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WHEN STARS ARE IN THE SKIES.
BY K. L. 13CLWKR.
When -tar* r.re in the quiet skies
Then must 1 l'iue for thee ;
Betid on ilie then thy tender eyes,
A - -tars look on the sea.
F r ihoujthU, like waves that glide by night.
Are -tiile-t when they shine.
Aline earthly love lies iitmhed in light
Beneath the heaven of thine,
There i- an hour when angels keep
Familiar watch o'er men,
When coarser son Is are wrapped in sleep -
Sweet spirit, meet me then !
Titer' i- an hour when holy dreams
Through similiter fairest glide,"j
Ami in that mystic hour it seems
Thou sh juldst be by my side.
The thoughts of thee too sacred arc
For daylight's common l earn ;
1 can but know THEE as MY star,
Mv angel and my dream !
When -tars are iu the quiet skies.
Then most 1 pine for thee ;
B. ud m nie then thy tender eyes,
A- -tars look mi tlie sea.
$) 11 itit s I.
The Paper read by Francis P. Blair, at
the Pittsburg Convention.
There i- a great body of thinking men in the
southern States— many I know in Maryland,
: considerable number, my neighbors in Mont
gonterv county, who deplore the repeal of the
l ..mprotnisi s in relation to Slavery, which all
;., 1 had terminated the distractions, growing
nt of this disturbing subject forever. It is
* rue thi'se people have not hitherto manifested
v public demonstrations their solicitude. The
o.i iion of good faith in the breach of these
.parts of peace between the sections, and
fatal consequences likely to follow, were
ot at first obvious to the mass of the South
;..-..pie, because by the art of the politicians
who conducted the passage of this measure
I'hrmijrli secret caucus, where all the personal
ir -ts of the leaders in Congress and their
i;.in- making up the majority in both
liuiisps necessary to effect it, were previously
r-tnged—the repeal was made to appear, as
voluntary tender of the North to the South,
i-rc had been no consultation by the inem
r-of Congress, in any quarter with their
.ait', tent.-, either by is.-ues made before the
•ople. during the canvass or afterwards, or
y address, petition, and votes in public nieet
i._- or liy resolutions.
Among us extraordinary changes, affecting
rg.- interests, and reaching the feelings, the
i i i i-. the religious and political principles
>' n, as well as the political power of the
Tales had hitherto always been preceded or
. ' A h'd by every mode of forming and elieit
„• the public opinion, which is the vital raove
■-tit in a Republican Government. But in
late overthrow of all the adjustments of
most anxious question which Congress has
.) to deal with, from its first to the present
• -ion, not a whisper of the uc-igu was per
il to reach the public ear until its success
• ai d by lli!' private arrangements of the
i.uis in Congress, in conjunction with tire
ifiri. The measure when publicly pre
'i w ;-at f';r-t veiled iu (lie Committee's
as being but a reference to the Su
< art of a question involving the con
"i'.ouuiity of the compromises—then as a
i-ion that the compromise of 1820 was
j ' o'-'ded by the compromise of 1850, but
■ interpretation of the Bill, covertly con
" i tic repeal of the compromise of i ><2o —
"f I s -o—and also the compact with TeX
iy v:h:cli all the Territory reserved by
' ■ them as free from Slavery iu the tcr
- condition, was opened up to its ad
■ " >iU.
