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D. O. CROUCH,
IIIIVSICIAN Office in Curweusvillc.
May
DR. R. V. WILSON.
nAVIN'U removed his ofTico to the new dwel
ling on Second street, will promptly answer
profasionnl calls as heretofore.
C. KRATZER,
tercliunt and Lumber Dealer, corner of
ill front anil Locust streets, Clearfield.
Dec. 29, 1851.
H. it. lAiuuvr.n. I. test
IAItItIMI.lt & TF.ST, Attorhcys nt Law
J Clearfield, I'a., will nttoUd promptly to Col
uiotn, Lnlid Agencies, &c, in Clearfield,
Centre and Elk coulities. July 30. y
JOHN TROUTMAN
STILL contiuues the business of Chair Milking,
and House, Sign and Ornamental Paintinp, at
the shop formerly occupied by Trouttnnn A Howe,
tt the en't end of Market street, a short divtnuce
west of Liu's Foundry. Juno l.'l, 1 S 05.
DR. C;I.OIU;i: WII.SO respectfully gin
notice that he has resumed tho Practico
Medicine, nnd will promptly attend to all calls in
he profession. Luthcrburg,Ap'l 2, lS.i6.
THOMPSON. HARTSOCK X CO.
I
roll Founders, Curwoimillo. An extensive
assortment of Custiiiiis made to onli-ro
Dec. i'll, 1S4I.
L. JACKSOCRANS
ATTORNEY AT LAW, office adjoinine lis
residence on Second t-treet, l'lei ,U, la.
June 1. 18o4.
nTp7Tiio.iPsoN,
Pliyslel.in. may be found either at his office
nt Scofield's hotel, Cut wcusvillc, when no
professionally abscut. Dec. 211, 1351
FREDERICK ARNOLD,
Merchant and Produce Dealer, Luthcrs
burg Clonilield countv, I'a.
April 17, 1852.
KLLIS IRWIN & SONS,
VT the month of Lick Run, fire miles from
C'learOcld, MERCHANTS, and extensive
Manufacturer of Lumber,
July 2IS, 1852.
J. I). THOMPSON,
Rlarkitmith, Wagons, Buggies, Ac, Ac, ironed
on short notice, and the very best style, lit his
)hl stand in tho borough of Curwensvilie.
Dcc'J, 1853.
Bit. M. WOODS, having chunged his loca
tion from Curwensvilie to Clearfield, res.
peetfully offers his professional services to the
citiiens of the latter place and viciuitr.
Residence ou Second street, opposi'i t. it of
J. Craus, Esq. my " V56.
WJ. P. CIIAMUKIIS.
(
lARRIES on Chainnnking, AV b eel w right, nnd
J house nnd Sii?n naintinirut Curwensvilie.
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Jan. 5, 1858.
IR. W. M. CAMPHKI.L bavins located as
J Kylcrtown, tcuders Ins professional service, 1
lo the citizens of Morns and the adjoining town
ships. He will always be found nt the residence
of Thus. Kylcr, w hen not professionally engaged.
May 21, 1858.
A. T. SCIIKYVKIJ,
HAS resumed tho practice of medicine, and
will attend promptly to all culls in bis pro
fession, by day or night. Residence opposite the
Melhodi.t church. May 4, IS58. A moe.
JOSEPH rETKUsi
Justice the Peace, Curwfnsvilc, Pcnna.
Uoh aoor castor .Moutelius X Ien tyclc II
Store. All business entrusted to him wil 1 1
be promptly attended to, and all instruments o f i
writing done on short notice.
.xarcn, 31, 1858,-y.
P. W. BARRETT,
M KRC HA NT, PRODUCK AND LUMBER
. HEALER, AND JUSTICE Of THE
EACR, Luthersburg, Clearfield Co., I'a.
J. L. CUTTLE,
Vltoi-nry at Law and Land Apent, uflio
djoiniug his residence, on Market (tree
Clearfield. March 3, 1853.
A. B SHAW,
RETAILLR of Foreign and Doinertie Merch
andiie, Shawsville, Clearfield county, I'a.
Klmwsvillc, August 15, 1S55. '
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CniLnaaif. Please procure circulars gratis of
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"CUBA HOTEL, JAYNESVILLE, FA.
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up for a house of entertainment, is now open
for the accommodation of the public Travelers
will find this a convenient house.
May 19, 1858, JOHN JORDAN.
LIQUOR.
BRANDIES, Wines, Whiskey, Gin, Ao., of the
very best quality for sale by
THOS. ROBINS.
Jane 30, IR.id.
