THE - MQNTROSE ' DEMOCRAT,
E. B. HAWLEY, Proprietor.
§uointo gado.
LITTLER & BLAKESLEE,
Attorneys And Comm!More at Law. Office the one
heretofore occupied by H. B. & G. P.Llttlo, on Vain
atreet.lliontroae, Pa. Laprtllel
R L LITT'S. am?. LITTI.r. L. L.' ILIAIIISIXE.
E. Me%sane. C. C. Parracnr. W. 11. McCain.
FAUROT & CO.
Dealers In Dry Goods, Clothing, Ladles and Mines
Ana Shorn. 1 1.1 so, agents for the great American
Tea and Coffee Company. [Montrose, Pa., sp.
CHARLES N. STODDARD,
Dealer In Boot. and Shots. Rots and Cape. Leather and
Findings, Main Street, 3d door below Searle•e note'.
Work made to order, and repairing done neatly.
lioutrose. Jan. 1, IMO.
LEWIS KNOLL,
WAVING AND BARB DRESSING.
Shop In the new Postoffiee bending, where he will
he found ready to attend all who may want ear hltrg
In kit line. Montrose, Pa. Oct. 13, INN.
P. REYNOLDS,
AUCTIONEER—SeIIs Dry Goods, and Merehardse—also
attends at Vendaes. All order. left at my house will
receive prompt attention. [Oet. 1, IS69—st
0. M. IIAWLEY,
DEALER to DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, CROCKERY
Hardware, Hata, Cape, Boota,Shoes, Ready Made Cloth
lag, Paled& Olta, ete., New Milford, Pa. [Sept. 0.'65.
DS. S. W. Dot TON,
PHYSICIAN & BURGEON, tenders his services to
the citizens of Greet Bend and viclnit7. Office at bin
residence, opposite Barnum House, a`t. Bend village.
Sept. let, 1869.—tf
LAW OFFICE.
CHAMBERLIN & Mt:COUCH. Attorneys and Cows.
smilers at Law. Offleeta the Brick Block over the
Book. [Montrose Ang. I.
A. CIL•ZSZELIN. J. B. McCeuxu.
A. & D. R. L.ATTIROP,
DEALERS in Dry Goods, Groceries,
crockery and gLassarare, table and pocket cutlery.
Paints. oils, dye stuffs. Bats. boots and shoes, bole
leather. Perfumery de. Brick Block, adjoining the
Bank. Montrose. August 11, IM9.—tf
A. LAMMED!, - • D. IL LALIIVEM.
A. 0. WARREN,
ATTORNEY A. LAW. Bounty, Back Pay. Pension,
, and Exam on Claim■ attended to. °Mee dr
nor below tloyd'a Store. Montroae.Pa. (An. 1. TO.
W. W. WATSON,
ATTORNEY Err LAW, Montrose, Ps. Office with L.
F. Pitch. [Montrose, Aug. ,1, 180:1.
M. C. SUTTON,
Auctioneer, and Insurance Agent,
ant 67tf Frlendsville, Pa.
C. 8. GILBERT,
Auotioazear.
Great Bond, Pa.
17. 9.
nue Ott
AMI ELY,
Q. B. .ELl.a.cticoneoor.
Arm. 1, Wk. Address, Brooklyn, Pa
JOHN GHOIVES,
PASIMONABLB. TAIIOII. Montrose. P.. Shop over
Chandler's Store. AP orders filled in first-rate style.
.:along done on *bon notice. and warrsolool to a,
W. W. SMITH,
cABINST AND MAID MANUP.M:TVRARS.—P.
of Maio street, Mantrost, Pa. jaug. I. I.
H. BUItRITT,
DEALERtn Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Crockery.
Rardwara, Iron, Stores, Dru go, Oils, and Paints.
Dootsand Shoe., Rats & Caps, Fora, Buffalo Robes
erocerle*,Pecelsions.c;.:-. Now Milford. Pa...
DEL I. P. HEVES,
flat paraudiently located at Fidendsvllle for the per
of prailiclng medicine and surgery In all it.
branches: He may be found at the Jac,un House.
Wk boors s boo from 8 a. m.„ to 8. ;I. m.
PrlendsrMe, Pa., Aug, 1. 180.
STROUD & BROWN,
FIRE AND LIFE EISZaANCIL ACENIR. Ar
bootees attended to proati.ly,on fair terms. Office
Ant door north of • Montrose Hotel," west side or
Public Avenue, Montrose, Pa. (Aog.t.terM.
dertotro, Mame' L. Snows.
JOHN SAUTTER,
RESPECTFULLY announces that he Is tww pys
pared to mat all kinds of Garments In the mos.
fashionable Style, warranted to flt with elegem:a
nd ease. Shop over the Post Mum Montrose. Pa.
SIVIII. D. LESK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Montrose, Pa. °Mee oppo.
sheltie Torben House, near the Court Moose.
