There were Walden ami inalcner,
' li.nlpit and Joan E. Cook, Holmes and kagi,
we believe, Pinilips and Redpath, Hintou and
: Conway.
The Lecompton Constitution itself was next
; made the pretext for bunging on war. Who
ever is able to call up the incidents ot the 22d
i an i 2 M of December Convention, held in Law*
I rence, will be able to comprehend that to which
[we allude. "Brown's Cellar Kitchen Convent
; Hon," as Thacher and'his associates branded tin
I affair, foiled thern in their plans; but then cami
j on the difficulties at Fort Scott, inaugurated bj
! the leaders in all these revolutionary move*
ments, and backed up by Jim Lane, Old John
Brown, Red path, Phillips and all that class ol
persons. Then was organized the secret oath*
bound league, the object of which was to mur\
der, in cold blood, every officer elected under the
\ Lecompton Constitution, Oe he free state man or
I otherwise. The password to that secret organ
ization wis Lane. The whole plan ol assassi
nation, of relays of horses for the executioners,
&c., are in the possessien of good men :n Law
rence, and have been for a long period. But
there was a peaceful adjustment of all these
matters, because Congress did not give legal
sanction to the Lecompton Constitution,
j Old John Brown, with his minions, who
opened the bloody issue in Kansas by murder
' ing the five heads ol families on Pottawatomie
• creek, at midnight, on the 25th of May, 1856,
] appeared and look charge of the marauding for
j cos. They attempted to make the whole pop
, i ulation ol Missouri responsible for tne horrid
• murder near Chateau's Trading Post. Brown
I was in constant intercourse with men in the
East, viho declared on the stump, and in all
| their published correspondence, that their uon
; ly hope of abolishing slavery in the United
i j Slates lay through revolution and from them
i lie received funds from time to time in prose
cuting his war schemes. When Montgomery
discovered Brown &. Co.'s plans of revolution,
to his credit be it said, he protested, and in con
sequence of their quarrel, probably more than
anything else, the latter made a brilliant coup
d'etat into Missouri, killed Crew, took bis slaves
, and made a forced inarch iuto Canada, receiv
> ingany amount of "aid and comfort" from his
j cohorts along the route.
; ; with cuts" said the urchin,
(j as he drew his jack-knife across the leaves of
, his grammar.
i "Illustrated with cuts," said the master as he
i brought his birch to bear upon the shoulder of
• the witty nrchin.
Freedom tf Thcaglt and Opinion.
' THE ELECTION IN MARYLAND.
IMPORTANT AND GRATIFYING KEMJLT —
THE LEGISLATURE DEMOCRATIC!
One of (he most gratifying political results
that it fins been our pleasure to record, is tliaf,
notwithstaading trie disfranchisment of the city
of Baltimore by Know Nothing rowdies, and
notwithstanding the theft of ten members of the
House ol Delegates and a Senator in that city,
their party has been badly defeated in the State!
Ihe honest voters in the interior, at pure and
hee ballot boxes, which were untainted by
fraud or violence, have come gallantly to the
rescue, anil returned to the Senate and House
so many Democratic members, that the fraudu
lent members of Baltimore are literally over
whelmed, and THE DEMOCRATS HAVE A MAJOR
ITY IS EACH HRANCH OF THE LEGISLATURE, which
gives them A DEMOCRATIC UNITED
SfA rivS SENATOR, and power to pass such
wholesome laws, and so to provide for their
execution, as to preclude, fbiever hereafter, all
likelihood of the|recurrence of scenes like those,
which, on Wednesday last, so disgraced that
fair citv.
LOOK AT THE FIGURES!
Dem. Am. Dem. Maj.
Senate, 12 10 2
House, 4G 28 Its
58 38 20
Democratic majority on joint ballot, 20.
HURRAH FOR REGENERATED MARYLAND!
We may now look for a fair ballot-box in the i
city of Baltimore—we may look for the return j
of the ruffians now in power theie to their ap- j
propriate kennels—and with a fair and honest j
vote DEMOCRACY WILL SWEEP THE STATE IN I
1800. i
(TF-The Baltimore Jlmerican I ( which, it will
be seen, does not conceal its anti-Democratic
proclivities.) thus remarks upon the result:
TIW. RESULT 7N THE STATE.
The victory achieved HI this city, through
fraud and violence, by the American party
has turned to ashes in their grasp. At most ;
they have secured but a lew local offices that
can in no wav compensate for the opprobrium .
incurred in the gaining of them. In the State !
at large they are utterlv defeated, and will no
doubt have to pay the penally ofTheir misdeeds.
