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To Gtiistsy Dealers. DUCKWORTH & HAYN, 1VHOLKSALE DEALERS IX ever was or ever can be-inveuted. There is nothing that more htrikingly exposes the radical baseness of slavcholding than the fact that its votaries ho hate those whom they have long injured that, beat en in tbeir desperate struggle to force ne groes iuto Kansas as slaves, they now turn a short corner and insist that, if tbey shall be shut out, and even driyen out, al : together. ! I apprehend that it will be necessary ' for the Republicans of Kansas, in view i of the inveterate Western prejudices of a . largo portiou of her population, to con- j j cede, for the present, that the Bight of 1 Suffrage shall be exercised only by white males, or men of European lineage, exclu 1 dins, on account of their imperfect mor- Strongthened by these, Prairie City re-Jious enough for its destruction, never gotlturcs, may be reduced at least ono fourth Bolvea on resistance, ana musterea us six-(possession or it dui once, ana then by ; ana we may build a Kailroad to the P Clearing1 a House of Rat3. A ohomical friend of ours has recently teen Sharp's rifles, in addition to those of , marching with Federal officers at their IciOo with the savings of three or four! detailed to us the following Sccdunt of writs in ttieir pocKets. years. ! novel, amusing, and at the same timo cf- that even these were; But Russell & Wad dell's- Transporta- : fectual. dan adopted by him for freeing' his house from the;e most unwelcome vrs- L Id Brown's party, and when the Ltuf- head and federal fians sent in six of. their men to sack the For one, I regret place, presuming there would be no resis- eunered to shield them, and thus allow :tion establishment, between the fort and tauce, they took four of them prisoners, 'printing presses to bo destroyed and hou- City, is the great feature of Leaveuwortb. and chased the other two back to their ses battered and burned with impunity. 'Such acres of wagons 1 such pyramids of band, with bullets whistling by tbeir ears. I did not speak long in Lawrence for j extra axletrees! such herds of oxen! such They found the Ruffians encamped on the(I trust words are not there needed. Her regiments of drivers and other employee9l open prairie, but drawn out in lino for people have had practical illustrations of 'No ono who does not see can realize how battle, whero they stood perfectly still as ! the great issue which divides the country, I vast a business this is, nor how immense the Free State men neared them, firing as j and are not likely soon to forget them. ' are its outlays as well as its income. I they ueared-to get the range of their ri-1 Of course, her pioneer will die or becomo ' presume this great firm has at this hour fles. As they approached, aBmall ravine dispersed; new men- will come in or rise Two Millions of Dollars invested in stock. The house be occupied of a block, and when Groceries, PrOFl'sioilS, LiqiI0rj&C. al and intellectual developments, Indians, No. SO Dey street, New York. I Negroes, and their descendants. F urth- June 16, 1S59. ly. ' cr tuan tul3 wou" not gi 1)0 matter 1 how great the inducement. Leave the only lay betwixt them, but the two lines oould be and were distinctly counted on either Bide fifty-four men in rank com posing the Pro-Slavery and twenty-six tho Free-State party. Soon, two or three of the Ruffians went down badly wounded, and one after another of their comrades up to fill their places, aud "another kingfmaily oxen, mules and itors the rats in Boston was one first tenanted was comparatively free fro hi the intruders in question. After- a time', however, for some unknown reason, they appeared at once in great numbers. -Tbey occupied every room and closet marauded in the cellar, gallopaded in the garret, and danced jiga nightly over eve- find among arose whp knew "not Joseph," will its parallel in her future. Thus. her new comers is the gentleman who led over one thousand armed Missouriaus from Jackson County in March, 1-855, and returned by their votes and revolv- wagons. (They ry sleeping apartmeut, or rolled nuts for how great tho inducement. Dnmnflrata nlnnn in Htmr nlnrtr tc li o n AN OVERLAND JOURNEY. ' tuey corue t0 pr0poso and Support, as III. ' they are certain to do, propositions that Ifotes on Kansas. negroes t-hall bo expelled and excluded Leavenworth, May 20, 1S59. fro Kansas shall be excluded from n,, n . r . : t ' testifying against a white man shall be Tho Convention at Osawatamie was of ; , , J ? , , . mow in assembling, and li , , , ., , ., , ? Tn. ea ny wuuo cnuaren, .vc, tvc. jjec any city or district that sees fit make ade quate provision for tho education of col- were seen falling off, making tracks formers Pro-Slavery men to represent her in Leave the ! Missouri at a 2:40 gait, until barely twen- the bogus Legislature of that year. He think not more than half the orgauized Counties were represented at all. Hard- J . e t. c. .i i r ored children by themeelves: but in de oounties, for whose benefit that place of r . ... . , . ' , ' i f n lit f rt Ilito nt Mia c? n h r r 1 a r. -v nnnn n .II meeting had been selected. fI hose who did come got there by swimming many dangerous creeks; but from most locali ties attendance was a physical impossi bility. Ferry-boats arc scarce iu Kan.-as, bridges, of course, nearly unknown; aod the water runs off these rolling prairies 60 rapidly that a stream which a three year old might ford at night will be ruu cing water enough to float a steamboat be fore morning. Of course there can be no ferries maintained on such, and, until bridges can be erected, tho-e whost; way lies across tbcm have no further alterna tive when they are in flood than either to swim or wait. But to swim an angry, turbid, rushiog torrent, perhaps a dozen rods across, and runuiug driftwood in a perfectly reckless manner, is a job requi ring nerve and fckill; so the greater num ber have simply to stay at home or caiup on the bank and wait until the flood ruus out, which it will in twelve to thirty-aix fault of (his, let the schools be open to all who need their numerations. Such, I hope, will bo the determination of Re publicans generally: and, if Kansas has was killed or ty-two of them remained, when Pate raia ed a white flag and surrendered at dis- cretion, to just fourteen men standing in the Free-State array at that moment. Seven horses, two wagons well laden with the plunder of Palmyra, two drums and about forty stand of arms were among the "spoils of victory;" and though Col. , Sumner with his U. S. troops came down ' on hearing of the affray, liberated the prisoners, and restored what they claimed as their property, the booty taken from Palmyra was left and restored to its Not one Free-State man badly wounded. Tho is, or course, an "Uld-iiino Whig" of the Buchanan stripe, and will make a firstrato "Free-State Democrat" in duo season. By-and-by, when the grogshops already too numerous in Lawrence shall have manufactured or attracted thither a suf ficient number of Groundtier Democrats, and mortified pride or disappointed am bition shall have wrought its perfect work .Leavenworth, as ono set of friends seem last year employed 6,000 teamsters, and their amusements, a la ten pins. Ever mnrhaA A Pi MflO Cf l I il t. f , J 4 J f ! - aro capital fellows so are those at tho sening their numbers, but without effect.' Fort but I protest against the doctrine Traps availed nothing, the rats were that either Army Officers or Army Con- old and wise, poison bad no temptations tractors, or both together, may have pow- j cats were defied. At last our friend be er to fasten Slavery on a newly organized thought himself of summoning the powers Territory (as has just been done in New- ' of chemistry to his aid,' which ho did.a Mexico) under the guise of letting the , follows: Raising a small board in the People of such Territories govern tbem sejves. Yet this is just what "Squatter Sovereignty," unmodified by a fiery Aoti Slaiery agitation in the Free-States, will io practice amount to. Whether the three great cites of Amer- tea are to ne iNew-Iork, bt. Jjouis and rigtiul owners. to be lost in conscqunce then let her go! ; wounded Missounans werekindlv nursed A Ol j I left Osawatamie on the morning of the at Prairie City till tbey wore well enough I Situ, in the Jjawrenco stage, crossing the to travel, when they were recommended to Marain des Cygnes, at Bundv's Ferry (where we crossed the day before), and finding the water considerably lower, though still over its regular northern bank, and tho access on cither side de j testable. Passing Stanton, we kept still j we.