A. 1. 1869.—tf .
DR. W. W. SMITH,
DENTIST. Rooms over Boyd a Corwln's Bard
ware Store. Oaten hours from 9a. m. to 4p. en
Montrose, Aug. 1, 1869.—tt
ABEL TIIBBELL,
DILILLILE in Drugs, Patent Medicines, Chemicals
Liquors, Paints, 011s,Dye etude. Varnishes, Win e
01ww. Groceries, Glass Ware, Wall and Window Pa,
ppeerr,~ Lamps. Kerosene, Machinery Oils.
Trusses GIMP, Ammunition, Knives. Spectacles
Irashas, Fancy Goods, Jewelry, Perin ry, de.—
being lone of the most numerous. extensive, and
valuable collections of Goods In Susquehanna Co.—
Istablishcd In 1848. [Montrose, Pa.
D. W. SEARLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW. °Mee over the Store of A.
Lathrop, to the Brtck Mock., Montrose, Pa. [aura/
DR. W. L. RICSIAIIDSON,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, tenders his professional
carrier to the citizens or Montrose and vicinity.—
Him at ids residence, on the corner cast of Says.. &
Bros. Foundry. (Aug. I, leG9.
DIL E.AL. GARDIIiER,
PHYSICIAN and•SUBOBON, Montrone. Pa. Giver
especial attention to diseases of the Licari end
Longs and allSnrealdisesees. Office over W. B.
Dams Baud. at Searle's Dole. [Aug. 1. Itteh.
BURNS & NICIIOLS,
DIPIzaIIB In Drugs. Medicines Chem'attn. Dye.
stills, Planta. 01.1 s, Varnish. lAqiunn, Spleen. Fancy
set.c.tes, Patent Medicines, Perfumery and Tpllet A e
(Wes. Far Prescrlptlons carglnlly ennrponnded.—
Panne AII6IIOI4IIbOTO 51:1110 . 11 nOtel. MOntlol.ls. Pa
A. B. Bow, A=oll Menem&
Leg. 1, WA.
DR. E. L. lIIIANDRICIE,
FRYSICIAN • SURGEON. reactfally tender, hl.
proles/loan] services to the citizen of Friel:4,lllle
and vicinity. Iffiff•Office lathe office of Dr. Lao
floarde at J. lioaford'e. Aug. 1.15ta.
- PROF. MORRIS,
The Hayti Silber, returns his thanks for the
reel—bur
pat
that has enabled him to cat the best
to tell the whole story, but come
and see for3roureeses Or al the Old Stand. No loud
*Wag showed In the shop. [April 13, 1510.
DENTISTRY.
All thing in want of fake Teeth or other dental work
shah! ea at the office of the inbeeribers. who are pio.:
awed= do all Idnds =watt in their Hoe on short
Partleakir attention paid to making fall and partial
gette octet= on gold, direr, or &lamina= plate
weateni • east the two latter preamble to
aligi h rborgebesper Wane= now need for dental platen.
warwslitpereons and made togrwr la
sake= =lapis
Tke adantegeof baring workdone by permanently Jo
cated and imponelble parties met be apparent re tn.
Al! wort warranted. Please all and examine vol
umene of plate work at our oak*. orer Boyd & Co% bard.
w akite.
W. W. SMITH & EROTISM
akintran, Ana. 18.1089.-11
GOLD JEWELRY... : ..
' ► Now old tut*
Neateare, Nov. N. IN& ►EEL TINNIELL
faro forum
A Young 3lnannuft lumens.
Not long ago I used to sing,
And dance, and led so gay;
But now this littin baby thing
11129 start my youth away !
I'm not old, at laud in years,
My hair's not streaked with gray,
No wrinkle on mp hum appears,
And pet—" Irvo had my day r
How lovingly my, briat, did bend
To Charlie, when be came!
I never dreamed Would put an end
To parties, amid such game.
Before the bridal charm took flight,
A novelty I =Med,
And when I danced and felt so bright
No harm was ever dreamed.
But by and by my baby came,
And up sprung . in my beart
A holy, tender, deathless flame,
Of which my lite seemed part.
But sparkling eyes, and sunny smile,
With dimples deep and rare,
In baby form cannot beguile
The heart, of Fashion litir.
They ridicule such joys as mine,
They care for me no more,
My husband's ceased to be divine,
My baby's thongttt a born
So now they never ask me out,
They have no room they say,
For married people all about
Their dancing rooms so gay.
But in the " German's" maze and glee,
The girls should bear in mind,
The very things that banished: me,
They're trying hard to find !
-- • —.••110, --
True Love.
I think true love ' is never blind,
But rather brings an added light;
An inner vision quick to find
The beauties hid from common sight.
No soul can ever clearly see
Another's highest, noblest part
Save through the sweet philosophy
And loving wisdom of the heart.
Your urusnnointed eyes shall fall
On him who tills my soul with light ;
You. do not seetny friend at nil,
You see what hides him from your sight
I see the feet that fain would climb,
You, but the steps that turn astray ;
I see the soul uhkarmed, sublime;
Yon, but the garment, and the clay.
