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BY S. B ROW
VOL 3.-NO. 30.
CLEARFIELD, PA WEDNESDAY; 3LARCH 11, 1857.
;CLEARFIELD, PA., MARCH 11, 1857.
- r i . , PUBLIC MEETING. -
; A meeting of the citizens of Clearfield coun
ty was held at the Court House, on "Wednes
day crcning, March 4tb, 1807. lion. Alex
akdkr Iavis was elected President, Hon. J.
T. Leonard, Hon. Richard Shaw, John Patch
In' James B. Graham, Hon. Win. L: Moore,
Michael A. Frank and Ellis Irwin chosen as
Tire Presidents, and Capt. George Walters,
George W.Rhcems and Thos. J. McCuIlough,
appointed Secretaries. The object of the
meeting having been stated, on motion, Mr.
Khccms was requested to read the proceedings
of the meeting at Lock Haven of Feb. 21st.
On motion, a committee of 13 were appointed
to draft resolutions, &c. The President ap
pointed L. J. Crans, John McPherson, John
M. Cl.ase, Jos. Shaw, Col. H. D. Fatton, C.
Z. McCuIlough, Samuel F. Arnold, Jas. For
rest, Jas. II. Larrimer, Win. F. Irwin, John
Barmoy, John F. Weaver and Samuel Mitch
ell, as that committee. The committee, thro'
its chairman, reported "the following, which
were unanimously adopted :
Whereas, a bill is now before the Legisla
ture to regulate tho navigation of the West
Branch of the Susquehanna river and its trib
utaries, the passage of which is resisted by
residents of Lock Haven, Williamsport and
Sunberry, who are connected with and Inter
ested in corporations favorable to floating
loose saw logs,
Be rr Resolved, That we are pleased with
til o manly coarse pursued by the citizens of
Lock Haven at their meeting held there on
tho 21st February, 1857, in abandoning soph
istry, and so stating what they believe to be
the facts that we can join issue with them and
so bring our case before the Legislature as to
have it decided on its merits.
Resolved, That we adopt their language "that
upon tho justice of our cause we meet the is
sue boldly and honestly, confident that a true
and impartial statement of the facts in the
case will rcmovo the erroneous impressions
created in the minds of some of our legisla
tors." Resolved, That the acts of tho Legislature
through a serious of years, commencing in
1771, declaring the Susquehanna river and its
tributaries public highways for the passage of
rafts, boats and other vessels, has induced the
former and present inhabitants of the lumber
region to settle therein, clear and improvo the
- land, and erect grist and saw mills, and build
up a lumber business which now exceeds an
nually two millions ol dollars, and is rapidly
increasing.
Resolved, That the floating of loose saw logs
on our streams is destructive of our business,
and that rafting, by means of which we send
onr spars, square timber, boards, scantling,
piling, staves and shingles to market, must
cease unless those who are engaged in floating
do as we do, make their logs into rafts.
- Jittohed, That floating loose logs is contra
ry to the spirit of the laws which caused us to
develop the resources of this region, is not
only in opposition to the interests of the lum
ber region, but to that of a large portion of
onr own Commonwealth, New Jersey, New
York, and the whole seabord, and that it ope
rates injuriously upon thousand, and benefits
but few.
, Resolved, That a fraud was perpetrated on
the lumbering region when the laws permit
ting booms to be erected were passed ; that
those interested in their construction gave
us to understand they were for the purpose
of securing our lumbermen good landing pla
ces, and to prevent the loss of such lumber as
might bo staved during floods J that we were
not made acquainted with tbe fact that a new
system of lumbering was to be introduced, and
that floating loose logs is not legal by express
enactment, only by implication.
