BY DAVID OVER.
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Trust in o<l And Do tlie Right.
Courage, brother ! <lo net stumble,
Though thy path is dark as night :
There's a star to guide the humble-
Trust iu God and do the right.
Let the road be long and dreary.
And us ending out of sight ;
1' nit it bravely— strong or weary.
1 rut in God and do the right.
I'erish '-{(olicy " and cunning,
Perish ali tiiat fears the light;
Whether losing, whether winning,
Trust in God and do the right, <
i rust no party, church, or faction.
Trust no leaders--' in the fight.
llHt in every word and action
Trust in G-> i and do the right.
Trust no forms of guilty pass l on,
Fiends can loci; like angels bright :
i rust no custom, school, or fashion.
1 rust in God and do the right.
Some will hate thee, some will love thee,
Some will flatter, some will slight;
(Vase from man, and look above thee,
• 1 1 * Abdi God and do the right.
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Simple rule and safest guiding.
Inward peace and inward light ; , j
star upon our path abiding,
'1 rust in God and do the right.
AGRICULTURAL
\ Few Things tbai Everybody ought
to Know.
A quart of peas, sown in a shallow box fifteen
inches wide by eighteen long, at any time of the
year, and car off when about four or five inches
high, and boiled like spinnaeh, with a little salt
makes a delicious dish. The tops pf Jerusalem
artichokes, cut off about six inches long, and
boiled like other greens, makes a capital dish,
which partakes, in sotue degree, of the flavor of
the root. Boiled watei cress also makes a
wholesome and delicious dish. It muu :.o'>
however, be over-boiled; for Impaired con* l,u " '
si >n> it is invaluable. In April and M}"i ' a,e
potatoes should always be peeled so*e ten or j
twelve hours, and steeped in cold sprinfi vatcr
before they are cooked. This a L"" at ' m ~
proveuient; it makes the r' tato lK ' ar 'y as good j
as those dug in Oocr. Ihe proper way to ,
make a cup of good tea is a matter of some im- ;
portance. The plan which I have practised j
for these twelve months is thi.: The teapot is
•it once filled up with boiling water ; then the
tea is put into the pot, and is allowed to stand
five minutes before it is used: the leaves grad
ually absorb the water, and as gradually sink
to the bottom. The result is that the tea le sves j
are not scalded, as they are when bailing water j
is poured over them, and you get all the true ,
flavor of the tea. In truth, much less tea is
required in this way then under the old and
common practice.
Jam s Cuthill, London.
CULTIVATION OF TOMATOES. — A writer in
the Gencseo Farmer thu.s describes the method
of transplanting and.growing tomatoes.
.My tnctnod is as follows: Cut with a long
l laded kuife the dirt beween the rows of plants
caeli way, to the depth of six or eight inches.
Then, with a trowel oi spade, carefully take up
each plant with as large a ball of earth as pos
sible. Bo not trust their removal to careless
hands. With a hoc, dig holes three inches
deep, set in the plants wiih the earth attached,
and finish by hilling up, making large hills. If
th&wotk has been well done, the plants will
scarcely wilt under a hot suu. By this meth
od the roots are brought near the surface, to
receive the influence of the SUQ. Ihe fruit is
also well exposed to the sun, and my little
mounds of tomatoes are not "forever and the
day after" in ripening. No watering is neces
sary, except a little in the holes before trans
planting, and then only in a dry time. I rim
ming off a portion of the side branches close
to the main stem, will produce 1 tiger and finer
fruit. Tomatoes give the greatest yield on a
rich soil, but do not ripen fruit sosocn as when
grown on a poorer cue.
REMEDY FOR MILDEW ON GOOSEBERRIES.
and sometimes one-half the goose,
berry crop is destroyed every year by mildew.
In the spring the hushes are lorded with ber
ries, and a large yield is promised, hut before
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j the fruit is ripened a large portion of it is
! blighted by mildew. A remedy is given by a
; writer in the Horticulturist, some ye irs since.
