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VOL 18.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. JUNE 16, 1859.
NO. 25.
Published by Theodore Schoch AN OVERLA'ND JOURNEY. I l stopped oyer night nt Quiucy, and
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80 Dey St., New York. f jne 10. '59.
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A Woman Kescued from, the tormons.
A Fight bstween Saints and Pike's
Peakers.
From the J aper (Ta ) Free Press, June 2.
A company of returning Pike's Peak
cr's passed through hero last Sunday,
having under their protection a youg la
dy, whom they had taken from a Mormon
train, a few tuilcs west of Newton, a tort
time previous. It appears tint on Sun-;
day morning, as the Pike's Peak boys
were crossing Skuuk Bottom, tbey passed
a train of Mormons, who were busily en
gaged men, women and children in en
deavoring to extricate a number of their
wagons that were stuck fast in tho mud.
While storpinj? for amoment to witucs
the exertious of the Saints, they accident-
ally overheard a young girl, of about 19,
cxclaix-, -I wish L was drowned in that
slough !" Their interest was at once a -
wakened, and they interrogated ler as to
why eho made irucb a foolish wi,h. She
repiiea tnai .sue was urcu ui me; uiai
she had started from Iowa City for
Salt
rake. with her father, who is a Mormon
Elder: that she had been compelled to
walk all the way thus far, and that whenJ.,n i uear difftreut sections of this!
she expressed a wish to have tho train re
turn to tbe city they invariably stopped
her mouth. She was informed by the
Peakers that if she desired to return to
Iowa City the should go back with them,
to which she replied that she desired scry
much to rctarn. The Mormon-, number
ing some fifty men, gathered around,
armed with guns, knives, pistols, &c. &c ,
and declared that she should not go back.
The Peak boys, nothing daunted, arm
ed themselves with guns and revolvers,
and announced their dt?terminatiou to
take the girl at ail hazards, and proceed
ed to carry out tbeix intentions. For a
time a Gjjht eccmed inevitable, but final-
ly Moriuon courage gave way, aud th
liir-a e.iffnnftnf1 in nlneirifr thf oirl safolrl
wjj m . O O J
under their own protection. She then in
formed them that the Saints had a trunk
and other baggage belonging to her,
which they at once proceeded to obtain
The followers of lirigbam boldly announ
ced their intention to fiht before they
would permit tbe Tings to be taken from
their wagons.
A show of guns and rcvolvors, howev
er, cooled their ardor, and Mormon cou
rage oozed out of their lingers ends, while
the boys proceeded to transfer the baggage
to their own
warons-
the Sait.ts looking
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on and
utteriitii terrible
imprecatious
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all they sought, the rescuers drove away
with the young lady ia their po-session,
leaving tho Moruions to console theiu
fcclves ns best they could in their loss
The Pike's Peakers who were engaged
in the rescue, who numbered only about
28 men, were from Indiana, Illinois and
Iowa City.
Another Wife Poisoning- Case.
PmtT .IrRvrs M. J .. Tiisdav. .Turin 0. 1.
The neighborhood of Montague, Sussex
n v i ;..!.. ,;u unn thio ninn
I 111.. j. J . - L.I lib Hi 1 I V. kJ WVAVIV V KlkJ IMUtlVl
has been in tho greatest state of excite-
mcut imnginauie lor tne past tew aay, ;
from the fact that
woman near Monta
rious. The facts
certain Ur. Wickbam induced an igoo- .
rant man by the name of Cole, to have ,
his wife's life insured for $1,000, and as !