Resolved, That we recognize the correctness
of the legal principle "each man must so use
bis rights as not to injuro those of another,"
that we do not desire to prevent any mill be
ing slocked, nor to deprive any person of the
use of cir streams ; that our only object is
to compel all who use the stream as a means
of conveying lumber, to use the same mode
we do to prevent injury to others using the
stream, i. c. to form their logs into rafts and
send them to their point of destination well
and sufficiently manned. -
RtMolted, That we approve the position ta
ken by onr Lock Haven bretbern that laws
should be passed having for their object the
greatest good to the greatest number, and that
we believe the bill now before tbe legislature
carries out that principle and should be pas;
ei for the following reasons :
1st. Those interested in the floating of loose
logs admit that there are directly interested in
their business, the owners of abont 19 mills
and at the most several hundred operatives,
besides thoso indirectly interested. , We as
sert, and our asseition is founded upon facts
within our knowledge, that in the lumber re
gion of tho West Branch there are three hun
dred and eighty-five saw mills in operation,
giving employment to tof heads of three fam
ilies, each mill on an average, besides indirect
ly employing in raising grain, &c, thousands
of persons. ,
2nd. That Clearfield and Elk counties, con
taining 5397 taxables, and parts of Cambria,
Indiana and Centre counties, comprise a scope
of country wholly dependent on the timber,
spar and manufactured lumber business for
their subsistence, and have no outlet Tor their
product except their navigable streams ; that
the inhabitants of this section are not indirect
ly, but directly interested in the continuance
of their trade ; that should it be checked, they
cannot, owing to difficulties to be surmounted
and want of facilities to reach market, turn
their attention to agriculture, manufactures or
tho development of the other resources of this
section.
3rd. That the business of tho inhabitants of
tho lumber region enables them to purchase
from Indiana, Cambria, Blair, Centre, Clinton,
Jefferson, Crawford and Arrastiong counties,
grain, meat and other necessaries of life, val
ued at least at half a million of dollars, and
from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, merchan
dise and manufactures exceeding in value one
and a half millions of dollars each year.
4th. Its passage is intimatoly connected with
the business and development of the lumber
ing region and the prosperity of all its citi
zens ; advances the interests of those counties
on which the lumber region depends for its
provisions ; benefits Philadelphia and Pitts
burgh, with which they carry on such an ex
tensive trade ; enables a trade to bo continued
which pays more revenue to the State than is
claimed (though exaggerated) to be paid by
the business of log floating. Its defeat will de
stroy over one hundred and fifty extensive
steam mills situated out of the lumber region
on the Susquehanna River from Muncy to Bal
timore, and scattered along tho Delaware,
Schuylkill, Hudson, Raritan and Connecticut
rivers, throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey
and eastern New York, now supplied almost
entirely with materials from this section; will
cut ofT the supply of bridge, wharf, piling and
building timber and shingles with which we
might furnish near all the eastern section of
our country ; compel the government and pri
vate ship and boat yards from Bangor to Nor
folk to obtain spars, decking, keels, whaling
and ship plank at greatly increased prices from
Canada; seriously affect the business of Lew
isburg, Seiinsgrove, Millersburg, Coxestown,
Harrisburg, Columbia, Portsmouth, Middle
town, Reading, Lancaster, Marietta, York,
West Philadelphia, Kensington, Southwark,
and numerous other flourishing places in our
Commonwealth which now- receive an impetus
through our lumber trade, and will render all
our valuable pine timber not growing on the
banks of our streams, (for logs cannot be haul
ed with profit any distance) and our much
prized oak (which can only be exported by
rafting with pine) not only valueless, but ac
tually amuisance to those who must clear their
lands.
Resolved, That it would be impolitic, in view
of these facts, not to pass a law affording our
citizens protection, when its passage will ope
rate beneficialry on thousands, and its defeat
will only swell tho cofJers of a few soulless
monied corporations and produce an incalcu
lable amount of private and public injury and
injustice.
Resolved, That to compel thoso now engaged
in log floating tp raft their logs, will not stop
the mills of Lock Haven, Williamsport and
along the West Branch Canal ; that material
sufficient to stock one hundred and fifty mills
has been sent along our streams in rafts annu
ally ; that with an increased demand, as onr
our streams have capacity, we could double
our export, and that by the expenditure of a
few thousand dollars between Clearfield Creek
and Lock Haven, it could be more than quad
rupled. Resolved, That tho Boom and Boom mill
companies are asking for privileges which
cannot be awarded to others that an increase
of log floating owing to the few' and shortness
ness of our floods must at last (as they will be
unable to pass the logs to lower booms and
mills) erect thoso who are highest up the
stream into mammoth monopolies.
