NS? fegg i feg m Skuoteb to politics, literature, Agriculture, Science, iHoralitn, nub lateral intelligence VOL. u. STROUDSBURG3 MOInTROE COUNTY, PA. MARCH SO, 135-1. NO 21. Published by Theodore Scho?h. TERMS Two liollRrs per nnnuiit in advance Two ct.illars aiVl a quarter, half yeailv and if not paid be lotc the end of the year. Two dolhus and a half. No papers discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except at the option of the Editor. HIT Advertisements not exceeding one square (ten lines) will be inser'ed three weeks lor one dollar, and twenty-five cents fr every subsequent insertion. The charge for one and three insertion!- the same. A liber al discount made to ycarlv advertisers. 1C7 All letters addressed to the Editor must be postpaid. JOB PRINTING. Jlav ing a general assortment oflargc, elegant, plain awl ornamental Type, w e are prepared to cxccutecverydcsriiptionof tjards, Oiioulus, Dill Head, Notes. Hlank Receipts Jjiir.p.s LclmI and other Ilisnks, Pamphlets, Vc. print.d with ncalucM and despatch, on reasonable lorms, AT THE OFFICE OF TK S3 JEPFBSSOSSAS. An AQeditt ScceCj One of the moot affocting scenes that has ever taken place in the Police Court since its organization, occurred vestcrdav morning. After the business of the morning was over a middle aged Ameri can lad, neatly attired, approached Judge Spoone and requested that he would scud to the House of Refuse her two sons one aged ten and the oiher eight years. The two iiltle boys were presented to the Court, and belter look ing boys than these we have not before seen in this city. At the request of the court she made the following plain state ment, which in its delivery exhibited the true feeling of a mother, and the sad duty bhe was compelled to perform. " 'I came to this city in ?39, where I have resided ever since. In 1842 I was married to Elisha Rettick, who on account of his dissolute habits and a refusal to raaiutain his family, I procured a divorce in June, 1853, since which time I have not seen him nor do I know where he is. I have had four children, one dead, and three living; these two boys and a little girl about six years of age. I reside in Mill near Fourth street; I have no means of support but my needle. I have tried hard to raise my children as they should be raised, but whenever it is possible the two boys run away, and the oldest oho will take things from the neighbors. I have sent them to Fourth Street School, taud instead of going, they are continual ly playing truant. I have done all I could, and can do no more. T would willingly support and provide for them, but I cannot govern them. Judge 'it is bard for me to part with them, but their in terests compel me to do it.' Iler narration was listented to with breathless attention by all in the Court room, and frequently the tears which ran down her cheeks evidenced her feelings within. "When she had concluded, the boys burst into tears, and the younger faintly ejaculated, 'Dear ma! don't do it' Here followed a scene which beggars de scription. The mother sank into a chair and burst into a flood of tears, while her two prodigal sons wept bitterly. Every eye in the Court room was moistened, and the Court, overcome, left the bench and paced the floor. The boys plead,but the mother replied in deep anguish, 'My Gear sons, it is too late;' and the scene became more and more affecting. After Fome minutes respite, the Court ramark cd that it was the most sad duty they ev er had to perform separate a kind moth er from her children but the task can not be avoided. The boys were then sentenced to be confined in the House of Refuge until discharged by due course of law. The children were then taken out to that institution by the Marshal, the mother accompanying them to take a final farewell. The rules of the institu tion will not permit her to visit them of tener than once a month. Cincinnati Gazette. Tn2 Human Race. 'Ginger V 'Sab V 'When am dat great race to cum off dat dar is so much talk about ?' 'What great race ? I habeut heard ob any great race.' De human race, de great human race, flat is to come off 'fore long.' 'Yah, yah, yah ! you be de biggest fool I eber saw. De human race, dat ain't a boss race it be de people in de world, de inhabitants.' 