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BY S. B. EOV.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1858.
VOL. 5.-JTO. 9.
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For tho Raftsman's Journal.
'A THANKSGIVING HYMN FOE 1858.
BT LOGAN.
"O givs thanks nnto the Lord, for ho is good ;
- for hi mercy endureth forever." Pa. 106 : 1.
"Vfm thnk thce.O Lord! with the heart and the voice,
long as we live we'll giro thanks and rejoice.
Thy mercies are groat, and forever endure:
As swst is thy word as thy promise is sure.
W thnk lho, 0 Lord '. for the gift of thy son ;
For thecros he endured; for the crown he hath won;
For the work he bath finished our bliss to secure ;
For the heaven ho purchased, so holy and pure.
And O ! for thy spirit so freely bestowed,
We thank thee, we bless thco.our Father and God,
1'by spirit with comfort and light shall iuipurt
The image of Christ to the contrite in heart.
"rVo tliAi.k thee. O Lord ! for thy faTor and Jove ;
And cv'ry good gift that comes down from above ;
We thank thee for sunshine, we thank thee fur rain,
We th.tnk thee for yellow fields waving with grain.
We thank thee forfriends.andwe thank thee for foes;
We thank thee for pleasure?; we thank thee for woes;
We thank thee for hunger ; wo thank thee for food ;
M e thank thee for making all work for our good.
We thank thee for raiment, a shelter, and home,
And all its dear joys that we never need roam ;
And for thy rich grace, all so boundless and free.
Thru' which all thy goodness still binds us to thee.;
Thou healest the sick, thou dort pardon our sin;
Thou keenest us when we go out and come in ;
When weary and faint thou art ever our stay ;
And the light of thy face drives our darkness away.
WHEN GEORGE TIHUD WAS KING.
In tho second volume just published of
Jti. Massey 's well-planned History of England
during the reign of George the Third, there
ia a chapter upon English manners in the
young days of that king which brings together
very cleverly a good many interesting details,
and which we must needs rifle of some of its
contents. The judicious critic will say that
the chapter is not fair, that it tells all the evil
ot this portion of our good old times, and
omit compensating details. Very true so
be it. The authors reply to the judicious
critic doubtless would Ik-, that he tells of no
exceptional misdeeds or short-comings: lie
tells of what our forefathers did as a commu
nity. A terriblti pictnre of our own day might
15 drawn front the criminal reports, and if Mr.
iiassey's account of the early days of George
the Third came from such sources, we certain
ly could match it in the year one thousand
igl:t hundred and fifty-eight. But the con
trast is fairly provoked, and it comes strongly
in aid of our old doctrine, that bad as society
may be now, it has been worse and is becom
ing better : that our duty is not to deplore tho
past, but to apply all energy to the securing of
a noble future.
Great scandal is caused tov-a-days in the
church by excess of zeal. But, in the early
days of George the Third, scandal arose from
rxcess of infidelity. The supple family parson
with his bottle and his pack of cards the Rev.
Mr. Sampson, w hose acquaintance we are now
making in Mr. Thackeray's Virginians be
longs to the past of which we speak. Family
livings still exist ; bnt they are not given to
secure bread to tint family fool, to the disrep
utable de nondant of a dissolute patron, to the
son of a jobbing attorney in part payment for
service dune, or to clients found in the worst
company. The greater proportion of the liv
iiigwerc, in the time of which we speak, thus
tilled. Of the remainder, a large part were in
the hands of gentlemen indeed, but of gentle
men who frequented fashionable assemblies,
naunteri-d at watering-places, or haunted the
levees of great men. A clergyman who did
not chase the fox, was commonly a hunter for
preferment; and, with that view, would accom
pany the young heir on the grand tour, nom
inally as a preceptor, really as a servile com
panion. Or he would write pamphlets and par
agraphs for his employer, give his clerical in
Huenco in his own parish at elections, even be
come the distributor of briles. Such men ob
tained stalls, deaneries and bishoprics; and,
by their morals, cast discredit on the church.
All this lay at the root of that inditlerenco to
religion which pervaded 'good" society. Re
ligions observances were openly derided, and
mo man who dreaded ridicule would venture,
an polite company, to show any respect lor
nscred things.
