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Business
Directory.
TT RE. J.HOCKMAN,
SURVEYOR AND .CONVEYA NCER. -
BELLEFONTE, PENN A.
WLAN JE. BLAIR,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Gfflce in the Arcade, second floor.
Ofee In She A roan eo AB
g N. M'ALLISTER. JAMES A. BEAVER.
MCALLISTER & BEAVER,
A1TORNEYS AT LAW, 3
BELLEFONTE, PENX A.
AMES H. RANKIY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, :
BELLEFONTE, PENN’A.
©ffice, on the Diamond, one door west of the
Post Office.
EVEN 1, BLANCHARD,
ATTORNEY AT LAV,
BELLEFONTE, PEN'NA.
Sse formaliy gecupied by the Ion. James Burn-
aids.
3. J. LINGLE,
SURGEON DENTIST,
BELLEFONTE, CENTRE CO., PA.
now prepared to wait upon all who may desire
8 professional services. .
Roorus at his residence on Spring street.
EMUEL LINN. WILLIAM P. WILSON.
(LINN & WILSON:
ATTORNEY'S AT LAW"
Ofce on Allegany street, in the building far-
morly occupied by Hues, McAllister, Hale & Co ,
Bankers.
: AMBROT VPES,
PHOTOGRAPHS|{t DAGUERREOTYPES,
daily (exceptfundays) from 8AM.tobp.M
j feken da ah > 3 BARNHART,
Ia his splendid Grqoon. in the Arcade Building,
. Bellefonte Penn’a.
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DR. G L. POTTER,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
BELLEFONTE, CENTRE C0., PA,
ge on High Street (old office.) Will attend to
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fossional calls as, heretafore, and respectfully
ors his services to his friends and the public.
BR. J. 8, MITCHELL,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
? BELLEFONTE, CENTRECO., PA.
Will atis=d to professional calls as heretgfore, he
eatfully offers his services to his friends and
pubtio. ‘Office next door to his residence on
ing street. Oct 28-58-tf.
§. T. MURRAY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PENN'A.
OF FLCE—The one formerly occupied by Judge
Rarneice.
Feb. 14th, 1861--Vol. 6 : No. 6.
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na CC ¥ITCHELL. CYRUS T. ALEXANDER.
WRirCHELL § ALEXANDER,
«ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BELEFONTE, SEES
Office in Reynolds’ Arcade on the Diamond.
oh c. Mitchell has associated C. T. Alexander
with hinyin the practice of law, and they will
give pror: pt attention to all business entrusted to
thew: ih Centre, Miflin, Clinton and Clearfield
countier..
J. D. WINGATE,
RESIDENT DENTIST.
BELLEFONTE, CENTRE CO., PA.
Office ond resider-e on the North East Corner
fthe Dfamond, near the Court House.
Will be found at his office except two weekl
n each month, commencing on the first Monday of
ne month,when h willbeawa filling professional
duties. on
BANKING ILOUSE,
Sol
WM. F. REYNOLDS & CO.,
BELLEFONTE, CENTRE CO., PA.
Bills of exchange and Notes discounted. .Col-
lections made and proceeds prom tly remitted. —
Interest paid on special deposits. Exchangein the
eastern cities constantly on hand for sale. Depos-
its receivea.-
H. N. ¥'ALLISTER. J. T. HALE.
‘A. G. CURTIN.
DEPOSIT BANK,
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HUMES, McALLISTER, HALE & CO.
BELLEFONTE, CENTRE CO., PA.
: Deposits Received—Bills of Exchange and Notes
Discounted—Interest Paid on Special Deposits—
Collections Made, and Proceeds Remitted Prompt-
i y—Exchange on the East constantly on hand*
J. I. STOVER,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PENN’A.
Will practice his profession in the several Courts
of Centre County, All business intrusted to him
will be faithfully attended to. Particular attention
paid to collections, and all monies promptly re-
mitted. Can be consulted in the German as well
as in the English language.
Office on Highst., formerly occupied by Judge
4 ‘Burnside and D. C. Boal, Esq.
B. 0. HUMES.
CHARLES H .HALE. ADAM HOY.
HALE & HOY,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
= BELLEFONTE, PENN’A,
Will attend promptly to all business entrusted to
their care. Office in the building formerly occu
* pied by Hon. Jas. T. Hale.
A CARD. .
Messrs Hare & Hoy will attend to my business
during my absence in Congress, and will be as
sisted by me in the trial of all causes entrusted to
them. Janes T. Have.
December I5, 1809.
F. P. GREEN,
DRUGGIST.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIR DEALER IN
Drugs, Medicines, Perfumery, Paints, Oils, Var.
aishes, Dye-Stuffs, Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Hair and
+ Tooth Brushes, Fancv and Toilet Articles, Trussels
< and Shoulder Braces. Garden Seeds.
