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- From the Weslgan,.
tiie Ooral Dlapen»atioa- • - War- • -Sla
very and Polygamy,
■ “Good morning, Mr. Dodge,” said Rer;
Mr. Corbin, “what did you think of my lec
ture last evening V' l ,
“O it was nice,” said he ; “ft M ' as a feast
to me. Call at niy store Mr Corbin and se
lect for yourself, cloth tor a suit. 1 feel un
der great obligation ; and I read, “The work
titan is worthy of his hire."
’ “When do you design to start on your
Voyage, to join Gen. Walker T' inquired the
tiery'poh’le nod smiling clergyman, whose
Ibngue grew fluent by the unexpected pros
pect of a costly suit of clothes. “When'dp
you sail John “Within two weeks, Mr.
Corbin; nnd you shall hear from me often.”
said Mr. Dodge. “Thank you John,” said
C.; “you are very kind; very kind indeed.”
The great saloon, where purse-proud to
pers who visit New Orleans, trout every land
delight to drink, was now filling fast oy men
who hold the mysterious political wires; by
bankers, stockholders, by lordly planters, by
in sugar, in cotton and slaves, by
and genteel priests. How grand
the sight I- Men walked to and fro, over the
vast floor {of the saloon, with stately steps,
with necksterect'; every face, though smiling,
bore the mark of independence ; for every
man was armed, and able from instinctive
impulse, to discharge the contents of a six
shooter in a moment.
Many recognized in Mr. Corbin, the elo
quent clergyman, whose lecture on conquest,
they had heard with so much pleasure, and
hearing his enchanting voice, gathered around
him, and bestowed on him such smiles, as
they bowed complacently, that ho was in
duced to reiterate the substance of the lecture.
He went through all history from Nimrod to
Gen. Walker, and showed to the satisfaction
of his hearers, that conquest had been the
civilizer of the world. He dwelt long on
Roman conquests; especially their conquests
over our German and British ancestors—on
the influence of the Normans, in elevating
the spirit and 1 manner of the English, and giv
ing that lofty and noble-carriage, seen in the
English gentry, and in the weahhy masters
of America—and finally to the astonishment
of some, who traced their pedigree to the
Cavaliers of Charles I, he bestowed boundless
eulogium on Cromwell.
Some murmured in bo under (one. “He’s
a Yankee fay fairlh; a Connecticut Yankee;
but never mind, he is with, us, and King
Charles has been 100 long dead to care for
their praise on old Noll.
Our orator had armed himself for his grand
work, fay a glass of wine when he began to
walk with Cromwell, and here the powers of
his great soul, his vast eloquence were devel
oped. With Cromwell’he walked back thro’
dim ages to the Mosaic dispensation, and look
his pattern from Joshua ; and while describ
ing the destruction of the Caoaaniles—the
fall of Jericho — the hewing of Agog— the
wars of Gideon, Sampson and David—we
thought of Demosthenes. He thundered, he
lightened, the earth seemed to rock, by an
earthquake’s upheaving power. In this as
tonishing drama, when Joshua and David left
the stage, Cromwell stood forth in brilliant
majesty, the modern Joshua, the protector !
Protector-of what? muttered a man back
>n the crowd, “Protector of Calvinism, and
Local Church Independence,” muttered an
other, pinching-his elbow. “Protector of the
Liberties of his country, and all lands; of
ht» age, and all ages, thundered the eloquent
son of the Pilgrims, He then followed the
spirit of his modern Joshua to America, and
traced it m the destruction of the Indians, the
modern Canaanites. Here ho fell into the
cam, the tone and manner of Cromwell’s
fge, spoke of the Lord delivering the Indians
tmo the power of his elect people— spoke of
the burning of six hundred, including squaws
and children in one brush fort.
When he came to the American Revolu
tion, long and loud hurrahs for n time drown
ed his voice. “Bring the oraior a glass of
wine,” cried a score of voices at once. A
glass of wine was brought. After drinking
he employed his brilliant powers on the gin
rious achu-vments of our fathers. Beseemed
a Rbadtim nthus, consigning each tory to
hell, and every whig to the celestial gardens.
