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CA LI) %V ELL • o , er :11, I wan level wide, ar •.I by II deceptive beam, r o• e liedving ide land or go:den dre,ani. •IIV .r.• II lea \V VI der, VP' 10 - p, A.. lie I or a i:v mice, .111 d iu m, hi% timid 11,),;:e clice ill Ore I •:rs the eveli lig :41111e. I ; .ur,d ttptin he rolttlze door. In the =of. mott:t %vitt c'e.tr, Ttet Intitity; runtimg o cr The tail vriug t growitig liettr. , A hew was she wlio , c am i!0 - ph fov e d s 1;11 e zaplerer%• ei c• The •.:Ir NV 110` , 12. r; (Lunce g ab - o% e 111 , .. Aired chug c.oilds shies No' for Iny•e!Ill LLI year 4 arvi imae.itle•- been to no, IS.I Ilia the dPn wi It :e tri, Al; .13 wt ,11.11 e. v !lin! tv on e ?rth no in irti. Nor lo,p,_iir go'il front dra h could savo I veil. for .11 in. g itioring On!y oil tier grave! Th , n hi :he iti.thl . gh., Garry-c'e.tr, 1%% Hal, c ,•,1 nine, Y):P.H:ver bro!i. 4 1 : 0111 . 0 dreor, No Voiee fnnn oil: I IC ticskne3:: came oO'r brre,tr, ,h,ml; : '.r. from out the tlu;ti era, (MN af.r 4 hidden Lrouk 31 , 1.011,1 ftin he lingering hour 9 I , t'e;)•, tw h try 111;11. to'ctrA.nrii, .12:ot to izie ;11 tire.Lll% C t 01111 . : morn In ten,lttr be.txv Natikt. e ilwre vireetion's lir ~11.. e• Ler ,7erc'e eie (lure more upon rny dt e.try s:gli:. The v..nt,hed 4}1,u% e arise. s . rot e. once niorr, to Qoollie lily pain, In p'e 0141 , 4 tones so "CO'. a^d use, That iny he in ini.yered back ng.i T. life, and ail i naine,e,:s oe. .:t.'eti year. In angdo.ii deep 1 rune.: ;he go'd Oro could not iave ! 0. Ilea this breaking, lie:.rt nigh! ,:eep .Ignei in her (pi;et gra% e! A LOVE STORY The following romantic love tPle is 1 . -. ken Clem a -ketch of the life s i t lnelt the ,tone. Mason and geologist, ;id the famous writer and poet. 'ILL'S he w,n i a He was vi tine evening by a female fiicu,l, who was accompanied table , whom he h;ul of.t :yen l'Pl4e. o f Of them a charming, blonde entetio! , her nineteenth ear, lut who,e :-mall and airy-ligute and NVWX.CII clo.:irties of complexion gave her the 2ppe.mince of a bountiful cltild rather team a wounin. She seemed to take 110 notice of the mt ,, :tioly. iltt-t-he sfnitikled mcchallie, its hi<shirt reeves apd with 0 leathern apron ; hut it after wtti, t tailspin cd that dine inside :wine excine to gain a nearer lot . nk- of the perso n who had been pointed nut to Lt'r some di: inguished name as the Clotuany poet. Some evenings after he met the acute younu Indy under circtunrances a little more favorable to sentiment and rtana;:ce. Jut as tie sun was he tvas one of hi • favorite walks on the hill—a tree-skirted glade—ejoyi;:p; the delightfill 1 , 1'0,511;•Ct of the cocha - in phut es and waters of the CI ell:411y Frith, whin he unexpectedly found him-elf in her pre•ence. She Wa , through the wood as It i•- tuely as himself—now and then dip ping into a volume in her band, which find not, however, in the•least, the look of a novel, and which prof ed to be an ,elaborate essay on Cate anion. Thq passed each other, howeN'er, Without any dgn of recognition. As alto di appeared with quickened pace from his sight, she reminded hint that her presence was in harmony with the picturesque threat and the gorgeous furnishing a most appropriate figure fur a lovely scene. 50011 after, he began to meet her at the aethie teas, which he loved to frequent. She proved :to be the daughter of a re spectable widow lady, who had come to reside at Cromarty, had received a superior education, and at once made good her claims to a place in the high est of the intellectual circles. 