'MMi,'iailMlMl"Ml""'"""l"MMI'M i - " " ' . , " ' - , . . . , - . ... i - . ... - - r BY S. 15. WW. VOL. l-W. 14. GLEAEFIELD, PA., "WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1857. TIIE OLD SEXTON. .Sigh to a grave that was newly made, Leaned a sexton old on bis earth-worn spade ; Ilia work was done, and be paused to wait Tbe funeral train through the open ga'.e; A relic ot by-gone days was be. And his locks were white as the foamy sea And these words came from bis lips so tbin, "1 gather them in ! gather thcin in 1" I gather them in ! for man and boy, Year after year of grief and joy, I' re builded tbe houses that Le around In every nook of this burial ground, Mother and daughter, father and son, Come to my solitude one by one, But come they strangers, or come they kin, I gather them in ! I gather tbem in !' Many are with me. but still I'm alone! " I'm king of the dead and I make my throne On a monument slab of marble cold ! And my sceptre of rule is the spade I hold. Come they from cottage, come they from hall, - Mankind are my subjects all, all. alll Lct tbem loiter in pleasure, or toilful spin, "I gather thein in ! I gather tbem in I gather them in and their final rest - Is here, down here, in tbe earth's dark breast, And the sexton ceased for the funeral train "Wonnd mutely over the solemn plain ; And I said to my heart, when time is told, A mightier voice than that sexton's old Will round o'er the last trump's dreadful din, I gather them in ! I gather them in!" DAY IN PETTICOATS. I by a mode st max. I I couldn't think of such a thing!" I But yon must, my happiness depends upon I ft. Here, put tm the thingumbobs, and the what's-his name." And my lriend, Bob Styles, held up before my hesitant gaze a suit of fern- I mine apparel. His idea was that I should personate his lady I love for one day, to prevent any one from sus- I pecting the truth namely, that she had join- d him in a runaway marriage party until it khould be too late tor interference ; that is, tin- I til the minister should have tied the knot be- tween them, that nothing but a special act of the Legislature could untie, This scheme was not actually so absurd as it appeared at first sight. Maggie Lee was a tall queenly woman, with almost a masculine air, and at that time, I had a very slight form, al most effeminate, so that in fact, there was re ally little difference on that point. Then I had light h:-,ir. tolerably long, and a fresh com plexion. Fart my hair in the middle, and put a bennet on my head, and few ladies would h.ve suspected but what I was really one of their sex. These accessories also gave me quite a decided resemblance to Maggie Lee, especially when, as in this case the disguise was her own. Then the day chosen for a runaway match, was an auspicious one. Maggies father was to drive her to D , a small village near where she lived, and there she was to join a sailing party down D river, to the grove three miles below, from which the party was to return in the evening in carriages. Our plan was, that I should be in waiting in the village, and should go on the boat with the ailing party, while Maggie after leaving her father, should slip off with Bob Styles, across tbe country. At l:,t I nt rlr.-.-spd nn.l nrosontod mrself Wnr Ma-Tie Lee. blushing a trreat deal. "l be- i!v.. r..i;,,ffr,.rt. ...nph ninoW flhmit the . , .- ..J , . waist, and with an uncomfortable conscious ness that my that my shirt sleeves were too hort, or wanting altogether. Everything finished in the way of toilct,Bob Styles took me into his light wagon, drove me over to D , by a secluded route, and left me at the hotel, where the sailing party was to as semble. Several of the pick-nickers were al ready there, and they greeted my cavalier cor- dia'.iv. ask in ir if he was goinsr with them. He told them he was not. "Pressing business engagements,' you know, and all that sort of thing. "Deuced sorry I can't go, though. I had just time to bring Miss. Lee over, and now I'm off. Mr. Bimby, this is Miss Lee. Miss Withergill, Miss Lee, and te rattled off a long string ot intindac- ... , ., r e .1... r . tions wlilCIl convince i me iii.n -- tioris, which v. ...Via u-r acnn.iinted witli trie ounjr la-iy i whom I was thus personating- vmiv fi.rtim.Lti tbing for the preservation ol my disguise 1 :i ' iur mi; i 'i v. oi. i ..... . ----- o yir. Bimbr, a tall legal looking man with a , ', . . . .,.m...I u,Ik oreoos- ok nose and eye-guss, seemetl to be pn pos- ., J , , rt,..,-,i 1,5,,, whismT sscd with me, and I overhea d bun whisptr boo aesscd to Boh Styles, as he went oat : "-Nu.ee look inzgal, that Miss Lee." .Yes," answered Bob, with a mischievous glance at me, "she is a nice girl, though a lit tle go'a-bcad sometimes. Keep a little look out on her," then lowering his voice "not a bad match for you old fellow ; she is rich. "Is she," said Mr, Bimby, his interest deep "On my honor," replied Bob. "Forty thou sand dollars io her own right. Day ! day ! awl lit waT f AnG ' Maggie," artful creature that she was, had told her rather that the sailing party was lo a, 'semblc at another hotel, and thither he had ta t.. n,vi..