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DUCKWORTH & HAYN, WHOLESALE DEALERS IJt GrOCCriCS, Pi'OVisioUSj UqU0rS,&Ci No. 60 Dey street, New York. June 1G, 1859. ly. AN OVERLAND JOURNEY. IV. Notes on Kansas. Manhattan, May 24, 1859. I left Leavenworth in the Fort Riley , ,,ler tract that could not be made to pro etagc at 0 a. m. on Tuesday, a day in ad- ' du!fi one hundred bushels of shelled corn vancc of the "Pike's Peak Exnress." "by the application of less labor than xrhinli crosses the U. S. Military Road ut this point in order to ain time to vint Topeka and Manhattan, and .-um up my England. J ho sou is a river deposit four ; as delicacies long before they are bleseed impressions of Kansas for The Tribune. , to s.is furt dccPf tQc timber large and ' with a sight of the Sacramento. Our road from Leavenworth lay over the choice Oak, Elm, Bass. Black Walnut, j A wide, marshy bottom over which heavy hill westward which Leavenworth Sycamore, &c, with thick undergrowth charioteer seeks an untraversed path, must soon cut down or it will cut her of shrubbery and annuals, with wild grapo ' since a rut buries him so much deeper in down materially, pas-ing through the rich , vines four to sis inches through. I be- to the mire lies just west of tho Vermil valloy of Salt Creek aud over a divide pin to comprehend, though I do not ex- ' lion (which, with two or three other steep into that of the Stranger, which we fonJ- cusc the covetous impatience wherewith banked Etrcams, wo crossed on Indian ed at Easton, a village of thirty to fifty Indian reservations are regarded by their toll-bridges cheaply built and tery prof houses, famous for Border Ruffian outra- , white ncigbors. ' itablc to their owners;) whence the land : icnn Ki..fr nt i,n Sir,n..r ' arc here one to two huudred feet hi"h, generally timbered with Oak, &c, aodo ' covered with limestone bo'ulders that ! ncarccly more than half the ground is vis- ible These boulders arc generally ob- , long and irregularly flat, making the be-t ' of stone-wallf I am informed that nine 1 rdos of capital wall is regarded as 1 ut a fair week'e work for a cood wall-builder, workinfr bv himself. We r.ass out of the .valley iut beyond La.ton. ri.-inc io the li.... u ..,1 i.i glightly rolling prairie, and henceforth for forty miles to Topeka our way lies through a gently heaving sea of gra, with limber generally visible along the water-coursesoneitberiidc. Occasionally, however, we docend from the cra-l of the prairie into a barely perceptible hollow oud now nothing but gras and : are visible, the two meeting at the horizon on every iJe. I do uot like this region quite so well as the more rolling country south of Olatbc and Praire City, across Bull Creek and the Marais deCygnes.but it is very fertile fairly wooded and suf- ficiently irregular in surface to carry off the water and leave few or no marshes or ' sloughs except in the road, where the fre- qucnt crossing of nnbridged water cour- ses U attended by a jolt and a jerk which render a doie dangerous and at the same time scarcely DOhsible. In ridhif? over ' such road", all the pleaure must be drank in through the eyc alone. We stopped for dinner at the crossing of Grasshopper Creek, at the Village of Osawkec, once the seat of Jefferson Coun ty and a Land Office, both now removed. Grass hopper Falls, I believe, next obtain ed tbe coveted distinction of being shire town; but another popular vote removed it thence to Oskaloo.-a, on the very line of the Delaware Reserve, which still cov ers a cood part of Jeffer-on as well as of - T Leavenworth aud Wyandot Counties. Osawkec, now probably four years old, is therefore in a state of dilapidation and decay, like a good many Kansas cities which figure largely on the map Its business having left it, it great hotel wa : very mysteriously burued, and I presume the insurance on it was duly paid. We dined here at a very moicstbut comfort- able tavern, kept by a kind and worthy mind us of what had been. But the light- 1 the forks of the Kansas, whence its more Pfnnsylvania Dutchman, who recognized ning had flashed and tbe clouds gathered northerly branch is known as the Repub tue from our meeting at the Whig Na- 1 throughout the night, and, as we drove ! Kcan and its more southerly as the Smo tional Convention at ilarrisburg, nearly ' out through Indiauola and took the Milt- ! ky