'lt is simple and we think worthy of a trial.—
| The ground on each sidj of the bush is covered
| wiin salt hay to the depth of three inches.—
I his, the writer says, keeps tho ground u.oist
and cool, the salt tn the hay attracts moisture
from the air and gives it to the bushes. This
prevents the sudden changes from hot to dry,
; which almost immediately causes mildew.
HEMEI.Y FOR THE CuHcui.ia.--An old far
mer in Hsiverfcrl, informs us that ho has-dis
covered a certain remedy against the ravages
, <>f the Curculio, one of the most dangerous en
emies to different kinds of fruit the farmer am.;
the nurserymen have to contend with. His
plnu is to take time and slake it to the cousis
I fence of thin whitewash. This wash ho sprink
les liberally over the fruit tress in the, moat!
of May, as .soon as the blossoms fa 11, an<
, while the dew is on, or the trees arc wet frot;
a shower, ihe method of applying it is I t
means of a common garden pump, or a syringe
such as is used to wash windows. Our infer
man states that, after an experience of sis year
he is satisfied that it is effective. The oxpori
umnt is easily tried, and the cost if it faiis, do
not amount to anything. For peaches, pears
plum® aud cherries, it is equally valuable.
SEASONABLE THOUGHTS.- It will be well T.
bear in mind that all auimii and vegetable mat
'or make manure. Everything that will rot it
. the soil you may consider as furnishing foot
for plants. OF course there is a great differ
j encc in value, but that we will uot now sto
to discuss. Use this spring all the manure vo'
; can scrape up, beg or borrow. In four or fu<
months you will reap the r ward. Don't dh* w
j " ur barn-yard manure to the Held a
j before you intend to plow it under, or at leas
spread it. Let the spreading be Ame t_ve
•y
Any dry time, and the sooner H J er/r, sow
'ft—— or von, clover and '*** Tilroe
or four buehbis of unle clcd a*-—'
than double this number vac ' lol '> P ®
tluct a very desirablerfP*" ' '^ rcsi!in 8 0 '
meadows is an cxecl*" lo ™^ clta,c
thorn. Good, weir< t,ca manure
, , ce and tLoroughlv dragged
>pread over the e -
start that will very> likely as
will give them f J
tonidi you. •' me:i,ues Ui; vvc!l 10 seUtcr
over a lit* 0 seed before dragging.-
Where ,I,anurc ' s scarce ashes may be used,
.j.j,. with or without m-inure, though we prc
rt bOtU.
After a good deal of observation and some
experience we have come to the conclusion thur
potatoes should be printed as early as possible.
In inc season out of ten late planting might
prove the best, but iu tho other uiuo a naucl
better ciop will be.grown by plauting just as
early as the ground ein be got iu order, ll
you p'ant fe-r your own use only consult your
own taste, but if for market grow only the
best kiuds and such as will bring a high price,
like the Mercer.
Tf you have light land, and clover sod, you
will need nothing better for producing a good
| crop of sound potatoes.
Nothing is gamed by planting corn to early,
i To keep crows from pulling it up after plan'ing
| a correspondent wishes us to say that there is
nothing like tar, if used right. I'ut the eoru
iiu a heap— say a bushel —then pour on it a
i pailful of scalding water, and while hot add
| half a pint of tar. Stir until mixed thorough
> ly, aud dry with plaster. Those who wish to
try the important question whether or not we
can produce sugar at the North must not for
get the Chinese cane.
Do not forget to seatch thoroughly for the
caterpillars' nests in the orchard. A bunch of
rags daubed with thick whitewash will bring
down the nest or destroy it . Kuril .Veo
Yorker.
