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CAMPAIGN SONG.
John C. Fremont is the man, •
' Because he is the man, sir;
And the reason why ho is the man,
Is because ho is the man, sir.
John C. Fremont has eaten "dog;"
Oh, don't you know he has ?
Oh, yes, I know he's eaten dog,
Becauso I know he has.
John C. Fremont—that's the game—
That's the game of Kansas:
Then there is a Burly-game,
That's the game that answers.
. ,
At the battle of the Nile,
He was there all the while,
Rotten meat is sure to spite.
If you keep it a great while
John C. Fremont is on the track,
Because he's on the track, sir;
And the reason why he's on the track,
- Is because he's on the track, sir.
THE VISION
Or "Truth stranger than Fiction."
During the. early part of the reign of
George HI, there lived in an obscure village
of Ireland, a family in the middle walks of
life named Gunning. They were_ not richly
endowed with this world's goodS, but pos
sessed sufficient for all the comforts, if not
the luxuries of life. - Matthew Gunning was
a • fanner by profession, (if so it may be
called,) and had he, possessed that spirit of
frugality, 'whiCh seems almost unknown to
the Irish nation, he might have been a
wealthy man, as it was, he generally followed
the principle of "lettin ,, a to-morrow take care
of . itself." His wife has been the village
belle, and still retains traces of that extraor
dinary beauty which had excited the admira
tion of all who beheld her. Two girls Were
the 'sole fruit of their union, who prOmised,
even in infancy, to equal if not surpass their
mother in personal charms; and that mother's
whole soul was bound up in them. Being
near of an age, the children were constantly
together; and the sprightly, Lizzie and the
fair Louisa Were spoiled by 1,),)t1i young and
old in the village of Z One summer
afternoon, fatigued With their sports the in
fant sisters threw themselves upon the grass
beneath a willow that enshadowed their
parent's cottage, and with the fair round
eheeek of L - Juksa, pillowed upon the sunny
tresses of Lizzie, and their dimpled limbs
and snowy robes thrown into strong relief
by the rich wavy sward, they, presented a
picture which Lawrence would have longed
to canvass. The mother as she sat with her
spinning wheel in the deep embrazure of the
window, watched, them as they slept, and
unconsciously her thoughts wandered into
the future ; and, with a mother's fond anxiety,
speculating upon their future,career.
As she mused she, tGo, fell into a gentle
slumber, and the visions of her musings as
sumed, as it were a tangible shape, "a loeal
habitation and a name," and like a phantas
magoria passed before her. She fancied her
self in London, that great city of which she
had heard so much, and she seemed an in
visible spectator of a scene that far surpassed
her proudest hopes ; she saw her lovely
daughters appearing in the perfected beauty
of womanhood, as actors on the busy arena
of the aristocratic world. Peers and peeress
es, prelates and statesmen, even royalty it
self seemed to do homage to their unrivalled
Throngscharms. Thros of admirers worshipped
at the shrine of their beauty ; and one, dis
tinguished from the rest by his haughty bear
ing and the glittering star upon his breast,
knelt at the feet of her youngest born, her
bright, haired Lizzie •, and she thought upon
that regal brow and airy coronet, formed of
the ducal strawberry leaves, rested as if it
hail found a fit abiding place. Delighted
she awoke, and with the glittering vision still
filling her imagination, she started to find
herself in her own humble cottage, and her
children still sleeping beneath the tree.
She mentioned her dream to none, but the
memory of it lingered for years, and with a
mother's fond partiality she whispered., "why
should not such things be?"
Time sped on, and our heroines increased
in' beauty and years ; they received the best
education the place could afford ;, and the
worthy cure, seeing that their minds soared
far above mediocrity as well as their persons,
formed their ductile. powers to such a degree
that they were soon fit to grace any circle.
When Louisa was about seventeen their
mother died; and on her death bed. exacted
u solemn promise from her husband, that be
fore the expiration of six months he should
take them to London ; then, for the first time,
relating her dream she begged him to remain
there a year,at least, and at the end of that
time, if they had not attracted notice, he
might return with them to his native village.
