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CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1859.
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C03IE IN AND SHUT THE DOOR.
0 ! do not stand go long outside,
Why need jou be so shy ?
The people's eys are open. John,
As they are passing by !
You cacnot tell what they may think,
They're sail strange things before,
And if you wish to talk awhile,
Come in and shut the door !
Kay, do not saT '-No, thank you, Jane,"
With such a bashful smile ;
You said when ladies whispered "No,"
They meant "Yes," all the while !
My father, too. will welcome you ;
I told you that before ;
It doesn't look well standing here
Come in anJ shut the door!
You said I did not answer you
To what was said last night;
1 heard the question in tha dark
Thought ou it in the light;
And now my lips shall ntter what
My heart has said before.
Yes. dearest, I but stay awhile
Come in and shut the door !
COPYRIGHT SECURED. J
CLEARFIELD COUNTY:
OR, REMINISCENCES OF THE PAST.
Wh?n Judge Woodward's terra expired, it
became necessary to appoint a President Judge
to serve until under the amended Constitution
an election could take plaee. The honor was
conferred ly Governor Johnston on James T.
Hale of Centre county. Judge Hale presided
at several courts and produced a very favora
ble impression. Time would have soon worn
off that which alone has been alleged against
Iiixn being too much of the advocate. Mr.
Hale was well known in our community. For
many years he had attended our courts regu
larly, and assisted at tha trial of important
causes. He is in the prime of life, of fine ap
pearance, polished manners, superior attain
ments, and well versed in the knowledge of
law. He has been an industrious lawyer, and
at the bar ranks high. His personal character
adds force to nis words, which, when address
ing a jury or the court, are earnest. lie is a
pleasant speaker seldom indulges in oratori
cal display, but in chaste and plain language
delivers himself of lucid and strong arguments.
A mannerism in speaking attracts the auditor
from the subject to the man, and mars some
what tha effect on those not directlj- interested
in his discourse. Mr. Hale has lent a helping
hand to the temperance reform, in which, as
wll as other benevolent enterprizes, he has
been warmly enlisted. As a politician, he was
connected with the old Whig party, and since
its dissolution he has remained arrayed against
the Democratic party. At the election of
he was elected a member of Congress in
a district where the party to which he is at
tached had been for years in the minority.
In the fall of 1801, Robert G. White was e
lected as successor to Judgo Hale. He presi
ded at but one court, and then a change in the
district made Hon. John C. Knox the Presi
dent Judge. Again the district was remodel
ed, ai.d Hon. James Burnside was elected in
1S33. Tl;e melancholy accident which re
moved Mr. Burnside having occurred during
the publication of these sketches, and a lengthy
notice then having been published, is sufficient
reason for saying no more here. The vacancy
occasioned by the death of Judge Burnside
was fiiled by the appointment of Hon. James"
Gamble of Jersey Shore. Mr. Gamble had
represented this county in the Legislature
when we were connected with Lycoming coun
ty in a Representative district. lie is an a
miallo and worthy genth-man, possessed of
talents, of high order. Personally popular,
Jvdge Gamble, thiough th; suffrages of his
neighbors, has been elected to Congress and
called upon to fill other positions. Having
served here but one term as President Judge,
we cam ot speak of his merits. His successor
is Samuel Linn of Bellefonte, a son of Rev.
James Linn, who for more than fifty years has
ofliciated as pastor of a Presbyterian church
in Centre county, and who in an early day oc
casionally ministered to the spiritual wauts of
our citizens.
Sun tie I Linn from his admission to practice
until recently was another of the Bellefonte
Lawyers who was regular in his attendance at
our court. The principal part of his time has
been devoted to his profession. Few men of
his age hive acquired and merited so great a
tame for legal erudition as he. In our good
old Commonwealth, he has few peers and his
superiors arc rare. His practice has been
large, and extended over several counties. In
ihe examination of witnesses he shows con
siderable tact his cross examinations being
olten searching and severe. When assisting
in a cause you might suppose from his dreamy
iook that he was half asleep and uninterested,
but when a question is asked or testimony of
fered which is not geriuaine to the case and
affects his client, quick as the flash he rises
to his feet and interposes his objections.
Then, should the occasion demand it, you
hear from his lips a clear, concise, and logical
argument, shoeing a master intellect, legal
acumen, and deep reading. When before the
J:ry, be is listened to with marked attention.
