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BY S. B. SOW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1859.
VOL. 6. NO. 11.
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WE TWO.
Let all your looks be grave and cold
Or imile upon me still ;
And jrire your Land, or else withhold ;
Take leave howe'er yctt will.
No lingering trace" within your face
Of love's'regard is seen :
We two shall never be
What we once have been. -
It is not now a longing day
Divides ns. nor a year ;
Your beart from mine has turn'd away,
Nor henceforth sheds a tear
The winter snow will come and go,
.And summer shadows green :
TTe two shall never be
What we once have been.
Ah no the busy hours that bring
Full many a chance and change,
Mar choose a beggar boy for king,
Or Larst a mountain range ;
Tb Sii't sea tide may yet be dried
That rolls far land's between ;
We two can never be
What we once have been.
JCOI'TRianT SECURED. J
CLEARFIELD COUNTY:
Ort, REMINISCENCES OF THE PAST.
Lewis W. Smith came to the Bar at a later
period than his brother. lie was in many re
spects his opposite, and possessed more of
those traits of character wich render a man
popular with his neighbors and companions,
and contribute to worldly advancement. He
was quick of perception, had a good flow of
language, was acquainted with the niinutia of
practice, and acquired a fair position at the
bar. He knew no sordid or avaricious feel
ing; could make better than husband wealth ;
was impressive, ardent, sociable and humane.
He dit:d at an early age in 1847.
In 1825, Robert Wallace was admitted to
practice in this county. He was a native of
Ireland; taught school lor some time, and
then etndied law in Mifflin county, where
Le was originally admitted. It is probable
that in the preparatory studies Mr. Wallace
hid made more proficiency than those with
whom Le had to contend at the Bar. He was
a great reader, conversant with the public af.
fjirs, careful in the detail ol practice, and ob
tained a good share of business. Order and
taste were developed in him to & considerable
extent, and he was libera! to a fault. If occa
fioiially he perpetrated a 'bull, it but added
to his celebrity. Though his speech may not
always have conveyed his thought, Ids heart
w. ever in the right place. As a partizan,he
whs not without his influence in the Demo-
rr.it ic party, an i was once elected County
Treasurer. He left the countv to live for sev
eral years in Hollidaysburg, and although he
now resides here, he has not regained his
practice as Ms old lriends and clients during
his absence had formed new associations.
A remark made by J. W. Smith shortly af
ter George R. Barrett came to reside in Clear
ftVId town, fixed the destin- of the latter gen
thmr.n. Mr. B. had been admitted to the Ear,
was poor, almost briefless and struggling lor
an exister.ee. lie called on his more opulei.t
legal brother to rent a house, when he was
asked by Smith, who could cot but have been
awaie of his calling, '-Pray, what business do
yon intend to follow here ?"' Barrett, cut to
the qi'ick, could scarcely avoid showing re
sentment, but thinking that prudence was the
Letter part of valor, answered, "I am practi
cing law." lie was at this time almost dis
heartened and seriously meditated pulling up
stakes and removing to some other place, but
fliis incident made him resolve to stay. Geo.
II. Barrett was to the manor born the town
of Curwetisville being his birth place and the
scene of his early dai s. His father is now a
respected and aged citizen of Brady township.
Mr. B. was born in 1815. When 16 years of
age, he entered the printing office of John
Bigler, Ex-Gov. of California, who was then
publishing in Belleforite the Centre Democrat.
lie remained with Mr. Bigler until the spring
of 1831, and then removed to Brookville, Jef
ferson county, where he edited and published
the Brookrillt JeJTei sonianTppurng his publi
cation cf this paper, he entered himself as a
student at law. lie abandoned the paper and
removed to Lewisburg, Union county, where
iio conducted a campaign paper and continued
hi legal studies under Mr. Linn. There he
married and was also admitted to practice.
