Bradford reporter. (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, December 03, 1853, Image 1
. ..... • - _ . . . - _ -------- — .• ... • - . . • _ . . •,' . , . - i -- - r• , . . - . . TH . ti ~ , • 4 . ~ . . ..,. . . . . . . . .., , • , , , . . , . RE O. , t,,,• , • . • , • . __ , , .. . . . •,...„... . ... ..• JBLISFIED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PI BY E. O'IIEAIIA GOODRICH. • . . . . / Amssessions were on'a river and displeased with an irregular harangue, because The. tavern kept by Jenks, the lilZieSi. IP ch empties into the east aide it is difficult to be remembered. When they an- Milanville—he was too lazy to work, end P' meal with, either the one on ewer, they repeat the whole, reducing it into strict wept to tavem keeping—stood yearly r led the Choptank, or 'perhaps order. Their speeches-are short, and the sense con- a mile from the poor tenement occupi' veyed in strong metaphors. In conversation they hes. Toward this point, under a ho' Al councils of the Iroquois were are sprightly, but solemn and serious in their mes- little Lizzy made her way, her rr net being the most central point, sages relating to public affairs. They speak with .its purpose, that she was tine tie tribes belonging to the league surprising force, and great propriety of gesture.' The fatigue. ' . that place—the Senecas on the fierceness of their countenances, the flowing blan- Not long before, a !we . the More of Lake Erie, the Mo - ket, elevated lone, naked arm and erect stature ? vern. Alter giving dir ey of the Mohawk and along the with a half circle of auditors, seated on the ground, he entered the bar r se tribes, as well as all the others, A and in the open air, cannot but impress upon. the Jenks stood behir represented at the general Council mind a live y idea or the ancient !orators of Greece " Have some , ; conlederacy was weakened by the and Rome." lord. .ing and corrnming influence of their In a discourse before the Historical Association ,4 I'll tab rs, the decrees of the council were of New limit, (1811,) by DeWitt Clinton, he says: Jenks • lederates and those whom t hey had "The six nations were a peculiar people, contra- towe r ' tribute.. distinguished fro the mass of India n nations, by pjv nis thus acted with an unity and signal great attainments in policy, negotiation, eloquence I . eh made them powerful and leared by and war." An interesting fact in the history of the um races of the North, the giant SuSque. Five Nations, is the visit of the five Sachems ans near the mouth of our river, and at , England, in the year 1710 The Court was a' )f the Chesapeake, the Catawobas living time in mourning, for the Death of the Pr' river to which they have given their'' Denmark. The Sachems were, therefore ' North and South Carolina, and the Chero- in black underclothes; and instead r an the Tennessee, and east bank o , the M is- each tied a richly wrought cloth m' with gold, thrown over his shoo' . . Mohawks, living upon the Hudson, who had ence they had with the Queen, )atest reputation as warriors, but were not so lemn and imposing, character .table, numerically, as some of the Other tribes, by one of the Sachems is • led the eastern entrance to the confederacy.— courtesy, mingled with - me of their figurative modes of expression, the laid nobility. In the ; mois destimwed themselves Ho de-no-nu-nee maintained the dig , • • an me. leer :..) , Peoplr of the Long Hou-e; the to which he belr pt..t...,,• 1 .i 4 keepers of the western door, as the for the protect litti.l , % ks were of the eastern. Numerou; trails The fact that they assumed to own all the terri• the encronc' .10112 the Susquehanna, and its eastern and wester n tor; down to the mouth of the Ohio, and east of a 1 the subje' tt oraehes, coming together at Tioga Point, became line which will t e hereafter de-cribed, and that the Specie' ' English ageres paid them for such land, mapped it Te ll ' off, and ran a division line on paper, to that extent, as late as 1768, shows how their ownership was , viewed by both parties. As an additional proof that the subjugation e' grant Sas-que-sa bin-tinek• by the Iroquois i . mere hy - ro th ests, an extract follows, fro, , , I • port of Governor Thomas Dorgan, tot' tee of trade of the province of New • aly, 1687. He says, " I have sec the Five Nations, who have co' $ .. harmas, de-iced of the king in presence, and I believe it' 11. quence it denied " He s i liOllS are the most we I '; ate a bulwark bete i , nisi-cam I other Indians" rut seats I They go as 1 • away, $ pa.s.ige of I dwas thee .. . • • .it was • , Coll' allell'10(1 has. 1 valley by the il. cite Nanticokts hail been driven from the S, ult. I revolutionary a' the Tuscaroras had been, but unlike them, tic , of the Intl were never admitted into the confederacy. T I 5 connected wi It paid an annual tribute during peace, of ft , / le to take a cur other articles of Indian traffie,and in war,' filial remarkable their quota of warriors As ari eqinvale; whose poss)ssiors j , oyee the prote.cdion of the Leagne. t oat are now kil°4ll Sri, i! h, in his history of Virgin . r , tribes Ito met with there, viz • I ' rich our Tinlinn pre- f ;Wei %% ard% sidled :111 . PUtillilil : was A,.ko.no.stit.orn isamerye:lt:l:2 if V. h It'il ha' i the early D itc h set- I nit eihim4 ,t, k, 1,..