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STROUDSBURG3 MOInTROE COUNTY, PA. MARCH SO, 135-1.
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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-
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rare in that hazardous sport. This vast
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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
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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
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of men and iricirht that crowd the "rand
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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
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falllDS fcllShtlv aback. disclosed as genu-
ine a Yankee contour as ever the London
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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
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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
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f Brother Jonathan the world over.
His shoes were rough, heavy clumps ot
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i leather, that certainly had never known
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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 .
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