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OTICE is hereby given, that the fol
lowing named persons have applied for Tavern and
sting House Licenses, and that said applications will be
presented to our Court of General Quarter Sessions of the
Peace, to be held in Huntingdon, on Monday, the 19th day
of April next, 'viz :
INNS OR TAVERNS.
James Chamberlain, Warriorsmark.
Samuel Steffey, Jackson township. -
George Randolph, Saulsbug, Barrree tp.
Valentine Crouse, Mill Creek, Brady tp.
Isaac Neff, Petersburg.
James Cturraont, Manor Hill, Barret) tp.
Henry Helfright, Petersburg.
Joseph Morrison, Broad Top City.
Samuel G. Simpson, West Mill Creek.
James Fleming, McAlevys Fort.
James S. Busket, Orbisonia Borough.
Martha McMnrtrie, Green Tree, West tp.
James A. Bell, do
Andrew Mcebus, Huntingdon.
Nathaniel Williams, do
Andrew Johnston, do
John S. Miller, do
P. McAteer, do
William B. Zeigler, do
William Templeton, Orbisonia.
John R. Hurd, Warm Springs.
John E. Seeds, Waterstreet.
R. F. Haslctt, Spruce Creek.
A. Lewis, Mount Union.
John Megahan, Penn township.
Joseph S. Reed, Coalmont.
Michael McCabe, Coalmont.
EATING HOUSES.
Rudolph Neff, Petersburg.
Henry Africa, Huntingdon.
George Thomas, do
Benj. F. Clark, Tod township.
WHO WANTS A FARM FOR FIVE
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READ THE FOLLOWING
$500,000
AMERICAN HOMESTEAD LAND COMPANY,
Capital Stock One hundred Thousand Acres,
in the Stale of Wisconsin.
Thb American Homestead Land Company, having dis
posed of a sufficient number of shares to Warrant an ear
ly distribution of their Land, now offer to the public the
remaining unsold Shares, and take pleasure in announcing.
that, ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND ACRES of choice farming land,
situated in the Counties of Wineebago. Marquette, Wan
share, Outagamir, Shawano, Portage, Marathon, Chippewa,
St. Croix and Polk, State of Wisconsin, will be distributed
to Shareholders of said Company, before the adjournment
of the present session of Congress. These lands are amongst
the best farming lands in the State, ranging in value from
fivo to twenty•five dollars per acre. This Company, hold
ing as they do, a large qmultity, are compelled to sell a
portion of their Lands for Cash, and take this method of
disposing of One Hundred Thous,ind Acres, at a reduced
price. The distribution will take place in the city of Wash
ington, under the direction of thirty-one Members of Con
gress, one Member selected from each State in the Union.
The land offered is free from any encumbrance, and Wir
ral:ly Deeds of Conveyance will be executed immediately
after the distribution, to the parties entLleil thereto. by
Trustees appointed for that purpose. Tlidnistribution will
be as follows:
500 TRACTS, OF
100 "
100 "
100 " 44
25 "
3 "
40 ACRES EACH.
SO "
160 "
320 " cc
640 "
1000 " G 4
1 " " 5000 " it
Eight Hundred and Twenty-nine Tracts, comprising One
Hundred Thousand Acres.
The American Homestead Laud Company respectfully
solicit your early co-operation in the organization of Clubs.
and will allow 10 per cent. on all subscriptions amounting
to ten Shares, payable in Stock of the Company.
All orders must be addressed to the "American Home
stead Land Company, Washington, 1). C." giving the full
address of each Shareholder, naming the Town, County
and State in which they reside, and to whom the Shares
are to be directed.
The Company respectfully refer to the following gentle
men for any information relative to the quality and value
of the Lands.
ALEXANDER W. RANDALL, Governor of State of Wis.
Er. Governor DODGE, Er. Governor FARW
•' " DOTY, " " BARSTOW.
" TALMADGE, " " BASHFORD,
" DEWEY.
TRUSTEES:
Ex. Governor BARSTOW, Janesville, Wisconsin.
ALEXANDER SPAULDING, Esq., Jauncey Court, Wall
St., Nov York ,
THOMAS J. NEA RY, Secretary
SHARES, "FIVE DOLLARS EACH.
March 31. 185S-lu.
GREATEST DISCOVERY OF TIIE
AGE.
