Elwotci to politics, literature, Agriculture, Science, illoralitn, axib eucrnl intelligence.
VOL 18.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. DECEMBER 11859.
NO.
Published by Theodore Schoch.
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June 1G, 1859. ly.
Dates worth Remembering.
1180, Glass windows first used for light.
130, Chimneys first put to houses.
1252, Lead pipes for oarying water.
iau, ianow oauuics mi ugni.
1299, Spectacles inveutcd by an Italian.
130'J, Paper first made from linen.
i.iiwi m ii ii.... 1
1341, Woolen cloth first made in .hog
land.
1 il0 Art of painting in oil.
1440, x.rt of printing from moveable
types.
1477, Watcbes-fits-t made, iu Germany.
1540, Variations in tho compasa firrt no
ticed. 1543, Pins first used, iu England,
1590, Telescope first invented, by Porto
and Jan.en.
3601, Tea first brought to Europe from
China
2603, Theatre orccted in England, by
Shakspeare.
1610, Thermometer invented, by Saucto-
rius.
1619, Circulation of blood discovered, by
Harvey.
1625, Brick first made of any required
pize.
1626, Printing in colors invented.
1629, New;-paper first established.
1630, Sho'-bjckles first made.
1635, Wine made from grape, in
land.
1639, Pendulum clocks invented.
1641, Coffee brought to England.
Eng-
1641, Sugsr-cane cultivated in the West-
Indies.
1643, Barometer invented, by Torricelli,
in Italy.
1646. Air auns invented.
1650, Bread first made with yca-t.
1759, Cotton fir?t planted in the United
States, j
1763, Fire engine invented.
1756, Steam engine improved, by Waft.
1,83, Stereotyping invented, macot-
land.
1783, Animal magnetism discovered.
1649, Steam engine invented.
1832, Telegraph invented, by Morse.
1639, Daguerreotype made, by Dogucr
re, in France.
,0,
IJTbe outgushing of affection and
Lopeful love in the followiug "Lines to
. i ji - i i i
Augehne,'' is exceedingly warm and ex-
fc. j ii
crumting. No dog would venture to
bite so ardent a lover. Hear him:
I dearly luv the singing bird,
And little Buzzin' B.;
And dcerer far than all the world
Is thy sweet voice to me.
OI Tery deep is daddy's well,
And deeper is the eca
But deepest iu my buzzim is
The luv I bare for thee.
Then smile on mo, dear Angyline,
To toake my heart feel light;
Chain the big dog, and I will cum
A cortiu' eundty nitc.
Pashion. 1 here is only one thing ,
More powerful than a steam engine, and nJ0untai0 pa8Rej,t perday, where tweuty
tfaat is fashion. Fashion rules tbc wo- five njilefl woud bc a b(ja d ,a WQrk
men, the women rule the men, and the
men rule the world; therefore, fashion is
more powerful than all other influences
combined.
Fashion makes men ridiculous and
women spendthrifts. It takes the human
family by th - nose and leads them into
captivity. Fashion makes the Hollan
der wear e-gbteen pair of breeches at
once, and caused the Englishman to wear
koots so sharpened at tho point, that
they could be used as tootpicks. j
Fashion, to a great extent, builds our
hurches, fills our pews, and even rega- ,
lates tbe rights of sepulchre. There is
as such fashion and flummery in some
of tbe city cemeteries, as will be found
ii tho most fashioDol le street. Fashion
is s great power. What a pity it can
ever be enlisted on the side of common
0tase and early hours, goodness aud econ
omy. A Quick Trip.
At a reeent trial before a justice, the
following queer colloquy occurred:
Counsel "Didn't you tell Hooper to
go to tbe devil?"
Witness ''I rather think I did."
Counsel "Well, did he go!"
Witness "I believe not; but if ho did,
lie aaade a quick trip of it, for I set him
Bert dav."
AN OVERLAND JOURNEY.
XXXII
California Her Eesources.
MaRYSVILLE, Cal., Sept. 2, 1859.