gainst tho perpetrators of tuo noma out-1 gCerall y in debt, out of money and al
ragc as they termed ii. After obtaioiugj most out 0f crc,iit a,i are lllaking a G-
the sudden death of a ; forbid. and by plowing tho dryest ridges uePari'DS; maJ "ever see
gue, was very myste-, f!rat and seeding them: then takiin the' ' .. ? win long dc to
are mainlv these: A . .mvt rirt.net nnrl tnrrimr flwuti Jn-t an " nr. ; aut recollection. EIwood,iu
Fbe would be confined in a short time, it ; this year till the middle of June and o- 1 'ok passage for this place at 8 this
was arranged to have her die that time, ven later, unless compelled sooner to de-1 morning .ou the good steamer Platto Val
ahd they two divide the insurance mou- sjst hi order to commence cultivating that ey aPfc- Coursey, and defied the
hut if. un linnnenml that she was con-' firt r.intr.rl Thn i.'iihin.tin. will r. chill east wind and damp, cold atmos-
fined when Dr. Wickbam was absent, and
another physioion called, who delivered
her of her child, and both were doing as
well as could be expected for about a
week, when Dr. Wickbam called to see
vfvw.wrwH ft
hcr, and she not being quite as well that
day, tho doctor gave her something a3
medicine, and in twenty minutes she was
a corpse. She was buried in due time
and nothing was thought of it, till the sus.
pecious of tbe Insurance Company were to do. There aro few traveling in the
excited by the anxiety of the parties to carS few idling about stores or taverns,
get the money, and they sent on agent to 'but many iu the fields. May a bounte
wake inquiries, and bad the body disin- ous Heaven smile on their labors!
terred, when, upon examination, a large
amount of arsenic was discovered in tho
stomach. The parties, in the meantime,
had been arrested, aud Colo confessed
the whole, as above btated, as to the a- fr0m the roads, there is of course still less part owu it. For the last year, its growth
grecmont .between himself and Wickbam, cultivation; probably less than a tenth of has been quite rapid; of its four or five
but before the proper evidence could be her soil has ever yet been broken. She hundred dwellings, I think, two-thirds
got here for the commitment of Dr. Wick- has more Coal than Great Britain far have been built within that period. The
ham, the Justice, for noma unaccountable m0re tban any other State but has hard- Missouri at this point runs further to the
reason, discharged him from custody, and y begun to mine it. Her Timber is not West than elsewhere in Kansas; its citi
he escaped. eo excellent; sho lacks Pine and all the zens tell me that the great roads westward
: m-.. evergreens, but she is bountifully and to Utah. &c., from St Joseph on the north
A very unpopular officer with some of
the ladies-GencraJ Housework.-
lUnnrlur atoning
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JUt
OUr
fortnight of bright, hot, planting weather
Was Closing
Here is the substance of the informa
tion I gathered in regard to Farming in
South-Western New Sork : Wheat was
moderately sown last Fall and this Spring;
l,f XV:m lhnklri.r vr-rv trnll until thn Into
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not. drv weather, which oan-mi it, r.osnin-
die instead of spreading, and would have
i -
seriously damaged the Fall-sown but for
t Ii o rcccut change from a hot to a cold,
moi,t temperature. Of ltyo, but little
w fown, and that little is doing fairly.
I i :i t j t.noii tin.m nrnttn nvlnruivulc cnnn
fnd Pr0UJlS? U S'J Jll;Id-
Of Corn, a
, larjje area has been and will be planted
ras would have sutfercd seriously bad,
the rains
which bo-un last Sunday
Monday in
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ii vol ci ii
10W
XT
withheld
a few days louder.
Now, the
prospect is good.
It wes quite dry along the south shore
of Lake Erie, but is probably wet euough
since. There, as before in our own Ssate,
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before The llth of May was ureater this
bear than ever before. With a good sea
-
son
henceforth, tho growth of Indian
Corn this -ear iu the Old as well as the
New States tcut be far beyond all pre
cedent. And well it ma- be; for the
country wa- hardly ever so bare of food
for man and beaut a in this same May
of 1 bT)9. Flour is higher and Wheat and
Gorn tQHrci:)j iower in Chicago than in
jfew y0rk 0r Liverpool; Oats nearly the
Thousands of Cattle throughout
!the pr:lirie States have died of starvation
lhs Spring, though Prairie Hay might
j alll0..t 0nyherc have been put up last
a;j nt a cost of cs t,ao 32 per ton
per
Minue.-ota, with perhaps the best soil for
Winter Wheat in America, is buying
, vinur ;n ni,; In- h thn,,:, h,rLC
! threat granary of nation from Illinois,
; from Iowa, from Missouri of whole neigh
' borhood.- de.-titute alike of bread and of
jthe wherewithal to buy it. Unpropitious
! as last sea-on was, it does not fully ex-
plain thi scarcity, especially of Fodder.
