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BY S. B. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1856.
VOL. 2.-M: W.
AN ADVERTISEMENT.
Win ted a hand to hold my own, " .
As down life's Tale I glide ;
Wanted an arm to lean a poo,
. Forever by my side.
- - - Wanted a firm and steady foot, .
With step secure and free,
To take its straight and onward pace
Orer life's path with me.
. Wanted a form erect and high,
. - A head above my own,
' , Fo much that I might walk benetth
Its shadow o'er ine thrown.
- Wanted an eye within whose depth
.. Mine own might rise and see
Uprisings from a guileless heart,
O'erflown with love for me. -
Wanted a lip whose kindest smile
Would speak for me alone ;
A voice whose richest melody
v . Would breathe affection's tone.
" 'Wanted a true, religious soul,
To pious purpose given,
With whom tny own might pass along,
The road that leads to Heaven. .
THE QUAKEIt PATRIOT.
The British troops were investing Long Is
land, and spreading the fire of resistance that
Lad been kindled on Bunker Hill to a wild
blaze. The time had come when no one who re
ally loved bis native land could look idly upon
the contest ; and many hitherto lamb-like spir
its were suddenly seized with a lion courage,
and marched out to battle with their noble
countrymen. None, perhaps, in the whole
straggle of the colonics to free themselves
from oppression, exhibited a more dauntless
front than Peletiah Hicks. Although s mem
ber of the society of "Friends," his patriotic
let-ling had repeatedly manifested itself in a
very ttuquakcrlike manner. At last the news
came to him that the enemy had crossed from
.Staten Island to Long Island to attack the A
merican forces. With promptness and decis
ion he made op Lis mind to join the army.
Throwing aside, then, his peaceable character,
and shouldering his musket, he left his usual
avocations npon his productive farm, and pre
pared to accompany some other volunteers from
his neighborhood. lie sought his daughter to
comtnuuicate his determination to her. Tie
found her seated in an arbor in the garden at
tde rear of the house. By ber side sat one who
had sought her love and obtained it, with the
sanction of her father, and they now waited a
favorabie opportunity to unite their fortunes
forever. As our friend joined them, the young
man held the hand of the Quakeress, and was
evidently pouring into her ears the soft words
of true affection. They started at the unex
pected appearance of the farmer "ermed and
equipped." lie said
"I must interrupt thee, Thcmas Edson, in
thy billing and cooing ; for the trump of bat
tle is sounding in our ears. Thou must accom
pany me to tho struggle. Nay, Judith, ex
press no surprise ; and least of all, attempt not
to use entreaties to dissuade him from his du
ty. When peace comes again, when the storm
that now hangs over our beloved country has
passed, thee can resume where thee left off,
and indulge in as thy heart is capable of." -
"I am with yon, to the death," cried Thom
as, springing to his feet.
"Death !" murmured the frightened girl.
"Thomas! father! remember that our society
have ever advocated the principles of peace.
Will not thy appearance ia the contest be con
demned by our friends? Why not wait for
the summons ?"
"Judith," answered the Quaker warrior, and
there wa3 somewhat of sternness in his tones,
"we have no right to remain inactive in this
fjarful crisis. Perhaps our aims, nerved with
a might derived from the Great Ruler, may
render efficient aid to those who are battling
for us. 1 have no pleasure in warfare I would
rather bind up wounds than cause them but
thy father were a cravan and a coward did he
not fly to the rescue, or rather to the support
of those bravo hearts who bavo already ven
tured forth iu this struggle for freedom. Wo
have borne much from our oppressors ; I, as
aa individual, would never have tamely sub
mitted thus far, but now the hour has come ;
we must go forth, and with what success may
be vouchsafed ns, bare our bosoms to the fray.
Take a short leave of Thomas, and let thy pe
titions to the Director of life's contests be fre
quent and fervent, for his and thy parent's
protection."
The parting of the lovers, after Mr. Ilicks
.had left them, was divested of pain, by the
bright hopes which the young man had sud
denly conceived of glory and renown. Judith
contented herself with charging him to be
careful of himself, and to watch over and be
rear her father. With a fortitude worthy of a
Roman damsel, she kept back her tears ; and
,wfcea he pressed bis farewell kiss upon her
lips, her eyes were scarcely moistened, altho
entertained many forebodings.
