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WHAT A WORLD IT NIGIIT JIE.
BV CHARLES SWAIN.
O! what a world it might be,
If hearts were always kind :
If, friendship none would slight theo,
And fortune prove less blind !
With love's own voico to guide us.
Unchangingly and fond :
With all we wish beside us,
And not a care beyond.
O! what a world it might be,
More blest than that of yore ;
Come learn, and 'twill requite ye,
To love each other more.
O 1 what a world of beauty
A loving heart might plan,
If man but did his duty,
And helped his fellow man!
Then angel breasts would brighten
The threshold with their wings,
And Love Divine enlighten
The old forgotten springs.
0 ! what a world ol beauty
A loving henrt might plan,
If man but did his duty,
And helped his brother man !
From the Albany Dutchman.
CONGRESSIONAL SKETCH.
HON. ZEBEDIAH GREEN.
BV M. G. LEWIS.
THE subject of our sketch made his en
trance into this comical world, in Green
bush, on Green river, Green county, (chief
cxportations, red-headed pedlars and slab
sided instructors of youth, tor the western
and southern market.) Gteen Mountain Slate;
and was 'yclept, in short, Zeb., in long, Ze
bediah Green—though not from any similar
ity between his appearance and the general
name; but because a Deacon Zeb, in home
spun, with a large family, small farm, hick
ory cane, short pipe, and an Aunt Hilly, \
with specks, cotton nightcap, checkered 1
apron, knitting needles, and mackaboy—
were Greens.
Being for exportation, when he arrived at
the standard—six feet perpendicular, and
twice and a-half that tiutnbor of years—he
was launched upon tho sea of life, with but
little cargo, yet the hatches open (or freight,
like a contribution box for change—a camp
meeting-mado saint perfect in the Ten
Commandments, Almanac, Daboll's Arith
metic, Englis}i Reader; and a good judge of
pumpkin pie, tin fourpences, gingerbread,
jewsharps, seal-skin caps, slate-peDcils, jack
knife, pocket-bible, and a tin Hunk of Yan
kee notions.
The vanities olTthis world, the percenta
ges on jewelry, the trouble of the Bible in
his trousers, gin, with sugar in, a freckled
faced man with cards, or a witching Eve iu
the third tier—perhaps all combined—caus
ed him to make angles, zigzag across, and
eoon he was out of the "narrow way," post
ing down the "broad road," at quarter nag
epoed.
"Circumstances govern man." A grocery
may make a loafer, a camp meeting, n
preacher; a gamo of poker, a widow ; a
rich wile, a member ol Congress; a pock
marked man with faro, a gambler; a fash
ionable education, a fool, and a murderer, a
saint. It is the great "First Cause" that
governs crim. cons.' presidential elections,
piety, lotteries, lovers, oysters, cholera ca
ses, poverty, long prayers, wooden clocks,
suicides, female purity, and so on to the end
of tho chapter, of all the effects seen in this
farcical world.
Circumstances connected with a physical
organization of the cranium, giving a pre
disposition to change and make "change"
in a few years, mane him an ex-offlcio ped
lar, codfisherman, school teacher, clock
agent, flat boatman, shaker, dancing master,
poker player, temperance lecturer, itoam
doctor, fortune teller, Mormon, auctioneer,
Methodist minister, and country editor.
When a man hss for his inheritance,
wherefrom to extract the wherewith to satis
fy the inner man, adorn the outre man, and
other etceteras, in this "Land of Freedom,"
(wherein he is free to starve, wear patched
pants, drink when asked, run for congress,
join the church, eat opium, stutter, look
cross-eyed, chew the cud of anticipation,
masticate tho "sweet tobacco posoy," im
bibe buttermilk, visit California, scold his
wife, enlist, raise gnmo chickens, believe
patent medicine reports, contribute to the
missions, preach, saw wood, nnd sell pea
puts; but not to play poker, sell corn juice
With a license, take umbrellas, raise a row,
run over an apple woman, swear, smoko in
Boston, fish on Sundays, knock down a po
liceman, whistle in church, marry two
wives, pick pockets, call a rougue a rascal,
win a maiden and not annex her, blow up a
steamboat or kiss a married lady,) it is ne
cessary for him to complete his education
before he can easily extract large per cent
ages from"gullable humanity."