'or tkr JtrptiblicHn."
TIMP. TO III.AMK
IW W. W. fimw.
Time is erer onward marching,
Chasing all that's in bii course;
Mirth and sorrow flee befors him,
Often knowing not their source.
We rejoice in sunny gladness,
Mingled too with gaudy prlJe;
Time now grasps our dreams of pleasure,
Next to launch them on his tide,
Vonth claims the present as its own,
Pportl ng 'mid life's passing mirth;
Vet to learn that time in silence,
Brings a brighter clime th an ear th.
Fruits and flowers lose their fragranco,
Verdant forests all their hue;
Frigid pearls of endless nnraber,
Wither all that's fuir to view.
Distant worlds beyond our vision,
All must full before his sway,
Liko the mingling rays and shadows
Of an evening past away.
Crnel are his daily actions;
Wit and loro are favoured not
Guilt and shame, alike with goodness,
Are by Time with ardor sought.
Surely Time is aught but friendly,
For intrigueing as he does:
Hymen's dupes think all is pleasuro,
When 'tis but sunset glows.
But we '11 take the given lesson
From the richest fount of peace;
Moil no more in clouded sorrow,
But desponding thoughts release.
JHiserlhiicous.
Character of Chief Justice Gibson.
nv nov. irii. a. roRTin.
Extract from hit r.Jogi on Judge Gib
ton, p. 107.
His manner of reaching hi conclusions,
nnd writing his opinions was well known.
It is believed he took little, part in the
consultations of the bench, communica
ting liia views usually in clioi t, detached
sentences, sometimes not at all, but when
he did, hitting the exact point, and dif
fusing additional light on tho principles
in question. When appointed to deliver
t! e opinion, he generally mado an exam
ination of the authorities, and sometimes,
it must be admitted, too brief nn examina
tion. His habit was then to think chiefly
without the aid of his pen, nnd out of the
roach of books. He did this in his cham
her, on the street, at the table, sometimes
on the bench during the progress of other
causes, and not unfrccjuently in tho pub
lic room of his hotel. Persons who ap
proached him on these occasions, were
struck with, nnd sometimes offended at
his abstract and careless air. To those
who knew what he wasdoing, he frequent
ly complained of his difficulty in deter
mining on what principles to pitch the
cause- without mentioning it particularly,
lie did all the labor of thought before ho
commenced to write, and ho never wrote
until he got ready. Before ho began the
very sentences were formed in his mind,
and when he assumed the pen, he rarely
laid it aside until tho opinion had been
completed. The bold, beautiful, and legi
ble character of his hand-writing, audits
freedom from erasure, induced those who
road his opinions in manncript, to suppose
that he transcribed them, but this was
rarely, if ever done. ho had too little
time, and too much horror of tho pen to
attempt it. Such a method of writing
undoubtedly possessed great advantages.
It gave his line logical powers full play.
It contributed to that condensation which
forms one of the distinctive features ofhis
writings. It enabled him to proceed with
directness right to his conclusion, and to
make every thing point to it from the firnt
sentence to tho last. No repetition oc
curs. We see each idea but onco, and
need not count on even seeing & shadow
of it, more than onco. Having always
something to do ahead, tho pen spent no
more timo on the thought in hand than
was necessary to complete it. Ho knew
precisely where he had to end before be
gining, and ho avoided all difficulties of
those writers who began to write when
they begin to think and sometimes before
it, and who produce works resembling,
for the most part, tho patch-work embla
zoned on the best beds of German house
keepers, and giving evidence not to bo
mistaken, of the exact places at which they
have been joined, and of tho diverse and
heterogeneous materials out of 'vhich they
have been composed. Tho most casual
render of Judgo Gibson's opinions must
have observed how seldom he professes to
give any history of tho decided cas cs, and
how invariable ho puts the decision upon
some leading principle of tho law, refor
ing but to a few cases Cor tho purjioso of
illustration, or to show their exception to
the general rule, and how all this is done
with the ease and skill which betoken the
hand of a master.
As a jurist, Judge Gibson was ardently
attached to tho principles of the common
law. His love of them beams in hit wri
tings as affection will beam in tho human
countenance. Ho not only looked on
them with the admiration of an artist, as
symmetrical and beautiful parts of a great
fabric, but ho regarded them as the best
rampart which the common sense of man
kinn has yet thrown up against the des-
"F.Xf'Kl.SIOH.
