The Democratic Watchman,
BELLEFONTE, PA
THE DAY LABORER
"la the morning ebw thy eeed, and In the
evening withhold not thine hand, for thou
knoweet not whether shalt prosper, either this
or that, or whether they both shall be alike
good.—Eoc. xl. O.
Bow ye beside all waters,
Where the dew of hetesen may fall;
Ye shalt reap, If ye be not wean*,
For the Bplrlt breathee o'er all.
f ow, though the the thorns may wound thee,
One wore elm thorn* for thee;
And though the nold world scorn (bee,
Patient and hopeful be. -
Sow ye besides all waters.
. %Mb pi blessing and a prayer;
Name Him whose hand upholdeth thee
Aud sow thou everywhere
Bow where thetunlight sheddeth,
I in warm and cheering ray,
For the rain of heaven decoendeth
When thelaunbeama pace away.
Sow when the tempest Inhere,
For calmet day, will break,
And the need, in dark neaanounahed
A goodly plant may matte.
Sow when the morning bre►keth
In beauty o'er the land,
And when the evening faileth,
Withhold not thou thine hand
Sow, though the rock repel the,
1n He erhi and atertle pride;
Borne cleft there may be riven.
Where the little seed may hide.
Lear not, for moms will flourish,
And though the tares abound,
LIMB the willows by the waters.
Will the seetter'd grain be found
Wink I uhtle the daylight lairteth.
Ere the shade• of night come on ,
Ere the Lord of the vineyard cometh
And the laborer's work !edam.
Work I In the it Ild waste phthee,
TpouFh nfNie thy love they own,
God guisthe the down of the thistle
The NAtodoriag wind bath aown.
Will Janus chide thy weakness,
Or cell thy . labor rain?
The word that fur Him thou bearwit
Shall return to Him again.
0111 with thine heart in heaven. •
Thy strength—thy Nester's might
Till the wild waste places blossom
In the warmth ors tlavlouee light.
Sow 17 the wayside gladly,
In the damp, dark cavern's low,
Where the anol ight seldom reecho:4.h
Nor healthful strew:Meta sow;
Where the withering ,Jr of poison
Is the young bud's earl lest breath.
And the wild, unwholesome blossom
Beers In its beanty—'lleath."
The ground impure, o'ertrodden
By life's disfiguring years;
Though blood and guiltebave stained it.
ilay yet be soft from tears
Watch not the clench; above thee,
Let the whirlpilul round the sweep
1:od may the coed tune give thee,
But anotherla hand may reap
Dave faith, though nerer beholding
The, weed burst from Its tomb;
Thou know'st nut which may perch,
Or what be spared to Mums.
Itoom on the narrnweet ridges
'llan ripen d grate will both
That the Loid 01 the linrvest coming,
In the harvest hthelllll.. tray bind
Whispers In the rfg.:RS
The "Baltimore Episcopal Methodist"
On the Preachers.
If the 31Ini<ters of the Gosigl have
the right to determine, in disputed cases
what ;s right or wrung, then they ought
to be enlighted by a speend illumina
tion To claim to declare the mind of
God, without consulting God, or being
advised of Gud, is the height of arrogant
presumption Wo can comprehend,
how a body of Christian ministers, may
express an important opinion upon the
immoral tendency of certain amusements,
of fashions of dress, without going be
yond the prerogatives of a mural and
A z
reli
religious body of men But should they
uli ale to fay that God is on the side
of 00 ifis" agosust Bloomers, or hoops
against close dresses, beca use the minis
ters infer that the one kind of dress in
volves contingencies and probabilities
contrary to the ultimate purpose of the
Almighty, wit would reject their asser
tion with indignation Preachers have
no more right to know the will of God
than other people have. That no
special access to the' Almighty:
have no special means of learning is
will. In effect they always find His
will by learning their own ; and being
of like passions as outset% es, they have
shown themselves to beguile as fully un
der the influence of the wild, inconsider
ate, arrogant spirit of party, es other
men are. Individual preachers haveho
right, to use the pulpit to give more than
human importance to their own opinions
about matters, not dennitely settled in
the word of God. Some preachers claim
the right to decide, instruct and exhort
in all 'mitten pertaining to morals. But
who made them judges in causistry 7
Does God impart to ministers the wis
dom necessary to decide questions ''too
hard" for other men's judgements 7 The
geld of moral acti, - n includes all actions.
It is impossible to consider any distinct
set of a man s life, as separate from mor
ality, as never to be brought under the
eye of ' an authorized censor morum.