11- ‘ 19 HT rEOPLLS Our accomplished MiISOII soon found that she had a turn for even the severe walks of literature, and had formed a habit of composition in the style of the best English models. Her natural shyness rartlk away ii Nvore under the attractions of Hugh's intelligent con versation, and they became great friends. He was nearly ten years her senior, had read many more books, and way Nvell qualified to be her intel lectual coute-elor. She visited him after some maidenly scruples hal In•en resolved by the Sancti:in of her friends. while Nvolking in the church-yard, ana soon becume his mo-t constant gue•st. They Cob versed ti‘gether on literature philoso phy. aml science. always, how e ve r , av,•iding one subject. namely, that rely teriuus atr,aaion Svhich sarmetimes sprinp,s .up between-persons of oppo site rexe , . when thrown much together. Love f l umn:d the one solitary- sub ject which from St•HIll curious eontin p•ency invariallv escaped them. The impcaturable flunh was not one of the sort of people Nvho fell in love at first si-111.. -even litfle up his mind to live a bachelor life. Still he wa:: not phi:o3ll;er as obdurate as the rocks el su it e of Lis sinewy. Scotti.li !wait, horornotimes indulged in ideal visions. For fourteen or liftia.ut years, :N he tells u-. he had often fmcied in Lis solitary walks a female compani:in by his si ie with whom he exc h unfze d many a thought and gave expression to . llPlrly a feeline, and whose under standiug wa as vigorous as her taste was faultle,, , and her feeling: exgnl ite. But tl e visions at length faded into thin air in the presence of his new filed _fiend. He had no hope that the fet•lie , w, uld- he mutual. He had never prid-d him elf on hi , mood looks. Theng.h p, , int of-trenntli and activ ity he was Ct):1•4•14 , 11.; of his supe'riority, in his•per , onal amu- •-ance he felt that he Nk - ftt , 1.1• 1 01 W the averarte. With his lack of faith in his own charms. While he admitted that • Beau ty' !•ad made a comme , t 111 the he had .cot the sli-ho-t expectation that the Beast would in turn make a co•atue t • , t Beauty - . ! yourm friend hal several admireis.:lll yote::rer and liltli lt i n ire •-ed than the st,ilw;•tt mason. and with bitter, pro , pectein hut at la •t matters came round : yo ur.. lii`Or.'e di •covered that they were nuithOlv lt+v, ;pi a conditional enga4rentent took place. It was settled that they should remain three years more years in Scotland on the existing term , . and if. durin , that time. no suit able field of exemi, u. should open at home, that they should quit the coun try for America. and share together' iu a strange laud whatever fate might have in store. .5 Nearly two or three rears passed by anillte was still an operative mason. night Prospects at lin-t arose. 1 - pon the establishMent of a branch of the 1) ink of Sc. thin: l in 1 i native Ware. be w; , - nfler«l Ifie -ilmitbin of account ant. When he received his appoint: In, lit. le had been working* is tea: on fir fi!leen yrar , , li:chiding; hi appren ticesh;i, ; he was without exiieiiei.ee iii fin racial MC: eltll WC afiiiir ; he ariivcd at the year of I i. age. 7 .kleal tiro k un the leee:Aary history if Scotland WZI , isined friln pres , . It niet with a favorable 1 (c, ptiou ly . th from the public aid critic At length the season inis , -ed ; probation for the band of his in tend, d cione to a close : ;old after a etininliti, of 1.01 e: five anxious years. .Miller • bec.inne the happiest of men in the po,:e..:sion Of hi hr ide. Co:mot:N . (l'. is Osr.'s a cri i befalls you and the enwrgency cqui r< s c,oirage. and noble ma lio , d to meet 'it, be equal to the et;ni i.ineus of the mtnnent, and su ehior to the obstacles in your path. 1 . 1:e In ivrrsa,l te.-tiniony elthenovhese expf.iiet,ce exactly coincides • with v , uas, furniAtei the consoling reflec tion that ditticultit— may he ended by oi T o There is njble..sing equal t the laps-es: ion ~fa stout Leant. The tmg , ,itude the danger need.; noth ing mole than a greater (Alba at your haods. If you prove recreant in the hour of trial, you are the, wor-t of recreants, and deserve no ecinpast-ion.. Be not di,rna ved nor unmanned, when you should be bold and daring, un tline4ing- and resolute. The cloud whose threatening murmurs )ou hear ‘Nitlt tear and (head is pregnant with ide.