'Who told you so V I allers knowd it, and so did every body else but you, and you am de dum best nigger I eber saw. I wish dat eve rybody had laruin,' so that they wouldn't bother 'spcctable niggers with such fool ish questions.' The man who was 'filled with emotion.' yas unable to make room for any dinner. The Gipsy IaVS Cf WltHachia. jcry, that very few succeed in rescuing All travelers who have journeyed from themselves from bondage Amongst the Zemlitza on the Danube to Bucharest, a- .Boywds of the present day there are a grce in painting the country they arc 0- S.d mmJ wlf'e C0PPer complexion, bliged to traverse in the most sombre col- white teeth and general east of countc ors? Once out of the sight of the lines of nance evidently prove them to be de trees that border the Danube, yoi enter ,sccndetl from "'S8 upon an interminable dismal plain, with I The physical constitution of this unhap a level horizon that surrounds you like a PJ people is strongly marked. The men circle, of which you are ever in the centre, are generally of lofty statue, robust and There are no objects -behind, to mark sinewy. Their skin is black or copper your progress by their gradual disappear- colored; their hair thick and wooly; their ance; there is nothing ahead to encourage Kps are of negro heaviness, and their you on: no mountains of blue rising high- teeth as white as pearls; the nose is con cr and' higher, becoming substantial as siderably flattened, and the whole eycS. you advance, breaking up their long line -AH wtihout exception, wear beards. into peaks and valleys, bristling with , Their dress consists commonly of a crags or clothed in forest. If you would piece of tattered cloth thrown careless know thai you are in motion, you must ly around them: perhaps an old bed cur look upon the ground beneath your feet tain given by some master, or a blanket and see the pebbles and plants pass slow- that has gone through every degree of ly backwards as your wagon moves speed- fortune, until it has been rejected by the iiy on, or whirl dimly by as the karoutch- scullion. er pursues its nia3 career. In winter) As it is the case in many savage tribes, time, an additional dreariness Is given to 'tie women are cither extremely ugly or this desert by the absence of the sun, ' handsome. Most of the IT:2US arc beau which is hidden from view by one cloud tiful up to the age of "twenty; but after stretching from horizon to horizon, low that time, suddenly shrink and shrivel, down, so as almost to resemble a mist just chauge color, bend, and lose the lightness risen from the earth. Here and there of their step, as if an enchanter's wand a few slight elevations, a foot or two high, had changed them from youth, admired indicato the presence of an underground and wood, to dishonored old age. The village. At various distances, tall poles dress of these women is peculiar, consist rise into the air, marking the positions of ing generally of nothing but a tight tunic well?, around which the sky is speckled or boddice, made . of sheep-shin, and by flights of crows and vultures. Now scarcely reaching to the knees. It leaves and then you meet parties of peasants their legs, their arms, and their necks clothed in sheepskin,' and wearing prodi- bare. Over their heads the most coquet gious mustachaes, wandering across the tish throw a white veil, and some few in level. At night the only sound is the wind dulge in leather sandals. As ornaments whistling through the low bushes, occa- they wear earrings of brass gligree, ncck sionally bringing to the ear the reports of ; laces of paras strung upon a slendor a volley of musketry fired by some party thong, and a variety of metal bracelets. of travelers, who amuse themselves in this , The children go naked up to the age of martial way. iten or twelve, and whole swarms of girls It is not uncommon in crossing these sad ! and boys may sometimes be seen rolling plains to come upon croups of wild-look-; about together in the dust or mud in the ing individuals, blackas Ethopians, scan- i sumcr, in the water or snow in the winter tily covered by old rags, stepping jaunt-! like so many black worms. As you pass ily out, waving their arms, nodding their by, a dozen heads of matted hair and a heads, rattling fragments of songs, and, dozen pairs of sharp eyes are raised to clattering together as thev go the black-1 wards you, and you arc greeted with a smith's tools which they bear upon their mocking shout, which alone tells you that backs. Further on, perhaps when night, the hideous things are your fellow-creat- li.is f:illrn nn linnr nv f.wn :m.fr thnsn odd ! looking people have gone ahead