Raftsman's journal., August 11, 1858, Image 1

BY S. B. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1858.
VOL. 4.-N0. 0.
CATCH THE SCNSIlISE.
thatch tb sunahino I though it flickers
Through a dark and dismal cloud,
Though it fulls so faint and feeble
On a heart with sorrow bow'd ;
Catch it quickly ! it is paseing,
Parsing rapidly away,
It ha only come to tell you
Toero ia yet a brighter day.
"Catch tho sunshine '. though 'tis only
One palo, flickering beam of light,
'There is joy within its glinim'ring,
: Whispering, 'tis not always night.
Xon"t bo moping, sighing, weeping,
Look up '. look up, like a man !
Thero's no time trf grope in darkness.
Catch the sunshine when you cm.
Catch the sunsliino ! though lifo'a tempest
May unfurl its chilling blast.
Catch the little hopeful straggler !
.Storms will not forever last.
lkn"t give up. and say '-forsaken."
llon'l begin to say "I'm sad !"'
Look ! there comes a gleam of sunshine !
Catch it ! oh ! it seems so glad !
Catch the sunshine ! don't be grieving
O'er that darksome billow there !
Life's a sea of stormy billows.
We must meet them everywhere.
Pass right through thrm ! do not tarry,
OTercome the heaving tide.
Thers's a sparkling gleam of sunshine
Waiting on the other side.
Catch the sunshine! catch it gladly!
Mrsuongcr in Hope's employ,
Kent thro clouds, thro' storms and billows,
liriuging you a cup of joy.
Oh ! then, don't be sighing, weeping,
Life, you know, is but a span.
There's no time to sigh and sorrow,
Catch tho sunshine when you can.
T H E WIL L.
A SKETCH FROM A LAWttR's .NOTE HOOK.
At an early hour of tho morning, in the
commencement of the year 18 , 1 was called
npon ly a young friend to attend the bedside
of a dying man, who was exceedingly anxious
to bequeath his property to an individual out
f the line of legal succession, and therefore
itcsired the security of professional aid ia the
construction of his will.
Although I have always felt extreme repug
nancy to the presence of sickness and eschew
ed Uli more than ordinary sensibility the
tlght of mortal dissolution, yet such were the
jectiliar circumstances urged upon me in this
instance, that 1 could not refuse to accompany
my friend to the scene or death.
I waited upon the feeble and fast sinking
being who had evinced such particular desire
for my personal attendance, and found him
with all the comforts and convenience which
competency could give to a sick chamber, ap
jKirently waiting, in patient resignation the ex
fcution of the grim and eyeless foe. An incli-.
nation of the. head of the patient was all the
recognition of my entrance that his emaciated
nnd decayed energies admitted. The friends
who stood near him, bade me be seated by an
crilcrie that had been placed by the bedside,
with other arrangements for my purpose, and
I hastened to the accomplishment of the ob
ject of my visit, believing, as I had reason,
from the symptoms already evinced, that the
patient had but a short time to live.
Everything w.isarranged lor the performance
of my oflice, and the friends gathered closer
Mround, willi a mingled desire to learn who
would succeed to so handsomo an estate, and
to lend wliat assistance they could to the dis
charge of this solemn right of man.
It was with great difficult', and at puinful
intervals of l.ibor, that the patient was able to
make himself understood.
Asdistinctly however, as his situation would
allow, be made known his bequests in the fol
lowing simple form and orders.
"I give anil bequeath my family mansion in
which wo are now assembled, with its furni
ture, my equipage and my gold wMtch, to my
good and true friend B ," referring to the
young gentleman who had conducted me to
liim, and who stjod at the bedside supporting
hi head at the moment '-to my faithful
nurse," (who stood just then at the foot of the
bed with a tearful eye and expectant look) "I
icirc and bequeath the sum of one thousand
dollars, to be paid to her immediately after
my decoase : to to Margaret " and hero
the patient lalorcd as if a paroxysm of excite
ment and painful feeling would overcome him
"to Margaret" he exclaimed, with an un
natural strength and sharpness of voice, w hile
the last teat that exuded from his glassy eye,
(raced its tortuous course upon his cold and
fctinkcn check "I give and bequeath the rest
nnd residue of all my estate, of whatever kind
and wherever situated, and may God grant
her a long enjoyment of its ChristianyAnd char
itable use."
