; ,.,, of I'ublication. s()Inersct Herald, u i3.!van-J ; otberwlfe l to i. enanreo. liaev.i:curJ until all '"" '1 M . rrtnriElwsUoi ca fa'ucn'.Tf .io take out :. fur the ru. ... .-J'tt"1 V;.,K r..m ca-; IvrtuSi' to an- ,,,.;! iwur "f tin f-miicr as Sutncrsct Herald, ur.erM-t, Pa. AI-L.VW, bnuejwi, Pecn'a A i'i r-AVLVW, Somerset, Pa. LEY. ;i:iVliXt:YATLAW, S'naersrt, Pa. . r. i . A VI mill. ,;;tV -AT I-VW, S iiuerjc'., l'a. . i . i-.NLY A I i AT LAW, r-t. Pa. I'ATTLRSOX, .UH.'KNKY-AT-I.AW, tr lii car w!il .K at- w. h. uii n.u v KUi'PFIL. AI H-aNLYS-ATHW. rrru-'cl to thi-ir ciri . o-. .:u:.i!yatteieie ' so. o::i'.e the -. Si'U I'LL. Al TOiiNEY-AT LAW, : j". ".-n " Ajput, S-'mcn'tft, T. ,3 .. iji i' k. i-S-TiX!-: 1 i A Y. AU'OliNEY-ATLAW ., . n S.'H.-re'.,';,!!! , " i jc- c-.nrj :'xJ to hi c-tn: wi-ii .' ;.'.ar..'. i i ..). KIMMEL. ArrohNi.Y-AT-I.Wv, S'rtMeri-;!, Pi. ,.rt.,.'i i rnt routed t-i .'. c:irc . .' :1, i '"li.lrf fttt.l!io Wijli prTUpt- ; V .,'', .u ' ' Kaia Croft lutet. J.. .:. Ol.U.JtN. ; ,c coli'-orx. ,rr .ilneys-at-hw. :.'rn?tnl t their e-rs wili l ' LY-AT Suujorf'-tT l'a.. j!1 1 ; 'ii cv! .r. I' .ixn-ATLur, ?ora;rsjt ,-:V '.l:"'.!)- '? i'Mtroirft to nty care ki- i'i 'TTili;. ATT":;KY AT nw, ;j ji-i,r.:'l tT-i I" tllO JTltillft I...:' n''tt nr. '. !! ether leital ::.r. 'vJ ut Ki,t. arel tl lelilv. )1. L. BAKiL I. K'X, .-.Tul.NLYS . Soaieruit, I'i., i-t l:i S.'TnrT;t so l a".v!nlr.if C'unil. eTi::u: '.beta w ill tw iirviiijl.!y '.IM H. KOONTZ. .imMiNUV-ATIAW. i s;:(i!!;.Mi to huine ei trurt S:', )TT. AT!"j;;ev-.ULtw, Suiiicrset, Pa. i"i' in 71-iow. All tmlrie. entrust- t AiU'ii led tu wUh I'rouiiitaus acd I.. ITCH. ATTOuX LY-AT H W. S 'mcrwt. Pa. :vi 'h I"""k. op rtnim. Entrsrr. . ;r--t. i'uilecll'tcis nutK c.fntef ;- 1 1 " ..liii'rl. .nt a'.l h-eal hu.iiKff Witt jTuui;. mch and tidelity. HICKS. 1:'; ( I" THE PEACK, S i:cer?et, Pcr.n'v ji. i. uimkkll. . ;:. M. KIMMKI.T, it SOX r ;: "ir ;ci!fi(mi'. .HTvicCi" to t lie) cltl s rrv t ktt-l vi-5t:tiy, iie of the tnetn tk' i.rir. at nlliincn. m, j.rnii'Hi !. i t -un l e"t iht'lr oIUctt, tn luiu 5'. t.l" ll.!Ulili-l. Mll.LKIl has lurjua- ! in lU-r'ln f r the pr.ictiefl o( :i:vi-pii:e Cfcar!e Kriin---tpr.aA 'To tL :': KVM t. n.Kis Lis . ri'ic'ii tithe cltizenf of Sera . I' li-t in r'iUcuio on Waiu ii.i o..aJ. !) miu.i:::. ! KVMv lAN 4. Si 1.(5 EON, i: , where l'e ' -aih Ikmi. Ir..!i.o: ! x ;oi!-r or ourwie iIN UH.LS. i'txrisT. iiet rr UrtllfT't !, l'. VI I.I.I AM COLLINS, 1 ! .N 1 1ST. i.ri EKSLT, PA. MS v. w J'.Wk. J,j.d Im ?'' r" u t .i f.aice he f-'un-l preiMir- k.:- . t w..rk. raeh ai filiins reto - y.i.r'.t:s tsc Anitieial ttbl all ktnda, '..: uia'.cri.i isisertcd. :erati P a;:-:xcy. ffr'l ratoh. Sonifret eoun'y, l t tie Pmi furvcyur ikI claim r ; ':y o.tit-.n ail ja unty and IVn-iiTiu-o.t to Mm. l"erii wlflitna i r. inl.:rch Mm at the alwve i. l'i: ditrhargo anJ o(!agc AUCTIONEER. J!.m V'ls ( my aervk on Real nr Per- ' - ,!1I,a to io mi,piwi oi ai 1 i!l rive entire'li(i.u. ' J i;ih j r..n-;.i iy attcD.:ed to. "X. A. KOONTZ, C.cKujnro, Pa. D1 ROTHERS A,NO Tf.E1CC painters, . '::.i:1!:r. lYxs'x. 3.000 i:illot:n :- FERMENTED WINE, FOR SALE V J? - Catetieer k Co.'f GROVE PARH ,. '-.: r-r.v r,'s-. ;". 1 . rt-t. tue line of nixcn ' ( U a list U tu, kinda la n.;' CURRANT, ECMY, VILD-CHERRY a lii'T to raft tere)iarr. . . 'O-r. . . . ho- in!irl ud en era i!ie. Ulmpe hjr UiuM 1 VOL. XXIX. NO. 50. JOS. HORNE & CO., 19 ICt), 01 and 03 Peu Artinc, lTTTsounan, That they orimTit of have received (lie lurirot ns- NEW SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS i hat liicy have yet lia.l the jilcaure ofof l.'ring to the iuh:ie. Ver7 Usci Values, la every lino of If you lo not roiue to the City to Jo your lioiiiii you run have your wantit xuti's(ac lorily Mjj.plii.sl hy M'ndiiiK ti youronlors by ni;iii. We have this branch of our hnsiiii-ii I tliiro:j-liIy oriniaol, jiti.l all orJors for I'UiliT SAMPLES or GOODS, ii:ii n:iy inrorniutioii that nniv be tlcsireil. t,i;it i: ! jMissilue lor u to pvc. will have o:tr i-.io.-t carci'ul and Minpt atictition the a;n? day they are m-civcl. In sending your orders Mate as oxj.Iicitlv as vou can whnt you want. rvrPo not fail lo read Hir reprtilur ilem aovertiM iiiei.ts. n tln-y ujH'ar frr-ni ui:;e to tune in a1 1 oi the I'sttsimrjh uaih" t ano religion wct'My jiajiers. RETAIL STOIiES, 97, 139, 201 and 203 Penn Ave., riTTSBURGH. PA. WOOLEN MILLS F.STA1JI.ISUF.D 1812. UnrlPicfortiLe i year or two, teen entirely miUe l supply tli increAfiinK tieinattd fur iny z.8 1 Imve built in au.iiil. tw icy null aud put ia m 1 rite aaiouut tl NET? AO IMOVED HACHINERY and ihere'iy almost douMe-.l my earweitjr fur inan- HiHeruriiitr. I hav u-w oa haml a latve (fork euoiistlnirof BLANKETS. PASSIM LHKS, SATINETS. JEANS. KKPEL.I.ANTS, FLANNELS, t.'lJV'EKLTJTS, CARPETS, YAUI.'S. fc.C, which I ulth to ?03 TOOL. Fanners, 1 .int y,ur Lare the kinJ of gooil youcaod. 1 WOOL ! to wu.'k up RIKHT IX YOUR OUN COUSTY, and in nr.lcr lo reach all my eaftomer la a-nod time, 1 bare euiilryod t be same areata I bad last Tear, and la al'.itia Mr. Jueiii L. ltauirhertT. who flmt tntrudaced my guoda into many part of ini ceuuiy. I will stiire, aa In the part, to glra Ontelasi fuud. and fiillraluato alt. C-.N rw mrtoiner and thoe we fklled to find last year, will jileaae addrera card to VM. S. MORGAN. Quemahonin,Pa. Apr 7 Jas. A. M'Millax. Jko. II.Watibs M'MILLAN & CO., PRACTICAL PLUMBERS, STEAM AND GAS FITTERS, No i2 Trsr.klin Street, JohnstowD, Pa. Sirl!.T attention glven.to IIuusj Itralnaice and Sewer Ventilation. ESTIMATES MADE AND WOEIDDNE In the inert thorough manner and guaranteed. iEb. a. LtsriDis. IIa coiihtiintly on Iiaiitl at Lis distilltry PURE RYE VHISKY For t-:i!c ly the barrel or gallon, ruitetl for M1DICAL Affl MECHANICAL PUKPOSES OrJerx atlurtrel to Berlin, Pa., wlil rmive j roinjit Jttlf ntin. Marck 2, 1SS-). -:0: Somerset County Rank, CHARLES J. HARRISON, Cashier and Manager. Collection! uude all parti ofLe Catted State. Charge! moderate. Batter and other ebecki col lect.! and eaahed. Eaatern and Wefternexeuatura al way, on band. Bemtttanee made with prompt AeecmnU aol!clte4. Partie, detlrlng to parrhaae U. . 