Onward and onward our orninr moved,
wt'h increasing light, over the falling wig.
warn, the bleaching bones of Indians, in the
holy march of the Lord’s elect, to the pos
session of this land nf promise. Still with
majestic march he introduced us to the clori
oua conquest of Mexico, the taking of that
r arous people under our humane and
chnsnnn care compared Walker to Joshua
ArheT I,?"' 1 said his P"D' er should
efforts f( J r , ,h ® divine blessing on his
solution n 'i. ,h | j blessings of our Christian in-
del no°m d c r, up f r Darien ,o ,he
cheers * e j ud nnd lon ft con, mued
loon whetuh!. nd t? hoed 'bmugh the great sa-
FilllhlV n ° b!o oralor dosed.
r Und him ’ nnd ««
offer of°a b - e 'J?' he had forgotten the
Was a beautif | SU,,, r b' n Pelt that this
verypofe 2 WOr,d ’ and i,s P e °P' o ««
seemed to him Even s "mblerg
scribed Illr J" 5" e Gentlemen, as they sub
best op a f'" d 'bo bean,” P ,a Mr. C. in the
cordially wiill'' 10 ™’ s b«°k hand* most
and r* c i, SB , T er y man of purse and power,
onairea, and > . m ' r ' ta *i° n s to dine with mill!,
the Cicero of h flattery to view himself
many cities * ge ’ thought of visiting
s planter th>> ° re pealing his lecture; when
broke the rever:«^r\° r 8 lhou9and slaves,
Issking him i “■ self-complacence, by
lion ofS mi!!' Ur, . 0n ,he DWoe
*dge 6 f hi,fl, d i w,nulin B thst bis know).
and facility with which be
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VOL. H.
applied the institutions of Abraham and Mo
ses to our time, would enable him to do great
service to the interests of the South.
- When; all eyes:were „„ Mr. Corbin; when
it wtoterident that he Was the lion of the sa
loon,-he? anticipated his lecture, spread in» be
lore bis astonished admirers alt qf the'siat
me* oFMoses relating to servitude; introduced
the venerable slaveholding patriarchs, arid
made capital for the qoiei of some peculiar
concieociUß, out of the case of Hagar.
Among those «*ho shouted applause, .was
a shun man, very strongly built, whose round
head-rested, nearly wiifiout a neck, between
his great shoulders. His, large, /ape ,\yaa
equally drvidedi horizontally, by an enormous
mouth. His grisy Sack'Was'buttoned to his
chin, and his fists were pressing the bottom
of his podkels, when he cried, “Gentlemen
listen to me! I have heard with''attention
the speaker and have ndmired his profound
reasoning on the subject of conquest, and the
subject ;of servitude; and have been thinking
with what ease polygamy can be supported
from the same source. Why should my
friends, and myself at Salt Lake be under
odium?
• Cromwell is with propriety called the mod
ern Joshua, and our Puritan fathers, killing
the Indians are properly compared to the an
cient elect, destroying the Canaanites; and
that venerable Planter,standing by the speak
er, the owner of three hundred slaves, is com
paied to Abraham the venerable slaveholder
of yore. Ail this is very well; hut gentle
men be consistent and listen. Who pattern
after the patriarchs more truly than we I
We respect your institutions. Will you res
pect ours ? When you go to the mosaic dis
pensation, to the example of the patriarchs,
why should you be astonished to find us with
you ? You are after law, and example for
war, and slavery ; we are after example and
law for polygamv ; and our authority is as
clear as yours. Gideon, whose examples you
follow in war, we follow in the blessed insti
tution, which gave him seventy sons from his
many wives. You pattern afer David in his
wars. We follow David in his effort to propa
gate his noble nature ; his firs: seven sons
being born of seven different women. None
of our saints have been able to come to the
glory of Solomon. Your patriarchal slave
holder, Abraham, is our example; and I
judge, by the bleached faces of many of
your slaves, that you follow Abraham in
more respects than one. 1 saw significant
countenances when your eloquent speaker al
luded to Hsgar.