---ings, and the frown whose stern ness now makes you. shudder and trethhie, wilt ere I.mg, be succeeded by a- smile of hewitching sweetness and benignity. Then be strong and ,manly, oppo-c, equal forces to open difficulties; izeep a stiti upper lip ; and trust in Providence. iGieatliess can only - be achieN ed by those who are tried' The condition of tba . ; achievement is .confidence in one'., self. DEVOTED TO THE PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY, AND THE DISSEMINATION OF.MORALITY LITERATURE, AND NEWS COUDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY, PA., OCTOBER 26, 1854. "THE CHIVALRY" IN KENTUCKY A Pistol Fight at the Kentucky Fair—One of the Combatants Scalped—,T , arci Negroes Wounded. Sultota.g.lc of the Cinciunatti Ca :rite, has bemOttending the Ken, tacky State Fairi at' Lexington, and has ren some strange specimens of the way "the chivalry"ido up things. We make the following- extracts from one of his letters. The Italics are our own : The general harmony of the pleaFant scene on theTair ground.: to-day, was interrupted by a brutal fight. the facts concerning which are as fidlows. I did not witness the fight, as I had left the ground"; a few minutes before it tn,,k place, but saw the wounded 61M -lU:tants as they were brought from the field of _their dame fresh and gory," and deposited in separate rooms at the Phet.ix House. About two o'clock this afternoon, they Met close to the amphitheater in the center of the Fair grounds, each armed with One of Colt's revolvers. When within about fifteen pa cc's of one '.another, they deliberately aimed at each oth er, and fired. Neither shot took effect. They continued to stand and lire until each had fired six round. Flufl , t d's fent th fire sent a ball into Thomas' thigh, which caused him to ztaeg,er a very little, though he did t o fall, but stood his ~r .otind and fired two Jilt we shots at Bufbrd. Ile then threw his pistol down, and wa • in the act of drawing his knife to . advance ninm his opponent, - Ichen a yming n o w, a ftiend of hi, named Feign , ,handed him another. pistol char , ed with powder and ball, to try his hick again. This was seen by Capt. Enfold, a brother of the young mall engaged in the affray. who immediate clinched' him and tell upon him, and %vas in the act of ! riving Lim a very de cided pymmoliog, when young.liuti!rd advanced with his knife. ant( as Fer- gu-on lay t a t the ground, he :.calped him in true Hi; head dreadildly cut, and the liliii,dlb,w -ed pi ihn , ely. lu the mean time, Thorn who laid been wounded the tlii"11, had liven iven to the hotel. He was Simi thy alter fliliiiwed by a carriage cuuye~ in ii; t iri z u,4 in to the utile place. I happened to he at thi' door when the Cal di iive up, and Feigtruu step red emit ; his head, face, and neck. were literally cuvercd ‘vith, Ile walked up to hi- . rnum, however, without as:4,tunce, when a pliy.-ician Was sent for, and the s - tiluids wet e dre<t•ied. Thcimis i',lso had his physician:: in attendance, Nvho examined Lis thigh, extractctl tlir Mil, and hound up his wounds. Neither Thomas nor . Fergu son tire bilgerousiyhurt. tiu 111111:11 fin - the wou n ded who were parties to the Ih4ht. The Fair g`round-; crere cr „ w d c d Nvitif people all the time thi , trun:-action was going aliel it almo,t a miracle that a Inimber of innocent people were not d or seriously- wbumled. A.- it wa , , a little negro ,girl about ton years old was shot in the mouth by one of the men.and ne! , ro man wilt) Wa:; a hundred and fifty yards fn the scene of action, NV;. ,, Nv,mndcd in the arm with a bait. 1 Lave also heard that a laa:e was hit. It was first te• ported tln,t the negio girl was killed, lint I have .-inee a certained that, al thmigh severely wounded, she i, still alive and likely to recover. There is a Meat deal Of indignation e.•.