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VOL. 14
.STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. AUGUST 3, 1854.
NO. 33.
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Published by Theodore Schoch.
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IlaviHc a pchcikI Assortment of Inrgc. elegant, plain
and ornamental Type, we are prepared
to execute cveiy description of
Cards, Cirenl irs, Hill lfead. Nolo., Rlsnk Receipts
Jssucs, J.fsil and other Iltnks, l'atnphli ts, A c.
puilcd mtli neatness and despatch, on reasonaMc
Icruis,
AT TlIK OFFICE OF
T 13 i? J E F F E Hi S O X S A IV .
Lo?e and
iKrirriage.
A n.VCIIEIiOR S fiKOWL
When lovers arc wooing and cooing-,
Pursuing so'tne woman for wife,
Nought is tlio't of the storm that is browing
To bring cloudy weather for lift;
But those who have gathered the flowers
From the foot fall of Cupid that spring,
Know there grow in Hymeneal bowers
Thorn?, nettles, and briars that sting.
Ho swears never wooer was truer,
She vows she allows not a beau
To lie near, or appear as aught to her
.Save as one that she slightly may know.
&8l those who are by when they stgli,
Ana such little perjuries make.
Can't conceive how these lovers can lie
Under such mists of mistake.
Their style of exclusive devotion
Is all very well in its way,
Btil this very unsociable notion
They linJ after marriage ' don't .pay,",
My darling"' will last fnr a while,
For while be at intervals kissed,
Ilat though pirted by many a mile,
Tis rarely that Madame is Mist-ed.
'litis 'piymg addresses"' possesses
A charm, as each lover allows;
But repeatedly paying for dressc3
Must follow Hymeneal vows.
Tlioagb Cupid the office conceals
That each hapleas sufibrer fills,
Vet Ifymen, more honest, reveals
His duty of" pitying up" bills.
The Paradise promised by Cupid,
With cherubs as guardian sprites,
Is rendered remarkably stupid
T ihon who must slenn tborc o" niirhts.
These cherubs must all of them cat.
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Tfeowg li the fact is a lover beneath.
And his " Heaven below" is roplete
With wailing and cutting of teeth.
Uut a. lover will never discover
A fault in the one he would wed.
Prom his dreams never seem3 to recover
Till his Jamb lo the alter is led.
His idol then proves an ideal,
Still worship he probably can,
Yet though he may love what is real,
Yob'JI allowdie's au altar-ed man.
From the Bvcks County JnlrUigcnccr.
Scalping in the Revolution.
Mi?. Brown Dear Sir. I have taken the
liberty of sending you this for the next num
ber of-your valuable paper. The subject to
winch it relates is probably new to most of
your readers, and it is well calculated to ap
pear on the glorious anniversary of our Inde
pendence, as it shows one of the many inhu
man (might I not say infernal!) means taken
by the British Government, in the time of the
Itevolutiora, lo crush the liberties of our fore-
fathers in their long and arduous struggle for
tfciKD llrcintrK u'n nmv OtllfiV' It IS KtlQWn
1 W ..w- l J
tint dr.ritig the war, the King and Parlia
iiient engaged the savages, and paid them so
much per ticalp, for every man, woman, and
child. Jielow is a list of several packages con
taining eight hundrod and t!iirtv-two scalps,
cured &, dried, with the Indian marks on them,
which came in possession of the Americans
hv the surrender of IJurjrovn'e, in October,
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1777, and was found among the baggage of
his army. With them was a paper, stating
that they were sent by one "James Boyd,
rom Capt. Crawford, to Colonel Ilaldiman,
the British Governor of Canada:
"Package 1 Containing 43 scalps of Con
gress soldiers killed in different skirmishes,
Stretched on black hoops, 4 inches in diame
ter. "Packnge2 Containing 98 farmccs' scalps
killed in their houses, on red hoops, with the
Jigurc of a boo painted on each, to denote
.their occupation.
"Packngc 3-Containing 97 farmers' scalps,
on green hoops, lo show that they were killed
in the fields.
" Package 4 Containing 102 farmers'
scalps, 18 of them marked with yellow flames,
.to signify that they were burnt alive.
Package 5 Containing 88 sculps of wo
men; long hair and braided, to show that they
were mothers.
Package G Containing 19M scalps of boys
of various ages, on small green hoops.
'Package 7 Containing 211 girls' sculps
big and little on small yellow hoops."
uly 1, 1854.
