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VOL. 4.-JTO. 20.
GLEAEFIELD, PA., "WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1858,
BY S. B. EOW.
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OLD WINTER IS COMING.
EY H.'.SXAH F. CorLO.
OKI Winter is comiu aaia alack I .
llow icy and cold is Le !
Ho cares not a pin for a. shivering back
He's a saney old chap to white and to black
lie whistles his chills with a wonderful knack,
. For he comes from a cold country,
A witty old fellow this Winter is
A uiishty old follow for glee !
He cracks "his joke3 on the pretty street miss,
The wrinkled old maiden unlit to kiss,
And freezes the dew of their lips for this
Is the 'way with saeh fellow? as he ?
Old Winter's a frolicsome blade, I wot
Da is wild in his humor, and free!
He'd whistle along for the -want of his thought,'
And set all the warmth of our furs at nought,
And rallies the laet by pretty gil ls bought
For a Iroiiosomc old fallow is he !
Old Winter is blowing h5j gust along,
And merrily shaking the troc !
From morning till niht be will ing his song
Now mo.iDin? and short now howling and long
Ui3 voice is loud, for his lungs are strong
A merry old follow is he !
Old Winter's a wicked old chap, I ween
As wicked as ever you'd see !
lie withers the flowers so fresh and green.
And bites the pert nose of the miss of sixteen,
As she triumphantly walks in maidenly sheen
A wicked old fellow is he I
Oil Winter's n tough old fellow fc
As touirh as ever you'd see !
LI
O.V3,
lie will trip up ourtrotters, and rend onrcK
jtllCS,
And stifTou our 'hubs from fingers to toes-
lie minds nut the cry of bis friends or his foes
A tough old follow is be !
A cunning old fellow is Winter, they say,
A cunning old fWlow is he !
He creeps in the crevices day by day,
To .sec how we're pawing our time away.
And marks all our doings from grave to gay
I'm afraid he is peeping at mo !
ANTIQUITIES IX AMERICA.
Throughout ilia entire length ami breadth
of the country washed, as it is by the waters
of two mighty oceans, and abounding in natu
ral resources enormous beyond what is im
possible to conceive we find much to admire
iu the aspect and beauty of nature 5 and wheth
er we travel from the distant shores of Maine
and New Brunswick to the golden sands of Cal
ifornia, and tiie shores of the great Paciuc, or
from the bright crysti! lakes of Minnesota to
the orange groves of Florida, we behold thro'
ont the immense extent, the features of nature,
grand and beautiful iu every form aud aspect.
The minerologist, the geologist, the natural
ist, the botanist, and even the antiqturiandiave
all a rich field here.
Strange as It may appear, America abounds
In antiquities. s extensive, so beautiful aud
majestic, as to rival those of Thebes or Xine
veh. Ruins of ancient cities, of iinincii.se ex
tent; fortifications, mounds and pyramids;
temples with walls built of Iscwa s'ono showing
a refined taste in architecture and adorned
with human figuvesdicautifully executed; largo
alters ornamented with hieroglyphics, proba
bly giving a record of those who reared them,
but which no man lias been able to decipher;
remains of ancient palaces, with beautiful spe
cimens of sculpture and painting, with many
other marks of ancient greatness, prove to us
that tLis is not a nsw world, but that a power
ful empire existed at a very remote period of
time, teeming with a population highly skilled
in arts, and in a state of civilisation far beyond
nnvthintr we have been led to conceive of the j
aborigines, previous to the discovery of the
continent bv Europeans. 1
Tiicntiniiiiipsnf Amm-; nTt,r.fl frr.m th
eastern shores of Maine and Massachusetts to
the Pacific, and from the "reat lakes and Brit-
ish dominions, to Peru and La Plata in South
America ; in fact, thoughout the extent of both
continents. Immense forests grow over the
ruins of largo cities, and the gigantic size of
the trees, with .indications that other genera
tions of trees sprung up and grew before them,
proves that the ruins were in existence before
the Christian era. In every portion of the U
nited States interesting ruins have been dis
covered. In the State of New York have been
found sculptured figures of oue hundred ani
mals of different species, executed in a style
far superior to anything exhibited by any of
the existing tribes of Indians. 1 he State of j
Ohio abounds in ruins of towns and fortifies- j
tions, with extensive mounds and pyramids.