fits Bill of intrigue, passed in conclave, by
•'io'-iig politicians, to subserve personal
W.LS well understood by themselves
"ht\r partizans to be a bonus for the
W'ic iii the election of President, but
. '" hen-. 1 info Congress as the voluntary
- of the North to the South to the priu
qnility. It was thus divested in the
'''Synth, of being a breach of faith
r Ir came as a free gift to them
< hicf Magistrate and other leading
E I'ieseutatives of their Northern bre-
I ' • inre not aware of the treachery of
'• ! rc-riitatives to their constituents, nor
. anticipate the excitement which lias
A ''"in the wrong, aggravated by the be
}' which it was attended, nor the dan
''■ ';i-'equeiiees likely to follow. Multi
•'iie-t patriots in the Slavcholding
ho love the Union, would willingly
>e compromises, the work of the great
a ir own region. They are sensible
I 'L'i effects of its dissolution upon the
. prosperity of the confederacy, and of
• destruction of the security in
hold the Slave Institution—of the
i. -eencs of civil war and Slave insur-
A, iich might arise out of the collisions
he two section# on the one side wear
:i>pect of a war of conquest, for the
Shivery,— on the other u war of
'' preserve the rights of the emigrants
"gone from their bosom. But these
-O<M] laith who respect engagements, j
a ", the engagements which have
\ '""d and happy ties between the
I., L I nion, find their section, already
" in strife by the combination of poli
,v rt ho seek personal advantages bv the
' omniits the power and interests of
h> the few chiefs who iiuiuuge it ;
' " bole Smith is at this moment in
THE BRADFORD REPORTER.
the hands of politicians who have contrived the
movement, to strip the North of its interests,
as provided for in the several compromises ; and
the best men of the Slaveholding States, who
are sensible of the iniquity cannot venture to
declare their sentiments, lest they incur the
imputation of deserting their owu section in a
contest in which defeat would be humiliation,
and for which the lenders who have produced
it, would subject them to the charge ot failing
to stand by the cause of their peculiar Institu
tion.
The persons who have sent me to this Con
vention, are the first of the slave holding re
gion who have come forward to vindicate the
cause of our common country against this sec
tional influence. They are a body of business
men of Baltimore who feci that their city espe
cially and the State of Maryland have a* great
stake depending on the preservation of the
1 Union and the peace of the country. If the
bonds which unite the two portions of the Un
ion, distinguished by free and slave institutions
should be severed, the natmc of the different
interests growing out of the species of property
iu which it consists on one side, must involve
continual conflicts for its recovery, when living
to the other for freedom, and the animosity
thus engendered cannot fail to bring 011 tlio.se
protracted and bloody wars of ambition and
conquest which have characterized nations of
contiguous Territory in every age, and which
have produced the most relentless hostilities
between those of kindred blood. The wars be
tween England, Scotland and Ireland—the
wars between France and England—of France
and the northern nations of the continent—
wars which make up the history of Europe,
would have their parallel here. Maryland
would become the Belgium of this side of the
Atlantic—the Potomac the Rhine. The shores
of all our great Rivers dividing the hostile
States would frown with fortresses and centu
ries of bloodshed ensue, unless the peculiar
cause originating the strife, which make an ear
ly end of it, by the intestine war of colors has
tening its own extinction.
Those I represent, ablioring the thought of
civil war pressed on the mind of every man bv
the sectional feud, which although now show
ing its violence only upon a remote frontier, is
nevertheless at work in every spirited heart on
the continent, have desired me to submit to this
Convention, convoked to take the initiative in
the nomination of a Chief Magistrate to up
hold the cause of the Free States in the con
troversy, a proposition marked by justice and
moderation, to restore good feeling, and con
cord, and certainly there never was a contest
where the plain honest idea that directed lack
sou's administration was of such easy applica
tion in settling a diflieuly. Let the North ask
nocking but what is clearly right, and submit to
nothing that is wrong , ami it cannot fail to bring
the quarrel to an honorable termination. The
di-pute about the Territarics was adjusted so
satisfactorily to the whole country that all par
ties, however widely differing on other subjects,
m ide it a point to give iu adhesion to the set
tlement in every subsequent election—all the
candidates for the Presidency before and in the
last canvass in obedience to the several no
minating conventions, stood upon it as a plat
form.
