U v ; , , , 2j : ; pa- "& Ian-, :ing 818 OSt- on, BJr rt its; red es.? ge , BY S. U ROW. VOL. 5. NO. 42. . CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1859. ' i LK" re sia le iw, ni ha iS'. :.. la tftf tr. ;- its' 'S-' I f' 3 i i f 1 DOES HE LOVE ME 1 . Pretty robin at my window, Welcoming the day ' ! ; With thy wild and liquid piping, ' Head my riddle, pmy; -I have conned it waking, sleeping. . Vexed the more for aye ; fhon'rt a wizard, pretty robin, T I)oea he lore me, say ? Little riolet. blooming meekly ; tty the brooklet free, rr - . ' " ; '.1 "Bending low thy gentle forehead, . "All iu grace to see. Tarn thee from the listening water, Whisper low, I pray, . For the wind s might hear my secret ; . , Loes he lore me, say i ,-.-. Ftar. that through the silent night-time Watches over him. Write it with thy golden pencil On my casement dim. Thon art skilled in Love's Cabala Tell me then, I pray. Now, to none but I may read it. Does he lore mo. say ? - corvRir.nr SEemm. ' CLEARFIELD COPXTY: , OR. REMINISCENCES OF THE PAST. Whilst Fulton and his party were surveying, they fcl! in with Alexander and Thomas Reed, (sons of, Alexander, whose family will be no ticed hereafter,) clearing tho Geld where Al len Mitchell's orchard is. They were assisted in their labors by Cezar Potter a colored man, who had been raised by the family, and whose good-natured lace and silvery locks are fami liar to the citizens of Bradford township, a niong whom be resides, on tho land he pur chased over forty, years ago. ... . ...... Tho lace to the north of Clearfield borough known as 'Liberty Spring' was then the home of Henry Irwin, a native of Irelard, who came to this county in 1801 or 1802 with his wife and three children John, at present acting as County Commissioner Mary, who afterwards married the lion. Richard Shaw, and Joseph Irwin. He had six children born to him in this county William, who now lives in Ohio Henry Margaret, wife of Zacheus Mead Jane Ann, married to John Spackman James, and Nancy, who was married to Asahel Swan. Margaret, Jane Ann, and Nancy are dead. Henry Irwin brought his family here in a sort of car drawn by a steer. ' The road from Phil lipsburg being cut through for the passage of their conveyance by Daniel Ogden. Irwin had not profited by the counsel of Solomon, "lie that is surety fur a stranger shall smart for it," for having gone bail for a fellow countryman, Rodciick Conner, who lived in Huntingdon county his home was afterwards sold to satis fy Conner's creditor. Irwin was obliged to commence anew, and opened . out ' the farm where his son Henry now lives. When Irwin first moved there, wolves were abundant and rendered it almost impossible to keep sheep or hogs. - For security he built a pen at the side of his house in which he had a shoat. On one occasion when about retiring, a wolf got into the pen, captured the shoat and was mak ing oH" with it, when its squeal giving the a larni, Irwin (having no gun) ran to the barn for a weapon. He returned armed with a pitch fork, gave pursuit, and on reaching the intru der made a thrust at him and killed the pig. Nearly opposite to- Irwin's lived Thomas Mapes, who was originally from the eastern States. lie wag "married to Elizabeth Ogden, lived here but a . few years and then with his wife and chilSren removed to the Ohio. Hugh Jrazer, from whom Frazer'a rock derived its name, was then living near the mouth of Wolf linn, at Joseph Jordan's place. lie was a Scotchman ; bad lived at the Big Island. He had two sons aud two daughters. Frazer fell a victim, when in 1821 the dysentery prevail ed to such an alarming extent along the river. Ho was buried, at his request, in a lot he own ed in Clearfield borough, and his wife's re mains were removed from Ogdcn's burial ground and deposited by his side. He had served in the Indian war, was a man of good natural ability, lacked education, and was es teemed a good citizen. - . - Fnlton and bis party, ran a line through the Jlorgan lands up Clearfield ereek to above the mouth of Mnddy Run, where they were de tained one day whilst Pete Young went to bring down Dan. Turner, so that they might ascertain from him a" corner.