On the slavery question gentlemen, we
Mormons have decidedly 'the advantage of
you, and on the war question you have no
advantage of us. “Blasphemy” cried Rev.
Mr. Corbin. “Ha, ha,” cried the chubby
oralor, “the barking of dogs never frightens
me,” your cry of blasphemy is powerless ;
Either never again enter the Mosaic field, to
justify slavery and war, or acknowledge the
saints to bo the true successors of Joshua and
the Lord’s ancient Israel.”
William W. Crane,
Memorv-Neveb Dies. —One ol ihe survi
vors of the Central America, in narrating his
sensations while floating on the wives, after
the vessel had sunk, gives the following forci
ble illustration of the powers of memory :
“I guess I had been about four hours in
the water, and had floated away from the rest,
when the waves ceased to make any noise,
and I heard rny mother say, "Johnny did you
eat sister’s grapes J” I hadn't thought of it
for twenty years, at least. It had gone clear
out of ray mint). 1 had a sister that died of
consumplton'<more than thirty years ago, and
when she was sick—l was a boy of eleven
or so—a neighbor had sent her some early
hot house grapes. Well, these grapes were
left in ihe room where I was, and (I ought to
have been skinned alive for it, little rascal
that I was) I devoured them all. Mother
came to me after I had gone to bed, when
she could not find the fruit for sister to moist
en her mouth with in the night, and said,
• Johnny, did you eat sister’s grapes ?” I did
not add to the meanness of my conduct by
telling a lie. [ owned up, and my mother
went away in tears, but without flogging me.
It occasioned me many a qualm of conscience
for many years after; but as I said, for twen
ty years at least, I had not thought of it, till,
when I was floating about benumbed with
cold, I heard it as plain as I ever heard her
voice ip my life; I heard my mother say,
“Johnny, did you eat sister’s grapes 1” 1
don’t know how to account for it. It did not
scare me, though I thought it was a presage
of my death.”
Jane Evbe's Opinion. —l, know lhat if
women want lo escape the stigma of husband
seeking, they must act or look like marble or
day—cold, expressionless, bloodless; for
every nppearance of feeling, of joy, sorrow,
friendliness, antipathy, admiration, disgust,
are alike construed by the world into the at
tempting to hook a husband. Never mind !
well-meaning women have their own con
sciences lo comfort them after all. Do not
therefore, bo too much afraid o( showing
'yourself as you are, affectionate and good
hearted ; do not harshly repress sentiments
and feelings excellent in themselves because
you fear that some puppy may fancy lhat you
ore letting them come out to fascinate him ;
do not condemn yourself to live only by
halves, because you showed too much imita
tion, some pragmatical thing in breeches
might take it into his pate lo imagine that you
designed to dictate your life to his inanity.
The Syracuse Standard says that one of
the ladies on board of the Minnehaha, el the
pio nlc recently, exposed her under skirls du
ring the shower. On the beck of.tho skirt
was printed in a circle, in largp Wus letter#,
“Extra Genet«« a 49 pound*"
WELLSBORO, TIOGA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY .MORNING. FEBRUARY 4, 1858.
Incredible Story Relating to its Poison.
—To give you an idea of the long time this
poison retains ittpro petty. I shall relate a
cutioud but, well aurttefaicamd aeries of facta,
which took- plnaa-in a central’'district of the
State of Penns; ivunia some- twelve or fifteen
yea ra ago.
■ A farmer was so slightly hit through the
boot by-a rattlesnake, as he was walking to
view his ripening -com; fields,' that the pain
fell, Wns thought by him to have been the
scratch of a thorp not hqving seen or heard
the reptile, femWidS'talu.rri home he felt on
a sudden, ilw Stomach, vom
ited with great a few
hours. - - ■
Twelve months after this, the eldest son
who had taken his father’s boots, put them
on, and went to church at some distance.
.On his going to bed that night, whilst draw,
ing off his boots, he felt slightly -scratched
on the leg, but merely menioned it to his
wife; and-rubbed the place with his hand.
In a few hours afterwards, he was awakened
by violent pains; complained of a general
giddiness frequently, and expired before any
succor could be applied with success; the
cause of his illness was also quite. a mys
tery.
