Br HENRY J. STAHLE
38T h YEAR.
TERMS OF THE COMPILER.
rtg"The Republican Compiler is published
very Monday morning, by 11.6NItY J. &MILE,
t $1,75 per annum if paid in advance-52,00
per annum if not paid in advance. No sub
-cription discontinued, unless at the option of
5 .5, • .
Aoystatsnstswrs inserted at the usual rates.
Joe Wtins done, neatly, cheaply, and_with
dispatch. '
(Office on South Baltimore street, direct
ly'opposite Wa►npler's Tinning Establishment,
one and a half squares from the Court House..
VALUABLE PROPERTY AT -
Private Sale.
THE undersigned will sell at Private Sale
that desirable
_property,' in MeSherrys
town, Conowago township, Adams county,
Pa., lying on the public toad running through
said place. It contains Ten Acres, more
or less, of first rate land, adjoining lands of
Dr - . -- 11. N. Lilly, Saniiiel and Joseph Staum
baugh, and others, and is finely improved.—
There is a large Two-story BRICK .-,, c 4 e „.
D W ELLI NG, with a Two-story Brick: ; I v , ;II
Back-buiiiiing, fronting on the street,
and nearly opposite the public house of John
Bushy, Esq., a 'good Log Barn, an Orchard
of choice fruit, a good well of water, and
other improvements. Possession given. on or •
before theist day of April next, a's may be
desired. If not sold, the property will be
FOR IENT.
Persons wishing to view the premises will
call on John Busby, Esq.
MICHAEL HERRING.
Nov - . 2G. 1855. tf
PUBLIC SALE.
THE subscriber having determined to dis
continue farming, will offer at Public
Sale, on Tuesday, the Blh-day of Januory,lBs6,
at Samuel D. ltiddlemoser's Hotel., in Mid
dletown, at I l o*.plock, A. M.. aliout' 420
Acres of prime Middletown Valley Land,
divided into two Farms, First, the HOME
FARM, containing 220 Acres of prime
land, in a high state of cultivation, situated
mile. East of Middletown, on tha TUrnpike
,Road (epilog. to Frederick. The •
improvetbents consist of a com
pod ous land su bsta ti al BRICK
11 - fitr7iE, neatly built, containing
five Rooms on the lower floor, and live on the
second story, together with an extensive
Kitchen and Back-building. This 'is one of
the finest Farm Houses 'in Frederick county,
having been built out of the best material and
at a-cost of some six thousand dollars. Also
a fine Weatherboarded HOUSE, for tenant,
Blacksmith Shop and Log House, Quarter for
Negroes, large Switzer Barn, 80 feet by 40;
Wagon Shed, two Corn Houses,' Carriage
nouse, Wood' House, Meat House, large
Spring House, with neverfailing Spring of
pure water, with a Fountain of pute water itn
mediately in front of the Dwelling, and con
venient to the Tenant Houses. Also, a large
Granary - with Stable attached, for the stabling
sd forty hervi-of Horses. This most desirable
and productive Farm is divided into eight
fields, all under good fencing, a considerable
portion of which is Post and Rail, and well
watered.—About 10 Acres of' w hich are in ex
cellent Meadow, and about 20 Acres are in
Wood, well covered with Hickory, White
'Oak and Black-Oak. The location is unsur
passed for health, and convenient to Schools
and Churches, and in an excellent neighbor
hood.
FARM No. 2, adjoining the Home Farm,
and on the North side of the Turnpike, con
tains 193 licres, more-or less, of the same
quality of land as the above descrihed Farm.
The improvements on this Farm consist of a
large and comfortable Weatherboard• .
ed DWELLING HOUSE, larae
Switzer Barn, 85 by 40 feet, with ~.g
double Threshing Floor,i;orn onse, •:::
Wagon Shed, Carriage House, Quarter for
Servants, Smoke House, floe Spring House,
with neverfailing Sprin, convenient to the
Dwelling.. This Farm is divided into eight
fields, all under good fencing, much of which
is Post and Rail, and is well watered—about
12 Acres are in first-rate Meadow.
• The improvements on both Farms are. in
first-rate repair.
Teams :—One third of the purchase money
to pe paid in cash on the day of sale, and the
balance in, two equal annual payments, the
deferred payments to be secured by the notes
or bonds of the purchaser or purchasers, bear
ing interest from day of sale, and with sezuri
tty to be approved. by the subscriber.
kt. OZ:r Possession will he given on the Ist day
of April next. JOHN S. 11 , 101"1'Eft.
D c. 10, 1855. is
I:l7'Gettysburg Compiler, and Talley Spirit, Chambers_
burg, pa., copy till sale, mark cost and send bill to this
Office for collection —Fanta:,nicK CITIZEN%
Caledonia Iron.