Customers will find my zt ock complete and fresh,
+ and all sold at moderate prices.
{z° Farmers and Physicians
sre nvited to examine my stock.
FARE REDUCED.
STATES UNION HOTEL,
606 & 608 Market Street, above sixth,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
‘ , Proprietor.
om the country
Tagws :—$1 25 PER DAY.
83. & W. P. MACUANUS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
James Macmanus has associated with Wm. P.
Macmanus, Esq., in the practice of Law. Profes-
sional business intrusted to their care will receive
rompt attention. They will attend the several
ourts in. the Counties of Centre, Clinten and
Clearfield.
Office ont Allegheny streot in the building for-
merly ocouptellby Linn & ’Wilson.
A. 0. EDRST,
ATTORNEY AT LAV,
BELLEFONTE, EA.
ILL practice in the several Courts of
Centre and Clinton counties. All Jegal
susiness entrusted to his ero will receive prompt
~ttention. \ 2
+ OFFPICE—On the North-wost , raes he Di-
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stuff now and forever.”
Terms of Publication.
RERMS :—$1,50 cts if paid within three months
$2,00 if dlayed six months, and $2,50 if not paid
within the year, These terms will be rigidly ad-
hered to.
ed at the usual rates. and every deserintion of
JOB PRINTING
ET 'CUTED in the neatest manner, at the lowest
puaoes, and with the utmost despatch. Having
purchased a large collection of type, we are pye-
pared to satisfy the orders of our friends.
> EP +
‘The Law of Newspapers.
1. Subscribers who do not give ‘express notice
to the cotrary, are considered-as wishing to con-
tiuue the subscription. !
2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of
their periodicals, the publisher may continue to
send them until all arrearages are paid.
3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their
periodicals from the office to which they are di-
rected, they are held responsible, till they have
settled the bill and ordered them to be discontin-
ned, - . .
a If subscribers remave to othey places without
informing the publishers, and the papers are sent
to their former direction, they are held responsi-
ble,
5. The courts have decided. that refusing to
take papers from the office, or removing and leav-
ing them uncalled for, is prima facia evidence of
intentional fraud.
3D Short Sheteh.
HOME INFLUENCE.
Who's that, I wonder ?" said Mrs. Sea-
burn, as she heard a ring at the basement
door.
«Ah, its Marshall,” said her husband,
who had looked out of the window and re-
cognized the grocer’s cart.
“And what have you sent home nsw,
But before Mr. Seaburn could answer, the
door of the sitting room was opened, and one
of the domestics looked in and asked—
«What'll I do wid the demijohns #”
«Demijohns !”’ repeated Mrg. Seaburn.
«Let them sit in the hall, and [’ll attend
to them,” interposed the husband.
Heory, what have you sent home now ?”’
the wife asked, after the domestic had left
the room.
«Some nice old brandy,” replied Henry.
Cora Seaburn glanced at the cleck, and
then looked down upon the floor. There
was a cloud upon her fair brow, and it was
very evident that something lay heavily upon
her heart. Presently she walked to the wall
and pulled the bell cord, and the summons
was answered by the chambermaid.
«Are George and Charles in the house
*Yes, ma’am.”’
«Tell them it is school time.”
The girl went out, and in a little waile
two boys entered the sitting room with their
books under their arms and their caps in
their hands. They were bright, happy,
healthy little fellows, with goodness and
truth stamped upon their rosy faces, and
the light of free conscience gleaming in their
sparkling eyes. George was thirteen years
of age, apd Charles eleven, and certainly
those two parents had reason to be proud of
them. The beys kissed their mother, gave a
happy good morning to their father, 2nd then
went away to schogl.
“Cora,” said Mr. Seaburn, come time af-
ter the boys had gone, “what makes you
look so sober ¥”’ :
«Sober ?" repeated the wife. looking up.
“Yes. You have been sober and mute
ever since the grocer came.”
“Do you want me to tell you why 2”
“Of course I do.”
«Well, Henry, I am sorry you have had
that spirit brought into the house.”
«Pooh! What's the use of talking so,
Cora ? You wouldn't have me do without
it, would you ?”
“Yes.”
cs.
«Why ? What do you mean ’
«1 mean that I would cut clear from the
“But—Cora—you are wild, What should
we do at our dinner parties without wine #"
" «Do as others do—have it not.” !
“But—mercy !—what would people say 2
Are you afraid —I--but no—I won't ask so
foolish a question.” :
«Ask it, Henry. Let us speak plainly,
now that we have fairly commenced.”
«Well, I was about to ask if you were
afraid that I should ever drink too much ?’
