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DUCKWORTH & HAYN, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Groceries, Provisions, LiquorSj&c. No. 80 Dey street, New York. June 16. 1859. ly. AN OVERLAND JOURNEY. XVI. Editorial Correspondence of the Tribune. FROM DENVER TO LARAMIE. Fort Labamie, June 27, 1859. I left Denver at 3 p. m., on Tuesday, the 21st iot. There are two roads thence to this poiut: that usually preferred fol- i..o A,, t)m nat fnrt nf tho Sonth Platte some forty miles, crossing that riv- Ul J 1 U . . - u v - . - Or DC3T OU V ralUS rori, LOUS avUlulll It frnoL-s and r . 1 T l . . a I : J. crossing Cache-le Poudre near its mouth. nUn-nr i;bo nonrW ! the Ktrojim it is ci'iw, i"v-u-". i, .... l - - - ho it is-ucs from the Rocky Mountains My guide had expected to take this route till the last mo- UlVUUVt wu nu'n"wi miwm - - inint whi-n he learned that the South Platte was entirely too high to bo forded ! attempti hen. So the Frenchman on bis prairie, rather level in its general out near St. Vrain's Fort, or anywhero else, , strong horse took one of our lead mules , lines, but badly cut by steep-banked wa arid lhat there was no ferry-boat for two : by the halter, and the Indian took the ter-courses, now dry. Some shallow fi m n fl t-4irl milp HplrtTO TliMivrr ho Ijq bad: other, and we went in. barelv escaping t nonds are ao formed here in the wet no choice but to take the upper or moun tain route. So we crossed the Platte di rectly at Denver, and Clear Creek rome three or four miles below the road to Gregory's Diggings by a bad, difficult ford, erabellihlu'd by some half dozen deep, ugly "sloughs'' in the bottom on ei ther side, tho creek being so high that the bottom was flooded in part, and very - t - Mr it UUI1.. .....w- , - mircy. e pUi-ut-u on ten mnes lurmer, and camped for the night opposite Boul- d,.r (liir " a loir hamlet of some thirty i o habitations, cohering the entrance to 4,Boulder Dirgim-s," twelve mile west- ward in the mountains. Here we found four wagons, two of them with horse teams each combing the luggage of four or five wen, who, having taken a look at this old region, had decided to push on for California, mainly, I believe, through what i known ds the "Cherokee trail," which forms tho shortcut route from Denver to Salt Lake. I was strongly tempted at D. to join one cf these parties and go through this paps had I fctood firmly on both feet, I think I should have done it, paving distance, but losing time. We all camped for the night beside a small brook, tho rippling of wboe waters over its peb bly bed fell soothingly on the drowsy ear. I had the wagon to myself for a bed chamber, while my three companions spread their buffalo skins and blankets on the grns?, and bad the vault of beav- u for th ir ceiling. The night was cool and breezy; our mules were picketed on the grass at a short distance: our supper of fried pork and pilot-bread had not sur- feitcd us; and we slept quietly till the first dawn of day, when our mules were quick y harnessed, and we left our fellow cam pers still torpid, pushing on fifteen miles and crossing two deep, swift, steep-bank streams (St. Vraiu's Fork and a branch of Thompson's Creek) before stopping for feed and breakfast. After renting two bouts, wc harnessed up, and made twen ty miles more before stopping, at the crossing of the other fork of Thompson's Creek, for dinner. Here we found a car avan moving from Missouri to California which reminded ae of the days of A- braham and Lot. It comprised six or neven heavy wagons, mumly drawn by oxen, with a light traveling carriage and a pair of horses conveying the patriarch's family, some two or three hundred bead of cows, steers and young cattle, with three or four young men on horseback, driving and keeping tho herd. Girls were milking, women cooking or washing, children playing in 6hort, here was the material for a very fair settlement or quite an imposing Kansas city. They bitched up and moved on before us, but wo very soon overtook and passed them There are scores of such caravans now on the various roads to California, many of which will 6ee very hard times ere tbey reach Carson Valley, and some still har der before they get fairly acros the Sier ra Nevada. Many of them are behind time; the feed for much of the way scanty at best has been devoured by tho cattle ahead of them, the drouth for bids the growth of more until September, in which month snow begins to fall heav ily on tho Sierra Nevada. And it will not tend to rouse their flagging spirits to meet as I am well assured tbey must similar caravans of people who, having tried California to their satisfaction, are moving back to Missouri again. Was there ever such another vagrant, restless, discontented people, pretending to be civ ijized, as ours 7 Pushing on steadily over a reasona bly level country, though crossed by ma ny deep and steep-banked dry gullies, and 'pcrhnps one petty Hying stream, we stood, V F F j b Cacbe - P-m' " I o o , lo.Pnnrlrr. 