Had it been anywhere but at the dying bed
of his wife, Matthew Gunning might have
smiled at the ascendency which the imagina
tion had been allowed to gain over the
judgment; but, although he desired no high,
er destiny for his children than too see them
the wives of respectable men in their own
sphere of life, still he would not refuse her
last request and made the required premise:
Could he have forseen the future.
As soon as the daughters could become
reconciled to the thoughts of leaving the
(*.rave of their beloved mother, and the many
endearing associations of their childhood for
the vast city, where they would be, "unknow
ing and unknown," they started for the
great metropolis. They arrived, there in
,June, that month whose delights the tyrant
Fashion has compelled the aristocracy of
Britain's isles to forego, and obliged theni to
remain in• the city when they would fain be
reposing beneath the shade of those gigantic
trees that wave proudly over the ancestral
homes of England's haughty nobility.
Matthew Gunning,• willing to fulfil his
wife's wishes as much as possible, took lodg
ings in' a fashionable hotel, and ere many
weeks had elapsed London was in an uproar.
Who were those angels ,that had suddenly
appeared as from Paradise ? • The Vitrore,"
as Hortice Walpole calls it, was unparalleled.
The young nobles; whose tastes were satiated
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WILLIAM LEWIS,
VOL. XIL
with the usual London belles; begged their
stately mammas to leave their cards upon
our heroines, if they wished them ever:to. as
sist at their monthly balls ; and if the aristo
cratic parent refused, upon the plea of their
being "nobodies, the •youthful peers de
clared they would repair to the club whenev
er their mothers and sisters particularly de
sired their escort.
And. so it went.; day . after day, week after
week, the gate- of the hotel was "thronged
with England's proudest and noblest, and the
eyes of :the fair Irlandaises were almost daz
zled by the array of brilliant . names, 'Whose
cards.were hourly sent to them ; and even
Matthew began to think that his wife was
not so foolish as he had once deemed her.—
From the Duchess to the baronet's lady, from
the peeress, , who boasted of descent from the
Plantagenets, to the parvenu of yesterday,
all alike strove to do .them honor; and more
than once has the proud duchess, in whose
veins flowed the - blood. of Kings, found her
rooms deserted. on the night of her most ma,m
nificent fete;•bedause why ? she neglected to
invite the Ounnings ; and, to her mortifica
tion, she would hear that the rooms.of the
rich banker's wife were crowded. the same
evening by the elite of the nobility, 'and the
magnet of attraction Was the fair sisters.--:
These few solitary exceptions gave way be
fore the overwhelming tide of excitement
that was rushing on like a mighty torrent;
and the usually invincible aristocratic walls
of Almack's fell without a blow, before the
irresistible power of beauty. And now had
their mother been alive, she might indeed
have thought her fairy dream fully realized.
No person who was not a spectator Can
hardly conceive of the rage for the fair sis=
ters that was evinced by the fashionable world.
'Walpole in his letters, speaks of it as the
most extraordinary thing that happened for
centuries. Selwyn, the famous wit, was a
devoted friend of the eldest sister and evinc
ed it for many. a . year. And now came the
sleeper's dreani ?' ; The Duke of Hamilton,
one of the most courted .and admired of the
unmarried nobles, - and at whose approach
managing mammas fanned themselves violent 7
ly, so as to appear unconcerned, and the un
conscious daughters looked down and:smelt
of the boquets, whose movements were watch
ed by many a glittering eye and anxious
heart he, the young and haughty Duke of
Hamilton and Brandon, was vanquished by
the charms of the young Elizabeth ; and be
fore the end of the season, the ducal coronet
was in reality placed . upon those shining
tresses. In the course of a fortnight from
her sister's marriage, Louisa married the
Marquis of Coventry...
The rest of their career is known tb all the
world ! Who has not heard of the shoema
ker who made upward of two guineas by ex
hibiting a slipper, he was making for Lady
Coventry at a penny a head ?- And also read,
with amazement of a thousand persons who
sat up all night around the doors of the hotel
to see the Duchess of Hamilton enter her
carriage at au early hour in the morning ?
Who would ever have dreamed thatthe daugh
ters of an humble Irish farmer should thus
become an integral part of that haughty ar
istocracy of England ? But so it' was, and
the bright haired Lizzie, who reclined beneath
the willow, hushed to sleep by the music of
her mother's spinning-wheel lived to become,
the wife of two Dukes and the mother of four!
