VOL. 2.-KO. 31.
CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 18-56.
BY S. B. EOV.
FRO THS KNICKERBOCKER.
STANZAS.
I jjaae upon the stars, yet see them not :
At star, I see them not. although the skiei
Are brilliant with their light ; all are forgot, :
And Fancy in them sees alone thine eyas
Dark globes of beauty, floating bright and clear,
Amid their pure and liquid atmosphere.
The sound of waters and tho song of birlj, .
In youth and spri-ag were joyous to my ear;
FuAjiow I hear in them alone thy words, ; t
Boii rs that nausio, to my heart more dear; -Til
thes I fe! sgain my youth and spring,
Aci in tLy whisper hear tho May-birds sing. .
Vh ! tll me not how sweet the brerth of kir.o,
- IIow fresh the rose, how fair the lily's bloom ;
5o petal's cheek ia fresh or fair like thino;
TI15 breath ii sweater than tho hny's perfume :
In these no blis3 I find, no beauty ;e, .
Bare whal they borrow from my thoughts of thee.
. MAJOR JONES.
: " Pixkville, May 2Sth, 1842.
To Ma. Thompson- : Dear Sir Ever sense
you was down to Pineville, it's been on my
mind to write you a letter, but the boys 'low
ed I'd better not, 'cause you mought take me
off 'bout my . spellin' and dictionary. But
something happened to me t'other night, so
monstrous prorokin', that I can't help tellin'
you about it, so you can put other young chaps
c thr gard. It all cum of chowin' so much
tobacker, and I reckon I've wished there was
so alch plagy stuff, more'u five hundred times
ease it happened.
Tou know the Stxllinsea lives on tho planta
tion in the summer and goes to town in the
vinter. "Well, Miss Mary .Stallins, who you
know is the darlincst gal in the county, cum
home t'other day to see her folks. You know
he's been to tho Female College, down to Ma
con, for most a year now. Before she went,
be uiod to go fishin and huckleberryin' with
nj, with nothin' but a calico sun-bonnet on,
and was tho wildest thing you ever saw. "Well,
I always used to hare a sort of a s.ncauin' no
tion of Mary Stallins, and so when she cum,
I brushed, up, and" was 'termined to have a
rite serious talk with her 'bout old matters;
no! knowiu' but she mought be captivated by
some of them Macon fellers.
So, sure enough, off I started, unbeknowin'
to anybody, and rode rite over to the planta
tion (you know ours is rite jiiiin the widder
Stallins.) Well, when I got thar, I felt a little
ort o' sheepish j but I soon got over that,
wlten Muss Carlino said, (but she didn't mean
we te- hear her,) "Thero Pinney, (that's Miss
Mary's nickname, you know,) there's your bo
ome."
Miss Mary looked mighty sort o' redish when
I shuck her hand and told her howdy ; and shu
made a sort of a stoop over and a dodge back,
like the little gals does to the school-ruarm,
and said "Good evenin', Mr. Jones," (she
used to always call me jest Joe.)
;Take a chair, Joseph," said Miss Carline ;
and we set down in the parlor, and I begun to
talk to Mis3 Mary 'bout Macon, and the long
ride she had, and the bad roads, aud the mon
strous hot weather, and the like.
Sho didn't say much, but was in a mighty
good humor and laughed a heap. I told her I
never seen sich a change in anybody. Nor
never I did. Why, sh didn't look like the
same gal good gracious ! she looked so nice
and trim jest like some of them pictures in
Mr. Graham's Magazine with her hair all kom
ed down longside her face, as slick and shiuey
as a mahogany burow. When sho laughed
she didn't open her mouth like she used to ;
and set up straight and still in her chair, aud
looked so different, but so monstrous pretty !
I ax'd her a hoap of questions, 'bout how she
liked Macon, and the Female College, and so
forth ; and sho told me a heap 'bout 'cm. But
old Miss Stallins and Miss Carline and Miss
Kesiah, and allcf 'em, kep all the tinio iutor
fcptin' us, axin 'bout mother if she was well,
and if she wr.s gwine to the Spring Church next
Sunday, and what luck she had with her soap,
and all sich stuff and I do believe I told the
old woman's old turky-hen was settin on four
teen eggs.
