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BT COBB x JR.
MrvE&iofoon Winlhro() was. a plakrGft
farmer-‘“BD ahsiefe, ‘ precis? ' ipan, who dra
everything by established- rules, and who.saw,
no reason why grasp a,! things
beyond what batHwea jeacjied by their great
grandfathers. . IJtT had'three cbildyep,. two,
4) git'll , There was Jeremiah, Sett
emeeni yea wold;.Samuel fifteen; and Eati/
ay thirteen,. .< •
U wjs a oold,’ winter's day. Samuel was'
in the kitchen feeding a book, and so itt'dr-,
esied was he lhat, Jie did pot notice the en
trance of his father. Jeremiah waseogeged
in cyphering oiirs sum which ho -bhd fhudd
ij) his arithmetic. ”
“Sum,” said the farmer to'hi3" youfigcal
boy, 11 have you .worked out that sum-yell”
‘•No, sir,” returned the boy in a hesitating
manner.
,'tDidnU I tell' yisu to stick to your
tic till you had done it? - ’ muttered Mr. Win
throp in a severe tons.
t'Samuel hung down his head, and looked
troubled.
“Why havn’t you done ill” conlinued the
fulher. ■
“1 can’t do it, sir,” tremblingly returned
the-boy ‘ - -
“Can’t do it? And why -ftor?' Look at
Jctry lpcre,.wiih I\is stale tw}, aritfMßejic;
he had ciphered further I'h-in yoV.haVe, long
before he was as old as you are.” '
“Jerry was always food of mathematical
problems, but I can’t fasten my mind on them.
They hayruo.interest for me.’’
“Thai’s because you don’t try to feel any
interest in your studies. What book ts that
yim are reading ?
“It is a work an Philosophy, sir.”
“A work on Fiddlesticks 1 Go put itawnv
this instant, and get your slate, and don’t let
me see you away from your arithmetic again
until you can work out these roois. Do you
understand me’”
Samuel made no answer, but silently be pul
away his philosophy, and then got his slale,
and eat down again m the connney corner.
His nether lip trembled, and his eyes were
moistened, for he Was unhappy. His father
had been harsh towards him, and he fell that
it was wiihout just cause.
“Sam,” said Jerry, as soon as the old than
nail gone, “I will do that sum for you.”
“No, Jerry," returned the younger brother,
uui yet wijh a grateful look ; “that would be
deceiving ' father. I will try to do the sum,
tnoiiiih I fear I shall not succeed.”
Samuel worked very hard, though all to
bo purpose. HU mind was not on the sub
ieci belore him. The roots and squares, the
oases, the hypothenuses and perpendiculars,
Iliough compare.ively simple in ihemselves,
were lo him a mingled mass of incomprehen
sible things, end the more he tried the more
did he become perplexed and bothered. The
truth was his father did not undersiand him.
Samuel was a bright boy, and uncommonly
intettigem for one of hi? age. Mr. Winthrop
was a thorough mathematician —he never yet
came across a problem ha could not solve,
and he desired that his boys should bo like
him, for he conceived that the acme of edu
cational perihelion lay in (he power of con
quering Euclid, and he had often expressed
his opinion that were Euclid living then, he
could “give the old mathematician a hard
tussei.” He seemed to (orget that did'eieni
minds were made of different capacities, and
that what one mind grasps with ease, another
o r eqbai power Vvbuld fail to comprehend.
Hence, because Jeremiah, progressed rapidly
in mathematical studies, and could already
survey a piece of land of many angles, he
imagined that because Samuel made no pro
gress at all in the same branch, he was idle
and careless, and he treated him accordingly.
He never candidly conversed with his young
er son, tMih a view to ascertain the true bent
of his mind, but he had hi? own standard of
i(ie power of all minds, and ho pertinaciously
adhered to it.
There was another thing that Mr. Winthrop
could not see, and that was that Samuel was
continually pondering upon such profitable
mailers as interested him, and that he was
scarcely ever idle; nor did his father see
either, that if ho ever wished his boy to be
come a mathematician, he was pursuing the
very course to prevent sucli a result. Instead
ol endeavoring to make the study interesting
*o the child, he was making it obnoxious.
