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BY S. B. EOW.
CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1 856.
VOL. 2.-NO. 41.
- EVERMORE.
Tho streamlet mimarcd soft and taw
Meandering mid the shadowing trees,
And as its gentle tone arose.
Uplifted by the slightest breeie,
I sat epon a tnost-crow a stone,
That served the streamlet fur a shore,
.ashI htmt my ear to catrh the tone.
As lew it whispered, ''Knimiir."
.And 'mid the flowers and through the glee,
With careless haste it passed along,
5 or lurking back the rocky steep,
Could stay the cadence of its sods; ;
A rainbow sat upon the spray,
Xhe messenger of harm do more ;
Ihe water bounded on its way,
Amd still repeated 'Evermore."
The streamlet grew a mighty tid.
Fed by a thousand mountain rills,
And mirrored in its moving wares,
The forest of a thousand hills ;
f at aj the boatman chant his song,
limed to the plashing of the oar,
Tnnet'ul notes the waves prolong,
And echo sweetly, "Evermore. :l
Bo. soft and low in early Jays;
Po, roughly tost in youthful strife ;
So. broad and deep in later years,
Flows on the hastening stream of Ufa.
Our bark afloat, the current strong.
We drift not slowly towards the shore,
And each fre.h gale that waffct along,
Repeat more clear the startling song.
List! list! what means it? "Evermore.''
THE THREE GHOSTS.
BT E. W. DEWEES.
Round a cheerful wood fire, in a quaint old
country house, three sisters sat talking In the
twilight. Tho bright blaze illumined the room,
ia which a few portraits were hanging, and
cast grotesque shadows from the old-fiubion-ed
furniture. The ruddy glow lighted up the
lively faces of the sisters, enjoying its cheer
fulness. ' .
Very charming were they all, but very dif
ferent in their beauty.
Margaret, the elder she who sits to the right
I the firo, with her head thrown partly back,
while her hands were crossed upon her knees,
is about twenty-two. She is tall, stately, and
proudly beautiful. Sophie, "pretty Sophie,"
tits opposite on a sofa with tho head if little
Rose, who Is reclining, on her tap.
- Little Hose, the youngest, with neither Mar
garet's queenly grace, nor Sophie's brilliant
bonify, was what ladies call "a darling' that
is, sho was Ioreable, charming and innocent.
In fact she was fresh and sweet as a hawthorn i
bluasoin.
These three young girls were singularly sit
uated. They resided in the old homestead,
where we have found them, alone, except for
the servants who attended them. Father and
mother had both died within a fow years, and
ns there was no relation to supply, even in a
measure, their places, the orphan sisters clave
yet more closely to each other, and continued
to lire in their desolate Louie, like birds who
nestle together In the old nest when the parent
birds hare left them.
Thomas, an old and faithful man-servant and
Kitty Cork, (a person notwithstanding her
jnvenile name, of middle age and tried fideli
ty) wero their only domestics but they suffi
ced, for their labors were performed in tho
spirit of lore and willingness.
Such was the little household of the sisters
and there they were settled for life. For,
be it known to yon, incredulous reader, that
each of the fair sisterhood was under a solemn
vow of celibaey.
When their father and mother died and left
thetu all alone in the world, they took each o
ther by tho hand and solemnly promised nev
er to desert each other, bnt to live and die to
gether. Three years had passed since that time, and
tliongh their loveliness had attracted suitors
evea to their quiet, lonely home, no wish had
ver been breathed by any of the sisters of a
uish to break their vow.
On tho contrary, they often applauded their
wisdom in devising it, and swore fealty to it
anew.
Some such conversation had taken place on
the very evening I had chosen to introduce
them to my readers. Indeed, they were more
than usually vehement in the denunciations of
any treason to their code. Margaret's eyes
had flashed indignant at the very thought of
such treachery Sophie had painted most
touching'; th lonely state of the other two
should one be base enough to desert and lit
tle Rose had declared, "That even if Prince
Charming himself should come flying into the
room in a ';J.Ien charjot, and were to fall at
iher feet all crowned with diamonds, she would
jiot waver the least mite but should say very
'coldly, ''Rise,' Frinco Charming, you can't
Jaaye mc, I have promised my sisters never to
'marry.