«That is not a fair question, Henry. " I
was not thinking of that at all. But I will
answer that by and by. You have no fixed
appetite for it now #’
*¢Of course not.” :
“Then it would not cosi you any effort of
will to abstain from its use #7 i
Not a particle.”
«And you only have it in‘your house, and
serve it to your friends, and drink it your-
self, because it is fashionable, or in other
words, vou dy it because others do it”
«J do it because,” said Mr. Seaburn, hes-
it ting some in his choice of language—¢‘be-
cause it would appear very odd and niggard-
ly, and very fanatical not to do it.” This
last was spoken emphatically.
© «Bat,” pursued Mrs. Seaburn, with the
calmness and assurance of one who feels the
sustaining influence of right, ‘you would
not do waat you were convinced was wrong
out of respect to any such consideration,
would you #”
«You know I would not, Cora, This
question of temperance, I know, is 2 good
one in the abstract, and L am willing to live
up to it as I understand it ; but I'm no tce-
totaller.”
«Henry,” said his wife, with an earnest
look into his face, ‘will you answer me a
few questions,and answer them honestly
and truly, ,without equivocation or cva-
sion 2”
«Bless me ! how methodically you put it,
Cera ; but will answer.”
“Then first—Do you believe you or your
friends are wn any way benefited by the
drinking of intoxicating beverage at your
board ? That is, do you derive any real
benefit from it ¢’
“No ; I can’t say that we do.” -
“Do you think the time has ever been,
since we were. married, when we actually
needed wine in tha house, either for our
health or comfort ¥’ | :
“Why, I think it has adwinistered to our
comforts, Cora.” ; .
“How wn os ete
“In many ways."
«Name one of them.”
Why, in the enjoyment of our guests.”
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“No, 1 can’t say that it has.”
‘And if it was banished from our house
to-day, and forever, as a beverage, would
we suffer in consequence ?”
Certainly. What would our friends—”
“4h! but stop; I am only speaking of our
own affairs, as shut out from the world. by
our own friends. I want "ail extraneous
considerations left ‘out. Should” wé, as a’
family, suffer in our mental, physical, social
‘or domestic affairs in the total abstinence
from this beverage #”
“No ; I don’t know that we should.”
*“Then, to you, as a husband and a father,
as a man, is it of any earthly use #’
No.”
“And it would cost you no effort, so far
as you alone are concerned, to break clear
from the habit 2”
“Not a particle.”
“And now, Henry,’’ pursued the wife with;
increased earnestness, ‘‘I have a few more
questions to ask. Do you think that the
drinking of intoxicating beverage is an evil
in this country 2®
A “Why, asit is now going on, I certainly
0.
“Andisn't it an evil in society 2"
f¥es.!
Look over this city and tell me if 1t is not
a terrible evil !”
“A terrible evil grows out of the abuse of
it, Cora.”
“And will you tell me what good grows
out of the use of it 2”
“Really, Jove, when you com: down to
this abstract point, you have the field. But
people should govern their appetites. All
things may be abused.”
“Yes. But will you tell me the vse—the
and brandy ?”
«As I said before, it is a social custom,
and has its charms.”
“Ah! there you have it, Henry. It does
have its charms as the deadly snake is said
to have, and as other vices have. But [ see
you are in a hurry.”
It is time I was in the store.”
“I will detain you but a moment longer.
Henry, just answer me a few wore ques-
tions. Now call to mind all the families of
your acquaintance ; think of all the domes-
tic circles you have known from your school-
boy days to the present. Run your thoughts
through the various homes where you have
been intimate. Do this and tell me if in any
one instance you ever knew a single joy to
be planted by the hearthstone by the wine
cup ? Did you ever know one item of good
to flow to a family from its use 2”
«Np ; I cannot say that I ever did—not
ag you mean.”
“And now answer me again. Think of
those homes once more. Call to memory
the playmates of your childhood, thiuk of
other homes, think of the firesides where all.
you have known dwell, and tell me if you
have seen any sorrow flow from the wine
cup ? Have you seen any griefs planted
by the intoxicating bowl on the hearth-
stone ?”
Henry Seaburn did not answer, for there
passed before him such grim specters of sor-
row and grief that he shuddered at the men-
tal vision. He saw the youth cut down in
the hour of promise ; he saw hearts broken ;
‘he saw homes made desolate ; he saw the
affections wither up an! die ; and saw noble
intellect stricken down ! Good Heavens!
what sights he saw as he unrolled the canvas
of his memory. !
