""TllE SlWK OF THE NORTH -' : iEmb . t . - i - - ' - v : Truth and Bight God and our Country. $2 50 la. Advance, per Anania, tt. U. JACOSI, nibllsherO BLOOMS BURG. COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8. L865. NUMBER 20, VOLUME 16. Imxm'lanl .... lOAH ' ' IRO.V IN THE BLOOD, ll 1 well known lo the medical profes sion that Iron is the vi al Principle or Lite Element of Hie Mood. This i derived chiefly from the food we eat ; but if the " focd ia not properly digested or if, from any cause whatever, Hie necensary quan tity of iron is nor taken into the circulation or becomes reduced the whole system sut ler. The bad blood will irritate the heart, will clog op the lungs, will stupefy the brain, will obstruct the liver.and will send its disease producing elements to all part -of the syniem, and every one w'il suffer in whatever oigan :ry be predisposed to dis " case. The great value of IRON A A MEDICINK Is well known and ackno'i ledged by all medical men. The difficulty ha hear, to : obtain such preparation of it as will en ter the circulation and assimilate at once with the blood. This point, says Dr Mayes, Massarhnvel'6 Siaie Chemist, has been at tained in ibe Peruvian Syrup, by combina- . lion iu a wav befor nnknown. THE PERUVIAN SYRUP Is a protected olutinn of the Protoxids ' f Iron. A new discovery in medicine rhat strikes at the Root of Disease by supply in? the blood with its Vital Principle or Lite Element Iroi. THK PERUVIAN SYRUP Cures Dii-pepfia, Liver Complaint, Drpsey Fever and Ague,' Lors of energy, Low, "Spirit, b. THE PERUVIAN SYRUP infuses strength, vigor, and uew lite into the -jftem, a no builds up an 'Iron Consti tution. " ; THE PERUVIAN SYRUP Cores Nervous Affection, Female Com plaints, and all disease, of the Kidneys and Bladder. THE PERUVIAN SYRUP Is a Spetific for all dieate originating in a bad state of the blood, or accompanied by Debititj or low Mate of the t-ystem. 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II. , Nichols, cherr.i-t, Boston. Dr N. F. Jot.es Chemical Inspector, Circleville Uhio, Prof ! C.T. Jackson, chem si, BoMon, Dr. Chaa. Upham Shepard, Charleston, S C, and J. ! i,, chemists' ChicPQ. of whom 'have .analyzed the Ca'awba Brandy, and com-f mend it o lha highest terms, for medical j " J JiftalysU tf the Ma ssachufi setts' 'State fit say er, Jan. 25, 1858. I When evaporated through clean - linen it Jeflnooil or offensive matter, let trery respect it is a Pure spiritous liqnor. The P which gives to lhi Brandy it flavor and aroma,' is wholly unlike fuKtl, or grain oil. is odor partakes of both, the (roil and oil ol grapes. With acid, it produces- others of a high fragrance. The substitution of this "Brandy for Cognac Brandy will do away .with the manufacture of fictitious spirits, .sold ender this name both at home and abroad. , Respectfully, , A. A. HAYES, M D., Assayei to St a t iJass., 1 Boyleston St i Yy the same, in 18(34. : I have anal)?ed 'L Lyons' Puro Cata wba Brandy," with relerence to ill corn position and character, bein the same as hat produced in ast years.; A lample .taken frcm lerj caks afforded ihp same resilis with rezard to purity ; a slightly increased amount ihe principle on which its flavor depends was determined by com rarion with former samples. . The indications of analyiis show that .this brandy is produced by tha sarac pro ces." as most of the imported Brandy.. Re-pectlully, A. A? HAYES, Ll. D. Ausayer, 1.6 Bnylesion St. . ostcn, July 20, 1S34. iTjfdC(ured only by H. H. JAC03 & 'To r-h:n '. Orders fhuuIJ te .ad- ! THE STAR OF THE NORTH 18 PUBLISH CD XVIRT W EDN RSDAT BY WM. II. JACOBY, i Office on KaiaSt.. ltd Square below Kar&et TERMS: Two Dollars snd Fifty Cents in advance. If not paid till thr end jof the i year, Three Dollars will be charged. No Fubccripiions taken for a period less than six months ; no discontinuance permit ted until all arrearages are paid uuless at the option of the editor 4 kt terms of advertising will be as follows: i Une square, eight lines one tune, SI 00 25 . 