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BY S. B. BOW.
CLEARFIELD, PA'., WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1857.
VOL. 3.-EO. 38.
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Thera was a time I thought to make
A holy love my guiding star ; .
When my nnclouded spirit beamed
With hopes as bright as morning's car.
In youth's fond dreams,
I bailed the beams
Of love's sun glimmering from afar.
I met thee, and in thy pure heart,
I deemed my hopes and faith might dwell,
With as firm trust as in that power
That o'er my childhood breathed its spell ;
And hopes of fame.
Linked wi'.h thy name ;
I loved the chain, I fear, too well.
It passed I scarce know how or why ;
And from my mind I strove to blot
All thoughts and memories of thee.
And deemed, at last, thou wert forgot.
In the cold world.
By passion hurled,
I pleasure sought, but found it not.
That unrelenting pride, which once,
By thee aroused, subdued love's flame,
Still in my boom fiercely burns,
A tenderer passion cannot tame.
Too late, I fear.
Unwelcome tears
Etart, when I breathe thy once loved name.
I weep to think what might have been ;
How sweetly, through the golden years,
That unfound radiance would have beamed,
.Dispelling all our earthly feais.
Then let time roll,
for my blest soul
One refuge true always appears.
The love, the faith I gave to thee.
Have ne'er returned my heart to bless;
If thou canst give them back undimmed.
With thine own pure, 'twere happiness;
A single heart,
Love without art,
I ask no more and give no less.
Thy smile, thy tones awake again.
The dormant thoughts and dreams of old,
If thou art all I fondly hope,
Again for thee shall be unrolled
All I hold dear,
And through the years
To come, a love as pure as gold. J. II.
THE DISGUISED LOVER.
My friend Tom has a natural affection for
dirt, or rather dirt Las a natural affection for
Tom. Jt is to him what gold was to Midas
whatever lie touches turns to dirt. No mat
ter how white the cravat no matter how im
maculate the vest, the moment it comes within
the sphere of Tom's influence its whiteness is
gone, it is immaculate no longer. Dogs,
sweeps and lamp-lighters never pass him with
out leaving upon his dress unequivocal marks
of their presence. Once, and only once I saw
liim cross the street without encountering the
wheels of a carriage. I opened my mouth to
congratulate him, and before I could utter one
word it was filled with mud. The careless
blockhead lay at my feet full length in the gut
ter. At uiy earnest solicitation he once pur
chased a suit of precisely mud color. It was a
capita! idea, lie crossed the street three
times ; he walked half a mile and returned, in
appearance, at least, unscathed. The thing
was unprecedented. True, lie was welcomed
liy the affectionate caresses of a dog that had
been enjoying the coolness of a neighboring
horse-pond ; true, he received a shower-bath
from the wheels of an omnibus. But to plas
ter mud on Tom's new coat was to "gild re
fined gold to paint the lily.''
"Tom will bo a neat man yet," I said, as I
witnessed the success of my plan.
In about half an hour it was my fate to meet
a gentleman with seven stripes of green paint
on bis back it was my friend Tom j be had
been leaning against some newly painted window-blinds.
His man Ca'sar declares that he "can't see
de use o1) blacken boots when he neber stays
bracked ;" and bis washerwoman, with a prop
er regard for her own reputation, has been
compelled to discard him, not from any ill
will, but, as she declared, with uplifted bands,
"if any oho should ask me if I wash Mister
Smith's clothes, what could I tell them J"
But there were few things in this world with
which Tom could have more easily dispensed
than the services of bis washerwoman.
Having no other amusement one morning, I
strolled over to Tom's room. I ascended the
stairs, and heard his voice, in a very decided
tone, say
"But it mnst bo done, and so thero is an end
to it."
"Really," was the reply, "anything within
the limits of possibility ; but to make a coat in
ten hours I will promise anything in the
world j but I really fear I shall be unable to
perform this."
"If double price would be any object "
"Certainly, sir, if you insist upon it cer
tainly. I will put every man in my shop upon
it it shall be dono in time. Good morning,
Kir."