(For after the death of her first husband, she
married the Duke of Argyle.)
There is scarcely an instance on record
which more clearly proves that "truth is of- -
teatimes stranger than fiction," than the his
tory of the motherless daughters of Matthew
Gunning.—Lady's Wreath.
Mother's Love
Think of thy childhood! Ilast thou ever
tasted pleasures sweet .as those ? Were ever
garlands so fair as those entwined by a mo
ther's hands among thy ringlets? When re
bellious passion roused the demon in thy na
ture, naught quelled the tempest like her
whispering chiding. When, agonized - by
burning fever, the fragile form. tossed to and
fro, in convulsive effort for relief ; no hand but
a mother's could soothe the throbbing brow,
or prepare the cooling draught - which seems
real nectar to the parched lips. Pause, then,
young man, in thy career, if the path thou
art treading evoke one lingering blush upon
thy cheek, one emotion of shame! Bethink
thee it is ploughing. deep furrows in thy mo
ther's heart. But, if after firm investigation,
conscience upbraids thee not, walk proudly
on in thy manly independence, heaping un
told wealth of joy upon that dear one's head,
who watches o'er thy pathway all the, live
long day. If worldly wealth be thine, how
happy wilt thou . be to ,surround her with the
luxuries all-powerful gold will command; if
poor, redouble thy earnest attentions, and
gas will give greater joys than the wealth of
the Indies could purchase.: If disease fast
ens its deadly grasp upon her, be thine the
task to cheer the weary sufferer; let thy voice
whisper comfort and support. Thy love shall
win her to partial forgetfulness, or nerve her
to endurance. .Maiden, in thy carelessness
forget not her who,
.l.oves thee best. The
world offers many gay,„pictures, whose vivid
colors will entice thy lively fancy ; take heed,
then, lest they so absorb thy judgment that
selfishness ensue, and a devotee to pleasure,
thou last scarce time or disposition to return
a share of the same gentle offices that made
thy earlier years so like a happy dream. Be
warned in time of these seeming trifling
temptations, -which lure the brightest and
best from a mother's side. When she suffers,
be thou,ke turn the nurse; pillow the aching
head upon thy bosom, and while busy mem
ory recalls the time
.ivlien her arms held thy
tender form in a eloso embrace, renew thy
resolutions of a better future, and keep them
while there yet is time ; before the ear is clo
sed to the repentant sobs that burst from the
full heart—before the eyelids droop forever
o'er the eyes that met thine so oft in loving
pride—prove thou art human. Give back
some love for the wealth she has poured on.
thee.—Phrenological Journal. -
Del; A house without a woman is like . a
world without a sky—dark and dreary.
El
0
THE GREATEST TYRANT- IN THE
WORLD.
tN AUTOBIOGRArrfr.
I hope I may not be charged with egotism
when I proclaim myself to be a most remar
kable character. It has never, probably, fal
len to the lot of any other one personage;
known to history, to accomplish as much in
a single lifetime as I have achieved. This
is, the only apology I have to offer for obtru
ding upon the attention of the reader this
brief autobiography.
I was born in that region of the globe far
thest toward the rising sun. But I have not
the means of knowing the precise date of my
birth ; but; from my: remembrance, it was a
long time ago: „Of course I can not minute
ly describe every .thing that took place at
that interesting moment, of my existence—
remember having heard a'great deal of noise
and confusion—a frightful , clattering of ma
chinery—and there seemed to be no small
degree of excitement about that time; though,
that being the - first moment of my experi
ence, I may have over-estimated the interest
that seemed to be manifested on the occasion.
I was born a slave—that is, if slavery con
sists in being owned entirely, soul and body,
by another. And, what may seem a little
strange, I have no remeMbrance of over be
ing discontented, or.dissatisfied with my con
dition. In all my experiende and intercourse
with society, and this has not been very lim
ited, I can scarcely be said to have ever had
any fixed or definite will of my own. I have
moved quite at random, and, I may say, - with
perfect recklessness, utterly regardless of my
own interests. ...No one could ever be more
indifferent as to results.