Wo!!, I T!i3P.'t to bo bached out in that-a-way
-so I kep it ?- coin' the best I could, 'til
Wis by ell'-Miss Staiiins let her knittin' Axil
three or four times, and then begun to nod and
snap back like a fishin-pole that was all the
timegitin bites. I seed the gals lookin' at
on another and pinchTu one another's elbows,
and Bliss ?Jary said she wondered what time
It was; and said the College disciplines, or
somefhin' like that, didn't 'low late hours. I
seed h6w the game was gwine but howsum
ever, I kep talkin' to her like a cotton gin in
' packin' time, as I could clip it, 'til bimeby
the old lady went to bed, and arter a bit the
gals all cleartd, and left Miss Mary to herself.
, That was jest the thing I wanted.'
Well, sho sot on ona side of the fire-place
and I sot on t'other, so I could spit on the
f harth, war ther was nothin' bnt a lightered
chunk burnin' to give light. Well, we talked
and talked, and I know j-ou would like to hear
all we talked about, but that would be too
long. When I'm very interested in any thing,
or git bother'd about anything, I can't help
chawin a Leap of tobacker, and then I spits'
uncontionable, 'specially if I'm talkin. Well,
we sot thar and talked, and the way I spit, was
larmen to the crickets I I axed her if she had
any boes down to Macon. . ?
f "Oh, yes," she said, and then she went on
and saroed oTer Matthew Alatix, N&t.Filoso
fy, Al. Geber, Retric Stronomy, and a whole
heap of fellers, that she'd been kcepin' com
pany with most all her time.
"Well," sez I, "I s'pose they're mazin pop
ular with you, aint' they, Miss Mary f " for i
felt mighty oneasy, and begin to spit a great
deal worse. -
"Yes," sez she, "they're the most interes
ts companions I ever had, and I am anxious
to resume their pleasant society."
I tell you what, that sort o stumped me, and
I spit rite slap on the chunk and made it
"flicker and flare" like the mischief ; it was a
good thing it did, fer I blusbgd as blue as a
Ginney squash. -' --
I turned my tobacker round in my mouth,
and spit two or three times, and the old chunk
kep up -a most bominable fryin.
'Then I sposo your gwino to forget old ac
quaintances," sez I, "sense you's been to Ma
con, 'mong them lawyers and doctors ; is you
Miss Mary ? You thinks more of them than
you does of anybody else, I spose."
"Oh," sez she, "I'm devoted to them I
think of them day and night !"
That was too much it shot me right r.p, and
I sot as still, as could be for morn a minute.
I never felt so warm behind the ears afore in
all my life. Thunder ! how my blood-did bile
up all over me, and I felt like I could knock
Matthew Matix into a greas-spot, if he'd only
been thar. Miss Mary sot with her hankeicher
up to her face, and I looked right into tho fire
place. The blue blazes was runnin round over
the old chunk, kefchin hold hero and letin go
thar, sometimes gwine most out, and then bla
zin up a little I couldn't speak I wasmakin
up my mind for tellin her the siteation of my
hart I was jest gwino to tell her my feelins,
but my mouth was full of tobacker, so. J had
to spit, and sh.p it went, right on tho light
wood chuuk, and out it went, spang J
I swar, I never did feel so in all my born
days. I didn't know what to do. .
"My Lord, Miss Mary," sez I, "I didn't go
to do it jest tell me the way to the kitchen,
and I'll go and git a light."
But she never said nothin, so I sot down agin,
thinkin she'd gone to get ono herself, lor it
was pich dark, and I couldn't see my hand a
fore my face.
Well, I sot thar and ruminated, and waited
a long time, but she didn't come, bo I begun
to think mavbe she wasn't cone. .. I couldn't
hear nothing nor I couldn't see nothin; so bi
rncby sez I, very low, for I didn't want to wake
up tho family sea I. .
"Miss Mary ! Miss Mary !" but nobody an
swered. -'-"
Thinks I, what's to bo done I tried agin.
"3Iiss Mary ! Miss Mary !'"sez I; but it was
no use. ' '
Then I heard the gals snickerin and laughin
in the next room, and I begun to seo how it
was; Miss Mary was gone aud left me thar a
lone. '
"Whar's my hat?" sez I, pretty loud, so
somebody' might tell me; but they only
laughed worse'. '
I begun to feel about the room, and the fust
thing I knew, spang! goes my head, rite agin
the edge of a dore that was standin open.; The
Cre flew, and I couldn't help but swaro a little.
"d n the dor," sez I, "whar's my hat ?''
