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A Sketch of Western Travels
DT J. D. BARNITART
(No. 1 )
Raid Eat(lr Vallry—Srenrry—Tyronr — Al.
tearful/ MO:lntro us —p,n;lurg - -Inridenls
-—Allfgann Carl —Srrnrry atom,' thr Oho,
Rirrr—the Train—Laromattre koAr
Drtrat ion 7 -.Passrnocrs past Mir A limner
- Night an thr Cars— A Fassrnt7rr rn
01, oimamt ri dint'', ratr-lortn hands
Caton,— lbstortrat Inrolruts -
*•• --Fort if anur-- Maumee River— Pohl teal
Stamp ()rotors.
Nlbssits Emrons —Up the valley of the
Bald Eagle not long solve, it was; our plenft
tire to pass on a tour, towards the land_that
hes where the stltiii sun sinks to rest be
yond the undulating Prairies of a Western
;landscape. Those never to he forgotten
hills that rear their lofty summits almost to
the•very sky, and form the North-Western
ground work of the scene, contrast strangely
indeed with the fertile plains of our Western
Valleys.
,IThough to some extent, wild and
pieturesque,the portion of the Bald Eagle
throi which the plank road prisms, has
been felt yielding to the unweersing hand of
energy and toil to cues of rural Life almost
every ti•here greeted t'tttr vision as hie
neyed n i o „ K limpid hinters of Bahl
Eagle ‘o ,„timi its course ma aids the grant
re , 4v „,,,ir of trillutartes fell in gentle
%%MI that rich music upon the ear,
hicli is ci er areeptatile to one that feels an
interest in the sublimity of nature's norks
Need we sly that mountain range esenpeil
our observation, where onto have stood the
Tempests, and ton ering pines reeled and
phinged in their destiny to earth' No !we
gaud in admiration on its rugged lights, his
oft has }Well our wont (loin childhood, and
ilw ell mcnonuunion itrth our own lbough
on the great diversity of nature, which from
men' mini ter meet our eager eye
If the; valley in such close proximity, it
not our purpose to enlarge, for who I
unrrir - nrre flitlvtii7 l . -- 7Friaron as not trav
eled along it to that piling and 1104trialting
Nl!lnge Tyrone, whirl] is 011 the Central
Itari itoad
Tis dire time vrirtirriv . ed at this
lie remained during the night and the next
mornint at an early hone the Imo Holm
carne rushing along Soon we is ere on our
may end ‘illage after linage was left away
in the distance Pink aller peak of the Al
legany WV; crossed, and th 3,.., intrepid trend
01 - the loeounotrre-lucre IN rapidly intward.
It c1:165' hours rule, and the city or Pit klnirg
NlLits smoky walls and toning spires
was is View, to fact twfore we could fully
realize, having trot dud n lIWAII,` or use
hviwlrt timi thirty it from Tyrone
Although it aas not our hint li it to
Pittsburg. it as ni vet tholes interesting.
and as tune WIN limited our obvervationl
were conlineeto sin Ii thingq ns appeart,l-'
nhile l assing through to the All, gaii 01V
depot. An entire stranger could not . a ell
mistake the character of the place Rom its
U mei-able manufactories. huge columns
of black smoke lolled up majestically from
hundred mammoth chimneys, and the
clicking hummers of the busy workmen,
chimed in strange unison with the startling
screech of !nighty steam machinery.
Al the depot of the Central Itatl Road,-
through passengers rushed hurriedly into a
No. 1, onmilms line. We believe this li ne
to fact to he a / cal numb,. one, inammich
as from the dilapidated condition of the ve
hicles, they may have been constructed
previous to tier Braddock's defeat, mid used
by the illustrieun (01. Washington in bring
ing of the wounded front the ever memo' a
btu Reid of battle. Crowded to the utmost
capacity, and still mom ftr another as
brawled from the top of the voice ofit bully
red nosed driver, we yielded ourself an un
willing martyr to the occasion. Amid
crinoline, hoops, carpet bags, band boxes,
and last though not leant, squalling Inkblot,
we were burned through the streets to the
eminent peril ofreareless pedestrians. The
horses attached to the omnibus might have
done hooch to thb imagination of Curvanti
us, or the pride of Sancho Pants.
Without any unusual 'detention Alle
gany City, we took passage on the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail Road,
and wore soon quitting a lingering took up
on the place, as t„he trait roved leisurely off'.
