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VOL. 6.-JT0. 5,
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1859.
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IF I DIE FIRST.
If I die first, dear lore,
My mournful soul made free.
Shall sit at heaven's high portal,
To wait and watch for thee
To wait and watch for thee, love,
And thro' the deep, dark space
To peer, with human longings,
For thy radiant face.
'Mid all the stars of heaven.
One only shall I see
The earth-star of my papsion,
llalf-Ilearen for holding thee
All Heaven for holding thee, love,
And brightest of the spheres,
By thy smile illumined.
Or hallowed by thy tears.
If I die first, dear love
I feel that this shall be.
For Heaven will not be Heaven,
Until I can see thee.
Until its shared with thee, lo7c,
Irll linger at the gate;
s Or be thy guardian angel.
To teach thee how to wait.
And when thine hour shall come,
And thro the yielding night,
I see thy happy spirit
Upsoaring, robed in light.
.Mine shall eo forth to meet thee.
And thro7 the eternal door, K ..
Pass in with thee, rejoicing, . .
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OR, REMINISCENCES OF THE PAST.
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It is a rare thing lor the river to rise to such
a bight as to do much damage or cause any ap
prehension ol danger. When much above the
ordinary running freshet, a few snail bridges
and some fences are cairied off. The princi
pal and most reliable freshet is that of the
spring caused by the melting of the snow.
The most remarkable rises, however, which
have fallen under the observation of our citi
zens, have occurred late in the year, and were
caused by the large quantity of rain which had
fallen within a short period. In November,
1811, the river and small streams emptying in
to it rose higher than they were ever known
to rise before or since. The river overflowed
its banks and at some points presented the ap
pearance of a vast lake. Bridges, fences in
the vicinity of the stream, and some live stock,
were swept away by the wild and rushing cur
rent. In this county the damage was trifling,
but in the lower counties the loss occasioned
by the flood was great. During some time
fbo ptream was literally covered with pump
kins which had been torn from their vines, and
hence originated the name by which this fresh
et has been designated "the pnmpkin flood."
In the fall of 1847, another flood occurred, in
which the water reached within a few inches
the stage attained in 1811. The inmates of
several houses built near the stream were com
pelled to abandon the lower floor, by the water
which rushed over it, and one hous3 on the
Sinncmahoning, in which were a lady and her
three children, was floated down stream. Pig
jens, chicken coops, rails, lumber, portions of
dams, spans of bridges and drift floating on
the bosom or the river, told the tale of de
struction, which could not at tho time be ac
curately ascertained because of the impassable
condition of the overflown roads-VThis flood
destroyed many of the principal bridges on the
main stream, and caused much loss. was
dnring this flood that the Ringote mill on
Clearfield creek, owned by Kratzer & Barrett,
left itaj oundation and floated some thirty miles
down stream, when it was arrestedin its course
by the Karthaus bridge. Since then we have
been visited by, only ono flood of threatening
aspect. It occurred near Christmas in 1851.
A fall of snow, followed by a heavy rain, caus
ed the river to rise suddenly. Oi.r Court was
then in session, and many anxious ones were
hemmed in by the waters which completely
surrounded the county seat.- All things seem
ed to indicate a greater and more disastrous
freshet than had formerly been experienced,
but the cold caused the water to assuage, and
relieved of their apprehensions those whose
property was threatened.