4 50 10 00 Kvery subsequent insertion, . . . One square, three months, . . . One year, The Footstfps of Decay. The following is a translation from an ancient Spanish Poem, which, says the Ed ingburz Review, is surpassed by nothing with which we are acquainted in the Span ish language, except the "Ode of Louis de Leon.'" Oh ! let the soul its slumbers break Arouse it serses and awake, To see how soon Life, in its glories glides away, Aud the stern footkiepsof decay Come stealing ou. And while we view the rolling tide, Down which our flowing minuter glide Away so fast. Let us the present hour employ, And deem each future dreatn of joy Already past. Let no vain hope deceive the mind No happier let us hope to find In morrow than to-day. Our golden dreams of yore were bright, Like them the present shall delight, Let them decay. Our lives like battening streams must be, That into one engolphing sea Are doomed to (all The ca ot death whose waves roll on O'er kins and kingdom, crown and tsrooe, And swallow all. Alike the river's lordly tide. Alike itiH humble rivulets glide To thai sad wave ; Death levels p -verty and pride And rich and poor rleep side by aide Within the grave. Our binh is but a starting place, Li'e i- th running of the race, And deatn the soal ; There are all our glittering toys are bro'l- Ttie path alone ot all unsought, l found of al I. . See ihen how poor and little worth Are all the glutering toys ol earth That In re us here ! Dreams ol steep thai death most break, Ala ! hetore it bids us wake, Lnng ere the damp of ejrth can blight, The cheeks pure glow of red fbd white Has pasted away. Youth smiled and alt was Heavenly fair, Age came and laid bis finger there And wbere are tbey ? Where is the strength :hat sporned decay, The step that roved so light and gay, The heart's blithe tone 1 The strength is gone the step is slow, And joy grows wearysome and wo ! When age comes on. LOVE IS A STAGE COACH. AMY RANDOLPH. The Maie coach ws nearly foil. Everboly knows what that means oo a burning August afternoon, when the sun glows like a live coal in the fervid sky, and tne dual raises up in dense columns around ihe r-lowly revolving wheels. All the pas senger poor. Travel worn mortals were tired and cross ; veils became an abomina tion, and the palm-leaf fan, wielded by the stoot lady in the corner, was eyed with en vious jjlanc-s by everybody. OUI'Mr. Thome was fast asleep and snor ing in his nook probably wandering thro' green fields where dust never sullied the daisie and hot roads'Wtre unknown, in bis peaceful slumbers. But Isabel and Minnie, his two daughters, could not sleep and con sequently reaped a foil benefit of dust and nJ Joll,nS "h"1". '"be 8 Pre,,T fore- head was corrogated with a rather unbe coming Irown, aud her red lips were slight ly elevated, while Minnie leaned out of the window,' tryjng to be patient, but finding it very hard work, poor little thing ! ,''I wonder il we are almost there," she aid at length, with a soft, weary laugh. ''Not within half a dozen miles," answer ed label, pettishly. Why on earth don't they have some more respectable convey ance than a lumbering stage coach to carry people to the Sulphur Springs T' "It is not so very' bad," sighed Minnie, meekly, 'that is it would not be if the weather was not quite so warm, and the dost not ao intolerably thick." -No, ot course .not," returned Isabel, ironically. ,4But you always were a poor little, mean spirited creature Minnie, per petually trying to make the best of every thing. ' Pear me J what are we stopping here for ! Qood gracious if tbey are go ing tu squeeze .in auy more passengers 1 stall cenatoly f-tnt away." - Regardless, however, of Mlsa T'a des pairing countenance, the driver ruthlesdy opened the door, and their . party was aug mented by a tallV rather pleasant looking gsullemanr followed by-a trim English nurse, carrying a rosy7 liule babe, with a nel of lace around its bead, and long, eeping skirts of white cambric, loaded tra toss over the cushions, and applied ber cut-glass vinaigrette lo her nostrils, without seeming to notice the intruder. Minnie, ! however, whispering "Move, Isabel, there is more room on this seat," compressed i herself to a small space as possible, and j beckoned to the nurse to take the place va i cated. 'Minnie, how can yoo be so absurd?" said label, petulantly. "See how yoo are crushing my dress ! O, dear me, if that child isn't beginning to cry ! 1 hate babies !" Old Mr. Thorne straightened himself into a sitting posture, and rubbed his heavy eyes, as the feeble wail of the little one fell oo his ear. "What's the matter, Bell 1 he aked, sleepily. 'The matter 1 Why, a cross baby, to be sure. A pleasant ride we shall have to Rockdale, with that squalling in our ears the whole time. I do thick babies ought to be left at home.'.' "Bell," remonstrated Minnie, blo'hing to the very tips of her ears with mortification. But Isabel merely tossed ber head without looking around, too ill-humored even to no tice the snlt pleader at her side. And still the incorrigible baby, after the fashion of the attempts of the nurse to soothe il and divert its attention. The woman looked in despair the gentleman's brow flushed with annoyance. "Let me take it," said Minnie, softly.'