How a man eats, drinks or sleeps, what
occupation hq pursued, whose company
he keeps, whom he marries ; how much
or little he spends or gives ; what he
thinks, how he voles ; every conceiva
ble thing of his life, may by brought un
der the mep of moral teaching. Now,
in many fhlitgs there is room for differ
ence of opinion. There are questions to
be determined as to right antr'wrong,
better or worse, that educe different de
cisions from different men. These are
directly or indirectly questions. Shall
he preach' the mind of God, against the
mind of men ; making the mind o! Clod
always another name for his 0,11 ? For
examfle : Jutemperauce is a great vice.
Its consequences aro incalculable bad.
Dram drinking tends to Intemperance.
The question mime, ought men to drink
intoxicating drinks ? The Bible skis
nothing positive upon the subject. We
are left to inferences and individual
oonscience. Now, it moms that th •
inferences are not so obeions as to be
drawn alike •by ell honest inquirers.
Some think it - a duty to abstain altogeth
er. Others do not. A body of clergy
men taint and 11 1 .111'P:titers being in the
majority, declare it a Ohl Cnarlitk at all.
They undertake to speak the mind of
God, and exclude from the Church all
wit take intoxicating drinks, Wo say
such a body w ould act presumptuously.
Their assumption rould be utterly un
tvisitanted. They , here no right tei put
themselves in the place of God,and show
themselves as God. They are poor er
ring mortals like the rest of us. 7bs
deduction that it. would his well for the
community to adopt their opinion does
not justify the ministers in usurping the
prerogative of God and'giving laws to
men. Much less may a preacher use
his pulpit to deoidtrtfiequestiOna
be nutting off his personal opinion as
God's ppinion. No annex hOw.true the
inan'sppinion;it is not God's ; unless he
has deitinctly declared it. When the
'question of war or peace was up ; many
doubted. It was a question most diffi
cult to solve by human reason. But
Glid did not speak. - In this as in thous.
Ads of other questions he compels men
to exercise the faculties he has given
them. But suddenly Conference spoke,
and spoke fully with the breeze. As
semblice hastened to get before thogale.
Bishops spread all tail and scudded. God
was declared to be fur the war ; and soon
'the war was declared to be for God. His
great name was the refuge for all mal
efactors. It was idle to complain crf mas
sacres, plunder, corruption, 4 justice,
venality of statesmen, perjury of witness.
ee—it was all for Ood. It was nut
Sherman's bummers, but "God's angels"
that devastated Georgia. As well might
the Caunanites have complained of Josh
ua. Once allowed to prophesy evil
against rebels, the preachers assumed, as
a matter of course, to find God favora
ble to every. mesadre of Congress. God
was for every thing they did when they
did it, and opposed to every thing they
undid when they undid it. God's mind
followed the decisions of the Republican
caucus, with absolute implicitness ; and
nut only was he positively one of the
party, but negatively too. He refrained
from rebuking any sin accidently con
nected with the reputation of the lead
ers, The preachers had a plenty to say
from Clod about the sins of Southern
men ; but they produced no message
about Conover's perjuries, nor Holt's
court menials. Everybody must see
that the responses of God were as abso
lately those of the preacher, as when the
heathern priest hid himself in a hollow
image of a gad and shook and nodded
its oracular head. Tho American min
istry did fur Baluk whatever of blessing
and cursing he wonted 'They were for
mferp obsequious than Balsam. They
cured the rebels from every point of
view. The bull of excommunication
was nut more minute and comprehensive
in malediction, than the horrible impre
cations they called their prayers. AV hen
such men as Rev. Col. Moody, and Rev.
Chaplain In,kip, and Rev. Dr. Tyng,
had possession of the Divine Being and
put words into the trumpet of Sinai, no
wonder that screaming* of passion took
the place of the thundering* of law.
Ei en nuw we see by a newspaper para
graph that Col. Moody, (of whose
achievements some of our Kentucky
readers have heard,) can find no stand
ard of comparison by which to measure
the work of Christ but the work of Grant.
The eunquul of gin was tEis moral Ap
pomaior," is an apothegm that well il
lustrates the Christianity of tho modern
Methodist school of Bishops Ames and
Simpson It is one of the hotlow echoes
of a war, in which the Northern part of
the nation sacrificed its religion "for its
•' Nut remembering the words of
Hon who said, What shell it profit a
men to gain the"wholt, world and lose
his own soul "
Cuba is the next moral question which
the ministers will feel it their duty to
attend to Mr. Beecher has already
spoken If the Congressmen, who are
ili•n ipotentiaries of God, shall dote rm ine
it to be necessary to the supremacy of
tho party to secure the negto votes in
Cuba, and if the present reennis cardtale
between Bishop Simpson and the party
continue, end radical ascendancy still
recognize Methodist Epna. op thiseendan
cy in the South as a political necessity,
then as sure as fate the M thodist Epis
copal Church presses, pulpits and con
ferences will declare that God has given
Cuba into our hands and we must go
down and possess it. Bishop Simpson
has already openly adopted the old Pu
ritan syllogism of plunder ..At a public
meeting he is rtqxirtecl to have repeated
the old formula. The earth is the Lord's
Thsvoirtli Is given to the saints—and
added, ate &boost ready to say, 'We
(the 'Methodiit Zplscopal Church) are
rag asitstaY" Tho Methodist Einacopsti
tainistan hive just at fitikb 'Arvipe riggftt
to determine God's designs shoat Coto
tut they have to vote Ms will for recon
struction, eici/-tenure,ittipesebrnent ind
all the other radical acts. Of which acts,
after God has been esidorsed on thorn,
ono of the drawers, Gov Sprague, now
confesses that not a single one was
done from any higher motive than sel
fish interest.
