. , . : I BY S B. ROW. CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1858. YOL.4.-NO. 48. ONWARD. . Cease this dreaming ! Cease this trembling ! Still unwearied struggle on ! Though thy strength should almost fail thee. Onward is the word alone. Dare not tarry, though the Present Scatters roses' in thy way ! . Though to thee, from out the ocean, . Syrens sing their luring lay ! 'Onward! Onward! without turning," 'CJainst the world's sharp griefs contend, "Till upon thy checks hot burning, ' Golden rays from Heaven descend. ' Till thy brow the thick-leaved garland ' Like a halo shall surround ; Till the Spirits' flame, all brightly, lloverirg o'er thee shall be found. ' Onward, then, though all opposing! Onwaid still, through Death's dark pain! He must wrestle on unyielding Vi'no the bliss of Heaven would gain. From the National Magazine. JEFFERSON AND JUS TIFIES. - Thomas Jefferson was born April 2, 1743, in Albemarle County, Virginia. His ancestors were of solid respectability, and among the first settlers of that state. They emigrated from Wales, from near the base of Mount Snowden, the highest in Great Britain. The chief glory of this family was their sturdy contempt of hereditary honor and distinctions; und that. too. while in possession of wealth enough to identify them with the highest aris tocracy. This contempt of those pretensions which are gained without merit, and forfeited without crime, was largely inherited by the atilject of our sketch. At the age of five j-ears he was placed in an English school, where he remained four years. Thence he was transferred to a Latin school, taught by a Scotch clergyman. In this school lie continued five years, and acquired consid erable knowledge of Latin, Greek, andFrench. At the age of fourteen he followed his revered father to the grave. Thenceforward he was Lis own master. But though an heir to im mense wealth, and surrounded by the idle and vicious scions of aristocracy, who endeavored to win him to a sportsman's and voluptuous life, he resolved to finish his education and be a man. Hence he studied two years longer under the tuition of another clergyman ; and then at the age of seventeen entered William and Mry College, from which two years later, he was graduated with the highest honors of the institution. While in college he was more distinguished for solidity than sprightlincss of intellect. The science of mathematics was l.is lavorite study; but in none was he defi cient." Latin, Greek, and French lie read with r,cy. lie also acquired a competent knowl edge tf Spanish aud Italian, and ol the Anglo Saxon. In architecture, sculpture, and paint jug, he made himself such an adept as to be accounted one of the best critics ot the age. . Immediately after leaving college he com menced the study of Law, under the direction of George Wythe, one of the most distinguish ed jurists of his lime ; a signer of the Decla ration of Independence, a prominent member t the convention which drafted our Federal Constitution, sole chancellor of Virginia for twenty years ; a man of warm patriotism, de Vited to the natural, eual rights of men, of pure morality and inflexible integrity. Ulider the guidance of this Mentor, he explored the wh.de circuit of the civil and common law, examining every topic and fathoming every principle. In this office lie acquired that tin rivaled facility, neat ues.4, and order in busi ness, which enabled him to perform the labor f a hundred-handed Briareus. .The influence t Mr. Wythe upon his pupil was of the pu rest stamp, and tended to form bis eminent character. When Jefferson was about twenty-two years f age, an incident occurred which evoked the master passion of his soul. In the Vir ginia Assembly he heard the famous speech ol Patrick Henry against the Stamp Act. The tpirit of liberty, though writhing under the torture cf British tyranny, was, like the blind ed and fettered Samson, summing courage to lay bold of the pillars of despotism ; and it ecenied.lor the moment, to hare an unlimited control of the mind and passions of Henry. He poured out his grand and overwhelming eloquence in one incessant storm. In the midst of that electrifying speech he cxclaim d : "Cesar had bis Brutus, Charles the First Ids Cromwell, and George the Third "Trea son J" cried the speaker, "Treason J Treason !" echoed through the house. But Ilcnrv, falter ing not, and rising to a lo'itier attitude, fixed upon the speaker an eye of determined fire, Turn unislicd the sentence with the firmest em phasis "may profit by their example ! It that Ijc treason make the most of it." The gran deur of that scene, and the triumphant eclat ( Henry, swept the patriotic chords of young JcrTersou's heart as with a master' hand. From that moment he became a man of one purpose, and longed for the time when he might enroll himself among the champions of d