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VOL. 3.-N0. 19.
BY S. B. SOW.
(3LEAEFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1850
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LIVE TIIEM DOWN.
Brother, art thou poor aDd lowly,
Toiling, drudging day by day,
Journeying painfully aDd slowly
On tbydark and desert way ?
Pause not, though the proud ones frown ;
Shrink not, fear not Lire them down !
Though to vice thou shalt not pander;
Though to virtue thou shalt kneel,
Yet thou shalt escape not slander,
Gibe and lie thy soul must feol ;
Jest of witling, curse of clown;
Heed not cither Live them down !
Hate may wield her scourges horrid ;
Malice may thy woes describe ;
Scorn may bind with thorns thy forehead ;
Envy's spear may pierce thy side !
IO ! through cross shall come the crown,
Fear no focmen Livo them down !
INDIAN BRIDGE.
RELATED BY DANIEL WEBSTER.
Many years ago there lived a man inConte
cock by the name of Bowen Peter Bowen
not a man of large substance, but still what
Me would call in New Hampshire, a "fore
handed man." Living on the frontier, he ne
cessarily came much in contact with the In
dians sometimes in hostile contact. Fear
less, and abounding in resources, lie had gain
ed a name among them, and there were few of
their braves who would have cared to meet
him single-handed. Not naturally quarrel
some, he had avoided unnecessary hostilities
with the savages, and, indeed, had gained no
little of their good will by manyacts of gene
rosity, for with no people more than with
them, were bravery and liberality held in high
estimation.
"Sabatis and Plausawa were the two princi
pal chiefs of the tribe, the smoke of whose
wigwam arose nearest the settlements of tbe
English colonists. The first was of a sullen
and vindictive disposition, and when excited
by drink, intractable and savage. Plausawa
was of a milder temperament, and felt better
disposed towards the English. He had inter
changed kind offices with them, and warned
them more than once of plots against their
safety.
"At this time there was a truce between the
Indians and the colonists, and both parties had
agreed to punish any violation of it. If an
Indian should bo killed by an Englishman, the
colonists promised to treat it as a capital
crime, and the Indians, on their part, made a
corresponding stipulation. There was peace
between the crowns of France and England,
and their respective colonies affected to keep
it, at least in name.
'Relying upon thi3 present good under
standing, Sabatis and Plausawa one day made
a hunting excursion upon the shores of the
Merrimac, in which they were very successful.
They were encountered, late in the afternoon,
loaded with the skins of the animals they had
.killed, by two Englishmen, somewhere near
Boscawen. Sabatis had procured drink from
the settlers, always too eager to barter it for
furs, and was in a quarrelsome humor. Plau
sawa, therefore, cautioned these men against
any attempt to trade with him, and advised
them to go home. "There are others of the
tribe about," he said, "who would support Sa
batis in any hostile demonstration." As they
were departing, Sabatis cried out to them, "we
want no more of your English here ? I have
evil in my heart, and if you do not leave our
territories, and abandon them forever, we will
take land and life from you. We will drive
the pale faces into tho big water!" One of
lho men replied, "there is no fighting now be
tween us. English and Indians are all broth
ers." They had not gone far on their home
ward road before they met Peter Bowen, and
telling bim of the threats of Sabatis, endeav
ored to persuade him to accompany them
home. Bowen laughed. "Threatened men,"
he said, "lived long. I would not prize a life
held at the mercy of these savages. I will
meet them in friendship, or fight, as best suits
them." The Indians had got into their canoe
before he overtook them, and were going up
tho river. Bowen hailed them, and urged
them to go to his house, where they would
have a frolic, and pass the night. After some
reluctance on the part of Plausawa, ' they as
sented, and accompanied Bowen to his house
in Contocock. Bowen had many a deep ca
rouse with the Indians, and understood how to
manage them.
He sat before them drinking cuds and bot
tles of rum, and leaving his wife a woman as
fearless and couragcons as himself to enter
tain them, went out of the room on pretext of
going to the well for water. But while he was
absent he drew the charges trom their guns,
-which they had unsuspectingly left behind tho
door in the entry. The night wore on, and
4beir potations were deep and oft repeated.