. "I thiok lean quiet the little thing." "I am afraid it will-annoy you," said the gentleman opposite. "I am sorry " ' Oh no, not a bit," said Minnie. "I am very fond of babies. Do give it me, surse!" i It was strange how soon that baby dis-j covered that it was in loving hands. Gradu- ! ally the little wrinkled forhead smoothed out like wax slowly the ter.rs ceased, and the scarlet lip stopped i's quivering, as ; Minnie laid off the motherii.g cap which all nurees seem to consider necessary in-! gredient for the suffocation of infants, and smoothed the silky hair, and whispered, coaxingh , ''baby talk" ia the little pink ears. j "Ble's me, Miss, I do bel'eve yoo have got a spell about you !" ejuaculated nurse, as the little creature's dimples broke out into a smile, which revealed six infinite j small teeth. , Yes, Minnie bad a spell ; but it was only ' a spell of'sweet good humor and sunny temper. ' I "I wocder who has arrived thi season," said Isabel, as she arranged her rich brown mas.es of hair before the mirror in her room at the principal hotel of Rockdale Springs. "They tell me every room- is crowded. Laura Todd wrote me word that Co. I Tremaine was to be here, and he alone is sufficient to bring plenty of belles to the place." "Who is Col. Tremaine 1" asked Min nie who was patiently helping Isabel to braid the long, shining tresses. "Why, the wealthy widower who owns that superb place at Rivermoua t ; doa'l you remember bearing of him 1 My dear, your memory is getting defective.'' "O ! now 1 reccellect," said Minnie. "But I should never have thooght of him again," "Just like you ! Minnie Thorne, I'll wa. ger anything you'll marry nobody yet !" "Very likely," returned Minnie, wiih a laugh. "Wealthy widowers do not trouble themselves about insignificant little mites like me. You may win the golden prize, Bell, if you choose to try." "I shall certainly do my best V said Isa bel, glancing at the mirror with a throb of conscious pride. Truly the face reflected might give pleas ure to the most fastidious, with its golden brown braids, and velvet)' black eyes, con trasted so royally with her peach-blossom cheeks and lips, like the scarlet heart of pomegranate. While Minnie's blue eyes and smiling mouth had but the cbarra of truth and frankness to set off their .delicate cot-lines. "I say, girls, what do yon think," ex claimed Mr. Thorne, thrusting his bald head into the room, as bis daughters were pre paring lo descend to the dinner table. ''Col. Tremaine is here, and ia none other than the tall gentleman who came down in the staze coach with us V "Not the gentleman with the nursed and baby ?" "Yes." "Nonsense. Papa, some one has been grossly deceiving you," said Isabel. "Col. Tremaine, who owns the finest horses and carriages in the country, would, never dream of traveling in a rusty stage coach." "Not under ordinary circumstances, per haps," returned her father ; bnt I was just introduced to ihe Colonel himself, and in thecourseconversation .be mentioned that bis carraige breaking down, had compelled him to inconvenience the passenger in our coach with his presence. And be express ed, in very warm terms his gratitude to my daughter far ber kindness to his motherless infant what do you think of that Minnie?'' It would be hard to tell which blushed deepest, Minnie or Isabel but the rosy colors were called to their cheeks by widely different emotions. , . The long bright summer day crept on, with skies of blo, quivering liht, and son seta of fine and .carandine ! Newport and Saratoga, Lake George and the Catskills succeeded each other on the traveling pro. gramme ol ihe Thornes, and greatly to the annoyance of the reigning belles in general t Cof. Tremaine PceomMn?,d tht nrtv the hotel at Niagara Falls. She bad been wanderirg through ihe lealy wilderness of Goat Island, but that was not sufficient rea son for the deep color that su'used her cheek, nor was tbe'moistore upon the eye lashes altogether the spray of Niagara. "Isabel" she whispered, laying her head upon her sister's rhoulder, "1 am very very happy. Col. Treroaine has aked me to become his wife i" Isabel was naturally good-hearted, and he smothered ihe pangs of her own keen disappointment with an effort, as she fold ed Minnie in her arms. 4I am glad of it, Minnie; you. will make him an excellent little wife. But to think of bis choosing a homespun body like yoo. " The real clue to this matrimonial mystery was not discovered until one day, not long after the wedding, when Mrs. Tremaine was bend:ng carelessly over her step daugh ter, murmuring the melody of a sweet cra dle song. Suddenly a hand was laid on her shoulder. She started and smiled to meet the tender light of her husband's eyes. "Sing on, darling," he said loudly ' I liice to see Bessie on your lap. You were sitting just in that altitude with that smile on your face, the day 1 fell ia love wi'h yoo." - I don't know what yoo mean." 