ONE MLLAR PER ANN'JM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. likiiiforii ilcjjortcr. K. (>. GOODRICH, EDITOR. TOW A N D.A. : SatnrDan ftlarninn, 3iuu 21, ISolj. i!eirn of Terror in Kansas! We make some extracts below to show the ■omlition of Kansas under the rule of the pre .mini •" law and order" men, who are murder lu r inoffensive citizens, burning houses, steal - ~_r cattle and committing depredations " by nithority " of the territorial laws. The first article is from the fYorth American, i Philadelphia paper, of decidedly conservative H-arings. which has not sympathized with the riends of Freedom, but which is now awakeu :il and alarmed at the dangerous inroads of - iverv upon our free institutions, and at the iionstrous outrages perpetrated upon the Free Settlers in Kansas. [Ui 'ira tin- Nin th American of the fith June.] FIS'M KANSAS. —We have conversed with Mr. <l. P. Lowry, the private Secretary of Ex i; iveruor Reeder, who has just arrived from Kansas He gives a melancholy account of the condition of things in the territory, and ir mi hi> statements we are satisfied that the litters of the newspaper correspondents, so far in exaggerating the troubles, scarcely do •; in justice. All the roads leading from the Missouri border to the principal towns of the MTitory. arc covered by roving bands, clothed u:th the authority ot the national government, •a jo allow no Free State man to pass. They k? arrests without cause, and without war • They search whom they choose, break -:i private letters and trunks, and it is now -t impossible for any supplies or comniu .ss'iis to reach the Free State men by anv : tlie regular means. Resistance to these .maulers is immediately heralded to every • of the Union as insurrection against the - and authority of the nation Even the mkt affray is thus magnified. The Free -Miemen have from the first lieen loth to op : 'iy one chit bed with national authority. ' •-e roving bands rob them, cut off their -■■■>- and communications, steal their horses i'-attle, and do not hesitate to commit mur is assaults without provocation, i' frequently asked why the Free State uo not retaliate. We have already given .'of i rca-oii. Another is that the ontra never committed when there is the . test chance of an even conflict. The as i .Mr. Sumner is a faithful type of all ■ iragroiis deeds of the pro-slavery men in N -us A lieu one or two Frec-soilers are -lit by a band of tLoir opponents, or when :m be taken unawares, or when a solita ry farmer can be found afar from help, then Mi-ourians are terrible fellows. This is xphmation of their success. Lawrence was known by them to lie in an utterly lenoolos ' ondition, for the want of supplies, 'arrest or absence of leaders, and other ■ auics. The roving bands lose no opportuni st driving (lie Free State men from tlieir r: \wlicntlicvcando so without peri! to | ''Reives Hut tlicy will only attack solitary "-MIS. and when there is a danger of help i sin .moiH'd to resist them, tlicv are quite Mr Jolui S. Howen, of West Chester, a i'-p| i table and intelligent gentleman, j '■rings the latest accounts from the terri fy. represent- its condition as truly deplora- Tk'audacity and recklessness of thebor • ' ruffians have increased to such an extent as oi'pail the settlers in a continual ferment -anxiety. They now deem it fatal to lose -"it of their arms. 'br readers <au be at no loss to understand I'j-ct ot these outrages. It is to harass p ' i!' <at tin 1 Free-State iuen, so as to - ' iu tn abandon their claims. 'l*llo reign 'T is a> complete as it is possible for it 31 "• -\o opportunity of arresting orin - Irc(->tate man i< neglected, either in 3 or Kansas. Unless help of some kind T" iiiy extended to the sufferers, it is , • r, 'i that the control of the Territory ■ "j"-u—ly abandoned to the despera i y Shannon, Atchison and Hufnrd. ' 1 States authority there is now open- I- hi the outrages. The leaders are all t with it whenever they undertake to " 3 !c an enormity. M ""lements in the Territory extend " "lav-live miles beyond the Missouri h i< only those nearest the latter "!