Those sister Chita witlftheiv busy throng,
soon receded frsm 'otigion, and the `pad
and tranquil waters Sd lie . Ohio river' were
in full view. Numerous steamboats wore
plying on its bosom, and dwellings located
..u o rk ei h e r_ ls ide.. with _grassy --wounds
and ornamental trees and shrubbery, pre
sented a scene, quite beyond the graphic
powers of our pen to portray. The train
on which we traveled was unusually large.
Anunbezing,llfinact....cars,..llll4
with people of every grade ; many or whoin
were seeking homes in the Western States
and TerritoFics. When within thirty miles
of Alliance Ohio, one of the locomotives of
the train gave wity,and we were consequently
detained for several hours.
During this time the passengers occupied
themselves, some in grumbling because of
detention, some in gymnastic exercises,while
others philosopher like wore quietly await•
tog the ditlloup.y to be overedme.
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" BOTH LIBERTY AND PROPERTY ARE PRECARIOUS, UNLESS THE
Night approached beforo we arrived at
Alliance. After partaking of a hasty Meal
we were soon again upon our journey, The
whistle of the loacomokive frequently Inver,
berated through the atmosphere ; sparks
gushed forth from the nostrils of the Iron
horse, AN the firey titre!.l went puffing along,
and the sable mantle of night which hung
gloomily around, was strangely diverailled
with the flickering lights from the train:—
Thinks at length grew monotonous. Many
of the passengers had already yielded to the
influence of old morpheus,-while others sat
doubtless contemplating the luxury of 'a
feather bed. flrowing weary ourself, we
had almost become jnsensllAlu to enemata&
ing objects, When we were aroused by Moil
and botstemilif laughter. A phlegmatic old
farmer, who had already gone into the mys
teriona land of dreams, eonceivefl himself
actively engaged in the ordinary affairs of
life, and called lustily to his son in language
iMeatremely ludierous,as to overcome en
tirely the gravity of his auditors. We par
took to "some degree in the levity of the oc
rasion, as our fellow traveler 'was not
aroused by the merriment, but continued al
ternately snoring, and directing others in the
arrangement of his horses, cattle, chickens,
When the morning sun arose we were
fast nearing the State of Indiana, and ere
tong ita log cabins, low lands and stately
timber, met the inquiring glance of numer
ous &flow passengers. Jiese—eiwidly - the
scones of days were hen recalled to
mind, as the primitive character of the
country in many places, intuitively led us
to the log cabin and hard cider tunics of the
memorable puhlicnl campaign of eighteen
!mottled. and forty. We soon arrived at'
Fort Wayne. It is situated near the con
fluency of the St. Joseph and St. Mary riv
ers; mach are tributaries of the 'Min mee,
and this in turn discharges its contents into
the blue waters of hake Erie. Along the
Wabash, Tippecanoe and Mau mee rivers,
ileneral Ilarnson operated against the en
erna, hments of the Indians. The battle of ,
Thineetimie sins one of considerable rivigni
mile. and Inert none of it, importance, alien
the people of the nation wire called 1111011
ISW to elect a Chief Magistrate. While I While Capt. Muir ill was giving his state.
Pa"lng wllkni the yu' u u(Y, it here " ecurred meat an old gentleman walked into the cabin
circumstances (lint hear record iwon the
niv it oar eountry, it is fair to presume our
mind would naturally revert to those scones.
It ell do ue remember, hearing political
stump orators dwell with nli the impainsion
ed eloquemce of their nature, on the impor
tance of such events to our beloved coun
try Upon our womb ring earthy mentsof old
Tippccatitu: and Tyler too," bill with the
Light st pictsible encommins. The toms
hale k and blood-stained scalping knife of
the fcroetiiio;, Okapi, sent the blood cours
ing ittift•ttimisl 3 through our youthful frame.
'nu log . nLiva pictured on the banners of
that day Isar impress on our memory
We bolo d abroad on nature's avect, and
re:titled the fa , t of fia•outtg many of the vcr
;table log i aLni. of the eat
• (1•P IlErl TI \ ED )
The \c‘‘ IP h my: Crugernt, adverting to
1111. .01.)11,la1011 Of 11.111 Jr no‘t -11
V O III'IIPIT4 4 Al.,,tittenee from
n.-called by u ill hoop become a !trees
hay t% %tit thewst , oho demre to e and en)oy
1,0.1111. The hoelal cup I?, mJeecl, R pOIR•
01101 IS one ot these 'alit r 11:13 5. NVath
stryclinme It% cc fti , key, and drugs and vi-
Errol m Iffately. to glee it • iody flavor,"
and "coloring," the man waif* !moil
of eidter most. Of oak, atokoo t do,
fastened," to stand long
K ANS F:
1 1 .111)1i BY (ihrsinima. —The Betrbit Free
Press says it is well understood in K assns
that there W0111(1 have been no trouble or
opposition to Uov. Walker in Kansas, if it
had not been for Senator Wilson, of Massa
chusetts, who visited the Territory, and
persisted upon the leaders of the Black Re
publicly) faction to continuo a disturbance
for political capital in the States.