-t of north into the Ottawa Reserve, so na tn 1 nnvn a mnil i f O ttn rr o Tnnn'c tt K - n exerciso a sug- as to leave a we struck due north to Prairie City, lea ving Peoria City and Ohio City some miles distant on our left either upon or near the Marais des Cygnes. (It takes three log houses to make a city in Kan sas, but they begin collin it a city so I soon as they have taked out the lots.) , I stopped at Prairie City and talked to a : Republican gntheriug of four .hundred , , . " ., ,- , pcopie, inouLii wnere on carta so many unless the rain or thaw coutmues. But fi t l i J , , , t , lr i. : could have been scared up, within a rea- lt had rained nearly half the week prior - , , . . f . . . " , j .t io.jT .u . r . t sonable ride 01 this point, one who nicre and up to tho 10th, so that few even of , . . , 4, r ' r, j ,, n , i j ly rides over tho country could not lm- those who supposed Uio Convention would ! . f, . ,. JlA . . , , ,, ,Jr v . ,, t, acme. J rue, we had here "Prairie City," be held could reach it. let there gath- fu . ,-,-,' , , . , nn ihft nffflrnonn of 1hnt dav near v ..... J .. J . &' j j ajj a thousand of the pioneer.-?, mainly of the : interlude of the Conventicn s discussions , . ,. . , , . . ... - j i , is really better peopled than it seems to a concerning their organization aud plat- i . rlf r , ., , , , r r if j ,u T:.r .- . i uicre traveler that, while the favored form, 1 bad the eatislaction ot setting ! , , . ,. ,. ., ,, ., forth tho Republican faith as I understand it, and by whom it was heartily received witbiu three miles; but tbey could not have mustered half this audience; and It was a labor of love so to speak, but rather a tax to write the speech out out, even imperfectly, as I was obliged to do during the uext two days in the inter vale of riding and speaking, in order that all those pcoplo of Kansas who care to do so may consider my notions of "Free State Democracy" and "Squatter Sover eignty' The twin curses of Kansas, now- that the Border Ruffians have stopped ravag ing her, are Laud Speculation (whereof order to avoid, so miry bottoms and die ot tuo prairies, in far as possible, the water-courses, tbo settlers are nestled in the edge of the timer, and fuel arc far more accessible. . resume that wholesome gestion which they gladly profited by. Two of those who got away died of their wounds. And, though there were many alarms, and a year of marching, camping, scouting, riding, after that, to the de struction of. all industry and progress, Prairie City has ecen no organized com pany of Border Ruffians at her doors since that 2d day of June, 1856. The road from that City to Law- rener (15 miles) passes o?er a Tollipg country, mainly prairie, crosses the great j Santa Fe trail, now horribly cut up by many heavy wagons passing in bad wea ther, then takes over a high divide and ( along a limestone ridge which runs out into tho valley of tho Wakarusa, and af ' fords a magnificent view of the country for an area of twenty miles in each direction, with the prairie in good part cultivated, gleaming in sunlight on every bend, and the Wakarusa with its belt of timber ma king its way through them to join the Kaw, with its still larger belt, on the north. Spacious mounds or spurs of limestone covered with soil and grass rise to a bight of two or throo hundred feet on every side, on one of which, vissible for many miles on every side, a flag, when raised, used to give warning of invasion and danger in the troublous days now happily passed away. At the base of one of these spurs by the aide of tho Kaw, The country, I traversed between Stan- sits Lawrence, clearly discernible from a ton aod Prairie City was a little more distance of ten miles. Descending from rolling, and considerably better timbered the ridge, aud passing over a lower prai tban that between Shawnee and Stanton, rie two or three miles, we cross the Wa ; already described. The Oaks often cov- , karusa (a moderate creek, hardly twenty ered considerable tracts of upland, while yards wide, but very deep and with high young timber was visibly spreading on all steep banks) on a good toll-bridge, trav hands, under cover of the universal ha- ; erso its wide, wet bottom, here in good the manufacture of paper cities and bogus zel bu2Ues of tuose Kansas uplands, which j part prairie-mareb, and pass over two corner-lots, though more amusingly ab surd, is Dot half so mischievous as the grasping of whole townships by means of fraudulent pro-emptions aud other devi ces familiar to the crafty and Oue-Horse Politicians. Many of these latter were driven into the Free-State movements by their own terror or indignation, and by tho overwhelming force of public senti ment; but, being essentially demagogues, they gravitate irresi.