Margaret and Sophie laughed at little Rose's
sally, and the greatest unanimity appeared to
prevail.
While they sat over :ne ore umeussmg mu
subject, Kitty Cork" entered with a basket of
chestnuts, saying,
"If you plasc, leddies, Thomas bids mc give
yees these nuts. He's alter pickin' them his
eelf and he ays as it's Hollow-Are ye'll be
4hryin'yer fortunes, good or bad and its wish
in' yo gudc luck and gude husbands he is."
"Docs not Thomas know?" began Marga.-
jjaret with a frown.
"Ou ay heknows,"interruptedKittywith
a slight toss of the bead but immediately re
penting this imprudent gesture, she added
with roguish demureness
. "Ocb, but Thomas is a quarc, headstrong,
-ould body. Puir, ould bowI, he has ay his
rank, and w hims aui ae is, ye'll a three
' yees be married afore a year's out. Unfor
tinnit, detnintid craythur that he is, to take
sich an a crazy fancy." . .. ,
"Crazy indeed I" said Margaret, with dis
dain, bnt yet when Kitty was gono, the girls
began, jnst for fun," to try the nuts in the
old fashioned manner. True, no names were
mentioned aloud, but that did not prevent
each maiden from designating her nuts as she
pleased and certainly the most intense inter
est was manifested in the glow on each youth
ful face as it watched the antic manceuvers of
the mimic lovers in the symbolical pantomime.
Kitty returned to find them engaged in this
inconsistent amusement, but liko a wise dam
sel she took no note of trifling discrepancies.
She on the contrary, proposed that as they
were trying Ave ganies, they should at a later
hour, before going to bed, try the famous old
one of sowing hemp-seed by moonlight.
"What is it 1 how do you do it 7" cried the
sisters, and Kitty went on to explain, how that
the girl who would look into the future as to
her fate, must go by night, alone, and beyond
the hearing of her friends, and scattering
hemp-seed in the moonlight, must say,
"Ileinp-seed I sow,
llecnn-seed must grow,
Whoever will le my true-luve.come after and mow "
And then on looking over her right should
er, she would see the man sho was to marry,
coming after her with a great scythe mowing
and who would most surely overtake her and
cut her heels off with the weapon, if she paus
ed too long to look.
"You forgot, Kitty, we are never going to
have any husbands," remarked Sophie, when
Kitty paused in her explanations.
"Och, well, then, no harm done," was the
response "if j-ces to have no husbands, no
husbands will come aDd ye'll no risk your
heels."
The sisters were in a humor for a frolic, and
would have ventured a trial on the spot, but
the all important Kitty stopped them.
"What an a time's this for such a thing, it's
no yet eight o'clock, and tho mune's no up
the earliest hour iver I seen it tried was ten o'
clock, and the midnight hour i3 better still."
The girls consented to wait a more propi
tious hour, and returned to their fireside chat.
Kitty retired to the kitchen, where she whis
pered a long talc in Thomas' ear. The latter
listened, nodded his head sagaciously took
up his hat and went out.
Ten o'clock at length struck, and the sisters
as eager as ever for a frolic, called Kitty. She
appeared altera littlo delay, bringing with her
tUrce baskets of hemp-seed, one of which she
gave to each fair adventurer, with renewed in
structions. Miss Margaret was desired to is
sue from the front door, Rose from the back
and Sophie from the side. The' were about
to set off, when Thomas, who stood silently ob
serving all, said gruffly,
"That's wrong, Kitty Miss Rose is to goby
the side, and Miss Sophie from the back."
"Thrue for ycz, Thomas, and my heart's in
my very mouth of fright at the plunther."
"Why, Kitty, what difference can it possibly
make ?" inquired the girls.
Kitty made no intelligible answer but she
mumbled something like,
"Gac the right gate, and ye'll mate the right
guist," as the three girlish figures flitted away
in the darkness.
Five ten minutes elapsed, and Margaret
rushed breathless into the sitting-room ; an in
stant more, and Rose and Sophie joined her.