In September 1830, he rturned to Clearfield
county, and was enrolled among the members
of this Bar. There were then some 7 or 8
members in practice with whom he was bro't
in contact. At first briefs were but few and
fees like angels' visits, but time and perseve
rance brought him to the foremost rank at the
Bar. He obtained a large practice in JeftVr
son county, and was for several years engaged
in near all the causes tried in Elk county. In
1S42, he was appointed by Ovid F. Johnson
Deputy Attorm y General for Jefferson coun
ty, and in 1814 commissioned for Clearfield
cour.ty as Deputy. Previous to this he had
been elected by the Democratic party as a
Member of the Legislature of 1841-2. In
1853 he was appointed by the President to re
vise and codify the revenue laws of the Uni
ted Stales. The duties of this appointment
called him to the seat of government. Whilst
there a vacancy occurred in the 22d Judicial
district, and he was tendered, by Gov. Bigler,
and accepted the appointment of President
Judge, he succeeding Judge Eldrcd. The
district was largely Democratic, and although
Eirongiy solicited to bo a candidate at the en
buiag e ection, he declined and returned to
Ms practice. He was uceeded by James M.
Porter, who was compelled to decline1 from ill
health. In the spring of 1855, the Hon. Thos.
S. Bell, formerly a member of the Supreme
Court, was appointed to this vacancy. Mr.
Bell was a candidate for nomination in the
Democratic party. Judge Barrett reluctantly
consented to allow his name to go into con
vention, but was nominated. Know-Nothing-ism
was then at its bight, and Bell, defeated
in his own, received the nomination of that
party and became Mr. Barrett's competitor at
the polls. The result showed the election of
Judge Barrett by several thousand majority
over Mr. Bell.
Judge Barrett is portly, well built and of
commanding appearance; has the language,
carriage and manners of a gentleman; his
conversational powers are great and he often
draws on a rich fund of anecdote with which
he is stored. He has always been connected
with the democratic party ; has been one of
its warmest champions and on several occa
sions has been named for office by his politi
cal partisans. He has not as much policy a
bout him as political gentlemen generally
have for be stands by his friends and fights his
enemies. There can be no doubt ol his being
a well read lawyer. His success at the bar
amply testifies that. Whilst in practice, he de
pended more upon his natural ability than up
on careful and thorough examination of legal
authorities. He was always calm and collec
ted during the trial of a cause and took the
rulings of the court, when against him, with
so much coolness that 1ystanders imagined
that he was only foiled not guilty of a faux
pas. His arguments were generally strong
and logical, but at times he could speak long
and loud yet S3y notljng. When engaged
in criminal causes no circumstance escaped
hira and the l.ghtcst had its weight with the
jury. As a Judge we know little of his quali
fications, but'we would have supposed from
our knowledge of him that he would have ob
tained wherever his lot was cast the encomiums
which he has received in the district where he
presides. Public spirited, Jiberal and sociable,
he is a valuable addition to any" community.
An anecdote which has been published else
where is worthy of repetition. A prisoner
who had been convicted of a crime deserving
of penitentiary ptinishmant was called up for
sentence. Judge Barrett before delivering thc!
sentence offered to the unfortunate man some
good advice in reference to his future con
duct; when the piisoner boisterously inter
rupted him and a dialogue to this purport cn-
sued: Prisoner "Give me my sentence
that's what I came here for I want none of
your sermons." Judge "The court had con
cluded to send 3 0U to the penitentiary for 18
months, but you have now satisfied us that
you should go for three years." Prisoner
"Well, go ahead ; let me have it; I want none
of your cant or talk about it." Then threat
ening violence to the court and officers, he
said, "Goon! I want my sentence." Judge
B. coolly remarked, "Well you have convinc
ed the court that you are a very bad and dan
gerous man and ought to be confined for five
years. II ycu have anything more to say. go
on. You may prove to us that we bad inten
ded to be too leni?nt and should lengthen the
term." The prisoner kept silence and was
sentenced for five years. This sentence seem
ed to meet with the approbation of all but one
friend of the prisoner who enquired of coun
sel : "If a judge had the right to sentence a
man a year and a half lor a crime and three
and a hall ycais fcr a wee bit of impudence V
(TO IIK CONTINUED.)
The Nations Without Fibe. According
Plinv. fire was for a Ions time unknown to
to
some of the ancient Lgyptains; and when
Exodus, the celebrated astronomer, showed it
to them, they were absolutely in raptures.
The Persians, Phoenicians, Greeks and sever
al other nations, acknowledged that their an
cestors were without the use of fire; and the
Chinese confess the same of their progenitors.
