Raftsman's journal. (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, August 31, 1859, Image 1
U u VOL. &-no. i BY S. B. ROW. CLEARFIELD, PA., "WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1859. i I r 1 1 a i 3 j J WE'VE ALL OUE ANGEL SIDE Despair not of the better part That lies in human kind A gleam of light flickereth In e'en the darkest mind ; The savage with his club of war, The sage so mild and good, Am linked in firm eternal bonds Of common brotherhood. Pespairnot! oh! despair not. then. For through this world so wide, No nature is so demon like, But there's an angel side. The huge, rough stones from out the mine, I'nsightly and unfair, Have reins of purest metal hid Beneath the surface there ; Few 'rocks so bare but to their heights onie tiny moss plant clings, And round the peaks so desolate, The sea bird sits and sings. Believe me, too, that rugged souls, Beneath their rudeness hide .Much that is beautiful and good : We're all our angel aide. In all there is an inner depth A far-off secret way. Where through dim windows of the soul, (Sod sends a smiling ray; In every human heart there is A faithful sounding chord, . , That may be struck, unknown to us, By some sweet loving word ; The wayward heart in vain may try Its softer thoughts to hide, Fume unexpected tone reveals It has its angel side. COPYRIGHT SF.CTREU.j CLEARFIELD COlTJfTY: OR, REMINISCENCES OF THE PAST. Karthaus and his sun made only a short stay and then returned to Baltimore, but some years later the lormer returned to the settle ment with his family. When they left, the whole care of the company's concerns, as like wise Karthaus and Geisenhainer's private in terests, devolved on the latter. In addition, Geisenhainer, who was a thorough going, en ergetic man and a devout christian, preached every Sabbath afternoon during his stay, to those of the settlement who gathered at his cabin. For a few years the settlement retro graded. Some of the families who had been induced to come from New York, finding the hardships greater than they anticipated, were disappointed and left. Provisions of all kinds were scarce, and some times they had but ven ison, corn ground in a coflec mill, or frozen potatoes. The construction of a pair of coun try stones which were put in the saw-mi II, was source of joy to the settlers, who were then enabled to add chopped rye to their suste nance. Grain and provisions had to be pur chased at the Big Island and elsewhere, and boated up the river. Alexander Mahan, who lived near Lock Haven, was usually employed for the purpose, and acted a9 captain of the boat's crew. Severe was the struggle coming tip the river against a strong current, and often the grain, exposed to heavy rains, reached the settlement in a damaged state. In 1815, Jitnge and Schnars purchased a part of Karthaus and Geisenhainer's land, which was surveyed that fall, and the follow ing year several settlers Hugh Kiddle, Jacob Michaels and William Russell came out from Bald Eagle, Centre county, made purchases and commenced clearing. These gentlemen also purchased goods at Baltimore, and in the spring of 1816 brought them up the river, and thus added much to the comfort of the early settlers. An Indian path enabled the settlers to commence a trade with Clearfield town, where they purchased some provisions. For a few years, the usual stopping place on such trips was on the south side of the river, where they crossed, about 12 miles from Karthaus, at the improvement of Robert Rosa,now de ceased, father of Sheriff Robert Ross, David Ross, late County Commissioner, and Thomas Ross, Esq., County Surveyor, who had moved there from Huntingdon county. Shortly after the commencement of Kart haus settlement, bog ore was discovered some four miles below, at the head of Buttermilk Talis. Geisenhainer and Schnars were author ized to pnrchase three tracts belonging to Judge Boudinot of Burlington, N. J., which were conveyed to Peter A. Karthaus. During 1817, Karthaus and Geisenhaiccr erected a furnace at the Mushannon creek. The ore was brought up the river in canoes and flat-boats to supply the furnace, and hollow-ware, stoves, i., of the best quality, vere manufactured. This new branch af business -had a beneficial effect on the company's affairs, and gave an impetus to the settlement "of their lands. Roads were opened. ; The river, which afforded the only means of transport, was cleared of rocks and other obstructions. Things went on swimmingly. Hard ore of good quality being found in the neighborhood, the stack was en larged and was frequently in blast the last iiaie under the snperintendance of Peter Rit ner ; but waat f jacoura,gcmeBx and the ex pense of