IMPORTANT TO TOBACCO CHEWERS!
DIL GUSTAV LINNARD'S
Taste Restorative Troches, the Great Substitute
for Tobacco.
It is a well known and incontrovertable fact that the use
of Tobacco is the promoting cause of many of the most se
vere MENTAL AND PHYSICAL DISORDERS to which the
race of man is subject, as careful analysis and long and
painful experience have clearly proven that it contains
certain narcotic and poisonous properties most dangerous
in their effects, which by entering into the blood derange
the functions and operations of the Heart, causing many
to suppose that organ to be-seriously deceased.
TOBACCO affects also the entire nervous system, mani
festing itself—as all who have used the noxious weed will
bear testimony—in Lassitude, Nervous Irritability, Water
Brash, Dyspepsia, and many other disorders of a similar
character.
THE TASTE RESTORATIVE TROCHES are designed to
counteract these baneful influences, and have proved com
pletely successful in a multitude of cases, and wherever
.used. Being harmless in themselves they exert a . benefi
cial effect upon the entire system, restoring the taste which
has become vitiated or destroyed by great indulgence, com
pletely removing the irritation and accompanying tickling
sensation of the -Throat—which are always consequent
upon abstaining from the use of Tobacco, and by giving a
healthy tone to the Stomach, invigorate the whole system.
Persons who are irretrievably undermining their con
stitutions and shortening their lives, should use these
Troches immediately and throw off the injurious and un
pleasant habit of Tobacco Chewing.
These Troches or Lozenges are put up in a convenient
and portable form at the low price of 50 Cents per Box.—
A liberal discount to the Trade.
Prepared solely by the undersigned to whom all orders
should be addressed.
JAMES E. BROWN, Druggist,
Cor. 2d and Race Sts., Phila
March 24, lBsB—ly
TO THE PUBLIC.—The undersigned
informs his friends and the public generally,
that he has leased the ORLA.NDO HOUSE, in the ,
borough of Huntingdon, and is now prepared to ac-
commodate with boarding and lodging all who may favor
him with a call. His Bar is furnished with the best liquors.
sALgasLIVERY STABLE.—Ho has also provided
himself . , with a good stock of Horses, Car
riages, &c., for the accommodation of the pub
.
. " lic, at reasonable charges.
WM. WILLIAMS,
Huntingdon, April 7, 1856
IPTON STEAM FRAME, SASH,
DOOR, SHUTTER & FLOORING MANUFACTORY,
. IPTON, BLAIR COUNTY, PA., 10 miles East of Altoona. The
undersigned having provided a complete set of Machinery
for the business, and being practical Rouse Carpenters
and Builders, are extensively engaged in Manufacturing
by steam, any description of carpenter work, which we
will furnish at lew rates, and ship to any point on the
l'enn'a Rail Road. Plans of every description for buildings
with specifications and bill of timber prepared. Orders
from a distance respectfully solicited.
McCAULEY & CO.
Tipton, July 1,1857-Iy.
ROAD TOP HOUSE. ANDREW
B
MOIIBUS would respecthtll3 - inform the public ..,
that he has fitted up the Broad Top , ftose, on Ally m
gheny street, at the .Broad Top Depot, Huntingdon, kt
and is now prepared to entertain strangers and travellers
in an unobjectionable style.
Ills table will always bo supplied with the substantials
and delicacies of the season. His liar is furnished with the
choicest liquors. In a word, no pains will be spared to
render guests comfortable and happy. june 18.
MO MERCHANTS AND FARMERS.
GROUND PLASTER can be had at the Huntingdon
1 - tour and Plaster Mills, in any deeirablo quantities, on
and after the let day of March, 1858. We deliver it free, of
charge on the cars at the depots of the - Pennsylvania and
//road Top Railroads.
Feb. 24,1808,
$500,000
FISHER 6: 3IOIIIRTRIE
WILLIAM LEWIS,
VOL, Ea
G itittt (pott,t.
TO THE COUNTRY GIRLS.
Dear country girls, so highly bless'd
With nature's richest fare;
Your homey around in beauty dress'd,
With fruits and flowers fair.
Then why not cling to rural ways,
So honored years ago;
When country maidens won the praise
O'er city belles of show.
