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VOL 18.
STROUDSBURG. MONROE COUNTY, PA. FEBRUARY 18,1858,
NO. 9.
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Evidences of Insanity.
A slightly droll incident occurred yes- j
terday in the progress of the Smith trial.
One of the witnesses was upon the
ftand undergoing a scries of questions
relative to the prisoners insanity. He
stated that his last interview with Smith,
which was just previous to the tragedy,
Smith entered his place of business in a
ftate of gr.-at excitement, talking incohe
rently, and changing his subject with
hcwildering frequency. He talked in one
breath about Virginia cabinet ware, and
marriage, aud wound up by soliloquising
about Kansas, and damning the adminis
tration. Mr David Paul Brown, the counsel for
the prisoner, then asked the witness, if he
didn't thiuk from all this that the prison
er was insanel'
The reply was 'yes certainly, I could
arrive at uo other conclusion '
Mr. Brown Hut didn't you consider
him insane because he damned the pres
ent Administration!
Ohl no; he was quite rational there.
All sensible people, I believe, do that.
Had the occasion been one of less so
lemnity than the trial of a murder case,
the question and reply would have bro't
clown the house. As it was a number of
office seekers who were leaning against
the walls, looked very much disconcerted
at tho fact that the only lucid demonstration-
made by a madman should
take the shape of invective against the
powers at Washington. U. S. Gazette.
A Ccol Apology.
They had a ball down to Wavcrly the
other uight, which brought out some re
markable expression". Among other
transpirations, the following instance of a
cool apology took place. Bill P.is known
all over, aud 1JU1 was at this ball in all
his glory. All his necessaries for pleas
ure were on hand ool mu-sic, pretty
girls, aal beautiful whiskey. The even
ing pissed off rapidly, as it always does,
and Bill had at about ten o'clock, became
very happy. Stepping up to a young la
dy, he reque-tcd the pleasure of daneing
WllU HUT. one reiUICU SIJU was enuaea.
Neil, said -LSili, arc you engaged lor ;
the nest set?
She said she was.
'Can I dance with you the next, then?"
"I am engaged for that al-o."
"Can I dance with you to-night?"
"No, sir," with some hesitancy.
"Go to h II!" said Bill, highly indig
nant, and turned on his heel.
After a few moment, Bill is accosted
by the brother of the younz lady, aud
charged with having insulted his sister.
Bill denies, but professes himself willing
to apologize, if he has done wrong, and
accordingly steps up to tho lady, when
the following conversation ensued:
"Miss L., I understand I have insulted
you."
"You have, sir!"
"What did I say. Miss L?"
"You told me to go to h 11!"
"Well," said Bill, "I have come to tell
you that you needn't go" Delaware Ga
zelle. Using the "Wrong- Word.
"Ah," said Monsieur to his friend Snif
fin, "my sweet heart have given mc de
mitten."
"Indeed, how did that happen!"
"Veil, I thought I niu.-t go and make
her von visit before I leave town; so I
step inside dc room and dere I beheld her
beautiful pairsoo stretch out on von lazy."
"A lounge you mean."
"Ah, yes, von lounge. And den I make
on vcre polito branch, and "
"You mean a polite bow."
"Ah, yes, von bough. And den I say
I was verc sure she would be rotten, if I
did not. come to see her before I "
"You said what?"
"I said she would be rotten if "
"That's enough; you have put your
foot in it, to be sure."
-"No sarc, T put my foot out of it; for
she Bays she would call her sacre big
brother, and keck mc out, begar. I had
intebscen to say mortified, but I did not
think of de vord, and mortify and rot is
all dc same as von iu my dictionarc."
To the People of the United States.
Having been recently removed from
the office of Secretary df Kansas Terri
tory, under circumstances which imply
Fcvcre censure on the part of the Presi
dent, and having had no official informa
tion of my removal, nor any opportunity
for explanation or defence, I have deem
ed it necessary to present to the People
of the United States a brief statement of
facts in vindication of my motives and in
explanation of the results of the act for
which I have been condemned.