- ' From Muddy Hun they took the Indian path to Phillips burg, staying over night with Abraham Goss. And from thence Fulton, accompanied by Benj. K. Morgan of Philadelphia, proceed, by, way of Half Moon, to Huntingdon. Of the men who first settled this connt7, few deserve more notjee than Samuel Fulton. Harlng located near Alexandria, be headed .several surveying parties, which came ' Into this county in 1802, 1803, 1804, 180-3 and 1806, and from that time to this has industriously followed his calling, spending much of his time in the woods. A-practical and experi enced surveyor, energetic and industrious, he has become familiar with every point in the county, which contains few lines he has not examined or re-marked. Whilst on one of his surveying tours, he was thirty days in the woods, during which time he was not in sight of a habitation. He had established his camp at the mouth of a small run, which from that fact has received the name of Surveyor's Run, to which place he would resort, and after sup plyieg himself with sufficient provisions to last lor three or four days, he would resume hia labors, packing his food on his back. In 1807, Fulton came to this county with his wife, hav ing married in the beginning of the year 1806, Miss Margaret Gahagan, a daughter of Thomas Gahagan, of Huntingdon county. He had previously purchased (in 1805) . the land, on which ho and his sons now, reside. Part of the land had been owned by Elisha Scofield, who had erected a cabin and cleared about three acres. Scofield had left the place in 1805, and moved' to where John Shaw lives. He afterwards lived near Ben. Jordan's and died in Curwensville about five years ago. Crossing the mountains in a wagon, over the State road, Fulton came to the Milcsburg and Le Boenfl road, which he followed until he reached David Litz's, at the Clearfield Creek. There being no further a road which he could travel, he placed his goods upon a raft, made of pine logs, which, as soon as the water had fallen to such a stage as would enable him to descend the creek in safety, was piloted out of the Creek by Abraham Litz. Mrs. Litz re membered Fulton's visit of 1802, and kindly tendered to bis . wife the hospitalities of her house, wishing Mrs. Fulton to remain with her until things could be fixed up at the Scofield cabin; but Mr. Futton having been accompa nied thus far by her brother, who was compel led to return home as soon as possible, think ing that she had nerved herself to encounter anything that might take place, packed some articles npon her horse, and accompanied by her brother, followed the blazed path, which led by Chinchaclamoose, to her future home. This was in May ; but the rank weeds .which had grown in the clearing almost hid the lit tle cabin from their sight. A path was tramp ed through them, Mrs. Fulton entered the house, sat down and "took a good cry," In the home where she has since spent many a hap py hour. Fulton reached the cabin with his "flittin" three or four days afterwards, and put part of his cleared land in buckwheat and part in potatoes, and soon cleared out for him self a fine farm. Mr. Fulton still lives at a green old age j his eye has not lost its fire, nor his step its quick and elastic tread, nor does he lack that viva city, humor, and sociability, for which his na tion is distinguished. His mental faculties are unimpaired, and being a great reader, he is still adding to that store of knowledge of persons and events, with which his memory is glled. He is somewhat impulsive, though not apt to take any important step without due re flection, lie has always been a decided poli tician, and looking upon the exercise of the elective' franchise as a duty, not a privilege, he has regularly, for fifty-one years, deposited his ballot when the time for voting came round. He has been appointed to, and served in sev eral important offices ; was the first Protbono tary, &c, was for several years Deputy Sur veyor, and also served as Treasurer and Com missioner, and Clerk to Commissioners. Mr. Fulton had four sons James, Moses, Wash ington P.,' and Thomas the latter of whom is dead. Archibald Shaw, Joseph Shaw, Richard Shaw, Jr., William Fullerton and Thompson Reed, are the husbands of his five daughters. In the immediate vicinity of Fulton's resi dence, the Susquehanna River has a remarka ble configuration. It is there known as Ca rothers Bend. The River sweeps around a high strip of land, making a circuit of about four miles, coming back to within a quarter of a mile from whence it started. This bend re ceived its name from an oddity who resided near it. Carothers came here about tho year 1802 from Centre . county. He was a good weaver, good shoemaker, and his natural in clination made him a good hunter, which cal ling he