1 1 trut the like will never occur to need
explanation again.
Coining down through Illinois from i
Chicago south-wcstwardly to Uuincy
., r., ,.r - i t. v
unles) it was uralifyin" to see how gener -
, ' . rf . j i i x
at aro the effort and obvious resolve to
look starvation out of countenauce this
year. j. iiuuiiu iuu uieamu ui 11 tuiei i
m i. ii.. l l.i. r Air:i-
ll in. at lias uut iiiuucuuu. uniu" iu ilim
, . . .f. , .
mcessatit ratus of last Autumn, it is plain
' .r
that the farmers began to plow and sow
, is early as possible this Spring, putting
in, fir.-.t Spriug Wheat; then Oats; latter
ly Com; and thy mean to k
in Oats and Corn for a mouth yet
the Northern'part of the State, owing to
the dry, warm weather, Spring work was
never before so forward; further South it
has been delayed by rains; but every hour
is diligently improved. If Illinois and
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LUJ 14 W UUf Il'Vll (UL iilUlU UIUIU lUlO.
" IT r m T -v ! r r r-m r fl T ai t" to r r l arnin w r l
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year thsn evcrbefore.it will hardly be
toe lauit oi mo cultivators, lor tuey are i
bent on doitiii their utmo.-t.
Considering
'tC;r b:ul forluno last, this
i 7
resolute
1U-
a-idl,.r (Joes (,em crctj;t: but thev are
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ual stand against the sheriff,
wish them a good deliverance.
cartI j
9tb in.-t..
. , , , ... ' T,,. I At all events, the travel, and part of tho
And, dtfbpite the hard times, Illmoid in, . f , .. , ' r 1
... . . :trad nf tiin vast; wi (inrnnsu w.itorofl hv
growing. Iherc are new blocks in ue,r
cities, new dwellings in her every village,
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new breakings iu this or that edge of al
most every prairie.
mi l .
i up i.nnrr 1'niiTiir
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i;iiiii9 is uiiu ViuL'uvwitiaii-uutiwaui,,,
" o ii j rj f
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nittln ivnrio l mnrnin n nnnn rn nnn trirhin
1 lr I
the last fortnight is naid by those who
be beyond credence on any testimony but
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I H Tl I III M I !l II I . I I I 1 V i 1 lllll N1 III
;ox that can pull i hitched to piow or bar
row wncnever darkness or rain does not
jy every cultivator can keep putting m
soej at lea-it four days per week from
March till Juno. Manv will nlant corn
ki I V ItlUUlWUl A UV.il UUIhl lUllULI Hill V
quire every hour till harvesting begins,
oucl this (including haying) will last till it
s (u tmc to plow for Winter Wheat.
2sTo busier season was ever seen tban this
i tn hp: from the Hudson to the Missis-
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sippi. you see four horses or oxen at work 'thirty Hudsons. It cannot be half a mile
to one in pasture; and there are thousands , wde opposite this city. Its muddincss ia
0f farmers who would plant or sow a' beyond all description; its color and con-
nuarter more, if thoy bad grain to feed 'sisfenoy are those of milk porridge; you
their teams, than thoy will now be able
Illinois is iust beginning to be culti
vated. I presume she has no railroad
along which half the land within a mile
has ever been touched bv a plow. Back
cheaply supplied with these frouf Michigan .
