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vat Demoonatio State Central Nciy
1149% I'OIII2IIIT/'l4li, 1, 11 42.7:
At • Meeting of, the Dettosantle State Central
Committee, destrt—Nerreteher bee, tlsidr, :a the ?der—
eliant'• Hotel Philadelphia, the following heeelur
Men wan adopted :
R*softwf, That tha HeisteeraHe Pale Convention
of NM, be held on the 4th day of MIVIOII next, lu
Harrisburg, at 100'elork, A 111
In purnnaeoe of the Ml6l{ll Iteokaiee th e (l „„,„„„
Ilan adH arssemble at Harrisburg. for thepurpose of
selecting I)s:deg:ace to the Derneermie N e il em a C oe .
vendee, soil ~,,, ideating acne:l:date for Canal Com.
affllwAlegin:, Auditor fleneral and Sumer, tleueral.
• ""y AMES P. .1:1/1444TON
Chairman Stale Gent ral Committee,
tA. Otters, Seeretaries
er,* ZIIIOIAII,
IJIi L.LE Pli N NA
WICDPIISADAIT. FERUVAIRV ?7, 11,136%
TEE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW
To give our friendszn idea of Aix manner
in which this palbd tr iiinifteteti: •
Relent the following artiehs. 1114 is well-writ
ten, terse, and evinces an ability ample to
control thu pages of a 040 Pumocratie
Review
Two months have elapsed since the 114 7 ,
ty-fourth Congress sumembletlidWashington
Pity. Not a step has been taken in the de
partment of legislation. The people have
looked in vain to their law-Rivera or gueli
action upon the great questions of the day
myseemed to be absolutely demanded, and,
Mil( months ago, universally anticipated.
The news of the delay of the organisation of
L'origreas has travelled over the wean, and
the circles of legitimacy abound in the wel
gem° gossip—Tux stISSI-5 Ux TIM a BEAT RIC
MOO MOVII NOT.
In the Senate, innumerable petitions have
been presented by naval officers, aggrieved
by the decision of the late board. Whether
that board acted moot jiiiliciously.in the
premises, time nitiht determine : the allotted
task was a diffilcult one to perform, and no
ono would have been surprised at the omis
sion in a teat number of instances to do
email and exact jostler. We incline to the
opinion, however, that much of the action of
the the naval -board was hasty.
partial, and contrary to the spirit, if not the
letter, of thCir delegated powers. l'hewhole
qucatlon will be subjected to a rigid exeini
natiarrrand a vast number of the errors com
mitted, will, it is hoped, be correeted. For
the present, we forbear comment.
Our relations with Great Britain, it is evi
dent, from the discussions in the likinate, are
of a very delicate character. The subject
louralready been handle+with masterly abil
ity by Me l:l4.9l l l4tliQ , 9,Per.o 74 .°therN ,
who bare proved- to the setisfsction of the
American people that it Is time 'r U 8 to as
sert our rights on this continent as oppottd
to the enrolled/A tlfMtiTmtionm of the wyerfb•
meat of Britain. As an inherititnee, Ventral
America is ours ; whenever the title to this
vast region shall pass from the natives of the
soil, we intuit see that it pass into no other
hands than our own. What right has
"fs4y elliance," or an Anglo-French ahiance,
or any Tither European alliance of despots
against the people, to prescribe the Bounds
of our territorial progress, or the character
of bur domestic policy 1 If population
and power--as is the creed in tho . old
world—confer ,the right to "balance" the
destinies of nations, certainly - the United
+itateircarrelaiirrtlic privilege of regulating
the agkirs et:continental Ainerioa. It is too
late in the day for us to kneel like suppliant
slaves at the foot of thrones, and ask "what
we 5h,440 to bo savedl" We have the power,
and it is to be hoped we shall not long he
wanting in the spirit to declare Ourselves the
judges, and the solo judges of our rights in
the western, world. It is enough tlu Eng
;and possesses, or is ixrmated to postcss, a
title to all this land between Lake Eric and
Pm 'open polar sea ;" ithe should not task
our Aorhearaince by an tatempt to limit our
inareb towards the distant... South. We have
never gained anything by concession, and
haing nothing ',elope for but in a bold'and
manly policy, such as every Democratic Presi
dent has urged us to pursue. Lot us plant
ourselves upon high ground ;• lot us rewatte
the laws of nations ; let us abrogate,,by an
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American dash of the pen, the dull and time-
Went rescripta nf constitutional and tno
h „
nar \
onicat urope. 'fho American people are
ripe for a revision of the stale anginal it the
long !Mitt ; we rdl desire a new text-book- 7
sotrietifing that is not motireaten, and damp
front' the UnfreqUeitted cretki'Cis of ancient.
castles ; we have had enough of documents,
which, repudiated at home, crosS the At
lahtic in south of a market. America seems
Weil to become the - receptacle of all the
trans-Atlantic political heresies of the world's
Itisatiy ';" Our' evyn, ILIAC anti bt,
and common sense is Just beginning to be
wrought.