In the course of time, his effects were sold,
and a second brother, through filial affection,
purchased the boots, and if 1 remember
rightly, put them on about two years aftei.
As he drew them on, he felt a scratch, and
complained of it, when the widowed sister,
being present, recollected that the same pain
had been fell by her husband on the like oc
casion. The ynutb'sufiered and died in (he
same way that his father and brother died
before-them. \
These repeated and singular deaths being
rumored in the country, a medical, gentleman
called upon the friends of the deceased to
inquire into the particulars, and at once pro
nounced their deaths to have been occasioned
by venom. The bools that had been rf>e
cause of complaint', were brought to .him,
when he cut one of lhem .open with care,
and discovered the extreme point of the fang
of a rattlesnake issuing from the leather, nnd
assured the people that this had done all the
mischief. To prove this satisfactorily, he
scratched with it, the nose of a dog, and the
dog died in a few hours, from the poisonous
effects it was still able to convoy., In con
firmation of these facts, I have been told by
native Americans that rat
tlesnake venom, would cnrry-deerh-forages
after.— Audubon's note on the rattlesnakes.
A Noble Irishman.— The Washington
correspondent of the Pennsylvania Inquirer
relates the following incident in one of his
recent letters :
“The discinline of parly compels the offi
cials of the House to make a clean sweep in
their appointments, and not one of them has
been left a (ree agent. In the case of door
keeper, the whole matter is in the hands of a
self-cnnslituted committee, of which a -dis
tinguished member from Virginia is the head,
which distributes the various positions nomi
nally in his gift, without reference to him.
A curious circumstance worth relating is told
in connection, ns having occurred a day or
two ago. The chairman of this committee
brought a stalwart young Irishman to the
Capitol, to introduce him to his new station
and i's former occupant, whom he requested
lo explain to him his duties.
“The new comer looked at. the man he
was about to displace, and discovered that he
was a cripple. On asking him how he had
become thus- mutilated, he was tolib he bad
been shot and ‘cut In pieces in the battle of
Buena, left for dead on the field, and only
recovered to find himself hopelessly maimed
for life.’ The generous hearted fellow looked
first at one and then the other, and finally
blurted out, as he turned nn his heel—‘lf this
man’s place is the only one you have got for
me. I’ll nhl have it at all I’ Such an incident
as this iarcerlainly refreshing amid the wild
hunt for office.”
Pat’s Encounter with a Hornet’s
Nest. —An 1 was a mowin of a mornin, just
a while since, on the mash forninst the wood,
an I seed a big, beautiful bird’s nest on a
bush; an I axed Mr. Davis what kind pv a
bird’s nest it was, an he lould me, bad luck
lo him, ’twas a hum bird’s nest; an I went
up an peeps into it, but divil a bird could 1
see, nor a bit of a place for her to lay ; and
then Mr. Davis tould me—may the divil run
away wid him—to shake the bush an the ould
bird wud come out ; an I shook it, shore,
but instead ov a bird, out cum a thousand,
ten thousand—ocb, a million ov thedtig green
heads, and they flew into me eyes, nn into
me hair, an into me mouth, be jabers, on
they bit me till shurely I thought I was dead
jist; an I screamed, an I ran—och, didn’t 1
run ? but they stuck lo me, an no more could
I run away from the varmints than I could
run away from meself; an the first I know’d
I tumbled into a ditch ov about two feel ov
water, an thinks I now, me honies, I'll cum
the St. Patrick on ye, who jist give the likes
ov such spalpeens a little howly waiher in
.nuld Ireland. So I ducks me head under the
waiher, and jist hild inhere till I most kill
meself, and intirely kilt every mother’s son
ov the hum birds—bad luck to ’em.
Can a body eat with these th'ngs?” asked
ao elderly lady who is handling a pair of ar
tificial plates.in a dental office, and admiring
the fluency with which the dentist describes
them.
“My dear madam,” respond* the demist,
“mastication can be performed by them wi’b
a facility scarcely excelled by nature herself.”