His speeches are episodes which fill p the
routine of the week. Something good is al
koked for. If there is any fun in the
ce he is mre to bring it out, and that in the
drollest manner when you least expect it. Mr.
Linn is a close reasoner, sometimes splits hairs.
1 - appears best in those matters where author
iti Bfeia contradictory or nearly balanced ;
thtn he throws himself into the argument, and
roY.i gan of heavy metal. He is honora
ble as well as able. lie has his peculiarities,
and has rendered his name familiar to the le
gal profession by writing a peculiar book pe
culiar from the fact that, whilst others of its
genus have began at the mouth and traced
back to the fountain head, he wrote in the nat
ural order, commencing where the principle
first sprung from among the leaves and garbi
age of the reports, and traced it through its
meanderings. We said wrote perhaps we
are wrong in using that word, for the work
contains nothing of his but the preface ; yet it
shows careful, laborious and long continued
application on a subject which could only be
interesting to one determined to master Penn
sylvania jurisprudence. Linn's Analytical Di
gest has less to interest the general reader
than a dictionary, but to the practicing law
yer it is as valuable and indispensable, as the
book named is to the student. Mr. Linn is a
bout adopting new and untried duties. We
are aware that his legal training and his prac
tice enable him to be" a correct Judge. We
are certain he will be an impartial one, and
the people of this district will not complain if
in f uture time it can be said of him as of an
emiuent justice "He held his judgment in
perfect abeyance until he heard all that could
be said pro and con, and then formed his o
pinion with inflexible drmness. No man fear
ed responsibility less than he, in what he
thought right none could bo more impertur
bable, impenetrable, silent, patient and ab
stracted until it was his cue to speak ; it was
impossible to foretell what his opinion would
be, but when he charged a Jury, none could be
more explicit and authoritative."
We must yet mention another of that galaxy
which, for years, by their brilliancy added an
interest to our judicial proceedings. Andrew
G. Curtin is a native of Centre county. His
practice here as assistant counsel was large.
Altho' amply qualified to conduct any cause,
he succeeded best in those which from their
nature enlisted the sympathies of the jury in
behalf of his client. He possesses all the ele
ments of an orator. A large frame, finely de
veloped figure, a noble and expressive counte
nance, natural and easy gesticulation, and a
voice, falling like music on the car, modula
ted by his will. He has a fine flow of lan
guage ; he at times indulges in biting sarcasm,
and his speeches abound with the choicest
rhetorical figures and the most highly wrought
imagery. Irresistably he carries you away.
You weep with him, smile with him, and laugh
heartily at his droll word-pictures, yet when
he takes his seat it is impossible to recall what
he has said. His speeches are like dreams of
which only a delightful impression remains.
Andy, as he is familiarly called, is a noble
specimen of the country gentleman. His man
ners are easy and agreeable. He is kind, warm
hearted and affable. In society he is the life
of the company ; his conversation is attrac
tive, slibwing extensive reading, and an inti
mate knowledge of men and natuie, and he
leads his wit sparkles ; his tepartees are bril
liant, and despite yourself you love the man.
He has been an active politician, and being in
a district in which bis party is in the minori
ty has been named for office but never elect
ed." He served as Secretary of the Common
wealth during Governor Pollock's administra
tion. Our Bar at present is composed of young
men, who are not without name for ability and
research and are gaining for themselves repu
tations. As with a Curtin the scene generally
closes, we will so close our glance at the Court
and Bar, and when the present members, who
now unaided conduct their business, have tar
ried at Jericho until their beards have grown,
others may perhaps sketch them.
(TO BE C0XTIXCEIJ.)
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Nebraska Politics. Mr. Purple, formerly
conductor on the Western Railroad, and a
member ol the first Legislature of Nebraska,
thus tells his experience in Western politics.
He says : "Secretary T. B. Cumming said to
me one morning, 'Purple, we want a member
from Burt county.' So I harnessed up and
took nine fellows with me from Iowa, and we
started for the woods ; and when we thought
we had got far enough for Burt county, we un
packed our ballot box and held an election,
(in Washington county,) canvassed the vote,
and it was astonishing to observe how great
was tho unanimity at the first election ever
held in Burt county. Purple had every vote.
So Purple-was declared duly elected."