At Marietta, and in Missouri, beautiful potte
ry, silver and copper ornaments, and pearls of
great beauty and lustre, have been dug from
the earth. In the caves of Tennessee and Ken
tucky, mummies have been found, in a high
btate ol preservation, clothed with cloths and
skins of various texture, inlaid with feathers.
L;kc discoveries have been made at Carrolton,
near Milwaukie, in the State of Wisconsin
' ruins of huge fortifications appear. Similar
ruins appear in the State of Missouri. On the
south side of the Missouri river, in the west
ern portion of the State, is an enclosure of
tome five hundred acres, which includes the
ruins of a building (no doubt ancient tower)
Mitli walls over one hundred feet high, and
eighty feet wide at the base, attached to which
are a ledoubt and citadel, with work mnch re
sembling the structure of a tower in Europe.
But it is in the south of Mexico that magnifi
cent and beautiful ruins present themselves in
abundance. Ruins of majestic cities and mag
nificent temples and altars.witU beautiful works
of sculpture, tastefully wrought; palaces a
dorned with paintings colois chiefly sky-blue
'. and light green which show by their rich
ness and elegance, to bo the work of highly
cultivated people.
These ruins, majestic and beautiful in ap
pearance, but overgrown with thick lorests of
mahogany and cedar of immense dimensions
I and great age, prove to the world that a geat
I empire existed here at a very remote period
of time, and that this empire teemed with an
immense population, a people skilled in the
mechanical arts, and in advanced state of cul
tivation. The most extensive ruins are to be
found at Uxnial and Palenque, in the south
east of Mexico. At Uxmal are immense pyr
amids, coated with stone, and quadrangular
stone edifices and terraces. The highest of
these pyramids is 130 feet, and on the summit
it supports a temple; on one of the facades of
the temple arc four human fignres,cut in stone,
with great exactness and elegance. The hands
are crossed upon the breast, the head is cov
ered with something like a helmet, about the
neck is a garment of the skin of an alligator,
and over each body is a figure of a death's
head and bones.
At Palenque a city of great extent are im
mense ruins, with the remains of a royal pal
ace. One temple, that of Copan, 520 feet by
600, and supposed to have been as large as St.
Peter's at Rome. Another temple of great di
mensions is here, having an entrance by a por
tico one hundred leet long and ten feet broad ;
it stands on an elevation of sixty feet. The
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I pillars 01 me portico are aaorneu wiui Hiero
glyphics and other devices. Different objects
of worship have been found representations
of the gods who were worshipped in this coun
try. These tetnples,with fourteen large build
ings, and many other objects of curiosity,
stand here as monuments of ancient greatness,
to remind us of the remote origin of a mighty
empire. The city Las been described as the
Thebes of America, and travellers have sup-
posed that it must have been sixty miles in
circumference, and contained a population of
3,000,000 souls
Centuries must have elapsed, and dynasties
succeled each other, before such orders of
architecture were introduced, and a great
length of time must have passed before an
empire would become sufficiently powerful to
erect such temples, and possess a city of such
vast extent. In looking back to the past we
feel interested in the imagination that this
people once in the noonday of glory, enjoying
all the fruits and luxuries of an advanced civ
ilization ; but when we behold these ruins, &
melancholy reflection must at once seize our
minis. On the ground where once nations
met in their strength and power, wild beasts
now roam, and venomous serpents wend their
way ; and over these vast cities, where once
the busy hum of industry and the voice of
merriment resounded, grows the vast cedar,
on whose branches the owl chatters discordant
notes and the bat sleeps at meridian. Iu this
country is exhibited the largest pyramid in
the world that of Colula, near Puebla. It
covers 41 acres, and is 200 feet high, on its
summit wasa temple, and in the interior has
been discovered a vault, roofed with beams of
wood, containing skeletons and idols; several
smaller pyramids surrounded this large one
It appears to hare been formed by cutting a
hiil into an artificial shape. Its dimensions
are immense, being nearly three miles in cir
cumference, and about 400 feet high-. It is
divided into terraces and slopes, covered with
platforms, stages and bastions, elevated, one
I above the other, and are formed with large
stones skillfully cut and jointed with ce
mcnt. In some respects the style of architec
ture resembles the Gothic, being massive and
durable, while in other respects it resembles
the Egyptian yet the general construction
manner and stvle of architecture is different
from anything fcitherto described in the world
In Egypt, hieroglyphics on stone denote re
uiarkabJe events, which no one has yet been
able to decipher.