State patronage was in the king's hands;
rid tho royal power even perhaps the Pro
testant succession was maintained only by
the use or abuse of it. Sir Robert Walpole
was'the first uho systematically carried on the
Icing's government by means of parliamentary
corruption. He troubled hirosell little writes
Mr. Massey about any niceties or intricacies
of management, but went straight to the point,
lie bought the member with a place ; or, if he
only wanted a vote, he bought it with money
taken from the secret-service fund. The
Duke ot Newcastle extended and organised
the svetetn so successfully, that by its opera
tion alone, in the absence of every other qual
ification for power, he became, for somo years,
the dictator of the administration. His plan
was to buy up the small constituencies. At
one time he was said to have farmed, in this
manner, one third of tho House of Commons.
' Tho beau of the time of Anne and of the
Hanover succession was painted and perfumed
like a woman. He took a woman's time over
his toilet, wore silks, brocades, lace, embroid
ery, and jewels. He seldom stirred abroad on
ftw. if!.t for a turn in the Mall ; and, if he
Jiad only to cross tho street from bis lodging
to a tavern, he was conveyed in a chair- His
time, away from home, wsi spent in gallantry
and gaming. He read plays, novels, lampoons
and tracts in ridiculo of religion, and con
demned educated men as prigs ami pedants.
'The men of fashion who were men of wit,
however high their ambition, usually looked
low for their pleasure. When vindictive ene
mies sought for whatever charges could dis
credit Sir Robert Walpole, not a voice nrged
against the minister the grossncss of his con
versation and tho periodical debaucheries ot
Houghton, which were to the whole country
matters of talk, but not of censure. Tbey be
longed to the life of the day. Of three men
who were leading ministers during the early
part of the reign of George the Third, two,
Lord Sandwich and Sir Francis Daabwood
the one successively Secretary of State and
First Lord of the Admiralty, the ptber Chan
cellor of the Exchequer were the most noto
riously profligate men of the day. Tbey were
the founders of the Franciscan Club, which,
in the ruins f Medrnenhani Abbey, scoffed at
the sacred things of hearth and altar.
In those days ministers of state held daily
leTeea, at which bishops and priests, jobbing
tnecbers cf parliaaiaat, raayers who had
boroughs to sell, agents, pamphleteers, coffee
house politicians were accustomed to attend,
flocking about the man who possessed power
and patronage, deserting him as he lost influ
ence, ever in search of notice from the man
in whose courts it seemed to them most profi
table to be time-servers and sycophants. The
mansion of the Duke of .Newcastle in Lincoln's
Inn Fields was the most extensive mart of pat
ronage ever opened in this country, and it was
thronged with clients. When this duke fell,
after a dictatorship of fifteen years, tho king
himself assymod the keeping of the great
source of corruption ; his Majesty's own levees
were thrown open, and the saloons of minis
ters were througed'nu more.
We have referred to tho gaming and we re
turn to that. It was the great vice ofEng-,
land during a large part of the eighteenth cen
tury. Cards, dice, and betting engaged peo
ple of all ranks and ages learned or unlearn
ed man or woman. . Whist required too much
thought, the gambler also could not intoxicate
himself with it rapidly enough. Brag, crimp,
basset, ombre, hazard, commerce, loo, spadillo
could be played quickly without brawns. The
ordinary stakes were high. At one of the pro
prietary cUlbWhitc's. Brookes's, Boodle's
institnteTdlS evade the statue ngaiust gaming-houses,
tlje lowest stake was fifty pounds,
and it was a common thing for a gentleman to
lose or win ten thousand pounds in an evening.
Sometimes a :who!e fortune was lost at a sit
ting. Every fashionable assembly was a gam
ing bouse. Large balls and routs had not yet
come into vogue. A ball seldom consisted of
more than ten or twelve couples. When a
lady received company, card-tables were pro
vided for all the guests, and even when there
wasdancjng, cards formed the principal part
of the entertainment. Ladies often contract
ed debts of honor to fine geutlemen larger
than they could pay, larger than they could
venture toconl'css to a father or a husband.
All this tended to evil.
Few women were well taught. In town,
levity was the fashion. In the days of Queen
Anne, the' daughter of a country gentleman
was bred as a cook ; and, that she might do
her duty as a "hostess, often received lessons
from a carving-nmster. If she married in the
country, she might get a husband with the
graces of a publican who would press friends
to drink away their reasons as urgently as she
was bound, if possible, to make them cat to
absolute repletion. She probably became the
mistress of a hall containing no literature be
yond a cookery-book, and a filthy book of
drinking-songs the Justice of the Fcac a
book of sports and a theological tract or two.
The country town, if not of the first class,
depended for its supply of literature solely on
the occasional visits of a hawker or a travel
ling agentof some distant house of business.