Our Revolution was the result, of an or
ganic convulsion, which defled.a:ll the rules
of books and all the wisdom of kings ; it was
an isolated instance of refortit unheralded by
yoliticiang, and unstained by ambition.. .The
great moral oruption_nf 1789, in France, was,
it is true; a consequence of the storm_of.l.776,
but in the former case the tipper classes Were
humbled, while in the latter, the lower clas
ses Were elevated ; in France, there was a
leveling down, while in America there was a
leviAing up : the Flitch agitators designed
to destroy kings an ho nobility ; the revo
lutionists of America labored to make men
arobs sit the masses.
;But this is not, the place for abstract PO ,
flections upon our policy as a nation. We
have confidence in the Senate. Strongly
Deinocratic, its action, upon every great sub
ject, will be distinguished by moderation,
but also by firmness—by that sound discre
tion and that progressive wisdom which have I
won for our national counsels the admiration
of mankind.
Two months hove eittilsol, anA tho House
t - ftriwesentirthresirrnatyrtmanized: •
indulge a just pride in referring to the con
duct of thePemocratie members. The gal
lant seventy-four hare not surrendered ;
'neither the threats nor promises of the ma
jority have availed to place them in the Atti
tude of suppliants. Well can these men afp
font to maintain their position ; their reeord
thus far is unsullied, and will be one of which
their children in after times will be proud ;
let them stand, as did the Senate' of Latium
in antiquity, and defy - the surrounding tem
pest. 'Why should the Democratic party—
that party which does in reality "carry the
flag an 4 keep step to the music of the Union"
-why should such a party, lifter having
tit* steno of • • • ~
1)(4 the knee to the gotidpits of faction
No ! Demociacy has won more laurels upon
this continent than she can Wont tO p serilice
ni•on the-altar of disunion. Let the tempest
rage, lint let patriots be true.
— Tux EPPKOT OP RAILWAYS on the msterial
prosperity of a State is visible in the recent
censmi feturiiii of Illinois. Before the con
struction of railways was commenced there,
the progress of settlement was comparitively
slow. The tide of emigration had acquired
an impetus in other directions, and Illinois
seemed to struggle along with a speed fa
behind that of some newer States. But with
the construction of an extended system of
railways in the State, a wonderful awaken
ing of enterprise seems to have occurred.
In the year 1850, the population was 851,470,
and in 1855 it wa51,300,000. These figures
speak louder than Words. A city of 22,000
inhabitants in 1850, has now become a me
tropolie of 100,000. *hole wildernesses
have been put under cultivation, and flour
ishing towns have sprung up whore none 'be
fore existed. Could Pennsylvania complete
her railway system with the same rapidity
as Illinois, we also should see our interior
wilds peopled. But, slits ! wo tarry by the
way, and are outstripped even by those whom
we once thought far behind us in enterprise.
We must bestir ourselves while we have
such formidable competitors in the field
against us : ,
MA BUWIANAg AND TUN l'uNiumNcY.—rho
Pennsykatuan publiahea the following ca
tract of a private letter froni'Mr. Buchanan,
iir whieh he dtatea WS position in regard to
the Presidency:
•• This I neither• desired nor expected.
The mosioment in,my favor has, thengfore,
originated without my previous knowledge
or consent, and I should be quite maligned
should another be selected. The next will
be the wait important and responsible Pres
idential term since the last war with Eng
land, or, perhaps, since the origin of the
govcrnpient. Both our foreign and our do
mestic affairs will require the guidinicc of
an able, Wm, and skillful pilot tuateer the
vessel' of State clear of the breakers. I
pray Heaven that the best man may be se
lected fir the crisis I and to rue it ire a Mat
ter of indilfervirOe whether he CONICS from
the North or the *nth, the EaSt or the
Weser' _ •
4.114PU# A Or. Andrew Jcohnsea, the
present 4Aovernoi of Tennessee, at the age
of thirty was a joutnennan tarot, andeould
neither mini :nor vrlite Sensihle-of hie-
noranee, he !nide his wife read to him while
ho was st work and she at leisure. An hour
each day she taught him his letters and the
use of hie -pen. PO cothitantly improved
his one hour a dey, although very poor, and
pot ai4o to spare the time ; and 4 little over
two years ago at the ago of forty he was
nuxqo Governor of Teimesseo by
.11. large mit
jority,
Wei yno IN Sunnioa et;orulwo. 7 —The Tri
bune states that in ono portion of the city of
Now York there aro' no'hani than four " bo
gus Sunday Scixpola," with a large number
of collectors who raise from $lOOO to $5OllO
per annum " to carry on the operatiOns of
the schools," of which about ten per cent,
goes 0 keep up the schools and the other
ninety to support a sot of lazy hangers on.
or - I, or- ...--
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•
Bow ItaNtlAg tit Ilsixd Sirerf.vin.-LA phy
sician named Bowen; who has been to Kan : .
