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Klang dp ttio Baby's StsdiSn?, Ilang up the baby's Blocking ; 13 sure you dem't forget The dear little dimpled darling ! She cercr sair Christmas yet j Bat I've told her nil about it, Arjd she opened her Liblua eyes. And I'm sure the undeisiood It. She locked so funny and w;a. Df!r what a tiny stocking ! It doesn't tak? much to fcojd Such little pnk to.s as baby'i Away from (he frost and cold. But, then, fjr the baby's Chriatmaa It will never do At all ; Why, Santa wouldn't be looking For anything half so small. I kniiw that wIM do for the baby l'va thought of the very best plan : I'il borrow a stocking fioni grindccA, The lor.ect that ever I can ; And yoo'il bang it by mine, dear molhar, Right here fn the corner, so. And write a letter to Santa, And fasten ft ou to the tae. Write, "This itho baby'a stocking That Langs in the corner here j Yt U never have seen lier, Santa, For the only came this year ; But fhtV yMt the bk'Sistdest baby And r.ow, btffiie CT1 go. j Jast cram;her fctrcking vith gondiev. From the to clfan down to th toe." , Lritle Corporal. The Poor Prayer to Saint Xlcliolas. I raw in my dream," find a pot r boy pray'd, And thrise were tire words of tlio prayer which he said : "St. Nicholas 1 cuce I used to be glad YHxa Christmaa came rcmcd, br.t dott I am sad ! For, aince we'vo been poor, you neTer cctu.c cear us. We are ko far uvtcn iown I enppost you can't bear u. You are buay vp tctcn wiiu all your gay things , Bocks, ctohs, catjoy, cuket, fruit, pen-knives and risgs- I don't a;k for these, but f-.-r eotnething to er.t, Some chitbicg acd fuel, ansl shee3 for my feet. Oh! was it the way the sainta did of yoro. To give to tbt rich, and not visit the poor ? Com, come to u now,acd prove you're no straiiger To Him who, to bles ua, was born in a manger. Bat, if yoa should come, miad ! a tare leeged bjy No Ki-Jih-ir.g.i can hang for your ewest gifts of j -y ! So bring me, good fAict, If. yoa know bow to spia thc-m, A pair of warm socks," and some bits of bread io them." Bo ended his prayer; and strange it did OTia Jat thta T awoke, and behold 'twas a dream." ts, Slitters, lucbofts, tff." From th X. Y. Metropolitan Record. THETRUESTORYof POCAHONTAS. Ieonoclisra is pbtjinij the mischief with Ihe objacts of our early adoration One after Hnothcr the idols of our childhood are knocked down and pulverized into dust, and wo are told it was absurd to worship thorn at nit. Only the other day we rcud that the story of William Tell Fhouting an apple off his eon's head was nil ni'-onslntiO, and now here is our Iriend Dodd tearing to tetters that dear old ro mance of Pocahontas. His picture of the gentle savage maiden 13 bo unlike that on which the eyes of imagination have been feasting for almost three hundred jearp, that n mere glance at it sends a shudder through I ha senses. But Dodd says the truth of history demands this exposure, end the truth of hietoiy is one cf thoso things to which the Portfolio, reverently bows : Editou Poktpoljo : The truth of history is a noble' thing. It deserves our profoundest veneration, and it sometimes makes large demands on our credulity. In my own case the bank of credulity is pretty well drained, mid I hope Ihere won't be many more drafts on it. Suspension would certainly follow, and ever since I heard that one of my an cestors was bun I have dreaded suspen rion above all thins. Please observe that when I say I dread suspension above all things, I don't mean exactly that. This confounded language of ours hardly ever lets a man say just what he does mean. Now, to be sus pended above all things, one would have to be hung above the stars, the moon, the Bun, ani several other things up in that section, and I don't think that would be practicable. The gallows that : ILim-wi swun froui was pretty high up in r the world, hut even that wasn't above ail things. What I do mean is just this: ever fince I heard that one of uiy an cestors was hung, I have dread suspension more than anything else. Bi:t to the truth of history. There might be more of it than there is, and it m a desire to increase the stock that impels me to produce this