Pomponius, Mela, Plutarch, and other ancient
authors, speak of nations who, at the time
they wrote knew not "the use of fire, or had
just but learned it. Facts of the same kind
are also attested by several modern nations.
The inhabitants of the Marian Islands, which
were discovered in 1551, had no idea of fire.
Never was astonishment greater than theirs
when they saw it on the descent of Magellan
in one of their islands. At first they believed
it to be ome kind of an animal that fixed to
and fed upon wood. The inhabitants of the
Pnillipine and Canary Islands were formerly
equally ignorant. Africa presents, even in
our own day, some nations in this deplorable
state.
While Tom Corwin was addressing a large
meeting at Springfield, Oho, not long since,
and was soaring into the higher regions of po
litical eloquence, a black, middle-sized, and
morose-looking bull terrier mounted the plat
form, and,taking his place beside the speaker,
surveyed the assembled sovereigns with a
severe countenance and a melancholy wag of
his caudal stump. His debut was greeted
with roars of laughter, and Tom Corwin paus
ed in the middle of a sentence. Turning to
ward the intruding animal, he waved his hand
courteously, saving: "come, one at a time,
if you please."" The terrier retired a few pa
ces, and glanced quizzically at the speaker,
when Corwin advanced to the edge of the
stand, and said to the people, in a very confi
dential tone: "I do believe he intends so leave
the other dogs and join the republican party !"
This palpable hit was received with a tempest
of laughter and applause, in the midst of
which his dogship trotted out of the hall with
his tail at an angle of intense disgust.
Mrs Mary Profitt died at Nelson co. poor
house," Va., on the 3d Inst., aged 102 years.
DIVORCED EY MISTAKE.
One Winter there came to Trenton, New
Jersey, two men. named Smith aud Jones
who had both of them designs on the Legisla
ture. Jones had a bad wife and was ii- love
with a pretty woman he wished to be divor
ced from his bad wife so that he might marry
the pretty woman, who, by the way, Was a
widow, with black eyes, and such a form ?
Therefore Jones came to Trenton for a divorce
Smith had a good wife, good as an angel,
and the mother of ten children, and Smith
did not want to be divorced," but wanted to get
a charter fcr a turnpike or plankroad to ex
tend from Pigs Run to Terrapin Hollow.
Well, they, with these different' errands,
came to Trenton, and addressed the assembled
wisdom with the usual arguments. " First, sup
pers, mainly composed of oysters with rich
background of venison; Second, liquors in
great pIeutv,from "Jersey lightning," which
is a kind of a locomotive at tall speed, reduced
to Iiqnor shape to Js ewavk champagne.
To speak in plain prose, the divorce man
gave a champagne -supper, "-and Smith, the
turnpike' man, followed" with a champagne
breakfast, under the mollifying influence of
which the assembled wisdom passed both the
divorce and turnpike bills; and Jones and
Smith a copy of each bill in their pocket
went home rejoicing, over many miles of sand,
and through the tribulation of many stage
coaches.
Smith arrived home in the evening, and as
he sat down in his parlor, his pretty wile beside
him how pretty she did look ! and five of
her children over-hearing the other five study
ing their lessons in the corner of the room,
Smith was induced to expatiate upon the good
results ol his mission to Trenton.
"A turnpike, my dear; I am one of the
Directors, and will be President. It will set
me up, love ; we can send our children to the
boarding-school, and live in style out of the
toll. Here is the charter, honev."
"Let me see it," said the pretty little wife,
who was one of the nieest ol wives, with
plumpness and goodness dimpling all over her
face. "Let me see it," as she leaned over
Mr. Smith's shoulder.
But all at once Smith's visage grew long ;
Smith's wife's visage grew black. Smith was
not profane, but he ripped out an awlul oath.
"Blast us, wile, those infernal scoundrels at
Trenton have gone and divorced us !"
It was too true; the parchment which he
held was a bill of divorce, in which the names
of Smith and Smith's wife appeared in ftight-
lully legible characters.
Mrs. Smith wiped her eyes with the corner
of her apron.
'Here's a turnpike," said she sadly, "and
with the whole of ourtAn children staring me in
the face, I aint your wife ! Here's a turnpike.