The door opened, and a fellow with shears
and measure passed out. What could Turn bo
doing with a tailor 7
"Just the man I wanted to see," exclaimed
Tom. "I require your advice upon a very
important affair which of these cravats do
you think most becoming 1"
And he spread beforff me some half a dozen,
of every buo and fashion.
"Now, what in the name of all that is won
derful, does this mean, Tom 1 A fancy ball,
is it 7 You have chosen an excellent disguise ;
your most intimato friends will never know
you. But you cannot support the character;
if you bad taken that of a chimney-sweep,
now but that would have been too natural.
Tell me, Tom, what docs all this mean 7" .
"Why, the fact is, Frank," passing a hand
through his hair, redolent of macassar "I
Live concluded I think I shall be a little
norc neat in future. You doubtless remem
ber the good advice you gave me some time
since ; it Las Lad an excellent effect, I assure
ou."
Now, it so happened that of all the good ad
vice 1 had given Tom, this was the very first-
instance in which be bad seen tit to follow it.
So I could not attribute the metamorphosis of
my friend to my eloquence. Who but a wo
man ever changed a sloven to a fop 7
"Fray, where are you going this evening,"
I continued, "that you must have a new coat
so suddenly 7"
"Going? Nowhere in particular. I indeed
had some idea of calling on my old friend,
Mr. Murray. No harm in that I hope."
- Conviction began to flash upon me.
"Your old friend, Mr. Murray. And Lis
young niece, Miss Julia, has no share . in the
visit, I suppose 7 I heard that she arrived in
town last night," said I.
"Xow, upon my word, Frank, you mistake
me entirely. I did not know that she was in
town last night when I that is, when I I
did not know anything about it."
"And so you were there last night, too !
Really, this is getting along bravely."
"Why, the lact is, Frank, you must know
everything. I called last evening to see Mur
ray on some business about the real estate,
you know. I had no more idea of meeting a
woman than a boa constrictor. My beard was
three days old, collar ditto, and the rest of my
dress in excellent keeping. I became en
gaged in conversation, and somehow or other I
forgot all about the real estate."
"And so you are going again to-night and
that is the secret of your new coat ?"
"By no means j I wanted a new coat, and
tailors are so long, you know.. Do you think
blue will become me 7 Blue is her favorite
that is, I moan blue "
"Oh, go on, don't stammer blue is her fa
vorite color, isn't it 7"
"The fact is, Frank take, another glass of
this wine the fact is good wine, isn't it 7
Been two voyages to the Indies the fact is, I
suppose I rather fancy I am little in love.
Try a little of that sherry. What are the symp
toms, Frank 7 a queer feeling about the heart,
a something that drives the blood through me
like lightning 7"
Exactly ! I believe I have seen Julia short
and chubby, is n't she with red Lair, and a
little squint eyed 7"
"Frank, I never did knock you down, tho
I have oltcn been tempted to do so a great
many times ; but if you do not stop that non
sense, I will."
'Quite valiant in the defence of your lady
love. Well, Tom, I confess that she is a love
ly girl, and to-morrow I will call to learn your
success. So, good morning."
"Well, Tom, what success 7" I inquired, as
I met him net day.
"Would you believe it 7 She did not recog
nize me."
"Not recognize you 7"
"No. You know what a quiz Murray is.
As soon as he saw me enter, dressed in such
style, he came np, shook bands with me, and
without giving me a chance to say a word, in
troduced me to Miss Julia-as Mr. Frederick
somebody. And would you believe, the little
witch did not know me! I think I shall not
forget her quite so easily. Nor was that all.
Murray said something about the fellow who
called there the previous evening a country
cousin, be said, clean enough, but an incorri
gible sloven. And Julia said he dressed like
a barbarian just think of that, Frank, a bar
barian. She shall pay for that, yet. Such
eyes, and she steps like a queca. Well, Frank,
a clean collar does make a vast difference in a
man's appearance. Lovely as Ilebo herself.