of your wagon, (they take two strides for one of J " - - - - your oxen,) tne ground ahead will proba- bly become spangled as with glow-worm?; ! and presently a sort of whirlwind of where he can find a place to lay his head. Etrange sound, half song, half shout, will 'However, it is their custoui, for the sum be borne by the night breeze, to mingle : iner season, to erect little sheds ofcan with the buzz of your own caravan, and ! vass, of straw, of branches, or of mud; the creaking of the wheels. You have j whilst in winter they scratch deep holes come upon a village, an encampment, a into the earth, which they roof with reeds burrow of Gipsy troglodytes (dwellers in jand turf. Their furniture is surprisingly caves), who are either sitting around the j simple, consisting of an old kettle; a few remains of the fires they have lighted to jtwo pronged forks, and perhaps a pair of cook their evening meal, or, with open j scissors, a poignard, and gourd to hold doors or trap, by the light of a candle ! brandy, or arakee to the use of which stuck in the ground, are engaged in smo-jthis race is peculiarly addicted. "When king red clay or cherry wood pipes, and drinking the har3h wine of the country. These r.ecnle are of the most humble; and mot unfortunate section of Wallachi-1 .... an people, the Zigan?, who of old formed a flourishing little State, paying tribute to the Greek empire, but who are now re duced to a condition of abject slavery. Their history is most obscure, and it is not with certainty known whence they came or by what steps they descended tojpiece of turned meat, which all Christain their present level. It seems certain, however, that they belong to the same family of wanderers who are known in Egypt as Gayras, in Hungar7 as Zingari, in (jrermany as Zigcnnor, in bpainas ded to the porridge or beau?, or maize Gitanos, in France as Bohemian5, and in on which the Zigans generally support England as Gipsies. Their own traditions' their strength. They use no plates or derive them from Syria, whence they were j spoons, but dip their hardened fingers in transported in the Eighth century by one; to the steaming kettle, and bring up a of the Emperors to Thrace. On account j ball of porridge or fragment of meat, of some peculiarities in their manners, which they cool by throwing from oue perhaps of some strange forms of doc-1 hand to the other until they can venture ' trine, they seem to have become detested i to cast it down their throats. The women and despised by neighboring nations, and , and children cat after the men, who, as especially by the Mohammedans. When las soon as they have wiped their hands the lurks penetrated into their territory, j instead of merely requiring tribute from them, they attacked them with fury, dis- per.ed them, hunted them down like wild beast5, and condemned those to per-; then go pellmell to their huts, or stretch petual servitude whose lives they spared. 'out by the embers of the fires. Nothing Iu this persecution they were encouraged can be more abominably filty than the by the Ch.risla.ins, who shared indeed, the ( habits of this degraded tribe. They are greater part of the newly-made serfs a- often obliged to abandon their villages on mong themselves. It is estimated that at account of the dreadful state to which , present there are more than twenty-three they have been brought by their carelcss '. thousand Zigan families in Moldo-Walla-' ness. This abandonment costs them noth j chia, comprising about a hundred and ing in feeding or in money! they are esscn j fifty thousand souls. Awcertain number tially wanderers. When the air is toopes of these belong to the State, which cm- tiferous to breathe, they shoulder their nlovs them in mines and works: whilst' worldlier utensils and their furniture, and the others are divided among the monas- remove a mile or two away. If it be sum teries and the Boyards. Some of these mcr they set up their sheds again in a latter possess as many as five or six thou-(fcw hours; if it be winter, and the frost sand, engaged in the laborious works con-1 has not yet come on, they form subtera nectcd with their estates, in part let out nean dwellings in the course of half a upon hire. They sell or exchange them 1 night. at certain fixed periods of the year, bring-! As we have said, a good many of the ing them like cattle to market; until late- Zigans are employed iu the rough labors ly, they treated them with such severity