A dark shade rests on the .antiquities of
America, and r few rays of light enliven th
gloom. We have ancient history io inform
us of the events of Egypt how that empire
was founded and how it prospered and fell
we have the same record of Babylon, lXioevah
Greece, Homeland Carthage; but not tl
least information have we relative to those
who erected these cities, what people and
whence they came ; not a ray of light to dis
pel the dark gloom which seems to rest on the
earliest history of America.
Architecture, sculpture, paintinz, and all
the arts that adorn civilized life, have flour
ished in this country, at a period far remote
There is evidence sufficient to prove that thes
cities were in ruins at least sixteen or eighteen
?:u:idrci years ago. In Palenqne arc the re
mains of an altar, over which grows an im
mense cedar, whose powerful roots enshrine
it. The whole city is overgrown with mahog
any and cedar trees, of enormous size. The
concentric circles of some of these trees the
well known cycles for a year have been coun
ted, which showed they were more than 800
years old, and there were indications of anoth
er generation of trees havsng- sprung up be
fore them. How few reflect on the fact that
America is an old dominion the seat of an
ancient, mighty empire. These facts are o
pening themselves every day to the eyes of
the astonished world, and it is to be hoped
that the spirit of inquiry, which seems at pres
ent to animate all classes of learned men,
may throw light on the early history of this
remarkable region.
Tho followiug is on a tombstone in Ireland :
"Hero lies tho body of John Mound,
Lost at sea and never found. '
COL. YELL'S FIRST COURT.
When Colonel Archibald Yell, afterwards
killed at the battle ol Bucua Tista, had taken
is scat for the first timo upon the bench, in
Arkansas, the bar was composed of a set of
lawyers who had always Lrow-beatcn his pre
decessors and had their own way. Judge
Yell determined to put a stop to this. The
first case on the docket was called, and the
plaintiff stood ready. It was a case that bad
been in litigation lor five years. General
Smoot arose for the defendant, and remarked
n an overbearing tone :
'Our witnesses are absent, and, therefore,
demand that the case be continued until next
term, in course.
Let the affidavit be filed, for not until then
can I entertain a motion for continuance," was
he reply of the Judge.
"Do you doubt my word as to the facts ?"
Gen. Smoot exclaimed sharply, and Involun
tarily raised his huge sword cane.
"Xot at all," replied the Judge with his
blandest smile ; "but the law requires that
the facts justifying a continuance must appear
on record, and the court lias no power to an-f
nul a law, nor any will to see it annulled."
The Judge's calm and business like tone
and manner only served to irritate the bully, part of tho second step was still being sol
and he retorted, shaking his sword cane in the emnized, and that being at the far end. and
direction of the bench. "Whatever may bo
the law, I, for one, will not learn it from the
lips of an upstart demaKozue and a coward !"
Judge Yell's temper was a little moved at
this reply, but he only turned to the clerk, and
said "Clerk, you will enter a fine of fifty dol
lars against Gen. Smoot, as I see him named
on my docket, for gross contempt of court ;
and be sure you issue an immediate execu
tion."
He had hardly communicated the order,
when Gen. Smoot was rushing towards him,
brandishing his sword cane. Every glance
was fixed on the countenance of tho Judfre.