70 miles from Denver, and bvl far tho most formidable stream between J emigrants moving westward none of the South Platto and the Laramie. Our(any tort but meet a few in wagons ma conductor was as brave as mountaineer king for Boulder City, or the Gregory need be, but he was wary as well, and Uiggings. Since we crossed Cleat Creek, bad seen so many people drowned in for- on which there is here a decent fringe of diug such streams, especially the Green cottonwood, wo have seen but the merest River branch of the Colorado; that he sbred of small Uottonwoods and some chose to feel his way carefully. Sohejshrub willows, at wide intervals, along waitod and observed for an hour or more, 'the larger water-course-; but the pine meantime sending word to an old French ' still sparsely covers the face of the Rocky mountaineer fiiend from Utah, who has Mountains. Cacbe-le-Poudre has quite a pitched bis tent nere, mat ins little help was wanted. There had been a ferry , boat at this little crossing till two nights 'before, when it went down the stream, and had not since been beard of. A near us, because tbey expoie little rock, horseman we met some miles below as- and hence are swept by the annual fires eured us that there was no crossing, but The high prairie on either side is thinly, this we found was a mistake two men' poorly grassed, being of moderate fertili mounted on strong horses crossing before' ty at best, often full of pebbles of the av our eyes, and two heavy-laden ox-wag-'erage Bize of a goose egg, and apparently ona succeeded in doing the same, save' doomed to sterility by drouth This re that one of them stuck in the stream, and gion, though inferior in soil, and less the oxen had to be taken off and driven J smooth in surface, is not dissimilar to out, being unable to pull it while them-5 Lombardy, and like it will in time be selves half buried in the swift current. 'subjected to systematic irrigation, should ! But these crossings wero made from the J other side, where theentranco was better, and tho current rather favored the pas- eage; the ox-wagons were held to the bottom by the weight of their loads, while ours was liirht and likelv to be sweDt a j I down stream. At length our French t H n wvts rf m sn n riAtrnrllll uicuu ujpv;icU) tuunuicu uu u pv tiw iui horse, with an attendant on another such. He advi?cd us to stay where we were, for the nicot. Dromisin? to come in tne mor- , c- 'i a niniT. ith a heavy ox-team, aud help us:frtre.im, though it had only begun to be c over. As this, however, involved a loss j of at It-ust ten miles on our next day's drive, our conductor resolved to mako an . . " ' I an upset from . . . i o""n " " " ' v (rnn rinwn tho sronn hiinK 'obliquely, and thus throwing one side of I our wajjon much above tho other; but we righted in a moment, and went through ithe water being at least three feet deep ' for about a hundred yards, the bottom brokeu by largo boulders, and the current very strong. We camped as noon as fair ly over, lit a fire, and having obtained a quarter of an Antelope from our French friend, proceeded to prepare and discuss a most satisfactory supper. Table, of j course, there was none, and we had un luckily loft our fork; but we had still two knive-, a sufficiency of tin cups and plates, with an abundance of pork and pilot bread, and an old bag for table-cloth, which had evidently seen hard service, and lnd gathered more dirt and blood in the course of it than a table cloth actuallj' needs. But the Antelope ham was fre.