• visited In* the mobs. The others, suffer from the cutting off of their Mr I.owry says that there arc not '"iglit hundred bona fide pro-slavery Ihe Free-State party outnumber "" '-'rcatly that no one pretends to doubt "lien! pre|)ouderaiicc. Notwithstand ' troubles heretofore, the population 3 o increase up to the commencement • ' t and worst interference. That has and threatens to put an end to all ;' "th. A number of the southern r "d' eribed as very worthy persons, • " tt.'d on laud and gone to work to I hit the rnassof them appear to - 1 l ii without means, who, on arriving V or >'. were destitute, and had to be r ,/ '"Mlibations from their friends. .. ' I' 0 *''-"g slaves, they arc not able ; ;! by the Free-State men on their , ifir workshops. Others subsist r they obtain on the roads, in the i and " picket guards.'' Were it c, " | l! "' "hole body would undoubted !'" fwe of circumstances, mciu ' " s tate party, a number " 3 -' "lone already. '" "''w.-pajH-rs have censured <io -1 '"v no in t) v i'.r hi- /light from THE BRADFORD REPORTER. the territory. Air. Lowry informs us that lie I was desirous of remaining, and would have done so but for the earnest solicitations of a number of the prominent citizens of Lawrence, and of Messrs. Sherman and Howard, the ma jority of the Congressional Committee, all of whom were laudably desirous of removing all show of pretext for any assault on the place. Ilad (Jovernor Reeder remained, it would have been at the hazard of his life, as the ruffians had avowed their fixed purpose to hang him. A Record of Kansas Ruffianism. Availing themselves of the fact that the ru mors of the alleged death of Dr. Root, Gcn- Pomeroy, and Air. Mitchell, the shooting of Jones, and the killing" of " eight Pro-Slavery men," now prove to have been unfouuded, the doughfaces boldly characterize all statements of outrages in Kansas as " Republican lies." — That there has been falsehood as well as truth sent over the telegraph lines, by the Missouri ans who have charge of them, is unquestiona ble. Rut these false statements do not invali date or diminish the real catalogue of crime. To enable our readers to keep the latter in memory we subjoin below a list of a few oc currences, which are authenticated by legal evidence, and which are not even attempted to be denied. There are five times as many oth er similar ones reported, and tolerably we]] au thenticated. Rut we wait until they shall be officially and legally confirmed before adding them to the list INVASIONS. NOVEMBER 29, 1854. Missourians to tlie number of over one thousand invaded Territory, armed,drive Judges and legal voters from Polls, and by fraudulent ballots pretend to elect Whitfield Delegate. MARCH 30, 1855. Nearly four thousand Missourians again in vade Territory and repeat the outrages com mitted in November preceding. OCTOBER 1, 1855. Third invasion of Missourians, accompanied by similar outrages. DECEMBER 15, 1855. Fourth invasion, by which an endeavor is made to vote down the Free-State Constitution, i but proves a failure. MAY 21, 1850. Jones, a Missouri Postmaster, heads an armed mob of Alabama, South Carolina and Missouri men, which marches against Law rence, pillages and plunders it, with violence to the inhabitants, and the burning of several buildings. MIRDERS. OCTOBER 2, 1855. Thomas Neuman, a Free-State man, stabbed in the street of Leavenworth by a gang of Missourians. OCTOBER 2, 1855. Child killed while at play, by a shot fired by a Missotirian at James Furnatn, a Free- State man, which missed him and entered a window. NOVEMBER 23, 1855. Olias. W. Dow, a Free State man, shot by F. N. Coleman, a pro-slavery settler. Murder er takes refuge with Gov*. Shannon, and is pro tected by him. DECEMBER —, 1855. James Parbcr, Free-State man, assaulted | and murdered by a shot in the back from the I gun of one of President Pierce's Indian agents. NOVEMBER, 1855. Collins, a Free-State man, called out from his mill, where lie was at work, and shot by Laughlin, a pro-slavery settler. JANTARY 17, 1850. F. I'. Drown, a Free-State man, taken pri soner by a gang of Missourians, hacked to pieces with knives and hatchets, and his bleed ing corpse Hung into his own door—from the effects of which his widow is now a raving maniac. MAY 20, 1550. John Stewart, formerly of Dushford, Alle ghany county, N. V., a young man of 20, shot in his saddle while attempting to escape from a party of "Jones' posse." MAY 19, 1850. Jones, " the only sou of his mother, and she a widow," aged 19, shot through the back, by one of " J ones'posse," because he refused to give up his horse, with which lie snpported him self and his widowed mother. PRINTING OFFICES DESTROYED. DECEMBER 22, 1855. Territorial Register, an Administration pa per at Leavenworth, conducted by Col. Dela liay, mobbed for advocating a Free-State, presses broken, type thrown into the river and editor threatened with murder. APRIL 14, 1855. Parlrille Luminary, at Parkvillo, on the frontier, mobbed by Missourians for