CLEAKFIKU), PA. WKDNESIMY SKITE.MUKU II, 185B.
lri'L!!? J'll
1 1 , .. '- "" "' "'in-
... ...... i,,m lump in, i-ver iimie lor
r. i.i u ii ..(eiiw.lll'Mi hi Ull-
: wl... 1. .... . it.. ..... , . . I
jn.iiiiwii i.,,iiiiv ii iih; uoeuiues OI I DC respect. Ill least
common law. A part of tho language Vlueed to prn.-tic'i
which ho applied to Judgo Kennedy .' uliiv ..(' i lm ..v
' ? , 1-7 mu-rn.i -.1 nun-;
HO I f.-ll iLa t.'lnn li. ni.ini, ..I I.I j l
.v ..... ... -"'
ai.-ivrs, uu wii,i iroiiaiuy in.'scnuiii lutiHi.'ii
without floeinu tliat tliu woihl wonlil rv
loj'nijo the portrait, "llo i;lunc to the
! common law os n chiUl to its nm-st find
how much ho drew l'roni it, tuny ho soc-n
I in his oppinons, which, by th it- oliihoram
I rninutonos!!, romind in of tho ovci liiliiess
of Coke." Tho Chief JuHtic fl win alio nn
'ndmirer of our IVnnsvlvni.in ovst.-m of
; law, in which tho Piibstan t ial principals of
equity. reapply
i comn.onlaw. ho wonder ,.s tl.nl in nny lost in tr g, by a remark of ditlor-
case they Rhould have heen sejinrated. 'lolent kind, to v.enr away its clients both on
nppomt one judgo o exeeute ho law, aud ,he xponker nnd the amlienoo. Ho was a
'another to do equity, seems like creatiiiL'ln.in,t miii i i.u. r
loiio man all head, and another all heart.
,, . . .. .. .
i lo executo the law upon a suitor s person
or property, and tool ow him in the mean-1
ti.no in n.,,,l t cv,.-, e v.,;. r,. .
tiino to apply to a Court of Equity for re
i lief, or to turn him out of the hitter be-
2"!? "I U' W I
.iw.iMiiRO iii.ii m- inn nn,r, iiu ,iuni;nuv :
Ignlduty on the samo subject, to press on There was Pomethins iu his maEnanimitv,
(the samo man, at tho same time.- a in his forgiving temper, in his kindlv char
, state of things which the mass ot mankind I ity. i,, his canaeitv to m.nroointe ovcl-
l.uill nrtwitf nm Afclmil ,1' i .. .. 1. 1 . .1 1
1 'V' -'-'. .
man ahould rival tho uattiarchs in the
tertnofhU natural life. From tho day
when Lord Erskine uttered his quiet hu
mor on the subject, down to the publica
tion of Bleak House, the severest sarcasms
on this state of things have been fiunij in-
i to the faces of lawyers, without the possi
bility of turning the point of ono of them,
i The Pennsylvania system of law is among
i the few that have been measurably free
from tho reptoaches which tho learned
I and the unlearned have thus conspired to
I hull at the whole science. It is natural
that tho mind of a man liko Judge Gib.
son, who had done so much to advanco
this sytom, and who had witnessed the
strides which tho lonI world seems mak
ing towards it, should f-el somo pride in
perpetuateing it. With this spirit, it is
consistent, that when our legislature adopt
ed certain equity remedies, nnd provided
for separate equity proceedings, ho bhould
endeavor to carry them fully into practice.
An opposite course, if ho could have pur
sued it, would havo caused disquiet and
disaster. Besides this, whatever he might
have thought, he was not a man to set
himself up against what seemed to bo n
useful reform. He had seen delects which
some of these remedies seemed to supply,
and he applied tl em in the very spirit m
which the profession and the legislature
had called them into being. So success
fully was this done, that with all his at
tachment to the common law, it has not
been unfrequently to hear from those
most devoted to the equity system, the ad
mission that he would have mado a better
chancellor than he was a judgo. It is per
tinent to remark here that he had no un
due fondness for civil law. His mind was
too liberal for the mind of ajscholar is al
ways liberal in its appreciation of learn
inc not to admiro tho beauty, wisdom
and simplicity of many parts of that sys-
'teni, and its ndaption to the state of socie
ty in which it has grown up ; but it, must
I be admitted that ho ever and anon cast a
suspicious glance on the effort of Judge
Story, and the writers of that school, to
infuse its principles into our cherished
common law. He could not have denied
! that many of the branches of our law have
been enriched in this mode, but ho was
'alive to tho danger of pushing such im
provements too far. I need refer the
reader only to the opinions delivered in
Lyle vs. Richards, 9 S. A. K. ."22, and in
Logan vs. Mason, G V. & S. 0, in proof of
the existence of these views in the mind
of their author.