“Henry,” whispered the wife, moving to
his side, and winding one arm gently around
his neck, “we have two boys. They are
growing to be men ; they are noble, gener-
ous and ‘warm hearted ; they lcve their
home and honor their parents ; ‘they are
Lere to form those characters, to receive
those impressions which shall be the basis
on which depends their future weal or woe,
Look at them ! Oh, think of them. Think:
of them doing battle in the great struggle of
life before them. Shall they carry out from
their home on evil influence 2 Shell they,
in the time to come, fall by the wayside,
cut down by the demon of the cup, and in
their dying hour curse this example whence
they derived the appetite ? Oh, for our
children, for those two boys, for the memo-
ries we would have them cherish of their
home, for the good old age they may reap,
let us cast the thing out now and forever.”
Cora kissed her husband as she ceased
speaking, and then he rose to his feet—but
he made no reply.
“Henry, are you offended 2"
No,” he said. He returned her kiss, and
without another word, he left his house and
went to his store. :
How strangely did circumstances work to
keep the idea his wife had given him, alive
in his mind. 'hat very morning he met a
youth, the son of one of his wealthy friends,
in a state of wild intoxication, and during
the forenoon he heard that young Aaren
G had died at sea. He knew that
Agron had been sent away {rom home, that
he might be reclaimed.
After the bank had closed, and as Henry
Seaburn was thinking of going to his dinner,
he received a note through the penny post.
It was from a medical friend, and contained
a request that he would call at the hospital
on his way home. It was not much out of
his way, and he stopped there.
“There is a man in one of the lower wards
who wishes to see yeu,” said the doctor.
“Does he know me?’ asked Mr. Sea-
burn.
‘fle says he does.”
«What is his name 2”
“He won't tell us. He goes by the name
of Smith, but I am satisfied that such is not
his true name. He 1s in the last stage of
consumption and delirium. He had lucid
intervals, but they do not last long, He has
been here a week. He was picked up in the
street and brought here. Ile heard your
name, and said he knew you.”
Mr. Seaburn went to the room where the
patient lay, and looked at him ;° surely he
never knew that man ? . * There must be
some mistake,’ said he. +.
The invalid heard him and opened his eyes
— such bleodshot, sunken eyes ?
«Harry,”’ he whispered, trying to lift him-
self upon his elbow, is this Harry Sea-
burn 2” ;
“That is my name.”
«And don’t you know me ?”’ -
“T am sure I do not.” And Harry woul
have said that he did not wish to, only the
man scemed 80 ‘utterly miserable that he
would not wound his feelings. .
[ave you forgotten your cld playmate in
boyhood, Harry —your friend in other years
2
—-your chum in college ?
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real geod to be derived from drinking wine |
aghast, for a glimmer of the truth burst upon
him, ‘“this is not Alec Lomberg 2’
“All that there is left of him, my Hal,’
returned the fellow, putting forth his wasted
skeleton hand, and smiling a quaint, quiv-
ering, dying smile. “Ah! PATER PECCA-
vi!
* «Alexander Lomberg !"’ said Harry, gaz-
ing into the bloated, disfigured face before
im.
“You wouldn't have known me would
you, Hal 2’
“Good Heavens ! no !”
“I know I am altered. Ah, Ilal, sic tran
sit gloria mundi.”
‘But, Alec,” cried Seaburn, “how is this?
Why are you here 2”
“Rum, Hal, rua! I'm about done for.—
But I waited to see you. They told me you
lived not far away ; and 1 would cali upon
one friend before I died.”
“But I heard you were practicing in your
profession, Alec, and doing well.”
“So I did well when T practiced, Hal. I
have some pleas, but I have given up all
that.” :
“And your father, where is he 2°
“Don’t mention him, Hal. We've broken,
I don’t know him! he taught me to drink !
Aye, he taught me! and then turned the
cold shoulder to me when he thought I
drank too much. But I'm going, Hal—go-
ing, going.” i
Henry Seaburn gazed into that horrible
face and remembered that the owner had
been the son of wealthy parents ; the idol of
a fond mother ;* the favorite at school, at
play and at college ; a light of intellect and
of physical beauty, and a noble, generous
friend. And now, alag !
“Alec, can I help you 2
“Yes,” and the poor fellow started high
from his pillow, and something of the old
light struggled in his eye. “Pray for me,
Hal ; pray for my soul ; pray tnat I may
go where my mother is. She could not have
done it bad she lived. Oh, she was a good
mother, Hal ! Thank God, she didn’t live
to see this! Pray for me, pray, pray. Let
me go to her.” !
As the wasted man sunk back, he fell to
weeping, and in a moment more one of his
paroxysms came on, and he began to rave.
He thought Henry was his father, and he
cursed him, and cursed the habit that had
been fastened upon him under that father’s
influence. But Henry could not stay to lis-
ten. With an aching heart he turned and
left the hospital. He did not go home to
dinner then, he walked down town and got
his dinner there. At night he went to the
hospital again. Ile would inquire after his
friend, if he did not see him.