Tile present Chief Magistrate did more. By
the very terms of his Inaugural address, closed
hy a sJitnn oath, he may he siid to have
sworn his allegiance to the compromises of the
Slave question, declaring they should not be
disturbed if he could prevent it during his term
of service, lie renewed the vow in the mes
sage to the first congress he met ; and before
its close became the active instrument in abol
ishing every compromise made ou the subject
since the foundation of the Government. It
was done with the suddenness of the explosion
of a mine of powder. The system plain ed by
Jefferson and his compatriots to prevent the
extension of Slavery and its dangerous tenden
cy to disruption of the Cnion—the safeguard
superadded under Monroe's administration—
Lowndes, I'inekuey, Calhoun, Crawford—all
the great men of the South aiding ; and Clay
especially distinguishing himself, after two years
of struggle, in its effectuation—the late dispo
sition of the controversy about the Mexican
acquisitions accomplished by tlie same great
man, supported by Webster, Cass, and by Ben
ton also on the main point- the exclusion of
Slavery by the prohibition of the Mexican laws,
in a word, ail the real statesmen of the coun
try, compromises on the subject made by, and
pronounced by them as binding in honor as
the comprom ses of the constitution,
blown up by tlie accession of President Pierce
and Mr. Douglas, to the scheme of Mr. Atchi
son and a few Nullificrs who prepared the
Now the simple remedy for this ruin is to
rebuild the work overthrown, and nothing is
easier, if resolved ujwm by the North, and per
sisted in without regard to party names or
party cries—or individual designs or predilec
tions. There is not an honest patriot in the
North of any party who does not condemn this
act of bad faith. Many it is true, warped by
schemes of selfish ambition and looking to their
advancement through Southern influence, say
the mischief done, cannot be repaired. The
compromises cannot be restored because the
Senate and the President hold n veto to for
bid it. There was immeasurably a stronger
veto against the expunging Resolution—the
ball which Renton solitary and alone put in
motion. But public opinion triumphed then
over the strongest wills and the ablest men of
the country. It cannot be withstood by the
puppets now on the scene. In the meantime,
the strong representation of the North in the
House can hold everything in abeyance until
the Nation's voice shall pronounce its irresista
ble decision.
That the South will acquiesce in it, what
ever the violent men, who seek a dissolution of
the Union, to make Charleston the New-York
of the South, none can doubt. How can it
assume the attitude of nullification, and war
IIJXUI the compromises and compacts of its own
seeking—matured by its own greatest States
men, under which they have enjoyed peace and
safety for two-thirds of a century, and the sub
version of which makes the tenure, not only of
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TO WAND A, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH.
" REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER."
the domestic Institution, but of all they hold
dearest in public or private life, depeud on the
chances of civil WBI\ Whenever this issue comes,
the North will find an auxiliary in the same
Union party in the South, that sustained Jack
son, and my constituents will have the proud
pre-eminence of having first given in their ad
hesion to this the really patriotic party of their
section.
The repeal of the repealing clause of the Kan
sas-Xebr a ska act, would be the finale of all the
existing commotions and of the eager ambition
which originated them. If this single line is
inscribed on our Flag we shall conquer under
it. It will be the Union Flag.
The repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska clause,
overthrowing the rights of the Free States, is
j a vital, pressing exigency. It is the issue made
i by the acts of the administration, and is the
! only one producing the existing excitement.—
i It should be moved at once in the House of
Representatives, as a practical mode of redress
' ing the wrongs and rebuking the aggressors,
and to give notice that the majority of the
people of the Union mean to vindicate their
rights and the cause of Free Institutions, in
the most direct manner ; and also, that Slave
holders may have warning in advance, not to
hazard the property they value so highly, in a
Territory from which by solemn covenant Sla
very was interdicted, and which the sovereign
power of the country has resolved to reinstate.
This warning is necessary to preclude the plea
of vested rights ; as having effect in favor of
! such as go into Kanas or other Free territory
with Slaves : a pitta which was urged succcss
fully in Missouri. It is necessary too to estop
owners of slaves fi'om claiming indemnity for
slaves, freed by the act of Congress, recogniz
ing such Territory 011 coming into the Union
us Free. Even if Kansas were admitted at the
present session of Congress as a Free State, the
Repeal ought to be urged to prevent the repe
tition of the Kansas outrages, in New Mexico,
I tah, and all the Territory of the United
States, the Nebraska act having (iu violation
of the prohibitory laws or treaty) opened them
all up to similar invasions. For these reasons, !
and many more that might be urged, touching 1
the policy of the measure, 1 hold that every J
issue should merge in that of Repeal.