Since 1 la-t wrote, (from San Jose), I
have traversed the rich valley of San Jose
looking through some of its choicer
pardons and orchards, and stopping at
Santa Clara, Warm Spring, Old Mission
San Leandro, (county seat of Alameda),
and Oakland, rcturniug to San Francis,
co and coming thence by steamboat to
Sacramento aud by a much .smaller boat
up to this city, which I reached last eve-
1 tiing, in seasou to li.-ton to the Annual
j Address, by Mr. Rhodes of OroilIe, at
! the Agricultural Fair, and to break my
own voice for a time in attempting to fol
low him in some off-hand remarks. The
edifice erected by the public spirit of Ma
ryaville for the Fairs which are to be held
here annually, ami at which all Northern
California is invited to compete for very
lirwr;il nro m 1 ti mo m nuifn .inmnnc ntirt
j adtliirnbIj a(Iapted t0 all its purposes cs.
cept that of puU;Q .jug. aud ucreju
is cojec(ed- lne fiue..t SUow of Fruits nnd
Vegetables I ever saw aL anvthin.r hut a
State Fair. Indiai
twouty fce, bih; Sq
tjes ond watermelot
. o
Indian Corn not leas thau
uasbes like brass kct-
melons ot the size of buck
et", are but average sarcples of the won
derful productiveness of the Sacramento
and Yua valleys, while the Peaches,
Plums, Pears, Grapes, Apples, &c, could
hardly be surpast-ed anywhere. The ,
show of Animals is not extensive, but is J
ery fine in the department of Horses
and Horned Cattle, though lamentably
meager in every other respect. The mot j
interesting feature of this show was its J
young stock Calves and Colts scarcely
more thau a year old, equtl in weight and i
size, while far superior in form aud sym- j
inetrry, to average Horses and Bulls of
ripe maturity. With generous fare and ;
usae, 1 am conndent that bteers and
Heifers two years old in California will
CqUai jn sjze aud development those a
year older in our Northern State, and
California Colts of three years be fully
equal to bastern colte of like blood and
brecdiug a good year older an immense
advantage to the breeder on the Pacific,
I am reliably a-sured that Steers a year
old, n-ver fed but on wild grasr, and uev
er sheltered; have here dressed six hun
dred pounds of fine beef. Undoubtedly,
California is one of the cheapest and best
Stock-Growing countries in the world
and will be. after these great, slovenly
rauehes shall have been trokeu up into
neat, modest farms, aud when the cattle
all Le fed at least three mouths iu each
year on Ilo&t-, Ilav and Sorghum, or oth-
cr green fodder.
Marysville is the chic! town of North-
ern (ja li fo r a, aud disputes the claim of
Stockton to rank third among the cities
0fthe States. Unlike Stockton, it is ouito
coiupaciiy oum, mainiy 01 uriCK. lis
population is probably a littler over 15,
000, and it expects to be soon connected
by railroad with Sacramento and San
Francisco, which will give a new and
strong impulse to its already rapid grow th. '
.1.. I tl I r i l- T.
Jjocatcd at the juuctiouu ot the Yuba and
Feather llivers, juet above their uniou
wit0 tie Sacramento, and at the head of
steamboat navigation in the direction of
.r. . , " ,u " "
th Northern Mines, it needs but the Rail-
rQad connection aforeSaid so render it a
formidable rival to Sacramento herself.
i The census of 1870 will probably find its
: population exceeding 50,000
j The valleys of the rivers first named
! are exceedingly deep and fertile, and their
; productiveness in this vicinity almost sur
' passes belief. I visited this morning, in
i the suburbs, gardens, vineyards, orchards
' of rarely equalled fraitfulness. The or
' chard of Mr. Brigi.', for example, covers
I 160 acres, all in young fruit, probably
; one half peaches. He ha had a squad
of thirty or forty men picking and box
ing peaches for the last month, yet his
; fruit by the cartload ripens and rots un
! Gathered, the wagons which convey it
, to the Mines have their regular stations
i and relays of horses like mail-stages, and
are thu rmed
for any 0De team But he u uotseD(iin ,
to the Mioes onlj but b steamboat to
Sacramento and San Francisco as well.