Obvious as this wicked presumption
is, there never was on this earth a peo
ple more docile in the hands of their
clergy than the Methodist Episcopal
Churches are. They seem utterly Inca
pable of the elightesi. resuitivice. In fact
the great mass of them, and nowhere
more then in this city, are stupidly ig
norant that their church is anything
other than an aggregate of people, who
go to meeting and hear the preacher
sent to them, and are palavered from
time to time about old Methodism,' by
New England men who never could re
ceive the old Methodism we sent them,
but have changed it into the most pow
erful ecclesiasticism of modern
_times.
Had the last Methodist Episcopal" non
ferenco passed an act taking into the
Church, Brigham Young and the Mor
mons without noticirig.,Pol9ffemb we
are satlided ;hat four-Ottani of the meth
odist Episcbpal membership In this
State 'would'nevier have heard of it, un
less by toelkierit, and not a single con
gregation would secede on sop:uit-of it.
The preachers wit to them would uy
nothing aNdlit it fn' the pulpits. Person
ally they would disapprove of it ; or
perhaps they would show from the old
Testament the _right of it ; but their
people would still belong to theit meet
ing-bowie ; complain bitterly if
any body should attempt 00 Mill their
attention to the innovation. 7)
ishopc
Ames and Simpson unclerstood this
.thoroughly when they dared to enter in—
to political. alliance with 'Stanton and
Lincoln. They knowilt noW When - they
dents *end her such Eddy and
Inakip. They are tight in expecting to
secure the greater part ofthe Methodist
Episcopal tnemberstip here to their
Mulatto system. They will do it. We
believe In brains, and Bishop Ames
knovis the weak places hero, as well as
we do. He Istfoatv Where "tlre'oft,in"
is. If we are not mistaken, that,astute
manager will twist the flexible nom
new in his hand as easily as if they
were wax. Around Dr. Eddy, Inskip
and others, a party of simpletons will
soon be collected who will in a little
while be ntlgroved and sanctifled, until
even Be, •pstesvlit higbet-hopes will be
ftillifiled• 'We know the leaden of the
Methodist ipisoopsd Church hero ; and
we know Bishop Ames; and we know
the instruments ho has hero;, and again
we any wo believe in brains.
We know we give offense by this
plain writing, but wo cannot refrain on
that neconnt, any more than .wo could
refrain from throwing a stone at a bird,
stupidly fluttering into the mouth of
bladk snake.
The Horrors of Being "Instantly Kill-
E3ll
Count Tolsboi'a "Sevastopol in May,"
in course of publication in "flours al
Home," gives a very remarkable de
scription of the death of a man who is
instantly killed—as tit, living say, "in
stand); killed"—by a piese of a shell
which strikes him. But to him', the
dying man,• his death seems a different
affair. Tbis surely is extremely p6w•
erful writing :
Itichallof looked behind him. The
shining point of bombsecinecl to stand
at the zenith—in that position where it
is impossible to tell its direc.ion. But
that lasted only a minute ; the bomb
came quicker and quicker nearer and
nearer, so that you could ace the sparks
from the tube and hear the fatal whist
ling, and directed its course straight at
the middle of the battalion,
"Lie down," cried a voice.
Michel Loft and Praskukin lay down on
the ground- Praskukin, tightly closing
his eyes. heard only how the bomb fell
heathy somewhere very near on the
hard ground. A second passed—it
seemed an hour—and the bomb did not
burst. Praskukin began.. •to be afraid
that hedtad done a cowardly act without
any reason, that perhaps the bomb had
fallen far away, and thatbe only thought
ho heard the fuse fizzing. He opened
his oyes and SAW with satisfaction, that
Michallof lay immoveable on ti,e ground
near his legs. But his eyes at that
moment met the sparkling fuse of the
whirling bomb not a yard from him
A horrid—a cold horror excluding all
other thoughts and feelings—took ',ob
session of hum. He covered his face
with his hands.
Another second passed— a second in
which a whole world of
thoughts, hopes, and rceollectionspassed
through his mind.