They all looked very much excited and fright
ened. .
Each looked at the other inquiringly ; and
Margaret began ;
"I have really ssen something very extraor
dinary very strange. I do not know what to
think of it. It could not have been a spirit
bnt oh, how frightened I am, I will tell you
all about it. I !iad scattered my hemp-seed
and repeated my rhyme as Kitty directed,
when looking behind me I saw, actually a fi
gure in white, advancing towards me with a
scythe, just as I had been predicted. I was so
taken by surprise, and so frightened for of
course I did cot believe Kitty's nonsense, that
I had no power to run. I stood motionless
with terror, while the figure approached nearer
and nearer. It advanced step by step, as a
man does in mowing, and I yet had no power
to stir. At last it was behind me -close I
felt its touch and its breath on ray cheek and
a voice whispered ia mj ear :
"Beware how you cast from you the love
and devoiLou of a faithful heart. Young Al
derthorn truly loves you make him and your
self happy."
The sisters were silent. Margaret added
"what makes it stranger is, that I kucw well
the voice that spoke it was young Alder-
thorn's and I know well that none but a spir
it could imitate those toues so as to deceive
me. But tell us Sophie what happened to
you You are looking as pale as a lily."
Sophie held up her hand, on the third finger
of which glittered an opal ring, which she had
never worn before.
"Listen," said she, "I did just as you did
Margaret ; and looking over my shoulder as
directed. I saw a vision. It was not moving
as that you'described, but it held a scythe in
its hand, and when I first saw it, it was alrea
dr br ray sido. It was clad in some kind of
white mantle, and its. features were quite risi
ble in the moonlight. 1 ' Sisters it was tho face
of Lieutenant Morton XIc- or it tok coy
hand, aad put this ring uponmy finger, say
ing solemnly as he did so,
"With this ring I wed thee,
In death or in life.
This token doth bind thee
Forever my wife."
Margaret shuddered. What if her sister
were wedded to a demon ? She had heard of
such things 2nd did not her own experience
forbid her to bo incredulous ? With a sick
ening sensation ot superstition, horror and ap
prehension hhc turned toward little Rose.
What had befallen that little child 1
"I have seen a ghost," Rose began Mar
garet clasped her bands and closed her eyes.
Her pale face grew even whiter than before.
Rose continued,
"I had sown my hemp seed, as you did sis
ters, and when I looked behind mc, I saw tho
reapet coming after me with great strides.
I started to run, but in my fright I stumbled
and fell and tho ghost instantly sprang for
ward and raised mo up and and ,
"And what, Rose V asked Sophie and Mar
garet, eagerly.
"And it was Robert Bloouiley," said Rose
abruptly.
"How do you know ? what makes you think
so?" asked the sisters.
"Because he kissed me?" cried Rose hasti
ly. Then overwhelmed by her own blunder
ing speech, she hid her blushing face ia her
hands.
Margaret and Sophie were aghast. Here
was a discovery.
Rose tried awkwardly enough to profit br
the silence to amend her error.
'Ghosts don't kiss, you know," she timidly
remarked.
"And Robert Bloomley doesV cried Sophie,
laughing. "Oh, Rose, Rose, you little trai
tor, who would have expected this from you."
She looked keenly at Margaret as she spoke;
Margaret met her glance with a look at once
conscious and suspicious.
A light was begining to break in upon them.
They began to sec that Rose was not the only
traitor in the camp. They began also to sus
pect Kitty and see through her devices.
At last Sophie broke iuto a merry laugh.
"The fact is," she said, "mischievous Kitty
has been playing us a trick, very saucy, and
very clever. I understood it all now, and she
has evidently understood us all this long time.
How say you, Margaret 1 Arc we justified in
keeping our vows, when three ghosts como
from their graves to bid us break them ?"
Margaret turned aside her stately head with
a blush and a soule, and gave no explicit an
swer. But I fancy sho as well as the other
sisters, were more satisfactory in their replies
the next day, to the "three ghosts," who ap
peared in propria persona to plead their cause.
