W4
EY S. B. HOW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1859.
VOL. 5.-NO. 40.
- WHY BE UNHAPPY 1
Whnt"a the use to be unhappy.
What's tho ue to fume ami fret?
What" the use to look behind yon,
Nursing up the vain regret?
. ' M hnt if life is clouded over
With its jorrowg dark and wild ?
What if fortune docs look sternly ?
llath 8ho never sometimes smiled ?
Vhy. if you must taste the bitter,
Will you fling the sweet away ?
Fighting ever with tho crosses
1'hat you meet from day to day.
Why disquiet those around you
M"ith complaints you should suppress
"Weary, those whom duty bids you
Still to comfort and to" bless !
Look at yonder little iwsci..
portiug in the snn"s bright beams;
Listen now. and hear the music
Of your laughing little streams.
Look at nature all around yon.
And aboro. where'er you stray
. JWute creation's ever singing !
Happy I! it seems to say.
"What's the use to be unhappy?
"SYhat'T the use to fume ami fret ?
Pluck up courage, laugh at trifles,
And you may be happy yet.
COPTBHJItT SECfREO.
CbEAKFIELD COl'.MY:
OR, REMINISCENCES OF THE PAST.
Near the old "Red House," on tins stretch
of bottom land above Anderson's creek, Wm.
Bloom, the elder, a man of German descent,
whose ancestors, at an early day, had setthnl t lno "
In New Jersey, from whence he. with othorsM-',e
of his family, had-emigrated to Penn's Valley,
Centre county, settled in 1301. He brought
with him four of his sons and his daughter Eliz
abeth, afterwards Mrs. Ogdcn. During the
summer of that year, a sm.ll patch of ground
was cleared and planted with corn, potatoes
and turnips, and a house. erected, but not fin
ished. In the fell, Bloom returned to Penn's
Valley, accompanied by his sons Isaac and
William, leaving John, Benjamin and Eliza
beth to take care of things until he returned.
For some unknown cause, he did not get back
to Clearfield until the following spring. Du
ring tho interval, the remaining sons and E
lizabeth took care of themselves the best way
they could. John was t lie eldest, Elizabeth
about sixteen, and Ben. nine or ten years of
age. John was fond of adventure and spent
tnost of his time with tho Indians hunting.
In February, their stock of provisions nearly
ran out. For two weeks tbey were without
bread, and Elizabeth and Bon. lived upon tur
nips, w hich, as one of them informed us, they
ate "raw, cooked and roasted." The w inter
was an unusually severe one, and starvation at
last began to stare them in the face. John re
turning from a bunting expedition, they want
ed hiiu to go over the mountain, or to a mill
to get sonic ground corn, lie started, as they
supposed, for that purpose, but as John took
matters easy, aud did tiot realize the dangers
with which his brother and sister were sur
rounded, he was in no hurry, but went and
mingled ngaiu with the Indians, among whom
be spent borne time. During his protracted
absence, snow fell to the depth of four feel,
and Elizabeth and Ben. were reduced to the
greatest straits for want of food ; but Eliza
beth, being a girl of determined character and
Indomitable energy, concluded to make a trip
to Paul Clovct's, an uncle tfhers, who had
come to this county about the time her father
did, and settled at the mouth of Anderson's
creek, near the present resilience of William
Irvin, Esq. Tho distance, it is true, was only
about three-fourths of a mile, yet it was al
most a herculean task for these children to
shovel a road through the snow, to their un
cle's, which presented the only means they
bad of reaching there. To this task, Eliza
beth aud Ben. set themselves with a hearty
good will, and on the second day, at sunset,
succeeded in reaching their uncle's, wearied
and sufiering from hunger and exposure.
Paul Clover, who had a warm and generous
heart, was with bis family in but little better
circumstances than his young visiters. He
gave them all the bread there was in the house j
tt the time, which was an Indian cako not
much larger than a four-penny loaf. This tho
children made to last for two weeks, and rel
ished it with as much gusto as the most deli
cate and savory dish would bo by an epicure.