-h, fat and tender; and it mutt have weighed less by three pounds when that surper was ended than when its piep araticn was commenced. By the way, there was a discussion at supper between my three companions all mountaineers of ripe experience as to the relative merits of certain meats, of which I give the substance for the benefit of future travelers in this wild region. Buffalo I found to be a general favorite, though my experience of it makes it a tough, cry wooden fibre only to be eaten under great provocation. I infer that it is poorer in spring than at other seasons, and that L have not been fortunatem cooks. Bear, I was surprised to le erally liked by mountain arn, is not gen- mountaincers my com- panions naa eaten every species, and were not pleased with any. The black tailed Deer of the mountains is a general favorite; sois tho Mountain Hen or Grouse; so is the Antelope, of course; the Elk and Mountain Sheep less decidedly so. None of our party liked Horse, or know any way of cooking it that would make it re ally palatable, though, of course, it has to be eaten occasionally, for necessity hath no law or, is its awn la w. Our conduc tor bad eaten broiled Wolf, under com m.kmn hit nnnM nnt rnenrnmon,! if. hnflL bo certified that a slice of cold boiled Dog f i - vu- f. . j .l .it .fi.jn...! well boiled, so as to freo it from rauk uess, and then suffered to cool thorougly is tender, sweet, and delicate as lamb. I ought to have ascertained tho species and age of the dog in whose behalf this testimony was borne for a young New foundland or King Charles might justify the praise, while it would te utterly un- Warranted in tbe case Ot an Old CUT Or ! mastiff but the opportunity was lost, and; I can only give the testimony as I rccciv- cd it. Cach-le-Poudre Bcems to be the cen tre of the Antelopo country. Ihere are, taken a sheer against them, are conse no settlements but a small beginning just j quently increasing the acuteness of their at this ford, as yet hardly three months I old, between Denver, 70 miles, on one side, and "Laramie, 130 miles, on the oth ' er. The North Platte and tho Laramie both head in the mountains, 40 to 00 miles due west of this point, then pursu-jsuob r ing a geucrally nortn course, lor more and square-iacca; due incy are more ape than a hundred miles among the hills, to be circular, and steeper near the sum which are hero lower and less. steep than mit than below. In some instances, the urthcr south. The bold, high, regular root displayed by tho Rocky Mountain, for at least a hundred (and, I beliove, for two hundred) miles south of the Cache-le- Poudre, boose gradually melts away into a succession of softer, rounder, lower hills; f , . snow disappears; tne line between tno mountains aud the plains is no longer straigbt and sharply defined; and the still waters of the plain havo, for some miles, an alkalino appearance, besides being ve- ry scarce in summer. The Cherokee 'trail plunges into tho Mountains on the 'north side of, and very near to Caobc-le- !pni.ro onV unnrtnfrtK , rf.fc nn Poudre. and henooforth we overtake no fair belt of Cottonword. 1 henceforth there is scarcely a cord of wood to a town- ship for the next fifty or sixty miles, and the Pine is no longer visible on the bills the cold mines prove rich and extensive. Some of the streams orossed by our road, j might easily bo so dammed at their egress from the mountains as to irrigate miles in 'width to the bouth TJatte, forty or fclty miles distant: and at the prioes which . vegetables must always command here, ' Chntl h thfl fT"l fl m 1 flOQ TtmUfl lflOT tl fl nQM uuuiu " fftwvw uwaummw, bio. the enterprise would nay well. I was , told at Cache-le-Poudre, that encouraging signs oi goiu oau ueen ouiameu on mat " . . . . , . , 1 w w w prospected. We were up and away betimes, still over thinly-grassed and badly-watered ... . . season, but the last of them had just driod up. We drove fifteen miles, and stopped for breakfast on a tributary of Cache-le- Poudre, named Box Elder, from a small tree, which I first observed here, and which is poorer stuff, if possible, than Cottonwood. This is the only tributary which joins the Cacbo-le-Poudre before its egress from the Mountains. All the streams of this region are largest where tbey emerge from the Mountains, unless reinforced below by other streams having a HKe origin; me inirsiy prairie conino- utes nothing, but begins to drink them up ' from the time they strike it. The smaller streams are mua uueuv uuauiueu ili tuc course of five or happen sooner to ten miles, unless they Yin lnot in enmn lnrirpr creek. Drouth, throughout each summer is the desolating and inexorable tyrant of the plains. Rising from the valley of the Box Eld er, we passed .over a divide, and were soon winding our way among the Buttes, or irregular, loosely aggregated hills which form a prominent