VOL. 43.
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BROWN'S
CARPET STORE,
JUST THE PLACE FOR HOUSEKEEPERS!
4879, FRESH STOCK I NEW STYLES! 1879,
C.A.RI:MrI I ,
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FURNITURE,
The Largest Stock and variety of
Chairs, Beds, Tables, Chamber Suits, Lounges,
ROCKERS, MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, se., ever exhibited in Huntingdon county.
WALL PAPER ! WALL PAPER !
In this department I have made important changes ; procured the latest improved trimmer, and my
new styles and prices for 1879, can not fail to suit purchasers. Call and see.
WINDOW SHADES and FIXTURES
in great variety. Plain, satin and figured paper, plain or gilt band shading, spring and
common fixtures.
FLOOR OIL CLOTHS
From 15 inches to 2i yards wide. Halls covered with one solid piece without joints. [Bring diagram
and measurement.] For
PICTURE FRAMES AND LOOKING CLASSES,
This is headquarters. Mattresses, Window Cornice, and anything in the Cabinet or Upholstering line
made to ordevor repaired promptly.
UNIIZRTAKING
Also added to the FURNITURE and CARPET BUSINESS.
Plain Coffins, Elegant Caskets and Burial Cases,
WOOD OR LIGHT METALIC TO SLIT ALL. BURIAL ROBES IN VARIETY.
A PINE PIA G-LASS HEARSE
Ready to attend funerals in town or country. My new clerk and traveling agent, FERDINA3D
Kocu, will call briefly in the principal towns, villages and valleys of this and adjoining counties,
with samples of Wall Paper, Carpets, Carpet Chain, and illustrations of Chairs and many kinds of
Furniture, to measure rooms, tcc., and receive orders for any goods in my line. If he should not
reach you in time, do not wait, but come direct to the store.
JAM W. S
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March 21, 1879.
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The Cheapest Place in Huntingdon to buy Cloth
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at S. WOLF'S, 505 Penn street, one door west
from Express Office. S. MARCH, Agent.
TO THE PUBLIC.—I have removed my Cloth
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Gwie's old stand. Ui...Expenses reduced and
better bargains than ever can be got at
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March 28, 1879.
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The Mirror of Life.
Let us look in the t lass for a moment,
Let us brush off' the mist from the face—
The mirror of life that is broken
When Death in our ear knells the token
To crumble in space.
We must fall whether pray;ng or pining,
Whether fearing or mocking the blow,
Brush the mist from the mirror, then trembling
The grave is no place fur dissembling—
There vaunting lies low,
The eyes, as they gaze to earth's glory,
Peer into that mirror of pain
Where the slain of our years lie all gory,
Bent over by grim shadows hoary
Recording cacti stain.
Not a blot nor a blemish escapes them,
The sins of the lone and the crowd,
The crime where we pondered or paltered,
The dark things that lips never faltered
There cry out aloud.
They are there, and no tempests can bide them ;
They glow with accusing and shame,
Tho' the years be all dead, they are living,
'Mid the silence they cry for forgiving
With direful acclaim.
On the wreck-plank of life is there pardon
When joy is worn hollow in sin?
When the heart sees no light in the sparkle,
Nor gloom where the drowsy waves darkle
O'er foeman and kin ?
Then brush the world's mist from the mirror
While life in our bosom is sweet,
And turn, with a love of the purest,
O'er pathways the fairest and surest,
The trace of our feet.
ci elect Rlisallang.
GEN. GRANT IN PEKIN.
Eating Soup with Prince Kung.
THE FIRST MEETING WITH THE PRINCE
REGENT OF CHINA-THE CHILD EM
PIROR-A CHINESE ENTERTAINMENT
WHERE SHARK'S FINS AND BIRDS'
NEST SOUP WERE SERVED.
J. 11. Young's Pekin Letter to New• York Herald.]
General Grant did not ask an audience
of the Emperor. The Emperor is a child
seven years of age, at his books, not in
good health, and under the care of two old
ladies called the empresses. When the
Chinese Minister in Paris spoke to the
General about audience, and his regret
that the sovereign of China was not of age
that he might perSonally entertain the ex-
President, the General said he hoped no
question of audience would be raised. He
had no personal curiosity to see the Em
peror, and there could be no useful object
in conversing with a child. This ques
tion of seeing the Emperor is one of the
sensitive points in Chinese diplomacy. The
Chinese idea is that the Emperor is the
Son of Heaven, the titular if not the ae•
cepted king of the world, king of kings, a
sacred being, not to be seen by profane,
barbarian eyes. Foreign powers have
steadily fought this claim and have insis
ted by every means upon the Emperor
standing on the same level as .other sciv
ereigns and beads of State* reo . eiviog sad
sending Ministers and taking an active
personal interest in international affairs.