sending iron from a new country hav ing few and uncertain ..modes of carriage, brought the undertaking io a close. The fur nace for sorae years Las stood idle, and the buildings are io a state of decay. (We may expect ere long to learn that the operations of the Allegheny Coal Company were only a few years in advance of the age. A railroad will soon pierce this thriving settlement, and then the best of bituminous coal, iron ore and grey limestone so generously distributed through it, will be brought into requisition, and the .anticipations of the originators of the settle' raent, who have parted with all their interests, realized in the revival of the old, and the con struction of new works under the most lavora Lle auspices. Karthaus settlement, 40 years ngo a wilderness, now boasts many fine farms, school houses, a bridge across the Susquehan na, stores convenient to railroads the Sun bury & Erie, and the Snow Shoe & Belle fonte and churches of various denomina tions. The Ev. Lutheran congregation, under ministration of Rev. C. Fetzer, contemplate the erection of a fine edifice on their property near the parsonage. The venerable John Keating, an able law yer, who died in 1830 in Philadelphia at the Advanced age of 86 years, commenced in 1827, under the agency of J. F. W. Schnars, to dis pose of his lands to settlers. He owned a very large body in. Clearfield and Clinton counties. Frenchville, or the French settlement proper, was commenced in 1832. The pioneers were Claude Francois Renaud, Francis Coudriet, Christopher Bickleman, Nicholas Rousscy and M. Plubelle. An agent accompanied them from France. His name was Jacob Weiskopf. They selected a tract of land under the advice of Schnars, had it surveyed by Chas. Trcziynl ney, (pronounced Treyulney,) a Pole, who lived at Bellefonte and followed surveying, and then cast lots for their parts. All seemed satisfied, but, with the exception of Renaud who remained to clear land, they left for other parts to gain means of sustenance until they could clear their farms sufficiently to warrant them moving on them. Plubelle and Rousscy went to McKinney's Iron works below Belle fonte ; Bickelman to Philipsburg, and Cou driet to Clearfield town, where he carried on plow and wagon making. Emigration has swelled this settlement to near two hundred industrious, economical and thrifty French families. They have two grist mills, six or eight saw mills, and several stores. They manufacture a considerable quantify of sawed lumber and square timber, and raise on small farms a lame amount of produce. They have a fine church property, and are regular in their attendance on divine service. The principal part are of Catholic belief. They and their descendants have proven quiet, inoffensive and good citizens and neighbors. Weiskopf the agent said, wo know not what credence is to be given to it, that the Keating lands were known in Paris at the time of the French rev olution ; that he had seen a plot of them made in Robc.spiere's time. He relates that M. Zar ron, a wealthy French gentleman who sent him out with the French, in order to secure part,oMiis wealth, had transmitted large sums of money to a Philadelphia banker. It was his intention to follow his fortune, but politi cal changes taking place, he remained in France. The banker in whose hands the funds had been placed failed, and Keating, an ac quaintance and friend of M. Zarron, was em ployed and recovered these lands. Keating was then appointed agent .and subsequently became owner of tlfe same. (TO EE rOSTIM ED.) The Sentinel, a paper published at Mound rille, Marshall county, Va., has been suspect ed of free-soil tendencies, and in order to re lieve itself from suspicion, its editor says : We do not like negroes, free or bond, and would rejoice to hear of every one lcing ex ported to Africa, or settled in a colony some where by themselves. The South Is becoming so 'mixed up' that a man cannot feel safe any more in marrying there, for fear his wife will prove to have black blood in her veins. Ne groes are so fully kept in their 'sphere' by northern white men, that, as a rule, persons can always find out Miegro blood' by tradition, and it is comparatively safe to marry dark complected women there, without danger of the amalgamation' so very common in the South. If that is free-soilism, make the most of it." Plain talk, that, we should say. - Some weeks since a Mr. Stalter, of Sloats burg Rockland county, N. Y., killed a large rattle snake, which he carefully skinned. Some days afterwards he accidently cut his thumb with the knife which he had used for that pur pose, and hand and arm began to swell. The family sent for a physician, who not being