But nobody said nothin, so I begun to think it
was best for me to, leave, and never mind my
hat. Well, I got through the parlor dore afUr
rakin my shins three or four times agiu the
chairs, and was feelin along through the entry
for the front dore ; but somehow I was so flns-
trated that I tuck the rong way, and bimeby
kcrslash I went, rite over old Miss Stalinses
spinin-wheel, onto the floor ! X hurt myself a
good duel; but that didn't mate me half so
mad as to hear them confounded gals a gigglin
and langhin at me.
"Oh," said one of 'cm (it was Miss Kesiah,
fori kuowed her voice,) "there goes mother's
v, heel I my Lord !" '. -
I tried to set the cussed thing up, but it
seemed to have, morc'n twenty legs, and
wouldn't . stand up no how maybe it was
broke, I went-out -of tho doror but hadn't
more'n got down tho steps, when bow ! wow !
wow! comes four or five infernal grate big
coon-dogs, rUe at me., "Git out! git out!
bellow, Catol call off your dogs !" sez I, as
loud as I could. But Cato was sound asleep,
and if I hadn't run back into the hall, and got
out the frunt way as quick as I could, them
devils would o'ebawed my bones for true. : -
When I got to my horse, I felt like a feller
jest out of a hornet's nest; and I reckon I
went home a little of tho quickest. Next
mornin .old Mis3 Stallins sent my hat by a lit
tle ' nigger ; but I haint seed Mary . Stallins
sensts. - Now you folk'es see' what comes of
chawin (oback'er! Xo more from
2 . Your frend, till deth,. Jos. Joxes.
P.' S. I blieve Miss Mary's gono to the Fe
male College agin. If you see her, I wish you
would say a good word to her for me, and tell
her I forgive her alT and I hope sho will do
the same by mo. - Don't you think I'd better
rite her a letter, and cxplane matters to her ?
Notabest. This letter was . rit to my pcr
tickeler friend Mr. Thompson, when he was
editen the Family' Companion Magazine, down
in Macon. ; I had no notion 'of turnin author
then; but when it come out with my panic to
it, and ther want no use ienyin it, and espe
cially as be rit mo a letter" beggin I would go
on and rite for the Miscellany, I felt a obliga
tion restin. on me to continne my.correspon-
- dence to that paper. ', All my ther letters was
rittoMr. Thompson, fn Madison. ' J.'J.V"
EDUCATION.
Read before the Cnmlerlaiid Co-Teaehirt1 Institute.
DV JIIXXIE BEISTLISE. . ,
It will not be expected that I will present
anything new or novel upon tho subject of my
choice, which i3 Education, as that field has
been again aud again explored, so that at this
time, I suppose that not one stone has been
unturned, or one fountain" untasted. But as
the sweet waters of the perennial fount are al
ways pleasant to tho taste and invigorating to
tho body, so the subject of education is al
ways one of interest to those in pursuit .of its
rich and enduring blessings. .
Its hajtpy influences have been seen and felt
in every station of life. Under its genial rays
have been . awakened, developed and brought
into activo exercise, principles tho noblest,
purest and most promotive of the highest wel
fare of the whole human race. It has brought
forth latent energies of vigorous minds, and
rendered them in the highest degree useful to
themselves, their fellow-men and their God.
It has corrected the false teachings of preju
dice, broken down and destroyed the strong
holds of superstition and transformed absurd
principles of morality into morals and devo
tion, whose lleaven-born precepts tame the
savage mind, disperse tho deep, dark shades
of Paganism and Mahomedanism and control
tho actions of all men, in a manner, and to
such an extent, as to subserve and fulfil the
design of their creation. It has reclaimed
many from the slough of shame and uttr con
tempt and assigned them stations of honor and
profit, by enlightcningt heir darkened under
standings, and calling into action the talent
which heretofore lay concealed in the unex
plored recesses of their minds. By its per
suasive and convincing teachings, it has check
ed tho dissolute iu the indulgence of wicked
and depraved propensities and vicious practi
tices. It proclaims the position of a wise man
to the world to be one of honor and stability,
whilst that of a fool is ouo of hazard, rocking
to and fro, while beneath, tempestuous billows
of indignation and contempt aro constantly
rolling, ever ready to swallow up the victim of
blind desire and groundless hopes, and con
sign him to regions of obvious forgetfu'.ness.