These arguments went so far as to induce
the
_last Emperor to receive the foreign
Ministers in the palace. This was a great
triumph. It made a sensation at the time.
VISIT TO PRINCE KUNG
As soon as General Grant arrived at
Pekin he was met by the Secretary of
State, who brought the card of Prince
Kung and said his Imperial Highness
would be glad to see General Grant at any
time. The General named the succeed
ing day, at three. The General and party
left the Legation at half past two, the
party embracing Mr. Holcombe, the acting
Minister; Colonel Grant, Lieut. Charles
Belknap, C. W. Deering and A. Ludlow
Case, Jr., of the Ashulot. The way to
the Yatuen was over dirty roads and
through a disagreeable part of the town,
the day being unusually warm, the ther
mometer matking 101 degrees in the
shade. This is a trying temperature un
der the best circumstances, but in Pekin
there was every possible condition of dis
comfort in addition. When we came to
the court yard of the Yamen the secreta
ries and a group of mandarins received
the General an his party and escorted
them into the inner court. Prince Kung,
who was standing at the door with a group
of high officers, advanced and saluted the
General, and said a few words of welcome,
which were translated by Mr. Holcombe.
THE FIRST MEETING WITH THE PRINCE.
The Prince saluted General Grant in
Tartar fashion, looking at him for a Mo
ment with an earnest, curious gaze, like
one who had formed an ideal of some kind
and was anxious to see how far his ideal
had been realized. The sun was beating
down, and the party passed into a large,
plainly furnished room, where was a table
laden with Chinese food. The Prince, sit
ting down at the centre, gave General
Grant the seat at his left, the post of honor
in China. He then took up the cards one
by one, which had been written in Chinese
characters on red paper, and asked Mr.
Holcombe for the name and station of
each member of the General's suite. lie
spoke to Colonel Grant and asked him the
meaning of the uniform he wore, the rank
it showed and his age. He asked whether
the Colonel was married and had children.
When told that he had one child, a daugh
ter, the Prince condoled with him, saying,
"What a pity." In China, you must re
member, that female children do not count
in the sum of human happiness, and when
the Prince expressed his regret at the ex
istence of the General's granddaughter, he
was saying the most polite thing he knew.
A CHINESE ENTERTAINMENT,
The Prince returned to his perusal of
the face of the General as though it were
an unlearned lesson. He expected a uni
formed person, a man of the dragon or
lion species, who could make a great noise.
What he saw was a quiet, middle aged
gentleman, in evening dress, who had rid
den a long way in the dust and sun, and
who was looking in subdued dismay at
servants who swarmed around him with
dishes of soups and sweetmeats, dishes of
bird's nest soup, sharks' fins, roast ducks,
bamboo sprouts and a teapot with a hot,
insipid tipple made of rice, tasting like a
remembrance of sherry, which was poured
into small silver cups. We were none of
us hungry. We had had luncheon, and
we were on the programme for a special
banquet in the evening. Here was a pro•
fuse and sumptuous entertainment. The
dinner differed from those in Tientsin,
Canton and Shanghai, in the fact that it
was more quiet; there was no display or
parade, no crowd of dusky servants and
retainers hanging around and looking on
as though at a .comedy. I didn't think the
Prince himself cared much about eating,
because he merely dawdled over the bird's
nest soup and did not touch the sharks'
HUNTINGDON, PA ~ FRIDAY AUGUST 22, 1879.
fins. Nor, in fact, did any of the minis
ters, except one, who, in default of our re
membering his Chinese name and rank,
one of the party called him Bei.-„Biltier.
The dinner, as far as the General j was con
cerned, soon merged into a cigar, and The
Prince toyed with the dishes as they came
and went and smoked his pipe.
THE PRINCE REGENT OF•CIILIIA
As princes go I suppose few are more
celebrated than Prince Kong. He is a
Prince of the IMperial house of China,
brother of the late Emperor and uncle of
the present. Tie wore no distinguishing
button on his bat, Imperial Princes being
of a rank so exalted that even thp highest
honor known to Chinese nobility is too
low for them. In place of the latter he
wore A small knot of dark red silk braid,
sewed-together so as to resemble a crown.
His costume was of the ordinary Chinese,
plainer, jf anything, than the official's.
His girdle was trimmed with yellow and
there were yellow fringes and tassels at
tached to his pipe, his fan and pockets.