oppressed people. --.When twenty-four years of ago he was in ducted to the practice of law at the bar of the General Court. But his professional career was brief, and unfavored with any occasion ad equate to disclose the immensity of his tech Jfipal preparation. There are, however, still extant, in his own fair And neat hand, a num ber of arguments which were delivered by him upon some of the most intricate questions of law; and those arguments are sufficient to se- jti ft Kim liirrh hnnnrt in Iht leml ' iirnfes. eion. But the outbreak of the Revolution, which was followed by a general occlusion of the courts, trod close upon his introduction to the bar; and while it closed one important aveune to distinction, it ushered him upon a broader and more diversified theater of action. In 1769 Mr. Jefferson, then twenty-six years -of age, took bis seat in the Legislature of his native state. ; And though one of the young- . est members, he soon arose, with the moral Intrepidity of a martyr, and proposed to that tody of inexorable slaveholders a bill for per- mining the emancipation of slaves. This was His legislative debut, his first measure of re orm, a measure most congenial to his heart It was the out-btirstlng of that democratic ele ment for which the Jefferson familv was noted Jt was the germ of that immortal manifesto of lis country which proclaimed on the Fourth f July, '76, that "all mer. are created eqnal, and endowed by their Creator with certain In alienable rights." That act snrtne not from the enthusiasm of a momentary impulse: it was deliberate. : It was pnt forth by the largest lavs holder in trjat assembly; one who had counted the cost, and who preferred poverty jrlth a high aense of honor, to affluence with oppression. It was an act which might brand him as a fanatic, and that is a dangerous brand below Mason's & Dixon's line. . But bis abhor rence of the peculiar institution was intense ; and his conviction of its inhumanity so deep, that he cheerfully chose to sacrifice himself, if, by so doing, he might emancipate the mal treated slave. ! . , He availed himself of every opportunity for bearing testimony against the cruelties of human bondage. Iu a letter to a distinguish ed Frenchman, he wrote the following memor able words : "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when we have removed their only firm basis a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God 7 that they are not to be violated except with his wrath T Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever, that considering numbers and natural means only, a revolution in the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events; it may become proba ble by supernatural interference ! The Al mighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest." In the original draft of the Declaration of Independence, as it came from Jcflerson's pen, the following nervous passage occurs among the charges there mad ; against the king : "He has urged cruel war against human na ture itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people, who never offended film, capturing and carrying them into slavery in another hemis phere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the war fare of the Christian King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his veto by suppressing every legislative at tempt to prohibit this execrable commerce." In 1778 Mr. Jefferson prepared a bill for the abolition of the foreign slave-trade, and by un tiring assiduity worked it thiough a slave holding Legislature. ' He made another effort to abolish slavery in 1785. The Ke vised Statues came before the Legislature for final action ; and he urged an amendment, proposing the emancipation ol all slaves born after the passage of that act. But this wise amendment was lost, greatly to the mortification of its author. At the time of the final vote he was absent as Minister to France, whence he wrote on the subject as follows : . "What an incomprehensible machine Is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, ana death itself, in vindication of bis own liberty, and the next moment in flict on his fellow-men a-,londage one hour of which is fraught with more misery thun ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose ! But wc must wait with patience the workings ot an over-ruling Providence. When the measure of their tears shall be full, when their groans shall have involved Heaven itself in darkness, doubtless a God of justice will a waken to their distress ; and by diffusing light and liberality among their oppressors, or at length by his exterminating thunder, manifest his attention to the things of this world, and show tlKat they are not lelt to a blind fatality." In his "Notes on Virginia," he speaks em phatically of the unhappy inflircircejf slavery. lie stys : "The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boist