Althdughl was born a slave mysel4 as al
ready stated, and have never obtained.my
freedom, nor even attempted it, yet, astonish
ing as it may seem, I have held in absolute
bondage a greater number of human beings
than any slaveholder upon whom. the sun ev
er shone. In the broadest sense of the word,
I must admit myself to be a tyrant and a des
pot. I have imposed the chains and fetters
upon thousands and thousands, and fully in
tend never to manumit them to my dying
day. "- •
Although I have on my plantations nearly
every color , with which the human face is
tinged,'yet.l. own more whites than blacks .-
1 find it quite as easy to subjugate the for:.
nier As the latter—indeed, generally, they are
much more willing to kneel at my feet 'and
submit to my authority. It is no slander to
call me the most extensive cruel, and heart
less slaveholder on the globe.
It is a matter of principle with me to en
slave without scruple whoever -1 finditin my
power to victimize ' • no matter from what
walks in life,l may find 'it for my interests` to
make the seection. Among my slaves are
some of the most: proud-spirited and haugh
ty, as well as intelligent and aristocratic,
characters in the -world. I own many law
yers, doctors, clergymen, merchants, artists,
mechanics, and bankers—have at my com
mand thousand's and thousands in California,
Australia, on the shores of the Atlantic and
Pacific, in the frozen regions of the North,
and sunny climes of the South, -in the dia
mond mines of Brazil and Golconda. I ex
ercise unlimited dominion over the sea as well
as the land. I send barges, schooners, ships,
and steamers, manned with my slaves, over
every river, lake, sea, and ocean of the entire
globe. I make them build edifices, temples,
villages, and cities, and dedicate them to my
service.
I make my slaves work, many of them,
night and day. I send. forth armies and ar
mies of them, to toil and sweat, from early
dawn till dusky eve—make them build work
shops and manufactories, and stock them
with wheels, looms, spindles, and human fin
gers. I sometimes dash them headlong out
of existence, by scores and hundreds; on
steamers and railways. I do not hesitate to
marshal them upon - the field of death, arm
them with every instrument of destruction
which fiendish ingenuity lies invented in mod
ern times, and command them to butcher
each tither, and wash the earth with rivers of
hum*. blood!
I own armies and navies, with all their im
plenlents and. instruments of cruelty, and all
th; z ir means of slaughter and carnage. Mus
k ts, bayonets, swords, pistols, rates, dirks,
poniards, cannon, and ammunition of every
name and description," are manufactured. at
my bidding, and used at 'my discretion. I
create war, and dictate terms of peace.
I can buy souls and bodies whenever and.
almost wherever I make the attempt. Thou
sands will cheerfully
,give up all they hold
most precious in existence to enter my ser
vice. I Make, many of them sell to their,fel
low-men liquid fire by the gill, to secure' my
smiles. They will rob, steal, murder, swear
falsely, overreach,
.strip the poor widow, and
turn orphan children, for my sake, homeless
and houseless into the streets.
_
I have had many 'a. race in the course of
my life—have been chased and hunted from.
sea to sea, island to island, continent to con
tinent, mountain to mountain, and from the
rivers to the ends of the earth. Yet all the
world is ready to do me homage ; and there
is nothing so. mean,
low, Wicked, and detes
table—no crime so dark and villainous, that
troops of my servants in every clime, willnot
most cheerfully perpetrate for my sake,
have been vilified, slandered, courted,
petted, flattered, and eulogiied, kidnapped
and denounced, imprisoned end pardoned.--
My powers seem to be almost omnipotent.—
I stir up neighborhood difficulties, and. hush
them—get up lawsuits,
and settle them--buy
characters,
characters, and sell them—in short, I have
done almost every thing i; but never got into
a' sweat myself.
I have been a great travellervisited eve
ry latitude and longitude, where ships . have
floated on the deep, or human feet have mark
ed the soil of earth—have been invited into
and visited every kind of society--=associated
with the very worst, as well as the best of fam
ilies. I have frequented grog-shops, gam
bling-saloons, counting-houses, custom and
post-offices, mercantile establishments, banks,
exchange brokers, brothels, and lottery-stands
—have often gone with the missionary -to
liEl
HUNTINGDON, PA., OCTOBER 15, 1856.