The Lambertville (N.. 1.) Bank opened its
doors on" Saturday last. The vignette on the
notes consist of men shearing sheep The
floylestown Democrat thinks ,that if they
succeed in shay.ng the animals closer than
the 141 batik shaved their note holders, it
will requires long time for the wool to grow
out spirt,
Women's Conventions are always crowd
ed, and Dr. Johnson gave the true reason :
People flock to hear a woman preach, not
because she preaches well, hut because she
preaches anehow ; just as they go to see a
dog walk.en his hind legs, though lie does
not wit* on them near so well as wean.
- A colored man, named Taylor, from Mid
• • •avr-who hind-reeent y been ph - ceilidh' the
Harrisburg jail for selling liquor without li
cense, and stealing a coat, hung himself in
his cell, on Sunday ()zoning, with a cord of
ynrn suspended from the heating-pipeuf his
c, •
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Rankin, the prizefighter who conght with
Bradley, has left Bullidu for v A hany. Hi)
has nearly recovered, and still i mists that
ho can kireld}riullay- 1, -attt — of is boots."
He purposes to light him co!. 10000 in Oc
tober.
Some of the grain buyrit - 1 - "c •- ii Springfield
Illinois, are making contracts for wheat at
Slasl 10 per bushel delivered in that city
during the monthaf August.
BELLEFONTE, PA.; THU
Steambot
A Collision took place at 2 o'clock on the
morning of the 15th twit, between •thp steam
er Metropolis, Capt. Brown, of the Fall River
Line, and the propeller Jr: 1.4 Merril', Capt.
Smith, which was on her way from New
York to London. The Metropolis was ma
king her regular trip from -Fall River to
New York. The cutwater of the steamer
struck the propeller a little fbrvrard of the
midships, causing per •to sink almost in;
A tan taneously. The Metropolis received a
severe shock, but was not seriously injured.
On the propeller were, as nearly as 'can he
ascertained, fourteen pistvmgers and a crew
of eleven perpons. flf these, twelve in all
were sive& including the captain, first and
second engineeni, two deck hands, and Bevel] .
1111.PlifsTIgT1
List Of the Drowned. —The wife and child
of Mr. A. 1, Smith. Brooklyn, New fork ;
Miss 1 iei don, daughter of George (;onion, of
New York . John Smith, -aged nine year,
Eliza Smith, nged seven, and Mary Smith
aged five, children of the captain of the Pro
t peller : Stephen Prentiey, Mato .of the Pro
: George Allen, deck hand: Mary
Withers, chambermaid : Ann Willis, cook ;
a gentleman, wife and child, names and ree
-1 idettee unknown.
incidents. ha.--Among the thrilling and
heart-rending incidents eonneered with the
disaster, a passenger relates the fallowing
A wmtpivas seen struggling in tho wa
ter: aopportlng her infant child in her arms
—a rope was thrown to her, which fell with
in her reach, and which she might have
,eyed and '411V04 herself, by reli mill:4ll4w
her hold upon her child. Bhe looked up,
•,:pv t r.,1,0, saw those Nho weidd have
given almost their own hold upon life to save
hers, then pressed her child to her breast and
sack forever.
Among the passengers on the Metropolis
wns Mr. tjeorge Tappan, a tperehnnt of New
Bedford, and n man of considerable property.
Ile has heel) subject to titS,llll , l was on his
way with his %S IN to visit the South for his
health When the digaroter oceurred he WAS
very much excited, and while making Nome
inquiries he fell liaekwardg in an apopleetie
fit, and expired instantly
t r po to, am approached with.„an
, agitated satiric " How do you do, Mr
Gordon sand the captain. extending his
hand, neat at the same tune averting Ms
Wet The old gentleman took the prulnored
hand, and said, in a tactualoLts ruler, ""I
name to ask about my daughter_ she alive
or not r 811,‘ IS gone," said the ('apenin.
`• Oh' my Goli exclaimed the old Non, es
'he horst icto ti aro There were no dry
' eyeo in that cabin Aftem liras the Captain
I said to our reporter " She was a beautiful
gut, Only eighteen years old. Mr. Gordon
' gave her Into in) I Large only ycaterda)
to noon, to take her to her It lends in \New
London, but now she has gone with my chil
dren "
Perilous Air Dance.