Our mothers once were blooming girls,
And raked the hay and grain;
Undecked with ribbons, lace and curls,
Yet they true loves could gain,
Your foolish fashions fright the men—
They will not marry you ;
They say a wife they can't maintain,
While you this course pursue.
3lany a worthy man now goes
A brooding, lonely life,
Because he hates the " fur-belows"
It takes to deck a wife.
The maidens of last century wore
Their own nice home-made-stuff;
With silken bonnets, plain before,
Looked beautiful enough.
They had no nicely papered walls,
Nor carpels soft and fine;
Their highest aim was usefulness,
With modest worth to shine.
So blithe would they to milking go,
Or rake the grain and hay ;
And slide on sleds upon the snow,—
Good happy hearts had they.
They needed no exciting scenes,
To keep their spirits warm ;
The humming of their spinning, wheels
Could always bring a charm.
And 'round upon the whited walls
The yarn in bunches hung;
When young men made their evening calls,
The maidens spun and sung.
Oh, happy days, so long gone by I
Can they not be restored,
And let the useless pageantry
(if folly be ignored?
Then might you win a partner dear,
Who would be good and kind ;
The toils of life with you to share,
And happy homes to find.
Wttuter, Dec., 1857. Mrs. OLD Txna
eitct
A DUEL ON THE GULF
BY SYLVAN US COBB, Tn.
During the summer of 1836, William Burt
commanded one of the United States Mail
Steamers plying between New Orleans and
Mobile. He belonged in New England, and
in the spring of the above year he spent a
month with his friends and relatives in the
latter section. While at home he became
strongly attached to a young man named Ed
gar Romney, a distant relative of his wife,
and when he got ready to leave for the South,
he urged Edgar to go with him. The youth
—only twenty-four—had just graduated at
Harvard University, arid having no business
upon his hands, and, moreover, being blessed
with no great amount of money, he conclu
ded to accept Burt's offer, which was the of
fice of clerk on his boat. Romney was a
slight-built, delicate looking young man, long
and hard study having made him pale and
thin ; but he was quick and active, and the
bright sparkle of his small frame held a great
and free spirit.
Edgar entered upon his duties as soon as he
reached Mobile, and ere long he won the con
fidence and esteem, not only of the officers
and men on the route, but of all the travelers
who became acquainted with him. His man
ners were quiet and unassuming; he was po
lite and attentive to all who asked for infor
mation or assistance, and yet he maintained
a dignity that never left him. Capt. Burt
loved him as though he had been a brother,
and the affection was mutual.
One day, as the steamer took in the last of
her loading at New Orleans, Edgar received
a slap upon the shoulder that made him start.
"A new clerk, eh? And Yankee, too. I
thought Yankees were bigger!"
That youth turned and found the speaker
to be a tall, muscular fellow, dressed extrav
agantly, with a profusion of black hair upon
the face, and an evil debauched look.
"You aro familiar, sir," said Edgar, with
a disdainful curl of the lip.
"Eh ? Proud, is it? By the powers, my
boy, you'll have that taken out of ye before
you've been long in these parts."
The clerk gave the fellow a look of disgust,
and then turned to his business; and with a
muttered " Umph !" the stranger passed on
into the cabin.
"Do you know that man ?" asked the pilot
who stood near.
" No," returned Edgar. " I never saw him
before. Who is he?"
" That is Archy Lodman."
"Lodman 1" repeated the youth, in quiet
surprise. " The gamester and duelist ?"
" Yes 1" resumed the pilot. " That is the
man—the most desperate man on the gulf.—
He has been up the river, I guess. I haven't
seen him here before for a month."
Edgar was here called . away, and the pilot
went forwaiq to the -wheel-house. In due
time the boat was cast loose, and steamed it
down the river. There were a, number of
passengers on board, and the clerk was soon
busy in receiving their fares.
" How's your pride now, my boy ?" Edgar
beard a rough voice exclaim, as a new bank
note, all crumpled and twisted, was shoved
under his nose. He looked up. and saw Ar
chy Lodman.
"If you'll attend to your own business, I'll
attend to mine," said the young clerk, with a
flask in the eye, and a, quick flush on the
cheek.
" Crusty for a green 'un, ain't he ?" the
ruffian replied, turning to a companion who
wore a hang-dog look.
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" Cussedly so," was the response, and the
two walked off together.