By this time he had graduated in a school,
in which the chief studies are "human na
ture and soft sawder," comicalities, humbug,
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1851.
quackery, sense, bombast,'ridicule and non
sense, the iffics, tiflics, nostrums, oligies,
isms, and pathas—legal, theological, medi
cinal, philosophical, political, historical, po
etical, phrenological, and astrological knowl
edge. The graduates of which school,
whether in professional, editorial, or politi
cal life, leave far behind among dusty
books, latin roots, and sheep-skin diplomas,
most of collegians, and sons of the "first
families," to enjoy their exclusiveness, dys
pepsia, propriety, goose-necked canes, bran
bread, blues, standing shirt collars, kid
gloves, patent medicines, and green specks.
His personal appearance, now that he had
been planed, rasped, gronnd and polished
by contact with the world, was a great im
provement on the original, yet by no means
the beau ideal of human perlection. He was
a rough hewn specimen, long, lank, lean,
and lathy—hair wiry and pugilistic—phiz
sharp set, cadaverous, and as rough as a
nutmeg grater—arms long, but legs looser,
and the whole loosely set together, angular
as a pine knol, and forever in motion. In
the firm planting of his pedal extremities
was written, in Nature's language, "I tread
no steps backwards ;" in the harJ, muscu
lar, and nervous twitching bands, "hang
like grim death lo on Ethiopian j" in the
deep lines of the visago, "push along, keep
moving j" in the burning eye, "Excelsior
in the expansive forehead, "Seek and ye
shall find." And every wiry hair seemingly
covered a homccopathic, "phrenoligical or
gan.
A short timo since, his perambulations
led him into a section of Arkansas, where
the mountains were crowded for want of
room, and the valleys at an angle of 50 s .
This phenomenon was accounted for by the
"oldestinhabitant" thus:—
"Yer seo, when God fixed up his truck
ter make the kentry, ho chucked a sorter
pepper-box full ov mountains tor sprinkle
'em over the kedn'try as they was kneeded;
but thar was a mess ov big ugly ones in tho
batch, that stuck in the holes an' bothered
him, an' he took tho kiver off, an' chucked
'em down here to make a place for the var
mints."
In every nook and corner were little clear
ings, filled with stunted donkeys, log cabins,
half-grown specimens of the rising genera
tion in shirts, blackberry bushes, lazy, toe
headed "sovcrnyua" smoking corn cob
pipes; hounds, and bare-footed Eves, fol
lowed by a drove of little rude "minua
tures. The bipeds lived on (Providence
permitting) corn, possoms, bacon, blackber
ries, red horse, deer, bear, pigeons, and par
simmons—believed in dreams, faith doctors,
hard-shelled and iron jacket preachers,
gliosis, and the influence of the moon on
pork and cucumbers—amused themselves
by fighting, hunting, fishing, poker playing,
oye gougi ig, and,drinktng corn juico—and
exchanged ideas about the candidates, camp
meetings, where Wilmot Proviso lived,
whether Annexation was as much a fighting
man as Joo Bunker, the prospects for mast,
tho bad effects of the weather on corn, who
could lift tho most at a roiling, where was
tho last fight, and the prospective price of
corn juice.
Ouco upon a timeji man with a "show,"
in many places known as a wagon, endeav
ored lo cross the mountains. The inhabi
tants gathered together, as much astonished
as were the multitudes of Galilee, and fol
lowed it several miles, to see what the "con
sarn would do when the hind wheels caught
up with the fore ones."—The mountain
country consisted of some eight or ten coun
ties, eac.h one having a county seat,
which was approachable only by mule
paths.—ln each was a small octagon log
court-house, smaller jail, in imitation of a
drygoods box—log tavern, with a long porti
co in front, containing a slab bench, Mexi
can saddle, short broom, and a sleeping ne
gro—grocery, with a barrel of corn juice,
red*faced man, pint cup, large twist of to
bacco, piggin with a gourd in it, and a grea
sy pack of cards—storo half full of ging
sang, geese feathers, and jeans—and a large
green, thereupon the county clerk, judge,
circuit rider steatn doctor, landlord, and two
or three little "jack log" lawyers, all arrayed
in linsey woolsey pants, Indian tanned deer
skin hunting shirts, store shoes, broad brim
med straw hats, and belts containing Arkan
sas "tooth-picks," t. c. bowie knives, weigh
ing from two pounds to seven, engaged in
tho laudable occupation of playing marbles
and picayune pjker.