A sudden rise in the early part of the year,
when the river is lined with rafts ready lor, or
on their way to market, is most fraught with
danger. Whole fleets are tWn liable to be
torn from their fastenings and destroyed,
whilst those who have them in command, worn
cut with the fatigue of raiting and running,
Jie almost unfitted to watch over their proper
ty. Notwithstanding the exposure and toil
connected with a trip down the river on a raft,
such a voyage is a pleasure to be sought and
remembered. The scene is ever varying. At
one time you may bo attracted by a farm, and
whilst thinking how happy one could live in
that neatly painted house nestling under the
lii!l, you become completely surrounded by
fountains rising abtuptly and high abovo the
'iter's edge, and the serpentine course of the
river cuts oft" all view of an entrance to, or a
passage from your position. During your
rapid course you glance at hills covered with
dense, ever-living foliage, and sometimes huge
l'iles of rocks, devoid of vegetation. Here
and there are isolated farms. Occasionally on
cte or on either side is the valley, with hills
rising slowly in the distance, and now and then
a thriving country village or town comes into
sight. The appearance of a lumbering estab
lihhmenl or other mill is to a raftsman, at first,
a cause of excitement and anxiety. The
dreaded schute passed, you can more calmly
look upon surrounding scenes. Going through
falls, -where a speed greater than that obtained
n the best railroads is attained, an involunta
ry, shudder passes o'er the frame, when reflect
ing on the consequences of a wrong stroke of
the oar. But you have had scarce a moment
for reflection whilst passing over a mile of
rough and rapid water, and your breath is re
gained when you observe yur craft moving
more slowly along and out of danger. A night
passed in the "Little Basin," with the earth
for a couch, the heavens for its canopy, and
the stars for your watchers a few nights pass
ek in rude stopping places, where etiquette is
banished and those keen of appetite and quick
of foot fare best at the table, and the most fa
tigued first select a soft plank for a bed. these,
with the joke and the dance and the song,
would drive away ennui and fill up a week in
the life of any mortal.
But should you determine upon a first trip
beware of the practical jokes which are played
upon green hands, and remember that it will
be your duty to drive a nail in the side of the
raft to note the rise or fall of the water during
the night; that fatigued though you be you
will be expected to bale the raft on the first
night of landing ; and that although your hair
may be standing on edge with fright as you
make your maiden trip thronghCanawaga falls,
toyou will be left the delicate and dangerous
task of driving in the forward oar pin.
It is no uncommon thing for our lumbermen
whilst on their way to market to be compelled
to stop where the coarsest fare is provided for
them at the highest price. But few are the
complaints, for appetite gives a zest. But when
it is served up without regard to taste or clean
liness they wish they were at home where the
wife spreads the unspotted linen and pours out
the invigorating beverage which seems sweet
enough out of her hands. In illustration of
what the rat f am en sometimes experience a re
cent occurrence might be related. A Gram
pian Hill crew under command of tho owner
of the craft started on an unexpected rise in
the river. Want of time for preparation pre
vented the owner obtaining the usual supply
of bread. At night the raft was landed at a
well known landing place and the crew were
voracious. Among the hands was an Irishman,
who was for the first time on a raft. When
nearing the house where the party must re
main over night he was not much taken with
the appearance of things, but he consoled him
self with the thought that despite a rough ex
terior all might be right within. A soiled and
coarse table cloth would not have preveuted
him partaking of the food which was loaded
on the table, but when he saw the hostess pick
her teeth with a fork which was placed at the
seat that in the rush to the table was left for
him he went supperless to bed. Hunger over
comes many scruples. In the morning he es
sayed to partake of breakfast, but before the
task was completed an uneasy sensation about
the abdominal region, Induced by what he had
scenjiuring the meal, warned him to leave the
room quickly, and he soon was as though he
had not ate. Towards noon of that day he
saw the owner eating some light biscuit and
enquired where they were, remarking at the
time that he was faint and ravenous. On be
ing informed of their whereabouts he provi-
Ul?d himself with three, two of which he had
devoured before he again approached the own
er. His hunger somewhat appeased he could
then observe that tho biscuit neither present
ed the taste nor appearance of those manufac
tured by" a good housewife. He remarked to
the owner that had he not brought the cakes
from home, he should have believed that they
had been purchased at s. "And you would
not have been far wrong in thinking so," re
plied the boss, "for I bought them at s this
morning." At these words the hand, to use a
common saying, went to n-e-w y-o-r-k.
(TO BE COSTJXrED.) .
A Mystery of the Past. An immense cat
acomb can be seen at Rothwell, in the interior
of England, near the direct route lrom Liver
pool to Loudon. It is an immense vault built
of masonry, under a church which dates back
apparently for its first erection to about the
year 1150, and contains the skeletons of thir
teen thousand men, probably warriors of great
size, piled up in regular order, so that sculls
and large bones only appear on the outside of
the piles. The skulls show marks of spear
and hatchet, but no gunshot wounds, and their
owners probably fell in mortal conflict, ante
rior to the invention of gunpowder. The vault
was discovered by accident one hundred and
xty years ago, and has no connectioa with
the church as far as known ; in fact, the mys
tery of the affair is, that there is no historical
evidence nor traditionary legend which throws
the least light upon the obscurity of its erec
tion. No anatomist, historian, ethnologist, an
tiquarian, nor savant of any stripe, has been a
ble to decide the people even, to whom these
bones once belonged. Were they native Sax
ons, or Romans, Danes, Normans, or what 1
Nobody has more than guessed. A plausible
theory is that they belonged to Danish inva
ders, slain by the Saxons about the year 1100;
still this is but a probability.