of agriculture. The greatest number, that they not unfrequcntly drove them to however, aro artisans, and are celebrated suicide. Many Boyards of human char- for their ingenuity. Their favorite trade acter now granted a semi-liberty to their is that of the blacksmith, but they can Zigans, allowing them, for so much a turn their hands to anything; and the ba year, to go about as they please, seeking zaars of Bucharest are filled with a vast for work, and retaining the produce of it. variety of toys and fancy work, which Once every Spring, the half enfranchised would do credit to our cleverest workman, slave must make his appearance and pay But the vagabond tendencies of the Zigan his tribute. Sometimes, also, he brings perhaps, also, the contempt with which an instalment of his own price, and thus he is regarded prevent him, except iu manages by degrees to free himself. An the rare instances we have mentioned, industrious man may earn his liberty in from rising, by means of his industry, in ten years: but this unfortunate race has the social scale. It is difficult to learn been so brutalized by long suffering and nuythingof his religious or other opinion?, is so addicted to every kind of debauch- From his talk one would sometimes fanry UrCS. In fine weather the Zigan is a very in dependant being. lie sleeps iu the open air, in the forests, in the fields, in the streets of the town anywhere, in fact, ithey have stowed these articles in tueir hole, under a shed, they call the place their home, and go back to it every night. mi . 1 1 i ' ey squat upon neaps 01 umi ana com- mence smoking their pipes, while the wo men set before them their supper which has been cooked iu the afore-mentioned old kettle, swung upon three sticks over a fire of wood brought in by the children mixed with a kind of peat. Sometimes a cooks have rejected in the butchers' shop, or a portion of some animal that has come by an untimely death and has been dis- tributcd by some generous Boyard, is ad 111 their hair, take again to their pipes, and if they can afford it to drinking. They make themselves merry for an hour or Jtwo, until fatigue comes over them and him to be half Christain, had Mohammc- dan; atother times to be firc-wor.-luper, aa infidel, a believer 111 fetishes, or what you will. He is a man of many color?,-like ! perhans, be more appropriate to say, sto- Ion for the Zigan, like his brethcrn wc know of, has great pilfering propensities from a dozen different dialects. The sound is not at all unmusical; and some of the songs which have been taken down ! are curiously characteristic. The follow- in- is the be-inincr of one of them : "Thrniigh the pathway of the sky, Quail with sharpenM beak dolli fly, Christos praising with sharp beak. What, oh dun quail, dost thou seek? To the grog-shop come with me, And treat me to some arakee !" It will bo seen from these lines that the ideas of the Zi-ans on various points are somewhat confused, or, at seent3 rather odd to i rm!i?l in itq rl rvvnlofrins li 1 v...w.V3.v, j v ImVny eastern songs, the words arbitrarily ! thrown together for the sake of harmony j an observation that might apply some- ! times to the verse making in our civilized rnfrion, ' , , , m Ihe z,igar? aie not only poets and singers, but they are musicians also, and their favorite instruments is the fiddle.- They often ask permission of their mas- ters, the Boyards.. to form what are cal- led Witzoulin, or storms (of music, con sisting of ten or twelve members, who go u.rti.n n, tn.nc ' 1 ties of the rich, and let themselves out at so much an hour. No ball is considered complete without one of the musical storms who ask very little tor their services, pre- tenamg tnat tneyare paiu uy tneir pleas ure; but who, unless they are grievously wronged, generally contrive to leave a deficit behind them somewhere, either in the larder or in the hen-roost. They of ten lead a few bears about with them, and when there aro no balls toward, dance a strange dance among themselves, circle, men and women, they begin by uttenn 1 his language, which contain traces of an large rivers called Nebraska. In this ' original character, but which is encrusted , Territory there are but few white settlers I as it were, with words borrowed (it might besides the Indian agents, military occu- ingiittui cries, and -then, as the nuaie , eastern portion is generally prairie,wnicii, was the perfection of the nasal drawl. He strikes