-and' Wisconsin.
this was my first passage on it. lhe nv-
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d auJ tbe water flow3 under tbe
er is very uigu u mat its uuua uiv buu-
trees which lino eitu.er buore. in llood,
as it is, tho river is turbid, not muddy,
and pursues its course with a deliberation
and gravity befitting the majestic Father
of Waters, to whom with head bare and
. T ,...or,,tF..l nrlJn.i
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For our good boat has reached Han-
nibal, the first point bolow Quincy at westward. A little further away, tho
which the Missouri bluff approaches the ; tents and wagons of parties of gold-scek-river,
and whence the valiey of a stream- I ers, with fnecs set for Pike's Peak, dot the
let makes up through tho hills to tho prairie;oneoftheminchargeofagrey-hcad
broad, level pr.'iirie. It is a bustling who is surely old enough to know better.
growing village of sotco 4,000inhabitant!, ' Teamsters from Salt Lake and teamsters
. which the new "Hannibal and St. Joseph about to start lounire on every comer : I
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eal to peneral importance. itke mo3t
:n : i. n . nr.. . :
v"'uga " LUV vjricut 11 csiuiu 1 ivcia, it
cning to eat awaT a part of the bank on
which railroad and steamboat freight is
heaped in wild disorder.
The Pike rounded to, and sent us a
shore; the train backed down within for
fcet of hT th P?,Menffc g?1 .afc?ard
run Anru nnn renpa ri nrrin r r r lint p nn i
cars ana were lollowea Dy
their bau
and in half an hour we were steam
ing up tnrougu tho woody ravine to
e-
merge on oue of the largest prairies on
Northern Missouri. The road was com
pleted in hot haste last Winter, in order
to profit by tho "Pike's Peak emigration
this Spring; no gravel is found on its liuo,
unless in the immediate vicinity of tho
Mississippi; and it was raining pitilessly
for the second day nearly throughout, so
that the road-bed was a causeway of mor
tar or ooze, into which tho passing trains
pressed the ties, first on one side, then on
the other, making the track as bad as
track could well bo. A year hence, it
must be better, even with the frost iut
coming out of the ground; after a
dry
week, it will probably be quite fair; but
! yesterday it afforded more exercise to
the mile than any other road lever tray
'clled. Abont one third of the way from
Hannibal, it is iutersccted by the "North
Missouri Ilailroad' from St. Louis, which
I city is about one hundred miles further
, from St. Louis than Hanuibal is.
I had not believed it possible to run a
railroad through Northern Missouri so as
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near the Mississippi, and Chihcothe, a
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'hundred miles further west, are county
t , .,, e , ,,,n j if
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ings eachfbesides these, there is no village
of any size, unless it bo one of thoso we
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Ipasscd in rain and darkness as we near
. . . , .,
irl thn ill Issnnri. W'Tth sunn n. sml nnr
eu mo missouri. wnu sucn a sou ana
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'timber, tbo Mississippi on one side, tho
Missouri on the other, and a railroad con
i nontintr thfim. it. nnmt. hn that. Nnrtliorn
jeep putting j,.. . . , . . , . .
., : t Mi-soun is destined to increase its popu
th vet. In , , T 1 r
.lacion speeauy anu rapiuiy. x am sure
: that Beef can be made there at less cost
per pound than in any other region I ev-
i er visited.
i St
Joseph is a busy, growing town 0f
10,000 inhabitant. It is beauti- j
some
r II '.. 1 1 1 f 1 1 M-
iuny suuateu on a oena 01 inc iuissouri,
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, j ..w " Ky.
lis coucins out and carrvinc away), and
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partly on the Southward slopo of the bluff,
j which rises directly from the river bauk
! at the north end of the town.
! I believe this ia further West than any
: otuer. point reached Dy a railroad con
uecting eastward with the Atlantio ports. ,
trade
nf tlm ;i,lornnce tvo tnv.nl hV
rj r jjj
A .
in innfor
:0un and its tributaries, seem
to couter here. At tne City Hotel, where
J. DIU IUCU lllllll. uy IIW -LUIhUlO
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-
t x- j nnf,.r
-from Auburn), some of
v v-v v u ii i wi
, r r o i.t i
in iMinctd n'nrn nt nnrl Irnm Nn I .nL'ti
fclil ?UVTl.) M L I U l UIIU IIUUJ UUIb JJUUiw ,
D i
nnn nn Tiwlifin Irnflnr fpftm flin hnnil
ters of the Columbia, who came down the
.Yellow &to,,e frm Mountains
in.a canoe. Army officers and sutlera
1 for the forts far up the Missouri and its
w
tributaries are constantly arriving and
St. Joseph
me a pleas
Kousas, op
posite, is a small place, which must grow
with the country behind it. The up-river
trade is not for her.
phere, to take my first lesson in Missou
ri navigation. The river is once deep,
bwift and generally narrow hardly so
wide in the avorage as the Hudson below
Albany, thouch carrying tho water of
'
could Dot discern an egg in a glass ot it
A fly floating in a tea-cup of this dubious
fluid au eighth of au inch below the sur
face would bo quite invisible.