-tibly toward the Sham Democracy, in whose embraces tho whole tribe will bring up, sooner or later, Their prototype is Mr. II. Miles Moore of this city, who, after having been one t of the noisest and most conspicuous Free- j State men in 1855-0, after baring been miles of f-uperb prairie into the renowned citadel of Free-State principles, tho first born of Northern resolution that Kansas are not burned over everv vear. (Jur ml next post office above- Jone's was Hickory Grove, which reminds cethatlsaw more good Hickory this day than in any form- j should not be tamely yielded to the slave er day of my life. Some of the Oak, also, holders, and which does not deny its pa was very good. These, with tho Black rentage. Walout, are tho settlers' main for timber, rails included. Cottonwood, Sycamore, &c, warp so bad iy when sawed into boards and seasoned, that very little use can be made of them, though I think I saw a few Cottonwood rails. The grass was abuudant and su perb; the soil generally deep and excel lent. We had another smart thunder-shower on Friday morning (20tb). after which I :l . I. -l .. r ujjico uuuu, auj uuujpuuiuu was a young pioneer from Southern Missouri, reared driven down the river by the Border Ruf- : came from Prairie City to Lawrence, 15 fians, who gave him his choice between leaving Kansas and instant death, and af ter having been once strung up by the among slaves and slaveholders, but brce ncck by tbem and chocked till nearly State from the time -he could fairly see, dead, is now hard at work trying to put '. who assured mo that he knew a large por Kansas once more into their hands, and ! tion of the people of Missouri to condemn figuring in Contentions and on Commit tees with those who didn't quite hang him, as fellow Democrats ! His case reminds me btrongly by contrast of that of the man who observed that, for the first month after marriage, he loved his wife so that he wanted to eat her, while oyer since he had wished be bad. The controlling idea of the One-Horso politicians is that the Republicans must not let their adversaries have a chance to raise tho cry of "Nigger" against tbcm that hence they must be as harsh, and crael, and tyrannical, toward the unfor tunate blacks as possible, in order to prove themselves "the White Man's par ty," or else the mean, low, ignorant, drun ken, brutish whites will go against them and hate slavery, even while thoy frhout and vote iu its favor. He came out here in 1855 to bo rid of tho curse, and had bad a pretty fair experience of the strug gle, having been with Lane at Bull Creek, when 800 Missourians did not venture to attack 350 Free State men, but, after be ing separated by night, beat a retreat a cross the lino, leaving some of their arms and camp equipage behind them. Ho was also at the somewhat noted "Battle of Black Jaok,"'which he described to me substantially as follows: On the 1st of June, 1850, Henry Clay Pate, at tho head of a Pro-Slavery band, emerging suddenly from the Indian Re serve, which then covered most of the re gion between this point and the Missouri reliance Lawrence can onlv rrow with thn mnro The Elm, thorough development of the surrounding country. Across tuo Haw on the north, a large Indian reservation (the Delaware) impedes its progress, while town sites, and very good ones, are so abundant in Kan sas, that uo location but one where navi gable water is abandoned for laud trans portation can be of very much account. I should say Lawrence has now five hun dred dwellings and perhaps 5,000 inhab itants, and these figures are more likely! to be over than under the mark. She has a magnificent hotel (the Eldridgo House) tbo beet, I hoar, betweon the Missouri and the Sacramento far better, I fear than its patronage will justify though it has nearly all that Lawrence can give. Shefs to have a great Universi ty, for which a part of tho funds are al ready provided, but I trust it will be lo cated some distance away, so as to givo scope for a Model Farm, and for a per fect development of the Education of the Brain and the Hands together. In our old States, the cost of land is always as signed aB a reason for not blonding La bor with Study authoritatively and system atically; here there can be no such ex cuse. I trust tho establishment of the Lawrence University will not be unduly from horror of "Negro Equality' lo , border, surprised the little settlement of which I reply that this sort of cattle are I Palmyra, which they sacked without ro against the Republicans auy how, and sistance. Next morning tbey proposed to never can be permanently otherwise. 