up, whirl, jump, stop, roll, crawl, 1 like the tracts on the numerous rivers, is , p,; jy fie best Yankee 'Shaker' of crowd together, separate, throw their productive. It is generally agreed that Enfold to beat him in the last respect. arms and legs into the air, wag their j the country must be chiefly an agricul- xU(x yet fc,ere vas something exceeding heads, shake their bracelets, and work ' tural one. Manufacturers may flourish jy interesting about him. He announced themselves up info a kind of fury. The to some extent, and commerce hardly at ,jmsef to me when introduced, as a dance in fact, is a kind ofcompendium of all, as it is far from oceans, and has no qoafer of the seventh distillation-' ho the bolero, the saltarella, and the fandan- ' great lakes leading thereto. seemea to be conscious of his appearance, go. Sometimesasingleperformctgocstb.ro': The agricultural powers of the country and to enioy the practical joke it was a ferocious jig, which may be called the j may be somewhat inferred from the re- playing upon the fashionable dilettante jig of murder and suicide, for these two turns of the four tribes of Christian In-, ism oftbe world. For after all, he stood pleasant things arc the basis of his rep- ' dians the Delawares, Kickapoos, Shaw-; before us a genuine man a man who resentations. The acting in often so clev- nees and- Stock bridges all living north ' had nobly fought with misfortune and er that the unaccustomed spectators and south of the Kanzas river. The ; won the day, "who was religiously up shriek and rush away to save themselves, number of these Indians is 2702. They right, whose energies are expended iu do Thc ragged and breathless artist, fancy- 1 are mostly supported by agriculture, and ing good iu the noblest way, by promot ing they want to escape payment, pur- these returns are for a single year. Tho. ing education and virtue, whose name is sues them with his greasy cap held out, number of acres cultivated were 4000. ou an important literary, institution of shouting for a piastre. j They raised over S0,000 bushels of corn, 1 the West, and who was now actually on Little is really known of the relations 2000 bushels of wheat, and 12,000 bush- his way to the Chippewa camp meeting, of the Zigans among themselves. Mar- els of oats. They kept over 900 work- to obtain two or three youug Indians riage can only take place within the- lim- ing oxen, and large numbers of horses. J whom he wished to educate at his own its oftbe tribe, and generally within the Of melons of all kinds they raised over expenses, for1 the benefit of their race, limits of the property of one master, 200,000, and 400 hogs. The value of, Wc learn that he was in fact a real whose permission, also, is required before their products is put down at 831,000. ; Connecticut Yankee, from Litchfield the ceremony can take place. There is ' Among these Indians, civilization and County ihat, Yankee like, he. started in no ceremony of betrothal, no intervention Christianity have much advanced, and youth to teach in the South; that finding of matchmakers or friends; the youth will be further indicated by the statistics it rather poor business for both health goes to the father of the girl he has cho- that follow. They have six schools, seven and pocket, he returned destitute and sen, and, after some attempts at polite- teachers; and two hundred scholars. sick not to hang upon the 'old folks ness as offering a pipe, or praising the ( Their Sabbath schools are five, and their but heroically to marry a Yankee girl of size of the old gentleman's beard comes churches the same. Of professors of re- like mind with himself, and then, armed straight to the point, and proposes himself ligion there arc 372, nearly half of whom with his axe and accompanied by hi as a son in-law. Few questions are asked, ' are males, or a much larger portion than bride, to march bravely into the Western few conditions made. Unless there be is usual in England. The Nebraska, the ' woods. Here he located abcut twelve some important objections, the young lov- , Kanzas and the Arkansas are the three mile3 south of Cleveland, aid putting er receives permission to call his com- great rivers. The first two flow from down his stake rejoiced with h's youn rades together, and build a hut during cast to west, and empty into the Missouri wife, thanked God, took courage, and the course of the night to receive his bride. several hundred miles above its mouth. 