`l!rc.:sed here in regard ti, thi, ii! ! bt; ard if a :tray sLot had killed a respect able ludo, or 0 I.rcialetnan known and re.specte;l.l really 141 . 11: that flit CP - C(111i1):11.1111t , , Thomas, Ferguson, and Rol( It IL NV(111111 have I wen Lung up by the neck, without judge or jury. As it is, nothing int,: -been done about ar restiiig the patties, - and probably they will pass unlhipped of justice. The parties are known here as game men," and as belonging ttr fighting faMilies. The father of young Tbennts.killed icman several years ago in a fight. Fergmon is a young man who - had a band.ome foitune left him, and he has beemala mid, and has some time been "improving him-elf" in European travel. He very tall, and has au elli•minate, foreign air. Ile has devoted great attention to his mmtaclie, his Irair, and indeed, his whole outward man. The IILSS of his scalp will vex him sorely. Captain Buford is in the dragoon service, and is a strong, athletic man. To give you an idea howdeliberate/y the shouting went on, once 'or twice the ptstal cap snapped, when the -flatly would take a cap front his rest pocket, reset it, and blaze away again. WIZEN thl9e we loved in youth are ga•h ered bosom of Wilt, ,h.a forthed .hem, and the fr ends of our days of sunshine Sad g adnesn have turned front us :n our darker hours, how' ghuhy we urn .o the ‘l, ord of God, and how sweet the . re,,ef its pages afford to the bruised heart—Lcman. THE Asa nv AKEEICA John Mitchell, in the Citizen, ad= dresses another i letter to At ebbisi 'op Hughes, in which he milkes - the follow ing pungent anti proper remarks on the improptietyr of the lrish keePing - : up their nationid di,tinctions in this: country : f "To some l'ersonq, indeed.- it is . profitable to kebp the Irish in America, _ O -body isolated' aid di..tinet---no to pc4petmite . t 4 anomaly, ab -urdity,' and emunnty Tilled the 'lrish vote.', These persons to whoM this. is profita ble, are, first, the grog-shop itoliticiang who, as I am: intOrmed, try to keep together each tif . them chyle, or gang of ' Irish votet.4' by unmeaningj na tional nonsense ILIA, pattiotic palaver —and So are in a Collditii)n'to.barffain with candidate!s for office. I Secondly, it is profitable beyour . Grace; you are thus furnished with a kind of organization; which, for the interests of 'the Chinch,' you can and au turn into a Catholic_ organization,,aud wield as a politico-ecclesimiical power to influence Anntrican politicnot of course- to serve any object of personal ambition, (in a Catholic prelate this is 'impossiblc,') I'm for the advantage of the Church of ( Mysterious - are the ways of - I,'rovidence ! See bow a Clint ch of (bid may be benefitted by corner ari,g+hops ! Thirdly, it is. profitable to the ringleaders of Native Americaliism who are enabled, •by pointiog, to this partnership between C borch.and grog-:htlp rowdyism, rot gut and religion, to alarm att . el -irritate decent Ame'tlicans, make them hate both Irishmen and Catholics, and So give up thei rt political consciences and votes into the keeping of them, lie Native Tingieaders, who are, I pre smite, the very Worst men in America; some of whom are Englishmen: or Orange Irishmen in the English inter est; and whO ai.e at all events playing the Engli.•ll game here. TherefbreJ would willingly distract and divide the mind'. of Arnh em.' citizens; I would introduce 'dis union' among them, making soma of them Democrats, some Whip . s. some Hards, some Solis, some Silver Greys, and some, if possible, even Free Soil ers.—anythibp-; in short, bat Know -Nothings Almlitioni.-ts.- 'i'he' Irish Strength';--the • - Vote,' I would break - up and, abolish utterly,—inso mtwh that noVer more should prudent Yankee pipe-layerkhow where,ho may lay a pipe tit draW the 4 6-11 vote to pli,ttiit m ; never. never more should riest or bishop undertnke . the in terest of the ChiWch of God). to lead his sheep With :pastoral crozier into the pleasant pastures of the Hards, or by . the still -waters of Old Fogyism. Not as Irisnmen, not as Cath(Aics,:but• - as hone fide .American citizens. I would have them goab - out their daily business and exec rise their I.2ounnon franchise. Even in death I Would separate them. .1f /he OP Sit li);2/g logy/her, .four dry,. Cub:trig L'enp.tery, /he similllaprims 30 Mill/ . 