At first the Indians were greatly pleased-
laughed at Bowen's stories, and called him
brother ; but by degrees, as they drank more
deeply, they began to grow quarrelsome, a
Lused the English and threatened their exter
mination. Bowen affected to treat their
threats as jokes, but had all the while a watch
ful eye on their motions. At last the sun rose
and tho Indians said it was timo to go home
They had not drank so much tut that they
could walk as well as ever tho mm had only
effected their brains. Bowen consented to
take his hcrse and carry their baggage to the
place where they had left their canoes. On
. the way, Sabatis proposed to run a race against
Bowen mounted ; but the latter, judging Irom
Sabatis' eye and manner that some mischief
was intended, at first declined to run, but fi
nally, on much urging, consented to run, ta
king however good caro to let the Indian out
run the horse. Sabatis seemed much pleased
with his victory, and laughed heartily at Bow
en for owning so sorry an animal. For awhile
they travelled along after this in apparently
good humor, until Sabatis, as they were Hear
ing tho river, turned around to Bowen and
said "the pale face must walk tho woods with
us," that is to go with them as a prisoner.
Bowen replied, in seeming unconcern, that he
could not walk the wood, for Indian and Eng
lishman were now brothers. Whereupon Sa
batis proposed a second race, and that Bowen
should unload his horse and-start a little be
fore him, "because," he said, "tho horse of
the pale face could not run so fast as Sabatis."
This Bowen refused to do, but consented to
start at the same time. They started, but the
horse had not got far ahead of the Indian be
fore Bowen heard a gun snap, and looking a
round, saw the smoke and the gun pointed at
Lim. He turned, and buried his tomahawk in
tho Indian's head. lie then went back to
meet Plausawa, who, seeing the fato of his
friend, took aim at Bowen and fired ; his gun
flashed. Then be begged Bowen to spare his
life, pleaded his innocence of Sabatis' intent,
and called to mind the many kind acts he had
done to Englishmen, the lives of many of
whom his intercession has saved, but all in
vain. Bowen knew very well that there would
never be safety for him so long as the friend
of Sabatis lived. One must die, and to secure
himself, it was necessary to put Plausawa to
death, and as the latter turned to fly he struck
his tomahawk into his skull. The dead bod
ies he hid under a small bridge, ever after
called Indian Bridge, where they were discov
ered the next spring.
"The colonies at this time were desirous of
being on good terms with the Indians, lor
whenever war broke out between them, the
latter were always aided by the French in Ca
nada. The sudden disappearance of men of
such note as Sabatis and Plausawa occasioned
the borderers no little alarm ; for some time
their deaths-were undiscovered, and when the
manner of it became known, serious appre
hensions were felt of Indian retaliation. Bow
en was arrested and placed in Exeter jail, and
the Indians were assured that proper punish
ment should be inflicted on him, according to
the terms of the treaty. But the people of
the vicinage assembled hastily and in large
force broke into the jail and released the pris
oner. In those clays, killing Indians was no
murder; and in this ease, Bowen's friends
maintained that the act was committed in self
defence ; so, perhaps, it might be considered,
upon Bowen's account, without any rebutting
circumstances. The fact that the Indians had
large quantities of furs in their canoes, which
Bowen appropriated as opima spolia, threw
some suspicion upon his proceedings. How
ever, he returned quietly to his home, and as
the French war, called in Europe the Seven
Years' War, soon after broke out, no further
notice was taken of the act, and Bowen died
at a good old age.
"But the most extraordinary circumstances
attending the transaction was its effect upon
Bowen's son a youth at the timo of some
dozen years. Either remorse at his father's
deed, or apprehensions of Indian revenge,
kept his mind in continual agitation, and he
grew up a reserved, wayward, incomprehensi
ble person. lie shunned intercourse with his
fellow incn, guarded his house with redoubled
bolts, and slept with his gun beside him.