1 extend th'eir operations to Prairie City, They .may be driven by circumstances to 'which would have probably shared the vote ouce or twice with us, but the virus j same fate, bad not Old Brown, lately dri of Sham Democracy is in their blood, and j ven away from Osawatamie by an over aaust come out. TJho Democracy, from j whelming force, been camped with ten of long practice and nn experience that it his tried mcu in.tlio wooda on BJackJack, yays, can dive ;deeperyetay under loDger, j a little creek four miles eastward.; with Quite a number of sometimo Free 'State men, bo may be chosen Mayor of the city of bis young love, and The Consti tution (or whatever may then be the name of tho Pro-Slavery organ at Washington) may announce with guns and trumpets that "National Democracy has triu.mphcd at last in the great stronghold of Kansas "Abolition." But that will not probably happen just yet. While I was in Lawrence, the littlo steamboat "Gus Linn,"Capt. Beasly,came down the Kaw from lort Riley, some thirty miles above the fork of the Big Blue, and (I believe) 235 from the mouth of the river, and over 100 in a bee line oho reached the Uort in a littlo over two days from Kansas City, discharged her cargo, and loaded on her way down with Corn, whereof Kansas has a large sur plus of last year's growth, after supply ing this year's heavy emigration to Pike's Peak. As the Territory has little or nothing elso to sell, and almost everything to buy, she would like to export her Corn if she bad any way by which to get it to tho Missouri without costing all it will fetch, so that this pioneer passage of steamboat above Topeka and Manhattan was hailed with general exultation. Her burden is 300 tuns, and she draws when full but thirty inches (when light, scarce ly 10), and, in the present stage of water, I presume she might easily go up to the Falls, 20 miles further. Of course she can only do this to any purpose when tho water is very high; but in the absence of passable roads, the fact that this river can be navigated at all throughout the most thickly peopled portion of Kansas, is of some consequence. I left Lawrence by stage on Satur day morning, crossing the Kaw by a good ferry directly at the city, and rising to wide and well-timbered bottom on the north. It is probably well for Lawrence ultimately that this timber is in Indian hands, and therefore sure to bo preserved tor some years, though tor the present tho Reserve is a nuisance to her. Be yond tho Kaw Bottom, stretches boauti ful and gently undulating prairie, cheok ered by belts of timber on the creeks which traverse it, across the Reeervo and beyond, until wo begin to descend the Missouri bluffs to Leavenworth. Uoming to luruey UreeK, " the pas sengers were turned out (as onco or twioo before) to lighten the coach, which was then driven cautiously through the steep banked ford, while tho passengers sever ally let thcmsolvcs down a perpendicular bank by oliuging to a tree, aud crossed a deep and whirling place above tho ford, on tho vilost log I ever attempted to walk twisty, sharp-backed and every way de testable One of the passengers refused to risk his life on it, but hired one of the lazy Indians loafing on the further bank to bring over a pony, and let him ride a- orosa tho ford. AC'Big Stranger," we changed coaches with tho passengers from Leavenworth who had been waiting our arrival hero two hours, and must have been glad to see us our baggage being first taken across the deep, ugly stream in a skiff, and the passedgers next, either coach returning the way it came. Wo left Lawrence at nearly 10, and arrived hero (35 miles) about 0 p. m. Leavenworth is, of courtie,muoh tho lar gest plaoo in Kansas, containing (I judge) 1,000 houses and 10,000 inhabitant. Tho Fort, threo miles up tho Missouri, is not included in this estimate; though that is a city of itself, with extensive barracks, capacious ftrore-housoB, several compa nies of soldiers, many fino houses for of ficers, Butlers, $e., and a farm of 1,200 to think, o'r New-York, St. Louis and Atchison, as another set assure me, I do not pretend to decide. If Atchison had the start that Leavenworth now has, think she would probably keep it. But j not having it, you see alters the case ma tenally. The Fort is here as a fixed fact; tho United States goods are landed at the Fort; so the trains are made up there; and so Leavenworth is Leavenworth, and Atchison (for the present) only Atchison. I saw a great Mule Train Btarted from the fort to-day, and another will start soon, filled with 160 soldiers, wive3 and babies, on their way to join tbeir hus bands in Utah, from whom they have 1 1 T Deep seperatea nearly two years. 