'Blast the pike and the Legislature, and "
Well the fact is that Smith, reduced to sin
gle blessedness, enacted into a stranger to his
own wile, swore awfully. Although the night
was dark, and must of the denizens of Smith's
town had gone to bed, Smith bid his late wife
to put on her bonnet, and arm and arm they
proceeded to the clergyman of their church
"Goodness bless me !" exclaimed the good
man, as he .aw them enter, Soiith looking
like the last of June shad, Smith's wife wi
ping her eyes with the corner of her apron
'Goodness bless me, what s the matter
-The muter is, I want you to marry us two
right off," rcphei Smith.
"Marrv you !" ejaculated the clergyman
with expanded fingers and awful eyes; "are
yon drunk, or what is the matter with you 7
However, he finally married them over
straightway and would not take a fee ; the
fact is, grave as he was, he was dying to be
alone that he might give vent to a suppressed
laugh that was slinking him all over; and
Smith and Smith s wife went joyfully home
arid kissed every one of their children. The
little Smiths never knew that their father ai.d
mother had ever been made strangers to each
other by. legislative anactment.
Meanwhile, and on the same night, Jones
returned to his native town Burlington, I be
lieve and sought at once the fine black eyes
which he had hoped . shortly to call his own
The pretty widow sat on the sola, a white ker
chief tied carelessly around her white throat,
her black hair laid in silky waves against each
rosy cheek.
..Divorce is the word," cried Jones, playful
ly patting her double chin ; "the tact is,Eliza,
I'm rid of that cursed woman, and yon and
I'll be. married to-night. I knew how to man
age those scoundrels at Trenton. A cham
pagne supper or was it a breakfast, did the
business for Jjicni." "Put on your bonnet and
let us go to the "preacher's at once, dearest."
The widow, who was among widows as
peaches among apples, put'on her bonnet and
took Jones's arm, and
'Just look how handsome it is put on parch
ment !" cried Jones, pulling out the document
before her; "here's the law that says that
Jacob Jones and Ann Caroline Jones are two."
Putting her plump gloved hand on his shoul
der she did look.
() dear!" she said, with her rosy lips, and
sank back half fainting on the sofa.
"O blazes !" cried Jones, and sank beside
her, rustling the fatal parchment in his hand ;
"here's a lot of happiness and champagne
gone to ruin."
It was a hard case. Instead of being di
vorced and at liberty to marry the widow,
Jacob Jones was simply by the Legislature of
New Jersey incorporated into a turnpike com
pany, and what made it worse, authorized to
run from Burlington to Bristol !
When you reflect that Burlington and Bristol
are located just a little apart, on opposite sides
of the Delaware river, you will observe the
extreme hopelessness of Jones' case.
"It's all the fault of that turnpike man who
gave them the champagne supper or was it
the breakfast 1" cried Jones in agony. "If
thev had chartered me a turnpike from Pigs's
Run to Terrapin Hollow, 1 might have borne
it; but the very idea of building a turnpike
from Burlington to Bristol bears an absurdity
on the face of it." So it did. ,
"And ain't you divorced ? ' said Juza, a
tear running down each cheek.
Vrti ti.n.xWfd Jones, crushing nis nai
lwiviin his knees, and what's worse the Le
gislature is adjourned, and gone home drunk,
and won't bo back to Trenton till next year.
It was a hard case. ,
itnku had occurred on the last
day of the session, when legislators and trans
cribing clerks were laoormg uuuti v,uoiu-
pagne breakfast. Smith's name naa ueen put.
where Jones's ought to have been, and "wisy
wersey," as the Latin poet nas u.
A FEW WOSDS OH COTJETSHIP.
There are certain young ladies in the world
who hold peculiar notions as to the attentions
they receive Irom gentlemen. They seem to
think that, if a man is polite and agreeable to
them, if he appears to take pleasure in their
society, and visits them two nights successive
ly, he is bound to propose marriage. Strange
to say .some mammas labor under this delusion.
A short time ago, a friend of ours visited a
youDg lady three or four evenings in succes
sion, arid as he was leaving the house for t ho
last time, the mother called him quietly into the
parlor and asked him what his intentions were.
Our friend promptly responded that he had no
intentions whatever, and politely wishing the
old lady good night, left tho house forever.