erous passions, the most' unremitting despot ism, on the one part, and degrading submission on the oilier. Our children see this and learn to imitate. The parentstorms, the child looks on, etches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs infhe smaller circles of slaves, gives a vent to the worst passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyran ny, cannot but be stamped by it with its odious peculiarities." In Mr. Jefferson, as chairman of a com mittee for devising some plan for the govern ment of the terntones of theLnited States, reported bill in which the following proviso was introduced : "Provided, that alter the year 18(W of the Christian era, there shall be neither slavery nor involuntaiy servitude in any of the states.otherwise than in pnnishniert of crimes whereof the party shall have been dnly convicted of being personally guilty..'? This proviso was then lost ; but, to the great joy ot its author, it was brought forward by .Nathan Dane, of Massachusetts, in I S, and applied to the territories north of the Ohio, by the unanimous vote of the states then repre sented in Congress. We pass "on to the Revolution. England commenced hostilities. , Patriot blood was shed at Lexington. Preparations for war were made on a large scale by Parlia ment. Nothing remained for the American Congress', bnt to oppose bayonet to bayonet, and cannon to cannon. ' They proceeded to this task. Jefferson bore bis full share of the anxieties, toils, and responsibilities of the patriots. On bis motion: Congress resolved, May 28, 177G, "that an animated address be published to impress the people with the ne cessity of now stepping forward to save their country, their freedom, and property.". Jef ferson wrote that address. And it was an an imated one, conceived in his happiest manner, with a power of expression and argument which reached the popular heart. In June following he wrote the Declaration of Independence, a paper of unrivaled merit, and of immense importance in the Revolution. It is above all eulogy. This document is not as it came from the pen of its author. Con gress critically revised it,' omitting many powerful paragraphs, and changing the lan guage in several instances. In our opinion the original was much better than the revised copy. The revised copy is, however, essen tially Jefferson's. This Declaration was received by the peo ple with unbounded joy. It was read to the continentals then near New-York, and was re ceived by those chivalrous sons of liberty with delirious exultation. They filled the air with shouts, and shooK the earth with the thunders of their artillery. The progress of the Decla ration through the land was like the triumphal march ot a mighty deliverer. In the autumn of 1770 he took his seat in the Legislature, and at once commenced his work of reform, liis nrst measure was me establishment of courts of justice. Three grades of courts were created, County, Supe rior, Supreme; the duties and limitations of each were defined, and the right ot trial by jury was guarded with extreme circumspection no next brought forward his celebrated Bill for the Abolition of the Law of Entails, a law bv which estates were continued in the same , family through .successive generations, and thus in its workings tending to create a here ditary order of patricians or lords. This at tempted repeal was a bold movement for that age, and especially for that assembly of aris tocrats. And, of course, the bill was resisted with desperation. But Jefferson, sustained by brave spirits and younger members, fought it out with wit and logic, and at length carried the bill through. Encouraged by this suc cess, he next attacked the legal religious es tablishment. This union of Church and State he regarded as one of the most preposterous and deleterious remnants of the repudiated degeneracy. That religious establishment was of the Episcopal order, a legitimate branch of the Church of England. The early settlers being of that communion, and bringing with them the spirit of exclusiveness and persecu tion which prevailed in England, passed laws equal in intolerance and bigotiy to those of their Presbyterian brethern of the North. The colony was divided into parishes, and clergymen were settled upon salaries raised by general assessment upon all the inhabitants, whether Churchmen or not. All were requir ed to have their children baptized. None but the orthodox could have any civil rights Heretics were prohibited all residence in the colony, and heresy was a capital offense, pun ishable by burning alive I And yet, fearless of these barbarous laws, Presbyterian, Meth odist, and Baptist divines invaded tRe state; and while the parochial clergv were at their ease, or attending to their glebes and classical schools, these zealous invaders were gather ing the lost