Their opponents have a substantial working
majority in both branches of the Legislature, a
majority upon joint ballot which settles the
question of the IT. S. Seiiatorship, and will,
most certainly, we presume, determine the re
jection of both the Senator and Delegates tor
whom a majority of votes were returned at the
election in tins city on Wednesday last. So
quick a following ol retribution upon the crime
which excited it, has a lesson that even poii
should heed,
affairs as firm and unchanged as ev-r, we nno
ouiselves, with thousands of our fellow citi
zens ut anti-Democratic proclivities, regarding
with ?. deep and earnest interest this sweeping
Democratic triumph. It opens the only possi
ble door of escape trom the yearly repetition ot
the scenes of Wednesday. *he citizens ol Bal
timore will look to the Legislature lor the juJi- '
cious but firm exercise of its legitimate powers j
in their behalf. They will look to 't lor a Re- j
gistry Law which will prevent illegal voting; j
for the division of tiie Wards into convenient j
voting precincts so as to reduce the opportuni- ,
ties for violence; for the suppression of the •
great engine ot moral and political corruption, |
the lottery system; and especially they will iook j
to it for such a re-organizatiou ol the police j
system as will relieve us from the present force, i
so utterly partizanised as to be beyond regener- I
at ion, and render it hereafter as far as possible
free from political control. The appointment
of the force should not depend upon the will of
a partisan Mayor, nor their tenure in office be
put up at lottery at every election. Once se
lected and proved capable, fearless, and impar
tial experience should give value fo their ser
vices, and their l ight to the offices so long as its (
duties are well performed, be piotected from
all the contingencies of parly tritunpbs or de
feats. This is the especial and great need which
our city has, in order to re-establish the supre
macy of the law, to again open the ballot-box
to its disfranchised voters, to wipe cut the slains
of dishonor that now rests upon its good name.
We trust to the Legislature to satisfy this need
justly and fairly, not in a spirit of parly ven
geance, but with a view to the establishment of
tuch a system as when once tested will secure
iy its good results its own permanence.
SENATOR BRODERICK'S DEATH.
The Opposition are endeavoring to make po-
I'.ical capital out of Broderick's death they
vould convert his coffin into an electioneering
fatlorm and act the partisan upon his grave,
lit their crocodile tears will deceive no one.
I§3 well known that Broderick's disaffection
trvards the President was not on account of
Knsas, or anything pertaining to Kansas ; but
beause fhe President made such appointments
inCalifomia as he felt it his duty to make, con
trfv to Broderick's recommendations. Sena
toiGwin avowed his determination not to in
teiere in the appointments, by the general gov
erment, foi California : and, in consequence
>f his avowal, Broderick advocated Gwin's re
del inn to the Senate, supposing that, after
; hue events, he could use the whole patronage
f be United States in California to rewaid i
jispersonal adherents. President Buchanan
lirlnot consent to dispose of this patronage to
nystipulation between two Senators, and his I
ary appointments were so displeasing to Sen
lot Broderick that he openly denounced the :
ffeiident and swore "that he would never cross
te threshold of the White House, except to the ]
IntTal ol the inmate." This was long before i
te Lecompton question atose, which gave a <
Jetrnce of principle to a violent opposition to ;
V administration, which had less elevated and !
i Ore personal motives. i
The manner in winch he conducted th can
vass, in the recent election in California, show
ed how much personal hatred dominated over
principle. His personalities, his violence, his
browbeating were of the grossest kind, caliniir
forth resjlonses of the like character ; but lea
ving on him the imputation of being toe aggres
sor.
He invited the challenge from Judge Terry
by plainly intimating, when he relused to met-t
Terry's friend, that he would meet the
Judge nimself after the election, and at the
same time denouncing Terry in the severest
terms, saying he ought to have b<-en hung, &.c.
In the canvass even the .V. 1' livening Post
(an Opposition journal) admits, 'die forgot his
dignity, and (ell into the lowest and bitterest
jiersonal controversies. He denounced his op
ponents i;i the most vituperative terms, as spec
ulators, Jplut:drers and liars." After this, to
say that he tell a martyr to his political prin
ciples, is the cant of partisan* hypocrisy which
the honesty of his own lips would rebuke, could
they speak. Tiie truth is, the Opposition found
him a disaffected man, and they urged him in
to the extreme and mad career which has so
sadly terminated, to answer their own purpo
ses, rpgarrfless of the consequences to himself,
and now would profit bj' the death they hasten
ed— Boston Post.