in formed of the facts of the case, prescribed for the swelling and left. Mr. Stalfer became worse and the physician was ngajn sent for, but found him past medical aid. Before lie died his body was covered with livid spots resembling those on the snake which he had killed. The case is one of the most singular in the annals ot med icine, as it has been generally supposed that the virus of the snake is confined to his pois on fangs, and the rest of his body is harmless. . The Gloucester, Mass., Telegraph says that an unusual case of sickness is now in the hands or Dr. Haskell, of Rockport. A boy, about five years of age, a son of Mr. Eben Knowlton, had contracted the disease of glanders by climbing in the stall where a horse affected with the disease had been kept, although it was not known at the time that the horse was affected. Cases of this kind are very rare, and mcst generally have proved fatal.- .The pres ent case is a Tery severe one, and will proba bly have a similar result. A singnlar accidenl happened recently to Lewis Porter, who lives about two miles south west of Connersville, Indiana. He was pass ing through a strip ot timber on horseback. He stooped to avoid the limb of a tree ; the limb grazed the back part of his head, caught under his shirt collar, lifting him off his horse and holding him up about two feet from the ground. Mr. Porter's brother was some dis tance behind him and hastened to his relief. When let down from the limb, lie was almost strangled. . Love in a cottage-"' is all very well to talk about when you happen to own the cottage, and ten acres of ground with it ; but when you are forced to pay a steep rent out of a small saleri, the romantic edges soon get worn off, especially if you hava household gods enough in the aforesaid cottage to destroy a bawel of "flat hooped Ohio extra family ffour" every six tveeks. - , STRAUSS AND HIS WALTZ. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN. Strauss is a second Orpheus, whose tender moving spirit-stirring, love-kissing music con quers the most inveterate enemy of Terpsi chore ; "whose magic sounds soothe hearts, still s'fgfis, dry tears, tame wild beasts, and move the stones themselves. Strauss has written waltzes that are more to me than many operas. In seven of his measures, there is of ten more melody than in as many heavy scores of other musicians. What a fullness of syren beauty, what a rich mine of poetry ; what an inexhaustible Ibunt.of-ever-gushing melody I And not the melodalooe the rhythm also witff magical .;iifloun6s.ci.?eV--tbc .brain and enters the. hcarti "JHs vf&in'.is a talisman, by wWch he draws from the depths of- the human soul brightest joy and deepest.woe, and ming les'them with master hand The .bow with which he draws these Tnanysolored "tones froth his instruments is a magic'- waridVhich touches the" grief-worn soul with the healing balsam of joy, and lends lier wings to mount up into-the--heavens ' of peaces There are maoy. waits compositions as-rich. in melody, but few as rich in jnicltinj riytbW .asihose of Strauss by; turns kipping humming,: waltz ing, gliding, and dancUigv so fhYiting,: so irre sistible that no dancer can w'ithstandtheir witching influence. ' IIe'.i5 the idol of women. In every house, on every piano in Vienna, lie Strauss' waltzes. He has written over two hundred; all are favorites, are all -sung and trilled, and played throughout Europe. Cob bler and dandy hum and pipe them ; orchestra and barrel-organ play them. We hear them in the streets, at the ball, in the garden, and at the theatre. The dancing Viennese carry him on their shoulders and shout "Strauss forever." ' This Strauss, this waltz-hero, loved the daughter of a count. Sophie was her name. Her eye was bluer than Italy's heavens, and softer than the sweet light of the evening star. Grace and beauty were in every motion, and music in every tone. In a word, Sophie was beautiful, lie would have given worlds to win but one glance of love, but she was cold and stern. Madness, indeed, for a poor musician, with nothing but his violin, to dare to love the high-born Sophie, who had as many noble ancestors as he had waltzes. "Impertinent," said Sophie, and when he came to give her brother a lesson on the vio lin, she scarcely deigned him a look. Short ly afterward, Sophie was betrothed to Count Robert, lord chamberlain, who had, indeed, as many proud ancestors as Sophie, but beyond these and his titles, had nothing of which he could boast. One day when Strauss chanced to be alone with Sophie, he sank, upon his knees before' her, and with burning words declared his love, and besought her to give but one word or look Jf love ere he was quite driven