The children suffered intensely from the cold,
there being neither window nor door in the
house, openings being left iu the wall for light
and passage. There was no floor, but when
ihe cold weather set in, they took some of the
clapboards and, after splitting the thickest,
Jaid them around the fire-place to keep them
selves off the damp grouud. No wood had
been provided, and Ben. was. compelled to go
cut in the snow,, cut down saplings and drag
them to the door, where Elizabeth assisted in
cutting them up. Their situation was ren
dered more unpleasant and frightful by pan
thers and other wild animals prowling around
the house and making terrific noises during
right-time. This brief account luust con
vince all that the endurances of these two
young persons during that wmler, and until
Mr. Bloom returned with the rest ol the fami
ly in 1802, were of such a character that lew
of those who now consider themselves men of j
courage and endurance, would agree to un
dergo. William Bloom had eleven children, from
whom have descended a very large family, the
greater part of whom now reside in Pike town
ship, aud many of whom have been called to
fll offices within the gift of Ihe people. To
have their influence, when an election came
aronnd, has always been considered an itnpor
tant point-by aspirants for office. Isaac Bloom,
liW eldest son, a good and worthy man, died
in the early part of the year 18-39, leaving elev
en children, each of whom have families, and
also the descendants of a son and a daughter
who had died before him. William Bloom,
anothet son, for a long time entertained the
weary travelers, furnishing them in a bountiful
manner with the choicest products of the
country, and rendering their stay at his house
agreeable by drawing from a fuud of rich an
ecdote which he had at his command. He is
a man of some note, set red one term as Slier
iff of the county, and has filled other minor of
fices. He was married to a Miss Rolls, and
had ten children six sons and four daughters.
Isaac, one of his sops, is a well known politi
cian, who, after serving as Justice of the
Peace for many years, was elected County
Treasurer. One of his daughters became the,
wife of Hon. Alex. Irvin, a man of excellent
business capacity, who ias made his mark in
the political world, hiving a reputation which
extends beyond the county, and who, after
having served as ProthonoWy, Member of the
Legislature, State Senator, and Congressman,
was possessed of sufficient influence to secure
for himself the appointment of Marshal for
the Western District of Pennsylvania, during
Administration of General Taylor.TiT-
liam, junior, had, in all, five sons and seven
ttangiuers. John liloom, the third son of
William the elder, like his brothers, engaged
in agricultural pursuits. At the time when
roads vere about being made through the
county, and taxes levied, the 'wants ol the
community requiring a circulating medium,
induced tho first bank to be opened in the
county, through which a system of exchanges
was established between this county and some
of the lower river settlements, whereby we re
ceived a little yellow, instead of onr shining
black dirt, John bad the credit, if there isany
to be attached to it, of piloting the first coal
ark, which descended the stream. This ark
was owned by Robert Collins, but unfortunate
ly for him, John staved it in the "Rocky
Bend." The old adago is, "a bad beginuing
makes a good ending," and John now has the
reputation of being as good a waterman, and
as safe a pilot, as ever navigated the Susqno
hanna, and his services are always in requisi
tion during the time of a "flood." He st ill
retains a full flow of spirits ; seems pleased to
meet those to whom ho can relate the stories
of his childhood ; age has not destroyed his
energies; ho works industriously upon his
comfortable farm, and may yet Ikj seen return
ing from "Buttermilk Fulls," on foot, rallying
those who may have gone with him through
the Mountains, when they complain of fatigue.
Peter, another son, after being married and
surrounded by a small family, left tho county,
and his fate became involved in mystery.
Ilis memory will be perpetuated by a rock, on
which lie staved a raft, in an early day, when
following the advice of one of the hands "an
other stroke to the point, uncle Pete." Ben.
still lives. He is as full of fun and frolic as
ever. An involuntary shudder still creeps
o'er his frame when he speaks of the first win
ter he spent in this county with his sister;
but he hits lived long enough in the woods to
become an excellent marksman and hunter, to
lose all apprehension of danger from wild
beasts, and to see disappear before the march
of civilization those terrors of his child
hood. Abraham and James opened out for
themselves farms in Pike township. The lat
ter is noy the jovial and accommodating land
lord of the "White House," on the Watcrford
and Susquehanna Pike. Ilis political tours,
'professional" visits, and the kind word
which he has for every child with whom he is
thrown in contact, has rendered his face fa
miliar to nc'arly- every man, woman and child
in the county. Anne, one of the daughters,
had married Thorn's Price, a resident of Cen
tre county, who, having made a visit to Clear
field preparatory to moving here with his wife
aud threo children, was never heard of after
wards. As the water in the streams was very
high at the time, it is supposed that he was
drowned whilst attempting to cross one of
them. Mary became the wile of Matthew
Caldwell, and Sarah was united in marriage to
Richard Rowles, who was a son of John
Rowles, and came o this county from Half
Mooa, Centre county.