-ass-end beeolne It citizen of that ,territory,,
• t who is now in Ulster county, N. Y.,itet
thee, iip lug business in order to return there
• • i his family, writes a long letter to the
New York I'rrhunr, relative to the condition
of affairs in Kansas. Ile says that the Em
igrant Aid Societies have been so miserably
mismanaged that they have proved humbugs,
and as a means of colonizing tbo territory
and influencing its, votes they have failed.
!lie says that" plenty of Irce - ligste num go
there to get homes for their families of their
own freo will, uninflueneed by Societies.
Much the larger portion of them arc from
*a Western an South Western States. They
are opposed to negroes both free and slave,
and this fact became manifest at the recent
election. He says that they receive constant
accessions from the ranks of their. oppo
nents. Their sufferings have been unparal
'tiled since the early history of the original
Atlantic Colonies:- Sickness to an extent
which in a ten years resideice in ic new
country he had ' r.el , er seen
ens p elled had
borne heavily upon them in ieneo of
the unusual severity,of thew ra ter, aggrava
ted by the miserable house they were
obliged to live in. Many of these houses
were deficient in even the poor defence of
mud chinking. Ile was the only physician on
his feet during the sickly season in a large
portion of the western settlements - of Kan
sas, and,he witnessed an amount of distress
from distinse, privation, want of attosulance,
and lack' of the most ordinary comforts of
"life, which he says " was enough to move a
heart of stone." From what lie writes, it
would scent that the course of settlement
.. . . . . . far west as the Buffalo
range, thus" indl - eittik„thitt the people keep
iiii:far as possible from the vicinity of the
border ruffians.
Ravi:Nos OF ,A ;OVSS-a-CUTTING °PIP r A
GM'S Nusa.--We have learned from. Mr.
Warner, says the La Cosa (W.s.)
erat, : some of the Rwrtieulars of a moat dia
bolical outrage, that occurred last week
about three niles below this landing, on the
Misaissippj. it appears - that a Dutch wid
ower hying at that place, has a family of
grown-up-girls, which he is anxious to get
The "oldest, a gond-looking girl of
24a:stiffing m ith a neighbor, dint has lately
140:144t; aLtrofinu.of
tats la staying about there, sad wanted to
many her. His suit was booked up by the
old nuAn, but the girl has steadily:refused tu
marry WWI. Last week tha fellow* called at
the house, and requested to iti;e_otier at the
door; when she appeared he seined her lry
the end of the nose, and alai his pocket
knife cut it oil' close up to the bridge. The
poor girl screamed and fainted, and while
the family rushed to her assistance, and
tried to staunch, the brivz: the ruffian took
leg bail across the Mississippi, and has not
since been heard of
TOBACCO PACKED IN LBAD POIBONOVII.-4t
ACOIIIB from regent medical imstarclies (see
American Journal of Meilscal Science for
January, 1K41) that the moisture contained
in Tobacco will oxydiie the lead with which
it remains long in contact, forming a4igne
liar poisonous salt. The tobacco becomes
covered with a layer of acetate, carbonate,
chloride, and Sulphate of lead, amounting Lb
from six to thirty grains in a half pound.
The presence of had in tobacco is detected
by burning the tobacco in a crucible, treat
ing the ashes resulting with hydrochloric
nen?, then evaporating the mister°, and
treating the redo solved residum with the
ionide of potasium, sulphate of soda ,and
sulphurated hydrogen.
A Nsw bone.—in one of the interior
towns of Mehigan, a grocery keeper was
triedafor violating the liquor law. On the
trial several witnesties weroealled, who tem
tifiedihit they had drank brandy and paid
ten cents a drink, but they considered them
selves partners, and put their dimes in as so
much capital, and there were about 44:141sub
scribers to the stock of the company to the
amount of a dims and upwards. The dodge
wouldn't go, and the defendant was made to
suffer the penalty.
Us Daman LION.—In the COMRICIICO
- of the American revolution, when ono.
of tbo British king's thundering proclama
tions made its appearance, the subject was
mentioned in a company in Philadelphia ; a
member of Congress who was present, turn ,
Aug to Miss Lovingsfonc, said, " well, Miss,
are you not greatly terrified , at the roaring
of tAe British Lion ?"'Not at all, air'"
she replied, "for I have learned from natu
ral lilstery that that User roars fowling sewn
As is - most frightened."