J. S.
.AKJf DEJEIJS
Formic at this Ofiioc
The Cat Species. !
2ly son, how man' species of cats arc;
there ?' 'Five' 'I thought, G ussy, there '
wcrc only two-thc domestic and the ,
J
wildcat.' 'T tell von there is five. Don't
T , n i i it t
yer suppose I knows, old lady!' 4I dare
ncctful and
fay; but be a little
more res
name them.1 'Well, thcro's wild cat3
and tame cats.' 'But that makes only
two.' 'Jest you wait, old lad', till I get
through, won't yer? Ain't there cat
fish and cat-a-line and cat-a-wampus ?'
'And you may add another species to
your list,' said the mother of this hopeful,
v. . j ii
. . , , . -.
father returns lookout fori
'when your
cat-a-ninc-tails.'
A Hen Doing Double Duly.
"U"e have a motherly old Shangbae ben,
that brought out a brood of chickens two
weeks ago, and is now busily engaged in
clucking and scratching among them
coaxing and scolding if they go astray,
.squalling terribly at all the dogs,and cats' Camtlellj pariiamcnt was iex0vable,
; and hawks that show themselves. At the unyieldin. Franklin's unsuccessful cm
same time she lays an egg every day or basay ,iQ (irectcd hig
two, just the same as if she had no little coursc homcward arriving in Philadel
; responsibilities to take care of, and had pbia -n the May of n75. h(J found thafc
, nothing to do but to lay and cackle about hosti,itics had brotcn out bctwcen tho
, it. We call this doing double duty. colonistg and tbe Britidb forccs. It was in
j Maine Farmer. ; q 17?(J fchat leading gtates.
I So do we, but we never saw the ben ;men 0f America resolved to close this un
, Shang-hae Chittagong, Dominique, Java-j bappy contc5t bv an absolute and final
nese, Dorking, Pheasant or Spanish ; SCYerancc of the colonies from the mother
j that would do it. " In our diggings" we j countrythe colonies shall be placed .un
; think her something of a ben that will lay jcr au independent goverment. No soo
in twenty-one days from the time the last;ncr bas tliisj been determined upon than
I chick chips its shell, and emerges from the 'tijQ following members of Congress are
confinement of its lime walls into light and appointed a committee to draft a Declara-
liberty. We can only say that tbe Maine 1 tjon 0f Independence, viz. : Jefferson,
; Farmer's Shangbae hen is z great bird. j Adams, Franklin, Sherman and Living
! Most Shanghacs'are when they are full ston 'phis committee was appointed un
: grown.-New fork Commercial. , . followinfF rcsointion : "Besolved.
Childish Sincerity. j
A lady who was quite in the habit of1
droping in at her neighbor's about meal
times, in the hope of obtaining an invita-'
: tion to partake with the family, was re-
. 1 , i i ii "I i i
; cently non-jdused by the unhesitating
frankuess of a child.
Knowing that a neighbor's supper hour
I was five, she called in about four, and
, seltlea iicrseit down lor a ions can.
tbe ladv honored with the call had no !
it I 4 i tt - f j-v n 1' n - lo 1 -i ' ' r e i
wt.,o
1U VII W A 1 t lllj; ttllUl.C4Lti.llA ib HUJ lli
her power to escape it.
Accordingly, tbe hour of five brought'
no indications of supper. Time wore on,
the sun was near its sitting, and still the
same.
A little girl, the neighbor's daughter,
I began to grow quite uneasy. At length,
, her mother having gone cut for a moment,
' tbe visitor said
"You must come over to sec me, Mary,
some time."
! "No I won't", said the child,
j "Why not?"
"Because I don't like you."
"But why don't you like me?"
j "Because I am hungry, and waut some
. supper."
"But," said the visitor amazed, "1
don't prevent you having your supper,
do I?"
"Yes you do," said little Mary. "Moth
er said she should'nt have supper till
you were gone, if you staid till midnight."
In less than five minutes the visitor was
marching out of the front door with a very
red face. She has't called to see Mary's
mother since.
! Little Mary in her childish frankness,
' has not yet learned the important lesson
J
her, viz "that the truth, however excel
lent or desirable in itself, is not to bespo
ken at all times." Trite Flag.
Respectful.
A strictly orthodox old gentleman in
i l c ....