"Whom will it kill; moor ichalloff?
or both to h T.'', If it hits me where
will it hit) in the head then, it'isoall
over ; if it hits my leg, they will cut it
MI, and I shall soft them to do it by all
means with chloroform—and I can still
get through alive. list pi limps it will
only-kill idichalleff—then I can tell how
we were walking toggther, and lie was
Lined and 1 was spattered with blood
Nu; it's nearer to tne, it will kill ins I"
Then he recollected the twelve rouble
that he owed Michallta; he recollected
also another debt at Petersburg that he
ought to have paid long age; a Gipsy air
that ho bad sung in the evening came
into-his head The girl whom lie loved
appeared to his imagination in a cap
with Iliac ribbons ; he remembered is
man whom he had insulted years before
and who had never paid it back, al
though at the seme time with these and
a thousand other rememberances the
feeling of his present circumstancos—the
expectatior of deathnever fora mom
ent quitted him. "However, perhaps it
will not built," be then, and with a de
spairing_ decision wanted to open his
eyes. But at that instant, through the
still shut . lide he saw a red fire, and with
a horrible noise something hit him in
the middle of the breast "Thank
God I I am only bruised," was his
first thought, and he wanted to feel his
breast, but his hands seemed to be bound
down, and a wait to' keep down his
head. The soldietos shone in his eyes,
and he unconsciously counted them :
"One, two, three soldiers, and that one
whose overcoat has alivpod down is an
officer," he thought Then he raw dish.
es, and be thought "what are thy filing
from, mortars or cannon 7 - ttil,irtt
tiring gotin, teetlia*Wke"4 gator s ;
Avt, 4,_•ivatk *Wafers, "and 'they ill go
part," !tad oncebecame afraid
that they . would leave Idni there. He
wanted to cry out Mat be was wounded,
but his mouth was so dry that his tongue
stuck to hie palate and a horrible thirst
tormented him. He felt how wet he
was about the breast "Really I fell
Into some blood when I lay down," he
thought and yielding snore and more to
the fear that the soldiers who were going
past would leave him there, he collected
all his forces and tried to cry out :
"Take mealong." but instead of that ho
groaned so horribly that it was awful to
hear his own voice. Then some red
fires danced in his eyes, and It seemed
to him that the soldiers were laying
stones on him ; the lira danced quick
er and quicker, the stones which they
*laid bn 'hien oppreasd him more and
more. He made en effort to throw off
the stones, stretched out, and then neith
saw nor heard, nor thought nor felt.
He was killed on the spot by a fragment
of shell In the'mlddle of his breast,
will you get e • new pair
of skates If I will prove • you that a
dog has ten tails 7"
"Yee, ray ion."
"Well, tb begin, one d one
more than no dog hasn't he?"
"Yea."
"WelL ; no dog bas nine tails; end If
One has one lama than no dog, then one
d triust*hava,ten tails."
Ale got his skates.
Tux UAND6OMIL 811410711.—A female
singor who was in high favor: with a
German Prince. was appointed to sing
one of Haydn's coraixeltions. At the
rehearsal she and the conductor differed
as "to the time .In which it shoutd be
sung. It was agreed that the coMposig
thould be referred to, who, when the
conductor waited on him, asked him if
the lady WWI htadiome.
"Very," nag elereply, "and a special
faioritemith tho Duke."
"Then one is right," said Hayden,
with a significant look at the poor dis
?r,
concerted pr sot, who in nil pro 1,0 , 1:,
l• "ISX' Znlll Ill'• (mint would hnvn lore
lienplace: n ti iliw Ilnyden wkll Icn,w
THE GIRL WHO LIVED NEXT
DOOR
Oh. happy dreamt Oh holiday,
Bright day of all the past,
Brimming with tender summer light,
Too full of sun to last,
Ono childish figure 'mid the haze.
81411 beckons evermore,
Btill - ^l; , a royals vo. obey ,
The, girl The eg.ne?rt rldor
Avrea t eglantine mad since then,
r Red maple!' IS andlluithad,
The nightingal s eines then have sung
When coarser mounds woro hushod •
But ruddy flush nor blossom breath,
Nor bird-song overmoro,
Will stem, as whop I eat beside
The girl who tired next door
For her I ran the student race,
For her I woo the prjae,
For lola of her came home again
To read her loyal eyes;
And when the stars cattle trooping out
kle thought my carve wero o'er,
And I need only ask to win
The girl who lived next door,
Tho summer eve grow strangely dark,
The slurp •hour dim to me,
And roses withered tui 1 saw
LiimeAtli the maple troo
My idol circled by an arm
Which band nod ohm con bore
A MACHIN'S bride, (I knew It all,)
Magid Who MAW next dour.