'shook his stick' at fortune "with manly The very next day he requests his moth- , The branches or forks of these rivers aro j defiance. er to prepare a full pot of porridge, and , many. The Arkansas rises in the west-; In brief he has formed a village, (the then repairs to tho dwelling a hole six ' crn portion of the territory and flows well known Berea of the West.) has giv feet square, or perhaps a tent of branch- southeast, and empties, after crossing the en it the buildings and necessary annual cs where the maiden of his choice, State by tho same name, in the Mississip- income of a flourishing Boarding Acad dressed in her sheepskin tuuic, with a : pi. The Nebraska river is from one to 01113-; has opened a grindstone quarry veil borrowed from a neighbor, is mod- i three miles broad. It is full of islands from which is paid this income, and also estly crouched in a corner. He takes her by the hand and leads her to where his family is collected. The oldest man of ily the tribe is there by appointment, encour aged by a fee of a few handfulls of por-" ridge, and hastily mutters a few words by way of blessing. Thi3 is the whole ceremony, if, indeed, the great feed that follows be not more worthy that name ; and thus the Zigans continue from gener ation to generation. We arc sorry to be obliged to add that both women and men are, as a rule exceedingly debauched. Household Words. A JSvucl Condensed. Moonlight night shady grove two lovers eternal fidel ity young lady rich young man poor ' groat obstacle young man proud vc J ry handsome very smart sure to make a fortune young lady's father very an gry wont consent mother intercedes no go rich rival very ugly very hard hearted lovers in a bad fix won't part, die first moonlight again garret win dow opens rope ladder flight pursuit too late marriage old man in a rage won't forgive them disowns them old man gets sick sends for his 'daugh ter all forgiven all made up old man dies young couple get all the mono)- live in the old mansion quite comforta ble have little children much happi ness. Finis. The fellow whojdssed the face of na ture, says it didn't 'go' half a3 well as the busses of some of his lady frionds. j B5Sif Uiio-I of Nebraska ?! in )vy T t TVTTA, . VTSS p ! ' ' ' ' v Nebraska is so named from one of if3 pnnta, and missionaries sent out oy the various religious denominations of the U- "ited States. The whites are principal- located on the Sante Fe road, and the routes leading to California and Oregon. Prominent points for them aro Fort Leavenworth, a military station, and j Council Bluffs, and Indian Agency. " It is estimated that there are some 75,- i 000 people in Nebraska, the greater part of these being Indians. It is the choicest hunting ground of the red men, and it is supposed, of the estimated half a million f t j- xi tt 1 o. i i or Indians in t hn I nif,rd Stains, nnar v a wxth of them arc within this territory. : The Sioux tribes alone are supposed to , . . Grow, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Aricare, Grosbentres, Assiuebowe, the Mandan ! and other Indians. A portion of the ! Chcrokees will fall into this territory, un- der the billot iMr. .Douglas, it is well I known that the American board of mis- employed mis- , . . J .J T .r J rr, !!0Danes thos? Indians The ! would ai0t. bo includedi to who.m au'-tllu" iuiu..ij -tut " - sionanes. Tlin nlimnln of 'Cnbrnslro ?3 of nnnrsn i different in different narts. Its southern ' j Pr.vtio raay have about the climate of ; Virginia, its interior of Connecticut, and ! It3 extreme northern portion that o. ;- "'M"-"- B'" "1U5t milder than the mountainous portions on . itt nn c -i . . , . . . , mi highest mountains are described as cov- c, . , , , . , ereel with almost perpetual snow. 1 v The soil varies as much as the climate. Much of it is excellent, while other por- tions are composed of nothing but sand, such as the Great American Desert, in the central portion of the territory. The covered with cotton wood, widow and j shrubs. Col. Long, says that ,sonly for- ty miles of it is open to steamboat navi- ty miies 01 11 is open to sieamooat navi - any rate.it have Juuu lodges, and about oU,uuu peo- board a steamboat bound For Lake Huron. nterrupt a pious pie. Added to these are in rsebrasica,tue werc hardly on board, when lay xr nn invitntinn tn Fawneess. the JA'Iawarcs. the ohawnees, gation. 