Poor fellow,” said the physician, he
never cate out of that fit ; Le died in half an
hour after you went out.”
It was dark when Henry Seaburn reached
heme. ©
“You di¢n’t tell Bridget where to put those
demijohns, Henry,” said his wife. She lid
not notice his face for the gas was burning
but dimly.
“Ah! I forgot. Come down with me,
Cora, and we'll find a place for them.”
His wife followed him down in the base-
and carried them into the rear yard, and’
there emptied their contents in the sewer.
Then he broke the vessels in pieces with his
foot, and bade Bridget have the dirt man
take the fragments away in the morning. —
Not a word had he spoken to his wife all
the time, nor did she speak to him. He re-
turned to the sitting room, where his boys
were at their books, and took a seat on one
of the tete-a-tetes. He called his wife and
children about him, and then told the story
of Alexander Lomberg,
+And now, my loved oncs,”’” he added,
laying his hands upon the heads of his boys,
“1 have made a solemn vow, that henceforth
my children shall find no such influence at
their home. They never shall have occasion
to curse the example of their father. What
say you, my boys, will you join me in the
sacred pledge 4’ :
They joined him with a glad, gushing
willingness ; for their hearts were full, and
their sympathies all turned, by a mother’s
careful love, to right.
“And you, Cora ?”
“Yes! yes!” shecried; “and may the
holy lessons of this hour never be forgotten.
Ob, (30d, let it rest as an angel of mercy
fect in the time of temptation. And so shall
they bless throughout life the influence they
carry with them from their home.”
Shiseellmueous.
No MaN.—A wag happened to go into the
shop of a tailor just as the latter was in the
‘act of patching an old garment with new
cloth, thus addressed the knight of the bod-
kin :
¢ You are no man, I can prove it by the
highest authority.’
* How so # rep'ied the unsuspecting tailor
as he plied his needle with double activity.
* I should like to hear the evidence of your
assertion.’ x
‘You shall be accommodated, sir,’ says
the wag, asking at the same time if he rec-
ollected of ever having read the passage in
the New Testament which declares that no
man putteth a piece of new cloth into an old
garment.’
—_—
“ A beautiful day, Mr. Jenkins.” ¢ Yes
very pleasant indeed.” ¢ Good day for the
race.” ‘‘Race—what race?’ ¢ The hu-
man race.” Oh, go long with your stupid
Jokes ; get up a good one, like the one with
which I sold day.” ¢Day—what Day?"
‘The day we celebrate,” said Jenkins, who
went on his way rejoicing. :
— ren
A story is told of a tavern keeper by the:
ing his sign, left out the periods, so it read :
Tavern—kept by A S CAMP.
————
ONE reason why the world is not reform-
ed is, because every man is bent on reform-
ing others, and never thinks cf reforming
himself. sty °
———
You have a right to unhorse your enemy
«Ah! but I am speaking of ourselves,
Henry—of you and me, and our own little
family. [las it ever ministered to our com-
forts. .
“What !” gasped Seaburn, starting bac
if you can, but net by stealing bis horse.
ment, and one by one he took the demijohns |.
upon my boys.- Let it be alight to their,
name of A. S. Camp. The painter, in paint-
A New York Drummer on his Travels,
Hastings Minn Feb.
Ep Du Buus DaiLy Truss
Dr Sr:
you are glad to get anything to £11 up. I
might as well state at 1st that | shall not
chge you anything for my correspond’ce, £0
you may feel no delicacy about publishing
it on that acct. he
I have been employed for several yrs in
the great Jobbing Hse of Bales Batts & Co
in Central st N. Y. Cy. Our firm found it
necessary to send g trustworthy and capa-
ble man to the West to adjust their outstand-
ing matters and solicit. orders. Of course
the choice fell upon me, and though I have
never been out of the city before I must ray
I have acquitted myself very creditably in-
deed. A great many strange accidents &
incidents have befollen me & as 1 hayo a de-
cided literary taste I thought 1 would help
you along a little by adding a bit of Spice
(not All-spice—you see I am facetious.—
You'll notice it more as you go on) lo your
columns. I refrain from joking on ‘column,’
as [ might and perhaps will when we are
better acquainted.
I sent one letter to the N. Y. Times, but
Hank has bis hd so peled with pltes that he
probably Las entirely forgotten me. 1never
was much acquainted with him anyway,
still I always wished him well. Jim Ben-
nett has asked me repeatedly to write for
the Herald but I don’t like his style. I am
afraid it might injure my record if I shd ev-
er como up for anything. Now I write the
very etyle of goods the Vanity Fair wants, |
yet that contemp’ble little sheet has more
than a doz of my productions on hand which
they refuse to pub & pron oz Stuff.