.Massachusetts, returning home on
Sun -
"is
day from Church, began to extol to
son the merits of the sermon
"1 have heard, Frank," said he,
OtlC
of the most dehgihtful sermons ever dc-j ff wctWwnho names before us we shall
livered before a christian society. It car- fiud lbem fift ,fiix in number. Fifty-Six!
ried me to the gates of heaven. ( Th(j number is significant. Some one
"Well, I think,' replied brank, "you'has sad of 5t...Thc greatest fifty-six
nau ucuer uougeu iu, you never get
another such a chance."
In Doylstown, on ihc Fourth, the Brass
Band, aided by the Glee Club of the
place gave a concert iu tho Court House.
One of tbc pieces sung on the occasion
made the following rather hard hits at
the people of the town :
They built a cistern on a bill,
And let it for tbe rain to fill,
There it still holds its proud position, -
A monument of their ambition.
They'll have a railroad, pretty soon,
To Philadelphia or tbo moon
They wantbutone thing ain't it funny!
They've gotthc name, but not the monej.
Some want the depot up, some down,
Some in the centre of tho town;
Some people fear there'll bc blood spilt ' a7l( pounds had been offered for his
They'd better wait till they get the road apprehension. It was in allusion to
built. this, when, having in such mammoth
There are four editors in this town ; 'characters affixed his name to the Decla
Though all are men of great renown, ration, he threw down the pen with the
(Excuse me, gents, for speaking freely,)
They don't quite equal Horace Greeley,
Signers of the Declaration of Independ-
ence.
Ifc lld bc difficult to fill(I a morc stri"
kinS Picturo of the true mnral sMtmc
ll 1.1.-1. ' il. . l T..l li
prosentcd in the " Declaration ,
1 . . j
idencc ' of the North American
of Independence
. r .
.Colonies, witli it3 fifty-six appended sig-J
natures
and hand givo to the world a document
producing such results upon the physical,
civil, intellectual, and religious world.
Immediately prior to the date of -this in
strument, Benjamin Franklin bad been
exerting to their utmost his unrivaled
t i i i..i i ii ii , r i , r,
diplomatic talents to allay those feelings
. .. ,. , , . , , 1
ui aiiiniutiiy wiiiuu buustsieu uclwcuii
Great Britain and the infant colonics
mutual animosity occasioned by the oft-
repeated acts of injustice exercised by
., . l ii i ii xt i -ii ,'
flirt Inrmor fnwnrr flin nfror ixntvvirll-
standing Franklin's righteous cause was
so ably and eloquently advocated by those
Q far.sibtcil Jritish-DCcr, Chatham
That these united colonies are, and of right
ought to be, free and independent states;
that all political connection between
ml (. t iitnin is. and of rbd.t
. , , , , l ,. , , , c,
oucbt to be, totally dissolved.' bomcdis-
j fc ' J
jcussion was had thereon; and when the
' vote came to be taken for its adoption,
! Pennsylvania and 'South Carolin awerc
.: ;t Dnin w ,liln,1 nml
1 ork dld not vote on account of some
informalitv in the instruciinos of her
delegates.
But by the time the final and
decisive vote was to bc taken, tbe deleg-
ates from all the colonics had either re
ceived fresh intelligence, or more clear and
distinct instructions, so that there was at
last a concurence of all the colonies, and j
on the -1th of July, 1770, all the members 1
present, with one exception, immortalized
their names by appending them to this
now most rcnowed of all political docu
ments. We have seen that a committee of five
were appointment to draft this paper; but '
its actual execution was by the nervous
and energetic pen of that man of prcacieut
intellect and unparalleled acumen,
Thos.
Jefferson. After the author has listened
with some degree of impatience to tbe
criticisms offered by his colleagues" and
submitted to a -few not very material al
ternations, tbc instrument is adopted sub-
etanlially as first presented.
We need not here quote, in whole or in
part, tbe production now before us; for on
each return of tbc "Glorious Fourth"
we all listen with rapt attention to its
liberty-breathing sentiments, its soul-stir-
ring strains, its spirit-thrilling language.
