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emu:Eras.
S Awhit her guest thou?
Eseking for pleasure, 'tis but a phantom
Seeking for fame, its laurels will wither,
seeking for gold sayest thou!
Thou who knowest the better way
Why so perverse wilt thou stray
In 010911 paths where none may find
The hopeful longings of the mind
Seeking for riches, that perish with time
Seeking for honor, that is but the chime
Ofdying tongues, that will pass away
Nrchance e'er thou leanest this partner of
clan.
Long have we travelled in mystical love
I of the earth-born, thou from above.
How then can I chide thee I
See I not with time-bound sight
Ills that will betide thee
If thou au-tree the path of right,
Rezram then wanderer, e'er thou hest learned
Life's lesson all is late. Hest thou not ♦earned
For higher aspirations, and for nobler aims
glum thou bast yet attained' are not the claims
Of God and man, upon thee, all to strong
For thss to abrogate Ali, seek not wish the
intuig
£4IIIITIPI alone, of earth but strive wills thy
Icho:s might
Th du:y to fudil, and iu tile oppoiitgpath
risk
Thknelt ind true happiness, and an enduring
Joy,
That..fadatlx nut away" pure and without
ME
So atutU titan, in thy apetleas purity aripe
When thou shah gait thy native clamant—
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Lauder sport, Dee. 17
DICLDEITS OT OCR VISIT TO BT. JOZNS
nem our Special Corree.pondent.
ST. JOHNS, NEWFOUNDLAND, t
Friday Evening, Aug. 1t; 1555.
I arose yesterday mottling at five
o'clock, and accompanied Mr. Field
va a trip to Logie Bay, a cove in the
cent ahem six miles north of this
place. We had a light open wagon,
en Irish driver and all old stager of
horse, which took us over the ground
in a few minutes less than an hour.—
The road passed through a portion of
the stunted fir-woods - which we had
skirted on the way to Portugal Cove.
and then turned eastward toward .the
coact, approaching'a lofty headland of
red sand-stone rock, which is a prom
ineut feature in the view northward
from St. Johns. The rolling upland
gradually sloped into a narrow valley,
with a stream at the bottom. Follow- •
ing this, we descended to a cluster of
rishieg huts at the hand of a rocky
cove, less than a quarter of a mile iu
breadth, between the two headlands.
The shore was every where perpen
dicular, or nearly so, and the huts
were perched upon the brink of cliffs
seventy or eighty feet high, at the
iiottom of which the sea rolled in and
broke in volumes of spray. A steep '
feet path descended between the
Sakes of the fisherman to a gap or
split in the rocks, across which was
built the boat-house, a • light timber
frame-wrok high above' the water, and
provided with falls for hauling up the
Lots itt rough weather.
41,.n old fisherman, who appeared to
he the only male at home, the other .
inhabitants having gone oft' before
daylight to their fishiuglabors,accom
peeled us to the boat-house, and poin
ted out the spot where a part of it had
been carried away by the fall• of an
overhanging mass of rock. We walk
snl!along an elastic platform, made by
poles fastened together, to the end,
whence there was a magnificent view .
of the cove, with its walls of dark-red
saridstene, fringed with moving lines
of foam, and . its grand buttress of Red
Read,. as the promontory is called,
king Eli:pose perpendicularly to the
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COUDEASTOR r r:-i3OTTER 'COUNTY, PA., DECEMBER 27, 18
bight of 780 feet. A fey fishing , crafts.
(bitted the gray surface of the sea,
'.over which the mist h‘ing IoW in • the
diAance.
The .fishermen's wives were em- .
ployed in spreading :out Upon the
flakes the fish which had beet stacked :
together during the• night, with the
skins uppermost to protect them from
moisture. They informed us that the
season waa unusually good this year,
but as the price of fish was low they
would gain but little by their . abund
ance. Last year, they said, fish bad
sold at 15 and 16 shillings the quintal
(120 lbs.,) but. this. year the price had
gone down to 12 and 13 shillings:—
The value, let me here explain, is not .
so much regulated by the demand in
foreign markets as by the will of the
merchants of St. Johns, who not only
fix the piice of the fish they buy but
of the goods they sell to the fishermen.