Terrible difference clean linen makes."
" The last time I saw Tom, lie was scolding
his oldest boy for coming into the drawing
room with muddy boots on. Julia thinks tho
child inherits a little of his father's peculiar
propensity, already mentioned.
Lucid Instructions. A judge of one of the
inferior courts of Illinois, in a "certain suit
before his court pending," instructed the jury
in the "case" as follows :
"If the jury believe from the evidence, that
the plaintifFand the defendant were partners
in the grocery, and that plaintiff bought out
the defendant, and gave him his note for the
interest, and the defendant paid the note by
delivering, to the plaintiff a cow which he war
ranted "not breacby" and the warranty was
broken by reason of the breachtness of the
cow, and the plaintiff drove the cow back and
tendered her to defendant, but the defendant
refused to receive her and the plaintiff took
her home again, and put a heavy yoke or poke
upon her to prevent her from jumping fences,
and the cow in undertaking to jump a fence,
by reason of tho poke or yoke, broke her neck
and dipd, and if tho jury further believe that
the defendant's interest in the grocery was
not worth anything, and the defendants note
was worthless, and the cow good for nothing
either for milk or beef, or "green hide," then
the jury must find ont for themselves how they
w ill decide the case for "the court if she un
derstands herself, and she thinks that she do,"
don't know how the d-I such a case should
be decided."
Tho instruction fully explains the whole
case, and, no doubt, Bettlcs a very important
principle.
JUDGE WILMOT'S LETTER.
. Towanda, April 22d, 1856.
' Gentlemen : On my return Lome, after an
absence of two weeks, 1 found your communi
cation informing me of my nomination- as a
candidate for the office qf Governor, by a Con
vention of the Freemen of Pennsylvania, op
posed to the leading measures of the late and
present . National Administrations, which as
sembled at the State Capitol on the 25th ulti
mo, together with a copy of the declaration of
principles rromulgated by that Coavcntion.
. I accept the position to which I am called
by the unsolicited suffrage of the body whose
organ you are ; profoundly grateful for so.dis
tinguished a mark of confidence of my f ellow
citizens, yet painfully sensible of my inability
properly to meet its responsible obligations.
The approaching election is one of no ordi
nary interest. Important questions of State
policy, affecting the public welfare and pros
perity, are not alone involved in the issues pre
sented. As one of the largest and most pow
erful of the sovereign States of our confeder
ate Republic, the honor and interests ot Penn
sylvania arc deeply concerned in the princi
ples that animate her National Government.
She cannot, with safety to her independence
and the liberties of her people, be iudifforent
to the momentous questions of National im
port in progress of settlement questions
touching the constitutional powers of the Fed
eral Government, and vitally affecting the dig
nity and rights of free labor. Nor can she,
without dishonor, withhold her protest against
the wrongs inflicted upon her sons in a distant
Territory, under tho license of Federal au
thority. The dearest rights of freemen, secured by
plain, Constitutional gnarnntsrara ruthlasa.
ly violated on the soil of our national domain.
American citizens are made the victims of a
tyranny unknown in the despotisms of the old
world. The annals of civilized and Christian
nations furnish no examples of cruelty and
outrage on the part of a government towards
its people, such as Las been endured by the
people of Kansas, unless they be found in the
persecutions of the Huguenots, under Louis
the Fourteenth, of France, and of the Protes
tanls of the Netherlands, by the Duke of Al
va, under Philip Second, King of Spain. In
deed, the barbarities to which the people of
Kansas have been exposed, were of a charac
ter so inhuman as to provoke incredulity in
tho minds of a large portion of our citizens.
Thousands have been deceived into the belief
that, for partisan purposes, fictions were sub-
stituted for facts ; although no events in A
merican history are better authenticated than
are the murders, robberies, arsons, and lawless
rapacity inflicted upon tho free settlers of
Kansas. These outrages had for their object
the subjugation of that Territory to the curse
of slavery.