„.n 1 - roan as tl.e Marti et; of names in lw lari2,, , •as 'i.e • Fi' e N el "'" - also speak. of the iv '• ° " l ' da t las t arld Sehe '" shore. %limn tie • 14. when the live :la the sari „ , „ - : ;e4i - iti+u die confederacy ,icek„ of it hose, possessions, at the name for I'm/ in Virginia and 'fie of Mar .',s) Iveie found the penis- for • 'ln Chesapeake bays in , Vat dial point. they seller( / 6 . . idle! the hairs of Nord , red to leave there, and be, t2.11t the ploteetion of the ,' .. 'I h ern Inn, them le?r, .e... .its Atier ibis acce ../ ,pe•ty styled, by l' . - i e:.elt sellers, ac -$, it t•to.i.ii,e3 of • - t err,; every : lucre Cr Le t..ttly ;.• , V 4, v tat G. • EMETSiII VffQ ()WAN 1) !Vernon, Darmbrr 3, 1853. itltclo Vottrll,. HE BURIAL OF LOVE lIBTANT eyed mod:, at shut of day, river rolled au ay, sad brows arid raven hair, . ;3 ., pale and both were fair. ,ane,!,/ing aowers tin blown m• of uamr unknown ; ..pray , from wo.,d and wild, L'uve, !Le child. win:C. ye weep, 1: .14aM may t ,, etri like sleep, sign t•t rest, acre , s his breast. e “I,ere violets hide, vorr , , , retr , the rivulet's side, •••• m !IT misty spring summer sing. ~gel3vtumk,w. •• - ! oo , eneti bow, around ,r,,rt he bound long, and miss . 7 , ready kiss, : f, et, . . • •:.oa wered phrases sAe'et ene and high, ^vr,- : voungt eye, • ....shit the heart -a d tears will start •i,,1l fall to dust, •;: aii.;e with rust, r, , na: ratan can claims ,c,.1 a name an ghßil dwell, hvie froM men, round, , hall live again. a form of light, and purer sight, ,ilory stand, nParrct God's right hand. iasqucilanua ITS INDIAN AND riosten nisrunY • 'cmn League ! from ancient seats t • a's like automn leaves away, records of heroic feats, - •ces of )(dtr former sway. cmt-ers of this title, altenniou has, occupancy of our valley by the xit during the revolutionary tttect appreciatton of the Ithhan .:•tters New Yoty, as connected wi ra, it is utd ispenPable to take a cur ..•neraf history of that remarkable I,dui confederacy whose poss3ssiors :.i.ory were w irhiti w hat ate now known 1,1 ',ate e names which our TtiJill, pre. rn selves caw A,-ko-no-,hi-orn I To the rally Ditch set ete known a. il.e Nlaritoi,; .Pica o , tor.dnas, and ;.t. \ ear 1714. when the rive ❑a :ecetv tit - Hill-1J the confederacy I , icibe wlioe possessions, at the :Ki,l‘.lra'i. , tl/ itt Viruinta ar.d 'he Ir;97_: , i vete found the penin ..rafe'and Che,apeake bays d , tdial point, they selted ohm the hairs of North tk. leave there, and being 412.11 t the poteelion of the Five e lt,l ern in! , ) then league, um m:. A! er ti, . “cceo , zoon, the p•,.pe•!y sty led, by 'he Eng!abb. , ellers, and IltoFe IItiIITIOU ~ ,0,,,c6es of ,he SOltiely of the ;averte.; every intfl 01 our Stale al ate. ter Cro.scoolct be successlu)l) Le !.,I:ive. they were known as the -:2 , 11.:in of the six tribal sovereign :, w obtained, and is at i d„ iLd tut. Tuscaroras were excluded rs en,nyed by the other mem i:r.t.;-acy. I...upitosed by some that • .I , fiiieteil v the Five Nations, and e morely tributaries, being admitted ~e con!edetary from motives of poli- CUS :lois Were ut the practice of exacting ute if OITI e.olicinered tribes, hoping thus a' 1 ..reti.,:•tie % their already widely • As an eyi,valerii for Pilch exaction, fur lh " F;r"'ict , on of heir t0r. , 1,1 of the rontederaq wilene• .if(tl ;tat ma. rtNinited. The Roman • r7;,),tr in I:s_ exaction of trtbolo from extending, in' intuits, protec- • are, ihat the original Five Nations T "'""'fits as relatives, and adopted :".1 league from sympathy and consid- Lod, of er their expulsion from Nor'h •„, 4 r of the Tuscaroras tieing •te we dialect DI the utlier fire men,- federacy, would seem to confirm the mship and origin from a common more reasonable conclusion is, that the South, they sought the protection as well an account of :heir imperi ow.er, as from considerations of con. his history of Virginia, published in of this tribe, then living on the Era 'he Chesapeake Bay, whom he calle Kus-ka-ra-waoka Theif.posseargions were on•a river of a similar name, which empties into the east side of that bay, and is identical with, either the One on the peninsala now called the Choptank, or 'perhaps the Nanticoke. ' The annual national councils of the I roquois