4 FEB CENT. PUN" It EI) LOAN, eaa be accommo dated at thl Bank. The eospona arc prepaid in denomination, of M, li'0, too and 1.000. JSO. B'CC. la arc x. KICKS. Aptsfsp Fire ana Life Insurance, JOHN HICKS & SON, SOMERSET. PA.. And Real Estate Brokers. KSTAK11SI ikd .t ax. Pf reona who dedre to aell. t ay r ecbanare (Mptrty, or rent will bud It to their alraotae turt-ciMtr the rtetvriiHlun thereof, aa no chance ia made antrM mid or rented. Heal eatate Imaineea (utirrally will he promptly atteueed to. au la S. T. Lll TLBS; SONS, loa BALTIMORE 8TRKKT. ClTMIJEmAND. MJ. WATCHES, CHAWS. . SOLID SIH LSU'JkK, DIAXOSDS, AXEKICAS CLOCkS, FBEXCH CI OCKS, SILVLB TLA TED WAUE, JEWELUr.it. HOLIDAY PittSEHTS. Watebea and Jewelry Repaired hy Skilled Workmen and returned by Expree Fre of Cbarx. No extra charge for Eo;rravtnt. Goodi war ranted a repreacoted. oet IS r e LOVK IX ALU Xante the leaves on all the trees; Name the waves on all the seas; AH the flow ers by rill, that blow ; All the miriad tints that'pioxv. Winds that wander thrnug'j the grove A nd you natm the name of I.ove ; Love there is in summer bky, As in light of maiden. eye. Ijten to the c.mntliiss sounds Ia the wind that gaily bounds O'er the meads, where, on the winj;. Bright bees hum itnd linnet sing; l'at of raindniji, chat of tr?atu. Of tlieir H"'nn, sweet love the theme; Iove tlnvre is where tiie sejihyr kij., As in breath of maiden's lips. In the west mild evening i;!ov. ; Angel lingers fold the rose ; Hilvery dews bejjin to fall ; 'rimson shades to shadow all ; Holy Nature veils her face. Kurth is lost in Heaven's embrace Love is in an hour like this, As in guileless maiden' kirs. io, where, thruuh the voieeltw tiigbj, Tris fair Luna's bilver light ; Hear of Nature's 1'Ulse the Lwit ; . Like the tread of un-H-cn f.vt ; See fr i:u out the lambent Xoitli Shim.. i ring arrows shooting forth ; Love i in a meteor's start. As in tlu- throb of maiden's heart. love's thw essence of all things ; 'Tis from love that beauty sirin;rs ; 'Twos by love, creation first Into glorious being burst ; Veiled in tnaideu's form so fair. I do worship thee in her. Spirit sweet a'.l else above Love is God. since God is love ! WHAT C'.VMi: OF AlllEAJX. Ilatis Cit'tttT was :i wealthy oM Dutchman, whoc broad acres of tielJ, woodland and meadow tre now partly covered by the compact blocks of Brooklyn or the village lota of Flatbush, L. I. They had descended to him, in the third or fourth remove, from the anecttor who first cleared and tilled them, and there he was living in all the rude anil sumptuous plenty of the thrifty Hollanders in and around New York and along the Hudson, whom Irvin? has so pleasantly im mortalized. His numerous barns were bursting witli the products of his golden harvest : his fhed-ranges and stalls housed the choicest breeds of cattle, sheep and horses then known ; while Ins house, broad like its master, rather than lofty, was stuffed from attic to cellar with every commodity that could contribute to the comfort and respectability of the porth- and case-loving proprie tor. Servants, stewards and help ers he had in abundance, so that his personal participation m the man agement of his affairs was mostly confined to their general supervision and the care of his income. This afforded him abundant leisure for the indulgence of his pijc and that dreamy inaction which is the para disc of all fat Dutchmen. Lesides his wift a fair, rotund, fresh look ing woman two children, a son and a daughter, both adults, aided in the business of farm and house hold : while their position and pros pects thrust them into prominence as specimens of the rustic nobility of the times. In the squat old man sion, with its broad verandas, hos pitality reigned supreme ; all the festivals anl holidays of the old country weni duly observed ; the dominie and the school-master were often and ever welcome guests ; and during the autumn and winter months, at the harvest home and husking-bces, the premises were the focus of luxurient ch er and good times generally. Our story takes us to the opening of the American Revolution. J'.unk er Hill had been fought, and the Dritioh driven from, Doston, were concentrating their forces to:upture and occupy New York and its vicin ity. As the quarrel with the mother country progressed, men were com pelled to rvow partiality for one party or the other with more pro nounced distinctness. Hans Cut ter's leaning, during the prelimina ry troubles, had been toward the colonial side; but being constitu tionally sluggish and timid, he would haye greatly preferred to remain a non-combatant and to have his ter ritory considered neutral ground, supplying cither belligcrant,or both, for a" projicr consideration. The prospect of trouble which threatened his quiet annoyed him extremely, and as the cloud of war ncarcd his own locality, the incident confusion made a chaos of his restful ideas and threw him into a condition no ticeable in some persons over a burn ing dwelling. Compelled to think and act rapidly, he became bewil dered, lost all presence of mind, and finally tottered on the verge of insanity. Hut we are anticipating a little. While the Continental army lay in his neighborhood, and in partial occupancy of his farm, Hans, though sorely grieved at the unavoidable disturbance ot his ease, had passed as a sympathizer with the colonial cause and had contributed to the commissary 6tores not so much for the love of the paper currency ten dered in exchange, as because he could not help it. No military rules could prevent countless petty vexa tions by an armed host encamped on and around him. But he was not treated as an enemy, nor was the sanctity of his household openly violated. His paramount concern was for the safety of a certain earth ern crock the treasury of his an nual revenues when turned into gold coin which had always been kept in a secret nook in his cellar, accessible only to himself. There were no banks in which to deposit it; or stock companies in which to invest it, and of landed estate he had all he cared for. And so his hoard had continued increasing, until Tlu tus, or some other deity, might please to enlighten him as to a better dis posal thereof. Such information must come, if it all, as an afllatus; for necessity did not compel, and nrotracted thought on the subject j was entirely incompatible with the temjierament of the proprietor. He had enouch: his heirs must look af ter the proper employ ment of what he might leave them. What would I I you more ? 