to des pair. But neither tears nor protestations mo ved her she was cold and unfeeling as mar ble. "I am an affianced bride," ihe said haugh tily, "and it I were not, think you 1 would be come the wife "of a poor musician ?" She turned scornf ully away and left him a lone in his grief and despair. The repentance which soon awoke in the heart of Sophie, un happily came too late. The br.degroom and her father hastened the marriage in eight days she would be the wife of Count Robert. The ceremony was to be performed in the great saloon of the city, and the Count called on Strauss to request him to lead the orches tra on that occasion, and to honor his bride with the composition of a new waltz. Strauss, the most miserable man in the u nivcrse, promised him both. "He wished to wound me yet more deeply," said the unhap py man to himself "but I forgive him ; and may she be happy may she never repent her choice." lie addressed himself earnestly to his work- This waltz should be the interpre ter of his passion and his griet to Sophie. It should challenge at least her pity, if not her love. When all the city slept, Strauss took his violin, opened his window, gazed out into the cold night, and improvised and moaned forth his sad tale of woe to the sweet stars above, that looked kindly down on the deso late and heart-stricken. ...... Ths day of the wedding came at last. This fierce agony of love had given -him a waltz, every measure of which spoke a longing sor row, a wailing woe. The ' hall: glistened and shone with bright jewels, and brighter eyes ; but Sophie was more gloriously beautiful than all. The richest, gems lent her their charms and their lustre; the pure myrtle wreath bloomed In her golden hair, and the rare and costly bridal veil shaded her beautiful features from the gaze of the adoring crowd. Strauss, a haggard emaciated jnanwith brilliant pierc ing black cyes,sharp,strongly marked features, dressed from head to foot in-black, es though he had assumed this mourning livery for the bride now dead to him, stood sad and silent in the gallery above, directing the movements of the orchestra. Sophie danced now with one, now with another of the wedding guests, and so often as she paused after the giddy whirl of the dance, she turng d her eye towards the pale, grief-stricken Strauss, in his robes of sorrow and mourning, and met his look of despairing love. It was more than pity she lelt it was re morse, it was kindling love. A tertible pain awoke in her heart, like a swelling stream, growing ever wider and deeper, threatening to overwhelm and destroy her quite.;. Gladly she would have wept, but she dared not. It sounded twelve o'clock ; and Stiauss gave the signal for the performance of the waltz. The gay dancers stood up, Sophie on the arm of the happy bridegroom. All stand spell-bound with the wondrous witchery- of those magic sounds. They forget to dance, they gaze wonderlngly up at the pale man in black, whose grief-torn soul breathed out its woe through thesounding strings of his instument. His bow moved, with his heart went his spirit. The bridegroom led ofl-they dance and dance. Strauss follows the flying pair with tearful eyes "torn heart. They dance and dance, and will never cease. Strauss played and played and played, and will never' stop his tvonderful waltz, which so fearfully affects both him and thfm. Thpvdsncfi and dance : he played and f played suddenly the E of his violin snaps, and in that moment Sophie tans aeau upou iun floor.' Violin and bow fall from his trembling hands, and with a cry of horror, he shrieked, "Sophie," and fell fainting on the ground. Since Sophie's death, the waltz is called by her namo ; Strauss loved her till his death, lie, too, is deadj but his Sophie Walta yet lives. ; Copper coin is not a legal tender. JOHN RANDOLPH OF R0 AWOKE. Some forcible writer furnishes the New York "Century" a highly interesting article on the eloquent, but very ecceutric John Randolph called by one "the abortive child of talent and notoriety." We extract the following in reference to his singular appear ance and peculiarities: "Let me introduce my sketch by a rflbiked contrast. Over the fireplace of one of the apartments at Roanoke, hung, not many years ago, the portrait of a boy of twelve, by Gilbert Stuart. In the rosy complexion, the bright plump cheeks, the laughing eyes, and beautilul lips of the boy, you saw and felt the fresh charms of youth,the innocent and sweet grace of childhood. One who knew the original once held up his hands and exclaimed, "I never saw such a beautiful boy!" His skin was peculiarly thin and del icate, and the warm blood played visibly be neath.' In the happy eyes and ingeneous