were held at Onondaga, that being the most central point, and alitio' some of the tribes belonging to the league lived remote from that place—the Senecas on the Genesee and along the More of Lake Erje, the Mo hawks in the valley of the Mohawk and along the Hudson ; still these tribes, as well as all the others, `were unifmmly represented at the general Council Fire. Until the confederacy was weakened by the steadily increasing and corrupting influence of their white neighbors, the decrees of the council were law to the confederates and those whom t hey had placed under tribute. - The Iroquois thus acted with an unity and signal success which tnade them powerful and feared by the Algonquin races of the North, the giant SuSque- Latina Indians near the mouth of our liver, and at the head of the Chesapeake, the Catawobas living upon the river to which they have given their . ' name in North and South Carolina, and the Chero kees upon the Tennessee, and east bank o, the Mis sissippi. The Mohawks, living upon the Hudson, who had the greatest reputation as warriors, but were not so formidable, numerically, as some ol the Other tribes, guarded the eastern entrance to the confederacy.— By one of their figurative modes of expression, the Iroquois destf.nwed themselves Flo iledio-sau-nee, (M . 4111112. Peoplt of the Long Hou-e; the ~ei keepers of the western door, as the Moli.o.ks were ol the eastern. NumerouS trails alon 2 the Susquehanna, and its eastern and western branches, coming together at Tioga Point, became one great central trail from that place to the South, throwli the heart of Pennsylvania, and over it the imperial Iroquois passed and re-passe,!, upon their victorious experli:ions against the Cherokees and Catawobas. At the confluence of the Susquehanna and the Chemung, where the converging trails from the norm, east and west became one, was the Southern I door to - the home possessions of the Iroquois ; and it was scrupulously guarded by the tribes living the vicinity, with the certainly of ready and effi cient re-inforcements from all the members of the League Wail whom there was a direct arid feasible communication by means of Vie net-work cf traits just described, extending from the head %valets df the Susquehanna and Cherrinng, down to this point. The Natincokes, who were situated about fourteen miles above Owego, neat: the mouth of ;he Choc() nut Creek, and across the river at Union, and who were tributaries of the Iroquois, acted in concert with them, and togother they had the undisputed possession of this portion of the valley of the Sds. rpreltartria. Hosmsn che Nanticukts had been driven from the Sault. a. the Tuscaroras had been, but unlike them, they were never admitted into the confederacy. The paid an annual tribute during peace, of furs and other articles of Indian traffie,and in war, turnislnd their quota of warriors As an equivalent, the) en joyed the protection of the Leagne. Srtii , h, in his history of Virginia, among other tribes he met with there, viz: the Pataworneks. al:ere:mt. vatted :lie Putomas, and Acorn:wk. , the same spetliag has continued to this day, AO, enact.; :it k, whicti Wa- a favorite teirnmatiott of names in he larierrieer2l . the Indians of Virginia, also speak. of the Nareacpiaks living on the Ea-tern shore. whim) tie valls •• ihe.be.t merchants of all the savages They were Identical wish the Nam ticokes of the Stisquetianna, and have left their name for a river at this ?ray upon the eastern shore of Mary land. called the Nariierike river, as well as for a township - and Creek ni Monroe county, N. l - ., and another meek ut Tioga. Their principal vil lage was ChOCOWIt, VPhiCh is w7ittea _upon an early map made at a treat) ,Chughtiut. Their epreaion for mats e they enjoyed after their seeler ne nt upon the Susquehanna. am the period of the negoshation with them by Anus Draper, Mr a ces-ton of then possessory churns to the soil. Re engaged iii trade with them as soon as it was safe, she: the resh•ra lion of peace. to penetrate to that pert of the valley ; where they liveil;and had theetcoefidence, as well as that 01 the Iroquois living in thisyteinity. In histreY, lie gives an', 4 account of his discovery, at the head 01 the Chesapeake bay, and , also of a portion of the Susquehanna as far north at the ,mouth of the Juniata. Ab_•ve that point, he places the river, with its branches, upon ills leap, trOm statements given to him by the natives. The style of the author's narrative is quaint and peculiar, even for that era, (1607-29,) and aliho', throughout, there is much of self-glorification, his history is considered in the main, reliable. He calls the river flowthg in at the head of the Chesapeake, both upon his map and in his book, the Sas-que sahan nougtiffumen, and the people there residing, the Sas-que-sahan nocks. • He says, rt sixty of those Sus-que-sahan rocks earn,. to vt>it ua wi h skins, bows, arrows, targets, bead. , and Intia" :,.pipes for presents. Such great arid plopornoned men are seldom seen, for they ~-reed like ;parrs to the English and to their iivighor.t, and yet of an honest and simple dispost non.