GARBAGE GRANTS. —The cut-worm is fre
quently a source of much annoyance to the
gardener as well as destructive to plants. A
vcty simple and effectual remedy against the
onslaught of these pests is to provide yourself
with a bunch of hickory leaves prior to setting
out your plants, then, as you take a plant in
hand, also take a leaf aud roll it loasc-ly around
the stem of the plant, funnel like. The lower
edge of the leaf should bo some little distance
above the roots of the plants, so that about
one-half the leaf will protrude above ground-
This will form a barrier that thU boldest enemy
of tbe worm species will seldom have courage
to scale. As to going tbrongh the leaf, they
will never do it, as they arc quite repugnant to
such game. This is a remedy that I have al
ways applied with success. It is accessible to
all, therefore try it.
Virginia, May, 1858. J. S. I'•
Baltimore Sun.
FLOWF.R BEDS.-— Tbe ladies should rcmetu-
I ber that one of tbe prime causes why their an-
BEDFORD, PA., FRIAY. JUNE 11, 1858. •
uual flower #ecd will not come up is the vvi j
of power to force their way through tho bail f
or hardened surface of the soil. Care is t- j
ally taken by the ladies in sowing their fav-„|
ite seeds; they make the soil very nice, rake
a little, and then wonJcr that nothing or net
to nothing appears. It' they will examine the
little beds they will find that the rains ha'
battered down the soil so as completely to ei
crust it, forming a banier through which it
impossible for the seed to penetrate. To rei
cdy this, take your little iron rake and bres
up the surface finely after each rain; and, T
the seeds were good when sown, you will (iro|
them to germinate freely.
SALE OF FOKT
The Fort Soelling ease is &f down for con
sideration iu Congress this yfek. The Com
mittee's Report, with the ejAfaace on which iti
is baaed, -has now been sertral
the public, and, up to thi.ysaur, none of tho
•statements on which the >Toimuittce*s conclu
sions are based have ever been controverted.
Not a single j jurnal has ven-
to published eveo' ft synopsis of the lies
port of tho testimony That remarkably indc-j
pendent and plundfhating sheet, The j\ewl
York Herald, tus.'Vintod tho minority's tedious)
aud sophistical a/tampl to befog and pettifog
the case, so as /y screen the depredators fromi
put-lie reprcbfpi o ' l: it has never ventured
to It its re?^ rs s . ce wliat the case is agains'
which it ri N,l ' s ,0 'be defense of Secretary
Floyd an* bis confederates. Let us, then, re
fresh tj* public recollection of the leading
points 'be case which arc not even dispu
ted :
, T . The Fort S&elling Reservation lies be- J
t*ii>n the Rivers .Mississippi and Minnesota, at
,>eir junction, ad fcrm, unquestionably, the
dnest sit*> for a great commercial city in all
Minnesota. St. } ul; l, s j x mileg bclow r
with tVe thr.ving towns surrounding tho Falls
of >l. Anthony, six miles above, have now so
g.-eat a r.tart that no city erected o u the Fort!
-Mieiling location may ever overtake tlicui, but)
its original superiority is manifest. The land ;
is prairie, .some of it low and swampy, hut at '
least three-funks of the whole is high, healthy '
and- beautiful. Some of the soil h excellent, j
partas-thin, overlaying a white sand,
well adapted to cultivation", trow tbucu ij
the. Reservation contains, has never been pub- j
licly ascertained ; though Jlaj. Eastman of the j
Army (who had long been stationed there, and j
knew the ground intimately) was sent out to ]
survey it, and did survey it in part, in April and !
May of last year. Before he? had finished the |
job, however, he was notified that he had been |
appointed, along with Mr. Wis. King Haskell
of Virginia, a commissioner to sell the Reser
vation, and, without completing the survey,
they proceeded to sell it, as wc shall herein
after set forth. The Reserve contains from
seven to ten thousand acres, worth >2O to §OO
per acre, in view of its proximity to several
growing cities, if regarded as uot itself an el
igible site for a city. If wo esteem it the
proper site for the emporium of the trade of
the Minnesota River country (which it certain
ly was, if it is not still,) its value cannot be
less than §1,000,000.
