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VOL 18.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. AUGUST 11, 1859.
NO. 32.
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AN OVERLAND JOURNEY,
xr.
TIIE KANSAS GOLD DIGGINGS
In tue Rocky .Mountains, )
Gregory's Diggings, June 9, 1839. $
We left Denver at 0 yesterday morn
ing, in a wagon drawn by four mules,
crossing by a rope ferry the south fork of
the Platte directly. This fork is a swift,
clear, cold stream, some thirty rods wide,
fordable except when snows are melting
in the mountain?. Many gold-seekers'
wasons were waiting to cross, and more
were momently arriving, so that the fer
rymen at least mu&t be making his pile
out of the diggings. Henceforward, our
way lay northwest for fifteen miles across
nrolliogand wi'll-grassed prairic,on wbieb
one or two farms have been commenced,
while two or throe persons bave just es
tablished "ranches" that i, have built
each his corral, in which cattle are herd
ed at night, while allowed to run at large
on the prairie during the day: SI 50 per
month ifl the usual price per head for
herding cattle in this way, and the cattle
arc Eaid to do very well. The miners
leave or send back their cattle to herd on
these prairies, while they pro-ecute tlieir
operations on tbe mountains, where feed
is generally scarce.
Beaching Clear Creek, (properly Tes
ter's Fork) a cold, swift, rocky bot
tomed stream, which emerges just above
a- deep narrow canon from the ilocky
Mountains we left our wagon-, saddled
the mules and forded the creek and it
was all our mules could do to stem its
impetuous ourreDt ascended a gentle,
grassy slope to the foot of Ilocky Moun
tains which had for an hour seemed al
most within a stone-throw on our left.
Now they were to be faced directly, and
the prospect was really seriou. The
bill on which we were to make our fir-t
essay in climbing rose to a bight of 1,600
feet in a little more than a mile, the as
ceut for most of tbe distance being' more
than one foot in three. I never before
bbw teams forced up such a precipice;
vet there were wagons with ten or twelve
hundred
ions, &5
weight of mit.ing tools, provis
bcing dragged by four to eight
oxen ud that giddy precipice,
yoke
of
with four or five men lifting at the wheels
of each. The average time consumed in
the ascent is an hour and a half. Our
aiules, unused to suek work, were visibly
appalled by it; at first, they rented ev
ery effort to foroe them up, even by zig
sags. My companions all walked, but I
was lame. and had to ride, to my mule's
intense disgust. lie was stubborn but
BtTong, and in time bore me safely to the
summit.
New as this rugged road is it was first
traversed Go weeks ago to-day death
bad traveled it before me. A young man
shot dead, while carolesly drawing a rifle
from his wagon, lies hurried by tbe road
side on this mountain. I have beard of
so many accidents of this nature not
less than a dozen "old-seekers having
been shot iu this manner during the lust
two months that I marvel at the care
IcBsness with which fire-arms are every
where handled on tbis fide of the Missou
ri. Had no single emigrant across the
Plains this season armed himself, tbe
number of them alive at this moment would
have been greater than it is
We traveled some two miles along tbe
crest of this mountain, then descended, by
a pitch equally sharp with the ascent but
shorter, to a ravine, iu which we rested
our weary animals and dined. That din
ner of cold ham, bread and cheese--was
one of the best relished of any I ever
shared, He-saddling, we climbed anoth
er precipice a little less steep and so up
and down for ten miles, when we descen
ded into the narrow valley of a little
braneh of Clear Creek, und thencefor
ward had ten miles of relatively smooth
going, crossing from one valley to anoth
er over hills of moderate elevation and
easy ascent.