Hill. tweuty years ago. Bearing south of west .from Osawkee, we crossed Rock and Mud- j dy Creeks (neither of tbcm more rocky nor muddy than the other), and were o- j bilged by the lack of a bridge (now beiug , repaired) over Halfday Creek, to keep on west to a petty village called Indiauola, whence we turned a sharp angle through the magnificently fertile and admirably timbered bottom of tbe Kaw or Kansas to the Topeka ferry, which we reached a little after sundown, but were delayed by a great contractor's train which had been all day crossing, and was likely to be a good part of the morrow, f o that we did not get across aod into Topeka till nearly dark. I noticed with sorrow that the oxen which draw these greit supply wagons are often treated very oruelly, not merely in respect to the beatiog and whaling, which every human brute delights in bo stowing ou every livo thing over which he domineers, but with regard to food and drink. Here were cattle that had stood , . m the yoke all that hot, dry day with uuiuiug tu cbi ur uriUK, auu, wueu tucy i came down to the river mad with thirst, they were all but knooked down tor trying j and threo or four yoke of oxen, a squat to drink. I was assured that oxen are j tcr might, even yet, by the help of a good sometimes kept in tbe yoke, without food j plow, get in twepty acres of aod corn this or drink, for two days, while making one j season, cut hay for Winter, and break a of these river crossing. I hero can bo no excuse for Ibis, Those which have long to wait ought io be taken off and drives a tile or more if neoessary to 1 gross and fed there; at all events they should be watered at leai-t twice a day. How can a competent train-master to say nothing of humanity overlook the policy of this 7 i The river is hero wider than at Law rencoor Wyandot below, is nearly muddy as the Missouri, and runs with a twiftcur reut even to its banks. An attempt had been made during that day toHwim across a drove of cattle; but the strong current carried them below the ferry landing on the south, whence the steep bank forbade their getting out, so that they went down the river several miles, and three of them were drowned The experiment of swim ming proved wretched economy, alike in time and money. Topeka is a.villago of probably 100 houses 1,000 inhabitants situated on the north line of Shawneo County, which has : tuc oao ana JL1 ox neserte on iiicsouin inc ' Potawatamie on the north-West. Along ' the north bank of the river opposite, a ' party of Half-Breeds have a reservo a mile wide by tweuty miles long, and I pivc the good-for-nothing rascals credit , for admirable judgment in selecting their . Inud. Thire is probably not an acre of would be required to produce thirty bush- ! e'a on tne average in New-York or New- Topeka was one of the stronkholds of tne Prt'c-State cause throughout the dark aJs f Kansas. Here assembled the rst Convention chosen by the People to fra.me a State Constitution as a rallying V0llii r defense and nu1unl protection aEaint the Border-Ruffian usurpation of 1"655i here tho Free State Legislature, peacefully aj-somblcd in'50 to devise and adort measures lookinc; to a redress of the j unparalleled wrongs and outrages under winch ivansas was then writhins. was cis rersed by Federal bayonets and cannon; ! here the guns of the troops were pointed , against a mass meeting" of the people of ' Kansas,asscmbled in the open air to de-' vise and adopt measures for the redress of thvir intolerable Grievances, and that meeting compelled to disperse under pen alty of military execution. And here I renew my vows of hostility to that Fed eral Standing Army until it shall have becu disbanded. It is utterly at w ar with the genius and perilous to the existcucc of Republican institutions. The regular It f . t 1 Tl soia,er l 01 necessity tne Diind, passive, mechanical instrument of Power. If or- dorcd to shoot his own father, be must o- beJ or be shot himself. Twice has the , French Republic been crushed by the Bonapartesu usuipation cruthed by the bayonets of a Stauding Army pointed at tbe breasts of her faithful legislators. A LI! I '.- . the morning, leaving but a narrow mar- : gin lor learned slerpr On ri-ing, however, I the high vrind would not allow us to cro.