Jieaving the document, allow us a lew
I words about tbc intrepid men who sighed
I 1 M . V.. I.,
lit while English cannon were booming in
their ears, British steel glittering before
their eyes, ana .jaci: iveicn a rope uang- ;
... T-rl7-jl .1 . .
f 1 ; ,,, nvor fl.iir 1 1 r f 1 J
ld saw all Europe could
not lift it." Foremost of this grand gal- . ""J """"J ",t"
axy is the firm, undaunted, nnd massive
signature of Joim Hancock." Some j IIow a Eoman vcd;
wise acres would have us believe that! Bruce, in his 'Classic and Historic Por
characlcr may bc read by an inspection traits,' gives the following ketch of that
of hand-writing. Perhaps this would be effeminate creature, the ISmpcror Helio
uo difficult task if as in tho instance 1 gabalus.
now before us there were circumstances ; In his magnificence, Ileliogabalus was
sufficient to compel the writer "to throw truly Oriental. He had beds and couches
his whole soul on the point of his pen." of solid silver. He adorned others of his
That such was tbe case on tbc occasion beds with gold. His chariots glittered
here brought to view is sufficiently cvin- ' with gems. They were drawn sometimes
ccd by the oral remark which immediate- by elephants, sometimes by stags, and
jy succeeded this bold act. It is a well- sometimes by beautiful naked women.
known historical fact, that in consequence His drinking and cooking vessels were of
of his resolute and unceasing efforts to silver. lie was also guilty of the luxury
rouse the colonists to war against British which, at a later period, St. Chrysostom
tyranny. John Hancock had so much charges as a sin against the Christian la
inourred the resentment of the home gov- dies of Constantinople of using vessels
eminent, that a reward of one tlious-
- - w
remark j "luere I Johnny rJull can read
that without spectacles; let him double
his reward I defy him 1" His grateful
country is, and ever will bc proud of him.
At no great distance from the name of
Hancock, we meet with the zigzag signa-
.f lT,.T,,.r,-t. Tni.;fI.
. , . ,
standing Mr. Hopkins belonged to the
orainentlv Dcacofui society of " Friends,"
we believe, had circumstances required it,
the sword in defense of the liberties of
his beloved country. The venerable pa
triot seized the pen with a palsied hand
but with a dauntless spirit. Some one
near him at the time, pointing to the ir-
regularly traced autograph, remarked
1 on write with a trembling heme.
n a t. iv : i.. i:...i m...L r
.:u : il v;i intiiiiiiii v i eiuieu, uui j i u.
-
Bull will Gnd 1 haven t got a trembling
Jjc-irt "
Further along the list we meet with
Charles Carrol, of Carrolton. At this
were to be found in this sec-
fion of the country quite a number of
1 .
ous in the stniggIes of tbe llay bore the
Christian name of Charles. When Cor-
rol had simply written "Charles Carrol,'
t i Kim
tinctly desicnatin where miirht bc found
J & a o . .
if King
to see him-
ii.- i:-:
the face of the growiing lion.
Such were the men of tbo time; but
irl.or did MiPfto herons hail from? Which
of the several bribt stars of our grand
constellation claims the honor of their
nativity? We have entered upon this in
quiry with some care. Tbe following is
the result of our investigation : Virginia
stands foremost. She gave nine. Next
comos Massachusetts with eight. Mary
land is next in the train with five. South
Carolina, Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, and
Connecticut, each contributed four. Del
aware, New-York, amllreland, each gave
three. Khode Island, England and Scot-
land two each. Maine, New-Hampshire,
and South Wales, each one.
A few other facts connected with this
parchment may not be entirely devoid of
interest. At the time it was signed,
Benjamin Franklin was tbe oldest man;
bis aire was seventy; behaving been born
in Boston, Massachusetts, in 170G. Ed-
ward liutledge, of South Carolina, was
the youngest; his age was twenty-seven.
He was junior to Thomas Lynch, of S.
Carolina. bv but three mouths.
Whether John Morton of Delaware, or
I Butler Gwinnct of Kngland, first descend-
ed to the tomb, we cannot now speak con-
fidently: both
died in 1777 Mr. Gwin-
net May 27; the day or month of Mr.
Morton's death cannot now be corrcetty
ascertained. Charles Carrol stands forth
with marked peculiarity on this list.
Not only is he the only one who gives his
C
Place ot residence, but he was the last
survivor oi unu inusirious oanu, auu aiso
attained to a greater ac than any of the
rest, he being, at the "time of his death,
November 14th, 1839, ninety-five. Thos.
Lynch, one of tho two youngest at tho
time of signing, was also the youngest in
death: bc died about 1760, aged thirty-
; both died Qn the fmrljt af of tbc
! san,e year, 1820; tbc former at the age
rrnn hniiin s . lo ttnrson !i n( . n in Adams
' of eighty three, the latter ninety-one.