- -A--Witsternit Pttoritnrron,- - -A large 'por
tion of tko rich valley of GOllOB/100, in Now
York State, is owrusl by James Wadsworth.
lip owns 8,000 acres In one town, as many
Moro in llencsace, about 6,000 moro in the
ouljoinlini town of Rush; 8,000 or "6",oooAtt
'the town of Caledonia and a great many
thousand in other towns and counties. liia
fancied possessions exceed '50,000 acres : it
is early all g00q1,44.--41m.beg t in iheStitte,
tind constantly incrvuting in value.
CITARITAAV lIEQUic.BT3, —TIIO New , York
Legislature has passed a law that no reli
gious or benevolent society shall receive any
bequest or devise, the annual income of which
is over $1.0,060, and it must have been nuido
at-leant two montha before the deatkrif the
tbitattr.g In no ease shall the bequest he
more than ono-fourth of the eatite. •
s'EARPErIS(4 Tzt
- In the heart of a table-land that over
looks many square leagues of the rich 'sce
nery of Devonshire, the hest scythe-stone is
fond. The whole face of the enormous
cliff in which it is contained is honey-combed
with minute quarries ;half -way, down there,
is a wagon road, entirelY • folmod of the sand
cast out from them. To walk along the vast
soft terrace on a July evening is to onjoy one
of the most delightful scenes in England.
Forests of fir rise overhead like cloud over
cloud ; through openings of dies& Were peep
the purple moorland stretching far south
ward to the Roman Camp, and burrows from
which skulls are dug continually. What
ever may be undergronall, it is all soft and
bright above with health and wild flowers,'
about which a breeze wll linger in the hot
test noon. - Down to , the hand road the
breeze does not come ; there may we walk
in calm, and only NCO that it is •quivering
among the trees. From the camp the Atlan
tic cab be seen, but from i thp sand - road the
view is more limited, thug ninny a bay and
headland far beneath, she where the ocean
(if:aim/it age rolled. Foss t and shells are
almost as plentiful within` the cliff as the
soythe-stone itself, and wondrous bones of
extinct animals are often brought to light.
All day long, summer and winter, in the
sombre fir-groves may...be heard the stroke
of the spade and Click.of the hammer;
hundred men are at work like bees upon the
cliff, each in his own cell of the honeycomb,
his private passage. The right to dig in his,
own burrow each of these Men has piAlms
edloca trilling sum, and he toils in it daily.
Though it is n narrow Kisco, in which he is
not able to stand upright end can scafeely
turn - - , :though theitir itrit - he breathes
is damp and deadly—thong the color in his
cheek is commonly the hecti of consumption
and± he has a cough that t vet'lptt es him
night or day though he wi himself remark
that he does not knowamonktit his neighbors
one old though allsnarrying early,
few etre'r see a - father with hi, grown up song
yet; for all this, the scythe-stone cutter
works in hiamecustomed wa,t, and lives his
short life merrily, that is to say, he drinks
down any sense of AM thehe may juive.
These pair men are almost o without excep
tion, sickly drunkards. The women of this
community are much healthier. It is their
task. to cat and shape the rou li-hewn stone
tofu ~iage plempi* wh tbo incur&
whets his scythe." The.partieles are perni
cious to the lungs, but, as, usual, it is found
impossible to help the ignorant sufferers by
aii . 01 , 644 dine lam of an idea from with
out. A number of masts and respirators
have been more than once provided for them
by the charity of the neighboring gentry,
but scarcely IMIC w oman has given them her
countenance.
Thu • short life of the seythe-atone cutter
is aiiii always liable to be abruptly ended.
Safety reqiiireS4 that fir-poles from tho neigh
boring wood should be driven in one by one
on either side of him, and a third flat stake
be laid across to nuke the Walls and roof
gofo, an the dirge'''. push uphis Toliffburrow
forward. Cheap as the r-poles are, they
arc too often dispensed Rh. 3'hosc is
scarcely one of theliundr mined entrances
of di'snied'enverus here be seen, through
which some crushed or so (sated workivan
haS not been brought but dead. The 'ease
is common. .A man cannot pay the trifle
that is necessary to buy flr-poles for the
support lir his cell-walls; the consequence
is, that sooner or later, it unistalmdst inevi
tably happen that one stroke of the pickaxe
shall produce a fall of sand behind him, and
set an impassable barrier between him and
the world without. It will then he to little
purpose that another .may be working near
him prompt to give the alarm anW get assis
tance ; tons upon tons of luavy 'sand divide
the victim from the rescuers, and they must
prop and roof their way at cury dep. lest
they too perish.
