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BY DAVID OVER.
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INDIAN SUMMER.
Theie is n time just when the froat
Prepares to pave old Winter's way,
When Autumn in a reverie iost,
The mellow daytime dreams away;
When summer comes, in musing mind,
To gaze onco more on b!i! and dill,
To mark how many siisaves they tin !.
And see if all are ripened Well.
With balmy breath she whispers low,
The dying Sow :s look up and give
There sweetest incense ere they go.
To Him who made their beauties live
She enters 'oeath tbe woodlands shade,
Her zephyrs lilt the lingering leaf,
And beer it gently wiser.- ere lai-1
The loved arul lost ones of its gref.
At last old Autumn, rising takes
Again his sccpttr and his throne.
With boisterous hand the tree he shakes.
Intent on gathering all his own,
Sweet Summer sighing, flies the plain.
And waiting r. inter gnvn* and grim,
Sees miser Autnmu hoard bis grain.
And smiles to think it's ail fur him.
The So preyed Warning.
Wc refer again, for the sake of keeping the
mutter pr: miccntly before tbe public, to the
anonymous warning sent to Secretary t loyd
concerning the Harper's Ferry outbreak- Tbe
question wli recur with fatal distinctness—
Why was the letter suppressed which contain
ed this warning? It is a vain pretrnea to ssy
that tbe Secretary t-py>rdei it es a 'bras.'--
Why, if be so considered it, did he bile it so
carefully? Why Lis mysterious silence vnd
concealment? A letter regarded as a 'boas'
w uH naturally be shown and laughed over
among friends and a'soci&'es. But instead, i
is carefully concealed from view until the cri
*is of which it gave wauling had passed.
But the letter itself, is the best answer to
thid f .'Re r le*. It bears the impress of ear
nestness saJ sincerity in every line. It names
person*, places nnJ date*, to Lcur at hand and
so easy of verification and disproof, , a 'a fur
hid the ilea of its beiog an attempt at decep
tion. Let any man of common sense rea i and
ee if it is the sort of letter he would pro
nounce a 'besx.'
CINCINNATI, August 20, 1359.
SIR: —I biTC late])' received information of
a movement of so GREAT IMPORTANCK
that I feel it to Le uiy doty to impart it to you
without delay. I have discovered the exist
"oce of a secret association having for its ob
ject THE LIBERATION OP THE SLAVES
AT THE SOUTH 15i* A GENERAL IN
SURRECTION. The leader of the move
ment is OLD JOHN BROWN, late oi Kan
sas. He has been in Canada daring the win
ter, drilling the negroes there, and they arc ti
ty waiting his word to start for the South to
assist the slaves. They have coo of the lead
ing men, a white xuau, in an armory in Mary-
Htdj where it is situated i have not been able
to learr. As scon as everything is ready,
those of their Dumber who are in the Northern
States aud Canada are to come in smui i com
panies to their rendezvous, winch is iu the
mountain in Virginia. They will pass down
through Pennsylvania and Maryland, and enter
Virginia at Harper's Ferry. Brown left the
North about three or four weeks ago, and will
ARM THE NEGROES ana strike the blow
in a few weeks, cud so whatever is dene must
be dine at once. They have a Urge quantity
of srtm at tbeir rendezvous, and probably dis
tributing them already. As I BID not fuliy in
■L'T CODS ience, this is ail the information I
ear give you. I dare not sign m; name to this,
but i trust that you will not disregard the vraru
ing on that account.
If Secretary Floyd chcsc to consider this ot
doubtful authority, because lacking a signa
ture, it was nevertheless bis duty, as custodian
of the Government Armory at llarpet's Ferry,
to satisfy himself by further examination.—
Had be given the slightest waruiug —uay, had
be eveD told of it as something be considered
a 'hoax'—the citizens of Harper's Ferry would
have been on their guard, and the attack would
neyer have been attempted.