Yellow, is the Imperial color, and the
trimming was a mark of princely rank. Iu
appearance the Prince is of middle stat
ure, with a sharp narrow face, a high
head—made more prominent by the Chi
nese custom of shaving the forehead and
a changing. evanescent expression of court;
tenance. Fle has been at the head of the
Chinese Government since the English
invasion and the burning of the Summer
Palace He was the only prince who re
mained at his post at that time and con
sequently when the peace came it devolved
upon him to make it. This negotiation
gave him a European celebrity and a
knowledge of Europeans that was of ad
vantage. European powers have prefer
red to keep in power a prince with whom
they had made treaties before. In the
politics of China, Prince Kung has shown
courage and ability. When the Emperor,
his brother, died, in 1861. a council was
formed, composed of princes and noblemen
of high rank. This council claimed to sit
by the will of the deceased Emperor. The
inspiring element was hostility to foreign
ers.. Between this Regency and the Prince
there was war. The Emperor was a child
—his own nephew; just as the present
Emperor is a child. Suddenly a decree
coming from the child Emperor was read}
dismissing the Regency, making the Dow- s
ager Empress Regent and giving the power
to Prince Rung.
AN ENERGETIC PRINCE
This decree Prince Kung enforced with
vigor, decision and success. He arrested
the leading members of the Regency,.
charged them with having forged the will
under which they claimed the Regency
and sentenced three of them to death.
Two of the Regents were permitted td
commit suicide, but the other was behead.
ed. From that day, under the empresses,
Prince Kung has been the ruler of China.
Under the last Emperor the party in op
position suceeeded in degrading him. I
have read the decree of degradation as it
appeared in the Pekin Gazette. The prin
'cipal accusation against the Prince was
that he ilia 'been latiTility and overhearing
-which I can well believe. The decree
was sweeping and decisive. The Prince
was degraded, deprived of his honors and
reduced to the common level. But the
power of the Prince was not to be destroy
ed by a decree. In a few days appeared
another decree, saying that as the Prince
had crept to the foot of the throne in tears
and contrition he bad been pardoned. The
real fact, I suppose, was that the young
Emperor and Empress found that the
Prince was a power whose wrath it was
not wise to invoke. Since his restoration
to his honors his power has been unques
tioned, and one of the recent decrees con
ferred new honors upon himself and his
son for their loyalty to the Empire and
especially for their fervent prayers . at the
ceremonies to the manes of the dead Em
peror.
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President Lincoln's Parable.
The Baltimore American. says : "At
the recent entertainment, in this city. given
under the auspices of the Hebrew Young
Men's Association, the Rev. Dr. Szold de
livered a lecture on Abraham Lincoln, in
which he related quite a number of anec
dotes. It was not Mr. Lincoln's nature,
he said, to argue a point, but when per
sons would come to him with complaints
he often gave them his views on the sub
ject in a short and comprehensive parable
or story ; as, for instance, some gentlemen
from the West had called at the White
House, and had been harrangueing Mr.
Lincoln in an excited manner about the
omissions and commissions of the Govern
went. Ile heard them patiently for a
time, and finally said : "Gentlemen, sup
pose all the property you were worth was
in gold, and you had put it into the bands
of Blondin to carry across the Niagara river
on a tight rope, would you shake tha rope
while he was passing over it, or keep
shouting to him, 'Blondin stoop a little
more ;go a little faster ?' No, lam sure
you would not. -.You would hold your
breath as well as your tongue, and keep
your hands off until he was safely over.
Now, the Government is in the same situa
tion, and is carrying across a stormy ocean
an immense weight ; untold treasures are
in its hands ; it is doing the best it can ;
don't badger it.; keep silence, and it will
get you safely over.
A Child's Heroism
At Honesdale, Pa., last week Willie
Bowden, aged 9 years, a slate picker on
the piers of the Delaware and Hudson
Canal Company, reached up from the scaf
fblding on which he stood to take the I
slate out from between two ponderous re
volving rollers. His hand was caught by
the rollers and drawn slowly in, until the
little fellow was raised from his feet arid
suspended over the canal ten feet above it.
Nearly-half of his arm was drawn between
the rollersii'dfore the terrible situation was
discovered and ihe nia - chinety stopped.
Before the boy could be removeek.a, wet
senger had to be despatched to the maeriqe ,
shop, some distance away, fur diachinists
to take the machinery apart. This requir
ed more than fifteen minutes. All this
time the lad:
• hung. suspended by his
crushed hand aarm, the flesh being en
tirely torn away, ettposing the bones and
cords. The little fellow never uttered a
cry nor shed a tear. His father, an em•
ploye on the pier, was a weeping witness,
of the terrible scene, and the boy kepttay
ing, "Don't cry, father, they'll get me out
all right." The lad's arm had to be am
putated at the elbow. -
A wrnow, being cautioned by hdr min
ister about flirting, said she knew it was
wrong for maidens and wives to flirt, bat
the Bible was her authority. It, said
"widow's mite." She was flirting awfully
at last accountF.
Nasby.
MR. NASBY TAKES A LITTLE TURN
THROUGH OHIO, AND REPORTS.
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From the Toledo Blade.]
PETTUSVILLE (which is in the State
uv Ohio), Aug. 5, 1879.