sheep and organizing powerful Churches. At the time of the Revolution the dissenters were more numerous than the ad herents of the Established Church. They ac cepted Jefferson as a leader, and made a vigor ous attack upon the establishment; after three years of conflict, victory crowned their ef forts, and all the Churches of Virginia were placed on an equal looting, and thrown en tirely upon their adherents lor support. This was a grand achievement for both Church and State. " Mr. Jefferson's next effort "was directed against slavery, but, as already stated, it pro ved unsuccessful; and finally he proposed an entire revision of statutes. This was agreed upon, and a comroiitec appointed for the work, of which he was a member, and performed the greatest share of the labor, toiling at it almost incessantly for three years. When the revised statutes were brought before the House, they contained an act for the equal distribution of property among heirs, the ab rogation of the right of primogeniture, the assertion of the right of expatriation, the establishment of religious freedom on the broadest basis, and the abolition of capital punishment in all cases, except for treason and murder: The importance of this last in novation will appear greater, when we remem ber the fact that in the English laws In force iu the colonies before the Revolution, there were more than one hundred offenses punish able by hanging. ' Mr. Jefferson labored hard to ingraft upon the new order of things a system of general education, reaching all classes in its ample provisions, but this shared the fate of his auti-slavery bill. lnln) Jefferson, then thirty-six years of e, was elected Governor of Virginia, which olliee he filled, with honor to his country and credit , to himself, for two years. Eventful years they were, requiring a man of strong nerve at the head of affairs. In that period Virginia was thrice invaded by British armies; and the governor had to use all his skill and authority to raise a military force sufficient to check the ravages of the enemy. He did what he could with an empty . treasury, with an undisciplined, ball-amieil militia, made up of such men as slave states pioduce. The best military service which he performed for his country, was the check which he imposed upon the . savageness of the enemy in their treatmeut of prisoners of war. The British regarded the colonists as rebels, and when they loaded them with irons, confied them in dungeons or prison-ships, where they misera bly perished with levers and famine. In vain had Washington and others protested against this inhumanity, and sought to procure for their unfortunate countrymen better treatment. Jefferson tried his hand at procuring redress with better results. Ho toik three notable prisoners who had distinguished themselves by their savage and lerocious treatment ot Americans, and loaded them with irons, con fined them in dungeons, and refused them all intercourse with their friends. He then pub lished to the world hia severe order with the reasons for it. Ibis vigorous measure was warmly seconded by Washington, and proved successful in bringing the Brirish under the common laws of war iu relation to the treat ment of prisoners. While Jefferson was Governor he extended the actnal possessions of Virginia to the Mis sissippi, surveying the country and building forts. By this measure the American title to the State of Kentucky, and all the .Northwest Territory was secured against British domin ation and claim in the fiual treaty of peace. He afterward procured the cession of this vast territory to the Federal Congress, that it might form the basis of a national credit, .a thing very much needed at that time. When the British attacked Richmond .Jeffer son remained at his post, exposing himself to imminent peril in his efforts to remove and pre serve the papers of the state. Seveial efforts were made to seize his person, but he contin ued day after, day without a guard, and with only a narrow river between him and the ene my. They plundered his house, burned his barns with all their contents, burned his fences, shot his young stock, drove off the best of the cattle and horses, and carried off thirty of his slaves. His losses were very heavy. But re sistance and defense were impossible until Washington entered the state with his Nor thern army, and shut up the enemy in York town. Before this last military achievement, Jeffer son had retired from the gubernatorial chair. He judged that a military chieftain would be better adapted to govern in those troublous times than a civilian, hence he declined a re election. And having received severe injuries from a fall from his horse, he went into retire ment for several months. While thus confined he wrote his "Notes on Virginia," a literary work of considerable merit. . - He was soon called from his