Xor is it any nuswer to nay that the letter
was anouymous, and therefore unworthy of uo
tice. Warnings of such events wouid most
naturally be anonymous. The Gunpowder
Flot is an instance in point. Hume's History
of England thus desctibes the warning given
in that case:
"The dreadful secret, though communicate',
to above twenty persons, had been religiously
kept during the space of near a year and a
half. Ten days before the meeting of Parlia
ment, Lord Monteag'e, a Catholic son to Lord
Morley, received the following letter, which
had been delivered to his servant by an un
known hand: '
A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Polities, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, &c., &c—Terms: One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advarc.s
I "MY LORD:— Oat of the love 1 bear to
I some of jour friends, i have a cere of your
\ preservation. Therefore, I would advise you,
1 as you tender your iil'e, to devise some excuse
to shift OK your attendance at this Parliament;
..for God and man Lave conceived to punish the
i wickedness of this time. And think not
: slighty of this advertisement, but retire your
self into the country, joro yu may expect
j the event in safety.. For though there be uo
j appearance cf any stir, yet, I say, tfcey will
receive a terrible blow this Piriiiuienr, ar.d jet
! they shall not sec who hurts them. This coun
sel is not to ha contemned, because it may do
i yen good and can do you uo harm; for the dan
ger is passed so soon as you burn the letter,
and I hope God will give you tbo grace to
i make good use oi' it. unto whos- holy protec
tion I commend you."
"Mcuteasie knew not what to make of this
letter, and though inclined to think if. a fool
ish v tempt to frighten or ridicule him, he
judged it ssfest to carry it to the Secretary of
l State."
It will be observed that the length of time
while the plot was maturing, the number of
persons engage i in it, and the anonymous let
ter sent to a Government officer, singularly co
ineiu • with the incidents of John brown's
plot. m
Gut here the parallel ends. Lord .Monteaglo
though bis warning was but vague, and though
be distracted its authenticity, instantly took
measures to detect and suppress the conspira
cy. while Secretary Floyd, with a much more
explicit letter in his hands, gives no hint of it,
does n :hing to prevent it, a-.:d lets the explo
sion come.
And wb)? in Lord Momeagie's day there
were no elections pending that coal J be influ
enced by silence and concealment; in our day
there arc.
There is much reason to fe.r that the letter
to Secretary Floyd WHS wilfully suppressed—
that the government, while providing against
the posMo'e success of the movement, permit
ted it to be made that it might charge it upon
the ii publicans of tie North, acd make party
capital out of it for IBCO.
If that was the purpose, it is likely to be de
feated. The cspi'al w: I inure to the other
fide.
• THE SI'A It LET LEX i Lit.
One of our California exchanges, iu an ar'i
cle relative to the murder of broderiek by the
minions of lue Administration, says that about
cuo year ago there met in the rcou of a hotel
in S-ia Francis eo, f..ur c's ingui.-hed inea of that
ct f y. T'.cy were \V. T. Ferguson, Gen. Jatnos
i.st:. , Ex Gov. MrJDougal! and David (J. llrod
e.-ick. Ferguson was upon his death-bed, hav
ing received a fatal wound '.u a duel with one
George i'enu Johnson. The conversation turn
ed oa the eauso of that meeting, acd all were
f opinion that the real cause was not the one
publicly avowed ■ y the cbulieaciog party. But
they did believe that the object had in view iu
putting Ferguson out of the world, was to get
possession or the icttor which G.vto had written
to I .-red trick, aud which, if tver published,
would eternally uisgr.ee him. This letter was
iu Ferguson's possession, and it was believed
by this party of frioads around his bedside that
Lis life was sought that t is evidence against
Gwiu unght be destroyed. It was on this oc
casion that Ferguson told Gen. Estill where he
might find the fetal letter, and gave him the
key of the desk or drawer which contained it.
The letter passed into Estill's hands, and whiie
he had it in Lis possession Le died, and no one
iinetv the cause of bis death. Was it the Scar
let Letter that killed him? It was uuknown to
the public that this letter existed until Mr.