Such accidents are, therefore, mostly fatal.
It the man is not at once crushed by a fall
of sand upon hair, 'Tithes been cut off from
the outer air, and sullocated in his narrow
worm-hole. Whiteknights is a small village
at the foot of this cliff, inhabited almost en
tirely by persons fhllowing the scythe-stono
trade. The few agricultural lalxwer.s there
to be met with may be distinguished at •
glance from their brethren of the pits ; the
bronzed checks from the hectic, tho muscu
lar Amines from the bodies which disease has
weakened, and which dissipation helps to a
more swift decay. The cottages arenot ill
built, and generally stand detached in a
small garden ; their porches may be seen in
Fn everting thronged with dirty, pretty clhil
•4ren. helping rather outside his cavern by
carrying the steno away in liftlp baskets, as
be brings it out to them.
lleniden the Luta rivulet, whiehJias pleas
rillAr hooks, more flowery banks, and 'falls
more musical' than any stream in Devon ;
be/lidos this brook, and portal by A little
wood of bucohet and wild lenrel from the
village, is a very pearl of cottages. _Honey.
suckle, red rose and sweet briar.hold item
tangled in s, network; they fall eves the lit,
tlo windows, making twilight ett **mon,
Yet nobody has ever thought of cutting thom
away or tying up q single tendril. Urand.
father - , Alaricham and his daughter Alice,
with John Dreait, her husband and nntstor
of tho house, used to live there and they
had three little children, Jane, Henry and
Joseph.
A little room over the porch Vvitli'eltpecinl-•
ly neat.. It was the best room in the cot
tage, and therein was lodged old Markham,
who had, so fares the - means of his ohil , •
Went, the best of board ire well. }le was
not, a very old man, but looked ten years
older than he really was, and hjs hind shook
through infirmity more grievous than age.
He was a gin drinker. Johii Drewit had to
work very bard not only to keep k,kis' own
householdl l n food` and clothing, but ainohis
poor father-in-law in drink.
John was a hale young man when T first
knew him, but ho soon began to alter. As
soon 'a6 it was light he was uway to the sand
cliff by a pleasant winding path throuAthe
beeelutoml, and np the siiiiot Which his own
hand hail Cut. Oue or two he hod made
broader than the rest, at intervals, where
one or two IMO; willingly sit down to sur
e cry the glory spread beneath; the lOw,
'white thatched farm-houses gleaming like
light amongst the pasture lands; the little
towns, each with its shining riser; and the
great old city in the limey distance ; the
bright Beacon hill, the woods, nod far as the
tie could gee, the mist that hung, over the
Mnimise Atlantic. This resting
.. on the lip
' ward path, at find. a pleasure, became soon
a necessity, and that, too, long before the
cough haul nettled down on him ; few men in
Whitekuights hove their lungs s whole that
they can climb up to their pits without a
halt or two. •
The old man helped his BPn'in - laW some
times ; he was a good sort of old man by na
ture, and not a bit more selfish than sdrunk r
anl always must be. Ile ground the rough
stones' into shape at home, minded the chil
dren in his (laughter's absence, and even
used the pick himself when he was sober.
John, too, was for his wife's sake tolerant of
Markham's infirmity, though half his earn
ings went to gratify the old man's appetite.
Atiastneootsity compelled him terdre r -as lw
thought, undutiful. .Print after print had
vanished from the cottage walls r very little
ornament, ndtactually necessary furniture,
was sold ; absolute want threatened the
household, when Juhn atlast slated
though tenderly, that grandfather must, give
up the gin bottle, or find some other dwel
ling. Alice was d'vercurne with tears,- but
*hen appealed to by the old man, pointed to
her dear husband, and bowed her head to his
wide words.
For months after this time, there were no
more drunken worth nor sngry tongues to
ho !mint within John's plestat,nt cottage.
Nothing was said by daughter or son-in-law
itailtrOrrelcAr thelnablio hosmis that
was being paid olf by instalments ; the
daughter looked no Ringer at her father with
reproachful eyes, and the children never
again had to be taken to bed before their
time—hurried an ay from the sight of their
grandfather's shame. At last, one Sunday
mmiing .lily, the ruling passion got again
the mastery ; Markham came home in a
worse way than ever ; and in addition to the
usual debasement, it was evident that he
was possessed also by some maudlin terror,
that he had no power to express.
Leaving him on his tad in a lethargic sleep,
John sallied forth as usual at dawn ; his
boys, Harry and Joe. carrying np for him his
miner's spade ; and basket.. lleavy-hcarted
as ho was,'he eould not help being gladdened
by the wonderful beauty ,of the landscape.