The greatest effort seemed here to be accom
plished. The patient motioned his desire to
le laid in a more horizontal position, which
was obeyed by those around him, and turning
his face towards me, cast an anxious look upon
the paper which I held, as if eager to hear its
contents.
It was read f o him, and he signifying his ap
proval, extended his head as far as his rem
nant of strength would ermit, to complete its
execution. 1 placed the pen in his fingers,
and guided his clammy hand as it traced his
name npon the pap r.
Nature seemed to have awaited this deed
rc she completed her course. Scarco had
tio witnesses present signed their attention to
ihe instrument when the startling and thrilling
sound of the death rattle rung through the
fttUlncss of the dying chamber.
A long and deep drawn breath heaved from
he breast of the patient and mour:iing friends
4 timing their faces from the deserted taberna
,cle of humanity, told too surely that the work
of death was accomplished.
I gazed a moment in sad and monrnful feel
ing upon the vacant eye and parted lips of the
fresh corpse as it lay stiffening before mc.
Hastening from tins scene of mortal misery,
I repaired to tny residence, to shake oft' the
sadness in which the business of the last few
hours had enveloped me, not without a deter
mination, however, to learn at the earliest in
lerview I could obtain with the friend of the
(testator, some particulars of his history, and
jof her, the remembrance of whom had excit
ed so ranch emotion on tho dying bed.
Alter the funeral rites had been faithfully
.performed, I sought the person who had con
nected rce with the events described, and re
ceived from him the following account of the
deceased, and those connected with him.
A number of years ago, Charles, the de
ceased, was a student of rocdic:ne in that city.
At this curly period of life, being then on the
thrcsho! (t rjahood, be bad evinced srreat
qnalities of mind and heart, and had secured
the con fide oce as well as the esteem of those
who knew him.
During the prosecution oC his studies here,
his society was much sought after, and amidst
the gay and busy maze ot fashionable life and
fashionable associations with which he was sur
rounded, it was not thought strange that he
should select an object for his more particular
attention and confidence. Nor when his mark
ed attentions evinced in whom this confidence
was placed, was the surprise of any one ex
cited, for the object selected was just such an
one as a noble and discriminating mind, and
a good heart might be expected to single out.
On this lady, then just so far his junior in
life as to make their disparity in years har
monise in a parity of thought and feeling,
Charles looked with all the bright and promis
ing prospective that adorns first love.
To his glance her soft and piercing eye gave
the ever ready response of devotion, and every
approach to her presence seemed to stir a soul
within him that was4o him as pure as though
she had irradiated her own around him, and
infused him in its halo.
A short time of such blissful revelry passed,
embalmed in a thousand dreams of the future
and Charles was brought to the green box of
the college to stand the test of his matricula
tion in his profession.
He passed his examination with honor, and
went into the world with the evidence thereof,
tinder the seal of an ancient and respected al
ma mater. Charles had parents residing in
one of the West India Islands, from whom he
had long been separated while in the care ol
a friend and guardian, and engaged in the com
pletion of his education, and now he felt a de
termination to put info execution a long ex
pressed desire to visit Ihem.
In a few weeks he left this port on his des
tination, leaving behind him his plighted faith
to his betrothed to return and claim her at the
expiration of a brief absence.
Charles arrived at the home of his parents,
but found it desolate, and the ruins of a once
beantiful mansion, with surrounding estate at
tached to the domain of a neighboring strang
er. An insurrection had recently taken place
to the island ; his father had fallen a victim
to ti e infuriate madness of his own rebellious
household, and his mother, who with other fe
males of the island, were early placed on
board a vessel at the nearest port, for security,
had with her companions, long since lecii
given up as lost at sea, the vessel never having
leen heard of since her departure from the
island.
Overwhelmed with such an unexpected and
tragical bereavement, and thrown upon the
world without a prospect or security against
the slightest vicissitude that might overtake
him, Charles lost all recollection of his former
hoHsand happiness, and gave tip in dejection,
all the rich anticipations of a happy union
with the idol of his love.