FA HIST ESO C K BROTHERS., having the
exellisive sale of CALEDONIA ROLL
ED IRON Cor Gettysburg - , would call the at
tention of buyers to this make of Iron—the
best in the market—which will be sold at the
lowest rates.
Wt, keep a large supply of HAMMERED
IRON constantly on hand. Call at .the sign
of the . RED FRONT.
Dec. 10, 1855.
Lost and Found!
AT THE CHEAP CORNER,
mimm=a
• • • inter Goods,
F every description, will he sold very low
j for cash. Al so a variety of F. 41-1 W
and RE.intr- M.IJ)E CLOTHING, very
cheap. Call and see.
Gettyshnvg, Oct. 29, 1855
Flour ! Flour !
TF-11: tindersirrited continues the Flour bits
iness as heretofore. Ile sells by the
ty.---13y- tak
SMALL ettorrrs he can tiny as high and sell as
low as anybody else, and by always endeair
wing, to keep nose but the he,t, be hopes to
tnerit and receive a continuance of liberal pa
tronacre. %V M. GIL 1, ES I' E.
Oct. 8, 1835. At the Pust Office.
7 H E &wives: DONIESTIO . GOODS ever
11 brfiegfit in Gettysburg. Coate and sue,
ittnd ire fur y_ourselv
kLL and see 1: A 1-1 EsTo cRS cheap
C 1.0 ri-IS, t; ”“innues, Cassinets, &c.,
ii you want Bargains.
auiilij itritopam----Pruntal Itgriniltarr, fitrraturr, Orts jilnrkrts, ogrurrat Eumrstir ,farrign 3ittttligrurr, 3lutrtisiag, kr.
JOHN HOLE.
J. S. GR A 11:‘1 ER.
etio ice poctrn.
My Home.
I have tasted each varied pleasure,
I hare danced to the gayest measure, -
In the halls of dazzling light ;
I have dwelt in a blaze of splendor,
And,stood in the courts of kings ;
I have snatched at each toy that could render
More rapid the- flight of Time's wings.
But vainly I've sought for joy or peace,
In - that light of life and shade;
And I turn with a sigh to my own dear home—.
The 'home where my childhood played.
When jewels are sparkling around rue,
And dazzling with their rays,
1 weep for the ties that bound me .
On life's first early days;
I sigh for one of the sunny hours,
Ere day was turned to night—
For one of my nosegays of fresh wild flowerS,
liistead of my jetrels bright.
I weep when I gaze on the scentless buds
Which can never bloom or fade; '-
And I turn with a sigh to those gay green fields—
'l'he home where my childed played.
NES. NORTON.
Oclert
Death and Vanity.
The St. Louis Herald says some of the fash
ionable' ladies of that place, o*ing to an excess
of vanity, in order to give tone and permanency
to their complexion, or, as they say, "to im
prove their complexion,"_ are in the habit of
taking arsenic in small doses. Within the
past week two ladies of that city, members of
wealthy families, and ladies of fashion, have
died very suddenly. Their nearest friends
and relatives say that they were "arsenic
eaters :" but in order to guard against scandal,
the real cause of their death has not been made
public. however, those same persons do not
hesitate to say privately, that an over-dose of
arsenic was the real cause of their death.—
Vanity must-indeed-be an almost uncontrolla
ble passion with persons who, to gratify it. will
hazard their very existence. There is no doubt
of the fact that this practice is general among our
fashionable butterflies at least, to such an ex
tent as to . bedome alarmin g We think, how
ever, it is a fortunate thing that these vain
creatures die. for what miserable wives and
mothers -they would make if Providence per
mitted them to live !—Phila. Sun.
MELANCHOLY PRESENTIMENT AND ITS SAD
FULFILMENT.--We have to record a most Mel
ancholy instance of the power of hallucination
over the mind and health of a highly respects-
hie and intelligent your. lady of Kinderhook,
N. Y., who some two years since, while in the
enjoyment of robust health,, was visited one
night at her bedside .(as she affirmed at the
time) by an apparition, which in solemn ac
cent informed her that at the age of eighteen
she would be au- inhabitant of another and a
better world. She made the incident known
to her Mother, who vainly endeavored to erase
the circumstance from the mind of her daugh
ter by treating it as the hallucination of a
dream. The daughter, however, averred that
she was in - possession of her faculties and wide
awake at the time of receiving her. spiritual
visitor ; and such was• the effect it had upon
her mindAhat, a girl full Of life and glee, she
became thoughtful and reserved, and gradual
ly sunk under its depressing influence, pining
gradually until recently she became a tenant
of the grave-yard just as she was entering upon
her eighteenth year.—Kinderhook Rough Soles.