They thus gain in both ways, and 'fat
ten rapidly on the - toils and hardships
of the most honest and simple-hearted
race in the world. It is their polio•
to keep the fishermen always in debt
to them, and the produce of their fish
ing season is often mortgaged to them
in advance. It is an actual fact that
thesi poor fishermen are obliged to
pay for theii flour, groceries, and pro
visions from 40 to 100'per cent more
than the rich and independent resi
dents of St. Johns. It is no wonder
therefore that the merchants amass
large forturies in the course of eight
or ten years, while their virtual . serfs
remain as poor and as ignorant - as their I
fathers berme them. These things
hare been mentioned to me by more
than one of the intelligent citizen of
St. Johns, and confirmed by all of the ;
fisherman with wham I conversed on
the aubject. Several of the latter said
to me, " A.h, Sir,if your people had
the management of things here' 10
would be better for us." This monop
olizing spirt of-gain is the curse,
; net
only of St. JAns, but. of all Newfound
land. It is the spirit which resist all
progress, ail improrements fur the
general good which seem to threaten ;
the nve:throw of its unjust advantages ;
—winch has Made Newfoundly at the
present day, three hundred and fifty
years after its discovery by Sedastian
Cabot, an almost unknown Nvildern ess
and which would fain preserve it as a
wilderness, in order that no other
branch efindust:-y may he developed
but that upon which it preys.
The fisherman in some cases deliver
their fish to the merchants, -cared ; in
; others, the latter purchase the yield as
it comes from the boat. and have the
drying done upon their own flakes.—
The livers are usually sold separately
to those merchants who carry on the
manufacture of oil. Mr. Archibald,
whit h as gone largely into this busi
has arranged machinery *.cr
crushing the livers and steamisliz them
to extract the oil, instead of the old
practice of hailing, which often im
parts an unpleasant flavor to the oil.—
By the new process, it is produced
. in
.a few minutes, mid is perfectly pure,
limpid and tasteless. The dried cod,
after having been assorted, are stored
in wet ehouses, ready to bef.shipped to
foreign mark3ts. The greatest de
mand is from Spain, Cuba, and the '•
West Indies generally. The whole'
town is prevaded by the peculiar oder.'•,
of the fish, which even clings to the
garments of those who deal in them.
This odor, very' unpleasant at first, be
comei agreeable by - familiarity, and
finally the nostrils cease to take cog
nizance of it. St. ;font's iS decidedly
the most ancient and fish like fawn in
North America. I saw a mtn in the.
street yesterday whoie appearance
Lnd expression were precisely that of
a dried codfish. •
We reterned homeward from Logic
Bay by way s of of Virginia Water, the
rebidence of Mr. Emerson, Solicitor-
General. This is ono of the moat
charmingly stbluded hermitages which
it is possible to imagine. "We' first
turned into a. stout lane, - leading
through the midst ora young forest of
fir.andrspruce trees:. As thelane de
seesde4-the trees beeime taller and
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DEVOTED TO THE PIII-Neli'LES' OF DEMOCRACY', Mili'`TiiE DISSEMINATION OF MORALIT - - LITERATURE AND NEWS
WWI is IliceArillerlAil
more dense until- we l arrived at cot
tage lodge, shadeit by_ Evsvillow,on the
edge of,a beautiful lake, entirely en
compassed ,by the dark woods. Pass
ingt.his lodge, we found ourselves on
a grassy peninsula, twenty yards
,in
width, between what appeared to be
two lakes, but were in reality the two
ends of one, which curves itself into a
nearly perfect circle, three miles in
extent. A gate at the end of this isth
mus, usheredus into the woods again,
between trees thirty and forty feet
high, and so dense as to be almost
impenetrable. Out of the dark • ave
nue came at last upon an open lawn
of about two acres, sloping from Mr.
Emerson's cottage to the lake. .The
cottage had a verandah in front, corn
letely overrun with hopvines and, the
fragrant woodbine, and the edges of
the wail of fir trees behind it were
brilliant with the blossomsofa variety
of hardy garden-flowers. The lawn
sloped to.the south, looking across lake
to the woods beyond, whose ddrk,
green tops hemmed in the sky. The
keel.: north-west wind which rippled
the water was unfelt around the cot
tage, so completely was it sheltered
by its fir palisades.
•
Mr... Emerson and his daughters.re
; ceived. us cordially, and offered us
Borne delicious coffee, which our long
ride in the cool morning air made
very aeceptalale. I regretted that
tithe would not allow us to explore
the wild wood paths over the island
on which his' house is built, avid that
the carriage-road along the borders of
the lake was so much out of repair
that `A'lll could nut pass over it. The
lake swarms with trout, and as Mr.
Einerson is fortunate enough to: pos
sess the whole of it, has at hand an
unlimited- supply of this prince of
fish. The cottage was originally built
by a former Governor of the island.