The dinner hour came, and Samuel had
not vet worked out the sum. His father was
angry and obliged the boy to go without h/s
dimer, at the same lime telling him that ho
was an idle, lazy chile
Poor Samuel left iho kitchen and yvent up
to ms chamber, and there he sal down and
cnee. Al length his mind seemed to pass
irom the wrong he bad suffered from the hand
of his parent and took anchor turn, and tHe
gnei marks left his face. There was a large
hm in the room below his chamber, so that
ne was not very cold; and gening up, he
went to a stpafl closet, and from beneath a lot
oi old cloyhes, he dragged forth some long
nieces of weed and • commenced whittling,
ll was 00l from mere pastime llml he whittled,
•or be was fashioning some curious •afikirs
from those pieces of wood. Hd bad bits of
wire, little scrap’s of tin plate, pieces of twine,
and some dozen small wheels that he, ijjade
himself, and.he seamed to be working l9,gst
them together after some peculiar fashion of
his own. •' , ; ..(
Half had thus pasped'away,
when his sum* entered hia chamber. tye.
had her apfen ;Oatha<ed up i|t.,Jwt,hapd, and
after clodTAtf^tfwsoftly behiiid'har,iahe
approached the spot where heh sit: 1
swm?y—rtjeor I bayd bßwgljflj'oii
somethingto'Cat. J/know y ou smi at; b<hun
gry" ' ■ . .v
As she spohe, Sh‘d opened 'her
!wk oul four sakes, and a piece
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cheese. The boy. y as hungry, .and ha.bosi
laipd not to avail himself, of his isister's-k.io.d
offer. He -kissed her. as. he took; (he .c*(te,
and thanked her; , , n_ K .„
a pretty.; t£ipg ; thet you
are making ” Mitered Fanny, .ea.Blto, gazed
upon,,.the result lof her brpther’s. lnbors,
“Won’t ; yqu givait.lo,me, after iIV. dopeX” ~
“Not this onejsiatei,” returned the, hoy,
with a s(nilo i ;but Bs soon as I get. time Ijvvill
make one equally as preity.” :
: Funny ibspfced .tier brother, andrshtfttly
ader-aterdsilefidbe room, pod the boy resumed
his tvorjß. 1i„ r _. -;. ,1 —«<i .
At the end 08. ihp.tv.ofknihe variousiknate,
rials ihpr'had, been aubjecled.to Samuel's
jack-Jtnifc sod-pincers had assumed form and
comeliness', and they-were joined and grooved
together in curious Combinations. The em
bryo philosopher set ths.ma.chioer-rror.it
looked like a Machine—on the floor, and then
stood off and gazed upon it. His eyes gleamed
with a peculiar, glow of satisfaction, and ha
looked preud, and happy While yet he stood
and gazed ai-lhe child of. his labor, the door
of his chamber opened, and hisfather entered.
“What—are you d.qkatudying?” exclaimed
Mr. VVinlbrOpt.ns ha noticed the boy standing
idle in lliemiddle of the floor. -
Samuel trembled when he heard his father’s
voice, and lurndd pale with fear.
“Ha, what ils this!” said Mr. Winihrop,
as he caught sight of the construction on the
floor. “This, then, is (he secret of your idle
ness. Now I see how it is that you cannot
masier your studies. You spend your lime
in making play-houses and fly-pen». I’ll see
whether you’ll learn to attend to your lessons
or not. Theteil” -. i
As the father-uttered that simple interjnc-'
lion, he placed his foot upon the object of his
displeasure. The'boy uttered a quick cry,
and sprang forward;bul he was 100 late. The
curious construction was crushed to atoms—
ihe labors of long weeks were utterly gone?
The lad gazed for a moment upon the mass
of ruins, and ihbn'covering his fnqe with his
hands, he burst into tears.
“Ain’t you ashamed ?” said Mr, Winihrop,
“a great boy like you to spend time on such
clnp-ifaps, and then cry about it because I
choose attend studies?
Now go ourto tile barn and help Jerry shell
corn.” . • ' ’
The boy was-too full of grief to make any
explanation, and wiihout a word left his
chamber; but for long days afterwards be was
sad and down-hearted.
“Suntuei,"--Mr, Winihrop one-day
after the spring had opened, I have seen Mr.
