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VOL. 3 NO. 27.
BY S. B. BOW,.
, CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, EEBEUAEI 18, 1857.
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TRUE FRIENDSHIP.
Oh ! what happiness, what brightness,
In life's charmiag scenes appear,
When we meet kind words and actiotl,
And we feo! they are sincere ;
TVhen the smiles of friendship greet us,
And we know that they are truo,
What greater charm hath this fair world
- To offer me or you
' TTith the beaming sky above as,
And the lovely earth beneath,
Wit h the mosic of the ocean..
And the flower-enamel'd heath ;
'With these beauteous scenes of Nature,
What more cheering would you ask,
Than the glance that speaks affection,
From the heart without a mask?
For pure truth Id such a jewel,
Oh ! so precious and so rare,
That it seems a spark from heaven
Seldom Jent to mortal care ;
When we meet it in earth's friendships,
Let us prize its ho'.y mijrht,
For it comes unto our spirits.
Like an angel winged with light.
BETTER TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE.
.' - ..'. : AN INTERESTING SKETCH.
"And so you strip yourself of comfort for
the sake of adding to this rich merchant's
The widow replied with flushed check, "It
my seem a light thing to you, but the thought
v.iii I aru slowly and surely wiping every stain
lrom try husband's honor, is ray greatest earth
ly comfort. Mr. Minor is his last creditor,and,
God willing, every cent shall be paid."
Her coarser relative responded with an em
phatic ''fiddlestick," and angrily left her pre
tence. "At last I have it," said a silvery voice, an
a sweet face glad and brilliant, brightened up
its gloom.
"Only see, mother ! ten dollars all iiy own ;
t;n more make twenty, so we shall have a nice
little sum for Mr. Miner."
Tears trembled on the widow's lashes, and
glittered on her pale cheek. "Is it to be the
price of thy li;e, my precious one," she tho't.
"Is the canker-worm at the heart of my beau
tiful flower? Must I give thee opto veary
toil a sacrifice upon the altar of duty 1 Can it
be that God requires it ?"
Eva knelt at hr mother's fet, where she
had fallen with all the abandon of a child, her
glance fastened to the shining gold. Lifting
her glance she met that of her mother, full of
xnxiety, touched w ith sorrow. A sudden smile
broke over her delicate features.
"I was only thinking of the endless things
this money would buy don't look so grave,
mamma such a beauty ol a warm shawl for
yon, and a neat crimson cover for that untidy
old armchair; a bit, ever' so little bit of car
pet, to pnt down by the bed, that your feet
could not feel this cold floor, and a pretty cap,
besides coal, and tea and sugar, and such nice
CSiiiforUble things. But never mind," and
she sprang to her feet, brushed back her brown
curls, and drew on her neat little bonnet,
"never mind, I'll maybe write a book one of
theso days, that'll make you and I rich. And,
3enr mother, you shall ride in your own car
riage, and maybe thoss that scorn us now, on
ly because we are poor, may be thankful tor
our notice. A truce to romance," she grave
ly continued : "stern reality tcils mo to go di
rectly tip to Madison street, find Mr. Miner,
give him these twenty dollars, take a receipt,
and then coinc home and read and sing to my
mother."
- Hurriedly Eva pissed from her house along
the "-.arrow streets. As she went onward,strcct
after street diverged into pleasant width and
palace lined splendor. The houses of great
ness and wealth glittered in their marble beau
ty unaerftofrdden sunlight. Up broad steps,
thrfitfpvrisiU carved and shining passed tho
t;n?fc4'tcps of Eva Sterne.
At first the pompous servant smiled a con
temptuous denial ; but alter a moment, per
haps softened by her childish simplicity and
winning blue eyes, be deemed it best not to
deny her urgency ; she entered this palace of
a rich man's home.
" Softly her feet sank in the luxurious hall
carpet. Statuary in bronxe and marble lined
all the way to the staircase. The splendor of
the room into which she was ushered seemed
t her Inexperienced eye too beautiful for ac
tual use, and he who came in with his kindly
glance and handsome lace, the noblest perfec
tion of manhood she had ever seen.