paper. I want to tell the truth about a lunioricul charac ter, a young woman by the name of Po cahontas, a member of one of the original F. F.V.'s, and a damsel of considerable celebrity in a romantic way. A true sketch of the life of this interesting female ! ou"ht to be worth ten dollars at least, and I am willing to let yon have it for that sum. Please remit promptly, and oblige yours, etc. Pocahontas was born in 15G8, and her name wasn't Pocahontas at alt. Her pa rents, one of whom was an old speculator in scalpt nmed Powhatan, gave, her the name of Matoa, and that was the name ehe was known by in the neck of woods in which the hved. 1 don't know hsv she got tlie name of Pocahontas, and I am not going to bother myself finding ot. There ate things in Heaven aud earth not dreamed of in my philosophy, nnd tho manner in which Matoa became changed to Pocahontas is one ol them. Moreover, when thtH young woman was first known as Pocahontas, 6he wasn't known as Po cahontas. The came ha wa known by was I'ovnmnta, a much more appropri ate coguotnen, for, yeu see, she was often engaged in ihe hunt, and could hunt as well as a i.y other git I ol her age and siee, and so Ihere was some propriety in calling her Pocahuntas. 1 cn't account for the Poca iu her name except on the hypothe sis that t-he used to ply poker whh the hunters, and that the name Poker, given to distiiiguhm her from the Indian maidens who didn't play that edifying game, aficr warda became corrupted into Poca. I don' I know bow she came to get the uarae ol 'Pocahontas, but I tkiuk 1 have diown pretty clearly how site could have come by the name of Pocahenta3. While she was still a girl, a f.How named Smith, the original John Smith, wr.3 found skulking around her father's wigwam, and the old man went for Smith and nabbed him. It was pretty hard on bmilh to be iu the hands of Powhatan, and tho only consolation h coul 1 find was in counting the 6c:J3 in the old chap's wigwam, aud rerouting that his own might toon by added to the number. Powhatan had made up his mind that Smith's lamily shouldn't sec him any more, so he called a council of his bravtF, had bmi'.h tried nod Sviiteiiccd by a miii lary commistion, and then got a clob to knock cut his trams. At this moment Pocahontas appeared, and the execution was postponed, Pocahontas didn't throw herself on Smith, snd say she would save him or perish in the attempt. .She wasn't a womrfti of that kind. On the contrary, it would have given her pleasure, lo lend a hand at taking clT Smith's scalp, if her father had allowed the proceedings go on.' He had them suspended becnusd at that instant Smith took a large brass button out of his pocket, offered it as a ransom, end wn3 released. The savage mind of Powhatan did not perceive that he could have got the button after Smith's death as well as before, otherwise the execution would probably have proceeded, nd Smith's scalp would hare been hung up to dry in tho wigwam of the noble chief. When Pocahontas was fifteen years eld, her father sold her to a party by the name of R jlfe for two quails cf beads. Kolfa had an eye to business. He didn't care the beads for Pocahontas, but he thought by marrying her he might corns in for a part of his futher-in-law's property. At I hat time Powhatan had some extensive hunting grounds, und P.olfe was ou that (cent. Eut he never got a cent's worth of the propei ty. The reason was that old Powhatan died without making a will, and ns the pre-ent judicial system was not then 'organized, Ilolfe's claim on the es tate was not admitted. Koli's tried sev eral dudges, to get possession, but finally decided to draw off. He was given to understand that if he showed himself in that neighborhood any more, the surti tors of Lis father-in law's ti ihe would give him a taste of the tomahawk, and so he kept away. This was about tho wis est thing Koife did during his life. .Iiolfe took Pocahontas to England and exhibited her as a princess. This was an atrocious fraud. It stands to the com monest reason that two quarts of beads' worth of savage maiden can't be a prin cess. Pocahontas was no more a princess than Olive Logan, who couldn't be pur chased