HIcuotcrj la politics, literature, Slgrkiiltuve, Science, illoraliin, anb General intelligence. VOL 18. STROUDSBURG, MPNEOE COUNTY. PA. AUGUST 25, IS59. NO. M Published V Theodore Sc!lOCh.l?cd anrl disgusted with tho hardships of TERMS.-TvvodolWsr.cr annum in advance-Two , thc'I" tedious journey with sleeping in OolUrs-and aq-iartcr, lialf yearly nnd 11 not paid be foro the end f Hie ynnr. Two dollars and si h.itf. iO .... i t. i : i 1 1 . ... except, at the opium of the Edit. lO Advertisements of one square ten lines) or less, bnc or three insertions. $1 00. Knelt nddiiinuul insei ticu, 25 ccuLr. Ljnscr ones in piooorlion. JOB PRfift'TIil'G. Ilnvin? a frnerjtl assortment of Inrgc, plain and or hniiysiiul Tvp, we arc prepared to execute every dc sorption of OnK Cirrnlar. Kill Heads, Notes. Clank RccciptV Jmsucs. I.eg.i and other blanks, Panipnicis. k.r.., prin led wUh nr.liioss ana dcsp.ilclt, n roiisonaDic terms Hi this office in - i John iiAV.v. Q. DUCKWORTH. To Country Scalers. DUCKWOilTH & HAYN, "WIIOLUSALH DKALHUS IX GrOCCriCS, Provisions, Liqi!0rS,&C.;aud rushed pell-mell down the Platte, No. 80 Dcv street. New York. June 1G, 1839. ly. AN OVERLAND JOURNEY, xi ir. TITK GOLD IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. DENVER, June 20, 1859. i'Ol I-VJUJU IKll iviuw i nffirmin-r or iaipWing the existence of f;in 01'. Gold in our country's principal chain mouutaius have from time to time reach ed the nubhc car; but they seemed forest, lu ut I ,. ' ? rl , . . on vcrv slight or insecure touauations and vji j . . .. . , ,4 . . , ; attracted but limited and trati.-icnt attcu tion. An Indian's, or trapper's or tra der's bare as-ertton that, in traversing the narrow'ravines and precipitous bight of oar Amcricau Switzerland, he had picked up a piece of quartz lustrous with io!d, or even a small nutraet of the pure metal, was calculated to attract little at-i atiuut.ou wui.c v,-.u.u.- , " "fe Other leads have siuce been opened in ber marvelous treasures and wh.lc hc.tho fiamc rav5u(j and u fact stood forth clear and aoque.tionable;G -, , 0,bcr GcoriIiau)J'i3 re. , i r .i i .jbrconJiU that not one pound of the precious dust J loj tQ from all the region watered by the Mis-; . i cnnrl o rr. i" l tl f ! 1 11 t IM 1 1 II I :i T t ? I. Till PVIT hOPn . - soun s mountain tributaries had ever been . " known to swell the world s aprrreirate ot . .. , - V i i i the all desiroo a-ct , and not one compa-' . ; .1 J.. . i was known to be 1 tion. trom itlis-ouri and irom lvansas ( Lawrence) re.-pectr.cly: and these, thouj!h . , 1 . . ' thov carried home or sent uomc larce sto- - , , .f , "f . ries of the auifcrous character of the , j ji. i i i ! country they -prospected, ook with them ; precious ItUlo go d but their reports a- roused .hpirit of pold.eking ad vei to others, so that the cnunig (lat) b all , . , fl, i i j witne.-scd a rush of three or four hundred, , " r t. i t . r n J . .. . . dead mu-hroom 'cities Ul 1UUI HJhil dllU f x'u, 1. ' Kansas, to the region watered by the j South Platte, and the more northerly sources of the Arkansas. For some rea son, thi point the iuuetion of Cherry Creek with the South Platte became the ! , t.i.i 4i i I focus of the nola-huut; here those who! J I ... i . i staid tnroucn tue iiuiumn aim tviuier busied themselves in putting up log cab ins, and writing home to their friends in the States accounts of the richness of thi rccion in jrold a metal which, except iu very minute quantities, they had seen but with the eye of faith. I doubt that three thousand dollars wortti ot gold in every Shape had been taken out by the Gvo or , six hundred hectors who had come to this r-iou in hot pur-uit of it. down to the first day of last mouth-Mav, ISoU. I doubt it, not merely bccau-eI have nev- er seen auv reliable accounts of that much ' gold being seut or received from here prior to that date, but because the gold does not exi-t where it had almost czclu eivcly been sought down to that day. Cherry Creek, though its extreme hources t... tw . 