feature of the next seventy or eighty miles, and which I must try to give some idea of. Tbe soil of this region, like that of the plains generally, is mainly clay, with some "eyennes, wno were Known to oe en sand and gravel intermixed tho gravel . camped in the mountains very near us, ua un m.uin. I had been watching our progress from Hero, though not at a distance from tho mountains, loose, water-rounded stones, from the size-of a pigeon's egg up to iL.i j lUdb of a mans bead, are often though by no means uniformly intermingled with tbe soil, especially near the beds of streams. These stones aro of various kinds and colors, including Quartz, indicating a mountain origin. But there seems to bo no underlying rock in place that is, none at any depth attained by the deepest wa ter courses and the soil, when sodden by the pouring rains of winter and early pring, seems unable to oppose any resis tance to the washing, wearing influence of every stream or rill. I he average level of the plains Would seem to have onco i i. i i r r. -l i. ... i. 1 1. 4 ueen ut mast luriy icui. uiguer luau ui tJt Pa of the eanh ha,- higher than ' ..j.-.i- j " I m(7 neeu 11 ruu uui l v wuru uwuv uuu car- i o. . v "J ... f: ried down tho streams to tbe Missouri and lower Mississippi. But there are lo calities which, from one cause or another, more or less obstinately resist this con stant abrasion; and tbeso aro gradually moulded into hills by tbe abstraction an nually prosecuted all around them. Some of them have been washed down to so gentle a slope that grass covers them com nlntnlr and nrivnnU fnrfhpr loss: but. tha LTreater number aro still being gullied, Washod and worn away by the influence of each violent rain. Others have living streams at their bases which having once angles and gouging more and more deci- dedly into their banks, occasionally flin- ging down tuns of undermined earth in- to their channels, to be gradually carried off, as so much has been already. Jn places the Buttes aro perpendicular . a earth is of a bright vormillion color; in others partly thus and partly white; giv- ing the Buttes a variegated and fantastic appearance, liko that of the Pictured Ropks of Lake Superior. When first seen from a distance, tbe ensemble of thepe i- i t ...... j. ..:i.: t..l . i. - iteu uuiiea is very Binding. jjui, mu white clay, as it is gradually washed a- way, leaving almost, or quite perpondicu- lar surfaces exposed to the action or sun, air and water, is, by sorao occult agency, gradually hardened into a kitfd of rook, of which long ranges of perpendicular bluffs are composed, sometimes miles in extent, but broken and disturbed at in tervals by tho intervention of watercour ses or other influences. After leaving Box Elder, our road gradually ascended, winding among tho rounded and less regularly arranged Buttes first described above, but passing no water but a single spring, and Httlo available grass, until it descends a long hill to a part of Howard's Creek, twenty miles from Box Elder. Hero we stopped for dinner at 3, p. ra., with two or threo wagons of Pike's Peakcrs, from whom wo obtained a generous supply ci iresn bread and another Antelopo ham, very much to tho improvement of our edible resources. I may as. well explain here that all the emigrants we met going into the Kansas diggings, had started from the Missouri, on the north side of the Platte, and had failed to cross atSbinn's ferry, sixty-five miles up that stream, supposing that tbey could do so at Fort t i i Kearney, or some other point below the , tho Lamarie river, eight or ten miles a forks; but in the absence of ferries, the bove this placo. high water had headed thein off, and j The Chugwater is a ripid, muddy mill forced them clear up to Laramie, whenco : stream, running in a deep, narrow, tor thoy were now working southward, bay- tuous channel, and constantly gouging ing lost fully two hundred miles by ne- plcetinp to cross the Platte where thev might have done so. In all this region, it is a settled maxim that vou mnst crosa a stream directly upon reaching it, if lies across it, never camping your way before you do so, lest a sudden rise should obstruct your passage for days. Many have lost a fortnights weary travel by failing to heed thin rule in spirit with re gard to the Platte. We moved again at 5, passing over a ridge and into a broad valley, with round ed bills on the west and a range of such precipitous clay-rock bluffs as I have tried to