His sales last year, I am told, amounted
to $90,000; his net income was not less
than S40.000. And this was realized
mainly from Peacheo; Aprieotx and Nec
tarines; bis "Apples and Peats have bare-
b to bear: his Cherries will vield
tbeir first crop Dext year Thore are of
oourse beavjer fruit.grower9 in California
tbau Mr. Briggs, but he may be taken
as a fair 8ampje 0f tbe cass 'pheir ales
wij doubtless be made at lower and .till
lower prices; they are now a little higher j
than those realized for a similar fruit
grown in New-Jersej; they were ouce i
many times higher than now; but though
their prices steadily decrease, their in
comes do not, because their harvests con
tinued to be augmented by at least twenty-five
per cent, per annum.
Let me give ono other instance of puc-
cessful fruit-growing iu another district;
Mr. Falloon, tho Mayor of San Jose, has
a fine garden, in which are some ten or
twelve old pear-trees relics of the Span
ish era and of the Je.-uit Minion. The -tree
being thrifty but the fruit indiffer
ent, Mr. F. had them pretty thoroughly
grafted with the Bartlett variety, and the
second year thereafter gathered from one
treeoDethousandpoundsof Bartlett Pears, j
which ho sold forS200, or twenty cents per
pound. The other trees similarly treated
boro bim six to seven buudrcd pounds
each of that large, delicious fruit, whioh
he sold at tho same price. And, every
year since, theso trees have borne large
yields of thee capital pears. I dare not
hope for equal success in the East, but
surely the expedient of grafting fine, large
varieties on our worthless Pears, at the
same time bounteou-ly enriching tbc soil
beneath tbem, ought to be more generally
adopted than it ban yet been.
Just a word now on Grain. Califor
nia is still a young State, whose indu-try
and enterprise are largely devoted to Mi
ning; yet she grows the bread of h'or Half
Million well fed inhabitants on less than
a fortieth part of her arable soil, and will
thii year have some to spare I am con
fident her Wrheat-oropof 1859 is over Four
Millious of bushels, aud I think it exceeds
twenty-five bushels for each acre sown.
To-day, its price in SanFrancisoo is be
low a dollar per bushel, and it is not like
ly to rise very soon. Though grown, har
vested and threshed by the help of labor
whirb costs her farmers from thirty to for
ty dollars per month, beside board, it is
still mainly grown at a profit; aud so of a
very larh'e breadth of Barley, grown hero
instead of Oats as food for working hor
ses and cattle. Though Wheat is proba
bly the fullest, I judge that Barley is the
surest of any grain-crop grown in the
Stat". It has never failed to any serious
extent. j
Indian Corn is not extensively
grown:
only the lvussian
River and one or two
other small valleys aro generally cupposed
weli adapted to it. And yet, I never saw
larger or better corn growing than stand 1
to-day right here on the Yuba not a few ,
acres merely, but hundreds of aorcs in a j
body. I judge that nearly all the inter-
vales throughout the State would produce
good corn, if well treated. On the hill- '
sides, irrigation may be neceesary, but.
not not iu tbo valleys. None has been ',
resorted to here, yet the yield of nhellod ,
grain will range between 75 aud 100 bush, i
els per acre. And this is no solitary iu-j
stance. Back of Oakland, across tbe bay
from San Fraucisoo, Mr. Ilobart, a good
farmer from Massachusetts, showed me a
crcs of heavy Corn which be plauted last
May after the rains had coasod and the;
dry season fairly set in, since whioh no
hoe nor plow had been put into tbe field;'
yet the soil remains light and porous, i
while there are very few weeds. Not one'
uiup ui waiur libs ueeu appuca to uis
farm; yet here are not only Corn, but Po
tatoes, Beets, &c., with any number of
young fruit trees, all green and thriving,
by virtue of sub-aoiling and repeated
plowings last Spring. The ground (sward)
was t.'roken up early in the Winter, and
cross-plowed wheuever weeds showed their
heads, uutil piantiug time; and this disci
pline, aided by the drouth, has prevented
their starting during the Summer. Such
thorough preparation for a crop costs
something; but, this once made, the crop
needs here only to be planted and har
vested. Such farming pays.