Dr.Livingstonc, the celebrated African trav
eller, who is at present exploring the river
Zambezi, reports the valley of the Shire as a
bounding with wild elephants, having magni
ficent and most valuable tusks. In one herd
he saw over five hundred of the giant game
grazing on the plain. The Shire is a good
navigable river lor over one hundred miles
from its confluence. The mountains of Me
rembela stand 4.000 feet over the plain, pos
sessed of a fine climate and profuse vegetation
lemon trees, oranges, and pine-apples grow
ing wild in the woods, promising to be had in
abundance and cheap lrotn tho natives, who
cultivate largely the upper third of the valley.
The existence of an organized band of rob
ir oitpnsive in numbers, and carrying on
concerted operations over a wide region of
country, bordering on tne soumwesieru snore
of Lake Erie, is certain beyond a doubt. The
frequent and heavy depredations committed
between Buffalo and Cleveland have caused
the police of both cities to suspect that such
is the case,and that their rendezvous is some
where near Erie, in this State.
A mass of the best cannel-ooal of the size of
a whale, it is said, contains moro oil than there
is In that fish.
MESMERISM AND MATKIMONY.
OR, SCIENCE VERSUS WIDOW.
Martin Speed was a bachelor. He had
backed and filled, and hesitated and doubted
about entering en the "blissful estate" of
matiimony, until the fire of youthful passion
was all spent, and matrimony had become a
problem to him as dry and as formal as one in
old Walsh's arithmetic; to be ciphered out
for an answer as much as that proposition a
bout carrying the fox, goose, and bag of corn
across the creek, that everybody "problemly"
remembers. Being a phrenologist, he left the
province of hearts altogether, and went to ex
amining heads to ascertain by craniological
developments a woman's fitness tor the posi
tion of a wife to Martin Speed, Esq., as letters
came addressed to him at the Speedwell post,
office. The town of Speedwell was named
for an ancestor of his, and boasted -of several
thousand inhabitants; and as it was a factory
place, it had a goodly, share of good-looking
marriageablegirls. f ' ' ".-."
Martin studied Combe and Spurzheim, and
Gall, and grew bitter a a disappointment sav
him enter his forty-first year a bachelor. Ho
looked back on the past,Nind saw the chances
he had neglected, and "the;. haprjinees;oj those
who had started with him,"and were how port"
lypeople; the heads and fronts of families j
and the delicate damsels" he had slighted, re-,
spected mothers in Israel, and exemplary and
amiable wives. lie sought every opportunity
ol examining the heads of such as would sub
mit themselves to his hand with a hope of
catching the bachelor; for they knew his
weakness, and he was well-to-do, and an eligi
ble match. But in vain he looked lor perfec
tion. The bumps would not be arranged as
he wished them. If he took a liking to a
pretty face, phrenology impertinently gave it
the lie straight, and he at once avoided it.
It was at this juncture that a biological lec
turer a grave protessor in that science came
to Speedwell and gave a series ot exhibitions.
These Martin attended and biology at once be
came an "intensity" with him a "new emo
tion." He attended all the exhibitions; saw
men personate roosters and crow ; hens and
scratch ; shiver with cold or burn with heat,
at the will of the operator; saw a miser en
deavor to clutch an eagle held out to him
while under the influence of the wonderful
spell, and the tongue of a woman stilled who
for twenty years had been the pest of Speed
well by her loquacity.
This put the mind of Martin on a new track.
He sold all his phrenological works snd devo
ted himself to the study of the wonderful
science through which such marvels were per
formed. The professor was such a fine teach
er, and Martin placed himself under his tui
tion. He succeeded admirably. In a short
time he surpassed his instructor.and had more
than his power in influencing the susceptible
among his weak brethren and sisters.
He formed a resolution to himself that
through this means he could gain a wife.
Could he find one that bis sciencejcould control
one that at a glance he could transfix, like
the man who was stopped by a mesmerizer half
way down, as he was falling from the roof of
a house he would marry her ; for the reason,
dear reader, that Martin had not married, was,
that he had heard of wi'ves wearing the au-
thontj "over their lords, and he was a timid
man. In this new science he saw security ,and
sedulously sought for one of tho right de
scription. At every party where he was in
vited, at every sewing circle, at every knot
of fictory girls in which he mingled in the
evenings. ho tried his art, but without success.