11 11':N1111:C11 will be ehbr!.. , :b of() drowse Nedire. :Imeriegn spirit at the last dog; and the - loimp ( 2 1 . the -.1-tesPr ret lion will be the s;gnal for tire(Wg 'Wide A truke TIIVE Kle Ils ESS,—A COrre , p111111;11t N.•l*. Courier rind I nquirer, gives an: inte'r esiing account of a recent visit to be Litim cey and his three laugh ers. lint the most interesting paragrsph in the whole ictter is the one vie copy be'ow, for tivii•reosons; first, because it gives a g'impse o,f ;he, heart of one of the gw,le, , t liN ing writers of Tog- Fish prose--and second: v, because - it offers an exanqi!e to be imitated: " Thieve was a moment's pause 'n the 'table talk,' %viten one of the daughters as' ed us our opinion ofScollmul mid • he' Scots. I c( ttn ccv had been in a kid of reverie, front which Ate question ::roused h tn. '''titrnin,, to its, he said in a kind y, ha parental man ner, ' ,he servant ,hat wads at my tab e is a Scotch girt. it may he ih,it .yon Imie seine thing set ere la say about Scot and. I !WO W ha , I like the 1 IT. sh Church, :mil' dislike mane things about he Puri•an cal r•cotch: but l itetertnCr any king that thigh . %sound me servair. Heaven knows that .he •ot of It poor serf lug girt is hard enough, s i tu ;here is any person in Ate wor.d hose fee mg.; I ,An especiapv tender, i. is hose of a tenu.se comic ed ;0 do for us our drudgery. Speak as tree.y a. :y out choose, bu p ease reserve y onr censure if von have tie; lit die thomenis is hen she is absen - trom Ate ',room.'" A RENIARKAHLe. Coaoaau Samuel -Williams, a colored man, has one of the finest farms in . Washington county, Md. The Hagerstown Belald - states that at the age of• thirty-eight vears, he waa slave in Stafford coun ty, Va., but subsequently purchased his freedom from his own 'earnings, He then hound . himself to years of servitude until he could purchase his wife and children, which he accom ,plished when .he was fifty years of age. ;Nu* he owns a farm worth 810- MO, and personal property amounting to several thousand more, all ; . earned by. his own labor. He iss - now seventy eight years of ago. . . . t No* don't go to imagining guant, grim skelt4ons animated by spite and envy, 'though faShionable story-tellers do give such animated monstrosities the specific name of "ol d maid.v." 'Ti.: a ilaniler on the si,terlunid. as the experienc of alnio:t every sick cham ber will ttistify. - If you igo where sickness is, you commonly find one of two or three classes of inurses. Hirelings who are too various to mention 7 --old ladies with imoirnerable invaluable specifics, a number of roots or herb's included in the 1i -t, being tied in a brown paper parcel, oPen at both ends,.which they carry abOut in thdir hands, as they go tip-tOcing from chamber to kitchen, filling the entries with the smell of steeping up" some of thi.iir nostrums for use—ladies who are happy when at peace." and - so keep. up a perpetual catalogue of human ills and certain remedies running frem their tongues like thread frtim the spindle to the reel—ladies who are certain, if the patient is a child.that alias got worms, and if Whe an adidt, that the doctor is fearfully mi , managing and aggra vating, silme terrible. occult disease of which the physician is Unsuspicions, but whb4; she, shaking her head, could tell min+ about if she thought proper. This class do occasionally, like the former Mentioned one, include its por tion of H old maid:,." but the third class is! almost exclusively occupied by this much-used and much-abused sisterhoOd. Go is-,here the patient is too poor to hire nui:ses, and find who