"Well, young lady," said be, blandly smil
ing, "to whom am I indebted for this plea
sure V
"My rather, sir, died in your debt," said
Eva blusbingly, speaking very softly. "By
the strictest economy and very hard work, we,
ny mother and I, have been able to pay all hi
creu.iors but yourself. If you'll be kind enough
to receive the balance of your account in small
sjms I am sorry they must Ihj so small, sir
v, c can in the course of a very fw years fully
liquidate tho debt, and then we shall have ful
filled my father's dying wish that every stain
iiil.t be wiped from his honor." She paused
moment, and said again falteringly : My
father was very unfortunate, sir, and broken in
health lor many years, but, sir, he was honor-
, able, he would have paid the last cent if it had
left him a beggar."
Mr. Miner sat awhile thoughtfully, his dark
ryes fastened upon the gentle face belore him.
After a moment of sitencc, he raised his hoad,
threw back the mass of curling hair that shad
owed Lis handsorao brow, and said : .
"I rtmember your father well ; I regrcttod
Vis dth. He ws fins follow a fine fel
low," he added, musingly: "but, my dear
young lady, have you the means do you not
embarrass yourself by making tbeso pay
ments?" Eva blushed again, and looking up, ingenu
ously replied, "l am obligad to work, sir, but
no labor would be too arduous that might save
the memory of such a father from disgrace."
. This she spoke with deep emotion. The rich
man turned with achoaking in his throat, and
tears glistened on his lashes. Eva timidly held
out the two gold pieces; he took them, and
bidding her stay a moment, hastily left the
room.
Almost Instantly returning he handed hei a
sealed note, saying : "There is the receipt
young lady, and allow me to add, that the mo
ther of such a child must be a happy woman.
The whole debt, I find, is nine hundred and
seventy-five dollars. You will see by my note
what arrangements I have made, and I hopo
they will be satisfactory."
Eva left him with a lighter heart, and a bur
ning check at his praise. His manner was
gentle, so fatherly that she felt he would not
impose hard conditions, and it would be a
pleasure to pay one so kind and forbearing.
At last she got home, and breathlessly sit
ting at her mother's feet, she opened her let
ter. Wonder of wonders a bank note inclos
ed ; she held it without speaking, or looking
at its value.
"Itead it," she said, after a moment's bewil
derment, placing the letter in her mother's
hand "here are fifty dollars ; what can it
mean V
"This," said the sick woman, bursting into
tears, "is a receipt in full, releasing you from
the payment of your father's debt. Kind, gen
erous man Heaven will bless him God will
shower mercies upon him. From a grateful
heart I call upon the Father to bless him for
this aet of kindness. Oh ! what shall we say,
what shall wo do to thank him ?"
"Mother," said Eva, smiling through her
tears, "1 felt as if he was an angel of good
ness. Oh, they do wrong, who say that all
who are wealthy have hard hearts. Mother,
can it be possible we are so rich ? I wish he
knew how very happy he has made us, how
much we love and reverence him whenever we
think or speak of him ; or even hear him spo
ken of !"
"He has bound two hearts to him forever,"
murmured her mother.
"Yes, dear Mr. Miner! little he thought
how many comforts we wanted. Now we need
not stint the fire ; we may buy coal, and have
one cheerful blaze, please God. And the tea.
the strip of carpet, the sugar, thi little luxu
ries for yon dear mother ; and the time, and a
very few books for myself. I declare I'm so
thankful, I feel as if I ought to go right back
and tell him that we shall love him as long as
he lives."
That evening the grate, heaped with Lehigh,
gave the little room an air of ruddy comfort.
Eva sat near, her curls bound softly bacK from
her pnre forehead, inditing a touching letter
to their benefactor. Her mother's face light
ed with the loss of cankering care, s,hone with
a placid smile, and her every thought was a
prayer calling down blessings upon the good
rich man.
In another room, far different from the wid
ow's home, but also bright with the blaze of a
genial fire,whose red light made richer the pol
ish of costly furniture, sat the noble merchant.
"Pa, what makes yon look so happy 7" ask
ed Linit, a beautiful girl, passing her smooth
hand over his brow.
"Don't I always look happy ,roy little Lina ?'
"Yes, but you keep shutting your eye's and
smiling so;" and her bright face reflected
his own, "I think you've ha 1 something very
nice to-day ; what was it ?"