I felt it my dooty to heed the Masedo
ian cry, wich the Ditnocrisy uv Ohio
I yelped : "Kum over and help us !" and I
era to do a little mishunary work in the
kuthern part uv the State fbr that 'possel
I.uv onlimited money, that harbinger of
good times, Gen'l. Ewing. I wish I wuz
I?ack in the Corners, and shel bit there
jist ez soon ez the Sentral Commity lets
I me leeve this most thoroughly discouragin
,kentry.
Ef the rest uv the State is anything like
seckshun, Ohio is gone up. Rooin is
before Ohio, and the State is driven full
tilt onto it.
I met with no success at all, with wuz
not my fault, ez the coudishns are agin
me. I wits never so disappinted in my
life, and hope never to be so agin.
I expected to find a distrest kentry filled
with farmers bewoanin the hard times,
and rnecanies layin idle, with their families
starvin. I expected to find a shoclis, hat-
Ais, coatlis community uv serfs, wich bed
"bin ground down by the money power till
they wood be willin to receeve any prom
Ise uv a change with joy and gladnis. I
xpected to see factrys silent and farms
desertid, shops abet up, and only nashnel
banks and sich open. I expeetid to find
pale men, weak eyed with hunger. and
pale faced, despairin wimmen, starvin their
salves that they mite keep life into their
t*el babes.
- I bed bin reedin Dimocratic papers,
you see, about toe people-Lein ground un
der foot, and I hide me to Uhio, with the
most joyous antissipashens.
When I struck Pettusville it occurred
to me that I must hey got into the wrong
locality. I arrived in the nite, and I. notist
the landlord uv the hotel weighed suthing
over two hundred, and his - wife was suthin
heavier, but that didn't affect me. In all
strikly Diniecratic localities landlords
Frow fat, no matter who else grows lean,
,wich they ginerally do. I turned in and
hugged the idce to my bozum that I shood
hey easy work t,o do in that place.
The fust'thing I notist in the mornin
wuz a string try teems a mile long, more
t or less, waitin to unload wheat at the
warehouse on the raleroad. The men onto
the loads wuz about ez hale and harty a
pet uv fellers ez I ever seed. They wuzn't
pale nor wan, nor nothin. They wuz hefty
specimens, and lookt ez tho they lied three
square meals a day all their lives.
To my horror I notist that the shops
wuz all open and the mechanics all very
hard at work, and that the three factories
in the town hed torrents uv smoke a bilin
out uv their chimneys.
Bein entirely shoor that I bed ben sent
to the rite place,. in spite uv these dis
oritragin appearances, I approached a far
raer wich hed sold his load and wuz jest a
goin into a bank with his wife.
"My friend," sed I, "you are a victim
uv the money power !"
"Wat !" wuz his reply, lookin ez the!
he thot I wuz a escaped loonatic
"You are a serf, a bondman, and are
held in the iron grip uv the bloatid bond
holders, wich is a squeezin the life blood
out uv yoo."
"Is they ?" said he, "I never thot uv
that. But I kin beet cm. I really haven't
time to . discuss the matter, for, you see,
I'm goin to be a betided bloatholder my
self. I hey jist sold my wheat, and I'm
jist goin in to buy a bond or two. I want
to be a aristocracy myself a while."
And he eloodid me, leevin a button in
my hand:
Repeatin the same remark to another,
he merely remarkt. "0, git ou, yoo ass!
Wheat thirty bushels to the acre and a
dollar a bushel, gold. I want a great many
years more uv this kind uv rooin. Where
yoo from, anyway ?"
Abandonin the farmers in disgust, for I
got the same answer from all uv em, I at
tempted to git in my work on the distrest
mechanics wich must hey bin rooined by
resumpshen, but my success wuzn't any
better. I don't know but I cood hey con
viasf em that they wuz all rooined efl bed
hed a fair show, but the alarmin fact wuz
they wus all to bizzy to listen to me, for it
happ , :aed to be pay day. Every man uv
em 'went out uv the offis with his money
in full, and every man uv em declined to
hear a word I sed.
It wuz in vane I urged that they wuz
serfs, it wuz in vane that I told ern they
wuz bein ground into dust by the nashnel
banks, it wuz in vane I told em fesurop
tion wood be their rooin, for every cussid
one of em filed past mo and went and de
posited their spare earnings in one uv
these cussid octopusses, the nashnel bank
us' theplace.
I can't understand what Ewing sent me
to sich a place fur,
and I telegraphed him.
The Democratic Central Committy an
swered :
"Hold on a while. A heavy frost may
come in August and kill the corn, and
fetch 'em to their senses. Then they will
know whot Sherman has done for 'em.
Suthin must be left to Providence."