.2.-Over two years ago, Mr. Franklin Steele,
long resident on this Reserve as butler to the
troops posted there, sought to buy it as a spec
ulation. Mr. llenry M. lliee, then Delegate,
now United States Senator from Minnesota,
wrote on Steel's behalf to Jefferson Davis, theu
Secretary of S f ato offering §is per acre for
the whole, but estimating the area of the Re
serve at only five thousand acres. Col. Davis
answered May G, 185G, quickly and crustily,
"The Reservation is still needed for military
purposes, and Mr. Steele's offer cannot, there
fore be entertained. His letter to you is here
with returned "
2. Ton months thereafter, Mr. Rice procured
the insertion, in the Military appropriation bill
(March 3, 1857,) of a proviso authorizing the
sain, by the Secretary of War, of such Milita
ry Reservations as hjul become or thereafter
might become useless for Military purposes.—
No reference was tuade to the Fort Snelling or
any other Reserve in particular, but a Senator,
on the reading of this amendment, very natu
rally asked, "llow are these lands to be sold?"
—to which Mr. Weller of California promptly
answered, "f public sale," which quieted sus
picion, and the clause passed without objec
tion. 1
4. Mr John B. Floyd, of Virginia, immo
diatcly thereafter became Secretary of War,
vice Davis, who went out with the late Presi
dent. Very soon afterward, Dr. Arch. Gra
ham, hailing from Virginia, called on his old
friend the Secretary, (so the Dr. testifies,) and
announcing that he was on his way to Minne
sota tospeculate in lauds, asked il he (Floyd)
could throw anything in his way. The
Secretary replied that he could not, unless he
cbose to undertake the sale of certain old forts
iu that region. The Dr. promised to think of
it and respond; which in due time he did, de
clining the job, having privately resolved to
dip into the Fort Snelling matter cot as a sel
ler but as a purchaser.
5. Maj. Eastman was about this time dis
patched, with only verbal orders, to survey the
Fort Snelling Reserve; Dr. Graham had gone
on intending to purchase it, und now the figure
heads of Messrs John 0. Mather aud Richard
Schell (now Senators) of this city, emerge
from the* limbo of obscurity. Both were then
private citizens; Mr. Schell a Wall street bro
ker aud general speculator; Mr. Mather had
filled the post of Uanal Commissioner, therein
achieving notoriety rather than distinction, and
was now nothing in particular but. a special
crony of the two Schells, and au esteemed ac
quaintance of Secretary Floyd. 11. Schell,
Mather and Dr. Graham agreed to become j
jointly interested in the purchase of Fort Sncl-j
ling. Toward tho purchase money, $5,000 j
was advanced by Mr. Augustus Sebcll; but |
that, takes in the testimony the shape of a loan j
to Mrs. Ili.jhard Schcll. Mr. John C. Math r i
w*s appointed by Secretary Floyd, a Oouuuis- '
sioner, at $8 per day and expenses, to survey
and prepare for sale another Military Reserve i
in Minnesota, known as Fort liipiey. So be ;
was present at Fort Snelling before aud after '
its sale, under pay from the Treasury.