From the New York .tournal of Getnmerce.
.MORE A BOL T THE - ALLEGED CONSPIRA
TORS."
SEWARD'S CONNECTION WITH TEE PLOT.
We do fiat understand the J\lew York Times
fo be an apologist for his connection with the
Ferry affair, but we fail entirely to
azree with it that ti- is entitled to praise for
postponing the movement "for eighteen months.'
What would the Times say of the conduct of a
man who was fully informed that a plot existed
for robbing its counting-room, but who, instead
of promptly putting the proprietors on tiieir
guard and exposing the villainous scheme, should
simply say to lli" burglars, that tie "ought not,
in his position, to have been fold" of it, or pos
sibly bv gently reproving them, induce Ibem
to postpone the act for a longer or shorter period?
Would the Times give tiie man, who thus tri
lled with crime, credit for stopping the move
ment the mcment he Heard of it ?
This is precisely Air. Seward's position.
He ihd know of Brown's plans. He dare not
ien v, over his own name, that he knew of them.
Forbes, when he said that "he went fully into
the matter" with Seward, meant to be under
stood that he told him of the plans of Drown for
an attack upon Harper's Ferry. He did till
him of those plans ; and Seward replied thaj
"in his position he ought not to have been told."
These are fuels xr'iiclt .Mr. Seward will not de
ry. and which must render his conduct odious
What did sewarn GO to pirrm mc
at ion of the base plot? What steps did he take
to stop it' Suppose we adopt the charitable con
clusion oi the Times, that lie "warded it off'for
nearly two years;" does that help the matter?
In our estimation it only makes it worse. Du
ring this long period tie lias been dallying with
prospective crime, and hobnobing with pros
pective crimnals, when a word fitly spoken
would have sent them cringing into obscurity.
If Mr. Seward's friends want more light on
this subject: if they want a clearer statement
than Col. Forbes has furnished, in his publish
ed letters, let them call on that gentleman for
all the facts. Forbes is no myth, but real flesh
and Mood; and they can learn Irom him quite
as much as they will care to know. And a
mong other things they can learn from his own
lips, as we have done, the facts which we have
stated, viz :—that he did tell Seward fully about
Brown's proposition to niuke an attack upon
Harper's Ferry.
The poor excuse for .Mr. Seward, a Senator
of the United States, is tfiat with a full knowl
edge of the conspiracy, lie "warded it off lor
nearly two years." Shame on such excuses!!
And shame on such conduct, in a Senator of
the United State*, and an aspirant for the Pres
idency !
MISCELLANEOUS.
HINTS TO AI'TUORS.
BY JOHN BELKNAP.
Blessed public! darling public! how it must
be patted and petted and sugared and buttered
and humored and spoiled ! Li t not the preach
ers say a word that will be displeasing to the
public, for it is lender —it i< sensitive, it can
not bear it! Let no patriot give a bolus to the
public, unless it be sugar coat-d; fjr though the !
public is very sick, it takes no more medicine,
unless by accident. Acid ve writers - , whom
heaven lias blessed with pent? hearts ami fruit
ful minds—whose pens are loaded with thought
—beware litnv you offer your merchandise t.>
the public ; for if it should not just piease
its dainty stomach, it will curl up its lips,;
stick up its nose, and consign you to oblivi-!
on.
A few days ago, 1 stood in thp office of a p. -
riortical, the editor of which always feels the
public pulse before he decides on publishing •
anv article, when a gentleman entered, and a j
conversation ensued, which I give word for
word with the exception of names :
The editor was examining a proof of a wood- i
cut—said cut being a representation ot I >ur j
white men being flayed alive by Indians—
which was to appear in the next number, when
the stranger thus addressed him :
"Are you, sir, the editor of the Trngitil ob~ j
server ?"
The four white men and the Indians were
pushed into a pigeon hole. The stranger was
stared at through a pair of spectacles, the runs
of which looked like the mouths of cannons,
and the eyes behind them like balls about to be
fired ; he saw the cannon balls roll fiercely for
i moment, and then heard a sepulchral voice
tVSIOI.B: M Htll.i,,
•iy>r, ' I have the honor to occupy th%%
, tion."
"I hav" railed, then," said the stranger, "to
see it f • ■',<) make arrangements with you to
write fur the "Tragical Observer ?"
J'he mouths of the cannons were pointed
straight at the stranger, and the balls rolled
, very wildly, as the ediior replied somewhat in
I the tone which Mr. Native i'alpnt uses when
|he says, "tha/ handkerchief, that handkerchief,'
"Weil sir, what can you do in the "sensation
line
"I do not wish," said the stranger, "to write
in that line, f want to prepare a series of sci
entific articles."