Young, and he is willing to take you as an
apprentice. Jerry and 1 can get along on the
farm, end I think the best thing, you can do
is lo learn the blacksmith trade. 1 have giv
en up all hopes of ever making a surveyor of
you, and if you had a farm you would not
know how to measure it and lay it out.
Jerry will now soon bo able to take my place
as surveyor, and 1 have already made ar
rangements for having him sworn, and ob
taining his commission. But your trade is a
good one, however, and I have no doubt you
will be able lo make a living at it.”
Mr. Young was a blacksmith in a neigh
boring lown, and he carried on quite an ex
tensive business, and moreover he had the
reputation of being a fine mar. Simuel was
delighted with his father’s proposal, end when
he learned that Mr. Young also carried on
quite a large machine shop he whs in ecsla
oies. His trunk was packed—a good supply
of clothes having been provided; and after
kissing his mother and sisier, and shaking
hands with his father and bro'her, he mount
ed the stage and set off for his new destina
tion.
He found Mr. Young oil that he could wish,
and he went into ihe business, with an assi
duity that ’surprised his master. One evening
afler Siltnuel Winlhrop had been with his new
master six months, the latter came into the
shop one night ofier all the journeyman had
quit work and gone home, ond found the
youth busily engaged iu filing a piece of iron.
There wete quite a number of pieces laying
on the bench by his side, some of which were
curiously rivited together and fixed’ with
springs and, slides, while others appeared not
yet ready fdr their deifinetf use. ; Mr. Young
ascertained whnt the young workman wus up
to, and he not only encouraged him in his un
dertaking,’but he stood for half'nnhobrnnd
Watched him aT his work. The next day
Samuel Winthrop was removed from the
blacksmith shop to the machine sh6p.
Samuel often visited his parents, and bt life
eud of two years his father was not a little
surprised when Mr. Young informed him that
Samuel was the most useful hand he had.' ”
Time flew'by fast. Samuel" was twenty
one, Jeremiah had been free two \foars,tin'd
he'wds one of the most accurate Vnd trust
worthy silVtreyors InnhecoUmry. Mr. : Wiif
throp looked upon his eldest sou wnll pridO;
and often dxpftJssdd n Wish that the diheV son
could have beettlike'him. r SarhufeT Had 1 come
home to'Visit his parents','and' Mr. Youhg' had
comfr'wiih’ Hirii; - * , " ‘_
yvMr. Tduntr ” said Mir, WthlKrop,Viler the
ten things had been cleared;'Mhdl Is a fip'e
faclory they have erecietfjh y'oiir'iown.” '
‘‘Yos,”'iefu;ned Mr. Yot/hfj'' “ifjeti hire
throe of them and they ’are ,doing'a he;ui/y
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fhiij'gihst before;" - 1
V 4 ‘TSu jjfbnr «(»|kboot’ that,”.ite
turped 'Mr.,Ybii ng;" '“This ; is so pie of' ydur
son’s business,", ''
rwst Iff. wi
The old fnari slopped,stjoft ii.l his
m- , h?-. wm ;^j:def«i;;. poike
! that his son—hisidle ihe jpvenior
of ihe great po>*eAjflmJl«ii had taken all
by surp/isa, . , ; ~ ,
. l 'W(t»hdo yon mepp,7”,ho,aflength asked.
‘)|t,isi«mpjy, this, father* that.tMsJpom.is
roinej’- ratumed Samuel,,w,Uh a
pious pride.: “Unvenied il.and have taken
fcjfcteßtoigh),i«Bdilihavoial«»dy been offered
lentbousanddollarsforlho right af patent
in two-adjoining .States. Don’t you remem.
her that clap trap that you crushed with your
fool six years agtf-1 u - '•
“Yes," answered-the old man* whose eyes
were hem ta the floor, and.over whoso mind
a new light seemed to be breaking.
Well,” continued Samuelj “that was al
roost a pattern of the very loom. I have set op
in' the factories, though of course, 1 have
made much oltjration and improvement, and
there is room for improvement.'
“And that was what you were studying
when you bsed to fumble about, my room so
mtioh," said Mrs. Winlhrop. i
'“You are right, mother. Even then I had,
conceived the idea I have since carried'out.
“And that Was why you couldnl understand
my mathematieal problems,” uijered Mr,) |
VVinthrop, as he started from his chair and
look the youth by the hand. ‘‘Samuel, my
son, forgive me lor the harshness I have used
towards.you. 1 have been blind, foolishly so,
and now see how ,i misunderstood you.
While I it bought yoa.*e» idle and careless,
you were solving a philosophical.problem that
1 never could have comprehended. Forgive
me, Samuel—l meant veil enough, but 1
lacked judgement and discrimination.” -
Of course the old man had long before
been forgiven far his harshness, and his.mind
wag open for a new lesson in human nature,
h was simply this:
Different minds have different capacities,
add no - mind can be given to love that for
which it has no taste. First, seek to under
stand the natural abilities ond dispositions of
children, and then in your management of
their education for after life, govern yourself
accordingly. George Combe, the great- mor
al philosopher of his day, coold hardly reck
on in simple addition, and Colburn, the math
ematician could not write out a co(nmon I nluce
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how to mane roues Happy.
If you want to make a young buck feel as
if he were walking on thrones, tell him that
Julia called him the handsomest man in
town :—that Clara adores his moustache, end
that Annbella says that—well—she hadn’t
ought to—ah—uh !—but she really thinks
he’s irresistible. —Clambank Register,
If you want to rejoice the internal soul of
a reporter, tell him that six women and’seven
children have just been torn asunder limb
from limb in a house around the next corner
—that blood is gushing from the doors and
windows—that a steamboat has just ‘bust’
killing all on board—that the Reverend Dr.
Exegis has just cut his own throat—and that
an awful and impenetrable mystery surrounds
everything. —Alabama Skeeler.
If you Want to -rejoice an editor, tell him
that his last great article on the cross cut
And lip and sifter question has been copied
and severely commented on in the London
Times, and greatly praised in the AUgetne
ine Zeiturig. If you add that a club has
been made up in your ward to take bis pa
per, and. that you heard that a new patent
medicine man recently inquired his address,
you will greatly add to the effect.— N. Y.
Times.
If you want lo delight a young matron,
tell her that her child is. perfection, that her
Johnny-cakes are angelic and that her hus
band must live in a duck-pood of bliss. If
this don’t fetch her, nolh'ia’ won’t. —Puritan
Recorder,
, If you want lo make the floodlide of bjiss
melt over a lady’s head, give her a dozen of
Alexandre’s gloves, two canary birds, half a
dozen moonbeams, twelve yards of silk, an
ice qream , a rose hud, a squeeze of the hand,
and the promise of a hew bonnet. If she
don’t melt it will be because she can’t.—
Maine Water Lily,
A singular triumph' of a (Ted ion and art
is’ rallied by the Portsmouth ('N. H.) Chron
icle. Jonathan Dearborn, of that {dace, lost
an interesting little daughter of eight years,
of whom no’ likeness remained except such
as’ was'pictured'fri the memories of surviving
friends. A brftiher of 'the deceased, a mere
hoyi insisted ihata good portrait of his Mule
sister'might be obtained from such a
liqii as he cot||d give the a r|iat^-o ncj in spue
of rerhonslrancdsite atttrfpdfdr Boston with
ihe'purpose of carrying out the idea. His plan
was to vjsli ai| ihe‘ picture galleries tq ( which
he cotif’d'oljlaifi access, and oiie
feature frprri one pictupe'and aiiolker from ’on*
other gbt a Cbmbinailten tlrat shouUf answer to
the picture that iva's
o’nhts'Wem’bry. tb ! say fatter
nu(gbqr,lesa djscpurageineo.iat.aDtl two oul right
eiUjwwsji.c ,Iss sppqfe^ed, ey en
flf , 4r,Wng I f)ome, ) vjth. l a. Rn;ttfii
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. The jurjjjdound a verdiakof, “guilty” and
Ihfl , Court Jsleutenced -Defendant io iha
costs ■oC:.proBecuueo ) ,flndfiiob%in)piu3oßed,ji»
the Jail of the county for 20 tidy s.
■ Prosecutor, Mr. French, is assistant
feaoher L ih (he common school? of this Boro’;
andthe' defendant Was a scholar in hi'a de
partment. For some violation of rule, the
defendant was chastised by 1 the prosecutor;
after which lie was insolent in language and
refused (p submit; whereupon .he was imme
diately dismissed from school. After he had
proceeded ouside of the door, and when Mr.
French’s back was towards,him, the defend-,
on! threw into the room, and .struck Mr. F.
on the back either with a brickbat or what is'
called a coil, (the iron ball which was ex
hibited to you.) The blow- was, sp violent as
to produce.nausea, for short lime, and if thp
weapon was provided, as. alleged, for the oc
casion, it is evidence ofrgreat depravity in
one so.young -as the defendant; There can
be no difficulty ns to-the guilt of the defend
ant as he stands indicted, if the evidence is
believed.
We wish now to observe onfce for all, and
to have it understood, that in the correction
of a scholar the jurisdiction of thd teacher is
exclusive and conclusive, and ; there can be
no interference, unless when’the punishment
nbs been Unusual and cruel, which is hot al
leged irt this instance. We say this much,
as there was an effort made in this case lb
show that 'the boy had not been guilty of
qny violation of rule. If the door should be
opened ip such investigations, they, would bp
more numerous than profitable.
s We cannot, however, permit the occasion
to pass without pointing out wherein wo can
cpnceivelhe conduct of Mr. French was sub
ject lo exception. We think he did. wrong
in dismissing the boy from school, whether
for an indefinite time or merely temporarily.
We .entertain some old-fashioned notions
.about ihe efficacy of “lire rod” in- reducing
to submission rebellions and vicious young-
QlAi*. and »s-o (hinlf ' ihnt hnj nut a
fair trial on this occasion. Independent of
high and sacred authority, we have experi
ence which will go farther with some in these
days, that the use of “the rod” must no! be
neglected in the training of Ihe child, and by
this we are lo understand that quantum of its
use which will ensure submission. Any
thing short of this is worse than none. For
where submission is not gained .by the. teach
er, victory is achieved by the scholar, and
the boy who is not brought to subjection, is
unfit lo he turned into the streets-; his proper
destination then, for Ihe well being of socie
ty and his own reformation; should be the
House of refuge. It is ihe observation of
those whose age has giving them the oppor
tunity of judging that the presenter rising
generation is more vicious than the preced
ing one ; we think this is true, and it is not a
mere sensile laudation of (he past- and com
plaint of the present; and we are disposed
lo believe it may be ascribed in a great meas
ure to the failure to use that indispensable
and natural remedy, (‘the rod.” New ideas
have sprung up on this subject, earnestly and
honestly entertained by this new philosophy
has proved a failure, whereupon wc desire to
bring again into respectful notice the'old
dogma. And in doing so, we have the sat
isfaction of believing that bn the subject of
the proper education and training of our
youth, the public mind is inquiring and sin
cere, and willing to yield conviction to what
is best, and this is everything in' establishing
the right in any controverted matter. We
are tree to confess that there is some reason
for the different views entertained on this
subject; but this arises we nppfehend more
from a failure to discriminate properly, pro
ducing cqnfession rather than contradiction,
Some teachers have no fucu'lty fur govern
ment; to such no, application of “Ihe rod”
can give the proper uuHioriiy ; they will al
ways be treated, with that contempt . which
scholars only know ip bestpw, and it makes
no difference liuw great their, oilier acquire
ments may be they are pot fit lu be trusted
with an independent school,-but.may do very
well with a superior who knows how to gov
ern : again their ars> scholars who-are best
controlled Uy tbe luwof kindness. - In the
first instance the correction by the rod is not
successful and in the-second It is not required 1 ,
and these exceplidns to the general rolo have
caused its necessity lo be 'disabled; but not
withstanding ilregs and all oilier exceptions
which tan be fancied to the conlrary, we will
venture lo assert that genuine authority in
■the sfehoibl roortv'hbk itsffidt in- “rod.*’ If is
all a mistake lo auppdseScholar's enter
tain feelings oT'TSsenfmeh't lb the teachers,
from whom tfrey 'h'avb 'rechhied just and le
■giiamared ' puhiahment, thd teacher is'-in loc
•jktrenlti atfti whWtHb'cbrrefctidn isadminis:
tbretf in"tf"[irojiaf fepi/it,' itTs oiVhed andre
fcfefvda by the ffcfiplijPtfi' like mifid' hnd'obi
lha .fdachei - feSpdbf, and 'everi etleb
lipn.f Wd jcripw’ ttife/fl.'aVe isbitief rfaibnts
bllbw rjb coinbrlil 'pdoi3h , mbHf ifi' be n fhflfc(e(
haye.m bur time aeen,such,, in the fulf We .of
• mwfswt m sn wtaa Wn&Hfln he?.?
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}. 1 PUBLISHERS <&'■ MOBRIE'CORS.
cor d‘ an ddissitiiSfaction ih lho district;
persona nrpippvqd \yholly- by inalmqta
incapable of reason, on the subject, a
entitled to nocpnsidpcation, and shot,
ceivqmone, nntegfcthay should. attempt
their, insane, threats. ipto execution 1 whs
will receive from this court, it .ihe.oppi
ty should- afforded,’ that--punishment'
they so richly have, deserved; Happ
the.sake of society—pareills of this ch
not-n'umerous. It may I .' have come
yobs observation, 100, aa Something re
able, that parents of this kind havbger
the : rnpst yicioup ch,ildrejv.and .for «
>*lwJk wholesome, correction which th
not allowed to. receive, they generally
destruction, which is -thr fruit of this ill.
parental tenderness,—The School Jow
3'VESI ASTON.
Flow gently, swoct Afton, afaong thy green brow,
Flow gently, 111 ring thee a song In thy pmh*e;
My Mary’s asleep by thy murmuring stream,
Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her droain.
Thou aovo, whose soft echo resoupds from the bill,
Thou green crested lap-wing, with voice loud and shrill.
Yc wild whistling warblers,’ your music forbear 1
1 charge you disturb not my slumbering Mr. j .
Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely It glides, ,
And wends hy the cot where my Mary resides;
Tfasro, oft, os mild evening weeps over the lea,
The sweet-scented groves shade my Mary and me.
Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy grten bras,
Flow gently, sweet river, the theme of my lays;
Sty Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream.
Flow gently sweet Alton, disturb not herdream.
Communications
For the Agi
MUTE CHILDREN
DY JOE, A JERSEY MUTE.
I always wish to be “posted up” in
thing that pertains to the moral educa
deaf mules. So the other day I put (In
lion to my class, direct and plumb:
you pious or not 1"
Mary, a little girl of ten years, sai
whisper, “I try to bo pious.”
Anna, No. 3, for I here are in m
two others bearing (he same name, sa
sometimes try to be pious.”
William, who is the liveliest little mischief
I ever saw, said, “I do not know sir.”
John —*•! sometimes find it difficult to be
pious, but nevertheless I try to be so.”
Elizabeth —Why do you ask me this
question.”
Anna, No. I.—l beg to be excused from
telling you."
Andrew — “1 do not like to tell you, sir,”
Robert —“I will not telj you, never!”
Anna, No. 2 —“ Why, sir, God alone
knows whether I' am pious or not.'.’ ‘ I
George —“ Are you pious?”
am vary plooo, ,>
Sarah —“l am some pious.”
Lydia, smiling—“l nm not pious, pr, be
cause I forgot to pray yesterday.”
At the words of Lydia, some of the mem
bers of my class sprang to their fept, and
looked sort of sideways into her face.: They
seemed to be shocked at the impiety of her
language ; but without saying a wor|l, they
resumed their seats, and the teacher i|eut on
questioning them. {
EGG STORY.
Not many miles from this village lived an
old gentleman and his wife, by the name of
Mr. and Mrs, Brown. One evening as ihey
were silling very quietly in the parlor they
were interrupted by u knock on the dour, and
who should enter but three neices from New
York. Mr. and Mrs. Brown were very hap
py to see them, and they spent a very pleas
ant evening together. Among other topics
of conversation which were introduced] during*
the evening was the subject of eating, and
the young Indies remarked that there was
nothing (hat they liked better than fiesh fried
eggs. Accordingly before retiring; Mrs.
Brown requested Bridget, the servont Igirl, to
go to the hen coop in the morning, and select
the freshest eggs she! could find and have
them fried for breakfas'.
Mr. and Mrs. Brown having, on Account
of (heir visitors sat up later than was usual
for them, the consequence was, it wjas hue
the next morning before they awoke ; * but the
young ladies from the city were not in the
habit of going to bed so early and therefore
were up very early in the morning, but not
too soon for Bridget, for she had got the eggs,
and had them fried and and breakfast alt
ready, and were wailing for them. The
young ladies having pretty good appetites,
upon seeing the table all set, immediately
sal (lona and eat their breakfast before the
old folks got up. After Mr. and Mrs. B.
arose and prepared themselves Ifur breakfast,
they culled the young ladies not supposing
that they had yet eaten. | .
The young ladies replied that I
their breakfast tin hour previous ani
the young ladies snid Aunt Betse
kind of birds do you call those whic
for our breakfast ?
■What, snid Mrs. B. did Bridget ci
birds for breakfast, J told her to ha
eggs fried for you 1 !
ladies said they were t
dissatisfied with' Bridget’s mistake,
never ehianyihing they liked better
birds'Which they had just parlSken'f
of.' - ’■ ■- ■'
Mrs. B. said no more, hut went into the
kitchen and asked Bridget what she had pre
pa redfor the young iadinb breakfasts.
■ Faith' and f dotfe as ye-told me to, said
Bridget",-! weht out and took the eggs Oom
the" hen that had been settingso long on them - )
stfrei'arid niceahtHresh (hoy
warm, ma’m. " • 1 1 >
! c Dealr Wi Bridget; why,’ didn’t T tel! yeti
to'wTdct lHh’fr'qsh ones 1 '''thpSe’tfhaV'Vou havC
tVifed,'would
tidbit pdlped'' dtor (He Vdiiiig
fagjiS'tiW ii'6‘6 What kind bf blrldS they WdfC
"ielT' ert; ’yVobi’iVtj;'
Corrupondenct of tke Mutouri DmSoat.
KANSAS. '■
7i j 1T
| JUDGE LTNCff IN PASSf&LB. t
I '?Aftrhfcji, 18,- 1655.
»0 a;'ferry '
*Sv «? ■P^'Vbti4 ! ai; ift6' State afde of
f ' The t&ftlransatofigthe Ibok'bftlie
uhdertyoodpd'low lahds.which areotojn’oVer -
floWea when the snoviS belt ip the mountains,
orheffy raids stvellVHe Missouri and.Ks trib
utary ‘stbarns. Therf ia vatyHltlo cultiva
ted land along this road/ aye ratti
er too prccipitdiis for agricultural purposes,
as long at least as other lands' jam be pur-'
chased cheaply ; arid ihe low gVobnd, beside
being liable to-inundatibh, ohlyiajwaits the ac
tion of the plow, to produce.a heavy, crop of
dis Sades. It iVrtoh, thdugh; and some day
will yield an abundant harvest.
On the other side—thp Kansas road'to
Purkrille—the land if Hilly, rich, heavily tirh
befed, and weilwatered. It is the VVjariddile
ReseWe. WalnUt, white burr and ledoak,
elm, option-wood* aqd pec alb, constitute
Ihe forest, his over ted miles to Kansas
City by the territorial road, and about nihb
on the Stale side.
’ ■ 1 afriVerflnParhvUleihorlly after 1 O’clock.
I intended’bb'hiy'aS Hbur and rhea'start for
Leavenworth!
1 I /
i . It
I,*.*
-f.
NO, 116.
mark
erally
onl.cf
y are
go to
•timed
rnal.
In walking through the town, paragraph hpn
ting, I saw a crowd of about twenty men
around the door of Col. Summer’s office. The
colonel is a justice of the peace. Of course I
drew nigh.
“Hullo, Mr. B- ,’’ exclaimed a *oice
from the crowd, “here's an item for you!” r
It was. Mr. Starns of The Southern Dem
ocrat, the successor of The Parkvillo Lumi
nary.