We have been able to ascertain the
several aes of fifty-three of these dis-
u mciDucr iiourinin rcmnriccii J ucrc is ju,,,v;i uu mi uu nuvnuu iv j'it.u.;utu uuiiimyu jumi, ..v-v.
not much danger for you, seeing there ; of tlic Pal"to in admiration of tho dislr tbe streets, and ca-t into the Tiber. Ac
arc others who "bear the same name." i which t he llomans made of the teats of a;COrdtr.g to Herodian and Dion, tbe samrt
"Ts there not!" he replied, and' immedi- new farrowed pig; tbe mostcelebrated of indignities were inflicted on tbe body of
ntolv idilprl nf C-.rrnltnn lim dis- ' ancient luxuries. After the example of , his mother, who was killed at the samf
(icorrre bad anv snecial desire tenner pans oi me nen ui uie uumui, uu -naving uecn stain in iiur aims, uju aiatu.i
the Charles Carrol who bad OA eumus. iuui num niu uuiiua imujinat dolu inctr iicaua huic uuu uh, .hi--
' ' i. rpi iii. .Ji: n ..I ! .i , , , . l 1 iU.t
i ,.i...i. i.: n nnn .,v n cocks. msjauer ueiitatv, viiatiiuuuii ; tneir Doaics sinnncu naiieu, aim m.uuin
tinguished men at the time they pigned ' be may have been ignorant of that ter
the Declaration. Their united ages pre-.1 riblc ' cruelty which Christian cooks, in
sent an aggregate of two thousand three ' modern times, arc fiuilty of practising to
, hundred and thirty-six years, giving an
avorage to each of forty-four years twen
ty-seven days. The aggregate years at
death of fifty-two of this number, (the a
ges of the other four we have no mcaus
of correctly ascertaining,) is three thous
and three hundred and ninety-one; aver-
arre uxtv-fivc. J hrcc of these lived to
: be moro than ninety; twelve more than
e; . tw(. on0 attahlC(1 to inorc tban
scventy. Where else shall we look for
such instances of longevity? It will bo
conn ntOTlOO that, t.llO llnrinrr dfind tbeV
seen at once that the daring deed they
had committed did not "frighten them to
UUilul,
results of this first decisive blow for the
complete redemption of their country.
Some of them lived many years to enjoy
civil and religious blessings, such as the
universal Creator never yet vouchsafed to
. nnif r t Iwir rnnrlrt 1 1 n Ima miIn
of the most precious matorial for use hr
tho most ignoble purposes. Ho had cups
artificially perfumed for drinking, and
others on which lascivious designs w'ero
sculptured: an iniquity not confined to an
cient and heathen time. At table bo re-
cliucd on couches stuffed with the fur of
t hares or the down of patridges.
He
wore cloaks heavy with gems, and ued
to say ho was burdened with a load of
pleasure. He had gems in his shoes,
sculptured with designs by the finest ar-
tists. Ho wore a diadem of precious
stones that he might resemble a beautiful
woman. Ifc isHaid to have been the
first
silk.
Boman who wore robo3 of entire
He never, it is
said.
wore a
ring
for more than one day, or twice put on
the same shoes.
In his more refined and elegant luxu
ries he was the rival of the ancient Dem
etrius I'oliocrctcs. He had beds and
couches of roses, and walked amongst
lilies, violets, hyacinths and narcissuses.
Whcn he wished to add the niouant ila-
A A I " "
vor of cruelty to his enjoyments, ne would I poison mixftd up with tbo mot precious
stifle a courtier to death in a bed nf flow- articlo-', he had robes of purplo and crim -ers.