'Arbon traud'ens fur Rome Impuloo strange
I row home my vagrant feet,
Once more beneath the eglantine,
Butne guidance bid tie ntibet
Under the window—white and still,
1 sew my lure once lucre
When burial blossoms sweet and white,
Unstirred her bosom bore.
She was not mine to win and loom
But ever 1111110 to keep,
Aline to remember lovingly
Un to dishes dreamy 1401. p,
The gladness of a day gone by, (
le mine fur evermore,
And llfu id eeeetem having loved
'1 he girl who died uezt doom.
Exchange
The Mad Stone
For the first tune in our lite, we saw
recently, a genuine mad-stone and heard
its history from the owner, who inherit.
ed -it from his father. The fortunate
possessor is Col B. Lee Milani, of %Va.
terfurd, Marshall courrty, Miss. Col
Milani is a prominent citizen of his
county, and his statements set at rest
any doubt which may bo had about
the efficacy of the mad-stone in curing
the bites of mud dogs, cats, snakes, spi
ders, or other venomous animals or in
sects Cut Milani ii u native ul Math.
sun county, North Alabama, from
whence he removed in 1833 The family
came (rum Virginia, and the Cul. also
inherits his middle mine, being n second
cousin of Gen Robert E Lee
The mud-stone in his possessii n is
about the size uric hen's egg ; as heavy
as so much brill, and rather more po
rous, and is of a light clayish color
One end is flat, as if it had boon sewed
off, and a grain runs through the stone
frum end to end its tf it bad, in sonic
former age been so much wood or bone
About lifty years ego this stone was
split in three Of four pieces, but ‘11:14
carefully fastened together with a wire,
which still performs its office The
stone wits brought from China, iu the
}ear 1810, by Dr Barker Thu Dr
died in u few years, and the stone was
sold at. a public auction among his other
property. Mr. Jarvis Milani, the Colo
nel's father was the purchaser, and nt
his death he willed the stone, to its pres
ent owner, with the conditii..n that all
the family should have the use °en as
often as necessary, free_of charge
As to its virtues. Col Milton states
that it has been applied with success in
over a thousand cases, and hasonly fitil
ed in two, and in these the parts effec
ted could not be successfully reached
lie has used it himself over two hun
dr d and fifty times When applied, it
adheres at if by suction, and usually re
mains on ten or twelve hours When
the poison is all extracted the stone falls
oft. During the process& very offensive
stench fills the room, making thew
sickening in the extacmo. The stone is
khen soakedin warm water from twenty
four to thirty-six hours, when itbecomes
cleansed, and is again ready for use
Col. Mllam assures us that h can cure
any case of dog, snake or other bite
where madness or dissolution has not
actually set in. Cures have been effec
ted even two weeks after the bits. Last
week the stone was successfullyr used in
several eases. It is known for many
leave, at-Mad, and the people some
Ireins fp and near to be 'boated.
•-001. rldtlam bets. Wen offered $B,OOO
fns this wonderful atone, but always re
futed to entertalri the proposition. He
said, yqterday, that he might sett it for
SIO,OOU If the buyer would promise to
always allow him the ore of it —Mem.
plat Avalanch
A MONATER IN SULLIVAN COUNTY,
PA —One Springsteel, of Wurteburo',
is in the Sullivan county jail doing pen
ance fur systematically torturing his
httlo son On the trial it woe shown
that the man ordered his son to go up
the mountain and get wood off, when
the thermometer was below zero. The
brave buy went, but when he returned
IA the evening hirwas nearly frozen,and
attempted to go to the lire to warm him
self. But the inhuman mother this
tinaedrove him away and turned him
out of doors. The boy went to the barn
and picked up a friendly creature to
warm his hands. His father who had
followed him into the barn seeing thut
be wiu burrowing the heat of the dog's
body to keep his hands from freezing
seized him by the neck and hurled him
Into the yard, kicking and, beating hen
and threatning to break every bone id
his body if he dared to touch the dog
again, or go near the Are in the house.
When the boy appeared in court he ex
cited cempassion, lie had a cowed look
which, addedtells gentle aspect, bight
ened cht piteousness of his, appearance.
Hispoofbody was literally clothed in
rags ; the bare shoulders looking
through the loans and windows thereof,
and pleading as no language could have
pleaded. The father was sentenced to
six months ] imprtiontagnt in the county
jail. • •
lawyziin Lowell were re,
turning from co whon the one said to
the othet : .
"I've 11 notion to j6lll Reif: Mr.
—'s chunk—been debating the
matter for some time. What do you
th.ink. of St 1"
"Wotildn't do It," • Idd the other.
why ?"
• It It
1:00.1. WWI.. it 111100 t s, gita,l injury
V, the ehurch " •
John Phapnlx.
A friend recently related to us the
following anecdote of 'llhosnir, which
has never been published: •
When Jiffierson Davis was Secretary
o Wikr,he issued circulars to all the
eitinY officers, asking of them speciflca
tions for u proposed new uniform.