But let us attend to biz: [ was billed
through to Chicago where T arrived per Exp
train via Grt Western Mich Southern R. R.
There T was shipp€d via C & NM and M. & L
C. R. R. to Winona -vhere I took the stage
to Rochester which may be said to be the
place where I experienced my ist adventure.
Some low fellows thinking themselves
smart and jealous of my evident S. iority
took advantage of my ignorance of the coun-
try to play a joke on me, I don’t know but
I may have indulged rather freely in compa-
ring that miserable backwoods place with
the only city in the world worth living in
viz: N. Y. Perhaps] did what vulgar peo-
ple call “putting on airs.” (How eusy 1
might have said hairs then, Tam up to that
sort of thing, you see.) I spoke, may be
{00 much of myself and my familiarity with
the leading men of my native Cy and there-
by gained the ill will of those disreputable
savages.
A young lawyer (not that he had any
right to be called ¢ne when compared to
Bill Seward and our fellows down at home)
came to me and skillfully excited my curi-
osity on the subject of sporting, and discant-
ed partcirly on the Snipe. If I havea wk-
ness it is field sports, not that I have indulg-
ed in them but then [ have read the Spirit
of the Times and the N. Y. Clipper, with
gruint. (Jac! Heenan and I have made
many a friendly sett 2. He says he shall
make no pretensions to the Blt after I have
a little more practice. )
To make a long story short this lawyer
interested me in catching Snipe to such a
deg. that. expressed a desire to engage in
the sport. Snipe, as all who are acquainted
with the habits of the bird know, ouly trav.
el in the night and then they go m single
Tile following their leader wherever he may
zo. The leader genertlly runs.in some weil
worn Ft path so that it a man can gains
good position and rem:in in it long enough
==» | he can by holding a sack open so as to al-
low the birds to enter catch two bushels of
them easily.
A night was appointed and thege men with
seeming friendliness assigned me the post of
honor as they called it, i e to hold the bag,
We came after a long walk to a sml creek
across which was a log for ft bridge. This
was the spot selected. I was to sit astrid
of this log & hold the sk while the rest of
the party went off to drive up the birds. —
| They saw me well fixed & then went off
saying it might be a good while before I saw
their game but if I had grit enough to stick
to my post I would get enough ofit. IT would
have stayed there if a 1,000,000 snipe had
come. The consequence wos [ remained
there till morning holding that infernal bg
although it was a cold night in the mo of
Nov. Ihadona prof Fr Cf boots which
were completely ruined and proved a tol
loss. I went to the Hotel and took a seat
in the slage for St. Peters where I arrived.
all safe. Do you know, Ed. Times, that the
whole dodge about snipe was a’ sell? It
was. Itsall « humbug about their going
in droves into sks held by people. It was
a deception so to speak, got up to induce me
to sit there with my ft hanging in the water
cll night while those fellows were asleep in
their miserable: cabins.
They tried the same game on me in St. P.
also but I rather got the start of them as I
always shall hereafter being naturally smart-
er than these untutored children of the fron-
tier, I went out with them, pretending 1g-
norance, and was assigned the post of hon-
or again. (I took it all regular enough, to
deceive them, while they went in an oppo-
site direction to blind me as ‘to their inten-
tions. They left an'axe with me which they
hol brought to cut away some branches,
I take the liberty |
of addressing a letter to you, knowing that |
and a new 2 bu seamless sk Stark Mills ‘A’
vork $20 pr C. by the bale in N. Y, As
they disappeared, I shouldered the axe,
picked up the Sk and started ‘back as fast
as [could go. ‘When my ' friends rctarned,
they found me zt a saloon eating oysters and
drinking hot whiskey in payment for which
{ had pawned the axe. :
A moreichop fallen locking sct of fellows
you never “saw. ‘¢ Sold !”’ said they with
one voice when they bheld we, & T must say
‘they did the handsome thing by me during
the remainder of my stay. I shall write
to you again in a few days.
Yours &c
P. S. If you don’t publish the above
which you wili I know, please send it to R.
Bonner of the N. Y. Ledger. Bob always
gives me a hundred for such things, yet I
am anxious to encourage literature in the
West and help build your paper up.
1.0.
—r——
Sergeant §. Prentiss, the brilliant Ora-
tor of the Southwest. :
‘This gifted man, who was a native of the
State of Maine, is the subject of a lecture
by the Rev. Mr. Milburn, the famous blind
preacher, from which we select the following:
He fought but two duels, both with Gen.
