Whole No. 2646. GOOD NEWS! i NEW arrival of BOOTS & SHOES at J\. Billy Johnson's, suitable for fall and winter, sad cheaper than has ever been sold in this place ; no mistake. Men's csarse boots from $1 50 to 3 25 " " 2?5t0 375 BJJS' boots from ( 1 00 to 2 00 Misses and children's, shoes 18 to 75 Man's Gums, $1 00 Women's" • / • 75 Women's gaiters, high heels ! 100 to 125 .neb as have been sold from I 50 to 2 00, nd everything iu his line Tery low. Manufacturing of all kinds attended to as usual, and repairing done on the shortest no tice. Also, a large assortment Trunks kept on hand which will be sold very low. Ilis friends and customers will confer a great fa vor on him if they will stop asking him for credit, for his terms are strictly Cash. He treats both rich and poor alike, so those wish ing credit will please call where they sell at large profits. So, eorae on, all you cash cus tomers, and provide for youselves good Boots fr the Winter. oct2 BILLY JOIINSON. Estate of James HcCllntlck, deceased. VDTIOE is hereby given that letters of ad ministration wn the estate of JAMES McCLINTIOK, late of Union township, Mif flin county, deceased, have been granted to the undersigned, the first named residing in Brown, and the latter in Union township. All i persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, and those hav- j ing claims to present tlicni duly authenticated for settlemei t. ROBERT BARU. CATHARINE Mc€LINTICK, janß* Admre. listate tf John Itager, deceased. VOYICE is hereby given that letters of ad ministration on the estate of JOHN RA ilfill, late of Decatur township, Mifflin county, deceased, haw been granted to the undersign , iu the borough of Lewistown. Ail perooo-s indebted to said estate are re quested to make immediate payment, snd those having claims to present them duly au thenticated lor settlement. jnß C. IIOOV £R, Admr. Estate of Reuben Myers, deceased. V"OTICE is hereby given that letters tes- J tamentAry on the estate of REUBEN MIhKS, late of Granville township, Mifflin county, deceased, have been granted to the ander.signed, residing in Oliver township. All arsons indebted to said estate are requested 1 make immediate payment, and those hav n claims h present thetu duly authenticated fir settlement. janl">-6t ABRAHAM MYERS, Rx'r. 4 I LU TOR'S NOTICE.—The undersigned, -V appointed Auditor by the Orphans' I art J! Mifflin county, to distribute the bal vr.ee in the hands of Win. T. Bell, Adminis trst'ir of Isaac Jones, late of Mifflin countv, iee'd., will meet parties interested there ■a at bis ufthe, in Lewistown, .on TUESDAY, 11th iav of March, 1862, at 10 o'clock a. tn. ja22 JOS. W. PARKER, And. A 101 TOR'S NOTICE.—The undersign A ed, appointed Auditor by the Orphans' urt t MitHin county, to distribute the fund ■he hands uj Cyrus Stine and Samuel £>tiue. Administrators of Juhn Stine, late of said ' unty, dee'd , vrili meet parties interested :> rein at his office, in Lewistown, on WED MSDAY, 12th day of March, 1802, at 10 'clock a m. • iSn " JOS Ur - PARKER, And. \ I I'l COR'S NOTICE flu: underpinned, A Appointed auditor by the court of Com fleas of Mifflin eotinty, to distribute the rnee in the hands of Sheriff StanbargeT. from the sale of the Real Estate cf •V'tnns Heed, will attend to the duties of his ''■ ointment, at his office, in Lewistown, on -ESDAY the 4th day of March, 1802, at o lock A. M., when and where all per 1 twviug claims are required to present 1 31 or be debarred from coming in for a ! f said fund. J. W. SB AW, J n29~4t " " " Miter. NOTICE! i Persons knowing themselves indebted A £o the late firm of KENNEDY A JUN kI - • by Note or Book Account, will please ■ on or before April Ist, lr >d settle the same. By so doing f ®STs WILL BE SATED, * ter that time the accounts will be left in - -ands of an Attorney for collection. It. 11. JONKIN, Surviving Partner of the late firm of T . KEHNBDV A JBNKJN. December 18, 1861. THE OLD FOUNDRY AND Machine Shop, ' ttWISTUWS, HIFFLIN COCSH, PI, to order Steam Engines, Mill Furnace and Forge Castings, £,'■< Cylinders, Forcing Pumps, Brass Rl&cksmithe' Vices ftpdTScrew LLA ,U SET. Wag£o jSarULOd Caatit Axles, LIT *L .