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VOLUME 5, '
Ttlii TIDE 01-’ DEATH.
UV,II o N. HO DEII T U. C,H AJILT 0 N . ‘
The titfo roll? on, the tulo tolls on—
Tho nover coapintf tide,
'Xhat dwoops the ploaauros from-vur hearts,
'fbe loved ones from out side—
brings afflictions to ouV lot,
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And anguish and despair,
And hours from youth's unruffled brow
X|ie charms that lingered there.
The tide rolls on : trove after wave,
Its pwolling waters flow :
Before it all is bright and fair,
Behind it all is wo!
Tho infant from its mother’s breast,
Tho gay and blooming brule,
Are swept away and borne along
By that resistless tide.
The tide rolls on : tho soldier's eyo
Grows dlmbonenth its swell ;
Tho scholar shuns tho mystic loro
That he hath lovod so wolt;
Tho monarch puts the crown aside,
And labor's weary slave
Rejoices that his limbs will know
The ijuiet of the grave.
The tide rolls on : like summer brook,
II glideth to the sad ;
But, liko dark winter's ungry tide,
it rushetli to the glad.
From kindly hall and lowly cot.
From battle-field and hoartb,
J? swoops into oblivion's sea
The dwellers on tho earth.
jNll on, thou dark and turbid wave !
Thou ean’st not boar away
The record of the good and brave,
That knowoth not decay ;
Though fierce may rush thy billow’s strife
Though deep thy current be,
St ill faith shall liftlhy beacon high.
And guide us through tho sea.
LOGAN, THE INDIAN CHIEF
One of the most remarkable chiefs of
North American Indians was the celebra
ted Logan, a Cayuga, the acknowledged
head of tho Six-Nations, who flourished in
the decade in 177~-90. In n work on
Indian biography, published a number of
venrs ago at New York, thcro is on ac
count of this individual, and the fate to
which lie was exposed by the encrouching
policy of the whites.
I,ognn was tlie second son of Shikelli
mus, a respectable chief of the Six-Nu
tions, who resided at Shamokjn, (Penn
sylvania,) ns nn agent to transact business
between them and the government of the
state. Losiun’s father was a shrewd and
sober man, not addicted lo drinking, like
most of his countrymen. Indeed, he built
his house on pillars, for security against
the drunken Indians, and used to ensconce
himself.within it on all occasions of riot
mi l outrage. He died in 1719, attended
in his list moments by a good Moravian
bishop.
Logan inherited the talents of his fath
er, but not his prosperity. Nor was this
altogether his own fault, fie took no part
except that of peace making in (lie French
and English war of 1760, and was ever
before and afterwards looked upon as em
phatically the friend of the white man.—
Rut never was kindness rewardedlike this.
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In the spring of 1774, n robbery und,
murder occurred in some of the while set-
Uemeuts of the Ohio, which were charged
to thb Indians, though perhaps not justly ; |
for it is well known that a large number .
of civilized adventurers were traversing
tho.fron'icrs at this time, who sometimes
disguised themselves as indians, and who
thought little more of killing one of that,
people than shooting a buffalo. A party I
of these men, land jobbers and others, un- (
dertook to punish the Outrage in this case
according to their custom, as Mr. Jefferson
expresses it, in a summary way.
Colonel Cresnp, a man infamous for the
many murders he had committed on those
much-injured peoplo, collected n party,and
proceeded .down the Kanawha in quest of
vengeance. Unfortunately a canoe of w'o
meiTnnd children, with one matronly was
seen coming from the opposite shore, un
armed, and not of ull suspecting an attack
from thtf whites:' Crcsap and his party
concealed tliemselves on "the bdhk dC the
rivet, and the'hxomfent the canoe reached
the shore, singled Out their objects, and at
;fciirod e\)efy persOn In it. This
happened to he the ftmilv of Logan.
( : It was hot long after- this that another
ihassabre took place, uhder’slilPmofo eg
graVitted 1 'circilmstandC'S not far front the
htesent site of Wheeling, Virginia— d can-
Biberdble party of the Indians being decoy
fed'by the whites, and all with
the exception ofa little girl. A,mongthose,
tOo. was a brother of Logan pnd a sister,
"irtid the delicate situation op-thd 1 latter in
creased a thousand fold both the barbarity
htf theenme, and the rage of tho survivors
Ifef ihotatnily.