- i..iiness in D ,-he lelt her ' -- "'ft " there merely saving that he woul.l sena me carriage for her a"t 12 o'clock. She, like a du- iiv.1 .:i.i L-;.wi i,;n. i,:i him trood bye, and Ve(rft i.'wi ' tn.ld vards. took a V - - ' . .1 Beat'n Bob Styles' light wagon, whicli uaa firiven up to the back door, as old Lee's car- riage drove away from the front. ' As for us of the picnic excursion, we bad a pleasant sail down to the grove, but somehow, I could not enjoy it as much as I ought to have done. When I walked on board the boat, I fell awkward, as If everybody was looking at me. I found Mr. Bimby as I bad suspected, a young and rising lawyer. He insisted on pay ing for my ticket, and purchasing enough or anges, pears and candies to set up a street stand. Four or five times I was on the point of swearing at his impudent officiousness, but bit my tongue just in time to prevent the ex posure. But it was not with bim that I found my role the hardest to play, No ; the yoang ladies were the difficult ones to deceive. For instance," there was one a- rnong them, a beautiful girl of seventeen, just returned fr.oru boarding school, who had not seen Maggie Lee foi- three years. Of course ho was delighted with me, when she found out that I was Maggie, which by the way did not occur until after we had started. She threw herself into my arms, pulled my veil a side, and kissed me a half-dozen times, in a mauncr that made mv linger ends tingle lor half an hour. It was all very nice, but it I had been "propria personae," I would have liked it better. As it was, I felt as though I was "obtaining goods under false colors," and that lawj-cr Bimby might issue a warrant for my arrest on that ground at any moment. A whole knot of crinoline then surrounded me, on the upper deck of the boat to the utter exclusion and consequent disgust of Mr. Bim by and other gentlemen. The river breeze was very fresh where we sat, and I noticed that several of the ladies were glancing uneasily at me. I couldn't di vine the reason, until Jennie, my little friend from the boarding school, laid her face danger- otisly close to mine, and whispered : "My dear Maggie, your dress is blowing up terribly high your ancles will be the town talk with the gentlemen." Nor was I conscious of having a very small foot for a man, and had donned a pair of open work stockings which came up nearly to my waist, with a pair of gaiters borrowed from the servant girl, in all of which toggery my run ning gear looked quite respectable ; but the idea of the gentlemen talking about my ancles, and of being cautioned thus by a young girl, who would have been frightened to death if I had told the same yesterday ,was too much for me. I burst into a sort f strangulated laugh, which 1 could only ciicck uy swallowing nan of my little filagree handkerchief. The young ladies all looked at me in apparent astonisn ment, and I wanted to laugh all the more Fortunately Mr. Bimby came to my rescue at the moment, and edged himself in among the crinoline. "May I sit here 7" he asked, pointing to a low stool near me. "Certainly," I simpered in my high falsetto. "Ah, thank you J' said Bimby with a lack- ad:iisal air, which nauseated me, as coming from one man to another "you are as kind as you are fascinating." "You flatter mo !" "1 7 no indeed, praise of you cannot be flat tery, Miss Lee." "Oh, sir, you are really very naughty," said n l"e ""' cuu.u uuua.,u. T ' . I i y - t 1.1 . 1 "e cast languishing glance at me, and I fairly began to fear for his feelings. , . ... - . I "We soon arrived at the grove, and found our band engaged beforehand awaiting us Of course dancing was the first amusement, and lawyer Bimby led me out for a schottishe It was hard for me to take the lady's part in a dance, but I soon got accustomed tc- it. When a waltz was proposed, I resolved to have a lit tie amusement at the expense or the nnfortu nate Bimby. I had first made him properly jealous, by dancing with two or three other young fellows, one of which I knew in my own character, but who never suspected me as Maggie Lee. This young man a great woman niuer a son oi easv devil-me-care rascal.who made the l.iaics run after him, by his alternate wrath of action I , t .....: n T .... l.i t .