* ron Steel work as it. made J nt *hop- Always on hand,- the oißt/ r HH and Bull Plows and i h** i 1 ra °ks turned or in a rough I i or ' p a S lron , Carriage Irons, Ac., Ac. laker * m P rove d thresher and '>'• requires the special attention ; the l- r " who want the best article tiiin™ * e *' P nc ® satisfy themselves by binir® ? . Bu becriber at the shop and ex- j ® r themselves. ' No chSrge made fcr 5. ♦ M| ® D - No loafing at stores or ill Dftt , 0 Mcur * customers. If my work 1 it it rw °mnieiid itself I will not ask you to au e : io sl JOHN R- WEEKES, 5 18<1 Agent. 1 ffffiHgroaiß) lwnßMlßanm , aurora THE araiTaEE, USIOW A*D i,IBERTY. F'om the Atlantic Monthly, Flag of the heroes who left us thv glory, I Born through their battle fields thunder and flame ltl song 'f' l illumined in story, Wave o er us all who inherit their fame ! Up with our banner bright, Spriohled with stai-ry hght, epreaii its fair emblems from mountain to shoro, W rule through the sounding sky, Loufl rings the nation's cry— mon and Liberty! One ever more ! 1 Light of our firmament, guide our nation, rnde of her children, and honored afar, Lettlie wide Heams of thy full constellation .•scatter each oloud that would darken a star! 1 P With our banner bright, etc. Empire uiisceptred! What foe shall a-snail thee, Hearing the standard of Liberty's van ? ! P"" k not the Lod of thy fathers shall fail thee, ; Striving with men for the birthright of man.' I'p with Our banner bright, etc. | Yet if by mahiqss and treachery blighted Ihtwns the datk hour when the sword thou must draw, 1 hen, with tile arms of thy millions united, Smite the lyild traitors for freedom and law Up jvith oitr banner bright, etc. Lord of the universe! Shield us and guide us, 1 Trusting Thee always, through shadow and iinn, ; i h#.i hasl uintud us; who .shall divide us? j Keep us, O, been us, the Many in One.' Up with our banner bright, etc. Tllli lUTTLH-SONG of THE CHURCH. ' Selected from -Hymns Of Faith and Hope,' published by Carter Brothers, New York. ■ I fll j ' Four not the foe, thou flock of Ood, j Fear not the sword, the spear, the roil, Fear not the foe '. lie fight.- in vain who fights with thee; Soon slutit thou see his armies flee, Himself laid low. V'." r "'.' ' beer to the toil and fight; ' 1 ia (tod—thy i rod. defends the right; He teuds thee on. Ills sword shall scatter every foe, His shield shall ward oft every blow— The crown" is won. His is the battle, His the power, His the triumph in tlrnt hour; lu Him be strong. So round tlry brow the wreath shall twine, So .-hall the victory be thine, And tldue the Song. Not long the sigh, the toil tlio sweat. Not long the tight—days wasting heat; , t The shadows come. Slack 11m thy n. upon in the light; Courage! for (foil defends the right; Strike home! strike home I Edited by A. SMITH, County Sup*rintwndcnt. For the Educational Column. The Waste of Time- Not long since I heard a very sensible old gentleman, in speaking of the schools of to-day as compared with the schools that flourished when he obtained his education, say that after all, those who go to school now-adays have not us much to show for the time spent or lor the opportunities they possess as those who attended the poor schools in the wretched old schoolhouses forty years ago. The remark struck mc quite forcibly; both as being true, and as show ing how much time is squandered by pupils at school. In the old times, when school bouses were * like angels' visits, few and far between when teachers possessed very little knowledge, but vigorous, well exer cised right arms, those who were so fortu nate as to attend school thought it neces sary to makefile viry beat possible use of their scanty opportunities. To be 6ure, they did not become specially learned in books, but they formed such habits of in dustry as have been greatly useful to them in after life. Any person who visits schools, cannot fail to be impressed with one fact, that very few scholars learn as much as they cat;; very uiany pass week after week al most v. ithout any perceptible progress, wast ing their time in idleness, or in annoying the teacher and creating confusion in school. This sad, almost universal fact is of suffi cient importance to justify us in inquiring where the fault lies; for every pet son will admit that it is utterly sad that so much time and so many priceless opportunities should pass away unimproved. We may blame the children or youth, and affirm that they ought fo be wiser than to mis spend their tor a certain extent, we should be right in so doing. But, un less I am greatly in error, we must look elsewhere for the principal blame. Do not many teachers •practically inculcate the idea that time is of small value, by spend ing their evenings and leisure days in mer riment or useless reading? Do they not really give the lie to ail their good words urging their pupils to diligence and care ful study, by misusing -(be time they them selves might devote to seif-improvement ? Are there not many teachers who hardly advance a single step in actual scholarship, or make any progress in successful teach ing, from the first day of their school to the last? Is if possible that pupils shall not be somewhat influenced by such per nicious examples, and deem it no wrong to idle away the long evenings and the pre cious hours which the teacher finds so worthless? '•' , - Again the fault must be oharged cot faintly upon parents. There are some pa rents who impress upon the minds of their children the importance of rightly using their time, who encourage them to improve the evenings in study, who aid them iu their studies, and who set them a good ex ample by using wisely their own leisure for self-culture. But to one parent of this sort, are there not fifty who seem to be to tally indifferent to the progres and inteh leetual growth of their children, who use no effort to induce them to study, to eu WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1862. courage them, to aid them; who spend their own leisure in bar-Tooms or stores, listening to the neighborhood gossip, growing daily more and mofe careless of knowledge and of all that pertains to good-citizenship ? Time is a price put into our hands, where with we may buy wisdom : and it will add not a little to our condemnation that we have thoughtlessly and ungratefully thrown it away. If for no higher considerations, ought we not for the sake of those who are now forming habits that will cling to them through life and will so greatly determine their character and destiny, to be more thoughtful, more wise in the use of the golden moments with which God gives us the power to make rich our own lives and the lives of others ? Teachers and parents can Hot too speedily or seriously ponder this question. S. Correspondence of the Gazette. MOUNTAIN CITY, ) Colorado Territory, Jan. 1,1862. j Mr. Editor. —As I have never seen any news in the columns of your paper from this section ot the country, 1 thought of giving you a brief description of the Rocky Mountains and the Gold Regions, as it may be somewhat interesting to the readers of the Gazette. But before commencing my subject, I will give you a short account of my journey across the Plains, or the Great l'rairie of the West, as it is very often called. There were thirteen of us started from St. Jo seph, Missouri, on the 19th of April, at about 11 o'clock, with two mule teams, which were loaded .vifch our provisions, bag gage and camping utensils. Our journey lay through the state of Kansas, in a due west direction; however, the route changed, so that we could hardly tell sometimes what course we were going—sometimes north, sometimes south, and then we would take a turn either to the right or left, and go direct west; but by looking at the map it is a direct western course from the Misswu ri River to the Gold Region of Pike's Peak. However, let it be what course it may, it is not a very easy trip ; and if you do not believe it, try it and you will find out how traveling goes with a mule or ox team at the rate of fifteen to thirty miles a day, aad perhaps not that, according to the weather and the roads. When you have a journey to perform cf seven or eight hundred miles, you may think it a very wearisome one, and you will not be mistaken. The distance from St. Jose, to Denver City is about seven hundred miles, and from Denver City to the Gold Mines about fifty miles. We had pretty good weather, good roads, and a good team, and drove in twenty-one days to Denver City, having landed there on tho 12th of May, sixty one. On our journey we saw very few Indians compared to the number generally aiong the road. I suppose we saw about a thousand or fifteen hundred in all, and the greater number of them were squaws and pappooses. The men had nearly all gone further south iu search of buffalo and other game, as the weather was rather cold, and the grass too short for them to come so far north. We saw HO livo buffalo except one at Fort Kearney, whore they had a tame one, but saw hundreds of carcasses that had been killed by some