similar cause, and the editors, Messrs. Park & Patter son, obliged to quit the State. MAY 21, 1855. Herald of Freedom office, in Lawrence, fired upon with a field piece by " Joue's posse" and reduced to ruins. Tribune office, in Lawrence, mobbed, ran sacki'd and set on fire and burned to the ground, presses, Ac., "destroyed. LYNCHING 1855 AND '56. .Sixteen Free-State men, at different times, have been tarred and feathered, or beaten, or both, and some of them carried into Missouri, or set adrift in the river. Among them were William Phillips, a lawyer of Leavenworth, and a member elect of the Territorial Legisla ture ; the Dev. Pardee Duller, a Baptist cler gvmati : Die D v Mr. Clark a Methodist mis- PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. sionary, and other ministers of the gospel of various denominations. Assaults and battery have l)cen too numerous to recapitulate, hard ly a day passing without some attack on Free- State men in the streets or on the high roads. Among those assailed have been Gov. Reeder, Gen. Poiueroy, &c. UNLAWFUL ARRESTS. Of Governor Robinson, without a warrant. Of Mr. Rrown, editor of The JleralJ of Freedom, without a warrant. Of Messrs. Rronson, Hutchinson, Dietzlor, Schuyler, Smith Baker and fourteen others, by Missourians acting under authority of a pre tended court, for " high treason," in refusing to obey laws of the "Legislature" pretend ed to have been elected by the Missouri inva ders. PKTENDKP LAWS. SEPTEMBER, 1855. Imposing penalty of death for assisting slaves to escape. Imposing penalty of dentil for circulating or printing publications calculated to incite slaves to insurrection. Imposing penalty of death for assisting slaves to escape from any State and take refuge in the Territory. Imposing penalty of five years' imprison ment at hard labor for harboring fugitive slaves. Imposing penalty of two years'imprisonment for aiding a fugitive slave to escape from custo dy of an officer. Imposing penalty of five years'imprisonment at hard labor for writing, printing or circula ting anything against slavery. Imposing penalty of two years' imprisonment at hard labor for saying that persons have not a right to hold slaves in the Territory Disqualifying all from sitting as Jurors who do not admit the right to hold slaves in the Territory. Disqualifying all as voters who do uot swear to support the fugitive slave law. Admitting any one to vote on payment of sl, 110 matter where resident, who will swear j to uphold the fugitive slave law and Nebraska ! bill. Appointing Missourians to be town and county officers for six years to come. Re-enacting the Slave laws of Missouri, en masse, adding that wherever the word "State" occurs in them, it shall be construed to mean " Territory." NO EXCUSE FOR DESTROYING LAWRENCE. I. R. Donalson, United States Marshal for 1 the First District Court, ct cetera, collected his monster posse under pretext that he couid not! execute the writs in his hands by an ordinary force. His letter to the people of Lawrence proved that this was a mere pretext. Another fact confirms this charge. On the timing preceding the destruction of the printing offices, the Free-State Hotel, (/or. Robinsoris residence, and the. sacking of the city, Mr. J lonnlsons Deputy Marshal—Mr. Fain— served tiro writs in Lawrence, without the aid of any posse or encountering the slightest opposi tion. Let this fact be borne in mind ! RAPES. A few days previous to the sacking of Law rence, two young ladies were violated by a gang of " law and order" ruffians, on a claim five miles northwest of the city. They lived on the claim with their mother. I Their father had recently gone Fast on busi ness. They saw four or five men seize two of their horses in the field, and lead them off They went down, and protested against the act. The ruffians seized them, carried them down to the woods, and consummated an outrage upon their persons. There is a day ot retribution coming for all this —and that speedily. STKIXCFELLOW IX A STOKE. Mr. F. Legate of this city was in Mr. Bab cock's store, when I)r. Stringfellow and other " law-abiding" persons entered it. Stringfellow said—" Hoys ! can't we get some good cigars here ?" He went behind the counter, and put a box under each arm. " Well, boys," lie said, as lie took them away, " I guess this is as good plunder as I want." The other men who came in with liitn carried off goods. HORSES STOI.F.V. Two hundred horses, at least, have been sto len from the Free-State men, within 20 miles of Lawrence, since Mr. Marshal Donalson is sued his