We live in a fast age, and it would almost seem
that courtship must be couducted in the same
railroad speed as other things. Marriage is a
serious matter, requiring long and earnest con
sideration. Two ynung people may be every
thing that could be wished for; they may be
amiable, affectionate in disposition, and yet,
because their tastes do not assimilate, they
will live a very unhappy lile together. How
are these young folks to find out each others'
temper and disposition, if it is not by time
spent in each other's company before marri
age ? There can be no doubt that the numer
ous unhappy marriages which are made in the
present day, arise entirely from the fact that
the courtship is too short. Marriage is not re
garded with sufficient reverence; it is often
hurriedly entered into and spe.'dily r. -pented.
The truth compels us to state that
this is caused, in a great measure, by our
young ladies. As vre have Just stated, they
appear to think that if a man is polite and a
greeable to them, he is in love, and is bound
at once to declare his intentions. They for
get that, in seeking for a wife, a manought to
look for something more than briglWeyes, a
brilliant comulexion, and white shoulders.
These are all very well iu their way, but beau
ty is evanescent, and the day will come when
other qualities are found necessary to bind a
household together. There should be conge
niality of mind, temper and disposition ; there
must be mutual dependence and mutual for
bearance, all of which cannot be discovered in
the short courtships of the present day. A
girl, too, should remember that patent leather
boots, a well fitting coat, and unexceptionable
whiskers are not the only things requisite lor
her future happiness. Her lover may be a
"perfect duck," but it is also necessary that
he should have a little manhood about him, or
four weeks of matrimony will dissipate her
dreams, and she wi!l be compelled to settle
down in the conviction that she has married a
dolt whom she must despise- The attributes
of true manhood are not to be discovered in
two or three interviews. It requires months
to find out a person's character and disposi
tion. Complaint is often made by ladies that
gentlemen are not polite to them, and do not
show them that respect which is due to their
sex. We are ungallant enough to believe that
the fair sex have only themselves to blame in
the matter. If they would allow social inter
course without expecting anything more from
visitors; if they would put down politeness
and agreeableness for what they are worth ; if
they would not read a proposal in every com
pliment paid to them, they would enjoy life
more ; they would have much better opportu
nities of judging ot a man's real character, and
by entertaining a larger number of visitors, in
crease their chances of meeting with men who
assimilate to themselves in disposition, and
who would make them loving, affectionate and
devoted husbands. faintly Journal.
WHAT THEY THINK AND SAY.
The Freedom's Champion, a Republican pa
per published at Atchison City, Kansas, speak
ing ot "Old John Jirown, says:
"Knowing the character of the man, and fa
miliar with his course for the past two years,
as nearly all citizens of Kansas are, none here
will be surprised at his attempted insurrection
and its bloody termination. Of him, we might
say with truth, his wrongs have made him
mad. There was a lime when John Brown,
the Pennsylvania farmer, and his sons, were
as peaceable and peace-loving citizens as could
be found in our country. He came to Kansas
early, and loving the cause of freedom, he was
an earnest Free State man. Fortius he suf
fered. He saw his home invaded and destroy
ed ; he mourned the death of a beloved son.
And these great wrongs crazed tho old man,
and made him a fanatic, a mono-maniac, with
but one thought, one idea, one impulse ven
geance on the slave power, which bad destroy
troved his peace, revenge on the men who had
murdered his kindred and friends. It is said
that he took an awful oath that while life re
mained his hand should be raised against this
power, and he would war against it to the
death. No sane man, however stiong in his
convictions against slavery, will pretend to
justify the mad course he pursued. All will
unite in condemning it, and no .Northern man
but would use every effort to put down such
an expedition as he undertook. The termina
tion of his foray will be the termination of
every such insane and murderous attempt to
create a servile insurrection, as it ought to be.
None but madmen wo?f C ever attempt it, and
they w ill meet with a mV"nan s death."
The Lawrcuce Republ,.., remarks: "The
telegraph reports a servij.linrrection in Vir
ginia, sam to oe lea by old John iirown, for
merly of this territory, if is doubted by some
whether the report is correct although we
think it quite likely, as ever since the old
man's son was murdered by the Border Ruf
fians, he has been regarded here as a mono
maniac upon the subject of the slave power.