6. Fort Snelling was all this time occupied j
as a military post, and stilt is. No military
authority Larl recommended its abandonment, i
N-*.£on>pcteiit authority had even he: n asked |
to give an opinion on that point. The Secre
tary, who liad never till la :t March had any ;
connection with Military affair?, and who was j
merely authorized, not directed, to soli sueh \
Reserves as were no longer required, did not j
deem it his duty to ask any one whether this ;
WHS or was not required. lie did not let the j
public know that fort Snelling was to be sold. >
Letters of distinguished Democrats—among i
them the Hon. Robert Smith, M. (J. elect from
ll'mois, ami the lion. Paul Dillingham, cx-M. j
C. from Vermont—inquiring whether Fort
Snelling was or was Dot to be sold, and asking I
ftir a cliauco to-buy part of it if it were, were
never answered. Ail was dark, silent, myste- j
rious us the grave
"' 7. On the 25th of last May, Maj. E istnian s
of the army,,( special crony of Steele's then ■
presumed to be survey-lug Fort Stud ling as
aforesaid, aud Win. King Hmskel), of Abing- ;
don, Virginia, an intimate friend of Secretary
Floyd, were appointed Commissioners to sell j
the Fort e ncUing Reserve if aud as they should
ihiuk proper. ■ Twelve days thereafter, they
Ipd sold at Fort Snelling, over a thousand
from Washington, the whole Reserve, the ,
e ;rvey uncompleted, the area unascertained, to
Franklin Steele, lor $1)0,000, of which only
-ihUjOOO was to be p.iid down, and fbcrccpcn
a free and clear title to be given; the remain
ing s<lo,ooo to be satisfactorily secured (not
m the property) and paid oue and two years
thereafter. VVc challenge the production, from
the whole history of our country, of any sale
of public property on terms like these.
8. The sale was made ostcntibly to Fiankiir.
Steele alone," hut Messrs. Richard Schcll, John
C. Mather aud Archibald Graham were pri
vately his copartners in the purchase. Steele
paid SIO,OOO, Schcll and Mather $20,000 of
;!ie purchase uiouey, including $5,000 of Au
aud is owner only of one-tweuty-scvcnth of the
purchase, and is to have $5,000 per annum as
manager of the property. Eastman and lltis
kcll swear (bey did uot know that any one but
Steele was interested in the purchase. Math
er and R. Schcll cannot (or will not) tell how
they learned (hat Fort Snelling was to be sold,
hut Mather thinks he learned it from the Ses
sion Laws ! which did not appear till long af
ter he was deep iu the speculation, and said
nothing relative to the sale of Fort Snelling
when they did appear. In fact, the amount
that Schcll and Mather "don't remember,"
"can't recollect,'' "don't know," Ac., about
this whole business, is most blasting.
9. Messrs. Eastman and liciskell give no
one but Steele & Co. the least chance to bid
upon or purchase this property, or any part of
it. Heiskell, whrn pushed by the Committee
on this point, thought he had told the bar-ten
der at his "hotel that he was there to sell Fort
Snelling. As Eastman had been for some
weeks surveying 'be tract, he should at least
have ascertained the number o; acres, hut it
does not appear that ho did. Before his col
league had fairly found time to walk over the
tract, they had sold it for $90,000, one-third
cash, to the only person they had permitted to
know that they were commissioned to seh. No
body in St. Paul, in St. Anthony, iu Minneap
olis—all then on fire with land speculation—
nor even the eminent Democrats who, on sus
picion that Fort Snelling was to be sold, had
written the Secretary ot war, praying for a
chance to buy-—were allowed to know any thing
on the subject till the sale was consummated.
And it is as morally certain as that there will
be frost next winter, that, had Messrs. Last
man and llciskell really wished to get a good
price for the Reserve, they might have finished
surveying it into forty acre lots, given each a
number, and solicited scaled bids for each or
all of those lots, the higncst bid for any one to
take it if tho cash were duly forthcoming, aud
could thus have obtained at least $-100,000
down, instead of $90,000. one-third down, the
balance in one and two years, llicti the peo
ple would have been tairly treated, and the
Government not dishonored, contrary to what
is now the case. Aud wbeu Eastman was ask
ed by the Committee why they did not adver
tise the property, lo made the ridiculous an
swer that then it would not have been a pit
vale sale !
10. We have said that 'be green Secretary
never sought nor took tho advice of the propct
military authorities as to the expediency or
practicalility of abandoning h ort bncliiog
and it was only reserves no longer needed for
military purposes that he was authorized to sell.