Soon after ho had arrived at man's estate, his
anticipation of Indian revenge had become a
monomania, ne heard their voices in the
sigli of the winds, the rustling of the leaf an
nounced their stealthy tread, and he saw their
dusky faces in the waving grain. Ho dared
not leave his house for fear of an ambush, or
look out of a window lest a bullet of the lurk
ing foe should hit him. Mortal fear sat at his
table, pursued him like a phantom through the
day, and in the deep watches of the night
startled him from his unwholesome slumbers.
This became, alter a while, unendurable, and
he at last determined upon an act of seeming
desperation. Consulting or informing none of
his friends, he left his home, journeyed into
Canada, and surrendered himself to the tribe
of the murdered men, as an expiatory sacri
fice. The Indians, barbarous often in the
treatment of their captives, seldom maltreated
a voluntary prisoner. They took Bowen into
their tribe, and the mother of the slaughtered
Plausawa adopted him as her son. He be
came acquainted with their customs, joined
their expeditions, participated in their for
tunes, and, indeed, became one of them. In
his old age, however, a desire to revisit the
scenes of his childhood overtook bim, and the
Indians interposing no obstacle to his wishes,
he left them, his Indian mother being dead,
returned to Contocock, and died in peace a
mong his kinsfolk and neighbors, to whom his
adventurous life furnished a never-failing
theme of interesting conversation."
The Rockford (111.) 'Register' estimates the
present season's wheat crop in Winnebago co.
alone at 1000.000 bushels, and but one fifth
of the land is in cultivation ; when all the land
li in cultivation and the season is favorable,
the county can turn out four or five millions
of baihels.
ROMAN CATHOLICISM
TUOLGHOCT THE WOULD.
The aggregate number of the Pope's spiri
tual subjects is estimated at 160,000,000 ; while
the number of Protestants amounts only to
83.000,000, and Jhat of Greek Christians to
70000,000. All these 160,000,000 Catholics
mostly belonging to civilized nations, are or
dered to believe only what the pope defines ;
to read only what he permits ; and to obey on
ly those spiritual leaders whom he appoints.
We invite our readers to cast a glance over tbe
various governments and nations of the world
in their present relations to Rome. We en
deavor to give, on this subject, the views en
tertained by Rome itself. The eye-of the Pope
rests with a particular delight on France and
Austria, the two great Catholic powers of Eu
rope. The Emperor of Austria is considered
as one of tho sincerest Catholic princes; only
his youth, and the large Protestant population
of his empire, hinder, for the present tho dis
play of his whole zeal for the catholic cause.
High praise is bestowed also on the Emperor
of France for his services to the cause of reli
giou ; yet, in private circles, it is deemed ex
ceedingly strange that Louis Napoleon refuses
to abrogate the obnoxious Ecclesiastical Law
of France, and to conclude a new concordat,
but persists, on the contrary, in conferring
what he confers as a personal favor, and leav
ing the path open to his successor. TheFrench
church is considered the most active and use
ful section of Catholicism.
The princes of Italy are doing the best to
please the Pope, with the exeeptiou of the
King of Sardinia, who has been excommuni
cated for carrying through a reform to which
the Pope objected. The church is weak; ev
erybody sees it. She is just as much afraid as
the princes of dispensing with tho support ot
French, Austrian, and Swiss bayonets. In
Spain and Portugal, ministry and legislature
have been for some years on very ill terms
with the Pope, although they console him from
time to time by authorizing new persecutions
against Protestants. Tho church is in the
deepest lethargy there, but hope to regain
some influence on tho government, by stirring
up the lower classes of the people, and enlist
ing in her eause the old landed aristocracy.