of the weary pilgrims and the Indians. Other game was generally plenty, such as elk, antelopes, wolves, bad gers, jack rabbits, prairie dogs, wild tur keys, prairie chickens, and other small game too numerous to mention. The first tribe of Indians that we came to were tho Paw-da-wa-da mies or Otoes as some call them, but the former is the cor- I rect name. They are settled along the western borders of Kansas, and are gen erally civilized. They live in houses in stead of lodges, and have considerable ground in good cultivation, with good fen ces around it where timber is not too scarce. Their chief productions are sugar cane, which they are very fond of, and a small quantity of corn. They manufacture their own sugar similar to the whites. Tfcey have woodeu mills, like apple mills in the States, which are worked by horse power. I had quite a conversation with an old In dian, and he told me that their mission had been deserted, that the preacher had left, and he expressed a great desire for a preacher and teacher to come to them again that they might have their children educa ted. They also appeared very accommoda ting, and are willing to lend a helping hand to the traveler, and to give all the informa tion they can. It is very difficult to un derstand them, as they can talk but very little english, but with his broken english and the gestures and motions that he made, I could make out what he meant. When however they want any tobacco, they ean ask for it very well in plain english. There was one asked me for some; I gave it to him, and he took off his hat and thanked < me very politely. I learned afterwards j that the old man expected something from all the, travelers that stopped at his house, as he has been instrumental in restoring many mules and cattle that have strayed away from the travelers as they passed along. That night we camped about fourteen miles from where we saw him, when three of our mules broke away and started back : the old ludian happened to see them, and ! caught thorn in the morning. One of the i men started after them, and he said the ! eld fellow was just starting to bring them ) back to us as he got there. The man gave i him a hah dollar, for he thanked hirn very j much, as he would sooner have a half dol- I lar than a live dollar gold piece, as they are great people for silver Coin. We jour neyed on, and the ntixt tribe that we came to were the Sues, a part of the Cheyenne tribe. There is but very little difference between these two tribes, if any; the for mer separated from the latter for some cause or other which I did not learn, and were at war with each other for a long time, but hare become friends again, and are mixing together. We next camped at what they called Box Elder Station, where there was a wedding that night, and they had a great time dancing and powwowing; it was very amusing to see the performance! Ihe Sues and Cheyenne tribes are great enemies of the Pawnees, and are af war with each other nearly all the time. These nations are uncivilized, and are moving about from place to place, but generally follow the buffalo and other large game. In the winter they are south, a°nd come north in the spring as far as the Platte River. Sometimes they dross that river, but very seldom, as nearly all the territory north of the Platte belongs to the Pawnees, east of Fort Kearney. As wo were traveling through that sec tion of the country the Sues and Chey ennes were preparing for a battle with the Pawnees. Ihey told ua that a Pawnee had way laid one of their men and killed him, and had taken his pony, and they were going to have revenge. Those tribes depend on hunting for a living, and are always ready for trading their furs and robes for provisions, and at the same time if there is any chance to steal, they are also ready, as they are great thieves, and very cunning at that. A per son has to watch them yery close, and then if they cannot Bteal, they will try and beg, and it you give one and not the rest they will get very angry at you. The best plan is not to give to any unless there are but two or three together; and then if you give them anything they will appear to be very good friends to you, but for all that, I would not like to trust myself with five or or six of them away out of sight of the company, for if they thought they had the advantage of mo, they would take my scalp in a moment. But I must stop, as I