Resolved, That should driving, not rafting,
be pursued, it would bo impossible to pass
over our streams logs of a greater length than
13 fect ; that at market the valuo of timber
and spars is regulated by size and length, in
creasing in value more rapidly than in size and
length single sticks, manufactured and haul
ed at great cost, sometimes bringing five hun
dred dollars.
Resolved, That should log floating supplant
tho old system of lumbering, it would deprive
the laborers of the lumber region of labor in
making, hauling, rafting and running lumber,
annually, a million and a half of dollars.
Resolved, That experience has not shown
that log floating Is cheaper or more profitable,
but the reverse. It has been carried on sev
eral years, and with a single exception, thoso
who have engaged in it to any extent in the
lumber region have hopelessly failed.
Resolved, That we of the lumber region are
better able to judge than thoso of any other
parts, whether the business is a profitable or
losing one, that the assertion or opponents
"experience has demonstrated that square tim
ber rafting is & losing business and a clear
waste of the productions of tho country" is
not correct as the following facts will show :
" 1st The population and business of the lum
bcrscction (laboring as she has done under
disadvantages for want of thoroughfares, &c.)
have been increasing as rapidly as other sec
tions of the State. . . ..
2d. There is a larger proportion of freehol
ders in tho lumbering region than any other
part of the State. It is a rare thing to find a
man who docs not ov i the land he tills or
operates on.
3d. Clearfield County which is the most in
terested in this business has only two paupers
in her borders, one being idiotic and the other
having been a charge for only a few months.
4th. Our citizens have been enabled throngh
the business of manufacturing lumber, to pur
chase and pay for their lands, to improvo them
rendering land which was worth from $2 to $5,
worth from $10 to $30 per acre. Many of
those who have been engaged in the business
arc now in good circumstances, and yc could
name several score of our citizens who have
amassed large fortunes by their thrift and in
dustry. Resolved, That the calculation made in the
Lock Haven resolutions, as to the amount of
revenue paid the State, is not founded on cor
rect data, and the opparent incorrectness of
those w ho made the statements, show they on
ly jumped at conclusions.
Resolved, That we thank the log floaters of
Lock Haven tor frankly admitting that tho tw o
systems of lumbering are incompatible, and
that their effort is to supplant the old system
by tho new one log floating they the ro
by show the whole object to bo the removal of
the manufacture of lumber from the lumber
region to other points, even at the expense of
other interests.
Resolvtd, That we call on our Representa
tives in the Legislature to use all honorable
means to pass tho bill now before them, as
snch a one only will secure us our rights.
On motion, it was resolved, that the proceed
ings of this meeting be published in the coun
ty pipers, and that a copy be furnished to the
members of the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives, and forwarded to mill owners and
others interested in the continuance of the
rafting business.
On motion, Wm. L. Moore and L. R. Carter
were appointed a committer on publication.
; On motion, Hon. J.T.Leonard, HJ. Wallace,
and R. Slfaw of Clearfield, Geo. Stockham of
Philadelphia, J. Eagle of Marietta, and Hen
ry James of Baltimore, were appointed a com
mittee to lay our grievances before the Legis
lature, and furnish the members with statistics
of the lumber business.
On motion, L.J. Crans, J. L. Cuttle, S.
Dundy, Ellis Irwin and Archibald 31. Shaw,
were appointed a Committee on Correspond
ence to co-operate with the last named com
mittee. ' Adjourned.
CF"Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook
without the bait. A crusty old Bach, says it
is an 'artificial fly' by which many a speckled
fellow is caught.
T7Good Idea. A bill is before the Louisi
ana Legislature allowing the head of each fam
ily to- take a three dollar newspaper at the ex
pense of tho State. - " '
E7"It is conceded on all hands that ladies
are fair, and that chickens are fowl that the
money market is tight, that the morals are
loose, and morning gowns too.
CC7"There is to be a fashion convention in
New York in May next, to get up an American
Costume. Foreign dictation in the cut of our
coats and trowsers is no lonser to be borno !