111 rr uV. OT IUUivluudl uteu, va? uiiuu iu uc i r .1 u), ui tu . , Gregory s; and we have a further report necking the yellow idol on tin, Mile of the 'z q marvcous richnCM iu backbone of our continent. So far as I.hM found Qn can learu, the nr.t three parties ever or-: . . ., , . . , ' , . . ,,.,! i i-nowy range, some sixty miles west of caniseu to search for cold in al this Itocky n i t c , .i m- i n , . . .. . . . J i Grecory a and not fnr from the Middle Mountain rocion were fitted out in the nit .1 . a . n j . f,e--r .i nt i. v I Park, whence the water flows to Grand arc near I'lKe s reaK, is so ucaaea ou - --j from the mountains by the South Platte, i 80 mucb as hc lcft hoai0 wilb. nnd tbou' thatl can hardly realize that it should , sands wbo hsislen b,tbcr flu6bcd wi(b boP Lrin-r down any t:old at all; and, at best,!and ambition will lay down to their long washin- the sands of either of these beneath the shadows of the moun streams near their junction for gold seems talDS. ",lb only the wind-swept pines to to mc much like wasking the bauksifc,cb -be,r requiem. Within this last of the Amazon, in Brazil, for the weck wc bav.e ldings of one young gold cold of the Andes. Yet nearly all the seeker committing suicide, in a fit of in-gold-hunting of tbi.. region, up to last ity, at the foot of the mountains; two month, had been done in the sands of U10re found ,D a rav,ne ,ong dcad aod these creeks, mo4 of it miles distant from partially devoured by wolves; while five the mountains. There is testimony that otbers w,tb lbc,r brscand dog, were o fieveral dollars worth of dust per day to vertaken; some days since, while on a the hand was thus wabed out in certain prospecting tour not far from Gregory s, happily chosen spots b"t "b fucce-MS. bv ueL of these te1,nbl,e fi,es wbicb' ki; were transient, and despite all the glow-: dlcd by tbe culpable recklessness of iog accounts set forth in letters to the,800 .cai"PlS ParfJ ,fiads rcady al,i States, it i. clear that all the gold-wash- "cnt in the fallen pine leaves which car ing doue throughout this region up to Pct almsfc the entire mountain region, last month had not paid an average of aod are faDDed t0 fury by the Gerce gales fifty cents per day's labor; while the cost wb,ch fP ovcr tbc ops and thus of each min's subsistence while thus cm-;were, all burned to death, and eo found ployed, cannot have fallen short of a dol- aod buried two or three days sincetheir lar per day. And the high waters of the . "omes, their names, and all but tlictr fear streams preclude advantageous washing fl fate. unknown to those who renacrcd in the Spring eVen were gold faj moro tbeB1 tbe last sad offices- Ab ! ,lonS w,u abundant and enduring in their sands tbc5r families and friend-vainly await than it yet has been proved. iand boPc hr the music of footsteps des- Such was the actual state of things t'oed t0 be heard no more on earth 1 when the first flood of gold-seeking im- Tbus Dca-b cms to be more busy and migration bcan to pour in upon Auraria relentless on these broad, breezy plains, and Denver two mouths or more ago. ,tbese healthful, invigorating mountains, Many of the seekers had left home with tbaD evcn 10 lbe crowded city or the ru very crude ideas of gold-digging, impell- ral district thick-sown with veuerable ed by glowing bulletins from writers who graves. confounded sanguine expectations with J It is ray strong belief that Gold' is actual rcsults,and at bestspoko ofany cas- scarcely lessabundant inlhellocky Moun ual realization of five to ten dollars from tains than in California, though it seems, a day's washing as though it were a usu- for many reasons, far less accesBiblo. It al and reliable reward of gold-seeking is, 1,. Much further from. the seaboard, industry throughout this region. Many or from any navigable water or means of who came were doubtless already wear- easy approach; 2. Belted by deserts and wet blankets through StOTOlS of SHOW and , , ., , . ... nurncancs or. uait, ana urging nouow, weary cattle over immense treeless plain, on which the grass had hardly started. Coming in thus weather-beaten, chafed and soured, and Gnding hut a handful of squalid adventurers living in the rudest log huts, barred out from the mountains by snow and ice, and precluded from , S - l",ftU" "u luv plains by high water, they lumped at once . , , ... .,,. na v w iiiw vuiivtiviu ill u(. i it u v- iiuiv vutu t a humbug, got up by reckless speculators 10 Promotc elfi-h ends. They did not jstop to reason, much less to explore, but spurred by a laudable even if untimely 'longing to "see Nancy and the children," 'they turned their cattle's heads eastward jsweeping bacK nearly an tney met. 1 es timate the number who have started for "Pike's Peak" this season and turned back at not less than Twenty Thousand, and their po-itivc loss by the venture (in itime, clothing nnd money) at not less than an average ot S100 each or, iu all, Two i Millions of Dollars. Meantime, a few of the pioneers of this region mainly experienced gold-miners Georgia, California, and even Austral ' . i i: . .iL. la weietiuieuy ptoceuuiug o prospect iuc f . rr , , of snow aud ice would permit and be- r r i rr i 1 fore the snow was fairly off the hither : nitnf niny en 1'iuf n c r h n niiinnnnnr'innn r t . t i - " w ranges, and while it still lay solid and deep on the central and higher chain, Mr. J. tl. Gregory, an old Georgia gold digger, had struck the lead on a branch of Aratqucr's Fork (Clear Creek) some 30 I mile west of this place by an air-line land 4o by trail, which has siuce been the ri ii n fV r i w o r cm r. n n r f r f f 1 . fsTfw be doing exceedingly well in t r n i west of Oifnory; we have various reports . , , . , , . , . 