The office in question was not given at
my solicitation. My acceptance of it, un
der all the circumstances, was a proof of
trong friendship for the President, and
of unbounded confidence in the firmness
and faithfulness with which he would ad
here to the line of policy deliberately a
grced upon between him, his whole Cab
inet, and Governor "Walker.
On my arrival in the Territory in A-
pril last, in advance of Governor Walker,
supposed the question of slavery to bo the
"e
only cause of dissension and difficulty a- 1 both gratified that we found the papers
mong the people; and in my brief inaug- J so imperfect as to make it our duty to
uraladdress of the 17th April, I treated ' reject them. Great excitement followed
this as the chief subject of difference 1 in the Territory. The minority thus
upon which a submission to the people ' righteously defeated in the effort to pro
would be likely to be demanded. I soon long their power, became fiece in opposi-
found, however,tbatthis viewwasaltogeth-
cr too limited, and did not reach the true
ground of controversy. The great mass
of the inhabitants of the Territory were operation by undermining us with the
dissatified with the local government.and Administration at Washington,
earnestly denied tho validity of the exis- j The Constitutional Convention, which
ting laws. Asserting that the previous had adjourned over until after the Octo
Legislatures had been forced upon them ber election, met again in Lecompton to
by the fraud and violence of a neighbor- resume its labors. Many of the mem-
ing people, they proclaimed their deter-
mination never to submit to tho enact
ments of legislatives bodies thus believed
to be the illegitimate and not entitled to
obedience.
This was the condition of things when
Gov. Walker came into the Territory in with some honorable exceptions, well rep
tile latter part of May. It was evident resented the minority party in the Terri
that th" just policy of permitting the peo- tory, and were fully imbued with tho
pie to regulate their own afiaiis could same spirit and designs. It was obvious
not be successfully carried out, unless ly not their desire to secure to the real
they could be inspired with confidence in people of Kansas the control of their own
the agent- of Government through whom affairs. In the Constitution soon after
tbis result was to be effected. If a mere wards adopted they endeavored to su
miuority of the people bad been thus dis- persede the Legislature which had been
satisfied and contumacious, they might elected by the people, by providing, in
possibly have been pronounced factious the second section of the schedule, that
and treated ai disturbers of the peace ; ''all laws now of force in the Territory
but when the dissatisfaction was general, shall continue to be of force until altered
composing ulinost the whole people, a amended, or repealed by a legislature un
more respectful consideration was indis- der tho provisions of this Constitution."
pensable to a peaceable adjustment. It Tbey provided still more effectually, as
was evident that the policy of reprc'siou ther supposed, for the perpetuation of
a rigid attempt to enforce submission
without an effort at conciliation would
incvitaby result in a renewal of the civil
war. With commendable anxiety to a
void this contingency, Gov. Walker re-
solved to go among the people to listen to
their complant, to give them assurance
of a fair and just administration of the
Territorial Government, and to induce
them if possible, to abandon their ho.-tili-
ty, and to enter upon the peaceful but
decisive struggle of the ballot box. I was
oftcu with the Governor when he address
ed the people, and gave my best efforts in
aid of the great purpose of conciliation.
It was too late to induce the people to
go into the June election for delegates to
the Convention. The registration requi-
red bylaw hod been imperfect iu all the
counties, and had been wholly omitted
in nnn im f nt tiinm- nnr onn I 10 nnnn n
of these disfranchised counties vote in a-
iij uujatuut uuumj, a uua ucuu juiamy " "to jluu apvecu, mat IUC UOuSTItU-
suggei-ted. In such of them as subse- tion should be submitted to all the bona
qutntly took a census or registry of their fde inhabitants, although he invariably
own, the delegates chosen were not ad- stated, when asked for an exnlauatipo
raitted to seats in the Convention. Nev- ( that some reasonable length ofcsidenco
crtheless, it is not to be denied that the ought to be required as evidence of the
great central fact, winch controlled the bona fide character of inhabitancy,
whole case, was the utter want of confi- ' It was apparent that all the machinery
deuce by the people of the Territorial had been artfully prepared for a repeti
Government. Tbey alleged that the lo- tion of cross frauds, similar to tlmso
cal officers, in all instauces, were unscru-
r (J
pulous partizan, who had previously dc- j
frauded them iu the elections, and who
were ready to repeat the same outrages
! again; that, even if intruders from abroad j
should not be permitted to overpower
! them, they would bo cheated by false re-1
turns, which it would not be possible for
! the Governor and Secretary to defeat. j
I Although at that time these apprehen-!