illegal proclamation. A party of the Free-State men have organized and left Law rence, and swear that tlicy will not return to the city until these horses, or an equal number, are again in possession of their owners. They say that they will seize the horse of every man within 20 miles of Lawrence who is known to have given aid and comfort to the thieves. As soon as the number is made up they will immediately disband. They are so exasperated by the outrages and humiliations to which they have been forced to submit, that it. is impossible to restrain them from retaliation. The Law-and-Ordcr organs will soon teem with essays, I doubt not, on the virtue of obe dience to law ; but it is extremely doubtful whether they will even incidentally refer to the causes which have led to this unfortunate step. DTSCXIOS FLA US AND ACTS. A white flag, with a blood-red star in the centre—the ensign of the Southern Disuuion jsts—was hoisted on the Free-State Hotel be fore the cannonading commenced. Sheriff Jones himself planted a red flag—ap propriate emblem of pirates !—ou the roof of Herald of Freedom office. An American flag floated from a staff at the fort erected last Autumn near the Kansas Hi rer. The " legally organized " militia hauled it down and tore it into ribbons ! This act is significant of their ultimate designs. During the cannonading a rumor spread ra ' " REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." pidlv tliat United States troops were on the opposite side of the river, preparing to cross over. Au officer rode up to Sheriff Jones and spoke to him. On retiring lie shouted : " Hoys ! quick 1 A hundred of you run down to the river and secure the ferry-boats ! If the troops try to cross, fire at them and keep them hack !" A crowd instantly ran to execute the order. The fern-boats were secured. The rumor was false. One of the victims of this cruel raid, a far mer, residing about a mile from Lawrence, wrote the following letter in response to a re quest for information in regard to his losses : LAWRENCE, K. T., May 25, 185 G. On the 21st of May, at night, a number of horsemen robbed me of my brood mares, and burned for fuel, while encamped near my resi -1 dence, between four and live hundred rails.— On the morning of the 22d twenty-eight horse men came and searched my house, asking for Beecher's Bibles. While throwing about the beds, one of them took my wife's night-clothes and held them up, then threw them at a com rade. They took from me two suits of men's clothes, women's clothing, a watch, &c. I can not say at present what amount I have suffer ed ; but my crops are left uufcnccd, nor can I get fence without horses. Republican Meeting in Pike. At a meeting of the citizens of Pike town ship, convened at the Presbyterian Meeting House, in Leßaysville, on Saturday the 7th inst., Dr. E. COBUIIX was called to the Chair, and (J.N. DEWOLF appointed Secre tary. The object of the meeting being stated by the chair, reciting in a clear and forcible manner the wrongs and oppressions which were being perpetrated by the United States Go vernment, through the influence of the slave power of the South. On motion, E. Crandal, G. X. DeWolf and A. Beardsley were appoin ted a committee to draft resolutions. The committee having retired, the meeting was ad dressed by E. W. Jones, Esq., in an earnest and eloquent appeal for immediate and efficient action against the ruling powers of the Feder al government. The committee then cainc for ward and reported the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : That whereas, by the report of the Senate Investigating Committee in the small matter of the attempt to kill Snmner, a member of the Senate, by Mr. Brooks a member of the House of Representatives, it appears that while such things do really constitute a breach of the privi leges of that high, and by the Committee in tended to be a dignified and important body, they yet have no authority or power to protect themselves or prevent a recurrence of similar trivial offences. Therefore, Kesrived , That we recommend and advise individual Senators to place no dependence up on the Scrgeunt-at-Armsor other officers of the Senate, but to summon a sufficient number of their constituents to net as a body guard and ■protection while in the discharge of their sena torial duties. Jfesolced, That the able, fearless and inde pendent manner with which the Hon. (J. A. GROW has discharged his duties, meets with our entire approbation, and we do hereby pledge to him our abiding confidence in his in tegrity and patriotism