And so I am sittin in the tavern watch
in the thermometer. It is a corn kentry, and
the farmers depend upon that crop for the
heft uv their profits. Ef the Lord would
only take pity on the Dimocrisy and send
a heavy frost, a regular black frost, this
month, I shoed hey some show. It wood
derange things and tear up matters to
such an extent that it wood give us a
chance. But then the wheat crop was so
heavy that I am not shoor that even the
totle destructshen uv the crop wood save
us. The hog cholera can't come soon
enuff, and ez for cattle and horses, I never
seed 'em so disgustingly healthy.
Still, I shel sit and watch the thermom
eter and cuss John Sherman, ez the Cen
tre' Committy direr. It is possible that
some distress may come on the kentry be•
fore October, the reely I see no encurrid
gin signs. PETROLEUM V. NASBY,
I)istrest Finhnseer.
AN euterprisiag superintendent at one
of the'S.unday schools in St. Albans, Vt
was engaged one Sunday in catechizing the
scholars, varying the usual form by begin
ning at the end of the catechism. After
asking what .were the prerequisites of the
holy communion and confirmation, and re
ceiving satisfactory replies, he asked, "And
now, boys, tell me what must precede
baptism ? Whereupon a lively urchin
sWouted out, "A baby, "sir."
AN old riverman said Mark Twain had
no genius for piloting, but if he could have
been supplied with steamboats when learn
ing the business he would have cleared
the river of snags ; he never missed one.
SUBSCRIBE for the JOURNAL.
A Reminiscence of Niagara.
A MAN'S TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE IN THE
RAPIDS-CLINGING TO A ROCK.
Niagara Letter to St. Louis Globe-Democrat.]
I remember when I was but a boy that
a man got into the rapids here, having
been carried down in a boat, which was
broken to pieces. He had the good for
tune to be dashed on a rock, to which he
clung. It was at the heighth of the sea
son—August, if I recollect—and he clung
there fin. fully thirty-six hours. Every
body streamed out of the hotels and the
village ; the banks of the river, particularly
on this side, were thronged with people
anxious to do something to save him
Dozens of plans were suggested ; some at
tempted, but they all failed. Thousands
of dollars were offered to anybody who
would rescue him. The desperate situa
tion of the man had been telegraphed over
the country and every traia brought crowds
of passengers hither to witness it with
their own eyes. He was encouraged by
shouts from the banks, but whether he
could understand anything said is doubt
ful. The world is said to be sympathetic.
It is, or it appears to be, unsympathetic,
because the object for which sympathy is
asked is abstract. When it is tangible,
visible, all is changed. There was an ex
emplification. The poor wretch could be
seen. lie was an ordinary, uneducated
man ; but he was a man, and the brother
hood and-sisterhood of the race went out
to him in pity and intense eagerness to
rescue him. Women of fashion, blase club
men, selfish worldlings grew pale as they
watched the unhappy wretch, so vivid was
their sympathy. Many persons sat up all
night looking across the seething, roaring
waters at the small dark figure still cling
ing to the rock. The morning came ; re
newed efforts were made, bat they all mis
carried. The crowd had increased ;it was
immense. Everybody was excited. Tears
were in the women's eyes, the pallor
gleamed through the rouge of some of
their cheeks. Can't something be done ?
Must the poor fellow perish before our
faces ? is there no way to rescue him ?
Such questions were incessantly asked, but,
alas, no reply could be given. The man
had good courage and great strength. He
clung to the rock with the desperation of
a dying soul. To lose his hold was to be
dashed over tht , , cataract. Apparatus and
contrivances arrived from Buffalo. New
experiments and new failures. Hoarse
shouts still rang across the rapids to hold
on—to be of good heart. The stoutest
heart that ever throbbed could not gripe
that rock forever. It was wonderful how
lie had endured. A fresh idea had come
to the minds of half a dozen mechanics.
They were laboring to throw out a haw
ser; every muscle was strained, every eye
was bent upon their work. Suddenly the
man slipped away. Ile was exhausted ;
he threw up his arms ; he dashed toward
the cataract. A low groan, as from one
breast, quaked through the throng; the
thousands shivered with terror. A black
object for a moment longer in the hell of
thg . waters, and tjaen disappeared forever.
There was an ag6ny of relief. No one
moved; no one spoke for a while. All
looked in the direction where the figure
had been swallowed up. It was the en
chantment of terror ; it was the chill of
tragedy distinctly wrought which froze
every one for the moment to the spot.
The old resident—he has lived here forty
years—says that on an avenge about six
persons are carried over the falls every
year ; and that four out of the six are
wholly or partly intoxicated, and lose their
lives by carelessness or recklessness in
rowing above the rapids, going beyond the
line of danger. Bat for liquor not mare
than two lives, he says, would be lost an
nually.
Lion Tamer Injured.
At Towanda, Pa., a few weeks since,
when the animals of Coup's Menagerie had
been fed after the concert, as was the cus
tom, the inner partitions separating these
animals from each other were lifted and
each animal given the freedom of the whole
cage. The tiger saw a large piece of meat
which bad not been eaten and made fbr it.