The press did not eireulute light enough
to light cigars, and Webster's spelling book
was Greok te all except a few literary men,
who were not plenty enough to fili I.he coun
ty offices, and many of the minor ones,
such as justices of the peace, constables, &c.,
were held by men who were not Catholics,
yet made their crosses—settling all law ca
ses by the code of common sense, and hol
ding elections by notching the voles on shin
gles, and generally cutting off all of the
"cussed whig votes" when they made the
election returns, which consisted of the
shingles and an interpreter.
The congressional district which embrac
ed the mountains, consisted of seme three
or four lowland counties, the most wealth
and aristocratic part of the Stale. The line
of domarkartion between tho two, was
drawn as closely as betwoen the Protestants
and Catholics of Ireland. The denizens of
each part looked upon the other as a Catho
lic looks upon purgatory, or a Methodist up
on (ahem 1) Hon. Jim Burton had repre
sented tho district time out of mind. He
was a resident of the lowlands, very rich,
with inediocral talents, yet with considers-
ble tact in the management of the moun
taineers. When among them, he gratified
the vanity of the "sovereyß," by wearing
their costume, and moreover, dispensing
freely "the root of all evil" in buying aspi
rants, friends, and corn juice, (the latter the
most potent,) still the connection was a con
junction merely mercenary, as easily to be
broken as a link of sausages, and as easily
joined again (by administering the "filthy
lucre") as a stick of cement.
Zeb having a laudable desire to seo the
handle "Hon." attached to his name, thought
tho mountains presented a fine field for po
litical experiments; therefore he arrayed
himself in the mountain costume, and choo
sing the centre county, prepared to stick out
his shingle—
ZEBEDIAH GREEN,
ATT'Y AT LAW.
Though ho knaw but little of the hair
splittings and differences "twixt tweedle dee
and tweedle dura," as laid down in the stat
utes and reports, yet he had the foundation—
jaw—perhaps in larger quantities than Lord
Coke.
Immediately on bis arrival al his prospec
tive residence, he was accosted by an old
gentleman thus—
"Stranger, wa'at's yer name ?"
"Zebediah Green,"
"Aint any kin to Mike Green, wat sot in
the Legislatur sum twenty-five years ago,
and stopped the wind on a couple a fellers
down thar, an' had to cut stick an' IUU, an'
haint bin heerd from sense 1"
"Has he many friends here ?•'
"Sum two thousand, I reckon, counlin the
families w'al's married in. Why, yer can't
go amiss o' the kin on Possum Deer Lick,
Buzzard Plain, Bar, and Patraige Holler.
They rules tbe roost, I tell you, in 'lections.
It's an old sayin', 'as goes the Greens, so
goes the mountains.' "
"Do I look like tho Green family" asked
Zeb, concluding, if circumstadces were fa
vorable, it would be a good political invest
ment to represent a son of the lost Green.
"Wall, stranger, you look powerful like
'em, (scanning Green's phisiog.,) mighty
big mouth, thunderin' long nose, an' bristly
head ; but thar heads are rounder, faces red
der, an' bodies flatter than yours. I wouldu't
wonder if yer's Mike's son, thongh he warnt
married when be left."
"I should not, either," answered Green,
drawing doifh his rkce to a pious lengtti.
and speaking as grnrn as a parson. "My
father, poor man, came into an adjoining
State at an early day, and married soon after.
My mother, sainted being, died soon after I
was born. Ever since I can remember, my
father, poor man, (tears were iu his eyes)
has been half crazy. He lias often told me
of his friends, and of his going to the Le
gislature, but it w*s so mixed up with fanci
ful stories, that I never believed any of it." j
"Yer Mike's son, as sure as yer born," in
terrupted the old gentleman, seizing Zeb's
hand with the gtipe of a vice, and doing tbe
pumphandle at double quick time , "yer my
kin, fer my son John married Joe Green's
darter Sal."