1 . of cold leads struck at sundrv points ten rr . -. r . P Inll I llnnl nrtu rlif.m iiiilna um.tli llivcr, and hence, through the Colorado, T. , f ,, . , L indorse none of these reports as ao- , t , t t. . ... .r . . . aolutely true, though all but the last are , ., fp c , ... probably so. lens of thousands will vain- m q nia for ld w g last racged and despondent, as . , , , " r. , , , hundreds are leaving now: yet rich leads .,, . , ,'J. . wl conttnnc to be struck, veins to be o- Incnnrt. s niees to n conslnietprl thrnnorh r 7 ? . IT I II .1 1 years to come; ana i suan not no aisap pointed to find the district yet prospected a mere corner of the Rocky Mountain Gold region, of which the centre is very - t--. Vv V I ? V. 1 1 11 n I rv.i1n.t- nnrf li r r oAiitlt v , 3 . T. , . r T of this point. it may be north of La- . 1 , , . , , ramie even. All that has yet been doue toward the thorough development of the gold-producing capacity of the liocky Mountains is very much what tickling an elephant's ear with a pin would be toward dissecting him. 13ut will disemboweling these mountains in quest ot gold pay ! A very pregnaut lucl,on- A answer it win pay some; id w' fail P;iJ otl,c,s- A fe;v wl" be anP'y and suddenly ennched by finding "leads" and celling "claim.-;" some by washing thCae "claimsj other some by supplying tbe mountains with the four apparent ne- I answer ccssarics of Mining life Whisky, Coffee, Flour and Bacon; others by robbing the miners of their hard earnings through the CO instrumentality of cards, roulette, and the "little joker;" but ten will come out here fnr an fftr PSflre nno wfin rirrlia rinnlr by regions on which littlo or no rain falls in Summer, so that food, and almost eve necessary of life, will hero be permanent ly dearer than in California; 3. So eleva ted (C,000 feet and over above tidewa ter) that littlo can be done at mining for a full half of each year; and 4. So much of the gold as has been broken down and washed out of the veins by water courses has been so swept along and dispersed by the fierc,c mountain torrents that very lit tle of it can be profitably washed out; hence, mining here must bo mainly con fined to the veins, and will thus involve blasting, raising by windlass, &c., &c, and so require large investments of capi tal for its energetic and successful prose cution. While, therefore, I believe that these Mountains will soon be yielding gold at the rate of many Millions per an num, I say most emphatically to the poor men who want gold and are willing to work for it, This is not the country for youl Far better seek wealth further East through growing Wheat, or Covn,or Cattle, or by any kind of manual labor, ! than come here to dig gold. Qne man . may possibly acquire wealth faster in this J gold lottery than in New-England or Kansas; but let one thousand poor men ' come hither to mine, while the same nam i ber resolve to win a competence by emi- nent industry and frugality in the East, and the latter will assuredly have more wealth at five years' end than the former and will have acquired it with far less , sacrifice of comfort, health and life. j And here let me say, in closing up the subject, that I tbi uk tbe Report made by Messrs. llichardson, Villard aud my self, of what we saw and learned at Greg ory's Diggings, is fully justified by more recent results. For example; we gave the first four days's product of W. Defrecs & Co. from Indiana (running one sluiee), at SG6, 30, S95, and $305 respectively the four following days not returned. I have since obtained Ihem; and they range as follows : $257, 82S1, 203, SI 93 or 333 more than those of the four days for which we gave the returns. This Com pany then sold out their claim for 7,000, and on the Sth of June opened a sluice on another, which in four days produced as follows : 831, 205, 151. $213. An other Indiana Company, miscalled Sopris, Henderson & Co. in our Report, ran two sluices on the 9th and 10th, realizing a tout 8450 per day, and on the 11 tb had three sluices in