“Yea, I know,” replied the My; but £9**
a body est with them?’
The Rattlesnake,
©ommumcatConD,
Education and the Educator.
BY J. WALBEIDOE.
No other branch of the human constitution
■hows more visibly our distinction for soci
ety, nor tendsmoreto out improvement, th-m
the appetite for esteem; for as the whole con
veniences of life are derived from mutual aid
and support in society, it ought to be a capi
tal aim :to secure these conveniences, by
gaining the esteem and affections of others.
That appetite, at the same lime, is finally ad
justed to the moral branch of our constilu--
(ion, by promoting ull the virtues; for what
paeans are there to attract love and esteem so
effectually as a virtuous course of life; if a
man be just and ben.-ficent,, if he be tem
perate, modest, and piudent, he will infallibly
gain the esteem and love of all who know
him. because genuine virtue embellishes, en
ables, expands, and recreates the human
soul. Tq implant principles of truth in
minds of the young should be the chief aim
of every educator. Truth is certainly sirriti
ger than fiction. The mind naturally ac
commodates itself for the reception/of that
which is the most plebsant in its nature. The
power that fiction has over the mind affords
and endless variety of refinetr amusements
always at hand to employvacant hour:
such amusements are a fure resource in soli
tude; nod, by cheering/and sweelning the
mind, contribute mightily to social happiness.
Yet those who have recourse to the perusal
of'such light trash, will find when loolate,
that their minds are emasculated-andreridered.
totally unfit to grasp ideas of a more sub
stantial character. Many will find that fic
tion though pleasing, lends to lower them
eten'below the natural order of intelligences.
Fiction dwarfs the mind and renders its pos
sessor a prey to ull (he base passions of a
defective organization. The ch'ld should
-learn to love the truth for the sake of truth. -
The nursery is the proper place to com-,
mence moral instruction; the mind during
the season of childhood is plastic and capable
of,being impressed by conceptions of truth.
If perchance the little child shall have left its
parental roof to complete i's education in a
secular school, it. is the teachers duty to see
that it regards the truth as its rule of action ;
he may sometimes hod that bis charge is
destitute of scarcely any knowledge of that
principle so essential to the formation o(
human character; yet it is his duly aa a
teacher of the young to see that proper in
struction is imparted to amend this want of
correct inorsl discipline. To accustom the
mind to accurate thinking should be the first
effort at mental culture. Those studies
should bo pursued by the student which re
quire a lest of the reasoning powers. He
should be taught the necessity of learning to
think methodically on every subject presented
to his mind, for faculties and powers are of
of little value, till they are brought into ex
ercise and directed to their proper objects.
The sludy of the natural sciences are emi
nently filled to train the mind <o habits of
careful observation. There seems to be a
wonderful adaptation between the young
unperverted mind and the natural world with
which it is encompassed. The intellect of
the young is excited by curiosity ; the child
pries into the reason of things and seeks for
causes and effects; it asks a thousand ques
tions re<pec'ing the changes incident to the
material creation. It often inquires ivpnt
causes the formation of such and such things?
From what are they derived? How do they
exist in nature? What are their constitu
ents I And various other questions apper
taining to the subject under consideration.
Admitting the importance of the study of
the natural sciences as a imam to communi
cate suitable instruction yet I th-nk that no
study tends as greatly to strengthen and de
velop mind as the study of mathematics.
The old adage that mathematics cannot lie,
is a true maxim. Unity is its basis—unity
is the fundamental element of nil enumera
tion. By the repetition of this element, we
are able to form numbers to any extent.
The«e numbers may be combined among
themselves and employed merely as express
ive of mutual relations, or we may apply
them, if we choose, to all external objects
whatever, to which we are able to give a
common name. The mathematical student
is more exact in his observations nnd calcu-,
, lotions than the student of natural science.
The basis of his reasoning is definitions and
axioms—a basis of first principles which are
self evident. By making a proper cnmpari.
son of propositions he gains an intuitive per
ception of their agreement or disagreement.