A wilderness of mountains rose all a
round us, some higher, same lower, but
generally very steep, with sharp uarrow
ridges for their summits. Some of them
are thinly grassed, between widely scat
tered trees up their sides and on their
tops, but they aregcuerully timbered, and
mainly with bellow Pine, come ot it quite
large; but more of it pmall and apparently
young. High on the mountains this pine
is. short and scraggy, while in tbe ravines
it grows tall and sharply, but average
not more than a foot in diameter, Hur
ricanes bave frequently Hwept the moun
tains, prostrating the pines by scores,
fires have ravaged and decimated them; is, one which a pony may traverse with 'proposed new Ilocky Mountain State,
still pines on the summits, pines on the one end of tho ledge-polo on his back,tho Temperance, Gambling, &c., &c., were
hillsides, pines eveu in the ravines, are other trailing behind him exists from discussed with force and freedom. Such
all but universal. Tho Balsam Fir grows this point to the open prairie near Clear a gathering, of men suddenly drawn hith-f-paringly
in the ravines; Hemlock, also, Creek a trail which doubtless winds a- er from every section and nearly every
is reported, though I have not seen it; long the steep sides of tbe ravines and a. State, in a glen where the first ax was
but the Quakiug Asp or Aspen which voids tho rugged bights necessarily trav- raised, the firs tent pitched by white men,
seems but a more delicate species ofCot-'ersed by the minor's wagon-road. Should less than six weeks ago, should have in-ton-wood
is thick-set in (he ravines, and these diggings justify their present prom - spired the dullest speaker with earnest
somctirtics appears on the more moderate . ho, I doubt not a road will in lime beness if not with eloquence,
acclivities, an do gooseberry bushes in tho made, reducing by one half say 5,000 j Mining quickens almost every depart
raviuos. Brooks of tbe purest water mur-. feet the present aggregate of accent and , ment of useful industry. Two coal pits
mur and sing in every ravine; springs a- descent between this and Denver. But are burning close at band. A black
bound; the air is singularly pure and bra- an unworked wagon-road must avoid the j smith has set up his forgo here, and is
cing; the Elk, black-tailed Deer and sides of these steep-bank ravines, run-j making a good thing of sharpening picks
Mountaiu-Shcep are plentiful, except ning square up the faces and along the , at 50 cents each. A volunteer post-office
where disturbed by the inrush of cmigra- crests of the mountains, so that this spot is just established, to which an Express
tion; Grouso are common and bold: the is destined to remain barely accessible Office will soon attach itself. A Provi
solitudc was sylvan and perfect until a for at least another year. sibn Store will soon follow; then Groce-
weeks ago. All is now being rapidly; This narrow valley i3 densely wooded, ries; then Dry Goods; then a Hotel; &o.,
changed, and not entirely for the better, maiuly with tho inevitable Yellow Pine nuti), within ten years, tho tourist, of the
We had a smart shower, with thunder which, sheltered from the fierce winds, Continent will be whirled up to these
andlightning, during tbe afternoon, which which sweep the mountain tops, here J diggings over a longer but far easier road
compelled us to halt a few minutes. An- grows to a hight of sixty or eighty feet, ' winding around the mountain-tops rather
other such tbis afternoon indicates that it though usually but a foot to eighteen inch-' than parsing ovor them, and will eip his
in a habit of the country. I am told, es iu diameter. Of these pines, log cab- chocolate and read his New York pa-
howover, that, though thunder is com-
iiion, rain is generally withheld this seas-'
on, or confined to a mere sprinkle. !
Night fell upon us while yet six' or sev-
miles from the diggings, and we camped
iu the edge of the pines on the brow of a
gentle acclivity, with a prospect of grass
as well as water for our weary, hungry
beasts down tbe slope south of us. Mine
had fallen to his kness in the last water- -
couse we had passed, very nearly throw- living with white men sleep in tents, j time threatened a heavy shower. We
ing me over her lead; had she done it I or under booths of pine boughs, cooking , made a poor shelter of a buffalo-skin and
am sure I had not the strength left to and eatiug in the open air. I doubt that' a rubber blanket, stretched across a fal
rise and remount, and hardly to walk the there is as yet a table or chair in these Ion tree, and their waited half an hour
rcmairig half mile. As it was, I had to digging, eating being done around a but, finding the rain neither stopped nor
be lifted tenderly from my saddle, and ( cloth spread on the ground, while each grow violent, we saddled up and came on.