He swam in water perfumed with son silk ready to strangle with, and gold
saffron nad procioua unguents; and wine 'en swords to stab himself with. He hal
and aromatics were poured into bis .fish also a high tower built with rich adorn
ponds and his baths. ings, where bc might breathe out his last
In eating and drinking he appears not in a royal state,
so much as a glutton, but as the chief of The manner of his death was just th
all ro'val epicures; tbe equal in gastron
omic science of the renowned Apieus. He
iAinA inth ii m ia eturiioM Tiif nmnsn l'rv i
Apicua be indulged in dishes made of
i i. .p .i. . l -ii r ii. l l
in lns couimentary on the passage in tho j
I
Augustan historian in which it is refer-;
re(l toi tells us, is at tins day tnat is
J, two hundred years ago passion-,
sionately sought after by men of learned
palates. Like itelhus bc seems to have
had his appetite whetted by tbe expen
siveness of the dishes which ho procured;
and like him he tool: a pleasure m sac
rificing the rare and most beautiful birds
for tbe sake of eating their heads their 1
brains, or their tongues. At one enter- i It 00.s as though the inhabitants thi
tainment he displayed on his table tbc;cnuIltv ih'Uir that thev can neopte or dir
,iefld3 o( six hundred ostriches, whose tate wbo sbai pCOplc the whole Kansas
brain, as well as those of the flamingo Territory. Thev iu the start flocked into
and thrush, were amongst his favorite re- the Territory by hundreds. Men wonld
Pasta- Uc Jllso indulged in the tongues t perbapS take a dozen claims, stick their
of peacocks and nightingales, believing .take, mark their names, get up a littlo
that tiic' li:ul a medical virtue in avert- netting, reP0lve to protect each other
inS epilepsy. He alio made dishes ofjamcacb other's claims. They akre-
thc entrials and sometimes of the bcadsigojj at all hazard.-, that Kansas' be
of tllG mullet, of the eggs of patridges, f oni,c to and should be settled cxclu-
and the herds of pheasants, peacocks and sjvcly by slaveholders. After this nino
parrots. We wonder at the destruction j out of cvery tcn return to their Missouri
of creatures so lovely to tho sight as the homes, sunnosing that they have fixd
peacock, the flamingo and tbe pheasant,' beyond the possibility of repeal the insti-
for tll particle of delicate eating to be : tntions of Kansai for all time to come.
got from them; but epicurism and glut-
tony consume ami destroy all other
tastes.
; J he Abbe Dubois,
in his curious work
on India notices
with regret that the
prospect of the immense influence overset apart for us.' A few northern men
the minds of the Hindus which they
would have acquired if they would only
liave consented to abstain from one sinjile
. i i (- t e . t ill
y - " -
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Bhavant, would not restrain the English
from horrifying tbo heathen by eating
that one article, even in the unsavory
condition in which it is found in India.
A devout .Danish missionary, ot the Mor-
vaian sect, is still more severe on uie same
'
lish child is shown any pretty bird or
fihh its first question about it is: 'Is it
ooou lor e-umgi
i We presume that ITcliogabalus knew
the rich merits of the goose's liver, tho'
please Christian palates in the prepara
tion of the celebrated fat liver; but it is
recorded of him that while ho put grapes A dark picture, truly; but think not that
into his horse's mangers and fattened his it has no bright side. Nothern men have
lions on parrots and pheasants, he fed his t boon found who could not bo scared; set
dogs with the livers of geese. tlements have been commenced; slave
The genius of Ileliogabalus shone par- holders have become frightened, already
ticularly bright in tbc oookirtg of fish
j 1 this department he is said to have in -
youtcd ncw niodcs unknown to Apiciu?
! but with a refined hatred of things com-
; mon and cheap, he would never taste fish
I of nil irlinn nnnrtlin enn lmf nlm vs fnnk
at all when near the sea, but always took
delight in them when far removed from
water, iust as he took a fancv to have
snow brought to him in midsummer. He hundreds of Freemen will be rallied; a
offered rewards for the discoveries of ncw fiat will then go forth that will sound a
diahes of exqui.ste flavor, and he had a , death-knell to Slavery, in Kansas, at
humerous way of stimulating the inven-, least. All we ask is, for northern men,
tion of those around him in this science. 1 and southern men tired of Slavery, who
When a courtier, aftor exerting his best .design emigrating here, to come now
skill to please him, produced a dish which , jYotp is the time they can suit themselves
he did not relish, ho made the ingenious , with homes; and above all, now or soon,
artist himself cat of that dish, and noth- this slavery question must be met and
in" else, till his faculties, sharpened by'settlcd. During our trip over ino the
disgust, enabled him to find out some-1 territory, we saw the Baptist missionary.
thing superior for his master.
Like Nero and Caligula, Ileliogabalus
i..i t.:, : i:i: . n.. ' . i- .1
uau ma juuuiai uiua generally practical
J b. . J '
onos something merely absurod, some- "-" y . . -i , , ,
, . , P . . J , ' i iv received by bis family and Uicbard
thing characteristically cruel. His most ', : , u ii; tL. ,u
, , ii- i ii i Mendeuball, their teacher, nnd his nima-
harmlcss entertainments in this way con- D-rt v,.i; t:i ,.vii.