Broderiofe produced it at a public meeting held
in Sacramento on the 9lb of July last. lie pre
faced his reading of it with the* following re
remark? .
"When the death of Wo. I. Ferguson was
announced, fellow citizens, his desk iu the Sen
ate Chamber was broken open and his private
papers searched for this letter, without avail.
Ferguson, on his death bed, related to Estill
why the fatal difficulty had been sought with
him. He toi l Estill where the ietter conid be
found. Estill found it, and just oreviuus to
his own death Estill told me where be had pla
ced the iettct. A curse seem? to follow the
secret possession of this letter, i gi"e it to the
public, that the curaa may return to its author;
that wherever he may go, by day or night, where
his presence can be recognized, the people shall
see the letter of disgrace worn on bis forehead,
as was the Scarlet Letter worn ou the breast of
Hester Prynne."
SACKAMKNTO CITY, Jan. 10:h, 18J9.
LEAH SIR:—I am likely to ho the victim of
the unparalleled treachery of those who have
beeu placed 10 power tnrough tuy ail and exer
tion. The most poiemial portiou of tbo Fed
eral patronage is in the bauds of those who, by
every principle that should govern tucuof honor
should be aiy supporters instead of my enemies,
and it is being used for my destruction. My
participation in the distribution of this patron
age has Leeu the scourco of numberless elnud
ers upon me, and have fostered a prejudice in
the public mind against rue, and have created
ctiuuties that have been destructive to my Inp
piuess and peace of uiiud for years, it has en-
BEDFORD. PA.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1359.
tailed uDtold evils upon me, and whito in the I
Senate I will out rccomoKud a single iudividu- j
si to appointment to office in this State. Pro
vided 1 am elected, jou shall have the reclu
sive coutroi of thus patronage -o far as lam
concerned, and in its distribution I shall only
ask that it uray be used with magnanimity, and
not for Um advantage of these who bavfc been
our mutual cuemies, aud unwearied in their ex
ertions to destroy us. This determination is
unalterable, and in making this declaration 1
do not expect you to support me for that rea
son, or in any way to be governed by it; hut as
I havo beeu betrayed by those who should bavo
been my friends I aui, tu a measure, powerless
myself, and dependent upon yvur waguauimi
ty. #
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
YVM. M. GWIN.
HON. I>. 0. BRODESICK.
But the Scarlet Letter uad not fulslled its
mission when Frederick put it from bim. Tbo
bitter malignity which it bad engendered was
fated to hunt hi®, too, to the grave, lie .-Beeps
honored and respected at the base cf the Lane
Mountain, while Gwin walks the earth, shun
ned and defpise, the scarict letter stamped in
delibly on his forehead. Gov. McDougall is
the only one of that company who now survives,
j Lot llie curse of the Scat let Letter now return
: to its author.
Hon. Edward Bales on Slavery,
The St. L mis Evening JS'ncs publishes a
! long article giving the views of the Hon.
| -rfdwasd Baits on tbo Slavery question. The
' main points are as follows :
"Air. Bites does net believe that African
1 Slavery L a beneficial institution, either in a
; social, poliiieal, or religious tense. Not in ?.
; political souse, bee-.use it is productive of dis
-1 cords between nation 3 that tolerate it and
' nations tint do not. and because it ii liihlo to
p -aics, aud ias ended often in blocdy revolu
tion*. Not in a r digious aeaae, bec.ias* it
makes the word cf God a seeled Look to tbo
-lave, aud gives Lis body tu tbe service of a
human master ; whereas the body of every
created being should be freely given to the
service ei God. Because Air. Bates does not
behove that, slavery is a beneficial institution,
eit ft ia a social, political or religious sense,
he ;s unalterably opposed to its extension into
territories already fiee.