followed with zest and success. Rough, illiterate, indolent, fond of a "spree," and the wildest adventures, he was yet a good and obliging neighbor. If John Carothers was a remarkable and eccentric personage, his wife was no loss so. Dressed in her huuting shirt with, felt hat and moccasins on her leather pouch thrown over her shoulder, and her knife sheathed in her belt this tall and masculine Woman would take to the woods, gun in hand, t6 chase the deer or trap the wolf, with a success envied by some of the other sex. ' From one of her exploits, the capture of an unusually large wolf, origi nated the name of "Wolf Run." We hare said that this county was formed ont of parts , of Lycoming and Huntingdon. Car others' hunting ground was principally in the former; but the County Scat of Huntingdon being easier of access than that of Lycoming, when these hunters were successful in captur ing wolves or other wild beasts, Mrs. Caroth ers would take them out of the traps, load them in her canoe, and row them across the river near to the Huntingdon side, where John would stand upon the shore, and as she would toss them from the boat, ho would catch them so that ho might swear that he caught them in Huntingdon county, and receive the bounty there for their scalps. This well-matched couple had no children. They removed from this county to near Sunbury, where, Caroth ers, returning from a tavern, on a cold night, feared to cross the creek near Mahantango, sat down at the end of the foot-log, where he was found the next morning frozen to death, with a jug of whiskey by his side. . , Jfr. Fulton would go out occasionally with bis adventurous neighbor to hunt, and once, when neap Lick Run, they came across tho carcass of a deer, which Carothers, from cer. fain indications, knew had beon killed by a panther, and suggested that they would set a trap and capture the "varmint." They went to George Wilson's for a trap, which they set, but met .with no success that night, as the panther, whilst partaking of its repast, had avoided getting into the trap.' The next day Carothers arranged some poles so that the panther could not get to the carcass of the deer without passing over the spot where be placed the trap. ' The following morning when they came towards the run, , on hearing the chains rattle, Carothers declared in a manner more expressive than polite, that they "had cotcbed the cussed ' brute." Fulton asked permission to shoot it, and approached the crossed logs, whilst Carothers held back his dog. "Boss.'! The dog breaking loose from Carothers, caused the panther to make a sud den spring which so alarmed Mr. Fulton that he was unable to draw the trigger, and the dog rushing past seized upon the enraged animal. Carothers seeing that the panther was getting the advantage of the dog, cried : "Shoot, or he'll kill tho dog," but finding that Fulton did not instantly follow his order, he leveled his own piece and shot the panther in the side. As this did not dispatch the animal, Carothers approached it, and forcing his gun down its throat, so held the chained monster until Mr. Fulton, not without some trepidation, dis charged his loaded rifle at its head, and put an end to its existence. ; " (TO BE COXTISrED.) I Ksew She Would. Deacon W. was a staid and honest Baptist Deacon in one of the interior towns of New York State, who had a vein of dry caustic humor in his composition. The Deacon had a boy of some dozen years old who was a little ugly when not under the parental eye. In school, especially, John was a source ol constant annoyance to the teacher. One day the mistress punished him for some misdemeanor, and John went home crying, to enter his complaint, and told his father the mistress had tvhipped him. "What!" exclaimed the Deacon, elevating his eyebrows, "been whipped?" "Ya-a-s," sobbed the boy. : ' "And did you let a woman whip ye 7" shout ed the Deacon. "Ya-a-s, I could'nthelp it." ' " Well John, you little rascal, you go to the school tomorrow, and if Mi.ss -undertakes to whip ye again, yon jest pitch in ; don't let a woman whip ye if yo kin help it. Don't take a 'stick to strike with, but yon may scratch, bite and kick as much as ye're a mind to." The next day the boy went to school, and emboldened by the permission given by bis fa ther was soon brought before the tribunal of violated rules. The teacher undertook to cor rect him and be did as father told him. The result was, John got a most unmerciful trounc ing, and was thoroughly