by agreciug to sustain him in his present position at the ballot-box in October next. Kesolrrd , That to the noble band of pioneers who have gone forth from among us to plant the standard of Freedom and Equal Laws in Kansas, we tender the assurances of our fer vent admiration for their devotedncss, indigna tion for their wrongs, and sympathy for their sufferings ; and wc pledge ourselves intermit no effort and relax no exertions until their rights shall have been vindicated and their op pressors brought to justice. Itcsolved, That we entreat all who concur with us in desiring and demanding that "Free dom shall be national and slavery sectional,'' to forget or postpone their differences on oth er points, and unite with us in securing Free dom to Kansas and excluding slavery from all the territory of the Union. Jteso/red, That the rights of the states, and of the people located in the territories, are just objects of solicitude and support, and wc con demn the efforts making in our day to fuse all political power into one indiscriminate and overshadowing nationalism, as contrary to the faith of our fathers and perilous to republican instititutions. Itnuilred, That 11. 1?. Uailcy, l\ IT. Buck, E. W. Jones, A. Benrdslcy ami Stephen Urillk be appointed a committee to call meetings and to notify the people of any events of interest which may transpire. Jtesohr/I, That the proceedings be signed by the officers and published by the County pa pers. E. CO BURN, President, ti. N. DKWOI.K, Secretary. " FOOLSCAP. '' —Every body knows what " foolscap " paper is, but many would be puz zled to tell how it came to bear this singular cognomen. When Charles I. found his reve nues short, he granted certain privileges,— amounting to monopolies; and annng these was the manufacture of paper, the exclusive right of which was sold to certain parties, who grew rich and enriched the government at the expense of those who were obliged to nse pa per. At this time all English paper bore in water marks the Royal arms. The Parlia ment under Cromwell made jests of this law in every conceivable manner ; and, among other indignities to the memory of Charles, it was ordered that the Royal arms he removed from the paper, and the fool's cap and bells be substituted. These were also removed when the Rump Parliament was prorogued ; but paper of the size of the Parliament's jour nals still bear the name of " foolscap." tear A man being commiserated with on ac count of his wife running away, said, " Pray, don't pity mc till she comes back." THE CONSTITUTION. BY WM. C. BRYANT. Oreat were the thoughts, and strong the winds, Of those who framed the high debate. The immoral league of love that binds Our fair, broad Empire, State by State. And deep the gladness of the hour, % When as the auspicious task was dupe, In solemn trust, the sword of power Was given to glory's spotless sou. The noble men are gone—the suns Of sixty years have risen and set, But the bright links, those chosen ones So strongly forged and brighter yet. Wide as our own free race increase— Wide shall extend the elastic chain, And biud in everlasting peace, State after State—a mighty train. Clean Your Cellars. Ry a beneficial arrangement of Providence the gases and odors most prejudicial to human life are lighter than the air which surrounds us, and as soon as disengaged, rise immediate ly to the upper atmosphere, to be purified, and then returned to be used again. The warmer the weather, the more rapidly are these gases generated, and the more raj>- idly do they rise ; hence it is, that in the most miasmatic regions of tiie tropics, the traveler can with safety pursue his journey ut midday, but to do so in the cool of the evening, or morning, or midnight, would be certain death. Hence, also, the popular but too sweeping dread of "night air." To apply this scientific tiuth to practical life in reference to the cel lars under our dwellings, is the object of this article. The ceilings of cellars should be well plas tered, in order most effectually to prevent the ascent of dampness and noisome odors through the joints of the flooring. The bottom of the cellar should be well pav ed with stone, cobble stones are jairhaps best ; over this should be poured, to the extent of several inches in thickness, water lime cement, or such other material as is known to acquire in time almost the hardness of stone ; this keeps out the dampness of the earth below. If additional dryness is desired for special purposes, in parts of the cellar, let common scantling be laid down, at convenient