cannot give you a full account of tho dif ferent tribes, as there are two more in this section of the country. They are the Ar apahoes and I tabs, or I ts as they call them selves. Perhaps I may give you an ac count of them in another letter. I will now endeavor to say a few words j about the mountains and the Gold Regions ! \\ c could see the highest peak at the dis- ' tance of about one hundred and seventy miles. The first wag Long's Peak, the highest in this section of the country. It ! is about twenty miles north from these parts of the diggings and is almost, perpetu ! ally covered with snow. Next is Pike's Peak, which is about one hundred miles south from here, and nearly the same height as Long s Peak ; some say that Long's is ; the highest. They are about fourteen thousand feet above the level of the Plains. They look pretty high with their white caps on them. There are numerous other small peaks, but these are the main ones in the region. Next is the Snowy Range. The near- J est point to them from here is about ten miles; the top is perpetually covered with snow as far as you can see. It is a very nice place to be in in the hot days of Au gust, perhaps rather too cool for comfort on some of the highest points. Now for the Mining Regions. The central mines ! lie on the eastern slope of the mountains, about fifty miles west of Denver City, and about ten miles east of the Snowy Range. The mining grouud is in the gulches or ravines of the lower mountains that run from the range east towards the plains, and have their different names. lam at pres ent in the Nevada diggings, or rather Neva da gulch, as they all go by the name of gulches. Ihe next are Spring gulch, Rus sel s gulch, Lake gulch, South Clear Creek, North Clear Creek, Missouri, Eureka, Quartz v alley and Gregory gulches. These are the principal, with a great many smal ler ones. I will commence with Nevada gulch, which is about three miles long, run ning from northeast to southwest. About half way up the gulch there was a flour ishing town of about one hundred and fif ty houses, but on the evening of the 19th November a very high wind carried fire from the woods, where there was a man burning brush, to the town, and destroyed about one hundred and twenty buildings, with a large twelve stamp quartz mill, but fortunately there was no furniture or goods burnt, as plenty of assistance was at hand to get all out of the houses before they were consumed. The town has pretty much been rebuilt sine#. The mill has also been built up, and is now running. There are about forty quartz mills in this gulch, which are driven by steam power; they are all in operation except two or three, and are de ing very well. There is no mining going on at present except quartz, the gulches being all stopped till spring, as the water is frozen except what the mills are using. The quartz is very rich in this gulch, but does not quite pay as well as some of the leads in other gulches. The quartz here pays from seventy-five to five hundred dollars to the cord, that is, what they call a cord is the same as a cord of wood, a pile 8 feet long, 4 feet high, 4 feet wide; they have boxes made that size to measure it. Ihe gulch claims pay from $5 to 815 per day to the hand, and then there are soine that will not pay to work them. This gulch ia the central part of the mines, and there is more business going on here than in any part of the mountains. Next is Spring gulch ; there are no mills in this, but it is noted for its productive mining, the average pay to the hand per day last season having been about ?>2O. At the junction of Spring and Nevada gulches is situated Central City, now the county seat of Gilpin county. It has about 1500 inhabitants, and is quite a lively town to be situate in the Rocky Mountains. Next is Russell's gulch: there are five or six mills in this and but one or two in operation, as the quartz does not pay for crushing except from one or two claims on the lead. The great trouble is in saving the gold after the quartz is crash ed. Next is the Gregory gulch: this is the most noted for quartz mining (that is for from three hundred to a thousand dollars per cord. I have never known it to be less than three hundred dollars. There are five or six mihs in it, and are all doing very well. Ihe largest run that has been made in the mountains was in one of these mills a few days ago, yielding a thousand dol