for ten timas her own weight in beads. Hut Iiolfe took her to England, and showed her around, aud got all the royal fools to look at her and give her presents, and when he saw that there wasn't much chance of making any more money by that dodge he Ptarled with her for Virginia again, and got as far as Gravesend when she took sick and died. It was beer that killed her. She had been living on romance several months, an 1 when that gave oat, and she had to take to beer, her gentle spirit 'drooped, melancholy seized her for its own, and she expired. Her last word were, "O carry me back to old Virginia, to old ' Virginia's shore! ; . . O carry me back to the old wigwam, with scalps behind the door." And thns she died. It was a" sad and mernorab'e spectac!e, a-td the English painter made a picture of it that has been pronounced one of the finest pieces ol fancy painting that ever was seen. It was on this painting thnt Dr. Watts wrote the beautiful hymn commencing, She's all my faucy painted her, etc." In this brief sketch I have endeavored to do justice. to truth and the memory of Pocahontas. Necessarily, however, . I have omitted many of her striking charac teristics, such as her habit of making faces at her venerable parent ; her passion -for tobacco, of which she could smoke twen ty pipes daily ; her predilection for whis key, and her manner of causing her lingers to gyrate from her nose when she was in a playful mood. Take" her all in all, sbc was as good a specimen of the noble sav age race as the forests cf America ever produced. If her education had not been so much neglected in her early day-, she would have been a shining ornament to the back-woods society of the Fifteenth century. Peace to her ashes and. love to her memory ! In the following lines, produced after several weeks of midnight effort in the garret of a reepccthblo boarding house, I have tried honestly and faithfully to pre sent rOCAHONTAS AS SHE WAS. Pocahontas was the daughter of a most feio cions man Known to many generations by the name cf Powhatan. Thia old savage was a regular disreputable enss. And the tribe that called him sachem was conbldsrably wo?s.- Pocahontas was a maiden daik as any other child Of the old Virginia forest, and her ways were rather wild. She conhl swear in any lingo of the cirenm jacent tribes, And the i ftcn riled her parent with her ca pers and her jibes. Pocahontas was not pretty, cot a pretty did she have. Bat it cannot be denied that she was super extra brave. She could wine the fatal arrow, the ccu'.d wield the toniahawk. And about her nse of war clubs 'twould be useless for to talk, roeahontas never reecued from the rage tf Powhatan Captain Smith, the jolly sailor no, nor any other Bian. All the tales about her saving Opt. Saiith ai: rather strong ; Nice romances for the children, gjod enongn fur fcHly song. She was n it a gentle princess, as the tslory tellcis say. But a nu.tt rampapiorcs maiden, with a very mrghty way. Her acciimpliphinents were chiifly dreiTirrjj cr.lps for Powhatan, And her talents piincipally to euch dreadful habits ran. Pocahontr.s never joined a S.roeisterhoed, or Mich, Though no donbt her inclinations tended that way very much ; For she liked the club and council, and she had a striking way. But the ol jjct of her striking I wou't under take to say. And new to conclude aad finish, likewise cotre to an end, I would say nf Pocahontas, without meaning to cfifend. That she was the fifteenth daughter cf a grim old savage cuss, That her tastes wai rather vulgar and Ler condnct scmethirg wn. Par.BY D in. A CrniOUS AM) ISTF.IiPSTING llISTerhY OF mis r.vsiocs lasd fcrtcui-tnox. A subscriber as-ks us hor? tho western part of Nuw York State came into posses sion of parlies in Holland, t brooch whom aUoiiginnl titles to land there have come; i in other words, what is known as "The ! Hoilanel Purchase." This involves n lite a curious and interesting historical ter, of which we give the outline : cnp.p- On July 4, 1609, Samuel Champlain, the Fiench navigator, with two whife at tendants and a company of Canadian In dians, entered the lake which bears his nama, being the first while man that ever set