sions seemed to me to be preposterous
and unfounded, it was impossible to deny
I the earnestness and sincerity with which '.
ere urgeu, or to uoum mat tney ,
were thc result of
deep convictions, bav
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ineir origin in some
previous experi
ence ot that nature.
j The worst portion of a small minority
in Kansas, who had possession of the
Territorial organization, loudly and bit
terly complained of Gov. Walker's poli
cy of conciliation, and demanded the op
posite policy of repression. And when,
under the solemn assurances given that
the elections should be fairly conducted,
and no frauds which we could reach be
countenanced or tolerated, it had become
apparent that the mass of the people were
prepared and determined to participate in
the October elections, the minority en'-'
dcavored to defeat the result by reviving
the tax qualification for electors, which
had been repealed by thc previous Legis
lature. . Opioiouq were obtained from
high legal sources, tho effect of which,
had they prevailed, would have been to
exclude the mass of the people from vo
ting, to retain the control in the hands of
the minority, and as a consequence, to
keep up agitation and to render civil war
inevitable. But the intrepid resolution mation with shameless representations to
of Gov. Walker, in spite of fierce opposi- the contrary, they can be easily estalihed
tion and denunciation, far and near, car- beyond all controversy,
ried him through this dangerous crisis, It was to enable the people to shield
and he had the proud satisfactjon of hav- themselves from these frauds, and to give
ing achieved a peaceful triumph by indu- legal expression to their hatred and re
cing the people to submit to the arbitra-'jeetion of the instrument which permitted
ment of the ballot-box. ' them, and was to bo carried by them, that
But the minority were determined not I called the Legislature together,
to submit to defeat. The populous coun- In my iudement. the people had a fair
ty of Douglas had been attached to the
Viirln. nnnnttr rf Tnlinonn TnJfli n ln1rr
and controlling representation m the Le- fided to me the discretion of convening
gislature. The celebrated Oxford fraud that body in extra session. The Presi
was pepetrated with a view to obtain ma-'dent of the United States bad no rightful
jorities in both houses of the Assembly, j authority to exercise that discretion for
When these returns were received at my me. He had the power of removal, and
office, in Governor Walker's absence, I j such control as that power gives him.
had fully determined not to give certifi- But I would cheerfully have submitted to
oatcs based upon them. If they had been ' removal, and consequent loss of favor
so formal and correct as to have made it1 with the President, rather than occupy
my duty to certify them, I would have ( the position of Governer and refuse to
resigned my office in order to testify my the peoplo an opportunity to assert their
sense of the enormity of the wrong. most essential richts.and to protect them-
Governor "Walker, at Leavenworth, bad
formed the same resolution, as he stated
,
to me and to several others, and we were
' tion, and resorted to every means of in-
timidation. But I am led to believe that
tbey found their most effectual means of
bers of that body were bitterly hostile to
the Governor and Secretary, on account
of their rejection of the Oxford and Mc-
Gee frauds, in which some of the mem
bers and officers of the Convention had a
direct participation. In fact, this body,
thcir minority Government, by adopting
the Oxford fraud as the basis of their ap
portionment, giving a great preponder
ance of representation to the counties on
the Missouri border, and affording, at the
same time, every possible facility for the
introduction of spurious votes. The
President of the Convention was clothed
with unlimited power in conducting the
elections and receiving the returns, while
the officers arc not required to tako the
usual oath to secure fair and honest dcal-
mg
The elections were hurried on in
midwinter the 21st of December and
the 4th of January when emigrants
could come only from the immediate
borders, under the qualification which
invited to the ballot-box every white male
inhabitant l'in the Territory on that day."