In Mariposa County, California, three men
who are working a vein situated near the Bon
durant Mill, divided the respectable amount of
101 pounds 9 ounces and 12 dollars of gold,
which they had pounded out in hand mortars,
tho proceeds of six davs' work. At $17 the
ounce it is equal to $29,763. The party are
working the vein on shares, and have two
thirds of the gold for their labor.
Patrick Macfinigan, with a ohe-wheeled car,
ran a race with a locomotive. As the latter
went out of sight, fac observed : "Afl wid
ye, ye roarin' blaggard, or I'll be after run
nin' into yces."
The human brain is the 28th part of tho
body, but in tho horse but a lonr-aimdrcdth.
- THE MANIAC'S SERMON. 1
AN AFFECTING CAMP MEETING INCIDENT.
It was eleven o'clock on Sabbath morning.
Two sermons had been preached during the
forenoon; and the "horn" had been blown an
nounciDg.tbe tbirtli'iiTbe people flocked into
the meeting bf thonsfnasfor a very popular
divine was to preach at that honf . Soon the
rough seats beneath the tall forest-trees were
filled, then the aisles became crowded," till
there was no room for those who wished to
hear the eminent minister. The owners of the'
tenement looking into the space, in a spirit of
kindness threw them open, and they, too,were
well filled ; with eager listeners. .. The. scene
presented within, that church of trees, a natu
ral temple tQ ffce- Jjfing God, was striking and
impressive. -.' i-? -
The eloquent minister who had swayd thou
sands by the words of truth, .who had caused
the sinlul to repent, and the scoffer to cry out
for mercy, arose. All was instantly hushed,
and the stillness of midnight reigned in that
vast assemblage. He opened a book and lead
therefrom softly, sweetly, musically, a hymn,
which he requested the congregation to sing.
The mutic of a camp meeting! who that has
ever heard it, has not paused to drink the rich
melody into his soul 1 It comes with a gran
deur, yet softness and sweetness, that can be
heard nowhere else. In the measured strains
of a multitude of voices, uttered in charming
raelodj', and unbroken by walls, it swells iu
solemn grandeur and rolls deliciously through
the forest, awakening re-echoing cadences on
every hand, and
Untwisting all the chains that tie
The hidden soul of harmony.
Alter the hymn had been sung, the minister
offered up a brief, eloquent prayer, and then
took his seat. He had taken the Bible on his
knee, and was searching tor his text, when he
and the whole congregation were startled by
the appearance ol the. maniac Smith.
The young lunatic, who was known to near
ly all present, ascended the pulpit with folded
arms, bowed head and slow and steady pace.
Facing the immense congiegation, he gazed
carelully around, and amid breathless silence,
spread forth his hands, and in the most thril
ling manner said :
"i'our music is the music of Heaven. The
pretty birds in yonder tree-tops are bearing it
with their songs to the lips of angels above,
who will convey it as sweet incense to the om
nipotent throne of God. Joy is thine, O Is
rael ! You possess the living soul that rejoi
ces in the light of reason, that laves in waters
of purest love, and rejoices in the glory of
immortality. My soul is dead ! A cherished
child of piety, I became recreant to the God
who gave me being, and sold my life, my hap
piuess, my immortality,to the Prince of Dark
ness. Like the traveller who has a well-tiod-den
path before him, but is attracted to dan
gerous places by the gaudy show of some
poisonous flower,! have wandered to my death !
My feet were placed in the straight and nar
row way, and were covered with the sandals of
piety, the Christian staff was placed in my
h:tnds,and yet,OGod, I wandeied to my death !
The gaudy bauble of vice, the showy, yet
thorny flowers of wickedness, drew me aside.