The state bf " the roads during a great part of
the year nindo visiting impossible. Agricul
ture was still represented by patches of culti
vation, seep at intervals between the swamps
and wastes yiat formed the pervading charac
ter of the "landscape. Neat country villas
with trim lawns, and well-kept walks, shrub
leries furnished from all regions of earth, and
bright conservatories did not then exist; even
a common flower garden was not a usual ap
pendage to the house of a gentleman qualified
to be kin? of the shire. The house, though
substantial was rarely clean, and had, under
its window not the jessamine and roses, but
the stable and the kennel. No wonder that
people who had means flocked out of the coun
try into London, and, if they did not stay there
carried London fashions home.
In the early days of George the Third there
were still to be found country gentlemen of
the old tyfcii but, commonly, the country lady
had received some polish iu the metropolis,
and took hef daughters for tho like benefit to
pend a winter in London or a season at B tli,
after theVyame home from the boarding school.
jt.ondon liad grown, and roads into it had
thriven, so that, about a hundred years ago,
a writer had to speak with wonder of the new
town lately sprung up from Piccadilly to Ty
burn Road now Oxford Street as covering
an area larger than the cities of Bristol, Exeter,
and York put together.
Up to the middle of the last century, gam
ing remained the fashionable entertainment;
but the bigh play of the clubs then made of
it a pursuit too serious for mixed society.
Other diversions were invented, and numerous
places of amusement opened in London and
the suburbs. The fashionable dinner hour
was three or four. Tho eveniug began at seven.
Tho theatre, a card-drum, a ball and an occa
sional masquerade, no longer sufficed for the
crowd ot pleasure-seekers that was flocking ev
ery year into London. Ranelagh, Vauxhall,
Mrs. Cornleys's, and the Fantheon, therefore,
became" fashionable places of resort.
Ranelagh supplied, nt Chelsea, spacious as-8erubly-iooms
with a fine band. The large a
rea of the." building was thronged asa pro
menade, made sonic what select by" the price'
of admission. There were boxes opening to
the garden for those who desired more strictly
select society. To Rauelagh, visitors repaired
to see the world of London, and dignified cler
gymen who did not venture into other public
assemblies, saw nothing objectionable in its
rotunda. Vauxhall, from the time of Queen
Anne to an odvauced period of tho reign of
George the Third, was a fashionable sink of
infamy. The lessee, in seventeen sixty-lour
made an attempt to check the wickedness that
rnade it scandalous if not unsafe for any decent
woman to enter the garden. He closed the
schedule walks and lit up the recesses ; but
the young gentlemen of fashion, resenting this
invasion ot their privileges, tore down the bar
riers and put out the new lights. At AI
mack's people of quality assembled for high
play. , In Soho Square, Mrs. Cornelys kept a
house of an exclusive character, but of ques
tionable reputation. Masquerades and operas
approached through guinea tickets were
the ostensible amusements, assignations, the
real business of the establishment. Worst of
all was an assembly called tho Coterie, a mix
ed clubot the most fashionable ladies and gen
tlemen ; the ladles balloting for the gentle
men, and the gentlemen tor the ladies.
Mr. Massey tells us that "unless we are to
discredit the concurrent testimony of the pul
pit, the press, the stage, the records of courts
of Justice, private letters and tradition which
has hardly ceased to be recent It is manifest
kf , Honravitv of manners in this conntry
from the accession of the House of Hanover
to the end, at least, of the hrsi ten years j0i
George the Third, was not excelled in the de
cline of the Roman empire, or in the decay of
the old French monarchy."
Marriages of convenience were then the rule.
Parents concluded them betwoea each other
as business contracts, and upon women this
practice was most oppressive. The power of
a father in the disposal of his daughter was, as
a general rule, absolute. Young people
sought escape from under this oppression by
clandestine matches, and these were multiplied
by the uncertain state of the marriage law.
We pass over the frightful abuses to which
way was made ly a custom that declared ev
ery marriage valid that was performed any
where between persons of any age and under
any circumstances, if it was solemnised by an
ordai'ied minister of the Protestant and Ro
man church with the consent ot the contract
ing parties. This rule begot Fleet-parsons,
and gave, it was said, the revenue of a bishop
ric to Keith's chapel in May Fair. Three
thousand couples were married in one year at
that chapel. Its advertisements appeared in
the newspaper almost "daily, and, through the
year seventeen hundred and fifty, this atroci
ous puff was prefixed to them in the Public
Advertiser: "We are informed that Mrs.
Keith's corpse was removed from her hus
band's house in May Fair, the middle of Octo
ber last, to an apothecary's in South Audley
Street, where she lies in a "room -hung with
mourning, and is to continue there until Mr.