. . . . i'ii iii . b e wife all strong Anti-blavery people,
sistcd of the suppers which bc would give , ?,iKf,i S:,r
.... ii i. ii iri to whom wo are indebted, not only tor
one night to eight men all ot them blimi . .
. . , .i.iii much valuable information, bay to free-
of one eye, something to eight bald, some- lia ,
. , ' , m. , .Lv t l, . io men 'Come on, secure a home, and assist
thing to eight afl icted with gout, then to . i ' Qi,mrv
. , 1 1 1 1 i? o'taht in this great struggle between blaveiy
eight lean men, eight black men, cght p ob
tall men, and eight fat men. He kept an,l 1 reetioin .
lions and leopard's, which lay at the table ' Our nearest Post off.ee at proffln. is
with him, in order to frighten his friends. Weatport, Jackson Couuty, Alisaoun.
He would get a company filled with drink, 1 Yours truly,
and after locking them up for the night SaSitTbl N..WOQ.
would let loose amongst them lions, leop-,
ards, ami bears, with their olaws pared, Ju the lbt of births published in the
to terrify thorn; and mafiy, it is said, died Liverpool Courier -of June BTth is tho
of the fright. following i 'Lately, the wife 'Jrvi.s
At other times when dayligbfc would Wilkinson, laborer, WanVteh, qf, of
break in on the company who had ben her twenty -fifth child,'
J drinking the night before, they would
j'iind themselves in the arms of ugly black
; old women. At other times he made sham
j entertainments, like Bamacide's feast in
, the Eastern tale, getting hid guests down
to the dishes of wax, ivory, or stone,
j painted after nature. lie. collected ser
i ' . . . .
pente together and let them loose to bito
the visiters. He would tie his courtier
to a wheol and have them whirled round
in the water, calling them in allusion to
my theological fable, his 'lxonite friends
Fearing a violent death from the ven
geaucc of the people, Heliogabalu3 bad
made preparations which turned out to
be all in vain, for terminating his exist
Un in. an elpant manner. lie bad
a
reverse of all that bo rtePireu. itter be
jinr; slain, his body was first thrown into
l i n -v m r r crcTni lion n rfi crrwii T it rnii rr n
time. Dion represents Ileliogabalus as
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Was thrown into one part of the rivcr,anrJ
the other into another,
Interesting- From Kansas.
Westport, Mo. Juno 27, 154.
To the Editors of thr. Satinnal Era.
Deau Slit: I have left my Ohio homo
nnd friends, and have come here for tin
purpose of selecting myself and family a
fortune home in this the fairest portion
0f aQ.-s curtb. A stru'de is before uf.
Meetings are held in Missouri, wher
lynching is publicly recommended, as tho
last resort, to drive those HchUr. iivered
Aho!il 'tcmst"' out of Kansas into Nebras
ka, which thev condescendingly say is
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already have been driven lrom tbe .ter
ritory; others frightened away. A few
slaveholders have already moved in with
- .
.their slaves, i uc mcuioui iuiiu.,a-
riw tent ucm iui uic jm jij- ui v.h..
i cu;g and Christianizing the poor Indian,
j bavc tbeir slaves to do tho drudgery of
j tbe mio,; thus, while they are enlight-
I tcn;n am Christianizing oue class of
bcathC;,?J as an auxiliary in the good cau3e
they are grinding down and blotting out
the very souls of other heathens. Indeed
it is a question whether Hiey Chris
tianize or heathenize the most. Of
course the influence of these large mission
establishments arc against us.
At Fort Leavenworth the United Stales
officers are degrading themselves and
their calling by going with the South and
hooting at northern men, and even justi
fying lynching of them, for no othher
reason than that they are northern men '
, wc heir Hhey ictit not trust their shins
7fovc ' I have just made a trip oyer in-
to the Territory; found on the Indian re
Ferves scores of families from Iowa, llli-
nois,
Indiana and other Statos; and still
they come.
Next week wc arc to have a general
meeting up on the Kansas Biver, where
a nure and warm Anti-Slavery man.-
We also took dinner at the Friends or
, Onaker mission;
found tbe supenutcn-
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t Vrlnnd Favcr. sick, but were kind