His often expressed belief has been that he
was a divinely commissioned instrument for
the overthrow of the Slave power in the South.
if it indeed is true that the old man has en
gaged in the insane attempt of carrying out
his wild scheme by the red right hand of rev
olution, it can only be regarded as the expi
ring enort ot a brain maddened by repeated
injuries and bereavements sustained at the
hand of that remorseless power against which
he has at last turned with anch a reckless and
insane daring."
A Housemaid in the conntrv. boast inn- of haw
industrious habits, said on a certain occasion
ahe arose at four, made a fire, put on a teaket
tle, prepared breakfast, and mri nr. il the
bds,' before a single soul was up in the house.
It t-ilcpH thnui ri; t-o 1 o:irt. & naner in
u. V. J UUilUI O IV " I 1
New Orleans nn to n-oM killed in a duel, one
to die with the vellow fever, and one to write
an obituary of the defunct two.
CATHOLICISM AT WASHINGTON CITY.
From the Pilot, a Roman Catholic paper
printed in Boston, of the 'Jth Oct., 1859, we
take the following paragrahs, which explain
themselves, and which, it is trusted, will bo
carefully read and considered by every intel
ligent citizen the country over:
"The consecration of the new Jesuit church
at Washington, has been the chief topic of
Catholic interest. It is a large, and, in its in
terior structure and decorations, a noble and
beautiful structure. One of the Jesuit Fath
ers was the architect. The Most Reverend
Archbishop (Hughes) of New York, who nev
er fails to rise with tfce grandeur of a great
occasion, preached a noble sermon, said by
those who heard it to have been one of the best
he ever delivered. The Church is calculated
for twenty-five hundred persons, but on this
occasion it must have contained over three
thousand. The attendance of the President
of the United States, several membeis of the
Cabinet, Foreign Ministers, &c, will not be
pleasant to our Dark Lantern friends ; but they
must try to conquer their disgusts, for they
w ill have a great many things of this kind to
annoy them lefore many years are over.
"The National Capitol is surrounded with
Catholic Institutions. There are Catholic
colleges and convents in Washington. George
town, and Alexandria. Many of the most re
spectable citizens of these places are Catho
lics, and there are also many converts. Wash
ington has also been signalized by one of the
most remarkable and most perfectly attested
miracles ever worked in this country, of which
a very careful account, w ith the documentary
evidence, is given in the published w ritings of
the late illustrious Bishop England. The Pres
ident of the U. S., Mr. Buchanan, was one of
the hundreds of w itnesses of this miracle.
"Washington is. and is yet more to be. one
of the chitt centres of Catln licity in this
country. God Almighty does not work mira
cles without an object, beyond the temporary
and apparent. Last winter, when Congress in
vited the clergymen of all denominations at
the Capitol to open the sessions with prayers,
the country was a little surprised to find that
there were almost as many of the Catholic
clergy there as ot all the various sects. 1
have not the means of knowing what propor
tion of Catholics there may be in the various
departments of the Government at Washing
ton, but there should be a larger number.
The venerable Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, a dignitary in some respects higher
than the President, is a Catholic. Most of
the family of Lieut. Gen. Scott are Catholics.
The beautiful and excellent lady of Senator
Douglas is a good Catholic, of whom every
one who knows her speaks in terms of admi
ration. Many of the officers of the Army and
Navy are born Catholics or converts."
Comment is unnecessary; everyone can
draw his own conclusions. The miracle allu
ded to, if we are not mistaken, was the alleged
instantaneous restoration to health of Mrs.
Ann Mattingly, in 1824, on swallowing the ho
ly saci anient of tho cucharisf, after having
suffered intensely from an ulcerated back for
several years, and all hopes of a cure having
been abandoned by the attendant physicians.
Evidences of the Bible. Nature is avast
tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has
its own significancy, and becomes . poetry in
the mind when read; and geology is simply
the key by w hich myriads ol these signs, hith
erto undecipherable, can be unlocked and
perused, and thus a new province added to the
poetical domain. We are told by travellers,
that the rocks of the wilderness ot Sinai are
lettered over with strange character?,inscribed
during the forty year's wanderings of Israel.