"Does my little daughter really want to
know what has made her father so happy 7
Here is my Bible ; let her turn to the Acts of
the Apostles, 20th chapter, Goth verse, and
read it carefully."
The beautiful child turned reverently the
pages of the holy book, and as sho read, she
looked up in her father's eyes
And to remember tho words of the Lord
Jesus, how He said, it is wort blessed to give
than to receive."
"Ah! I know," sho said, laying her rosy
cheek upon his hand ; "you have been giving
something to some poor bcggaras you did last
week, and he thanked yon, and said, 'God
bless you,' that's what makes you happy."
Lina read n confirmation in her father's smile
but he said nothing, oaly kept repeating to
himself the words ol the Lord Jesus, "It is
more blessed to give than to receive."
Scdlimg and IttDici'Lors. It was a calm,
moonlight evening. All Nature seemed hush
ed in repose. The moon waned its way thro'
tho milky pathway of the heavens. The res
pers were fanned to sleep by the spicy breezes
of an Eastern wind. All Nature was hushed,
calmly and serenely, when my beautiful Amo
nia stepped forth on the balcony in all the beau
ty that characterizes the Caucasian. Eyes
like the gazelle of tho forest forehead as pure
and bright as the Parian marble cheeks an
whito as tho driven snow, softly tinged with
strawberry juice a foim that an angel might
envy her matchless atm was raised her
breast heaved, her brain reeled -she exclaim
ed, oh she streamed, with a terrific scream,
"Git eout, yon darned old sow, rootin' up all
onr taters I ..... ..-'.' " .
II1STORY OF A FAST NEW YORKER-'
The following sketch of Huntington, the
New York forger, is taken lrom the Tribune :
Charles B. Huntington was born in' Geneva,
Ontario County, in 1S22, where he remained
in his father's family till he reached his major
ity. Early in life, he was afflicted with a scrof
ulous disease in his head and neck, which
hung about him till he was upward often years
old. He received excellent moral and religi
ous training at home and was studiously kept
from low associations. . Toward his parents he
showed a respectful regard, but they found it
difficult to impress him, by chastisement, with
a sense of moral obligations, as he early dis
played a disposition to do forbidden things.
He would steal, lie, destroy things wantonly,
and drive nails no raattei where. Once he al
tered his father's handwriting in the family
record so as to make himself a year younger
than he was. -
Between ten and sixteen, lie went to school
steadily, where he appeared rather shallow
than malicious, but always reckless. He used
to write excuses in his father's name, and lie
when interrogated about them ; he would read
copied compositions as his own ; tear a leaf
anywhere from a book when he wanted a piece
of paper engage in various Young American
speculations, &c. On the whole he was tho't
altogether the worst boy in school, and receiv
ed the most frequent thrashings, which he
seemed to mind very little.
In 1813 or '44, at the age ot 21, Huntington
came to this city, where he served as a clerk
in a furniture store till 1815, when he formed
a partnership in the same business, which fail
ed before the end of the third year, paying but
ten cents on the dollar. After a lew months'
visit at home, he returned to the city and went
into Wall street, where he engaged in Ceme
tery schemes. Between the Fall of '48 and
'49, he embarked in four of these, two of "vhich
were on Manhattan Island, one in Buffalo, and
one in Baltimore. All were failures. In June,
1851, hearing that there were dirty clothes to
be washed on the Isthmus, Huntington started
a steam laundry at Panama, which was in op
eration but two or three weeks.
After planning a stock-company, which
went do farther than paper, he got up a couple
of bogus banks in the Spring and Fall of 1S52.