Years passed by, ami while ho remained in
the place of his nativity, sedulously occupied
iii the prosecution of his profession as his
only means of livelihood, the sweet recipient
of his plighted love, still bound in the endu
ring chain of woman's pure and first pledged
affection, bent like the drooping lily liencath
the blast of unanticipated neglect, had in se
clusion from society, and the exercise of
Christian charities and devotion, sought a
balm for her wounded heart.
In a short period a change took place in the
government of the island on which Charles
was resident, and a spirit of returning justice
and humanity directed the attention of the
authorities to the restitution of the es'ates
which had been ruthlessly seized tipo'n by the
nearest surviving inhabitant, after the dread
ful and bloody slaughter of the insurrection.
The evidence of the claim which was made
bv Charles to his patrimony was so plain nnd
clear, that he was among the first to receive
his estate, and by it, to be placed again in a
condition of competency.
A climate to which he was nnacenstomed,
Hie effects of the sudden disasters that had
befallen him, and the assiduity with which he
prosecuted his prolcssion, had however, made
such fatal inroads upon his constitution as to
leave little hope for a long or happy enjoyment
of his new possessions.
By the advice of his own judgment, which
was the only monitor admitted by him into
his confidence, he sold for the first price he
could obtain, all his interests in the island,
and sailed from it with the determination of
seeking a more congenial home and a last a
biding place, in the land of his youthful re
miniscences. He arrrived at Philadelphia but a few moths
previous to the period of his decease, and
sought and received the companionship of
the very few of his early friends who were
seen standing around his bedside in the hour
of his death. First of these he had placed
the narrator of these circumstances to me,
who bad licen the means of my introduction
to the painful scene above described, and who
had liecn his classmate in his professional
studies.
He ventured not however, even to him to
breathe the name of her to whom lie had devo
ted the first fondest affection of his heart, lest
to his inquiry he should invite a response, that
he felt his weak and shattered nature unable
to withstand.
To leguile his time and divert his attention
as far as possible, from the devastation that an
incurable disease was working on his remnant
of mortality, his friend frequently induced him
to take a scat with him in his daily round of
visits to those who claimed his professional
relief. On one of these occasions, just as lhe
friends were leaving the door together, a ser
vant dressed in a plain and modest livery,camc
to the cab, and banded a note for the doctor.
Charles pointed to his friend, to w hom the
note was immediately delivered. On opening
the note, it proved to be an envelope to a fee,
with the request for the immediate attendance
of the doctor upon a poor woman who lay in
a dangerous situation.
No name was signed to the request, bnt tho
neat female chirography was immediately re
cognized by the physician.
It was the successor of several similar fa
vors from an anonymous patron, who had for
some time excited the liveliest curiosity of the
doctor ; but of whom, with all his anxiety, he
could learn nothing farther than that she was
called among the poor the Christian lady, and
that most ot her time Was devoted to visiting
the needy sick, and administering to the ne
cessities of the unfortunate and destitute.
Thn mention of these circumstances elicited
a similar sympathy in the breast of the warm
hearted Charies, and ho urged his friend to
hasten to the direction given in the note, in
the hope that they might get a glimpse a least,
of the being, who could in such retiring and
unostentatious sincerity, exercise lhe truo and
holy devotion ol Christian charity.
They t,oon arrived at the place designated,
and found themselves in the midst of the most
wretched ioverty and destitution. They en
tered the house, the tottering and frail condi
tion of which seemed scarcely to possess sta
bility enough to render a momentary delay
beneath its ragged cloister secure, and asked
of one of the inmates who confronted them at
the entrance, to point the way to tho sick wo
man's chamber.
The poor woman who seemed to recognize
the physician, pointed up a narrow staircase
before them, and shook her head as she mut
tered to them that it was nearly over, and
that it was now too late to do the old lady any
good.
They immediately hastened to the patient,
but the great object of their curiosity was not
there. The good lady, they were told In an
swer to their inquiries, had just left, to avoid
being seen by any strangers that might be com
ing in. In one corner of the miserable room,
upon a mockery of a bed, which with a plain
pine table and a single chair, constituted the
whole furniture of the apartment, lay stretch
ed the insensible and dying patient.
diaries seemed to take particular interest
in the case, and his friend permitted him to
have the entire direction of their proceedings.