'Don't you remember a warm day in Au gust, in a crowded stage coach, with'a baby that would cry, and a bloe-eyed little rriaid. ed who smoothed the child and tended it, even though ber- naughty sister declared "she hated babies ?' I felt a sort of intui lion that the blue eyed lassie would make a tender mother to the little orpaned one, and then and there I lost my heart. Dearect I have never regretted my loss '." Isabel, sitting in the next room, heard ev ery word of this little conversation, and she could not help thinkiug how light had been the words and glances that had decided the destiny ot her eister'a life and her own. Il you throw a stone into the glassy bo som of the stilleft lake, the circling ripples widen, with constantly increasing sphere, long alter the stone is forgotten. And even so it is with every word and deed of our lives. - Pharoah awo Javr. Davis. Mr. Cox made the following admirable point in the debate on the araendmendmect to the Con stitution respecting slavery. If, then, as il is said bT the gentleman from Vermont Mr. Morrill,! slavery is dead, what is ihe orject of this amend ment ? That distinguished gentleman told us the other day that like Pharoah and his hosts, the South had rushed with slavery into the Red Sea of war, and that slavery was destroyed. Well, if that be the cae, if slavery is dead, where is the necessity lor invoking this extraordinary power of amendment ? My friend from New York Mr. Odcll, wlio also spoke so well in defence of his views, said that although it was dead he wished lo give it a constitutional bnrial. 1 am not much of a- biblical scholar, but I believe that we bave no authentic record of the fact that after Pharoah and his hosts were destroyed in the Red Sea the children of Israel, after the destruction, met together upon its shores in grand convocation and, alter listeniog to Aaron and the other ora tors, passed resolutions somewhat like this amendment, to wit : Resolved, That neither Pharoah nor his hobla. except as a punishment for crime, whereof ihey shall h.are been duly con victed, shall hereafter exist within the juris diction of the children of Urael. Laugh ter. What would the people have thought of the children of Israel for passing such a roMilution alter the decease of Pharoah? My friend from New York Mr. OJel!, belongs to the new dispensation, and wo'd give the deceased slavery a constitutional burial. What would have been thought of tha children of Israel, after they had fished out PharoahVdead body, if ihey had pro ceeded olemnly to give to il a constitution al burial ? Laughter. A Sad Fate and a Warning The Eas ton Argus says r Some years ago a mother less liule girl was adopted by a respectable family in Easlon and named after her adopted parents. She was carefully raised, well educated and grew up to be an in telligent sprightly gill. Improper associates, however, corropted her mind, and only last fa'.! she threw herself into the arms of some'reckless adventurer, who took her to Philadelphia. A short time ago. she was found in the atreeta by the police of thai city; an abandoned, diseased out-cast, and taken lo the alms house. Asserting her res idence to be in Northampton county, she was removed to our Poor House, Whera she died a few days after arriving there. Such is the brief and sad history of a young woman of twenty, who might have been an ornament to society, had she cooseo to walk in the path of honor and virtue. Let her fate be an example and a warning to the poor, deluded, giddy creatures who in these days of recklessness, more than at any previous lime, are rushing headlong lo ruin, in all our towns and villages. That is So.Some musio teacher ence wrote that "the art cf playing on the violin requires the nicest perception and the most sensibility of any an in the known world." Upon which an editor comments in the following rrfanner 'j "The art ot publishing a newspaper andmKy.g..U Py arjd at the Storj of Two Brothers Their Desperate Fight. "Not long since," said a gentleman, "I was travelling in one of our remote settle ments, when the following incident took place : Two brothers, pioneejv in that region had together settled opon a tract of several-hundred acres. For a while they carried on their business harmoniously together, and they became prosperous and rich Little differences alter a while arose between them relative to the management of their estates which finally ended in a division ef the property. One brother, whose tastes ran to grain growing, took the upland, while the other, whose tastes rsn to flocks ond herds, took the lowlands as best adapt ed to his purtuit. The division was ami cably made, and for a time al! went on well. The grain growing brother, owing Jo his greater industry