/•if. Baits heartily endorses tlie sentiment,
and holds to the creed of Mr. Ciay, who de
clared that bis right arm should dr p fr as bis
shoulder before Le would vote to extend slavery
over one toot or territory already. Mr. Bates
docs not believe that tha U n-iiiation carries
slavery into all ibe territories that may be ac
quired by tbo U. Cs'a'es. lie believes 'bat
freedom is thr rule au i slavery ea exist in
any territory acquired by tiij government ol
toe U. £>Utea except by iho positive law of
Congress. That law Mr. Bates would not be
jn favor of passing, because, for reasons al
ready given, be is opposed to the extension of
slavery into territory already free. Mr Bates
denies that the txciusiou of slave property
from territory acquired by the eomtmu blood
and treasure of tiro Union establishes an in
v. iious distinction between the two sections of
the Union, and asserts that the distinction
aomplumed c: io coeval with she government,
and that the prohibition ot slavery from free
territory was embodied :n the otiirLai conSpaci
oi tho Union, for which ihe slaw States were
allowed ,n Gougrt'ss an i in Presidential elee
ti.as t: ree \otcs tor every live slaves, ile
then tor docs not regitrd tho 000 admission
of slavery iato territory us establishing a dis
tiiieiion oetween property, but -imply as roain
taiiig a uistinctioa already established and
willingly assented to by the South since the
toriiiaiiju oi the Government. Ho regards
the priueipie o! the Nebraska bill as rendering
the introduction of slavery into the territories
impossible, and noes not believe that Congress
wid intervene to protect slave property in the
territories. He firmly adheres to tho rights of
property in slaves in tho States where slavery
already exists, and if President he would ex
ecute the Fugitive Slave Law, if the army and
navy of the govorumeut were equal to the"task.
He would consider the Union - Laokeu com
pass it these plain guarantees were denied by
tho deliberate and persevering action of auy
part ot the confederacy. If Congress should
iegulize sua pass laws protecting slave property
in territories previously free, Mr. Bates would
execute those laws . s promptly as any other
iawa ot the land. He would not oppose tho
admission of a State because of a pro-slavery
Constitution. Ho would never couutenauce a
National organization for any interference
whatever with slavery in the States.
lie i. glad to see the rapid and peaceful ex
tinction of slavery iu Missouri, without the aid
of emancipation parties, and without the heat
and acrimony of domes' io discord. By Lis
owu example, as well a-i by precept, tie has
shown that he prefers to live by his own labor,
and not on tho labor of slaves. He advocates
the procurement of foreign territory suitable
to the ready ami cheap, colonization of free
blacks. The policy already broached in some
States, of selling again into slavery the free
blacks whom humane or grateful masters have
emancipated, unless those freed persons leave
the State, is in the highest degree cruel. It is
barbarious, and it wouid disgrace the American
people in the lace of Christenlom to permit
sued policy to prevail.
Au old bachelor recently remarked ibut our
ladies are so fond of foreigu articles, that they
would import babies if they could be manufac
tured. We think not.
Republicanism of Jefferson.
The following letters from Mr. Jiff r?cu,
written before ami during his Presidential
term, reed very much like as if they rem ia
tended for the preseLt time?. They o?e pro
phetic *
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 1800.
Dfar Sir * * * Though our informa
tion of ttio votes of the several Siates be not
official, yet 'ocy arc stated on such evidence
cs to satisfy both parties that the Republican
vote has teen successful. The Constitution,
to which we are all tut ache J, was meant to be
; Republican, sua we believe it to be Re-pttbh
| can, according fo every candid interpretation.