for all wished to Iwiow how he would bear the
shock of the duelist's fierce assault: but none
however, could detect the slightest change in
his appearance. He did not change color,
nor did a nerve seem to tremble : his calm eye
surveyed the advancing foe with little of per-
turbation. He sat perfectly still, with a little
rod of painted iron in his hand. Smoot as- I
cended tho platfrom, and immediately aimed
a tremendous blow at the head of his foe. At
that blow all exnected to see the victim's skull
shivered toatoms. The general astonishment
then may be conceived, when they beheld the
little iron staff describe a quick curre, as the
great sword-cane flew from Smoot's fingers,
and fell with .1 loud clatter at the distance of
twenty feet in the hall. The bafHed bully ut-
tcred a yell, and snatched his bowe-knife from
its sheath, bnt ere it was poised for the des
perate plunge, the little iron staff cut another
curve, and the big knife followed tho sword-
cane. He then hastily drew a revolving pistol,
but before lie had time to touch the trigger
bis arm was struck powerless by his side. And
then for the first time did Judge Yell betray
perceptible emotion. He stamped his foot till
the platform shook beneath him, and shouted
in trumpet tones, "Mr. Clerk, you will blot
this ruffian's name from the roll of attorneys,
as a foul disgrace to the bar. Mr. Sheriff,
take the criminal to jail." The latter officer
sprang to obey the mandate, and immediately
a scene of confusion ensucd.which no pen can
describe. -The bravos and myrmidon friends
of Gen. Smoot gathered around to obstruct
the Sheriff, while many of the citizens lent
their aid to sustain the authority of the court.
Menaces, shouts, and curses were commingled.
The new Judge used his little iron cane with
terrible efficiency, crippling limbs, yet spar
ing life. The Sheriff", imitating the clemency
of his honored friend, disdaining the uc of
either knife or pistol, actually trampled and
crushed all opposition, singing out at every
furious blow. "This is the way to preserve or
der in court !" a sentiment which he accom
panied with a wild peal or laughter. In less
than two minutes the party of the Judge tri
umphed, the clique of .Gen. Smoot suffered a
disastrous defeat, and the bully himself was
borne away to prison. Such was the debut of
Archibald Yell in Arkansas ; and from that his
popularity as a man, as a Judge, as a hero and
as a politician, went on rapidly increasing, till
eclipsing, the old and most powerful names,
it set on the bloody eve of Buena Vista.
Kansas. The Special Session of the new
Territorial Legislature of Kansas, called by
acting Governor Stanton, has been held ; and
we believe it is hardly pretended that its acts
contravene the pledges made by the leading
Free-State men to Stanton to induce him to
call it. The Legislature has provided for a
fair and full submission on the 5th January of
the Constitution lately framed at Lecompton
such a submission as Mr. Buchanan says ho
would have preferred, and Mr. Douglas says
must be had enacted stringent provisions a-
"ainst illegal votin" and fraudulent returns
provided for an organization of Uie Militia,
which wili render it difficult for tho invading
Border Ruffians of Missouri hereafter to pre-
tend to be Militia of Kansas and resolved in
favor of the Topeka as against the Lecompton
Constitution.
The vote at the election on the 21st was
meagre, and tho Lecompton Constitution with
Slavery was adopted by a large majority. ... . '
A LADY FREE MASON.
The Hon. Elizabeth St. Legcr was the only
female ever initiated into the ancient mystery
of Frcemasonrv. How she obtained this honor
we shall lay before our readers. Lord Doner-
aile, Miss St. Leger's father, was a very zeal
ous Mason, held a warrant, and occasionally
opened a Lodge at the Doucraile House, his
sons and some intimate friends assisting ; and
it is said that never were the Masonic duties
more rigidly performed than by them. Pre
vious to the initiation of a gentleman to the
first steps of Masonry, Miss St. Leger, who
was a young girl, happened to be in an apart
ment adjoining the room generally used as a
lodge-room. This room, at the time, was un
dergoing some alterations among other
things the wall was considerably reduced in
one part. The young lady baring heard the
Toices.of the Free Masons, and prompted by
the curiosity natural to all to see this mystery
so long and so secretly locked up f rom public
view, had the courage to pick a brick from the
wall with her scissors and witnessed the cere-
uony through the first two steps. Curiosity
satisfied, .'car at once took possession of her
mind. There was no mode of escape, except
through the very room where the concluding
the room a very large one, she had rcsolutton
sufficient to attempt to escape that way ; and
wt a hg"t and trembling sicp glided along
unobserved, laid her hand on the door, and
gently opening it, uelore tier stooa a grim
looking Tyler, with a drawn sword.