We have already mentioned the emigration
of Paul Clover, to this county. He remained
here several years, keeping a public house at
his first location, where he supplied those who
favored him with a call with tho best he had,
treating them with the greatest hospitality.
Mr. Clover died of cancer, and his family then
removed to Clarion, where his numerous de
scendunts still reside, among whom are Gen.
Paul and Gen. Seth Clover, ne had six chil
dren, perhaps more. Isaac, one of the sons,
obtained some notoriety, after he hnd removed
froni'f his county, by rescuing from slavery, at
New Orleans, the daughter of black John, who
. f 1 : - .1 ..tor ti r.rncnnl firm nf D ,1 n I f ' 1 Tl lip V
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Vk UllSfc IUB ViU'VI Jtfiunj uv.., a. vuu
Jordan, a son of Benjamin became enamored
with. Anne.a-daughter of Paul. A day was
fixed for the -marriage, preparations made,
and friends invited; but John, meeting with,
opposition, from his motficr who was a woman,
priding herself much upon her family connec
tions, being a relative ot Gen. Potter deter
mined on the wedding day to go to Centre
county, in the hope that at a future day bis
mofher's opposition might be withdrawn
When the guests assembled and found Joh
missing, as he had made none acquainted with
his intentions, his absence could not be ac
counted for then, nor was it until some time
after. When John retnrned, and had obtained
tho consent of his mother, he asked the fair
Anne to set another day ; but there was as
much spirit in the Clover, as in the Potter
strain, and she declined doing so, and was
subsequently led to tho altar by Robert Max
well, a man of cntcrprize and ingenuity, wh
erected a fine grist mill, the third or fourth in
the county, on Anderson's creek, just above
Curwensville. Paul Clover was a blacksmith
brought a set of tools with him, and his smithy
near his house, proved a great convenience to
the people.
A short distance above the elder William
Bloom's, on a spot near Hamilton's rnn, now
designated by the watermen as the "Foeweo
Nest," lived, in indigent circumstances. Rob
crt Cresswell and his numerous family. Cress
well died early in this century, and his was
the first funeral which took place in the coun
ty. On the occasion or the funeral, one of his
wealthy relatives, from a distance, came here
to pay the last tribute to his memory. Won
doring what would become of Robert's large
and destitute family, he was answered by a
bystander, Abraham Leonard, the ancestor of
the Leonard's ol this day : "Oh ! they'll get
along well enough ; there' alwayt life enough
fur the ring !" now strange the vicissitudes
of fortune. The. descendants of the wealthy
relative, whoso sympathy showed itself only
in words, have become penniless and unknown
whilst the .children, for whose hard lot he ex.
pressed comniisscration, became wealthy and
respected. We believe Cresswell has no of!
spring remaining here. Ilis family removed
to Huntingdon. Hon. John Cresswell, ol
Blair county, is one of his descendants.
(TO I1E CONTINUED.)