laid on a blanket, with two more above one sits or reclines on mother earth to Two accidents which might have proved
mc, whvre I lay while the fire wa3 built, 1 enjoy. The food, like that of the Plains, serious happened to members of our par
supper prepared, and a lode of dry polo is restricted to a fw staples Pork, Hotjty the first to Mr.Villard of Cincinnati,
and greeu pine boughs hastily put up. I Bread, Beans and Coffee forming the al- wlio, riding at some distance from all
wis too tired to cat, but the bright, leap-'most exclusive diet of the mountains: but ntWa thmven mnl' BnrTr1i
log name irom tne ury pines ucaped on
our fire gradually overcame the shivering,
which was about the ouly t-ign of vitality
I owed when first laid don, and I at
length resumed the perpendicular by an
effort, and took my place in our booth,
where sleep hut fitfully visited mc during
-1 - : t I
that bright short Summer niht. But
this left me more time to rub my chafed so dry during the Summer that their gras ' ing heard his call for help, was coming
and stiffened limbs, so that, when break- is very icanty. It is melancholy to see 'up in front. Mr. V. was released witlT
fast vrai called iu the moruinir. I was so many overworked and half-starved i n:! fnrthnr ininrv hnt hi nrm in tom.
ready, appetite iueluded, and prepared to
dispel the apprehensions of those who had
1 . t r
preuicieu, on seeing me tauen oil my
mule
that I mu-t be left there for at least ;
a day. iy o o cIock, we were again in
the saddle, and pushing on, over a stony
but rather level table land, which extend
ded for two or three milc, thickly cover
ered with youug Pines and Aspens, to
our next ravine, whence the road leads up
a short, steep hill, then down a very long,
equally steep one, to Clear Creek being
as rapid and rock-bottomed as where we
crossed it the day before thirty mile be
low, but with only one-third the voluce
of water, so that we crossed it easily with
out a wet foot. A little runnel coming
in from the west directly at the ford, with
it-? natural transluccucy changed to milky
whiteness by the running of its waters
through sluices in which the process of
gold-washing was going forward, gave us
assurance that we were iu immediate prox
imity to the new but already famous
1 1k Sk 1 1
workings
called after their discoverer,
ii
Uregorv a difrincs.
I shall not here f-peak of their pecuni
ary success or promise, thouh I havo vis
ited during the day, a majority of those
which have sluices already in operation,
C-
and received reports from my fellow-vis
itors from nearly all the others. Having,
united with them m a statement to be j
herewith forwarded of what we saw and
learned, I refer those who feel any inter-
est in tho matter, to that statement. What
I proposo here to do is to give the reader
borne idea of tho place and iti general as
pects. The little brook which hero joins Clear
Crock from the west starts at the foot of
mountains ihre.e or four miles distant, and
runs in a usually uarrow ravine between
generally steep hills from 500 to 1,500
ieet nign. jt is unruly wortu a name,
but that of "llolston's Fork" has been
bestowed on it. Gregory's lead is
very near its mouth; half a mile above
seems the heart of tho present mining re
gion, though there arc already sluices in
operation at intervals for at least two
miles up. the fork, and others aro soon to I mining, and consequently of all other
be started at intervals-above them. Ilocky Mountain industry. With tbe
Three or four miles south-west from the gold just wrested from the earth still glit
mouth, are Russell's digging, where j tering in my eyes and one company has
coarse gold is procured, but I was unable j taken out to-day, at a cost of not more
to visit them. Prospecting is actively go- than S25 a lump (condensed by the use
ing forward in every direction, ond vague of quick-silver) which looks like a hteol
reports of lucky hits or brilliant pro-pects yard poise and is estimated as worth S510
aro started on this Mde or on that, but1 t adhere to my long-settled eouvictiou
I have not been able to verify them. It that, next to outright and indisputable
is no disparagement to tbe others to say 'gambling, the hardest (though sometimes
that though raining is carried on at va- 'the quickest) way to obtain gold is to
rious points within a radius of thirty miles ;
from this spot, "Gregory's diggings" aroiohanio will usually make money faster by -
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iu uay me cmei nope 01 coiu-iuiuiuz iu ,
the Ilocky Mountains.