describe on the east. These bluffs were broken through at intervals, and the streams that came down on the hills on the west ran out at the brooks, after traversing the valley for two or three miles, and flowed away east to join Howard s Fork and the South Platte. Our trail here bore considerably west of north, evidently to reach the mouth of the Cheyenne Pass. We had hoped to make our next camp at that point, but night fell upon us before reaching it, and we stopped on a little run where we found good water and grass, but close under the mountains, and in one of tbe luucucot oyuis j. ueuciu. iiui u. neu nor shrub was visible, nor had been for miles; yet it was not difficult to gather uij owuno .uuu" u iu i-uua jui duu.,, proving what 1 have elsewhere observed, that Wood WS fnrmorlv more common in all this region than now. -WTe had all turned in by 9, and were doing very well, ( bles, with a fair promise of success. He ' when a rush by one of our mules apprised j waa absent, and no person or domestic us that ho was loose, having broken his 1 animal was to be seen about his place. lariat; but he was soon oaught and made ; The night was uncommonly warm for fast, and wo all addressed ourselves to ' this region the musketoes a good deal slumber again. In an hour, however, j more attentive than obliging. We rose there was a fresh alarm, and not without early again, came on ten miles for break reason, for three or four of our mules . fast, passing almost continually between i had gone, we oould not tell whither. two rows of magnificent Buttes, often Tho first, imnrnssion teas thnt a band of looking 10 the distance liko more or less rii i i t U na onrl lino stolen down under cover of the deep dark- ness. uniastened and started oil our names . i with intent to run. them off. This was not an agreeable view of the case, as we could hope neither to recover nor replace our faithful animals for at least a week. However, a little watching of the mule still fast convinced our conductor that the others had started back on the road we had traversed, which was a route the Cbcycnncs were most unlikely to take, while so near their hiding-places in tho mountains. So two of our men started on the back track, but returned in an hour unsuccessful. Then the remaining mule was saddled and bridled and he had to be thrown down twice before be . . . . . i..Tt'TZZT f conductor mounted him. exnectinp to be ' a i k. a. - luaiuubiy luiunu uy iu puirtiau ucun, , unused to the saddle, but ho was happily disappointed, and started down the road on a brisk trot. By this time there was moonlight; and he found all the missing mules a little beyond the point to whiob he had proceeded on foot, and brought them back in triumph. It was now break of day, and wo resolved to feed and break fast for once before starting. We did so, and moved on at 6 a. m., reaching "Camp Wolbach," at the Cheyenne Pass, in less than half an hour. Lot mo halt hero a moment to illus trate the Military and Public Land sys tems of tbo United States. It last year cutered the bend of aomo genius connec ted with tbe War Department, that tbe public interest or safety required tbe es tablishment of a Military post at this point, and one was accordingly planted and maintained there throughout last Winter. Of course, buildings were re quired to shelter the officers, soldiern and animals in that severe climate, and they 1? I l-.l. .f tUn :rZ-:ll-:?:': urnrn nnnnpninii b i rii' i r'l i miiiiiii hi luu Un:iXuZu 'in ! tbe main, however, tbey aro built of pine logs from tbe adjacent mountains, tho crevices being plastered with mud. In the Spring tbe troops were very properly withdrawn, leaving half a dozen good ser viceable houses and a superior borscsbed and corral untenanted. Hereupon, three lazy louts have squatted on the preoji . intending to start a city there and to SCP, , hold and sell the Government structures ' under a claim of Pre-emption! Of course, in the absence of any U. b. ourvcy, with the Indian title still unextinguished, this claim is most impudent, but that will not prevent their asserting it, and I fear with success. Their interest on one fide will be strong; they can threaten to exert a political influence, favorably or adverse- ly as the case may be, to those whom they find in power; if they are only tena- cious enough, impudent enough, they will probably carry their point. Yet they might as fairly pro-empt the "White House at Washington, should tbey ever