Foote. On one of these occasions, when a
sat assembly had gatliered to see the fight,
after the first fire, Prentiss remarked to o
boy who had climbed into a trée behing him”
—¢ Take care, my son, the Gereralis shoot-
ing rather wildly to-day!” This was re-
ceived with a shout of laughter, 1
At the second fire, Gen Foote was slight-
ly wounded. Prentiss resolved never to
send a challenge, and he deviated from the
course but once or twice. He addressed a
meeting of State Repudiators, denouncing
their course with the most withering invec-
tive ; but though they were pale and shiver-
ing with rage, they dared not harm Tim.
Once a drunken bully intruding into his
room, Prentiss was obliged to put him out.
Later in the night he returned and insisted
on fighting. So they took their stations on
the plazza, while the servant held the lights.
But at this moment a gleam of reason came
over the confused mind of the drunkard, and
he threw down kis weapon, exclaiming :—
£5 Prentiss, do you think I am such a fool as
to be fighting you here at this time gf night?’
IIe once procured the conviction of a noto-
rious villain and murderer named Phelps,
who confessed to him that he had intended
to spring upon him in the Court, strike him
dead, and then make his escape; but the
burning eloquence with which his crimes
were depicted by Prentiss, cowed him uutil
his head drppped, and he could not execute
his purpose. In another instance, a bold
ruftian who ruled his neighborhood by his
lawless will, had killed a neighbor and tak-
en possession of his estate. le threatencd
to shoot all who interfered, and no lawyer |
could be found to plead the cause of the
orphans of the murdered man until Prentiss
was applied to. The bully appeared in
T. CADDY.
I eourt armed to the teeth, and even the judge
and jury trembled with fear. But as Pren.
tiss applied to him his terrible scourge of
denunciatory language, he seemed to be
seized with a fit of ague, and when ft the
last the advocate exclaimed —* Got coward,
villain, murderer! go to the swamp where
you buried your victim, pull aside the tall
grass, lay your heart upon his breast, and
then come here and make restitution,” the
cowering bully shook like an aspen, and at
last hurried from the house so completely
broken down, that he shrank from all soci-
ety, and drank himself to death in a few
weeks: Bub.lrentiss defended many mur-
derers, aad nearly all of them escaped by
means of his eloquence, Ie exerted his
wonderful powers not only over the unlet-
tered, but the polished and scholarly, and
nowhere shone brighter than before the Su-
preme Court of the United States. He
seemed surcharged with a personal magnet.
ic power, not vehement fury and claptrap,
but was always the scholar and genilemgn,.
as well as the orator. 5
But perhaps he shone most brilliantly ia
the halls of legislation. - He wes a Henry
Clay whig, took the stump, and was elect-
ed to Congress.’ ‘His seat being contested,
he made a three days argument, which was
declar=d to be th: grencest efiort of oratory
ever produced ir the hails of Congess. —
Webster said no lying man could equal it.
Being refused his seat be went before the
peopls and his opponents laid traps to catch
him. ‘Knowing he woald drink with every-
body, twenty five political opponents in-
vited him to a dinner; with the intention of
getting him drunk, but he drank them all
under the table ; took the stand and made
such a speech as gave him 2500 majority
ina county which had always throne 3,600
majority againsthis party. A caravan pro-
prietor, taking advantage of the audicuces
he gathered, followed him with his show,
until Prentiss was obliged to make an agree-
ment with him by which he was to speak
two hours betore the show opened. One day
when mounted on. a cage, which he knew—
but the audience did not—contained a hye
na, he was speaking of Jackson and Van
Buren, and said that such was the iniquity
of their measures that even the beasts of
the forests would yell out against them, at
the same time giving the hyena a sly punch
with his cane through the air hole in the top
of the cage, which of course sct him yell.
| ed his constitution.
and, the whele menagerie followed. Ti
people were stuck dumb with amazemers
thinking that this Lproar was an answer tc
his appeal. Ilesaid this touch of the hee
cna gave him two hundred votes! Once
when speaking at Nashville, in £541, 10 40 2
000 people—for he lad a remarkable voiie
that could be heard a mile—he swooned
from over exertion, and fell into the arms of
Governor Jones, who, uncer the exeitergent
produced by his eloguenge, exclimed. as ho
looked upon his apparently difeless forni—
** Die, Prentiss, die! for you will never have
such another chance !?
In 1841 he marsied & pious and admirable
woman, whose influence over him was ex.
cellent. Had he married earlier he might
have Leen alive now, but it was too Iate. -.
He had overworked himself, and underiur.-
i He became embarrass.
ed in hig pecuniary affairs, and finally rea
moved ® New Orleans, where he gained a
large practice, but still overworking himsel!
broke down, returned ilo his family nt
i Natchez, and died int 1850, at the ago of 47
years.” :
He was the mostelagueni of gli opr ora.
tors, not excepting even Webster. Yet dear
but eleven years, he is already passing fron
the recollections of men.