TOETTJBIITG OF THE WIDOWS,
In the interior ot New Calidonia, which is
cast of Vancouver's Island and north of the
river Columbia, among the tribe called "Taw-
wo-tms," who are also Babines, and also a-
mong other tribes in the neighborhood, the
custom prevails ol burning the bodies, with
circumstances of peculiar barbarity to the
idows of the deceased. The dead body of
the husband is laid naked upon a large heat
of resinous wood, his wife is then placed upon
the body and covered over with a skin : the
pile is then lighted, and the poor woman is
compelled to remain until she is nearly suflb
catcd, when she is allowed to descend as best
she can through smoke and flames. No soon
er, however, does she reach the grouud, than
she is expected to prevent the body from be
coming distorted by the action of the fire on
the niusccls and sinews ; and when ever such
an event takes place, she must with bare hands
restore the burning corpse to its proper po
sition ; her person being the whole time ex
posed to the scorching cilects of tho intense
heat. Should she fail in the due performance
of this indispensable rite, from weakness or
the intensity ot her pain, she is held up by
some until the bodv is consumed. A contin
ual singing and beating of drums is kept up
throughout the ceremony which drowns her
cries. Afterwards she must collect the un
consumed pieces of bone and ashes, and put
them into a bag made for the purpose, which
she has to carry on her back for three years ;
remaining for the time a slave to her husbands
relations, and being neither allowed to wash
or comb h'.-rsclf for the whole time, so that
she soon becomes a most disgusting object.
At the expiration of the three years, a feast is
given by hlr" tormentors, who invite all the
friends and delations of her and themselves.
At the commencement they deposit with
great cercmoVv the remains ot the burnt dead
in a box, whicb they affix to the top of a high
pole, and daiVe around it. The widow is
then stripped bked, and smeared from head
to foot with fist oil, over which one of the
bystanders thro a quantity of swan's down,
coering her etiiro person. She is then o
bligcd to dance Vith the others. After all
this is over she iifrcc to marry again, if she
have tho inclination, and courage enough to
venture on asccon) risk of being roasted alive
and the subsequentiorrors.
Precept and PrVtice. In one of the Bal
timore schools the lArs were reading from one
of their class-books Ji story of noble revenge.
It told of two lads, Pilip "and Robert, of very
opposite characters. Vrhe first was kind and
forgiving, while the Vher was irritable and
selfish. Philip was wiUg out one day, car
rying in his hand a cAe, a present from his
father, which accidenllly falling -from bis
hand, fell upon a pitched filled with water be
longing to Robert, wholiot listeninz to Phil
ip's apology, seized the lane and broke it in
pieces. Little Philip, iuead of resenting the
injury, passed on. Some ime after this Phil
ip found Robert lying Mneath a heavy log
which by some uieansihad fallen on him.
Young Philip very kind lifted the log from
bis old euemy, and assis&l him up; thus re
turning good for evil, "low," said the teach
er, "see, boys, what a noe little fellow Phil
ip must have been ! Wat would you do,
Johnnie," asked the teacr of a bright-eyed
little fellow who seemed iterested in the sto
ry, "were you to have yol cane thus broken
by another boy 1" Little Lhnnie arose from
his seat and doubled his Its, while his eyes
flashed, and said, "I woulhlam him to bad he
couldn't ttaiidl"
More Trocble is UtahI-TIio latest news
from Utah is of a startiinycharacter. It ap
pears that the difierences long existing be
tween the Executive and diciary are about
to result in a collisionbetween the Uni
ted Slates troops undf Gen. Johnston,
and the Mormon militiinder Gen. Wells
five thousand of the lar having been call
ed out by Gov. Cunwaiiijto protect the citi
zens Croiii what he deenl the usurpation of
authority on the part ofhc judges and the
military.
AIT ELOPEMENT, WITH A TALE TO IT.
The other evening, as I was returning at a
late hour from a visit to a friend's, a singular
adventure occurred to me, which I shall here
by relate.
I was passing sn ordinary looking house, In
an obscure street of the city, and quite loudly
whistling "Oh, no, I never mention it," when
a second story front window was suddenly
raised, and the sweetest voice imaginable was
beard to whisper :
"Wait a moment, Charley, and I will soon
be ready."
- .The head of tho maiden nttcring this decla
ration was then withdrawn, but not until I had
seen that she was young, and tho possessor of
unusual bcanty. -
"Readv T wait a moment, Charley," I re
peated, in a musing manner, and endeavoring
to obtain some clue to what was occurring,
and what was meant by those words.
"I haven't the slightest idea who the fair
iucogniti is, but it seems that she knows me,
or she wouldn't address me by my familiar
name. I wonder "
But my wondering aloud was suddenly cut
short, aud greatly increased to myself, by the
reappearance ot the maiden at tho still open
window.