The lion placed his paw upon it, however,
and prepared to eat it himself. Prof Mc-
Donald, the trainer, spoke to him and at
tempted to take the meat from him with a
feeding fork, but he would not give it up.
The trainer then boldly sprang into the
cage to compel obedience, when the lion
felled him to the floor of the cage by a
powerful blow on the chest. An attendant
at once caught McDonald by the feet and
drew him toward the door, but the angry
lion again struck him, this time upon the
thigh, tearing the flesh with his paw. The
spectators who witnessed the perilous sit
uation were wildly excited. Strong men
cried opt, ladies fainted, and children
screamed, but the trainer, recovering from
the shock of the blow, retained his pres
ence of mind, and raising to his feet faced
the king of' the forest and looked at him
unflinchingly in the eye. "Ned," said he,
in a firm yet affectionate manner, "what
are you doing ? Do you want to kill me,
your best friend ?" The words were almost
magical in their effect. The lion's proud
head fell, and slinking toward the piece of
meat he shoved it toward his master and
then came and lay penitently down at his
feet.
Snake Charmers Killed
Correspondent:. of the New Orleans Picayune.;
The renowned snake charmers, Lam
basse and son, not long since captured a
large rattlesnake, and, as they thought,
extracted all its fangs; but in this they
were mistaken, as ono remained. The
snake, after undergoing this operation, was
put in a barrel for safe keeping, and there
it remained for ten days, which so riled it
that is was anxious to be avenged on any
animate object, and the son in taking the
snake out, was twice bitten in the arm.—
He instantly dropped the reptile and ap
plied his mouth to the wounds to extract
the poison, when his lips and tongue be
came swollen to an immense size, and he
not long after died a horrible death, leav
ing a large fatuily to mourn his sad fate.
In the meantime his father playfully
picked up the snake, and to show the
spectators how harmless it was, thrust his
hand in its mouth and was bitten through
the fleshy part of the hand. Shortly after
his arm and hand became swollen to thrice
their original size and turned black, and
in this condition he has remained for the
past four weeks, and as he is very old
little hope is entertained of his recovery.
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JOSH BILLINGS has written a play. The
principal part will be taken by the hind
legs of a mule, and the dramatic movement
will bo hastened by the business end of a
hornet, skillfully introduced.
yocal
THE
OLD FOOT-PRINTS OF THE RECEDING RE) MIN,
AND THE
Mann-MARKS OF THE COMMA HITE MIN
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO
Tlie Juniata Region.
BY PROF. A. L. BUSS, OF HUNTINGDON, PA
'Tie good to ont4e on Nations pasßed away
Forrrerfront the 1001 we call our own.
ARTICLE XVIII.
A PITIFUL PICTURE.
In a diary kept at the Moravian Mission
at Friedenshutten [Wyalusing,] we have
the fUllowing entries during the year 1767,
in regard to Tuscaroras, who in fragments,
were still moving north to ji•in their
brethren :
"January 25th—Two feet of snow fell
last night. The Tuscaroras were so
alarmed, not being accustomed to snow,
[where they had come from in Carolina,]
that they all left their huts down by the
river and came up to us. Feb. 7tb—
Several Tuscaroras came and propose to
stay here. We arranged them a hut and
gave them corn. Feb. 24th—We col
lected corn fur the Tuscaroras. [NoTE.—
These had planted the 'summer pre
vious (1766,) at the mouth of the Tusca
rora Creek, in Wyoming county, Pa.—
CRAFT.] March 25th—Lewis, brother of
Jonathan, came up from Shamokin with
two Tuscaroras, as messengers, from their
chief, who is still there with 70 of his
nation. He wanted us to send him and
his some corn. March 2S—Collected corn
for the Tuscaroraq. One of the twc is to
go up to the Six Nations, and ask them
permission to settle and plant at Lecha
wackneck. It' they do we shall have bad
neighbors. They are lazy and refuse to
bear religion. May 4th—An express comes
from Shamokin to notify us of the advent
of the Tuscaroras. May 6th—Built bark
huts for the Tuscaroras. In the evening
came twenty of them, and forty more are
on the way. The latter want us to send
them some corn down the river, as they
are half-starved. Sent some down to
Tuscarora creek. May 7th—the forty
came—miserable objects. We fed them
all."
The diary does not state the date of their
departure, but in October they were settled
at Zeninge—near the present Binghamp
ton, N. Y. In a general summary inr
1767, Rev J. J. Schmick, of the mission,
notes : "In May, 75 Tuscaroras came
from Carolina In September, 57 Nanti
cokes from Maryland. We believe some
of them were moved by the Spirit of God,
as they heard the Word of the Cross."
SPELLING EXERCISE.