Go!" she said, "and when the struggle is
ended, if thy life Is spared, thou win receive
ilinomu) welcome." -
Our new-fledged warriors were too late to
join the volunteers that had already ien, im-
- nnt. alone. When within a
mile of the brave Greene's encampment, the
quick eye of Peletiah discovered a movement
in the UDderbrush just ahead ol tuem. n
seized the arm of his companion, and thus ar
rested bis progress.
"Look there." ha whispered, "does the see
somethicg crawling along stealthily in the
bushes Be cautious, and wo will ste who
and what it is. Honesty seeks no such hiding
"There must be spies aronnd the camp,"
answered Thomas, in the same low tone.
"We shall see presently. There is a open
ing jnst ahead, and the persons will there be
revealed."
In a moment after, our volunteers perceived
two "red coats" slowly rising from the thicket.
They moved cautiously and glanced fearfully
around them. It was evident' that they were
spies. Satisfying themselves that there was
no one near, the "Royalists" assumed an up
right posture, leaned their guns against a tree,
and were about to disguise themselves by don
ning each a farmer's frock, when a baud was
laid on their shoulders. As they turned, Pel
etiah and Thomas each seized their man. The
opponent of Mr. nicks was of a stalwart, pow
erful build, and essayed to free himself from
the determined grasp of the Quaker. Ho wres
tled manfully. Together they rolled npon the
green sward. In close embrace they rose a
gain, and contended fiercely. Peletiah had
dropped his gun, thus rendering the combat
more equal. Fisticuffs were now resorted to,
and their well-directed blows resounded thro'
the stillness of tho wood, upon the verge of
which they were engaged. Thomas being com
pelled to hold his prisoner, could render his
friend no assistance. He stood with his cap
tive, the spectator of the scene. Summoning
the whole of bis strength for a final effort, he
threw himself upon the "Britisher" and bore
him heavily to the earth, vanquished. With
his teeth and one hand he tore the frock into
strips and bound the "spy" ejaculating as he
did so
"Really, friend, thee is well knit in limb and
muscle, and thou art no mean man of battle.
But verily thy strength availeth thee not, for
thou art my prisoner, friend ! I am a man of
peace, but the spirit of rebellion is waxing
strong within me. Being tied thus, of course
thee surrenders.
"I must e'en bear the disgrace of being o
vercome by an d d rebel," ungraciously
groaned the captive.
"Use no oaths, friend "Britisher," they are
vain now, for the master thou servest, the Dev
il, has deserted thee in thy most needy hour.
I must take thee to the camp. It is not far as
thou well knowest. Thy desire to Know more
of our condition shall be gratified. Thee will
proceed with me thither. I will take charge
of this, thy instrument of death, so that it
may yet do good service. I will not harm thee,
stranger, if thou dost not attempt to fly. Go
like a iamb to the slaughter, and thy person
shall be safe attempt to escape and d sinful
man, thou almost persuaded me to utter an
unclean word."
The arrival of the volunteers and their cap
tives were hailed with acclamation and some
laughter, as the plain and peculiar garb of the
elder captor met their view, but Peletiah bore
these signs of merriment with good humor.
"When the balls fly thick around thee and
the blood gushes from gaping wounds, my
friend, thee will not have time to notice pecu
liarities," said he.
The persons arrested proved to be spies, and
were placed in safe quarters, Peletiah and
Thomas were allowed to join their friends in a
division of the army under the immediate
command of the bravo Sullivan, who, just re
turned from Lake Chaiaplain, had temporarily
succeeded General Greene, then down with a
virulent fever. Their position was soon chan
ged, however, for Washington apprehended an
attempt on the part of tho enemy to force fhe
litses, ordered a reinforcement to be sent to
Colonel Hand, stationed some miles below.
Among those advanced was the company to
which our friends were attached. The skir
mishes of the outposts continued until ' Old
Put" was sent over from New York to relieve
Greene, whoso illness was protracted by his
great anxiety.