910n4, Jbinon 81111011111 . rd a balloon aseen
lion from Troy, 1111 Sat uvlay afternoon Ile
was lo Lc aocompanwil gaud Ljos bills
by n young lady of that city ; but fortunate
ly for are young lady she Wag not Oil hand.
The RSV VIII,IOII was from the lot near the
[non I) pot A little after the hour ap
pointed the ropes were eitt, and the balloon,
with its master, gracefully commenced their
voyage. l% hen some . sixty feet up, the
aeronaut threw nut a bag of sand ballast,
laud in doin g 04134) ties, tbrowsam barra.tdf
out, fur in attempting to Illteh the car ropes,
as lie mad,' Illy (loos, lie iiim od 1 Ulm, and
the speetames were horrified by seeing bun
fall fns and and almost out of the cat.--
Scarcely had the thommnds wittms,tmr the
abeettsion reeoveled front tilts thrall, ere they
were terrified ulth another most alarming M
s
rodent.
The balloon had not risen direct enough
tot.fitape the steeple of the church at Fifth
arid Fulton streets, against which if struck,
I reul•iving a rent below, from which it was
80(113 seen that the gas was escaping, ,but
in 4 rapidly enough to cause an immediate
descent. Su on went the voyager, the bal
loon now cutting a pirouette, now spinning
around like a top, now nearly turning it
sunnnerset and everybody dreading a final
and fearful cataftruplia- 'But on if went
cutting up thirty antics, tile voyager cool ap
parently' as one if not several cm rum
bvrs, until it came down immediately on the
bank of the riverjust beyond the Olympus
Mills, where the hundreds Who, on foot, on
horseback and in buggies...had given excited.
chase, found our .heromistivnding erect and
coAected as the moment he 4-% to the ropes."
lle was reecinveyed to the city ,In triumph,
and the affair doubtleks gave more satisfac.
lion, and made more tall" and''exc4eineol,
lhairlid bieti - inWe - bigiteTit degree suc
cessful.—./bony Times.
How FAR CAN LIGHTNING DC MAN I—A
torrespoodent.ot the Adrian Ea . posi tor " tlg
urca-culad ftLikwa. in_suawgritur,—.Lho-, • • -
tion, " How far can lightning be seen ?"
" At half-past nine o'clock on Sabbath even
ing I observed lightning low in the .horizon,
due west. The light was quite bright, but
no thunder was heard. A genfiernan who
came front Chicago oirillOnday morning, in
formed me that arthaChour a heavy thun
der storm was in progress in that city, ho
signs of which were seen this• side of the
head of. Lab Michigan. So lightning can
he e'en at lyat two hundred miles.
A Lav!yeripli.
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: When Lord Broughatri':7l4rerenlil fbr
the defence, on the Val affitatien Caroline pf
England in 1820, he emphatically &Mitred
, that it was the duty priiibunsel to get his
client off, even though in effecting this he
should jeopardize the public peace, or even
cause a revohrtion in the country. This
principle was much canyasred at the time.—
At the Oxfordshire (England) assizes, the
other day,-•a &insetted , publicly declared
that if he did not feel the istice of his rase,
he should feel it his duty ;
retire from it.—
Mr. Justice Bramwell; rt very able lawyer
lately placed on the Brach, publicly re
sponded-- ~ ,
Thin you would do wnong. I ahoutd
deem it your duty—and ?hold it to be the
duty of every member a the bar-.to - prorr
iirelltstic. (hat Mark I white , not that I
mean that any Member of the bur should
necessarily do that whirilu ill lie lianwitiotely
au ail out J . l Om its that ho is
bound u here any comment 14 °flyable of
being made upon the evidence. to make
such continent fearlessly, and without fer
rn~r to own tone:et:an, and that where
there is a (Intently in the shape of color, he
is bound to give the best argument ho ran
to prove his color is correct."
What is the opinion here ? Some things
(but not many) will ..rule a Philadelphia
lawyer." Perhaps giis.Broughem Bram
well case of black and ivhito is one or them.
Ten Centa a Day— lot yet.
Among the many false octußation brought
agaimt President Buchanan, in the late
struggle for the Presidency, none was !ore
industriously circulated, and more promi
nently emblazoned on the banners of our
political enemy, then the one charging Min
with being in favor of the reduction of la
borer's wages, to " Ten cents a day.'