foot upon the soil of New York. Sept. 9, 1G09, Henry Hudson, the Eng lish navigator, in the employ of the EiSt India Company, discovered the bay of New York, and three days after entered the liver which has since borne his name. The land discovered by Hudson was claimed by Holland and named New Netherlands. This colony spread to the east and west during the next forty-five years, until it came in contact with the English settlement on the Connecticut and the Swedish colony on the Delaware. Contests arose and the latter became sub ject to the rule of the Dutch and was an nexed to New Netherlands. The border contests in the east continued as lung as the Dutch held jKJSessicn of the country, the English claiming New Netherlands as part of Virginia, founded upon the prior discoveries of Cabot. March 12, 16G4, Charles II. of England granted charier of all tho lands ly ing between the Hudson and the Delaware to his brother, the Duke of York. This included New Netherlands and a portion of the territory which had been previously granted to Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and, before the year 1GG1 had closed, by a sudden and bold movement, tho country was wrested from the Dutch by military force, and passed from' their control.' In 1GG4 the Duke of York sold the present territory of the State of New Jersey. It was not until 1731 that the disputed i boundary with Connecticut, crowing oat of this grant, was settled The claims of Massachusetts, arising under the same grant, were not adjusted till 178G, after"1 the close of ihe revolutionary war. Then a compromise was effected which gave New York the sovereignty of the whole territory, but yielded to Massachusetts ownership of the 6oil in that portion of the State which lies west of a meridian line passing through the 82d mile-stone of j the Pennsylvania boundary. This line, known as "'the pre emption line," com mences at the southeast corner of Steuben j county, extends along the west shore of j Seneca lake, atd lerrainatcaia Stilus bsy, on Lake Ontario. In 1787 Mss?achnpe:i Bold to Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gra ham tha whole tract west of the pre-emption tine, containing 6,000,000 acres, for l,C'J'J,00y. About two-thirds of this tiact r verted io Massachusetts, and was Fubscquenily sold to Eobcit Mori is. Mor ris told about eeven eighths of his pur chase to a company of capitalists of Am sterdam. IIJ.lr.nd, and thia tract was af terwards known ns -The Holland Pur chase. ' The Holl.-.nd Und company pur sued an exceedingly liberut policy with ic gard to their lands. They thoroughly surveyed the whole region, built roads and mills, and by every means t-ncouraged ct I'.euient. TRoir landd were sold on easy lOTms of payment, aud il is probable that no-v there is bat very Iutle of this vast tract th;it is not hcM by actual owners who have secured their title from this fa mous company, who mutt have made themsehes find their buccewors immense ly rich by the operation. For more than half of his life, Governor Seward wa3 th principal ngent an l attorney in superin tending the disposal of ihtir lands, ti.e foreclosure ot their mortgages in capo of default in payments, and the oihc.r details connected with the va?t propcity ir.icrrsf. And to-clny the little land ot!ii;e that hi Ids the records of this Holland company's do ings, and conducts the remtit of its business- may bj seen in t';e vill.ige of WcH fieId,Chau!aqua county. New Yosfc, forty five miles west of Duffdo, beirg in charge, as it has been since Governor Seward re-linq-ii."hed if, of Ex-Lieutenant Governor George W. Patter on, cf New Yo:l. To m.ike this bit of historical reminis cence complete, we willadi that the con flicting claima r.hich New Yiik hr.d wj.h Now Hampshire, r'.po growing cut of this same Duke of Yoik grant, l :d to i'r q violent collision's r.nd almort civ II war, r.-.uJ were only settled hi 17'JO, nhen territory in u:cp ite was erected into Vei monl and ti e Sime of New Yoik wr.r, paid 530,000. Detroit Post. As r. sc-qael to the foregoing, Ihe Chi cago Times raids the following : Gove.