At last the crisis came. Washington, who
surveyed the lines from tho heights, was heard
to exclaim :
'Good God ! what brave fellows I must this
day lose !"
The battle raged with dreadful consequen
ces. . Nearly two thousand f the Americans
fell before the deadly aim of tho royal army,
while they themselves lost about one-fourth
that number. There wero no cowards upon
that bloody field, but all fought well aud brave
ly. The defeat of our forces was perhaps at
tributable to the fact of the unlooked-for and
unfortunate illness of General Greene, who,
having early had tho command, had informed
himself of the prominent points alcng the
whole line of the defonco, a knowledge hardlv
possessed by his successor.
During the action, our friend Peletiah had
received an unpleasant wound in the right
shoulder, but it did not deter him from a con
tinuance in the ranks. His cheering voice an
imated many a breast where hope had almost
died out. But individual bravery could not
turn the tide of war. As the order for retreat
reached them, Peletiah felt a weakness oom
ing over him. ne rallied, however, and pas
sed on with the bravo aurvivors to new scenes
of conflict. Throughout the war our friends
fonght side by side with marked zeal. They
never deserted the cause until the last enemy
had left the land, then they sought their homes
in peace..
Judith kept her promise, and a kind wel
come w as awarded to the lover as well as to her
ire. The young couple were soon after mar
ried. As we look back through the long vista
of years that haTe fled since the occurrences
above related we must allow that none have
exceeded the dauntless courage of those who
struggled for cur independence, prominent a
mong whom was the Quaker Patriot,
THE RESURRECTION FLOWER.
In its account of the recent Spring Exhibi
tion of the Brooklyn Horticultural Society, the
New York Tribune says : "We must notice
one very remarkable curiosity, known as the
Resurrection Flower. This flower, or rather
plant, resembles in its nominal state a dried
poppy-head, with the stem attached. Upon
being immersed a moment or two in a glass of
water, and set upright in tho neck of a small
vial, in a few moments the open petals began
to burst open gradually, yet visibly to the eye ;
they continued to expand until, throwing them
selves back in equidistant order, there was
presented a beautifully radiated starry flower,
somewhat resembling both the passion flower
and the sun flower, and yet more splendid than
either. The unfolding still continued until
the petals bent backward over what might be
termed the base of the flower, presenting in
bold relief in its centre its rosette of the most
exquisite form and ornamentation, and thus
assuming a new charm, entirely eclipsing
what a moment before, seemed its absolute
perfection. After remaining open an hour or
more, the moisture gradually dissipates itself,
and the fibres of the flower contract as gradu
ally as they expanded, and it re-assumes its o
riginal appearance, ready to be unfolded again
by the same simple process the number of
times seeming to be limited only by the will
of the possessor.
Dr. Deck, who brought this specimen from
Upper Egypt, suggests that the flower :s a na
tive of the Holy Land, and is a type or varie
ty of the long lost Rose of Jericho, called also
the "Rose of Sharon," and the "Star of Beth
lehem," and highly venerated for its rarity and
peculiar propertieSby the pilgrims and crusa
ders ; and eagerly sought after by them as a
priceless emblem of their zeal and pilgrimage,
and worn on their escutcheons in a similar
manner as the scollop shell and palm-branch.
This idea is strengthened by the fact that re
semblances of the flower, both opened and
closed, are sculptured upon tombs of two of
the Crusaders buried in the Temple Church of
London, and also in the Cathedrals of Bayeux
and Rouen in Normandy, where some of the
the most illustrious Crusaders are interred.
Its botanical position is difficult to assign, as
it preseEts somo peculiarities of the highest
and lowest classes.
Tho opinion most sanctioned is, that the
flower is pericarp, or seed-vessel of the plant,
that it grows in desert or sandy places, and
.falls, in due course of existence, from the pa
rent stem. Retaining its seed in an arid soil
and atmosphere, it is for months and years
wafted about by the winds, but from lack of
moisture keeping closed. Eventually, it falls
upon some damp spot, near somo well or oasis,
when it opens, deposits its seeds, and thus, by
a most exquisite adaptation of means to an
end. exhibited by this beautiful phenomenon
of nature, the work of reproduction is com
menced und concluded.