Mr. Buchanan was elected six months
ago, notwithstanding this very grave . and
venous charge has entered upon the duties
of his (Alice : piitihshed his Inaugural Ad
dress to the world. " And the rest of man
kind " Imt has never yet, in all that fame,
uttered a single syllable in favor of the re•
duction of laborer's wager.—if any man vi
gulled into opposition of Mr. Buchanany
that silly charge, it Is high time to ask hu u-
r le as not icon oceived , and
Iten he ascertains the fact. determine to
withhold hii ,stnfidenee Cram those who to
vilelt leee vea I .
The base slanders published by the whole
sale in certain pane's, concerning the char
acter of our respected fellow townsman, the
lion. James Thompson, are recoiling upon
the head of their authors, and have hail the
tendency to create new friends and defenders
for the nun they were designed to annihi
late. As heretofore, we bear testimony, re
gardless of party feeling, to the upnght con
duct, sobriety, respectability and legal abil
ity of Judge Thompson, and are well as
sured that if he is elected a member of the
Suprentesitench. that he will fweopy that
position - and discharge the duties of its office
with hoi7ir to himself and c‘redit. to the Com
monwealth —the base slander , of reel less
party journals to the contrary !iota al/stand
mg.—Erie Dispatch.
The Democratic party its. If is finally split
or splitting hopelessly as:milder rigJit in the
-10114P , 11 . 111/ Join-nal
The Democratic party can Apia " right in
the middle, either.half ail] he more than
equal to the Heil - named Americans. It can
split long way from the middle and the les
ser half will be aumipor the Know-Nolh
ingir. The smaller half can b 4 . I ,lit, again
in ipiarler‘i and either part Would he to the
Plug 1 an the mountain to the mole
A Madrid journal &stirs that an old man
of Pontevedre, having for some time past
been in a state of idiocy, was a heavy bur
den. to his son, and the latter gravely pro.
posed to a neighbor to sell the old man, who
Was very fat, to be incited down into grease!
The neighbor having consented a bargain
wag struck for 800 roils, and the purchaser
procured a large cauldron in which to boil
the old man but the authorities having
heard of the atrocious afffir had the buyer
and, Wirt arrested, and they now remain in
rosiody.
(o4m Navirtan.—(4Ood nature is the beat
feature in the finest face. Wit may raise
ail)dlrration, , Judgment -may command res
pect, and knowledge attention ; beauty may
inflame the heart with love ; but good nature
has a more powerful affect—it adds a thous
audlittrsetioris to the charms of beauty, and
given an air of henitkenee to the most home
ly face.
A Shanghai fowfl, belonging to a citizen of
Baltititi)re, has recently 44 a singular egg.
iiiiiiiieTaxeePt at the small
end, of the Same substance as the shell, was
a perfect miniature Sorpefit, the tail only. of
which was attached to the egg., The Aleut
eyes and mouth were 'perfect., ~and it 'was
arlisll eoiled y kith a aurfsce.li• .
of the soft scales on the.snate.
A man who would systematically and
willfully set about cheating a printer, would
commit a highway robbery on a crying baby
and rob it of its gingerbread—rob a church
of its counterfeit pennies—lick the buttoriliff
a blind nigger's last fritter"—pawn his
grandmother's specs for a drink of whisky
—steal acorns from • blihd pig—and take
clothes from. a scarecrow, that ho may make
a respectible appeariartinociety.
`1 7 .731r,. OR AS •'S A 1 lIMMTP"MoraI • I i` I MM."
AY, AUGUST 27, 1857.
Beat Cure for Intozioatang - Habit&
'I het:ideation has often been asked, in a
' simply medical point of view, how the hab
it of intoxication is best averted or cured.—
It is well knOwn to all physicians that some
persons are constitutionally • more disposed
to. it than others ; some hereditarily and
some from the effects of indulgences long
since abandoned so far as in tireir power,
yet so inclined to it that their self-control,
their sanity, and strongest powers of will,
though they may be perfect at all other
points, are completely frustrated here. It
May be said, indeed, that this, being the
result of former indulgences,. in their own
faults ; but this even does not make it less
their' misfortune, and if such are sincere in
their effllrts to abandon it, so nincli the
more are they tlesetr - ving nf all the tut.sis
lance that can he rendered to them.
k belhngs to all wrong doing thus to gen
erate a tendency , to reproduction. If the
man who has thus injured himself is to he
esteemed ever so guilty, the question might
yet remain in morals precisely whether the
guilt lay chin-thy in the present, as in the
past acts of his life whether he is not now
to be regarded and tre..t*l rather as moral
ly r nranc on this topic, than trnmethately
and simply reprehensible. Almost all men
have their weak spots, and few can boast of
le.perfectly sound phySical, mental and
moral constitution. The phySician an
sometimes MVO these cases hest, because it
is not his duty - tcr consider where the fault
lies, hut -inly how it. it; to be remedied.