Phomix, who WM an excellent draughts
man, set to work and produced a de
sign. lie nude no great change in the
uniform, fait he proposed revolutioniz
ing the entire system of modern tactics
by an iron hook. This hook was to be
attached to the seat of every soldier's
pants It applied to every arm of the
service, cavalry, infantry and artillery.
Lie illu,trated its use by a series of well.
executed designs. Ho (poled high medi
cal authority proving its advantages in
a sanitary point of view. The heavy
knapsack, he argued, induced a stooping
ositirn and contraction of the chest.
But hung orl the hook by a strap con
necting with the shoulder, it -osissaid
brace the body hack' and expand the
cheat. The cavalry thus wore to be
rendered more secure in their seats,
hooked to a ring In the saddle. All the
commissioned officers were to carry a
light twenty-foot pole with a ring at
tached to the cud. This was used du
ring en engagement in drawing the
stragglers back into the ranks. 100 il
lustrated a terrific battle, the generals
uitd colonels being thus occupied, run
ning about hauling stragglers back to
the ranks. In many other unheard of
ways did he expatiate on the value and
efficiency of his hook. Jefferson Davis
was enraged Hie dignity wee wounded
and the service was insulted. lie in
stantly made out an order directing
Moonlit to ho court-martialed fur con
tempt
Maicy Wll5 Made !male of Thosnix•o•
transaction, as well ns the cloud hanging
over him lie looked over the plates
no saw is regiment, their bucks toward
him drawieg up in line knapsacks,
blankets, hates and all manner of camp
eouippnge, pendant from each soldier on
the hook
Marcy broke down. Said he to Davis
"It's nu use to court-martial that m an
The matter will bo made public; the
laugh will settle entirely on us, and be
man who has the -Inventive
ingenuity here displayed, as well ns this
faculty of design, Illy directed though it
he, is too % lua bla to the service to be
trifled with." John Phoenix was not
brought to grief, and Davis' anger was
at length sufficiently mollified for him
to enjoy (ha joke It does not appear,
however, that they adopted bl'teniz's
plan,
Courtship Custotis.
There is something exceedingly mel
ancholy in the accounts of wholl are
given of the custom of courtship in
Gim ri hind Generally, women en ter
upon the blessed estate with more wil
-1 ngnesi and lisis solicitude than men
The women of Greenland are an excep
tion. to this rule A Greenlander, hav
ing fixed his affections upon some female,
a.quionts his parents with the state of
his heart They apply to -the parent of
the girl, and if the parties thus far are
agreed, the next point is to appoint two
female negotiators, whore duty it is to.
broach the subject to the young lady
This is n matter of great tact and &Ile/I
cy The lady am basatidors dopot dyads
the young lady to whom thej• are sent
by ary sudden or abrupt avowal of the
awful subieet of their mission Instead
of doing this, they lapneh out in praises
of on gentleman who seeks her hand
They speak of the splendor of his limse,
th • sumptiousnests of his furniture, o
his co Tlll4e and other IleCoolpithliment.4,
The lady, pretending to be affronted at
these remote hints, runs away, tearing
Ow ringlets of her hair as site retires,
while the ambessadresses, having got
the consent of her parents, pursue her,
drag her from her concealment, take her
by force to the house of her destined
husband, and there leave hi 1 . .7 (Compell
ed to remain there, she sits for days
with disheveled hair,silent and dejected,
refusing every kind of sustenance, till lit
last, if kind entreaties do not prevail, stu
bs compelled by forcss,and even by blow.,
js, submit to the deteeted union. In
some cases. Greenland women faint at
the proposals of marriage ; in others,
they fly to the mountains, and only re
turn when compelled to do so by hunger
and cold. If one cute off her hair it is
a sure indication that she is determined
to resist to the death. All this appears
so unnatural to rte, that we seek for the
reason of such nn apparent violation of
the ON: \ Jinn. A.', ,f 1 , 111111111 nature
The Gt., iri,m; w I, :3 the slave of her
husband dii.init.l Qo (ii.' life of toil,
drudgt r\ }..end it M. die,
she •ml h, r li I.lr, n bays; no re,eni ee
against sti.reation; Thu married state
is a miserable conditiMs, while widow
hood is a still mefil' appalling fate.