Thrilling Iscidekt. The 'Banner of Tem
perance' tells of a thrilling incident that oc
curred at a temperance meeting some years
since. A learned clergyman spoke in favor of
wine as drink ; demonstrating it quite to his
own satisfaction, to be scriptural, gentlemanly,
and healthful. When the clergyman sat down,
a plain, elderly man arose, and asked the lib
erty to say a few words. "A young friend of
mine," said he, "who long had been intempe
rate, was at great length prevailed on, to trkc
the pledge of entire abstinence from all that
could intoxicate, ne kept tho pledge faith
fully for some time, though the struggle with
his habit was fearful ; till one evening, in aso
cial party, glasses of wine were handed round.
They came to a clergyman present, who took
a glass, saying a few words in vindication of
the practice. 'Well,' thought the young man
if a clergyman can take wine and justify it so
well, why not I V So he also took a glass.
It instantly rekindled his fiery slumbering ap
petite ; and after a rapid downward course, he
died of delirium tremens, as a raving mad
man." The old man paused for utterance, and
was just able to add : "That young man was
my only son, and the clergyman was the J?er
end Doctor ichohas just addressed this assembly!"
Don't Kill the Birds- A multitude of them
have perished during the winter ; give the sur
vivors a chance. We fully concur with the
'Hartford Courant' when it says : "Shame on
the man or boy who kills robins at this season
of the year ! It is a dastardly thing unsports-
man like. The youth who murders robins in
the spring is the man who kills hired horses
because they are hired, cheats his creditors
and abuses his mother. These qualities go in
clusters ; and where you find a boy or man
mean enough to shoot a robin in May, you find
a coward! Pass the boy who kills robins in
May on to his moral pillory."
Chocolate was first introduced into England
from Mexico, A. D. 1520. It was made from
the flower of the cocoanut, and soon became
very popular and universally used in the Lon
don coffee-houses.
A Gebxas writer says, "the people of the
United States can burst more steam boilers
and chew more tobacco thaa any other five na
tions on the globe."
A western editor cautions his tall readers
against kissing short women, as tho habit has
rendered him round shouldered.
The Shortest Wat. Some twelve years
ago Napoleon, Indiana, was celebrated for two
things, one for the carousing propensities of
its citizens, and the other for the great number
of cross roads in its vicinity. It appears that
an Eastern collector had stopped at Dayton to
spend the night, and gain some information
respecting his future course. During the e
vening he became acquainted with an old dro
ver, who appeared well posted with the geo
graphy of the country, and the collector tho't
he might as well inquire in regard to the best
route to diflercnt points to which he was des
tined. "I wish to go to Greenfield," said the col
lector, "now which will be my shortest way 1"
"Well, sir," said the drover, "you had bet
ter go to Napoleon, and take the road leading
nearly north."
The traveller noted it down.
"Well, sir, if I wished to go to Edinburg?"
"Then go to Napoleon, and take the road
west."
"Well, if I wished to go to Vernon ?"
"Go to Napoleon, and take the road south
west." "Or to Indianopolis ?" asked tho collector,
eyeing the drover closely, and thinking he
was being imposed on.
"Go to Napoleon, and taka the road north
west." The collector looked at his note-book ; eve
ry direction had Napoleon on it ; he began to
feel his mettle rise, and he turned once more
to the drover, with
"Suppose, my friend, I want to go to h 1?"
The drover never smiled, but scratched his
head, and after a moment's hesitation he said :
"Well, my dear sir, I don't know of any
shorter road you could take than to go to Na
polccn." The Jcmpisg Water. Tho priests in France
now announce a new miracle about twice a
week. The last is a jump which the "wafer"
made, in church, from the hand of a person
who ought not to have touched it, to the mis
sal of a very devout lady, and thence into her
mouth, which happened providentially to be
open at the time. This was clever for a wa
lor, though we confess, tho greater miracle
seems to be, that a priest should print such a
story and not to be sent to St. Pelagie as a
rogue, or to Bicetre as a fool. However, the
jumping wafer is a worthy companion of the
Winking Virgin.