, n;The vengeance of the chmauin was pro
;yoked beyond endurance, hnd he accord
■lhgiy distinguished himself by his dqring
’hhd blOoiiy'exhibits in tlt'o ‘ war,which now
'dribuoli between the' Virglhluhs on the one
‘'didfejKihd'U feombitmtibri mainly of Shaw
■hfeSd ftfmjgrios.uind 1 Delawares, on the pth
er. The former of these tribps Wefo<par
ifiOUliitljf- exdsjlerated by the "unprovoked
murder Of one Of iheir favorite chiefs, Sd-
who had io tho kmdest.munner
undertaken-to escort several white traders
4j>e.;j>jo.*»ds: froyn Ohio to Albany, a
■AMita^Ro,oJi/iifur'y-lWff rndeK. ~ ~
A,decisivejbutlle wiqs jmjgh.i upon the , lUlh
Kanawha, in Wfe4,Yj*giJll»3belWnAte>
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confederates, commanded by Logan, and
1000 Virginia riflemen, constituting the
left wing of an army led by Governor
Dunmore agninst tho Indians of tho north
west. This engagement has by some an
nalists—who, howevor, hnvo rarely given
the particulars of it—been called tho most
obstinate over contested with the natives.
The Virginians lost in this action two
of their colonels, four captains, many sub
ordinate officers, nnd about fifty privntes
killed, besides a muchlarger number woun
ded. The governor himself was not en
gaged in the battle, being at 4hc head of
the right wing of the snnio army—a force
of 1500 men, who were at this time on
their expedition against the towns of some
of the hostile tribes in the northwest.
It was at the treaty ensuing upon this
battle, that the following speech was de
livered, sufficient to render the name’ of
Logan famous for many a century. It
came bv the hand of a messenger, sent (us
Mr. Jefferson states,) that the sincerity of
the negotiation might not be distrusted on
account of the absence of so distinguished
a warrior as himself.
“I appeal to any whilo man to say, if,
lie ever entered Logan’scnbin hungry, and ,
ho gave him not meat; if he came cold nnd
naked, nnd lie clothed him not. During
the course of the last long and bloody war,
Logan remained idle in his cabin, an ad
vocate fur peace. Such was my love for
the whites that my countrymen pointed ns
they passed, and said : “Logan is tho
friend of the white men.” I hud even tho’l
to have lived with you, but for the injuries
of one man. Colonel Cresap, the last
spring, in cold blood, and unprovoked,
murdered all the relations of Logan, not
sparing even my women and children. —
There runs not a drop of my blood in
the veins of any living creature. This
called on me for revenge. 1 have sought
it: I have l.iilcu many : I have glutted my
vengeance. For my country, 1 rejoice at
the beams of peace. But do not harbor a
thought [(lat.mine is the joy of fear. Logan
Dover felt fear. He will not turn his heel
to save his life. Who is there to mourn
for Logan ? Not one I”
, Of this powerful address, Mr Jefferson
says : “I may challenge the whole orations
j of Demosthenes, Cicero, and of more emi
| nent orators, to produce a single passage
superior to the speech of Logan and an
American statesman and scholar scarcely
i less illustrious than the author of this no
, hie eulogium has expressed his readiness
I to subscribe to it. It is of courso unne
'cessary for any humbler authority to on-
I largo upon its merits ; indeed, they require
no exposition —they strike home to the
! soul.
' The melancholy history of Logan must
be dismissed with no relief lo ils gloomy
colors. He was himself a victim lo the
same ferocious cruelty which had already
rendered him a desolate man. Not long
after the treaty, a party of whites murder
ed him os he was returning from Detroit
lo his own country. It grieves us to odd,
that towards tfle close ol his lile, misery
made him intemperate. No security and
no soluco to Logan was the orator’s genius
or the warrior's glory. Such wus the mol
uncholy fato of Logun. “Tho fire water ’
of the while trader cluimed him os a vic
tim. He sank into an ignominious grave!
ANDREW JACKSON’S MOTHER,
The Rev. Dr. Hawks recently deliver
ed a lecturo before the Historical Society
ofN-Y., when lie reiuted the following
story illustrative of female heroism.