A ROIIIIiNCE or VIZ CUBAN RZBILL-
LroN.—An American citizen who was in
the Theatre of Villanueva on the eve
ning of the 22d ult., and witnessed the
riot and massacre in the streets of Ha
vana that evening, says that the origin
of the outburst WAS the shooting of a
young woman. lie 'says "A very
beautilkl girl, the dough ter of Aldoma,
one of the 'wealthiest and moat noble
ofejl Cubans, wore upon her le ft breast
the'Anierican Gag with the inscription,
'long live the Republic of Cubs,' upon.
it. When that stirring song was being
sung,.the whole audience .arose to ac
knowledge the salute—all eyes were
now bent upon her—a low mean cow
artll7 Spaniard shot her with a revels,
er killing her instantly. Two - Wu:Herb
can gentlemen occupied the box ad.
joi nin g Senorita A !dome, whose ;Imes
rdo not know, but one of whom, see
ing the pistol pointed at the young la.
dy s breast, drew his ;evolver, and a
neemsd after the Spaniard lied fired blew
the top off the head of the, cowardly as
sassin. Instantly the whole theatre
was the scene ofthe greatest oonfiislon,
and the Smnish troops retched in and
cominenotflring upon the muses of
huddled, unarmed', innocent men and
women."
Awaniemr Bt.lttwar Brows.--They
have a paper called the True Plymouth
Ruck in Plymoth, Masa. What! have
Nankees been , aaning off a bogus
Pi v rurn a h r,,wk e 111:k rney stone of
A rucrien -flit L ....iitury or two?
This, Thet end - the Other
—The Berll► jowl:Was sey they conelder a
Europtran WO thevitable.
—The "Arabian fillant," seven and a helf feet
high, has settled In Ail:lob.
—A Tennessee widow 0(114 years howl feto
deecondtb e, end rides boreeback.
• --Mine Kellogg makes her'nede redeemable
0134 , in goki, and SOO a night at that.
—4 Georgia negro relieved himself th s
burden of a family by poleonlog the roam, pu
Litton,.
—Helena, Montana, had a ffi r-' erecently,wh en
for lack of water, barrels of elder and ale wore
poured upon the Game* to quench them.
—The Penneylmola Central l aki to bo np
tot toting (or a teams of the Pittsburg, p or t
Wayne and Cblol4lo &goad.
—Victor Mum as It penalty far thins In the
Island of onernsey. has a child In evary f mini
there named afk r him.
—Daniel &Stowell, of Freedom. catiiirao
'me county, New York, died recently egad
J 1., lle woe a Revolutionary per:galena:.
—A mountain ofsalt Is reported In antlllots
tern Nevada, live miles In length end six huu
dred feet In height.
—John Brown an °oven t r'o adored ha, be t ,t
Akron, "kin, died on the 30th ult., !eating
property valued at $15,000.
—At Leesburg, N. C., n negro itchnol tnachor ,
got drunk and whipped hi. whole school, oar,
slating of sixty little negroes.
—Flora Stewart, aged In 3; Samuel ndago,
nearly lin, w:id Mary Manson, /CM died In New
Hampshire last year.
—A Toledo paper mention. a young lobos
there who considers himself In full &emit, when
he has a red flannel string around hie nosh
Helaine women is Under arrest nn e
charge n( having killed an Infant grand dattgli
ter by wicking plus into its !toad.
—A young woman In Montana wan rli,eg,,i
with "pitting nu airy," wheel she refu,ed to go
to a ball bare footed.
—The pole. of the telegraph across thep:aue,
ore Bald to be assume of delight to the law,
toes, whlolo use them as scratching pot.,
—A men, who died at Bethany, Connocii , ,it,
is botterfd by a total paper, whtch
was ar honest a man as eves lived and lies
worn no hat for forty years,'
—The New Jersey Centred rtaltrotut
pointed a number of district surgoons .d out
the line of their road to give prompt intnn.,,,
to sufferers In iteoldents.
—A Connectieut rogue stole a home and
carriage, and then borrowed money of the
Litchfield county Sheriff, to pay the oxpeuse of
pureuing an Imaginary thief.
—An old woman In Franklin county, v2l
named Hestall tlntithera, died In Fel,r.J.tv
las', at 11. e advamad age of one bundled and
Mtn y•Ave yam
—An eccentric man of tiny In Broo hlln
Conn.. recently dog 111 s own grave, sent he hit
ft - wilds to see bin kill bin - melt, and I,ti ng
over the brink, shut, lonise!! through the 1,,,e1
telling dead lute the stave.
•
—A Berlin newspaper bait one editor e
sole duty It IS to servo out tho tunes el in,
prisounient decreed &gannet the paper lei 1..
Inieliteni articles.
—Lord Palmerston is reported to have gi
the following advice: "If • man oho was u as
nod onee, and had the good iortuue to 1,,
his wife, Is fool enough to :narry agate,
111( . 1108 let him marry hie wile'aminter, a' uua
at any rat., be will be afflicted with one mat/
or lu law "
—The newspapers of the eit7 of Mexico
thole poisoned Lome eziets in the M0U11T.,..
of J Lima. The Mr within causes death (0 4,y
ilvlnsertiVethe ilosi venstires 1.440 U An led,
an died •her having entered it ft short ,111,,
e•1110e.