1 Somerset Hut matters changed for the wore when the British ships of war ap peared off the island, threatening invasion and another kind of occu pants. Visions of devastation leered from the smoke of his pipe ::nd troubled his slunibera. As lie pon dered the subject, his anxiety (dep oned into chronic dejection ; hL- ap petite dwindled ; his days were dole ful, his sleep fitful and his reason seemed nearly unhinged. At length he began walking in bis sleep an occurrence which at first occasioned some alarm in his house hold, and prompted a watch upon his movements. But when it was found that they resulted only in harmless peregrinations about the premises and then a return to bed. close observation was relaxed and jt:ie circumstance settled into a ruat j ter of course affair, i lie never remembered these r.oc- turnal . rambles, but occasionally mentioned dreaming of inspections of the plantation and the transfer of 1 Lis crock to another place ot securi ty. . At length news came of the land j ing of the enemy. Then followed ithe battle a portion of it on his own farm the result of which gave the British possession of the island. At its close a body of the dreaded Hessian cormorants encamped in a grove not a mile from Iu3 own door, and immediately appropriated one of his fat beeves for their supper, without so much as saying: By your leave." The crisis had come. Old Hans was terribly excited that evening, talked much of his treasure, ate little, and yielded to the entreat ies ot his family to take an anodyne and go early to bed. As iisual he roe during the night, but Ftfailently as not to disturb his wife athiside. Illis return toward morning, how ever, awoke her, and she noticed that he seemed wearied as though from extra exertion. But a sound sleep thereafter and a later rising :ut him into a more cheerful frarn than lie had worn of late. His daily visit shortly after to his subterranean treasury revealed the astounding fact that the crock, with all its pre cious contents, was missing! Con sternal ion immediately pervaded the household, and Old Hans seemed absolutely stunned. When capable of expressing an opinion, it was that some Hessian burglar had in vaded his deposit, and that the act was only a preliminary to further operations of the red right hand upon his possessions. And time lamenta bly verified his surmises. From that day forward he was a broken-down man. His apprehen sions of the Hessians became a sad reality. They regarded him as a rebel "at heart, but too imbecile for harm. His son, to avoid arrest for complicity with his father's supposed sympathies iled, and ultimately joined jMaUiot -aruty. His wile and daughter, to escape the constant danger of mortification and insult, took refuge with relatives on the Hudson, urging eld Hans to accom pany them. But ho could not be induced to do so, and with a few of his elder servants remained to abide the devastation of his premises, lx; ing treated by the usurpers as a moping dotard. Everything on the once thrifty manor went to ruin. Hessian officers were chartered in hi3 mansion and tenant-houses ; his groves and fences supplied them fuel, and several of his out-buildings were pulled down and sent alter them. His stock was butchered for rations or devoted to other service. His furniture some of it the heir looms of generations was banged and battered like the fixtures of a dram-shop, and sill articles lancied by the rapacious foreigners lawless ly appropriated by them. In fine, alt the close of their seven years' pos session, the buildings of the once prosperous old Dutchmen were a wreck ank his farm a desolation. At length the war closed with the welcome acknowledgement of the independence of the colonics. After the last red-coat had left the coun try, those who had been driven from their homes for opinions' sake be gan to return and lo gather from the general ruin the wherewithal to be gin anew the struggle for a liveli hood. Among these was the family of old Han3 Getter. With sorrow ing hearts they surveyed the wrecks of their former prosperity. Of their whole abundance nothing remained save the bare territory and the di lapidated buildings. Except shelter everything necessary to household comfort was as completely wanting as though they had been dropped down in the midst of a western prai rie. But by dint of hard work and borrowed money, wherewith to re stock the farm to a limited extent, the son, who now assumed control of affairs, made a push for the re vival of better days. The contrast ' with their former opulence rendered this a depressing labor, while the old man seemed to be whelmed in a melancholy daze ; his rare uttrances being those of a cheerless crone, ; looking for his grave. The house-j hold had always held suspicions j that Hans had robbed himself dur- j ing his sonambulistic pcrformenccs j ..I . - l.