We speak of quiet being restored to Kansas,
because armed bands of lawless men do not
to-day infest her highways and plunder her
people because her towns are not sacked and
tho cabins of her settlers in flames. This
peace is deceptive and insecure. It will be
broken the moment that the people of Kansas
make a vigorous effort to recover those rights,
of which they have been fraudulently deprived.
The purpose of her enslavement is inexorably
pushed forward. A system of ingeniously de
vised fraud, kindred to that employed in the
usurpation under which she now groans, is be
ing carried out for tho consummation of this
great wrong. To this end also the power of
the Federal Government is basely prostituted.
We are given trord-i of fairness, but persist
ence in support of tho wrong. Every appoin
tee of the President in Kansas is an active co
worker in the scheme for her enslavement.
Principles of eternal truth and justice,which
lie at the foundation of a Christian civiliza
tion, and upon which repose the rights of hu
manity, are defiantly assailed by tho power that
controls in our National Government. . Those
truths, declaratory of the natural and inalien
able rights of man, contained in the Great
Charter of our liberties, are condemed by our
highest judicial authority as unmeaning and
false. The sanctuary of our Courts of Justice
is closed against an entire race of men. The
poor and downtrodden are not allowed to pe
tition for a redress of their wrongs, in thoso
tribunals of human Government that should
most nearly represent the beneficent attributes
of the Creator and final Judge of all men.
In view of these incontestible facts of tho
wrongs perpetrated against the rights of Amer
ican citizenship, and the dangers to which our
liberties are exposed thus presented in its
true aspect the contest before us assumes a
dignity rarely given to human affairs, and im
poses duties upon our citizens as high and sol
emn as ever appealed to the hearts and con
sciences of men. Tho question is beforo us
from its demands thero is no escape. Do
cide we mnst, either for the right or the wrong.
Sooner or later the verdict of this groat Com
monwealth must be pronounced on the issues
forced upon the country by the advocates of
Luman bondage. History will record that
verdict to her enduring honor, or to Ler ever
lasting shame.
The repeal of tho Missouri Restriction, and
the attempt to force slavery upon Kansas by
fraud and violence, precipitated upon tho
country a conflict between the antagonistic
systems of free and servile labor, In the is
sue cf this conflict is involved the democratic
character of our institutions of government,
and the independence, dignity and rigiits of
the free white laboring man and his posterity.
Slavery is a deadly enemy of free labor.
The two cannot co-exist on the same field of
enterprise. Either labor will vindicate its
right to freedom, or it will sink into depen
dence and dishonor. Free labor is clothed
with intelligence agd power. It stands erect
in the dignity of a true manhood. - It sustains
by its energies all the noble institutions of a
refined and perfectly developed social life.
It is the source of our prosperity and national
greatness. Slavery is labor in ignoranbe and
cains a brutalized humanity, stimulated to
industry by the lash of a master. It makes
the laborer an article of merchandize, without
aim and without Lope. ''y In the place of an in
telligent citizen, ready to defend with his life
the honor and interests of his country, slave
ry gives to the State an ignorant savage to be
held in subjection. It endangers the social
fabric by converting its great element of
strength into an implacable enmity.
Never, in the history of partisan warfare,
were men more unjustly and perseveringly
misrepresented than are the opponents of the
extension of s'lavery. This arises in part from
the intolerant nature of slavery, and the wea
pons it is necessitated to employ, and partly
from the fact so omnipotent has the Slave
Power become in our govnrnment that sup
port of its every demand is made the single
test of party fidelity, and the only road to of
ficial preferment. The citizen who dissents in
terms of earnest and manly protest against
whatever exactions Slavery makes, booomcs
thereby in so far as the National Government
can iuiDose dijai"tti almost as much an a
lien and outlaw as is the slave himself. If the
freemen of the North consent to occupy such
a subordinae position in tho government of
their country, tho spirit of manly indepen
dence will be crushed out in their posterity.
Our sons will become a submissive and servile
race, slipped of manhood and self respect.