Ilia daughter told me she saw him stand so
long looking at the country—ho seemed un
willing to leave the sunlight for his dark
far-winding burrow. His burrow he had no
ma/km to dread. Poverty nmerdiad pressed
so long upon John Drewit as to induce him
to sell away the firm propethat assured the
safety of his life. Often and often had its
voice been hind against those loci', who,
knowing of the mortal danger to which they
exposedlei
their - 'ghbors, gave drink or money
in exchange for them to the foolhardy and
CM=
(treat, therefore, was Ids horror when ho
went into his nave that morning and found
that his preps had been removed. They had
not been taken hem the entrance, where a
passer-by Might have observed their absence:
all was right for the that twenty yards, but
beyond that distaneardownlto the end of his
long toil-worn libyrinth,tivery propwas strip
ped away. Surely, ho knew at once it was
not an enemy who had done this ; he know
tho wretched did man, who lay Attepifled at
home, lad stolen and sold his life-defence fur
drink. All that the poor fellow told hit boYs
was that they should keep within the safe
part of his digging while ho himself worked
into the rock as usual. Three or four times
he brought out a heap of sevthe-stones in his
basket, and then he was seen alive no more.
Harry, his eldest eon, was nearest to the
unpropped passage when the sand old felt
When lie hoard his father pap out suddenly,
he ran at once eagerly Giver& the candle
where the miner worked, batons sudden all
was dark ; there was no light from the candle
or from the gun—before and Nthind wait ut-.
ter blackness, and there was a noise like thun
der in his earth Tip) wholti hill s'aiii - od - Lo
have fallen on them loth, and many tons of
earth parted the father from hitt child. The
sand about the boy "did not press on him
elnsely. 'A heavy piecilof glut that held 'fp
gether was supported by the narrow walls of
the passage, minis fate was undetermined.
lie attended mil) , :to the muffled 'ttounde
witliiirthe rook from which he knew that his
father, though ihey might ho the sounds of
his death struggle, still lived.
Tu the people outside, the alarm had in
stantly boon given by the other child, tend in
an incredibly short spare of limo the labor-
ere from field isnd csvo camp hurrying up to ;
the rescue. Two only Weld dig together;
two more propped the way behA *raft
by foot eigegtY waited them, at
ytt rano e ; and not an instant ittif* In re.
placing the ehaus urk t rieo,
Every
thing was do/was, qnlekty, and at the Same
time as judiciously, as possible ; the sur
geon had been ridden for at full speed to the
neighboring town ; brandy and other stimu
lants, a rude lancet—with which many of
the men were but too Well practised opera
ntors-ibandagem and blankets, were rill
placed ready at hand ; for the diSasterwas
so common at IVhitekaights that riTry man
knew at onto what was proper to be done.,
Those who were not actively engaged about
the cave, aura daisy in 'the cometruction of a
litter—perhaps a bier—for the unhappy vic
tim.
How could this hale happened I was the
-whispered wonder. John was known to be
far too prudent b Man to he working without
props, and yet fresh ones had to be supplied
to.the rescuers, for they foubil none as they
advanced. The poor widow—every moment
made sure of her bereavement—stood a little
way imide ; having begged for a spade, and
been refused, she stood with her two children
hanging to her apron, staring fixedly at the
pit's mouth.
Down.at the cottage there was an old man
invoking Heaven's vengeance on his own
gray head, and reproaching himself fiercely
with the consequences of his brutal vice ; he
had stolen the poles from his son's Pit . the
previous night, to provide himself with think:,
and on that very'day, even before
qui le reeovered from his yesterday's debauch,
he was to see the victim of his recklessness
brougltt home a lifeless heap. lie saw John
so brought in, but with the eyes of a mad
man ; his brain, weakened by drunkenness,
never recovered froMi the shock. - •
Basket and barrow had been brought full
ont of the pit a hundred tiinea; and it -was
almost noon-before from the howtds of the
very mountain, as it seemed, there came up
a low moaning cry. "My child, My rbild."
murmured the mother; and the digging 4e
came straightway even yet more earnest,
almost frantic) in its speed atut violence.
Presently into the arms of Alice little Harry
was delivered, pale nu& c.orpso-like, hut
alive ; and then a shout ail of 'an army was
sent up by all the men.
- They dug until after sunset—long titer
they - had lost all hope of finding John alive.
His body Wail at last found. It was placed
upon a litter, and taken under the soft even
ing sty, down through
,the beech wood,
me. Area wilar4 bylla ilae; Twmgite
hand in hers, until after her father's death,
how her dear John was murdered. She
used to wonder why the old man shrank
from her when she visited him, as she often
did', in his confinement. The poor widow jc
living now, though she has suffered grief
and want.- Her daughter Jane has mnrrie
a field laborer, and her sons, by whom she
is well suppOrted, have never set a foot in a
pit since thB day they lost their father,
TEE DEAF AUNT AND DEAF WIFE,.