You see a mortal, week, misled.
Dwarfed ever by the earthly clod ;
I see how mamboed, perfected,
May reach the,stature of a god.
Blinded 1 stood, as now you stand,
Till on mine eyes, with touches sweet,
Love, the deliverer, laid his hand,
. And lo ! I woiship at his feet !
BREVITIES.
—Advice to those addicted to the blues
—Be pleasent as often as the weather is
at least.
—A little Ohio girl wanted to see how
strychnine tasted, and found out. She is
now no more.
—There is a girl in Florida who is the
heiress of ten thousand head of eattle.
What a wife she would make for some en
terprising botcher.
—" I say, boy. which is the quickest
way to get to The Eastern Railroad
station?" said a portly fellow to a shoe
black. Run, like blazes!" was the
prompt reply.
A John Chinaman bad heard the
quotation, "We have piped unto yon, but
yon have not danced," and thus reproduc
ed it: "We toot-tooted unto you why
you no for makee jumpee ?"
—A great, horrid mouse in her chignon,
nearly frightened a fair Treasury clerk to
death last week. She had worn rats in
her hair without shedding a tear.
—San Francisco proposes to tax the
Chinese gambling:houses for a fund to
pay the expenses of the female slaves who
wunt to return to the Flowery Kingdom.
—Hamlin, the burglar' recently cut
the bare of his cell in Belfast, Me., jail,
nearly off, with trims made from steel
hoop-skirt springs. He concealed the
marks with wax, but the game was dis
covered.
—Several young ladies in Hartford are
under the surgeon's care for distortion of
the feet—supposed to be caused by wear
ing high-heeled ehpes, so fashionable with
some silly women.
—A Mr. Pik!chin was late married at
the Walnut street Church in Philadelphia
to a Miss Sardine. This is wfact. There
is nothing fishy about the annoucement—
except the name of the bride.
—The coal-scutile style of bonnet has
gone wholly out of fashion among the
young Qnakeresses of Philadelphia. while
the young Quakers have shaken the broad
brim hat and taken to the stove-pipe.
—One of the latest phases of fashiona
ble life in New Turk is the mania evinced
by ladies in prominent social circles to be
identified with soitie charity, like "Shelt
ering Anna" or the " Shepherd's Fold,"
or something of that'sort, The Evening
Post says it is a Mania to be commended
and cultivated.
—The latest "haul case to get along
with" was the man in Syracuse, who, the
other day, at one of the furniture stores
in town, wanted a square table with draws
on all of its four sides, each draw to be
the full size of its: side. He couldn't be
made to see that this was a physical im
poisibility, and went away in search of
such a table as would suit him.
--Cleveland's little elephant was killed
in a playful tussle he had with a full
grown companion. The latter seems
grmtly affected, and: the keeper mays that
he knows as , well as any human being
could that he :wag the cause of the death
of hie playfell o* Teen ore ontinaally
*wan MO* etFacal4lie'ermstan
ly keeps triia lowino onto&
MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1870.
gliortliantouo.
Deaf Smith, The Celebrated Texan
Spy.
About two years after the Texan rev
olution, a difficulty occurred between the
new government and a portion of the
people, which threatened the most serious
consequences—even the bloodshed and
horrors of a civil war. Briefly, the cause
was thus: The constitution had fixed the
city of Austin as the permanent capital,
whore the public archives were , to be kept,
with die reservation, however, of a power
in the President to order their temporary
removal in case of danger from the in
roads of a foreign enemy, or a force of a
sudden insurrection.
Conceiving that the exceptional emer
geacy had arrived, as the Comanches
frequently committed outrages within
eight of the capitol itself, Houston, who
then resided at Washington, on the Brazos,
dispatched an. order commanding his sub
ordinate functionaries to send the State
Records to the latter place which he de
clared to be, pro tompore, the seat of
government.
It is impossible to describe the stormy
excitement which the promulgation of
this fiat raised in Austin. The keepers
of hotels, boarding houses, groceries and
faro banks were thunderstuck, modelled
to frenzy; for the measure would be a
deathblow to their prosperity iu business ;
and accordingly they determined at once
to take the necessary steps to avert the
danger, by opposing the execution of
Houston's mandate. They called a meet
ing of the citizens and farmers of the
cirenmjacent country, who were all more
or less interested in the question ; and I
after many fiery speeches against the as
serted tyranny of the administration, it
was unanimously resolved to prevent the
removal of the archives by open and arm
ed resistance. To that end they organ iz-
ed a company of four hundred men, ode
party of whom, relieving the other at
regular periods of duty, should keep con
stant guard around the State House until
the period passed by. The commander
of this force was one Colonel Morton,
who had achieved considerable renown in I
the war for independence, and still more
recently displayed desperate bravery in
two desperate duels, in both of which he I
bad cut his antagonist nearly to pieces I
with the bowie knife. Indeed, from the
notoriety of his character for revenge, or
courage, it was thought that President
Houston would renounce his purpose',
touching the archives, so soon as be
should learn who was the leader of the
opposition.