-A Al. .A of the years agone : but the most careful search, far and near, had failed to substantiate them, and though present necessities revived the wish O how strongly ! for tho recovery of the needful, all prospect thereof was as dim as ever. Toward the close of their first i sung it well, but when he announc year's struggle with poverty and de- j e d his text and attempted to preach " . m ja w ww 1 , a pression, the mind oi old 1 1 an s ; seemed suddenly to burst the crust of hopeless apathy that had so long overlaid it, and he betrayed a keen er sense of Lis situation and sur roundings. He once surprised the family at the breakfast table bv the impassioned cxclamaf on to his son, w i iw i . m .i "O John, if ve had tL.it crock tho cursed Hessians stole, yc might knock off work and be a nabob !" He farther enlarged upon its aid in the restoration of their former status, and from that hour his thoughts sleeping or waking, appeared to encrgking over his lost hoard. be j At i length, so completely did his long- ings possess him, as to occasion a repetition of the consequences of his former anxiety for its salcty. He ; again commenced his nocturnal per egrinations about the premises, of which, as before, he remembered ESTABLISHED, 1827. SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY, nothing when awake. On the morn ing following one of these, he told tbc family that he dreamed that he saw tiis crocK witu its contents m tact, where, he remembered mean while, himself had bestowed it a Lint which, corroborating as it did tiic opinion his son had always en screamed oi its disposal, was im proved forthwith. His next mid night tour was awaited with solid tude : nor was it long delayed. Af ter a day of great mental nerturba tion. Ilaus. alter stuokinz his even ing pipe, retired early to Lis restless lfd. iNcar midnight lie rose, dress eil and went forth, silently followed by his son. Taking a spade from tne tool house, tnc old man moved cautiously across the paddock into the held beyond and toward an oak that once sentineled a considerable giove now laid low by the Hessian ::e, whose size alone had saved it ho:a a similar fate. At its foot the sleep-walker stopped, looked furtive ly around ; then, removing a cover ing of withered leaves, began dig ging. The son, lying down at a short distance, watched his manoeuvres by the dim star-light, with feelings which may be better imagined than described. It wa3 some timecre the spade was laid aside, and then the old man knelt down, seemed to re move something and to bend iuquir intrly over the excavation. Next he proceeded to return the earth, smooth the ground carefully and uelLly replace the covering of leaves, Then he stole homward and back to hij bed. The sequel which his ion acted thereupon may be at once sur mised. Repeating the operation he had just MitnesjeJ, albeit with more speed and less caution, ho mearthed the veritable crock heavy with treasure, and took it to H e house. The next morning Hans t .d the family that he had again S( n in dreams hia precious treas- u o, lamenting that he must wake to the distressful eenso of its l'i.-:s. t Then followed the joyful denoue- lyent. hen the crocfc was pro- d teed, and while its gokten thous a:.Js were being counted, old Hans laughed for the first time in many years, and fairly danced with de light. Never Bass festival, with its boisterous merry-makings, found so hPP3" a household. 1 he result may be anticipated without lurther de scription. A twelve month thereaf ter saw the buildings and fences re newed or repaired : the larm re stocked with the choicest breeds trees re-set ; helpers and tenants re trained ; debts paid and the smile of lormer thrift over ail. Hans renew ed his age, his flesh and his ease married his daughter to a nice voung Holland neighbor, whose buxom sister espoused his own son, and as the old Dutchman smoked once more his evening pipe on his veran da, he forgot the Hessians and smil ed over his remunerative dream. prinificld llepubliran. The Dowie Knife. James Bowie lay for months in his bed, in the city of Natchez, be fore he recovered lrom his wound. I le was a man of much mechanical ingenuity, and while thus confined whittled from a piece of pine the model of a hunting knife, which he sent to two brothers named Black man, in the city of Natchez, and told them to spare no expense in making a duplicate of it in steel. This was the origin of the dreaded bowie knife. It was made from a large sawmill file, and its temper afterward improved upon by Ar kansas blacksmiths. This is all that can be told about the origin of that dcath.dealing implement. Since James Bowie became some what prominent in his efforts to ad vance the spread of Republican in stitutions it is proper to speak of what he did. He seemed to have a natural disposition to protect the weak from the strong. At one time he was riding through the parish of j Concordia, It., and saw a man lash ling his slave. He told the man to d-.-sist, but he was met with curses. He dismounted from his horse, wrestled the whip from the master, and laid it over his shoulders. This led to a shooting match, in which the slave owner was badly wounded. Bowie, after submitting himself to the law, paid the doctor's bill pur chased the slave at double his value and gave him his freedom. In after years a methodist preach er told the writer this : He said ho wits one of the first methodist ministers sent to Texas by the meth odist conference. He traveled on horseback, crossing the Mississippi below Natchez ; that the first day :i Iter crossing the Mississippi he was overtaken by a horseman dressed in buckskin, armed with r,jstni anj knife, thev entered i..to conversation and he found him to be intelligent, pleasant and well aceiuainted with the geography of the country. Neither one inquired the name or the business of the otucr. Both were aiming at the sarae destination, Texas. Finally they reached a new town filled with wjj j desperate characters from other ' ?