Six weeks
this raviDe was ajsoli-
tude, the favorite haunt of the Elk, the
Deer oud other shy denizena of the pro-
foundest wilderness, seldom invaded by
the foob-teps of man. I believe tbis strip,
of country has long bceu debatable land
between tue Lies and the Aropanoes,
which circumstance combined with its
rarely acceesiblo situation to secure its
wild tenants against human intrusion and
persecution. 1 hear that tuo Arapauoes
6ay that a good "lodge-pole trail" that
ins are constructed with extreme facility,
and probably one hundred are now being
built, while three or four hundred more
are in immediate contemplation. They
are covered with the green boughs of the
pines, then with earth, and bid fair to be
commodious and comfortable. As yet,
the entire population of the valley which
cannot number less than four thousand, in-
eluding five white women and seven squaws
l.t- i . i i '
a meatsnop nas just Deen esuDiisnca on;
t 1. .y , ..... i , I
wnose a:tar are otierea up tne ill-leu and
well-whipped oxen who are just in from
a fifty days' journey across tho Plains,
and one or two cows have been driven in,
as more would be if they could here been
subsisted. But these mountains arc main-
ly wooded-, while tho open hill-sides are !
cattle as one meets or passes in this ravine
1 1 i . t i
and on the .way hither. Corn is 85 per
bushel in Denver, and scarce at that:
Oats are not to be had; there is not a tun
of Hay within two hundred miles, and
uone can ever be brought hither over the
present road at a cot below S40 per tun.
The present shift of humane owners is to
herd their oxen or mules on the rich
gra?s of the nearest prairies for a week or
so, letting them subsist on browse and a
very little grat.9, and then send them
down the mountain again. This, bad as it
i seems the best that can bo done. Liv
ing of all kinds will always bo dear at
these mine.-, where American Flour is
now selling at the rate of S44 per barrel,
and Baoon is worth 50c. per pound; Su
gar ditto.
I presume less than half the four or
five thousand people now" here in this ra
vine have been here a week; he who has
been here three weeks is regarded as quite
an old settler, The influx cannot fall
short of five hundred per day, balanced
by an eflluz of about one hundred. Mauy
of tho latter go away oonvinccd that
Ilocky Mountain gold-mining is one grand
humbug. Some of them have prospected
2 or 3 weeks, eating up their provisions,
wearin2 out their boots and finding noth-
j. Others have workodfor the more for-
tunate for SI per day and tbeir board and
lodging certainly not high wages when
the "duality of the livin? is considered. And
I feel certain that,
while
some perhaps
many will realize their dreams of wealth
here, a far greater number will expend
their scanty means, tax their powers of
endurance, and then leave, soured, heart
sick, spirit-broken. Twenty thousand
people will Iirvo rushed into this ravine
beforo the 1st of September, while I do
not see how half of them are to find prof-
itablo employment here. Unless, there
fore, tho area of tho diggings shall mean
time be greatly cularged of which there
is no assurance I cannot imagine how
half the number are to subsist hero, even
up to that early setting in of Winter
which otU'-t cause a general paralysis of
mine for it that a good farmer or me-
ewv t iuv, i
buukiu't iu uia uwu uusiuuss man oy ae-
;serting it for gold digging and that the
l II r t . t
n,an wuo saving railed in some otucr pur-
suit, calculates on retrieving hia fortunes
by gold-mining, makes a mistake which
he will likely to rue to the end of his days, ! hr'usb and tho ucsfc morning wash as
We had a famous gathering a few rodsLi na annn n,i roritnr nn ,Bt-a i,m
from this tent this evening. Tho csti -
mate oi saie men puts tne numner pres-
ent at 1,000 to 2,000. Though my name
was made the excuse for it, brief and for-
cible addresses were mado' by several
others, wuereur Mining, i'ost! and .bi:-
press facilities, the Pacific Railroad, the
per not yet fivedaysold
ory "House," in utter
at the "Greg-
unconsciousness
that this region was wrested from the
Elk and the Mountain Sheep so recently
as 1859.