I need scarce say that, as Sophie had sug
gested, Kitty was at the bottom of these mys
teries. Having, with her usual shrewdness,
discovered the secret of each sister, she had
despatched Thomas to summon the lovers in
time to play the ghostly part assigned them.
Finally I would merely remark, that the
whim of the "quarc, head-strong ould body,
Thomas" was perfectly true. All three sis
ters were married within a year.
Margaret entered with her hnsband into
possession of a noblo estate in the neighbor
hood. Sophi accompanied Lieutenant Mor
ton to distant lands. But Rose, with her hon
est farmer settled down In the dear old home
stead. Kitty, now more important and more indul
ged than ever, and faithful old Thomas of
course, remained with her.
Onco a year, as often as it is within the
bounds of possibility, the sisters meet under
the old roof-tree. Every Hallow Eve they as
semble, as of old, round tho cheerful wood
fire, not perhaps roasting chestnuts, and talk
ing girlish nonsense, but speaking of present
happiness.
Religion and Politics- The Philadelphia
Saturday Evening Post says "that if politics
arc so bad that religious men and ministers
can not mingle in them without detriment to
themselves and their holy cause, there is so
much the more reason for their reformatory
work. Most of those persons who arc shocked
that ministers will occasionally "preach poli
tics," or apply great religious principles to the
administration of the government, or because
clergymen manifest an interest in moral and re
ligious questions upon which political parties
are also divided, are usually persons ot very
bad politics commonly both. Men whose pol
itics will not bear the test of Christian princi
ples are very apt to scoff at any suggestion of
comparison; and men whose religion' is a
houscd-up Sabbath idol, never to be thought
of or reguarded on a week day, or applied to
any of the business of life, undoubtedly will
have a holy honor of making religion a prac
tical thing."
The French Doctors have discovered that
ice is safer and better to use in surgical opera
tions than chloroform. . By the application of
pounded ice and common salt to the diseased
parts, thus causing numbness ana insensioui
ty, a Surgeon lately succeeded in removing a
larsro tumor without giving the patient any
pain, and occasioning very little loss of blood.
Tho only inconvenience was, that the Doctor
froze his fingers. -
The Steamer Susquehanna has been order
ed to Nicaragua.
CLEARFIELD, PA., MAY 28,
. KANSAS.
.Jaoficr Letter from "John."
Coc.vcit. Citt, April 1 tth, IS06.
Rev. J. J. Hamilton : My dear brother
I am just going to write you a short letter, and
a rough one, for I am coming out of an ague
shake, and my hand is unsteady. I have not
had the shakes much this spring, but the dis
ease lingers in the tystem and is ready to
break out at almost any time. It is the re
mains of the sickness of last August and Sep
tember. Do not think that it is now unheal
thy. The uir seems so pure that it is a con
tinual pleasure "to drink it in," os one of the
settlers says. I don't look as if I had the
ague, for I am quite fleshy, and proper care
and diet will doubtless cure it altogether.
There are a good many emigrants coming
in this spring. We hope for an emigration
sufficiently large to determine by their mere
pressure the political character of the State.
But wc have another, trouble, which probably
effects four-fifths of us ; and that is inability
to pay for our claims in July next. We have,
many of us, used up enough money in squat
ting, to have paid lor our claims, could wc
have done so at first. Many of the expenses
which we encountered, we could not well avoid.
We were obliged to live on our claims to hold
them. The law requires the settler to erect a
dwclliug, live in it, make it his house, and
make other improvements. Wc expected,
however, to get our money back by way of tho
crops which wo hoped to raise. But the com
crop, which is the principal one on the spring
breaking, was almost a failure last season, on
account of the ravages of a worm. . But we
still expected at least another season in which
to raise money to pay lor our land. Many,
who had been in other of the western States in
their inception, expected, two or more years
yet. But wc have another clement to doal
with, which is chattel slavery a blight upon
humanity -and a mockery against God and
those who seek to profit by this element well
know that the great body of us arc unable to
meet the demand for payment this season ;
and therefore they employed seccnty-tuo sur
veying parties, last fall and winter, to rush
through the survey, which we arc told is very
imperfectly done in consequence of such haste.