I left the smooth surface and ascended the
moutains of trouble, and yet I gained not the
object of my pursuit. On I dashed, reckless
and indifferent to my fate. The wicked one
who sought my destruction, led me on, and I,
cursed with remorse, followed- 1 knew I was
plunging into ruin ; but with a soul already
accursed, what cared I ? Voluntarily I had
sought death, and it came. It was one night,
and O ! a fearful night it was to me. Exhau
sted, doomed, and cursed. I was still clam
bering up the mountain of sin. I came to a
chasm, deep and fearful! Death, eternal
death, stared rne in the face, and 1 screamed
pitcously lor help! No one came to help me.
My companions in vice listened not to my
cries, and he to whom I sold my soul derided
rue in mockery ! I was moved on nearer and
nearer to the precipice. Frantically, I grasp
ed J3ch shrub and rocky prominence' which
lay jn my wa3,but they crumbled in my hands.
I reached the edge of the precipice ! I glan
ced into that deep abyss of death ! O! terror !
terror ! I pleaded with heaven for mercy ; but
great God ! it was too late !
"My sin-covered soul trembled with tbo
agony it suffered, and was piteous in its ap
peals. But the thunder told me, 'Too late.'
The lightning told mo Too late ' 1 lelt my
self going over the precipice. -1 clung with
tenacity to everything within my reach buj,
nothing could save me. I shrieked ! I groan
ed ! Doom to perdition went my soul "
Hero the maniac paused. His vived por
traiture of the loss of his soul had startled
the whole congregation, some of whom shriek
ed outright as he represented his soul's fright
ful desceut into perdition. He paused a min
ute only. Then, calm again, he softly said
"I am living without a soul ! You. peoplo
of God, may sing your praises, for it is sweet
incense to your soul. But you, sinners," and
hero he again become excited in manncr,"but
you sinners must repent this day,or your souls
will go after mine over that deep, dark, fearful
abyss into hell I Will you repent, or go with
me into eternal perditit H ?"
The effect of this was more than terrific.
Screams and groans arose from the . gay and
giddy in the congregation
A year or two before, this young man was
brought homo insensibly drunk. The next
morning found him the victim of a terrible
lever, brought on by his sensual indulgences,
and his extravagant course of life. Of that
fever he was.after many fearful dayt,and much
tender care by his relatives, cured ; but it left
him a raving maniac, a hopeless lunatic. So
fearful were his mad efforts, it became neces
sary to confine him in a Lunatic Asylum, to
keep him from perpetrating mischief upon him
self and others. He remained until within a
few weeks of the camp meeting, when he be
came sufficiently restored to return to the
custody of his family. He was still insane,
but he was mild and obedient ; and under
those circumstances he was taken with the
family to the camp meeting, the utmost vigi
lance being exercised over him. .
Young men, beware of the cup, the destroy
er of the body, and worse.the destroyer of the
soul. Manna in the Wilderness.
Pennsylvania Triumphant. It will be a
source of gratification to Pennsylvanians to
know that at tbo late national exhibition by
the United States Agricultural Society, held
at Chicago, the two highest honors were awar
ded to Pennsylvania exhibitors one to Mr.
Fawkes, of Lancaster, for his great American
Steam Plow, and the other to the nope Steam
Fire Engine, of Philadelphia.
THE LOUDON LOCKS.
We have already published several extracts
from a series of interesting letters from Europe
written by Rev. John Matthews for the N. Y.
Scalpel. We make another, viz :
Tiie London Docks. I had previously visi
ted the East and West-India docks, but we
were anxious to visit this, the most celebrated
of all, because the first and most costly of all
those establishments. These vast works are
part. of the great series which compensate in
a measure for the disadvantages under which
London otherwise would lie, as a great com
mercial city. These magnificent works de
signed by Rennie, the architect of Waterloo
Bridge, were first opened in 1S05 ; although
among the smallest of them,' these are the
most interesting to the general visitor. Tho
docks we are accustomed to see in New-York
are very different fiom those of London. The
Thames near the city is too shallow and nar
row for vesselsof large size to lie at anchor
in the stream, and to. remedy this disadvan
tage, large reservoirs covering hundreds of
acres of ground, are excavated in the main
land, communicating with the river by means
of canals with locks or gates. Moored within
these vast basins, thousands of vessels from
all quarters of the globe discharge their am
ple cargoes, and in the immense warehouses
may be seen all the varied productions of the
earth. There are gathered the choicest pro
duct of the vines of Portugal, Spain, France,
and Germany ; the cotton and tobacco ol A
merica, the ivory, gold, and spices of India
and Africa, the silks and teas of China, and
the coffee of Arabia and the Indies.