A tocxQ MIS3 lately accompanied her father
to the horse-market in New York, to purchase
a pony for herself. The father soon selected a
very nice bob-tail pony, which was brought out
and the young lady was asked how she liked
it. She replied, "I don't like that!" "What,"
inquired the seller, "his mane legs neck
eyes color ?" None of these was what she
meant. "My dear, tell yourself," said the fa
ther. "Well, I mean his narrative it is too
short!" replied the modest young lady. The
seller didn't effect a sale that time. Cause ;
the ponies "narrative" was too short.
Ax Exglisumax diopped into a restaurant in
Providence, recently, and made a hearty meal,
topping out with a piece of pie, which, upon
tasting, he found was cold. He called the E
thiopian waiter, and said to him : "Take this
piece of pie to tho fire and 'eat it." He was
much surprised to sec Sambo walk up to the
stove and quietly devour tho pie.
Irish servaxt, to a lady in intelligence of
fice. "Well, then, if you'll give me eight
dollars amonth and three afternoons in a week,
and time for church three times every Sunday,
and eggs and fish every Friday, and your ref
erences from your last cook aro satisfactory, I
think the place will suit me."
"I gcess you mean to bring up that ere one
to be pretty sharp at a bargain," said a fellow
to a woman who was rocking and singing, with
all her might, to a little responsibility.
"Why," said she. "Cause you keep bawling
by low baby, by low baby, into its ears all the
time." ,
At a pabtt the other evening, the conver
sation turned, as it naturally docs among
young folks, on marriage. One of the belles,
addressing a beau, quite unconsciously, as she
explained, said, "If I wero you, and you me,
I should have been married long ago ?"
A cocxtrtman entered a daguerreotype sa
loon a few days since, and wished a daguerre
otype of his uncle. "I can do it, sir, but
where is he t" "Oh, he's dead !" was the sim
ple reply, "but I've got a description of him
in an old pass-port."
A has in Florida, who accidentally swallow
ed an orange seed last fall, has a breath so fra
grant, this spring, that, he says, the ladies are
constantly teazing him for kisses. Poor fel
low ! what will become of him 1
Bearted womeb have been known to every
age ; one was seen at the court of Czar Peter
I, in 1724, with a beard of immense length.
Margaret, governess of the Netherlands, had
a heavy beard. -
The scarcity of barrels is accounted for in
the fact that the "ladies have monopolized the
hoops.
Some queer genius has discovered that the
centre cf craviit Is a Quaker meeting house.
S A VAN N All A SOUTH-SIDE VIEW.
The following article is from tho pen of tho
Rov. T. R. Cutler, pastor of the Markct-st.
Reformed Dutch Church in New York, who is
on a visit to the south for tho benefit of his
health. In his allusions to slavery the main
features of the system aro very briefly but ve
ry clearly presented. It was written for the
Christian Intelligencer and has been copied
from that pfipcr.
rulaski House, Savannah, April 4, 165G.
"It was no easy thing, my dear Ingenuus, to
break away from a flock that was enjoying the
refreshing baptism of the Holy Spirit in such
full measure as has been meted out to old Market-street
Church for the last two months.
But a series of labours that brought life and
joy to the soul, brought also weariness to the
body ; so I have turned hither for a week of
recuperation.. Tho soft air of spring comes
in my open window this morning most deli
ciously. The wild olives in Monument Square
arc in full leaf; and over in yonder rich plan
ter's courtyard the Japonicas blaze in crimson
glory. Tho season is conipar.it ivcly backward
here, but O what a contrast to the icc-blocka-ded
streets of New York !