It is untTersally believed that this is an oge
of utility, and of all utilitarians the American
seems to be the most ultra. It is a principle
bequeathed from father to son, from mother to
daughter, and being once generally diffused,
of necessity makes itself known in every ac
tion. In proof of tho universality of this princi
ple in this country, we need but refer you to
the extensive internal improvements of all the
States to the railroads and canals which like
the actions and views of a healthy man, con
vey the fluid of life to every part of the sys
tem and render the actions of the whole har
monious. Nor has -less utility been evinced
in tho happy turn of late years given to sci
ence, in its adaptation to agriculture and the
other useful arts.
Education, once only known in the balls of
science and literature, has now becomo tho
handmaid of the arts, and equally adorns the
mind of the peasant and prince.
It is a subject especially dear to every truly
American heart. Around it cluster some of
the most' romantic and beautiful reflections
connected with our free and liberal institu
tions. These are America's boasts. To them
can American freemen exultingly point and
say "There, behold the palladium of our free
dom, the guarantee of its permanence !"
These are the offspring of minds enlightened
and refined by the two-fold influence of expe
rience and education.
Tho great superiority of our system of cdu
cation over that of other lands manifests it
self, when a comparison is made between the
free institutions of our country, nnd those of
other men and times. The limited advantages
of education under governments either ancient
or modern, which are not established upon the
samo principles, and administered with refer
enco to the highest good of the governed a
lone, are.here extended so as to be accessible
to all desirous of attaining a respectable posi
tion, in a land overflowing with books and op
portunities for the acquirement of that knowl
edge indispcnsible to our success in investi
gating the multitudinous and enchanting works
of God's creation.
So far as civilization has kept pace with tho
progress of education, so far have the mists of
superstition been driven away, and the voices
of tyranny and despotism hushed. True, the
ancient Greeks, may boast, and justly, too, of
a Socrates, a Plato, a Pythagoras and a De
mosthenes the Romans of a Tacitus, a Livy,
a lloraco and a Cicero ; but we blush' not in
their presence, when we call to mind the names
of a Franklin, an Adams, a Clay, a Calhoun,
a Webster, and a host of others, equally bril
liant in the galaxy of our philosophers, states.
men" and orators. . : " ' ' .' : ' ' '" -'
Our facilities of acquiring an education are
undoubtedly superior to theirs. Their labcr,
their experience and researches have'ia a great
measure been banded down to us, and furnish
ed us with material upon which to enlarge and
improve.". The goveiment itself has almost in
finitely multiplied the advantages for tho in
struction of all classes ; and whilst it has no
bly and liberally, encouraged our academies,
colleges and. other seminaries of learning, it
has by bo means neglected the Free Schools
of our country, which, when considered with 1
reference to the enlightenment of our mass,
and the good oider and intelligence likely to
prevail in all classes of society, as the result
of their universal diffusion and very liberal
encouragement, cannot be too highly estima
ted. They exist in delightful unison with our
other republican institutions, and reflect their
truo character. : In no otker,land are the
springs so abundant whence flow copious
streams of political, social and personal hap
piness. Then, permit mo, not only to recommend,
but to urge you to engage with earnestness and
assiduity la the noble and worthy enterprise
.which you have commenced. Driuk deep at
the crystal fount. Let not your present priv
ileges pass unimproved. Tho season which
you now call j-our own will soon have passed
forever. The wheel of time will shortly carry
you and it into the shades and realms of de
parted glory. Upon you will soon devolve the
anxieties and cares belonging to and insepara-bl-a
from the duties of administering the af
fairs of your country. The liberties purchas
ed by the blood of your ancestors will bo en
trusted to your guardianship and protection.
The ranks of philosophers, statesmen and di
vinos will soon have to be supplied from your
number. Prepare yourselves, then, now, for
these anticipated duties and responsibilities.
Let no morality be neglected, but let every ef
fort be sanctified by the influences of strictly
religious principles, and conscience approving,
gather laurels upon the mount of virtue and
intelligence, aud yours will be a pleasant lifo
and a happy death. '
THE LADY IN GRAY" SILK.