There is one view more which duty to my*
Southern constituents prompts me to present i
for consideration. In the South both the old I
parties, Whig and Democratic, have blended j
their strength, to secure the conquest of the '
free territories for the Slave Institution. Mr.
Caruthers, a staunch Whig of Missouri, when
asked where were the Whig party, answered j
that its soul had transmigrated into the De- j
inoeratic body in the South, and while pro- \
noiiiicing the proudest culoginm on Henry I
Clay, whose principles he still held as his po- j
litical faith, admitted that the measure on
which the slave holding section had planted its
standard had identified in its support the Whigs ;
and Democrats of the slave holding states, ;
however differing on other questions. The j
South Americans, although all connection with (
them was reprobated by the Democratic Cau
cus of the House, and by the official organ of,
the Administration at Washington, were con-!
strained to support Mr. Aiken, the Adminis
tration candidate for Speaker at the close of
the contest. This proves that all political or
ganizations hostile as they are 011 all subordi
nate questions upon the sectional policy of ex
tending Slavery to Territory hithcito free, arc
one and indivisible. The success achieved by I
the Southern politicians by inducing all the \
Northern aspirants for the Presidency to run !
a race for the favor of the South, iu showing
who would go farthest and fastest to make j
surrender of the rights of their constituents to j
the slavcholding section, leaves 110 public man I
in the South any other alternative than to re- j
linquish his position, or insist on that great
conquest for the slavcholding interest, to which j
it was contrived to give the appearance of be- j
ing u voluntary boon tendered by the North to \
the South. It is this strategy which renders it I
impossible at this time for those among the !
people who favor the compromises, to rallv in j
the South to maintain what they are sensible 1
honor and good faith recognizes us binding, ;
because made by its own statesmen, then in j
command of the Government, and sanctioned !
by their own consent. In the South, thcrecan
never be a party to assist iu redressing this j
wrong until the North dispels by its unanimity j
the illusion, that its people arc willing to ae- j
quiescc in it.
The hopes depending on party leaders, con
trolling everywhere the old organization of the
Democratic party in the free States, and thein
fiueiice and patronage of the administration
have done much to stifle the voice of the mas
ses in the free States. If they will in the ap
proaching Presidential election unite all parties,
indignant at the violation of the rights of the
North, to assert them, as all have united in
the South to deny them, the injustice will soon
be remedied. When the North is true to it
self, there arc multitudes in the other section
who will perceive the iniquity it has snflfered,
but who would never see it, if tamely acquiesc
ed in. There are thousands in the South who
arc sensible of the danger to themselves in the
breach of the compacts about slavery—whoes
nmte truly the consequences of a rupture of
good feeling between the sections, and who ra
ther than bring matters to the arbitrament, to
which they seem to be hastening, would will
ingly see the broken compacts restored—Jmt if
from want of concert of action, the North, how
ever injured and excited can make no effectu
al resistance, it may prepare for a repetition of
indignities and wrongs to which those who of
fer them will set no limit when there is no bond
to submission. This Republican Convention
is a nucleus which it may be hoped will gather
around it the masses of the North who arc re
solved to redress the wrong perpetrated bv the
passage of the Kansas-Nebraska act. " Re
publican party " was the early designation of
that which subsequently took the soubriquet
of Democrat at first given in derision. Mr.
Jefferson in his lirst inaugural, calling the par
ties by names under which they then were ar
rayed against each other, said—" we are all
Republicans, we are all federalists." Ho meant,
doubtless, that there were certain great prin-
eiplcs iu which both agreed, embraced iu their
designations, however much they disagreed
about matters of policy and modes of adminis
tering the Government.