The Fig-treo grows in these valloys
side by side with the Apple; ripe figs are
now gathered daily from nearly all tho
old Mexican gardens. Tho Olive grows
finely in Southern California, and I be
lieve the Orange and Lemon as well.
But the Grape bid fair to become a sta
ple throughout the State. Almost every
farmer who feels pure of bis foothold on
the land he cultivates either has his vino
yard already planted, or is preparing to
plant one, while most of those who have
planted are extending from year to year.
I have looked through many of these
vineyards, without finding ono that is not
thrifty one that, if two years planted, is
not now loaded with fruit. The profusion
aud weight of the clusters is marvelous to
tho fresh beholder. I will not attempt to'
give figures; but it is my deliberate judg j
ment that Grapes mny here bo grown as
cheaply as Wheat or Corn, pound for:
pound, aud that Wiue will ultimately bo;
made here at a cost per gallon notexrce-
ding that of Whisky in Ulinoiti or Ohio, j
Wine will doubtless constitute a heavy ex-;
port of California within a very few yoars.!
So, I tbiuk, will choice timber, should :
tbe wages of Labor ever fall hero so as,
to approximate our Eastern standards. j
At present, I estimate tho averago cost1
of uabor in California at just about dou-!
l.l- i e i t i .,1
uib uiu ruies paiu lor sucu ijanor in mc
Middle States; which, with Wheat and
Beef at New-York prices or lower, and
Clothing little higher in a climate which
require little fuel, ought to make tbc con
dition of tbe effective worker hero a very
fair one. Such I consider it to be; while
I am assured by practical men that a fall
of eveu twenty-five per cent, in wuges
would incite a large and prompt exten
sion of Mining, Farming, &c., affordg em
ployment to additional thousauds of la
borers. Should fair averane dav labor
ever fall here to a dollar per day, I think
the demand for it in Mining would very
speedily be doutded, and soon quadru
pled. I do not imply thut cucb reduction
in either desirable or probable; but I can!
see why the owners of large estates or of
mining claims should strongly desire an'
ample and incessant immigration. This
is plain enough; whilo it is not o obvious,
though I deem it equally true, that on im
migration of one hundred thousand effec
tive workers per annum would bo readily
absorbed by California, and would add
steadily and immensely to her prosperity
and wealth.
Yet I cannot conclude this surrey
without alluding onco more to the deplo
rable confusion and uncertainty of Laud
Titles whioh has been and still is the mas
ter scourge of this State. Thr vicious
Spanish-Mexican system of granting land
by tho mere will of home provincial gov
ernor or muuicipal chief, without limita
tion as to area or precio delineation of
boundaries, here develop and matures it
most pernicious fruit. Your title may bo
ever so good, and yet your farm be taken
from under you by a uevr survey, proving
that said title does not cover your tract,
or covers it but partially. Hence many
refuse or neglect to improve the lands
they occupy, lest some title adverpe to
theirs be established, and they legally
outsted or compelled to pay heavily for
their own improvements. And, in addi
tion to the genuine Spauish or Mexican
grants, which the Government and Court
mut confirm and uphold, there are ficti
tious nnd fraudulentgrants some of them
ouly trumped up to be bought off, and of
ten operating to create anarchy and pro
tract litigation between settlers and tbe
the real owners Then there are doubt
less squatters who refuse to recognize and
respect valid titles, and waste in futile lit
igatiou the money that might make the
lands thoy occupy indisputably their own.
I blame no party exclusively, while I en
treat the State and Federal Governments
and Courts to do their utmost to settle
to their lands in this State beyond con
troversy at tbe earliest possible day.
Were the titles to lands iu California to
day as clear as in Ohio or Iowa, nothing
could cheek the impetus with which Cal
ifornia would bound forward in a career
of unparalleled thrift and growth. It
were far better for the State and her
People that those titles were wrongly
settled than that they should remain as
now. 1 met to-day an intelligent farmer
who has had three different farms in this
State, and has lost thorn successively by
adjudications adverse to his title. I would
earnestly implore grantees and squatters
to avoid litigation wherever that is possi
ble, aud arrest it as soon as possible,
eschewing appeals save in flagrant ca
ses, and meeting each other half-way
in settlement as often as may bo. Tbe
present cost of litigation, enormous as it
is, is among the lesser evil consequences
of thix general anarchy as to land .titles.