- fle proceeds: " These are the strangest people of all those countries, both in language and attire, for their language, it may well beseem their proportions, sounding . from them as a voice iu a vault Their attire is the skins of bears and wolves. Snore have cassoeks made of bears"skins. One had the head of a woll hanging, from his neck for an ornament ; his tobacco pipe three quarters of a yard long, prettily carved with a bird, a deer, or some such device, upon the bowl, with bows, allows and clubs suitable to theirgreatness. They can number 600 warriors, and are pallisadoed in their towns to defend them from .the Massawomeks—(the Iro ^quois)—their mortal enemies. Five of the Chiefs .came abpird of oar boat. The-picture of the great est is signified on the map. His limbs are huge proportions, and he seemed the goodliest Man we PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. " RENARDLE3B Or DENUNCIATION mom ANY QUARTER." ever beheld. his arrows were five quarters long, headed with a white, crystal like stone, iii the form of a heart, an inch broad, and an inch and a bailor more long; these he wore in a wolf's skin at his back for a quiver, his bow in the one hand and his club in,the other, as is described" [in the figure upon the map.] The dress. ornaments, weapons, the totem of the wolf's head, and the peculiar scalp-lock . and other particulars mentioned by Smith, but not here cited, seem to mark them as originally of Iroquois stock, but probably rel:, ing upon their almost superhuman proportions and strength, although much their infe rior in number, they sought no hiendship nor alli ance with Iroquois. Al the time spoken of by the historian, just cited: it appears that they were at enmity with the ride Nations, call by them Massawomeks, and it was not unlikely, for the purpose of defending them selves against this great race, that the latter dug the trench and constructed the fortification on the hill, now called Spanish Hill, at' the Ifead of the plain above the village of Athens, (Tinga Point.) In addition to their warfare with the Iroquois, die giant race of the Sas.que-sa han-nocks had the warlike races of the South to keep at-bay, and in the wasting was which ensued, they became ei ther exterminated, or the few who were left, oc cupied on the head waters of the Chesapeake, by the _license 61 the iioqunis,:antl paying them tribute The latter settled various tribes who had p'ac ed -themselves under their protection, upon the lower portion of the Susquehanna, above the Ches apeake, claiming that they had such right by con quest. The fact that they assumed to own all the tern. tor; down to the mouth of the Ohio, and east of a line which will t e hereafter de-cribed, and that the English ageirs paid them •for such land, mapped it off, and ran a division line on paper, to that extent, as late as 1768, shows how their ownership was viewed by both parties. As an additional proof that the subjugation of the grant Sa.f.-que-sa but-ooek- by the Iroquois is not a mere hy - ccultesist, an extract follows, from the re• port of Governor Thomas Dorgan, to the Commit tee of trade of the province of New York, Febru• ary, 1687. He says, " I have sent here with what the Five Nations, who have conquered the Susque hennas, of the king in my Lord• Effinzhani's presence, and I believe it to be of danzerous eonse• quence it denied " He says further, The Five Na tions are the most warlike people in America, and are a bulwark between us and the French, and all other Indians" They go as far as the South Sea, the northwest pa.s.tge ol Florida, to war. (111 below Virginia was thee called Florida, and as to the Socth Sea, it was supposed to Wash the westerly limit of out continent.) In the same report we find further— New England, in their 135.1 war with the Indians, nad been turned, had not Sir Edmond Andros (a former Governor of the New Yotk Colony) sent over some ol the Five Nations to their assistarrep, and indeed they are eo considerable, that all the Indian, in these parts are tributary to them • I suf fer no Christians to converse with them eicept at Athany, and . that trot wiliout my license. Snice I came here, the people of Boston have sent them presents in acknowledgement of their power and itiendt•hip, ar.rt I was lowed to go v, oh my find Effing!.arn toy his arid their hatchets, vt loch is waythen of making pence. This government has awiti . s been, and still is. al a great charge to keep there peacratie anti annexed to this government, which is of .hat moment, that upon any occasion I cart have three or four thousand of their min at a call. In the same valmilie History, (Documentary of N. 