Denver Juno 10, 1859.
We left tho diggings yesterday morn
ing, and came down to the foot of the
mountain, in spito ot a drizzling rain
from noon to 3 or 4 o'clock which atone
slipping forward and turning under him.
r T . O 1
. - ' .
so .that he fell heavily on his left arm,
which was badily bruised, and thence
dragged a rod with his heel fast in the
stirrup. His mule then stopped; but when
I rode up behind him, I dared not ap
proach him lest I should start her, and
waited a moment for tho friend who. hav.
norarily useless. The other casualty
happened to Mr. Kershaw of New-York,
who, riding to my assistance at Clear
Creek Crossing at nightfall, was thrown
by his mule's starting at the rush of a
savago dog, and considerably iojured,
though be is nearly well to-day. It would
bave been to me a source of lasting sor
row had his fall resulted in more serious
damage.
c
When we reaohed Clear Creek on our
way up threo mornings since, though the
current rushing from tho mountains look
ed somewhat formidable, I charged it
like a Zouave, and was greeted with
three ringing ahouts from tbe assembled
Pike'a Peakers, as I came up, gay and
dripping, on the north shore. But now,
though the water was but a few inches
higher, tho starch was so completely ta
ken out of me by those three days' rough
experience in tho mountains, that I had
neither strength nor heart for the pas
sage. I felt that the least stumble of my
mule over tbe round, slippery stones that
fill the channel would fling me, and that
I was unable to stand a moment in that
rushing torrent. So, driving in my mule
after tho rest of the party, and
seeing
her reach the south bank safely though
with grcatdifficulty breaking a girth and
spilling saddle, blanket, &c, into the wa
ter I betook myself to a spot, half a
mile up (stream, where thp creek ia split
by islets into three ohnnnels, and where
a rude foot-bridgo of logs affords a dry
shod passage. Hero I was met by my
friend with his mule, and in a few min
utes rodo to our wagon, beside which wo
found supper in an emigrant tent and
lodging in several, and at 4 o'clock this
morning harnessed up and drove into
Denver just threo whole men out of a
party of eix, and all as weary and care
worm as need be, but all heartily grati
fied with our experience of threo days in
tho Ilocky Mountains.
Horace Greeley.
"Washing Horses Legs.
It is quite a common oustom for car
men ond hostlers to "founder noble hor
ses, by the erroneous practice of dashing
cold wuter on their legB when they arc
dirty. In regard to this practice Sir
George Stephens, the eminent veterinary
surgeon Hays, "Whenever it is necessary
to wash horses' legs, do it in tho morn
ing. -Most grooms, acting on a different
principle, wash them as soon as the ani
mal comes in. I am convinced this is a
bad practice. Wrhcn tho roads are dir-
ty, and tho weather wet, and the legs al-
, i i .!. : .1 . i .
UrtUJ H"' , 7 K - , , '
but to doiueo the lees with water the uio-
, " , , . ,
ment a horac enters tho yurd, heated with
exercise, is to my mind, as unnatural and
absurd as to jump into a shower bath af
ter playing ait hour at cricket. My plan
is, running down witu straw ana a ary
picb amI wa6, t,e sole3 as SQ0Q a3 tho
horso comes in."
The. last Legislature' of Tcx'as contain5
od thirteen "men 'qf wark." Not ono of
them could write bis name,
A Cheese Stoiy.
One night in Autumn, two traveler.
whose homes was among tho preen bills
of Vermont, btopped at a small country .
tavern in New llamp.'hiro. Duritij; the I
evening, one of them got talking with a
farmer of tho place upon farming mat- .
ters generally and the relative agricultu-"
ral advantages of Vermont and New
Hampshiro particularly. The farmer, '
as might be supposed, maintained tbe su- ,
riority of his own State, New Hampshire;
and to prove it, told how much butter and
cheese his wife had made that season. '
Not so much to show the excellent labor- !
ing capacity of his wife, ho added, by i
way ot explanation, did he mako this
statement, as to prove how much greater
in quantity was the milk of cows fed on
New Hampshire grass, than that of those
that grazed elsewhere.