"We left the Empire City on 20th of March,
in the good steamer Knoxvillc, with that prince
of "sailing-masters," Captain Ludlow. For
two days and three nights we have the usual
melange of smooth seas aud rough-of "qualms"
in the cabin and promenades on the rolling
deck of long, prosy talks around the smoke
stack of rcconnoitcring of ships and seagulls,
and looking out for lighthouses. Captain Lud
low fed us well by day, and old Neptune rock
ed us grandly by night ; but it was rather a
welcome sight to see the muddy Savannah rip
pling past our "portholes" on Tuesday morn
ing. We were at the wharf, with a long row
of smoky, Rridewell-Iooking cotton warehou
ses lining the river side. The city stands on a
bluff, and these warehouses are entered from
tho city side by the third story. A monster
omnibus is moored on the wharf, with "J. Ste
phenson, New York," on the panels. (Near
ly every manufactured article, from a coach to
a coach whip, comes from the Xorth. Even our
bill of fare announces "Philadelphia bcel" and
"New York mutton." If the hot bloods of
slavery agitation "dissolve the Union," I fear
that Savannah will starve.)
"We mount the huge omnibus, and land at
the "Pulaski," a large old-fashioned, comfor
table hotel, mostly filled with Northern inva
lids and up-country planters. The square in
front of the house contains a group of olives
and locust-trees, with a marble monument to
the heroic Pulaski, who fell at the siege of Sa
vannah in 1798. One of the young ebonies be
ing asked by a stranger what the monument
was, replied, "Ah, massa, I 'spose dat is do
sign of de Pulaski House."
"Savannah is a pleasant city rectangular,
like a miniature Philadelphia. It abounds in
public squares a most admirable arrangement
that might be advantageously copied in more
of our northern cities. Somo of tho new buil
dings are elegant, and in tho villa style that
prevails in New-Haven. On account of the
dampness they are elevated from the earth,
with high "stoops," as the awkward Yaukcc
phrase goes. In front of my window is the
tall spire of Dr. Preston's beautiful church,
where the eloquent Kollock ouco preached ;
Dr. Preston has now there the most wealtby
congregation of the city. As I write you, a
troop of negroes are passing through tho
spuare, dragging an engine home from a fire,
(a large rice mill burned last night,) and sing
ing a wild melody at the top of their voices.
Others are strolling along with large burdens
or tubs of water on tbe-ir heads, at a pace a
bout as lively as young elephants. A month
of such slow movements as I sec here among
white and black would give me an apoplexy !
"On the day we arrived, a sale of negroes
took placo in "Wright Square," near Dr. Pres
ton's church. The vulgar auctioneer with the
utmost coolnass opened the mouths of tho ne
gro women, and made them display their white
teeth, as if they had been sheep in the sham
bles ! They, the women, also held up their
hard, homy hands, to show that they would
make "good ifW-hands !" The auctioneer
went up from five aud ten dollar bids until he
reached $850 for a young lad. A meek-looking
mother with her two children were knock
ed off tosrether at a moderate price. Some of
our Northern fellow-passengers looking on
with intense indignation at this barbarous spec
tacle, worthy of Rome in her lowest days of
heathen degradation. I believo that none of
the clerical apologists for slavery have ever
yet had the hardihood to lisp a word in defence
of tho auction-block.
"You ask me, my dear Ingenuus, what is
my candid impression of slavery after a few
days' glimpse of the best phases of the insti
tution. I answer most frankly, Worse than 1
expected." Not that I have seen any personal
cruelty to the black race ; although a negro
was most brutally beaten yesterday close to
our hotel by a passionate overseer. Tbe blacks
are mostly veil : fed and well clad. Many are
most kindly treated. In tho interiot, where
the overseer is a man of iron, they are thrash
ed and mauled most villainously. But few of
them can read ; a well-dressed man who waits
at our table told me he could not spell his own
name ! Said he, "I bleeve it begins wid a C."
Some negroes are thrifty, aud have managed
to lay up from their earnings (when hired out
by their masters) a snug sum in their own wal
lets. For the blacks themselves the most hei
nous features of slavery are, the internal slave
trade, the forced violations of tho marriage
vow, the necessary ignorance, and the total"
ruin of self-respect which chattelism inevita
bly produces.
"But, after all, the whites have theyeorst of it.