lips, every motion was distinctly revealed. Such was Randolph at twenty years of age. What was he at fifty or even forty ? I examined his portrait some time since with melancholy in terest. The keen eyes fixed coldly and stead ily on the beholder defied every attempt to read the thought of the brain underneath. The hair parted in the middle and gathered behind the ears, had lost the youthful gloss of old days, and was stiff and intractable. The hi ight cheeks had become sallow and shrunken. Bitter tears had dimmed the bright eyes once so brilliant ; midnight agony and groans had wasted the round cheeks : between the smil ing portrait of Gilbert Stuart and the picture I looked on of the aged man.there was scarce ly, any resemblance to be discovered. . Randolph's figure, like his face, was full of singulai eccentricity. Tall, angular, thin as a shadow, ho resembled rather some ghost from another world, than a verrtable bein of flesh and blood. His limbs were wonderfully slender, and the fashion of the time served to display this peculiarity to its fullest extent. He wore small clothes so tight that they seem ed to bo a part of his person ; and the snow white stockings, fastened at the knees by a small gold buckle, fitted as closely as the cu ticle almost. Over these, and reaching mid way the calf, were a pair of coarse, country knit yarn stockings, or "hose," as they were then called. His shoes were of the old revo lutionary fashion, with huge buckles his coat ample, and buttoned tightly around his slen der woman-like waist ; his chin half buried itself in the folds of a great white cravat, aud the dry flaxen hair was surmounted by a fur cap. The movements of this singular figure were as unique as the costume. In walking, Randolph followed the Indian fashion, placing the foot straight in front the toes inclined neither inward nor outward. A fanciful mind might have attributed this peculiarity to his Indian blood, for he was descended in the seventh degree from the Princess Pocohontas. Moving quickly and slowly by starts, with head thrown back, and th keen eyes spark ling beneath the rim of his dark fur cap, often muttering to himself, to wake consciousness of the world around him, and stride on rapidly to his lonely apartment this singular figure was eminently calculated to attract the atten tion ot every one, whether it moved over the familiar court greens of Virginia, or iu the streets of Washington or London. In both of these cities he was the "observed of all obser vers." The metropolis of England, where physical peculiarities and eccentricities are met with incessantly, could furnish nothing stranger than the form of the orator of Vir ginia. In Washington, Baltimore, Philadel phia, and Richmond, he was the mark.of all eyes to be pointed out with the finger. Boys often followed him, but rarely laughed, or in dulged in those practical jokes so congenial to the mischeivous minds of youth. They trooped after Randolph, as one who witnessed the sight declares, "in silent and curious won der." This notoriety annoyed him, but led to no alteration in his costume. He always m de use of his private vehicle either a coach dragged onward by four blooded horses, or a sulky drawn-by a fast trotter. II was generally driven by Jupiter, his body servant "Jnba" was his familiar name, a warm hear ted and faithful retainer, who loved his master with extreme affection, and clung to him in sickness and health, in joy and sorrow. On a par with his singularity of dress and personal appearance.were the manner of speak ing, tone of voice, gesticulation in public ad dress, and habits in general of the individual. His voice was high pitched, and? under strong excitement, it rose to a shrill key, which pen etrated to the farthest limits of the greatest crowd, and was heard above the loudest up roar. There was a satirical and ironical de liberation in the shrill invective thus uttered, which produced a curious impression upon the listener. Once heard in his moments of cold passion,if I may so spcak,Randolph was never forgotten The use which he made of his long thin fore-finger, is well known. He would sometimes stand for several moments perfectly Bilent with his penetrating eye rive ted upon the person whom he addressed, or of whom he spoke, and tho ghostly, finger and long angular arm moving slowly up and down when those who were f amiliar with his habit knew that he was reflecting and arranging in the depths of his mind the very words and turns of phrase of sarcasm or invective which he designed. ' '. ."'' ' . : ' Many anecdotes are related of the effect pro duced by the voice and finger as when, after a violent denunciation of his character and