and better management, soon outstripped his more indolent brother, and in proportion as his riches increased he pot on airs of superiority, and became inclined to contrat his fine condition wiih that of his brother. He soon began to find fault with the encroachment. of his broth er's cattle and horses, and notwithstanding a written agreement which w made on the partition ot the exta'e to the contrary, he would occasionally appropriate a uray steer, and turn a pay a runaway colt or horse into the border or enmnmus beyond him. Odier little irritations arooe which extended finally lo the families of ihe broth ers, and resulted in a growing coldness and distrust. Faults, which if seen, were over looked when they were mutually depend ent, were now greatly exaggerated, and ihe old love and affection which grew out of common necessities and sufferings had almost died out. Crimination and recrim inations succeeded, aud occasion only was wanting for open hostility and personal combat. The occasion came how, I need not say and a desperate fijhl was.in pio gress when I came into the neighborhood ef the brothers. They had been milling each other for several hours, and when I saw them, the larger had the other down, and il seemed to me that he had greatly the advantage. He had already seized his brother's watch and pocket hook, and was now demanding his cattle and hordes as a condition of settlement, under a threat that if they were not surrendered, his larm should be taken, and himself and family set adrift. To neither ol thee conditions would the smaller, weaker, but wiry and spunky brother submit. 1 saw that while Ihe sympathies of the bystanders was gen erally in .favor of the weaker brother, yet that fear of the stronger prevented any inter vention to stop the disgraceful coined.- I watched the contest for several hours, and was astonished to see the pluck and deter mination, as well as the skillful manoeuvre of the weaker brother under the powerful blows ot his adversary. When I le.'t ihe ground both parlies, besides being bloody and garment torn bad become much' ex hausted, but it was apparent that neither would give op except by absolute hunger and exhaustion. I have not yet heard how the contest ended, but from what I saw I Ibink the stronger brother will keep the watch and money, but some compromise will have to be made about the hore, and cattle and the real estate. 1 could see that he tbreat of exile to himself and fam'y from tber land and home eave a deporale energy to the weaker brother, and that it could only be accornplinr.ed by his death There wa, however, so much pride and pluck on both sides, that I shall not be sur prised to hear that (he quarrel ended by the intervention of mutual friends. The above almost improbable story, comes from a gentleman of character and veracity, and is given as an illustration o! Christian civilization in the United Slates. The re'ative popularity of the English poor house and prison among the-class which fills them is very clearly shown by the following dialogue which took place at a reformatory penitentiary, and is reported verbatim by a lady in a letter to the London Times ; "What is your name ? E H -, "What is your age ? Eighteen, please, "Are your parents alive 1 Never 'ad none. "Who brought you up ? Chelsea Work os please. "Where? At Penge. "Can you read ? Very little please. "How long were you at Penge ? Till I was fourteen. "What did you then do ? Got us a place. "Did you remain there ? No, 1 ran away. "Why ? The work was hard. , "Did they get you another place, and did you rnn away from it ? Yes 1 stayed some months, and then rati away. "What did you do then ? Lived on my clothes. "What after that ? Did badly. "Were you ever in prison ? Yes, please. "Why were you sent there ? For smash ing windows. -"At the workhouse ? Yes, please. "Why did you do that ? Because, please they gives us 41b of oakum lo pick in the honse io the day, and it scrubs our fingerst and we can't do it, and ir. the prison we only gets Id, aud (ar better wittles I Learning. By too much learning many a man has been made mad but never one from the want ol it- Hence, some would draw an argument against learning; but as well might thie advantages of steam Story of a Shepherd Dog. A writer in the Prarrie Farmer, over the signature of "Wool Grower," , tells a long and marvellous story about hi shepherd dog, from which we make the following extract : 1 I will add a short account of what 1 used tn do with my dog 'Colonel,' which, I fear,, thoe who bave never seen a well broken dog work, will be apt to class among dog stories. "When 'Colonel' was six months old, t drove with him a flock of sheep from Ohio to Illinois, pending forty-seven days on the road. H has never been behind a flock of sheep until the day 1 started. In lour weeks' lime I could send him into a a hundred acre pasture, and he would make a circuit ol it aud bring the flock' out with out leaving a sheep, and without hurrying them out of a walk. By ihe way, it is very important to break a dog to go slow the most ol dogs are too eager and hurry sheep too much 1 ferried the Wabash river at Attica. The boat ran up on a low level bar, xhere there were no yaids or fence to assist in getting the sheep aboard. With two hands and the do( 1 loaded the boat without having to catch one ofjhetn.and the flock made five boat loads. 