It demoralizes thcra more than' their slaves. '
The institution makes them indolent, improvi
dent, and overbearing. Slavery degrades hu
man labor, and is therein directly contrary to
the law of G oil. The owner of a score or more
of slave won-.cn has also a constant temptation
to become licentious, and too often the mas
ters yield to the snare. Agriculturally, slave
ry is an unalloyed curse. The country about
Savannah is almost a desert ; and the city it
self, which in Yankee hands would have been
a Boston or a Cincinnati, is only a lethargic
village of some 20,000 inhabitants. More than
half or them answer to such namesa"Pomp,
"Scipio," and "Dinah." But enough on this
distaste ful topic. I came to the south with an
anxious desire to see as much' of good as pos
sible in the "patriarchal institution." I go
home again with a more earnest prayer than'
ever before that the virgin soil of Kansas may
never be cursed with the upas of human bon
dage. If you want to see a fair, candid state
ment of the real workings of slavery, with its
lights and shadows, read the admirable work
of Olmsted on tho 'Seaboard Slave States.'
"With the citizens of Savannah I have been
greatly delighted. They arc hospitablo and
refined somewhat careless in housekeeping,
but "Aunt Chloe" is not over neat in her ar
rangements, and she is '-missy" of the kitch
en. I attended a wedding in Dr. Preston's
church last evening, that would have done no
discredit to "up-town" New York in its para
phanalia. Tho venerable Dr. Preston officia
ted with great grace and dignity. I wanted
to sketch for you our ride to the picturesque
and extraordinary cenictry near a town called
"Boiiiiventura." But a friend is waiting. So
adieu ! I leave for home on Saturday, t.l.c.
A STRIKING SIMILE.
The Healing Watkrs. Our readers will
doubtless remember the magic properties as
signed to the River Lethe in the Mythology of
ancient Greece. In those darker ages super
stition held predominant sw-ay, and usurped
the minds of men. Immersion in its waters
was believed to cause forgetfulness of past and
present woes the afflicted mind and diseased
body could alike throw off the trammels that
bound them, and being thus no longer tho
slaves of mental or bodily cnthralment, finish
the rest of their days with indifference to the
past, and unalloyed anticipation for the future.
But start not! attentive reader! when we
tell you with less fable, but far sterner fact,
that ne have a Lethe near our homes and
hearths, whose waters not occasionally but at
all times flow in one continuous stream of heal
ing beneficence !
Whether the affliction emanates from the
deep-seated core of long neglectod disease, or
from the ravages of malignant epidemic, or
again from long-protracted habits of dissipa
tion and vice, there is at hand, within the easy
grasp of the poor sufferer, be be high or low.
a remedy for his woes to which he can look
for succor.
We allude, in the above remarks, to tho
vastly spread and mighty influence of the rem
edies which bear tho name of the world -f am a 1
and renowned Professor Holloway.
Countless thousands of every tongue and
clime, daily hymn his praises, as having lifted
them from a bed of suffering and sorrow to
new life and reanimated vigor!
Be the malady hidden in the inmost vitals of
the human frame, or evinced by superficial
sores, by sure, but gentle means, he eradicates
the secret evil, and disperses to the winds the
chronic venom that has lor years defied the phy
sician's skill!
These are not idlo words we utter, nor tho
visionary imaginings of a fevered brain, but
the stern realities of long -tried practice an!
unfailing iisves.
The suffrages of universal acclamation stamp
Holloxcay as the man, and his medicines aa tho
means that administer to the healing of tbe
nations from tho "Orient" to the "Occiden
tal" sun!
The printer heralds it from pole to pole, and
leaves to all and each but a "rrt'e." tt" to
wring from the unwilling lips of tho skeptic
and doubter the universally allowed confesaion
that "these things are so." V. F. Ezaminir.
You bachelors ought to be taxed, said a la
dv to a resolute evader of the noose matrimo
nial. "I agree with you perfectly, ma'am,"
replied he,"bachelor.ism certainly is a luxury.
Db Qri.vrT somewhere tells an anecdote of
a man, who, on being threatened with an as
sault by eighteen tailors, crie4 out : "Cora
on both of you !" '
West Windsor, Vt., is remarkable for tho
longevity of its citizens ; fifteen of its 1000 in
habitants died over 80 years ot age during the
month of March. - -
.(Common Schools are rapidly increasing ta
North Carolina, and were attended lat year by
150,000 scholars agiinst 13,0?0 in 184?. -
r.uce, ' -