The slaveholder, proprietor of the soil and
master of the government, will dominate over
them with scarcely less of arrogance and pow
er than he rules over his hereditary bondsmen.
To this condition arc the non-slaveholding
whites ot the South already reduced. They
have to-day little more of practical power in
the formation of public opinion, and in the af
fairs of government, than has the slave. The
same fate awaits our posterity, if slavery is al
lowed to monopolize the virgin soil of this
continent. It is the inevitable retribution of
heaven on any people that have not the cour
age and integrity to maintain their rights. It
is not true that the defenders of the rights of
free labor seek the elevation of .the black race
to an equality with the white. They do not
propose the emancipation of the slave, but
leave that question, both as to time and the
mode of its accomplishment, with the States
in which slavery exists. They wish to deal
with this great and embarrassing evil in a
spirit of friendly forbearance towards those
States; but they cannot carry ' their forbear
ance as far as to become slaves themselves as
to surrender the soil and government of the
nation into the bands of an aristocracy found
ed upon property in slaves.
Free white labor has rights in the soil supe
rior to the pretensions of slavery. The slave
holding capitalist claims that his property, be
ing largely invested in slaves, will depreciate,
unless the field whereon he can employ it be
enlarged. The white laborer, also, has a pro
perty in his labor, quite as sacred and as wor
thy of the care of the Government ; and where
is the field upon which he is to make that la
bor profitable to himself and family, if slave
ry is to monopolize the fertile and virgin lands
of the West 7 Labor is depressed almost to
the starving point in tho densely populated
countries of the old world, because of tho
narrow field upon which it is imprisoned. The
demand for labor is small, compared with the
thousands who have labor to seil. So it will
be at no distant day in this favored land, un
less we keep our vast public domain as a sa
cred inheritance for the free white laboring
man and his posterity forever. In the soil of
our extended empire, the toiling masses have
the only sure guarantee for their future pros
perity and independence. This tho cupidity
of capital would take from them ; and here
lies tho real issue that the Slave Power has
forced npon the country. It is a struggle for
land.
On the one side stands the owner of slave
property, demanding a field upon which to em
ploy Lis servile labor upon the other side
stands free labor, claiming tho soil as an in
heritance for a free posterity Central and
Western Europe, teeming with its millions of
population, is not as large as the domain of the
American slaveholder. He and his bondmen
already occupy by far the most fertile and go
nial portion of this continent. Let him rest
content wtth his territorial possessions and
power. We do not seek to disturb him. . We
neither assail nor defend Lis assorted right to
hold his peculiar kind of property. We sim
ply affirm that we have nothing to do with it,
and propose to let him and Lis slaves alono
where they are. .We make, therefore, no ques
tion about tho abolition of Slavery in the
South. We but stand in defence of Freedom
in the North. Kansas is ia tho latitude of
Philadelphia. In geographical position it is a
Northern Territory. It was dedicated by a
solemn compact in 1820 to Freedom forever.
We claim the fulfilment of the bond. We de
fend the integrity of free Northern soil against
the cupidity that would subjugate it by vio
lence into a plantation for slaves?.
Much Las been said on the dangers involved
in this controversy. We arc counseled to sub
mission and acquiescence in the wrong, be
cause the wrong doer threatens greater calam
ities if we shall dare to defend our rights.
Such threats are unbecoming those who make
them, and an insult to those upon whose fears
they are expected to operate. Great ques
tions of governmental policy, involving the
very substance of our liberties," and the hap
piness of remote generations, are not to be
settled by appeals to the fears of any part of
the American people. Reason, and calm judg
ment of an enlightened public opinion, must
decide between freemen threats are a terror
to slaves. . Imaginary dangers become reali
ties to the. timid to the courageous they van
ish on a nearer approach. So here the only
dan.qer lies in becoming alarmed. The dan
ger is overcome the day it is met with reso
lute courage and determined .purpose. The
right must prevail, and the wrong must give
way. Upon no other basis can the questions
in issue ever be permanently settled. It is no
impeachment of the manly qualities of our
Southern friends to say that they will and must
submit to that which is just and right, when
constitutionally embodied in the legislation of
the government. Let the freemen of the North
announce in language firm and unmistakcablc,
their purpose to resist tho spread of slavery
and, at every cost, to preserve the integrity of
the Lrnion, and we shall have a lasting peace,
such as no compromise, having its foundation
in wrong, can ever secure to the country.