"Is everything still ?" she Inquired, in tho
most musical of whispers.
"Awfully glum," thiuks I, looking around,
and responding aloud, "perfectly."
"Are you sure that no one is coming V
'Quite sure. The loafers in this vicinity
have all gone home, and tho watchman, of
course, is asleep in some door-way. Perfect
ly silent, from one end of the street to the
other; perfectly."
"Then we may as well proceed now, as to
wait longor," came in a soft whisper from the
fair end mystifying unknown. Can you catch
the bundle?"
'Catch the bundle ; catch the bundle," I
repeated, not knowing what to say, but finally
replied at a venture .
'Of course."
The head of the maiden was momentarily
withdrawn, then appeared again, and in con
nection with a somewhat extensive bundle ;
which, I now understood, she intended me to
"catch !" I caught it a bundle of clothing
and valuables, as I readily concluded, and
stowed it away under my arm as quietly and
knowinglv as if I bad known "what it was all
about !"
"Is no one coming ?" again asked the fair
incognita, in a low and tremulous whisper,
albeit strangely musical, as she leaned for
ward, and looked down upon me.
"No one."
"And everything is as safe now as it will bo
at any other time J"
"Evidently everything is safe, including
the country."
'Very well I will descend."
While I was wondering how on earth this
last feat could be accomplished, the fair un
known threw a rope ladder out of the window,
and commenced making the descent.
"Had I not better come up and help you ?"
I inquired, mechanically, rather than by reason
of idea how such assistance could bo given.
"io. hush!" do not speak so loud, or wo
shall be overheard !" was the whispered re
sponse ; "1 can come down as well or better
alone !"
The fair unknown was already passing over
me window, as i saw by a nastv frlance up
wards, and then I did not venture to look up
again for fear she wasn't dressed in "Bloom
crs," or that the moonlight might injure my
eyes. I steadied the unique ladder, until a
crowd Of crinoline, in expansive power, came
down over my head, and then retreated a few-
steps in order to re-insure" the dimity within
free and full descent. She soon reached terra
Jirma or rather, the sidewalk.
"Oh, dear," she began, turning towards me
but just then was heard a cry of "thieves
robbers help !" within the house, and I be
gan to tremble apprehensively for the cause.
Was this fair enchantress a burglaress, or a
companion parliceps criminis of burglars J I
shuddered at the thought.
The fair woman was more alarmed than my
self. Hastily seizing my arm the other one.
he arm disengaged from the bundle she led
mo hastily away. Iter face was pale her
form trembled front head to foot with emotion
I didn't hardly know what I was about, so
greatly was I influenced by a reflection as to
he figure I was cutting thus running away
with a woman I had never seen before, and a
huge bundle under mv arm !
"We are discovered," murmured my com
panion. - ".uy only apprehension is that wo
shall be pursued and seperated bcfoie the
matter is accomplished."
I stole another glance at my companion,and
saw that she was one of the loveliest brunettes
I ever gazed upon in my life. Moreover, she
ivas young, evidently not more than sixteen or
seventeen years of age ; and her face seemed
a mirror of child-like confidence, purity ot
Jeeling and love.
In an instant more I felt that whatever was
the mystery in which I had become an ignorant
actor. I was ready to trust her to tho death.
We hastened rapidly down the street, but
not more than ten or a dozen rods before the
form of a man was seen approaching, while
there were some faint tokens of a tumult at
the house we had just left.
We hurried on, passing tho gentleman we
bad seen approaching, and who soon "struck
up" the same tune I bad before been exercis
ing my lungs with, "Oh, no, I never mention
ed it," &c.
"Good heavens!" exclaimed my companion,
the instant she listened to the "ear-piercing"
notes of whistler No. 2 "what means this ?
that is "
She suddenly paused jnst as wo were pass
ing beneath a gas-lamp, w hich shone full upon
my features and exclaimed :
"You, sir you are not my Charles oh!
great Heavens !"
"No, respected Miss I am not; but I flat
ter myself"
The maiden was already on tho track of
whistler 20. z, and therefore I did not finish
my profound remark. She soon overtook him,
seized him, and caused him to pause, while I
stood looking upon them, with the bundle
frantically clasped under my arm. A retro
grade movement was commenced, and tho
maiden and the young stranger were soon in
my immediate presenco.