lars to the cord (I would like to have a few cords of that stuff.) I have not time to give a description of all the gulches at present. A new discovery was made in Missouri gulch a short time ago, where the great excitement is at present. In the last month three mills moved there, and are making it pay very well. -A man took ten cords of quartz out of the new discovery called the btewart lead, and had them crush ed. After paying all expenses, he had four teen hundred and sixty dollars clear profit, which is paying pretty well for a lead just opened, for as a general thing the deeper they go the better it pays. The trouble is it takes a maw with capital to carry on quartz mining as it ought, and that does not suit poor people like me. I have seen chances where if I would have had the needful I could have made money. The last claim I spoke of could have been bought sometime ago for five hundred dollars, but it could not he had now for less than five thousand. '1 hat same claim is paying from fifteen hundred to two thousand dollars per week. Now this is not the only chance I . have seen, but I can count a dozen or more j within the last six months ; then again, a person might bay a claim and it would not be worth anything, but he has to look out tor that. No doubt there is plenty of gold in the leads if the mills could save it, but as 1 said before the trouble is in saving it all. If a man could get up a process to save all the gold, he could make a fortune in a short time with his patent. There is a man here who has been experimenting on the smelting process, but he has not quite accomplished it; he thought he would, but unfortunately the fire in Nevada destroyed his furnace. I believe it is his intention to try it again. Some people say that Pike's Peak is a humbug. I will acknowledge it is in some respects, but there is gold here and a great deal has been taken out of the ground. If a person expects to come here and pick it up by the handful off the ground, he will be humbugged, for if they want to get it, they must not be afraid of the pick and shovel, or to get their nice hands soiled. A professional man has no business here.— There are more lawyers and doctors here than of any other profession. Seeing a lawyer and a doctor walking up and down the gulch, arm in arm, puts me in mind of a highway robber—it is either your life or your money, but it is generally the latter, as they all know how to charge. There is one class, however, that exceeds all the rest and they are the gamblers. Then there is a class that is just as scarce as the others are plenty, and they are the preachers. I know of but one or two; there was one liv ed in the gulch that I am now in; he start ed home in the fall, but before he got away from Denver City he unfortunately lost all his money playing monta. (He was a good one ) 1 will stop at this for fear of wearying your patience, if I have not already, and bid you goodbye until you hear from me again. I send my respects to all the gen tlemen, and my love to all the lady readers of the Gazette. (J. W. A. Materials in Their Invisible State. If a piece of silver be put into nitric acid, a clear and colorless licjuid, it is rapidly dis solved and vanishes from the sight. The solution of silver may be mixed with water, and to appearance no effect whatever is produced. Thus, in a pail of water we may dissolve and render invisible more than ten pounds worth of silver, lead and iron ; but every other metal can be treated in the same way, with similar results. When charcoal is burned, when candles are burn ed, when paper is burned, these substances all disappear and become invisible. In fact, every material which is visible can, New Series—Yel. XYI, He. 15. by certain treatment ba rendered invisible Matter which, in one condition, 13 perfect ly opaque and will not admit the least ray of light to pass through it, will in another form become quite transparent Ths cause of this wonderfltl effect of the condition, of the matter is Utterly inezplainable. Phil osophers do not even broach theories upon the subject, much less do they endeavor to explain it. The substatices dissolved in water or burned in the air are not however destroyed or lost. By certßin well known means they can be recovered and again made Visible ; some exactly in the same state as they were be fore their invisibility; others, though not in the same state, ea& be shown