The position taken by the Convention, in its
resolve touching the duties and obligations
imposed upon thoso who seek adoption into
our great American family of freemen, must
meet the approval of every patriotic citizen.
We Lave a right to expect and require a per
fect and undivided allegiance, from all who are
invested with the high perogatives of citizen
ship. As the adopted citizen receives in full
measure all the rights and immunities of the
native born, so ought he to render the like
single and unreserved devotion to the country
of his adoption. He should acknowledge no
earthly power superior to the constitution'and
sovereignty of the American people. There
is no danger that we shall err in our zealous
devotion to our country and in the cultivation
of an intense American nationality.
I have not time to speak of the other topics
embraced in the rdatfwrm of principles adop
ted by the Convention, in the manner their
importance deserves. Opportunities will be
afforded me hereafter, to make my views
known on some matters of domestic policy
closely connected, in my judgement, with the
growth and prosperity of our great Common
wealth. While the utmost care should be ob
served not to disturb the vast business inter
ests of a Commonwealth so rich, and of such
diversified pursuits as our own, yet it caDnot
be denied that ours, the richestCommonweaith
of its extent in the world, has not kept pace
in the development ot her resources, and in
productive industry with some of her sister
States. We may, therefore, without the charge
of rashness, inquire if our policy could not, in
some respects, be made more conformable to
the spirit of the age, and more in harmony
with the wants of an ever active enterprise.
In conclusion, gentlemen, permit me to ten
der my thanks for the very kind and accepta
ble manner in which you discharged the duty
assigned you. Very respectfully,
Your obed't servant,
D. WlLMOT.
To J. S. Bowes, Wf. D. Kelly, John R.
Edie, G. Rusk Smith and Russell Errett,
Committee.
C7"A girl who had become tired of single
blessedness thus wrote to her intended : "Dear
Jim, come rite off if you're cummin at all.
Edward Keldeman is insistin' that I shall have
him, and he Lugs and kisses me so continuity
that I can't hold out much longer."
K7Wendell Philips defines a politician as
"one who serves God as far as Le can without
offending the Devil. " TLis is epigramatic
and not far from the mark.
When yon find a man doing more business
than you are, and you want to know the reason,
look at the advertisements in the newspapers,
and look out.
rC"To ascertain whether a woman is pas
sionate or not, take a muddy dog into her
parlor.
DFriendship is a silent gentleman that
makes no parade ; the true heart dances no
Lornpipe on the tongue..
ITT-When a Baltimore lady is kissed, she
says she is taking chloroform, and remains in
sensible as-long as the operation lasts.
E7-Ilappiness is like a pig with a greasy
tail, which everybody runs after, but nobody
can bold.
D-To make Republicans send Democrats
to Kansas. They como back with the scales
taken from their eyes.
AGRICULTURAL.
Get nr Root Crops. We write under the
settled conviction that the profits of the gen
eral farmer may be more rapidly increased un
der a judicious cultivation of the various loots
than in any other way ; that more than doub
le the value per acre may be obtained from
them than from hay crops, and more even
than from the small grains or Indian earn.
The cultivators of England have long under
stood this secret, and Lave become prosper
ous under its teachings. No man probably
from this country ever gave the subject so
much attention as did Mr. Webster during his
mission in England ; and few men, in our
judgment, have done their country so signal a
service as he did by his investigations of this
subject, and by a promulgation of the facts
which he learned. They awakened attention,
and the fruits of his suggestions are now man
ifest all through New England at least. Of ,
the turnip there is a great variety, and their
cultivation is too well understood to need any
explanation of ours. For winter and spring
use many persons prefer not to put in their
root crops until the tnird week in June. Wo
prefer a little earlier date.