The same men who did this had previous-
c ripnminnnr n.mmA. W11 r xl.
suggestion in his inaucural address and
4 J
which had been attempted in October
and it was in view of all these facts after
the adjournment of the Convention, that
the people of tho Territory, by an almost
unanimo us demand, called upon me, as
the acting Governor, to convene an extra
session of the Legislature, in order to en-
able them peaceably toprotect themselves
against the wrongs evidently contcmpla-
ted by the adoption of this Constitution,
There was no law to punish frauds in e-
lection returns. The dcodIo were intensn-'
ly excited; and it was the opinion of the I
cooler men in tne Territory that without
a call of the Legislature, the elections un-
aer tuc constitution could not Have taken
Til L. 11! " 11 1 t "I 11 a 1
piaeo wuioui collision or Diooanea. The
meeting of the Legislature diverted the
attention of the people from the schemes
of violence upon which they were brood
ing, substituted tne excitement of debate
una ,nves ugauon or that or hercc and
v 'iiiii.fi 1 1 i i t nt i nnn j-i -t i . 4 i. a i
aim enauieu tueir repre-
1 II l.i
"uu" iu ueviso means or counter.m-
(mninllMnn On 4 n .
vise means of counterac-
. , a . , ,
ing the wrongs which they justly appro-
bended.
llecent events have shown that their
apprehensions were well founded. Enor-
mous frauds have been perpetrated at the '
precincts ol Uxtord, bhawneo, and Kick-
apoo;
and it
may well be believed that,
mis e Ul wni ueiuany uesigneu by tho
.1 1 . 1 11 ! . .. '
arttul leaders who devised thc plan and within his breast that pains mc."
framework of the Lecompton Constitution. The daughter of a clergyman happen
I have lately been at Shawnee, and I have ing to find the above sentence at tho clo.-o
seen and conversed with persons who of a niece of her fathnr's mnnuserint. as
wero at Oxford on the day of election.
though dishonest persons may deny them,!
and may fill the channels of public infor-
claim to be beard on the subject through j
tlintr T.n rt? ul i i n rt 'I'lio nrnnnio not fnn I
( selves
against
the basests frauds and
' wronfa ever attomnted rnion an outraged
o r r o
community
Not having been informed of the ground
of my removal, I know them only through
the newspaper reports, to the effect that
in calling the Legislature, I disobeyed
the instructions of the President. I had
no instructions bearing on the subject,
and there was no time to obtain them, e
ven if I bad felt bound to substitute the
President's will for that discretion which
the organic act confided to me. The con
vening of the Legislature undoubtedly
prevented difficulty and secured peace.
Were it important, I am confident I could
establish this position by the most indubi
table facts; but it is sufficient now to say
that the peace of the Territory was not
in fact disturbed, and whatever approach
es were made towards such a result were
wholly attributable to the policy of the
Administration in censuring my acts and
removing me from office.
The measure for which I have been un
justly condemned has enabled the people
of Kansas to make known their real will
in regard to the Lecompton Constitution.
This affords the Democratic party an op
portunity to defend the true principles of
constitutional liberty, and to save itself
from disastrous division aud utter over
throw. If Congress will heed the voice
of the people aud not force upon them a
Government which they have rejected by
a vote of four to one, the whole country
will be satisfied, and Kansas will quietly
settle her own affairs without the least
difficulty, and without any danger to the
Confederacy. The Southern States, which
are supposed to have a deep interest in
the matter, will be saved from the su
preme folly of standing up in defence of
so wicked and dishonest a contrivance as
the Lecompton Constitution. The moral
power of their position will not bo weak
ened bv a vain and useless defence of
i
wrong, when it is perfectly certain they j
will gain nothing even by success in the
present attempt.