“Among those (he observed) who form-1
ed a pari of tho settlement during the rcv- (
ojuliopary war struggle, was a poor wid-,
pw, who, having buried her husband, was,
left in poverty wi|h the task upon her|
hands of raising threosons. Of.these,iho,
two eldest, ere long, fell in tho cause of,
their country, and she struggled on vyith
the youngest as,best she could. After tho |
fall of Charleston'and the disastrous de-1
feat of Col. rturnyd, of the State of Virgin-j
’ja; by Tarfoton, permission was given to,
sbniefour or five'American females tocar
ty necessaries and provisions, and admin- 1
isfer some relief to tho prisoners on board
the prison ship and in tho jails at Charles-,
ton. This-widow.was one 1 of thevolun-j
leohs-upon this errand of ttidrey. She
was'admitted within the city and braving)
the horrors of pestilence, employed herselfj
to the extent of her humble means in nlld-|
v idling I the deplorable sufferings of her<
countrymen. She knew what she had toj
encounter ; but notwithstanding she went
bravely on. Her mission ofhudianity be
ing fulfilled, she left Charleston on her re
turn—but alas! her exposure to the pesti
lential. atmosphqro she had been obliged
to breathe,"bn j planted in her system tho
seeds ofa fataldiseasb j dh'd erd shb reach
ed her home, she sank under an attack
of prison fever, n brave-martyr to the cause
of humanity and patfeiotmnri. The dying
, ino'her, who,now rests in. an unknown
•iravn, thus left her only son] theisole sur
; vivor ofjmrrfamily.tojhe worlds charity;
!bui «jid Abo .- 1 4ffi“F n . |o# death closed
:?% ibiuye.p/itliat.piplmn bpy.,—
T/jkt ioijf becaipe, jPrpsiddn.t of, thjs,.|fge
( wi(iow,;\yas |Jw nno||ii?r
fBAM n WP* , M O 'J.
CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1854.
Of course English tenchors cannot bury
6ne another for the edification of school
boys. It is* obvious that lam not here
recommending any rule of practice for
adoption ; I suggest only a principle. 1
had been used at English schools to strict
ness of rule with laxity of principle; at
Now Unkrant we had strictness of princi
ple with laxity of rule. At New Unkrant
tlfB discipline was (in consequence) beyond
comparison the most reol and complete. —
I had been taught in England to stick by
my slate and dictionary, to keep my col
lar clean on Sunday,/and to learn the col
lect. 1 was taught at New Unkrant to
give fired" play to all my faculties; the lieurt
was stirred, the soul was roused, and satis
fied, no check was set upon the loncy,
and we were abundantly provided with
material for voluntary exercise of thought.
What if we did learn little algebra and
little Greek ! Every one of us was being
humanised in the best way, and (mined
to become a thinker and a student for
himself ihereaftor. Scarcely a boy was
there who Imd not his case of butterflies
1 nnd beetles, dilligenlly chased over hill
and dale, or the reward of much exploring
upon trees, among herbs, nnd under sun
ny bits of rocks, or in the pools under the
mountains. Our fancy worked in all our
play. Wc spent many a summer 9st«£-
noon in craggy dell, acting robber tales
that we created for ourselves. Halfway
up a rock, some of us found a little nook
npproached through thick bushes by nn
obscure path, which had been used once
by a hermit. Wo made a secret of it,
and crentcd it into a robbers’ rendezvous;
a band of gens d’urmes was formed, while
others volunteered to play the part of trav
ellers nnd wander through the wood, which
was a very real wood. We had attacks' res
cues, searches, captures, nnd stored up n
great body of varied incident, until our cn
-1 reer was slopped by the fall of a bold rob
ber down a rock which ho had scaled to
rescue a companion. The rock was then
forbidden, and as it overhung the plucc of
; rendezvous t|ie game was spoiled.