-PERSEVERE.- , -
heathen lands,
_assisted him, in his work, of
charity, and aril a'refrulai attendant upon the
servics of the Church throughout the world.
No*, reader, after all the statements I have
madeln reference to my vast powers, if you
shall be inclined to doubt the truth of my as
sertions, or regard me as an egotist, you will
change your opinion when I tell you my
name is the
Extraordinary Fight with a Bear.
Captain Hall, of the schooner Adriatic,
sends to the editors of the Chicago Trilnene
the following exceedingly interesting account
of the capture by, himself and five of his crew
in a small boat, of an enormous black bear,
which they found swimming across Bay do
Noque
Cnic..kso; Aug. 30, 1.856.—At the request
of my crew. I have written the following ac
count of an encounter with a bear. The
names of the crew are' D. M. Payne, mate,
and C. Westmore, Daniel McLennan, John
McLennan and George Settard, seamen, all
of whom participated in the rare and exci
ting sport.
On Monday, 25th inst., while lying at an
chor with the schooner Adriatic, at the head
of that beautiful land-locked harbor, Petit
Bay de Noque, an arm of Green Bay, pro
jecting.from its northern extremity some fif
teen miles into the land toward Lake Superi
or, my attention was called by the crew to a
large black animal on White Fish Point,
which on examining with a glass, proved to
be a very large black bear just taking to the
water, with the intention apparently, of
swimming to the opposite shore of the bay,
which at this point is over a mile wide, the
distance being divided by two or three small
islands.
I immediately ordered the boat to be made
ready, which took some little time, as a spar
with sail attached had to be unshipped. Be.
fore this could be done the bear had reached
nearly half the distance from the point to
the first island, and it became necessary to
use dispatch, in order to prevent his gaining
a footing upon it ; for, with the weapons we
had, it world have been madness to attack
such a formidable monster on land, The
boat WO,S manned with fear oars and a clum
sy paddle, made of an inch spine board, which
was used to steer, with instead of a rudder or
fifth oar, of which we were minus. The
wind was blowing very strongly from the
Northward ; being about a beam for the bear,
and directly ahead for us. In our haste we
took no weapons but an old dull axe and a
coniinon biead. knife—indeed we bad no oth
er, unless we had taken some handspikes and
one or two more 'knives similar to the one we
took, but which were not just at hand.
The bear was about a quarter of a mile
from us when we started. The men were all
good oarsmen and we soon overhauled Bruin.
Just before reaching him two of the oars
were shipped, one being taken in place of the
paddle to steer with, by . 11Ir, Payne, who
managed the boat very adroitly in the sinu
ous chase which followed. One of the crew
taking the axe, and myself the knife, we sta
tioned ourselves forward, ready for the at
tack. The bear swam from us as we approach
ed, and Westmore, who had the axe aimed a
blow at his head, intending to cleave hie
skull, but struck a little too soon, inflicting a
keep wound in the neck, at the same time
cutting off the top of his ear, but did not
touch the spine or any important blood-vess
el, and. the wound had no other immediate
effect than to enrage him.
He turned toward the boat in a moment,
showed a set of tusks that would have done
honor to a wild boar, and gave a deep growl,
more like-that of a lion than any thing else
I ever heard. He did not attack the boat at
this time, but struck out with all his might
for the nearest island. He was a powerful
swimmer, and the oarsmen had no light task
to head him off. As we came up with him
again he eluded the second blow aimed at
him with the axe, and it was lost overboard,
which left us with no weapon but the knife.
As we came up with him the third time, I
gave him two thrusts in the neck with the
knife, one on each side of the spine, seudiug
the blade in up to the hilt. He now turned
upon us and attacked the boat, growling with
terrific fierceness, As he came up, I gave
him several thrusts with the knife, avoiding
the passes made with his powerful jaws, one
concussion of which would no doubt have
broken off my arm. Striking the bow, the
blade of the knife bentnearly double, render
ing it useless for the time.
I then seized the pine paddle and gave
him a blow upon the skull that shivered the
paddle in pieces, but which seemed to have
no effect whatever upon the bear. Ile now
got one paw upon the gunwhale of the boat
and seized it with his teeth, .4t this critical
moment the oars were brought into requisi
tion by the mate and crew, and several well
directed blows from them coming down up
on him at once, forced him to relinquish his
hold upon the boat. Had he succeeded in
getting into the boat, we must have retreated
into the element he had left, or fared worse,
Re now sought safety again iu flight toward
the island which we had considerably neared
during the fight.