operation for the first, and cleaned up 81,000 (really worth a bout 900) from the product of that day's labor of twelve men. Sorao scores are doing well, though few quite as well as this; but of the thousands who are doing nothing at least, realizing nothing who shall report? Some of these issue daily from the mountains, out of means, out of heart; and, between this and snow fall, thousands like them will come out, still moro hungry, weary, forlorn, and take their way down the Platte as guant and disconsolate as men ever need be. But this, and much more, will not dis suade new thousands from rushing to take their places, so long as it is known that the Rocky Mountains contain gold. P. S. A friend just in from the Moun tains, who had a narrow escape from the flames, confirms our worst rumors of dis aster and death. He says not less than fijlcai men have fallen victims to the coo8agration, which is still raging, and threatens even the dense crowd of tents and cabins at Gregory's. My friend in forms me th-at the fire began very near where we camped during my Grst weary night in the Mouutaius, and would seem to have been purposely set by reckless ! simpletons curious to see the woods in a ( blaze ! He thinks the victims wcro gen erally, if not uniformly, smothered before the fire reached thorn the dense, pi toby smoke al once shrouding the vision and obstructing respiration, lie says the flames swept through the pines and above ther tops to a bight of two hundred feet, with a roar and a rush : appalling even to look on. lie was o , bliged to run his mule to her utmost speed for two or three miles iu order to effect i his escape. If this drouth continues as j it is likely to do for months the moun tains this side of the snowy range will be ncaily burned over for at least fifty miles j north aud south of the Gregory trail, dri j ving out all that is left of game, killing . much of the timber, and rendering the couutry every way moie inhospitable a most superfluous proceeding, j I hear still further discoveries further ( up in the Mountaius--some of them of gulch or water course diggings, which are j said to pay very well. They have just begun to work the sand of Clear Creek ' at the point where it issues from tho I mountaius. Another friend just from j Gregory's says he fears the victims of the j fires now raging in that quarter will num ber one hundred ! The limbs of the green pines are burned off close to the trunks, j and the columns of routing flame seem to j fill the sky. The Gregory settlement j was in some danger when my informants left yesterday. Another friend just arrived says cer tainly seventeen. XIV. "LO ! THE POOR INDIAN I" I have been passing, meeting, observ ing and trying to converse with Indiana almost ever since I crossed tho Missouri. Eastern Kansas is checkered witli their Reservations Delaware, Kawf Ottowa, Osage, Kickapoo, Potawatamic and Ot- ters while the Buffalo range and all this side belongs to and is parceled among the Cheyeuncs, the Arapahocs and the Apaches or perhaps among tho two former only, as Indian boundaries are not very well defined. At all eveuts, we have met or passed bands of these three tribes, with occasional visitors from the Sioux on the north and the Camanchos on ' the south all these tribes having for the present a good understanding. The Utes, 1 who inhabit the mountains, and are stronger and braver than any one of the three tribes first named, though hardly a match for them all, are at war with them; ; the Arapaho Chief Left-Handed assures me that his people were always at war with the Utes at loast he has no recollcc- j tion, no tradition,of a time when they were! at peace. Some two or threo hundred! lodges of Arapahoes are encamped in and about this log city,calculatiog that the pres ence of the Whites will afford someprotec- tion to their wives and children against a1 Ute onslaught while tho "braves" are off, on any of their fighting that is, stealing . expeditions. An equal or larger body' of Utes are camped iu the Mountaius, some forty or fifty miles west, and the; Arapaho warriors recently returned in1 triumph from a war party on which they j managed to steal about a hundred horses J from the Utes, but were obliged to kill most of them in the'ir rapid flight, so tbatj they only brought home forty more than they took away. They are going out! again in a day or two, and have been for some days practicing secret incantations! and public observances with reference j thereto. Last midnight, they were to have had a grand war-dance, and to havc( left on tho war-path to-day; but