As they had been admonished at the door they
found the poor womau past all hope. Charles
turned to the apparently half starved being,
who seemed to be present in the capacity of
nurse, and asked her if she knew anything of
the character of the patient.
She replied that she knew but little, and had
been with her but a few days, at tho request
and under the pay of the good lady, who had
been so kind and benevolent to all' the poor.
All that she knew of this goed lady was that
she lived in street, which information was
eagerly received by Charles, and noted down
in his memoranda. The old lady, continued
the nurse, had evidently seen better days, and
while she seemed to bow with Christian resign
nation to tiie afflictions that were upon her,
she yet, at every interval of strength, prayed
to be spared, if possible to hear of her son
her dear son whose name was ever on her lips,
after which, she often said, she thought she
could die happy.
"Poor woman !" exclaimed Charles.shc then
has a son, who perhaps possesses the means of
affording every comfort and consolation to her
in her dying hour, and he knows not how
wretchedly destitute she is. But pray," con
tinued he, in his interrogation ol the nurse,
"bv what name,' as you have said, did she cull
npon he son V
"Charles," replied the woman, "Charles was
the name that never left her lips, while she
hud strength to utter it."
'Charles,'' slowly murmured he let me
look npon her face, and in an instant he has
tened to the bed, and raised the light covering
that had hid her emaciated features from him
his eyes seemed to start from their sockets,
iu the wildness of their glare, as in the last
convulsion of death he recognized her.
"Mother! mother!" he exclaimed, and fell
lifeless by her side, with his arms locked a
round the decrepid form.
The dying woman raised her eyelids, and
looked upon the stranger who had thus arous
ed her. A smile passed over her pallid fea
tures, her lips quivered as if she would say,
Charles," and in an instant she had breath
ed her last.
A moment passed, while all aronnd stood
speechless and motionless at this affecting
scene. After every means of resuscitation had
been used upon Charles almost without effect,
his friend disengaged his arms, and carried
him in his unconscious state to the cab, which
stood at the door, and placed him in it.
A few hasty directions were given, and a
purs delivered to the nurse to use for every
requisite to the deceased, and the doctor drove
with every speed to Charles's residence.
Early that day the corpse was removed to
the residence of the son, and the interment
conducted with every attention and respect
that could be given,
Charles remained in his unconscious state
for several days, ere he was able to under
stand what had taken place. lie gradually
recovered himself so far as to reason with his
friend upon the circumstances that had trans
pired. His mother had believed him lost to her for
ever, after an ineffectual effort to discover him,
during his absence on his visit to the island.
She had believed with truth, the massacre of
her husband ; and arrived in a strange place,
with her health enfeebled and destroyed by a
shipwreck that she had experienced in the
vessel in which she had departed for the is
land, she had lingered out a miserable end tc
her existence in the most alject poverty and
destitution.
As soon as his recovering energies permit
ted, Charles sought the hovel in which his
mother had lived, and dealt out the most lib
eral compensation to all who had in any way
administered to ber relief.
But everywhere that he sought to bestow
his reward he was met with the assurance of
the unworthiness and nndeservedness of the
recipient, and confirmation that the good
Christian lady had done everything.
To sec this lady, and to express his feelings
personally to her, seemed now to be the only
object cf his life, and the only desire that bo
felt before the grave. He had noted her res
idence as given by the nurse, and resolved to
take the earliest opportunity of seeking her,
ere his own fast ebbing energies should find it
too late.
Early in the morning of a subsequent day,
the carriage was ordered to the door, and
Charles, taking the directions from his memo
randa, gave his coachman the address of the
good Christian lady.
In a little time, with all the convulsion of
feeling that such a situation as he was then
placed in could excite, he was standing in the
parlor awaiting the presence of the prrtlan
throphist. In a moment the lady gaily enter
ed the room, unconscious of the character and
business of her visitant.
As soon however, as she discovered she was
before a gentleman and a stranger, as if check
ed by surprise, her eyelids fell, and she drop
ped a low and graceful obeisance. Somewhat
confused, she took her seat, and modestly
asked, if there was not some mistake in her
answering to his call.
Charles inquired as well as he could, into
her identity as the good lady, and being per
fectly satisfied on this point, he crossed the
room, and placed himself before her on his
bended knees, begged the privilege of expres
sing the gratitude of a son, for the holy be
nevolence that had been bestowed upon a dy
ing mother.