A TERRIBLE CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA.,—Abort
two weeks since a lat;O:ling man named Corne
lius Wurze. a German, employed by a farmer
on Clove road, near Flatbush, had one of his
thumbs bitten by - a small dog on the place.
The wound healed in a few days, and no par
ticular attention was paid to it, but on Thurs
day last unmistakable evidences of hydropho
bia were seen. and on Saturday the unfortunate
man was taken to the King's County Hospital
in' a state of ravine madness, in which condi
tion he remained for most of the time until
Sunday, when nature becoming completely ex
hausted he died. When first brought to the
Hospital he was secured to a bed by strong
straps. but these he broke loose fr:om with the
utmost ease, and it required the strength of
four able-bodied men to manage him at all.
As it was, he succeeded in biting his male
nurse in the arm through his coat sleeve,so as
to draw blood. Dr. Turner. of the Hospital.
has taken the nurse under his charge. and he
anticipates no serious consequences from the
bite.—. New York Times.
PAPER PLANT IN WiscoNsiN.-111rs. A. 11.
BF:AC . 3IONT. of Arena, furnishes the Boston
Post a. description of a plant discovered in Wis.
consin, and also samples of cotton and of flax
from the same plant, which she describes as
follows:
"I discovered, two years ago, a plant that
yields both cotton and flax from the same root,
and I believe I am the first person that ever
cultivated, spun, and knit from it. lam per
suaded that any article that will make as good
cloth as can be made from this plant will make
good paper ; hence I call it the paper plant. It
can- be planted in the spring and cut in the
fall or winter. It bleaches itself white
-stands, and-u it I 3 ield
.iands T . J .east three orfour tons
to the acre. From a single root that I trans
planted last spring there grew twenty large
stalks, with three hundred and live pods. (con
taining. the cotton.) with at least sixty seeds
in each. From this root. I obtained seven
ounces of pure cotton and over halt' a pound of
flax. It is a very heavy plant, and grows from
six to seven feet high."
'Lindley Murray. the celebrated gramma
rian. was horn in 1745, within the
_presen_t
iituits of Lebanon county, in this State, in
East Hanover toll nship. on the ,Swatat a. then
in Lancas:ter cctwty. His father was original
ly a miller. bi,t, sub-egorntly became a tner
' ,
roam. Lindley sturbui law, and practiced in
New York. lie sule:equently removed to Eng
land, where he lived forty-two years. and died
in iorksire, aged opwards of O. Ilk gram
mar was first published in 17:35. lie was a
Quaker, and had the sin ,. lar_re•ulatiou to
New York of -an honest lawyer."
Woman—the last and best of the series :
if we may have her fur a ttiast, we won't ask
for any but•ker.
GETTYSBURG, PA.
A Wrong Calculation.
Mr. Sparrowgrass. a city •man of means."
hiving retired to the country to live. relates
his experience in rifral life in a pleasant article
in Putnam's Magazine. The following anec
dote forcibly illustrates Mr. S'§. knowledge of
Our neighbor has been making an improve=
ment in his house. He has had a drain made
in the kitchen with a long cess-pool at the erd
of his garden. The object of it is to carry off
the superfluous water from the house. It was
a great, convenience, he said, '•on wash 'days."
One objection migh' be urged, and that was,
after every heavy rain he found a gully in his
garden path, and several cart-loads of gravel
in his cess-pool. Besides, the pipe was of an
equal width, and one obstruction led to another;
sometimes it was a scrubbing brush, a piece
of soap; and a handkerchief. I said that if he
had made a square wooden trough, gradually
widening from end to end, it would have
cleared itself, and then I thought it would be
d thing for me to have such a one myself.
trim I .had a cess-pool built at the bottom of
the wall, 'under the bank, which is about one
kindred and fifty fut.from the kitchen, and
told my carpenter to make a trough of that
length - . The carpenter, asked
eight
how big I
wanted it. I told him about eight inches in
diameter at the end nearest the house, and then
gradually "widening all the way fur the whole
length. As I said this my carpenter smiled,
and said he never heard of such a thing. I
told him no, that the idea was an original one
of my own. Ile asked how much I would like
to have it widened. I thought for a moment,
and said “about half an inch to the loot." He
said very well, and the next week he came
with a pair of horses and an edifice in his cart
that looked like a truncated shot tower. I
asked what it was. He said it' was the big
end of my pipe. When he biid it on the ground,
on its side, I walked through it, and could not
touch the upper
. side with my hand. Then I
asked the carpenter what he meant by it, and
he said it was made according to directions.