Keith can attend her funeral."
London streets, in the early days of George
Third, were infested with bold thieves, who
did not scruple to stop carriages after dark in
the public thoroughfares. Drunken men were
constantly to be met ; no well dressed gentle
man could walk without receiving insult and
injury ; a walk a mile out of town could not
be taken, even in daytime, without some risk
of being waylaid. In the streets tho narrow
footway, until seventeen hundred and sixty
one, seperated from the carriage road only by
a line of disconnected stakes and posts, set at
wide intervals, was frequently blocked up with
chairs, wheelbarrows, or obstructions placed
there for the direct purpose of annoyance.
Carmen and hackney coachmen considered it
good sport to splash clean people from head
to foot. If a terrified woman or bewildered
stranger slipped into the kennel, there were
shouts of triumph and delight. In the road
way the confusion was yet greater. There be
ing no regulations for traffic, dead locks and
stoppages arose." Loud altercations were then
swollen by the chorus about carriage of crip
ples and beggars, and if there were ladies in a
family-coach, some street vocalist was likely
to begin a filthy song, of which the refrain
would be taken up by numerous bystanders.
Mobs were common ; foreigners were habitu
ally insulted , sometimes a pickpocket was
hauled to the pump; sometimes a man came
by, shrieking under the lash at the cart tail.
Such is the account given by Mr. Massey on
his faith as a historian, of the condition from
which we have surely worked some little way
upward since the first years of the reign of
Georg the Third, and in the lite-time
of his immediate predecessors. For evi
cry statement in it there is plenty of authori
ty. It is not a complete picture of those
times, but it is a picture of that part cf them
which is now dead, and we have copied it for
the pleasurable contemplation of any one who
is at all zealous for a revival of old habits.
Buckwheat as Food.
M. Isidore Pierre has recently been making
some investigations on buckwheat, from which
he condense the following interesting results:
Buckwheat cakes arc equal to pure white bread
as regards the phosphates or bone-making ma
terial, and nitrogenous principles which they
contain, and are superior to bread in fatty mat
ters. The general yield of buckwheat when
cooked is about three times the weight of the
flour used, showing that such flour will retain
forty to forty-one per cent of water. Between
different batches of ground buckwheat there
is a great dissimilarity of composition one
batch containing nearly seven times as much
n:trogcn,twenty-five times the amount ot phos
phates, and a hundred and fifteen times as
much fatty matter, as another. The bran is
the richest portion ot the buckwheat, but can
not be digested by weak stomachs. The finest
qualities of buckwheat flour, and the white
mill dust especially, are very suitable for chil
dren and persons in delicate health, while the
coarser varieties require- a stronger stomach
and much exercise for their perfect digestion.
Large Game in Indiana County, Pa. The
Indiana Register, of a recent date, says: On
Tuesday last, a bear was tracked in a cornfield
at Taylorsvillc, and immediately chase was
given, about a dozen men with a number of
dogs enjoying the sport. The bear was run
about three miles, to near the farm of Samuel
Rice, Esq., where he was treed, and after re
ceiving five balls, was brought to the ground.
He weighed 350 pounds undressed, the skin
from the point of his nose to 'he end of the
tail, was 7 feet 6 inches, and o feet 6 inches
between the front paws when the legs were
stretched out. When brought into the vil
lage, Bruin was dressed and a part of the car
cass roasted, and, of course, finished out by
the citizens. The animal's skin was stuffed
and exhibited at our County Fair, where it at
tracted great attention. On Friday, October
1st, a very large wild cat was killed iu the
same vicinity by the same party.
No Time for Swappixc. A Hoosier was
traveling down the Ohio, in a steamer, with a
mare and a two year old colt, when by a sudden
careen of the beat, all three were tilted into
the river. The Hoosier, as he rose, puffing
and blowing above water, caught hold of the
tail of the colt, not having a doubt that the
natural instinct ot the animal would carry him
safe ashore. The old mare took a "bee line"
for the shore ; but the freighted colt swam
lustly down the current, with his owner still
hanging fast., "Let go the colt and hang on
to the old mare," shouted some of his friends.
"Phree booh !" exclaimed the Hoosier, spout
ing the water from his mouth, and 6haking
his head like a Newfoundland dog, "its migh
ty fine, your telling me to let go the colt ; but
to a man that can't swim, this ain't exactly
tho time for swapping horses." .