-s the river yet, and it was nearly 0 o clock when we actually started. ; We had now enjoyed three dry, bright, 1 warm days, which had turned most of tho mire of the roads to a sort of sun-burned brick, though enough still remained in sunken boles and brook crossings to re- I U I tary Road westward, the thunder gave in- j dications of tho shower which burst upon J us a litte before 0 o'clock and poured till 1 1, turning the brick of tbe road to mire 1 again. Aud, though the ram ceased, tho day remained sullen and lowery, with transient glimpses of weak sunshine to ' j tho end. Our route by for thirty miles through the Potawatmie Reserve, and was no lon ger encumbered with great Army Supply j trains, as they were either north of us on ! the California trail to Laramie, or south on the road crossing at Topeka and lead ing to Fort Union and Santa Fe. A few of the wagons we passed this day may have been heading for Forts Riley and Kearney; while "Pike's Pcakers," both going out and -returning dishearten ed, were in considerable numbers. 1 do not see how thoo returning could well reist the temptation to bolt and make claims, as I hear many have done, gen erally seeking them in the south part of j i the Territory, where Speculation has been iuss rampant Kaw. With than in the vicinity of the glorious breadth of prairie .before hard frost could stop bira next Fall. Whoev er does this judiciously, and resolutely will have reason for gratitude to .Pike's iepuujic wuose citizens are not wining to olcnt was tbo tempest that a large sign do their own fighting all that i3 neces- board was carried across the Blue and sary and proper but must have a Stan- thrown down fully a half a mile from tho ding Army to do it for them, lies at the spot at which it was taken up; and other mercy of any bold, unscrupulous adveu- heavy articles have not since been found, turer who can work his way to the com- Several families deprived of home and maud the favor of the Army. I trust shcltcr-by the hurricane are temporarily our army is near its end. j lodged in the basement of the. new hotel After greeting friends and speaking just erected here a three-story building, in Topeka, I learned with surprise that 55 feet by 33, with limestone walla and tho stage for Fort Riley started at 3 in black walnut finishing an establishment Peak, even though ho never see the color of its gold nor get nearer it than the Big Blue. Wetravelled allday with thetimberof the Kaw vissible on the south, sometimes quite near us, then one to 2 or 3 nailed distant. Our road lay for a considerable distance- along the bank ef what seemed a desert ed bed of the river, which has since made a new snd deeper channel more to the south. We traversed the nrairio of course, , , except uu it Muauuv uuwu uj creeks coming down from the north to lo,o themselves in tho Kaw. The Sol- d.er the Red Verm, lion, and another Rock creek were thepr,nc.pal of these streams. Our road passed St. Mary's LaiDOiic; 1U10MOU, y licit: tueiv ta ijuiio an Indian village and a very large inr- tr i 1 r at:.-.: I 1 1 i proveraent, whioh 1 guess wuite men were paid to mase. xe., wnetner io Mr credit or otherwise, I believe the truth cannot fairly be disputed, that Catholic Missions have been more successful in es- tablishing a permanent influence over In - dians than any others, except, perhaps, the Moravians. At the Red Vermillion still on the Potawatatcie Reserve, but near its west ern edge wo dined tho landlady a Ilalf-Brccd tho dinner the hardest I ov er paid half a dollar for. Doubtless, however, my eyes will be opened to an appreciation of cold hog and corn dodger rides into rollins sandy ridecs, some of them thinly wooded up their sides with White and Burr Oak. Thence we strike the old-fashioned deep, black prairie a- gain mott invitiDg to the cultivator, but not so gratoful to the traveler, just after a soaking rain and passing the stakes and ruinous cabin or so of one or two still-born cities, we reach the Big Blue, which here ioins tho Kansas from the North. It is nearly as wide as the Kan sas or Kaw at Lawrence, but of course neither so swift nor so deep. It is far clearer, even juEt after a heavy shower, than tho Kansas, as is strikingly evinced at and below the junction, where the two streams run for foino distance side by side in the same channel, without mingling, The Big Blue rises near the Platte, in what is now Nebraska, but which will be included in Kansas, if the Platte is made her northern boundary, as