They testily, in their very existence, ol a re
mote past, when the.cloud o'er-shadowed tab
ernacle rose amid the tents of the desert, and
who shall dare say whether to the scholar who
could drive into their hidden meanings thev,
might not be found charged w ith the very songs
sungot old by Moses and by Miiiam, when
the sea rolled over the pride of Egypt ? To
the geologist, every rock bears its inscription
engraved in ancient hieroglyphic characters,
that tell of the Creator's joumeyings of old,
of the laws whicfi he gave, the tabernacles
which he reared, and the marvels which he
wrought of mute prophecies wrapped up in
type and symbol of earth gulfs that opened,
and of reptiles that flew of fiery plagues that
devastated on the dry land, and ot hosts more
numerous than that of Pharaoh, that "sunk
like lead in the mighty waters;" and, having
in some degree mastered the occult meanings
of these strange hieroglyphics, we must be
permitted to refer, in asserting the poetry of
our science, to the sublime revelations w ith
which they are charged.and the vivid imagery
which they conjure up. Hugh Miller.
Properties or Iron. In the year 1S50 Mr.
March an able chemist, connected with the
Royal Arsenal, discovered that it is an invari
able rule with iron which has remained a con
siderable time under water, when reduced to
small grains or an impalpable powder to be
come red hot, and ignite with any substance
with which it comes in contact. This he
found by scalping some corroded metal from
a gun,' which ignited the paper containing it
and burnt a hole in his pocket. The knowl
edge of this fact is of immense importance,
as it may account for many spontaneous fires
and explosions, the origin of w hich has not
been traced. A piece ot rusty iron, brought .
in contact with a bale ot cotton in a warehouse,
or on shipboard, may occasiou extensive con
flagrations and the loss of many lives. It
ought to le added that the tendency of mois
tened particles of iron to ignite was discover
ed by the great French chemist Lemary, as
lar oacK as me year iou.
On Friday evening. Oct. 28th. a mob of some
thirty men entered the printing office of the
tree bouth at Newport. Kentucky, broke tne
press, pied some' of the type, and carried off
the forms. The offence of Mr. Bailey, the ed
itor, was that he was at-ti-slavery. His wife
and four daughters' were present and begged
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Without avail i"'' meir oiuneiijr iuigui oe
snared. Mr. Bailey was notified to leave tho
town and to quit publishing the paper, as tho
community was considered unsafe with it.
The paper was, it is fcta'ed, a harmless sheet
a family production, Mr. Bailey writing the
articles, his daughters setting the type, and
ins sons uoiug me press worK. xne females,
it is said, were insured with fonl language bv
the chivalnc bipeds who took part in destroy
ing the office. It seems almost incredible that !
such a wanton outrage should be perpetrated I
in a civilized country. , - - . ',' ;
gov. Wise's opinion of brown.
Gov. Wise, in hi late speech at Richmond,
gave the f ollowing description of John Brown r
"Brown was not mad, but he was misinform
ed as to tho temper and disposition of out
elaves. fie ought to have known that all the
slaves on our northern border are held, as it
were, by sufferance their own sufferance; that
they can run to liberators in Pennsylvania eft
sier than liberators can come to their emanci
pation. He was ignorant, it seems, ot the pa
triarchal relations in which our slaves are ev-
! erywhere held by their masters, and what
bonds of affection and common interest exist
between them and their masters. And thus it
was that 'Old Brown,' the fanatic of Ossawat
tomie, and Lawrence, and Fort Scott memory f
who denounced the Missourians as 'border ruf
fians,' became the 'border ruffian' of Virginia,
himself, and is now a prisoner of treason to
her authority. The slaves he w ould incite to
insurrection and massacre would not take up
arms against their masters. His spears were
untouched by them. And they are themselves
mistaken who take him to be a madman. .lie
is a bundle of the best nerves I ever saw, cut
and thrust, and bleeding, and in bonds. He
is a man of clear head, cf courage, fortitude,
and simplo ingeniousness. He is cool, collec
ted, and indomitable, and it is but just to him
to say that he was humane to his prisoners, as
attested to me by Colonel Washington and Mr.