I Said not at all, that I told him to increase
the diameter at the rate of half an inch to the
foot, and he had made- it about a foot. to the
foot as near as I could judge.
"Sparrowgrass," said he, a little' nettled,
"just take your pencil and note down eight
inches. Well, that's the diameter of the small
end, I believe."
I told the carpenter he w
..N o w every foot there's
an inch to the width—that
directions too, aiut it ?"
"Ye.,."
“Well then put down one hundred and fifty
half inches. how much does that wake altogeth
er in feet ?”
•Six feet three inches."
"Now, just take my rule and measure the
big end of that pipe."
"Carpenter," said I, "I • see it all ; the next
time I build an aqueduct I will be more care
ful in the figures.
"Sparrowgrass." said be. pointing to the
pipe, "didn't you tell we that .was an original
idea of your own 1"
- -
I answered that I believed I did make a re
mark of that. kind.
"Well," said he, with a sort. of muffled
laugh, "that's the first time I ever seeu an
original idea come out at the big end." -
Job and Tobacco.
A learned pedagogue at Nantucket used
every morning to read passages in the Bible.
and - expound the same as he proceeded, in
order that by asking questions as to how much
they remembered of his comments, he might
ascertain who were the bright boys of the
school. On one occasion he read from the
book of Job thus :
"'‘There was a man in the land of — Uz. - and
his.name was Job, who feared God and eschew
ed Eschewed- evil ; that is :, he eschewed
evil as I do tobacco--lie would have nothing
to do with it." With this very clear and forci
ble elucidation of the word "eschew," he pro
ceeded, until a number of verses were read
and commented on in a similar clear and lutel
gent manner.
After a long interval, when the young mind
had time to digest its food, the pedagogue call•
ed upon one of the youngest boys, and the fol
lowing dialogue ensued :
"Who was the man who lived in Uz."
"Job."
"Was lie a good man ?"
"Yes."
"What did he do ?"
"lie chewed tobacco, when nobody else would
have nothing to do with it !" was Bob Lb lines'
answer.
The boy was permitted to take his seat
AN A PrECTING APPEAL.—An unfortunate
editor in Kentucky . thus addresses his delin
quent subscribers : "Friends, we are almost
penniless—Job's turkey was a millionaire com
pared with our present depressed treasury.—
To-day, if the price of salt was two cents a
barrelful, we couldn't buy enough to pickle a
jay-bird."
It is understood that the dress-snaking
business is about to be incorporated with
coopering. A number of-aactive coopers will
be required to hoop the ladies' petticoats ; the
model of female elegance being now a molasses
cask or beer barrel.
BAGG AG F. MAST Elt.—Mtnnio Myrtle closes
her last letter to the New York Timps fm
aratoga, as follows : "I heard one lady say
she married for no other reason than to obtain
a baggage master ! and he, of course, married
for the sake of the baggage he was to superin
tend."
DAD TO CHEW. —A little child ()lour argnain
tance was rendered seriously ill last week by
chewing a *handsome enamelled ball ticket.
which as mother had given it to play with.
For the benefit of those who do nir, know, we
would state that the enamel oa these cards
-contains a rsrtic . 1 -1.1 , .. 51un Bee.
ILL-I'EE.I,INi; IN THE CRIMEA--KOzstiuth says.
in a lelVl the N. Y. Times:
have the most positive information that
the French and the English arc on the worst
pos•i`,ie term; in the Crimea. Neither men
nor officers cultivate familiar intercourse.
The French treat the Eng with supercilious
haughtiness since the Regan affair. just the
English hate treated the Turii.i from the be
ginning."
_L__. / ' -7--- *The project which was on foot to make
omelets out of •egg coal," we learn has been
abandoned.
"TRUTT! itz, )!GATT; AgD WILL P1L1CV:4,11.."
MONDAY, DEC. 31, 1855.
Arkansas Snipe.
''Good bye ! Take care of yourself, and
give those bears particular fits ! ' sung out
Dory, as the plank of the steamboat on which
we were bound down the Mississippi was
drawn in, and we left our -friend" Mlnree--;•-one
night last winter on the wharf boat at Napo
leon, Arkansas.
We shmild have left him in pitch darkness
had it not been for the pitch-pine tights which
shed a halo of glory around his head. and the
tail of his Newfoundland dog. They were
hound up the Arkansas River on a bear hunt.
A more whole-souled man, or a finer dog.
never walked—although a Scotch terrier 'ts a
better dog for bears—and as we left him be
hind, there was a sense of something lost.
In order to find composure and till up the
vacuum, we adjourned to the Exchange or So
cial Hall of the steamboat to take a -snifter."