The Federalists gave their support to the
Republicuu form of government. The Repub
licans were devoted to the federal compact—-
both agreed in opposition to royalty, and in
opposition to a severance of the federation,and
leaving the States to drift as petty nations,
detached from each other. May not those
who have organized with a view to correct
what they consider mere error iu the legisla
tion and administration of Government, under
whatever party name or watchword they rally,
unite with those who do not agree with them
about the measures or mode of reform on points
which involve nothing vital,-to redeem the go
vernment from an infraction of tlie fundamen
tal laws, on which they believe its peace and
prosperity certainly depend, and possibly its
unity as a nation. Cannot all parties in the
North unite in such a crisis, to preserve what
they in common feel to lie paramount to all
other questions in controversy which have here
tofore divided them, and cannot all rally under
a Republican standard to defend the cause of
free institutions and the Union against the
aggression of interested and ambitious men,
who make slavery a means of combining a sec
tional force to accomplish their designsaguiust
them, and especially when if this moment be
lost the cause must be lost !
The great object of defeating this attempt,
by putting all questions of difference in abey
ance for the time, does not imply a surrender
of other party principles, or of the organiza
tions to be employed to give effect to them
hereafter. But such is the reluctance of men
who have battled for a cause under a banner
to which they hare given their oflections—so
loyal are the hearts of good men, even to the
badges they have worn and which they honor,
that they will not desert them for others, al
though they feel the necessity of uniting with
those whom they have once opposed, iu sup
port of still dearer and more important inter
ests. I tliink this noble feeling should becon
sulted by this Convention in the arrangements
it may make to produce concert among all par
ties who place the preservation of the free ter
ritories from Slavery (and as a result, the pre
servation of the Union) above all other sub
jects of controversy, and it is hoped that mea
sures will be adopted to induce all the friends
of this cause, who arc unwilling to take part
in nominating candidates for the first and sec
ond officers of the Government in the Repub
lican Convention, to send delegates to separate
conventions under their own party designations,
to meet at the same time and place to confer
upon the subject of the nominations, and in
conclusion, if found necessary and practicable,
to unite in a Mass Meeting of the Representa
tives of all parties, drawn together to confer iu
regard to the menus of extricating the country
from the threatening and most alarming posture
iu which it is now placed—surrendering for the
OCCUMOU all questions of minor differences of
policy and reform and personal predilections,
for men of this or that party, and giving, as
did the patriots of the Revolution the whole
heart to the cause and nothing but the cause,
and thus by joint counsels'ensure a glorious
triumph for the conservative principles of our
Government—the public will. The candidate
of such a mass meeting would stand above the
conflicts of partizan politics, and like the ele
vated chiefs who led in the establishment of
our independence, would value no man but as
a contributor to the success of the great cause
of the country. FRANCIS P. BLAIR.
DOMESTIC HAPPINESS. —Ah ! what so re
freshing, so soothing, so satisfying, as the pla
cid joys of home ? See the traveler—does
duty call him for a season to leave his belov
ed circle ? The image of his earthly happi
ness continues vivid in his remembrance ; it
quickens him to diligence ; it makes him hail
the hour which sees his purpose accomplished
and his face turned towards home ; it com
munes with him as he journeys, and he hears
the promise which causes him to hope, "thou
shall know that thy tabernacle shall be in
peace, and thou shalt visit thy tabernacle and
not sin." Of the joyful reunion of a divided
family—the pleasures of a ronewe 1 interview
and conversation after davs of absence?
Heboid the man of science ; he drops the
laborious and painful research, closes the vol
ume, smooths his wrinkled brow, leaves his
study, and unbending himself, stoops to the
capacities, yields'o the wishes, and mingles
with the diversion of his children.
Take the man of trade ; what reconciles
him to the toil of business ? What enables him
to endure the fastidiousness and impertinence
of customers ? What rewards him for so ma
ny hours of tedious confinement ? Bv and by
in the season of intercourse, he will behold
the desire of his eyes, and the children of his
love, for whom lie resigns his case ; and in
their welfare and smiles he will find recompense.