The sor. of the lost Green was received by
a legion of Greens as the "simon pure ;" and
well he might be, for he knew the genealo
gical Green tree, every root and branch, (of
course, as his poor non compos mentis father
had told him,) back to the time when "the
memory of man runneth not to the contrary."
Soon the wonderful "genius" of Zeb Green
began to develop itself. How he could fid
dle, play poker, tell stories, make a man
talk up a chimney, a half dollar come
through a table, wrestle, shoot, magnatise
boys, imitate a prayer meeting, sing songs,
hop races, and plead a law, spread far and
near, and he became the wonderment and
delight of all.
As the congressional election drew nigh,
"to be or not to be" a regular candidate, and
"face the music," or to "rake down the i
"Hon." per diem and mileage, was the
question. The pros and cons were well
weighed—both aliko seemed sure, yet the
latter the easier.
Burton being a standing candidate, and
having no opponent, morely visited the
country towns in the mountains to "ante up"
the circulating medium as usual, and return
ed home counting his election a "fixed fact."
Some week before the election, reports
simultaneously began to circulate through
the mountains that Burton would not drink
out of a bottle—that he was in favor of tax
ing whiskey—that he asked alt the men
from the mountains to eat at the second ta
ble—that he was too good to eat corn bread,
and carried wheat bread in his saddle-bags
—that he had reported that the children ran
wild in the woods, and that they had to ear
nl Q rk them to know them, and that most of
men had bristles on their backs. I
A day or two afterwards, another series of
whispers simultaneously appeared, follow
ing the former. What a pity Zeb Green had
not declared himself a candidate—that he
was in favor of declaring war on the aboli
tionists—of reducing the pay to one dollar a
day—of abolishing Slate Prisons and taxes
—of making the State build bridges and
■ roads through the county, and |of raising a
high tax on the importation of mules.
Two days before the election, a messen
ger arrived in each county town (where the
elections are to be held,) with a slip purport
ing to be from Burton's organ—
THE HERALD EXTRA.
November 3. I
With heartfelt grief we announce to the |
public the melancholy death of our fellow
townsman, the Hon. James Burton. He was
thrown from his horse thie morning against
a post in front of Brown's Hotel, the vio
lence of which broke tho spinal column, and
he died instantly. Truly "a great man has
fallen."
"None knew llim but to love,
None named him but to praise."
Had not his life been cut short by this un
timely visitation of Providence, he would
have been once moro triumphantly returned
from the district.
A meeting will be held to-night to nomi
nate another caudidate, yet but little unity
of action can be expected at this late day.
At the same time, ZebedipH Green was de
clared a candidate for Congress, simultane
ously throughout tho mountains.
"All is well that ends weSl," coliloquised
Green, self complacently. "When Button
hoars of his death, (in the mountains,) he
will be dead politically. It's what I call a
decidedly cool operation."
His cogitations woro interrupted by an
ejaculation—
"Zeb, yer father's cum 1"
Ho was "up and doing." Two roads
opened begoro him—Crocket's motto "go
ahead," and Shnkspeare's advice, "discre
tion's the better part of valor." He choose
the former, gained the'slroot, where he saw
an elderly man who resembled the Green
family, gesticulating madly to a crowd of
Greens. He ran up aud threw his arms
around him, faltering—
"My poor father, my ponfTather."
Then turning to the crowd of excited
Greens, with his faco streaming with tears—
"Look out," oried he, "he is as mad as a
March hare. I seo it in his eyes. Ho will
kill his best friends now."
The astonished arm-bound prisoner, su re
onouge, looked mad, and tiiod every moans to
free himself, vociferating loudly—
"lt's a lie—take him off—he's a rascal."
"Let us secure him," said Green, not no
ticing the other's cries, 'he often has such
spelts."
Tho Greens, to whom the mystery was
clearly explained, now helped Zeb tie him
for security, all the while of which ho was
making the most ridiculous charges against
Zeb, which not being noticed, he cursed ev
ery Green high and low, whiohjentfrely cat
isfied them of his sanity. Zeb had him
confined in a close room, and eo gnat was
his parental love and watchful care, ihr.t he
r>o ontMO of its
increasing his paroxisms. V
Hon. Zebediah Green may be found, do
ring the session of Congress, at his post,
one of the Hons of "the city of magnificent
distances."