C3"The best way to humble a proud man is
to nominate him for some important office in a
doubtful district. It takes the starch and po
matum out of him in a short time. The ballot
box is a great institution. '
C7Cash helps along courting amazingly. Jt
is astonishing what oyster suppers, bracelets,
bonnets, suburban rides and balls will do to
wards expanding the feminine heart, and get
ting into tbe parson's house.
CJ"On the 3d March, tho U. S. Senate a
greed to the Houso amendment to the Minne
sota land bill, giving 200,000 acres to Alabama
for railroad purposes. Tho bill avoids nearly
altogether tho range of lands proposed in the
bill heretofore repealed by Congress. Minne
sota is to havo tho entire control of them.
This is the Minnesota land bill perfected by
tho House Committee on Public Lands, and in
connection with which subject corruption was
alleged. Mr. Sumner appeared in the Sen
ate on last Friday.
E7The Pittsburg Commercial of the 2d inst.
gives an account of tho arrest of nineteen per
sons employes of the company, lawyers, doc
tors, constables and merchants some of them
residents of Pittsburgh and Allegheny who
were engaged in stealing goods on the Pitts
burgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad. A
lot of goods were purchased, a private mark
put on them, packed in Pittsburgh and direct
ed to various firms in the West. .This decoy
took admirably. At a given place in Ohio, a
portion of the goods were taken by some of
the gang. The police were on the alert, and
followed tho robbers to BuiTalo, N. Y., where
the goods had been given to an auctioneer, al
so one of the gang. Tbe police now made a
descent upon the gangl and captured 19, onb
a woman. Within a year, the railroad compa
ny named had to pay between $40,000 and
$50,000 lor good9 shipped which never reached
their destination, having disappeared no one
knew how until this discovery was made.
1 ' SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSING :
OR TUX WAT MR. JiEWtfWlIf GOT IWTO TROIBLK
: ; VJIY TKTINO TO GET INTO BREECHES. '
. Lewistowil Falls, Maine, is a place, it is !
You can't exactly find it on the map, for it
has been located and incorporated since Mitch
ell's last t bnt it's there, a manufacturing city,
with banks, barber shops, and all . tho fixtures
and appurtenances of a locomotive, going a
head, Yankee settlement, ' .'
Just abont the newest thing in the new city
is a new clothing store, that riz up,' 'rained
down,' lately, on the Jonah's gourd or Alad
din's palace principle, and which, by tho same
mysterious dispensation, became endowed
with tho cutest Yankee salesman that the
Dirge State ever turned out.
The other day, an up riveryoung 'un, who
is about to forsake father and mother, and
cleave unto Nancy Ann, came down to get his
suit and was, of course, 'baound' to find his
way into the new; clothing store. Not that
he swaggered in with the easy swagger ot the
town-bred searcher of cheap clothing, for tho
verdant was tolerably fresh on him yet, and
he stopped to give a knock at the door. '
He had effected an entrance at the grist mill
at the Journal office, where he had been doing
business in thesamo unobtrusive manner, and
the boys agreed that Mr. Nehemiah Ncwbcgin
was from the 'Gulley,' and was paying his vir
gin visit to Pekin. Nehemiah was let in 'itn
mejitly,' and was delighted with the cordial
reception he met with. '. ' ,
-' The proprietors were ready to forward his
suit at once, if they saw 'fit' or they would take
measure and furnish him to order. Nehemiah
drew a handbill from the top of his bat, and
spread it on his knees for easy reference. It
was headed in Gothic letters, 'Winter Cloth
ing at Cost,' and stated that, in consequence of
the mildness of the season, over five thousand
dollars worth of ready made clothing was to be
closed up and sold at sin 'Enormous Sacrifice !'
A list of prices followed, and Nehemiah run
ning his short stumpy finger down tho column,
lit on a particular item. , . : .
'Say ye got enney of these blew cotes left,
at five dollars?' ;
'Smith, are there any of those cheap coats
left V inquired the polite Mark of his partner.
'We sold the last one this morning, did we
not?'
Smith understood the cheap clothing bus
iness, and answered promptly :
'All gone, sir.'
'Jest's as I expected, murmured the disap
pointed candidate ; darnation seize't all 1 1 told
dad they'd all be gone I'
'We have a very superior article for ten dol
lars.' 'Ten dollars 7 that's an all fired price for a
cote !'