—The Nabob of Dengal has arrived at Pal
and regleters himself on the hotel 60 4, , e'
llunitaaurnul-Dbuock Mohaumood-dow-uno,
Pureed-Poodalt-Hound-Ilunseer-All-Khan
haelour-AlusrutJug."
—The chief objection to (ho annexation
Canada to the United States, In Canada, la
to he that n alit eompot Sir John A Ittaelt ,
ald and a tturnher of other I ulfridual•
acre.. the handles ruin their name..
—A villian In Ran Frameken Attempted t ,
potion It family, but faded Ile then hartt rJ
romp gunpowder down a clutnnoy W th.
hone.. and when a the watt built an any,i
oeetirrati, but unfortunately without thiamin;
any one
—A woman s rights advoonte recently .1,
ellnell e for Par alto would break &tun
fier husband • noourngod her, how at er, by au,
nag, "IA hen you blow me up you never hr. /0
chum" and thus fortified, who made a succem•
tul speech
—lna hospital at Richmond last week the,
was a wedding between a colored man and
men, who both hum (root bite, had tort the
legs, which had been amputated at tl e
knees
—As b Ms sing oftener on lowly roof• tho
palace denier, and roses lose best to Gloat, er
lowly a indow.ei ills and oottage-ea es, 50 to
poor (Oal s blessings come ferighted with de a
51 it oak and to the humble heart lIIN 1111i.1•
bweetopt.
A New Yritit paper says there are cwt ~ r
'he old nau•' in that oily "who sign every iv.
per that contain, certain rumen, and
would sign their own death warrant it ti',
autograph mold stand nest to the erwen
flames aforesaid "
—Our lad y readers, interested In the pr•
sailing fashions, will he glad to know thst at
trequer hall, reuently a noted Indian hello at
peered In a hoop skirt ortuunented
tells, and waist of yellow flahnel, limbed wit]
stripes of but:Moll/de.
—The familiar phrase of 's ninetays' wet.
der" had Its origin during the reign of Lwl
Jane Ore y. hhe was proolalmed Queen '
England July '0 , 0,1.533, four de,tl after the d.•, eittte Edward lII_ and relinquished
thus i.
tin uud lout. on the 2stitt following -0 pot
ttl awe du,s
A• Iwo cat drew Na: n(I n,
Butler COOllty, tugethel ,t' I''
one, aged sheet elms >vain get ou a rlau
e 114,11 ”Lie, aged 1164.0i1 yi, -
told Itee to get air, which he r• fusnl t.
what' the ratoger struck tutu with a knit" lu
Meting ...Jett a wuuud as to cause his death ul
two hour,
—Du Chain,/ fella us that to the Interior • !
Alrn a. under the equator the native a sleety.
elt.a ed him the same price for an egg as tuf
a Iwn They smiled In this way, an egg If
Zr 14 hatched, wt I produce a hen; and there.
e ittre gg. ' you should pay thu price of a hen l' nn
11
traveler down In Jersey, riding past mm
of tits "sand barrens" remark ed, ",tlThst. s poor
cuss the fellow must be who owns this for
9Sot as poor as you think." cried the owner
rising up from behind a fence, "L only own
half of lit"
—That was a triumphant appeal of . 4
Irishman who wu a lover of antiquity, who to
arguing the superiority of old architect. 01111
the new, said: "'Where will you And any mod
ern building that lasted as long as the an.
client I"
. I —ifter Wang ono hundred alleluia*, a cor
ritepot P
e r 11911 entry filangesmin fed them
withthat fall. from y heated tot
around • bmillei anvil, and the remain
der were outdated mamba healthy.
An old preacher owe took for his test
mAdam where art (hour and divided blo sub
ject foto three parte: I. An often are some
where. 2. Some men are where they ought
note) be. 3., Unless they take care, they o
Very mratheren Aold-themaeliree where they would
rnuob not be.
—Two bra, Woking much like each
other, and up to look Wee so, are tki to
the Slomoso twins Ahe
west of sod, Wrier* the people area Mae
slew at machoss the papers. The latilsqubner
flesh thabblnds them le filled wlth warm a. ,
ten so that the 01211011 a, on touching, bn, e um
truth averred by the best demonstration that
both Oe living.
ptscds a iug eorws p Adam returning
from the Elul, was about io 111,e Mimed! away
In one of ihenefliraypt st i rmh MOS of eirepleit
earl Whale the tomao t passengers h! , ^
roused by thettoe Of hit • Kentuckian a ,0 1
holding up a pillow beton= • his Out , * ""
finger, roared out totha attendant, "I any. ',""
boy, oomo book and.take this away 1" ~ Who,
for.. any I" "Itccuuso I'm afraid the darned
thing will get in my ear."