YANKEE SILSBGE IN LONDON.
"Yankee Silsbee," now on a professional
tour iu England, has commenced writing a
series of letters home, to the Detroit Daily
Advertiser.—llis first letter is capital. We
make an extract from it; —
Well, I've been in London over a week,
and have made good my time. I've uot
stood with my hands in my pockets wonder
ing where I should go, or who 1 should go
with, as some of the Yankees do. I bolted
off "slap bang."—First, I went to the Ex
hibition. of course, where every body goes
tho first thing, and la ! such a stupendous
pile of glass the world never saw. It looks
like an overgrown hot-house, and I believe
that will be its ulterior use at the close of
the present affair. As to the contents ol the
building, I can't begin to tell you what my
eyo brings in at one little glance—such a
medley of statuary and 6atins, fabrics and
feathers, pearls and petticoats, machinery
and mobe, silver and sandwiches, all mixed
up like pickles iu a jar.—
The American department don't quite
come up to the ckalk, but as the Times
newspaper said some time ago, a nation with
a continent in its pocket can affcrd to be in
dependent. We've got lots of slick things
here for all the talk and bluster, for John
Bull loves to turn up his nose, and let him
do it, he'll turn it up so far one of these days
that he wont get it down in a hurry.
Among other distinguished places I have
visited, was the Tower, the great Tower
where Anne Boleyn and several other wise
people were affectionately invited to loave
their heads, and which they did much a
gainst their wills, although I suppose they
made their wills before they went. Its gloo
my, sombre walls, called up a flood of gol
den rocolleclious of tho days of Queen Bess
and het sister Mary. Then old Clarence,
too, who tumbled iito a butt of his favorite
Malmsey, and there "kicked the bucket."
We can't say whether the Duke wa3 drunk,
alrhough it must be confessed that when he
died he was very much in liquor. We
roamed with a parly of others through the
various apartments of the Tower, and our
guide, who was a chatty, talkative little man
frisked about and showed "us every object
with a deal ol gusto. At last he came to
the great cannon and ordanca captured from
the enemies of various nations.
"This piece," said or r little guide, with
all the pomp of a little Englishman, who
never as when boasting of
their victorias, "this piece is from Waterloo.
Lord, how we did beat them therg. This is
from Badajos—this is from so and Jso," and
he ran over the cannon, dilating on the his
tory of each with evident satisfaction in ev
ery muscle of his countenance.
I saw he was highly diverted with relating
the exploits of his nation, so I thought L
would "bring him to anchor" a little as the
sailors say. all at once I looked carefully a
bout me turning my head every which way,j
and than looked enquiringly at the guide. ,
"What are you looking for, sir, may I en
quire ?" at length said lie; "we've got tro
phies from all nations," and he pointed to a
number of interesting specimens with thei r
mouths gaping open like a hungry bull-dogs.
"Have you, indeed ?" said 1, carelessly.
"I was'nt looking for French trophies, nor
Spanish."
"Perhaps it's the Chinese?" interrupted
he.
"No, nor the Chinese," said I, "but I seo
you have got o much stuff laying about
here, Where's ail that was captured from the
Americans,eh ?'
"Ah'" grunted he, looking amazingly
"the Americans—yes the Americans—from
the Americans—you mean?"
"Yes," replied I, still looking, "I don't see
any from the United States—where is it al!
—I want to see it?"
"Oh, yes ! that taken in America—l see
—yes."
"Exactly," repeated I, "I heard yoa took
a good deal at Bunker Hill, and "Bennington,
and Trenton, and those places."
"So wo did," said he quickly, "but it was
such old stuff that we didn't care obout bringing
it home I"
Just then a sudden thought struck him .
his eye rolled up, a little blood flew* to his
cheeks, and he evidently "smoked." lie
took the queue and backood down. When
the company were going out, ho leaned o
vor and whispered in my oar that I was a
Yankee.
"I m nothing else, sir," said I, "and as for
tha old stuff you took at Yorklown and seve
ral other places I might mention, I'll tell
them to send it over to you when I get home."