Yonder comes the labonr; lie has borne
the burden and the boat of the day, the de
scending sun has released him of his toil, and
he is hastening home to enjoy his repose.—
Hsilf-way down the lane by the side of which
stands his cottage his children run to meet
him. Due he carries and one he leads. The
companion of his humble life is ready to fur
nish liiin with his plain repast. See his toil
worn countenance assume an air of cheerful
ncss. His hardships are forgotten—fatigue
vanishes—he eats and is satisfied. The even
ing fair, lie waiks with uncovered head around
his garden—enters' again and retires to rest;
and " the rest of the laboring man is sweet,
whether he eats little or much." Inhabitant
of 1 lie lowly dwelling ! who can be indifferent
to thy comfort ! Peace to thy house !—717/-
lia m Jmj.
Widow Drizzle's husband lately died if
cholera. In the midst of his most acute bodi
ly pain, after the hand of death had touched
him, and while writhing in agony, his gentle
wife said to liiin—" Well, Mr. Grizzle, yon
needn't kiek round so and wear all the sheets
out '/ v'-v nrr J
Deptli of the Niagara River.
" The depth of the Niagara river, umler the
"Suspension Bridge, is estimated by the eugi
" neers to be 700 foot. This, we believe, is
" deeper than any other rapidly miming stream
"in the world. Such are the dimensions of u
story which lias been going " the rouuds of the
prass," with grudully increasing proportions,
for months. It seems a pity to deprive the
public organ of wonder of food so congenial to
its appetite, yet we think it best to say what we
can to stop the deepening of this great chasm,
lest it should endanger the unity of our planet,
and separate New York and Canada by and by
into two different hemispheres.
We do not believe there is any great depth
of water under the Suspension Bridge, proba
bly not over twenty-live or thirty feet. The
sudden change from smooth to rough water is
irreconcilable with the idea of a uniform deep
river, which would produce a nearlv equable
descent from the Falls to the Wliir!|w*ol. Such
a sudden break from a nearly level current to
a foaming rapid, with a conspicuous declivity
iu its surface, could no more exist iu a river
hundreds of feet deep, than a belt of surf could
form across the Gulf Stream.
The whole appearance of the place indicates
that the comparatively quiet water above is
held back by an obstacle near the bridge, over
which the stream breaks and rolls iu a huge
rapid or " rift." It is like the flow of any ri
ver over a bar, or over a deeply submerged
dam ; and in this ease, the dam is formed by
rocky ledges crossing the river at this point,
which have prevented its waters from wearing
its channel as deeply here as above. And so
says the best authority on the subject, Profes
sor Hall, in his report on the western geologi
cal district of the State, page 338 :
" At one place about a mile below the Falls
and where the channel is narrowest, the stream
glides with comparative stillness, while below,
where the channel is broader, it is driven with
great velocity. * * These appearances
have their causes in the geological structure of
the place. Below the whirlpool there are no
hard strata in the bed of the river, consequent
ly the channel is deeper and more tranquil
than where such rocks exist. At the whirlpool
and above tint* place, the hard sandstone layer
is at or near the level of the river, and conse
quently the channel is not worn so deep.—
Again, after this hard mass has dipped below
the surface, the bed of the river is excavated
iu softer rocks, hence the narrow channel and
smooth water a mile below the Falls. Near
the Falls, the higher beds of sandstone and the
limestone of the Clinton group, approaches the
level of the river, and thus causes a wider shal
low channel and more tumultuous water."
This is certainly a perfectly simple explana
tion of these features of the river, supported bv
facts plainly visible to the eye of any practical
observer.
Ihe hard sandstone which forms the rifts
about the whirlpool and bridge dips deeper and
deeper until, when nearly at the Falls, it is
perhaps 75 or 100 feet below the surface of
the river, of which it probably forms the floor.
This part of the river, characterized by its boil
ing and eddying yet nearly level flow, may
therefore be 70, so or 90 feet deep. Immedi
ately below the Falls the Clinton limestones
and subjacent sandstone, 30 or 40 feet thick,
and very hard and massive, form a still strong
er floor, to receive the pouring torrent, which
runs off swiftly and roughly.