-ncr 5.;wnrd did r.tit act ns the immediate rep resentativo of the Jan Van ilcnssllaei a, Peter Schinimelpir.nickr, r.iA other Neth erlandish and outlandish Dutchmen who composed the Holland t(nd company, ptior to the year 1S-35. Before that lime ihe agent was Mr. William Peacock, a liiih old man with a hooked nose and gold bowed fpcctaa!e?s who kept the little bjl-boue-bottomcd land cftk-c of his Dutch principals in the villnpe of Mayvi'.le, Chantaqua county, and lived in the sy!e of a country gentleman in the middle of a large garden, barricaded against nred:Uory boys with a lofty board fence and sharp iron ppikes. A scries of events, forerun ning symp(on:3 probably of tho finsncial crash of 1837, caused the farmers of the surrounding country to fall considerably in arrears npon their piyments, for which the Iloll.tnd company held raot tgnges up on their farms For tome rensoii, the gent mfupc io listen to their rcasoi.able petitions for sn extension of lime, nnd commenced, in ".hat as thor.ght a mcst arbitrary and unjust way, a general fore c!o?ure cf Tnorteagcs. Thefarmeis tjok counsel among themselves. It was in the depth of winter when a great number of mortgage sale" wooli take place, which threatened to drive poor farmers and their fa in ihe from the t-hcltcr of homes their own Inbor had built, into r.-.cw drifts. Those men determined apon the con:?e they would pursue, in case "old I'dly Peacock" fhould persist in hi? threat to sell them ont. He did persist. One cold night in January the village cf MayviHe was suddenly throncrd with flc'hf, that came in, as if at a given signal, from cvciy direction, and every s!eiib csntciocd ten or a dczen resolute men with muffled and di.-goicd faces. Th? land otTic was th foeus of the gathering. Every j-Ieigh was emptied of all bn the driver, who kept his team in the road. There was no noise or disorder; bnt in a very few min utes the IloUand company's I.tnd oflice was deraollrbed, and hocks of record, papers, and everything it cntained, with the building itself, were the Eiatrrials tf a grand bonfire. Peacock, Ihe agent, wa not molested, but he was so badly eenred that he " put off" insfanter, and paused not in his hurried flight until he reached Ihiffalo. Some weeks elapsed bcfoie he ventured to return, and he nevrr again assumed to act rb agent of the Holland land company. It was this occurrence which brought Mr. Seward into direct relp.tionship with the inhabitants of that section a repre sentative of the Holland land company, and he so managed the business as to pre icrve lo the farmers their lands aud get for the company their pay. Moreover, by his conciliatory and equitable courre, he won from every debtor cf the company his everlasting esteem and gratitude From that lime forward Mr. Seward was the only ropresentalive of the company in western New York, until he transferred its hooka and affair to George W. Fat- tersoo. Health of Apples. Apples, if eaten at breakfast, with coarse bread and butter, without meat or flesh, remove constipa tion, correct acidities, and cool off febrile conditions more effectually than tho most improved medicines. They prevent de bility, strengthen digestion, correct the putrefactive tendencies of nitrogenous food, avert scurvy, and strengthen the power of pro'dttctive 4ab?r. -' - - - a ioT'S3i:as stocky. A company of ladies were assembled ia a parlor one da t dking about their c'iOTer cnt troubles, Each ona had something ,u say about her own trial'. l?ut theio w-aa ona of the company, pule and sad looking, who fr a while said nothing Suddenly rousdng herself ut last, aha said : "My friends, you don't any of 'you know what trouble is." " - -Will you please, Mrs. Gray," said the kind voice of one who knew her story, "tell Iho ladies what you call trouble." "I will if you desire it; for, in the words of the P.ophei, 'I am tba oue who hath seen affliction.' '.My parents were well off, and xny girlho.id was surrounded by ail Ihe couj k.rts of life. Cvery wish of my heart was gratilicd, and I was cheerful and happy. "At the ago of ivnct tn I married ona whom I loved more than a'l- the world besides. Oar home was retired ; but the sun necr shone upon a lovelier spot, or a happier household. Years rolled on peace fully. Five lovely children sat around our table, and little curly head still nes tled in my l.ot,ora. O.ie night, about s indo-.vn, a fieicj black fetorra came-up. For many hours lbs ri;i p nned down iu cess.wly. Morning downed, but. Mill the elements ragd. 1 ne country round was ovci flowed. The little stream near our dwelling beenma a foaming tor'ent. II;-' fore we were aware of it, our hou.