On entering the favoredremion we were at once
made 'aware of the fact that the Rackensack
iaris at Napoleon considered a fair ‘;exchange"
no robbery ;- in payment of our Roland of a
Monroe they had given us an Oliver of an Ar
kansian. lie was ,a beauty. Straight as 'a
hickory sapling, and fully as tough, he seemed
to be just the stufTthat red-eye whiskey-barrel
hoops are made of—water-proof at that. Ile
was already a firm friend of the barkeeper.
having taken two drinks inside of ninety sec
onds, and as he still wore a thirsty look in his
left eye, we at once asked him to take another.
...Stranger." said he, "count me in that'!"
Su we *did, and after thinks all round, we
settled aboutithe stove with cigars. Conver
sation soon fell on hear-hunting, deer-hunting,
and finally was closed up with a description
of a "mighty big coon-hunt," wherein our friend
put aurae whisky hors du combat, or out of harm's
way—cut down an untold number of- cotton
wood or pekan trees. and pitched into a live
oak till he made dead wood of it : and finally
'killed; on that one, night, one hundred coons.'
whose unitedl - veiglit he judged to be well on
Loa ton
After this we knew the man, hut gory, in
whose locks the "hay-seed" still gleamed, was
moved, in turn, to tell his tale of bunting. and
dwelt long and feebly on a certain snipe-shoot- .
ing excursion, wherein each gunner bagged his
four dozen biris—he -chew it strong, being
away from home—and went on Sawing away
a hunt how the snipes. rose and fell, until Rack
ensackiun woke up with the question : •
ar' snipe,?"
"Si''..e." said Dory, "are_ the best game that
flies. The kind 1. mean are called English or
Wilson's snipe, and are splendid! .Long lege.
long bills, dusky hue—"
"%'t,re.n-ger, stop c h ar ! I've seen the crit
ters : know 'em like an old boot," interrupted
- the It ensack i - '•l've beelm - kw nin the
Lewgirmny swamps—l have! Do you really
eat them ar' crate's at the North ?"
"Certainly we do," said Dory ; "hut you said
you had been down in the Louisiana swamps
—they winter there,_ I expect I"
"Winter and summer both. Thar ar' a few,
r should think, in Arkansaw ! Two of my
boys was. down chop pin' wood for the steamer
t'other day, and them ar' snipe sung so loud
they came back at night -and said there was a
camp !pectin' goin' on down the river." •
"Sing :" Inquired Dory. "That is hingular.
At the North, a:, they rise, I have heard them
utter a low whistle, they
never knew they sung
beibre."
"Sing!" said the Pockensackil
so they make my ha'r stand of
rawly shoot ti - .ein ar'-critters on IA
Stranger, if yOu'll come up to my plantation
and shoot cdf the crop Thar. I'll give you the
best horse you can pick out, and throw in a
nigger to take keel; of him."
"Where do you live ?" asked Dory. ~"Tf
ever I am up your way, you'll have to owe
me a horse and a negro."
"Wall, stran-ger, [ live at Powder-horn
P'iut, on Meta Creek, 'bout thirty miles from
Napoleon, and cuss me if the man that shoots
off them ar' birds for me don't be my eternal
friend—he will ! Look hyar, the infernal
things pitched into my youngest child arter it
was born, so that its head swelled up as big
as a punkin !"
"Pitched into ybur child I—swelled head !
big .as a pumpkin ! Did snipe do this ?" asked
Dory, in great hopes of having dir.covered
something new.
"Wall, they did. Leastwise what you cat
snipe. We call 'em intis > kee-ters !"
Grand tableau,. Curt in descends to slow
music •of toddy-sticks, broken iee, and the song
of an Arkans; s Snipe !
AN ANCIk:NT TESTAMRNT.—Mr. William G..
Patience, of Ilartford, has in his possession a
copy of the New Testament, in a good state of
preservation, printed, in London in the year
1596- 7 two hundred and lifty-nine years ago.
It is printed in stnall quarto. in the old black
letter style, with copious explanatory note%.--
The title page teals As follows : "The New
Testament of Ovr Lord lesys Christ. translated
out of (ireeke by Thcod. Box. Wherevnto
are adioyned large explanations of the phrases
and hard places, by the Authour and others
together with a table of Concordlnce contain•
ing the principall words and matters contained
herein. Englished by L. Towson. Imprinted
at London by the Deputies of Christopher
Barker, Prints r to the Queene's must excellent&
majestic, 1506." )rook is quite a curiosity,
and would be highly prized by antiquarians.