The Queen of Spain is knowu to sanction very
reluctantly an' measure againstVatican, since,
in hor obedience to the Pope, she is as unwav
ering as she is in her highly offensive mode of
life ; the young King of Portugal shows as yet
no sympathy with the endeavors of the ultra
montane party. In Switcerland, only five a
numg tweuty-twa cantons are controlled by the
catholic party ; the position of the church in
general is most unfavorable, and her only trust
is the patronage of Franco and Austria. Bel
gium is the only constitutional state whose
ministers are members and the organ of the ul
tramontane party. The Protestant King Leo
pold will, ere long, be succeeded by a catholic
son, who, it is expected, will equal in zoal the
Emperor of Austria. This section of the
church is largely contributing to the propaga
tion of Catholicism abroad. In Holland,
whose government is at present conducted by
zaulous Protestants, Popery has enough to do
in frustrating the efforts which numerous and
active Protestant societies are making for the
conversion ot Roman Catholics. Prussia is
considered as almost a model Protestant state,
because it has made this year new concessions
to her catholic bishops. The catholic popula
tion of Prussia is, owing to the excellent sys
tem of public instruction, the best educated
people of the Roman church. Papal affairs in
general are in a very prosperous condition.
In Bavaria, King Lewis, tho most uitramon
tane, and, at tho sani? time, the roost profli
gate, among tho European princes, has been
succeeded by Maximillian II, who appoints
more Protestant than Catholic professors to
the two Cathoiic universities of the land. He
is thought to be secretly a decided enemy to
Popery. The law continues to bo ono of the
strongholds of Romanism in German. The
Protestant governments of Baden and Wur-
tenberg, urged by Austria, and, we have rea
son to believe, also by Protestant Prussia, are
on the point of conceding to the Church al
most everything she demands. The conclu
sion of their new concordat is expected before
the close of the year. Here, as well as in oth
er parts of Germany,Popcry is visibly progres
sing. No government can be more detested
in Rome, than that of England, the powerful
patron of Protestant interests all over the
world. Home feels deeply that it is England
which most successfully opposes her aggran
dizement in all the five large divisions of the
world. The Roman C'jurch of England has to
exhaust her entire strength in a defensive war ;
she loses thousands of her people by tbe exer
tions of Low Church and Dissenting societies,
while a number of Puseyites who come over
to her, counts, at most, by dozens. Ireland
is still the fertile nursery of Romish priests
for the colonial territory of England and the
United States of America; but a feeling of
deep resentment goes through the land, on ac
count of tbe many insults which her national
ity has lately received from Rome.
Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, count to
gether but a few thousand Romanists. In
Denmark they enjoy the patronage of the pres
ent king, report several conversions, and huvo
established the first Scandanavian papal peri
odical. In Norway they have fall religious
liberty, while in Sweden they arc cruelly per
secuted, notwithstanding the queen and the
queen-dowager belong to the church. The
Emperor of Russia is eulogized for having re
dressed most of the grievances of the Catho
lic church, for having opened negotiations res
pecting a new concordat and for being a friend
of religious liberty ; a quality which Rome is'
delighted to see in non-Catholic governments,
while it detests it in catholics. In Turkey the
influence of Catholic France is at present pre--dominant
; no class of Christians there receive
so much aid from abroad as Romen catholics
do from France and Austria. Particular at
tention is paid to the extension of educational
establishments. -
In the Greek ank Armenian churches apart
ty desire a union with Rome. The kingdom
of Greece has a catholic king, who however
can do but little for the small number of his
catholic population.
Great fear is entertained at Rome on account
of the growing power and influence of the U
nitcd States, which, it is said, will be more
pernicious to the progress of Rome than even
England. Our people are supposed to have
innumerable faults, among which a surplus of
backbone is the greatest.
The church is receiving some accession from
the Puseyites, but has not priests enough for
the spii iual wants of her flock. In Mexico an
eminent catholic and tyrannical sou of the
church, General Santa Anna, has been suc
ceeded by a government which confiscates tho
ecclesiastical property, which does not respect
even the sacred dignity of a bishop, if he en
ters into a conspiracy against the state, and
which shows even a propensity to introduce
the most dangerous of all modern heresies,
freedom of religion. Of the half Indian States
in Central and South America, the Pope com
plains that he often does not know whether
they still exist ; so little heard of them. The
governments ot some of them, as Guatemala,
Costa Rica, Bolivia, and Chili, are very obe
dient servants of the church ; but in Brazil
the government is in tho hands of the Liber
als and Freemasons, and the emperor is a
friend ot the American Bible Society, and a
protector of Protestant literature. The Le
gislature of New Granada and Eucador have
become so rebellious as to expel the Jesuits,
and praise Luther as the parent of religious
liberty.