-e was Rui rounded by water. 1 managed, wiih my bubo, to reach a little eLvated spur, where ti e thick foliage of a few wide spreadii.g trees afforded s.ime protection, whde my Iiusbnnd and son strove to save what ihy ci u'.d of o ir privity. At last a f.aifni surge swept Hxny my husband, and he never rose again. Lndics, no ono ever lovod n husband more ; but lL;it wa net trouble "Patently -ray sons saw their danger, and the struggle f r life became the onlv considerahon. They were as brave, lov ing hoys as ever blessed a mother's heart, and I watched their e ffjrts to escape with such r-gony as only a nu-ther i-.un feci. They wtis so fUr oil ih.tt 1 could uA f pc-;.k to them ; but I could tc ih-na clo.-iog nearer and nearer to each olli;r, as their, litilo island grew f mailer and rmiiler. "The swoUcar river raged fearfully around the hnga" trees. D.ad branches, upturned Jranks, wrecks of houses, drown-' ii g tattle and raascs of rubbish all went floating pat us. My boy a waived their hands to n, and then pointed upward. " I knew it was their farewell signal, and you mother's can imagine ray nngoi.u. I s.iw thcai perish all p.iiaU! Yet that was nnt trouble. "I hugged my baby c!o50 to my heart ; and when the water rose to my feet, I climbed into the branches of the tree, raid so kept retiring before if, till thu band of God stayed the waters that they (should rise no further. I was saved. All ray worldly osFcesions were swi j.t aw ay, all my earthly hopes were blighted. Yet that was not the lrcubl3. .."My baby was all that was left ou earth ; I Irvhored d.y and night to support him and myself, and soaght to train him in tlie light way ; br.t as he gic.v .older e 11 companions won him away fro n mo. no ceased to rare for his mothers coun sels; he would sneer at her kind entreat ies and agonizing prayers. Ue 1'cime" fo.d driulzing. ' He left my humble roof, that he night be unrestrained in bis evil ways. And at last, one night, whe-n heated by wine, he took the life of a fsl low creatnre. . He en.led his days upon the gaHows; God had .Hied my cup cf sorrow before nowit ran over. That was trouble, my friend., Such as I hopi the Lord in raercy may tprxre you from ever knowing." Roys, girls, can you" bear to thhik that yoa might bring ?o:h to row on your Jear father or mother? Tf you would ti;, be on your guard against the giant Iutempcr once. ' L?t wine and iotoxicatlrg liquor alone. Neer touch them. A Ccnr. ron Lockjaw. A corres pondent nf the Scirniiji; Ar.M ican recom mejida turpentine as a certain cure for lock jaw. He; eays: "Let any one who has an attack of lack-jaw lake a small quantity of turpentine, warm it and pour I it on the wound," no matter where the i : . :, i ,.i:,.r will fellow in less than one minute. "Nothing better can be applied to a se vere cut or bruise than cold turpentine; it will reive certain relief nlniott instantlv. Turpcn'.ina is also a sovereign remedy for croup. S -if urate a piece of flannel with it and place- Ihe flannel on Ihe throat and chest, and in very severe cases three to five drops on a lump of sugar may b) Liken inwardly. Every family should have n bottle on hand," The remedy 13 simple and can be easily tested. In all serious cases an application fchould b made under medical advice. , v Nothing Leavks Us as Ir Found Us.- If a sheet of paper on which a key haa been laid be exposed for some minuter to tho sunshine, and then i. " Man t;. neon viewed in the daik, tho key bein removed, a fading specter of the key w ill b visible. Let thij paper b2 put aIJe 'for many months, where nothing can disturb it; and then in darkness bo laid on a plate of hot metal, the specter of the key will again npear- 1 bis is ecj illy true cf our m'r.us r-
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