their; men sent out after their horses reported that they saw three Utes on the plain, i which was regarded as premonitory of an attack, and the "braves" stood to their arms all night, and were very anxious' for White aid in case of a Ute foray on their lodges here in Denver. Such an at tack seems very improbable, and I pre sume the three Utes who caused all this uproar were simply scouts or spies, on the watch for just such marauding sur-j prise parties as our Arapaho neighbors are constantly meditating. I do not see why they need take even this trouble. There are poiuts on the Mountain range west of this city where a walchmau with a sharp eye and a good glass would com mand the entire plain for fifty miles north, south and east of him, and might hence give intelligence of any Arapaho raid at least a day before a brave entered the Mountains. For, though it is true that Indians on the war-path travel or ride maiuly by night, I find that the Arapa hoes do this only after they have entered on what they consider disputed or dan gerous ground that they start from their lodges in open day, and only advance un der cover of darkness after they arc with in the shadows of the Mountains. Hence, the Utes, who are confessedly the stron ger, might ambush and destroy any Ara paho force that should venture into their Rocky Mountain recesses, by the help of a good spy-glass aud a littlo White fore cast. But the Indians are children. Their arts, wars, treaties, alliances, habitations, crafts, properties, commerce, comforts, all belong to the very lowest and rudest ages of human existence. Some few of tho chiefs have-a narrow and short-sighted shrewdness, and, very rarely in their history, a really great man, like Ponliac or Tecumseh, has arisen among them; but this docs not shake the general truth that they are utterly incompcteut to cope in any way with the European or Caucasian race. Any band of schoolboys from ten to fifteen years of age, are quite as capa ble of ruling their appetites, devising and upholding a public policy, constituting and conducting a state or community, as an average Indian tribe. And uuloss, they shall be treated as a truely Chris tain Community would treat a baud of orphan children providentially thrown on its hands, the Aborigines of this country will be practically extinct within the next fifty years. I have loarned to appreciate better than hitherto, and to make more allowance for, the dislike, aversion, contempt, where with Indians are usually regarded by their whito neighbors, and havo been sioco the days of the Puritaus. It needs but littlo familiarity with the actual, pal pable Aborigines to convince any one that the poetic Indian the Indiaus of Cooper and Longfellow is only visible to the poet's eye. To tho prosaic observ er, the average Indian of tho woods and prairies is a being who docs little credit to human nature a slave of appetite and sloth, never emancipated from the tyrnn ny of one animal passion savo by the more revenous demands of another. As I passed over thoso magnificent bot toms of the Kansas which from the Res ervations of the Delaware, Potawatamies, &c, constituting the very best corn-lands on eaith, aud saw their owners sitting a round the doors of their lodges: at the height of the planting season and in as good, bright'planting weather as snn and soil ever made, I could not help saying, "These people must die out there is uo help for them. God has given this earth to thoso who will subdue and cultivate it, and it is iu vain to struggle against His righteous decree'." And I yesterday tried my powers of persuasion on Loft-Hand the only Arapaho chiof who talks-English in favor of an Arapaho -Tribal farm soy of two hundred acres for a beginning to be broken and fenced by the common efforts of the tribes, Bnd a patch therein allotted to each bead of a family who would agree to plaut and till it I apprehend to very little purpose. For Left-Hand, though shrewed iu Ins way, is an Indian, and every whit as con servative as Boston's Beacon street or our Fifth avenue. He kuows that there is a certain way in which his people have lived from time immemorial, and iu which they arc content still to live, knowing and seeking no better. He may or may not have heard that it is the common lot of prophets to bo stoned, and reformers to be crucified; but be probably compre hends that squaws cannot fence and plow, and that "braves" arc disinclined to any such steady, monotonous exercieof their muscles. 