In Asia and Africa, numerous missionaries
are laboring for tho conversion of Pagans and
Mohammedans, but thus far without the pros
pect of carrying through their work in a sin
gle dominion, except, of course, the political
dependencies of France, Spain, Portugal. Thus
have we rapidly traced the outlines of Pepery
as it is throughout the world. Chr. .Mv.Jour.
Stout of a Priest. A Paris correspondent
of the N. Y. Timet gives the following inter
esting item in a recent letter :
"A strange story is told of a priest in the
Church of Saint Laurent, of this city. A man
who felt unwell fell asleep in tfie evening in a
part of the Church where he was not noticed
by tho porters when they closed tho building
for the night. At midnight, when all was still
in tho Church, he was awakened by a noise,
and, starting up, saw a priest with a dark lan
tern in his hand issue from a side chapel.
The priest directed his steps towards one of
the square pillars of the wall, and there, spring
ing open a concealed door, a young, half
clothed girl issued lorth with supplications
and prayers to be taksn home, to ba relieved
from her cruel confinement. The piicst made
no reply to her entreaties, but placing a bask
et of provisions in her hands, pushed her back
into her place of confinement and closed the
door. The witness of this extraordinary scene
was so alarmed that he kept quiet till morn
ing, when he ma lc his escape from the build
ing and hastened to inform the police of what
he had seen. The story seems Improbable,
and the priests assert that the man was drunk
and dreamed the drama he relates. But, how
ever this may be, it is true that the police
thought enough of the man's revelation to in
utitute a searching examination, and that they
refuse to make the result of this examination
pnblic. The Church of St. Laurent is situa
ted in the Rue de Faubourg St. Denis, and was
built as early as the fourteenth century. Like
all churches built at that epoch, it has secret
cells "known only to its priests.
I have found, says Addison, that the men
who are really the most fond of tbe ladies,
who cherish for them the highest respect, are
seldom the most popular with the sex. Men
of great assurance, whose tongues are lightly
hung, who make words supply the place of
ideas, and place compliment iu the room of
sentiment, are their favorites. A due respect
for women leads to respectful action towards
them ; and respect is mistaken by tbem lor
neglect or want of interest."
It is said hat Protestantism is gaining
ground rapidly in France. ; The Protestants
in navre number now three thousand, with a
moving population of one thousand at least.
They have four schools with 400 pupils.
A nArPY Rbplt. De Quincy being asked
why there were more women than men, re
plied, "It is in conformity with tbe arrange
ment of nature we always see more of heav
eo than of earth." .
JEFFERSON'S OPINION OFIIENKV.
The following sketch of Patrick Henry by
his cotemporary, Mr. Jefferson, will be found
interesting. It is taken from the advanced
sheets of a work soon to be issued v a Bos
ton publisher, containing the private corres
pondence of Daniel Webster. In 1824 Mr.
Webster visited Jeflerson at his home at Mon
tieello, and afterwards wrote out the following
ojbnion of Ilenryi expressed by' Mr. Jefferson
at the time. f-, -.
Patrick Henry ,was originally a barkeeper,
lie was married ery young, and going into
business, on his own account, was a bankrupt
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before the year was outv hen I was about
the age of fifteen, I lft the School here, to go
to the college at Williamsburg. I stopped a
few days at a friend's a the county of Lcuisa.
There I first saw aud became acquainted with
Patrick Henry. Having spent the Christmas
hollidays there, I proceeded to Williamsburg.
Some questions aroso about my'admission as
my preparatory studies had not been pursued
at the school connected with that institution.
This delayed my admission about a fortnight,
ot which time Henry appeared at Williams
burg, aud applied for a license to practice law,
having commenced the study of it at or subse
quently to the time of my meeting him at
Louisa. There were four examiners, Wythe,
Pendleton, Peyton, Randolph a id John Ran
dolph. Wythe and Pendleton at once rejected
his application. Tbe two Randolphs, by his
importunity, were prevailed upon to sign the
license ; and having obtained their signatures
bo applied again to Pendleton, and after much
entreaty and many promises ot future study,
succeeded in obtaining his. The first case
which brought him into notice was a contes
ted election ; in which he appeared as counsel
before a committee of the House of Burgesses.