We can make you one to order.'
Y-c-s! but I want it now want it right
straight off the fact is, Squire, I must have it."
'You'd find these very cheap at ten dollars.'
Dunno 'baut it 1 say v'ye got enny of those
dcwrable doeskin trowsers left at tew dollars
sold 'em all tew, I expect, hain't ye 7'
Fortunately there were a few left, and Ne
hemiah was open for a trade, but acting on the
instinct of the New begins, it must be a dicker.
Dew you ever take projuce for your cloth
ing ?
Take what?'
'Projuce garden sass and side, don't do it,
dew you?' -
Well, occasionally we do, what havo you to
sell V
. Oh, almost anything; little of everything,
from marrowfat peas to rye straw ; got the all
killincst dried pumpkins you ever sot your
eyes on, 'xpect neow, you'd like some of
that dded punkin, squire ?'
Mark declined negotiating for the dried pun
kin ; but inquired if he had any good butter.
G-o-o-d butter ! now squire, I expect, I've
got some of the nicest and yallerest you ever
sot your eyes on ; got some eout here now
got some in a shooger box, eout in dad's wa
gon ; brought it down for Kernel Waldron, but
yeou can have it; I'll bring it rite strate in
here, darned ef I don't !'
On the strength of the butter, a dicker was
speedily contracted, for which Nehemiah was
put in immediate and absolute possession of a
coat, vest and pants, of a good material and fit.
'Now, then,' said Mark, 'what kicd of a
coat will you have ?'
I reckon I'll have a blue 'un.
Yes, but what kind a dress coat ?'
- 'Certainly, squire, certainly jest what I
want a coat for to dress in.'
Ah, exactly, just look at those plates,' point
ing to the fashion plates in the window, and
see what style you fancy.'
'O darn your plates don't want any crock
cry ; 'spect Nancy has got the allkillencst lot
of arthenware you ever sot eyes on.'
, 'Yes, I see ; just step this way, then, and I
think 1 can accomodate yon.
Nehemiah soon selected a nice bluejcoat,
and vest of green, but was more fastidious in
his choice of the pants, those crowning glories
of his new suit. He appeared to indulge a
weakness for long pantaloons, and complained
that his last pair had troubled him exceeding
ly, or, as he expressed it, 'blamedly,' by bitch
iug up over bis boots, and wrinkling about
the knees. . r - -' . .' :
- Nehemiah delved away impetuously amid a
stock of two or three hundred pair ol lengthy
ones, real blazers, with wide yellow stripes
running each way. Nehemiah snaked tbcni
out in a twinkling. He liked them they
were long and yellow, just the thing, and he
proceeded at once to put them on. The new
clothing store had a corner curtained ofT for
the purpose, and Nehemiah was speedily clo
sed therein.
The pants had straps, and the straps were
buttoned. Now Nehemiah had seen straps be
fore, but the art of managing them was a mys
tery., Ou consideration, he decided that the
boots must go on first. He then mounted a
chair, elevated his pants at a propsf angle,
and endeavored to coax bis legs iuto them.
He had a time of it. . His bocts were none
of the smallest, and the pants were none of
tho widest; the chair, .too, was rickety, and
bothered hinr; but bending his energy to tho
task, he succeeded in inducing one leg into
the 'pesky things.' He was straddled like the
Colossus of Rhodes ; and just in tbe act of rai
sing the other foot, when whispering and gig
gling in bis immediate vicinity, made bim a
livc to the appalling fact, that nothing but a
chintz curtain separated him from twenty or
thirty of tho prettiest and wickedest girls that
were ever caged in one shop.
Nehemiah was a bashful youth, and would
have made a circumbendibus of a mile any
day, rather than meet those girls, even if he
had been in full dress ; as it was his mouth was
much ajar at the bare possibility of making
his appearance among them in his present dis
liabille." What if theie was a hole in the cur
tain ? What if he should fall?
