Scuotcft to politics, literature, Agriculture, Science, morality, axxb eucral intelligence.
VOL is.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. JUNE 30, IS59.
NO. 27.
Published by Theodore Schoch
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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