• . AILS.—' stilt Nrcni
brought on Thursday last, before Justice Gard
ner,,,a4 Jersey City, against the New York and
Erie Railri n Co., by Lewis Barnum, for an
Overcoat which was stolen from his seat in the
.etas on that toad. The train stopped at Port
Jervis, and the plaintiff sming , a notice posted
up in the cars that passengers in order to keep
their seats most leave some article of baggage
or wearing apparel in them, left his overcoat
there while he went into the refreshment sa
loon. Upon returning. he discovered that his
overcoat had been stolen. Tire Company de
clined to pay for it. Ile sued them, and the
Justice decided in his favor.
PoitK. Pint.t-te, von. A xi.v. Boxi:s.—The Rail
road -Tlrqco , : says : Salt pork is coming into
quite extuniive use as a packing for car axle
boxes. It is highly spoken of by car masters,
and by men In similar po,itions in Ohio,
where we believe the application W:IA fit St made.
A slice of salt park is applied at the bottom,
and another against the end of the journal, and
we are told that the bx will run for womb.,
before the fat becomes \l I fried out.
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..?'Brigham Young ills seventy , wives.--
Couldn't he beat Ihratun ou a-•baby show ?"
.r•
It rota, the Spi ri of 'the Ti 'ties
The Night,..Vtine,rlil of a Slave.
Messas. MOalus & Virmus:—Travelling re
cently on business, in the interior of Georgia,
I reacbed, just' at sunset, the mansion ,Aaf—ii
proprietor through whose estate for the last
hall hour of my journey, I had pursued my
way. My tired companion pricked his ears,
and with a low whinuey indicated his pleas
ure as I turned up the .broad avenue leading
up to the house. Calling to a black boy in
view, L bade him inquire of his owner if I
could be accommodated with lodgings for the
night.
4y request, brought the proprietor himself
to the door, niki thence to the gate, when, af
ter a scrutin► ing glance at my person and
equipments, he inquired my name., business
and destination. I promptly responded to bis
questions, and he invited me to alight and en-'
ter the house in the tine spirit ,of Southern
hoSpi tali ty.
Ile was apparently thirty years of age. and
evidently a man of education and retit.ement.
I soon observed an air of gloomy abstraction
about him ; he said but little, and even that
little seemed the result of an effort to obviate
the seeming want of civility to a stranger. At
supper, the mistress of the mansion appeared
and did the honors of the table, her particular
department; she was exceedingly lady-like
and beautiful. as only-Southein women are,
that is beyond comparison with those of any
other portion of this republic C have ever seen.
She retired immediately .after supper. and a
servant handing some splendid Ilabannas on
a small silver tray. we had just seated our
selves comfortably before an enormous fire of
oak wood, when a servant appeared at the end
door near my host, hat in hand, and uttered
in distinct tones, the to me startling words t—
.. Maste r -. de coffin hab come."
A'Vely well," was the only reply, and the
servant' disappeared.
My host remarked my gaze of, inquisitixe
wonder, and replied to it—
have been very sad," said he, “to-day:
I have had a greater misfortune than, I have
experienced since my father's death. I lost,
this morning, the ,truest _and most reliable
friend in the world—one whom. I have been
accustomed to honor and respect since my ear
liest recollectioa ; he; was the playmate of my
father's youth; and the mentor of mine ; a faith
fill servant, an honest man, and a sincere
Christian. I stood by his bed side today. and,
with his hands clasped in Mine, I heard the
last words he utteied ; they were.. 'Master
meet me in heaven !' "
vuice faltered tor .a moment, and he con
tinued at'Ler a pause, with increased excite-
titent—
“Ilis loss is a melancholy one to me. If
left my home, I said, to him, •John see that all
things arc taken care of,” and I knew that my
wife 'and child, property and all were as'safe
as though - they were guarded by au hundred
soldiers. I never spoke a harsh word to him:
in all my life, for he never merited it. I have
an hundred others, many of them faithful. and
true, but his loss is it reparable." -
I come from a section of the Union where
slavery does not exist, and I brought, with inc
all the prejudices which so generally prevail in
the free States in regard to this “inStitution."
I had already - seen much: to soften these, but
the observation of years would have failed to
give the so clear an insight into the relation
between Master and servant as this simple in
cident.
It was not the haughty planter, the lordly
tyrant, talking of his dead slave as of his dead
horse ; hut the kind-hearted gentletnan, la
teeming the loss, and eulogizing the virtues of
his good old friend.
After an interval of silence, my host resumed:
"There are," said he, —Many of the old man's
relatives and friends who would wish' to at;
tend his funeral. To allbrd them an opportu
nity, several plantations have been notated.
that he will be buried to-night ; some, 1 pre
some, have already arrived and desiring to
see that all things are properly prepared for
the interment, 1 trust you excuse my ab
sence for a few moments."