it seems likely to be. I understand that there is a good deal of settlement already along its course and on its tributaries, though I judge from . m m . the relative purity ot its water that some portion of this region must be less fertile than the portions of Kansas I have seen, Manhattan is an embryo city of per- haps 100 houses, of which several were unroofed and three or four utterly de- stroyed by a tornado on the wild night I passed at Atcbinson (15th inst.) So vi- . ... of whioh there is urgent need. The city is located on the flat, deep bottom in tho forks of the rivers, with a high limestone bluff, affording capital material for build ing just behind it. lhe Kansas comos hither from tbe South-west, and has Fort Riley and its largo military reservation fifteen miles distant on its north bank, with the iuteuded City of Ogdcu just east aud "Junction City" just west of it, at ..... a At Junction tlity, is a newspaper the most westerly, I presume, in Kansas, a part from the Pike's Peak region foun ded and kept alive by an army sutler, and of course "Democratic" in its incul cations. In opposition to it, The Man haUan Ez2)ress is abut to be issued here by M. Vivalde, an Italian exile and a devotee of Universal Liberty, who will of course sustain tho Republican cause. I commend him and hia journal to the confidence and patronage of all who would like a weekly bulletin from tbo Far West. I spoke here last evening in the midst of another gathering tempest, which burst in rain as I closed, and it continued to flash and roll all night, with considerable rain, and is cloudy and blowing a gale to-day. J fear we shall be stopped by high water on tbo Plains. I had honed to sum un my impressions ofKansas in this letter, but that would make it two long. Let mo close with an inniffpnt vhinh is mtrrAntlv -rpnnrtfiH ! througnut tins region as Having recently ft . 1 taken place at a crossing af the Big Bluo known as Marysville (of course not tbo Marysville of Bull Creek) somo 60" miles north of this place: A party of disheartened gold seekers, M fa.- r., it is saidr were returning from ihe Plains, and came to this ferry, which they insis- ted on crossing without payment, saying thev bad no money, gLne ferryman re- f fused to take them, oyer UDtil faidT-(an-1 other account says ho asked them an ex orbitant price) when they attempted to take his boat and put themselves across 1. , , , . . ,i whereupon ho drew his revolver, thev J I , . ... " ' " acillcllICUt Ul lUV 1UU1HVI3U JL II - 1 J - drawing almost at the same instant He dians formcr, 8eU,ed . w and know." wasof course riddled with balls and fell then knovvQ b tfco naQ)e of JFrieden'hlll. ! There, was another settlement of Mora--dead, .but not till he had either killed or teilf or "tents of peace;" I shall attempt vinos at Sheshequin.' under the direction1 severely wounded five of hisassailants. to :vo short nf ... fipfM of the Rev. Mr. Rothe. fluid to be the . - ;ii i a: r x j ( A quarrel recently arose about a f that fruitful source of frav9 an im law- . J ' ou,lo ,u ucw aemcujeiua--ou one 01 iuo;i,742. the colobratod Hnnnf. 7,inmlorf ( creeks a few miles from this place. The , strobger party, composed of .evera who' are known here as bad fellows told the , resident he must leave, which ho, in fear for hia life, consented to do. His wife,1 i u . i a I j i , 111 uuwever, uiuru resuiuiu, rcsoiveu 10 UOia possession, and bade them defiance, torn- mg as she aid so to go into the house andto him was. .Brother you havo made , oar wo aoor. is sue turned, she lon journey over the seas to preach fired at and fatally wounded. She died;the Gos , to the whito lo the , two hours thereafter, having first made a j Indians r did not know that we were statement of the affair, which was taken heret aDd we knew nothing of you This , down from her dying lips. The adverse !DroCeed8 rrom above? Oomo therefore to party came down at once to tbo nearest both aod brctbern. We bid Justice and told their story, expecting to jJ0a weicoaio am0Dg UBv The 3jora. clear their leader, who fired the fatal shot;' :an, 0f whom the count was a. leader tut the Justice, alter hearing them through, considered that it implicated tbo whole party ffive.) and conseouentlvl i held them to answer to tho charge of murder. Horace Greeley. Cutting and Curing Grain. Experiments have pretty well settled the fact