It was npfgfent check on the play ofour
imaginations that the pious Moravians for
bade novels nnd plays as reading, nnd re
stricted us to edifying stories about Easier '
eggs nnd other holy things. Sliakspcarc,
being a play writer was taken away Irom
any English bov by whom l.e was impor
ted, and restored at his departure. Wc
still found, however, many funciful bonks
nnd there was no reason why we should
not contribute to each other all wc knew
concerningSchindcrhannes, Eulenspiegel,
and such worthies. We were encouraged
to tell talcs of wonder to each other. I had
not been long in the school before I com
mitted what would have been in England
the enormous oflenco or filling a copy-book
given to mo for school uses, with a story
about a green huntsman, who went up a
hill through a wood, and heurd a mysler-,
ious shot, nnd of wlmt followed. Brother
Renchling found the book nnd took it to
his desk. Had he been a British school
master of tha same date —woo to my skin!
Brother Renchling smoked a pipe over'
tho crude, childish composition, and in the |
next playtime offered to Tend to the room j
Damon’s story. Straightway he began
to deliver it from the book in German, 1
either much embelished by translation, or
to the most complaisunt of audiences; and
instead of a thrashing, Damon has for do-'
mg what wsa surely a fair self-imposed
exercise, the reward of popular applause. |
Then James Damon had a Rudolf Py-j
thins irha pale young German, called the
Baron, because he nlways wore a fine
black velvet frock. Damon and Pythias
were inseparable; their desks were side by
side, nnd they wont far ahead or loggod
far behind in the school walks, their usual
occupation beiDg tho exchange of wonder
ful stories out of memory till memory was
exhausted, nnd then out of recombinations
j nnd invention. A stray companion attach
ed himself to us sometimes, and then an
other, until nt last we lost our privacy, and
came to be appointed joint story-tellers and
poets laureate in rooms to which we bp
[longed, with a reputation that extended
! over the rooms next above and below us.
1 We had to produce verses on birth-days
j and school feasts, and to tell stories to or
l der. A committee would try its skill in
setting us the hardest wonder-subjects.
In one case, for example, an appointed hero
was to escape from a tower wall three
hundred feet Vbove tho ground nnd three
hundred leet below it, and without doors
nnd windows; ne was to have his clothes
stolen frtm Ida back in daytime, while he
was awake, yet ,; without btjing aware pf
thefi; bd wps to Swim through n river with
out being w.et, and to do other such things.
To Brother Renchling, Who fell in so
pleasantly with pll fho humors, it must
have been amusing enough to hear the de
cisions of the jury that accepted, or refuse
as possible or impossible, the solutions we
worked out for all such problems. A
child’s notion/of the possible and impost
hie in magic, of.wbet i« not fit and proper
for the buisness of the"marvel-monger,
Must- furnish stuff fbf pfeasttnt study to
thoughtful, .jrriW^,
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From Diclcem* floutthold IFord*. 1 *
MORAVIAN SCHOOLS.
(Concluded from our last,)
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>LITICS, LITERATURE, AGRICUL
Then wc had fcslivnls that did us in a j
fbw days lexicon loads of good. We al-i
ways went out in the warm spiing wenlh-j
er at Whitsuntide, for n long —porhaps,i
week long —ramble from hill to hillpndj
town to town: now mounted upon donkeys,
now,rumbling in country.carts, now float- 1
ing down the river in flat bottomed boats,
but always proudest and best pleased when j
wc were n-loot. How intense was our cn- j
joymot of those walks I Wc slept where we |
halted for the night: in barns in kitchens ; j
once in an old ruin—commonly on straw ; j
one night only, in a town hotel on feuthers,!
which wo haled. It vexed us to have to I
tell our friends, who laid gone in other di-1
rcctions, that we had been supping in a 1
common hotel, like milksops, and sleeping |
through ono of our nights on feather beds.
Some amends were made to us on the sue- ]
ceeding night, when it appeared that a j
few ofour parly would be put to sleep in j
a lingo oven, The glorious possibility of j
being fnrgottcn, and of the housewife’s!
coming in the mornings, half sleepy, to
set light to the struw, was a sublime thought
jto dismiss ourselves to sleep upon. Wc
I ulua\ s preferred the hulling place where
: we gut the blackest brend; and wo thought
'a fnrmhouse on a mountain, where the'
; water was almost ns expensive as wine, in
comparably n better hostelry thou the
j Blue Angel, at Wiesbaden. Among tow ns,
I wc liked best the fortresses in which wo
Iliad prisons to see, and in which there,
I were men nl work with iron bails chained j
to their legs; next to the fortresses we j
liked the towns that had grand churches
in thorn;--it delighted us to scramble to the
organ-loft and get a grizzly and good-na
tured organist to play for us, nnd let us
sound with our ow n finger the vox humana,
most beloved of stops. There was one
cathedral, 1 remember, in which them were
hy tito alter twelve apostolical seats, like
huge gill ottomans; we came away pos
sessed with the idea that they were twelve
huge masses of gold—for we knew nothing
of the w orld’s gold-leaf and veneer.