1 110 great emigrant routes to with tho Cleveland and Columbus Jioad; California and Oregon follow the north has built cottou and woolen manufacto fork of this river. The Fremont route of ries, in which all his own clothes aro 1842 was upou the south fork of the manufactured, and being a genuine same river. The Kanzas river is naviga- Yankee, (that is a thoroughly practical bio for 150 miles from its mouth, for man) he has, last of all erected a large steamboats. stone edifice for another academy a sort All accounts agree that this territory of manucl labor school on a plan of his is not well wooded, or at least, is not a 'own. In this insti'ution he has placed a timber country. Many trees that are jsteam engine ai d apparatus, for the man found in ( ur forests, such as elm, birch, ' ufacture of cloth and for knitting under maple, white oak, willow and pine, are'garmcuts and hoiscry, by which he is to found there. ! furnish employment to female pupils; Much of the country is high table and while a farm, irom which he hopes to prairie land, elevated from 2000 to 0000 draw full subsistence for the school, is to fec above the sea. The climate is term-pother with a stone quarry, to afford la ed very dry. Wild animals abound there, ' bor and manly muscle to male pupils. such as buffaloes, doer, elk, antelopes, The design is to afford education to prairie dogs, mountain sheep, wolvcs,wild young men and women who aro under tho horses,-turkeys, etc. Occasionally a griz- necessity of -working their way.' No zly benr crosses the track of tho traveler. 'one not dependant upon such efforts is to Those who jouiniey through this territory be admitted. Several student arc al suhsist much upon the meat of the buffa- ready there and at' work. Gad blwffiyotf, la, the meat of the cows being much pre- John Baldwin, with your old hat and ferred to that of the hulls. Deer are rough shoes, your big heart and gexwroua much uod for food, as is also' a plant deeds! called the milk plant, much eaten by the Indians. Fremont's account of his giving Of all happy households, that is the chase to the buffaloes, in company with happiest where falsehood is never though t Kit Carson and others, is exciting in thef AU 0 is broken up when once it horseman, as well as marnsuran, to en- 11 . x ntn rare in that hazardous sport. This vast op'. , , , , region is now almost an uuurouen w uter ness. es the territory is 11 A organised the emigrant has not yet fixed his eye upon it, except with the hope of fixing his abode there as soon as the word goes fortft from Washington. A Genuine Yankee out West. ' lcctures aml shown UP by fore,SIj tourists; is more or less a fabulous character, bufe now and then We hear of one whojias all tj,e roun and ready, fro-ahead talent and tj hlioiyncracy ' combined with real ' ' j v,rtue and benevolence instead of peUy shrewdness and penny-wise tact. liio following portraiture is from the Editori- al Jottings of the National Magazine : ; rrcssjng our way through the throne c , r . , . . 0 , tt , of men and iricirht that crowd the "rand w e railroad depots of the city depots which cover acres we iound ourselves again on inenu mtrouueett me to a p I saw at a glance, was a 'character. He wore a hat that certainly had not been brushed for six months, and might have bccn ag . , d .... , , , i falllDS fcllShtlv aback. disclosed as genu- ine a Yankee contour as ever the London T1 , v , .. , Punch or xankee motions portrayed- , that prominence of the nasal region, cut ,pointed if nofc np-pointed, those lines rad- iating from the eyes and extending to the ll. ll l. X A. T V l. yei7 ears, mose mm out wugn mtcgu- mcuts, and that indescribable expression of easy self possession, of mingled 'cute- ncs3' aruj g00tj fiunior, which become the moral and physiognomical characteristics P -r, ., -r ? f Brother Jonathan the world over. His shoes were rough, heavy clumps ot , 4l . i i t t. . i leather, that certainly had never known , , , . , . i'blackmir; his coat and pantaloons werd biack wIlen. of the coarsest, strongest texture; his shirt bosom and collar were unstraehed coarse cotton and he wore no stock Ho evidently did not relish the delectation of shavinsr. and his sneech 50OO a year to the Methodist Missionary Society; hits built a railroad (of which ho j is sole propretor) counecttirg the village (is sole propretor; counecttirg the village lULiuuuia unit tnuiu 13 a ui n . BLANK DEEDS -Eur It- al this Ofiirc, assenecr. who. a 1
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