It was night by the time the boat entered
the gulf, and ere long the cards were flying
in the saloon. 'Archy Lodman was" in his el
ement now and he handled the "bits of paste
board" with a graceful skill.
" Play ?" he said, addressing a young man
who stood close by, watching his movements,
" Just for a bit of sport,"
"If you can make up a party, I don't
mind," the passenger replied. Ile was a slim,
gentlemanly looking young fellow, not over
five-and-twenty, and proud to be the son of a
wealthy Louisiana planter.
" I wouldn't play with' that man," whis
pered a voice in his ear.
The youth turned and. saw Edgar Romney.
They had met several times at the St. Charles,
and being congenial spirits, had become warm
friends. Romney knew that William Balfour
had been drinking generously with, some of
his companions in the city, and he feared he
might be led into trouble.
" Never fear me," young Balfour returned
evidently a little touched to think that his
friend should regard him as incapable of care
ing for himself.
Edgar saw the feeling in a moment, and be
noticed the savage look which Lodman gave
him, for the gamester had read his purpose.
In a little while a party of four was made
up, and the game commenced—a game of po
ker,—the hang-dog looking man being one of
them.
For a while things went on quite smoothly,
Balfour winning over a hundred dollars ; but
finally the play became more exciting, and
the stakes were increased. Romney watched
the proceedings slowly, for he saw that Bal
four was to be fleeced. Ile could see it in the
snake-like fire of the blackleg's eye, and in
the handling of the cards.
Balfour won five hundred dollars, and then
lost it. Then he won a hundred with one
hand, and then lost two hundred. He did
not know that he was winning or losing at
the will of another ; but Romney saw it very
plainly. Presently the young man held three
trays and two queens. He " saw" and "went
better" until he staked over a thousand dol
lars.
" I must call yon," said Lodman, assuming
an anxious appearance, as he covered the last
bet.
" Three trays and two-queen," uttered Bal
four, throwing down his cards.
" By the trump of trumps, just ahead, and
that's all. Three fives and the other pair of
queens." And as Lodman spoke he showed
his hand and raked down the money.
During the next few minutes there were no
good Bands out, Lodman winning by "bluff`
ing " and thus keeping the deal. Finally
Balfour held four jacks, and commenced the
bettinc , nervously. It was plain to be seen
that he had never before played with sharp
ers, for he seemed to feel- sure of winning
now.
" Fifty better," said Lodman, putting down
his money.
" I see that, and go a hundred better," ad
ded Balfour.
At this point the hang-dog and his viz-a-viz
threw up their hands.
" A hundred better than that," replied the
sharper.
Then Balfour increased his stake to five
hundred, and finally to a thousand. Ere long
there were fifteen thousand dollars upon the .
table, the youth having made a bet of two
thousand.
"You may beat me," said Lodman, " but
I'll be either made or broken, so here's to see
you, and here are four thousand dollars bet
ter ?"
William Balfour sank back in his chair, and
with a sort of vacant look gazed upon the hand
he held. He turned an inquiring look upon
his friend, who stood be hind him, but Ed
gar's eye was fixed with a strange intensity
upon the blackleg. Finally William drew a
low , b breath, and then placed his hand upon
the bosom of his vest, and took out a sealed
packet. With a trembling hand he tore it
open, and took therefrom four notes of a thous
and dollars dollars each. It was money en
trusted to his care by his father for the pay
ment of a mortgage in
" I see your four thousand and call you 1"
the youth said in a hoarse whisper.
A score of passengers had collected about
the table, and all was breathless excitement.
" FOUR KINGS 1" said Lodman, spreading
his cards.
"Lost !" groaned Balfour, dropping his
hand, and then clasping his brow._
" Stop villain !" shouted Edgar Romney, in
trumpet tones, as Lodman started to rake
down the money. " I have watched you well!
I have seen you stock and mark those cards,
and exchange hands, and conceal high pairs
between your knees, till you have given just
such hands- as suited your purpose !" And
as he spoke he drew a pistol from his bosom.
" Aha !" uttered the blackleg, starting up
from his chair, and drawing a like weapon
from his pocket: "is that your game, my
proud cove? Come on deck, and we'll try that!
Come--white-livered, meddling. coward !"
" No, no !" cried young Balfour, starting
up between the two : You shall not do this,
Edgar !"
" Back, William ? Let the miserable vil
lain follow me !"