A contest is now in progress in Pans which
attracts the attention of the whole civilized
world. It is nothing more nor less than a
game of chess. The contestants are Mr. Paul
Morphv. an American youth of twenty-two
years, "and Monsieur Harwitz, a Frenchman,
who, up, to the advent of Morpby, was repu
ted to be the first of living chess-players.
The contest is not yet decided. The success
ful player Is to win the first seven games.
We may remark that Morphy has already met
and vanquished the lest chaas-phyers cf A
nerica and England.
THAT AWFUL UGLY IIOSS :
OR SAM VARXET'S VESTl'RE
- Sam Varney was a Green Mountain Boy.
He had worked as a hired man on different
farms, and had laid up some money.'" He bad
frequently been employed in bringing loads of
produce to the Boston market, and bad made
sales quite satisfactory to his employers. On
several occasions he had made little specula
tions of his own which were quite profitable.
On one of his visits to Boston, Sam had fal
len in with a sailor, who was a native of the
same town where he himself was born, and
they had a great deal ot conversation. One
-of the interesting facts which Sam learned
from his townsman was, that sailors were oc
casionally permitted to take out a small ven
ture, &s it was called, of their own, a little
package of goods, a barrel of mackerel, or
something ot that sort, which would not take
up much room in the vessel. This they sold ;
and brought home the proceeds in the produce
of the country they visited.
On his return home, Sam meditated pro
foundly on this subject; and finally concluded
to make a voyage to the West Indies, and
take a venture with him. The nexquestioii
was what this venture should be. lie had
nothing on hand at the time but a small horsey
which he had won in a raffle, and, had not yet
been able to dispose of. He was not a very
beautiful horse. On the contrary, he was
generally pronounced by the neighbors "an
awful ugly boss." His neck was too short:
his head was too long. His body was lean
and scraggy. His mane was rough and re
fractory, and persisted in standing up too
much in spite of trimming ami grooming, and
his tail looked like a mop. But Sam had rid
den him repeatedly, and found that he was
capable of great speed in running.
The sailor had told Sam that whole cargoes
ot horses were frequently sent from Connect
icut to the West Indies, and disposed of at a
large profit. So he determined that his horse
should be hisyenture. Accordingly he moun
ted him, rode down to Boston, put him into
a stable and went in search of his sailor friend.
He soon found him, and communicated his
plan. His acquaintance, Tom Standish by
name, was afraid he would, not be able to car
ry it out; but promised to lend all the assis
tance in his power. He had just shipped in a
vessel bound for Jamaica, and more hands
were wanted. He introduced him to the cap
tain, who made no objection to shipping him
as a green hand. W"en the question of the
venture came up, there was difficulty. He
had no accommodation for a horse on board
the brig. Sam offered to put him on deck and
take care of him. This would be inconve
nient and would interfere with his duty. ' De
termined to carry his point, Sam offered to
piy freight, cash down, before sailing; and
the captain, rather amused at his pertinacity,
and curious to see bow the venture would
succeed, agreed' ta the proposal- So the
horse was shipped, and the vessel sailed.
Sam was the butt of the sailors dnring the
whole passage out. There was no end to their
jeers at tho appearance of the little horse.
Their nautical jokes on him were inexhausti
ble, and Sam Varney's venture was consider
ed the most desperate and ridiculous specula
tion that had ever been attempted.
But Sam was perfectly imperturbable. He
answered all their railleries good-naturedly,
and told them "they had better wait and see
the upshot. He had never made a bad specu
lation yet, and he guessed he knew what he
was about. The taoss was not a very handsome
boss, but he was a very good one. He guess
ed he could asM him."
At length the brig arrived at Kingston, Ja
maica, and Sam soon had his horse landed
and stabled. When he catue to offer him for
sale, nobody seemed inclined to buy. The
horse was decidedly too ugly for a saddle or
gig horse; and the very draymen turned up
their noses at him. Presently the races came
on, and everybody was hurrying out of town
to the raccground.
Sam mounted bis horse and rode out with
the rest. He looked on with much interest at
the first race. He observed that the horses
were not remarkable for their speed. There
appeared to be no thorough-bred blood-horses
aiming them ; and he concluded that the races
had been got up by the planters from their
love of sport, without having any real race
horses on the island. He believed that his
little horse could beat them all ; and he de
termined at all hazards to give him a trial.
So he went to tle managers and offered to en
ter him for the next race.
Sam's proposition was received with shouts
of laughter. It was considered a capital joke.
But Sam told them it was no joke, lie was
perfectly serious. Ho wanted to run his horse
against the whole field, and was ready to bet
on him. He was accordingly entered, and
instantly heavy odds wero offered against him.