"Most certainly, sir ; but," I added, "'if
there is no impropriety in it, I would be
pleased to accompany you."
•There is none," he replied ; and T followed
him to a long row of cabins, situated at a dis
tance of some three hundred yards from the
mansion. The house was crowded with ne
groes, who all arosa on our entrance, and
many of them exchanged greetings with mine
host, in terms that convinced rue that they felt,
he was an object of sympathy from them !
The corpse was deposited in the coffin, attired
in a shroud of the finest cotton materials, and
the coffin itself painted black.
The master stopped at its head, and laying
his hand on the cold brow of his faithful bonds
man, gazed long and intently upon the fea
tures with which he had been so long familiar,
and which he now looked upon for the last
tii on earth; raising his eyes at length, and
glancing at the serious countenances now bent
upon his, he said solemnly and with much
leeling:
..11e was a faithful servant and a, true Chris
tian ; if you follow his example and live as he
lived, none of you need fear when the time
comes for you to lay here." •
A patriarch, with_ the snow of eighty' win
ters on his head, answered—
‘.Nlaster, it ib true ; w will try to'live. like
'lm."
There was a murmur of
_eneral assent. and
after giving some instructions relative to t. se
burial we returned to the dwelling.
About nine o'clock a servant appeared with
the notice that they were ready to move and
to know if further instructions were necessary.
My host remarked to me that by stepping into
the piazza, I would probably witness to we a
novel scene. The procession had moved and
its route led within a few yards of the man
sion. There were at least one hundred and
fifty negroes, arranged four deep, and following
a wagon in which was placed the coffin ; down
the entire line, at intervals of a few feet, on
each side. were carried torches of the resinous
pine. and here called light-wood. About the
centre was stationed the black preacher, a
man of gigantic frame and stentorian lungs,
who gave out hum memory the words of a
hymn suitable to the occasion. 'l'i►e Southern
negioes are proverbial for their memory and
the compass of their voices, and I thought that
hymn, mellowed by distance, the most solemn,
and yet the sweetest inuslc that had ever - lA
len upon u►y car. The still n ess of the night
and r,trefigth.of their voices enabled me to dis
tinguish toe air at the distance of half a mile.
It was to me a strange and solemn scene.
and no incident of my life has impressed me
From the Home Journal
TWO DOI.4LA/IS`A.I.YEAR.
with more powerful emotions than the night
funeral of the poor negio. For this' reason
have I hastily and most imperfectly' sketehed
its leading featurtai. Previous to- retiring to
my room, I saw in the hands of a daughter of
the lady at whose house I stopped for
s the•night
a number of the Home Journal, and - itoecurred
to me to send this to your paper. .perfectly is
whether it be published or not.,
but a brief sojourner here. , I hail not.,
,st
colder cliMe, where it is our proud boast that
all men are free and equal: I Shill return to
my Northern home, deeply impressed with the
belief, that, dispensing with the name of tree
doin, the negroes of the South are the, happiest
and most contented people on the face of the
•
earth. -
An Holiest Conceal On.
That Know Nothiligism ' can 'never be' stisl
tnined by the enlightened and patriotic portion_
of the people of this country. is .6 fact beyond
question, and that it never -gas brien sustained
by enlightened .inen,;. , except for selfish:purpo
ses, is equally true. There are, says,the Levr.
istown Democrat, many . who, gave the
candidates support ' thi r late :elections,a?lin
have embraced . lhe earliest opporttini ty - t&wash
.their hands of the foul stain.: by disclanningto
hold any sympathy for the pripcipleket Oa;
order. Among these is the editornf the DSO
News, who, in hiS issue of the lath we:. Usti
the following emphatic language t,
"The truth of the matter is. as.we, hive To r
pea tedly asserted, K now 'Notbingisnr iis in'etot
creme bad odour : it stinks in. the. tostrilint
all who du not belong to the Ditler,..andof
vast number who do."