Were it in . the 'vicinity of New-York
or London, the property would be be
all price; but When-I looked up at the .
cold sky overhead and remembered
tire brief, barren Summer of New
foundland, I felt that I should prefer
a simple tent beneath the Oriental
pa l ms
In the afternoon I walked out to
Signal Hill, the peak, of which I have
already s)oken, forming the northern
side of the gateway to the harbor. It
is a mass of old led standstone, rising
5:20 feet abuse the sea. The summit
is devoted entirely to military pur-
poses. There was formerly a battery,
which, being of -little use; has been
abandoned; also an hospital, which
has been converted into barracks fur
the martied soldiers, and . a station,
whence approaching vessels are signal
ed to the town. A steep and rugged
I foot-path over the rocks led us to the
block-house, out of which rises the
signal-statY, on the anoz of the head-
land. The door was open; the house
untenanted, and I made my way to
the look-out - gallery and used the ex
cellent telescope, - without hinderance
from ally ene. The panorama from
this point is supreh, embracing the
town and harbor of St. Johns, the
country inland, clouded with forests
an] spangled with blue, lakes, as far
as . the western headlands which rise
abore Conception Bay. At my feet
yawned the throat of the wonderful
bar; SOuthside Hill, gray and mossy,
rose beyond it, with the long, narrow
.inlet of Freshwater Bay to the left,
and the bold green hills of the coast
stretching away to Cape Spear. Be
tween me and the latter point the boats
of the St. Johns fishermen swarmed
over the water, and on a distant hori
zon arose the wall of white Rig which
marks the boundaries of the Grand
Bank.
• I had a strong desire to visit the
fishing village of Quidi Vidi. at the
foot of the lake of the same name, and
on clecending Sign] Hill took a pth
which red to_ the right, alongthe top
of a range of grassy fields. The tieo
ple Of St. Johns aO - connt for the:nanie
of the lake by - a tradition of an 'old
Portuguese' sailor, in discoverer, who,
on first beholding it, cried out in: his
'native language; ‘.‘ What do I seer
Thislake.iS a favorite resort in Sum
rner,lbe place where tne annual regat
tas 'are it is about a mile long,
lying in, a deep Valley, the Sides of
which are covered with hay-fields.
. .
A stream from its further end falls in
-a succession of little cascades -down a
rocky ledge into the land-locked'cove,
around width the village of Quidi.
Vidi is built. We pursued our- path
over a sloping down covered with
dwarf wortle-berries and wild roses of
delicious perfuthe. The Rhonia Lat-
Voila grew in- thick cluinps, and its
flowering period was not entirely past.
After a walk of 'a. mile we reached
the village, which contains forty or
fifty houses, built at, the head and
along the sides of an oval sheet of
water, completely enclosed by the red
rocks, and 'so silent and glassy that no
one would ever suppose it-communi
cated with the
.turbulent sea without.
Quidi Vidi is entirely a fishing
village, - and a more picturesque one
an artist could not desire. Except
tke smells of the codfish drying on 'the
Lfty flakes, which at once disenchant
a romantic visitor, it seems althost
Arcadian in its air of neatness and of
quiet. The flakes, notwithstanding,
the uses to whick they are dediCated
are really picturesque objects, their
ight platforms shooting above the •
grassy knolls around the Village, and
even above the houses and lanes, so•
that portions of the place are veritably
roofed with codfish. The boat-house,
constructed of light poles with the
bark on, extend over the water, whose
green - depths mirror the white cottages,
the flakes and the red rocks towering
above them. Three or four fisher
men, who had just returned from their
day's work, saluted us •in a friendly
manner, and at our request manned
a boat and pulled us to the mouth of
the cove, where a gut between
.the
rocks, thirty or forty feet in breadth
and two hundred feet in length; con
ducts'to the gut is so
to c, that at somel seasons the fisher
men; areconfined within their cove
for a week at a time,- unable to; get
their boats outside. A heavy_ sea al
so imprisons them, and although there
*as a very light swell yesterday, our
boat-men preferred. waiting for the
pause's of smooth water. The outside
cove, between the headlands - of Sugar
Loaf and Ctickhold's Head, is small
hut exceedingly beautiful, the nearly
vertical straw of red sandstone shOut
ing like walls -to the bight of seve: aal
hundred feet above the water. A her
ring net was set inside of the cove,
and two or three youths in a boat with
a gun, were endeavoring to shoot a
salt-water pigeon. Oar fishermen Were
fine; athletic, honest fellows, and I
should desire no better recreation than
to live a month among them; sharing
their labars so far as I might be able,
and drawing strength from their
healthy and manly natures.