Two to one, five to one, and, finally, one plan
ter offered twenty to one.
On hearing this offer, Sam said he would
take it. It was necessary to produce the a
mount of his bet. He was in the dress of a
common sailor, aud his antagonist said that he
was not going to be trifled " with, the stakes
must be deposited with managers. How much
would he bet 7 "Five hundred dollars," re
plied Sam. "Well, down with your dust,"
said the planter. Whereupon Sam took off a
leather belt which he had round bis waist, un
der his clothes, and counted out five hundred
dollars in doubloons. The planter's check
was pronounced satisfactory, and received by
the managers. Many other bets were m-.do
by different persons, with heavy odds against
Sam's horse. . .
When Sam rodo up to the starting place
there were shouts of laughter at his appuar
ance, and the roost unsparing censures of his
presumption in entering on the' race. Sam
paid no attention to this, but started with the
rest ; and it soon became apparent that he was
not such a fool as they took him to be. He
was among the foremost in two minutes ; and
at the end of the race, "that awful ugly hoss"
was pronounced clearly and unequivocally
the victor. ' .
' Sam coolly received his doubloons back a
gain, and put them in his belt, together with
the planter's check' for ten thousand dollars,
which was afterward duly honored. " , '
" lie offered to bet on another race, but there
were no takers. For this, however, he was
compensated by the most liberal offers for his
horse. . Five hundred "dollars,-, a thousand,
fifteen hundred, two thousand," were bid for
him. This last figure being the highest, Sam
accepted it.'. ' ' ' ''-'"''' ' ' '' ' ' '
' On hia return to the brigi Sam learned that
no one of tho crew but himself had teea at
the races. As soon as he came on board the
usual bantering began.
"Well, Sam," said the cook, "how about
that venture V
"I guess it will do," replied Sam.
"Is that awful ugly horse sold yet ?" said
the second mate.
"Shouldn't wonder if he was," said Sam.
"Yon don't say so. How much did he
fetch 1" said the second mate.
"Guess," replied Sam. .;
"Twenty dollars,"
More than that. Gueas again."
"Fifty."
"More than that. Guess again."
"A hundred."
"A great deal more than that. You don't
know much about Varmount bosses. Guess
again." ' . '
"Two hundred:" ' : ' '
' "Oh, it's no use your guessing. That awful
ugly hoss brought two thousand dollars, be
sides the ten thousand I won on him at the
races. So you fellows had better shut up and
say no more about Sam Varney'a venture."
And they did shut up. S.-un, on the passage
home, was treated with marked respect. The
worst that was said of him among the sailors,
was, "Cute fellow that Sam. His eye teeth is
cut."
Sam went to sea no more. He bought a
farm in the Green Mountain State, married a
rosy-cheeked Green Mountain girl, aud had
many sons and daughters.
Battle with Isdiaxs. Intelligence reached
St. Louis a few days since of a desperate bat
tl between the U. S. troops and Camanche
Indians, near the Wichitta vilhige, in which,
on the part of the whites, Lieut. Van Camp
and tour men were killed, while there was al
so one roan missing and ten wounded, inclu
ding a Major Van Horn, severely. The ene
my had lorty killed and a considerable num
ber wounded. Advices from Fort Kearney to
the 2d inst., report that Major Crossnian, Cap
taiu Newton, and Lieut. Bryan, of the engi
neer corps, and Lieut. Villezpegel, of the 2d
Dragoons, had reached that place on the 20th
ult. They report the gold excitement as still
very high, though the actual results of the op
erations were not so cheering as the accounts
would seem to warrant.
Stop that Bot ! A cigar in his mouth, a
swaggar in his walk, impudence in his face, a
care for-nothiogness in his manner. Judging
from his demeanor he is older than his father,
wiser than his teacher, more honored than the
Mayor of the town. Stop him ; he is too fast!
He don't know his speed; stop him, ere to
bacco shatters his nerves, ere whiskey makes
a beast of him, ere his pride ruins his charac
ter, ere the '-lounger masters the man,", ere
good ambition and manly strength give way
to low pursuits and brutish aims. Stop all
such boys ! They are legion ; the shame of
their families, the disgrace of their towns, the
sad and solemn reproach of themselves.
"Susan stand up and let me see what you
have learned. What does c-h-a-i-r spell t"
"I don't know, marru."
"Why, you ignorant critter ! What do you
always sit on ?"
"Oh, marm, I don't like to tell."
"What on earth is the matter with the gal
tell what is it ?"