Xext wc hear that the survey will bo rcadv in
June ; and next, before even tho land office is
established, wc hear that the President's proc
lamation is on the way, and will be published
between the 20th of April and Is, of May, giv
ing only three months from that time in which J
to pay for the land. And even this three
months may be cut short for aught, I know.
Now this hasto hardly gives time for thoso
who have money east, to procure it, and much
less to negotiate for it. Besides, our letters
are systematically delayed at least w-e cannot
otherwise explain it and many of them de
stroyed. In accordance with these things, I
hear that men around Lawrence even, and all
through the territory, are selling their claims
for whatever they can get, in anticipation of
their inability to pay in time. The land sales,
I also understand, are to be guarded by a mil
itary force. In short, since bullying has not
overcome us, other moans, every means is to
be employed to crush us. In the language of
Douglass, we, together with the whole North,
arc tc bo "suWtterf."
Now, we want that Northern men should be
awake to these things. We want that capital
ists should come here with money, and help us
through. Wc will give them a shave, if tt
must be so $300, or even $400, for $200, at
10 per cent., rather than to lose our claims.
Wc want northern speculators to come and
buy the land which is not pre-empted, if it
mmt be bought by speculators. We want nor
thern men to hold it. It is worth the buying
rich and beautiful. Wo do shake a little,
but they shako worse in the other western
States. And then our living is often enough
to make any body shake. I should have said
our want of living, for we have but never
mind. We want northern people to wake up.
It is getting dark that 1 can't write, and I
must take this two and a half miles before
breakfast. I wrote to George, April 1st, and
sent the letter by a Doctor Hall cltar through
Missouri. I hope he'll get that one. I urged
him to come here at onco and take a claim
which is still untaken, next to the town. There
is still some uncertainty about the town.
There will bo a town in the settlement, not far
from here. It may not be on the site of tho
A. S. C. But the capital will probably bo here.
At all events a claim in the settlement cannot
bo otherwise than valuable worth several
times the $l,2-.
People need not bo afraid of prairie farms,
even without fire-wood. Coal is abundant.
Three claims joining we have it. - My claim is
all prairie, and yet I have stuck to it, when I
could havo' had a timber claim, on account of
its location. I havo written thus to give you
an idea of our condition here, generally: but
in my own case, particularly. I am ia hopes
that some ot thoso who were friendly to me ia
Clearfield, will help mo to raise the money in
time. I would come back and work it out, if
there was no other way. I could send my noto
and bond to George tor him -to raise tho mon
ey on. I cannot giro a mortgage nntH I get
tho deed. Perhaps I shall bo able to borrow
:te money here, but it is uncertain. Ihro
arc somo moneyed men coroinj; into the set
tlement this spring. A draft might bo safely
sent, and would be negotiable at Kansas City,
Mo. But I would rather have some of our
friends como themselves. I believe that mon
ey is to be mode by having money at theso
land sales, cither by lending it or buying land.
If George don't come, perhaps his father will,
ne has not much else to do ho can let the
boys take care of the farm. However, I would
hate to have any of them come at my solicita
tion, and be disappointed ; I would sooner
lose my place. But 1 don't think that they
would-be. I w ill write to George or you as
soon as the time of sale is positively known.
Any one and every one who hates slavery and
who can come here and buy laud, should do
so. Much, as I dislike speculating in laDd.
yet if it must b so, I want to see it fall into
the hands of northern men. I should think
that Clearfield might turn out some hundreds
of thousands to invest in Kansas.
I wish you were hero about a w bile. I have
cherished the hope, with much satisfaction, of
having you here yet. I would like if you had
a farm beside mc, and next to the town (pros
pective.) There are two dwellings in it, and
preparation for more shops, Kc. The title is
not secured, and this id the main difficulty at
preseut. We have a presbyterian .minister
here a Swiss Frenchman, who can hardly
speak English. Of course his preaching is not
very profitable, but he is an honest little broth
er, lie lives next me, and like the rest of us,
is unable to pay for his claim in time. Every
body thought we would have a year after the ;
public sale. This was a mistake.