- States. He posted a notice that he would preach at the Court house the first, evening of his arrival. At the hour named he found the rude structure filled to overflowing with men only. He gave out a hymn and all joined in singing, and one betray cu in imitation ot an ass, : another hooted Hue an owl, etc. He disliked to be driven from his purpose and attempted again to preach, but was stopped by the same species of interruption. He ttood silent and still, not knowing - . . . - . r ' whether to vacate the pulpit or not !i" 11 . 1 a tl . ? I UllLAJJ ill3 viaiLiiiig wujiauiuuj v horn he did not know was in the l ouse, arose in the midst and with ;-. stentorian voice said : "Men, this uian has come here to preach to i ou. You need preaching to. and ill. be if heshant preach to vou ! The next man that disturbs him J im that shall fight me. My name is Bowie." The preacher said after this announcement he had a more . attentive audi- never ence, so much influence had Bowie over that reckless and dangerous element. MAY 18, 1881. RRAIX AS A MOTOR. How the Common People Are Elevated. Rale and ?'This was prophecy fifty years ago ; it is history to-day," said Mr. Beechcr last night at the Congrega tional church, in his lecture, "The reign of tho Common People." He had been speaking of a book entitled "democracy m America," written half a century ago by a French scholar, who had visited the United States to study its manner and its institutions. In this work he made known to Europe the rise and prog ress oi the great democratic move ment using the word not in i political but a philosophical sense the movement of the minds of the whole people in public affairs, rather than the movement of tho minds of a class of men. He prophesied then that this movement would compe all Europe to change its forms of government. "His words," said Mr. Beccher, "have come true. That change has gradually come over the whole civilized world and is extend lug even lurther. Ureat Hntam is as much a republic to-day as we are. A monarchy is not necessarily monarchy because it has that name, nor is a republic really a republic because it is called so. The mind and will of tho common people is as much lelt in ureat IJntain it is even more directly operative than it is m this Kepubhc. r ranee is declarative republic. Spain i3 awak ing, and as long as such men as Castelar have such companionships and opinions, it cannot long be .asleep. When two men have died there will be a great change in tJer- mant-. Austria is lar ahead ot Ger many so far a representation of pub lic influence in administration is concerned. The name of Austria used to be a synonym for all that was absolute and arbitrary, but the ploughshare of war has turned up the soil lor the more generous harv est which is to follow. RUSSIA ALONE STANDS Cil.OOMII.Y, a great empire subject to great con cussions, for that mysterious some thing known as the popular will is constantly being generated when there is no channel through which it may be carried safely away. If you generate steam and have no safety valve nor cylinder, you will be sure to have something ch liussia 13 m that position. 1 here is a continual development of popular force and without a legitimate chan nel to carry it oil, the explosion is sure to come. No power can bind an ocean of people, even as no power can bind the ocean itselt. WHAT IS TKIE DEMOCRACY ? "True democracy has been the physiological and psychological de velopment of the human race. It has been such a development of the brain force as that now it is not only the brain which rules, but the superior brain. It i3 no longer the man of muscle that controls ta-i world. Hercules was well enough for his time. But time has gone, and men have come up through a whole cycle until that part which is characteristic of men brain force has come into the ascendency in communities. 1 he progress of dem ocracy indicates not merely the fortunate invention of political in stitutions and methods, but it in dicates the development of the hu man race up to a point which it never attained until the present day How did this all come to pass? WHAT HAS DEVELOPED MAX in this way? Now, if the theory of evolution is true, and it is true ; 1 do not mean everything is true that is connected with that word, but that method of creation was not m- staneity, but was the creation of the rudimentary germ torni, which under the influence ot natural law, gradually unfolded in successive es so that they ran through acres, i believe, and every man oi intelligence believe, be he Christian or Agnostic, and certainly if he be under forty years of age ; for my part I believe that the human fami- has come up. I don't know whether our ancestors were monkeys or not, and I don t care. It is all mere speculation. Darwin was not there when it took place. He don't know. If a man was ever evolved out of a monkey's skin, he did not jeep a journal. I would just as net it was proved that 1 was descended from a monkey, provided that I have descended far enough. Seri ously though, THE HUMAN FAMILY BEGAN, not at the highest stage, but at the very bottom, and has risen through anous stages, lou tell mc the chatechism says that our first pa rents were made in the likeness of God. Very true. But the catechism also says that they fell from their high estate and all their posterity with them. When they fell they made a complete business cf it They fell flat, but they Lave come up again. So, strangely, science and the catechism are together on that point If evolution, then, be true, we should expect that this develop ment should have taken place ac cording to this doctrine. W e should expect that the brain unfolding from the inferior conditions of the nervous system, would be earned on and up to the time when the moral, rational, superior brain of the hu man race would overbalance the mere animal brain. This has taken piece." Continuing, the lecturer asserted that whatever produced excitement upon a rational brain was in