Tlic festival of festivals was Christmas
The joy of it extended over hall the year
three months were happily spent in pre-pa
rn'.ion' for it; three in . recollection of its
glories. We prepared for this festival by
writing lists of articles thul we describe
ns presents within reasonable bounds, of
which we never tell the limit. The school
gave to each of os at Christmas, what Ins
boyish boa r! desired. Such gifts, doubt
less, were set down in the hill sent home;
but, inasmuch ns that bill wns a moderate
one, such extras nobly filled the place ol
w hat wo, in England, cull accomplishments
on the usual terms. There, we were
taught music unri modern !- lungunges and
all such matters, ns things of course. —
We had these gifts to expect, with doses
of sw'eetment and wax tapers, had also our
own Christmas decorations to prepare.
No manager, engaged in mounting a
grand opera or fairy-piece, can be busier
than we were, or coucettud ours- Ives to
be, in preperation for the Christmas festi
val. Pocket-money was diverted from its
usual channels; and, instead of milk, eggs,
chocolute, and cider we bought colored
wax-tapers, colored cardboards, colored
paper, and colored pictures. The pic
tures and papers were sold by the drawing
master. The world was then in a ferment
on the subject of the gallant Poles and we
liked nothing so well for Christmas ornn
mentasgay pictures of Polish lancers dash
ing down into the thick of tho battle. Such
scenes, and the Siege of Antwerp, very
rich in reds and yellows, and, next to
these, pictures of horses, we conceived to
bo at the head of Fine Arts, and sought ac
cordingly; for, during the Christmas week,
our rooms were l to ho picturC-gulleries. —
That was not all. Every desk was to be
illuminated with tho greatest attainable
blaze of little tapers; and there was a riv.
airy among us, each attempting to outsliino
his neighbours. That was not all. We de
voted our leisure to construct works, orect
stables and mangers, cottages, palaces,
and cathedrals of cardboard; cuts out elab
orately ornamented windows, and filled
thom with bits of colored paper oiled to
represent stained glass. Into our stables,
Callages, palncoß and cathedrals, wo pul
tapers, and made the whole schoopl a com
plete maze of tapers, pictures, and trans
parencies, combined with a laseful and
liberal display of sugar-ornaments, apples,
walnuts, and presents generally, among
which, skates and butterfly-cases were the
leading articles. The good people of the
town, whom we saw only then, and at our
school oratories, came round to wonder at
our fairy-land ; a very fairy-land it was to
us, whatever they in wisdom may have
thought about it. For weeks afterwards
we played at marbles for our walnuts, and
■bo great was the glut of them that one suc
cessful speculator, who was master of tho
bottom draw'of a chest, was commonly
supposed to have filled that drawer with
. his winning's; 11 ‘ •
When the year was on the point of de
parture, we sat tip and went to chapel soon
after eleven o’clock. Then, when the
Worthy preacher, on the stroke of midnight,
was balancing a, sentence on his two ex-;
tended' fingers,: the clock would ■ chime,
end our dear friehdi, the triinfipdttf, would
tfaih in with a' sudden crash," and .:S.jjtwh
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'URE, MORALITY, AND FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
if not paid until the expiration of the year $2 00 will be charged
llio discourse in an instnnt without mercy; |
dotvn sat the preacher and up rose the j
people with a stirring hymn, accompanied
by the pealing organ, and the flutes, and i
horns, nnd Gddlcs. \
So we began the year with a stir at our
hearts nnd quickened funcy ; so we car-,
ried it through. The faculties that made
us happiest, and that were given for |
wise purposes in special strength to chil
dren, were called into full play.