We immediately pursued again, and I im
proved the time to straighten my knife blade,
and as we came up, gave him another thrust
in the neck, and then seized him by the low.
hair .• • upon his rump. The velocity of the
boat brought his head under it, as I was in
the bow, and the men urging the boat for
ward, I could very easily hold him in this
position, notwithstanding his powerful strug.
gles, he having no footing upon the bottom.
While struggling he struck the side of the
boat with his open patia each nail taking a
Alp out of the plank. His struggles grew
weaker, and finally ceased, when we suppos
ed him dead and hauled him into the boat,
and pulled for the schooner. We soon per
ceives 3. that Bruin was not dead, but appar
ently "playing possum."
e lost no time in securing his hind feet
as well as we could, to the forward ring of
the boat, with a. very short piece of small,
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half rotten hemp rope that happened to be in
it, but as , the animal began to arouse, we
were not without apprehensions that he still
might have sufficient strength to break this
slender fastening, and drive us out of the
boat or escape, and having nothing to des
patch him with, we pulled for the brig Gene
va, which was lying near by, and called to
her crew to get an axe ready for use. As
we came alongside, the bear rose up on his
four paws and reached with one of them an
incredible distance, made a pass at one of the
men, just grazing his clothes with his claws.
Mr. Payne took an axe, handed down from
the Geneva, and getting behind him gave
him a blow upon the, head that completely
smashed his skull. We then pulled to the
Adriatic with our prize, proud enough, you
may be sure, of the feat we had performed
in taking him.
All this did not occupy over twenty min
utes, and no one on board the brig mistrus
ted what we were about until we came along
side with the bear. The blow on his skull
did not kill him, although it knocked him
down and rendered him harmless. So tena
cious was he of life that he did not die till
his jugular artery had been cut some ten
minutes, and he .had lost some gallons of
blood. We had no means of weighing him,
but he was variously estimated by those who
saw him and who pretended to be judges, at
from 360 to 500.
As ho hung up dressed, his carcass meas
ured, from the gambrels to the tip of the
nose, a little over 7 feet. One of his arms,
with the shoulder, weighed 36 pounds. His
hide measured, stretched out to dry, 6 feet 7
inches across the, shoulders between the
paws, and 4 feet 8 inches across the belly.—
A French pioneer says he is the largest bear
of the kind he ever saw, and the first killed
by whites in that region. I heard, however,
from another source, that some years since
one was attacked in the water in that vicini
ty-, drove the attacking party out of the boat,
to which he betook himself,' and was shot
while quietly enjoying the possession of his
prize, by some hunters who happened to be
near by and came in another boat to the res
cue of the drowning fugitives.
J. B. HALL.
A, Pleasing Incident
Some three or four months since, a poor,
emaciated care worn man called at the resi
dence of one of our citizens to solicit the job
of carrying in a load of wood which he ob
served lyino. before the door. The lady of
the house, who ever has a kind word and a
helping hand forthe poor and needy, having
a curiosity (most women are more or less cu
rious) to learn the cause of his misfortunes,
questioned him concerning it. Seating him
self, (for he was scarcely able to stand, and
while tears filled his eyes, he told his story.
He had emigrated to this country from the
city of New York, where he had left a wife
and three children in good circumstances, to
seek a home in the far off West. On arri
ving at Marysville, he was stricken down
with sickness, and being a stranger, he ap
plied and was admi i
tted nto the hospital,
where he laid some time—till his money was
exhatisted and. his health somewhat impro
ved, when ho was discharged. After wan
dering about the streets for two or three days,
vainly seeking for work enough to procure
food sufficient to satisfy the ravings of hunger,
he had espied the wood before the door, as a
last resort, ho had applied for the job of car.