j In summing up the personal character
of Judge Gibson, I do not tnenn to present
h: in as faultless, for then ho had been
more than human. Doubtless he had his
defects ; whatever they may have been, I
do not propose to discuss them. To do
bo, would lie to imitate- the conduct of
some visitor to a gallery of art, who bhould
employ himself in tracing rough images
in the dust of the floor, and not in con
templating tho beautiful conceptions of
genius on all sides around him and above
, bim. I speak rather of what Judge Gib
jBon was, than of what he was not. His
case has been removed to that great ap
; pellate Court which, while it administers
j perfect justice, is governed also by perfect
mercy. Jurisdiction having vested there,
.on tho soundest principles of jurispru
dence no allegation should bo permitted
: against him hero. He certainly had small
'fault, which to small eyes were large
I enough to shut out a perception of his
great qualities, ma ctespisea tho aniso
and the cumin, and necessarily lost the re
spect of those valuable momliers of the
of the State, outside and inside of the bar,
who do the least important things first,
and tho most important lost. Frank gen
erous and confiding, he spoke on the ben .ih
and elsewhere, of persons and of things,
with that impulse which none but an hon
est heart can know ; nnd in doing so, he
occasionally lost in dignity as much as he
.1 . v .
snillim 111 Hio .iuv-... v.. (jonigj v.i .i c.v
I.;. ,ni;n.M. ih;....n ,....
ins in in-.,, nuy.
r, he had preserved'
Court would havo I
lace, and if he had
If. as a presidina officer.
order more rigidly, his Court
been a moro solemn place,
attended more directly to what was pass-:
inn before him. tho business would have
moro efficiently despatched. But enough
ofwhnthe was not. The qualities which
he possessed were striking and peculiar.
That which was most impressed those who
, u: v. n, j;-.. L!,i
KllfJW llllll Ut n u, nits wn? VAivr'tiiig rvilMt-
ness of his heart. Tho knowledgo of this,
was a key to his character. Any news-
paper ruuor ti ,-.ti.i,i, u umii.i nj iiuu
i ' . - - t i ...... ..i, l j
'--..n.i.lithnv,,.,,,,,,,,., hi,,,
nun mo pi-oiouinic.st oonli'li'iKo, not
y
that he lind forgiven, hut actually ft
OI-L'.U-
tell, SUV OallllllllV how
. .
evcr mm, In that
no man could huvo re
iiloii. dinvilv, tho inor
r"ttiiliu'l.t. Jlr. ,-h.ish
., fi u t , ! , 1 1, . ,-ni.,i ..,,:.
.1! . I '
.11-i.M. in every l-i-liitioii.
pnhlic nnd in i-
vato, I
display
( lint charitv of tin; hi-ai t
which tnakm n man a jti ntleiuan, dospit,,
of the en: ly nssociuiiuiH n1l, Vt. f
milliners.
In tho livi'lii-st. sallies of his wil ,
find inniiiir the ht-t n.-i.s on whi.-h I.cik.v
uleiieo i'.ei Is ii ivifr.iiniiijr inflnpn.-e
ho never nllo'rod liiiiKolf to tronch in the
sensihilities of others. When hesaidnnv-
tlmi Irotn the bene h iimiriuiidiiiiir ..v..ii.
tv, as In
soin.-tinies did when worn down
... ... mm n-nae ui lire i';uii.
and when a harsh observation was niado
'of ono w hom he
able to relievo ts e feeu bVVoin out
V T . J l'Ointnif: out
ino i-Au-uHi "men nnd oscapea ineai-ise.s
tentlOll lit' OtllPlo 'Vn tlm nn.w. ..i-U'
P-ially to those wlmVei; c,XVo
MV-1I1H1 t ill nrp nlr.., I ... .. ....... I'm.
tt t iO liinr II I'n f s..ii it-rtu liifrtis.n s-utlrti! n
I, .. . . . J. ...
ifiicc 01 any kind. 111 unv i
y kind, iu unv form, which des
pite his apparent unconcern of manner and
sluggishness of body, elicited and compell
ed affection. Thsr'e was a true fire of the
heart which glowed unceasingly ami cast
even the splendor of his intellect into the
shade. No man ever more cordially des
pised a cold, calculating, spider-like lawyer
weaving day by day his miserable toils, giv
ing up nothing, retaining his grasp on every
victim of chance and folly, employing his
powers only for the production of misery,
the pructiso of oppression. No man evi-r
spoke into being with so little effort, ar
dent and permanent friendship. He sat
on the Supremo Bench with twenty -six
different Judges, none of whom, owed
their position to his influence, mid almost
all of whom, on their acccsssion, werecom
pamtive strangers to him, and yet it um
bo doubted whether the purest an 1 hap
piest household ever lived in more absolute
harmony than he enjoyed iu his personal
intercourse with his associate, in regard
to any body of men long associated to
gether, this fact might be worth repeating;
but in that of so many independent men,
of strong intellects and wills, employed to
gether in the daily examination of exciting
questions, where conscience and duty re
quire each man to stand by bis individual
judgement, tho case is somewhat remarkable-.