Danger of Electioneering,
Tbe Picayune rejoices in the possession of
live Yankee as a correspondent, who having
wandered as far as south Louisiana peddling
notions, has settled down somewhere in
Caddo county, or some other undiscovered
regiou of the State, and there concluded to
run for £oiigress. The following extract of
a letter to the editor of the Picayune, de
scribing one of his electioneering lours, is a
specimen of the luck he had in this delight
ful business:
"Well I put up with a first-rate good na
lured teller that I met at a billiard table. I
went hi, ai.it .. i., introdutJßtl to HIS WTIe, a
fine fat woman, who looked as though she
lived on laffin, her faco was so full of fun.
After a while—after we had talked about
my gal, and about the garden, and about the
weather, and so on, in came three or four
children, laffin, and skippin as merry as
crickets. There warn't no candle lit, but I
could see they were fine lookin fellers, and I
started for my saddle bags, in which I had
put a lot of sugar caudy fir the children, as
I went along.
•Como here,' said I 'come here, you little
rouge, and tell me what your name is. The
oldest then up to me, and says he :
'My name is Peter Smith, sir.'
'And what's your name, sir,' said I.
'Bob Smith, sir.'
The next said his name was Bill Smith,
and the fourth said his name was Tommy
Smith. Well, I gave them sugar candy, and
old Mrs. Smith was so tickled that she laugh
ed all the time. Mr. Smith looked on, but
didn't say much.
'Why,' said 1, 'Mrs. Smith I would'nt take
a good deal for them four boys, if 1 had 'em,
they're so beautiful and sprightly.'
'No,' says she laffin, 'I set a good deal of
storo by 'em, but we spoil 'em 100 much.'
'Oh no,' says I, 'they're ra'ai well behaved
children, and by gracious,' says I, pretend
ing to be startled by a sudden idea of a stri
king resemblance between them boys and
their fathet, aud I looked at Mr. Smith, 'I
never did seo uothin equal it,' says I, 'your,
eyes, mouth, forehead, a perfect picture of
yon, sir,' says I, tappin tho oldest on the
pate. I thought Mrs. Smith would have
died a laffin at that; her arms fell down by
her side, and her head fell back, and ehe
shook the whole house laffin.
'Do you think so, Col. Jones ? says she.
and she looked toward Mr. Smith, and 1
thought she would go off in a fit.
'Yes,' saysl, 'I do really think so.'
'Ha, ha, ha—how-w 1' says Mr. Smith,
kinder half laffin, 'you are too hard ou me I
now, with your jokes.'
'I aint jokin at all,' says I, "they're hand
sum children, and they do look wonderfully
like you.'
Just then a gal brought in a light, and I'll
ba darned if the little brats didn't lurn out to
be mulattoes, every one of 'em, and they
was curly as tbe blackosl niggers.' Mr. and
Mrs. Smith never had any children, and
they sort of petted 'em as play things. I
never felt so streaked as I did when I seen
how things 6tood. If I hadn't kissed the
little nasty things, I could a got over it; but
kissen' on 'em showed that I was in airnest,
(though 1 was soft soapin 'em ail the time,)
and how-to got out of the scrape I didn't
know. Mrs. Smith luffed so hard when she
saw how I was confused that she almost suf
focated.—A little while afterwards there was
a whole family of relntious arrived from the
city, and turned the matter off; but next
morning I could see Mr. Smith didn't like
the remembrance of what I said, and I don't
believe he'll vote for me when election
comes on. Lexpect Mrs. Smith kept the old
fellow under that joke for some time.
XW People die at the rate of five a min-,
ute, taking the whole world together.
From the Washington Republic.
The Visit of the Chippewas to the Pres.
ldent.
On Saturday morning, at ten o'clock, the
delegation of from Minnesota
Territory, accompanied by the Hon. Luke
Lea, the Coramisioner of India Allaire, pro
ceeded to the President's House, in accor
dance with a previous arrangement. The
Indians, in their wild, native costume, ap
peared with extra trimmings, including a
profusion of gay colored ribands, having
procured them for this occasion, as they
were to be admitted into the presence of
their great father, of whom they had heard
so much, but had never seen.