It wouldn't bear thinking of, and plunging
the foot into tbe vacant leg with a sort of fran
tic looseness, he brought on the very catastro
phe be was ao anxious to avoid. The chair
collapsed with a sudden scrouch, pitching
Nehemiah heels over head through the curtain,
and he made a grand entrance among the stitch
ing divinities, on all fours like a fattened rhi
Perhaps Collier himself never exhibited a
more striking tableau viranl than was now dis
played. Nehemiah was a "model," every inch
ot him, and though not exactly revolving on a
pedestal, he was going through that movement
quite as Well on his back kicRing and piling
ing, in short personifying in thirty seconds all
the attitudes ever chiseled ! As for the gals,
they screamed of course, jumping up on chairs
and cutting boards, threw their hands over
their faces, peeped through their fingers per
fectly natural ! screamed again, and declar
ed they should die they knew they should !
"O, Lord ! blubbered the distressed young
man; don't, gals don't I I' didn't go tew, I
swan to man I didn' it's all owing to these
cussed trowsers ev'ry . mite on't, ask your
boss; he'll tell you how it was. . O, Lord !
w on't nebody kivcr me up with old clothes, or
torn the wood box over me ? O, Moses in the
bulrushes, w hat will Nancy say ?"
He managed to raise himself on his fect,
and made a bold plunge towards the door; but
the entangling alliances tripped him up again,
and he fell kerslap upon the goose of the press
man. This was tho unkindest cut of all. The
goose had been heated expressly for thick
cloth scams, and tho way it sizzed in the scat
of the new pants was afflicting to (he wearer.
Nehemiah riz in an instant, and seizing tbe
source of all his trouble by the slack, he tore
himself from all save the straps and some frag
ments that hung about his ancles, as he dash
ed through tho "Emporium" at a 2,49 rate,
and "made tracks" for hum.
MAKING KANSAS A SLAVE STATE.
The work being done by the pro-slavery men
to carry their favorite and peculiar institution
into Kansas, is silently progressing, but is vig
orous and adroit. The Legislature, instead of
repealing the worst features of the "bloody
code," have made It more barbarous, intoler
ant and diabolical than ever. Tho measures
taken by the Rnflians are almost certain to
bring Kansas before the next Congress for ad
mission as a State with a Slave Constitution.
The following from the Lecompton correspon
dence of tho Missonri Democrat will show the
drift cf tho pro-slavery policy :
"The bill for the census and providing for
the election of delegates for a Constitutional
Convention, has passed both Houses without
amendment, just as it came from the joint
committee. It has been sent to the Governor
for his signature, so that it can be passed over
his veto, in case he should veto it. The par
ticulars of this bill I gave you before. It
leaves the entire management of the census
taking and the election in the hands of the
county officers appointed by this body. It al
so provides that the census shall be taken be
fore the first of April ; none arriving after that
time can bo listed as voters. Those listed are
merely required to be "inhabitants" up to or
on tho first of April. . All cases of election
fraud are to bo determined by the Convention
itself, when it assembles, and not by the Gov
ernor, who has no power in the matter, by this
bill. The whole thing is regarded as a part of
a plan contempleting fraud, and giving no
chance for justice. The Free State settlers
declare that it would bo lolly to go into such
an election, and that they will not. It is not
intended to submit the constitution so framed,
to the people."
C7"The man who ia without an idea, gener
ally has the greatest idea of himself
From the Frankfort (Ky.) Yecman.
MASBYING IS NOT WHAT IT CBACXKI
UP TO BE.
We received the following communication by
mail from a neighboring village.witli a request
to publish it. Wo know nothing about tho
parties or tho facts, but as the names are giv
en, prcscnMt in the shape we received itw-
l alim ei liUratim, and have preserved tbe man
uscript for tho benefit of any one concerned.
From the intensity of woo manifested by tho
fair author, we could almost wish it to prove
hoax. Tho.e seriously meditating to commit
matrimony, will take warning from the sad
experience communicated below, and remem
ber the doleful strain of unfortunate. Jane
Wedlock lias been a woeful thing to me, .
For marrying U not what it's cracked up to be.