subdued. When he went home he went to his father crying. Well dad I got an awful bad licking to-day" ' "What," said the old Deacon, "have you let that woman whip ye agin ?" - " Ya-a-s," whimpered John. "I kicked her and struck her, and fit all I could, but she lammed me orfully." "Aha !" chncklcd the humoious old Deacon, "you tarnal little fool, I knew she would, and she'll give ye a trouncing every time she un dertakes it, and 1 would advise you to behave yourself in future." John began to have some perception of his father's motive, and ever after was a wiser and sadder boy; ' A Singular Peophect. The following cu rious paragraph is Irom the Cologne corres pondent of the Continental Review : We may now atford to smile at the singular prophecy of the Westphalian shepherd, who lived some hundred and filty years ago, and who predicted a terrible European war, in the course of which the Turks should cool the feet of their horses in the Rhine. These things thus runs the tradition, were to come to pass when carriages run without horses, and the Prussian soldiers were dressed like the soldiers who crucified Christ.. Carriages do run without horses, and the silhouette of .a Prussian soldier, in his tunic and helmet, is in all respects that of a Roman legionary. But the snperstitious, who speculated on this singular prophecy, could never reconcile witb it the decline of the Turkish power, and the manifest improbability of the Sultan's troops carrying the standard of the Prophet to the banks ot the Rhine. They forget that France has Algerine regiments ot Spahis and Zouaves, and that many of them are as good Moslem im as ever walked in the streets of Stamboul. Iros "Temple." A Philadelphia manufac turer has just completed an iron "temple," which was made to order for the State of Vir ginia, and which is to be placed over the re mains cf Ex-President Monroe, at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, "Va., where they were recently reinterred. The "teniple" is a goth ic structure, eight feet wide, eleven feet long, and having a height of twenty-one feet. The material is iron throughout, and the metal has been wrought into the most beautiful and graceful form. ... A Dangerous Preacher. Dr. Cross, in a letter to the Richmond Advocate, daguerreo types a southern preacher in part, thus: "He encompasses himself with rainbows, and me teors, and earthquakes, and cataracts, and hurricanes, and water-spouts, and showers ot gems, and torrents of fire, and boundless con flagrations, and marshaled philosophies, and trooping seraphim, and the stupendous,wheels of Providence, and the silver-chiming of the spheres, and the weltering chaos of demolish ed worlds." ' ' , 1 It is related that Dr. R , of Boston was once invited by a friend to visit the theatre and see a new play. The friend proposed to taking seats near the orchestra. "Oh, no, said the Doctor, "I have a slight cold, and doubt the propriety of sitting near those wind instruments." - : " ' ' - There is on exhibition at Augusta, Ga., a double girl, a raolatto, with two heads, four arms and four legs and but one body. , An individual at OornwalhEngland, has made himself acomple suit from 670 rat skim using tails in tho neck tie ! - v TEE AWKWAED HXJSBAHD. A terrific scream announced that Philemon Stagg had planted his blundering foot .on one of Mrs. Stagg' corns, for the third time that morning, and so exasperated was that lady f or she teas a lady, notwithstanding what fol lowed that for the first time in her life, she raised her- little foot, and gave her awkward husband a fierce kick ! You might think there was a row in that family in consequence and bo it was, although Mr. Stagg was conscious of his faults, and though that kick was intended as a substitute for what was worse, a scolding. He was surprised,' however ; but he did not escape so easily as he imagined. "Blundering, awkward creatnre ! . What have I done that you should be always tread ing on my feet ? I declare I don't know what crime such suffering is intended for. I shall be a cripple one of these days, Philemon, as sure as you are born. O !" "My dear Laura, it pains me as much as it docs you, I assure you," "O pshaw ! Sympathy is cheap. O dear J" v "There seems to bo a fatality about it," said the ashamed Stagg, hanging his head, "I could almost cut off my feet to prevent 6uch accidents.". ' ' - "I'm sure my feet are not so large that they should always be in the way,'-she murmured, looking with