"I don't like to tell it was Bill Crass' knee,
but he never kissed me but twice J"
"Airthquake and applc-sarse .'" exclaimed
the school-mistress, and she fainted.
AnMiR.vr.LE Use or a Magxet. A smith, in
Brighton, England, while forging a piece of
iron, felt something strike his eye, and subse
quently feeling great pain,he went to Dr. King
in Palace street, who discovered that a piece
of iron had emlwdded itself in the ball of the
eye. After vainly endeavoring to extract it
in the usual way. Dr. Ki ig thought of a pow
erful magnet which he had. Hi applied it to
the eye, and was rejoiced at finding the piece
of iron instantly removed.
Orr with his hear! The work of decapi
tation has bofcuti at the custom house. Yes
terday Mr. W. A. Eagle, inspector, was dis
missed. He lived in Delaware county, and
voted the regular Lecompton ticket, but he
was acquainted with John Hickman.' The sad
fact was sufficient to mark him as an object of
vengeance. ' "J. B." will not permit his of
ficers to even speak to anybody in favor of Le
compton. . Alas! for the republic. Philadel
phia Dispatch. it
"' TnE Ptow. It is not known when or where
he who invested the plow was born, when or
where he died, or was buried ; yet he has ef
fected more for the happiness of the world
than the whole race of heroes an4 conquerors
who have dr-nched it with tears and manured
it with blood, and whose birth, parentage, ed
ucation, &c, have been handed down to us
with a precision precisely proportiouate to the
mischief they have done.
The narrisburg Patriot and Union seems to
be considerably flurried because Col. Forney
walked the streets of Harrisburg in the com
pany of certain members of the People's party.
The Union is hard to please, yet it cannot be
expected that the Col. will shape his course to
please his Lecompton opponents,and exchange
the countenance of the people for the old sus
picions of the Buchanan men.
In a school, when the scholars were parsing,
the word waif occurred in the sentence. The
youngest, who was up, a bright-eyed little fel
low puzzled over the word for a few minutes
and then, as a bright idea struck him. he burst
out with, "I can conjugate it. "Positive waif
comparative, waiferj Superlative, sealing
wax!"
- Gray, of the Cleveland PlairuUnler, one of
the decapitated anti- Lecompton postmasters,
fell behind his ticket in hia Tecent nice for
Congress in Ohio He consoles himself by
the reflection that -5t appears to be a prevail
ing compUint among democratic candidates
for Congress this year."
A waggish friend says if your wife is ever
lastingly complaining of being sick just let
her see you kissiug the hired girl and an in
stant cure will be effected. Ht has tried the
experiment, and the result was that he has
never had to pay a cent for "help" since.
- A good action is never throw away, and
perhaps that is the reason vre Sod ao few of
thera. :-?'.; - - ' s ,z:--z " r.
, APOSTROPHE TO WATER.
Some time i nee, says the Pittsburgh D'
patchj we alluded to the famous apostrophe to
water which John B. Gough, the eloqueut lec
turer on temperance, has repeated to electri
fied thousands in America and England." : Mr.
Gough never informed an audience that bo
was not the author of that apostroplnj, and for
vears has enjoved the undisputed credit of it.
We stated that it originated with Paul Den
ton, an itinerant of the Methodist chrtrch in
Texas, and that it was delivered at a barbacua
which Denton had prepared, and to which lw
inviied the rangers. It had been years since
we'read the incident, and we are dcliglited to
find it in an exchange, credited to a Texas pa
per. We feel sure our readers will be equally
delighted with its perusal.
The smoking viands were arranged on tho
tables by scores of slaves, and the throng pre
pared to commence the sumptuous meal, when
a voice pealed from the pulpit, loud as tho
blast ot a trumpet in battle, "Slay, gentleneu
and ladies, fill the giver of the barbecue asks
God's blessing!"
Every heart started, every eye was directed
to the speaker, and a whisperless silence en
sued, for all alike were struck by hia remark
able appearance. He was almost a giant in
stature, diough scarcely thirty years of age.