" Follow me!" shouted Lodman, leaping up
the cabin stairs.
All was now excitement and confusion in
the saloon. Capt. Burt had come down, and
he tried to dissuade Edgar from going up.
"Would you have me shrink like a craven
before that villain ?" the youth cried, in ve
hement tones. " Ile has picked upon me be
fore and I knew he has meant a quarrel from
the first."
" But you should have taken no notice of
him, Edgar," returned Burt, anxiously.
" I had resolved not to do so, Captain ; but
when I saw him deliberately rob my friend—
when I saw him resort to such villainous tricks
for the accomplishment of his purpose—and
When I knew_ that his victim was staking his
very honor in the unequal contest, how could
I help it? I could not. But it's too late now.
I can't back out. Come—see me through it."
"At that time, and in that place, there seemed
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HUNTINGDON, PA., APRIL 21, 1858.
to be no other alternative ; for had Edgar re
fused to fight now, the villain would have in . -
suited him without mercy. Burt knew this,
—they all knew it—and, much as they loved
the youthful clerk, they'saw not how he could
escape the hostile meeting he had himself in
a measure provoked. The captain might
have forbidden it, but that would only 41:0;
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delayed the affair—not prevented it.
Edgar went on deck, and the passengers
followed him. The moon was at the full, and
her soft beams fell upon .the waters of the
gulf and upon the peopled deck with an ef
fulgence almost equal to noon-day.
" Ah—you have come, eh ?" cried the pow
erful duelist, with a sneer. " I expected you
would have thought it more safe below. But
take your place. We need no seconds here.
All know the deadly provocation you have
given me. Who shall count for us ?"
" I'll count," said the man with the hang
dog face.
One more attempt was made by William
Balfour to save his friend.
"Let me take your place, Edgar," he urged
earnestly.
"No!"replied the clerk. "Stand back!—
The quarrel is mine !"
A space was now closed in the gang-way.
Romnerstanding upon one side of the deck,
and Lodman on the other. All was still save
the plash of the - water, as the sharp bow cut
through their track, and the moon looked
down as brightly and serenely as though no
evil were to be done.
" Are you ready ?" said the hang-dog
" All ready I"
"Then, here goes I One,—Two--"
"At the word two, a quick, sharp crack
broke upon the air. Lodman had pulled his
trigger and the cap had exploded without dis
charging his pistol. That was the way he
generally killed his man.
At the word " three" Edgar fired into the
" Fool !" uttered Burt, " why didn't you
shoot him You had him fast enough."
" I would not murder an unarmed man !"
And then turning to his antagonist, he asked
—Do 'yen fire at the word "two ?" " I fire
as suits me best," replied the blackleg, draw
ing another pistol. " We'll see if this one is
not more sure."
" Stop I" said Balfour, in agony. " You
have stood before him once, and spared him
when you might have shot him. Let me take
the pistol now !
" No !" spoke Edgar, calmly, " The villain
has caught me a lesson !" And as he said
this he cocked his second pistol, and took his
stand.
"Ready ?" asked the hang-dog.
"then look out. NOW, On,e,—"
But he counted no further, for, as the words
fell from his lips, the report of Edgar's pistol
broke upon the still air, and the dark villain
reeled to the deck, shot through the brain !
" And I fire when it suits me best !" the
young clerk said, as he turned from the
sconce.
Even the two friends whom Lodman had
brought on board saw the fairness of the
thing and they raised not a murmur. They
took up the corpse of the dead duelist and
bore it away to the forecastle, where they
rolled it up in a tarpaulin, intending to have
it buried when they reached Mobile.
"Here," said Edgar Romney, as he hand
ed to William Balfour all the money the lat
ter lost.. There was a sad look upon his pale
features, and his voice trembled. " Take
this, and then cschange,pledges with me.—
Say that you will never gamble again, and
I'll promise you never to fight another duel I"
The pledge was given.
" I'm glad you have taken such a pledge,
said Burt ; " but be sure there are hundreds
who will bless the moment that led you to
your first, and, I hope, last duel."
Unwholesomeness of the Meat of very
Fat Animals.