Whenever he arrives at the last step, the
mind in effect, intuitively, perceives the re.
lulion between the conclusion nnd the condi
tions involved in the piopositions at the com
mencement of the series, nnd therefore,
demonstrative'certainty is virtually the saun
as the certainty of intuition. But it is not
so in moral reasoning. We may arrive
at a conclusion on a moral subject with
a great degree of certainty ; not a doubt
may be left in the mind ; and yet the oppo
site of that conclusion may be altogether
within the limits of possibility. Mathematics
fix the attention and direct the mind
to a thorough investigation of its subject. —
There are few mathematical minds—minds
that can grasp and comprehend assumed
premises with readiness, and thereby succeed
in 'constructing formulae, solving problems,
-and demonstrating theories. It requires
something more than an ordinary mind In
perceive the agreement or disagreement of
those established truths which occur tod he
student of mathematics. The nature of
mathematics is such, that its votaries are
necessitated to become exact in their require-,
men’s, therefore you may put it down as
established fact rhat no person is so apt in
cavil about small mailers as he who hasjo
mathematical mind, consequently, care should
be taken by those who have been nffleialK
promoted, lest they inflict permaneminjury
by placing tan much stress bn particulars.
Notwithstanding persons thoa/cnnstiluled
may commit manifest errors, yet 1 hold that
no person-can become truly eminent in any
calling, unless he has devoted a. suitable share
of bis time to it of this important
branch of educat gotod education is
that which prepa ■ ourl future sphere
of action. Bui t we! expect td have
a superioriiy.ofiuielleciual or[ natural cali
bre, if «b neglect to pursue [those studies
which have a tendency to make u 3 intellectu.
ally great/ 1 1
/ 1 1
/ {To be continued j)
eocrraponDmcf.
Cobb; Eighieen| hundred fifty
eight is, us yet,ao unfamiliar combination.—
I hud scarcely learud to write 1857 when lo I
it is gone. .; { <
‘■What I gone without a word!” j
Alas I’tis so. 1q oue brief j moment it has
yielded up the ghost, nnd the new year is born.
“Call thU a birthday T -tie alas; joo|«lear,
-Tie but the fuaerT of the former year.”
Yes, the Old Year has gone Uuh all its joys
and all its sorrows, and who'shall make mer
ry at the parting? who shall stand upon the
threshold of the new/year and hot feel a lone
liness steal over him us wheri purling from
an old familiar friend ? not call back to his
or .her remembrance some bright and sunny'
spot ever dear lo the heait?|»as there no
oasis in the desert ? If none dear reader, thy
song should he 1
“for pleasures past, I do not
Nor perils gathering near,
’ My greatest grief is, that 1 lea to ■
Nothing that claims a tear.’* |
True, we have remembrance pf sorrows as
well us joys, but who can say the new IVlead
shall prove better than the 'ut'd I —Nut you
or I.- But we shall still toil on without ceas
ing on the great tread-mill of life, and as the
wheels of time fast glide beneath our weary
feel let us struggle earnestly jfeir the right—
for a right in abstract is a right in fact—and
cling to Hope j j
“Of alt the ills that men endure, j \
The only cheap and universal core, ,
Than captive’s freedom, and than 1 sick man’s health 1
Than lover’s victory, and than beggar’s wealth!”
The New Yeariias stolen silently upon us,
yet it has come with a bright and.smiling
face—a face all radiant wiihj joy—bright,
sunny days and starlit nights. And what
more would we ? No biting quid creeps m
beneath the poor man's door ; no snowy man
tle covets o’er the fields, but ulf is bright nnd
warm and beautiful. The greai'North West,
the very name of which makes|Pennsylvani
ans shiver, can boast thus far of warm, au
tumnal days ; an ekeing out of 30 culled Indi
an Summer ; each day it’s felltiw’s.counter
part—warm?smoky, dreamlike; while at the
close the glorious sun rerired lies rest upon u
golden pillow. The -‘lowing ihird” has ihus
far ranged in freedom o’er the wild prairie,
unmindful of the cure of man. We have
had no cold weather >et, and but two.or three
slight sprinklings of snow which im-liedl ns
soon as it fell. A day or two since we had
a fall of about four inches which-aliM remains,
and owing to ihe smoothest of our road
makes good sleighing. This! is ihe second
winter 1 have spent in this region, and my
experience is that winiers hereiare far more
pleasant than those I have passqd in P.i.