-rl in Til:ip . ,...um.-i . ? off ajrainst my legal admirer. I allowed turn - - closely, and occasionally look en ii linn iv When we stopped dancing, he led nie to my .... . . . , , seat keeping l arm about my waist, and I permitted it. Having thus stirred Bimby up i- ,,, , , , , to feats of wrathful valor, I asked one of the gentlemen to direct the musicians to play a waltz. Bimby came immediately "Ahem a Miss Lee, shall I have the honor of a a trying a waltz with yon 7" T smiled a cracious acquiescence, and we commenced. Now, I am an old stag at waltzing. . I can keep it up longer than any non-professional dancer, male or female, that I ever met. As long as the Schonnebrunnen ring in my ears, I can go on if it is for a year. Not so Bimby. lie plead want of practice, and he acknowledged that be soon got dizzy "Aha, old boy, thought I, I'll give you a turn then !" But I only smiled and said "that I should t tjrcd first." I . ,. , .. ... T Ann (iQUt ye," lie exciaimcu, oi ooul,, x waltz a long as any one young lady, but not I mncii more For the first three minutes my cavalier did J ) , well. He went smooiu.j, .u-.-.,, tno expiration oi xuai. mu , ' warm. Five minutes elapsed, and Bimby breath came harder ana i-ia. ' hoWoVer, and I scorneu w iDg up at every rouna w f-- Aner aom ten or tweiv e . j ed man gasped ont betwee . t : "Ah a are you not get getting tired 7" "Oh no," I burst forth, as coolly as if we were riding round the room. "Oh, no, I feel as if 1 could waltz all night!" The look of despair that he gave was terri ble to see. I was bound to see him out, how ever, and we kept at it. Bimby staggered and made wild steps in all directions, nis collar wilted, his eyes protruded, his jaw hung down ; and I saw he could not hold out much longer. "This is delightful," I said composedly, "and you, Ja r. Bimby. waltz so easily !" "Ah, puff puff yes oh puff very de lightful," gasped he. "Don't you think we ought to go a little faster 7" He rolled bis eyes heavenward in agony. So, when we neared the musicians, I said, "Faster, if you please," and they played, a la whirlwind. Foor Bimby threw his feet about like a fast pacer, and revolved after the manner of a tee totum which was nearly run down. At last he staggered a step backwards, and spinning ec centrically away from me, pitched headlong into a bevy of ladies in a corner. 1 turned a round coolly, and walking to my seat, sent the young-woman killer for a glass of ice-water. The miserable lawyer recovered his senses just in time to see me thank his rival for the gtass or water. I got some idea from this, of the fun young ladies find in tormenting us poor fellows of the other sex. At this juncture, and before Mr. Bimby had time to apologize for his accident, little Jen nie came running into the room. As she came near, I perceived that her hands were clutched tigl.tly in her dress, and I positively shudder ed, as she whispered to me : "Ob, Maggie, come and help me fix my skirts they are all coming down !" I s id I was tired could not somebody else go 7 No, nothing would do but I must accompa ny her to the bouse of a gentleman who owned the grove, and assist in arranging her clothing. So I went. What if it should be necessary to remove the greater part of her raiment 1 - What, if in the midst of all the embarrassment of being closeted with a beautiful girl of seventeen, in a state of comparative freedom from drapery, my real sex and identity should be discovered by her. I felt as if an apoplectic fit would be a fortunate occurrence to me just then. How ever, I nerved myself for the task, and accom panied Jennie to tbe house designated. An old lady showed us into her chamber, and Jen nie, heaving a sigh of relief, let go her dres As she did so, a pardon my blushes a skirt fell to the floor. She was about to proceed, but I alarmed her by a sudden and vehement gesture. "Stop," I cried frantically, forgetting my falsetto; "don't undress, for God's sake." 