1 believe there is no essential difference in this respect betwecn"braves" of the Red and those of the White race, since even our country's bold defenders have not been accustomed to manifest their intrepidity in the corn-fields along their line of march, save in the season of roasting-ears, and, he verb "to soldiers" has acquired, throughout Christendom and in all its moods and tenses, a signifi- cance beyond the noed of a glossary. Briefly, the "brave,'" whether civilized or savage, is not a worker, aproducer, and where the men are all "braves," with a war always on hand, the prospect for productive industry is gloomy indeed. If, then, the hope of Indian renovation rested mainly on the men, it would be slender indeed. There is little probabil ity that the presentgencration as "braves" can be weaned from the traditions and the habits in which they find a certain personal consequence and immunity from daily toil, which stands them instead of intelligence and comfort. Squalid and conceited, proud and worthless, lazy aud lousy, tbey will strut out or drink out their inferable existence, and at length afiord the world a sensible relief by dying out of it. But it is otherwise with the women. Degraded and filthy as they are, beyond description or belief, they bear the germ of reuovation for their race in that they are neither too proud nor too indolent to labor. The squaw accepts work as her destiny from childhood! In her father's lodge, or in that wherein she comes in turn to hold a fifth or sixth intere.it in a husband (for all Indians are polyga mists in theory, as all who have means or energy become such in practice) she comprehends and dutifully accepts drud gery as ber "peculiar institution." She pilches aud strikes tho tent, carries it from one encampment to another, gath ers and chops the wood, and not only dresses and cooks the game which forms the family's food (when they have any) but goes into the woods and backs it homo when her lord returns with tbe tidings that he has killed any. Tanning or dressing hides, making tents, clothing, moccasins, &c, all devolve on her. Un der such a dispensation, it is not difficult to believe that she often willingly accepts a rival in tbe affection, of her sullen mas ter as promising a mitigation rather than an aggravation of the hardship of her lot. And yet even the Indian women arc idle half their time, from sheer want of anything to do. They will fetch water for their White neighbors, or do anything else whereby a piece of bread may bo honestly earned; and they would do ten times more than they do if they could find work and be reasonably sure of even a meagre reward for it. I urge, therefore, that, in future efforts to improve tho condition of tho Indians, the women be specially regarded and ap pealed to A contcicntious, humane, ca pable Christian trader, with a wife tho roughly skilled in household manufac tures and handicraft, each speaking the language of the tribe with whom they take up their residence, cau do more good than a dozon average missonaries. Let tbem keep and soli whatever articles are adapted to the Indians' needs and moans, and let them constitute and maintain an Industrial School in which tbc Indian womeu.and children shall be freely taught how to make neatly aud expeditiously not only moccassins but straw hats, bon nets, and (iu time) a hundred other arti cles combining taste with utility. Let a farm and gardeu be started so soon as may be, and vegetables, grain, fruits, given therefrom in exchange for Indian labor therein, at all times when such la bor can be made available. Of course, the School, though primarily Industrial, should impart Intellectual and Religious iustruetiou alfo, wisely adapted in char acter and season to the needs of tho pu pils, and . to their perception of thoso needs. Suoh au enterprise, combining Trade with Instruction, Thrift with Phi lanthrophy, would gradually mold a gen eration after its own spirit would teach them to value the blessings of civilization before imposing on them its seeming bur dens, and would, in the course of twenty years, cilently transform an indolent sav age trjbe into a civilized Christian com munity. There, may be shorter modes of effecting this transformation, but I think none surer. Of course such an enterpiso demands rare qualities in its head that of patienco prominent among thorn. The vagran cy of the Indians would provo a3 great an bbataclo to its success as their paltry but interminable wars. Very often, in tho outset, Yho apostle of industry and civilization would find himself doscrted t by all hi- puprU, lured away by tho hope of success elsewhere -in marauding or hunting. But let him, having first