Mills, and he inspired me with great trust in
his integrity as a man of truth. He is a fana
tic, vain and gaiulous, but firm, truthful, and
intelligent. His men, too, who survive, ex
cept the free negroes with him, are like him
He professes to be a Christian in commnnion
with the Qongregatioualist Church of the
North, and openly preaches his purpose of u
niversal emancipation, and the negroes them
selves Were to be the agents, by means of
arms, led on by white commanders. When
Col. Washington was taken, his watch, and
plate, and jewels, and money were demanded,
to create what they call a 'safety fund,' to
compensate the liberators for the trouble and
expense of taking away his slaves. This, by
a law, was to be done with all the slavehold
ers. Washington, of course, refused to do
liver up anything, and it is remarable that tho
only thing of material value which they took,
besides the slaves, was the sword of Frederick
the Great, which was sent to General Wash
ington. This was taken by Stephens to Brown,
and the latter commanded bis men with that
swud in his fight against the peace and safety
of Washington's native State. He promised
Colonel Washington to return it to him when
he was done with it. And Colonel Washing
ton says that be (Brown) was the coolest and
firmest man he ever saw in defying danger
and death. With one son do. d lyhis side,
and another shot through, he felt the pnlse of
his dying son with one hand, anil held his rifle
with the other, and commanded his men with,
the utmost composure, encouraging them to
be firm, and to bell their lives as dear as-they
could. Of the' three w hite prisoners Brown,
Stephens, and Coppie -it was hard to sny
which was most firm ; and of the two negroes,
it was hard to say which seemed the most
cowardly and false. The North Carolina ne
gro offered to betray all persons involved in
the affair if spared, and the Canada negro
who was, I believe, one of the members of
their Provisional Congress was a crouching,
craven, w ho lied, as Brow n said, for his life."
Hon. J. R. Giddings delivered an address in
Philadelphia, on the 28th Oct., for the purpose
of explaining what he knew about old John
Brown. He says that he invited him to Jef
ferson, Ohio, w here he delivered a lecture one
Sunday, after church, telling his trials in Kan
sas. After the lecture, Mr. G. prompted the
audience to contiibute to the relief of Browu.
Afterwards Brown took tea at his residence,
where they had a conversation. Tho' Brown
never eaid that he intended to visit Slave
States to free the slaves, Mr. Giddings inferr
ed that he would i the opportunity offered,
mainly because lie had done so in Missouri.
These were the only times Mr. G. ever saw
Brown. He asserts that neither in his lecture
nor in conversation did Brown say that he had
assistants or associates. No mention was
made of Harper's Ferry or Virginia, or the or
ganization of a provisional government. He
acknowledges contributing $3 to Brown's son,
towards the necessities of hi father, after the
arrest of Doy from kidnappers, a matter in
which Mr. G. took a stro:ig interest. In be
stowing this gratuity, he had but little Idea
that it was to fit-out an expedition to capture
Harper's Ferry, effect the conquest of the Old
Dominion, strike tenor to the Executive, or
to imperil the Government.
Hon. John P. Hale has published a letter la
reference to the attempt of the N. Y. Herald
to implicate him in the Harper's Feiry' insur
rection. He says that he shall not undertake
the task of vindicating the other gentlemen
whose names are mentioned, but so far as it
relates to himself can only reply by denying
every word of the charge, and pronounces the
whole of it fiom beginning to end false, and
challenges testimony, either written or ver
bal, cr-ntaining the charge thus made. He de
nies ever having any knowledge or intimation
from any one that an insurrection or outbreak
was contemplated by John Brown or any one
else, in Virginia or elsewhere, and pledges
himself, if any evidence is laid before a
Grand Jury of Maryland or Virginia, and they
find a bill, to go there for trial.
The proprietors of several seminaries in th
neighborhood of Philadelphia, have been swin
dled by a shrewd scamp, who calls to ascer
tain the terms, advantages, religious basis, &c
of the school, with a view to confiding a sin
and daughter to the charge of the principal
On becoming satisfied that it will be e.itirelr
safe to send, he produces a drajt exceeding
the terms of advance payment some fifty or
more dollars, receives the balance in cood
pioney and decamp,. The dupes are not loo
in learning that the draft is valueless. .
Major Samuel M. Scott, of Dallas, Texas
lately fin58hetl ,lirashillg his JJJ
which amounted to upwards of lour thousand
bushels averaging more than sixty-four lbs.
to the bushel. The yield averaged twenty
four bushels tn thn cuij- ,
John C. Ten elt has been convictod in Sfarl.
borough Pari.h. S. C, of murdering his great
grandfather, and sentenced to be hnn
, mt uisiuromg a cnurcD. by Una
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