Atchison gives mo my first foothold on
Kansas. It was long a Border Ruffian
nest, but has shared tho fortunes of many
such in being mainly bought out by Free
State men, who now rule and for the most
apd from Leavenworth on tho south, pass
within a-fow miles of Atchison when
thrice as far from their respective starting-points.
Hence the Salt Lake Mail,
though made up at St. Joseph, is brought
hither by steamboat and starts overland
from tins place: hence many trains are
' j 1 rTT..i. n Tr -n
iu.iuu up uciu lor uun, urci'ii xuver,iori
Hall, and I hear for Santa Fe.
i iinye seeu several twelvc-ox teams,
drawing heavily-loaded wagons start for
Salt Lake, &o.,- to-day; thero are others
camped just outside tho corporate limits,
which havo just come io; while a largo
number of wagons form a corral (iuclo-
' sure or eucampment) some two miles
high
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prairie tins alternoon. and the iurtucst
thiog I could see was tho white canvass
of a moving train. I have long been look
ing for the West, and hero it is at last.
Hut I must break off somewhere to pre
pare for an early start for Leavenworth
and Lawreuco to-morrow, in order to
reach Osawatamie next day. -
LoRACE Greeley.
0
Exciting Kace Stakes $275,000.
From L. D. Kueker. Superintendent of
the Cleveland and Toledo Ilailroad, The ;
Cleveland Leader obtains the following '
particulars of au exciting race in which ,
the steeds were iron horses and the stakes j
greater than have over been known on
any track. Mr. Ilucker had the facts
from John D. Campbell, Esq., Superin
tendent of the Michigan Southern and
Northern Indiana Ilailroad. One dav
last week, as the eastward-bound iixpress
tram reached Jjaporte, Inc., a passenger i
j stepped off while the engine was being re-
pL-mu .mu uu uuu uUu
cd back and forth on the platform, and
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continued to walk until tho whistle sound
ed. The passengers got on board and
the train passed off, but tbe gentleman
still walked on. A few minutes after the
train had gone, a station man saw tbe
pedestrain, and going up to him, asked
in a surprised tone
"What the aro you doing here?
The man started, opened bis eyes, and
looked around bewildred. The fact was,
uu uuu uucu liiugucu, uuu uiuppuu IU
sleep while walking. Rousing himself,
he asked
"Why! Where am I?"
"Where arc youl At Laporte."
"Where's the train I came on?"
"That left ten minutes ago."
"Ten minutes aso and left me! I
must no on that train
It is a question
Pin inn nnt-
of life and death with mo. Can you get
) me to it? Have you got an engine here?
Where is the Superintendent?"
I The section-master had an office near
1 by, and the two went to find that official
; and to procure an engine. The traveler
j stated his case he must go on could
not dclay-and offered the officer S20 if
hen?;.uld Put b'm D 5"? f tb "Jr'0,
, caused the station-master to hasten to do
. what he could. The fire was not out in
. tbe engine that had drawn tho train to
' that point; the bargain was settled; a
Iflraft. rnvnn on New York for the $250.
and
in ten
minuter the traveler started
1 with
an
engine
to overtake the flying
Express
After rushing on for thirty or
10TlJ llJn
about the
""""u lu'
forty miles, some couuection gavo way
i . .i ; mi.-
aDOUS 1110 OIIBIUB. J. ue ciiuiuo n.oip
ped the engineer found the dimoulty,
and in a verv few miuutes had a wooden
pin whittled out and fitted to supply tho
deficiency. With this, on thoy flew.
The train had of course many miles tho
' start of them, and despite the wooden pin
tho engineer crowded on steam and tore
through the country at a fearful rate.