We have sometimes suspected that- one
cause of the unwholesomeness which is very
generally, and very justly, as we guess, attri
buted to pork, may be a diseased condition
of the animals from which such food is ob
tained. The way in which they are usually
fed--' cribbed and confined,' seems so un
natural, and so much akin to practices and
influences which are known to produce dis
ease in the human subject, as to make it
highly probable, indeed, that hogs subjected
to such a forced system of feeding, such im
purities in food and air, and such closeness
of confinement, must become diseased. Then,
again, it is so common to find the livers of
hogs, even of those that are young, in a
state of disease at the time of slaughtering,
that a suspicion of a diseased condition af
fecting more or less the whole animal, seems
pretty well founded.
We have had at times similar suspicions
in regard to very fat animals of other spe
cies, which had been subjected to a similar
high pressure plan of feeding, to similar con
finement or want of due exercise, and per
haps to a similar impurity of the atmosphere
breathed. The languid looks and move
ments of such animals,and their heavy,stupid
appearance, with other considerations, have
led to the suspicion that these animals which
had been so unnaturally forced into fatness,
wore not in a healthy condition themselves,
and that consequently, the meat furnished
by them, must, to a greater or less extent,
be unwholesome.
Whatever may be thought of such suspi
cions, whether they are ascribed to excessive
squeamishness or admitted to be legitimate
conclusions from well established facts and
truths in physiology and hygiene, it will at
all events be universally acknowledged that
an animal which is very much diseased can
not furnish meat that is wholesome. Who
that should see, upon opening a sheep, that
its liver was very much enlarged, and that
upon cutting into it a great abundance of
turbid fluid ran out, while the whole organ
was of unhealthy color and structure ;—who,
we say, after such a - sight could " stomach"
the meat of that animal ? Such a case hap
pened not long ago, as reported to us by a
friend, and although the animal had been
apparently well and sound during its life,
yet not one in the family owning it could be
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persuaded to eat any of its meat after having
seen the condition of its liver, as above de
scribed.
Similar suspicions as to the wholesomeness
of the meat of animals forced into fatness,
have occurred to others, and recently Dr.
Grant, a surgeon in London, has instituted
a series of investigations in order to deter
mine how far such suspicions were well or
ill founded: Dr. Grant visited for this pur
pose, the prize animals and others exhibited
at the Baker street Bazaar, and. afterwards
attended at the places where' they were
slaughtered, and inspected their condition
after death. Among the cattle, while on ex
hibition, he could detect but few signs of dis
ease ; neither did he observe any external
sign of disease among the sheep; but among
the fat swine on exhibition, he found a pen
of three belonging H. R. H. the Prince Con
sort, which lay helplessly on their sides, with
their noses propped up against each other's
backs, as if endeavoring to breathe more
easily, their respiration bing loud, suffoca
ting, and at long intervals. The heart seemed
to be laboring to propel the blood throughout
the body. Another pen of pigs, which ob
tained a gold medal, contained some in a
still worse condition: they snored and gasped
for breath.
The gold and silver prize animals which
were retained for the London butchers, were
followed by Dr. Grant to their several desti
, nations, and several of them examined after
being slaughtered. Among the sheep, the
heart was found diseased in every case, and
the liver and lungs in almost all of them.—
Among the pigs, the heart and liver were
found very much diseased. Among the horn
ed cattle, disease of the heart was universal,
fatty matter having taken the place of the
natural muscular fibre to a very great ex
tent. In one ox, the left ventricle was so
completely converted into fat, especially in
spots, that it must have given way had the
animal been required to make any sudden
or strong exertion.
It thus appears that, under the prevailing
system of rearing and feeding animals for
exhibition, and for slaughtering also, one dis
ease is of very frequent occurrence—namely,
conversion of the heart into fat. In animals
forced into fatness, the great central organ,
more than any other, is damaged,—often
converted into a flabby, inert lump of fat.—
This injures the general health by diminish
ing the contractile and propelling power
whereby the blood or vital fluid is sent to
the remotest recesses of the body, that every
part may be nourished- and renovated. The
heart converted into fat must beat feebly
and irregularly. The blood, consequently,
must move onward with a slow and feeble
current. "Hence the panting breathlessness
due to stagnation of blood in the lungs,
while
the skin and extremities are cold. Hence
the stupid, heavy-headed expression of a con
gested brain, and the blood-stained appear
ance of meat after death. The slightest ex
ertion to an animal under such circumstan
ces might suddenly prove fatal. Were a
man, in this condition, to present himself at
an insurance office, it would refuse to insure
his life at any premium ; yet, under similar
circumstances, a sheep is awarded gold and
silver medals, and its feeder a prize of £20."