career from a young member of the House, he rose quietly,and stretching out his arm, said, in calm indifferent tones, "Mr. Speaker, who is that gentleman ?" It .was impossible not to be interested in his speeches, tor they are ex quisitely choice in their phraseology ; and no sentence passed bis lips which had not first been framed and polished carefully, so to speak, in his mind. Often his gestures were dramatic and expressive as when he render ed up his public trust.after the Old Convention of which I have spoken. "It is time for me to retire and stand before another and higher tribunal," he said solemnly, "wuere a verdict of acquittal will be of infinitely more impor tance than any from an earthly tribunal. Ilere is the trust which you placed in my hands twenty-eight years ago." Then stooping for ward and extending his arms as though he rolled a great weight toward his hearers, "take it back! take it back !" he said, and mount ing his horse without further words, rode off. Throughout his entire life, from the day in March, 1799, when he' mounted the rostiuui from which Patrick Henry had just descend ed', to his sorrowful death in May, 1833, his peculiarities of speaking, acting, dressing, and living, attracted Universal attention. OLD HOSS YOU'RE TOO LATE. This is a great country for jokes,and Ke have just heard one that is too good to keep : Early this morning there were added to our company of travelers a pair who looked like runaways ; the gentleman was a tall, raw-boned specimen ot the "half-horse, half-alligator" class, and the lady a fair match for him. A mong the passengers from Napoleon, is a sol emn looking gentleman who has all along been taken for a preacher. About nine o'clock last night I was conversing with the "reverend" gentleman, when a young man stepped up, and addressing him, remarked, "We aie going to have a wedding, and would like to have you officiate." "All right, sir," he replied laugh ingly, and we stepped into the cabin, when sure enough, the couple stood waiting. There had been some "kissing games" and several mock marriages gone through with du ring the evening.and I supposed this wgs mere ly a continuation of the sport ; and so thought the preacher, who, I could se, had a good deal of humor in him, and was inclined to pro mote general good feeling and merriment. The couple stood up before him, (a good deal more solemn than was necessary in a mock marriage, I thought,) and the "preacher" ask ed the necessary questions, and then proceed ing in the usual way, announced them hus band a wife. " There' was a good deal of fun afterward, and when it was over I left the cabin and so did the "preacher," who remarked to me that he liked to see the young folks enjoy themselves, and took agood deal ol pleasure in contributing to their fun ; but he did not understand why they should select him to act as preacher. Just then some one called mo aside, and the old gentleman stepped into the state-room, which was next to mine. When I returned the door stood open, and the "preacher'! stood just inside, with his coat and vest off, and one boot in his hand, talking with the gentleman who'played the "attend ant," and who,as I came up,remarked : "Well, if that is the case it is a good joke, for they are in dead earnest, and have retired to the same state-room." . The old gentleman raised both hands as he exclaimed : "Good heavens, you don't tell me so !" and rushing just as he was, boot in hand, to the state-room indicated, commenced an as sault on the door as if he would batter it down, exclaiming at each lick : "For Heavens5 sake don't, I ain't a preacher !" The whole cabin was aroused, every state room flying open with a slam, when the door opened,' and the "Arkansas traveller," poking out his head, coolly remarked : "Old boss, you're too late." DlSSIPATIOS AMONG THE AMERICAN'S. We are, beyond question, the most dissipated peo ple In the world. We defy the production of a record of "any race of men in any age so thoroughly immersed in dissipation as the A mericans. The Russians drink seventy mil lion gallons of brandy per year; the Germans use incalculable quantities of beer and wine; the French, Italians, Spanish, Portuguese, and all the inhabitants on the Mediterranean, in dulge in the use of vinous liquors ; the domes tic Irish drink whisky ; the English swim in ale, porter and high-proof brandies ; the Amer icans drink anything and everything that will inflame the esophagus and intoxicate the brain. As a general rule, we care nothing in this country for quality ; our aim is quantity. The Americans drink as tho' they were under penal bonds to the manufacturers of liquor. They consider their heads as so many