Tl, :.. mttnu nf tlx. fll.it ri niiii nnniml ic.m
run in twenty seven minutes, but the en-
,.i..t ..a . .tlw, l.n..M nvurlakr,
the train, and do it they must, and doit
ilUblUUliU t UO bUHU mwj - - -
they did, but not until more than one hun
budred miles had been run, and they wero
approaching Toledo. Having at length o
vertakon and stopped the traiu and hurri
ed ou board, and the traveler went eag
erly to a berth in the aleeping-car, and
took therefrom a oarpct-bog containing
275,000. His treasure was safe noire
had molested it, and, dismissing his faith
ful courier, he went on his way rejoicing
at tho success ot his perilous ana exoit
ing adventure.
Sleeping Together.
If a man wero to see a quarter of an
inoh of worm put in his cup of coffee, he
could not drink it, btoau"e he knows that
the wholo cup would be impregnated. If
a very small amount of some virulent
poison be introduced iulo a glass of wa
ter, tho drinking of it might not produce
instant death, but tbat would not provo
that it was not hurtful, only that there
was not enough of it to cause a destruc
tive result immediately.
Ate sicken at tho thought of taking the
broath of another at the moment it leaves
tho mouth, but that breath mingles with
tho air about the bed in which two per
sona lay; and it ia rebreathed, but not the
less offensive is it in reality, on accouut
of tho dilution, excoptthatit is not taken
in its concentrated form, bufi oacb breath
makes it more concentrated. One sleep
er corrupts tho atmbuphere of the room
by his own breathing, but when two per
sons aro breathing at the' same time,,
twelve or fourteen times in each minute,
and in each minute extracting all the nu
triment from at least a gallon of air, the
deterioration must be rapid indeed, espe
cially in a small and close room. A bird,
cannot live without a large supply of puro
air. A canary bird, hung up iu a cur
tained bedstead where two persons slept
died before the morning.
Many infants are fouud dead in bed,
and it is attributed to bavins been over
iaid by the parents; but the idea that a
person could lay still for a moment on u
baby, or anything el&e of the t.ome size,
is ubsurd. Death was caused by wautof
pure air.
Besides, emanatious, aerial and more
or less solid, are thrown out from every
person thrown out by the process of
nature, because no longer fit for life pur-
poses, because tney are dead and corrupt;
but if breathed
into aoo'h r li it t d
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bhoreut as ;f we took into
,
it is just as a
our mouths the matter of a sore or otacr
excretion.
Tho most destructive typhoid and pu
trid fevers are known to arise directly
from a number of persons living and
sleeping in the same small room.
Those who caD afford it should there
fore arrange to have each member of the
family sleep in a sepcrate bed. If per
sons must sleep in the same bed, thoy
should be about tho same age, and jn
good health. If the health be much un
equal both will suffer, but the healthier
one the most tho invalid suffering for
want of pure air.
So many cases are mentioned in stand
ard medical works where healthy, robust
infants and large children have dwindled
away and died iu a few months from
sleeping with grand-parents, or other old
persons, that it is useless to cite special
instances in proof.
It would be a constitutional and
gQod for marrie(I persons to sleep in ad-
mon
joining rooms, os a general babit. It
would be a certain means of physical in-
J
vioration, and of advantages in other
directions, which will readily occur to the
reflective reader. Kings aud queens and
the highest personages of courts sleep in
scperatc apartmeuts. It is the bodily
emauations, collecting and concentrating
under the same cover, which arc the most
destructive of health more destructive
than the simple contamination of an at
mospaerc breathed in common.
A Boy in a Quandary.