chance to find it vacant. Wo drove across a badly gullied re gion, wherein are tho heads of Horse Creok the first stream on our route that runs to tho North Platte and struck tho Chugwater just where it emerged from the mountains, about 11 a. m. Thence we followed down this creek more than forty miles, crossing it four times, and finally leaving it on our left to follow to into one bank or tho other,-except where the willows and some other small hbrubs i oppose the resistance of their matted ! roots to the force of the current. The rocky hills sometimes crowd the stream closelv. compelling the road to mate a circuit over tho high prairie adjacent, to avoid the impracticable canons through which the stream frets and foams on its devious way. The "Red Buttes," are numerous and conspicious on tbe upper course of this creek the ochry earth or rock which gives them their peculiar col or being accounted a rich Iron Ore. On the lower bottoms of this stream we found far better grass than elsewhere on this journey. But tbe day was hot, and our mules suffered so much from musketoe and flies,. that they ate fitfully and spars ingly where we halted for dinner, and a gain where we stopped for the night. Wo were unable to stop where the grass was best, because wo could not get our animals down to water. We made our last camp at a point thir ty miles from this post, having made 160 mils in three days' travel, hampered by the necessity of finding grass aud water for our beasts. With grain, I think they would easily have made sixty-five miles per day. We stopped beside a stone-and-mud shanty of very rude construction, where a Frencbmau had this Spring made a Bmall dam across the Chugwater, so as ; so irrigate auu icuce uy a uuuu; auia:i piece of intervale, on which he had at- . tempted to grow some grains and vegeta- ruined castles; one ot them reminded me strongly of the Roman Coliseum. Two miles after breakfast, wo crossed the m Chugwater for tbe last time, and left it j running north to tho Laramie, while we muio wuuiou i m -i .1 place, j. wo miies iuriucr on we came io a most excellent spring the first 1 bad ! seen since I emerged from the Rocky Mountains, by Clear Creek, two weeks ' before. I had been poisoned by brook water often warm and muddy so long that I could hardly get enough of this. i We now passed over twelve or fifteen ; miles of high, rolling, parched, barren prairie, and halted for dinner by a little brook tho only one that crosses our trail between the Chugwater and Lara mio after whioh we drove down oppo site this placo in an hour, but were o .bliged to go two miles below, and pay o.i rn i -j . n . ., . J. t d ZZXJSZ mio, now very high, and looking decided , . . . . .i t u lw nriTPr nt. thmr mnction than the North j - j Platto itself. I have been tediously minute in my record of this cross-march to reach tho bih road to California, because some kind friends have remoustratcd with me against tho fancied perils of my journey, as if I wero runnibg recklessly into dan ger. I believe this portion of my route is at least as perilous as any other, being tho only part not traversed by a mail stage or any public conveyance, and ly ing wholly through a region in which there aro not a dozen white settlers, all told, whilo it i3 a usual battle-ground bo tweeu hostile tribes of Indians. But wo were never in any shadow of danger, and, though I was compelled to economise steps in order to completo the healing of vt i t t i ..... my lame leg, jl uavo ruieiy uuu u ujuh. pleasant journey. Let any one who wish- es an independent and comfortable ride iust run up to Denver and ask my friend D. B. Wheelook to harness up hi four mule team to tho Roekaway wagon aud take him over to Lnramie, aud if he does . prospect, bne breezes, a lively pace and. excellent company, then ho will be less fortunate than was Horace Greeley. A. Yankee sohoolmaster, named Corn stock turned a drove of cattle into the cornfield of a farmer in Dubuquo, Iowa,' r and during the confusion which this act nrcated in the family, ran away with the 'farmer's daughter, and married 'her. Cleansing Granaries. It is absolutely essential before stow ing away the grain that has been harvest ed and threshed during the present sea son, that the granaries should be render ed thoroughly free of the weevil and oth er insects. There are several modes of desired re.