A few words of explanation informed the
lady of all the circumstances of the recogni
tion in the sick chamber, and having diffident
ly requested that no allusion should be made
to the part she had discharged to the poor
lady, the benefactress desired an answer to one
or two questions.
With great calmness and a placidity of man
ner that transcended all former conception of
humanity that had entered into the mind of
Charles, she asked of him a few particulars of
His early separation from bis family.
"Had he been at former times a resident of
this city V and "whether he had not received
a professional education here ?"
To these questions Charles gave an affirma
tive reply.
'Then," continued she, "perhaps you have
some recollections of a young lady to whom
you professed some attachment in your early
days."
Yes," replied he, "and to whom I plighted
my honor and my love."
'Have you kept that faith to her ?" asked
his fair inquisitor.
"Yes," answered he, "I believe 1 have.
I have never forgotten her 1 have never
areamed or loving another. During a long
period of penury, through which the vicissi
tude of circumstances had passed me, I was
happy only in my recollection of her; yet so
altered were my means from those in the pos
session of which I proffered myself, that I
deemed myself unacceptable in her, and dis
charged her from every obligation by which
she was bound to me."
"Ignorant man." exclaimed the good lady,
raising from her chair, as if her whole frame
seemed to dilate with an awakened pride,
"how little did you know of the fidelity of
woman's heart. Behold your Margaret she
who plighted your first affections to you, and
to whom you had returned your pledge for
weal or wo see her before you, yet under the
sanctity of an honorable woman's first pledge
unswerved and unchanged through all the
lapse of time."
Charles rose to press her hand, but she with
drew. She warned him that their interview
had been already protracted too long, and
their individual conditions, her well inured
habits, and his delicate health, sinking fast
under an undisguised disease, debarred the
faintest hope of the consummation of their
early promises.
Charles after a second effort and a second
intimation, similar to that which he met at
first, withdrew, and sought the strictest re
tiracy of his home. The scenes through
which he had passed, had operated with much
Severity npon his health, and in a few days
he took bis bed, never again to rise from it.
At his last moment he felt the rebuke which
his doubts had placed him, in relation to the
early idol of his love, and to the good Chris
tian lady to Margaret to his Margatet, he
bequeathed the largest portion of a handsome
estate.
The Original Morgan Horse.
Massachusetts has done many good things,
among which is giving to Vermont the credit,
and the world the benefit of the celebrated
Morgan horse. Near the close of the last cen
tury, a singing-master by the name of Justin
Morgan, lived in Chicopce street, West Spring
field. The place where this man lived has
been pointed out to the writer by one who
knew him, and remembers his celebrated horse.
Mr. Morgan had a tew acres of land, and usual
ly kept one or two horses. He cultivated his
farm, summers, and taught music in his own
and the neighboring towns, winters. In the
spring of 1793, he raised the colt which has
given celebrity to his name. Mr. Morgan had
a passion for good h arses, and this colt, while
he lemained in West Springfield, was more
fully appreciated by his owner than by his fel
low townsmen. In those days, $-30 was con
sidered a great price for a horse, and it is be
lieved that this horse could have been bought
for about that snm. Fortune frowned npon
Mr. Morgan, and, seized with the spirit of ad
venture, about the year 1798, he migrated with
his family and horses to the wilds of Randolph,
Vermont. Here he lived a few years, and died
poor. Neither he nor his family realized
profit from this horse. Such was the founda
tion of a breed which has given both wealth
and character to New England. In this case
is forcibly illustrated the influence of an ordi
nary action. Justin Morgan might, or might
not, have been conscious of the results, when
sixty-five years ago he raised that famous colt.
The act was simple in itself, but the conse
quences are momentous. An impetus was
then given to a branch of industry whose pow
er is not yet fully felt. Wherever the horse
is known, there shall the name of Justin Mor
gan be repeated. The Morgan horse is des
tined to give as much celebrity to New Eng
land, as the barb of tho desert to Arabia. As
a farm and family horse, the ''Morgan" is nn
cqnaled. Docility, hardihood, endurance,
compactness and sure-footedncss are his inva
riable properties.
A Kicn California Woman. Mrs. Eliza
Todd, who owns a ranch a mile below Wcavcr
ville is a remarkable woman. In 1852 she
walked from Shasta to Weaverville, and, with
out money, began the business of washing for
six dollars a dozen. An acquaintance who
lived near ber domicil, says that for a long
time she was bending over the wash-tub at
daylight in the morning, it noon, and at ten
o'clock at night. Business prospered, and af
ter a while she bought two claims which turned
out well. She bought chickens which laid
eggs, and which she sold at half-a-doilar a
piece; then she bought a pig for $125, and
sold its progeny for an ounce, or $25 ; then
bought cows and sold milk. Business still in
creased.aud she began buying real estate, lend
ing money at ten per cent, a month, and spec
ulating in claims ; always was fortunate ; eve
ry touch turned something to gold. Now she
is one of the largest property holders in the
north.
A lady, not long since, commenced suit in
the Common Pleas Court at Ravenna, Ohio,
for $5,000 damages for a breach of marriage
contract. The defendant answered that be
had agreed to marry ,that he had never refused,
and was willing to comply with his contract.
He got a license and a Justice of the Peace ;
he went to the girl's residence and tendered
himself. The lady wanted time to think the
matter over, and finally concluded to dismiss
the case and pay all the costs..
A II USB AND'8 CONFESSION.
I never undertook but once to set at naught
the authority of my wife. You know her way
cool, quiet and as determined as ever grew.
Just alter we were married, and all was going
on nice and cozy, she got me in tho. habit of
doing all the churning; Sue never asked me
to do it, you know, but then she why, it was
done in just this way. She finished breakfast
early one morning, and slipping away from
the table, she filled the churi with cream, and
set it just where I could'nt help seeing what
she wanted. So I took hold regularly enough,
and churned until the butter came. She didn't
thank mc. but looked so nice and sweet about
it that I felt well paid. Well, when the churn
ing day came along she did the same thing,
and I followed suit and fetched the butter. A
gain, and it was done just so, and I was regu
larly in for it every time. Not a word was said,
you know, of course. Well, bye-and-b; e, this
became rather irksome. I wanted she should
just ask me, but she never did, and I could'nt
say anything about it, so on we went. At last
I made a resolve that I would not churn ano
ther time, unless she asked me. Churning
day came, and when my breakfast she always
got nice breakfasts when that was swallow
ed there stood the chnrn. I got np, and stand
ing a few minntes, just to give her a chance,
put on my hat and walked out of doors.
I stopped in the yard to give her a chance
to call me but not a word said she, and so with
palpitating heart I moved on. I went down
town and up town, and all over town, and my
foot was as restless as Noah's dove I fet as if
I had done a wrong I didn't exactly know
how but there was an indiscribable sensation
of guilt resting on me all the forenoon. It
seemed as if dinner time would never come,
and as forgoing home one minute before din
ner, I would as soon cut my cars off. Sol
went fretting and moping around till dinner
time. Home I went, feeling much as a crimi
nal must when the jury is having in their hands
his destiny life or death. I could'nt make
up my mind how she would meet me, but
some sort of a storm I expected. Will you
believe it she never greeted me with a sweet
er smile never had a better dinner forme
than on that day ; but there was the churn just
where I had left it ? Not a word was pas
sed. I felt cut, and every mouthful of that
dinner seemed as if it would choke me. She
did not pay any regard to it, however, but
went on as if nothing had happened.
Before dinner was over, I had again resolv
ed, and shoving back my chair, I marched up
to tho churn, and went at it the old way.
Splash, drip, rattle I kept it up. As if in
spite, the butter was never so long coming. I
supposed the cream standing so long had got
warm, so I redoubled my efforts. Obstinate
matter the afternoon wore away while I was
churning. I paused at . last from real exhaus
tion, when she spoke for the first time :
"Come, Tom, my dear, you have rattled
that burtermilk quite long enough, if it is on
ly for fun you are doing it."
I knew how it was in a flash. She had
brought the butter in tho forenoon, and left
the churn standing with the buttermilk in for
me to exercise with. I never set up for house
hold matters after that.