As Governor Darling still continued
ill his lady appointed an hour yester
day afternoon to receive the visits -of
our company, and nearly all of the
passengers called upon her at the
Government-House. Mr. Salter, her
brother and the - Governor's Secretary,
assisted her in doing the honors of
the mansion. She received us iu a
very kind and cordial manner. The
Covernor was formerly stationed at
the Cape of Good Hhopec where
he presided for three years over the
Colony. .
In the evening the grand ball, given
to the officers . of the Telegraph Corn-
pant and their guests, Come off at the
Colonial Buildings. It had only been
determined upon at the dinner on board
the James Adger the evening before,
and the citizens of Si. Johns,ivho had
taken upon, themselves the labor"of
getting up the entertainment, were in
a ferrbent of preparation from morning
till night. Alarge private party which
hadbeen appointed fOr the same ere
.
ning was postponed
. until next week,
and all the resources'of the place call-.
ed niaon to furnished a-display , which
should be eieditiabbi .- to it and to the/
occasion. - They succeeded admirably,
andthe evening no doubt .paSse'd off
with greater-spirit and cordiality 'on'
account of Tits, improimpty cbai deter.
The . Colnniai Buildings were brilliant
ly 'illuminated; . libraries and -offices
were converted into dressing-rooms,
the Supreme Court became a ball
room, andthe Assembly Chamber con
tained more good things (in the way
'of supper) than for a long time before.
At the extremity of the ball-room the
English and American flags wme dis
played,.and the band of the garrison
played loudly fur the dancers. At
supper we: had speeches from MT.
Little; Mr; Cooper and Mr. Field,
with the usual amount-of cheers and
enthusiasm.. • •
• All
,the belles of St. Johns were
present,
.and we had. an opportunity
of verifyingthe reports oftbeir beauty.
There are no fresherand lovelier com
plexions out of England. They retain
the' pure red and white—milk and
roses, say the Germans--of their trans
marine; ancestry, with the bright eyes
and delicate features of our own con
tinent: I was glad to see, - however,
that our young American ladies bore
the test of comparison without injury,
and that it was notmerely the courtesy
due to strangers which attracted the
Newfoundland bachelors toward them.
I have already spoken of the healthy
appearance of the people.. Statistics
show that there is no climate in the
tvoild more conductive to health and
longevity ; but probably, the tiniet,
-unexcitable habits of the Newfound
landers contribute somewhat to this
result. There are, I have been in
formed, nu prevalent diseases. I have
heard of some cases of consumption
among the fishermen, probably occa
sioned by extreme hardship and ex
posure; but fevers and diseases of the
digestive and nervious systems are
rare. No race of people that I have
ever • seen shows more healthy and
vigorous stamina, and the natural
morality which accompanies this con
dition. They are nourished by the .
pure, vital blood, unmixed with any of
those morbid elements which so often
poison the life of our physically and
spiritually intemperate American peo
ple. When shall we learn th'e ill
important truth. that vice is oftener
pathological than inherent in the heart,
aad that a sound body is the surest
safeguard against those social evils
with which we are threatened. 1
Our passengers 'have been investing
-largely in dugs since our arrival.
The Ore Newfoundland breed, how
ever, is about as difficult tube obtained
in St. Johns as elsewhere, owing to its
being continually crossed with export
ed curs of all . kinds. Now and then
you see a .specimen, - whose beauty;
sagacity and noble animal dignity pro
claim him to be of the true blood, but
'such are held in high estimation and
rarely offered for sale. In the out
-pm ts, especially toward Labrador, li .
the genuine breed is more frequently
met with. Of the fifteen or twenty
on board, three or four are very fine
animals. They are all jet,black, long
hailed and web-footed, but of very
different degrees of beauty and intern-,
- • cr
gence. The prices range from two to
ten dollars, accordingto age and quali
ty. We can truly say, two days hence :
"Our hark 'is on the sea."