We are gratified to notice that the cultiva
tion of the sugar beet is beginning to enlist
the attention of farmers. Those who have
made a trial of it speak of it in terms of appro
bation. It is not only very productive, but
one of the best roots that can be fed to milch
cows and young catth, causing a rich flow of
milk in the former, and great vigor, spright
liness, and hardihood in the latter. There is
pobably no climate in the world more admira
bly adapted to the cultivation of the sugar
beet than that of New England. In no case
which has fallen under our observation have
those who planted it tailed of securing a pay
ing crop, while in most cases it has yielded a
greater profit than any other product of the
farm. It should be planted in drills, on good,
deep, and rather warm soil, well stimulated
with rich invigorating manure, and should be
carefully hoed and kept clear of weeds. The
soil between the rows, and between the roots
in the rows, should be kept light, in order to
facilitate the absorption of those fertilizing a
gents from the atmosphere upon which in a
very great measure the perfect development
and maturity of the system are found to de
pend. A mechanic having a cow and but a
small piece of ground from which to derive tho
means of sustaining her cannot do much bet
ter than to plant a portion or the whole of it
in sugar beets. He will in this way secure
mo'C salutary aliment for his animal thaa in
any other way, and at less expense. From
eight to thirteen hundred bushels have been
taken from an acre, and in several cases the
crop has amounted to fifteen hundred. The
roots attain a large size, and arc very nutriti
ons'and wholesome. Swine fatten rapidly on
boiled sugar beets, and the pork made on this
food is said to be more solid than that made on
potatoes or any other root. We advise every
one this season to put in a small lot of this
vegetable, aud give it a trial. JWto England
Fa rmer, Ma rch.
Grotesque Dressing of the Yorxo. It is
bad enough to see the mothers dress in such
extravagant styles as our streets exhibit; but
nothing can exceed the pitiable spectacle of
some two or three hundred vulgaily dressed
young people of the feminine gender from tea
to sixteen years of age, parading the streets
on some gala occasion on a cutting March diy.
We witnessed such an exhibition the other
day, and were it not for our professional con
viction of the sad consequences to their bod
ies and morals, we should have shouted with
laughter. Tobacco and brandy arc bad enough
in the fathers and brothers ; but flowers, hoops,
bare arms, thin shoes, short frocks, and molasses-candy
are quite as bad in the women
and children ; when you come to add boarding-schools,
"natural philosophy," and the
polka, they are worse off than the men. Of
the exhibition we allude to we do not know
the purpose ; whether to see a live mermaid at
Barn urn's gratis, or to receive a Fejec Island
convertj we are not advised: if the former
were veritably there, she would have no cause
to blush at the scarcity ot garments our moth
ers used to think indispensable ; and if the lat
ter, we are quite sure, ho .would die of envy.
So grotesque an exhibition of finery and legs
we never yet witnessed ; bad a blind woman
been passing, sbe would Lave probably done as
tbe poor blind Scotch woman, who dropped a
curtsey te Madge Wildfire, when she was drag
ging Jeanie Deans up the aisle of the village
church, because she was conscious that some
thing very fine and. glittering was passing by.
Poor children I is it any wonder our young
men drink, chew tobacco, and gamble, when
we consider that these girls are to be their
wives 7 New York Scalpel, for April.
U7"The following is a genuine Hibernian
advertisement: "Missing from Killarney,
Jane O'Fogerty ; she had in her armstwo ba
bies, and a Guernsey cow, all black, with red
hair, and tortoise-shell combs behind bcr ears,
aud large black spots all down bcr back, which
squints awfully."
drThe Methodist Chnrch was organized In
Baltimore, December 25, 1784, and is now of
72 years standing in America. It has 12,457
church edifices, valued at 14,626,074 and ac
commodating 4,207,333 hearers. -
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