Love vs. Shitiasters. A young man in
the Quaker City fell in love with a lady; he
paid his addresses to her; he presented her
with rings, lockets and other jewelry ; grow
ing more fervent ho put a fine edge on his at
tentions and wound up by a proposal to
which the lady unfortunately (or fortunately)
answered "no." The young man instituted
suit before Alderman Clarke for the recovery
of his jewelry and his unrequited affections.
The matter was settled by the lady returning
the former and advancing $10 as an equivalent
for the latter. Verily we live in a fast age.
The papers abound in marriages in which love
does not seem to have even been a component
part. The above instance is reducing flirta
tion to a system. If any young lady is fond
of lovers she can have as many as she pleases
and then bny them off, when, like an old pair
of gloves, they get worn out. If young men
like that risky business of courtship they can
bring suit for the recovery of their "gifts,"
when they wish to "close ihe concern" and j
make sail after a richer and more radiant prize.
Torso Maw Pat Attention. Don't be a
loafer, don't call yonrscll a loafer, don't keep
loafers' company, and don't hang about loafing
places. Better work hard lor everything and
board yourself than sit around day after day
or stand at corners with your hands in your
pockets. Better for yonr own prospects. Bus
tle about, if you mean to save anything to bus
tie about for. Many a physician has obtained
a real patient by riding hard to attend an im
aginary one. A quire of blank paper tied up
with red tape and carried under a lawyer's
arm may procure him his first case and make
his fortune. Such is the world to him that
bath shall be given. Quit droning and com
plaining, keep busy and mind your chances.
Amendment of the Constitution. We are
informed, says the Philadelphia .inrtca,tbat
under the .Xth article of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania, an amendment to the Constitu
tion will be proposed to the Senate and House
of Representatives at their approaching ses
sion, providing for the change of the second
section of the fifth article relating to the elec
tion of the Judiciary of Pennsylvania and re
storing, with some modification, the provision
in regard to the Judges, as embraced in the
Constitution of 1790.
The Washington Union still insists that, in
the event of the rejection of the English land
proposition by the people of Kansas, they will
have to wait before they can apply again for
admission into the Union until they can show
a population of 93,000. This is the fixed de
termination of the Administration. This is
to be the punishment for the rejection of tbe
Lecompton fraud. No matter what sort of a
constitution the State may present, it will not
be accepted if tho Administration can pro
vent it.
Half Fare to Clergymm The Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company now issue tickets to
clergymen at half-price. Annnal tickets are
issued to the clergy, which they present to the
conductors when travelling, who are authori
zed by the face of the ticket to pass them npon
the payment of one-half the usual fare for
such distance as they may wish to travel.
Since the 12th nit., no less than nineteen
counterfeiters bare been arrested in Lapeer
and Macomb counties, Michigan.
Turning the Table.
A good yam is told of Dr. Thompson, of
Atlanta, Ga., a gencrons, good man, a tip-top
landlord and wit; but he certainly canght it
once. A traveler called very late for break
fast; the meal was hurriedly prepared. Thomp
son feeling that the "feed" was not qnite np
to the mark, made all sorts of apologies all a
round the eater, who worked on in silence,
never raising his head above the affirmative in
fluence of his fork, or by any act acknowledg
ing even tho presence of mine host. This
sulky demeanor rather "3ea'd" the Doctor,
who, changing the range of his battery, stuck
his thumb in bis vest arm-holes, expanded his
chest by robbing the room of half its air, and
said : "Now, mister, dod durn mo if I hain't
made all the apology necessary, and more too,
considering the breakfast and who gets it, and
now I tell you, I have seen dirtier, worse
cooked, worse tasted, worse looking, and
smaller breakfasts than this is teteral times."
The weary, hungry one meekly laid down bi
tools, swallowed the bite in transitu, placed
the palms of his hands together, and modestly
looking up at the vexed and funny landlord,
said: "Is what you say true?" "Yes,
sir," came with a vindictive promptness.
"Well, then, I'm blest, boss, if yon hain't orr
traveled me." There was posted in the front
door a small nigger, especially to tell tho way
faring man "dal be didn't owe noflin dar, sar
tin, sure," After he was fairly under way,
Thompson was observed peering from an attio
window, taking a prolonged rear view of tbe
steed and his rider with a four-foot telescope.
It has been intimated that the Doctor hesita
ted many seconds between the choice of the
glass and a double-barreled shot gun.
Conservatism of Free-Masonry.