When and why the several tribes in
Virginia and Carolina came to be called
Tuscaroras, has not been explained. The
word has had more uniformly the present
spelling, than most words coming to us
from the Indians. However, a few of the
more ancient variations may not be unin
teresting. We have met the following :
ITuscarorasc,
Tusearuro,
Tuscaruros,
Tuscarovies,
Tuscourorocs,
Tuscouroros,
Tuskaroes,
Tuskaroras,
Tuskarorali,
Tuskarorers,
Tuskarores,
Toskeruros,
Taskierores,
Tuskororas,
Tuskorores,
Tascorins,
Tascororins,
Tasearores,
Taskarosins,
Tachekarorens,
Tescarorins,
Toscororoes,
Tuscaroras,
Tuscaroress,
Tuscaroros,
Tuscaroroes,
Tuscarorers,
Tuscarorins,
Tuscarorens,
Tuscarories,
Tuskawres,
Tusquarorai,
Tusquarores,
Tuscarourocs,
Tuscarone,
Tuscararas,
Tusks,
Tuscaraoros,
TUSCARAWAS FROM TUSCALAWAS,
There arc in Ohio a town and valley
called Tuscurawils. The similarity of
sound often makes people inquire whether
the word has any connection with Tusca•
rora. A historian of that section is of the
opinion that the word came from a frag
ment of the Tuscaroras that settled form
erly at that place; but he fails to tell us
how the latter part of the word came to be
so varied from the ordinary fbrm of roras
to rawas. The variations arose in this
way : There were certain tribes who
could not pronounce the letter R, and sub
stituted an L or a NV or some other such
letter for the sound of the R. In this
way these Tuscaroras in Ohio got the
name of Tuscalawas. See Beatty's Journal
of 176 G. In after years those familiar
with the old name in the east, in settling
in that country, partly restored the old
sound again, making it tti now spelled
Ttesoctrawris
MOUND AND FORT IN TUSCARORA
In an article formerly published, I as
cribed the origin of the bone mound and
fort in Tuscarora valley to the Tuscarora
tribe of Indians, while residents of the
valley. At that time I may be said to
have been very positive of my position. I
am not so sure of this now. My only ex
cuse for my position is the old adage that
"men of wisdom change their minds, but
fools never." A great amount of study
and research, since that time, have con
vinced me of the existence of a race of
Indians in this valley, long prim to the
advent of white men, from whom the name
of our river has come down, who being
extirpated, left this interior uninhabited
about halt' a century before the Tuscaroras
came north. lam now inclined to believe
the mound originated with this anterior
race. Being of the same Huron Iroquois
blood with the Tuscaroras, they buried in
the same way, and as they lived on, or
near, the old town site, the Tuscaroras
may also have buried their bones in the
same spot. When we have all the facts
before us ; when we have surveyed the rest
of the field, we will discuss this anterior
race, and then we shall be better able to
form a judgment on the question.
A NEW FIELD TO BE EXPLORED,
Reader, I have now given you a sketch
of the Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas, Onei
das, Mohawks, Tuscaroras, Delawares,
Shawanese, Cunoys, and some remarks on
other tribes. Perhaps you are impatient
and anxious for me to come down to more
modern times, and more directly to the
Juniata region. But there is still another
very large unexplored field within our own
State, an examination of which is really
necessary in order to understand what will
be said of this interior; and it is moreover
a most interesting field, and one that has
been but little explored by the historians,
Will you, therefore, follow me patiently
while I go back and notice the first advent
of the white men within the borders of
our State ?
ABORIGINES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA AND
I design now to discuss theseveral tribes
and Indian nationalities on the Susque
hanna river and its branches, from the
timd of the advent of the first European
within the limits of our present Common
wealth. The intelligent and observing
reader must have noticed, that the original
abodes of none of the nations hitherto
noticed were upon this river, or any of its
branches; and if he has any antiquarian
taQte, he will taint for some information
concernin;.r, the tribes, who passed away,
almost bat ore the days of any written
records concerning them. Our sources of
information, arc the scraps of documents
and letters, the sketches and maps, which
have been preserved from the settlements
of the English in Virginia and Maryland,
from the French in Canada, from the
Dutch at New York, and from the Swedes
on the Delaware river. We will now pro
ceed to look at these.
YAMOYDEN,
SMITH EXPLORES THE HEADS OF THE
CHESAPEAKE BAY.
One hundred and fifteen years elapsed,
after the discovery of America by Colum
bus, before the English, in 107, made
the first permanent settlement in North
America, at Jamestown, Virginia, and in
1608, Capt. Jobn Smith, of that colony,
explored the Chesapeake Bay, and came up
the Susquehanna river as far as the falls
or rocks, which he could not ascend with
his boat. These falls were not the Cone
wago falls, below Middletown, but the falls
at some point lower down, even below the
Conestoga falls at Columbia,either about the
Pennsylvania line, or at Port Deposit, Md.