vanity at the little Chinese un derstanding. . "1 know . it, love. - The- fact Is, they are so mall one can hardly see them." He thought this might put her in good humor. Dead failure it was a rebellious and revengeful scorn. "And yours are so big that I tremble when ever you come within a yard of me. O, my poor feet !',' .... . . . . . It was a melancholy fact that Mr. Stagg was a rare example of blundering awkwardness. He was one of the best-natured persons alive. Clumsy animals are generally tho easiest tem pered. But Mrs. Stagg did not believe this to be any atonemeut, for whenever Stagg moved, things animated or inanimated were in jeopar dy. In-doors orout,ruin and confusion mark ed his presence. He loved his wife dearly, and kept so near her, that her feet bore wit ness and paid the penalty. ... That day by way of recompense, he took her out to ride, and it would have been a very happy drive, if he bad not, several times more crushed hor feet, as they were admiring the scenery. She began . to cry, and her tears were only stopped by his hanging both his ponderous feet out of the vehicle. But as his peculiar fate would have it, the position was unfavorable for his driving, which at the best was miserably poor and awkward, and be began to drive agaist everything that came along; now on this, side, now on that clink, grate, jar, bang, jerk, crash ! executing un heard ot manoeuvres, with such a want of judgment, that Mrs. Stagg at last began to implore of him : - "Take in those feet again, do j Philemon. Better to have my feet amputated than break my neck." ... He obeyed, but drove worse than before ; and after provoking the anger of drivers all along the road, he finally settled the question of life and death, by smashing against a heavy mail-coach, shattering and upsetting his own team, and remaining behind with his wife and the body, while the horse galloped ahead with the shafts. Happily they escaped with but few scratches aud were glad to get home again. "I'll tell you what I'll agree to, wife," said he, after a lecture ; "I'll agree to give you the most beautiful shawl you can find in the city, if I tread upon your feet again, once, within a fortnight. I'm determined to break myself of the habit." Singular to relate, he became so watchful during that period, that Mrs. Stagg had no cause to complain, on that score, or rather half score. . But a certain amount of awkward ness was doomed to be his. Though he now approached her only at arm's length she, in view of the shawl, not caring if he approach ed as near as usual, and give her one crush though he dared not to sit beside her; and thongbt, when they walked out, he kept con tinually looking down, and t rem bed when he felt the broadest circumference of her hoop skirt; and notwithstanding other look-outs in proportion. Stagg was Stagg in every other respect, and much anguish was the result. "There he goes again !" shrieked she, next day, "tumbling down stairs. Merciful hea ven, Philemon, have you broke your neck ?" she cried, rushing out into the hall. 'Not much, my dear," he replied, breath lessly, picking himself np at the foot of the staircase ; "but I've nearly mashed my head." And he put his hand to that erratic magazine, which was essentially bumped, ; and profusely bleeding. "O, my poor' Philemon! You are almost killed ! Take my arm. Here, Mary ! John !" "Look out for your feet Laura," was his pru dent remark. "I'd rather not plaster my wounds with a thousand dollar shawl." Stagg was not very seriously hurt, and was able to be out and about next day. Taking a walk together, Stagg had no less than three altercations with pedestrians, against whom his clumsy way of. locomotion had precipita ted himself and wifd, in such a manner as to make it seem intentional. He floundered a long like a great, flap-eared elephant, and it was hardly possible not to mistake his walk for an impudent swagger. Yet all was innocent in him ; and in one ot the disputes, where he bad bounced one man against another, and that other against two ladies, both of whom were thrown down in the contact, their gallant showed fight, when Stagg stepped in with the remark that,4 1 did it!" where upon all pitch ed into him, and would have made Stagg stag ger, but for the interposition of the two la dies, and the explanation of Mrs. Stagg that he was such a clumsy creature !" ' Comfortable companion, he, for a proraa nade! Mrs. Stagg, like every sensible wo man who has a just regard for her