The extra session of the Kansas Legis
lature has done good, also, by giving
means to expose and punish the mons
trous frauds which have been perpetrated
and doubtless, also, by preventing others
whioh would have been attempted. It
has driven the guilty miscreants engaged
in them to become fugitives from justice,
and it has rendered it impossible for the
peace of the Territory hereafter to be en
dangered by similar occurrences.
In view of these facts and results, I
willingly accept the rebuke conveyed in
my peremptory dismissal from office, but
I appeal to the deliberate judgment of
the poople to determine whether I have
pot choseq the only honorable course
which the circumstances allowed me to
pursue.
Fred. P. Stanton.
Washington, Jan. 29, 1&58.
o.
An Alabama Constable after Et. Al.
An Alabama correspondent of the Mo
bile Advertiser, justly proud of the good
things of his native State writes to that
paper as follows:
A certain fat conbtable in the county
of Choctaw, onco received a writ from a
Justice of the Peace, known as Josh M
. The case was llogers vs. Davis ct
al. So, after keeping the writ for a week
he entered the Justices office with much
anxiety depicted on his countenance, and
oi.,nri Rm;rn inu muu
'Josh, who's that ct all I'vo been look-
in2 for him all over the countv for a week.
and I cau't find him. I don't believo
there's any such a man in Choctaw."
A Singular Lake. There is n cov
ering of nineteen hundred aere9 in Wright
county, Iowa, about one hundred aud lif-
t7 m 1 1 n U'ncr n 1 I In hnnun ii? h i n h i cut
i
r0Unded by a regular .tone wall, five
- -
feet wido at the to and goaie
roKoro t, .nn ,,..i,i i. i:i.i..
i w iifi i in w :i 1 1 r iv f l ii i ft i ii ii l it i ' w r n ifiit'
i .i ..." u i. i
..ux.- tuw ,i ui.i nuuiu unci LU Ultl"
flow the prairiei ten fcet Lih As tbe
t pioneers found thc wall there, the question
arises, "Who built it!"
A nother remor-
kable fact is that the lake has no
feeder or outlet.
visible
"I love to look upon a young man.-
There is a hidden potency concealed
,e had left it in his study, sat down and !
"Them's my sentiments, exactly, papa
all but the 'pains.'"
Terrible State of Affairs in Naples. ;
The London journals draw fearful pic-'
turcs of the prcaeut coudition of the kiug
dom of Naples. Amid all the horrors of
the earthquakes, the work of proscription
and cruelty to prisoners goes on. A Na
ples letter says: The Mayor of the prov
ince of Baailicata. reported that during
the repeated shocks, eight hundred pris-
oners, most of whom were unconvicted, 'pussons of color' reside. One winter e
were in a state of terror, as their crazy vening, when the cullored' preacher was
prison threatened to fall and bury them in the midst of his sermon, making a most
in its ruins. A gallery which fell, killed ! violent if not a most eloqueut appeal to
three, and wounded several of tliCFC uu- his hearers, one of tho stove e"s fell out
fortuuates. A room afterwards fell In, and as a natural consequence, the red hot
but did no mischief. "It is impossible," stove tipped over at an angle alarmingly
says the Mayor, fn an official report to , suggestive of fire. The audience, of
the Minister of the Interior, dated Decern- course, commenced crowding out of tho
ber 18th, "to describe the confusion which door like sheep. But the preacher was
reigned fear,crics of desperation, endea-' equal to the occasion. Addressing one of
vors to escape, prayers, tears and bias- his prominent members, he cried out
phemy; such was the scene I met. In "Pick up the stobe, brudder Bolah!
order to maintain order, tho guard fired pick up the stobe! De Lor' won't let it
on the prisonern, but with powder only. ( hurt you! Only hah faith!"