Business of all kinds is being resuscitated.
Money is again being remilted fri’in the east
for investments. All me firinjm the belief
that the “gund lime coming” will arrive wiih
■he fust boat in the spring, j Provisions are
plenty and the laborer has plenty of emuioy
ment. Money is siiil scarce, and those who
have it are making great bargains from off
those who are in debt and hence must sell.—
Real estate can be bought now for a great
reduction in what it will bring in cash as soon
as navigation opens. The Land Grant R. R.
is located and five miles of Ihe 'rack on <h“
Superior Road from this city northward is
under eontiacl for grading and jwork will be
commenced early in the spring.j
Game of all kinds is plenty ; large quan
tities of deer and elk come daily into our
market. The Si--ux and Chippewa Indians
and Yankee hunters have been alike success
ful, and owing to the warm weather the hear
have not taken lo lh'-ir dens the hunters
have been enabled to kill an unusual nuinber
Of them. The number killed iij this vicinity
thus far will exceed three hundred ; they are
mostly very large and fat and bear meat has
censed to be a rarity. 1 !
Opr pisca'orial friends are also having a
good time. Our market is stocked with pick
erel caught in.our lakes front’l to 25 po-rnds
each, and with speckled trout tjpiughl in our
streams weighing from Ito 4 pounds. One
man caught in one day $9 worth at 15 cents
per pound after being dressed; I Quite a fisfi
storv, you will say ; but the story is not lar
ger than the fish. J
In the political world we have nothing new;
The democracy 'with the exception of G--v.
appointees, enthusiaslicallv endorse Douglas,
Walker & Co., and\ are even nore no leal
than the Republican parly evejr was. The
Republicans are quietly 1-oking on thinking
it a very good fight as'it is, j j
“Contention* like a bone, I I
Fall of high feeding. madly\hath broke loose,
And benie down all before him.” j [
We have no local news that [would be of
interest to your readers, but should we gel up
a fire, or burglary, or murder,or anything of
that sort. I’ll lie “tnkin mites’’end you may
“prent ’em.” But for the present having
nothing to say, I'll commence!'(o hold my
longue, (pen) remembering the while that five
words cost Zacharies forty weeks Silence.
- Yours, ( o,\y. £.
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NO. XXVII.
A Tkemenuous Fast House -Many t ears
ago a soliary horseman rniglv huvr been seen
'tytfily riding towards Toledo, Ohio. The
sun had just set in ihe western honzin. It
was the close of an eleciion day, and that
solitary horseman was courier l\om an im
portant town-hip in Lucas county. The re
ruriis from every township in the county, but
the one we speak of, had been heard from at
Toledo, and Iho vote of this very township
was needed to tell how the county was gone.
At lengih the solitary horseman arrived in
Toledo, and reined his foaming Bleed up lie
fore the Indiana house. A big crowd—De
mocrats and Whigs—rushed for ihe news.
“Betler lime,” said ihe solitary horseman,
looking at his watch, “was never made by
I'nehoss! Fifteen miles in thiriy-lwo min
utes ! What d’ye think of that, gentlemen 1”
asked the horseman.
•‘Cuss ihe hoss,” yelled the excited crowd,
how Has township gone ?”
“Gen’lmen,” replied the solitary horseman,
“I disremember. It went either Whig or
Democrat, hut I’ve been so taken with the
speed of this ’ere hoss that I forgit which ;
but, gen’lmen,” roared the excited horseman,
rising in his saddle and frantically waving
his whip in the air, “you may just rest satis
fied on one point: A’ll can’t beat this
hoss !”