Y-t, we have s< en i; so interpreted an i adurn
istered as o be truly what the French Lave
called it, a monarquie manque. Yet so long
1 lias the vine iun on this way, and been trim*
■ ;ued to it, {hat to put her on her Kr-pubiiean
tr.ieit wilt require aii tlio skill, tho firmness,
slid the zeal of her ablest end beat friends. —
It is a eiisia which cails on thcui to saeiifieo
ail other objects, sud repair io ht r ui-i in this
mcmtntcju operation. Not oniy their skill is
wanting, but their uau.es also. It is essential
to assemble, ia tao outset, persons to compose
our Administration, whose talent?, integrity,
and revolutionary name an i principles, may
inspire the natiou at ouoe with unbounded con
| tiuenoe, and impose an awful silence, on the
' maligna &pj Republicanism ; as may suppress
in emtryoMhe purpose avowed by one of their
j most datifijjg and tIT.-otivQ chiefs, ot beating
down the "Administration. * * * This is
; u common, cause, my dear sir, common to all
' Republicans, * * * Come forward, thru,
my dear sir, acd give us the aii of your talents
uud the weight of your character towards the
new rstablhhmrnt of Republ.canism ; I say for
its new essirbluhuieut ; tor ti therto we have
seen ouiy it,, trace sin. * * 4 *
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
To ROEiBT R. LIVINGSTON.
& WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 1806.
Dear i*r; * * * The mate of politi
cal opinion* continues to return steadily to-
I Wards Ik j utiicanisiij. To judge from oppo
sitiru papers,"u, stranger would suppose that a
considerable caeca to it had been produced by
I certain retu ova lof public officer?. Rut this:,
j not the case. All offices were in the hands cd
| the Federalist?. The injustice of having to
tally csciude J Republicans was ackno .rle iged
,by every man. To have removed cue-halt, sid
Ito itave pin-ad Republicans in their stu-j,
would Ua-c teen rigorously just, when i; was
' kocwn that these composed a very gre..i ma
: j rity of the nation. *
TliOM AS JKFFKIiSON.
To WILLIAM SIIOKT.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 1801.
Dear Sir :My great anxiety at present is
to avail ourselves ? our ascendancy to estab
j iis! good principles nn-1 g d practices j to
1 fortify Republicanism behind as many barriers
ias possible, that the outworks my give tiara
,to rally and save the citadel, should that bo
j ugtiu ia danger. On their part, t/ny have re
' tired into the judicata/, us n stronghold. There
! the remains of Federalism are io be preserved
I and fed from the treasury, and from ihat bat
; tenj all the works of Republicanism are to be
beaten down and erased. By a frafiulrnt use
;of the Constitution, which has mode judges
irremovable, they Lava multiplied useless
judges merely to strengthen their phalanx. *
TliOM AS J K K V ESO.V.
To JOHN DICKINSON.
Frederick Douglas writes a letter from Can
ada West to the Rochester American, denying
that he ever promised to be present at the
Harper's Ferry iusurreetitn. He says : "Cook
is wholly, grievously end unaccountably wrong,
when ho asserts that I promised to be present
in person at the Harper's Ferry insurrection.
Of whatever imprudence and iediscratiou I
may have been guilty, I have never made a
promise so rath and wild 33 this. The taking
of Harper's Ferry was a measure never en
couraged by my word, or by my vote, at any
time or place.
His field of labor Las not extcuded to an
attack upon the Uuited States Arsenal, but be
is ever ready to speak, write, or organize, pub
lish, combine, and even to conspire against
slavery, when there is a reasonable hope of
success. The tools to those that can use them.
Let every man work for the abolition of slave
ry his own way. lie would help all and
hinder none. He has no apoicgy to make lor
keeping out of tho way ol those gentlemanly
United rftatc3 Marshals, who are said to have
paid Rochester a somewhat protracted visit
lately,with a view to au iuterview with him. A
Government that recognizes the vitality of the
Dred Scott decision, at such a t.;ue as this, is
not likely to have auy very charitable feeling
towards him,if lie is to meet its representatives,
he prefets to do so, at least, upon equal terms.
If he has committed any offence against society
it has Leeu done ou the soil of the Statu ut N.