\\ c know it is said that line and plummet
show a far greater depth for this part of the
river, but tliey are very unreliable in rapid wi
tor ; the lead i* carried away more or less, and
the line swept out into long loops and bows.
Moreover we may allow for the universal pro
pensity to exaggeration and mysticism which
makes all deep lakes, rivers and sens bottom
less. We have sounded ponds so reported, and
have found but live or ten fathoms, and we be
lieve the Niagara, above the whirlpool, could
its current be stilled, would not require a much
longer line to find its bottqin.— Tribune.
A NKW ZKALAXD " LADY."—A young gen
tleman who left Preston, in England, above
four years ago, thus writes home front Waean
ni, in New Zealand, to a fiicnd :—"Needle
women are much wanted in a double capacity;
in the first and most important as wives, in the
second as dressmakers, Ac. All young men
should marry before emigrating. .Many who
come out here form matrimonial connections
with the natives. My partner is a native, and
thought faultless in form her complexion is not
more fair than black—in plain language, she
is a woman of color, the exact shade approach
ing much nearer to polished brown paper, or
mahogoiiv. than anything else 1 can recollect.
She cannot speak English, and is ir.ncli addict
ed to what you would call smoking, but what
she elegantly terms kni /nprka —Auglice, food
to'iaeeo. lfer hair hangs in negligent grace
fulness, and is of a beautiful and brilliant black.
Her eyes arc brown, her person tall and erect,
and her carriage faultless and dignified as that
of any European. From one ear is suspended
a shark's to<>th, and the other is embellished
with a bit of colored worsted. Her feet were
never tortured by shoes, nor concealed by sterl
ings ; they are as free as when nature formed
them. She can swim to perfection, can man
age a canoe in a sea that would appal a Lou
don waterman, and is snelt an adept in catch
ing fish that Izaak Walton would have shrunk
in opposition to her. I have been induced to
imike these remarks, as they will applv to the
whole native race. European women are so
scarce that English and Maori connections arc
little noticed. The practice is common ; and
the dark complexion, naked feet, and kni lupe
kn have become familiar to us as possible."
THK QIEEX OK TKKKOKS. —An old Scotch
man, who had been awfully henpecked all his
life, was visited on his death-bed by a clergy
man. The old man appeared very indifferent,
and the parson tried to rouse him by talking
of the King of Terrors.
" Hout, tout, mon," exclaimed the Scotch
man, " I've been living sax and forty years
with the Queen of them, and the King canna
be uii"k!c wour."
VOL. XVI. NO. 40.
Early Days of Silas Wright.
A friend, who was an old acquaintance of
the late llou. Silas Wright, related to us an
anecdote of that distinguished man a hick he
j re< c'ved frqin his own ' li,*?, ml as we hu\o
! never seen it in print, although it may have
been, we give it to our readers :
, Mr. Wright left home at an early age to
'• seek his fortune," having, byway of earth]r
I possessioi s, u fine horse, saddle and bridle,
1 pair of niddle-bngs, a small stock of clothing,
and live hundred dollars is money, which was
in bills ai.d was deposited in his* saddle-bags.
Ife took a western course, and in traveling one
day he overtook a man with a wagon and fur
niture and an old span of horses, apparently
cuiigrat'ng. There was nothing particularly
attractive at first view in the person or equi
page, but upon a closer inspection, Mr. Wright
j discovered the daughter of the emigrant, awo>t
I beautiful young lady, evidently refilled und in-
I telligent. They journeyed onward toward Ge
! nevu, chatting cosily together, when suddenly
i the old geutleinan recollected that he wished
i to get his money changed at the Geneva Bank,
and to enable him to reach that place before
the close of bank hours, he proposed that young
Wright should take his seat beside the "boun
tiful daughter and allow him to mount Wright's
horse and hasten forward. Ardent and half
smitten by the charms of the young lady, Silas
gladly accepted the proposition, and leaping
from his horse allowed the old man to mount
and make off with all his earthly possession,
money included, without a thought.