Just Savkd Himskif.—A pious old gen*
lleman, one of the salt of the earth sort, went
out into the field to catch a mate that was
wont in bear him to town. He moved on the
most approved mode. He shook a measure
of corn lit her to delude her into the belief
that site was glad to tier u ; l,i,t she was not
In be deceived by any such suspicious act.-—*
She would come nigh and then dash o(Tagain,
until the good man was fretted very badly.—
AI last he got her in a corner among some
briars, and made a dash at her, when she
.bounded over the wall and left him sprawlng
among the bushes. His Christian fortitude
gave wav at this, and gathering himself, he
cried, “Oh, hell !" • The ejaculation had
passed his lips before he thought, but immedi
ately conscious of its wickedness, he said—
“lelujah” nod translated the profane word in
to a note of triumph. —Boston Gazette.
Habit. — “l trust everything to God,”
said Lord Brougham, “to habit, upon which,
in all ages, the lawgiver, as well as the
schoolmaster, has mainly placed his reliance":
habit which makes eveiything easy, and casta
all difficulties upon the deviation from a wont*
ed course. Make sobriety a habit, and in
temperance will be hateful; make prudenca
a habit and r ckless profligacy will be as
contrary to the nature of the child—grown
or adult as the most atrocious crimes are to
any of your lordships. Give a child lha
habit of sacredly regarding the truth or care,
fully respecting the pcpcriy of olhers : of
scrupulously ab-taining from all acts of im
providence which can involve him in distress,
and will just as iikelv think of rushing into
an element in which he cannot breathe, as of
1} mg or chea'tog, or swearing.”
An hme'Si Jonathan from the interior on
his visti in' ’he metropolis, »as awakened one
night l>y heating theory of “Oysi f buv any
nys'ets !” In ilie mellifluous nines of 0 vender
of Ihe luscious shell fi-h, who, was passing
uud'T,he window of ihe hotel. A noise so
new to him Mariled him, and he asked hia
room male »hal it meam.
oil’s only oysters !’* replied his lellow lod
ger pelii,->hly.
‘ Oysters !” exclaimed Jonathan, in aston
ishment ; o a nd do oysters holler as loud as
'hail"
Smith and Jones, merchants, were rush
ing round, just ten minutes before 8 o'clock,
rae-ing money, when going-found a corner
Jones came in cnniact with Smith, knocking
him. down. Smith was excited, and ex
claimed :
“Do that again and I’ll knock you into Ihe
middle of next week.”
“My dear fellow,” shouted Jones, “do it
and I’ll give a thousand dollars; for if I can
only get through till then without breaking
I’m safe.” .
A Devout Convert. —Francis, of the
Troy Times, says he once heard an ignorant
hui.very sincere and devout convert at a camp
meeting, telling his experience, in- which, af
ter speaking of Ihe great mercy of the Lord,
said : “My brethering, I have crossed the
great AlUnlic Ocean; I have crossed Ihe
Hudson at Albany, and (he Oriskany creek
at Oriskany ; and I’ve often tho’t if the Lord
had.noly a mind lo have been a little mean
about it bow- easy he could have destroyed
me.”
A genilhinan gave his Mule son some
ii lii-ky to tas e ; hm ihe moment it.touched
his lips he (lew buck, chipped his hind upon
hi- muiiih. mill cried mu In nnonv of nnin,
“0 ijupii ! pnpu ! it will kill me!” Had ihe
Hnlc M-flow .been iu-pired bv Heaven, he
'could nul have -|nil;en riuu.- iriilv, Kill ihee p
mv liule friend ! Ye-, as ii has killed mil
lions already* and will kill millions more.
Snooks’ mother and old Mrs. SmhTis were
inlkir.o nhoiii Mule babies. “Why, ’ said
Mr-. Snooks, when I wasa bahv they put mu
in a quart eun and pul iho lid on.” “And
d\j you live?" was the astonishing inquiry of
Mrs. Smiths. “They, tell me I did,” was the
astonishing reply] “Well, did you ever!”
and Mrs. Smiths fell to knitting tike one pos
sessed.
It is no' great wealth, nor high station,
which makes a man happy. Many of ihq
most wretched beings on earlh 'haye both.
But it is a radiant, sunny spirit, which knows
how to bear little trials and to enjoy little
comforts, and which thus extracts happiness
frt>mrevery ine'jjem of life,
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