has time to do the work of charity—go into. the household where one of the numerous members is- ill "nigh unto death,"— little oyes to care for and the house to be, kept—who is alternately took, doctor, and.ministcr, to do everything that 4eds . to be done, and has no spare hand to' do it about house, and to do efrerything that no one else is skillfulienough to do in the sick cham ber; and to console, as - only unselfish and de'Voted hearts knoW how to com fort those who are ready to despair I Whosti days and weeks go uncounted by in Works-like these, f4i• those who seerdth think they have a right to de mand her service, because she is not "confined by a flintily?" Who, after having seen the rocks and shoals in the sea of imatrimony, and wisely judging that she was tis little skilled in piloting life's bark safely through such dangers as were the hosts of'her sisters who " marry in haste and repent at lei - ure," ;and make shipwreck of happi ness, ,and • seeing -only one path of safety—the "narrow way" of celibacy, chose4.o live free from the cares and vexatious, heart strains, and endless wifehood, find that instead of being i l allowed to live free from these vexatious troubles, she is expected to help all her imarried si s ters, brothers, annts uncles, and cousins, bear all their extra burdens,---he must be the inexhan-table Ibit_titin on which they all.mitke "'rade blanch" draughts— she rilust bo the unlimited receptacle of al) confidel.ees, agreeable or disa i'iretil le ! The old Maid aunt nun t make the shroud for the dead,_and " fix up" the parhirs, ibr the funeral,, and " dear Aunt Annie" nmst " please to trim the table" Ica- Ella's wedding. II Tom, Dick, and Harry slide down hill tel they slide through trowsers atql stocking, why. "Aunt. Ann" must " be so good". as to patch and darn her bill share in the whrld of boys, though she avoided getting into the serape on her own account. Aunt Atm is always welcome among her relations, espe cially when there is some big job on baud. lithe girls are ping to have a quilting, or a party, or a ptc-Me, she mu t ba,te . the lining to the frames, and put on the cotton, so that it may be sure to be even ; or she must ice the cake, and make the lemonade—no body can do it so. well ; or she must ()vet see 'the refreshment department. to see that - they do not all carry the same thing ; for the girls have got to dtess and bunt up missing articles which . they arc not. old niaidish enough to keep tt ark of. • Yes, and after all these services, rendered so cheerfully and so as a matter of course, the old maid aunt's peculiarities are the standing themes of merriment amongst the youngsters, who, when other sources of fun fail, are sure to have a dish of amusement at Aunt Ann's expense ; and if she happens to . be peculiarly sensitive about any trifle, that sore spot is the tat get at which the arrows of wit in its teensk are leveled. But if a single woman escapes from these unnoyancesin a cottage of her own;ber-relatived think her ,etceuttie - or insane,. to venture to live alune "with no" manabout 'the house ;" or to repudiate the biss',of pytel , - ing and darning; arid: being litterid From the M'Kean Citizen OLD MAIDS. with crumbs and greased with butter, and daubed with candy ; or sho - rs in sulted with the pity of people who wonder what " disappointed affection in youth," drove her to the dreadful extremity of being a miserable bene factor, and at the same time free from the personal wretchedness of family disasters, while full of sympathy for others' woes., Ali! How they pity her because she is independent, and master of her own actions and herself. How they " wonder if Aunt Ann ever bad an oiler, tat she did u't get mar ried !" How many times, if she ventures to inlln•m Harry that the kitchen furni ture is complete without the litter of, his muddy hoots, does she have the :;:iti,faction ahem lag thi.s yeung sprig of manhood guiltless of