To restore confidence and tranquility, Ij Poor brother Bolah had unfortunately
assured the prisoners I would remove too much faith, and immediately seized i
them from those quarters of the building all glowing as it was; but no s'ooner had
which the shock had rendered daugcrous. ( his lingers come in contact with the fcr
I gave this assurance in the name of the, vent iron, than he dropped it again, and
king, our august master." In answer to ( dancing around on one foot blowing his
this distressing report, Bianchiori replied skiuless fingers, he exclaimed with alT the
in a cruel fashion. But even worse re- energy which he could throw -into hh
mains to be told. On the 20th of De-; voice 1
cember, another earthquake occurred'
and 30,000 men, women, and children,
perished in the province of Basilicata.
mi it. -i-i
U ". r
tation cases awaited their arrival. Sixty i . . e sb to cxpss it as a mature con-
Surgeons offered their services, but per- , 7Ict,on of our ovn In,r,d tLat 0Dc of the'
haps being poor, asked that their expen- b,esf' ProtcctIOs for our children aga?ns
ses might be paid, which his majesty dc- lb- JcmPtatlons of village and city life, is
clined, and the poor creatures were suffer-, he )abltual "ading of a well conducted
red to die for want of aid that could be!'am,ly nw,sPaPer or periodical. Ifyotf
so cheaply rendered. The same terrible
report adds that 250, 00J persons were
rendered houseless by this earthquake,
nnd inO fliPfJ nnfl flair frnm iront n(' fnml
Svral an.utlnmon l.nrn rolnrnnd f '
the country which has recently been de
vastated by the earthquake. They had
passed nearly a fortnight in wandering
from one place to another, and the infor
mation which tbey bring back is of the
deepest and most painful interest. Ac
cording to them, the shocks continue
cording to mem, tne snoclis continue,
throuirhout the entire distiict. to the num-
ber of five or six a day, sometimes tolcra- and so on.' to thc subscription price, ?s
bly strong, and generally occasioning the; afc!ied w,tb an 1Dter"t and a pleasure
fall of mauy of the ruined houses. The whlch few wou,d nagine,' and lo! the
hair breadth escapes which tbey had are o?nus ?f. an economy and self-denial are
rather a matter for private narrative, but !P. ,nted beforc we are awaro of w"ch
they much heighten the color of the ter-l 'l1 row to beahh and wealth, and po
rible picture tbey draw. Their trip was js,tl0u'
extended far beyond Polia, and into the j
very centre of volcanic action, as Proten-i CSf The attention of bachelors is invi
za, Briensa, Tito and many other places vited to the following "wail"' from the
of mournful celebrity. The scene of des-' Springfield Republican: "There aro
olation was beyond thc power of deserip- some sad sights iu the world a city sack
tion. The actual labor was not to re- ed and burnt a battle field after a reat
build, but to destroy, the few bouses that! slaughter a London in the midst "of a
remained standing were insecure, and one 1 plague a ship burning at sea a familv
would have said uninhabitable but that pining in starvation a jug of molasses
the people in their misery, still clung, like : wrecked upon the pavement but the
rocks, to their falling habitations. This 'saddest sight, to us, of all is an old bach
country, in many parts, still gaped with i elor, stolidly walking towards his end, his
wide fissures of the breadth of two arms, great duties undone, his shirt buttons off,
and when they had closed, had done so! his stockings out at the toes, and nobody
unequally, one side being many feet high- to leave his money to. Were we such
er than the other. Some of the incidcuts( man, the mild, reproving eye of a widow
which they relate, seem more like fables or maiden lady would drive us mad.
than facts. An infant had been dug out But there is still a hope. Uglier and old
alive, after having been under the ruins ! er men than any of our friends have mar
eight days. Its mother fed it too bounti- ried beautiful wives, who trained them
fully, and it died. A girl, of eight years admirably, and spent their money cle
of age had been disinterred after 11 days' gantly."
burrial, and was still living. The monks . ..-
of S. F rancisco, in Padula, related a sto-j Spunky Girls.
ry of a girl of 17 years of age, who had i . , , . . ,
been recovered after 21 days burial-thc ' schoolmaster m Lddiugton, Mc rtf;
monks added that the girl spoke of hav- frbade cjiewmg gam in school,
ing been visited in her subterranean tomb ' CaUSed ,much d'a isfaction Some
by a lady dressed in black, who gave her f ",e h'f r b.0 ereforc made nn at;
bread and water. She believed that it ack V,h.e schloolaster. and a"emptcd
.1 ai i hi i i i i l.