delib erately chosen his location, simply perse vere, and they will soon come round a gain, glad enough to find food that may be bad even for tolid work; for all I can learn impels me to believe that Hunger is the normal state of the Indian, diver sified by transient interludes of gluttony. Meat is almost his ouly food, and this is plentiful at seasons, and at others scarcely obtainable in the smallest quantities, or dried to tbe toughness of leather. T-hrf Indian likes bread as well as the White j he must be taught to prefer the toil of producing it to the privation of lacking it. This point gained, ho will easily bo led to seek shelter, clothing and all the comforts of civilized life, at their incvita bio cost; and thus his temporal salvation j will bo assured, otherwise, his extermina tion is inexorably certain, and canooS long be postponed. Horace Greeley. Sharp Shooting-. A member of the Mississippi Lcgisla--turc, at one of its sessions, introduced s bill to change the name of a certain coun ty in that State to Cass county. One of the Opposition moved, as an amendment that the letter C be stricken out of the proposed name. This motion created some laughter at tbe expense of the mem ber offering. Nothing daunted, however he arose in reply and said: "This is the first instance that has come to my knowl edge in which a member has had tbe as surance, upon the floor of any legislature to propose to name a county after hinu Bootmakers Beware. A new "dodge" of which tbe bootm's king profession are the victims, has lately been originated by the gentleman sharp ers of New-York, and will very likely be" operated in the provincial cities before long. The "gcullemau" thief calls on two bootmakers the same day, makes an appointmeut fifteen minutes difference with the two, tries tho right boot on of ; the first and sends him back to stretch the j left; in the meantime the others appears when he tries his left boot aud sends hi a back to t-tretch the righ; when they re turn they are surprised to learn that the gentleman has settled bis bill and left. A Cat Story. Last week a lady started from Alba'ny for Geneva to make a visit. She took ! with her a favorite "cat" as a companion. The animal becoming somewhat trouble-' some, was ejected from the cars at Fonda. Some days after, pu.-sy walked into the house of the lady at Albany, to the utter astonishmen of the family. The cat had returned home a distance of over thirty miles. A Boy with Horns The Hinds county (Miss.) Gazette? gives an account of a negro boy in that region, eight years old, who has horns on his head like a "young devil." The horns 1 arc said to be three inches long, to pro- ject from the head above each car and to interfere considerably with weariug a hat. . They are stiff and hard, but not flinty, as are the horns of quadrupeds. A Duel with Knives. A desperate fight came ofi several weeks since in Oregon, between a noted trapper named Aroeau and an Indian "brave?" , They fought with knives, and were both terribly cut up. The trapper at last grappled with and threw his antogonist, and then cut his throat from car to ear Will Whiskey Explode? The Louisville Democrat gives an ac- ; count of the spontaneous bursting of abar ! rel of whiskey at tho establishment of Cbentworth & Co., of that city, in which j tho barrel was riven to fragments by tho force of the explosion. Two or threo iaa- ilar disasters have, as we are informed, occurred in Cincinnati since the com mencement of tho warm weetber. Such accidents, dangerous as they are to hu man life, are calculated to provoke an in quiry iuto their cause. The phenomenon is, so far as we remember, unprecedented; and it is a question of some moment wherher we are hereafter to include whis key in the lint of those articles that aro Liable to go off of themselves. A New-York correspondent says thafe ten millions of hooped skirts are manu factured in that city per year. Houses thcro make moro than three thousand per day, and still cannot fill their orders. In the name of lost pins, where cansuch a world of emptiness go ! "What's whiskey bringing I" inquired a dealer in the article "Bringing men to the gallows, andwo men and children to want," was the repjy. Bruised horse radish ia said to be a rem dy usually successful in allaying the pam of the toothache and neuralgia. Apply ' it outwardly to the face, or to the portion oi tue uouy auuciuu. "Ilusband I must havo some chapge to day." . "Well, 'stay atjhorno.iaud take, careoft tho children; tharwiU bWEauye "enough, anyhow.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers