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IU B W. AIO U * * OJI T J). X IDVit,
or chaslss ■sc eat.
Wiiif dost than see. Wo Witcher ontho tpWer T -
Is the day breaking? comes the wished for hoar 1
Tell us the digna, and stretch abroad thy baud,
li Uio brigbt morning dawns upon the land. . ~
The sura are clear above me—scarcely one -
Has dimmed Us rays in reverence to tbpsimi
But yet I on the. horizon’s verge,
Some fair, faint streaks,aa if the light would surge.
Look,forth, again, Oh I watcher on the lower—
The people wake, and languish for the boor;
Long have (bey dwelt in darkness, and they pine
For the full daylight that they know must shine,
1 see not well—the morn is dandy still;
There is a radiance on the distant bill—
Even as I watch, the glory'seems to glow;
But the start blink, and the night breeies blow.
And is that all, Oh! watcher on the tower ?
Look forth again* it must be near the honr.
Dost thoti not see the snowy mountain copes.
And the green woods beneath them on the slopes ?
A mist envelopes them: i cannot trace
Their outline; but Iho day comes on apace.
The clouds roll up in gold and amber flakes.
And all the stars grow dim. The morning breaks!
Wc thank the?, lonely watcher on the tower *,
But look again, and tell us, hour by hour,
All thou beholdtst; many of os die
Ere thy~day comesOh, give them a reply J
I see the hill.lops no\y; and chanticleer
Throws his prophetic carol on my ear j '
• I see the distant woods and fields of com.
And ocean, gleaming in the light ol morn.
Again, again. Oh ! watcher on the tower—
Wc thirst for daylight, and we bide the honr,
Patient, but longing. Tell ns, shall it be
A bright, calm, glorious day-light for the free?
I hope, bat cannot tell. 1 hear a song,
Vivid as day itself, and clear, and strong
Ab of a lark—young prophet of the noon,
Pouring in sunlight his seraphic tune.
Wh&l doth he say, Oh watcher on the lower ?
Is ho a prophet" Doth the dawning hour
Inspire his music 0 is his chant sublime.
With the full glories of the coming lime?
lie prophesies—his heart Is full—his lay
Tells ol the brightness of a peaceful day J
A dav not cloudless, nor yet void of storm,
Bui sunny for the most, and clear and warm.
RESIG NA TIO N
BV LONGFELLOW,
There is no Rock, however watched and tended,
Bui one dead lamb is there.
There is no-fireside, howsoe'er defended
But has one vacant chat’
The air is full of farewells to the dying
And mournings for the dead-
The heart of "Rachel, for her children crying,
Will not bo comforleu.
Let us be patient: these severe afflictions
Mol from Uioground arise.
But oftentimes celestial benedictions
Assume this dark disguise
We sec but dimly through the mists and vapors,
Amid these cirlhlv dampt -
Whot seem to os but dim. tunercal topers.
May bo Heaven’s distant lamps.
-.There is no death ; what seems so U transition;
This Hie of mortal breath,
is but a suburb of the field Elysiat.
Whose portal we call deal,.
Sno iai»ot dcao—Uie child o( our affection —
but gone unto that schot'
Where she no longer needs oar poor protection
Bal Christ himself doth rule
In that great cloister’s stillness and seclusion.
By puardian anpels lee
Sate from temptation, safe from sin’s pollution,
She lives* wJiom we call fleau
Day after day we think what sue is doing
]q those bright realms of air
} car after year her lender steps pursuing
Behold her grown more fair
Thus we do walk with her, and keep unbroken
The bond which nature gives *
Thinking that our remembrance,tho’ unspoken,
May reach her where she live*..
Not as a child shall we again behold net,
tor when with rapture wiis.
Xn our embrace we once again enfold he:,
She will not be a chil.
But a fair maiden in her father’s mansion,
Clothed with celestial grace -
And beautiful, with all the soul's expansion.
Shall we behold her face
And though, nt times, impetuous with emotion
And anguish long suppressed.
The swelling heart heaves, moaning, like the ocean
That cannot be ot res.
We will be patient, and assuage the feeling
We cannot wholly su:
Bv silence sanctifying, not concealing
The grief that must have war
A Good lut, — A Methodist divine of this
city on last Sunday administered a most
severe rebuke to a common custom in those
days, oi reading advertisements from the
pulpit.' A paper was ponded to him giving
nonce that me “imrnduciorj lecture of the
annual course would be delivered on Monday
night,” Ate., at a certain Medical Institution
in this city. The preacher said he had con
scientious scruples against cheatin'; the prin
ter by making such announcements in the
pulpn; that no never heara such advertise
ments read in church wunout reminding.him
oi me old deacon in Alexandria, who on a
certain occasion exhorted in a most earnest
anu vehement language, the sinners in his
congregation 10 repent or they wonld.all go
to hell as sure as mere was flour for sale in
Alexandria, ano ne was sure there was flour
there, lor be hao received me day before an
assortment, which ne would sell as cheap as
any man in the city,—Ooiumb|« (0.) States,
wo..
Anxious Father — “What am 1 i 0 do
with vou, sir-r*wha( am 1 to do with you.
Do you know if you continue in your present
course of cruelty and cowardice you will be
fit for nothing but a member ol Congress I”
Distracted Mother. —“Oh don't sny
that, father, don’t fattier 1 vou will humiliate
the bn' 1
iouno America, —a fattier holding his
little son across his Knee amJ spanking him,
ttie-liitie urchin bit him severely on the leg ;
on which the parent saio ; “You young dog,
now dare you bite me ” The boy turned
ms ne;uj, and loosing nnn in the face rejilted,
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HICHAEL AWD POWLESKAT
-1 qBMARKABLI SPIRIT %EVE^ATION.
' A circumstance'folly: asremarkableas any
recorded occurred at Odessa io-the year 1842.
Alt old blind mad named' Michael had for
tpany years been accustomed to get hisdiving
by seating himself every morning on a beam
in one of the timber yards, with- a wooden
bowl at his feer, into which passengers cast
their alms. This long continued practice
had made him well known to the inhabitants
and' as he Was believed to have been formerly
a soldier, his blindness was attributed to the
numerous wounds he had received in battle.
For his own part, he spoke little, and never
contradicted this opinion.
One night Michael, by some accident fell
in with a little girl ten years old, named
Powleska, who was friendless and on the
point of perishing with coltkand hunger. The
old man took her home and adopted her;
and fiom that time he went about the streets
io her company, ard asking alms at the doors
of houses. The child called him “father,”
and they pursued this mode of life for about
live years when a misfortune befell them. A
theft having been committed in a house whidh
they had visited in the morning, Powleska
was suspected and arrested, and the blind
man' was once more left alone. Out instead
of resuming his former habits he now disap
peared altogether; and this circumstance
causing the suspicion to extend to him, the
girl was brought before the magistrate tot be
interrogated with regard to the place of con
cealment.
"Do you know where Michael is ?” said
(he magistrate. .
- “He is dead,” .replied she, shedding a tor
rent of tears.
As the girl had been shat up for three days
without any moans of obtaining information
from without, this answer, together with her
unfeigned distress, naturally excited consider
able surprise.
“Who told you he was dead]" they in
quired.
“Nobody I” ■
“Then -Upw can you know it!”
“I saw him killed I”
“But you have not been out of prison I”
“I saw it, nevertheless I”
“But how was that possible ] Explain what
you mean I"
“1 cannot. All 1 can say is, that I saw
him killed."
“When was he killed and how?"
“It the night I was arrested.”
. “That cannot be ; he was alive when you
were Belted.”
“Yes, he was; he was killed an hour after
that. They slabbed him with a kuifo I’’
“Where were you then t”
“I can’t tell; but I saw it.’’ ‘
The confidence with which the girl asserted
what seemed to her lleo/ers impossible and
absurd, disposed (hem no imagine that she
was either really insane or. pretending to be
so. So leaving Michael aside, they proceed
to interrogate her about the robbery, asking
her if she was guilty.-
“Oh, no ]”■ she answered.
“Then how came the properly to be found
about you ?” ' ■
“1 don’t know ; I saw nothing but the mur
der.”
“But there are no grounds grounds for sup
posing Michael is dead ; his body has not
been found."
“It is in the acqueduct."
“And do you know who slew him 1"
“Yes; it was a woman. Michael’was
walking very slowly, after I was taken away
from him. A woman came behind him wuh
a large kitchen knife; but he heard her nnd
turned around, and then the woman flung a
piece of gray stuff over his head, and struck
him repeatedly with the knife ; the gray stuff
was much stained with blood. Michael fell
at the eighth blow, and the woman dragged
the body to the acquetluct andjet it full
without ever lifting {ho stuff which stuck to
his face.”
As it was easy to verify thpse latter asser
tions, they dispatched people to Ihe spot; and
there they found the body, with -a piece of
stuff over his head, exactly as she' had de
scribed. But ttfben they asked her how she
knew all this; she could only answer;
“I don’t know."
“But you know who killed him ?”
“Not exactly ; it is the same woman that
put out his eyes j but perhaps he will 101 l me
her name to-night | and if he does! mil tell
it to you.’’
“Whom do you mean by he ?”
“Why Michael to be sure.” * .■
During the whole of the following night,
without allowing her to suspect their inten
tion, they watched her) and it was of ob
served that she never lay down, but sal upon
the bed in a sort of lethargic slumber. Her
tpdy was quite motionless, except at intervals
when this repose was interrupted by violent
nervous shocks which pervaded her whole
frame. On the ensuing day, the moment she
was brought before the judge, she declared
that she was noW able to tell them the name
of the assassin.
“But slay,” said tho magistrate; ’did Mi
chael never tell you wjicn ho was alive, how
he lon his sight ?”
‘,‘No—hut the morning before I wap ar
rested, he promised mo to do so j and that
was the cause of his death.”
“How could (hat bo?”
night Michael came to me, and he
poipled to the man hidden behind the scaflbld.
ding on which jio and I had been silling. He
showed me the man listening to us, when he
said, ‘l’ll tell you all about that to-night
and then the man •”
“Do you know lljc panto of lips tpanl-”
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TIO6A GOllSfey MAIICH §6/1857.
“U ia £uck'..tfe Venf.alWwarJtp a broad
street fhat; tetidb lo the Mfßor. anß bb i&teired
the'Vhird noiise pfi 1 the figh't- —— ! '
■ '‘WHat'is the name offhe street 1” 1 ’
"I Odri’t know.;''bu( (he hodse’ is one story
Mwbr rtiifir "ihii " adjhlriing onddi' ; LiM : (bid
Catharine what he, had’ heard; ajdd she pro;
posed to assaslnate 'Michdel; but he Refused
saying, *lllB bad enough to .have burnt otil
his eyes’fifteen 1 years before, white he’was
asleep at yoUr door, and to have kidnapped
him into the c'duhtry.’ Then I went to ask
and Catharine put a piece of plate
into my pocket; that I might be arrested, then
she hid herself behind the acqueduct to wail
for Michael, and she killed him.”
“But siloed you saw all this, why did you
keep the plate—why did you not give in
formation.”
“Bui I did not see it then. Michael showed
it lo me last night.”
"But what should induce Catharine to do
this 1”
"Michael was her husband, and she had
forsaken him to come (o Odessa and marry
again. One night fifteen years ago, she saw
Michael, who had come to- seek her. She
slipped hastily into her house, and Michael,
who thought she had not seen him, lay down
at her door to watch ; but he fell asleep, and
then Luck burnt out bis eyes, and he carried
him to a distance.”
“And it is Michael who had told you
this I”
“Yes; he came very pale and covered wilh
blood, and he look me by the hand and
showed me all this with his fingers.”
Upon this, Luck and Catharine were ar
rested ; and it was ascertained that she had
actually been'married to Michael in the year
IBl‘9, at Kherson. They at first denied the
accusation, but Powleska insisted, and they
subsequently confessed the crime. . When
they communicated the circumstances of the
confession to Powleska, she said, “I was told
of it last night.”
The affiiir naturally excited great interest,
and pedple 1 all around the hieghborhood
hastened into the'eity to learn the sentence. —
Night Side of Nature,
The following account of Dr. Kane, of the
departure of himself and party from the Brig
Advance, in which they had sheltered them
selves from the severity of the two Arctic
winters is illustrative of the beautiful Christ
ian spirit that adorned his character, ,aqd his
entirely unselfish appreciation of duty, '
“Our last farewell to the brig wps made
wilh more solemnity. The entire ship’s com
pany vu nollected In pur dismantled winter
chamber to take part in the ceremonial, n
was Sunday, our moss walls had been torn
down and the wood that supported them
burned. Our beds, were off on the boatp.—
The galley was unfurnished and cold, every
thing about the little den of refuge was deso
late.
We read prayers and a chapter in the Bi
'jslo; and then all standing silently roun[i I
look Sir John Franklin’s portrait from' its
frame and cased it in an India-rubber scroll.
[ next read the reports of inspection and sur
vey which had been made by the several com
missions organized for the purpose, all of
them’ testifying to the necessities under which
I was about to act. I did not affect to dis
guise the difficulties that were beforp us ; but
I assured them that they could all be over
come, by energy and subordination to com
mand ; and that the thirteen hundred miles
of ice and water that lay between us and
North Greenland could be traversed with
safety for most of us, and hoped for nil, 1
added, that as men and messmates, it was
the duty of us all, enjoined by' gallantry as
well as religion, to postpone every considera
tion of self to the’protection of the wounded
and sick ;"and thdVlhis must-be regarded by
every-man and under all qircumstances as a
paramount order. In conclusion I told them
to think over the trials we had all of us gone
through, and to remember each man for him
self, how often an unseen Power had rescued
him in peril, and I admonished them still to
place reliance on Him who could not change,
I was met with a right spirit, after a short
conference, an engagement was-drawn op by
one of the officers, and brought to me with
the signatures of all the company without an
exception.
We then went upon deck, the flags were
hoisted and hauled down again, and our parly
walked once ortwjce around the brig, looking
at her limbers and exchanging comments
upon the scow which reminded ihem of every
stage of her dismantling. Our figure head,
the fair Augusta, the little blue girl with pink
cheeks, who had Inst her breasts by an ice
berg, and her nose hy a nip of Bedevilled
Beach, was taken from our bows and'placed
aboard the “Hope.” , “She is at any rale
wood” said the men when I hesitated to give
them the additional burden,.“and if we can
not carry her far.we can burn her,”
one thought of the mockery of oheers,
we had no festival liquor to molest our per
ception ofjtho real state of things, when all
hands were quite ready, wo, scrambled off
over the ice together, much like a gang of
stevedores going to work over a quay full of
broken cargo.— Kane's Arctic Explorations
A Gift and “a sell.”— Dewy, the Bur
lington, Vl., grocer, (who judging by bisad
vcrtismenls, must have got his “license” from
Apollo, sent to the editor of the Free Press,
which was found to consist of a ham and an
empty cigar box, accompanied by the follow,
fng note.—“l send you a box of cigars and a
ham both well smoked .” The editor, being
neither a ; Jew nor a smoker, was pleased with
his present, and made his acknowledgements
accordingly.
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Flvidenoe on Dancing^
Thai beautiful, gShtbefu! accomplishment
of dancing, so perverted 'by late hours and
the indecency of 1 fdshibnhblo attirfe, has
outraged'Wany'sensible pedp|e, aijd led them
to deprive the joiing tif ohe Of thh mbsf sim
ple and healthful enjoyments, because it has
heen abusedj ' For myself, V chn testify hot
only to its healthful I ,'but to‘its recuperative
power, The fortieth, nay, the fiftieth year
of my age, found me enjoying this life-cheer
ing exercise. It should be one of the earliest
amusements of children, and care should be
taken by parents that it is. understood as. on
amusement. While lam on this topic, I will
mention a case (hat occurred in my practice.
A thoughtful, anxious mother, who had lost
three children, brought to roe her poly re
maining child, a daughter—her temperament
nervous bilious—the. nervous fearfully pre
dominant, with great irritability of the sys
tem—peevish,. passionate, dyspeptic, sleep
less—of course exacting, arbitrary and un
comfortable ; the pOor child looked sad, old,
morbid and miserable. She had been to
school because her parents thought it an
amusement for her (o be With other children.
After critically examining her physiognomy,
I said to her mother s
“What is the temperament of your hus
band?”
“The sambas my own,” she replied.
“Then the child is doubly stamped,” I con
tinued, “and very rigorous measures must be
used if you expect to restore her .to. health.
Divorce her immediately from anything men
tal, so far as memorizing is concerned ; then
send her to a dancing.school, that she may
combine exercise with order and melody, and
thus some of her rough edges may be
rounded.”
The child—her large eyes wide open with
wonder and delight—interrupted me with :
“Dancing school 1 Oh I how I’ve longed
to go; but mother says it’s wrong and leads
to wickedness.”
What a dilemma for a physician I What a
dilemma for a child!
“Did you ever intend yourdaughter to play
the piano, guitar, or other musical instru
ment I” said I to the mother.
“0, yes,” was the answer.
“Why,” I continued, (‘why show such
partiality, to the upper extremities T The
hands ire rendered happy as a medium of
melody ; the feet arc rendered'equally happy
in the same way."
A nice afternoon school received the littld
girlj'H’fio gfew iti health and harmony evef'y
month as sho followed'tho hygienic rules pre
scribed for her. Dancing is a healthful,
graceful recreation, and is not responsi
uio (or it.o ..Ouoj>o ji.vi.ry hn? {brown around
it. The vulgarism and excitemehrror me
ball-room have no more to do wilh the sim
ple enjoyment of the dance than the rich
wines and sumptuous banquets of the. gour
mand, in whom they induce disease, have to
do with the temperate repasts that satisfy the
natural wants of the body. — Dr. Harriot K.
Hunt.
Ben, a speculator in bivalves, had taken in
a counterfeit three dollar bill, and not relish
ing such dead capital, he conceived the idea
of giving it to Tom who was a rollicking
sort of a fellow, and could make it go if any,
body could. Accordingly, ho approached
the contemplated dispensing - medium one day,
when the following conversation ensued :
“I say, Tom, here’s a pretty good sort of
a three. If you’ll pass it I’ll divide.”
“Let’s see (he piaster,” said Tom ; and
after cxamining.it, carefully, pul it In his vest
pocket, remarking, “It’s an equal division—
a dollar and a half apiece ?*
“Yes,” said Ben,
“All right," said Tom, and be sauntered
away.”
A few minutes after ho quietly stepped into
the office of his friend Ben, purchased a can
wf oysters for one dollar and a half, and lays
down the three dollar hiii in payment for
them. The clerk looked at the bill rather
deubtingly, when his suspicions were imme
diately calmed by Tom, who told him there
was “no use looking, for ho had received that
bill from Ben himself not ten minutes since.”
Of course the clerk, with this assuranc, im
mediately forked over (he dollar and a half
change, and wiih this deposit and the can of
oysters Tom lefi.
Shortly afierwards he met Ben, who asked
him if he had passed the bill.
"Oh yes,” said Tom, “here’p your share,”
at the same time passing over the dollar and
a half to Ben,
That night when Ben made up hisoash ac
count, ha was surprised to And the same old
counterfeit three in the drawer, Turning to
his looum lenem ho asked i
“Where did you gel this cursed bill?—
Didn’t you know it was a counterfeit 1”
“Why, gave it to me, and I suspected
it was fishy, but he said he had Just received
it from you, and i therefore took it.”
The whole thing had penetrated the wool
of Ben, and with a peculiar grin he muttered
“Sold,” and charged a oan of oysters to profit
and loss account,
So Muon fob Opinions. —The Northern
Independent, a progressive Methodist paper,
started to represent the more decided anti;
slavery of that body, has, in six
months, attained a circulation of 10,000.
The principal editor is the Rev. William
Husmer,
A Little Girl, walking in Greenwood
Cemetery, and reading one after another the
praises upon the tomb-stones of those who
slept beneath, exclaimed, “I wonder where
all the sinners are buried !”
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[Tbo subjoined letter ju frora»cUiscu of this County* now
traveling lu thb West. A- friend hha lirtndctl It in for publi
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reading will doubtless be intonating to many oar readers.]
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~ Dear Wife : According [©previous prom-,
ise 1 wilt. ,i)pw..give you a.pariiatdeaoripiion
of ,this place, and surrounding country
Superior is situated suite west end pf Rake
Superior, on iho soulh.side of, Superior Bay,
which is subdivided into the Bays of St. Louis
and AllonesV.and is formed by the mouths of
three Rivera , the St. Louis, Nemyi and Al
lones. The city is platted on either aide of
these rivers,-each, of which is deep enough to
admit of steamboat navigation for several
miles above their mouths. This harbor, is
somewhat difficult to enter, as the passage is
narrow between Minnesota Point and Wis
consin Point; .hut When entered, is perfectly
secure and very commodious. The site of
Superior is da elevated plain, (some 30 feel
above,the water in the bay,) of even surface
and certainly is very beautiful. The site two
years ago was a wilderness with no habita
tion of more pretensions than an Indian wig-
warn, and had one white inhabitant. Now it
is a flou ishing town, or city, spread over an
extent o j two or three mil.es each way, and
contains'many buildings which may well pre
tend to c legance. As a business town it is
not excelled by any of its size in the West.
This place is, no doubt, destined to be
in advance of even Chicago as a commercial
point, it being the western eqd of. lake navi
gation and the starting point of a number of
railroads, among which, not the least impor
tant is the great Pacific railroad, by Way of
Pembina to Puget’s Sound. This Bill will
probably pass the preseniCongress.but wheth
er it does or not will not make this point the
less important; 'for you will see by reference
to the map, that (his is the only outlet to the
great Bgriculiurahand mineral wealth of the
north-west j and this will be the great com
mercial emporium of the west, and where all
its products will be obliged to come for ship
ment.
The country about Superior is good for
agricultural and grazing purposes in particu.
lar. For a distance of some 20 miles (rack
it is a level plain, covered by a dense growth
of spruce, tamarac, cedar, &c. Tfio trees
are small, very straight and tall, being evi
dently a second growth; as the remains of
large trees are everywhere to he seen.—
About 20. miles from the lake shore on the
south, you come to the Range as it is culled,
which is nothing more or less lhan'a continu
ous ridge of (rap rock, some 500 feel high,
rich wilh copper, iron, and silver ores. A
number of copper mines are now beingsuc
cessfully worked, the copper being found-sn
its pure, metallic stale, obliging the operators
ooparnte the large masses as removed, by
the use of the cotcf chisot. In many of these
mines, silver, in masses of several pounds
weight, is found in a pure slate; and in all
of the copper mines, silver is found to greater
or less extent. Workmen offer to work these
copper mines for the silver they may find in
them, which offer is refused by the owners.
We see many things which seem novel to
eastern people in the customs and habits of
the people here. Owing to the rigor of the
climate it becomes necessary for the “pale
face” to don Ihe blanket and moccasin, a la
Indian. The dressing for the feet consists uf
from two lo.|bur pairs woolen stockings and
from two to l three pairs of “Nips”—which
arc pieces of flannel about eighteen inches
square, which you wrap around your feel ;
and over all I his, a pair of buckskin mocca
sins ; about your ankles a pair of wollen leg
gins, and your feel arc dressed. You will
readily perceive that the general appearance
of the foot must be elegant; but should I slop
into an eastern village thus equipped, the tjrst
question would probably be, “have you frozen
your feel I” All would conclude that at least
1 had a “sore toe.’’ Flannel shirts are a
great institution, and the number one wears
varies from three to eight. The balance of
the wardrobe consists of furs, woolen mittens,
comforters, three or four pairs of drawers,
and a pair of pants, and over all this a Mexi
can blanket. Picture the above to your im
agination and you have before you your hum
ble servant as he stands at his desk inditing
this epistle, and as he appears in his daily
walks. The above costume would not be nec
essary in an old settled country ; but in this
country people do not depend upon stoves,
warm rooms and soft beds, but lie down and
sleep when night overtakes them, using the
clean while snoio for feathers, and the broad
canopy of the Heavens for a covering; and
were the people of Penn, to adopt the same
habits they would probably require the same
costume.
Another novel sight to eastern folks, is the
“poor Indian, whose untutored mind," Ac.,
large numbers of whom are daily to be seen
ip our streets. You will also soe daily, nu
merous “dog trains,” conveying men, women
and children, as also freight of various kinds.
Snow shoes may be considered as,'another of
our peculiarities. Along the shores of the
lake may bo seen large numbers of the bark
canoes of the Indians lying m Wait for the
spring lime that they may glide over the dark
blue waters of the lake.
But enough of this ; these things will soon
pass away before the march of civilization.
A few days and all ihese shall be among the
things that were. There are many other
things I would like to mention, but for want
of opportunity will be obliged to desist. Per
haps at some future time I will resume the
correspondence, but lor the present you must
be content, jloping you will soon be wnh
me to have occular demonstration of these
things, 1 remain as ever,
Yours aft’eciinnately.
Superior, Doug. Co. Wis., C. V.
Jan. U7,lad7. V
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sertions marked upon them! will bekCpl.inunUl or.
dored oot, and chergcd acfcordihgly.' •
Puslore, Handbills,'Bill,and Letter Heads,and alt
kinds of Jobbing,, done .in counify establishments,
executed, neatly and promptly, Justices’, ConsU,
; bids* and other BLANKS, constantly on hand and
printed lb drdtfr^ 1 i ■ - 1
Had ’tot A young man front
the “rurall:dHlricts‘ ) ” went to the post office
Ihe other day Tor 1 a 1 dollars worth of postage
He was (old that paper money Was
not received! He went away, and portly
returned with four Spanish quarters. ‘‘We
don’t receive Cfism Wow;-” sa’a'lhe attendant,
“fortriore than twenty cOnts apiece;’’ The
countryman thought Uncle Sam was mighty
particular, so he tfenl aftajr again and ob
tained o'dollar in coppers.' “Now,’’- said he
on returning to thh office, aad faying down
the “pile" al the window of the delivery, “I
guess I con suit ye." The man inside looked
at ihe display of “specie currency,” arid
Coolly said, “We rievhr take tnorp than thice
cents in coppers al any one timer'll is hoi le«
gal tender above that sum,’’-
The-counlryrttan looked at the composed
official for Ihp space of a minute and a half
without stirring f and then he he Ip bed on*,
“Look here you, ain’t you mighty kind of
particular for fellers locked up in such a jail
a$ this’ere? Yotl don’t lake only three cema
in coppers at a time, hey 1 Well then, s’poso
you give mo (Href cents worth of stamps,
anyhow,-” The official very politely out him
off a single stamp, and passed it out, for
which the countryman laid down three cents.
He was about to pass away, when Ihe latter
oried out, “Look here, you! Hold on It-*
Thai era’s one time. Now s’pose you gin
me three cents worth more On ’em.”