This magnificent establishment covers over
ninety acres forty-nine acres of warehouses,
thirty four acres of water, and twenty acres of
vaults, and cost four million pounds sterling.
The tobacco warehouse covers five acres, arid
the eastern vault about eleven acres, and con
tains many thousand pipes of wine. A visit
to this vault is quite interesting,and numerous
parties, including ladies, may be seen with
their torches wandering under its dark arches.
Having provided ourselves with a guide, we
descended to the entrance where we were fur
nished with the lamp-torches, and entering
through a broad door-way, we stood within its
damp and mouldy arches. Before us was an
aisle or tunnel with blackened columns and
roof, from which was suspended a long row of
oil Iamps,which twinkled through the distance
until the light faded in that gloomy atmos
phere, and hardly seemed to make darkness
visible. A strange odor of wine, decayed
wood, and oil-smoke from the numerous lamps,
filled the atmosphere,but as we wound through
its gloomy labryrinthine passages, we saw the
torches of other parties who were making the
tour, and the waving of lights by invisible
hands produced a singular effect in so dismal
a place. Luxuriant festoons ol datk fungi
and moss-like excrescences were suspended
from the roof, and became more and more nu
merous as we proceeded onward in the gloom.
On each side of us were heaped countless casks
of wine covered with mould and damp fungi.
In our tour we saw several parties who had
provided themselves with what are termed in
complimentary Ianguage,"irt ne-ig orders,"
but judging from the extraordinary avid
ity with which several Individuals poured down
the exhilarating beverage, it would be more
proper to term them "drinking orders." The
damp and chilly atmosphere, however, made
us glad to avail ourselves of an order procured
by a fri'-nd, to try some of the old port, which
our guide drew irom a mouldy cask, and pre
sented to na for our delectation. I confess
that we all dida little more than taste the ruby
and cheering beverage ; our keen appreciation
of flavors, would not permit us to pass by
these "original packages" without a thorough
estimate of their coments. We consoled
ourselves, however, on leaving, that by tasting
we had averted some of the evils that might
have befallen us had we been so imprudent as
to ventare into so unnatural a place, unprotec
ted by a slight stimulant. We admit that our
party did feel a slight exhilaration on reach
ing again the surface of the busy world, but I
attribute that to the sudden transition from
those tomb-like vaults to cheerful daylight.
From the vanlts we proceeded to the great
tobacco warehouse, an immense structure,
covering five acres of ground, with accommo
dations undnr its roof for twenty-five thousand
hogsheads of the "weed." You need not in
quire the way, for an atmosphere of the nar
cotic surrounds the building ; as you walk
along its passages, hnge hogsheads are no
ticed, piled up far above you on either side.
I never before conceived of the enormous
consumption of tobacco, but here one may
form a slight idea for there is more tobacco
under this root than any where else on the
globe. Vast rooms in the edifice are devoted
to the storage of cigars. In one corner of the
inclosure is a kiln where the .unclaimed and
damaged tobacco is burned. The chimney,
which is constantly vomiting fourth tobacco
smoke, is called by the workmen "the Queen's
Pipe.' Her majesty certainly consumes
great quantities of tobacco, for in one corner
I saw about seven tons of iron and nails.wbich
were raked from the ashes ashes after the
scrap-tobacco is consumed. In the dock-yard,
hundreds of men were rolling merchandise of
every description to and from the different
vessels, whose masts rise on every side. I
peeped into the drug warehouse, but the at
mosphere was so laden with medicated vapors
that 1 quickly turned away, and again sought
the streets. If any person wishes to form an
idea of the trade of London, let him visit the
docks.
She Can Travel. On Friday morning last,
as a train was leaving the Rochester depot, a
lady discovered that her satchel had been sto
len. It was found under a seat occupied by a
well-hooped and good looking young woman.
A wallet containing $ti was missing, and an
officer suspecting the young woman to be the
thief, asked her name, which she refused to
give. He asked where she lived, and she was
equally incommunicative. He asked where
she was going, and she said it was none of his
business. Her occupation was then demanded,
and she said she did what she pleased. She
was taken into a private room and searched,
but nothing was found. The search being
over, she coolly returned to her scat, and was
soon apparently interesed in the pages of a
yellow-covered novel. , ,
Moses seeing a chap hoeing and "another
mowing, in the same field, remarked that their
occupations were decidedly Ao-mou--genious.