His intellectual acquirements were
great, and ho had a right to bo proud of
them, but that wouldbe a poor monument
to his fame, which should omit to mention
those highcrand tinerqualitiesof the heart,
which placed him so far above the level of
ordinary men.
It is almost unnecessary to speak ol
him as a man of integrity. I verily be
lieve that the mere force of habit in seek
ing the truth nnd finding reasons to sup
port it, would have driven him to the right,
agninst every corrupt influence that could
have been brought to bear upon him.
But tho truth is, no idea opposite to that
of his utmost purity as a judge, was ever
associated with hisiiame. There was some
thing in his character, conversation, man
ner and appearance, which wouldhavc
crushed such a thought in the bud. A man
who had approached him for the purpose
f corrupting him, would have been as
much disposed to fall down before him in
an net of homage, as to have attempted to
carry out his purpose. After a lifetime de
voted to tho service of his country, it is
surely no mean praise of a public man,
that declarations liko these can be utter
ed, with a certainty that they will be cred
ited, not less by tho suitors against whom '
he decided, than by tho profession who i
practised before him, and the community j
w hoso laws he enforced. I
The levees of the Lower Mississippi.
Vevt. to tbrt vellmv fore,', the n-rv.-is-so
is tho most dreaded enemy of the inhabi-
tnl u-hn Hn-f.ll on thr. I mvel- Miwwuinl.i
nnd tho large streams which empty into
it Tho region around tho mouth of the
Mississippi, even for several hundred miles
above tho Delta proper, is a hair lormect
piece of country, discovered and settled by
m.n v,f.rnr it i,ari v. ,..i .,r..
plete for Nature's workshop. It is anal-
luvian region, degenerating from a rich
low bottom, in the vicinitv of the Red riv -
er mouth, into the mass of ooze, halfwa-
terand half mud, which forms tho tongue
stretching out into the Gulf.
The ff-otind on which thoritvof New
uiog.ouiui on wik.1i tnecitj 01 -ew
(h-leans stands is so thorough v saturated
with rater that a hole dug0 few feet bo -
KStho JKf
Orleans are above ground, l ie cothns,
instead of being deposited in tho earth
are simply laid on t. and protected by
vaults, had-tho discovery of this contl
nent been rlelaved a few centuries, there-
gion around nnd above New Orleans would
, , -
; py successive annual deposites from the
I i;....
n ( , .mi .i lie nil ni .in- iioiiiiu.i ,..,u lini,
L;u.nn.. f m..l. tl...iv.. A a.
Mucncy 01 compmciy-iornieu lana. as
it is, the magnificent sugar and cotton
plantations, which, extending backward
for miles, are several feet below tho level
of the river at hich water, nnd rwitiire to
' be protected bv artificial levees, running
along both banks. These levees, or system
of leveos, are built by the planters! each
' of whom constructs and repairs the por-
tion in front of his own estate Their en-
,:,..i. i. .u... i m, .1,,.:.
III 13 lt'l.l.l in ul'Kllb 1,.(V Ilium, i.ii.i iiieil
cost has been about six millions dollars,
Tho levee of one planter in Mississippi waa
v. . l .4 - - . .r cor. oio .1 ..i
uuiii m i.n .j"'iii-e 'i g..w,.(-T, it..., uui-r
m:v.si:i;ik
I'hintnti'.'iis havi' l.i'i'n .,;.
Viifi nt ov.'ii a e.'i.