Should these ever be settled, it will
probably bc fouud advisable to legislate
for the speedy breaking up and distribu
tion of the great e-tates now held under
good titles by a few individuals. There
will never be good Common Schools on
or about these great domains, which will
mainly be inhabited by needy and thrift
less tenant ordependentsot the landlords.
An annual tax of a few cents per acre,
the proceeds to be devoted to the erection
of school houses and the opening of roads
through these princely estates, would go
far to effect the desired end. But, wheth
er by this or somo other means, tbo ben
eficent end of making the cultivators of
tbe soil tbeir own landlords must some
how be attained the sooner the better,
so that it be done justly and legally. Iu
the courso of several hundred mileB trav
el through the best settled portions of this
State, I remember haviug seen but two
school houses outside of the cities and
villages, while the churches are still more
uniformly restricted to the centers of pop
ulation. Whenever the laud-titles shall
have been settled and the arable lands
have become legally and fairly the prop
erty of their cultivators, all this will be
speedily and happily changed.
I believe, too, that tbe time is at band
when some modification of the present
Mining Laws will bc demanded and con
ceded. Hitherto, the, operators with piik
and pan have been masters of the State,
and havo ruled it, like other aristocracies,
with a sharp eye to their own supposed
interests. To dig up a man's fenced gar
den, or dig down his house, iu quest of
gold, is the legal right of any miucr who
docs not even pretend to have any rights
in the prcojir. js but such as tho presumed
oxisteuce of gold thereon jives him. Of
course, the law contemplates payment for
damages sustained; but cuppo.-e the dig
ger is pecuniary irresponsible, and digs
down your house without finding any more
gold than ho spends in the quest, what
are you to do about it! Such laws, I
trust, oannot stand. I am sure they
should not. But I must break off for to-
night.
Horace Greeley.
We understand that the pikes fouud iu
Old Brown's possesion were manufactur
ed at Unionville, by C. Hart, who voted
for J, B for President, aud has ever since
voted the Administration ticket. Of
course, according to the loio of the Bu
chnnan papers, the Administration iu im
plicated ! Hartford Press.
The total vote cast by tho largest bo
roudhs of Pennsylvania at the last elec
tion were York 1504, Alleutown 1304,
Harrisburg liil2, Pottsville 1185, Eas
ton 1125.
Brigham Young tells bis follower
some serious truths. He said in a lato
sermon to the Saints ; "Many of you
will exchange your lat bushel of wheat
with the stores for ribous nnd gewgaws,
wheu you need it for broad. And, with
bhamefaccdness J say it, some will take
the last peck of grain to the distillery to
buy wbiskoy, and then beg their bread. ''
Similar truths might bu told of many
fools out of Mormondom.
The Horse an Intellectuaf Being.
Dr. G. H. Sutherland, of UeKalb, N.
Y., sent us a letter a few days since, in
which, among other things, ho alluded to
tho importance of treating horses iii 'in
tellcctual beings," and of trying the ef
fect of "constant kindness" iu training
them, the result of which he believed
would be tbo attainment on tho part of
the horse to uau elevated position in tho
scale of intelligence, not only distinguish
ing themselves among tbeir kind, but ac
tually outstripping many of tbeir owners,
as far as tbc nobler attributes are con
cerned." With this bigb appreciation of
the capacity of the horse, the doctor, five
years ago, came into possession of a fiue
1 3 year old colt, and be concluded to try
itho power of kindness iu the endeavor to
dovelope his mind. The result is given
in the St. Lawrence Republican, in which
paper a correspondent writes:
During my wauderiugs a short timo
! since, 1 chanced to stop at Hermon.