We kept all birthdays in a room. If
there were twenty boys and two brothers,
there were*twenty-two birthdays a year to
keep. Each boy recieved on his anniver
sary, little love-tokens from his comrades,
and contributed in return a scrap of pocket
money towards the establishment ofa small
feus', on the next half holiday: a feast of
cakes nnd cider in a country orchard, when
the season favored : or, in cold weather,
of chocolate and cakes at home. The
birthday of cither of the two brothers would
be kept more solemnly. Before he came
down in tho morning, a little table before
his desk would be covered with a snowy
napkin, and upon the napkin would bo
placed our offerings. Always, there was
u pipe with cunningly worked stem nnd
splendid bowl. Every working brother
possessed a cupboard full of such pipes,
nnd was glad to bo so richly stocked, as
any English lady is when she is mistress
ol a wardrobe full of dresses. If it were
not so, we thought so, nnd were never in
terrupted in such thinking. To the pipe,
1 we added any other trifles that we imagin
ed likely to give pleasure, and some arti
'oles contributed by individuals out of their
own possessions. We put a mighty nose
-1 goy in the background; and tricked out
1 with flowers all our sacrifice. Then, when
the good brother came down, of course we
said many a kind thing to him, and had
1 many a kind thing said to us. And in the
we were repaid with perhaps a
sail down the broad river to some celestial
inn among the mountains and vines, where
I we had real Malaga wine instead of cider,
I and cakes only fit to bo eaten with such
nectar.
Very puerile, perhaps, all this was, but
therefore, ns a Dominie would say, most
fit for pueri. I only know that under such
disciplmeour hearts wore softened ; that we
were, not in this instance only, but by the
hundred nnd uniformly, trnctable nnd
loving, while the simple piety of the good
brothers was so well recommended to us,
lliat ulthough they taught no other doctrine
ihati the principles ol Christian uprightness
nnd charily, we learned ns much of truth
from them as could have been communi
cated even by any catechism 1 know—or
don’t know.
I was a little rascal when I first wont
lo New Unkrant, because my puerility
bad been, at cither schools, discouraged
and repressed ; the instincts with which 1
wascna'ed, had been stupidly opposed, I
was diverted into a condition lor which the
Creator never destined me. Tho liberty
of growth encouraged at New Uokranl
may have been extreme* I think it \va6
not, but I will not presume to decide upon
tho point. This only I have a right to
testify, that from the work-days of the
world whenever energies were called for,
troubles grew thick, or temper came to
be tried, I have always looked back with a
strong affection to New Unkrant as the
place in which 1 had learned tho losson
that would help me best.
Yes, that those lessons have been my
best helpers, I am, in my grateful man
hood, sure. When blight was gathering
nbout the budding faculties, those true,
hearted Moravians blew the blight away:
and wretched indeed might have been the
blossom but for them. You pedagogues,
who cut and trim yourchildren intosliape,
you knolv well enough that if you mend
n rosebud with yOur pen-knivod, you de
stroy that upon' which you cut. your
mark. Viator the roots, let tho wind
blow, nnd sun shino, nnd tho rains fall;
remove all that is hurtful, enrich the soil
by which tho plant is fed, but let the laws
of nature take their course. If you know
well, that you must act so by a rosebud
which you wish to rear inlo a healthy
blossom, why do you net with Icon care
in your treatment of tho budding mind and
soul.
exchange contains the following
lively report from the neighborhood of Kan
sas. It was taken on the ground as late
as June 13th:
“Thp country is swprrping with emi
grants. Men on horseback, with cup and
skiUet, Und ham, flout, and coffee, tied on
behind; rind With axes shouldered, are fu
oing westward; while gentleman nnd ladies
urn driving furiously to and fro ip car-,
riages. printors writing, lawyors speak
ing, doctors gallanting ladies and select
ing sites for residences, companies *iith
flags waving, slaking out the vast prairies,
trees fatting, tedts stretching, cabins goibg
•up,-everything nliye, and everything wide
awake. Hurrah fpr Kansas! “Westward
the star of empire takes its way.” h
(KrTho tyeatjipr.i a . ew Qrleajisrop the
29th is said to have been Jho hottest, evor.
known there: the. thetnaoririeier roadhirig
100 ‘tle^. 1 idi J Uii 'skStTe: 1 Eight caAed of
aun-stoke occurred. .qd i : v
NUMBER 23.