I t is well known that Coleridge had be
come so infatuated by, and addicted to; the
use of opium, that his friends had all given
him up for lost. One of his warmest admi
rers hired a man to watch him night and
day, and prevent his getting access to the
pernicious drug. But he baffled his guard,
again and again At last, after suturing
agonies of remorse, such as even his own
graphic pen confesses itself unable to des
cribe, in the depths of humility and -ocintri.
thin, he sought out a judicious physician,to
whom he revealed Ins whole case; his strug
gles and his desires, placed himself under
Ins control artli care, and lived, and finally
died, in the man's house, after a successful
reformation of live and twenty years. -The
%laxness, atul the reallia
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o'
tom that however guilty in as causes, it was
now a case of moral insanity, we suppose
was what sated him to be cured by medical
I==
There are many men who, from various
(muses of early habits, seem periodically to
require some great excitement, either phyS
badly. mental, or moral. Hence the uncon
trollable spells of drinAing into which some
men will fall oci.msionally. in the absence of
mental stimulants, bitterly as they regret
it, and mourn over it at other times, resolve !
against it, or-tow against it. The butler of
the celebrated William l'itt used to relate
that his master would first of all give him
stnct orders before dinner not to bring up
more than no much wine, and afterwards'
when it was gone, lie would call for mort
order, th;caten, rave, and once dragged the
butler down stairs to the cellar, by main
force, to get more wine.
Very frequently it is found that great
mental emit tetnent and exertions may o lie
substituted for these pigmies! paroxysms
Thum it was remarked fie the late Senator
Rusk, that although in eaily life much ad
dieted to occasional revels of this kind, yet r
that, as he warmed into political life, these
periods became more and more rare and ,
that in proportion to the excitement of any
occasion he would rise to it, calm and clear
Strong mental or moral excitement, then,
seems to form one of the very best counter
irritants or remedies against this craving
thirst for physical stimulants. The only
danger is, that in any moment of reactiona
-1 ry depression, always liable to recur after
great excitement, the danger of Wag into
the use of stimulants is proportionally great.
With proper incilfcal care and _watchfulness,
these periodical cravings fry' excitement,
will. however, become less and loss fre
quent, and also subside in violence.
The strength of this craving, however,
when once aroused, is so vehement, that we
can only conjecture that without some mode
of satisfying it, it would perhaps prove fa.
tel. Indeed. the sudden and fatal cessation
of the use of stimulants is one OrThili . most
frequent causes of mania-a-pots. But the
substitution of one form of excitement for
another gradually tapering off the whole in to
a healthful regular activity of the whole
man, is what is to be aimed at in all such
cases, while care must be taken to allow full
scope for this excitability of temperament
in some other way than by drink, tintll it
subsides of itself.
A mere physician of the body wopld utter
kYisil in such A_WOrik_All_this— Tim_sabolo_
man, physical, mental and moral, must be
considered, studied, watched, excited or
calmed to just the proper degree, as the on
ly means of restoring to his right mind and
true nature, one who has wondered from the
Could a private hospital be formed, under
the charge of sonic physician of ability, to
reach the whole complexities of their cases,
study their 'history • and desire, there are
hundreds, perhaps thousands of Wmilies of
largeibrtune, who would willingly pay any
fair amount and who would rejoice to place
their friends, and some to enter of them
selves, under tho care of so valuable a friend
wench a physician would. prom—Philo.
Ledge:—
RAILROAD PROM CRESSON TO TARN:MURAL--
For some vreeka past, the subjeet of erect ,
Mme time silica the lion. Stephen A
ing a branch Rail Road from Cresson to
Douglas made a most lip oral donation of
Ebensburg, has been discussed by the par,
I land to the truitirt of the University of
ties interested, and seems to meet et
gen- Chicago . As
i..400d s this fact
was
asnouti.
oral favor. The Ebensburg Sentinel says :
cod
several b of the Black Republican
presto,.