in their elementary condition; and thus it can be proved that, having once existed, it never ceases to exist, although it can change its condition like the caterpillar, which becomes a chrysalis, and then a gorgeous butter fly. If a pailful of the solution of silver bo cast into the stream, it is apparently lost! by its dispersion in the water; but it never theless continues tocxist. So when a bush el of charcoal is burned in a stove it disap pears, in consequence of the gas produced being mixed with the vast atmosphere; bu! yet the charcoal is still in the air. On the brightest and sunniest day, when every oh ject can be distinctly seen above the horizon, hundreds of tons of charcoal, in an invis ible condition, pervade the air. Glass is a beautiful illustration of tho transparency of a compound which, in truth, is nothings but a mixture of the rust of three metals. The power of matter to change its con ditions from solid capacity to limpid trans parency causes some rather puzzling phe nomena. Substance increases in weight without any apparent oanse ; for instance, a plant goes on increasing in weight a hun dred fold for eveTy atom that is missing from the earth in which it is growing.— * Now the simple explanation of this is that leaves of plants have the power of with drawing the invisible charcoal from the at mosphere, and restoring it to its visible state in some shape or other. The lungs of animals and a smokeless furnace change matter from its visible to its invisible state. The gills of fishes and the leaves of plants reverse this operation, rendering invisible or gaseous matter visible. Thus the bal ance in nature is maintained, although the continual change has been going on long prior to the creation of the " extinct ani mals."—Piesse. A Down East Juryman. [' Ethan Spike' contributes to the Port land Transcript a sketch of his experience as a juryman. The first cases he was cal led to try were capital ones—the criminals being a German and a nigger respectively.] ' Hev you formed aOy opinion for or figin the prisoners V said the judge. 'Not perticular agin the JarmiD,' says I, ' but I hate niggers as a general principle; and shall go for hanging this old white wooled cuss, whether he killed Mr. Cooper or not,' says I. ' l)o you know the nature of an oath V the dark axed me. ' I orter,' says I. ' I've used enough of 'em. I begun to swear when I was only about——' 'That'll do,' says the dark. 'You kin go hum,' says he ■ ' yor wont be wanted in this ere case,' says the dark, says he. ' What?' says I, ' ain't 1 to try this nig ger at all ?' ' No,' says the dark. ' But I'm a jewryman, says I,' and you can't hang the niggor otlless I've sot ct> him,' says I. "Pass on, says the dark, speaking rather crcxr. ' But,' says I, you mister, you don't mean as you say ; I'm a regular jewryman, you know. Drawed aout of the box by the seelick man,', says I. 'l've oilers had a hankering to hang a nigger, and now, when a merciful dispensatory seema to have pro vided one for me, you say I shan't sit on him ! Ar this your free institutions? Is this the nineteenth centry ? And ik thir our boasted ' Here somebody holler ed ' Silence in Court.' ' The Court be !' I didn't finish the remark, for a Couple of constables had holt of me, and in the twinkling of a bed-' post I was hustled down stairs into the street. 'Naow, Mr. Editor, let me ask, what are we coming' to, when jewrymen—legal, lawful jewrymen, kin be tossed about in thia way ? Talk about Cancers, Mormons, Spiritualism, free love, and panics—wbar ara they in comparison ? Here's a princi ple upsot. As an individual, perhaps, I'm of no great account; t'an't fur me to say; but when as an enlightened jewryman, I was tuk and carried down stairs by profane hands, just for asserting my right to sit on a nigger—why it seems to me the pillowa of society were shook ; that in my sacred person the hull State itself was, figgerative speakin, kicked down stairs ! Ifthar's law in the land, I'll have this case brought un der a writ of habeas Corpus or icksey Dicksit.' President Lincoln must have a 'thun dering lot' of relatives down South. Eve ry day almost we hear of a 'cousin,' a 'brother-i-law,' or some other 'kin/ and strange to say they are all seceshers. We think we have heard of about two hundred. They outnumber the 'brothers of Jackson who killed Ellsworth '
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