the nature of education. . He referred to hunger and thirst as the first school masters, and then to the early set methods of education in Egypt "But even at that time," he said, "knowledge was prerogative. It was as a coronet, only to be worn by a pivileged few, and the common people could only -.possess it by stealing it It was their duty to be ignorant" He then spoke of Greece, and said that in that country free men might acquire knowledge, but women were excluded, except those who by selling their virtue became entitled to be educated. Tliis ex plained, he said, the apostolic inter dictions regarding M era Id. WOMEN KEEPING SILENCE IN CIIUtCH TU -1- i int'su appear not, oniy in two places, once in the epistle to the Corinthians, a corrupt Grecian citv and again when writing to a bishop of a Greek church in Asia Minor. If the Christian women had spoken, and shown that they were compe tent to teach, they would have been put uown as courtesans ana it would have cast discredit on the church. "And yet," said Mr. Beech er, "some will put on their specta cles to-day and say that women must not preach, it was not God s decla ration to sexes. It was merely a local niatter. If a woman wants to speak in church and folks want to hear her, there i3 no reason in heaven or on earth why she should no do so." Mr. Leccher then contrasted the difficulties in ancient times attend ing education and the facilities of modern times. The result is that there is brain force among the masses. Particularly is this the case on this side of the Atlantic. This is partly due to the climate, for there is no atmosphere in the world which has such a effect upon the brain as this. A ship master told him that none of ithe sailors could drink as much here as in Liverpool. "Heaven Lelp Liverpool if they drink more," was the laconic re mark Mr. Beecher interpolated here. It doe3 not make any difference in a single instance, but when three gen erations are brought up in this at mosphere the effect is appreciable. The face becomes long, the body loses it3 rotundity, while the cere bral part is developed. This is seen even in the newspaper pictures. John Bull, in his cool, calm atmos phere, is portrayed a3 robust, Jona than is tall, and lank, and spare. With one it is ail Ar.DOMINAC-. WITH THE OTHER t'ERE- r.rt ai.. "Public sentiment here," said Mr. Beechcr, "begin.? to grind early. It is excitable and forcible. More and more men are realizing that if they want to thrive, it must be by their own endeavor and energy. It is one of God's blessing upon this country that all children are not borne poor. The largest inheritance does not last over three generations. If a man leaves a fortune his son commences to spend it and starts down, and then his son spends the rest, bo the bottom is reached again and everything is made level. When men are born with the idea that they must rise by individual exer tion, it brings the brain power to bear at once on business. And business here docs not run like a canal, but like an impetuous river. It is full of life. The fault i3 that there is not vacation enough. IN POLITICS IT IS WORSE YET. There is always something go-n on in politics, whether county or town, city, State or National, to cay nothing of the great quadrennial bonfire which is lit beneath the political cauldron every four years. When the candidate s i n chosin. t ie editors, orators, candidates and everybody else declare that the sal vation of the country depends on the election of both candidates, and we all believe it. No matter how old we are, we get red in the face and run for a fortnight. Then we conclude to let the country run for four vears and give us another chance. One might suppose that there is one place where . we might cool off. That is the church, but I iM-lieve that U tho hottest of all ! Thre are THREE KINDS OK CHURCHES. those run by doctrine, by emotion and by votion. In very different waj-s they come together at that one point, the most sensitive part of man, the brain. Mr. Beechcr, in enlarg ing on this point, snowea now the consideration of the momentous luestions of the doctrinal church, the looking back to the eternity that is to come for their final exe cution, is a constant stress and strain upon the brain : how the revival- shouting and constant high pressure of the emotional chucli is an excite ment to the brain, and how even the quiet responsibility of caring for the sick and visiting the needy in the devotional church brings a press ure on the brain and sharpens and deepens its life. "The vast mass of laboring men," Mr. Beechcr went on to say, "who have been ignorant, never caring for education, are now clamoring for it as a right, and the governments which have hitherto feared it among their subjects are now anxious to give it How did this come to pass? re they not better off than thev used to be? Better fed, better clothed and housed? Yes, but there is something more than this, which is above animal comforts, that calls them up to something higher. They don't know what it is. I will tell you. It is the fulfillment of the decree of God. It i3 the blossoming in our day of the grand time when BRAIN AND NOT MUSCLE SHALL RULE ; when all that is of the animal shall stand aside. "Intelligence makes better sol diers, education makes money. It is for this reason that the nations are becoming nursing lathers and mothers to their common people." He then dealt for a while with those people, who, like buzzards, see only carrion in lovely fields, and speak evil continually. He left his subject for awhile tosketchat'Modle Legislature and to comment uponthe character of the men who make our aws. "If a man don't want to now rhat he eats he must keep out of the kitchen," he said, "and if he wants to keep tho laws and re spect them, he will never look in on where they are mads." He did not wonder that THE FOREIGN NOSE WAS TURNED UP, and that foreigners