Adj. Gen.Thomos visited the northwest posts
officially last summer, and on bis returu report
ed to Gen. Scott, bearing strong testimony
against this unfortunate sale. Gen. Scott
transmitted this Report to the Department, as
was his duty. Socretary Floyd indorsed there
on a most unfair and insulting commentary,
closing thus:
"When this Dcpartuiont is required to report
to subordinates 'under what circumstances the
post at Fort Snelling was sold,' or any other
act was done, the duty shall be performed; but
until then a 'military man'will probably un
derstand that a superior iu authority is not to
be called on for an explanation of any order.
"J. B. FLOYD, Secretary of War.
Now Adj. Gen. Thorn v.- had never n quired
him to "report" anythiug whatever —hod no!
I called on hiai for an explanation—had not ad-
I dressed him at all. He had simply reported to
I bis own superior, Gen. Scott, that the sale of
' Fort Snelling was.a sad mistake and wrong,
. and th4t no military man could bavetecoie
| mended it. Ar.d for this honest and obviously
■ true statement, the ex gratia "superior in au-
I thority"' of several weeks' standing assails and j
flouts the faithful officer who is precluded by :
discipline from making any reply, But tlie j
country will reply for him.
He it understood, once for all, that we do
j not bl tme Franklin Steele, Richard Seltell uor
Archibald Graham for buying this property at
one-fourth of its value. It was not their bus-1
iaess to judge whether this property was stili \
needed for public uses, nor to take care that [
it was not sold for less than its value. But
that was the business of Mr. Secretary Fioyd j
business for which he is honorably regarded j
and liberally paid—and, in a subordinate sea set
of Messrs. Eastmtn and Hciskeil likewise.—
Mr. Mather, too, having resolved to dip into
j this plum pudding, ought to have imitated the
i fastidiousuess'of his man Graham, and refused
. to take a Minuesota commissiouership at Mr. j
1 Floyd's hands. Nor, after the assurance gir- j
; en by Mr. Wujier in tbeSeuae, on the strength
j of which the proviso was carried, wis the Sec
retary morally at liberty to sell otherwise than
j at public sale, or in >nu manner which secur
>ed the fullest scope to competition. Congress,
I as the Grand Inquest of the Nation, is now
; called t,review and judge this whole transac
tion. Let the members discard prejudice, he
j gin at the bgcmning, and draw the- inevitable
j inferences from what the witnesses conceal as '
! well as what they disclose, aud they must re- !
| alize that bore is a most reckless, deeph-pUn-
I tied, profligate squandering of p^perty
to satiate personal and pirtizan rajfacity.
j if thev Lcsitate to pronounce the proper ver- j
diet on the perpetrators, even to their chief,
| the public will be less forbearing, aud will be
1 apt to include them in its judgment of eon
i detonation.— W. Y. Tribune, Mty 25.
SHADOWS. XJ
IIY ELLA MEUWIN *
It was catly morning in bright spring time.
The sweet perfume of a thousand flowers stole
through the lattice of a daikened room. —
| Gently the light breeze swayed to and
| fro the curtaiu folds, which loving hands had
t arranged to drop low over each window j for
j son"6csnhf •W^fvT a WriMcla_ttot euterjtbere.
gloom. The angel of sickness hid entered, had
Uid its blighting hand upon a fair form, bad
basiled a little voice that was wont to mike
sweet music there. Ah' ear th M a land ot
; shadows ! They fall on heart, in every
home, i'hautoais of wrong and misery dark
' en the page of life, as if the heavy wing of
night weie folded there.
They steal with noiseless footsteps along the
paths of childhood, mocking the sunshine of
early dreams, as mists at morn obscure the
RUU'S bright beam. They give token of their
presence on manhood's thoughtful brow, and
ago forgets to count them 'things that were/
Mingling with the sunshine, they come in our
happiest hours, to send the beaming smile
away, to hush the sweet lay of the free heart'?
joy.