1 got up on the bank where the dog could see me well, and ther. by motions made him jtr the flock down light to the boat, and when well jammed up, mount ot. tbair back, snd by barking and nipping not severe enough to call biting shoved ihern right in. No ten men without a Jog could have loaded them so noon, if ihey could have done it at all. When I had occasion to drive not to ex ceed ten hundred sheep a few miles, wanted io other help but the dog's. I have driven that many sheep along the road six or eight miles, where it was unfenced, some limes on one and sometimes on the other, and sometimes on both sides, myself being ahead of the flok, ihe dog behind, the sheep so strung through the timber tht perhaps I did not see the dog for an hour at a time. ''When ihe flock got to spreading out fan shaped, as a flock will where ihere is a chance to pick, Colonel' woold go out and turn in the corners, passing op just tar enough to effect that purpose, and no far ther. He used, apparently, as much judg ment in parsing up the side of the flock jusi so far as would a man. When he wa in doubt about an order, he would stop aud look back until the order was repeated. I have many a day driven all over ihe prairie and taken a flock io every direction by walkiug on before, tearing him to bring the sheep after me, without looking at him or speaking lo him. I could send hint two miles ou ;nio the prarrie after a thousand sheep which were strung fur half a mile and be would collect and drive them all up to me. I bave owned other dogs which would do the same, but none but him that did not rush the sheep too hard. 'I could send Colonel' over a fence on ahead a quarter of a mile, lo stand in a crot.8 lane to prevent the flock from turning out of the road. I have herded a thousand sheep with him for two weeks on pieces of grass surrouoded by other crops. When herding on a piece of grass bounded on two or more sides by other crop, I watched one side and let him guard the remaining sides. His manner was to steal quietly along in the edge ol the corn wherever he saw the sheep approaching too near, and show himself merely sufficient io make ihsm turn iheir heads in another direction, yet not enough to frighten them over to the other side of the field." A Mas came to the Duke of Wellington " What have you to offer?" "A bullet proof jacket, your crace " "Pot it on." The inventor obeyed. The Duke ranz a bell An aid de-camp preented himself. "Tell ihe captain of the guard io order one ol the men to load with ball and cartridge." The inventor disappeared, and was never seen again near the Horse Guards. No money wasted in trying that invention. In describing the difference between aristocracy and democracy, it is wittily, said in Cincinnati : The democracy are those who kill hogu for a living ; the aristocracj those whote fathers have killed hogs. Wit and coin are always doubted with a thread-bare coat. No one stops to question ihe coin of a rich man, but a poor devil can't pass off either a joke or a guinea, wih eut its being- examined cn both sides Jr ving. Fernando Wood, Pendleton, and other peace democrats propose to give a dinner lo Mr. Sweei, of Maine, the only New Eng land representative who voted against the Constitutional amendment, at a mark of their regard to him. There is but one road in ft which it is the power of all to follow, and of alt to at lain. It is subject" to no disappointment, since he that perseveres makes every diffi culty an advancement, and every conies' a victory; and this is the pursuit of virtue. A Clergyman lately traveling in the Oil Region saw a child in the road stumbling and falling. He kindly picked her np, say ing, "Poor dear ! are yen hurt?" When she cried out, "I ain't poor ! Dad struck ile yesterday !" jjtPTipVsljjiiekets of admissrw t An Indian Uvt Stor. In Gen. Scott's recently published antibi ozraphy, among bis experiences io 1h Black Hawk war, occut ibe lollowiog ro mantic episode ; .. The summons for th conference waa now given to all tbe tiibea and obeyed, and the grand councils of war for the settle ment of ihe treaties commenced- .While