"Well," said the traveler, "that's noth
ing to what they do in Vermout. WThv
one man up there made thirty tons of
cneese last summer, and he was a Btnall
larmcr, too."
'I guess you have set that a little too
high," said the farmer, unwilling to con
oedo that there was a better farmer in
Vermont than himself.
"Didu't Jim Mayuard mako thirty
tons of cheese last summer, Tom ?" asked
the traveler of his companion.
'I dont know how much cheese be
made," replied the other with gravity,
"but I remember that he run two saw
mills with the whey "
The farmer "caved," and acknowledg
ed that such farming as that could not
be excelled.
Self Evidently Drunk.
Old P., who resides at Okoloma, Miss.,
is well known as one who never pays a
debt if it can bo avoided. Has plenty of
money, however, and is a jolly, rollicking
old chap. Gets pretty drunk occasion
ally, when, of course, some friend takes
care of bira. Not long ago he fell into
the hands of a friend who held his note
for a sum of money, and, as it was a last
chance, tho friend dived into old P.'s
wallet, took out the amount of the note
and put the note where the money had
been. When he awoke to consciousness,
as was his wont, he took his wallet out to
count how much money he was out. Fin
ding his purse almost empty, ho thunder
ed: "How in b-l-a-z-e-s did I spend all ray
money
"You paid off that note I held," an
swered the friend.
"Well, muttered old P.,' quietly stow
ing away his wallet, "I must have been
most orful drunk I"
inplt ia related that when tho Boyal
Society was first established in London,
Charles H., who was a bit of a wag, gave
its members the following very important
Bubjcet for scientific discussion : "Why
is it that, when a fish is placed within a
basin full of water, it does not make the
basin run over?" Night after night the
sages discussed the question, to the great
anjusement of tho Merry Monarch. At
last, Sir Christopher Wren ventured to
ask him if be was perfectly sure no wa
ter could be forced over tbe tbe edge of
tbe basin when the fish was placed in it.
With a sly twinkle of his eye, Charles
answered, "Ab, Sir Christoper, that I do
not know; but I would adviso the gentle
men of the Society always to be Bure that
such ond such is tbe case before they
proceed to account for the cause."
Low-neck Dresses.
A city servant girl, in a letter to tho
"old folks at home," thus describes tho
prevailing fashion of low-necked dress
es: "As for the lo noes the loer it is the
more fashunabil yu air, an' the les cloz
yu were the more fashunabil yu air drcst.
Mis Goolra giv me a blu silk ov hern an'
I cut its neck orf an' Suzin Simmons cut
orf hern and we attrax a grato deal of
attenshun to our nccs, promioadin' in the
streets lyko uthcr ladys an' holdin1 up
our cloz. Nobody if n't nolhin' now
whitch dusnt hold up her cloz, and the
hicr yu holds them tho more yu air thot
ov."
Political Chip?.
An ofliice-holdcr remarked tho other
day at tho National Hotel, iu Washing
ton, in reply to tbe question, "Who aro
your folks going to nominate!"
VOh I have itock in all the candi
dates.', "What any in Old Buck?"
"Yes: two chips."
"Goodl Just enough to carry him out
on. March 4, 18G1."
Officeholder caved and stood treat.
' Sarcastio Shots
"Accept a lock of my hair," said an
old' bachelor to a widow, handing her a
large curl "Sir, you had better gi0 me
the whole wig." "Madam, you bite
hard, but pray don't risk breaking your
beautiful porcelain teeth."
A down-east girl being banfefed ono
day by fiomo of her female friends in re
gard to her lover, who had the mifortuno
to have but ono leg, f ho replied to them
very smartly, "Pooh 1 1 wouldn't hove a
than with two legs; they're too common!"
r .. ica, 200,000,000; of Africa, 89,000,000;
drinking, water neither makes a man of Australia 2,000,000. Total popula
Bick, nor in debt, hor hja wife a widow. tion of the globe, 1 ,2s3,000,QOO.
A Uegto Discussion about Eggs.