Morton, on his part, whose vanity fully
equalled his personal prowess encouraged
and justified the prevailing opinion by
his boastful threat,. ll
the President did not succeed in remov
ing the records by the march of an over
powering force, he would then himself
hunt him down like a wolf, and shoot him
with little ceremony, or stay him in his
bed, or waylay him in his walks for re
creation. He even wrote the hero of San
Jacinto to that effect. The latter replied
in a note of laconic brevity:—
"If the people of Austin do not send
the archives, I shall certainly come and
take them; and if Colonel Morton can
kill me, he is welcome to my ear-cep."
On the reception of this answer, the
guard was doubled around the State
House. Chosen sentinels were stationed
along the road leading to the capital the
military paraded the streets from wont
ing till night, nud select caucuses held
permanent session, in the city hall. In
short, every thing betokened a coming
tempest.
One day, while matters were in this
precarious condition, the caucus at the
city hall was surprised by the sudden ap
pearance of a stranger,whose mode of en
tering was as extraordinary as his looks
and dress. He did not knock at the clos
ed door—he did not seek admission at all ;
but climbing unseen a small bushy-topp
ed live oak, which grew beside the wall,
leaped without sound or warning through
a loftywitidow. He was clothed alto
gether in buckskin, carried a long and
very heavy rifle in his hand, wore at the
bottom or his left suspender a large bowie
knife, and bad in his leather belt a couple
of pistols half the length of his gun. He
was tall, straight as an arrow, active as a
panther in his motions, with darkened
complexion and luzuriont jetty hair, with
a severe, iron-like countenance, that seem
ed never to have known a smile, and
eyes of intense vivid black, wild and rol
-1 ling, and piercing as the point of a dag
ger. His strange advent inspired a thrill
• of involuntary fear, .and many present
nnconscionely grasped the handles of
their side-arms.
'Who are you that thus presumes to
intrude among gentlemen, without in
vitation i" demanded Colonel 'Morton,
ferociously essaying to cow down the
stranger with his eye.
The latter returned his stare with eon,-
pound interest, and laid his long bony
finger on his lip, as a sign—but of what,
the spectators amid not imagine.
" Who are you ? Speak! or I will cut
an answer out of your heart !" shouted
Morton, almost distracted with rage by
the cool, sneering gaze of the other, who
now removed his finger from his lip, and
laid it on the hilt of his monstrous knife.
The fiery colonel then drew his dagger,
and was in the act of advancing upon the
stranger, when several caught him and
held him back, remonstrating.
a Let him alone, Morton, for God's
sake. Do yon not perceive that he is
4tthat moment Judge Webb, a man
of shrewdintellect and courteous man
ners, steiped foward, and addressed the
intruder in a most respectful manner.
"My good friend, I presume von have
made a mistake in the house. 'this is a
private meeting where none but members
are admitted."
The stranger did not appeal to compre
hend the words, but he could not fail to
understand the mild and deprectory man
ner. His, rigid features relaxed; and
moving to a table in the centre of the
ball, where there were materials and im
,letmttafor writing. he seised a_pen and
obillittig - mtaai 111010 then
behmitheliptetakne, as a eat
of natural apology for his own want of
politeness.
Judge Webb took the paper, and wrote
a question. " Dear sir, will you be so
obliging as to inform us what is your
business with the present meeting!"
The other responded by delivering a
letter inscribed on, the back, "To the
citizens of Austin." They broke the seal
and read it aloud. It was from Houston,
and showed the usual terse brevity of his
style
" Felton , citizens"—Though io error,
and decieved by the arts of traitors, I
will give yon three days more to decide
whether you will surrender the public
archives. At the end of that time yon
will please let one know your decision.
SAM. HOUSTON."
After the reading, the deaf man waited
a few seconds, as if for reply and then
turned and was about to leave the hall,
when Uolonal Morton interposed, and
sternly beckoned him back to the table.
The stranger obeyed, and Morton wrote :
" You were brave enough to insult ow by
your threatening look ten minutes ago;
are you brave enough now to give me
satisfaction ?"
The stranger penned his reply: "I
am at your service ?"
Morion wrote again: " Who will be
vonr second?"
The stranger rejoined: " I am too
generous to seek an advantage; and too
brave to fear any on the part of others ;
therefore I never need the aid of a see
eond ?"
Morton penned: "Name your terms."
The stranger traced, without a mo
ment's hesitation : "Time, sunset this
evening ; place, the left bank of Colorado,
opposite Aostin ; weapons, rifles, and
distance, a hundred yards. Do not fail
to be in time !"
Ile then took three steps across the
floor ; and disappered through the window
as he had entered. . .
What!" exclaimed Judge Webb, is, it.
possible Colonel Morton, that you intend
to tight that man ? He is a mute, if not
a positive maniac. Such a meeting I
fear, will sadly tarnish the lustre of your
laurels."