York, and lie should be perfectly willing there
to be arraigned before an impartial jury 1 tut
he has quite insuperable objections to be caught
by the bands of Mr. Buchanan, and "bagged"
by Gov. Wise. Lest some reihetious may be
made upon his going to England just at this
time, bo states that his visit to that country
has rather been delayed thaa hastened by the
Harper's Ferry matter Ail knew, ho says, j
that he intended to leavo this couutry in the I
firs*, week in November.
Gerril Smith's Kansas Work,
The Chicago Press and Tribune says .
Wc thiuk we can throw a little light upon the ;
three times repeated words, 'Kansas work,' ia ,
Gerrit Smith's ietter to Osssmattaufie Brown,
of June A, 1859—tbo letter, wc mean, said to
have been found at Brown's house after tbe af
fair of Harper's Ferry. About the middle of
March i tst Browo passed through this city,
having in charge thirteen iugmva slaves from j
Missouri, en rente for (Luada. Our informant, j
who gives us this fact, says also that Brmvu i
rpoke ot bis obligations to Smith for aid in tbe
enterprise in which he w,s then engaged, and
seemed to rely upou bim for any assistance which
he might require in future endeavors of the same '
kind. Doubtless £ milk's words refer to Cap', j
Brown's peaceful anil bloodless attempts at uui- J
veraai tm ir.cip&tion. We take it that Air. Smith ;
w. u!d tot deoire to con etui the fact that he is
at all times ready to assist ia the escape cf fu-1
gitives, nor that hundreds, peihspa, of fiviDgi
men and women, arc indebted to hiui for means
ot deiivoruoce. But that Le was a party to ■
Brown's feci lib and ciii.iiuui affair at iiarp- r's j
Ferry is too improbable ier leiicl. We do not (
admire or defend his connection with the olti
uian for the purpose first named* but w know j
him so v,eli that we dare a-sert that he has
never been willing to staiu hi* hands with inno
cent hiooJ. When his connection with Brown
is f'esrod up and 'ho published letter explain
ed, it will, v.e doubt not, bo f end thai wo have
hit ihc t-xact truth tfcut when he sends §2OO
to Brown 'to keep him at his Kansas work;'
whc-ti his 'prayer to God i that you may have
strength to continue your Kan-as worn, aud
when the Itbetalitv of another is lauded because
it will 'assLt ia too Kansas work,' lie conveyed
assurances ot his willingness to pay for and aid
in the escape of fugitives by that mysterious
thoroughfare, the stock cf which is never
quoted on Change, the underground raiircai."
DEATHOV W ATSON BROWN.—WA'sm Br awn
the S' nogfi - >cn of 'O-*awataniie.' arid who was
desperately wounded by Martlusburg men,
(ho his since -j 10J; Oh Moo t.y Lrenooa,stiff r
ed if ucit .a M i. v nigh , ? vera' time; . .
hss comrades * ► uah out i„s brains wi.b their
guns, Hiau i,;us to relieve nis > rif-r:; a ,: . On
Tuesday morning bis agony had apparently t- -
come nnredorabhe, aud scix'ag i j.Lt.., he was
-t'jut la .-.cot i •. •!; iu tkc Lead, when Lis
latuer. staymg uia iiimd, calm , told him that
ths time had tot \< t arrived . r such i d.. dus
ti.it—:o ea-iure a .itt'a lottucr, and he might
dm as befitted a loan. \j e saw aud spoke w.th
this jouug msu a few moments afier tbo assault
am. ecui i n-.. divest our heart to somethiag akin
'o pity ier b:m. lie feelingly inquired whether
lis father was alive, aui on being answered in
the affirmrtive, looked bis thankfulness. lie
was inforiiiyi cf the death of ob b:other in ti.o
. siau; , Lai exhibited uo emotion at that tsa
uouncvm n*. — Unit. Exchange.
John 2rotva red the Xext Ejection.