Littlo Eddy, on his way to school, frc
i quently loitered by a small stream which
' he was obliged to pass to witness the
gambols of his playmates while bathing;
the water being of sufficient depth iu
somG P,ace3 for tbat PurPose; Fearing
some accident might befall him his moth
er had told him never to venture near,
' and in strong terms not to go into tho
water. One day, however, being over
come by tmptation, and the urgent solic
itations of boys older than himself, he
yielded to their importunities and his
own wishes, and for an hour entered into
their aquatic sports right heartily. But
-as ill luck would have it, while dressing
himself, by some mismanagement, be put
; on his shirt wrong side out, entirely un
noticed by him at the time; but the quick
eye of his mother saw it and divined the
reason at once. Before retiring for the
night, it was customary for the little boy
' to kneel by hor side and repeat bis little
prayer While on his knees, she took the
opportunity to reprove him for disobey
ing her commands:
j Edmond, how is it that the buttons arc
' on tho inside of your shirt collar? '
I "I dou't know; isn't that the way,
I mother?"
j "No, my son; you havo ditobeyed me,
! I am sorry to see; you have teen in swim
' niing; else how could you have turned
your shirt?"
The little boy felt that his mother had
6Pok?n 1 ' truth. af or. a moa,;nt
S"euc. no wu vui , uio iiiuvy c-F.a
nation as ho thought, soon occurred.
With triumphant look and bold voice he
replied:
'Mother, I 1 guess I turned it getting
over the fence!"
A Double Headed Girl.
"We print the following from a Georgia
paper.
"They have on exhibition at Agusta,
Georgia, a two-headed girl. Her color
is that of a dark mulatto, and sho appear
to be two girls, so far as two heads, four j
arms and four legs and feet would indt- j
cate personal indentities; and yet she has
but one body. The spinal column branch- j
es off about tbe position of the lower por- '
tions of tho shoulder blades, aud connects
with tho necks and head of tho girl. The
abdominal portion stems the naturally
formed body of oue person. j
The child we understand was born in '
North Carolina, and is about eight years
nlil. It has two symmetrically formed
hands, very handsou.6 faces, sparkling
eye-1, ana very pleasing iu muuuers, au
dress aud appearance.
"The announcement bill states that,
'her mental faculties are of a superior or
der and double, thereby enabling her to-
, ,i - j
converse with two persons nt one timo, on
one or on different subjects,' or ono bead ' bio circumstances having behind it so
may bo engaged while tbe other remains ' great a numerical force and proclaiming
passive. No difference in the intellectual more glorious and more irrefutable prin
faculties of either head is preemptible." j ciples. I see beforo me tbe picked naen
The reason why a bailor ii called a far,'
is because ho is cpnstantly pitched 'abous j
on
tbe ocean; - ,',
' People's Stiite Gouvcniion.
The Proceedings. The Resolutions.
In pursuance of a call issued by tho
People's State Oomrititfec, a Convention
of Delegates representing the various"
counties in the State, met at IJarrisburg
on Wednesday. June 8th, 1859, in the
Hull of the House of Representatives, for
the purpose of nominating candidates for
the offices of Auditor General and Sur
veyor General.
At ten o'clock, the hour fixed for the
meeting of the Convention, it was called
to order by Henry M. Fuller, Chaii'maiV
of the State Central Commifte, when
Mr. Edie, of Somerset, move that Mor
ton M'Michael, Esq , of Philadelphia, nci
as temporary Chairman, which wa'a unarY
mously agreed to.
Mr. M'Michael, on assuming tbe Chair
TYlmla n" fV nr illn i-u ,yi n r L(3 TT n rr. , o t..vY
. iv . c no. u iuuu-
ly applauded during its dclfvery.
. -n i -p w m ur .i-
Messrs. liussel Errett, 1. T. Worth;
L. ltogers, and Jamef. Mehaffey, were ap
pointed as Secretaries
Mr. Chase, of Suaquehanna, moved1
that the Secretaries proceed to read tlio
list of delegate, aud that the gentlemen
present answer to their uamcs, which was'
agreed to.
Mr. Chase moved tbat a Committee of
nine be appointed on contested Sca'fs
which was agreed to, and the Chaff ap
pointed the following gentlemen:
S. 13. Chase, Susquehanna; John Hall
Washington; E. C Jordan, Daupbio?