Their bills lie put into circulation by paying
his creditors with, them allowing ten per cent,
on every debt, they to circulate and redeem
them at 1J per cent. Both exploded within a
few months of ' their birth, and Huntington
was indicted for his , participation in one of
them, but never brought to trial. In 1853, he
started the Little Androscroggin Company in
Maine, with a charter authorizing the manu
facture of linen goods or paper, and such oth
er articles as may necessarily' or conveniently
be connected therewith. Under the latter
clause, he commenced issuing bank bills, but
the scheme was soon broken up. He went to
California in the Winter of 18-53 4, but re
turned in some four months to find his liabil
ities upwards of $100,000 a large portion of
which grew out of forged paper. He prevail
ed on most of his creditors to release him
from their claims and to destroy the evidences
of his guilt. From the whole testimony in the
case, it wonld seem, iudeed, that ho had a won
derful power of winning attachment and con
fidence, and inducing those whom lie had
wronged to forgive and trust him again and
those who had furnished capital and lost mon
ey by his speculations ho does not seem to
have had any to lose himself or to have made
any in the case of tho Bufijlo Cemetery to
lend again. In 1848, the year which he went
into tho Cemetery business, he married a wo
man whose devotion to him has been exem
plary. Between the death of ono scheme atid
the birth of another, he would have seasons
of low spirits, when he threatened to make a
way with himself, particularly by accidental
drowning on the way to Brooklyn, so that his
wile might get the insurance on his life.
After his return from California, he renewed
business as a note-broker in Wall street,which
indeed, he had made tho centre of his opera
tions during the previous years. Whatever
tho precise date at which he began again to
"make paper," in the Winter and Spring of
1S5G he is doing so on a large scale, which
grew larger and larger throughout the year.
The forgeries to the amount of $400,000 which
are charged in the 27indictmcnts found against
him are probably not a tithe of those actually
committed. His deposits for four months in a
single bank were five millions, and his counsel
assert that he issued bills to the amount of 20
millions in tho course of tho year. None of
the signatures when he forged were tolerable
imitations, some of them no imitations at all ;
and in otic case tho firm whose name was used
was a firm of mere lawyers, the order of whose
names were reversed at that. Tho forged pa
per way in all cases, as far as known, deposited
as collateral security, on the faith of which
loans wero expected. When first arrested he
was released on bail of $20,000 only, all his
forgeries not having been discovered, but went
to Wall street as usual the next morning, tak
ing no steps to escape or destroy the eviden
ces of his guilt.
: Huntington's career in the street was fully
parelleled in the magnificence of his private
life. After moving eight or ten times withiu
three years, he purchased a splendid houso in a
fashionable quarter up town, which ho procee
ded to furnish with a princoly disregard of ex
pense. His furniture was of carvod rosewood ;
his silver plate filled a large iron safe ; ho had
vases in his parlor, some of which cost from
$250 to $700 a pair. : On Sundays he used to
dino off silver, and would sometimes, even
when alone hire a brass band of twelve musi
cians to play in the house. He kept from ten
to a dozen servant's, and two dogs, one weigh
ing one hundred and fifty and the other two
pounds tho latter costing $SC. His riding
L.'lls averaged from $50 to $100 a month, and
sometimes ran up to $12 a day. He owned
six or eight carriages of; different styles and
several spans of horses at a lime, one of
which cost nearly $3,000. His Broadway tai
lor's bill was from $G00 to $S0O for the past
year, in tho course of which he bought from
25 to SO pair oi pants, 8 to 10 coats, and 15 to
20 vests, all the highest-priced articles. Oth
er furnishings and toilet articles were purchas
ed in abundance and costliness to match. lie
seldom asked the price of anything, often did
not wait for change, however large it might
be, and would give large, perquisites to his
grooms of whom he had four) and others who
waited upon him. Ho was not economical
even in religion, but owned several high-priced
pews in churches of different denomina
tions. No man ever smoked so much ; he was
scarcely ever seen without a cigar in his
mouth,, and made away with from SO to 40 a
day. His expensive tastes followed hirji into
the Tombs, where he ate the most sumptuous
meals, frequently paying a dollar a piece lor
pears for his dissert. On the trial, the exqui
site dressing of hair and the sumptuousncss of
attire provoked constant remarks from spec
tators. Such is the history of Huntington's life as
it appears on the evidence, mostly introduced
by his counsel, in answer to an indietmeut
charging him with willful forgery.
THE TIMES WE LIVE IN.
Some: of tue Causes or Crime. That the
times we live in arc haul times hard, not in
money matters, wo mean not that now but
hard in morals all must admit. Every day
seems to bring to light some new phase of im
morality or crime- The heart is sickened,
the head made dizzy by one revelation after
another of new developments of ancient wick
edness. What an astounding list of crimes,
misdemeanors and follies ! See it reader, if
one word to many you find in the enumeration,
blot it out but deal honest ly. Perjuries, for
geries, swindling, elopements, violation of
marriage vows and engagements, seductions,
filial disobedience, and that basis sin of all,
drunkenuess. What word, reader, in this cat
egory, is misplaced ? Can you honestly erase
ono 7 Nay, do you not know of individuals
who are guilty of all the sins speciGed by those
names ?