that wheat should be cut while the grain is in tbe state called doughy, This conclusion was, indeed, reached sev eral years since in regard to wheat, but it has by the experiments of Voelcker been clearly shown to be applicable to oats: and it is also known to be equally applicable to Indian corn. At first, it was feared by some that there would be a great shrinkage of tbe grain cut in this stage, whioh would amount to absolute loss. It is proved however, that the sap of tbe stems of straw is sufficient to per fect the grain, under such oircumstanccs even possesses somo valuable properties which it has not when it remains uncut till dead ripe. Wr, Col man states that he found by many inquiries in England, that "the best rule for harvest is not when the stalk bejow the head has changed color, and the circulations have consequently ceased, but when tbe gran, though it has coased to yield any milk upon pressure, is yet soft." The advantages of cutting at this stage are briefly given as follows: "Weat cut early affords more grain, yields less bran, makes better flour, wastes less in gleaning, gives better straw, and ena bles tbe farmer to do tho work more lei surely." Pat's Idea of Restitution. The following conversation is said to have taken place between an Irishman and his confessor: "Patrick, the widow Maloney tells mo ihat you have stolen one of her finest pigs. Is that so?" Yis, her honor." "What havo you done with itP "Killed it, and ate it, yer honor." "Oh, Patrick, Patrick' when you are brougbtface to face with tbe widow and her pig, on the Judgement Day, what ac count will you be able to give of yourself when the widow accuses you of tbe theft: "Did you say the pig would be there, yer nverencci" To be sure I did." "Will, thin, yer riverence, I'll say, Mrs. Maloney, hero's yer pig." JBSfEmpty beaded people are gener ally happy, cork always floats. ti ' JBgyProvoking to dream you havo lots of money, and thefi wake up and find yourself a printer. Good Brandy. For tbe pa?t four years a cask has lain in the Union depot in Indianapolis, Indi anna, uncalled for. A few days ago it was opened and found to contain tho bod ies of twin bodies put together a la Siam ese. But the liquor (alcobol) which bad originally surroundedheise remains bad all been drawn off. The fast young men about tbo depot bad from time to time applied etraws vigorously through gim let holes in the cask, thus procuring an article with which they smacked their lips and pronounced "good brandy." The color of brandy had been imparted to the alcohol by tho dead bodies 7 Sev eral railroad employees have abstained since tho discovery, and we hopo thctr ab- ' stmenco may be permanent. TorJ True. An exchange woll saya. when a rakish him in order to rcstorqbim to tho path 'have been very diligent and industrious. d kindness are' Many rnterestinr aneocdotes aro related Inhr-d nnon him to win him back innocence and peace. No one would ev - tt..t l, kn .mroi) Rnt whon 1 a poor, confinding girl, is betrayed, she jreceivestho brand ofsociety, and is hence' fhn was of virtue. .... forth driven from the ways of virtue. tU hAtraxwr is honored, rcsnected. es- is honored, respected, cs toamnA it,r ; tin nPHe for her tliia :j u r;w !,, T.rt win aiuu iuo B.tU. j helping hand for her, no smile of peace, n0 voice of forgiveness. These are earth- 17 morallit.es unknown to heaven. There ia a deen fcrone in-tbem and -fearful aro tho consequences, From the Bradford 'Argus, The Moravian Indians. SSnmn !...:.. 1. . : 1 t . i . i jv.ju Kiiiun y ucinuii uccu luieiy uauc :nln tUn .U' e .u. r t ' o .., ... . ........... The. indian? wore settled in this county lnnrr lmfn.n U .u:. 1 . . j i me ivuuua ueoiimu uuquuiuiuu tclth : U 1 a. t i wuu ii now lontr wo " . v UV.V HU KIIOW I UL. Ill viiited tbo Wvomin yall 8nd mad ppiiC3lion to"tho In5Jan f . . vUl d ingtruct fc natives in the doctriue9 of rcpentaDce aad saImJon through the merit of th Sinr' FT - o was received with the kindness and do- liteness of rehned eooietv. Thcw: answerJ hnA mfl(jfi RtinmBt nf WhBlol,m nn ;the Lcbizb. and from that place were!they did not fail attending to their daily naa mann a Reinomenr. at nctneicuem on sending out their missionaries for the worship of their Maker. The other" pafj conversion of the Indians; and 'from j lY went doWQ lbc Susquehanna to North thence tbe Rev. David Ziesburger came i