volcanos.which must always be in a condition for an eruption. It is certainly high time to begin to look at this matter seriously. .The dissipation among the young men of our large cities, frightful as it is, is increasing evyry moment There are probably ten thousand young men in New York who have not been absolutely sober for three years, and twenty thousand more who are in the habit, at least once a week, of throwing off all restraint, and reeling through the brothels and various hells which form a large part of the sub-stratum of metropolitan lite. There are an hundred thousand men of all ages in New York alone who drink large quantities of poisonous liquors every day. Of the myriads who moderately indulge in the use of corrupt stimulating fluids.it were utterly vain to speak. The young men of our cities are not prepar ed, like those of the country, to resist shocks of disease ; their bodies are fragile, like plants shut in from the sun, and infinitessimal quanti ties of deadly poison derange the blood and madden the brain. The police reports of New York develop the astounding fact that nearly all the crimes with whose horrible details the columns ol' the press are filled, may be traced directly or iudirectly to the villainous liquors of America. What is to be done ? A curious trial was recently held at Middle sex Sessions, in England. Thomas Saverland, the prosecutor, stated that he was in the room where the defendant, Caroline Newton, and her sister, who had come from Birmingham, were present. The latter jokingly observed that she had promised her sweetheart that no man should kiss Ler while absent. It being holliday-timc, Saverland considered this as a challenge, and caught hold of her and kissed her. The young woman took it as a joke, but her sister, the defendant, said she would like as little of that fun as" be pleased. Saverland told her if she was angry he would kiss her also; ha then tried to-do it, and they fell to the ground. On rising, the woman struck him ; he again tried to kiss her, and in the scuffle she bit off his nose. The action was brought to recover damages for the loss of the nose. The defendant said he had no business to kiss her; if she wanted kissing she had a husband to kiss her abetter looking man than ever the prosecutor was. The juty, without hesita tion, acquitted her j aud the chairman said that if any man attempted to kiss a woman -gainst her will, she had a perfect right to bite off bis nose, if she had a fancy for so doing. A Blind man in Paris has a placard on his breast which reads as follows, "Give to-day, lor God will return it to-morrow." A joker suspended another over it, which reeds thus : I'm an old humbug, and proprietor of five houses. Give all your money to the cripple opposite." - You win a woman by appealing to her im pulses ; you win a man y appealing to his in terests. It is all the difference between ' a compliment and a bribe. . There are ten million dollars worth of pro perty in Philadelphia exempt from taxation. The city has three hundred and ten churches. SABBATH PHYSIOLOGY. The Almighty rested one seventh of the timo of creation, commanding man to observe an e qual repose. The neglect of this injunction, will alwrrs, sooner or' later, bring mental, mor al and physical death'. .Rest is an invariable law of animal life. The busy heart beafs, fctats ever, from infancy to age, and yet for a largo part of the time, it is in a state of repose. William Pitt died ot apoplexy at the early ( age of forty-seven. When the destinies. of na tions hung in a large measure on his doings', he felt compelled to give an unremitting atten tion to affairs of state. Sabbath brought no' rest to him ; and soon the unwilling brain pavo signs of exhaustion. But his presence in Par liament was conceived to be indispensable fof explanation and defence ot the pubfic policy.' Under such circumstances, it was his custom to eat heartily of substantial food, most highly seasoned, just before going to his place, in or der to afford the body that strength, and to' excite the mind to that activity deemed ne cessary to the momentous occasion. Under the high tension, both brain and body perished prematurely. Not long ago, one 6T the most active busi ness men of England found his affairs' so' ex tended, that be deliberately determined to de vote his sabbaths t his accounts. He bad a mind of a wide grasp. His views were so com prehensive, so far seeing that wealth came in upon him like a flood. He purchased a coun- try seat at a cost of fonr hundred thousand dollars, determined that he-would now have rest and quiet. But it was too late. As he stepped on his threshold, after a survey ot his late purchase, he