Look over into heathen lands ! What worse
there do you see than you will find in these
LTn'ted States ! If any thing, tell us. Do you
point to the widow roasting to death on the
funoral pile ? Horrible, truly but behold
its counterpart at home. Sec the wife of the
drunkard the voluptuary, the more than
wretch of a husband dead to shame and virtue,
and then compare her lingering, living death,
to the quickly consummated one of the heath
en woman.
Ah, but you point now to the innocent babe,
with its little life gurgling out of its throat as
Ganges water trickles into it. Heart rending,
verily ! But see here, in this nominally Chris
tian land the degraded mother, abandoning
all her littlu ones, to go down the cold stream
ol life to some hospitable harbor, or to bo lost
for ever under its turbid waves, as it may como
and this that she may be tho temporary com
panion of the scoundrel paramour, who soon
will cast her off as a nauseous, decaying weed.
Ah ! you arc looking at Juggarnaut and its
crushed victims voluntary victims! Horri
ble, indeed but look at home, and sec the
voluntary victims of the Demon Drunkenness.
The heathen throws but himself under the rol
ling bone and life crusher but under Alco
hol's car, the father throws with himself his
wife and children, and all are crushed. Oh !
look then at home, and t e not self-complacent,
after your glance at heathen lands.
What are some of the causes of this sad stale
of ailairs ? We can barely hint at sonic of them
the index merely give. The baste to becomo
rich the follies of the so-called fashionable
life the disgusting apeing of foreign follies
the balls of the rich and the poor, and tho
more cheaply bound edition thereof, the vul
gar dance house for the dances are very
much the same, bringing the sexes into dis
gusting contact filthy literature obscene
pictures indelicate statuary a vitiated and
vitiating secular press in some instances.
These, and more than these, have all been
brought on by slow degrees insidious move
ments by the insinuating process until that
is now boldly done and looked at, which ten
years ago would have given virtue's face the
appearance of apoplexy, and made even chival
ric libertines ashamed. Phil'a Sun.
"I say, old boy," said Paul Pry, to an exca
vator at the bottom of a yawning gulf, "what
are you digging there ?" "A big hole," tho,
old boy replied. Paul was not to be put off in'
that fashion. "What aro you going to do with
the hole ?" lie asked. "Going to cut it up in
to small boles," rejoined the old boy, "and re
tail thorn to firmort for gt-ptt hole."
A GBEESH0E2T OS THE LOCOMOTIVE. .
Mr. Snodgrass Juuior, has been "scooting
around" at tho West, and as some of his ex
periences are rather amusing we copy an ex
tract, as follows :
"When we got to the depo, I went around to
git a look at the iron boss. Thunderation I it
wasn't no more like a hos than a meet in house.
I was goin to describe the animulc, I'd say it
looked like well, it looked like darned if I
know tchat it looked like, unloss it was a reg- j
ular he Devil, snorting firo and brimstone out
of his nostrils, and peffing out black smoke all
round, and rantin, and heavin, and swellin,
and chawin up red hot coals like they was
good. A fellow stood in a little house like,
feedin him all the time ; but the more he Mow
ed and snorted. After a spell the feller catch
cd him by the tail, and great Jcrico! he set
up a yell that split the ground for more'n a
mile and a half, and the text minit I felt my
leggs a waggin, and lound myself at t'other
end of the string o' vehickles. I wasn't sktcr
ed, but I had three chills and a stroke of palsy
in less than fiveminits, and my face had a cu
rious Lrownish-'ycller-green-blueish color in it,
which was perfectly unaccountable. "Well,"
says I, "comment is supcrfuotu." And I
took a seat in tho nearest wagin, or car, as.they
call it a consarncd long steamboat lookin
thing, with a string of pews dow n each side,
big enough tJ hold about a man and a half.