Hearing of Doctor Sutherland's learned
colt, I had tbe curfosity to go and see
him, and found him a prodigy in learning,
besides being quite a curiosity. The doc
tor calls him the "Whito Pilgrim." His
color is light nankeen, white mane and
tail, and white eyes. He is a eplendid
.little horse. The doctor tells mo that he
t had owned him only six mouths rode or
drove him almost every day, (as his rid
ing is considerable.) but still during that
brief time he broke bim to tho saddle
Jand harness, and taught bim the differ
tent feats I naw bim perform, such as
standing upon his hind feet, jumping the
, whip, kneeling down, lying down, sitting
, up, and walkiug on three legs. He will
j unbuckle a common saddle girth, and
take off his own saddle; ho will step up to
his own master, mako a very low bow,
j shake hands, take tiis coat, cap aud mittens
joff, and lay them away, and when told,
bring tbem all back to him again. With
cards he will tell his age, the days in the
week, months in the year, &o. With the
alphabet he will f-pcll any simple word
put to him. Spread out a number of
playing cards and he will fetch the one
called for. He will play a good game at
old sledge, and beat you as ofteu as you
can bim, and tell your fortune, if request
ed. Ho will waltz around his yard with
quite as much eae and grace as some of
our country gentlemen, and pass around
a hat for a contribution at the close of a
performance. He is a rare specimen of
borso flesh, and his equal, I think, for
beauty, activity and intelligence, could
not bc fouud, considering the labor per
formed by bim, and the short time he
has been under discipline; and the doctor
certainly deserves the oredit for bein a
groat Horse Man.
The Dootor, in the conclusion of his
letter, says, that uutil this season he nev
er before undertook to train a horse for
trotting, but that he now has a threo year
old mare he calls "Crazy Jane," out of
Tom Jefferson's Black Hawk, her dam
sired by George Parish's imported St.
Lawrence. With very little training she
will make her mile in less than 3,30, over
rather a poor track. Now, says the doc
tor, "if trotting is a science that a horse
can acquire by careful training, (like
playing old sledge,) Craay Jane will yet,
if nothing befalls her, be one among ma
ny to demonstrate tho fact that the horse
has an intellect, or reasoning powers, e
qual if not superior to many of their
brute owners, and that it can be devel
oped and cultivated with as much cer
tainty and profit as tho minds of our
children."
We look forward to the result of tho
doctor's experiments with a great deal of
interest; how much kindness will do to
developc speed in horses is-yet to be as
certained. Evening Post.
Bring up your Children to do Something.
A great aim in family discipline, re
marks tbo Philadelphia North American,
should be to provide for each of the ju
veniles some line of pursuit which will
give them a seuc of their usefulness aud
ueccssity to the household. This feeliug,
properly instilled into their minds, will
make them members of society valuable
to others and hanpv in themselves. Tho
'Creator who makes nothing in vain does
jnot iu vain send human beings into tbe
world, if only they would find tbeir pla
oes and fill them. Idle men and women
are the bane of anv community. They
are not simply clogs upon society, but
j become sooner or later tho causes of its
crime and poverty, its folly and cxtrava-
gauco. in plain Hjumsu, every lamny
motto should read,"Be somebody. Do
something. Bear your own load."
fiSSrJoho Fine, sged 00 years, was
married recently in Davie County, N C,
to Miss Elizabeth Harley, aged 37.
The couple walked eight fniles to the res
idence of the officiating magistrate, to get
the nuptial knot tied, aud after dinner,
having had a merry time with a large
company who had assembled to witness
the ceremony, rcturnod home, making u
walk of sixteen miles that day, without
rod or staff. The bridegroom, it is said,
was tbo uio-'t hilarious youth, out of some
forty or fifty, present at the marriage,
and fairly outdid tho whole company, by
his jests and stories.
Patrick MoFinigan, with a wheelbar
row, ran a race with a locomotive; us the
latter went out of xijjht, Mac observed,
"AfF wid ye, yo roaring blaggard,or I'll'
be after runuiDg' inter ycea!"
Cultivting too l&uch Land.
The farmers generally attempt to cul
tivate too much land. The disadvanta
ges arising from this caue, are many
and obvious. It is uo exaggeration to
say, that the land cultivated iu the coun
try are capable, under a high state, of
cultivation, of producting twice as much
as they uow produce.
When will our farmers in the country
ful y appreciate this trulyl There is no
one thing that contributes so much to re
tard our agriculture, as the folly of culti
vating too much land.