rying it in, which he was willing to do for
a crust of bread. A torrent of tars gushed
from the poor invalid's eyes at the close of
his story as if his heart would break. A
few kind words soon rallied his drooping
spirits, and a smoking hot breakfast in an
incredibly short time afterwards lent strength
and vigor to his languishing body, The
work was completed and paid for, and a few
days provisioning given him when he trudg
ed off mountainwaril with a lighter heart,
heaping all the thanks on his fair preserver
that a greatful heart could suggest,
Now comes the sunny side of this "o'er
true tale." A few days ago a well dressed,
hearty looking gentleman called on the lady
above alluded to, with a smile on his face
and his honest hand extended ; but not re
membering ever to have seen her visitor be
fore, he was compelled to revert to the inci
dent above described in order to bring his
identity to mind, He took up the thread of
his story where he left off three month pre.
viotis, and finished it in substance as follows!
His wife had learned of his misfortunes, and
like a true woman immediately sold her pro
perty in New York, and took passage with
her three children for California, where they
arrived safely with a snug sum of money,
They found the husband and father pros
pering ; soon a ranch was bought and paid
for,
a few miles from Marysville, and now
he had dropped in to leave her a loadof wood,
a basket of eggs and a roll of fresh batter--
all of which was produced off his own ranch,
and hauled to town with his own horses and
wag . on—saying "he never would get done
paying her." Thus in the short space of
three months, has a penniless wanderer been
converted into a prosperous and valuable cit
izen, The above story is but poorly told;
but it is done more for the purpose of show ,
ing that among the many unworthy appli-
Cants for charity there is occasionally found
one that serves to verify these sayings to the
good book—"CaSt thy . bread upon the waters
and after many days it shall return to thee,"
—Marysville Express.
MARRIAGE AN Er.turairc.—A Pennsylvania
editor says that marriage has broken out
amonghis neighbors, and that it is spread
ing with frightful virulence all over the nor
thern end of the country, carrying off hun
dreds of his subscribers... hundreds of ca
ses he says, have come under his own obserr
vation, all of them hopeless—once seized the
victim is a gone case ; the only thing that can
be done is to call in a clergyman to prepare
him for his fate. Having had the complaint
before, he says, is no protection against it.—
A widow who had caught it years before,
and was slowly recovering from its effects,
suffered a relapse, and was now lost beyond
recovery. She has married a second time.
Once I assisted at the soiree dansante of the
Cortr.tss of Fritterfield. ,The most brilliant
star in that galaxy of *llion was the young
and lovely Marchioness of Fiddledale.
saw her dancing in the hall. Around her
snowy brow were set five hundred pounds ;
for such would have been the answer of any
jeweller to the question; "what are those dia. ,
monds ?" With the gentle tub:dal:ions of her
bosom, there rose and fell exactly thirty
pounds ten shillings. The sum she wore in
the guise of a brooch of gold and enamel.
Her fairy form was invested in ten guineas,,
represented by 1 , ..! Blip of lilac satin ; and this
was overlaid by thirty guineas more in two
skirts of white lace. Tastefully disposed
down each side of the latter, were six half
crowns ; which so many bows of purple rib
bon had come to. The lower margins of the
thirty guinea skirts were edged with eleven
additional guineas, the value of some eight
yards of silver fringe a quarter of a ydrcl in
depth. Her taper waist ; taking zone and
clasp together, I calculated to be confined by
forty pounds sterling. Her delicately-round.
ed arms, the glove of spotless kid being ad
ded to the gold bracelet which encircled the
little wrist, maybe said to have been adorn
ed with twenty-two pounds five and sixpeucei
and, putting the silk and satin at the lowest
figure, I should say that she wore fourteen
and sixpence on her feet. Thus, altogether,
was this thing of light, this creature of love
liness, arrayed from top to toe, exclusively of
little sundries, in six hundred and forty-eight
pounds eleven shillings.— , ,Tos. Hume.
NO. 17.