became apoplectic. AI-, though life was not destroyed, he only lives" to' be the wreck of a man. . It used to be said that a brick kiln must bo kept burning over Sabbath; it is now known to be a fallacy. There must be no must' a gainst a divine command. Even now, it is a received opinion, that iron blast furnaces will, bring ruin if not kept in continual operation. Eighteen years ago, an Englishman determin ed to keep the Sabbath holy as to them, with' the result, as his books testified, that he made, more iron in a given time, in proportion to the hand and the number and size of his fnrnaces, than any establishment in England which was kept in operation during the Sabbath. ' In our own New York the mind of a man who made half a million a year, went out in' the night of madness and an early grave in" only two years, from the very strain put upon it by a variety of enterprises, every one of which succeeded. It will take about fivCyears .to'reel them off," said an observant master of an Ohio ca nal boat, alluding to the wearing out influen ces on the boatmen, and firemen of steamers on the Western rivers, which never lay by on the Sabbath, seven years is the average of life.' The observance, therefore, of the seventh por tion of onr time for the purpose-of rest, is de nionstrablyaphysiological necessity, a law of our nature. Hall's Journal of Health. " The Do-as-you-like PRixciPLE.-Tlie InAe pendent, in an article on the physical degene racy of the American people, lias the follow ing true and important remark : . "The child's will governs tqo much! If they do not choose to go to bed they sit up;, if they choose certain articles of food.they must have them parents forgetting that instinct is no safe guide in a child, whatever it may be in an animal. So we see them, with their del icate organization, keeping late hours, when they should go to bed with the birds ; sleep ing often in warn and lighted rooms, wheh'the sleeping room should be cool and dark ;' and eating hot bread and cakes, sweet meatsj meat and vegetables, pastry and' pudding ; drink ing tea and coffee, to the infinite detriment of stomach and nerves. The injury thus early done can never be repaired; as a machine imperfectly constructed in the beginning can never be made to run laultlessJy." This is the secret. Parents should know that "instinct is no safe guide to a' child," particularly when a child is surroundoct on all sides with poisonous delicacies." ..To ask a child, seated at a modern table, what it wilt have, and to give it what it asks for, merely because it asks for it, is a very common prac-' tice. But it is as cruel as it is common. Have mercy upon the children. She "Flu tue!; Track!" A Mississippi county clerk, having issued a marriage license for a young man, shortly alter received the following note from lifm : "Sleatcof Miss July the o 18-39 Mr. Moody pies let This matter stand 'over until further orders the girl has Flu the track By her own Request and Release my name olTof this bond if you pies." . A 'good one' was got off at one ol the White' Mountain hotels, a few days since. A traveler came down too early for breakfast, having mis taken the fii st bell for the second. "Is that the breakfast bell ?" he inquired of Tom, who,! as usual, was studying his acconfttsTn the cor ner. "No," was his reply, drawled out very seriously, "that's the rcsrrefftobel!:' Exit traveler, wiih a exclamation.; r .. . . .. , Tho number of Communicant's" iri Regular' Baptist Churches on this continent issrfcf down at 1,062,681, being an increase during the last year of 74,033 communicants over, and abovei deaths and excluded members". There are al so 531,883 persons who are reported as mem--bcrs of churches which" pVadtic'c"" immersion,' though not Regular Uaptists. Mr. J. Y. Brown, who was re'e'ently elected, to Congress in the fifth district of Kentucky is under the age required by the constitution. It is stated that he will not present himself for the purpose of taking a seat at tho opening ot the session. He is a Democrat. . Piggies would like to know what kind of a broom the young woman in the last novH used, when she "swept back the raven ringlets from her classic brow. '.. - :. . .... l Tho general belief is that diseases of tho stomach are caused tjy a bad liver. A "good liver" brings them about nultti .nVrin. A chaplain at a State Txisou was asked by a friend how his parishoners were, "All under conviction,"'was tho reply. - - n ' - Alfred Teunyson,.the poet, talks of comlny. to this country. An opening for toadies. - 0 ff Horace Greeley savs there ' aro 30,000 emU grants oa the road to California. 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