" Yon are mistaken," replied Morton
with a smile; "that mute is a hero, whose
fame stands iu the record of a dozen
battles, and half as many bloody duels.
Besides he is the favorite emissary and
bosom friend of Houston. If I have the
good fortune to kill him, I think it will
tempt the President to retract his Vow
against venturing any more on the field
of honor.
" You know the man then. Who is be ?
Who is he ?" asked twenty voices togeth-
" Deaf smith," answe•retl Morton, cool-
way., —r-31...t. cannot be. D..,
Smith was slain at San Jacinto," remark
ed Judge Webb.
" There, again, your honor is mistaken." '
said Morton. " The story of Smith's
death was a mere fiction, got up by .
Houston to sane the life of his favorite
from sworn lengeance of certain Texans,
in whose conduct he had acted as a spy. I
I fathomed the artifice twelve months ago.
"If what you say be true, you are a
madman yonreelf!" exclaimed Webb.
4 - Deaf Smith was never known to miss
his mark. Ile has often brought down
ravens in their most rapid flight, and
killed Comanches and Mexicans at a dis
tance of two hundred and fifty yards!"
" Say no more," answered Cot Mortm
iu tones of deep determination ; "the
thing is already settled. I have already
agreed to meet him. There can be no
' disgrace in falling before such a shot, and I
if I succeed, my triumph will confer the
greater glory r r
Such was the general habit of thought I
and feeling prevalent throughout Texas
at this penal. •
Towards evening a vast crowd assembl
ed at the place appointed to witness the
hostile meeting, and so great was the
popular recklessness as to affairs of the
sort, that numerous and considerable
sums were wagered on the result. At
length the red orb of the summer sun
touched the curved rim of the western
horizon, covering it all with crimson and
gold, and filling the air with a flood of
burning glory; and then the two mortal
antagonists, armed with long, ponderous
rifles, took their station, back to back,
and at a preconcerted signal—the waving
of a white handkerchief—walked slowly
and steadily oil' in opposite directions.
counting their steps until each had meas
ured fifty. They both completed the
given number about the same instant.
and then they wheeled, each to aim and
tire when he chose. As the distance was
great, both paused for some seconds—
long enourdi for the beholders to flash
et
their eyes tront one to the other and mark
the striking contrast betwixt them. The
face of Colonel, Morton was calm and
smiling, but the smile it bore had a most
murderous meaning. On the contrary
the countenances of Deaf Smith was
stern and passionless as ever. A side
v i e w o f his features might have been
mistaken fora profile done in cast-iron.
The one, too, was dressed in the richest
cloth, and the other in smoke-tinted
leather. But that made no difference in
Texas then • far the heroic courag e were
all considered 'peers—the class of infer
iors embraced none but cowards.
Presently two rifles exploded with
simultaneous roars. Col. Morton gave a
prodigious bound upwards, and dropped
to the earth avorpse. Deaf Smith stood
erect, and immediately began the reload
his rifle; and then, haveing finished his
brief tusk, be hastened away into the
adjacent forest.
Three days afterwards Gen. Houston,
accompained by , Deaf Smith and ten i
more men, appeared n Austin, and with
out further opposition removed the state
Mem •
The history of the hero of the forego
ing anecdote was one of the most extra
ordinary ever!kno!en in the West. He
made his advent in Texas at an early
period, and continued to reside there un
til his death, which happened some few
years ago; hit although he had many
warm 'personal friends, no one could ever
ascertain either , the land of hie ' birth, or
a siiiglellearii of his previous biography.
When he wastreetioned 'on the subjett,
he laid his fingers on his lips; and if
pressed more urgently his brow writhed,
and his dark'eyes seemed to shoot sparks
of livid fire. He could write with aston-
Ming correctness a facility, considering
his situation ; and although denied the
exquisite pleasure and priceless advantag
es of the sense of hearing, nature ' had
given him ample compensation. by an
eye quick and far seeing as an eagle's and
a smell keen and incredible as that of a
raven. He could discover objects moving
miles away in the far-off prairie, when
others ~ ould perceive nothing but earth
and sky; and the rangers used to declare
that he could catch the scent of a Mexi
can or Indian at as great, a 'distance as a
buzzard could distinguish the odor of a
dead carcass.
It was these qualities which fitted him
so well for a spy, in which capacity he
rendered invaluable service to Houston's
army during the war of independence.
He always went alone, and generally ob
tained the information desired. His
habits in private life were equally singul
ar. He could never be persuaded to sleep
under the roof of a house, or even to
close a tent cloth. Wrapped in his blanket
he loved to lie ont in the open air, nnder
the blue canopy of pure ether, and count
the stars, or gaze with a yearning look at
the melancholy moon. When not em
ployed as a spy or guide, he subsisted by
hunting, being often absent on solitary
excursions for weeks or even months to
gether in the wilderness. He was a
genuine son of nature, a grown-up child
of the woods and prarie, which be wor
shipped with a sort of Pagan adoration.