'v..) may be a map showing the cession of land male by the Iroquois at the treaty hold at Fort S aowtx (17(38 ) They Men assumed to con vey " all the land east of a line commencing at or near the moult rif , he Ohio, ilience up the Ohio to Kitiannig, above Fort Pm, (Pittsburg ) thence by d,iect line to the nearest link of the Su quehanna, throinzli the Allegheny Mountains down the West Branch urvil it comes opposite the mouth of a creek, called Tiarlaghton, along the South side of the creek and the No;th side of Burnett's tolls to a creek called Awandae, (Towanda,) thence down the same to the East branch of the Susquehanna (now kriovvn as the main river,) and across the same and up the east side of that river to 0 oveg , (40 written on the map,) from thence East to the Delaware river, and up that to a point opposite where 'tianadera (now Unadilla) falls into the Sus qiiehanna, thence to Tianadsrs, and up the sveat aide of the wept branch of the head . thereof, and thetrce by, a dtrech line to Canada Cleek, on the West side of Fort Stanwix." This deed of Cessiim was sined by six Sachems, representing the six cations of the confederacy. There is an express reservation in this deed, for he benefit of the Mowhawks, of all the land occu pied by them upon the Mowhawk. This considera lion expressed is 10460 pounds in addition to pres ents of various articles used by the Iroquois. This brings ns, in order of time to the history of New York, by William Smith, published in 1757 As to their conquest and power, he says,— " When the Dutch began the settlement of this country, all the Indians on Long bland and the nor thern shore of the Sound, on the banks of the Con necticut, Hudson, Delaware and Susquehanna riv , era, were in subjection to the five nations, and within the memory of persons now living, acknowl edged it by the payment of ,in annual tribute." As to mints!) , glory, he adds—" No people in the world have higher notions than these Indians of military glory. All the surrounding nations have felt the effect of their prowess, and many not only became their tributaries, but were so subjugated by their power, that without theconsent of the five nations, they 'Jurist not commence either peace or or war." As to their eloquence,.besay•—" Tbeart of pub• lie speaking is in high esteem among them, and much studied. They are extremely fend of method, and displeased with an irregular harangue, because it is difficult to be remembered. When they an swer, they repeat the whole, reducing it into strict order. Their speeches-are short, and the sense con veyed in strong metaphors. In conversation they are sprightly, but solsmn and serious in their mes sages relating to public affairs. They speak with surprising force, and great propriety of gesture.' The fierceness of their countenances, the flowing blan ket, elevated tone, naked BM and erect stature, with a half circle of auditors, seated on the ground, and in the open aii, cannot but impress upon. the mind a live y idea or the ancient !orators of Greece and Rome." In a discourse before the Historical Association of New Volt, (1811,) by DeWitt Clinton, he says: "The six nations were a peculiar people, contra distinguished fronl the mass of Indian' nations, by great attainments in policy, negotiation, eloquence and war." An interesting fact in the history of the Five Nations, is the visit of the five Sachems to England, in the year 1710 The Court was at the time in mourning, for the Death of the Prince of Denmark. The Sachems were, therefore, dressed' in black underclothes; and instead of a blanket each had a richly wrought cloth mantel, bordered with gold, thrown over his shoulders. Tue audi ence they had with the Queen, was of a very so lemn and imposing, character. The speech made by one of the Sachems is a beautiful specimen of courtesy, mingled with manly fiankness and wood lan•I nobility. In the address of her Majesty, he maintained the dignity of the powerful confederacy to which he belonged, by calling it "a strong wall" for the protection of the English colonies against the encroachment of the French. This visit is made the subject of one of those classic essays in the Spectator of that era, Vol. L, Chapter L.; also in the Tattler of May 1710. The tribal league of the Iroquois, strengthened and bound toga her by the totemic tie, promised, by force of its organization, perpetuity. It suited, in an eminent degree, the hunter, and partially afk riculturaf state in which they were found by our ancestors, and would doubtless have proved itself a wail of defence" against ,their subjugation by arty of the native