obscurity by Congress, to assist in negotiating peace with England. He accepted the call and hastened to embark, but the vessel being detained seve ral weeks by ice, and he in the mean time, re ceiving information that a provisional treaty was already signed, returned his com mission to Congress. He was immediately re-elected to Congress, and at once cng ged in his favorite work of maturing, perfecting, and perpetuating the lib erties secured by the sword. His first work was the preparation of that celebrated address which Congress presented to Washington when be resigned his commission as commander-in-chief. Next he originated our money system, our decimal currency. As chairman of a com mittee on the national debt, he wrote an elab orate report on the finances of the confeder acy and the states. He was the author of that wise and salutary plan for the government of the Western territories, which continued in force until the passage of the odious Kan sas bill, with its illusive popular sovereignty. Under Jefferson's plan the territories were peacefully settled, aud in due time admitted into the Federal Union as sovereign states. Under the plan of our modern politicians we are threatened with civil war. Conclusion next week. Dioqexes. In his old age, Diogenes was ta ken captive by pirates, who carried him to Crete, and exposed him for sale as a slave. On being asked what he could do be replied "Govern men ; sell me, therefore, to one who wants a master." Xeniades, a wealthy Corin thian, struck with his reply, purchased htm, and, on returning to Corinth, gave him his liberty and consigned his children to his edu cation. . ... . The children were taught to be cynics, much to their own satisfaction. It was during this period that the world re nowned interview with Alexander took place. The prince, surprised at not seeing Diogenes joining the crowd of his flatterers, went to see him. He found the cynic sitting in his tub, basking in the sun. - "I am Alexander the Great," said he. "I am Diogenes, the Cy nic," was the reply. Alexander then asked him if there was anything he could do for him. "Yes, stand aside from between me and the sun." Surprised at such indifference to prince ly favor an indifference so strikingly contras ted 3Sith everything he could hitherto have witnessed he exclaimed, "Were I not Alex ander, I would be Diogenes !" One day, be ing brought beforo the King, and being asked who he was, Diogenes replied, "A spy on your cupidity ;" language the . boldness of which must have gained him universal admiration, because implying great singularity as well as force of character. Singularity and Insolence may be regarded as his grand characteristics. Both of these are exemplified In the anecdote of his lighting a lamp in the day-time, and peering about the streets, as if earnestly seeking something ; be ing asked what be sought, he replied, "A man." The point of this story is lost in the usual version, which makes him seek "an hon est man." The words In Leartius are simply, "I seek a man." .Diogenes did not seek hon esty, he wanted to find a man, in whom hones ty would be included with many other quali ties. It was his constant reproach to his co temporaries, that they had no manhood. He said he had never seen men ; at Sparta lie had seen children ; at Athens, women. One day he called out, "approach, all men." When some approached, he beat them back with bis club, crying, "I called for men ; ye arc excre ments." Thus he lived till his ninetieth year, bitter, brutal, ostentatious, and abstemious ; disgra cidg the title of "The Dog," (for a dog has af fections, gratitude, sympathy, and : caressing manners,) yet growling over his unenvied vir tue as a cur growls over his meatless bone, for ever snarling and snapping without occasion; an object ot universal attention, aud, from many quarters, of unfeigned admiration. One day his friends went to see him. On arriqing at the portico under which he was wont to sleep, they found him still lying on the ground wrapped in his cloak. He seemed to sleep. They pushed aside the folds of his cloak ; he was dead. Geo. II. Lewes. . . . . . A Nortuern Pacific Railroad. The Pa cific Railroad project, notwithstanding the a mount of discussion it underwent, had become a matter of comparative indifference not only in consequence of the lack of a feasible plan, but principally from the want of a motive suf ficiently immediate and pressing for its con struction. But at present a new element has come into action, in connection therewith, which bids fair to awaken a new interest in the subject. We allude to the gold discoveries at Frazer's river and vicinity. Emigration to the new auriferous region, says the Brooklyn Times, is even now going on at a rapid rate. At St. Paul, meetings have been held to or ganize an overland route, and doubtless before long numerous companies