Excluded by his infirmities from cordial
fellowship with his kind, he made the
inanimate things of earth his friends, and
entered by, the heart's own adoption into
brotherhood with the luminaries of heav
en. Whereter there was laid or water.
barren mountains or tangier brakers of
wild waving cane, there was Deaf Smith's
home, and there he was happy ; but in
the streets of great cities, in all the great
thoroughfares of men, wherever there
was flattery or fawning. base cunning or
crven fear, there was Deaf Smith an
alien and exile.
Strange soul! he bath departed on the
long journey, away among those high
bright stars which were his night lamps ;
and he has either solved or ceased to
ponder the deep mystery of the magic
word, "life." He is dead ; therefore let
his errors rest in oblivion, and his virtues
he remembered with hope.
The E=-Em reap Carlotta of Mexico
A Touching Scene.
At Brussels the first communion of the
Princess Louise has been the great event.
The young Princess has just attained her
twelt - ti year, and is considered the living
likeness of her aunt. The Empress is in
a dying state, but no omission w a s made
in her case to the usage indispensable in
all Catholic countries, of seeking a bene
diction from every one of the family upon
the juvenile members, who are about to
enter the bosom of the Church hy receiv
ing the sacrament for the first time. The
occasion is one of greater ceremony than
even a wedding or a christening, and of
fers the opportunity of reconciliation and
forgiveness, of renewal of ties which have
been neglected, and formation of new
ones to which indifference had been hith
erto expressed.
Even the poor Empress, as if under
sudden inspiration, had been made to un
derstand that a ceremony of importance
"'ices about to occur, and, by a singular in
stinct, she insisted on rising from herbed,
and attiring herself in her favorite dress,
a sort of pardessns, of white silk, trimm
ed with black lace, and putting on her
most beloved ornaments to welcome her
beloved relative. Many presents had been
I prepared—for it is the custom always to
bestow some memento of the day upon
the new communicants—and the poor
Empress sat in her arm chair propped up
with pillows, awaiting with childish im
patience the entrance of her little niece.
The red morocco case containing the
necklace and ear-rings she was to bestow
upon her viiitor was ready in her hand.
A smiles of consciousness played over her
features as the step of the child was heard
to approach. For a moment did her
attendants, nay even the doctor, imagine
that a ray of light was about to flash
across that poor bewildered brain ; but
when the door opened, and the little fig
ure attired all in white, with the snowy
veil thrown across her head and bosom,
pausing for a minnie ou the threshold,
advancing joyously toward her, some sou
venir of her own youth, some rememb
rance of the veil and flowers must have
come across her, for she dashed the jewels
to the ground, and seizing the hands of
Princess Louisa, covered them with kiss
es, looking all the while into her face
with such a vacant, inquiring expression
that the poor child, quite overcome, sob
bed aloud. After a while she grew more
'calm,and looking about in search of the
jewe case which had fallen to the ground,
she shook her head mournfully, and, tak
ing from her neck the chaplet and cross
which had been given her by the Arch-'
bishop of Mexico, and from which she
has never parted since the day of her en
trance into that city, she has placed it
upon the arm of the Princess, winding it
round and round many times. and, after
kissing the cross with a passionate effort
sank back again upon the pillow, and re
mained still motionless, with closed eye
and compressed lips, dead to all around,
as she is in the habit of doing for many
together. The scene was very . touching;
and the doctor declared his opinion that
the gleam of remembrance of the Prin
cess will be the last she will ever exper
ience in this world, Ever since that day
she has been confined to her bed, where
she lies without motion, and seemingly
without consciousness, while her attend
ants kneel by turns at her bedside, and
pray God's mercy on that much-tried soul.
—Paris Correspondence London Journal.
Mr The Government is still lolling
around Long Branch, smoking pipes, at
tending races, and driving ont with Jim
Fisk. lien week the Government is go
ing to Bt., Louis to .attend private busi
ness, which. - means collecting rents and
getting its truckiroperty housed. Leis
ure hours are sU.U.dovot. to , tha forth
earning work oil international law.
VOLUME %%VII, NUMBER 33.
Island-;Calutnitles.
The inhabitants of small and remote
islands are remarkable for their attach-1
ment to their native soil, and it. is, per- ,
hags, fortunate that they should have
this feeling, for otherwise. their isolation
exposes them to great disadvantages. We
are not now alluding to such matters as
the alleged' deterioration of race_ produc
ed by perpetual intermarriage, but rather
to the shock of actual calamities, which
full more heavily on small insular com
munities than on larger countries. Un
doubtedly the vine disease caused more
miser iii Madeira than it would have
done in a French commune ; and when
the island of Rhodes, a few years•ago, was
visited by an earthquake, the effects of
the calamity were much more severely
felt than they would have been in a con
tinental region. 'The following is a very
carious instance of the sufferings to which
a small, self-supporting island is liable:
—Some years ago a shoal of grampuses
visited Pabbay, one of the Hebrides. The
natives slaughtered the grampuses and
abtained quantities of oil. But presently
upwards of three thousand ravens head
ed by a while field-masshals, assembled to
devoure the carcasses, and when they had
picked the grampuses' bones clean they
proceeded to feast on the corn. Guns,
were brought into requisition, but with
out effect, and a winter of famine appear
ed imminent. A famous bird-catcher,
named Finlay then endeavored to kill
them singly, by climbing the rocks and
catching them while roosted: but these
efforts caused no apparent diminution in
their numbers. Suddenly a bright idea
struck him. Instead of killing the birds
he took six of them alive, plucked off all
their plumage except the tail and wing
feathers, and then let them go. The rest
immediately left the island.