His second was the parsons cause, already
well known. These and similar efforts soon
obtained for bim so much reputation, that he
was elected a member of the Legislature. He
was as well suited to the times as any man ev
er was, and it is not now easy lo say what we
should have done vithout Patrick Henry. He
was far before all in maintaining the spirit of
the Revolution. His influence was most ex
tensive, with the members from the upper
counties and his boldness and their votes over
awed anil controlled the more cool or the more
timid aristocratic gentlemen ot the lower part
of the State. His eloquence was peculiar, if
indeed it should be called eloquence; for it
was impressive and sublime, beyond what can
be imagined. Although it was difficult when
he had spoken to tell what he bad said, yet,
while he was speaking, it always seemed direct
ly to the point. When he had spoken in op
position to my opinion, had produced a great
effect, and I myself been highly delighted
and moved, I have asked myself when he cea
sed : "What the devil has be said t" I could
never answer the inquiry. His person was o!
full size, and his manner and voice free and
manly. His utterance neither very fast nor
very slow. His speeches very short, from a
quarter to a half ah hour. His pronunciation
was vulgar and ' vicious, but it was forgotten
while he was speaking.
Ho was a man of very little knowledge of
any. sort ; he read nothing, and had no books.
Returning ono November from Albumarlc
court, he borrowed of me Humes Essays, in
two volumes, saying, he should have leisure
in the winter for rcadng. In the spring he
returned them, end declared he had not been
able to go further than twenty or thirty pages
in tho first vol. lie wrote almost nothing be
could not write. The resolutions of '75 which
have been ascribed to him, have by many been
supposed to have been written by Mr. Johnson
who acted as his second on that occasion ; and
if they were written by Henry himself, they
are not such as to prove any power of compo
sition. Neither in politics nor in profession
was he a man of business ; ho was a man for
debate only. His biographer says he read
Plutarch every year. I doubt whether he
ever read a volume of it in his life. His tem
per was excellent, and he generally observed
decorum in debate.
On ono cr two occasions I have seen him an
gry, and his anger was terrible ; those who wit
nessed it were nnt disposed to rouse it again.
In his opinion he was yielding and practicable
and not disposed lo differ from his friends. In
private conversation he was agreeable and fa
cetious, and, while in genteel society, appear
ed to understand all the decencies andjropri
eties of it ; but, in his heart, he preferred low
society, and sought it as often as possible. He
would hunt in the pine woods of Fluvenna
with overseers, and people of that description,
living in a camp for a fortnight at a time with
out a change of raiment. I have often been
astonished at his command of prope? lapguage;
how he obtained a knowledge of it I never
could find out, as he read so little and convers
ed little with educated men. Atter all it must
be allowed that he was our leader in tbe mea
sures of the revolution in Virginia. In that
respect more was due to him than any other
pdrson. If we had not had bim, we should
probably have got out pretty well as you did,
by a number of men of nearly equal , talents,
but be left us all far behind. His biographer
sent tbe sheets of his work to me as they were
printed, and at the end asked for my opinion.
I told him it would be a question hereafter
whether his work should beplaoed on the shelf
of history or panegyric.
The Kansas Yankee's Ferrt Ticket. The
Mttrtngo Journal says: We are permitted to
copy tba fojlowing anecdote from a private
letter just received by a gentleman of this ci
ty, from a brother, now in Kensas., The Yan
kee referred to is the right kind of a man to
deal with the "Border Ruffians" in Kansas. .
You know the test to which the Missourians
subject all travellers who make their" appear
ance at any of their ferries. and ask o be cros
sed into Kansas. Some days since a slab-aided
Yankee arrived at one of the Northern Mis
souri landings, with a long train of plunder of
varions sorts. ' By way of testiag him, the fer
ryman asked him what stock Le had.
"Waal," says the Yankee, "I have got two
horses, a yoke of oxen, and two keom$."