PROGRESS OF OUTRAGE X MUMS
-The recent murder of Dow—of
which, and the proceedings growing
out of it, Gov. Shannon haS taken ad
vantage to represent she Free State
settlers Of Kansai as itt a state of re
bellion—is by. no 'means :a singular
event in the turbulent history of that
infant Territory and of the " border*
ruffians" who hare taken its affairs in
• •
charge. -•
After the Spring - election of 1555,
seyeral of these personages %%aited , on
GOY. Reeder and threatened to hang
him unleis he would give certificates
of
_election to the Pro-Slavery men
chOsen to the Territorial Legieature
i 7 '
by the voteaof ; the .Atissetkri
His reply was + ;
Preutiernen,. LAO
three of you
. can mqrder me, bat :fon
legion can pot compel .me, to. , do.tharK,
which- my, conscience , does .„ not r yirp- A ,
prove." A. similar attelnyt to. frightets4 .
Gov. Reeder, and to compel him 10.;
recant some statements of his duylno
a visit to theEast,was (diet ward made
by the redoubtable . Stringfellow him-..
self; nor were there - wanting other:
similar occ , trrences, out of which the
telegraph from St. liouis•manufactureau
reports—now that Gov. Reader. halt
been flogged, and now that he hint,
-been murdered. ,
Qll Saturday, April 4 1 MO, a mob ;
of some two hundred 'ruffians *Ms::
Platte County, Missouri, the I :esi(l9ficPL;
of Stringfellow and . Atchison, assom
bled- at Parkville, Missour‘, and
tacked the office of The Lumilars,
newspaper
. .
published there, and whi44..
because it not implicitly aubscribo
to the border ruffin
. operationti,' wit ,
accused of Free State' proclivities. --7
They destroyed the fixtures and threw
the types and presses into` the river.
The editors and publishers,‘J. S. Palk
and Itim.S. Patterson escaped per
sonal violence at the time, but • they
were obliged to fly the State.
Patterson is now in . this vicinity; giv- .
ing lectures on the conspiracY tO Mak.,
Kansas a Slave State. The Peoviiisry:
interest of the inhabitants of par
of which town Mr. Park Was the
founder and principal proprietor,
pe: atively required his temporary ref '
turn thither fur the purpose of execa,- -
ing conveyances and releases and oth
er business acts. No sooner was he
knoWn to be there than the Platte C ...-
ruffians ferociously " threateried
marcli upon the town and . to destro;;
it and him; nor could f:
. the people o
Parkville find any security except in 4
military organization, 'and a Compar '
for mutual defense - similar to That
ly entered into by the people of Le‘V
rence.
On the 30th of April, sixteen days
after the attack upon The "Acntivvar . 9 4 .,.
at a political .gathering et Leareu.-
worth City, after a question had bore.
put by the chair, _Malcialm Clark. u '
leading Pro-Slavery politician, • crioci.:-.
out, " We have the majority."to
a lawyer named McCrea responde.i,-
" It's a lie." upon this Clark strucii. •
McCrea with a. club, whereupon, re- ---
.covering a little from the &tuning el. .
fects of the blow, I(lcCrea drew it re- . •
volver aud.shot Clark dead. McCrea :
fled instantly, hotly pursued by Clark..
friends, who sought to kill him oa tir.v -
spot, but ho ran into the river a - :1::
found protection - under the bank. •
whence he was presently taken by hi t ,
friends and delivered to the comma..-
der of For Leavenworth (Ur ciastods-,,
and protection.. Anywhere the Lao.:
life would nut have been safe. - •
Thus balked in their attempt Dr
murder McCrea, on the 17th of M.
following a number of border raffia
from Missouri crossed the river- at
Leavenworth and seized Mr. Phillii
the law partner of McCrea, and 014 r .•_,
of the must intelligent and respectab'-s
citizens of the place, who . bad gir;.:.l,
additional Offense by contesting trial
election in his district, in consequent-4.
of which a new election had b0r..4
ordered by Guy. Reeder.
by a nunibei of other ruffians:•resit/enz •
in tre to . w.n,•and before the bodl . vLr
the' people of the' place I:3cr time "t : *•
collect and act, they 'carried, -
across . the ricerbii - frientla •
unable to follow, for want of a boat--
B. T
and took him same, - mites inland ó
the Missouri side, when they shayca
half his head, stripped him nal: cadit
tarred and feathered hilt, rode him on:
a rail a mile and a half,
a mock auction, and bid him ..uff to ,
negro at one ilollar. Phillips, how-
„.
ever, effected his . escapo from ',th.s k ,„
villains and returnerro - Learenwor.
where he still remains, in spite of it
the threats offurther violence egaln.:t l
him if he - should not fly the Territm:-
But now mark the difference oleic A,:
procedure in thesotwo cases of
lips and 'McCrea. - attempt' i44.it
ever was made to inflict astypV:r.o...l6
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