distan ces, and loose boards be laid across tliern for convenience of removal and sweeping under, when cleaning time of the year comes. The walls should be plastered, in order to prevent the dust from settling on the innume rable projections of a common stone wall. Shelves should be arranged in the centre of the cellar, not in the corners, or against the walls ; these shelves should be hung from the ceiling by wooden arms, attached firmly be fore plastering ; thus you make all safe from rats. To those who are so fortunate as to own the house in which they live, we recommend the month of June, but to renters, the great mov ing month of May, in New York, at least, as the most appropriate time for the following recommendations : Let every tiling not absolutely nailed fast be removed into the yard, and exposed to the sun, and if yon please, remain for a week or two, so as to afford opportunity for a thorough drying. Let the walls and floors be swept thorough ly, on four or five different days, and letaeoat of good whitewashing be laid on. These things should be done onee a year, and one day in the week at least, except in midwinter, every opening in the cellar, for se veral hours, about noon, should be thrown wide, so as to allow as complete a ventilation as possible. Scientific men have forced on the common mind, by slow degrees, the importance of a daily ventilation of our sleeping apart ments, so now none but the careless or most obtuse neglect it ; but few think of ventilat ing their cellars, it is apparent that the noi some dampness is constantly rising upwards and pervading the whole dwelling. Fmanatians from cellars do not kill in a night; if they did, universal attention would be forced to their proper management, but it is certain, from the very nature of things, that unclean, damp and mouldy cellars, with their sepulchral fumes, do undermine the health of multidudes of families, and send many of their members to an untimely grave. CIIAUACTEKISTICS OF A FRKXCII IJAPY.—THE French lady's characteristics are generally that she is unexceptionably shod—that she wears inimitable gloves—that she has a toilet of two colors only, with a distracting way of wearing a shawl—that her manners arc bewitching, full of small graces and delicately shaped coquet ries, but never wanting in the nicest apprecia tion of external propriety, to which her flirta tions are always subordinate—that she has a marvelous facility of walking unsoilcd through the dirty streets of Paris, and as marvelous a knack of holding up her skirts with one hand over her left hip ; and that she has a super natural preservation of youth, and a bewilder ing habit of mistaking her friend's husband for her ou n. ftir "A man discovered America, but a woman equipped the voyage." So everywhere; man executes the performances, but woman trains the man. Every effectual person, leav ing his mark on the world, is but another Co lumbus, for whose furnishing some Isabella, in the form of his mother, or his wife, lays down her jewels, her vanities and her comfort. Let you be ever so pure, yon cannot associate with bad companions without falling into bad odor. Evil company is like tobacco smoke—you cannot be long in its presence with out carrying away a taint of it. BsJ?" \\ c cannot always judge of a man's feelings by his outward appearance ; his con science may torture hint like a burning coal within, while his outside is as smooth as polish ed ivorv VOL. XVII. NO. I. The Dykes of Holland. r l lie dykes, at first strike the beholder as no extraordinary work ; and it is not until we find that a considerable part of the country of Holland lies some twenty-four feet lietieath the level of the sea at high tide, and that it has merely a fence of mud banks to fortify the land against the terrors of invasion from the host of waters about it, that the mind becomes awakened to the vastness and importance of the structures. Nor is it in summer time, when the surrounding rivers are half dried up' and the ocean without is placid and beautiful as some vast lake, that we ore able to arrive at a sense of the protection afforded by the belt of sea-walls to the people within them : but only during the tempests of winter, when the terrible wates are towering to the skv, like liquid mountains, and the tide has risen many feet above its usual height, owing to the immense body of water from the Atlantic hav ing been driven by the gales across the Ger man ocean towards the narrow straits of Do ver, and there being dammed up as it were, so that the vut flood is forced