"Ob, sir," began tho fair being, as she took
my hand and looked up.enchantingly into my
face, "you will forgive mo tho mistake. I
thought you were Charles, my Charles '." and
she gazed admiringly and devotedly upou him.
"An clopemont, eh V I asked, smiling at
the mistake.
Tho vouns eentleman bowed. "And the
signal of my arrival beneath the window was
agreed upon," he added, "was a lew notes
whistled from that tune."
I understood the mistake in a moment, how
I had happened along at just the witching hour
of the Intended elopement, and chanced to
w hlstle the signalling tune. Not to dwell upon
a simple and every day matter, I saw the par
tics united in wedlock, and the next diy bad
the pleasure of reconciling the parents to the
overjoyed j-oung couple, who have already
commenced domestic life with every prospect
of not having "paid too dearly for the whistle.'
EOKRIBLE FROM THE PLAIITS.
The regular co-respondent of the St. Louis
Democrat, writing from Denver City, on the
9th May, recounts a most deplorable condition
of things on the Plains. Many of the emi
grants were dying of starvation, while others
were subsisting on prickley jears and wild
onions found along the road. The Stage
Agent reports picking up a man named Blue,
who was reduced to a skeleton from starvation.
He bad started with his two brother. One of
them died, and the remaining two ate his body.
Another died, and he in turn was nearly de
voured by the survivor. A man named Gibbs
had reached the mines in a starving condition,
and he expressed the opinion that his party,
numbering nine, had all perished. Many
graves are reported along the route,and much
property had been abandoned and destroyed
on the road.
The writer of the letter says that the de
partures from the mines are about equal to
theanivals. About 500 returning emigrants
reached St. Joseph on Saturday, all of whom
confirm the previous accounts of the sufier
ing and privations on the plains.
A Fort Kearney, May Sin, correspondent of
The St. Joseph Journal says that not less than
900 wagons belonging to returning Pike's
Peakers passed the Fort during the week pre
vious. The disappoined gold-seekers are j
selling their outfits for almost a song. They
sell their flour at from $3 to $5, bacon at 10
cents ; horses and cattle they are selling for
almost nothing, and wagons and handcarts tbey
give away. There are some returning who
have not a cent to take them back, while those
who have anything are hurrying back as fast
as they can to keep from being robbed by the
rest. .
Tub Celtic Race. The Celtic race is, like
tho Saxon, broken up into fragments. The
great and leading family of the race is in con
solidated, united, all powerful France. The
Gallic Celt is, if we may so say, the leading
clan. Next in point of numbers is the Hiber
nian Celt; then the Cymbric or Welsh, and
lastly, tho Caledorian. In the new world there
are the Canadians, the habitant Celtic to the
core as when they first left France. In the
Free States of Northern America the Hiber
nian and Scoto Celt abound. Change of gov
ernment change of climate has not altered
them. Children of the Mist, even in the clear
and broad sunshine of day, they dream of the
past nature's antiquaries. As looking on the
darkening future (which they cannot, try not,
to scan,) by the banks of the noblo Shannon,
or listening to the wild roar of the ocean surf
as it breaks on the Gizna Briggs, washing the
Morockmore, or listlessly wandering by the
dark and stormy coast of Dornoch, gaunt fam
ine behind them no hopes of to-morrow
cast loose from the miserable patch he held
from his ancestry, the dreamy Celt, tho seer
of second sight, still clinging to the past, ex
claims at his parting moment from the hoi rid
land of his birth, "WI1 may-be return to
Lochabcr no more."
Two Irishmen were one evening engaged In
the highly interesting task of stealing a few
peaches. Pat being the more nimble of the
two had climbed the tree, and was busilv en
gaged in shaking the fruit therefrom, when he
was stopped by Jamie with the exclamation
"Arrah, I'at, and shuro have pavches lees ?
"No, you fool, why do ye ask that question
ye blatherhead, don't be making a noise but
pick np the payches," replied Pat.