1 ar gue from this fact that Uncle Sam expects to have use for his army tn Utah for some time yet Thare has been no rain for three days; the sun is bright and hot; the prarie wind 0 . t i.i. irom the west is a gale; the streams are down all but "Big Muddy," which does not give an inch, but rushes by Leav enworth almost bank-full and turbid as ever. Tho roads which so lately were mud, are now blowing dust in clouds; and there is a fair prospect of settled Summer weather. I turn my face westward tomorrow. Horace Greeley. hurried, but that it will be, whenever it'aores, which Uncle Sam cultivates, I pre does open its doors to students, an insti tution worthy of its narae.- I passed into the town over "Mount Oread, a considerable eminence on the south-west, on whose summit the Free State fortress of other days was construc ted. It is now dilapidated, but is a plaoe sumo, to much the same prout with otuor geutlemen who have fancy farms and do not oversee them very closely. It is a A correspondent of The Boston Journal. who traveled to Pike's Peak with Mr. Greely, writes from Station 15: An admirable traveling companion is Mr. Greely, with an inexhaustible fund of humorous experience and mirthful an ecdote, a philosophy that neither frets nor grumbles at annoyances, and an al ways benignant countenance radiant with a clear conscience, a sound digestion, and abundance of the milk of human kindness. Occasionally when crossing rivulets on oot he pinks in mire to the knees, but maintains his serenity undisturbed. In amusing the marvelous little "Ida ho shames her mother altogether in the use of "baby talk," and other seductive arts to captivato infant affections. To-day wo met a party of returning Ohio emigrants who had mired their wagon in a slough. roua which their weary cattle were una- le to extricate it. He gave a few com- t . m . mon sense directions about using the pade, and then took bold of the lever and pried at the wheel with a vast deal of a.ft vim. iVIeanwbue, one ot the emigrants, having learned something of his profess- sion, asKed: "What New York paper are you con nected with, Sir?" "The Tribune." "Oh, yes; you're with Greely are you!" "Yes, Sir," was tho dry reply, the lid or meanwhile tugging away like an Irish aborcr. Just as the wheel was extrica ed, some one came along who recognized the old white coat, and made its owner nown to the crowd. I think I never saw men more amazed. Almost every train we met contains some one who recognizes him as if he wero the seventh wonder of the world. But yesterday, on tbo outskirts of a crowd, a rather stolid-looking man asked of me: "Stranger, is that John Greeley, those follows are talking so much about!" "No, Sir, that's Horace" "Horace Horace Greely who is he?" "Editor of The Tribune." "Which?" "Editor of The New York Tribune." "What's tliatl" "A newspaper published in New York!" "No! I never heard of it before." "My friond,"asked I, "where wore you raised!,' "In Missouri." The explanation was satisfactory. garfct floor, be opened a communication' between the floor and ceiling beneath which interior communicated with the spaces between the side walls and the' laths and plaster over the whole house. 7 Into this opening be placed a dish con-" taining finely pulverised black oxide 6t manganese, aod poured over it a suitable quantity of strong hydrochloric (muratic)' acid. The effect of the chemical mixture' of black oxide of manganese and hydro chloric acid is to disenage slowly in toe cold that most powerful, deodorizing, fu migating gas, chlorine In common withf all gases, it gradually diffused itself through the air, but having a greater weight than atmospheric air it accumu lates at the lowest levels. The tendenflj of the gas liberated, therefore, .was to penetrate every vacant space between the walls and ceiling, and at last fonnd exif io theceilar. It may be here stated that the quantity of gas so liberated