—"We understand that several of the most
of that city sought to detiact from the merit
influential and wealthy, citizens of dab place,
intend visiting Philadelphia shortly,
for the ird liberality of the donation, upon the
worm& that the location of the University
purpose of calling on the President of the
upon the grounds designated would grettlf
Company, and ascertaining what arrange
enhance the value of Judge Douglat' plop-
Ments can be made. The projebt is bynu
arty, upon which we find that the. Chicago
means a visionary one. If the matter is
Journal, (no friend of his) announces that
Mice taken in hands in earnest, from fifty to
het as suiCe mac a propdattion which re
seventy tho.umand dollars in stock will be te,
, moires the force of hitch imputations.. It
ken in this place and vicinity. The Bowl,
if
constructed, will pay well, if not better,
than the 'lndiana Branch, and n 11( not be so'
expensive to construct."
General Sam, Houston, the hero. of San
Jacinto has liken defeated by over twelve
thousand votes, for Gover ior of Texas. Ile
deserted the Democratic party upon the
of Know Nothuogism imagining no doubt
that it would be the controling party of the
wintry, and that his name and influence
would revolutionize Texar. In this calcu
lation he has been woefully mistaken, and
has furnished another striking instaime-- of
which we have latterly had many—of tf c
utter powerlessness of Democratic leaders
!Oben they attempt to lead the party from
their cherished principles. Sam came Ins
death at the hands of Sam—a species of jelo
de se.
A YEAR OF PLENTY—TUE CROPS or 1857.
—Thu intelligence in relation to the crops
continues to be one of the most favorable
character, and this language will apply as
well to England and France, as to our coun•
try. Throughout the length and breadth of
the American Union, the prospect is all that
could be desired. East, West, North and
South we have the same cheerful advices.—
In nine of the largest grain-growing States
of the {Ye/it, estimates hare beam mule,
which give the Increase in the aggregate. at
lifty-tive per cent, on the production of I 849
The surplus in grain and corn, will amount
to many millions of bushels.
Dr. Catlin, who War soddenly become fa
"Winnec ion wit tis re
cent. Cunningham farce. is a native of Dur
ham, Conn., and studied medicine with Dr.
- I'yler, of New Haven. After receiving his
diploma in 1849, he practiced tnedieuic for a
short time in Derby. He warned Miss
Beecher, a cousin of Henry Ward Beecher,
and Alastair of Rev. Mr. Beecher, of Sarato
ga, at whioh'place, It will be remembered,
Miss Augusta Cunningham was preparing
to go last winter. Captain's wife left him
last spring, and has refused to live with him
El=
A ^ 'LARD SIIKLL. "—A hard shell of a nn n•
ister down South, recently commenced Ms
discourse as follows
" Itrethern, I'm gwine to. preach a %cry
plant sermon to day—one that every woman
eal. understand -from the text -
" And now I betweeli thee, lady, that ne
love one antler."
"Them are the word 4 you'll find in the
one eyed chapter of the two eyed John."
It wax sonic tune before the audience per
ceived that he meant II John, chapter I.
A SMART ‘VOMAs. —A Hartford paper tells
a story of a woman [hiding a man hanging
by his neck to a beam m her Imnse. She cut
the rope, threw him du wn stairs, held his
head 1.0 4 pail of water until life was re
stored. and then larrtiptcsl ith
a strap. Afterwards he went isito her room
and-began to slow tight. when she attack
ed him with a...rolling pin, drove ham into
the nest room, and locked hum lib
Woman, to a little boy. —•' Jimmy are
your fulkk all well."
Little bey.—" Yes ma'am, all but Sally
Ann."
Woman.—" Why what's the matter with
her 3"
.IJlllo 1o07.—" 0 nothin' particular, only
she had thu lin'Optn—cough once, and she
aint never got goer it. Tha_cooglr balk of
•and account now, but she has the boor most.
deaper't."
" Did you ever see an elephant's skin D'
milked the master of an infant school in a fast
neighborhood.
"I have," shouted it nix year old at the
foot of the class. ,
" Where, inquired old spectacles, amused
by Ilk earnestnvaa.
" tan the elephant," WAS the reply.
COULDN'T HOLD OUT.—A girl who had
beoome-tired of single blessedite,
her intended:
Jim,
at all ; Edward Kelderman is insistin' that I
shall have him, and he hugs and kisses me
so continually that I can't hold out muck
longer."
Illinois this season.
hundred and eighty millions bushels of
grain, inure than ten bushels for every man,
woman and child in the United States. This
knocks the Corn 4xchange speculators into
the middle of next year.
Gen. Jackson's gold snuff box, which was,
to be awarded to the member of the New
York Regiment who had borne himself most
bravely in the 'Mexican war, has been award
ed to 001. Garrett W. Dyckman, Colonel of
the Regiment. A handsome compliment.
TKNYS $1,54) IN ADVANCN:
UN IR sir—Nl.74lllM.