Dr. Grant advises breeders, feeders, exhibit
ors,
and prize judges, instead of pursuing
the present system of rearing cattle, to visit
slaughter-houses, and, with a due knowledge
of diseased appearances of heart, liver, lungs
and kidneys, there discover and determine
the system of rearing which is most compati
ble with health, and most productive of
wholesome and nutritious food for man.—
Precocious or forced bulkiness and fat may
often conceal the revolting ravages of dis
ease, which can be disclosed only by an in
spection of the animal's interior after death.
The flesh of animals which has been pro
duced by organs themselves diseased, must
be itself, also, deteriorated, and ought not to
be regarded as a wholesome article of human
food.
With a better knowledge of physiology
and of the laws of health, more prevalent in
the community, we have no doubt that the
flesh of highly fed or over-fed animals would
be very generally avoided by purchasers, as
they would then be well aware that the con
sumer of the flesh of such animals was en
dangering his own health. The greater prev
alence of such knowledge would also lead to
some desirable reforms in our shows and ex
hibitions. At present the rage is for animals
so very fat that• they must be either already
diseased, or on the very borders of disease,
since forced fatness almost always involves
an unhealthy state of the heart, liver, kid
neys, and blood, as those much engaged in
the butchering of distillery fed hogs and
other very fat animals can testify. This
rage for very fat animals would - decline,
were a knowledge of physiology and the
laws of health more prevalent, or if the con
dition of the internal organs in very fat ani
mals after death, were more generally inves
tigated. Premiums would be awarded dif
ferently •if the award were made according
to the condition of the internal organs.
A reform in public opinion upon this sub
ject is desirable, also, on another account.—
If very fat animals—forced by want of due
exercise and other means into fatness—are
frequently diseased more or less, then they
must be very unfit for breeding purposes,
since it is generally known and acknowl
edged that the state of health of the parents
has much influence in determining the
healthy or unhealthy condition of their off
spring. nt. n.—Country Gentleman.
"Grandpa, did you know that 'the
United States have been in the habit of en
couraging tories ?"
"Certainly not, Simon, what' kind of tor
ies ?"
"Terri tories. Now give mo some peanuts
or I'll catch the measels, and m you pay
for them."
Ear The Mormons claim to have 480,000
members of their church scattered over the
world. They have ninety-five missionaries
in Europe, and an. equal number in -Africa,.
Asia, and the Pacific islands.
Editor and Proprietor.
NO, 44.
A New State—Ontonagon.
The prolific Northwest is apparently about
to give birth to another member of the Amer
ican family of States. We may expect soon
to "welcome the advent of the little stranger"
on the borders of our greatest lake. It is
proposed, in short, that the portion of Mich
igan lying west of Lake Michigan, and known
as the " Upper Peninsula!' shall be - joined
with the northern part of Wisconsin, border
ing upon,Lalo Superior, the two to constitute
a new State, the title of Ontonagon.
This movement originates in the right quar
ters. Michigan passed legislative, resolves
last year recommending the project, and sim
ilar resolutions are now about to be adopted
to be adopted by the Legislature of Wiscon
sin.
The Constitution of the United States pro
vides that "no new States shall be formed,or
erected within the jurisdiction of any Ofbei-
State, nor any State be formed by the june
tion of two or more States, or parts of States,
without the consent of the Legislature - of the
States concerned, as well as of the Congress."
It will in this case only remain to obtain the
consent of Congress, that of " the StatpS Con
cerned" being proffered in advance.,
Ontonagon is to have for its southern boun
dary a line drawn from the Menominee river,
near its mouth on Green Bay, westerly till
such line intersects the Western boundary of
Wisconsin, near Hudson on the St. Croix sty-,
er. This line will not be far from the 45th
parallel of latitude.
The new State will thus contain 40,000
square miles, nearly equal to the area of New
York It will embrace the entire southern
coast of Lake Superior, and include the rich
mineral region which stretches along that
vast inland sea.
There is already a population of 70,000,
which is rapidly increasing, in the territory
referred to. These people are anxious to have
a government of their own, finding themselves
cut off by the peculiarity of their location
and pursits from communication with Michi
gan or Wisconsin. Unless Congress should
interpose °ejections, which cannot reasonably
be apprehended, we see no cause why the new
"State of Ontonagon" should not speedily
take her place as an independent member of
the Union.—Hew York Times.