tribes of the continent. But the artful appliances of the white man, and Ins unscru• pulous policy of dismeMbering, and then dictating terms—divide et impera—pursued with untiring per tinacity, have mcst effectually denationalized this remaikable and once powerful confederacy. E FROST _SPIRIT 817 J 1 0. WUITTIIR. He comes, he comes—the Frost Spirit comes! You may trace his footsteps nuw On the naked woods and blasted fields, And the brown hill's withered brow. He has smitten the leaves of the grey old trees, Where their pleasant greeo came forth, And the winds that follow wherever he goes, Have t-haken them down to earth. He cony-, he comes—the Frost Spirit comes! . From ilie fr. , zen Labrador; From the icy bridge of the northern seas, Where the white hear wanders o'er; Where the fisherman's sail is stiff with ice, And the luckless forms below, In the sunless cold of the atmosphere Into marble statues grow! He comes, he comes—the r 4 r4st Spirit Comes'. And the quiet lakes shall feel The torpt tJuch of his free breath, And ring to the skater's,heel; And the ?streams which datKed on the broken rocks Or sang to the leaning gross Shall bow again to their winter chain, And in mournful silence pass. He comes, he comes—the Frost Spirit comes ! Let us meet him as we may, And turn with the light of the parlor fire His evil power away; And gather closer the circle round. When the firelight dances high. And laugh as the shriek of the battled fiend, As his sounding wing goes by! • LITTLE LIZZY. DT T. e. ARTHUR It they wouldn't let him have it!" said MI6 Leslie, weeping. "0, it they wouldn't sell him lignor, there'd be no trouble ! fie's one of the best of men ; when he doesn't drink. Ile never bring, liquor into the house ; and he tries hard enough to keep sober, but he cannot pass Jenk's tavern." 111r4. Leslie was talking with a sympallizing neighbor, who responded by saying, that she we-li ed the tavern would burn down, and that, for her part, she didn't feel any too good to apply fire to the place herself Mrs. Leslie sighed, and wiped away the tears with hrir check apron. " It is hard, indeed, it is," she mnrinured, r to see a man like Jenks growing richer every day 001 of the earnings of poor woikii:g men, whops fami. lies are in want of bread. For every sixpence 'hat goes over the counter some one is made poorer—to same heait is given a throb of pain." " It's a downright shame!" exclaimed the neigh bor, indignantly. "II I had my way with the la zy, good-for-nothing fellow, I'd see that he did something useful, if it was to break stone on the road. NVeie it my husband, instead of yours, that he enticed into his bar, depend un't he'd get him self into trouble."' While thisconversation was going on, a little girl, not over ten years of age, sat listening alien tively. After a while, she went quietly.from the room, and throwing her apron over her head, look her way, unobserved by her another, down the road. Where was , little Lizzy going? There was a pnrpose in her mind—she had started on a mission. "0, if they wouldn't sell him liquor !'• These earnest, tearful words of her mother had filled her thoughts. It Mr. Jenks wouldn't sell her father any. thing to drink, "there would be no more trouble." How simple, direct the remedy. She would go to Mr. Jenks, and ask him not to lel her lather have any more liquor, and then all would be well again. Artless, innocent child ! And this was her mis otos. The. tavern kept by Jenks, the laziest man in Milanville—he was too lazy to work, and therefore went to toyer," keeping—stood yearly a quarter of a mile from the poor tenement occupied by the Les hes. Toward this point, under a hot and sultry sun, little Lizzy made her way, her mind so filled with its purpose, that she was unconscious of heat or fatigue. Not long before, a !traveller alighted at the ta vern. Alter giving directions to have his horse ted he entered the bar room and went up to where Jenks stood behind the counter, " Have something to think I" inquired the land lord. " I'll take a glass of water, if you please." Jenks could not hide the difference at once fell toward the stranger. Very deliberately he set a pitcher and glass upon the counter, and then turned partly away. The stranger poured out a full tum bler of water, and drank it off with an air of satin faction. "Good water that of youna, landlord," said the stranger " Is it T' was returned, somewhat uncourteously "I call it good water, don't you?" " Never drank water by itself " As Jenks said this, he winked to one of his good customers, who was lounging in the bar. "In fact, its so long since I drank any water, that 1 forgot how it tastes. Don't you Leslie ?" The man to:whom this was addressed, was not 6o far lost to shame as Jenks. He blushed and look ed confused, as he replied : " It might be better for some 0(05, if we bad not lost our relish Mr pure water." '• A true word spoken, my friend?'' said the wronger, turning to the man, whose swollon visage and patched, thiesdbare garments too plainly told the story of his sad We. " %Water, pure water, bright water ;' that is my 1111011u.1 never swells the face, nor i'•flames the eye, nor mars the coon• tenance. l's attendants are health, thrift and hap piness. It takes not away the children's bread, nor the toiling wile's garments. Water!