A shriek that pierced through every apart
ment, alarmed the members of the Lodge who
all rushed to the door, and finding that Miss
St. Leger had been in the room during the
ceremony, in the paroxism of their rage, re-
solved on her death ; but from the moving
supplication of her younger brother, tier ine
was saved on condition of her go'ng through
tho whole of the solemn ceremony she had un-
lawfully witnessed. This she consented to,
and they conducted the beautiful and terrified
young lady through those trials, which are
sometimes more than enough for masculine
resolution 5 little thinking that they were tak-
ing into the bosom or their craft a member that
would afterwards reflect lustre on the annals
of Masonry. The lady was cousin to Gen. An
thony St. Leger, Governor of bt. L.ucw, wno
instituted the interesting race and the cele-
brated Doncastcr St. Leger stakes. When
ever a benefit was given at the theatres in
Dublin or Cork for the Masonic Female Or
phan Asylum, she walked at the head of the
Free Masons withher apron and her insignia
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of Free Masonry, ana sai in me iroui row vt
the stage box. The bouse was always crowded
on these occasions. Her portrait is in the
lodge-room of every lodge in Ireland.
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
Calves asd Yorxa Cattle. Calves must
have good keeping through the first winter or
they will prove small and inferior cattle. The
best of hay should be fed to them and in the
fore part of the winter, they should have fine
ro.ven. In the latter part they will be older
and more able to manage common merchanta
ble hay. They require less warmth than cows
and old cattle, and they are frequently kept in
open sheds. But they need something in our
long winters in addition to good hay. They
are more often costive than older cattle, and
they need something to counteract this ten
dency. A littlo meal given daily will do
them no barm oats and Indian are the best
But roots of all kinds are good. Apples are
good for them, but apples should be crushed
It is not a good idea to tie the calves by the
head in stalls. Three or four of them m3y bo
Kept in a pen loose without risk, as they can
not use their horns w ith much effect. When
kept in pens they require a great deal of care
to keep them clean and dry. It is surprising
to see what a quantity of good manure may
be made in a winter from a few calves. In
many places leaves may be gathered rapidly
at this season by the roadside, and we see no
better way to dispose of them than to put them
in tho calf pen. If you have no calves put
the leaves into tho hog pen for nests.
Yearling cattle are wintered at less expense,
aud our farmers here prefer to buy such in
preference to calves. But calves must be
wintered somewhere, and farmers in the fur
interior are unwilling to sell very low after tho
first winter. Young cattle nioro than a year
old will live on straw and poor hay, but they
look better in the spring when they have had
roots and hay. Water in abundance should
always be supplied, and the water should bo
brought to the cow yard. Mass. Plotcman.
"Why was Gen. William Walker sent to New
York, to be transported at public expense to
New Orleans, instead of being forwarded di
rect to the place of his final destination ? Was
it to allow him the opportunity of consulting
with bis friends in thm region and at Washing
ton before going through the comedy of a tri-
I al for the violation of the neutrality laws, in
which he is to take a part at New Orleans'?
And how long is it likely he will bo allowed to
remain in Washington in charge of a United
States Marshal, all at the cost of the Federal
Treasury ? There are some curious things in
this world, .which are net bo well understood
j by outsiders as by those who axe within .toe
J curtain. A". Yt Tribune,
STRAY SKETCHES. NO. I.
Editor of Raftsman's Jocrsal : I have
the honor, not misfortune, as some are dis
posed to think, of belonging to that much
abused class, yclept "old maids." I am free
to confess that I am a fair specimen tall,
"lean and lank" as a Cassius, thin lips, grey
eyes, sharp nose, ditto temper, and all those
other peculiarities which are said to belong to
the "tribe." I am candid, so that you may
know what sort of customer you have to deal
with on this occasion.
There I have introduced myself to you.
I have, perhaps, done it bluntly, but I trust
you will not consider me rude for prudery,
you have doubtless already observed, is not in
the question. That is an element altogether
foreign to my nature. I wish it were so with
the great mass o f the sex to which I belong.
It is really disgusting to witness the pranks of
some of the weaker "human vessels" in this
respect. I have seen them flare up and Uneat
en a gentleman with their eternal displeasure,
tor having, unconsciously in all probability,
said or done something which, in company,
they feigned had shocked their extremely sen
sitive nerves and supcr-exaucu uieas 01 re
finement and propriety. Acd yet these same
lassies will indulge in all the frivolous contri
vances of fashion, no matter how unbecoming
and indelicate they may be. Whenever I see
such occurrences, I am forced to believe in
the truth of the adage that it is "evil to her
who evil thinks."