I am told that pro-slavery agenls have noted
us and all the circumstances respecting our
claims, so as to bo ready to take every advan
tage of us in the cUiin business. I also un
derstand that they are endeavoring to put such
a construct lou on tho law as to prevent pre
empting since the survey. It seems impossi
ble that they can do so. I don't know.
Do write. I have received no word from
any of you since about the middlo of Feb.
We had a thunder shower this morning. Tho
trees aro leaving out o, how lovely it is.
Tho grass is up, and tho wheat looks fine
where tho cattle were fenced off. I 6tood in
my cabin door a lew days since and shot three
prairie heus! fat and nice ! They aro plenty,
but usually shy. I have found the end of the
sheet, writing by fire-light. So, brother, good
bye. I don't mean to bo too much cast down,
if I do lose my claim.
Your own, JOHN.
Kaxsis Affairs. A despatch frorti St. Lou
is, evidently manufactured by the border ruf
fians, says that Sherifl Jones was convalesccat
on the 1 4th. Judge Fane, of Georgia, had
been appointed Sheriff, until Jones should re
sume his duties. It was reported that Judge
Fane had been shot at tw ice.
George F. Brown, editor of tho nerald of
Freedom, has been arrested while endeavoring
to leave the Territory. (Jov. Reeder had fled,
but it was thought would be re-captured.
It was said there wero 1,500 men at Law
rence, armed with Sharp's rifles, with a strong
ly fortified breastwork and two pieces of aitil
lery, who declare that they will resist all at
tempts at their arrest.
About 1,000 men have responded to th mar
shal's proclamation, and ar-i encamped in the
vicinity of Lawrence and Lecompton, the a
vowed purpose being to compel the pcoplo of
Lawrence to acknowledge tho territorial laws.
A despatch from Washington states that tho
Kansas Congressional Commission forwarded,
by Gov. Robinson, a large quantity of testi
mony taken iy them, enclosing it in a scaled
package addressed to the Speaker. On Gr.
Robinson's detention at Lexington, Mo., hie
wife, at his request, continued her journey.
At Columbus, Ohio, sho handed the package
to the Hon. C. K. Watson, one of tha Com
mittee on Elections, who delivered it to tits
4
Speaker privately. VJ
The Commissioners request that it may re
main with tho seal unbroken until their re
turn. This is the testimony which it is said
the Missourians threatened to destroy.
The Lecompton Union, a Kansas pro-slavery
paper, of the Sth, confirms the telegraphic re
port that Reedor, Robinson, and other Free
State men, have .beeu indicted by the Grand
Jury in the United States District Court lor
the First District of Kansas. They acted un
der the instructions of Judge Lecompte.
A couple of subscribers have addressed U3 a
letter from Tennessee insisting that wo should
devote no more time to the castigation of our
neighbor of the Democrat. Very well, but
we cannot help thinking with tho immortal
! poet.that .
! "Things have come to a de'il of a pafs
i When a man cau't wallop his own jackass."
LouisrilU Journal.
"Ah," said a miserly father to his son Wil
liam, "hearty breakfasts kill one half of tho
world, and tremendous broaktasts the other
half." I suppose, retorted William, "that
the true livers are only those who die of hun
ger.". ; ;
A gentleman in a stemboat asked the man
who came to collect the passage money ,if there
w as any danger of being blown up. "Not tho
least," said the sharp collector, "unless you
refuse to pay your far."
A FEARFUL ADVENTURE.
The Missouri Republican, in a letter from &
Kansas correspondent, has the followicg:.
At St. Joseph I saw Mr. A. T. Gorman, of
New York, who had just como in from th
nrountains in such a state of prostration and
affliction as could only have .been occasioned
by such erposure, hardship, and snfforicg as
porhaps no other man ever survived. Id com
pany with a Canadian Frenchman and two
Kentuckians he lelt tho country of the Black
Feet Indians last fall to join Culrerson and
party at Fort Pierro and accompany them to
the States. They arrived at Fort Pierro two
days after Culverson's departure, and hasten
ed on after ia tho hope of overtaking him. .