It ii stil):ltl'-J h,)t in tin,
i-i;ill;l 111' HI" tluro II;-,. 11, IM III
of d'ftili' alluvial n.;!, hi,h J
t' -l tV.nii tin' '
it.it- .'Lu-
r)iii.ri' mil
v hit'li-
watot- in. n k. and i in i r tu U j.i- tod ly
III. -hi- finlmiiLiiii-nl, flio 1- i. i- iii-ii :on
orally Hindi- simply (-artl,. t!i-.n..i in
mini.. j.la-(H thi-v nro s!i-.-iitli.',i.-d l.v
locks and pilos. 1'niinlly tli.-y hit; cflii -i.-I," I
harrioi-s auaint tho prirre-n of tho wnvi-s,
I H 1 1 c 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 ir .. v t ! nn. l, ,,.,! I I,...- n,.i
nway in plm-es l,y ihi; wn-h'mj.'ol' tln wh-
t-r. nniloi nun. .-.I nii'l iirokeii, and then ilio
i-ireiiinsorilied Ktr.-nni rnshc-; tln-onh the
iap in nn iiTei-!il.!o torrent ; upreadiiu'
over the. adjacent country, ik-huliiu !-kir."
tatimis sw eeping av:.v ii.--.ro .-nhins '; an I
a, d ho,: o s o h .Vi,,! '
i l'i Viu . hi tl, e i 'v of O.loans
I,,.,,, subtnerjod 1 v tin c, e I o,-hi 17M
. ,. ,x . 1"l'"J
ti
'cent flnnrl tho MioBvi..; ..i(..i.,.i bi.ri-..
nil . 1 1 :i . is i. nn.i ix li at. i in r-
L n 1 " J , T lMJ'
nnd the consequenco isntmniboi-o: erovas-
in Louisiana and ilisuissippi, the most
l.l.l I . r...l.:.i. ".. it i ..
! Lab. eV the li.r tl.and
the latter twenty miles h'iov. New Urli-fins.
lars lias been caused bv the breaks, but
the city of New Orleans has not been readi
ed by the water on account of t ho unusual
precautions tuken since 1?I'I to strength
en the embankments which protect it.
We ha-e before us a w.jod-cnt picture of
the Belle crevasse, issued by the New Or
leans rienyune. The gap is two hundred
and fifty feet wide, nnd twenty-five feet
deep. Through it a blanch from the "Fath
er of Floods" is rushing with fenrful rapid
lty, covering the tidio.nina fi -l is. nsinj
around the wa
ji ii ;uji ii'iu?i-, iiie.i
even threatening the plantation mansion.
On the sides are the tongues of the sun
dered levee, a few inches above the level
of the river, and surrounded by a waste of
waters. Nevertheless, thev are thronged
with people who have c.-.nie from the city
to behold the 'ruly-grand though terrible
spectacle.
IVof tick; on La jsr B rr.
I'oestieks has Wn frying to r.Herttiin
by experiment whether or not Lager iv in
toxicating' and b'-lmv is given, in bis own
language, the result :
"The first glass seemc-d like sour strong
beer with a g 'od deal of water in it ; tin
next was not quite so sour, and the next
one tasted ns though the original beer had
been stronger, and they did not dilute it
so much. Then we rested, and n-i I had
drank three pints already, I wa-willing to
quit, but JAunphnol Assured mo 'Lager
isn't intoxicating,' so after a littli settling
down I thought 1 could hold another glass
and ordered it ; it was brought by a young
lady wh i seemed to have four eye and
two noses pointing in different directions,
which unusual effect w.w undoubtedly
caused by smoke.
Then 1 thought I'd have a glass of Lig
er (a liquid known to most ol the inhabi
tants of Manhattan.) It was broiiL'ht bv
a girl so pretty that I immediately ordered j
two more, and kept her waiting for the j
ehango each time so 1 could look at her
then we had some cheese full of holes : j
then we took some Lager to fill up tie-,
holes ; and then we took a sausage; l.uii- j
phool suggested that the sau-ago was made
of dog ; so we had some I. ig 'i- to drown I
the dog ; then we had some sardines ; Rim-
phool said it wo-.fld be cruel to keep the j
fishes w ithout a supply of liquid element,
so we had some L igcr for the lUho- to sn im j
in ; th.-n we had some brcUels : Dampho.il I
said that the hrctzi-1 were m crooked '
that they would not park eloe, so ive had
some Lager to fill up the chinks; then I
m do a speech to the coinpiuv ; short but
to tho point, and received
plauso it ' was addrcs-od to
with ap-
the whole
crowd nnd was to this effect ; 'Gc:itle:nen.
let's have some Liger !