will cross the Con tinent to the "Golden shores of the Pacific," by the head-waters of the Missouri and through the northern passes ef the vast Rocky Moun tain chain. San Francisco may be found to bo not the only eligible place forthe terminus of a Pacific Railroad. The mouth of the Co luiubla affords a capital harbor, and there are many such in Oregon and the vicinity of Van couver's Island. The Missonri Is navigable to the Great Falls, seven hundred miles above the mouth of the Yellow Stone, which can easily be reached by steamboats in thirty days from St. Louis. From the Falls to the head of navigable water on the Columbia is but a bout two hundred miles. To open a military road across that short di'tance would require but a small expense and it will be easy for the reader to perceive the facilities it would afford to travelers along the route. Along tbecourse of the emigrants, settlements will spring up, which will naturally tend to the construction of a Northern road. Certainly the building of such a road will not be delayed one day longer than the interests of commerce, and the demands of Anglo Saxon enterprise call for. We shall see. The State's Attorney ot a northern county in Vermont, although a man of great legal a bility, was very fond of the bottle. On one occasion an important criminal case was called up by the clerk; but the attorney, with owl like gravity, kept his chair, being, in fact, not fairly able to stand on his feet. "Mr. Attor ney, is the State ready to proceed 7" said the Judge. "Yes hie no your honor," stam mered the lawyer ; "the State is not in a state to try this case to-day;, the State, your honor, is drunk!" , A young lady, who wore spectacles, ex claimed, in a voice of sentimental enthusiasm, A n n U n.Aa -Allrin( in the road : "Do you, sir, appreciate the beauty of mat landscape ' -vju, mva tuvoe - lambs .aRiDDinsr aoouv." . sheep and Iwaba tbem'B ho$ , miss." A YANKEE IN A COTTON MILL. A raw, straw-hatted, sandy-whiskered, six footer one of the purely uninitiated, came in yesterday from Greeno, with a load of wood for the Factory Company. Having piled his wood to the satisfaction of the overseer, he baited his team with a bundle of green grass brought all the way from home for that pur pose, and then having invested a portion of bis wood proceeds in root-beer and ginger bread at Ham's he started to see the "city" filling his countenance rapidly with bread, and chewing it rapidly as he went. He reviewed the iron foundry and machine shop, and just opposite the warp-mill as the bands were going in from dinner. The girls were hurrying in as only factory girls can hur ry and Jonathan, unaccustomed to such an array of plaid shawls and hood-bonnets, de posited bis goad-stick on the stairs, and stalk ed in "to see what the trouble was." The clattering machinery aud the movements of the operatives, bewildered him for the moment; but being of an inquiring turn ot mind, and seeing much that was calculated to perplex one whose observation in mechanics had ; been mostly confined to threshing ma chines and corn-shellers, be began to push vigorous inquiries in all directions. Iu this way he made himself acquainted sucsessively with the external and internal economy of the various machines through -which cotton-warp progresses in the course of its manufacture the -picker" "heater," 'lap-winder,' "doub ler," and "speeder," and finally reached the "breakers" and "finishers" just as the card stripper was going through the operation, technically termed "stripping the flats." ' In doing this, the large cylinder of the card is exposed to view, and is seen revolving with a very pretty buzz. Not content with contem plating the "poetry of motion" at a safe dis tance, our hero must needs introduce himself between the cards to get a nearer view. This movement brought his nether habiliments in dangerous proximity to the gearing of the next card, and "thereby hangs a tale." - "You I say ! She goes pooty don't she boss?" said Jonathan inquiringly. "She don't do anything else," responded the stripper ; "but you must be very careful how you move around amongst this hardware. 'Twas only last week, sir, that a promising young man from Minet, a student at the Acad emy here, was drawn into that very card sir, and before any assistance could reach him, he was run through, and manufactured Into No. 1G, super-extra, cotton warp yarn." "I s-s-sw-wow! I believe you're joking!" stuttered Jonathan. . "Fact, sir,1' continued the stripper, "and his disconsolate mother came down two days ago, and got five bunches of that same yarn as a melancholy relic." tJBy the mighty ! that can't be true !" "Fact, sir, fact! and each of his fellow stu dents purchased a tkeru apiece ; to be set in lockets and worn in remembrance of depar ted worth." "Is that the truth now 7 Was he railly keer ded, spun, and sot in lockets V A sense of personal danger here shot across our hero's mind, and he began to retreat pre cipitately, without waiting for an answer. There was not much room to spare betwixt himself and the gearing of tbe card behind him.