—it is one of God's chiefest blessings! Our friend, the landlord here, says he has forgotten how it tastes; and you have lost 611 relish for the refreshing draught! Ah, this is a sad Icontession—one which the angels might weep tor hear." There was two or three customers in the bar be sides Le-lie, nj whom this was addressed ; and all of lherti—in spite of the lan field's angry and sneer• frig countenance— treated the stranger with attention and respect. Seeing this Jenks could not restrain himself; so, coming from behind the bar, he ad. vanced to his side, and laying his hand quite rude ly on his shoulder, said, in a peremptory manner: " See here, my friend ! II you are about making a temperance lecture you can adjourn to the Town Hall, or rho Methodist Chapel." The stranger moved aside a pace or two, so that the hand of Jenks might Lill from his person, and then said mti fly : There must be Anme'llmg wrong here, if a man may not speak in praise of water without giving rib fence." " I said you could adjourn your lecture !" The landlord's lace was ttow fiery red, and he spoke with insolence and paseion. " 0, well, as r on are president of the meeting. I suppose we must let you exercke an arbitrary pow el of udj tatitment, - E•a RI the stranger, good-fiu moredly, " I dahl'i think any one had so strong a dislike for water as itnikider its praise an in sult." At this moment a 1.11,1,1 stepped into the bar. room. lier little lace ti.-Led, end great beads of perspira . ion were slowly IlioVlll4 drlo. n her crim• run cheeks. Her st , p elamie, her manner earnes., and her large, dark eye bright with an eager pur rose She glanced net her to the right nor to the 1.1, but walked up to he landlord, lii ed to bin, het sweet plum; Icier., and said, in tones that thrilled evetv heart hut i. rease, 111 r. Jenks, don't sell papa any more liqunc '' " Otr tionte with you, tliis instant'." exclaimed ierik4, — the eri.risee of Ins Lice de••pening to a dad: pn•ple As he he advanced towards the child. with hi,: haiid. uplifted in fi threatening. atlitude. " Please don't, Mr. itt•tristed tlie child not untying from t.vtiete !she. blood, not baking het ey's from the . Irmll.trtle countenance. " hluther sap , . it you wouldn't aril horn licinor, there'd be no trouble. 11. , *. kind nil g•tud to us all %hen he doeqtt't link." .• Off, I ~ay I ' ..IrAntaLl Jenks. now maddimed be , yorttl srilf control : and his Inti.,l ‘vag ahoir deTcend. in; upon the *tittle one, when the Foratiger caught her in hie arms, ex,•iaitnet4, as he did so, with deep emonort-- "G t i bless the child ! No, no, precious one 1 . - he added "don't fear him Plead for your fatter —plead lor your home. Your pernion must pre vail! 113 cannot say nay to one of the little ones whose angels do always behold the face of their Father in !leaven. Gal bless the. child! ' added the stranger, in a choking voice. '• 0, that the (a Cher. for whom she lia , come tut touching er rand, were present now If these were anything of manhood yet left in his nature, this would awals en it from its pakied .1 - eep " Papa, 0, papa!" fiIAV cried the child, suetvh forth her hands In the next moment she waschng ing to the breast of her father, who. mill) his arms clasped tigtury around her, stood weeping and minglilig his tears a ith those now raining front the hole one's eyes. What an oppressive stillness pervades the room! Jenks stood subdued and bewildered, his State of mental contusion scarcely enabflig him to compre• hand the lull import of the scene ; the stranger look ed on wonderingly, yet deeply afleeted Quietly, and with moist eyes, the two or three drinkingcass• tomato, who ,had been lounging in the bar, went stealthily out; and the landlord, the stranger, and thstattuir and his child, were left the only remotes' of the room. gd Come, Liz s zy dear ! this is no Place for 831 d Lpslie, breaking the deep silence. "'We'll go home And the unhappy inebriate took his child by. the hand, and led her towards the door. But the liete one held back. " Wait, papa ; wail !" she said. "He hail raised yet. 0, I wish he would promise!" " Ptotnise her, in Heaven's name !" said the stranger %Promise !" said Leslie. in a stern, Ye; iiilirrtin voce, as he turned and fixed his eyes upon •lhs landlord. " If I do promise, IT