health, was partial to going abroad to snuff" the fresh air, when other; duties said yes; and before the first week was ended, she trusted herself with her husband, in a sail-boat he to manage it he, of all men in the world ! Perhaps she was thus trusting, from the consideration that certain amphibious animals, which are awkward on land, are very graceful, expert and an fait npon the water, but after she was upset, by his blundering management of the sails, and arrived home dripping wet, she didn't think Stagg was a monster of that amphibious genus, at least. The husband prided himself upon his ad roitness in the performance of little domestic chores, and when tho fit was on him, you tnarl-pil how Mrs. Stagg shake. He raised the deuce, and troke things allYound generally,with the beslot intentions. Mary being sick, and John on a visit to his Aunt Betsy ,Stagg undertook the management nf hnnwhnM nfl'nrs for one dav only." Mrs. Stagg at his heels all the time, lest he should H tumble tho house over, and set it on nre. In his hurry, bo poked the grato with the handle of the shovel, threw the ashes into the yard instead or the barrel, and flinging it a gainst the wind ; nearly put out Mrs. Stagg's eyes as well as his own. He drove a nail with the bottom of a porcelain vace, and left the atoms to tell the tale. He wiped his razor on the most interesting leaf In her album-poetry written by a former loer she vowed it was intentional Thinking, at one time that she approached too near, vith her feet, ' he started back, and fell into a looking-glass which reached from floor to ceiling, causing a multi plication of his beautiful image, anything but satisfactory to either of them. "Gracious heaven Philemon stop ! Now you have done your day's work a good many hard day's work.in half a day ! Now do stop !" Pity, Laura, but can't be " Helped, be was going to say, just as he was helping himself to a glass of wine, to steady his nerves ; but of course he dropped tho de canter full of port,' upon the carpet, a magnifi cent Brussels with a white ground, and it was ruined forever. This dampened his ardor in the cause of housework, and he desisted for the day, both he and his wife agreeing that he had done e nongh. ; But justice must be done to Mr. Stagg's dis position. Sad accidents did not ruffle his temper, even when others were at fault, and the scoldings of his wife made no impression upon him of an unfavorable nature. He sin cerely mourned over his elephantine motions, and had charity for others. And amid all his dire blunders during that terrible fortnight of probation; to -Mrs. Stagg's regret, there was one blunder he did not make he did not step on her feet. ' " , . "So I suppose I have lost my shawl, after all," she said, pettishly, at the end of two weeks. : I wtsli I hadn't made the promise,", he re plied, "for it was that which caused me ; to make half the blunders I have committed. My mind, my dear, was continually running on your feet. Singular anomaly. Though your feet were present, my mind was always absent." . "It is nothing to joke , about. It is your huge hoofs which are to blame, not my feet ah! O!" Philemon Stagg had trodden upon her feet once more ! . ' . " - " ' "Great powers ! have I begun again T Will I never stop treading on your feet 1 I'll get a rope and hang myself. I'll get a platoon of soldiers to charge bayonets upon me it ought to be the "awkward squad," too. O, my dear, poor wife take care of your feet you , are a martyr to my clumsiness, a " "Don't 3'ou say toe-martyr!" interrupted she, quickly and fiercely, a sudden idea oc curring that he was making fun of her ; "O, you unfeeling creature, I only wish the world knew of my sufferings with you. You tram ple upon me all the time there's no end to it. I wish I could get a divorce. I wish you thought half as much of my feet, as you do about f anew shawl. Awkward ! I wish I was born without feet ! "I wish I had been, I solemnly declare!" exclaimed Mr. Stagg, in an outburst of des peration. "I'd have 'em sawed off now, if it would end my misery. But I suppose I should be treading on you with my stumps I" Bad as she felt, hugging her-foot, Mrs. Stagg could not control her laughter at this last remark, her husband's evident sincerity and larchrymose look, exciting her mirth the more. She laughed long and loud, and finally he joined her ; and the next day she had more reason to laugh, for she got the shawl ; a kind ness which has ever since so impressed Mrs. Stagg, that