The Indians Having been conducted to an
upper chamber and seated, tho President of
the United States shortly afterwards entered'
when Mr. Lea introduced to him John John
son, the interpreter who introduced each of
the delegation by name; Crossing Sky, Safe
| guide, Stand Beforo, Spirit Seen, (the herd j
warrior,) and Breast. They severally shook
hands with their great father, and resumed
their seats aud seemed to be highly pleased.
The Commissioner remarked to the Pres
ident that those Indians were Chippewas,
and that they had called to pay their respects
liirn.
The President made inquiries as to their
country and condition. In the course of the
conversation it was stated that their band is
what is called the Mississippi band, and that
over forty different bands constitute the Chip
pewa tribe in the United Stales. There is
no pricipal chief having authority over all
the bands, but the coiefs in eacli band bind
the whole nation. Although jealousies and
disturbances may exist among themselves,
they are all united against "outsiders."
Crossing Sky arose, and, after shaking
hands with the President and tho Commis
sioner ol Indian'affairs, spoke as follows,
the address being interpreted by John John
son.
Mj Great Father: I want to say a few
words to you, and ask you to listen to me.
I have traveled in a strange country to gel
good, and to form an idea of how tho whites
live. I mentioned our special business lo
our father, (ihe Commissioner.) and wish to
say a little more.
My great father you see how lam ; how
many men are here. Wo are poor, poor in
deed. You ; your nation is oif.wg.
L Uajg ono iWjoular request tg JJ.. mo.
great father. a saw-mill ; w&jC"
to improve. J We like the ways fcr the
whites—what we have seen. I feel confi
dent that our father and our great father will
have mercy on us, aud give us our request.
I know, my great father, that there is no way
wo can get along in the world. Game is
gelling scatce; we must go lo the ground!
and till the ground.
Let me be permitted to ask you, my great
father, what makes you a great and power
lul nation ? It is that white book on the
stand (the Biblo.) We want schools that
we may learn to read that book, and do good
and be wise.
I am very much pleased that I have been
permitted to see and talk to our great father.
I am happy that our father will send us
back home. I have one request more to
make—that when we land in our territory,
we wish our great father to aiil us that we
may get home safely. Our children are
anxious, and wait for our return irom our
great lather.—They expect that we will car
ry them something that will satisfy them.
As I have said before, we are very glad,
and we shall long remember our interview
with our great father.
Another request, my great lather, I wish
you to give me a white paper, to show to
my friends when 1 get homo.
Tho orator then presented tho President
with wampum; and, after further proceed
ings,
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES re
sponded to the address :
It gives your father great pleasure to meet
his'red children on this occasion. He is
much gratifiodto learn that you have taken
a long journey among strangers for the pur
pose of seeing how white people live. [The
Indians listened with marked attention, and
responded by a hearty "a-ugh," which they
repeated at the conclusion of every sentence
as it was interpreted to them.] Many years
ago the red children of this country covered
tbe whole face of it. The whites then came
among them, a very weak band, depending
in some measure on their red brethren for
support.—But the whites have grown great
and strong, as you say, while our red breth
eren have grown weak and few. One cause
of this difference between the whito man
and the red man is, that the whites culti
vate the ground while the red man "seek a
living by the chase. I hope, therefore, when
you return to your peoplo in the wilderness,
you will tell them of the improvements of
the white men, their numbers and strength,
and encourago them to pursue the same oc
cupations and cultivate the soil.
Though the whito man mny be strong and
the red man be weak, the while man feels
bound to protect tho red man and do justice
by him. And this is the chief desire of
your great father.
In regard to your request for meansMF
build a saw-mill, it wiligive your great fath
er pleasure lo aid you iu the laudable under
taking.
Your great father is much gratified lo
learn fiom you that you desire education,
and to be taught to read and write, and to
know the great truths of the Bible. This
educatiou is another means of happiness
and strength to my red children.
NUMBER -36.
| In conclusion, f hope that you will have a
safe return to your frienes, the Chippewas,
( and that you will meet with no obstructions
on the journey. I doubt not that all the
whites will treat you with aill consideration
nnd respect. It is the desire of your great
father, the President, that thev shall da so.