1 Uncle Sam’s clerk was not slaw in discov
ering that he had oaught a tartar. He turned
back to the window. “How many coppers
have you got?" he asked. Wall, only about
ninety-seven of ’em ; I bad a hundred on ’em
when I begun.” ,'“'Pass ’em in,” was the
gruff reply. “Pass out- your stamps fust, and
then I will," said Jonathan, “put 1 reckon you
don’t ketch me agin.” The stamps were
passed out, the coppers were handed over,
when the countryman went off saying, “I
a’pose because a feller bolds office under
Uucle Sam he thinks he’s smarldr than crea.
lion ; but I guess they larut something that
lime.” —Lowell Newt.
The Daukbv and the D£BR.-^- , 'Mack,'‘
the Detroit correspondent of Porter’s Spirit,
is responsible for the following i
“The good steamer lon was coming down
the, beautiful St. Clair, when a noble buck
woe seen swimming across ahead of her.—
Ta lowbr away \a boat and give chase wps
only the work or a moment, and with a stout
line he' was taken by the antlers, and safely
brought upon the steamer's deck. A good
deal of admirajion was excited by his fine
proportions, and among his admirers was the
cook, a goodly specimen of “Afric’s clime,!’
who imagined that, from the docile appear,
ancc of the animal, he was quiet as a sheep,
lie therefore undertook to caress him, and to
lay his hand upon his haunch, when he was
astonished by a,vigorous kick, that laid him
sprawling on the deck. Nothing daunted,
however, Cully thought to succeed better by
the.head, but the deer, liking this, no better,
made a butt that laid the darkey out again,
and opened an ugly gash on his wooly head.
This was 100 much of a good thing, soCtiffV
when he recovered himself, stood a respect
able distance, and eying the old buck, said,
—“Now look a heah, Mister Dee,” 1 do’no
whose dee you is, or who you belong to { hut
if you dp dal nr agio dar’ll be wenzon boarct
dis boat, sure’s you live I” ‘
Wup Whites the Neuro Sokgs !—The
principal wnier of our national music, is
Stephen C. Foster, the author of "Undo
Ned.” "O Susannah,” &c. Mr. Foster re
sides near Pittsburg, where he occupies a mod
crate clerkship, upon which, and a percentage
on the sales of bis songs, he depends for a
living, lie writes the poetry as well as thu
music of his songs. These are sung wher
ever the English language is spoKen, while
the music is sung wherever men sing, in
the cotton fields of the South, among the
mines of California and Australia, in the spa
coast cities of China, m Pans, in the London
prison, everywhere, in fact, his melodies are
heard, "Uncle Ned” was the first. This was
published in 1845, and reached a sale un.
known nil then in the music publishing busi
ness. Of “The Old Polks at Home,” 100-
000 copies have been sold in this country,
and ns many more in England. "My Ken
tucky Home” and Old Dog Pray,” each had
a sale of about 70,000. All his other songs
have had a great run. All Ins compositions
are simple, but they are natural, and find their
way to the popular hcait and link themselves
indissolubly with its best associations.
(p we wished 10 make a novel remark—
one ihm would electrify the world wuh He
dazzling brilliancy aadientire originality—
we would very modestly suggest that "Win
ter lingers in the lap of Spring." If any of
our cotomporaries should see lit to quote Ibis
lightning flash of intellect— as we feel quite
certain that more than half of ihcm will in
their next woollier article—they need not be
particular about giving us credit for u ; as,
upon a due consideration of the dizzy litera
ry eminence its utterance might place us
upon, we have concluded not to make it.—•
Glean Advertiser.
The langungp would be inadequate to the.
subject. 'Twuuld not half express the enor.
milies of Old Winter’s doings of laic. He
not only "lingers in the lap of Spring,” but
be embraces her with his icy arms and impu
dently blows his chilling breaih in her face.
I And whit is the strangest of all, Miss Spring
—the immodest little huzzy—seems to entov
the aliemions of the hoarv-headed old sinner.
If she would only snivel about the mailer,
and shed a profusion ol tears, old Winter
might m a melting mood, desist his irnporlu
niiies, and act deoenilv nereuiter..—
aaa Whic, March 17.