I have 110 doubt, that by such plain talk as
this I will stir up the wrath and indignation of
some whom "the shoe fits" perhaps, get fit
from them, and provoke a smile to the face of
male bipeds, many of w horn seem to be vieing
with each other in their efiorts to imitate the
monkey, or some other representative of the
ape tribe. Whenever I see one of these hairy-
faced creatures, I involuutarily think of what
a young lady acquaintance compared one of
these whiskered, perfumed and fashionable
specimens of humanity, to. She said he was
"the very personification of a big rat." Just
think of a frill of grizzly hair encircling the
chin, a lappel of the same material flapping
over the mouth, head thrown back like that of
a dying calf, eyes straining to get a glimpse of
the earth, trying to look as wise as an owl,
and then tell me if the comparison is a bad one.
But, Mr. Editor, I must close. I may here
after trouble you with some more of the gos
sip of Ac Old Maid.
Cat Retreat, January 1, 1858.
The Right Talk. A plain spoken writer j
gives the following advice to those young men
who "depend on father" for their support, j
and take no interest whatever in business, but J
are regular drones in the hivo, subsisting on
that which is earned by others :
"Come, ofTwith your coats, clinch the saw,
the plow handles, the axe, the pick-axe, spade
anytLing that will enable you to stir your
blood! Fly around and tear your jacket, rath
er than be passive recipients of the old man's
bounty! Sooner than play the dandy at dad's
expensp, hire yourself out to some potatoe
patch let yourself to stop hog holes, or watch
the bars ; and when yon think yourself enti
tled to a resting spell, do it on your own hook.
Get up in the morning turn round at least
twice before breakfast help the old gentle
man give him now and then a generous lift
in business learn how to take the lead, and
not depend forever on being led; and you
have no idea how the discipline will benefit
you. Do this, and our word for it, you will
seem to breathe a new atmosphere, possess a
new frame, tread a new earth, wake to a new
destiny and you may then begin to aspire to
manhood. Take off, then, that ring from your
little finger, brake your cane, shave your up
per lip, wipe your nose, hold up your head,
and by all means never again eat tho bread ol
idleness, nor depend on father."
' A Ricn Letter. The following letter was
sent by a father to his son at college :
'My dear son : I write to send you two pair
of my old breeches, that you may have a new
coat made out of them. Also some new socks
that your mother has just knit by cutting
down some of mine. Your mother sends ycu
ten dollars without my knowledge, and Tr
fear you may not use it wisely, I have kept
back half and only sent you five. Your moth
er and I are well except that your sister has
got tho measles, which we think would spread
among the other girls, if Tom had not them
before, aud he is tho only ono left. I hope
you will do honor to my teachings, if not,
then you are an ass, and your mother and my
self your affectionate parents."
Here is a fact exceedingly Frenchy. The
great dry goods store under the Hotel du Lou
vre, in Paris, announces, in the editorial col
umn of a journal, that an order has been issued
in that store that hereafter the clerks who
show ladies up stairs will invariably precede
instead of follow them. The reason of this
singular announcement is because many ladies
probably American cr English complain
thaC the clerks follow a few steps behind in or
der to enjoy certain advantages afforded by
their hoops!
It is calculated that tho clergy cost the U-
pited States $12,000,000 annually ; the enmi-
nals,. 40,000,000 ; the lawyers, $70,000,000
and liquors, $200,000,000. '. '
COURTING IN CALIFORNIA.