back upon the Dutch coast, and leans all its stupendous weight against the ridge of dykes around the Neth er-country. It is at such times, indeed, that we learn how much property and how rnanv lives depend upon the strength of these same oeean bulwarks. It is fearfully interesting then to walk at the foot of one "of the great dykes, and to hear the heavy waves beating like so many battering-rams against the outer side of the mud-wall, and to know by the noise that the ocean is already some twenty feet above the head. The dykes are sometimes forty feet high, and the foundation, which is generally of clay—if not entirely, at least, on the outside ; and the interior is filled with a mixture of earth, clay and sand. The face of the dyke is thatched, as it were, with willow twigs, interlaced into a kind of wicker-work, the intersections of which arc filled with pud dled clay. The wicker-work lasts but a few years : so that as it requires to be repeatedly renewed, a number of willows have to be grow n in Holland for the purpose. The base of the dyke is generally protected by masonry, and strengthened by large heaps of stones, and rows of piles ; while the sum mit is mostly planted with trees, because their roots are found to bind the soil firmly togeth er.—3l<iy/:cic's lihine. A Ficrmxo PARSON.— The Rev. Xaptlmli Pagget of Conn, was an exemplary soldier of the Cross, and a zealous defender of his coun try. Pur;ng the times that tried men's souls lie espoused the patriot cause, and though his proper avocation was to lead his flock iu the paths of righteousness, he sometimes lead it on to fight the battles of the republic. On one occasion, when the enemy were approaching his native village, he placed himself at the head of the young men of war of his congre gation, and went forth to meet the British.— In the engagement which ensued, his party was defeated, and himself taken prisoner.— Partly out of regard for the great age of the warlike pastor, and partly through respect for his calling, his captors contented themselves with giving him a good beating with the flat of their swords ; and after advising him iu fu ture to preach peace to his followers, and leave war to soldiers, they sent him back to his peo ple. Be} the old man was so mortified at his defeat and treatment, that he 110 sooner reach ed home than he took his bed, and never rose from it again. A few moments before bis death, one of his friends called to condole with him, ami asked a history of the battle, which the dying pastor gave, in the conventional language of the time, as follows :—" Behold, tidings came that the Philistines were ap proaching, and I rose up and gathered my young men, and led them, armed in the good cause, against the enemies of their God aitd their country. When I came uuto them I lifted up my voice and cried, " Shoulder, each of you your carnal weapon, and fire upon tlie ungodly."' They did as 1 commanded ; but my young men were stronger in grace than in the weapons of the flesh ; and the wicked conquered. They caught 111 c and dcspitcfully used me ; but I thank the Lord that I raised against tlicm my carnal weapon. Whether I killed any, I know not, but I humbly trust in (iod 1 did.'' With these words, the patriot parson breathed his last. BssF 1 A Juror's name was called l>y the I clerk. The man advanced to the judge's desk and said : "Judge, I should like to he excused." "It is impossible," said the Judge dccided- Iv. " Hut, Judge, if you knew my reasons." " Well, sir, what are they ?" " Why the fact is," —and the man paused. " Well sir, proceed," continued the judge. " Well judge, if I must say it, I have got the itch." The judge, who was a very sober man, sol emnly and impressively exclaimed, " Clerk scraicJi that man out !" " Never go to bed," said a father to his son, " without knowing something you did not know in the morning." " Yes, sir," replied the youth, " I went to bed slewed last night—didn't dreaiu of such a thing in the morning." " Father,', said a cobbler's lad, as he was pegging away at on old shoe, "they say that trout bite good now." "Well, well," re plied the old gentleman, "you stick to your work, and they trout bite you !" Jgy A man with small intellect and large self-esteem is a bore to society. "While he with large intellect and small self-esteem is fearful of being one. $-27" because a man is silent it does not ne cessarily follow that lie thinks a great deal—• lie may have no thoughts to express, and is therefore silent from nccossitv.
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