Geneva, tho lovely village on Seneo
Lake, furnishes the following specimen of
Parliamentary rulingr
In the fairest village of western New
York the "culled pussons," in emulation'
of their white brethren, formed a deba
ting society for tho purpose af improving
their minds by the discussion of instruc
tive and entertaining topics. Tho delib
erations of tbe society were presided over
by a venerable darkey, who performed
his duties with the utmost dignity pecu
liar to his color. The subject for the dis
cussion on the occasion of which we write
was: "What am de mudder ob de chickens'
de hen what lay de eggs, or do hen wat
hatches de cbickl"
Tho question was warmly debated, and
manyreasons pro and con were urged and
combated by the excited disputants.
Those in favor of the latter proposition
were evidently in the majority, and the'
President made no attempt to conceal'
that his sympathies were with the domi
nant party. At length an intelligent'
darky roso from the minority side and'
begged leave to Btato a proposition to this'
effect:
"Spose," said he. "dat you set one
dozen duck eggs under a hen, and dej
hatch, which am de mudder de duck or"
de hen!"
This was a poser, was well put, andf
nonplussed the other side, even stagger
ing tho President, who plainly saw the
force of the argument, but had com
mitted himself too far to yield without a
struggle; so, after cogitating and scratch
ing bis wool a few moments, a bright i
dea struck him. Biaing from his chair
in all the prido of conscious superiority
be announced:
"Ducks am not before de house; chiclc
ens am de question; derefor I rule de
ducks out;" and do it he did, to the com-'
plete overthrow of his opponents
"Worth Knowing.
A young lady of this city, while in the
country, stepped on a rusty nail, which
ran through her shoe into her foot. The
inflammation and pain were great, and
look jaw was apprehended. A friend of
tbe family recommended the application'
of a beet, takon from the garden and
pounded Sne, to the wound. It was done,
and tho effect was very beneficial. Soon
tbe inflammation began to subside, and
by keeping on the fresh beet, and chang
ing it for a fresh one, as it virtue seem
ed to become impaired, a speedy cure
was effected. Simple and effective rem
edies like this uhould bo known lo everj
one.
He Eoes'nt Take the Paper;
The man that does no paper take.
Grudging two dollars once a year,
Will neier a good husband make,
Because his wife can never know what U
going on in the world, and his children
will very ignorant appear.
The last line is rather long for a good!
jingle, but the moral is rublime.
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There are two eventful periods in- ther
life of a woman: one, when she wonder's
who sho shall haVe tho other, when she
wonders who will bave her.
JXJI can tell you how to save that
horse,' said a darkey to a man in West
street, who was looking very earnestly at
a skeleton of a horse attached to a vehi
cle heavily loaded with oysters.
'Will you? say on.'
'Why, just slip him away while, the
crows aro at roost.'
fiiV 'I ' n vni"A mtflAAnttln 7 m...?mA1m
1 we get on, the better the better for our
neighbors. The wisest policy isy if a man
, cheats you, quit dealing with him; if be
'is abusive, quit bis company; if he slan-
dcrs you, tako caro to live so that no
body will believe him.
JJx'Aunt Betsy has said many good
thing, one among them (hat a newspa
per is like a w.ife, because every mas
abould have one of his own.
(K7When you bave anything to do5, go
ahead and do it. A man who has tbe op
tion of two roads, either of which will
tako him to his journey's end,-1nu3t not
statid too long in considering which to
take.
gJThe greatest height at which visi
ble clouds ever exist does not exceed ten
miles.
A beautiful thought islaiiggesfed
in the Koran:
"Angels, in tho grave, will 'not ques
tion thco as to the amount of wealth thou
has left behind thee, but what good deeds
thou hat dono while in the world, to en
title thee to a seat among the blest."
Good Stock. A coif, sired by -tho
celebrated racer George M. Patches a ad
which is said by tboso who know, to give
promise of out footing his illustrious pa
rent, was disposed ot at private sale, in
Bristol, recently, for tho round sum of
81 1,000., He must bo a bully nag.
! cSrThe population of Europe is 272,
000,000, of Asia, 720,000,000; of Amer-