she takes care of her feet herself. A Flourishing Citt. Denver City, Kansas, is a log city, containing about 100 log cabins. Corner lots range in price from $50 to $500. The inhabitants are Indians. Mexicans and white people about equally divided all hard cases, drinking and fighting all the while some one killed every week now and then one hung. So says a Pike's Peaker, and his description is liko that of "John Phoenix's," speaking of San Diego, California : "All night long, In the sweet little village may be heard the soft note of the pistol, the pleasant shriek ot the victim," &c. Mrs. Perkins says she never can understand these 'ere market reports. She can under stand bow cheese can be lively and pork can be active that is before it is dead and feath ers can bo drooping that is, if it's raining but how whiskey can be steady, or hops quiet, or spirits dnll,she can't see ; nuther, hew lard can be firm in warm weather, uor iron unset tled, nor potatoes depressed,nor flour rising 'less there had been yeast put into it some times it would not rise even then. "When we're married, Julia, you'll see how I'll drive you to the Castle' in a carriage." "But, Dennis, .where is the money to come from ?" "Oh we don't want any money; peo ple do things now-a-days on quite a new prin ciple, I assure you." "Indeed !" said Julia. "Yes," replied Dennis, "and often they do them without any principle at all." The Rev. HenTy Ward Beecher has recently purchased twenty-seven acres of land,in West chester County. They form a part of the es tate formerly known as the Trowbridge Farm, situated about a mile from Peekskill, on the road leading from Lakes Mohegan and Maho pac. The price was $13,000. . Asa proof of the little value M. de Hum bolt set on personal distinctions, it may be stated that the great number of decorations which he had received from the sovereigns of all countries were found lying pell-mell in a enpboard. . A wag says that in journeying lately ,he was put into an omnibus with a dozen persons, of whom he didn't know a single one. Turning a corner shortly alter, however, the omnibus upset, "and then," said he, "I found them all out." - .;- .... : , , A five story stone hotel is about to be built at SUPaul, Min., which will cost about $150, 000. It will be completed by June 1860. ... THE SEA OF GALILEE- , '. r , This lake is also known In the gospels as tho sea of Tiberias, and Gennesareth; and in tho Old Testament as the sea of Chinnereth. It is about thirteen miles in length, and six in breadth; and is formed by the Jordcn, which traverses it from north to south, and then flows on to the Dead sea, sixty miles south. No other sheet of water in the world is en deared to the Christian by so many pleasing associations. - Some ten miles to te west lay Nazareth, the home of Christ during his child hood and youth. On its western shore lay Ca pernaum, Chorazin, and Bethsaida of Galilee, where "most of his mighty works were done;" while the other Bethsaida was but a few mile north of its northeastern shore. Around this lake a large part of the Saviour's public life was spent. Moro than one blind man there experienced his miraculous power, and opened his eyes to behold first of all his benefactor's face, and then the blue waters of his charm ing lake. Here the majority of his disciples lived ; and by its side, while "sitting at the re ceipt of custom," or "mending their nets," they were called to become fishers of men." It was on these waters, sitting in Simon Pe ter's boat, that Christ preached to a multitudo on shore. Upon one of the neighboring hills be. taught many thousands at once, healed their diseases, and fed them all with five loaves and two fishes. Here too, on two occasions at the commencement of his ministry and af ter his resurrection his command filled tho nets of the apostles with unprecedented draughts of fishes.,. Somewhere on the south east side of the same sea is the "steep place" down which the frightened Gardarer.es saw their whole herd of swine plunge, and perish in the waters. The Saviour often crossed this lake in his labours ot love ; and twice he had occasion to allay tho fears of his disciples by calming the storm-tossed waves : once waking from his quiet sleep in the hinder part of tho boat, to chide them for their lack of faith ; and once coming out to them by walking, on the sea, in the fourth watch of the night, aa they were "toiling in rowing." -. ' Thus the whole region is rendered sacred by