The lecturer closed witl
r
C LIpressive
remarks as to the warning his career aftord:
to al. young men against giving way to the
temptations of gambling and drinking.
rose
Draw Bridge,
Narrow Escape.—A 'tersible accident cs
curred to a Hackensack and New York trai;
on Wednesday night, by running off of ai
open draw on the bridge crossing the Hack
ensack river, cn the New York and Eric
road, seven wiles (rom Jersey City, but for.
tunately without resulting ir tho loss of life
The train consisting of ‘a jacomotiye, tendo
and a very long iron ead, in which were &
bout twenty passengers, ‘including two Ia
dies, left Jersey City at 6,35 p. m. Ups.
approaching the Hackensack bridge, the en
gineer, Benjamin Carley, did not see the rc
ball which was raised as a signal for the (rai
to stop. He was not. therefore, aware of th:
danger until the loccmotive reached the ox
of the bLridge, when’ Le blew the ‘brake
down ; ‘but owing to the snow and ice o
the rails, the wheels did nat take hold, sn:
a moment afterwards the locomotive wen
to the bottom of the river, which at the
point is twenty seven feet in depth. Th
engineer went down to the bottom and sus
taired severe bruises. [le was finally res
cued.
The fireman. Theodore Van Euren, jump.
ed from the locomotive into the river and
swam to the shore. = : :
The iron car passed over the tender and
struck against the opposite side, with such
ree as to break the end in and gradually
surk into the water several feet. There
were five passengers in the forepart of the
car, Which i partitioned off as u smoking
car. As the car sunk down they were ic:-
mersed until the water was up to their necks,
when they broke out a window and succeed-
od in saving themselves. The passenger:
in the main part of the c.r were hurled foi.
ward with considerable force, but itis state
that none of them were injured beyond some
slight bruises. | Sel
At thio moment the train rian off; a schoon-
er was just in the act of passing through the
bridge, and her bowspirit was driven through
the lower part of the iron car, and broktn
olf. Information was sent to Jersey City,
when the division superintendont, Mr. Tay-
lor, proceeded to the scene with a locomotive
and gang of men, and after some deley ‘the
passengers were sent to Hackensack. = The
engineer, Carley, was talen to the hospital
w Jersey City.” He is bagly. Druiged abont
the hips and body, but it's thought he will
recover. [he conductor, R. A. Doremus,
received some injuries, but not of a serious
nature.
A Locomotive ard Passenger Lar Over ¢
— ee
A Perc. “2%
following interesting anecdote :-- At the bat-
Ue of Montmiraif, & young officor nated
Dur s’er, chanced ta be in Attendance on thie
Empcror at the mement when if became 2s.
sential to dispatch ‘2a ‘erder’ to one of the
Generals of Division : and, Napoleon hastily
summoned him'to hisaide, gave him instrus.
tions to deliver it without delay.
b Epi Ti hi sither yoursel® nor Force, gis,”
Steialy's *.for there is not'a moment
to lose, and return at once to report’ td me
that my order has been obeyed.”
Durosier galloped off amid a shower of
shot and shells, and within a quarter of ai
hour he was aga beside the Emperor,
* You have behaved well, monsicur, gar |
Napoleon, when he hail received his report ©
“you have a ston rt and a clear head ¢
though you are still only a youngsters * {
give you a captain’s 1 revet, and attach’ you
to my person. What's your name 2”
“Timele,.. Durcsier, sire.”
«It sees familiar to me. On what oa.
casion have I before heard it.”
“1.was colonel of the boy battalion, your
majesty.” ’
Ah, [ remember. Well, that is an ad-
ditional reason why I should attach you to
my person.”
+ Itis ico late, sor,” murmured the young
soldier. : : e
# Too late, Captain Durosier, and why i"
* Sir, they have hit me :" and as He'spoko
he withdi«w a handkerchief saturated with
blocd from the breast'ef his coat all will
soon be over—Viwe} Emperor! Viva la
France I” ;
He reeled for an instant in his saddle, and
then fell heavily into the arms of an officer
who had sprung forward to support him.—
Timoleon Duroster was a corpse.
** So young !—60 young !'—and so brave !
and to die on bis first battle field’ exclaimed
the Emperor, 2d he bent down for an instant
over the body. :*: Pour hoy! Poor boy I"
Then setting spurs to his horse, he gal-
loped off; ds if unable to linger aver so snd
ing; while the lion jjeined in with hiv
ein
a spectacle.
Miss Pardoe, in aTecant work relates iis
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