The pulse of children is ISO in a minute; at
puberty it is 80, and at 60 it is only 60.
MARRIED MEN'S "WEAKNESSES.
The "Disbanded Volunteer," whose philo
sophical observations have attracted the notice
and obtained the praise of many, thus discour
sed on a subject prompted by a 'marrid lady
"A marrid lady having airnestly rekwested
my vews on the subjeck of marrid men goin'
tu clubs and lodges, and carryin' nite-keys, I
wunst more seeze my pen tn state wot I think,
in my opiny in, ort to be the baring of husbands
toards thar wyves, hopin' to tetch the fcalin's
of all catterwaulin' Benny Dicks as shoots a
round arterdark, by a few morril remarks on
her onhappy tale. She sez, in a "billy' now
lyin before, me, and witch I hev cvry reason
to beleve vorashis, that her spows blongs to so
many societies that he mought os well not
blong to her at all. He takes his evening
meal tu hum, and that's the last of him, she
sez, until midnite or arter, when he corns back,
8mellin' fragrantly of mereshoms and Borbun
wisky, and, without givin' her a kiss or a
skweedge, turns in with bis back to her, and
sleeps like a log till the breakfast bell rings.
My corryspondent remarks that this ain't the
kinder usidge she bargined fur, and wants to
no if I think it's a decent way to behaiv to a
j-ung and buxuiu wife. Sartainly not. No
boddy, she allows, could be more ardent in his
attenshuns than be.wos doorin' tho bunny
moon, wen he spent evry evenin' to hum, but
sens he took to stayin' out at nites he seems
like an altered man. She concloods by axin'
wot she can do to brake him of his bad habits,
and bring him back to the dummestic sirkel of
witch he wos wunst the ornyment.
"The case of this poor abandoned fcmall is
not a solentary wun by a considrabul crowd.
Clubs is onfavorabul to connewbi .1 bliss, and a
marrid man has no more bizness with 'em than
Samson bed with his coconut in the lap of
Daylilee. For a man to play a club agen his
wife's hart, is a durued mean game; and the
husband as prefers goin' to lodge with the
Odd-Fellers to goin' hum to lodge with his
lorful bedfeller, desarves, in the langwidge of
Longfeller, (I think it must be Longfeller, bc
kase bees the poick of Injun life.) to be sent
to 'a lodge in sura vast wilderness, whar thar's
nuthin but a boundless consangwinity of
shade.' I skairsly know wot advice to give
my fair qnerest and uthers in setch a prcdicky
mcnt. Ef the'legislatur was settin' it mought
be a good plan to petishin lur a law agin ad
mittin' men inter privit organizashins without
thar wyves' consent, same as thar is agin let
tin' enny yung men under foreteen inter the
thea turs without thar gardeens. But seein'
as that august boddy doesent meet agin till
January, the wimmin must resort to persway
sive meshurs in the intrim. The three-legged
stool and gardin-rake sistem. bes been tride
and proovd onsncksessful. Gettin' inter a
man's bar oney raises his dander. Ef a hus
band is unrecsonabul, thar's better ways than
that of cuttin his comb for him. 1 reckymend
neglected wives to get up secret assosiashins
of thar own. Union is strength. Why hhould
ent they hev club-rooms, and play at poker
and billyards, as well as thar conjugial pard
ners 1 Ef a dissypated husband, on arrivin' at
his dummysill at 1 A. M., was informed by
the Biddy that Mrs. So-and-So was out atten
din' a meetin' of the Darters of Malta, or the
Marrid Rites Club, or the F. O. E. of M. A. N.
Society, heed purty soon begin to understand
wot o'clock it was, I reckin. Or she mought
send for one of her old bows to sit up with her
fur perteckshin ontil he cum in. Ef this last
menshined modicin diddent wurk, the case
mought be considered oncurabul ; but Ime in
clined to think that the si ray sheep would
prefer goin' back to the fold at the proper
time, to hevin his vakant place filled by ma
bee a wolf in sheep's clothin'.
"Failin' in the abuv treatment, I don't no
of enny uther speechies of morrill swashin as
would be likely to melt his obdurate hart.