-ult, but accomplishing this either of tho two following will be found efficient. The first is Mr. Carraicbacl'a method; it is very simple and inexpen- sive, ahd is as follows, i "Place on the floor of the granary to be cleansed, a small bed of sand, and up on that sand an earthen pan containing powdered brimstone. Set fire to the brimstone, and close tightly tbe widows, doors, and all other opening1?. Tbe smoke of the brimstone will penetrate ev ery nook and cranny of the granary, and when the wheat is subsequently placed there, you need fear neither black weevil nor any other insect that is injurious to the grain. Tbe second method runs thus: Thoroughly sweep all portions of the interior of tho granary, gather up the dust and burn it. After this is done, wash the whole iuterior with strong ley, floors, ceilings, &c., a good coat of white wash, followed by a second coat, if the work has been imperfectly done. The Tyranny of Female "Help." "We are a conquered people," said Washington Irving, in reference to our slavery to foreign domestics; and bitter groans from the vanquished reach our cars continually. A writer in the Perth Amboy Journal recommends that lady housekeepers make a strike, or, if that cannot be done, (as it certainly cannot) that the young ladies of a family take a share in the domestic duties, so tbat the family may be less dependent of servants. "I believe physical labor," says the wri ter, 'To be as necessary to the develop ment of human intellect as stirring and cultivating tho soil is necessary to perfec ting the plant. In Germany, where cer tainly iutellect and literary acquirements are pre-eminent, the ladie., even among .the nobles, spend the early part of each day in their kitchens, which are fitted up with the most scrupulous order and ele gance, so that they can allow a friend to see them so occupied. In France, every lady understands tbe mysteries of the cu isine, and with a small furnace filled with charcoal, a frying-pan and a skillet, will perform miracles of cooking. In Eng land, the servants are kept for years; a good servant considers her interest iden tified with that of the family with whom she resides, and seldom changes; this promotes an attachment between them, which is frequently preserved for genera tions, and the families of the same do mestics will, for successive generations, live with the same families." How is it in the United States? Tbe young ladies are most generally brought up with no culture. Their habits are in dolent as regards bodily exertion- and they think making any exertion degra- 'diug. This being tbe cape, they are thrown completely in the power of a class who, after being kept at the lowest stage of animal existence in their native coun tries, are at once promoted by their voy age across tbe Atlantic, to the office of regulators and arbitrators of our homes. TTPThe project of reviving the Slave Trade is cnergetically.4pushed forward by a very considerable portion of the South ern Press, and a majority of the local pol iticians fall in with tbe movement. Tbo Mississippian says that tbe agitaton in favor of the repeal of the slave-trade law, is confined to no political party nor class of citizens, but is fast becoming the pop ular sentiment of tbe Southern people." "The sooner," it adds, "our Northern fel low citizens are convinced of tho fact, and make up tbeir mind) to accede to our just demand, tbe better for tbe peace and prosperity of our political union." In other words if the North does not yield to the clamor of the South in favor of re-opening the Slave Trade, the Union shall be dissolved! The alternative is an alarming one but very difficult, wo ap prehend, of successful consummation. Epitaph Upon A Toper. Beneath these stoues Repose tho boucs Of Theodo.-iu Grim Who took his beer From year to year "Until the bier toot him. taken IT'A certain lawyer had his potrait in his favorite attitude standing with his hand in Lis pocket. His friends and clients all went to see it, and every body exclaimed: "0, how likol it's the picture of him!,J An old farmer only dissented. "Taiut like!" Exclaimed everybody, "ju-st show us wherin taint likel'' "Taint uo 'taint," responded tho far mer, "don't you sec he has got his hand in his own pocket? 'Twould be as like again if he had it in somebody clse.'' fgr-We have all hoard of asking for bread and receiving a stone, but a young gentleman may be considered as. still worse treated whehe asks for a jioung' lady's hand aud gets her father Vfot?lv
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