'And why not ?" "Because I am can you keep a secret 7" " Why yes, how frightened you look. Why, what's the matter. Maggie 7 Tou you why oh! oh!! oh!!!" And she gave three fearful screams. "Hush, no noise, or I am lost !" exclaimed I, putting my hand over her mouth. "I mean yon no harm." She was all of a tremble, poor little thing, but she saw the force of my argument. "Oh, sir," she said, "I see yon are a man, but what does it all mean 7 Why did yon dress so 7" I told her the story as briefly as possible and exacted from her a promise of the most sacred secrecy. I then went out of the door and waited till she had arranged her dress, when she called me in again. She had heard of mc from Maggie and others, and wanted to hear all the particulars ; so I sat down by her, and we had a long talk, which ended in a mu tual feeling of friendliness and old acquain tanceship, quite wonderful for people meeting for the first time. Just as we started to go back to fhe pivillion, I said I must relieve my mind of one more bnrden. And what is that 7" she asked. 'Those kisses. You thought that I was Maggie Lee, or yon would not have given them. I suppose that I must give them back." And I did. She blushed a good deal, and glancing up timidly, only said : "I think you are real nanghty, anyhow." When we returned I found lawyer Bimby quite recovered from his dizziness, and all hands ready for supper, which was served in the ball room. I sat between Bimby and Jen nie, and made love to both of them in turn to one as Maggie Lee, and to the other as my self. After supper, at which I astonished sev eral by eating rather more heartily than young ladies generally do, we had more dancing, and I hinted pretty strongly to Mr- Bjroby that I should like to try another waltz. . ne didn't take the hint. Finding it rather dry amusement to dance with my own kind, I soon abated that plea sure, and persuaded Jennie to stroll off into the moonlight with roe. . We found the grove a charming place, full of picturesque little corners, and rustic seats, and great gray rocks leaning out over the river. On one of these latter, a little bench was placed, in a nook sheltered from wind and from sight. Here we at down, in the full flood of the moonlight, and having just eaten heartily, I felt wonder fully in reed of a cigar. Accordingly I went back to a little stand and astonished the won dering woman by purchasing several. Then returning to the seats by the rocks, I gave up all cares or fears of my incognito, and reveled in the pleasures of solitude tbe fragrance of my cigar the moonlight and little Jennie's presence. How long we sat there, heaven alone knows. We talked, and laughed, and sang, and looked in each other's eyes, and told fortunes, and performed all the nonsensical operations com mon amongst young people just falling in love with each other, and might have remained there until this month of November, in this year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty- seven, for aught I know, had net the carriages been sent to convey us home, and the rest of the company began to wonder where we were- At length they hit upon our path, and all came along, single file, until they got to the open space above. Then they saw a sight ! I was stretcherl out in a free and easy posi tion, my bonnet taken off, and my hair some what towzled up. One foot rested on the ground, tbe other on a rock, and thre I sat, puffing away, in "a very unladylike style, at a light-flavored cigar. Jennie was sitting close beside me, With her bead against my shoulder, and her small waist almost encircled by my arm. Just as the 'party came along above us, I laughed out in a loud masculine voice : "Just think of poor, what's-his-name Bim by! Suppose he knew he bad been making love to a man !" "Hush !" cried Jennie. "Look! there he is and, oh ! my gracious ! there ia the whole company !" Yes, we were fairly caught. It was of no use for me to clap on my bonnet and assume falsetto again they had all seen me. Besides, by this time, Bob Styles and Maggie Lee were doubtless "one flesh," and my disguise was of no further importance, so I owned up and told tbe story. Lawyer Bimby was in a rage. He vowed to kill me, and even squared off, but the rest of the company laughed at hira so unmercifully, and suggested that we should waltz it out to gether, that he finally cooled down and slnnk away, to take some private conveyance home Bob Styles and I are living in a large double house together. lie often says he owes his wife to my masquerading, but he doesn't feel under any obligations to me, for I owe my wife to the same thing. X. B. My wife's name is Jennie. Coffee axd Mile. Dr. D. A. Caron, of Paris, has recently been engaged in investiga ting the effect of