SMITH'S BOOK AND MAI).
Smith's History of Virginia is now be•
fore me. It contains his map, the upper
part of which extends into this State. It
was made by Smith himself, and is a
wonderful work, proving him to be a most
extraordinary man. It was first published
in London in 1629—tw0 hundred and fifty
years age. The map gives in large letters,
the SASQUESAHANOITOHS, above the head
of the bay. The point to which he as
tended the river, by the scale, would be
fifteen miles, which would bring him with
in the limits of Pennsylvania, and make
him, and his party of twelve men, the first
white persons that ever trod on Pennsyl
vania soil. The first rocks, however, are
at Port Deposit, only four miles from the
bay, but the number of islands in the
river, which he has marked in his map,
and the scale of leagties, on which the
map is drawn, seem to regnire that
Capt. Smith actually ascended as high as
the State line.
WAS HE IN PENNSYLVANIA.
The estimates of early travelers on a
strange territory for the first time, can
seldom be depended upon for accuracy as
to the distances. Smith himself says, "we
could not get two miles up it. with our
boat for rocks," yet we know it is four
miles to the head of the tide, at Port De
posit '• but it is most probable that Smith
was higher up the river than ie took his
two ton boat, for he expressly says, "Ca
noes may go a dwrillietrPoisy or two np it ;"
and it is possible, he speaks from experi
ence, having gone up some distance in an
Indian canoe. At all events he was the
first white man to meet Indians who re
sided on Pennsylvania soil.
SUSQUELIANNA INDIAN TOWNS.
Smith's map places the chief town, SAS
QUESAHANNOUGH, about 21 miles, by the
scale, above the mouth of the river in a
straight line. The text of the book, how
ever, speaks of them being "two days
journey higher than oar barge could pass
ter the rocks," which would place them
much higher up the river. About 18 or
20 miles further up, is the town QUADRO.
QUE, and 15 miles farther up is Tits'.
NlCitr, which would be about 55 miles from
the bay, by the scale. These three towns,
being on the east side of the river, were all
in the present Lancaster county. On a
branch from the west, entering the river a
little above the first named town, there is
a village called ATTAOCK, apparently 40
miles from the bay by the streams. At
Quadroque there are two branches, and it
is hard to tell which is the main river. As
stated Tesinigh is on the one to the east.
UTCHOWIG is a town on the other branch,
which is probably intended for the true
Susquehanna, and it is ou the south side
of the river, and seemingly some 60 miles
from the bead of the bay. Smith con
structed his map of the country above the
falls, to which he penetrated : according to
the descriptions given him by the Indians.
The distances may have been much greater,
and Utchowig may have been up as far as
Harrisburg. It is clear from the map that
the Sasquesahanoughs bad fuur other vil
lages beside the chief town called after
their own name. This serves to give us
some idea of their strength. Little or
nothing more is known of these towns
under these names.
THE NAME OF THESE INDIANS.
Smith calls the Indiana the SAS QUE
SA HAN ocous. The first part of the
word o,Ser.qufrsa means falls, and the latter
part means ricer. They were the people
of the Falls-river—a very appropriate
name in view of the many falls and rapids
on the lower part of that river. The
former word is also found in Siccasarongo,
Sicasalungo, Chickasaluoiro, or Chiquesa
lungo, now contracted into Chiekies, an
Indian town on a stream still called Chi
qms dungo, emptying into the river below
Marietta, where, or at Conestoga, it is
probable the chief town Sasquesahanough
was located. The panne is still found in
such words as Rappahannock, Loyal Han
na. Smith and his men well understood
this term as applied to the river, for in a
part of his book, written by three of his
companions, they say : 'The Snsquesa
hanocks river we called Smiths falles"
This was, therefore, a translation of the
Indian name, and it proves that these peo
ple were named after the falls in the Sus
quehanna, and that this region was about
the centre of their dominions, and that
they were below the mountains, and were
not spread, as some want to make out, over
the upper branches of the river even al
most to Lake Erie.
"SOM FRENCH MANS SONNE.'.!
There is one statement, in Smith's His
tory quoted below, that is inexplicable—
that the Tockwoughs had iron implements,
which they said they received from the
Sasquesahanoughs, whom Smith supposes
got them from the French, as one would
infer, in Canada, having just named that
place; but it seems there had been some
Frenchmen about the Chesapeake, prior to
this time, for it is related, that during this
expedition, "we incountered our old friend
Tosco, a lusty salvage of Wighcocomoco.
"Vpon the river Patalcomek,we supposed
him some French mans Bonne, because he
had a thicke blade bush beard, and the
Salvages seldome have any at all, of which
he was not a little proud, to see so many
of his Courtrymen. "
NO. 33.
ITS BRANCHES.
(T. be continued.)