Ihe mouths ot the cannons were turned a
way in disgust, as though the stranger was not
worth shouting at, and were pojnted once more
at the four while men and the Indians, which
the editor pulled out Of the pigeon hole,and re
marked :
"No use sir, no use. The public don't want
then)—no taste fjr them."
"But," continued the stranger, "would not
such articles raise the character ot your pa
i P er ■ '
"Yes," replied he, "and sink mv receipts.
I tell you, sir, I prepare a paper for the public
ancl I'm obliged to publish what thejiublic want.
The public—l hate the public. The public, sirj
wants bloody blood, blood ! \\ rite me some ar
ticles stained with blood from beginning to end
and I'll give you your own price."
"I have never written a bloody article, "sir,
and do not think I ever shall ; but f'he popular
taste for reading is improving, and I think my
articles would be read."
'Not at all, sir. The respectable papers in this
place have but a limited circulation, while
such as mine are making fortunes. Where
there is one reader for the Hd-nt Journal, Knick
erbocker, Harper's Monthly, and such periodi
cals, there are a dozen for mine. Those paoera
are full ot talent —mine is full of blood. Look,
sir, at this paper,' taking up the last numbprof
the Tragical Observer, < S ee the names of the
stories, 'The Man of Mvsterv,' 'The Ruffian
Rifleman,'' The Bloody Spot,"''The Sword of
Vengeance,' etc."
"But," asked the stranger, "are not our peo
ple becoming more intelligent ?"
By no means, the people read more, it is true.
But what do they read.' Why just such stuff as
you find in mv pap j r. And, to be candid, I'll
tell _\ou, that if a man re-ids mv paper one
year, and does not lose all tas'e for what is
improving or refining, he must be a salamander.
Why,sir, when 1 first b ganasan editor I de
termined to makean intellectual sheet, but the
public drove me from my position, and I was o
bliged either to do what [have done or starvp.
1 began to deal in sensation and carnage, and
th=r.gh I have killed all iiue taste out of my own
have,"leased ne niihlic, am) made
"W ell, said the stianger, "I think I would
r£ther starve."
Once more the cannons were pointed straight
at the visitor, and the balls seemed just readv
to go off, as the editnr said :
"You may say so now, but you will soon alter
your tone—you wilt have to come to it; and mv
advice to you, and to every young writer is, to
seek popularity at once by—getting into the
sensation line"'|
The stranger was discouraged and left, the
editor became again absorbed in the four white
men and the Indians, and I sat down to give a
hint to authors, about ye public and the sensa
tion line.—Home Journal..
QUEER EMPLOYMENT.
We heard a preftv good sfory, the cthpr day.
which we think merits a wider circulation than
it has vet got. The story runs that some honest
faced Hoosier went into a fancy store in Cin
cinnati, in hunt of a situation.
The proprietor, or head clerk, was sitting in
the counting room with his feet elevated, con
templating life through the softening influence
of cigar smoke.
Our Hoosier friend addressed him modestly,
as follows :
"Do you want to hire a hand about your es
tablishment
The clerk looked up indifferently, but see
ing his customer, concluded to have a little fun
out of him, so he answered verv briskly at the
same time pulling out a large and costly hand
kerchief, and blowing his nose on it :
"Yes, sir; wh3t soit of a situation do you
want ?"
"Well, I'm not particular. I'm out of work,
and almost anything will do me for a while."
"Yes, lean give you a situation it it will suit
yon."
"What is if ? What's to be done, and what
io v°" give t"
" Well, I want hands tochw rags into pa
;>er, and if you are willing to set in vou mav
•>egin at once."
"Good as new wheat ! Hand over your
■ags."
"H-re, take this handkerchief and commence
with it."
The J! >osi> r saw the "sell," and quiefiv put
ting the handkerchief i i His pocket, remarked
is he turned to go out ;
"When 1 get ii chawed, stronger, *'ll "fetch
it back
T~?*" A gentleman thought he'd like some
thing pmnied in the hall of a new house, and
those the Israelites passing over the Red Sea.
If- engaged jo Iri-lwnan for the job, who Went
o work and painted ttie hall red. Gentleman
"liters •
"Nice colors, H., but where are the Israel
ites ?"
"Oh, they've passed over."
who did you nay our frieni B.
married ?"
'•Well, he married forty thousand dollars! I
forget her other name."
I ' W - 3, No. 16.