ambcrland, and tbence up tho West to Wyalusing in 1763 now nearly a cen- Branch to tho Great Island, where thtf tury ago. The Indians, seemingly pre- two parties met. There they left their narerl bv a kind Providonfift. wrfi rrl v ' canoes and went over tbo mountains" to- r , and anxious to receive him. But bis j stay was not long troubles arose from inimical Indians, and be fled to save his life, to Bethlehem, and on the return of , OQ IOC return Ot more peaceful times in 1765, he returned to Wyalusing acoompained by other Chris tain ludians from near Bethlehem; and after enduring hardships and sufferings untold, reached their new home in May, 1765. Here tbey went to work and built them up a village, on the lands for merly owned by Joseph Stalford, and now owned by Levi P. Stalford, Esq., grandson of the former owner, and Benj. Brown. The situation is a very pleasant one, on a second rise from the river, just above high water mark, and about two miles from tbe mouth of the Wyalusing creek Tbe village contained some forty or fifty well built houses after the Eng lish fashion, with chimneys and windows, and a street about eighty feet in width; their church was in the center of the vil lage, with a bell the first ever placed in a meeting houso this side of the Blue Mountains. There they lived in peace some seven years, enjoying the blessing of tbe gospel. The remains or ruins are nearly obliter ated; the place where the old well was is still to be seen. The burying ground situated below, or down the river from the village. There was a more anoient place of intermeut higher up the river on a lower flat, where the river has washed away the banks, exposing the bones of those that were hurried thero. The wri ter of this, between thirty and forty year? ago, in company with others, saw many of those bones where the bank had boon washed away. In 1828, Mr. John Stalford tho present owner of the land; found, in one place, three skeletons lying parallel and close by each other; one a very large skeleton, and some of the bones in a good state of perservation. The bone from tbo shoulder to the elbow, when measured by a very tall man over six feet high, was four inches longer than his. If this bone be any uidc, this person when living must have been more than eight feet high. At the head of these skeletons was placed a brass kettle, with quite a num ber of small bones partly decayed, sup posed to be of some animal, perhaps a raccoon or wookchuck, for food for tbe dead man to eat on his journey, and a spoon partly decayed. About the same time Levi P. Stalford, Esq , found other sl-nlftons. with an earthen crock nlaccd at tbe head of the bones, filled in part with the saco kind of bones, and pre pared in tho samo manner as tho othor. This grave yard was supposed to be oc cunied long before the settlement of the Moravian or Christainized Indians of whom we are speaking. But let us pause and look in upon these Christainized heathens, and see what the power of the religion of tho Savior can make of tbo wild children of tho forest. There they are, overy person striving to earn their own living,and to educate them selves under the direction of their beloved teachers, who have left their own homes with all their ties and endearmonfs, to' teach the wild red man tho way to Heav en and eternal happiness. Each person is striving not only to lay up treasure in Hoaven, but to provide for his temporal wants. Tboy bnilt a handiome little vil lage of some forty or fifty houses in ve ry cood fashion for those titaeir, and. a rl nln&sant meeting Louse: so they mast to!by theearly whito settlers of these people ; especially of Jab Gilloway, one of tbeir1 (ihfflf. .lob. tV tllC SCUICra, Was es esteemed a pcrfeot gentleman, as well as a Christian; but said ho oould make of his wife nothing but a squaw. How- ever. troublesome- times were at hand; The Connecticut settlers had comrf on, and a ffiP Pennvmite and Yankee war bad com- ---- - --- r menced; and tuo wouawn xuuiaua iu become restless, desirous, perhaps, fohave something to say and do, while the oth- ers were uguuug. uuuu iuu3D u uu. Ugis'g circumstances, the Miasiouancs'andjn i their friends advised a removal to tho J Ohio, and who shall pay with what heart nrhns .mrl n;iin thev came t.n flii rnnrlti- r J " . si nnno hnt Gni rYrl f, mnlr? ; fatber of tQe Kcv- Mr. Rhodes who' after- . wards? was