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u i3.!van-J ; otberwlfe l to
i. enanreo.
liaev.i:curJ until all
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ca fa'ucn'.Tf .io take out
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ur.erM-t, Pa.
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Somerset, Pa.
LEY.
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S'naersrt, Pa.
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tr lii car w!il
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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.
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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.
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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