breakfasting on this favorite beverage, and from the results, he thinks that he is justified iu asserting that most of the nervous and allied disorders which affect tbe dwellers in large cities are traceable to this source. He further informs us that when the coffee is mixed with milk, its nutritious prop erties are neutralized because of its fermenta tion being retarded. Coffee and milk in a bot tle were twenty-seven days before they began to decompose, whilst milk and sugar were only three days. It is evident that tbe astringent properties of the coffee hinder the digestion of the milk ; and, at the same time, the ca fe ine (or active principle of coffee) is set free, and acts on the membrane of the stomach in tbe same manner as vegetable alkalies, produ cing most disastrous consequences to the di gestive apparatus. He tried many experiments on himself and friends, and found that in a few hours the pulse was lowered from 80 to 68, from that it. went to 59, when he took some food, and it immediately rose to 72. He con cludes by informing us that many cass of ir ritation, nervousness and hysteria have been entirely cured by a gentle course of tonics, and giving up the use of coffee. Good Advice.. I know that if women want to escape the stigma of husband seeking, they must act or look like marble or clay cold, expressionless, bloodless ; for every appearance of feeling, of joy, sorrow, friend liness, antipathy, admiration, disgust, are a ike construed by the world into the attempt to hook a husband . Never mind I well-mean-j ing women have their own consciences to comfort tnem alter all. Do not tlierelore, be too much afraid of showing yourself. as you are. affectionate aud good-hearted ; do not to harshly repress sentiments and feelings 1 excellent in themselves, because you fear that ! some puppy may fancy that you are letting them come out to fascinate him ; do not con demn yourself to live only by halves, because if you showed too much imitation, some nraff- j matical thing in breeches might take it into j bis pate to imagine that you designed to ded ; icate your life to his inanity. Jane Eyre. Mormon Ikfeesal Machines. There have been reports that the Mormons bad provided some new weapon with which to meet the in fading forces of the United States Govern ment. The Washington Stales says it is an ex plosive material, the secret of which was dis covered in the archives of the Patent Office, by Russian agents, and that it was used in de stroying the works at Sebastopol ; that after the war the invention was submitted, by otder of our Government, to certain persons to ex periment and report upon, and that these men proved to bo Mormons, who carried tbe secret tO Utal). : CENTRAL. AFRICA. Mr. T. J. Bowen, Baptist M issior.ary from South Carolina.has written an interesting book of "Adventures and" Missionary Labors in several Countries in the Interior of Africa, from 1849 to 1330." Mr. B. set out from Providence, on the 17th of December, 1849. and arrived at Monrovia, the Capital of Li beria, on the 8th of February following. Ever y one who makes a pilgrimage to Leicester Square knows w hat landing on the Guinea coast is like the white cloud of surf, the hot breeze, the green strip of land towards which a crowd of black woolly beads in round-bottomed canoes aro unsteadily pad dling. Mr. Boweu was not capsized, but car ried ashore on the shoulders of a brawny Kroo man. Landed, he found wharves, stores, cakes, and beer, unfinished streets, and nig ger melodies, as in Georgia. "In one res pect," the author naively tells ns, the Liberi ans "aredeficieiit.though not so bad as the peo ple of Sierra Leone or of Fiance illicit inter course is a chracteristic of Western Africa." The idleness, too, is undesirable, and Mr. Bowen is ol opinion that "every young man should be trained to some useful employment, but since it is not generally done in other countries, we can hardly demand it in Libe ria." The climate, as we learn further on, is peculiarly unfavorable to labor. Everything is hot, the water, the air, the ground. The very birds, beasts, and insects are lazy. When, in the intervals of missionary exertion, the au thor frequently wandered over the farms of an afternoon, "taking my gun to shoot birds, they were all asleep in the shady groves, and I have returned without so much as a dove, after wandering several miles." In December, which is the hot month, Mr. Bowen has ob served hawks so overcome with the heat as to be unable to build their nests, except at inter vals. Even