"That's enough," replied the ferryman, "you
cant cross here." ' .
"Why not ?" inquired the Yankee.
- The ferryman told him that his instructions
were not to cross anybody that could't pro
nounce the word ecu;:
1 "But I sajd fceoir," persisted the Yankee.
"Well, you can't cross here," gruffly repli
ed Charon. '
"But I've got tickets entitling me to cross,"
says the Yankee.
The ferryman demanded a sight of tbe tick
ets, whereupon Mr. Yankee stepped back a
little, hauled out a revolver in each band cry
ing :
"Them's the tickets and I'm bound to cross
this ferry, keow, or no keotc."
The IIistort. or Butter. From the vari
ous statements in history, ithiay be safely con
cluded that the discovery of butter is attribu
table neither to tho Greeks nor Romans, but
that the former were made acquainted with it
by the Scythians, Thracians and Phrygians,
and the latter by the people of Germany. It
appears, says Beekman, that when they had
learned the art of making it, they employed it
only as an ointment in their baths, and partic
ularly as a medicine. ' It is never mentioned
by Galen and others as food, though they bare
spoken of it as applicable to other purposes.
No notice is taken of it by Apicius,' nor is
there anything said in thit respect by tho au
thors who treat on agriculture, though they
have given accurate information regarding
milk, cheese and oil. This may bo easily ac
counted for by the fact that tho ancients were
entirely accustomed to the use of good oil.
In like manner, butter is very little used at
the present day in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and
the Southern portion of France, but it is sold
in the apothecaries' shops for medical purpo
ses. During the ages of Paganism butter ap
pears to have been very scarce in Norway ;
mention is made by historians of a present of
butter so large that a roan could not carry it,
and which wascoifeidered a very respectable
gift. Farmer's 31a gazing. r . t
Revoixtioxart SrBGERY. Tbe Mobile Tri
bune, in its American Ana, relates the follow
ing: ". ' " '
Among the most active and daring of Mar
ion's men, were Robert Simons and William
Wethers. They bad been sent together on
some confidential expedition, and while rest
ing at noon for refreshment, Withers, a prac
tical shot was examining his pistols to see if
they were in good order, while Simons sat
near him, either reading or in reverie. 'Bob
said Withers, "if you had not that hnmp on
the bridge of your nose, you would be a likely
young fellow." "Yes," said Simons. "I
think I can shoot off that ugly lump on your
nose. Shall I shoot ?" "Shoot 7" saidSim
ons, and crack went the pistol. The ball
could not have been belter aimed ; it struck
the prjecting bridge, demolishing It forever,
and henceforth Simons was not the ugliest
man in the army. "
Detecting the nyrocRiTts. Mr. Murray'
"Handbook for South Italy" contaips some
curious stories respecting FraKocco,lhe cel
ebrated Dominician preacher, and the spiritu
al Joe Miller of Naples. Oa one occasion It
is related, he preached on a mole a penitential
sermon and introduced so many illustrations
of terror, that he brought his hearers to their
knees. While they were thus showing every
sign of contrition, he cried out : "Now all of
you who repent bold up your hands !" . Every j
man in the vast multitude immediately stret
ched out both his bands. ''Holy Archangel
Michael," exclaimed Rocco, "thoa who
with thine adamantine sword standest at the
right of the judgment seat of God, hew off ev
ery hand which has been raised bypocritical
1!" In an instant every hand dropped, and
Rocco of course poured forth a fresh torrent of
eloquent invective against their sins and their
deceit. . ' . . . . .. . . , j
A Model Mator. Mr. Clow, the mayor of
Port Lavaca, Texas, so soon as he was elected,
pulled off his coat and rolled up bia sleeves,
and went t work at the repairing of one of
the bridges, which was in so dilapidated a con
dition as to injure transportation. .The Lava
ca 'Herald' thinks that Mr. Clow will make an
efficient mayor. . -, .
A sewit harried man declared that If ha
bad another inch of happiness, he could not
live. His wife and sister are obliged to roll
bim on the floor and pat him with a aalngla
every day, to keep him from oIlsDainxr With
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