said a strong government must follow. Yet this Government of the people, for the people and by tho people, with all its faults and more than were men tioned, was the very best ever in stituted under the sun. Wo arc making .progress towards adminis tration. e are Icarnin better things; we are benefiting by ourj mistakes. And sixty millions of; men learning to govern ' themselves is unspeakably better than sixty WHOLE NO. 1558. thousand of men governing a mass of people who do not know how to govern at all. It is better that we should haye poor government of the whole people than a better one where no one is learning, it is better that a man should learn a thing imperfectly than another should tlo it better for him. He believed in a free discussion of everything that woa of national interest. Even the Greenback doc trine, "and there never was a more foolish thing since God made fools, had its use in disseminating finan cial and banking views into almost every hovel. It was not the place of the Government to abolish State banks and issue all the currency. It should not go into tho bankine: business any more Vim it should go into tho baking business. Our Government is to maintain the in tegrity of the people, and then let them work out their own sarvation. The European cry i3 that the gov ernment should take care of the people; the American cry is let the people take care of the government. Applause. in conclusion Mr. Beechcr show ed that not only in politics, but in amusements, theology, medicine, law and everything else the common people were becoming more and more enlightened. There were changes taking place. The creeds preached were not tho same. But there was no cause for fear. The ilower was becoming fruit, and Ho that was watching over all neither slumbers nor sleeps. The hand that has brought the ship thus far still has hold of the and will see that at I;u?t an'-' safely helm, ior is from cast within the harbor, safe c-rv storm. Where's C'ongrvws. Where's congress ? I'm looking for congress," said a tall, one-eyed wowan. peering through one of the doors of the House of Representa tives, the other morning. "Is that enow with a bald head congress?" "What do vou want with Con gress anyhow ?" demand .a deputy door keeper grufilv. "Hold on ? you can't go in there !" i came from Bucks count v, Pa., to see Congress, and if you' v.- got it on draught any where around here. 1 want seme. v hus the reason I can't go in there?" "Cause you can't. N". bod v allow ed here but members." "That red-headed man with a squint a member?" "No; he s one of the members secretaries. He has a n.J;t o;i the floor. "Is that lop sided chap will i a wig one of the secretaries ?" "No; he s a friend of a member. Had a pass." "What's that bare IezgeJ boy falling over the back of a chair ? Has he got any friends ?" lie s one oi the pages. "Who's that red nosed artist, with a sore ear : ihd he have a pass : "That's a messenger. Ho don't "What's that fellow with his legs the on a desk? "Is he one of bosses ?" 'He is one of the clerks."' "Any of them fellows pay taxes?'' "I think not. Don't know," any said the door-keeper indifferently. "Now, young feller, tyou want to hunt for room to stand in while I go through this door. Don't fool with me, or your fricnd.3 will think you have been doing business with a steam grindstone. I pay taxes on three acre3 and eight pigs in Bucks count', and I'm going through this 'ere congress like a contribution box through a congregation. You just crawl out of sight if you don't want your spine to change place with the next township." "Where's the congress from Bucks county ? Show me the Bucks county Congress, and if he don't get a bill throught this town to send that hare lipped old sky-rocket, who wants to fore-close a mortgage on my place, to the penitentiary, he II wish he'd been born a tree and cut down and burned up when he way young. Point out the Congress from Bucks county before I have you inside out, and see how you're put together. Tell me I can't go in among a lot of clerks, passes and pages ! If there's a square foot of Congress left by the time I reach is. It'll wish it was covered with hair that conies out without hurting." They induced her to leave by tell ing her that the "Congress from Bucks county" held its session in the patent office, and she departed, threatening to get the bill disposing of her mortgage through before she left town, or make the Buckscounty member think a cider barrel had busted under him just as a shot tower fell on toj of him. "Women Xever Thlnfc." If the crabbed old bachelor w ho uttered this sentiment could but witness the intense thought, deep study and thorough investigation of women in determining the Inst medicine to keep their families well, and would noto their sagacity and wisdom in selecting Hop Bitters as the best, and demonstrating it by keeping their families in perfect' health, at a mere nominal expense, he would be forced to acknowledge that such sentiments are baseless and false. Pickajvne. A Tongh Citizen. Galveston, Tex., May ". A spe cial to the .Ycir.? from Palestine says : "J. B. Jones, charged with stealing horses in the northern part of this ( county, was shot yesterday by some citizens who attempted his arrest j Twenty-seven buckshot took effect in his body, but the probabilities i arc that he will recover." No remedy except Perun.a does j always coincide with the vit mcdiea trix natura. I Music lesson to be studied while ! walking the icv sidewalks. If -"ou ; ! doni C sharp you will B flat ides with the vU medimtric natitra in a simple toilet wun a sman lumt ! cures all diseases. Pemna, i formed by a scarf. What I StalwartLim. We frequently encounter says tho Germantown TeUyraph, tho term, stalwart in print, as applied by Democrats ami Independents to those leading Republicans whose course in public affairs is clear, plain, unqualified, robust and vig