The New York correspondent of tho Phila
delphia Sunday Mercury, in referring to the
fact that the Hon. James Quigglej formerly a
member of the Pennsylvania Senate from Clin
ton and Centre counties, had taken up his res
idence in the "Quaker City," relates the fol
lowing amusing anecdote :
Some years since, on the road from Lancas
ter to Philadelphia, on a blazing hot summer
diy, Judge Jim Pollock, ( your present Gov
ernor,) Hon. Jim Quiggle,( then plain Lawyer
Quiygle,) and your correspondent, who knew
the"Urnier welt, hut "not lue iitier, worw ".uuo
in the rearmost car of the train. Jim Tollock
was looking out of the car window, at a placo
whore the train stopped to water, when sud
deuly ho drew his white handkerchief from
his pocket, and began vigorously, waving it in
tho air, at tho samo time bobbing his head out
of the window in a very vigorous manner.
"What are you about, Judgo ?" asked Mr.
Q., without rising from his seat.
"Why, don't yon seo yonder? There's a
lady w aving a white handkerchief, and I'm
returning tho salute some acquaintance I
made formerly, I suppose ?'
Judge P., ceased, but in a few moments he
again looked out and resumed tho operation
with his cambric.
"Who is she, Judge?" asked Mr. Q-, as he
lounged in one corner of the car, with his ne
ther extremities curled up like a gigantic cap
ital Z.
"Well, tho fact is, I don't exactly know ;
I'm quite near sighted, and can't recogniza
her, but she is dressed in grey silk, and stands
yonder, uuder a big maple tree, near my friend
John B 's house."
By-and by the locomotivo gave a snort, and
the train began to move. Judge Pollock again
flirted his cambric to the lady in a final salute,
and this time Jim Quigglo thought ho would
have a peep at her. So he crossed over to the
Judge, and poking' out his head, took a view,
but didn't see the lady. . Nevertheless, tho
Judge kept on waving his handkerchief, the
perspiration rolling down his face with the
effort. . , ,
"Where is she ? I don't see anybody,"
said Mr. Q., after scanning tho landscape,
without observing any female. -
"There !" was tho rather petulant reply;
"don't you see that lady in the grey, silk dress,
standing under that maplo tree,-waving a whito
handkerchief V ' ' ' -
There was a suppressed snorting sound, and
Jim Quiggle rolled over on the seat, red ia the
face as a boiled lobster, while your correspon
dent picked him up in a state of virulent par
oxyism of laughter, and laid him out upon the
scat. After sacrificing all the buttons on his
vest and waistbands, ha explained to the
Judge the occasion of the cachinnatory spasm.'
The Judgo had been exchanging salutes for
twenty minutes w ith an bid iron-grey- mare,
whose long white tail, as it- flapped away the
flies, had been taken by him for a white hand
kerchief, waved by a lady in a grey silk dress !
The Judge didn't swear, but he changed the
subject to sawmills, the only portion of which
was intelligible, being the frequent repetition
of tho word "dam." '.", V - , , '
; As Irish Wiix. "I will and bequeath to
my beloved? wife Bridget, all my property
without reserve ; and to ray eldest son, Pat
rick, one half of the remainder, and to Dennis,
my youngest son, the rest. If anything is left
it may go to Terrence McCarthy."
: TiiE editor of the Now York Dutchman,
speaking of a drink he once bad occasion to
indulge in, says he couldVt tell, whether it
was brandy or a torchlight procession going
do yd hi6 throat." ''.si :-i
. THOMAS JEFFERSON.
While this distinguished statesman and pa
triot was Vice President of the United States,
it was customary for tho individual holding
tho said high oflice to attend to business more
in person than tho refinements of moie mod
ern times w ill allow. . It happened on one oc
casion that some important matter required
his attention in Philadelphia, and some other
places distant from the capitol. Iu these days
a journey t o Philadelphia was not to be per
formed, in a few hours it was two or three
days travel, and not of the most plea-sant sort
cither. On his return he stopped ia Balti
more. It was four or. five in the afternoon
when the Yico President rode up, suitless ad
unattended, to tho tavern. A Scotchman by
the name cf Boyden kept the hotel, of lato so
much improved and now so handsomely sus
tained by our worthy townsman Beltzhoover.
The bucks of the town were assembled in the
large hall, sr King, stuttering, cracking jokes,
and otherwise engaged in the et ceteras of the
day. Boyden was at tho bar examining the
books, and doubtless making calculations re
specting his future prospects. Jefferson had
delivered his horse into tho hands of tho ost
ler, and walked into the tavern iu order to
make arrangements in regard to his fare.