iiia Mm illmlntmn Alttlna liirl ulcn hnnn
dug out alive, after 21 days' burrial. One
of the monks told my informants that on
the night of the lu'th ulf., thc shock was
so violent as to throw him out of his bed
through thc window into the garden of
the monastery. At Yeggiano, a poor wo
man bad lost her husband and two chil
dren beneath thc ruins, two yet survived,
but tbey quickly died of hanger, and the
wretched mother hanged herself. Talcs the citizens that on Monday, at 11 o'clock
of wonderful and tragic interest abound they will come in with their ox-carls, In
and if tho reader doubts their possibility, den with wood and prorisions for gratu
he has only to read Colletia's grapbio dc- itous distribution to the poor, under tho
scription of the earthquake of 175. Tho management of the Mayor and a commit
peoplo had not settled down to anything tee of citizens.
like regular occupation, but grubbing a- . .. .
mong the ruins for whatever they could I i think," said a farmer, 'I should"
find ft lid scclvin for 1)0 c oF tlici
make a good Congressman, for I use their
friends, of whom hundreds still remain as angua;;e. I received two bills the other
diaiuterrcd. Supplies were slowly com- (.,V) wjtb a rcqucst for imrucdiutc pac
ing in for thc poor people, but roads were Inelit. tne onc j or(icrej to belaid on the
scarcely any, and much had to be trans- tabje the other to be read that day ex
ported on the backs of mules. The prov- months."
incc of Basilicata is the largest in the .
kingdom, and yet has not more than one.
carriage
tauce.
road
through it of any impor-
They must havo a remarkably warm
spell in Michigan this winter, for wo
notice in a Detroit paper of a recent dato, .
that a woman was arrested in that city, ' Sydney Smith says that "people often
"having nothing on her person but a love hnaginc themselves pious when tbey are
letter and a daguerreotye." ! only billious." Sydney ou-ht to havo
,0. - knowri'the difference between a serious
Judge Coon, of Culiforna, has decided disPositioD ani a scrious indisposition,
that under the statute of that State there J e
is no law to prohibit women from dress-j "My dear Tom," said old Sheridan
ing in male attire. This decision has onc day, to .his son, "I wish yoa would
given great satisfaction to ladies wh6 tako a wife?" "I have no objection, -sir "
wish to "wear thc breeches." (said Tom, 'Sichose ivifc tiuttt llnke !?
Pick Up the Stohe.
A correspondent writiug from Wash
ington, Pa., says:
"Like most other small towns, we havcj
a 'cullured church,' where a great many
amusing things aro said, cxhileraling to
the spirits of a few who occasionally visit
our lla!i' meeting houses, 'ilati' U tho
name given fo that part of the town whero
. "De h 11
won't!"
he wont ! De h 11 ! ho
Subscribing for Papers.
want a cinid to take an
interest in a pa
per, let it be his paper, sent to his address.
In a reasonable time he will net to look
for its coming, and fcl the want of it, if
' t does not an ivc at the Usual time
Soon
it will bo a kind of necessity, and rather
than be without it, he becomes willing to
make sacrifices and self-denials for tho
sake of saving any stray dime or half
di me which may come into his possession.
Peanuts and gingerbread, monkev shows
and fire-crackers, arc vetoed, and fhf in-
.v. .utu, .mu me m-
crcment of a quarter of a dollar to a half.
a u l i umt, v.uuu iiirec wi me iris. ucci
.. . . . w . tuU ni. , , a uu,
trom lu to 19, came to the rescue with
sticks of wood, and succeeded in driviog
the assailants out of thc building. The
struggle
was
desperate, and lasted for
some
time.
A Noble Set of Farmers.
Sixty-four farmers, living in and aboui
Middletown, Conn., have given notice to
U "Mammal mamma! here's a hair
in the bread."
"Hush! no it ain't my child, Us only a
eorn silk!"
'I like that. Wrho the mischief
Ecen nils on a corn silk before?"
ever