AN INCIDENT AT WASIIINCTON.—The Wash
ington correspondent of the Boston Post,
writes the following:
I cannot help telling you of a little incident
of Secretary Toucy's reception. One..of the
guests, a gentleman, having a lady on his
arm, took from the table a large, fine apple,
probably for the little one's at home, and his
coat sleeves being large, he secreted it in the
sleeves of the right arm. Unfortunately he
forgot the circumstance just at the moment
he should not, for in making his retiring
bow he gave a flourish of the arm and pitched
the apple almost in the Secretary's face! It
bounded and rolled away until it loged under
some lady's crinoline, while the poor gentle
man looked as much mortified and aston
ished as if he had accidently fired a bomb
shell in. the parlor. This incident was too
ludicrous for gravity, and even the grave and
dignified Secretary was forced into a broad
smile, which expanded into a grin all around
the parlor. Some wo g 0. scrambled to get the
apple and restored it to the discomfited gen
tleman, who then incontinently took himself
off.
SHAKING HANDS.—The mere offer of the
hand is the readiest sign of voluntary courte
sy or forgiveness, and its non-compliance the
most civil yet meaning of repulses. Shaking
hands is a mode of greeting, the origin of
which is lost in obscurity. Individuals dis
play character in their mode of so doing.-- 7 .
Who cannot feel at once the antagonism be
tween the touch of a prude and the cordial
grasp of a friend ? Who knows not the sail
or's grip of candid heartiness from the con
ventional "giving of hands ?" How perfect
ly does the graduated or lingering pressure
cause the mercury in love's barometer to rise
or fall by the scale of hope I What sympa
thies and antipathies are demonstrated by
the various degrees of kindly, irresolute, vi
vacious, careless, fond, or earnest manner of
shaking hands ! It is this relation between
temperament, feeling, consideration, and the
instinctive action of the band, which has
given rise to those theories which profess to
read the predominant impulses of character
in the traits of one's handwriting.
tei=. A singular case of suspended anima
tion took place at Chicago on Friday last,
which should serve as a caution to those at
tending on the sick. A Mrs. Brown, living
on West Madison street, had been lone sick,
and on Friday those attending on her ob
served the usual symptoms of dissolution
overspread her features, and very soon after
the heart seemed to have ceased its functions.
The usual formalities were observed, and the
body placed in a ecffin. One of her girls vise
iting the body shortly after, and sobbing loud
ly, the corpse moved and the eyes opened and
stared wildly in their sockets. A scene fol
lowed which can more readily be imagined
than described in words. The girl screamed
and fainted, and momentary consternation
possessed the household. This, of course,
was soon overcome, and Mrs. Brown removed
from her rather embarrassing position. She
the next day was doing well, though in a low
debilitated state.
MARKS OF Suspicios.—Always suspect a
man who affects great softness of manner,
and unruffled eveness of temper, and an
enunciation studied, slow, and deliberate.—
These things are all unnatural, and bespeak
a demrce of mental discipline into which ho
that has no purpose of craft or design to an
swer, cannot submit to drill himself. The
more successful knaves are usually of this
description—as smooth as razors dipped in
oil, and as sharp. They affect the innocence
of the dove which they have not, in order to
hide the cunning of the serpent which they
have.
VERY CHARACTERISTIC.—Thomas Fuller re
lates a curious incident which is truly char
acteristic : " A gentleman, he says, having
led a company of children beyond their usual
journey, they began to be weary, and jointly
cried to him to carry them ; which, because
of their multitude, he could not do, but
. he
told them - he would provide them horses to
ride on. Then, cutting little wands, out of
the hedge, as nags for them, and o larger for
himself, they mounted, and . those who could
scarce stand before, now, full of mirth,
bounded cheerfully home."
zer If you would have an idea of the
ocean in a storm, just imagine five thousand
hills and five thousand mountains, all drunk,
chasing one another over newly-ploughed
ground, with lots of caverns in it for - thern t 43
step into now and then.
.116 r. "I bought these boots to wear only
when Igo into genteel society." Then the
will be likely to last you a lifetime, and he
worth something to your heirs."