keep it !" returned Jenks, in a threatening tone, as he returned the gale IMO " Then, for God's sake, promise szeisitneil Leslie, in a half despairing voice, "Prontiie,enill Trn snfe i" " Be it so ! May I be cursed, if ever I sell you; drop o( drink at this bar, while I am the landlord of the Siag and Hounds!" Jenks spoke with an angry emphaitis. "Gud be thanked!'' murmured the poor drunk ard,Ole led his child away. "Gal be tharike4.l There is hope for me-yet." Hardly had the mother of Lizzy missed her dal ; ere she enti&i,- leading her father by the hind. "0, mother !" she exclaimed, with a joy-lit cob?. tenance, and in a voice of exultation 'Mr. Jenks hat promised." Plomised what !" Hope sprung up in her help on wilt, and fluttering wings, her face fleshea t innl then iruw deadly pale. She sat panting for a rg- Ply. . "That he would never sell me another glass of lignor," said her husband, A , pair of white hands were clasped quickly to gethr, an ashen face was turned upwards, tearless eyes looked thvir thankfulness to Heaven. "There in hope yet, Ellen," said Leslie. " Hope, hope! And 0, Edward., you have said the word." " Hope, through our child. Innocence has pre vailed over vice and cruelty. She came to the strong, evil, passionate man, and in her wes3cntsa and innocence, prevailed over him. God made her fearless and eloquent." A year afterwards, the stranger came again that way, and stopped at the "Slag and Hounds." As before, Jenks was behind his welVfilled bar, and drinking customers came and went in numbers.- 7 Jenks did not recognize him until he called for wa. ter, and drank a full tumbler ofre pureliqeor With a hearty zest. 'Then he knew him, but feigned to, be ignorant of his identity. The stranger made au reference to the scene he had witnessed there a twelvemonth before, bat hogered in the bar for most of the day, closely observing every one that came to dank. Leslie was not among the num ber. Whit has become of the man and the littlegid I saw hare, at my last •isit to Milantrille t" said the stranger, speaking at last to Jenks. 4, Gone to the devil, for all I care," was the land fotd-'s rude and% er, as he turned ofi from but ques tioner. " For all you elite, no doubt," said the stranget himself. " Meu often speak their real thoughts in a passim." " Do you see that kale white co;tage away oit there, just at the edge of this wood ! Two tall pop. lars stand in front." Thus spoke to the stranger one who had heard him address the landh,rd. rr "I do. What of it 1' he answered. " The man you asked for lives there." " Indeed!" "And what is more, if he keeps on as he haste. gun, the cottage will be all his own in another year. Jenks, here, dosn't feel any good blood for him, as you may well believe. A poor man's pros. pelity is regarded as so much loss to hirn. Leslie it a good mechanic—one of the best in He can earn twelve dollars a week, year in awl year out. Iwo hundred dollars he has already paid on Iris cottage; and as he is that much richer, Jenks thinks himself just so much poorer—fur ad. 'his surplus, and more too, would have gone into his till, If Leslie had not quit drinking." "Alfa! I see! Well, did Leslie, as you cat! him, ever try to get it drink here, since the land. lord promised never to let him hale another drop?" "Twice, to my knowledge." " And he refused him?" Yes If you remember, he said in his anwr, May Ibe cursed it I sail him another drop." " I remember it very well." "That saved poor Leslie. Jenks issuperstitious in some things: He wanted to get his eostomagain for it was well worth having—and he was actu ally handing bun the bottie one day, when I' saw ii and reminded hint of bile self-imprecation. He hesitated, looked frightened, withdrew the bottle Irom his bar-room, threatening at the same lintel° horsewhip him it ever he seta toot over his thresh 7 h‘old again." " Poor drunkard'." mused the stranger, as he rode past the neat cottage of the reformed man a couple of hours afterwards "As the case now stands, you are only railed as by tire. All latir,all protection is on the side of those who are engaged, in enticing you into sin, and destroyin4 you, body and soul. hilheir evil work they Mrafree course. Out for you, unhappy wrerchel,' after they have robbed you of worldly goods„.and even manhood itselt, are provided pri4onymid pauper homes ! And for your obildren"--4 dark shadow a.vept ovatr the stranger's face, and a shudder went through his frame. "Can it be a Christian country in which I live, and such things darken the very sun at noon day 1" he added, as he sprung his horse into a gallop, and rode swiftly on. (y- t , I hate good ear, a wonderful ear l " . eau *conceited musician, in the amuse of oonvines. "So b ee a irckaas," replied a bystander. .._-.:av :~mm~s~s i., U EMEI EsUndrilaM Sea