Bv this time my fii.-nd h id by snme
mysterious process become iuy-,teriou.-ly
multiplied, and tl ere were fifty D.imphools
and they all excepted the invitation, and
we had the Liger ; there were, forty glasses,
and trying to make the circuit of the room
"n.1 ouaU my r' ,t0 ,pvel'y fj of theirs,
I I lcll OVCl' a t!lle which Very lllljicrt inPllt-
ly stepped before mo, and a I went down
I knocked a small Dutchman into the cor-
; u'e ' over tllfin ' pariia.lv
,
e" ' got P stet.pel on his stomach.
then I demanded an instant apoioey, then
l caiiea icr six glasses ot j.ager. ana tnojea. ions us, -mai oromweils remains
gul brought them in one hand, but broke , were privately tnterrod in i small pad
, th,-ee: thon 1 tn(l ,0 dnck j3."1 of ,the re: j ck' . nf.af "olborn, . on the spot where
maimng three all at once, and in so doing 1 the obelisk in Red Lion Squire stood."
took an involutrtry show-erhPth, then I tried
, ' I'ft-V '"r., lfi w .'" e "'7 eW ?nd ,t,e
'tainago Willi a (lime Hll'l a spnnisn quir-
.,,, .,, ,,,'. .-'
l' " ,-"-... ... -v. :rr.,v.uf ..t. .....
, change in gold dollars, there seemed to be
, ould have thought the man drunk."
i
! A Strvncf.r's Impression ok the Hot st
or CoMoN.-If one .lesires to get a most
unfavorable view of the members of Houe
of Commons, and become impreawl with
,
tho t'toa that they aro a most mediocre
nay, below mediocre, set of men in their,
' r.eon,.l Bririeavunee b l,M r.nlv (r. tii
i 1. 1 - -j
nivh n n I be Rtrnnueis' or f.r.r.n.VfW nil.
""""""" B"""6'-" rl'""J trt'"
levy, and have an opportunity of correcting
his impression by closer observation. Seen
thence, Lord Palmcrston has the look of a
vulgar, unintellectual, frowzy sort of indi-
vidual, with vanity enough to dye his,
whiskers after ho had become old enough
to give it up. Cornwall Lewis wilh hissharp
visage and long no;e, looks fit for a villain
in an opera or a play a veritable cut -
fW. lff.n wr.tiM r,-ii.tfn Kia rnrtnni I.,.
.""..-. - - ' ... ... v. 'j
giving him the second cut t hroat business ,
to do. J-ont .lohn looks only ht tor a pos-
,nn
tillion. The others on his side of the'
TERMS $1 25 f.cr Annum
OL III. NO
ir.ii..-
lik'? Vfcv
mi l in.-
I'uoil sort of reciK'C-
tL
liintii.'s and m-iiooi ities. uitlil.ei.i
and theiea dandilb-d young lordling scnt-t-ti'd
in t.. Ihivor tliu dish.' Bright 1 havo
ii it f. . n. On th? other side sat Ola.j
st'ine, a ciy coinmon-placrt sort of a gen-tb-miiii
us seen Iroui I he gallery (thou;.di h-
impi-.ved on closer inspection next day in
'.he British Museum ) Sir .lames Graham,
who seemed Ihence a very respectable !hi
iii'jr like personal'.. ; Lord Stniilv, who has
all, tost an insiirniticatit look, inherited hi.
lather's short perked up none, wi:h other
features ou n somewhat dirnimitivennd nn
impressive scale ; Bulwer Lytton so closely
reseiiiVled l.i-i portraits, that I recognized
him immediately, though iu the dim dis
tuMt li li 1 1 1 he looked a rminih'd second
hand edition ol himself: ir John Faking
tun is a raih'-r dandified little gentleman,
and Mr. Wi.lpolo d.-e-j not strike the be-h-ihler
a-, a remarkable man. Disraeli,
aionc out (jI the v. l.o!.. House, loomed out
of the irusi as a man lit to lead. His head
is a study. There is somethini! wonderful
in it. All the lines of hi face are hard
nnd deeply drawn, ns if the face had bean
exercised like tho thews of ritt r.thletn'a
leg or back. Tho brain Is massed Up in
front like a tower, nw one feels nt ho sits
there, impassive and seeming scircely to
heed what is going on, as if one ga,ed on a
lion or ti?er :: repose, who could use teeth
or chuvs terribly if occasion came. You
would scarcely pronounce his fuco that of
a good man -for it is sinister nnd forbid
ding w it hall but there is on it the ciear
stamp of intellect, and of strong will to put
' t lint intellect to use. xthdnn tvrctpon'att
Montrcd GjziIL:
CROMWr I.L--1 liETO V - -B R A DS H A W.