In the first place no farmer should
think of managing SO or 100 acres of
land with one or two men. It is bad e
oonomy to do so: nothing can be expected
from it but poverty, poverty of both
land and purse. How much better it
would bc to cnltivate half the number of
acres, or less, and do it well. It co:ts
ju-t a much to plow an acre that will
yield ten buscls of corn, as one that will
yield fifty or a hundred bushels. The
difference in hoeing would be a trifle, and
the planting would bc the same. It will
require the same amount of fencing in
tbo one case as iu tbe other, and the
same tax will have to bc paid on each.
Why not, therefore, plow less and plow
deeper? why not cultivate less land and
manure more I Farmers, many of them,
appear to forget that they have a pro
ductive farm just underneath the one
they are cultivating, equally and perhaps
much more productive than the one on
the surface.
Turn up this farm, then, with a deep
subsoil plow, expose it to tho action of
the sun and frot, and thereby double
your crop.
Stump Eloquence.
One of the best criteria to judge of the
eloquence of a speaker, is the effect be
produces upon bis audience. Every ju
dicious speaker will adapt himself, both
iu hi language ond illustrations, to the
capacity, tho taste and the prejudices of
his audienefc. To address a fine speech,
clothed in elegant terms, to a backwoods
hunter, would be absurd, aud most cer
tainly would fail of the desire-l object.
Nobody understands this subject better
than tbe stump orators o' the We.-t. The
following h a real specimen of the tact
to which we have alluded. Is a part of
an electioneering spceob, delivered by
Mr. Garret Davis, a Congressional candi
date in Kentucky, in 1830, in opposition
to Mr. Daniels, the sitting membar, whom
he charged with gross inconsistency of
of conduct in regard to the Maysville
Road Bill, votoed by President Jack
son: "Here, fellow-citizens," said he, "we
have a man who professed great friend
ship for this turnpike previous to bis e
lection and afterwards, when a bill was
before Congres to make an appropria
tion for it, he made speeches in its favor
voted for it and it was passed and
sent to the President for his signature,
but returned with his veto. It then came
before the Houe again, when lo 1 this ar
dent supporter of tho bill turned and vo
ted against it!
"Now, gentlemen, what would you
think of a dog that would go a coon bunt
ing with yoa follow tho track well ran
well catch tho coon bite well and
just as you had got up with him, and
were iu the very act of seizing the coon,
would let him t'O. and turn and bark at
you! I say, gentlemen, what would you
do with such a dog!"
"Kill bim! by thunderl Shoot him!
by jingo!" was the universal shout of tho
audience. .
A Eemarkaple Union.
The Worcester Trancript says that
Mr. D. W. Moore, of Weston Boy Mod,
Mas., was safely delivered on the 7th
I inst., of a pair of twius more remarkably
united than were the biameso 1 wtns.
The pair wero female child reu, perfect in
form, but joined breast to breast from tbo
collar bone to the umbilical. T here was
one breast-bone on either s-idc, and the
ribs of both children were joined to theso
bones. There was but one liver in com
mon, but double in f-ize. Tho heart was
of the same conformity. There was ono
kidney to each child, but they were dou
ble. A Eich Man.
Spoaking of George Law and his wealth
the New York correspondent of the New
Orleans Cresent writes that "if anything
don't pay, Mr. Law respectfully drops it..
He uow owns uiuetenths of tho Eighth
avenue Iluilroad, whioh alone is au In
come of a priuco, and growing more val
uable etery day. lie also owns nearly
all the stock of the Ninth avenue whioh
when completed will run through Green
wich street to tho Ninth avenue, and thenco
to Harlem llivor a uino mile concern.
IKlf the ferries belong to Law. He owns
the Dry Dock Bank, and the bank owns
about forty acres of dry dook houses and
land, hluiot in tho heart of the oity
Law o'.vi)3 the Stateu Islaud Ferry, boats
and two milen of water-front nearest New
York, that in a few years will be worth
for docks, ten millions. He really, owns
tho Flushing Iluilroad; ond heaven knows
how much more he owns. Most persons
bare an idea that he is uu old man.- No
such thing. He is only fifty-one, yonrd
old, and possesscsono of the most vigor
ous constitutions that will last fontiV-Dine
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