Vjust as I sat down, tho boss hollered twice,
and started ofl" like a streak, pitchen me head
first into the stomach of a big Irish woman,
and she gave a tremenjous grunt and then
kotch'd me by the head and crammed me un
der tho scat ; and w hen I got out and stagger
ed to another seat, the cars was a jumpin and
tearin along nigh onto forty thousand miles a
minit, and everybody was a bobbin up and
down like a mill saw, and every wretch ot 'em
had his mouth wide open and lookin like they
waslarfin, but I couldn't hear nothin, the cars
kept suxh a rackit. By and by it stopped all
at once, and then such another larfin busted
out o' them passengers as I never heard be
fore. Lafiln at me too, that's what made me
mad as thunder, too. I ris up, and shakin my
fist at 'em, says I, "Ladies and gentlemen,
look a-herc ! I'm a peaceable stranger and
away the dern train went like small pox was
in town, jerking me down in the scat with a
whack like I'd been thrown from the moon,
and their cussed months flapped open and the
fellers went to bobbin up and down again. I
put on an air of magnanimous contempt like,
and took no more notice of 'era, and very nat
urally went to bobbin up and down myself."
Fcr the Raftsman's Journal.
Ma. Editor of Journal: Let me call the
attention of your young readers to some of the
principles of syntax, too commonly neglected.
In writing, words should always be connect
ed according to their proper relation to other
words, as "A' pair of new boots," not a new
pair of boots, for it is not the pair that is new,
but the boots. Now let me give you some
specimens ol the violation of the above prin
ciple. This error i3 sometimes made to appear
more glaring from a want of correct punctua
tion. A writer, giving a history of the inau
guration of a new Hospital building in New
York, srys : "An extensive view is presented
from the fourth story of tho Hudson river."
There must have been quite a flood in the
Hudson river, to be four stories high. But put
a comma after fourth story, and it will read,
"An extensive view is presented from the
fourth story, of the Hudson river." But how
much better is this : "An extensive view of
the Hudson river is presented from the fourth
story," (of tho building.)
An editor of a New Orleans pnper, in speak
ing of a mad dog, says : " We are grieved to
say that the rabid animal, befoie he could be
killed, had bitten Dr. Hart and several other
dogs." Was Dr. Hart one of the dogs 7 Now
put a comma after Dr. Hart, and it will read a
little better, but it is belter still to say, "We
arc grieved to say, that the rabid animal, be
lore it could be killed, had bitten several oth
er dogs, and Dr. Hart."
A New York paper, announcing the wreck
ing cf a vessel near the Narrows, says, "The
only passengers were T. B. Nathan, who own
ed three-fourths of the cargo and the captain's
trie." Quitca slave-Woldei,one wouldjudge;
but put a comma after cargo, and supply a pa
renthesis, thus, and the sense is good : "The
only passengers wero T. B. Nathan, (who
owned three-fourths of the cargo), and the
captain's wife but better still, "The only
passengers were the captain's wifo, and T. B.
Nathan,who owned three-fourths of the cargo."
Tho editors of a western paper observe:
"The poem which we publish in this week's
Herald was written by an esteemed friend, who
has lain many years in the grave for his own
amusement." Gather strange amusement. A
comma after grave, m the above sentence,
would mend it, but it should be written, "The
poem which wc publish in this week's Herald,
was written for his own amusement by an es
teemed friend, who has laiu many years iu the
grave."
The editor of an eastern paper expresses
great indignation at the manner in which a
woman, who had committed suicide, had been
buried. He .'. "She was bnried like a dog
with her clothe on." You will mend it a little,
by pr.tting a comma aftr dos.bnt itwotjld bo
better thus: "She, with her clothes on, wao
buried like a dog." r '
Now correct tho following advertUoxsect
from a country newspaper : -
"The scoundrel who took tho canary vith a
j.vg nose, red fact and light crtrcoat on, is re
quested to return it immediately t2S Willow
street, as the bird is a raluable one fnmvhrm
no questions ulll be ashed."
Another ludicrous advertisement i '
"Lost, a brown milch cow, the property of a
farmer trilh a xckile spot on the quarters, long
straight horns and the tail tipytd with vhxti.
Any person having seen such a animal with
out delay, will please return it to," &c, ftc.
The above is quite a funny farmer.