orous. Properly understood, it w not a word of reproach, and yet it sometimes appears to bo intended as a sort ot a polite suhstitute lor radical, extremist, zealot and lunat ic. These partisan changes seem to mark a gradual softening of the harshness of political life. After the Mexican war a somewhat simi lar distinction was mado between the followers of Taylor and Scott j who were " Whigs, but not ultra Whigs ;" and the adherents of Clay and Webster, who were ultra Whigs avowedly. In the ensuing conflict the Whig party perished, without benefiting the Nation thereby. Per haps some of those who now make such free use of the word stalwart, expect or hope to force hirtory to repeat itself in the destruction of the Republican party. But the cases are not parallel. There wxs a desperate ofl'ort made in 1-S72 to make the cases appear similar, hut the people scouted tb" i-L-a. The radical leader?, Sew. a t, Chase, John son, Greeley, etc., all went over to the enemy in regular succession, under the belief that as they had so largely helped to build up the Re publican party, they could destroy it But the "history of the last fif teen years proves that the emanci pation of the slaves was far from be ing the only mission of the party. The stalwarts began with Thaddeus Stevens, and in the current era arc alledged to be represented by Grant, Sherman, Garfield and Blaine. They have produced tho very ablest ora tora, legislators, fintmciers, soldiers, statesmen and party leadera of which the Nation can boast. The ordeal of the Mexican war did not enable the Democratic party to pro duce military heroes or high-cLoss statesmen. Those honors were monopolized by the Whigs. What then is there in the history of the past fifteen years that should be a reproach to the Republican stal warts, or justify the efforts ti di vide tiie triumphant party on ac count of their leadership? If it be an offense on their part to insist upon the right of the majority of the southern people to govern them selves by the free and untrammeled use of the right of suffrage, without distinction of race, color or previous condition of servitude, we may can didly confess that our own heartiest sympathies are all together with those who demand and insist upon that consummation, no matter by what party name they may call themselves. The peace which has settled upon the Southern States is well-known to be in sheer disregard of the right of the majority to gov ern, and in at least three of those Southern States the minority governs by the sheer force of unblushing and undeniable terrorism. We do not understand the stal wart Republicans to invoke the ar bitrary use of the National Power to overturn those usurped governments, nr would it Iks desirable at th present time to inaugurate measures looking to a change. But it may be a3 well to have the question re main in abeyance and to endeavor by peaceful means to establish the rights of the freedmen everywhere throughout the South, not merely to vote and to hold office, but to hold all the rights of citizenship guaran teed to them by the National Con stitution. So long a3 such an out rageous state of things shall prevail in South Carolina, Alabama, Miss issippi and Louisiana, it i3 the merest moonshine for independent gentle men to expect Republicans or peo ple of the North generally, to aban don their attachment to the party and the principles rendered grand and memorable by the mighty con tests of the last 10 years. If there be among our readers, therefore, some who want to know what Stalwart Republicanism really is, we answer unhesitatingly that it is the robust, vigorous, manly and honorable adherence of Union men to the great principles that came so triumphantly out of the Civil War, and who think that emancipation would only be left half done if the liberated race should be abandoned to a condition of helpless serfdom and caste bondage, in which, depriv ed of the letral right to defend themselves by the means made use of by our own race, they have not even the selfish friendship, sympa thy and protection of those masters who formerly cared for them as i property. The importance of this I iitif Inn not been diminished by ! t:m(N nor can jt sink out of sight j bv any proces3 known to us short 0j-tjie f,nat triumph of humanity, ; hw an,i justice. . AVliere wan the Ieaeon. It wa3 at Sacramento, last year, during the . "session ;" time, mid night, when two of the boys parted thus: "Good night, old man I leave you here. Have to sit up with a "sick friend. By the way, do me the favor, as you pass my room on the way to bed, to step in and disarrange it; turn down the clothes and rumple the pillows. My door is never locked, anil when the others look in at breakfast time they will see that I am off. Under stand?" "Yes, said No. 2. They met at noon. In reply to vigorous upbraiding, No 2 said : "I did disarrange your room, put water i in your basin, rumbled the towels, tore tne bed to pieces wny, room 17 looked as if there had been a fight." Seventeen ? Good gracious that's wrong ? That's the Deacon's room !"' "The dickens it is ! Then where was the deacon ?' The Height ef Folly. To wait until you are down on your bed with disease you may not get over for months, is the height of folly, when vou might be easily : cured during the early symptoms by using Parker's Ginger Tonic. It costs only a trifle, can never do any i harm, and possesses curative prop erties in the nignest degree, vie have known the palest sickliest looking men, women and children become the rosiest and healthiest, from the timely use of this pure family medicine. See advertise ment in other column. Obxrvor. For the Fair Sex. Fancy costumes have fans and parasols to match. There are many new materials in cashmere colorings. Spotted materials will be worn by leaders of fashion. A vouncr mrl alwavs looks wen
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