Why Grunt Hankers Alter Salt Fish.
When President Grant was in Connec
tient he had a taste of salted shad, and it I
had such an effect upon his palate that
he ordered a barrel fur consumption at the
White House. We mention this fact so
that all the aspirants for office may know
wind sort of fish to lay in. Shad salt pas
sably well, but it. is far inferior to mack
erel or salmon. The shad is a fish of such
a delicate fibre that a large quantity of
salt is necessary to cure it. Consequent
ly it requires so much freshening to fit it
for the table that there is not much flavor
left. Perhaps, however, Gen. Grant in
tends to use the fish as a provocative, af
ter the fashion of an honest citizen who
desired to drink more than he had a nat
ural relish fur, and so resorted to salt fish
to produce an artificial appetite. He was
a naval officer, in command of the old
steamer Fulton; and he invited an ac
quaintance to make a trip with him. The
Tina day out he had soused fish for break
fast, and it was cooked 'without being
freshened at all. A piece of rock salt,
powdered with Liverpool brown, would
have been quite as palatable. The friend
tried in vain to swallow it. " Why Jim."
said he " how can you eat such horribla
stuff?" "Sir," replied the captain. "I
have a dasigm in it. By eating my fish in
that condition, I get a thirst on by twelve
o'clock that I would not take ten dollars
fur."—X. I". Sun.
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A Mistake.
It is, we think, an error into which
ninny of our modern ministers, whose
education has been carried to a high
pitch, have fallen, that every thing is to
he done by the head rather than the
heart. We know very well that the true
method is to reach the heart through the
head, and men must be made to feel by
being shown why they should feel, and
what is to make them feel. Bat in many
cases, especially in the least educated, the
head is to be reached by appeals to the
heart. We often hear the remark : "Yes,
it was a smart sermon, but wanted heart.'
It sparkled like the stars or shone like
the moon on a wintry night,but it warmed
no one." We have been sometimes struck
as every one must have been, with the
varying effect produced by different speak
ers at a public meeting; and how much
more the object of the meeting has been
accomplished by a few gushes of simple
eloquence front the heart of some earnest,
ardent advocate, than by the elaborate
and pasSionless pleader. The latter was
coldly admired, and admitted to be an
eloquent speaker; but the former melted
and moved his audience by the depth and
intensity of his own feelings.
At the instance of several fair be
ing, whose tender hearts and dainty
timidity prevents them speaking ont, we
publish the following handkerchief lan-
gouge :
Drawing across the lips—Desirous of
an acquaintance. Drawing across the
eyes—l am sorry. Taking it by the
centre—Your are too willing. Dropping
—We will be friends. Twirling in both
hands—lndifference. Drawing across the
the cheek—l love you. Drawing through
the hands—l hate you. Letting it. rest
on the right cheek—Yes. Letting it rest
on the left check—No. Twirling it iu
the right hand—l wish to he rid of you.
Twirling it-in the left hand I love another.
Folding it—l wish to speak with you.
Over the shoulder—Follow me. Opposite
corners in both hands—Wait for me.
Drawing across the forehead—We are
watched. Placing on right ear—Yon
have changed. Letting it remain on the
eyes—You are cruel. Winding around
forefinger-1 am engaged. Winding
around third finger-1 am married. Put
ting it in . the pocket—No more at present.
-CAUSE OF AnsExcE.—When the late
Lord Campbell married Miss. Scarlett, and
departed on his wedding trip, Mr. Justice
Abbott observed, when a case .was called
on in the bench, "I thought, Mr. Broug
ham, that Mr. Campbell was in this case."
"Yes, my laid," replied Brougham, "but
I understand he is ill, suffering -.from
Scarlett fever."
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Some one remarked that clothes and
manners do not make a man, but when
he is made tbey improve his appiprauce
vastly. Civility, (says Lady- Montague,
costs nothing, but buys everything. .
.Win
heart's; said idurieigh, and - lon have all
men's hearts and purses.
Gems or Thought
A Foo►ls TONG LlE.—The tongue of a
fool is the keV of his counsel, which, in a
wise man, wisdom bath in keeping.