-: Another step backward completed the ceremony of introduction. His unwLispera bles being of large calibre, the process of snarling them into a bard knot was no ways slow. Jonathan gave tongue instantcr, and by the twentieth gyration of the embodiment the music was melodious. Gen. Scott, him self, could not have protested more forcibly against an attack upon his "rear." "O-h ! M-u-r-d-e-r! ! Let go! you h-u-r-t! Blast your picturs let go ! Ain't ye asham ed t Giteout 'taint pooty! Darnation seize ye, let alone on me, can't ye, dew!" The gearing by this time had wound him up so that he was obliged to stand on tip-toe. His hands were revolving vigorously behind him, though he dared not venture them too near the seat of war. The card-stripper threw off the belt, but the momentum of the cylin der kept it revolving, and the green 'uu sup posing it in full operation burst out anew ; "On stop her! btop her won't ye ! Jtop her, dew 1 I ain't well, and orter be at home Father wants the steers, and mother's going t3 bake. Stop the ternal macbeen can't ye 1 Dew! Ob deer, I'll be keerded and spun, and sot intew lockets! Je-ru-sa-lem ! howl wish I was tew hum !"..- The card was stopped at last ; but Jonathan's clothes were so entangled in tbe gearing that it was no small task to extricate him. . Like Othello "he was not easily moved," and it was only by cutting out the whole of the in vested territory that he was finally released. "What are you about here 7" inquired the overseer, entering. 'Nothing sir, only stripping fiats,' " an swered the stripper. Jonathan not caring to resume his pursuit 0T knowledge under difficulties, a pair of over hauls was charitably loaned him, and he start ed with his steers on a fast walk towards home, giving a series of short kicks with either leg as he went as if to assure himself that he had brought away his full compliment of limbs from the "cussed masheen." Boston Yankee Blade. .: Love's Device. The Hartford Press in par agraphing the recent elopement of a railway brakeman with the wife of a rifle-maker, dis closes the following novel way of carrying on a clandestine correspondence: "The neighbors have noticed that it was a very common thing for s stick of wood to tall from the train upon which this brakeman was employed, as it passed the house where the womau resided. It is said that tte husband hearing that the wife always took particular care to pick up the fuel, though he would ex amine one stick of it himscll; and found that it was the vehicle bearing a note addressed to his wife. The" woman is represented as being only twenty-six and good looking. She leaves four children. Between her husband and her self there have been bickerings fot a year or two. There appears to have been liquor in the wrangle. The husband states that he drank because his wife "acted so," and she avers that she "acted so" because her husband had taken to drinking." ' The Democrats of Schuylkill county have made a bad "split" of it by dividing into two factions, each of which claims to 1 -"the par ty," and denounces the others as disorganiz es. Tbey have called separata county con venous and. delegate elections. ETHAN SPIKE'S EXPEDIENCE AS A JTOOfe. Ethan Spike of Hornby, Maine, thus narrate in a letter to a Portland paper bow his servi ces were refused on a jury, after being sum moned on a murder trial, just because he was "in favor of hanging a nigger anyhow," and his sacred person was afterwards "snaked out" by two constables : "Did you ever git drawed Into a jury 1 1 was drawn out of a box last fall an' sworn t support the constitootion according to Urn statoot. Beyond a general idea that jewrymen was bound to go for the country, right or wrong, which country they is, I knowed eenjist noth ing of the supernoomry dewties partairiing to such funkshonaris. "Wal fust thing I knowed, I was summon-, ed to Portland to try a Jarman and a nigger for killing Mr. Albon Cooper on the high see. I never could see why the tarn High see' Was used in such case. I spose it means fioodtide, and I know that pork killed one time of tba tide haint the same as when killed at another time of the tide likewise beans pulled on a full moon don't bile so well as- when the moon is gibberish (he means gibbous ;) but if a feller mortal critter is slewed, it don't Stan to reason that it makes any difference wheth er be was slewed at high water or low. It murder any way. Thems my ideesof the law on that pint. "Wal, I felt rather proud that my fust sar vice to my country as jewryman was one of life and death ; and when I thought of then cussed pie-rates, I felt as though ef I had ray way I'd