On the third day ono of these snow storms
known only on those bloak and elevated re
gions opened upon them. Itcamo down in
solid masses to the depth of four feet, and war
blown about by drifting winds, levelling un
even places, pouctrating and tilling their wag
ons and clothes, and obstructing their progress.
Evening was approaching, aud they resolved
to make uo effort to reach a more protected
place before the, night set in. Ther urged
their horses forward, but had not proceeded
more than a few hundred yards, Gorman being
mounted on one of the teamsters and his com
panion in tho wagon, wheu suddenly ho felt
himself precipitated, he knew not how far, in
to an abyss of snow. He was completely cov
ered over, and could not tell which way to
turn. He struggled en, however, making
slow and tedious way, until, ho camo to tho
suifacc, he supposed a hundred yards front
where he sank. He looked around for his
companions, but neither they nor Che wagon
could be seen. Tho place where they had fal
len into the chasm was smoothed over and'
presented a plain of snow. He called aloud
for them, but was only answered by wild and
wailing winds.
A feeling of dread and desolation and des
pair came over him, and ho was about to yield
himself to that death which seemed inevita
ble. Already had tho cold penetrated his
frame ; darkness was covering the skies ; tho
increasing winds whirled tho falling snow
more furiously; ho was alone in a vast, inhos
pitable, unknown country, without provisions,
without sheller, without ammunition or arms,
and he w as fearful to take a step in any direc
tion lest'he should be buried in a deep abyss.
His manhood was subdued, be wept liko si
child ; tho memories of his happy home aPd
of his mother camo fresh upon him. Ho
knew tho many anxious hours, the miserable,
years, that his unknown fate would cause her.
If he could only send one word of affectionate
adieu ho could dio in peace ; but that could
not be, and ho must rouse himself.
Ha offered his first prayer for heavenly aid.
He arose and moved forward through tho dark
ness and the drifts. He some times fell of ex
haustion, and felt inclined to repose ; but ho
knew that ono moment's pause was fatal, and
bo struggled on. The next day ho saw somo
bushes, which gave him hope of rest and
warmth, but when he reached them he found
to his dismay that tho matches in bis pocket
were w-ct aud spoiled, and could not bo ignited.
His feet had become so sore and swollen from
constant walking as to burst the solos from
his shoes, and he was compelled to crawl and
tumble along. Thus ho worked his way slowly
but unceasingly through tho nest night and
the day, becoming more faint each hour, and
suffering a thousand deaths from hunger, thirst,
frosted limbs, sore feet, weariness, and drow
siness, whn he descried a hut a short way off.
Suddenly revived, like a candle flickering
in the socket, ho sprang and ran forward a few
steps and screamed for help, and fell sense
less in the snow. Somo Indians at the Irat
heard and saw him, and went and brought him
in, and used all their restoratives upon him;
bnt it was several days before he returned to
consciousness, and six long weeks before ho
left his bed. He lost several of his toes and is
otherwise injured, but, through the assistance
of somo generous gentlemen of St. Joseph,
he w ill bo enabled to reach home. ' His com
panions have never been heard of.
Oriois or a CckRKnr Adage. All of our
readers have doubtless heard tiic saying that
"Nine tailors make a tuaa." Fossibly, how
ever, some of them w ould like to know the or
igin of the saying. Here it is:
"In 1712 an orphan beggar-boy appeared
for alms at-a tailor shop ia London, in which
nine journeymen were employed. His forlorn
but intclligeut appearance touched the hearts
of the tailors, who gave him a shilling each.
With this capital the young hero purchase
fruit, which he retailed at a profit. From this
beglnuing, by industry aad perseverance, he,
rose to distinction and usefulness. When
his carriage was built, he caused to be pain
ted on the panne!, "Nine tailors made ma a
man.
Wo once heard of an Irishman who was seen
busy with a file, working away at a piece of
silver. "What are yon doing there, Pat 1" in
quired some one. "Shure, an' I'm thrying to
file down a five sint pace into a fip." .:. : ' :.i
An Irish witness was recently asked what
he knew of the prisoners character for trntb
and varacits. "Why, troth', 'since ivcr I'rsj
known her, she's kept the heme c'.ana and da-ceat."