sni.t loA n t Nnrf h n m hir Ijinil T.n- ' , Zrrne Coiiiir.v. wlin wn sntil to fiam hitr! I " ..ww born while on this journey.) These two 'settlements taet at Wyalusing, and after 'again dedicating themselves to the Moaf and partaking of the Holy Com-- I munion on the Gih day of June I772? orf 'the Ilthof June, all beins ready, the i Missionary fn a few solemn words re- . " - ra,aea mem oi me wany greai iavors ana blessings feccivod from God in this place. d then offering up praise and thanks- giving to Him, with fervent supplication for b'3 Pcace and protection on their journey. The company consisted of 24f persons: brother Etwain conducted those wbo went by land, and brother Rothe by ! water. The land party went o?ef the mountains and down tho Muncy creek, ."ct iunv-oii nun..-, uui, 'which what was then called the Ohio, now the' Alleghany river. -In passing over the mountains, they suffered everything that M-t a r a 1 t Bit fTni n 1 -v t V a 1 1 r I 1UUU uuiu ouuui, uuu in iucu uy icu through a traoklesa wilderness, infested with wild beasts, and worse than alf else, the rattlesnakes were so thick that they were constantly in danger of being bitter by them; and a great portion of their goods had to be carried on their backs. Tbe Children, too, had to be' carried; some died under their sufferings oner poor cripple, 10 or 11 years old, whose mother bad taken in a basket most of the way. On the Alleghany they made ca- !noes and floated down the river until, on the fifth of August, they came to Frre6 enstadt, now in Beaver county, where they found friends and fellow Christains undor the-teaching of the Rev. Mr. Zeisberger; here they rested until tho next year, wheo they all removed to Muskingum io 1773,. under the chargo of tbe Rev. Mr. Heck welder and Rev John Rothe. Sow wha& was the cause of all this! The Indians strove to live in peace with all. It a white man called on them be wa9 fed and cared for free of charge, and so were the Indians treated in like manner; this call ed up a jealous feeling between the whites and Iroquois Indians each suspecting' that the Moravivns were friendly to the other. Ardent spirits, that bane of the1 red man and curse of the white, began ta I t ' l j .t rri i DC mirouuceu among mem. juese, ana the desire to live in peace, undoubtedly caused their re moral. But who shall tell the sad fate that awaited these poor suffering Cbristainizcd Indians in their new homel Historians seem very will ing to bury it in eternal oblivion: but there is a reoord on high that wrll be read bo fare an assemtled world at fro last great da'y. The author of Historical Recollections of Pennsylvania, says " The Historian willingly drops tbe curtain upon the scenes which they encountered in their new residence." Mr. Miner Bays, "The fate of these poor creatures at nearly tho close of tho Revolutionary War, I am glad it f9 not my painful duty to record," We may well say with Mr. Jefferson, "indeed I tremble for my Country when I think that God is just and that his jus tice will not always sleep." They were pursued to their new home in 1782. driven info their meeting bouse. j tied together, and wnno uniung in tno praise of the Most High God, men, wo- . t ii . . 1 men, and children, wefe committed to tho fire and perished all together; snd this, too, after tho professed Christian whito people Bad taken Iwo-or three days to consult and consider upon it. But tbe heart sickens and the hand trembles while attempting to record this horrible trans action, and may God in His mercy for give this nation for tbe sifns we have committed against humanity, and shame forever shut our months. Wtalusino. Bible Promises, They are like tho beams of the sun, which shine as freely in at the windows of a poor man's cottage as the rich Btan:3i palace. .The. Straight Gate, Tbe straight gaf"e of religion is wido enough to admit any penitent sinner, but toor narrow to admit of any sin. Howe!, Faith. . Faith renders thanks for the sufferings imoro than for fbc joys of cartk.-Lava A Calf with as am. Tbe Wheeling Argus KSSS& on exhibition at rsi m arise Bsiare&a Hying oalf with hand andram: arffi is attaohed to a perfect shoulder, . s 'i... L..I. .rtt. growing aoous oigu moiw c t i. natural shoulder erf tho swmah K i certainly a great living curiosity.ke can .i Uu other respects
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