beard, who was fed on her lap when he was a ba by, singing in the woodshed : "'Three score and ten of Ms, Pour 04 Maids r! or the well-known distich "Old il A ie is honorable ; But 04 Maids are abominable," when she knows the, graceless scamp would have died of the measles years ago, if she, and her sleepless care, and unerring skill, had not been employed by day and by night, to prevent such a catastrophe. If she ventures into a concert or lecture room, she hears her self lampooned, caricatured, and - ma ligned, or sneered at - arid pitied. If she hears a sermon mentioning- her sex, it is always for girls or married . women, never for her. If she is seen chatting with an unmarried may, she " fishing for a beau," or " sktting her cap " for the luckless wightlwho dared he civil to her. She never but grows these annoyances, let her lire ever so long, be ever so good. kind, and cheerful, ever so unmindful of neglect, or ever so grateful forfavors; the thou ghtless,un,,ffrateful world sneers on at the hand whose bounties never fail, and the heart whose fountains of kindness and sympathy are never dried by any amount of domestic drouth. Notwithstanding all_ these needless cruelties practiced upon the unoffend ing and commonly unresenting old maid, she is the happiest of women, and She knows it very well usually ; if she did not, she would change her condition straightway ; for there is nothing to do but•hold herself cheap enough, and she could exchange her independence for matrimonial servi tude any time. L. VERMONT—A :Wpm. TATE.—Firstly, there is not a pub:ic, legalized tippling house in the State. Instead of licensing men to sell poi. son to their fellow 'men, the sale of rum is made by law what it always is in fact--a crime. Secondly, there are neither cities nor sol diets, nor a fort, in. the State, though the citi zens when called upon are the best soldiers in the world. Who has not heard of "Molly Stark's men " of' the Revolution: or the " Green Mountain boys" of later date! - There is not a theater, circus, opera hone, public museum, or any other great show-shop in the State; and whd ever heard of -Ver moot mob 1 Without " fighting-rum," how could they have mobs ► There is no record of a Vetnnont murder these ten years,.and her penitentiary is a small one. There are no slaves in the State, nor any, except a few, dough-faces, who fellowship slave-owners. There are railroads, but no Wail-sts. or State -its, and no great railroad definfters. There are no seaports,• no arrivals of itnmi• or na, except the few 'seatteri,rig from Can• ads, and hence no monstrous corruptions at the h There are no Banks that do not pay what they promise, and no millions spent ut the State Treasury to support an army of idle loafer.. There is in Vermont a nation of hardy thountaincerd ; tith:etic men and handsome women; a great community almost, indut. trious farmers., cultivating a fruitful soil, and cn3ityrng therovards of peaceful indu9try.— N. Y. Tribune. • A Hoc STORI ; .—The Louisvillacur. vat get; off" the following capital -anecdote about hogs : In Madison and other counties, mast and acorns arc very scarce. Mast abounds, however, in. the county . of Estill. Many bogs were driven there, which the Estill people considered an • infringement on their rights. Couri cils were called. to deliberate how .to rid themselves of the nuisance. Maqy plans were proposed, and finally, aft a good' deal of debate, one was adoptel It "seems"that hogs-.have great fear of bears. • AccOrdingly the skin of a boo was procured, and -a large sow was procured from one of the droves: She was covered with the • bear's skin and then let louse. Sho immediately re. turned-among the droves, but on "her approach all the hogs-took flight, put , . sued by the - sow with the, bear skin. e It is.stated that since this xperimilint not a hog has crossed the confines of county. NO. 23.
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