The fall elections, on which it was expected
ili i the Harper's Ferry air, ir would have an
effect favorable to the Democracy, are over.—
Democracy is whipped wjr.-o than ever, in
spite of the efforts made to help it by cxagge•
rat.nas of poor old Mr. Brown's mad acts. It
is quite likely, new, that there will be a sub
side!.ee of tuc excitement concerning the Har
per's Ferry off.ir. fee subject may be worn
out before the Freskleuti'il campaign of next
year, unless it is aliow/d to rest now for a
little while. Indeed w think it would be a
good idea, and one that might operate favora
bly for the Charleston uouiinee, oct to haug
oid Mr. Brown this winter, tut to keep him
alive to be used during the 'jamp&tgn of lbGl).
Virginia wili net spare Liui on the score of
mercy ; perhaps she wiil on that of politics.—
Plata. Buletln.
A Moxtitit'a PBAVEK- Tho boy that feels
that his name is mentioned in u mother's
prayer is comparatively safe from vice and
the ruin to which it ioaas. The sweetest
thought that N. P. Wittis ever penned grow out
of reverence to his pious mother's prayer for
Liru. Tossed hy ti c waves, ia a vessel which
was bearing him homeward, he wrote .
'•Sleep sate, oh! wave-worn mariner
Nur fear to-night, nor storm nor sea !
Tne oar of heaven bends low to her;
lie conies to st ore who sails with me.''
HON. DAVID C. BRODERICK.— The Uet dy
ing words of the murdered California!! Senator
wete these: " They hive killed mz because 1 was
opposed to the extension of Slavery and a cor
rupt administration.'' Tus country lest more
iu the murder of this man, by toe minions of
the black code, than by a dozen tiuip. r's Ferry
affrays; yet the doughface journals, while they
1 apologise for the premeditated slaughter of a
! noble Senator of the United States, charge up-
I on the whole North complicity in an intention
; to raise a oegro insurrection !
John Brown is sai l to be the father of twen
: ty-two children —>>f whom, two sons were in
! humanly killed iu Kansas, and a daughter died
i there of domestic sufferings caused by the Bor
der wars: and two sens wore killed with bitu at
Harper's Ferry. In the War if 1812, old
Brown fought the British at the battle cf Platu
burg, aud bore an excellent character- until the
Kansis war maddened him.
Beautiful was the reply of a venerable mm
to the question, whether ho was stiil iu the land
of the nvii'g : "No, but I um almost there."
VOL. 32. ,\O. 48.
.Harder will Orl.
The following singular circumstance, ml*teJ
in a GcroJjn Journal, is worthy of sprving a*
pendant to tiu't of the f'tHjous t'og of Mr-n'Hr
g;S :
A wealthy tamer rii;io-_d Kruntz, residing in
the neighborhood of Sinz, in the Archduchy of
Austria, was iu the habit of making jonru<ys
several times a year to sell his goods and enter
into contracts ter supplies of different kinds.
Tbeso rounds generally oceupied him vbout ten
days or a fortnight. On the 32'h of October
last be starts 1 ar usual, but iu the state night
his wifs and son were surprised at henriag his
cabriolet come up to the door an i their surprise
was change 1 arsia horror n finding in the ve
hicle the lifeless body ot tnc tiiuner, weltering
in Lis biooJ. ihc botse, hading himself at
liberty, had returned home". The authorities
made inquiries, but without kaiing to tbe dis
covery ot the murderer. The tanner" had with
hitu a largo and powerful dog, but as the ani
mal was kstf ued under tbe cabriolet Le could
not reuder any assistance to Lis master. —
After the death of the tanner. Lis son, a young
man about twenty five years cf age, took on
himself the management rf the business, and
;Le Lis father, iua.; t_; Usual journeys.—
About a fortnight eg , in passing near a road
side public house, ar the door of which the
landlord was sitting smoking his pipe, ho same
dog waioL had been ia the habit of accwUi%
pauyiug the father, ana which rauning
along qaifctiy by tue side of the vehicle, began
to bat ii in the most furious manner, and rushed
towaids the house, ilie man seeing its ap
proach, ran in and closed the door," while the
dog kept howling aud harking most violently.