ANPIITRIP
SPHAK6ll,.—the Know t ha
Virginia Legislature held a'rneeting on
-and adopted resift tions,codorsing.;the
course of the national members of ;hat__ iarty
in the House Of ReprelentatiVes 'of 'the Unitelt
Slates, in the stand they have utken;in'.vatitit
fur a Speaker. and declaring'sthat any ineditiov
Lion of .the 12th ,section of the Zrational,,l'l,api t
form', would be• a gross fraud upon
,Sont h, rtk.
men' who have joined the party. ;Tha
duel are I len- 014- the d emoeratie; Congresii
caucus, that they, would consent: to ne l union
wi th' the N. party is, dielaied
gent', and tending to -nreloitg. stavertitgf , '
'tation, if not to.throw power into_the , hindar-et
the ..black. republicans." The fullowipg
_re
solution 'was' also -adopted •
Resodued, That -we regard with indignation':
the attempt of a, powerful party at:theNorth,
seduce Southern men from -their sectionalfidelt
ty by the 'bribery 'of o ff icial ‘benini;iiiir that'
those Southern men Who, in ,the, present,or,4lB.
discourage the union ,of the South. upon Aim,
baais'oladjiistment laid doWn in, the Igai see - -;
Lion of the , National. Plaiicirtn, or who shalt *Co:
ceps office at ..the bands of our .seetionallem •
tunes, shall be *hilted with lanrcuqoaliffed
testation. and can : no longer, he regar4dAuc
National AtuerieanS, or . aS worthy the itailafoi'.
political con fidenee
,of Southern . men:
NOVO. 'LAW Strit:---ATI MIN* from 'Bridge.
port went* •over- to -Norwalk 'last Week • And'
Rervell -ftsw, attachtnant.uptin the homestead, cif
l,owis 0.- Wilson, Fe4q,.,•..Worth,:o4.oo,o.k:firt
more,' in behalf of the, president - and director*,
of - the New 'Vole and New 'Haien' Railidid
Company. The cause of this letiow . irais
n ecount of alleged damage sustained by.. said
company by the' reipOtident having forced grew;
a car door at .the Norwalk .. -"SCAtiOtt.' 'Same'
time Rifle° the .B'ls A. M. train •arrived, AWL;
as is frequently the case. 7;fitb sh.ruiPtY,-
locked car in the rear, while but a few; seava , ,
remained vacant the'forviardnneti. -- 'The*W.,
sequence was, some -fifteen- or AvvetitrOrthW
Newark passengers were obliged.to; stailii•Upsoi;
including several ladies. Mr., .Wilsow,
informed these ladies that he would. procure s
the opening of the rear - car for' thein; - stint lowa
ed out upon the platform tcOsolicit the 'britke: ! :,
man, to ,open the door. .Not brakeman..wpa. to
be found. so Mr. W. put, his foot isgainstAhti
&sir and pushed it in, blinking the cat s ch and
causing a damage that lwenlyVive cents itatild
have repaired:. As both parties have the, pluck
as well as the
. tneana, we presume there will bp
a long and' free fight' over the great question.
—New Haven'Pal.
r7Wut. 11. Smith, a naturalized citizen,
has brought a suit in the fourth district court,
in 'Slew Orleans, against Jatnea -- Baggs and=
Erastus Wells; two of the judges of 'the election
in that city, for rejecting his vote ;it the Ist. electiOn, and claims $5.000 damages.
No Immo ttr COI .T.—On Friday each mem.
her of the jury of the Marine Court in :New
York..was fined $2O, .for handing to the court",
as the result of their deliberations in a replevin,
ease, the following: "We. the jurors of thi4
ease, agree to disagree." The jurors ought.tai
ha punished for making use of a joke as mato
as this.
SALE or THIS LUTEERANOBSERVER —Tn Ba tti•
more, on Monday week, the officers of the Ey.
Lutheran Synod of Maryland. in aecordanee
with a resolution passed by said -synod at its
recent session in Washington, transferred (la
consuminsted the sale of the Lutheran Oh•
server to Rev. Dr. Kurtz fur the Awn of $2000.'
It is understood however that on the , tirst'ar
January next Dr. K. will transfer the paper4o
coinpiny of two ministers.and a layman. on ,
the terms he received it from the synod: Vie' •
I e. or is to continue the sole .editor:for • MO.:.
years.
. •
fr:7 The first National Thanktiving Daf
was appointed by President Washington, ,by
proclamation. in January, 1795, whci detugha.
ted the 13th of January.
D"'There is a printing office in Paris capa
ble of printing the Lord's prayer in three hun
dred different languages.
has been decided in ft Western Court
that a clergyman may ►carry himself- This
is a fee-saving process, at all events. - _ ,
Partington says fiat a geatternittt
!nog-heti so heartily tit it she feared - he woubi
have burst his jot:l4l4r veil.
ry-Next year —1856' "Leap Year. i4
111 a a 1101 C of L. yottog [,idles, asa soc that
••Pop goes the .
I'To What color (I , :eg !tugging chttage_A_
Loy ? lt makes him yell 0
r,C:7".4 young lady has writteu It down is
her album that kissing is a capital olfelica.
Ca - Signs of tbo timerr—tiroH rawskscs.
NO. 11.