hang every J arm in and nigger that I could get hold on. In this here patriotic and Christian frame I went to tbe court bouse. I found a small chance of brother jewrymen, thar, and pretty soon the dark begun to ques tion fust ouc and then another, till at last they kim to me. "Mr. Spike," said the dark, "hare yon any conshienshous scruples agin hanging," said he. . - "Wal," said I, "that depends on sarcun stances. - Ef it war the fust person singular, agreein to nomitive me, mascular gender, em perytive mood that war to be hung I hev But ef it war ye, you, or them, future tense, and indycative mood, not a darn scruple," says I. - "Hev you formed any opinion for or agfa the prisoners said he. Not partikular agin the Jarmin," says I, "but I hate niggers as a general principle and shall go for hanging this ere old white wooled cuss, whether he killed Mr. Cooper or not," says I. "Do you know the nature of an oath 7" the dark eyed me. "I orter," says I "for I've used enough of 'era. I begun to swear when I was only a bout " . . "That'll do," says the dark. "You kin go home," says he, "you won't be wanted in this ere case" says the dark, says he. "Whot," says I, "aint I to try this nigrer at all 7" , , . , , . .. "No," says the claxk. 'But I am a jewryman," says I, - "an you can't hang the nigger unless I've sot on him says I. "Pass on," says the dark, speaking cross. "But," says I, "you mister you don't meat as you say ; I am aregular jewryman, you know. Drawed out of the box by the seieo men," says I. "I've oilers had a hankerin to ll an g a nigger, and now, when a merciful dia pensashon seems to have provided one tor me, you say I shan't sit on him 7 Ar this our free institootions 7 Is this the nineteenth sentry 7 And this our boasted" here somebody hol lered "sileuce in tbe Court." "The Court be d " I didn't finish this re mark, fore a couple of Constables bad bolt of me, and in the twinklin of a bed post I was hustled down stairs into the street. Now, Mr. Editor, let me ask what are wo comin' to, when jewrymen legal, lawful jew rymen ken be tossed about in this way t- Talk; about Kansers, Mormons, Spiritualism, free love and paniks whar ar they in comparison f Here's a great principle tipsot ! Aa an inder vidooal perhaps I'm of no great account taint for me to say, but when as an enlighten ed jewryman I was tuck and carried, down stairs by perfane hands, just for assertin'my right to sit on a nigger wy it seems to me th pillows of society were shook ; that in my sa cred person the whole State itself was, rigger atively speaking, kicked down stairs! If tbara law in the land, "I'll have this case brought up. under a writ of habeas Corpus or ixsy Dicksit. The Gar at Rains or 1858. Tbe amount of rain that fell over a large portion of the Uni ted States in six weeks, running from the 1st of May to the l2th of June, has scarcely a parallel. The Pittsburg Journal has given this subject considerable attention, and says that the average of observations will give about ten inches in May, and five inches to the 12th of June, or fifteen inches in forty-three days. These rains do not appear to Lave been local, but extend east and west at least one thousand miles, and north and south one-half that dis tance. No wonder the newspapers were full of accounts of rains, floods, and disasters. Fully one-third ot tbe average of tbe rains of the ydsfr have been crowded into six weeks. The Mississippi and its tributaries might well appear to threaten a young Noachian dujuge. No such rains have been experienced since the wet season in May, 1855, and then they were not condensed into so small a space of time. It is said that some rain gauges showed four and one-half inches of rain on the 11th and 12th of Juno alone. What the cause of these tremendous rains lias been, wo are not able to say. There is hardly a doubt but that wc will either have an equivalent amount of dry weather, or else some other district of the globe is parched up for want of water. Tha remarkable fact that the annual fall ot rain it so nearly equally balanced, sets at defiance all our notions ot wet and dry seasons, though portions of a year are extremely wet or dry. ' Calhocs I.n-dicsast. The last rumor is that the illustrious John Calhoun, of Kansas, is in dignant at his removal from tbe office of Sur veyor General, and is about to print certain mysterious documents received from distln guised gentlemen in favor cf tbe doctrine of popular sovereignty. - It is stated that be will also show that while he is supposed to have been the prime mover in the desertion of Gov ernor Walker, he has simply been used to pull the chesntuts out ot the fire. Chaxgc or Fokttsk. Charles Stantz,a pau per in the Franklin county, Ohio, poor house, recently received intelligent. that aa uncla had lelt him $100000,
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