'Tis the vale of shadows we enter, when stern
adversity wraps around us her tear stained
mantle. 'Tis there cheerless sway our hearts
acknowledge, when the breath of a cold world s
scorn sweeps chillingly over the warm, gushing
tide of affection. Shadows of sin, of sorrow-
On.^'have fallen everywhere; and though we
sometimes feel that wc are wrapped in theli
misty folds, and lust in thick darkness then
is light shining through them all, and it wc
have not seen it, it is because we have not look
ed. Light that has pierced the gloom of earth !
Light that will guide to a land where shadows
never come !
CONTRADICTION —Col. Forney, ot the Phil
adelphia. Press, contradicts, in the following
language, a statement to the effect that lie was
about to return to the support of the Adminis
tration:
'The course of the Press on the Kansas
question has not been a doubtful course; but
the editoi of the New York Times lias admit
ted a letter into his paper of Monday last, pur
porting to have been written from Washington,
in which it is distinctly stated, and with souii.
attempt at detail, (which has surprised us in
the Times,) that the Press is about to surren
der tlie great principle to which it has been de- i
voted for many mouihs, and to become the !
subservient tool of power. I\# have ouly to
say, iu reply, tuat-the editor of the Times has
been grossly imposed upon by some reckless
knave. The story is an utter fabrication, it
has no probability, uo possibility, to rest upon.
We have nothing to surrender. It would af
ford us great pleasure to agree with the gene
ral Administration on this Kansas question ;
but this will never be, until the Administration
is true to itself, and to the pledges upon which
it was elevated to power."
A CONGRESSMAN OUSTED.—ID the House of
Representative at Washington, on Tuesday last
Lewis D. Campbell of Ohio, was ejected from
his seat, and Mr. Vallaudigham voted in by a
strict party divisiou. The contest between the
two, at the last election was close, Mr C. hav
ing a majority of only nineteen over his oppo
nent. The seat was contested on the allegation
that certain colored men voted for Campbell,
which, however, was not substantiated
A COMPROMISE WOMAN. —The Richmond
South snys : Out pen recoils from the duty—
yet it is our province to record the revolting
fact that a white woman in Mecklenburg coun
ty, Va., became the mother, a lew days ago, ot
four children, two of whom were of her own
color and the other two black.
VOL. 81, NO. 24.
| A )>GPLOKIBLt DKV.IKIRD.
A Washington correspeadeat of the N. Y.
Spirit of the Times, communicates the fo iow
} log : '
Some years ago, Congress numbered among
| its members several who were much given to a
love of liquor, and were frequently seen about
j' the atrcets of the metropolis "on a spree."—
Such conduct on the prt of our law-makers
didn'i impress the outsiders with such an ex
alted opinion of M. (J.'s a# they once had,
as the iucident I am about to relate will show,
j One hot, moonlight eight, daring a long ses
sion, a party of gentlemen, including several
,* Members of Congress, were seated around tho
: door of the house of a frieuJ, tryiug to get
| cool, when au old toper, 'all tattered uud torn, 1
known as Hill Scraggy, made his appearance in
j their midst, and asked for money to obtain a
! night's loosing and something to cat. /The
i Hon. Mr. W., a very kind-hearted and respec
■ table Member of the House, soouengaged Bill
| iu Conversation, anl at once discovered that
. he was an educated man, and remarked to him.
j "My friend you appear to have seen better
| days ; I would like to know something of your
history." Bill dre-v? himself up, and after a
| short pause, said : "Sir, i 'have seen better
j days 1 My pareuts were well-to-do, they gave
me a good education and a profession, and, at
• one tim", my prospects in life were as bright as
| any titan's hut, alas' sir, in an eval hour I
I became addicted to drink, an J from that mo
ment 1 hive bceu going down, down, until 1
; have beeomej.in outcast, a loafer—of no account
| -ft for nothing on this earth oat to be a
'■ .Member of^Coitgiesi!"