Leonard Myers, Philadelpbiar Dnnief
Driesbacb, Luzerne; John A. Hicstand,
Lancaster; J. W. Fuller, Lehigh, Thom
as Barr, Washington; J. M. Kirkpatrick,
Allegheny. Mr Petriken moved tbat a Comniit'teo'
of one from each Senatorial District be
selected by the delegates from the rcspec
tive districts, for the purpose of selecting
permanent offices of the Convention
which was agreed to. The following gen
tlemen were selected for that purpose, vizr
Allegheny, John M. Kirkpatrick and1
11. B. Caruahan; Berks, John A. Biete
man; Beaver, etc., William Hazlcry Blair
&c, James M. Swank; Bradford, &c,
P. M. Osterhaust; Bucks, B. F. Taylor;
Carbon, &c, T. S. Beck; Chester, &c.,
Samuel B. Thomas; Clarion, Samitef
Young; Dauphin, F. 11. Gilbert; Eris, Tv
R. Kennedy; Fayette, S. B. Laufferj
Franklin, Dr. S. E. Duffield; Huntingdon,
J. Scwell Steward; Indiana, Wm. M.
Stewart; Lancaster, Samuel Slckam and
Wm Hamilton; Lawrcnco, C. P. Rams
dell; Lehigh, Wm. H. Gauselcr; Luzcftie,
Charles P arisb; Cumberland, Kirk H aide? f
Montgomery, W. P. Seymour; Philadel
phia, John M. Butler, William Curry,
George Wr. Pomeroy and John Brinrg
hurst; Schuylkill, T. C. Zulick; Suyder,
Israel Gutelius; Tioga, William A. Wil
liams; Union, B. R. Petriken; Washing-
ton, T. II. Meighou; York, Joseph Gar
retson. Mr. Chase, from the Committee on Cre
dentials, made a report, admitting the",
following gentlemen from Montgomery
county: Senatorial delegate, Colonel W.
Seymour; Representative Delegates, John
Walton, General Joi-eph Rittenhousc and
Henry S. Hitncr. The report was unan
imously agreed to
The Convention then adjourned for fif-'
teen minutes, in order to give the Corn
mitte ou Permanent Organization an op
portuuty to perform their duties.
Tho Convention assembled at a quar
ter of twelve, and tbe committee report
ed that thov had agreed on the followin"
gentlemen to compose the permanent of
ficers of the Contention. The report was
read as follows, viz :
PRESIDENT,
Davd Taggert, of Northumberlan'cf.
vice presidents,
Messrs. James L. Graham, Joseph
Kayo, Levi B. Smith, Wm. S. Quay, Sam
uel Calvin, S. B. Chase, Joseph Fell, Ev
II. Rauch, Dr. Flwood, Harvey S. B.
Rowe, E. C. Jordan, James Sill, Nathan
iel Ewing, J. II. Criswell, John C Watson,
A. W. Taylor, James Mehaffer, Daniel
C. Mourer, John S. Fomroy, J. W. Ful
ler, Daniel G. Driesbaugh, C. Hoover,
James Rittenhouse, Kennedy M'Caw,
Leonard Myers, James M. Marks, John
A. Fisher, Wm. M. Scibcrt, George A'.
Frick, Benj. May, George W. Chambers",
David S. Walker, John Bair.
SECRETARIES",
Messrs. Russell Errctt, Lucius Rogers,
Samuel Slocum, M. P. Fowler, John II.
Stoevcr, T. T. Worth, M. S. Buckley, J.
II. Robinson, W. C. Boyarr,- Henry A.
Ritter, Henry S. Hitner, R. S. Stewart,
Jacob S. Scrrill, II. A. Pumance, James
C. Austin, Henry Stump.
The report was unanimously adopted.
Mr. Taggart made tbe following re
marks: Gentlemen of the Convention: If the"
honor you have done me is to bo meas-'
ured by (he high character and iDtell
genco of this body, or the political p.oef.
and moral grandeur of the party- it rep
resents, then iudced is it an honor to bo
long remembered and gratefully appreci
ated. Never beforo in tho history of
Pennsylvania was a political- conventioa
assembled together, under mora favora-
ot a party wnicn Planus uncuangeatty ana
unanimously upou tho broadest practica-
ble-platform of human liberty, aud wbicb
avows iuen leancssiy auu at- an uses,