A writer in the Golden Era, gives the fol
lowing as his experience :' "In the summer
of 185-, I crossed the plains in company with
Capt. B. and family, and fell deeply in lovo
with his daughter. We arrived in the mines,'
and separated. I intended to make a pile
soon, and claim her hand: I worked six
months, and found my worldly effects to a
mount to one very poor mule and the clothes
on my back, viz: a gray shirt, the buckskin
pants I crossed the plains in, and a pair of
old shoes and a wool hat My pants termin
ated about half way front the knees to tho
shoes no socks. I concluded I would wait
no longer must see my girl, and know if
she still waited patiently. Mounted the mula
and tode thirty miles got there after supper
had no dinner too bashful to call for sup
per. At the proper time I went to bed, and
put my pants in a crack between the logs to
keep out the wind. There being bnt ono
room in the house, I thought to rise before the
family; but oh, hoiror! my pants had been
pulled out by tho calves, which ran around
the house. I laid low women got up and
got breakfast, aud left the room, evidently for
me to rise ; but did I not feel like if. Cup-
tain called out Jt urguson, (l nsca iuai ur
short,) get up ; breakfast is rcaay. i ioiu
him I did not feel well had a heavy chill da
ring the night, and would prefer lying abed.
Breakfast over, they all left the house to milk.
"Xow" said I, "Fergy, here is your show for
breakfast." Got up, but found every thing
ate up, aud retire again, i ne
soon came in with a large bucket 6f milk, set
it down, and left. I jumped up and eagerly
thrust my head into the milk, when X heard a
noise at the door. I started for the bed, and,
run my head under the bale ot the bucket
extricated myself as eoon as possible, and
broke for the bed. I could not see who It
was, as they were in the rear ; bnt I heard the
girls giggle distinctly. The old man soon
came in with the buckskins chawed off to the
knees. I took them, put them on, found my
mule as soon as possible, and left. I havo
nver been courting sine, and, notdoubt, will
die an eld bachelor. I saw old Captain af
terwards. He asked me very kindly to give
them a call, and said grinningly, "we have s
corral now, away from the house, that will
keep the Cilves." '
CnixKSE Rklicios. A rnissionary,.long res
ident in China, says : The priests of both
these sects (Budhists" and Tairisti) shave their
heads, wear a peculiar garb, and are forbidden
to marry. Both sects have monks who shut
themselves up in cells to exclude worldly ob
jects ; and nuns who take tows' of chastity,
and shut themselves up like the monks. In
their worship, they hare the same mummeries
and manoeuvres, bowing and genuflexions,
marching and countermarching.
It is stated that the last survivor of the Wy
oming massacre is Jeremiah Spencer, now of
Torringford, Conn., eighty-eight years old,
and in full possession of all his faculties, men
tal and physical. The massacre took place
eighty years ago, hut Mr. Spencer remembers
his passage down the ladder from the chamber
where he slept, in his" mother's arms, and their
flight into the wilderness.
Fawss. Col. Geo. Jvelson Smith, editor of
the Mountain Echo, at Johnstown, a bhort timo
since presented to the State two beautiful
Fawns, a Buck and Doc, raised by a gentle
man in Cambria county. They have been
placed in the enclosed grounds at the Capitol
at Ilarrisburg, where they are to remain, live
ly evidences of tho good taste and libeiality
of tho donor.
Thlre is a family of twelve brothers and
sisters, all of whom arc married and live with
in a few miles of each other, in Franklin co.,
Mass., who, with their mother and their own
children make a family of sixty persons.
They all met around a common board last
Thanksgiving day, according to their nsaal
custom.
"What does the minister say of our burying
ground V asked Mrs. Hines of her neighbor.
"He don't like if at all ; he says 'he never will
be buried there as long as he lives.' " "Well"
says Mrs. Hincs, "if the Lord spares my life
I will." '
O the Monongahela river, above Browns
ville, a man named Clark rescued another
named Brown, from drowning, and then swim
ming after an oar that had been dropped, wai
drowned himself.
A Quaker once hearing a person tell how
much he felt for another who was sufiering.anl
needed pecuniary assistance, dryly asked him,
"Friend, hast thou felt in thy pocket for him I
Fife and Charlotte Jones," two "of the Wil
son murdcreis, arc to be executed on the 12th
of February, and Stewart of the same fiang,
on the 20th of Februarv.
A silver mine has been discovered in Ala
bama, which had been walled np with solid
masonry, and is supposed to have been work
ed hundreds of years ajro.
The richest man in England is the Marquis
of Westminster. His property is esUmated to
; j be worth $150,O0O400f). ,Hi9 annual iBConea is
$3,500,000. V ' ' , - ;