Highstrikes is played out ; so is doggin' hus
bauds from place to place like a detective per
leeceman ; so is artiiishal pisinin' and sending
for the doctor and the stummick pump. How
sever, I hev known the wust cases of travelin'
around to be cured by smiles and tears and
tenderness and prehaps that's the right eend
to begin at. I predicate from the tone of my
corryspOndent's letter that shees ridin' the
high horse. Possibly she mought find it more
to her advantidge to dror it mild.
"With the deepest symparthy lor all marrid
wimmin cussed with unsatisfactory pardncrs,
and correspondin' contempt for all husbands
who neglecks their marrytal duties, I remanc,
yours, alius, A Disbanded Voli ntekr."
Anecdote of Gov. Seward. Cozzens, in
his last Wine Press, tells an old story ,which he
says few persons have not heard. When Gov
ernor of New York, Seward, in those pre-rail-road
days, had occasion to visit a certain part
of the State, and accordingly mounted on the
top of the mail coach, in order that he might
enjoy his cigar and the scenery. The driver
was an inquisitive fellow and his passenger hu
mored him. ''Land agent " said the driver.
"No," quoth Seward. '"Selling goods ?"
"No.' "Traveling preacher V "No.' "Cir
cus ?" "No." "What then ?" said the baf
fled driver, ''what is your business ?" "Gov
ernor," repliedSeward, with a tranquil puff.
"Governor o' what ?" "Governor of the State
of New York," replied the smoking passenger
with composure. "Get out!" " Well lean
convince you of that," said Seward, "for here
is a man on the road with whom I am acquain
ted," and, as the stage passed by, he saluted
him. "Good morning, Mr. Bunker, I want to
ask yon a question am I not the Governor of
the State of New York ?" "No, by thunder !'
was Bunker's unexpected answer. "Who is,
then ?" said the startled smoker. "Thurlow
Weed !"
It is said that a man named Cook, a drover,
has been missed from Chambersburg, Pennsyl
vania, since last April a year, and it is suppos
ed he may have been the victim of the '-mysterious
murder" at Harrisburg. Cook left
Chambersburg with a drove of cattle.which he
sold somewhere in tho neighborhood of Har
risburg. Part of the drove belonged to a gen
tleman in Chambersburg. The money for that
portion was duly forwarded to the owner, and
since that time, Cook has not been heard of.
It was at first supposed that he bad gone to
California.: " .
"Is Mr. Jones in ?" asked an Irishman of the
porter in a hotel. - "No," was the reply , "will
yoa leave your name 7" "Och, murther, do
yon think I'd be afther goin' widont a name 1"
A company of Zouaves has been formed in
New Orleans, their commander bavisg served
in one. of the corps in the Crimea.
. AN EXCITING ESCAPE. . -
Captain Thomson, one of the two English
men who survived after the escape from Cawn
pore, India, has written an account of the siego
and capture of that place, and of the atrocities
committed there. The description of the es
cape of the fortunate few- four in number at
first, but two have since died is very exciting.
Assailed by a mob of sepoys, they took refuge
in a temple, which the mob surrounded, and
having piled up faggots at the entrance, they
cut off' their retreat. "When the pile or fag
gots had reached the doorway, or nearly so,
they set them on fire, expecting to suffocate,
us ; but a strong breeze kindly sent the great
body of the smoke away from the interior of
the temple. Fearing that the suffocating at
mosphere would soon be insupportable, 1 pro
posed to themcp to sell their lives as dearly
as possible; but we stood until the wood had
sunk down into a pile of embers, and we be
gan to hope that we might brave out their tor
ture till night (apparently the ouly friend left
us) would let us get out for food and attempt
ed escape. But their next expedient compell-'
ed an evacuation ; for they brought bags of
gunpowder and threw them upon the red-hot
ashes. Delay would have been certain suffo
cation so out we rushed. The burning wood
terribly marred on r bare feet, but it was no
time to think of trifles. Jumping the parapet,
we were in the thick of the rabble in an in
stant ; we fired a volley and ran a muck with
the bayonet. Seven of our number succeeded
in reaching the bank of the river, and we first
threw in our guns and then threw in ourselves.