Some ono touched Boyden upontbo elbow, and
directed his attention to the stranger, who
6tood with his whip in his hani, striking it
occasionally upon his muddy leggins. Boyden
turned around and surveyed him from head to
foot, and concluding him to be an old farmer
from the country, whoso company would add
no credit to his house, ho said abruptly :
"Wc have ro room for you, sir.-'
Jefferson did not hear the remark, and asked
if he could be accommodated with a room.
His voice which was commanding and attrac
tive, occasioned another survey of his person
by the honest proprietor of the house, whose
only care was for its reputation, ne could not
find, however, in his plain dress pretty well
covered with mud, anything indicating either
wealth or distinction and in his usual rough
style ho said : -"A
room ?" '
- Jefferson replied, "Yes, sir, L should like to
have a room to myself, if I can get it !'.'
to yourself ? , No, no we have
no room therov . a paro room in the
house all iull all occupied can't accommo
date you." - - - - -
The Vice President turned upon his heel,
called for his horse, which by this time was
snucr in the stablo, mounted and rode off. In
a few minutes one of the most wealthy and
distinguished" mon of the town came in and
asked for the gentleman who rode up to the
door a few minutes before.
"Gentleman !" said Bovden. "There has
been no gentleman here oh horseback this af
ternoon, and no stranger atall, but one com
mon looking country fellow, who came in aud
asked if he could have a whole room ; but I
asked him out of that , mighty quick, I tell
you- I told him I had no room for such chaps
as him ?" -
"No room for such chaps as him ?"
"No, by the pipers, no room for anybody
that don't look respectable,'! said the landlord.
"Why, what are you talking about, man 1
Tie's the .Vice President of the U. States."
"Vice President of tho United States!" ex
claimed Boyden, almost breathless with aston
ishment. -
V Why, yes sir. Thomas Jefferson, the Vice
President of the United States, and the great
est man alive."
"Murder, what have I done " cried Boyden.
"Here Tom, Jim, Jerry, Dick, Jake where
ara you all ? . Here, fly, you villians fly and
tell that gentleman we've forty rooms at his
service ! ; By George I Vice President, Tho
mas Jefferson ! Tell bim to come back and he
shall hare my wife's parlor my own room!
Jupiter! what havo 1 done? Here Harriet,
Mary, Jule, cloar out tha family 1 he shall have
the best room and all of the rooms if he
wants them ! 1 Off, you hnssies, put clean
sheets on the bed ! Bill, take up this mirror!
George, hurry up with tho' boot-jack! By
George, what a mistake!'
For fifteen minutes Boyden raved like a
madman, and went fifty times to tho door, to
see if his wished for guest was returning.
The Vice President rode up to Market 6treet,
where be was recognized by many of his ac
quaintances, and by them directed to the
Globe tavern, which stood somewhere near the
corner of Market and Charles sts. ' Here Boy
den's servant camo up, and told him their
master had provided rooms for him. -
"Tell him I have engaged rooms," said Jef
ferson. - ' " . -
Poor .Boyden's mortification caa better be
imagined than described ; the chaps who wore
loitering about the bar and the large ball, and
had laughed heartily at the disappointment of
the mnddy farmer, had recovered from their
astonishment, and were. preparing to laugh at
their downcast landlord. After some time he.
prevailed upon somo friend .to wait on Mr.'
Jefferson with his apology, and requested that
ho sfco-uld retura and take, lodgings at his
house, promising the best room, and all the at
tention that could be given him., " .
Mr. Jefferson rtnrncd the following answer;
HTell Mr. Boyden,". said be, "that l.apprecl-i-
ato bis kind attentions, but if he had no room
i for the: muddy farmer, he shall have oonefor
.the Vice. President." Baltimore .Sthenar. '
On Brekdikq Uoksrs. Thero is probably "a
greater amount of carelessness and indiflerenca
about securing a good or an' improved breed
of horses than there is about cows, cattle and
sheep. There arc probably too a greater num
ber of imperfect or third rate animals of this
species than of any other. At all events, wc
think that in' the course of one day's calling
on our neighbors or tho farmers of any neigh
borhood we could find ten cows or oxen which
would suit us, or fifty sheep, for ono horse
which we would wish to own. Oue" reason of
this maybe that we kill off or sell off poor
calves and poor lamb?, while we never dipos
of a colt in tho same summary way. Another.
reason, probably, Is that farmers generally
seem to consider any shape or sort of an ani
mal, on tho female side, good enough to breei
from. Accordingly, old, broken-down, in
jured and diseased mares are frequently em
ployed for this purpose. "For this traditional
notion, and the practice founded nponit.it
would perplex any of its votaries to render a
good and valid reason. It seems to rcqulra
no groat amount of proof to make it credible,
on tho other hand, that the valuo of the pro
geny depends fully as mnch, if not inoro, cn
the dam than on the sire. If thero ,Le any
truth in the established axiom that "like pro
dncoa like," there should be more caro than
there usually is, ia selecting t5 female.