AN AFFECTING STORY
The Jersey Blue has the following af
fecting story :
During the latter part of our career in
the Philadelphia post-office, we became
acquainted, among the mass of human be
ings whose facc% appeared daily at the
“General Delivery Window” where wo
were stationed, was an intelligent, happy*
looking Englishman of about forty-five
years of age, who came frequently to in
quire for letters from home. He was a
mqp of pleasing manners, and evidently
been Well educated and accustomed to tho
refinements and elegancies of really good
society. Being a stranger on our shores,
he was glad to avail himself of an oppor
tunity of conversing with us, and spoke
freely of his hoped-for future. He had
come over to Philadelphia, bringing with
him a little son apparently about twelve
yqnr9 of age, to select a residence for the
rest of his family which he had left in
England, and to make all the necessary
nrrrnngements for their comfort when
they should arrive. He had accomplished
this—had taken and furnished a houso in
Philadelphia, and was expecting letters
from his wife, informing him of her sail
ing with their other children in the steam
-1 or City of Manchester.
We handed him a letter—it spoke of
her expeetation to sail in that steamer, and
went away with such glad anticipations os
might be supposed to fill the heart of a
husband and father long absent from the
wife and children whom he soon expected
to meet and embraco again. A few dftys
passed, and another foreign mail arrived
and with it n letter to our friend from his
wife, saying that she had not been able to
make her arrange/nents in time to sail in
the Manchester, but that siie should cer
tainly sail in the Glasgow. Some time
after this, letters came, which she had
mailed at the time of embarking in this
ship, and now he was unspeakably happy
with the almost certainly of seeing his
wife nnd children in a very few days, for
the New York mail steamers generally
make the passage but a few days sooner
than our screw steamers. Soon he, with
many others, commenced going down ev
ery day to Queen street wharf to look for
the incoming steamer.
But who shall speak of the horrors to
come? Day after day did he, with the
many others on that sad walk, go down
to tho wharf and strain his vision to des
cry among the numerous vessels down
the river the anxiously expected steamer.
We saw him when the vessel had been
sonic thirty days out, and were stnrtled at
Ills nppearenoe. The plump happy seem
ing face of one month belore was haggard
ns the face of death, the eyes that so short
ly before we had seen dance in the light
o'f inward joy, were bloodshot, wild and
glaring upon us with a maniac expression.
He walked ntopingly away, but his face
haunted us still. A few duys after this,
a steamer arrived bringing tho report that
the Glascow had been seen off the Baha
mas ; this report brought him to us again.
Oh, how that false hopo had brightened
his countenance I His eyes had regained
their expression of intelligence, and he
clung to this baseless hope as a drowning
man to a straw.
We left the post-office a few days after
this. we inquired concerning
this wretched man, and was told that he
had been for some time in the lunatic asy
lum, a raving maniac. May God reward
him in eternity.
Another Sukvivoh of tiik Revolution.
We have been favored by a friend with
the there resides in Pleasant
Mount Borough, thiscounty, a Mrs. Ben
giman, in her one hundred and tenth year ,
with prospects of living many years lon
ger, oqunlly fair bol'oro her. She occas
ionally spins stocking yarn of the finest
quality, not excelled by that or her yo
gcr neighbors. She is quite
seems to retnin her memory
well, and evinces n clearness
mont of the present, nnd a mind,
linollv impressed vyill* the scenes o>j|
past. '
She had been married three limes;
first two husbands were killed in the RS, 1 ? •
olulion, and her last one, named Bengiman,
died about 30 years ago. At the time she
was employed at West Point copking for
the army, and was present nt of the
battles with Burgoyne, and assisted in
distributing amunition to those of the sol
diers who were nearest destitute. She was
also with the army when it was disbanded
at Newburg, by General Washington; and
at which oQcassion fho General asked her
if she was not afraid of the bullets, when
she replied : “Oh ! the sword never robs
the halter.” —Wayne County Herald.
OCTA singular matrimonial, mistake—
the blushing bride having been married to
the gentleman who acted es “father” ori
the occasion—took place at Wortly recent
ly. - The mistake was rectified by Jhe
clergyman performing the ceremony pyer
again next day. :
o^7”^anqia. Jordan, Esq.» has tyeed nom
inated by t lift Whigs bf Bo'dfprd .county
as' the Whig eandldaf| feir' Statn
: ih that district. V! 1 ’ ; us : >