Rapidly the hours of Thalaba went by, while
these two young and gifted beings pursued
their course, quite leisurely, it maybe surmis
ed, toward their journey's destination.
tin arriving at Geneva. Mr. Wright drove
uj) to the principal tavern, left the lady, but
then for the lirst time, a shade of anxiety cross
ed liis mind for the safety of his fine horse and
his money. He went to all the other public
houses, but could hoar of no such man as he
described ; he boat up to the quarters of the
ea-diier of the bank, and learned, to his addi
tional concern, that such a man had called at
the bank and endeavored to get some inonev
changed, which he declined doing, as the notes
he piesented were counterfeit ! Our future
statesman then came to the conclusion that he
had made a crooked start in life. About fifty
dollars worth of old furniture, a dilapidated
wagon and a span of worn out horses, for a new
wardrobe, fine horse, und five hundred dollars!
Aye ! but then there was the pretty daugh
t r—but her lie could not keep as personal
property without her own consent, and with
out money he hardly wanted a wife He was
at his wit's end, and had jnst concluded to
make the best of a bad bargain, when the old
man made his appearance with horse and mo
ney all safe. It turned out that the money
which the cashier had thought to l>o counter
feit was not so, and the mistake had given the
old man the trouble to go some distance to
find an acquaintance who might vouch for his
respcetabil.tv in case of trouble, and this oc
casioned his mysterious absence. In the sequel,
the beautiful daughter became afterward the
wife of the future statesman.— Detri i' Adv.
(Yisinrs RUSSIAN CUSTOM.—ON white Mon
day and the following Sunday, there is a great
j romenude in the Summer (jardt.ns, namely
;he exhibition of brides. The Russian trades
men on tlic.se days expose their marriageable
daughters in order to marry them ; or as they
term it. to give them away. Under the lime
trees of the principal Altec are two long rows
of gaily dressed girls, packed close together,
like the pipes of an organ. Behind each stands
the mat h maker, and the third row the mo
ther and other female relatives. Through this
double row the spectators and wife-seeking
Russians slowly walk. The latter noticesanv
faces that please them, and the match-mak r
belonging to it. The exhibition lasts till a
late hour.
A WORD IN TIM A.—" IN the- Conference,
when Cider IV was Presiding Klder, there
wfcre three brothers, all preachers, and not geua
rally considered very bright. One had been
examined, and had gone out for the confer
ence to pass upon him. Elder IV, as presid
ing officer, rose to give his opinion. " Breth
ren,''said lie, "these S—s, all of them, are
well meaning men—they're good men—avo,
they're good Christians ; but there's no mis
take about it, they're all of them got a very*
s >ft place in their heads somewhere." Turn
ing his head a little, he met the indignant eves
of the two other brothers fastened full upon
him. Without changing a muscle, he raised
one hand to emphasize his words, and with a
curious expression of countenance, stealing on,
he continued : " And to tell the truth about
it, who ha'n't—who ha'u't ?"
RAILWAY WlT. —Among tlic jokes which
i have been got off during the detentions occa
f sioncd by the d.-cp snow, is the following,
j clipped from a Vermont paper
" Madam," said a conductor, a day or two
since, "your boy can't pass at half fare— lie's
too large.' "He may be too large now," re
plied the woman, who had jraid for a half
ticket, " but he was small enough when we
started."
Tiic above dialogue was overheard on or.c
of the trains of the Rutland and Burlington
Railroad. The joke may be appreciated when
it is known that the train had been delayed all
j night at a by station.
To DIKKCT a wanderer in the right way, is
( to light another man's candle by one's own,
which loses none of its light by what the other
! gain".
Those who are sensible of the true en
joyments of life, and have tlie sources of them
in their own breasts, will know the value of
being cheaply pleased.
i
j SYDNEY SMITH, always at home on a joke
against his own cloth, ttscd to lameut that ma
ny clergymen thought sin was to be taken front
man as Kvc was taken from Adatn by throw-
I in him int" n profound -lumber.