His hair, dark as the raven's wing, flowed
dow n his immense shoulders in masses of nat
ural ringlets ; his eyes, black as midnight,
beamed like stars over a face pale as Parian
marble, calm, passionless, spiritual and wear
ing a singnlar, indefinable expression. Th
heterogenous crowd, huuters, gamblers and
homicides, gazed in mute as'.onishmeat. Th
missionary prayed, but it sounded like no oth
er prayer ever addressed to the Throne of
Grace. It was the cry of a naked soul, and
that soul a beggar for the bread and the water
of heavenly life. ,
He ceased, and not till then did I become
conscious of weeping. I looked around thro
my tears, and saw hundreds of faces wet as
with rain. ' .- ; '"
"Now, my friends," said the missionary,
"partake of God's gift at the table, and thea
come and sit down and listne to His gospel." -
It would be impossible to describe the sweet
tone of kinduess in which these simple word
were uttered, that made him on the instant
five liundred friends. . One fieart, however, In
the assembly, was maddened by the evidence
of the-pneaeher's wonderful power.
Colonel Watt Forinan exclaimed iu a sneer
ing voice :
"Mr. Paul Denton, your reverence has lied.:
You not only promised-us a good barbacue,
but belter liquor. Where is the liquor ?"
"There !" answered the missionary in tones
of thunder, and pointing his motionless finger
at the matchless Double Spring gushing up in
two strong columns, with a sound like a about
of joyfrom the bosom of the cartb. " "There,
lie repeated, with a look terrible as lightning,
while his enemy actually trembled at his feet.
"There is the liquor which God, the eternal,
brews for all his children. Not in the sim
mering still, ever smoky fires, choked with,
poisonous gasses, and surrounded with the
stench of sickening odors and rank corrup
tion, doth your father in heaven prepare tho
precious essence of life, the pure cold water.
But in the green gladea aud grassy dell, whert
the red deer wanders, and the child loves to
play, there God himself brews it ; and down
down in the deep valleys where the fountains
murmur and the rills sing ; and high on the
tair nlountain tops, where the naked granite
glitters like gold in the sun, w here the storm
cloud broods aud the thunder tones crash, and
away far out on the wide, wide sea, where tho
hurricane howls music and the big waves roar
the chorus, 'sweeping the march of God,'
there he brews it, that beverage of life, health
giving water. And everywhere it is a thing
of beauty ; gleaming in the dew-drop, singing
in the summer rain, shining in the ice-gem,
till the trees all seem turned to living jewels
spreading a golden veil over the setting sun,'
or a white gauze around the mid-night moon ;
sporting in tho cataract ; sleeping in the gla
cier; dancing in the hail-shower; folding its
bright snow-curtains softly about the wintry
world ; and weaving the many colored iris, tho
zeraph's zone of the sky, wfrose woot is tho
sunbeam of heaven, all checkered over with
celestial flowers by the mystic hand of refrac
tion. Still always it ia beautiful that blessed
life-water! No poison bubbles on its brink ;
its foam brings not madness and murder; no'
blood stains its liquid glass; pale widows and.
starving orphans weep not burning tears in its
clear depths ; no drunkard's shrieking ghost -from
the grave curses it in words of eternal
despair! Speak out, my friends, 'would yoa
exchange it for the demon's drink alcohol !"!
A j-hotit like the roar of a tempest, answer
ed "No." -
Critics need never tell inb again that back
woodsmen are deaf to tho divine voice of elo
qnrncc, for I saw at that moment the mission-'
ary held the hearts of the multitude, as it
were in the hollow of his hand, and tlio popu
lar feeling ran in a current "so irresistible that
even the duelist. Watt Formah, dared not ven
ture another interruption during the meeting.:
The camp-meeting continued, and & revival
attended it such as never before or since was
witnessed in Texas. -
The Oldest Postmaster. The Snow Hill,
Md., Shield, claims that Mr. Lemuel Showell,
Sen., postmaster at St. Martins, in that coun
ty, is the oldest postmaster iu tho United
States Mr. Showell was appointed to the of
fice under the democratic administration of
President Jefferson, in IS09, forty eight yeaia
ago. He is still hale and hearty. '
An editor up in Minnesota says that he was
never happy but once in bis life, and that was
on a warm summer's day when he lay in the
laps of two blooming Tnaidens,' being fanned
by a third, aud kissed by all three. What aa
inconsiderate chap he must be. Who ever
heard of an editor allowing girls to kiss him?'
A countryman, who witnessed a lady lifting
up her dress, exclaimed, upon beholding tho
numerous tiers of hoops that eucircled ber
petticoat in the shape of crinoline. ."Well,
may I be danged, if she arn't got ft five-barred
gate wiapped round her." . ' '
- A chap out west who bad been afflicted with
palpitation of the heart, says that he found in
stant relief by the application f another pal
pitating heart to the part ffected. "
. Gold is universally "worshipped, 'without
singlet temple, aad by all classes without ft sin
gle hypocrite -1:: - e.-.:-; . :.0