"But, Pat, are yeas shurc that paychos
navn i any legs t" continued Jamie.
"Didn't I tell yeas they hadn't, yeldoody
spalpeen," answered I'at.
"Well then," said Jamie, "if payches hain't
got legs, be the mortal gob I've swollered a
sthraddle-bug.
Jamie had swallowed a tree-toad.
brniPED Big. The striped bug, when it
once makes an inroad into tho garden, is the
most destructive or the insect tribe. Not on
ly cucumbers-and melons arc completely de
vonred, but squashes and pumpkins share the
same late. -Numerous remedies have been
suggested, some of I hem tedious and not alto
gether efheacious. Recently we came across
the following, which looks as tl.ouzh it micht
oe a preventive ; at least it is not troublesome
or expensive to try : "Take a small piece of
paper, put it on the ground in the centre of
your hills, and lay a small stone on each cor
ner to keep it fast ; then put on it two or three
pieces of gum camphor as large as a pea. Re
new the .camphor when it is gone." It is as
serted to be a complete remedy.
Col. Fremont must begin to see his wav out
of tho woods, in his long pending troubles,
... ... : V . I. ir l 1 -
iii iuuvbiiuu miu iuo .uanposA ciaim. in
stead of standing on the defence, as hereto
fore, he has become the attacking party, andJ
uas commencea suns against quite a number
oi inose wnom ne accuses of being engaged
in mining upon bis property without Iicenu
Tho mines claimed by the Colonel are,bcyond
question, excceaiogiy valuable; and if he
can get rid of the intruders, and hold his
claim, ho must, within a few years, be the
possessor of immense wealth.
Sue Mat Daxce. Mr. Van Dycfc, State
Superintendent of public instruction in New
York, has sustained the appeal of Miss Head,
of Steuben county, who was refused a teach
ers certificate because she declined pledging
herself not to dance during her engagement
as a teacher in one of the State common
schools. So the New York school m arras
can dance as much as they please.
A lady once asked a minister whether a
person might ' not bo fond ol dress and orna
ments without boing proud.
"Jlaaam," said the minister, "when von
see the fox's tail peeping out of the hole, you I
iuy uc jmc me 15 wiimn. '
THE PI1TES IU NEW JERSEY.
INTERESTING HISTORICAL REMINISCENCE".
Wc had driven no great distance when my
companion lifted his whip, and pointing to a
long, dark, indistinct line, which crossed tho
road in the distance, blocking the prospect a
head on cither side, as far as the eye could
reach exclaimed : "Them's the Pines !" As
we approached the forest, a change, theatrical
in its suddenness, took place in the scenery,
through which our course was taken. Tho
rich and smiling pasture lands, interspersed
with fields of luxuriant corn,were left behind ;
the red clay of tho road was exchanged for a
gritty sand, and the road itself dwindled to a
mere pathway through a clearing. The lo
cality looked like a plagiarism from the Ohio
backwoods. On both sides of onr path spread
the graceful undergrowth, waving in a ocean
ot green, and hiding the stumps with which
the plain was covered, bile far away, to thj
right and left, the prospect, was bound by for
est walls, aud gloomy bulwarks, and parapets
of pines arose in front, as if designed, in their
perfect denscness, to exclude the world from
some bosky Garden of Paradise beyond. Not
so, however ; for our pathway squeezes itself
through two melancholy sentinel pines, tra
cing its white ecroll into the forest further
than the eye can follow ,and in a lew moments
we leave the clearing behind, and pass into
the shadow of the' endless avenue, and bow
beneath the trailing branches of the silent,
stern, immovable warders at the gate. Wo
were fairly in the Pines; and a drive of some
what more than three miles lay before us still.
The immense forest region I had thus enter
ed covers an extensive portion of Burlington
county, and nearly the whole of Ocean,beside
parts of Monmouth, Camden, Atlantic, Glou
cester, and other counties. . The prevailing
soils of this great area some sixty miles in
length by ten in breadth, and reaching froni
the river Delaware to the very shore of tho
Atlantic are marls and sands of. different
qualities of which the most common is a fine
white, angular sand, of the kind so much in
request, for building purposes and the manu
facture of glass. In such an arid soil tho
conifer alone could flourish; and according
ly wc find that the wide spreading region is
overgrown almost entirely with white and yel
low pine, hemlock and cedar. Hence its dis
tinctive appellation.