Country Gentleman. . ' . ;
PorrLAit Lies. In a lecture upon "Practi
cal Life," by Kev. E. II. Chapin, ho hits off
ono of the popular vices of society ia a very
effective manner. . The reverend satirist says :
"Lies of action are blood relations to lies of
speech, and oral lies constitute a small share
of the falsehoods in the world. There are lies
cf custom and lies of fashiori ; lies of paddiag
and lies of whalebone ; lies of the first water
in Tli.imonds of paste, and unblushing blushes
of lies to which a shower would give a differ
ent cornp!exion ; tho politician's lies, who,
like a circus rider, strides two horses at once;
the coquette's lies, who like a professor of le
gerdemain, keeps six plates dancing at a time;
lies sandwiched between bargains ; lies in liv
ery behind republican coaches, in all tho pomp
ol gold band and buttons ; lies of red tape aud
sealing wax ; lie3 from tho cannon's mouth ;
Hs lu iti uanic ur giorious principles that
uiiuhi make dead heroes clatter in their graves;
Malakofls of lies, standing upon sacred dusf,
and lifting t-'eir audacious pinnacles in the
light f the eternal Heaven !" '
Col. Fremost is thought to be the richest
man in the worlds at this time. The Presi
dent lias signed tho patent confirming his
titlo to his great Mariposa claims in1 Cali
fornia. This nice littlo estate contains up
wards of seventy square miles, situated about
two hundred and fifty miles easterly from San
Francisco. Messrs. Palmer, Cook, &c, the
California baukers, own one undivided half of
the tract, and Col. J. C. Fremont the other,
which, many persons believe, makes him the
richest man ia the w orld. Colonel Fremont
bought this iainiensa gold region ia 1846, for
tho sum of $3,000, and was laughed at for thu
recklessness of his investment. It hxa alrea
dy yielded some thirty-five millions of dollars,
and its resources, both.miperal and agricultu
ral, are said to be inexhaustible. - "
A fRissn ol Cuvier's once took tho horns
and hoofs of an ox, an 1 approaching the bod
side of the great naturalist, and waking him
from a sound ideep, announced himself as tho
devil, who had come to eat bim. Cuvier rub
bed his eyes, and glanced at the nondescript
from hoof to horns, when' he lay, dowaand
quietly remarked 'Horns hoofs graniiniv
erous eat grass can't come it go away !"
. '-Once on a time," says history, "a Scotch
pedestrian was attacked by three thieves. He
defended himself well, but was - overcome ;
when tho thieves much to their astonishment,
found that ho owned only the small sum of a
sixpence. Tho devil's "in the fellow,' said
one, to fight thus for sixpence. Why, If hed
had a shilling he'd have killed lis all.'
Little Girls. Thoro . is something inex
pressibly sweet about little girls." Lovely,
pure, innocent, unsuspecting, full ".of kindnefs
to brothers, and babies, and everything.
They are sweet littlo human flowers ; diamond,
dew drops in the breath of morn. What a pity
they ever becomo women flirts aud heartb?M
coquettes. '
In olden tlm, uamarriod women used t
wear a scarlet petticoat during leap-year.;-ilC
they exhibited tho. edge of this garment to
any man, lie was bound to marry them, bm
could buy himself oS by presenting the lady
with a new gown a cheap alternative. a
Dh:. HAtr, being present when tb piurility
of worlds formed the ' sohject of conversation,
Jssaid to have shed manv tears because" ho
hadn't a" living In each." - " :
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THcac is araan ia Conec!iout who- hasyrc!
a hatred for everything appertaining to a java7
archy that he won't wuar a crown, on hisjiat 1 .
A elowisg xicnrrcE has just heed pateatcd.'
It is got up on. the principle of a newly elecled
alderman. ' It will doubtless succeed. . .
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A tankee EPrroir nays, that the girls com-,
plain that thotime aresohard tho young mca
.can't pay their "distresses!" "i V " :.'
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