On the l.itn dav of January. 100). Oli-
. ve- (Vnmwell 1 i-..t ..,,, i-Vi. i. -
- ,,. ' ' w.,v vni'inuan, VU-.J
. uriiwn 10 IV burn on hsw. .,..,
and, oem:: taken lrom then- cod m lum.,.
ed at the several angle-.; afterwards their
heads were cut ol!'. mid re t on Westmin
ster Hall. The following is a transcript
IVo.'ii a MS. diary of Lthvard Smthill, a
S; :.!.; ii merchant of those times, nnd pre
iei ved by hi do ;cendftnts ;
"The 3i'ih of January, being that d.'.v
twelve yea i-3 from the death of the king,
the odioti3 carca .aea of Oliver Cromwoll,
Mitj'-r Gen' nil Ireton and Brndshaw, were
drawn in sledges to Tyburn, where they
wern hanged by ilie neck, from morning
till four o'clock in the afternoon. Crom
well in i green scare-cloth, very fresh,
embalmed; Ir-.-ton having been buried,
Lung like a dried rat. Bradshaw in h i
winding-sheet, the ret; very perfect, inas
much thnt I knew his hicc, when the.
hangman, after cutting hi. head oil', held
it up ; ofhis toes, I had five or six in my
hand, which tho 'prentiow had cut off.
Their bodies were throw into a hole under
tho grdlows, in their reare-cloth nnd sheet.
Cromwell had eight cuts, Ireton four, lie
inj .seare cloth'i, and their heads wore sot
up on '.liesotith end cf W'cstinin.-ter Hall "
In a marginal note i3 a drawing of Tvburn
, (by the s.i.no h.md, ) with the bodies hang
ling, and tho g;.ie nn h-rneath. Crom
j well is represrnte h';c ;1 mutnmy, swath
; ed tip with no visible leg or feet. To
j this niemor.m Jum is added :
i Ireton, di-l the :.'ith of NovcmW.
; I'm I."
"Cromwell, the 3d ol'Semtember, loW."
"Br.i'ldrnv, :; 1st of October, 105'J."
j In tin same diary are the following ar
ticles :
i "January Sth, l'itil, Sir A. Hazelrig,
; that choleric rebel, died in the Tower.
The 17th Venner and his accomplices
hanged he and another in coleman-
te.-t ; the other seventeen in other nl
"I the city. Sept. 3d. 16-i
glorious, and v.-t fatal day.
-', letomwelt
lied tha', long
speaker ol tho Long 1'arliament, William
Lenthall, very penitently." Yet accord
ing to the accounts, the body of Oliver has
ben dilli-ivnily disposed of. Some my
that it was 3-.tnk in tin Thames: other.
I hat it w as hurried in Norse byficld. But
the mo-t romantic story is, that this corps
was privately taken to Windsor, and put
iu King Chavlo's coffin ; while the body of
tlie King was buried in rtate for Oliver's,
and conse-piently, afterwards hanged at
Tyburn, and tho bcid exposed at "West
minitcril.il!. These idle reports might
nri-e. from the necessity there was of in
terring the Protestor's body before tho fu-
ner.il rites were performed ; for it appears
to havo been deno ited in WustminsUr
Abbey, in the place now occupied by the
tomb of the Duko of Buckingham. ' The
engraved plate on hi coffin is still in bo
ing. Sir John Brestwick, in his I'ospubli-
Reading. Somo people will get mre-
t1V ft t 1(1 an I, C(l( 'o KAnrl i n A . I. n n ...t. 11,
n , ui0 wm
,n a whole dav of list ess. ndo nnt. Hnin.
- 'i; ' Y V 7"'"
; " .J"' LuSi '
IjJjM-P-" with thein,
fi,-n,n;nni..Mi ;n.. t;. ; e ' J
!1 '" 7 ? ; f
? " .t" 1?avCS
T fl 1 ei'ry
L'Bp.e " tn' ,"1 ,ho,r ?i every
7 1 f . . , 1 ,' ', '!"
m in n nv leiif ia a haw n..i r, d
rnrl i i 'n, ,Vj j
Pr10 'l,afl IC- through their mind and
- . . llfA wilor thvoiiuh d ;... -r-
Is 'ost. "Ke w-r tniOtlgn a 16Ve. lo
tnrns. eTtent tbis is not tn h rf..-f.i4
, w-h ton-of int.1, i,,al it? i '
j, 0,.rVd J , ..ti,rv nr0
" rhL I to JJ Vr?C
ttte. I he rule is to read what is worth
thinking of. and then think ou it.
Mottos tor the cabix. " !l's well that
well." "Long may th)
Cable-istic:
; tni u.,n ,i n....u. i n
''Vin BJ. I nnrl Mother. Jonathan
Each other ought to jrrcet;
They've always been extravagant.
B if no-- "make bnth m is met."
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