We don't understand the 5ubjcct,but presume
it is nil right. Here is tbe communication ir
full.aud we would not appear heartless by trea
ting it in a light vein. We assure our readers
of its genuineness, so far as wo are posted,
and call down the thunders of female ven
geance on the reprobate Bill. ,
. "This is designed to let all the world and
the rest of mankind know that William Parker,
my husband, has left my bed and board with
out cause or provocation. Scarcely had the
honeymoon passed before he sold my house
and lot in Scott, near Stamping Ground, and
took me into a wretched hut in a desolate
place in the Franklin nills, where he com
menced collecting all that was dne roe, and
sell off all that I possessed; after selling my
nigger w oman and child he left me, and loca
ted in Lexington, where he is now ranting
with the gals, rigged off from top to tM in
broadcloth, bought with my nigge. money,
and left me destitutuc, forlorn and wretched.
"Said Old Bill Parker is about sixty-five
years of age, low in stature, heavy built, round
shouldered bald-headed, makes a wretched
attempt to be polite and agreeable, and a coun
tenance sufficiently base to convict him to the
penitentiary or gallows.
"Dear sir, you Will do justice to right by
publishing the above, and requesting the edi
tors throughout the Union to give it a place
in their columns.
"O that his bed bo made of briers
And his path beset with thorns
Ami tho balance of hiadays
15c haunted by the Beast with 7 hen J and 10 horns
Wedlock has been a woful thing to me
For marrjiDg is cot what ila cracked up to h
I thought my pathway would be strewed with
flowers and r.o ;
Cut the way old Jiill has made me wretched Is a
fin to mosc.
I feel like a forert tree hy the north winds shaken
Wretched forlorn, sad and forsaken.
'January, 12, 13i7. . JANE TARKER."
TnE Enslavement of Kansas The Blce
Lodge at Work. Delaware Ratios, K. T.,.
Feb. 5, 1837. Messrs. Editors: I learn by a
Trc-Slavery man just from Lecompton, that
the last final effort to make Kansas a slave
State will soon be made. The triggers are all
set, and they are confident of success. The
plan is, to be all law and order men have this
Legislature allow none to vote who have not
been in the Territory ninety-days, and fix the
election ninety days from tho 15th or 20th of
February, so as to prevent the Free State em
igration next spring from voting. In the mean
time every member of the Blue Lodge in Mis
souri is to send over one citizen and to get
his neighbor to send one, who are to go over
before navigation epens, get claims, bold pre
emptions away from the Free Slate settlers
and have them erected by Southern compa
nies, and then elect a Pro-Slavery convention
and return. They threaten especially to keep
the Yankees out of the Shawnee Reserve.
They are building towns there, and numbers
are daily coming over. Govern, r Geary tells
them, if they trample ou justice, it must be
over his dead body. They are devising some
scheme to get him out. of tho way. Whether
they will urge Buchanan to remove him, or get
some worthless scamp to massacre him is not
yet determined. Pistols are carried for him.
The Ruffians threaten to open the ball again in
the Spring. If they do, they will find, it an
up-hill business. Correspondent of Dtm.Prtss.
Tale Be.irino. Never repeat a story un
less you are certain it is correct, and even not
then unless somethiag is to be gained, ckLe-r
of interest to yourself, or for the good of tho
person concerned. Tattling is a meaz an.1
wicked practice, and be who indulges- in it
grows more fond of it in proportion as be is
successful. If you have no good to say of your
neighbor, never reproach his character by tell
ing that which is false. He who tells you the
faults of others, intends to tell others of your
faults, and so the dish of news is handed from
one to another until the tale becomes enor.
mous. "A story never loses anything," is
wisely remarked ; but on the contrary gains in
proportion as it Is repeated by those who have
not a very rtrict regard for trutU. Truly,
"the tongue is an unruly evil,. full of deadly
poison."
rTT-The 100th Psalm. The Iobc disputed
question, whether Purcell or JIandell was tbo
author of the grand music of the Old Hun
dredth, has been set at rest by a discovery
made a few days since in Lincoln C?tdral li
brary. Purcell died in 1695, and Handel in,
1759. But in the Cathedral librarv. a Fronrh
psalter, printed in 1526, contains the music of
uie uui iiunureacn, exactly as it ts now sung,:
so that it could cot be the production of either
of tbe great musicUns to whom it had been
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