It was a most lovely afternoon, warm and
serene as only an American autumn afternoon
knows how to be ; and while we hurried past
the mute, monotonous,yct ever shifting array
of pines and cedars, tho very rays of the sun
seemed to be perfumed with thtfarlna of tho
fragrant twigs, about which humming birds
now and then whirred and ifuttcred as wo
startled them, scarcely more brilliant in color
than the gorgeous maples which grew in one
or two dry and open spots. For three-qnarters
of an hour our drive continued, until at length
a slight undulation broke the level ot the
sand, and a fence, inclosing a patch of Indian
corn, from which the forest had been driven
back, betokened for the first time the proximi
ty of some habitation. In fact, having reach
ed the summit of the slope, I found myself in
the centre of an irregular range of dwellings,
scattered here and there in picturesque disre
gard of order, and next moment my hand was
grasped by my friend B. I had' reached my
destination, (Hanover Iron Works) and was
soon walking up, past tho white gateway, to
the Big House.
Somewhat less than eighty years ago, Mr.
Benjamin Jones, a merchant of Philadelphia,
invested a portion of bis fortune in the pur
chase of one hundred thousand acres of land
in the then unbroken forest of the Pines. The
site of tho present hamlet of HandVcr struck
him as admirably adapted for the establish
ment of a smelting furnace, and he'according
b' projected a settlement on the' siot. Tho
Kancocus River forms here a broad cmbay
tnent, the damming of which was easily ac
complished, and one of the best was thus ob
tained. On the north of this bay or pond,
moreover, there rises a sloping bluff, which
was covered at the period of its purchase,
with ancient trees, but upon which a large and
commodious mansion was soon erected. Hero
Mr. Jones planted himself, and quickly drew
around him a settlement which rose in number
to some four hundred souls ; and here hecom
menced the manufacture of iron. At frequent
intervals in the Pines were found surface de
posits of ore.the precipitate from waters hold
ing iron in solution, which frequently cover
ed an area of many acres,and reached a depth
of from two or three inches to as many feet.
Hie ore thus existing m surface deposits, was
smelted in the iron works, and the metal thus
obtained was at once molten ami moulded iu
the adjoining foundery. Here, in the midst
of these spreading forests, many a pondrous
casting, many a fiery rush of tous of molten
metal has been seen. Here, five-and-fortv
years ago, the celebrated Decatur superinten
ded, during many weeks, the casting of twenty-four
pounders, to be used in the contest
with the Algerine pirates whom he humbled :
and tho echoes of the forest were awakened
with strange thunders then.
As the great guns were raised from tho pits
in which they had been cast.- and were declar
ed ready for proof, Dccatuf Ordered each one
to be loaded with repeated charges of powder
and ball, and pointed into the woods . Then
for miles between the grazed and quivering
boles, crashed the missiles of destruction,
startling bear and deer and squirrel and rac
coon, and leaving traces of their passage which
are even still occasionally discovered. Tho
cannon balls themselves aro now and then
found imbedded In the sand of the forest. In
this manner the guns were tried which wero
to thunder the challenge of America against
the dens of Mediterranean pirates.
Hanover, too, in ns day of pride, lumished
many a city with fts Iron tubes for water and
for gas, many a factory and workshop with
its castings, many a farmer with bis tools ;
but tho glow cf the furnace is quenched lor-
evornow. The slowly Catherine fermrHn.m.
deposits have been exhausted, and three years
uc eiaju since mo inmance fires were
lighted. The blackened shell of the hniliin
stands in cold decreptitude, a melancholv
vestige of usefulness outlived. "
Da and Teresa. One who know rii
that Dan. Sickles will h- 11 V Tttr TnrirM In
une, and remain there nutil th awmilinr nr
Congress. Ho says the story about a divorce
suit is all bosh,and predicts that Dan & Tsresa
will yet live together as harmoniously a
though nothing had happened. , ' "
Out oi debt, out of dangurjia a good maxim,