can exert no injurious effect upon the house or its inmatea inr deed the result is rather beneficial ban otherwise upon the general health. In the case in qnestion, the odor was not noticed to any extent in the body of the-' house, but after a " while was' very per ceptible in the cellars. In a concentra ted condition, chlorine it is well-known',-is most offensive, irrespirable and d structive of animal life. It, at the same' time, neutralizes and destroys" all other odors and infectious matters. To return, however, to the rats. Tho" chemical arrangement descrbed bad not been long in operation, when it became something unusnal was oc- evident that currmg in ratdom. Meetings were ap parently being held in hot haste, crnd essengers were despatched lo' and fro. "All night long, it would seem,"sys the narrator, "as if Bedlam bad broken 10030" between the partitions of my house. The' inhabitants were not only decamping, buf were carrying their plunder and .house hold goods along with them." Towardff orning, however, all had became quietr the rats had vamosed, big and little and for a period of nearly three months; not one was heard or seen on tho premi ses. jNow they ure gradually returntor, but as soon as tbey become troublesome another invitation to leave will be extend ed. Farm Journal. A Good Story. An ancedoto, worth laughing over, i old of a man who had an infirmity, as well as an appetite for fish. Ho "was anxious to keep up his character for hon esty, even while enjoying his favorite' meal, aud while making a Bill with bt merchant, as the story goes, and when hi back was turned the honest buyer slipped a codfish up under his coat-tail. But the' garment was too short to cover the theft and tho merchant preceived it. "Now," said the customer, anxious to" improvo all opportunities to call attention1 to bis virtues. "Mr. Merchant, I have tra ded with you a great deal, and have paid you up promptly, and honestly, bavcn'S I!" "O, yes," said the merchant, "I rnakH no complaint." "Well, said the customer, "I alwajrf insisted that honesty was the bcs policy and the best rule to live and die by." "That's so," replied the merchant. And the customer turned to depart. "Hold on, friend," cried the merchant "speaking of honesty, I have a bit of ad vice to give you. Whenever you com to trade again, you had better wear ti longer coat, or steal a snorter codfish." A Tourncvraan tailor has iust returned nioe place, that Fort, with many excellent to Bloomington, III., from England, with i peoplo about it; but I can c neip asamg , a quarter of a million of dollars, his share what it costs, and who pays, and whoth-;0f a )ega0y of nearly three millions. He er that little bill might not bo somewhat , wag fi0 much excited that he could neith- of considerable natural strength aa a de- docked without prejudice to tho public er eat nor sleep, and it is feared hta good fensive position, and jn the bands of the' interest. I boliove it oould. Whenever iuot wm be the death of him. grandsons of the men who defended Bun-'our peple shall have grown wise enough ker Hill, would have cost something to to maintain no standing army whatever whoever might have taken it. As it was ' but the barest skeleton of one to be cloth the Ruffians, though often in the neigh- ed with flesh borhood in overwhelming force, apd aox- out the volonte Heart Hunger. Tho heart hath hunger as the bo'df hath". Where one person dies of physi cal want, a dozen perish froa Starvation; of the affections. Men canaot live br bread alone, but the soil must likewise be" fed. A pig can subsist on corn, and af horse on hay and oat3 ; but men a'n'd women have spiritual natures that re quire spiritual food, ne wbtf attosaptj to live without symyathy makes a beast of himself. We have seen a poor, pay child, to which neither nutnmest nor medicine could ervo warmth and strength, suddenly rouse and becaaa healthy and ruddy when some large hearted, elderly, unmarried aunt, with no husband or child of her own fo bestow the rich store of her affections upon, cams' fo feod the little thing -with her heart's?, blood and teaspoon. This banger for A bowl containing two quarts of water, I whenever needed by oalling'eet in an oven when baking, will. prevent j love is a divine appctito. and it is.follj t-; teers, the Annual Expondi-1 pieH, cakes, &o.being scorched. attempt to starye it out, - i - ' a
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