Tiic above jA true story ; for among
| y Uosc who aud heard it, was tho
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A Ht:i:oic SIAU>ES. —A few days ago a slide oc
| currad at a cut-on tie Pittsburg and Couuellsvillc
uU/pb a point on the Youghiogheny, a'tove
ttf.M'Keesport, where there is a sharp
in the river, and the track is laid wholly on
Hue cutting. A Lug - rock fell and remained dt
yeetly on the track. This was observe Iby a daugh-
Xlif of Mr. J -:tin lh iv i, who iv-i 1•> on the oppo
site side of the river. The male portion of the
family were a esent at the time; and she, knowing
that it ir is about t'ue hour when the cirs woul 1
pass that point, and that there was no time to be
lost, ran to the river side, unloosed her lather's skiff",
rowed across with all possible haste, and ran along
the tracs. iu the direction of the approaching train,
waiving a red handkerchief, and succeeded in at -
trading the attention of the engineer, in the very
nil kof time. The brakes were applied, the train
! of all on board thi'Cars.*'
was so sharp that a collision would have thrown
the cars oil" the track down the embankment into
the river.
; The Company have shown a proper appreciation
of the heroic conduct of the young lady, and the
iwvaluabie service rendered, by presenting her with
a pass over the road for many years to come, and
ordered the train to stop at the point where she
can most readily reach#) r residence, whenever she
| happens to he on board the cars—a compliment
and convenience at the same time, as it is a consi
derable distance from her father's house to the
| nearest station. Such reuuy presence of mind dm 1
prompt action, deserves reward, which in this in
' stance is generously and happly bestowed.—Pitts
j burg Dispatch.
| TERRIBLE PEATS. —The Omro (Wis.) Rc
! publican says: About tour miles west of this
villiagc, oil the afternoon of Saturday la.-1 a
man by the name of Mitchell was buried alive
by the caving of a well. The first time that
the dirt gave way it buried htm up to his knees
but such was the pressure of the dirt that he
could not be get out, even with the help of a
wiudlas?. When striving to extricate him, tho
sar.d caved again and buried him up to his waist.
His brother-in-law sprang into the well and
eomtucuced throwing the dirt from him, but it
continued running in until he was buried up to
the neck. His brother-in-law, seeing that tho
dirt cauie in faster than he could throw it out,
left hiui to got assistance. When the help ar
rived, they found him completely eovored. Af
ter digging some hours he was taken out dead.
Mitchell was a young mau about *2l or 25 years
of age, and leaves a wife and child. v
DRUGGING A LOVER,TO CATCH A HUSBAND.
A strange story is told by the New Haven
Journal , which says that a young man of Beth
any, •)( highly respectable connections, and an
only son, being about tc leave his Louie fir
South America, 1 a few calls upon his ac
quaintances, wheu a young lady who was des
perately attached to him, as her last means of
gaining him, hud the meanness to plot with
some of her associates io drug him, and have
him takeu to a low justice of the peace, who is
a disgrace to the office, where the niarriag'-
ceremony vr>s performed.
A strange murder was recently perpetrated
in St. Louts. A man uauied Hugh Down.o
went into a barbershop to get shaved. While
on the chair, the boy who was attendiug to him,
dropped some of the soap into his eyes, which
blinded him for the time, when two other boys
who were engaged iu the same shop, threw a
vepc around his nock, and ha was choked to
death Tho young murderers were actuated by
a desire to rob their victim. They got but
§SO from liitu besides bis watch and some oth
er small articles.
we could read the seeret history of
our enemies, we should f.nd in each man s life
sorrow and suffering enough to disarm us of all
our hostility.
SE?~As Gen. Foley, of Indians, says he wa3
not very well when he wrote that letter, it is
suggested he must have had a very bad spill.
is a double shame to a man to have
inherited distinction frotr his anccss'o:e, if bo
bequeaths disgrtce to his posterity.