wasps, that generally, seem to revel in heat, succumb in Yoruba, aud a slug grad would only be encouraged in evil habits by considering a colony of Toruban ants, for the little "beaslies" there only work' in the cool of the day The height of a Kroomau's ambition is to he a sort of tropical Mormon chief, to become "a big man," and be main tained by a gang of swarthy wives. Mr. Bowen's ultimate object was Yoruba, a district containing a population of three mil lions, lying some forty miles west of the Ni ger a country of hill and rolling prairie, and well-inhabited mud-towns, eighty miles from the sea. The rainy season bceing unfavorable for travelling tborc, Mr. Bowen, in eoropany with a fellow-missionary, made a diversion to a Golab town, 150 miles in the interior, ruled by a native rejoicing in the title of King Boat swain. The currency on the Slave Coast, and far interior to Hausa and Bumu is a little shell as large as the end of one's finger, called a cow ry, (Cyprea mouela). They are not found in West ern Africa, but a' e brought by Europeans from India and Zanzibar, and given to tbe natives for palm-oil and other productions ol the coun try. Forty cowries are called a string," fifty strings or two thousand cowries, are a "head," and ton heads aro a "bag." It is nsual to val ue two thousand cowries at one dollar, which is twenty to the cent, but of late they are gen erally cheaper on the coast. I am told that the intrinsic value of good cowries in Europe, where they are used iu the arts, is about equal to their current value in Africa. The iron money of Lycurgus was not more cumbersome than cowries, the net weight of ten dollars' worth (20,000 shells) being from fifty to sev enty pounds. The common price of a fowl is rrom 200 to 250 shells ; of a sheep from 4,000 to 6,000; of a horse from 60,000 to 120,000, and other things in proportion. When build ing our houses, we are obliged to keep a man to count the cowries every evening for the la borers. Silver and gold are not enrrent here, because the merchants on the coast, who import the cowries, will take nothing but shells or palm-oil for the cloth, guns,tobacco, rnnx, &c, which they sell to the natives. Neither is it possible to pay for provisions and labor in goods of any kind, barter being unknown, and cowries demanded for every thing. Tbe peo ple of B.idagry having a poor soil, and a suf ficient traffic to prevent their starving, were not much addicted to labor. Even fishing, which is vigorously prosecuted br the tribes on the Gold, Ivory, and Grain Coasts, is con fined here to the sluggish Ossa river. No Ba- dagrian would think of launching a canoe into the open sea. The town swarmed with thieves and diunkards, whose only object in life was sensual gratification. Nowhere else had I met with so many impudent and shameless beg gars. When a missionary attempted to preach to a crowd fh the streets or market, it was very common for some of them to reply by laying their hands on their stomachs, and saying, "White man, I am hungry!" Soon after my arrival, a fellow introduced himself as the ""American chief," who was to receive pres ents from all American visitors. Another was called the"English chief,"auother the"French chief," &c. These greedy chiefs are no lon ger able to rob men as they did the Landers, because there is now a strong minority of the people opposed to such conduct, but if they had been lelt to themselves, no missionary could have passed through Badagry, without leaving a part of his property. '. ; . . CherfuIoeM is tbe daugbt-r of employ-meat. BRITISH ATROCITIES IN INDIA. The London Morning Star says that very grave statements have been made in private and official circles respecting certain transac tions at Cawnpore and Dinapore, and which are sspposed to afford an explanation of th.e late order of the Governor-General of India in fa vor of clemency and justice, and of the strong accusations made by Gen. Outram against sol diers under his command. These matters can not be long concealed from the public. They point to new massacres that have taken place at Dinapore and Cawnpore; but, unfortunately. the soldiers charged with the more recent deeds ot horror are English, and not Sepoy. - We will mention What the statements te which we refer really are, premising that the information we give is derived from reliabl authotitv. It is said that at Cawnpore and the neighbor hood the Queen's 7Sth Kegimcnt put to death, not fewer than ten thousand people ; or, ac cording to another version, killed ' all the na tives they could get at, whether men, women, or children. At Dinapore, a portion of the Sepoys, at great personal risk, remained faith ful, and refused to march .with the mutinous regiment; but the Queen's 10th, after its en counter at Arrah, went to the barracks where the faithful Sepoys were and said, "What! are these black devils to be spared merely because they have given tip their arms 7" Then, amid curses and imprecations, they turned the un armed Sepoys into the barrack yard, and had killed a considerable number of them before the massacre could be stopped. The number of killtd and wounded by this process are va riously stated, but we hear that nearly half of tbe hundred who were taken out had thus to suffer. This, however, is the "mildest version of the Dinapore affair. The bayonet as well as the bullet was used by the soldiers of the 10th, and one of their victims was a woman. Iu The Bombay Gazette we have an account of tbe practice adopted by the English army in blowing away Sepoys from their guns. It is a mode of punishment which evidently casts the wheel, the gallows, and the guillotine into the shade, and appears to be accompanied by mutilating horr-jrs that pn.bb!y have no par allel in the whole history of mankind. The blowing away from guns is most appal ling. Alter the explosion the grouping of the men's remains in front of each gnn was various and frightful. One man's head was perched upon his back, and he was staring round as it looking for his legs and arms. All yon see at the time is a cloud like adust storm composed of shreds of clothing, burning muscle, and friz zing fat, with lumps of coagulated blood. Here and there a stomach or a liver comes fal ling down in a stinking shower. One wretch ed fellow slipped from the rope by which he was tied to the guns just before tbe explosion, and his arm was nearly set on fire. Whilo hanging in his agony under the gun, a sergeant applied a pistol to his head, and three times the cap snapped, the man each time wincing from the expected shot. At Iast a rifle was fired into the back of bis bead, and the blood poured out of the nose and mouth like water from a briskly handed pump. This was the most horrible sight of all. I "have seen death in nil its forms, never anything to equal this man's end." Plain Truth. Some one who seems ot understand the suVject, describes the educa tion ct "yonng gentlemen and ladies," of the would be fashionable sort, which tends only to mental weakness and physical decay, as follows; "A young gentlemen a smooth faced strippling with little breeding and less sense, ripens fast, and believes himself a nice young man. He chews and smokes to Itacco, swears genteely, coaxss embryo im pcrials with Iwar's grease, twirls a rattan, spends his father's money, rides fast horses oil horseback and in suTkeys double and sin gle drinks Catawba, curses the Maine law and flirts with young "ladies," hundreds of which are just like himself, though of a dif ferent gender; and this is the fashionable education of our day. The fathers and moth ers of these fools were once poor. Good for tune has given them abundance." Their chil dren will go through an inexhaustible for tune," and into the poor house. Parents you are responsible for this folly. Set your sons and daughters to worS, ami let them know that only in usefulness there is Lonor and prosperity.' Massacre on the Plaixs. The Los Ange les, California, Star contains an account of a horrible massacre of emigrants, at a place cal led Santa Clara Canon, about three hundred miles on this side of Salt Lake City, between the 10th and 12th October. The train consisU ed of 130 or 13o men, women and children. They were in possession or quite a number of torses, mult-s and oxen. Their encampment was attacked about daylight, so say the Indi ans, by the combined forces of the various tribes immediately around, and the majority of them slain at the first onset.. The remain der held out against the Indians for a few davs, when they sent out a flag f truce by a little girl, but the Indians rushed in and alaujrhter ed all of them except fifteen infant children that have since been purchased by the Mormon interpreters. The Indians contended - that these emigrants bad stopped at one of their towns, cheated them in trading, put Strich nine in an ox that died, and other poison ia the water, from which several of the tribe dld, and that they massacred the amigrsati ra rerenge. . . ? - . -1
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