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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,