I had an aunt coming to visit nie for thn
itirsttime since my marriage, and I dont%
know what evil genius prompted the wicked
ness which I perpetrated toward illy le
and ancient relative.
''"My dear," said I to my wife, on the day
before my aunt's arrirat "you know Aunt
Mary is coming to-morrow ; well, I forgot to
mention a rather annoying circumhtance with
regard to her. She's very deaf and al
though she can lwar my voice, to which site
is accustoilial, in its ordinary tones, yetyou
will ho obliged to' speak eletremely loud In j
order to be heard. •It will be rather innOn
venlent, but I know y6l still do everything
in your power to make her stay agreeable."
Aim S. announced ,her - dereuinatiou to
nmkelierself beard, if possible.
I then went to John T------, who loves a
joke about as welters any person I know of,
and told him to he at the house at 6 P. M.
on the following evening, and felt compara
tively happy,
I went to the railroad depot with' a carri
age next night, and when I WM on my way
home witk my aunt, I said ;
"My dear aunt, there is ono rather annoy
ing Marini ty that Anna (his wife) has,which I
forgot to mention. She's very deaf, and al
though she can hear my voice, to which she
is accustomed, in its ordinary tones, yet you
iU be obliged to speak extremely loud ul
order to ho heard. lam very sorry for it."
Aunt Mary, in the goodness of her heart,
protested that she rather liked speaking loud;
and to do so w?uld !fiord her great pleasure.
The carriegirdieve up—on the steps was
my the v‘indow was John —,
with a face aautterlisoleinn as if he had bur
lied all his relatives that afternoon.
I handed out my atint--ithe ascended the
steps,_
alpdeliglited to see Yon)" shrieked
wile, and the policeman on the opposite side
walk started mid my aunt nearly Ml down
the t.tetT.
"Kiss me , go , dear, " howicd my aunt, and
the hallyanip clattered and the .windows
shook as with the fever and ligue. I looked
at the window-40a badviiimpured• __lfg
mail nature could stand it longer, I poked
my head into the carriage, and went into
trong . convulsions.
When I entered the parlor My Wife Was
helping Aunt Mary to take' oir her hat and
cape ; and there sat John with his
,sober
facty
Suddenly, "pit? you h;ve 4 e !cp,stiat jour i
nay ?"- wont oty my wife likojw
„pistol, said
Jot ,4 warty jumped to hi/ feet. '
.Jl4ttier dusty," was the response in , e.
wsrwhOop, itnd so the conversstion contin
ued.
t'ho neighbor 149 C): Fo*aitisit bFye
NO, 13,
heard it; en int Jai the • • aw
the betiding I heerd otery Tied
In the coarse of the evening pig eitit tteik
occasion to soy to me—, •
"Plow bud yout wVe 49,11,'11,4 bort
CEE
I told- her AU Jdeaf mews tailke4
and that my wile beim nat4 to It, wig Nei
affected by the exertion, VA thgt Attptibli
was getting along very itteelY Wltk 11 0- ' -
Presently my wifo-eald, softly—
" Alf, how very loud your wont taw'?
Ycs, laid T, "all deaf person*
getting along %hither she Wiwi San
ry word you say." AO I rathitr think ft
did.
Flitted by their gpccess at beipx_ Roder.,
stood, they went at it Wolper mad tou.,
till everything on the 'tnantio-piece de ties>4
again, and I as aeriniudy iteritid I," mop{ 4
collecting in front of the house.
Ilut the end was ne a r. lay snnt Wolff ^ '
an ineentigatin4 turn of mind; wilt 4041 1 11011
of Anding out whether the eertion ?IV A"
so load wag not injurious to nty wife. Sit—.
"Does net talking so loud Amin your •
lungs I" said she, in an tinenrtbly whoop,
lbr her voice was not as inuskal ost tt
I when she wss young.
"It is an et rrtion," shrieked Ssy yr*.
"Then why do you do it was des 3mty•
veering
• "Ileeipme--bectume-7,yma wet Mkt 4f
(km't," eque*led my wire.
"What . 1" said my *qt. NT* Oralig 4' -
railroad whistle this time.