Tho weight of ammunition we had in our
pouches carried us under the water; while we
were thus submerged we escaped the first vol
ley that they fired. We slipped off the belts,
rose again, and swam ; and by the time they
had loaded a second time, there were only
heads for them to aim at. I turned round and
saw the banks of the river thronged with tho
black multitude, yelling, howling, and firing
at us; while others of their party rifled the
bodies of tho six poor fellows we left behind.
Presently two more poor fellows were shot in
the head ; and one private, Ryan, almost sink
ing from exhaustion, swam into a sandbank
and was knocked on the head by two or three
ruffians waiting to receive him. These villains
had first promised Lieutenant Delafosse and
private Murphy if they would come to the
shore they should be protected and have food
given them. They were so much inclined to
yield that they made towards the bank, but
suddenly and wisely altered their determinn-'
tion. Infuriated with disappointment, one of
them threw his club at Delafosse; but iu tho
height of his energy lost his balance and fell
into deep water; the other aimed at Murphy
and struck him on the head. For two or threo
hours we continued swimming ; often chang
ing our position, and the current helping our
progress. At length our pursuers gave up the
chase ; a sowar on horseback was the last we
saw of them."
An Ancient RACE.-Th fol'owing instanoes
t' e tenacity with which tbo Highlanders hold
to the honors and antiquity of their kindness :
A dispute arose between Campbell and Mc
Lean upon the antiquity of their families. The
latter would not allow that the Campbells bad
an right to rank with the McLeans in anti
quity, who, he insisted, were in existence as a
clan from the beginning of the world. Camp
bell had a little more Biblical knowledge than
his antagonist, and asked if the clan of Mc
Lean was before the flood.
"Flood! what flood!" said McLean.
"The flood that you know drowned all the
world but Noah and bis family and his flocks,'
said Campbell.
"Pooh ! you and your flood," said McLean,
"my clan was afore the flood."
"I have not read in my Bible," said Camp
bell, "of the name of McLean going into No-'
airs ark."
''Noah's ark !" retorted McLean, iri con-'
tempt, ''whoever heard of a McLean that had :
na boat o' his own ?"
One noDRED Years Ago. The year 1759
was the most memorable of any in the history
of England. In that year we took Crown
Point, Louisbnrg and Cape Breton, FortFron
tenac, Forts Duquesue, Niagara and Ticonde
roga and finally Quebec, which capitulated
Sept. 17, 1759. In Africa, Senegal and the '
Island of Goree fell into the bands of the Eng
lish, ami in the West Indies they took Guada
loupe, Marigalante, Granada and St. Martina.
In India, Clive was everywhere victorious over
the French,and on the continent the victorious
Marlborough raised the national spirit of EngJ
land to a position that it had never before at
tained. At that time we formed a portion of
the British Empire, and shared in all the trials
and the glories of that eventful period.
A St. Louis paper, relates the troubles of a
California g-old seeker, who left New York for
San Francisco, thence proceeded to the mines,
worked hard for four years, remittiug to his
wife in the Empire city $1,000 per annum all'
the time, and finally returned home to meet
the partner of his life, and with her share a
handsome fortune which he had accumulated.
He found, however, that, during his absence,
she bad married a gay youth, was the mother
of three children, and that all were living in"
St. Louis. He went to that city and had an in-
terview with her,with what result is not stated.
"Go ox with tocr Kat Killing." Parts of"
Illinois are so terribly infested with rats, that
one of the county agricultural societies, that
of Logan has offered three premiums of $50,
$30 and $20 for the three largest exhibitors
of rat's scalps at their Fair. A great many
persons are competing for the prize, and the
show promises to be large and interesting.
Jlr. Gorden, of Kickapoo Creek, has already .
secured 1,113 scalps, and intends running the
number up to fifteen hundred before the Fair ! '
Collds't stand the Doctors Some years
since an old revolutionary soldier, named Ben
jamin Johnson, of Millford, Mass., was struck '
by lightning, but not killed. For two days he
was insensible, when two doctors were called i
who said he would die. Just at the moment
his speech came to him, and calling his wife's -name,
ho said, "I have stood cannon and mus
ket balls and bayonet, and I can stand tbnnder
and lightnieg, if the doctors will only let me
be ! and sure enough he recovered.
At a christening while the minister was ma-
king out the certificate, he happened to say '
"Let me see.jtbis is the SOth." "The thirti-
eth !" exclaimed the indignant rnrithw; "i--'
deed it is only the eleventh !"
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