CM
We understand that io consequence of
(lie improper motives attributed by the MRS
to \Tr Douglas in his dr nation of land to the
nlierioty of Chicago, that he has made a
proposition to the Trustees and Regents of
that , ontemplated'ltistitution, of substanti
ally the following import That be will pay
all tit- expenses they have incurred in loca
ting the institution on land donated by him,
and giro them t iNht in addition, if they
sill :diminish their claim on the present
site, and locate any where else in the State."
" The proposition is a very liberal one,
but we question whether the officers of the
institution would be justified in accepting
it, Wo think, however, that Mr. Douglas
is over sensitive to the remarks of the press
111,011 the subject. We think that the ma
jority of the press and the public regard the
donainin as a liberal one ; and we do not
think it-M4rriets from the merits of the gift,
that, 91, consequence of the necessarily at
tending eircumAlancts, the donor is not
mach out of pocket by the transaction."
Anecdote of the President.
A letter from Washington to the New
Ilatophlora Patnot, contains the following •
.‘ The l'resideut has removed to his mai
deu,e, neat the Sailor's Home, about two
and a half miles from the White iiouse:=—
lle conies in daily to the executive munition,
about ten o cl&k, and after staying long
enough to diNeharge such business as re•
quires his per,,onftl presence, returns. The
place where he th temperanly sojourning is
Speaking of the Prebnlent, reminds meet an .
eiulurseinent I saw upon • commission,
Which though bunglingly made out ? had
hi:On presented for his signature. IL may
serve as ►,warning to all w h o hays business
with the executive and show them the at
cessity of preparing their business in a prop;
er manner before presenting it. At all
events it shows a love of neatness and pre
cision which I believe:is characteristic of
Mr. Ihirbanan. It is as follows :
•' THIN ConiMINBlOll IN 80 incorrectly pre
pared that I refuse to sign It. The name of
the appointee is written differently at two
different places, and in other respects is not
written :n • elerklytnanner.
(Signed ) JANES BCCOANAN.
Mkt Is pretty pointed. and I concluded, on
looking over the commission. was well do
set ved by nhoover wrote it"
TIIK El(l.6lilsr; VITALITY OV Molt1101:111111
IS . I N 1 , 1 , 0 i VsT EDITOR —Mr. Appleby; the
` editor of the Mormon, and President of the
Mormon Church m the Atlantic States, in
iiiiige4 in the follovi mg flight in tho Wit
1 „..,
‘ lorincn. Mormonism, it appears, is a, faith
of seventeen) ears standing with the Editor.
lie says •
'• We are heartily tired at being compell
ed every week to have to answer or note
sumo ridiculous article against Gov. Young
steel the Mormowa, Indeed, to answer all
would require a agranaltug army of waters,
Biel keep in operation all the printing ennui
es rah New Volk. Wu know that laloitnon•
join jar " thorn in the mule" of this !gradate
generation, and something new to cope with.
The devil has net had anything like it in
contend nab since the days of Jesus, and
this generation never had. llate it, despise
it, kick it, or drive at, spurn it, or love it,
still Mormonism IS just the same—upward,
onward, and eternal. In the short space of
twenty-seven years it has gone almost to
every country and clinic, with all the com
bined powei of hell and earth sr:rayed
against it, because God is its author, up
holder and "protector, and this generation
will yet have to acknowledge it, and that by
the potent arm of Almighty power.
It is wall known by.milllons of holy be
ings in the eternal world, and by hundreds
of thousands on the earth, that Mormonism
(sd called) is true ; we know it, and dare
testify of it, and have known it for almost
seventeen long years, and all the slander,
mobbing, or murdering, of ow
of this fact. Our El
ders are nearly all °vei l * world, And Mors vz.
monism i's stj
ycuira_r-ix
RICIT-1113 lINAD IN A BLAZN.—The Meat
phis news gives a laughabilltincident at a
or
recent firs in that city. Several warehouses
were burned, which vrereillled with liquors.
SoOn the aeldaky.bnAdy..Ac. com ...., • .
floWing through the gutters. - The alcaholic
stream caught fire, from which therearoma
blue lambent flame. A Negro endeavored
to extinguish the flames that he :
might get '
- Fle
a drink. The News says - . "="-" 1 brushed
the floating fire up the stream am 404 ,/ 1
into it his flat nose and dense lips ; Ite,,dam
above gsve.way, and there-came a flood of
aluoluaL; Vs head took fire, and the Met we'
saw of bile he was traveling at -rail road
speed„likea, torch-lig A prom:ikon. Ma
Jeffenon street. -