The N. O. Bulletin remarks concerning the
Masonic Fraternity of the United Statos :
"Hero is a body of men, composed of all
classes and professions, entertaining every
kind of opinions npon religion and politics,
and existing in every State of the Union, who
come together and exhibit among themselves
the utmost harmony of feeling and action. No
word of opprobrium escapes from the lips of
any one to insult and wound the feelings of
another. No fierce anathemas of sections ia
heard. No extravagance is iudulged in. Ev
erything is done decently and in order. Ev
erything is quiet, gentlemanly, respectful, dig
nified. Tbe bitterest political enemies meet
lace to face, and you shall never know by their
actions or words that they do not belong to
the same parly. Religionists tho most oppo
site embrace each other in the arms of an ex
alted charity. Fanaticism finds no entrance
into the society ot the Brotherhood. Not a
wave of discord disturbs the waters of the in
ner temple ; no plunge into the abyss of athe
ism, rant, lawlessness shocks the moral sense
of mankind. No revolutionary hydra comes
up from beneath to break up the foundation of
order and send tbe tornado over the fair face
of society." It then asks why it is that the
christian churches do not profit by the exam
ple afforded them by this philanthropic frater
nity. Quoth the Bulletin : "But what is the
secret of their unanimity, of their harmony, of
their brotherly love, of the conservative front
which, without a tremor, they maintain, and1
the general commotion, hatred and fanaticism
existing around them 7 It is found, it seems
to strike us, in one word toleration."
Protection ef Horses against Flies.
In view of the miseries attending tbe best
carcd-for horses at this season of the year, it
behooves all who can in any manner alleviate
them, or in any manner add to the comfort of
this noble animal, to take the largest possible
field, and seize every opportunity for the
spreading of his benign influence. We there
fore lay before our readers an old method of
protecting horses against flics, which has been
again brought to mind by the Irish Farmer'
Gazette, and which is, in substance, as follows :
"Previous to taking the horse out of tbe
stable, sponge him well with a decoction of
laurel leaves about the head, loins, and other
sensitive parts. The decoction is made by
boiling the leaves in water for a considerable
time, and being poisonous, it should be kept
carefully when not desired to be used."
This is said to be a preventive to his being
stung and annoyed w ith horse-flies. A late
statement in the Moniteur d' Agriculture, of
Paris, reminds its readers that M. de Serve,
the famous French agriculturalist, ascertained
that a decoction of the leaves of the walnut
tree, applied to horses and other animals as a
washjWill be found complete protection against
the sting of all insects. ' These are simple
remedies for a serious annoyance ,and we would
recommend their immediate trial.
Each miner at Frazer river must procure a
license which permits him to dig lor gold
three months. For this be pays twenty-one
shillings, (about five dollars our money.) A
single claim is twelve feet square or ore hun
dred and forty-four square leet extending to
low water mark. Sunday digging la not per
mitted. The monld on decayed fruit, stale bread,
moist wood, Sec, is shown by the microscope
to be plants, bearing leaves, flowers, and seeds'
and increasing with incredible rapidity,.for, Sa
a few hours, the seeds spring np, arrive at ma
turity, and bricg forth seeds themselves,' so
that many generations are perfected in a day.'
The literary Mr. Foley, of Indiana, is drop
ped by his own party, and bas turned his at-,
tention to scholarship. It is said that he is a-'
bout opening a grammar school in his district.
He slicks to it that be would have been re-nominated
had not tbe editors "mucilated the let
ter he rit." ,
The Lawyers of Paris, Kentucky, have en
tered into a written agreement, resolving Jo
increase their fees, and to' charge uniform
rates. This produced intense excitement a-?
mongst their clients, and a general com pro-,
mise of all the suits on the docket is talked of.
Wm. H. English, the author of the 'English
dodge, has been nominated for re-election bjr
the Lccomptonites of the Second Congresaion-;
al District in Indiana. The Convention was
packed, and his nomination cannot fail to
breed trouble. -, . ; - : r ,. .-'-
The Philadelphia Press says that "iniquity ,
is deep-rooted at the seat of Government.",
The only evidence that all evil hasn't got root
there at this time Is that the Government baa
a sae lack of what is called the "root of evlL"
Lonitv Journal.