After the usual salutations he informed me)
that an Englishman named Joseph Atkinson,
had been arrested by his honor Judge Lynch,
charged with attempting to run off a negro
girl, and that the crowd was awaiting the ar
rival of a witness before deciding how to pun
ish the accused.
f ator
I looked into the office to see the tar-and
fcather-doomed individual. There wertlat
least fifteen persons in the room, which lad
the ordinary appearance of a justice’s ofl ce,
with a green table before the magistrate’s
desk, home-made library-case, with sheep
skin-bound volumes on its shelves, in one
corner j locked closet or bureau in another ;
forms around the room close to the wall, and
the usual unswept appearance of officers in
general, I scrutinized the faces of every
one inside, but signally failed to recognize the
prisoner.
tvery
ion of
ques
"Are
in a
class
d; “1
Atkinson was pointed out to me. He was
stilting on a low form, leaning slightly for
ward, his legs apart, whirling his cap between
them round and round, in his hands. He
kept’ up, also, a very vigorous chewing and
expectorating process. But no one would
have suspected the critical condition he was
placed in trom his air or countenance. I
never saw a man more apparently uncon
cerned.
He was a /air-complexioned, blue-eyed,
llrmly-knit, rather stupid-looking roan, about
twenty-five years of age. Ho is a rope-ma
ker by (rude, arid had worked near Park vide
for five or six weeks past.
It appears that' he had tried to induce a
negro girl, said to be the property of widow
Hoy, but employed by Mr. Dale to go with
him to St. Louis, where he proposed to spend
the winter with her and then take her to a
free State. The girl agreed to go, but wished
him to take a colored couple, friends of hers,
along with them. He did not seem to like
the proposition, but finally agreed to do so.—
The day of flight was fixed. The col
ored trio’s clothes, it is said, were already
packed up. They intended to start on Satur
day ; but the secret came to the oars of a ne
gro boy owned by Mr. Hoy, to whom the
colored couple also belonged, and he divulged
it to his boss, who immediately got a com
mittee of investigation, organized to watch the
white man and procure evidence against him
from the negroes implicated in the affair.—
Atkinson’s mistress and two others to whom
the secret was known, but who had kept it
from the “while folks,” were privately whip
ped and questioned till they confessed all that
they knew.
The committee of investigation—consisting
of Messrs. J. Wallace, S. Tolson, John Bird,
Patrick Cooper, M. Pemberton, Col. Sum
mers, Maj. Jesse Summers, Wm. Hoy, Col.
F. Burns, J. Hughs, and B. Henshaw, all
men of property aud high social standing, I
am told, in this community and in the coun
ty—patrolled the streets for fwd nights, keep,
ing a watch on Atkinson and the girls. They
finally arrested and sternly interrogated him.
He gave contradictory accounts of his con
nection with the affair, but said enough, in the
judgment of the committee, to prove his guilt.
Thus the mailer stood when I came up.
After a private conversation between mem?
hers of the committee, the crowd weal inside
and sealed themselves.
Cal. Summers opened the meeting, by allu.
ding to the circumstances that hud culled them
together. There was a'kind of property in
this community, he said, guaranteed to us by
the Consiitution and laws, which must not be
tampered with by any one. It was as much
property to us as so maay dollars and cents
—it was our. dollars and cents in fact, and so
recognized by the statutes of Missouri, and
and the constitution of the United Stales, Ev
idence had been obtained against the prison*
er,he continued, from negroes, which agreed
with his pwn statement minutely enough to
convince the speaker, that Atkinson was guil
ty. What is to be done with him, gentlemen 1
Shall we merely drive hint’out of our city,
ond let him go unpunished T I’m opposed (o
that course, gentlemen, for one. I would like
this' mcetltjg to decide What to dir with-him.
Major jfeske Slimmers%a3 hexf called on.
Not hpving rekided ybry long among them,
hVi.aldj hd i&d not wished to appear promt*
nehtly id 'this matter; but as'his Opinion on
this' subject was pipected, he thought, if nil
tb'o comhiiitbe worb satisfied that the person
aWested was guilty of (his crime, of. Which
he JihH nd'dplilif Himself, they ought to give
liim a'codt of far and /bathere, add let him
go.' ‘ t
‘'MK Sinros called dri ’ths committee indu
ViHuhlly to; give 1 opinoids as to tlio
door’s 'guilt. t ' ..' '. a
V 'rttpy each ilctolarcd thdmkclves satisfied that
tey had
one of
r , what
we had
ok your
re some
ml at ail
for-1 hey
than-the
o- freely
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