these wem pending, a demand came op, from a Judge ot Illinois, some sixty milea below, for an Indian murderer, his nam nnknown, but who had been distinctly 'raced to ibe camp of the 'freat body of Sacs and Foxes whom the chiefs bad con trived'io hold iu neutrality during the re cent hostili'ies, influenced ' mainly by Keo kuk, nut a. hereditary chief, and only principal brave ur warrior, the sense bear er, orator and treasurer of the confederacy. The demand was communicated to lore remarkable man. After a little' musing, tne painful truth of the storj seemed to flash upon hirq. With, candor he slated the grounds cf bis fears. A. young. brave of some twentf years of; age, the son of a distinguished chief, bad long sought lo marry a bar dsome young sqnaw, the daughter of another famous chief, but the maiden repulsed the lover, applying to him Ihe most opprobrious epi- -thet sqoaw he never having' taken a scalp, killed a grizzly bear, uor, by sur prise; robbed an enemy of his arms, bnrs and w;ie. Hence, she said her lover waa uot a bruwe but a woman. Her sympathies were, moreover, with Black Hawk her only brother having tun off wjth that reck less chief. . . .. . All these particulars were not yet known to the wise treasures ; for he bad only been surprised at the chauge of conduct in the ttUe savage, who bad so suddenly married, her lever. Keokuk, in good faith eaid he would inquire, for bis great care bad been to save hit people from destructive war and entire spoilation, with which Black Hawk's conduct had caused them to be threatened. The next day he called at head-quarters and whispered-that bis fears had proved prophetic ; that the happy bridegroom had, for the good of the confederacy, confessed himself to be the guitry party, and was af hand ; bot begged the General to repeat,' in a full council, the demand, etc.. This waa accordinaly done, and as soon as Scot's pa oration 1 demand the murderer was inter preted, the young A polio stood up and said lam the man I With a violeoi stamp and voice Scott called oui, the guard I A ser geant, with a uczen grenadiers, rushed In, seized ibe offender and carried him off. When the blacksmith bexan to place and rivet ihe irons upon him, he struggled lo riou&ly. It took several of the goard to hold him down! He said he did not coma forward to be ironed ; he did not wish to be tr ed, tha' he preferred to be shot at once. He was sent down to the Illinois rson then in seion, put on Lis trial, and notwith standing ihe btrong cjrcqmolanti! nil denoe, and that it ws proven he had ac knowledged the killing in a hand-to-hand right, a tricky lawyer, well provided with the means of bribing, no doabt by the e hie Is of the confedaracy, obtained from the jnry a verdict of not guilty. The acqnittad had yet to pass another or deal one of fire and water, A witi horse, half-way between the court and the Mississippi, (a few hundred yards off,) had been provided for the occasion ; frontier men alwas have their rifles in hand, and their horses ready. The lawyer hastened bis client out ot court , and gained for him a good start. 'Fly, young man, or your dearly bought Helen will soon be a wid ow !'' iu a minute followed by some whiz zing shots he was in ihe saddle. In another, "horse and rider" were plonged Into "tha great father of waters," swimming side by side. Now oame up furioo!j a dozen ri flemen, who threw away their lead at the ton distant game. The last ne.ws of the ro mantic, represented him as the happy fath er of a thriving family of "young barbari ans," by more than a "Dacian mother", all tar beyond tha Mississippi. The negroes of Washington propose to get up a. testimonial to Butler expressive ot their sympathy for his removal. By all means let the niggers have chance to. praise Butler, if there are no whit men who will. : , Gen. Banks states that the total popula tion of Louisiana has been red need from 700,000 before the war to 450,000 at pres, ent. The mortality among the blacks ha speaks of as " appalling." "What! are you drank agaio?" "No my dear, not drunk but a li lle slip pery. The fact, is, my dear, some scoundrel has been rubbing my boots till they ara as smooth as a pane of glass.". ' Thk Law or Love. He who cannot hold bis tongue cannot love. No one can be sincerely in love with two persons at the same time. Tbe gift and pleasures of love should ba voluntary. Love never dwelt in the house of avarice. Love cannot remain stationary; it trust of necessity increase or diminish. Fcilty of possession ia lata! to lore, dtQ cnlties increase it. As long as men smell ol whiskey and tobacco, tha women bara a right to defend thtmselvea with aaosk. v-s Some hypoer'nir- prater in chnrch ar
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