SELF-Duom-rtorr.--With all the dupli
city of this wicked world,. few succeed
in deceiving others so completely us ,we
succeed, without effort, in deceiving our-
Selves. ,
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Suartcto.N.—The generality of suspic
ious persons are more irritated thanrat
l i.
ified, at discovering in the indivi al
whom they had prejudged to -have b of
guilty.
SEr.r►su NESS.—Man is ever selfish, ever
solely regardful of his own gratification ;
glossing over the crimes that administer
to his pleasnies, and condemning them
with unmitigated severeity when they
have - ceased to be desirable. ,'!' •-`
PETTY ANNOY A NCE.4.—TIIZTC are mi
nor miseries in life much more difficult
to be borne with patience than haavy tri
als, not being of a nature to call forth
that resignation with which we must arm
ourselves to support the misfortuneil we
know to be inavitable.
Tarrn.—To have no concern for the
truth, to be false and fallacious, is a char
acter which we expect nothing but levity
and inconsistency. Truth seems to be
censidered by all maukind as something
fixed, unchangeable, and eternal.
GOOD AND EVIL. —There is nutting
that is properly evil can befall a good
man ; for reason has armed him against
ambitions prospects, insatiable avarice,
and low sordid ambitions, Prudence- and
inte"rity, are above accidents, and draw
good out of every thing; and the constan
cy and resolution of the good man are the
grace and dignity of the picture.
Holmes The man who sits down in a
virtuous home, however humble, in which
his own industry enable him to breathe
the atmosphere of independence, and his
wife's management to enjoy cleanliness
and comfort, has a vast scope for the cre
ation of happiness. The minds of his
children`—of his wife, his own mind, are
so ninny microcosms, which only ask to
be inquired into and developed, to reveal
hoards of wealth, which may be coined
into current enjoyment.
A Protest Against Woman Stdbage.
One hundred and forty women of Lo
raine county, Ohio, all intelligent and
highly educated, have sent to the Legis
lature the following memorial:
- We acknowledge no inferiority to men.
We claim to have no less ability to per
form the duties which (cud has imposed
upon us, than they have to perform those
imposed upon them. We believe that
God has wisely and well_ addapted each
sex to the pioper performance of the du
ties of aach. We believe our trusts to be
as important and sacred as any that exist.
We feel that our present duties till up the
n hole measure of our time and abilities;
and that they are such as none but our--
selves can perform. Their importance
requires us to protest against all efforts to
compel us to assume those obligations
which cannot be 6upanited from suffrage;
but which cannot he performed by us
without the sacrifice of the higheSt inter
ests of our families and of society. It is
our fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons,
who represent us at the ballot-box. Our
fathers and brothers love us. Our hus
bands are our choice, and one with us-
Our son.4are what we make them. We
are content that they represent us in the
corn-field, the battle-field, and at the bal
lot-box, and we them in the school-room,
at the tire-side, and at. the cradle believ
ing our representation, even at ihe ballot
box, to be thus more full and itnpartiel
than it could possibly be were all women
allowed to vote. We do, therefo're, re
spectfully protest against any legislation
to establish 'woman suffrage' in our land
or in any part of it."
A Tough Fish Story.
The editor of a nester paper has been
up in the country trouting, - aud isrespon
silk for this fish story:- "A jovial old
gentleman whom we niet in our travels
told a story (for the truth of which we do
not vouch) to illustrate the number of
fishermen upon these treams. few days
ago,' he said, 'as I was passing a bridge
over Swift river, when I heard my name
called. I looked around to see who spoke.
No person was in sight, and I was about
to pass on' when my eye fell upon, a large
trout standing upon his tail in the river,
looking as though he had spoken to me,
-Did you speak, Mr. Trout e" said I. 1.
did, sir, said he, 'I wish to inquire if this
is the way to Bickford's mill ?" 'lt it3A
said I. 'Ain't there any ony other route ?'
said he. 'Guess not,' said - I, 'unless you
go by land. Why do you ask ?"Because
the river is so full of these fish hooka that
I can never get up this way."'
;7?T`ln a little town out West a lady
teacher was hearing a class of juveniles
in mental arithmetic. She commenced
the question, "If you buy a cow for ten
dollars—" when up came a little baud.
"What is it, .Johnny ?" "Why you can't
buy no kind of a cow for ten dollars:
father sold one for sixty dollars the other
day, and she was a regular old scrub at
that!
Indiana is trving to pass a law
proh)biting the sale of liquor within
three miles of any institution of learning,
which will doubtless have a tendency to
promote pedestrian, escereise among the
students.
A Columbus man was informed by
his physician that he was in danger of a
suffusion of the eere-bellinn. He thought
if it was as bad as that he Couldn't live
anyhow, so he went right *off and hting
himself.
EASE.-1f thou ilesirest ease, in the first
place take care of the ease of , thy mind,
for that will make all other sufferings ea
sy, But nothing can support a man
whose mind is woutlocl.
parA yonng fellow fond of tallthif, re
marked, 4 1 am no prophet," "True,'l-, re
plied a lady, "no profit to youidelt.o; any
one else."