A suspicion immediately entered the mind of
the young man, but instead of showing what he
kit by any movement which might have been
observed by the inmates of tha bouse, he fast
en tue dog jena itu the cabnolet, and driving
to tha nearest town, gave information to the
authorities. Sums police officers were imme
diately despatched to the house, and ia it were
touar the empty money b3g of the tanner, his
pocket book. Tim landlord end his wife worn
arrested, and will he triud for the
crime— G^lignnni.
i-ii.' i-j or Fa>'Nt-iiIFS. —At a 1 uti meeting
i --.e i" .;uar>' i .ub of Lit'le Fall*, N. JTork,
sui joe: t: using t:,o roiusa of tanneries,
Scsuiuga, lime, *e.,) lor agricultural pur
ii s Wjj discussed, ani oue tueaber slated
tb.it be bad us.: i l.iir on gr -.in and grass with lie
t-' " :-e;ct tflee*. lie iiad spread it thiol? aad
narrowed ;{. j a with tae spring wheat, and pro
duce a the te t crop Le had tier iaieJ or seen
in 1.0 n . ighl o; ! Upon grass, its effects
Lac. bo.-.a voty u.siiijst and listing. Applied
upcu °l.o lop ■. i a. unproductive, dry pieco of
oi'jit, it iiu ! produced . . ety luxuriant growtb,
and without at,j oibcr application, the dirk
green couip 't-xtoa of the sward had scarce!? aba
ted in ten rears.
borne ; recently, who hid been loiter
ing SwOat toe l 'i-e of Mr. Tucuita lloimn,
cent i'ltu'. v . i'rij.ca "t.li.uu county, Va.,
it i- ruiJ ptisu.ie. d bs;ti to iook into the case
Ji a watch, in which was chloroform, and
whils-' ho was Hi uring under the effects of the
toLatuiion, tr-ak troiu biiu 'he key of Lis bu
reau, and stoic therefrom a thousand dollars
tu gold, with which he decamped.
A !•*■!_) .u Indiana, i,t tlie time ct the Juae
ifos' ( the previous evening covered her cucum
ber and tomato viues with nety-pa;-.er3, and on
ex-mining the in the next morning, discovered
:hu: t-vety vine was -preserved except one, and
tent was catered with a p .per she had bonow-
; 11 * r ' m a neighbor, the subsetiotion of which
had not Icr-o paid lor throe years.
Moliere was asked the reasou why ia certain
countries a ting may assume the crown at four
| tec a years or age, an.] cannot uiarry beforo
j c'cuiCtii? '!. is said rdoliere, 'because it is
mere difiicti t "o ru'e a v.itc than a kingdom.'
It is undeniable, says Prenlieo, thai tn Amer
ica it takes three to make a pair, he §ha and n
bireu girl. Had Adaui been a modern, theie
would have been a hired girl ia Paradise to
loos after little Able and -'raise Cair,."
j i ru-.lt is the golden fruit which hargs upon
j the tre ct Liberty. How beautiful and yet
how dimcult fcr poor mortals to grasp it.
The Mayor of a certain town cut west pur
poses to hi 1 bail the dogs ol his town and tan
their hides with the hark of the other half,
The violet grows low and covers Itself with
its own tears, .nd cf all f.orers yield the
sweetest fragrance. Such is humility.
An architect proposes to buiid a 'Buchelor's
Hail, which wili differ from most houses, it
having no f!v:s.
I A Bachelor ought to be a goo 1 euchre piay
-r—so proficient in going it alone.
A bachelor, after discovericg bis clothes full
of boles, excirimed '-.l lend-i-cant
What word is that which, if you take awy
the first letter, ali will still remain ?
Why is the Metiteraueau the dirtiest of seasl
Because it is the least tidev.
Xevcr suy 'coat tail,' but 'the conclusion of
a gcut-cißcn's outer vestment.
Is it per ad ox ieul to say ti>at a person W39
cowed by a borse whipping'