A LIVE SNAKE IN A LIVE MAN.---A gen
tleman, whose name we did not learn, says
the San Francisco Golden Eagle; arrived in
this city from Bird's Hill, for the purpose' of
procuring surgical advice in relation to the
possibility of removing from the stomach a
large snake, which has inhabited that localiz
ty for the past fifteen years. Exactly at what
tune the reptile was taken into the stomach
the sufferer is not aware. He felt its pres
ence in the vicinity of the kidneys many
years ago ; but the pains experienced, although
sometimes acute and troublesome ? occasioned
no alarm until about two years since, when;
one day feeling quite unwell, he placed his
hand upon his bowels, and distinctly felt the'
snake crawling within hint:
Since then it has grown enormously, and
has attained a length of at least fifteen inch:-
es, and a size round the middle of five or six.
inches. Its proportions can be pretty accu
rately ascertained, as its entire shape is fear
fully obvious to the touch. It is quite active,
and possesses an insatiable appetite, judging
from the amount of food and water consum ,
ed by the sufferer, who is continually parch- ,
ed with thirst, and not nnfrequently requires
from three to four gallons of fluid daily.—
Through the recommendation of an Indian,
he has lately found considerable- relief from
the incessant thirst by drinking water libet-•
ally diffused with vinegar.
He has made several ineffectual attempts
to dislodge the "varmint" by starvation and
the free use of stimulants. On one occasion,
he abstained from both food and water for
three days, in the hope of bringing the occu
pant to some sort of terms. The first day,
the snake became uneasy ; the second, bois
terous ; and the third, furious, but still the
man held out. At the end. of the third day,
however, his snakeship commenced an attack
upon the walls of his prison, with what ap
peared to be a tolerable full set of teeth, and,
the result was an immediate supply of food
more agreeable to both parties.
As may be supposed, the man is reduced
to a perfect skeleton, under the extreme tor
ture of mind and body preying upon him
night and day, but he does not despair of
finding a surgeon in the city sufficiently skill,
ful to make an incision in the abdomen and
remove the reptile. We have read of simi
lar cases ; but this is the first that ever came
under our own observation—and we hope it
may be the last, for we have felt "all averisb."
ever since.
NOT Ben.—A correspondent of the Cin
cinnati Times from Burlington, Vt., relates
the following:
I am reminded—speaking of cheese--of a
little anecdote the stage driver told me yes.
terday. We were passing an old farm house
with an untidy yard and dilapidated out
buildings, when he said t
"A Boston man got off a pretty cute speech
to the owner of that place, t'other day,"
"What was it?" I asked.
"Why, he called at the house to buy cheese,
but When he came to look at the lot, he con
cluded he didn't want 'em, they were so full
of `skippers.' So he made an excuse and
was going away, when the farmer said to
him :
"Look here, Mister, how can I get my
cheese down to Boston the cheapest?"
The gentleman looked at the stuff a me.
ment, and saw the maggots squirming, an 4
said:
"Well, I don't know : let 'em be a day or
two, and you can drive 'em right down 1"
It seems to me the answer was somewhat
`pertinent to the occasion,'
ABSENCE OF Mxivn.—Cases of this sort
have been quite rare lately—undoubtedly
owing to the hard times, which render it
necessary for every man to have his wits
about him—yet several instances have lately
come under our cognizance. One was that
of a temperance man who went into a house
for the purpose of talking seriously with
inmates on the subject of their habitual in , .;
toxicatiom Intending to reach out his hand•
to the master of the house, he took hold of a;
brandy decanter and did not discover.
.h'
mistake until one of the company b 0 26-
out to him not to drink the whole.
4Erl parish minister once took occasion,
in the pulpit, to describe) the deVotioziul and
solemn effect of the organ, in public worship,
and to solicit a contribution from the con
gregation to procure one. On coming out of
church, a gentleman observed to a friend:
fI w ill give nothing towards the organ ;
mean to present tho table of command,.
ments,"
"I advise you," replied the friend, "to keep
the commandments, and give something elso
*to the church."
ve, The following, fro& the Westfield
Transcript, is p, decided drive, and falls with
tolling effect upon the prpvAiling vxity of
the fair sex :
A Q4tirk,----The managers of the A.gricub
tural Ball would take this method of express_
ing their regrets, and o'ering their apologies
to several ladies of this village, who received
cards of invitation, but were not called for
by the managers, They would say That the
neglect was unavoi4abh), not intenfional, and
was caused by the present style of ladies?
dress, each lady occupy-in g the whole of the
carriage, thereby m ki
ng it necessary to
transport them to the Hall singly, until the
lateness of the hoUr precluded 4- .. his possibility
of calling for all.
The Value of a Pine Lady.