V our father, the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, will do what he can lo aid you to re
turn ; and will furnish you the white paper
which you desire.
1 thank tho Groat Spirit for tho opportuni
ty 1 have had to confer with my red chil
i dren.
j I hope to hear of the safe return to your
mends and
j Be good and faithful citizens; maintain
peace among yourselvoc and white brelhe
ren, and you .-nay rely on tho protection of
your great father. I have nothing more tot
say.
Spirit Seen (after the usual preliminaries)
addressed the President;
My Great Father and my Father: I wanf
to say a few words. The Great Spirit hears
what I have to say. Here is the wampum I
am about to present, and leave here, that all
may see wo have truly visited you. This is
i " I have to say, my great father, and my
father.
The President: I receivo the wampum as
a token of friendship, and together with the
wampum presented by Crossing Sky.it will
bo placed in the Department' that my red
children and white bretheren tnay always
recollect that it is a token of friendship.
The Indians then arose to depart, when
Commissioner Lea pointed out to them
the Secretary of tho Navy, who was among
I the few pale faces present.
The President informed them that Secre
tary Graham had control of all the great ves
sels which sail on the ocean.
The Indians shook hands first with the
President of the United States, and then
with all who were present on the ocoasibn,
and took their leave, bowing aad scraping
iu their best style ; and two of them carried
their politeness to such an extent as to take
off their head dresses for a few moments.
.On Saturday evening the delegation left
the city for their homos in Minnesota.
A Melancholy Sight.
Dr. Reiil, a traveller ilirouahltUa Highland
'ol remyj, is said to have found lately m the
desert of dried remains .ol an
assemblage beings, five or six
hundred in number, men, women and chil
dren, scaled in a .semi-circle as when alive,
staring in to tfie burning waste before thera.
They had not been buried ; life had not de
parted before they thus sat around, but
Itope was gone, the Spanish invader was at
hand, and no escape being left, they had
come hither to die. They still sat immove
able in that dreary desert; dried like mum
mies, bv tho effect of the liot| air. They
still keep their position sitting up as in sol
emn council, while over that dread Areop
agus, silence broods everlastingly.
I A CENTER SHOT.—The Albany Dutohm&u
very truthfully remarks, that after "a careful
examination of all the histories which have
yet been written in relation to the Mexican
war, we have come lo tho conclusion that
the only por.ion of the army which did noth
ing, was that portion which was composed
of privates—Gen. Scott doing all the fight
ing from Vera Cruz to Mexico, while Tay
lor and Wood appear to bo tho only men
who at all distinguished themselves from
the Rio Grande to Buena Vista. If official
documents are worthy of credit, all the sol
-1 diers do in a battle is, to look on and see their
| OFFICERS perform miricles."
How TO SPOIL A GIRL—TeII her she is a
"little lady," and must not run, and make
her a sun bonnet a yard deep to keep her
from tanning. Do not let her play with her
boy cousins, "they are so rudo." Tell her
Hot to speak loud, it is so masculine; and
that loud laughiug is quite ungenteel. Teach
her music, but never mind her spelling.
Give her ear-rings at six years of age; and
leach her to set "her cap" for tho beaux at
eleven. And, if after your painstaking she
does not grow up a silly, simpering, unre
flecting nobody, that cannot answer a love
letter without some smart old aunt to heljy
her, give her up—she is past all remedy.
"IT'S my nature, and 1 can't help it," is
only the excuse of the ignorant, or the indo
lent. Every one should know that all that
is natural is not oxcollent ;and, on the other
hand, should be encouraged, because help
is never withheld from sincere seekers.
Some of the most passionate men have he-
examples of patience and equanimity.
BE PATIENT AND PERSEVERING.—AII that
have obtained for themselves great and per
manent reputations, have won and secured it
by patient and persevering labor; by treat
ing time not as waste land only fit for stub
blo, but as a true estate, of which no corner
is to be left uncultivated.
IW To enjoy to-day, stop worrying about
to-morrow. Next week will be just as capa
blo of taking care ol itself as this one is.
And why shouldn't it? It will have seven*
days morejexperiem e.
IST Cold bathing, pure water, plain diet,
a clear conscience, and a clean shirt, are in
dispensable to health and happiness.