Tony Gowan advertises that he has lost "A
pig with a very long tail, and a black spot ou
its snout that curls up behind.'
Paddy Malone advertises a cow which is
"very difficult to milk, and of no use to any
one but the owner icAo had out horn much laa
ger than the other" 3
A Sheriff advertises a John Hawkins es hav
ing "A pair of blue eyes with UttU oruo whis
kers, and a Rutnan nose thai has gresU difficulty
in lookiag avy one in the face." '
Betsey Watterton is advertised as having ab
sconded with a chest full of drawers and a cock
and hen, has red hair and a broken tooth no
cf which art her own."
The manager of the Savings Bank at Dun
ferry, near Goodfowren, is advertised in theso
terms : "Had on when last seen, a pair of
corduroy trowsers isith a tremendous squint ra
ther the trorse for the icear."
It will bo pleasant amusement foryouryoung
readsrs to correct the alove. I wonld advise
them to write them out as they should be writ
teu. Y ours truly, J.J.U.-
IIarr isbi'RO, Jan. 29th, 18-57.
The remainder shall appear next week. E.
KANSAS ITEMS.
A correspondent of the St. Louis- Democrat,
writing from Lecompton, Kansas, Jan. 30, says.
The spuiious Legislature have been trying for
some time to have the Governor commission a
drunken fellow named Sherrard, as Sheriff of
"Douglass County," in place of Jones, who
has resigned. The Executive refused to do it,
and various attempts have been made to force
him, but all have proved a failure. Ho was
firm in his determination never to give a
drunkard a commission to act as an official in
this Territory.
Consequently the 'Legislature' have passed
an act repealing that portion of the statute
conferring such power upon the Governor,
have taken the matter into their own hands,
and Sherrard is 'Sheriff of Douglas county,' ac
cording to their decree, and in spite of Geary.
Some gentlemen, who had known Sherrard
in Virginia, wre in the office of the Govcraor,
and during their conversation, they stated ttiat
the new 'Sherili' was a poor worthless fellow,
dishonest, and treated his wife so badly that
she was compelled to leave him. Dr. Brook,
of this city, happened to repeat the above con
versation in the presence of one of Shcrrard's
friends, who immediately commuuicatcd tho
same to his master. The result was a chal
lenge sent to the Doctor "to fight a duel."
The Doctor sent back word that "he would on
ly fight with gehtlemen." So immediately
Sherrard had some bills printed and posted tho
Doctor as a "Iiur, villain, and coward." But
the Doctor has too nice a sense of honor to
take any notice of the fellow, and so the mat
ter will be allowed to pass. And the new
Sheriff will soon be dispatched to Lawrcnco
to gct.up a row.
This is the most intemperate town I was ev
er in, nearly every building contains a whis
ky shop. Oa my way out ol town to-day I met
three wagons. One of them had eight barrels
of flour, the other two, sixteen barrels of. whis
key ; iu about that proportion are the Uvo ar
ticles used in Lecompton.
The control of the navigation of the Kaw
river is expected to be in the hands of pro-slavery
men iu about the same way. A compa
ny made tip of all tho member of the Legis
lature, will bo incorporated, having vxclusivo
privileges to that thoroughfare. No encour
agement will be given to any other parties to
navigate that river, and free State men cannot
avail themselves of any favors from that body.
And so it goes. The most complete system
of oppression is being established in Kaasas
by the border ruffians, backed by the general
government.
Creation of tue Hi mas Race. Dr. Hitch
cook, the eminent geologist, said in a recent
discourse delivered by him in Albany, that
geological science places man among the most
recent of created things. We find the surface
of the earth, says Dr. n., composed to the
depth cf some eight or ten miles, of rocks.
The rocks are full of the remains of animals
and plants. Thirty thousand species cf them,
which differ from any living species, have beca
disinterred, jet no human remains are found
among them, nntil the loose soil alluvium
is reached, which soil is universally acknowl
edged to be of recent origin. The remains f
animals are found several thousand feet Lclow
tho surface. But, if man bad been in exis
tence when these other animals live-1 whoko
remains were found at such depts, his remains
would also be found there ; for his bones aro
of the same structure si theirs, end not like!"'
to resist dfi;rucldtx.
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