I began to think it, flee tq email" $
premises, and looking round anti "win
gone, I stepped into the back pasies
there lip lay, fiat on his beak, with Ws
at right anglus-to his body, rep* fisis! •
ta side, with his lace ppked intp 111411-10,--
a most agonizing expretunqn ofeartitp
but not uttering a !mind. I ipoolo4lllo
and involuntarily Resumed la ,ligiliurptitoile,",
and I think that, from the fel** 11Plidall• •
of our feet and head, and our attettottp Yr,*
strain our hingliter, ariopleety dap hpialkilse , •
evitably ensued, If ; bonittlo ISPINR., lOW
John gave vent to in his federal' ttl EPP
press his rissability, had not betrsyeat Attsilsk
ing place.
In rushes my wife and wit, whet, lor tbdig
time, comprehended the Mite, and lack II
welding as I dim Pt I never Pt WlFlk# ll 4'
hope never tg get wain. . -
_
i inowersala Oast tine ewe sianillissiiiallia.!
if John, in his endeavors to pppt tainaiesbn(
fld and sympathetic, had ant giris .l lo 4 / 1 "
such a borne Isagli that aiihphiPS •
ity was onset, and we screamed is aelpirt t
I know it was sery wrong. amid ant*. if
tell such &Nebo* : but I tbkraf 610
()pie herself wouhi hate *OO4 Ifslas had
seetilkunt Mary's expression wheat alb vos
Inliwnied that ker hewn* was delyati
Dom ♦ MM.-4 hare a atqa4ll4l.ol#
you," said the pertiwitan looking qpilielhor,
he_entered the etore 0! one Film, 114
quired the cheracter of et hard erostolper.
'•Fes sir, q very line clay irviep4." W GO
GM
"I am not speaking pf the weashisr,
your bill," cppilled Peter in s loud hp
it,rould he better if sre had slittfriahLiv
"Ounfouni the 4in," contflpild tiorteal l
lector, and raisins his yokel - 4We y NS"
money to Noy pn the bill I"
BB our Psalm, PIP lam ofd f
hiia maiits mie sok tP Pie 147 01 1 110FIC
Ittluerri , .and I really de= '
orm eolleetqr ibr the
satteuu!ebet t eie. wet I 00 1 40lle . :
you," persisted the (iiilectetr iEC Ws
his voice, producing the hill 194 *WOO
into the face pfhis tlphtter. . _ _
‘ 2 I ye 4.4ermige4l to eqdorap for
you may put that note fork b! ToiFF # 4 44
book, I really can't envkinse ft," • --.
"Confound your endorsements '"T( 1010
PsYlt."
"You'll pay it, nq dant*, air, 110 ti
always a risk abqut these otteti yopir.o,`'
so T must ileelitie it."
"The money must he mine tp-47.'T -
• . 1 0h, yes—ninety days, lo it I vu 14 *IS
endorse for you for a week : fp likpopi pit
my Acme.' It's seldom that No prtioNlT opir '
for au endorsement, even by my Ortt.ulA II 0 11 1
the part of s stranger, sir, your - tql4llo
inexplicslde, Do not force me to Fitt post
out ; leave the preteises." -
And the NI was returner! V
guisher nifloe, endorsed —"so, egailollloo4
deaf tliot he oouldn't untleralast4T ' -
MILITIA IN ma CLOTS,' STATIIII. —Mt PA '
from a document from the Wad DITI= . •
n Wel} was laid frfore ti lo !foes. 4
gentativea yeaterripty, th4t em piiiityt44 . llll,
Staten and Territories a Notoite# tgi t) illr .„
gate of -2,4119,V0 frien 1 1 4 4. * * Mg
blue UM twthit4. of the epfte Of IVotlt iff i _
ill° I revritorien of Oregon, Wrillans634lW
briviku, !Como, and Wow IfeoOtt, 4004
*Moh r *I 4- PfttuP lll ! no-5t 21 4 8.1311 4 1 t4,
;received. The returns 40 44 141 4*- 14 ---
AA fit coloplete, sa Ure WI of thaillkofoie
o..4owitio of the Stales are blued
_iiipoil 4* ' -
r ighed, eercr,i mrs anicin 006 *4llll.
ipeottlehorere—malhz - bait IMIA
The militia itireo of . the ttistrict Jot
~,,„,,
bit is fain n rqr Or you l' 1 8 4; # l 4 ll, "fr . - .
ted at 43,201.' _: '
DA n non Eni.s.—The Natairttft• AM**
says the mantra cold infAtberjoiltiltell
PaitICIA I !AY !One upon tbook4M ON.
coot, who had not anfl!ciantwarning to mt, i .
kto Otair Iginkr—quirkali 9f nuall**l loo4 ' •
kvideatly write 0rg51014.11.0 4 :Z
frozen Rafru npikosi,Abroirldmi, ' • .
of tham were tkixaltaiKet , o4
tha boa* 44 aor Al* solloikkit %Om
TA6.OiPpl4 up 04 #l4Ol,
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