incidents in the life of our Lord. Tho traveller irresistibly feels that His footsteps and smiles have for ever hallowed these hills, that his voice yet echoes from these shores and bis "Peace, be still," yet rests on theso pure and peaceful waters. In many respects, however, a great change has taken place since the time of Christ. Then the shores were filled by a teeming population ; towns and villages crowded the banks, and boats swarmed on the waters. Now the only re maining town is Tiberias, a city in ruins, con taining about 2,000 inhabitants, and wretched and filthy to the last degree. It is a common' saying, the king of the fleas holds his court at Tiberias." Instead of a Large fleet of fish ing boats, only one can now bo found on its waters. The round hills that come boldly down to ' the sea are now bare of trees ; and though covered with a delightful verdure- af thr the wintry rains, become parched and des-r olate under the summer sun. . Yet these hills are the same that our Saviour himself beheld; the main features of the scene are unchanged. The lake lies embosomed in a tfeep basro, more than three hundred feet beiow tho level, of tho Mediterranean, and enclosed on all sides, except near the inlet and outlet of the Jordan, by hills that rise steeply hundreds of feet in height; while in the background on the east side are mountains over a thousand . feet high. The range of heights stretching around the sea itself is broken by occasional ' shady ravines and water courses ; and here and ' there is seperated from the sea by a level and : exceedingly fertile plain. . In one of these, Ca pernaum used to stand, bnt now it has wholly disappeared. Far away in the north Mount Hermon lifts its snow-capped crown to- the sky, with the majesty of a summit that has, looked down on the coming and going ol a hundred generations. - The region of this sea bears marks of vol canic action, and hot springs still exist on tho shore south of Tiberias. The waters still -swarm with fishes, as in the days of the apos- . folic fishermen. The whole scene is marked by a grand but serene beauty, and the Chris tian visitor reluctantly tears himself , away t from it. A recent American traveller, while out upon the sea, encountered a tempest like ' those described in the gospels : sudden, swift, and violent, it swept down on the'sea from the upper hills, and threw it into commotion as in a moment. He was unable to make head, against it, and was driven over to "the coast ' of the Gardarenes." The samo traveller bathed several times in its clear and sweet , waters, and was reminded of the words of an old Scotch friend of his boyhood, who said to ; him : "When ye graw up to be a rnon, may- hap ye'll go wanderin' up aud doon the hills . of the warld. But doanye forget that gin , ye're thursty, there's the sea o' Galilee ; and gin ye're hungry, there's the loaves that fed : feeve thoosand . there by the sea ; and when ' ye get tired and tired out, and want to lay your head doon on any stoun and rest it . but the stouns are a'hard there's Heem that said on the same sea, "Cume unto me, all yo " that labor and are heevy-laden, and 1 will ' geeve ye rest." : Some of our cotemporarics are trying to ' induce people to say Teecheeno for Ticino. : We might as well begin to call Paris Parcc, Vienna Wien, or , Brussells, Bruxelltt. , Let -those who know nothing of foreign .tongnes- . stick to the vernacular, r a horrible Anglo Italian pronunciation will be the result.. Sen sible advice, that. ,i . ' - . . 1 . j Ladt Killed. Mrs. ClarK, wife of G. W. . Clark, formerly a professor In Allegheny Col lege, was instanly killed by being thrown ont ' of a carriage on Saturday evening last, at Akron, Ohio.i She was a sister to Arnold Plumer, of Venango, and enjoyed the respect ' and esteem of all who knew her. A Nrw BcsisKsa Feature. A merchant In , Winchester. Va., has taken into partnership ' his daughter, Miss Virginia, and t announces that hereafter tho business will be conducted under the firm of J. Wysong and daughter.- Many fold their iands in petitions when they ought to bo using them ia toil. . Tbey never learn that a useful, toiling life may bo a -perpetual prayer, aa it is a perpetual hymn. -: i ' . m,m . . .. : -. .. It is a singular fact,that the number of ero igranta now going from tho Eastern States to California is, by actual count, greater than it-, was daring the height of the gold fever. inr
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