At'ast, wnen on the point of despairii.g, ac
cident gave what he had failed to obtain by
earnest seeking. A widow dangerous to a
bachelor's pe ice, as edged tools are to the
careless bands of the unexperienced came
to the village on a visit. The weeds had not
been removed that marked her bereavement,
and the merest touch of melancholy rested
on her brow ; but her eye was laughing, and
a sweet curl strayed awa' and lajslikc a chisl
ed eddy upon the marble of her cheek. She
had a jewel on her hand, and the black dress
she won? was cut judiciously the milliner
that cut it had been a widow herself, and knew
how to manage such matters showing a beau
tiful white shoulder, and revealing a bust of
rare loveliness.
Martin met the widow at the residence of
a friend and liked her. ne had never seen so
prepossessig a woman ho thought. But she
had buiied one husband, and that was rather
a drawback. One visit led to another the
liking still increasing, until he broached the
subject of his biology, with a wish fervently'
that this might be the woman he sought. She
was fully acquainted with it, and in answer to
his question if she was susceptible to its in
fluence, she replied that she did not know, but
was willing to have the fact tested. Wh it a
position for Martin ! Seated by her side on a
sofa, with her hand laid in bis, her rich dark
eyes resting upon his'with a look equal to that
which the widow Wadman ' poured into the
eyes of the unsuspecting Toby in the stillness
of a summer evening ! But science held him
secure, and his nerves were as calm as the sum
mer day of that evening. By-and-by the
beautiful lids drooped, the head bent gently
forward, and tho widow, with a swe-t smile
upon her lips, lay lasl asleep. Martin could
have shouted "Eureka," in his delight at the
discovery. Now his pulse quickened, and he
stooped to kiss the lips that lay unresisting
before him ; but he didn't. By the exercise
of his power he awakened her, and she was so
much surprised at being caught napping, and
blushed at the strangenesss of it ; and blushed
more when Martin told her how he had been
tempted, and how gloriously he had resisted;
and laughed a little when she slapped his cheek
with her fingers as he took pay from the wid
ow's lips for his self-denial, and went home
half crazy with his new-fouud treasure, more
like a boy of nineteen than a matured gentle
man of forty.
Every night found him a visitor at the wid
ow's and every night the success of the sci
ence was proved, until by a mere look or wave
of the hand the beautiful widow became a
subject to bis will, and he became at the same
time a subject to hers. She was a splendid
creature, too ! Yon would not find in a long
journey a fairer or more intelligentfor more
virtuous. The question might be asked,
which was the most pleasant subjugation,
his or hers. But he thought only of his own,
not deeming that he was in a spell more pow
erful,tbat was irrevocably binding him. , What
could an old bachelor know of such a thing ?
This state of things grew to a crisis at last,
and Martin formally proposed to the widow
that the two sbonld be made one by the trans
mutation Of the church. To this she assented ;
and it was announced soon after, to the aston
ishment of all, that Martin Speed had married
the widow Goode. The punster of the village
made a notable pun about Good Speed, at
which the people laughed very much ; and the
editor of one of the papers, who was a very
funny man, put it in print.
It happened, fchortly after tho marriage,
that they had a famous party, and somejof the
guests bantered Martin about his marriage,
upon which he told them how it came about.
They were a little incredulous, and he volun
teered to give them some specimens of his
remarkable power over his wife. She was in
the next room attending to some female friends
when he called hei to him. She came obedi
ently, and he aslfed her to sit down, which
she did. He took her hand and looked into
hei eyes, to put her to sleep. Her eyes were
wide open and a lurking spirit of mischief
looked out of them broadly into his. He
waved his hands before them, but they remain
ed persistently open. He bent the force of
his will to their subjugation,but it was no use.
- ' "Mr. Speed," said she, laughing, "1 don't
believe the magnetism of the husband is equal
to that ot a lover ; or, perhaps science and mat
rimony are at war."
She said this in a manner to awaken a strong
suspicion in his mind that she had humbugged
him, and had never been put to sleep at all.
His friends as friends will when they fancy
a poor fellow has got into a hobble laughed
at him and told the story all around the village.
For months he was an object of sport to every
body. People would make passes over each
other as he passed, and women would shut
their eyes and look knowing. But, whether
his power had gone or not, hers remained ; and
he cared not a fig for their laughing, for he
was happy in the beautiful spell of affection
which she threw over him, that bound him as
a chain of flowers. The attempt to close her
eyes was never repeated, for he was too glad
to see them open to wish to lose sight of them.
Life with Speed sped well, and Martin became
a father in time. He never regretted the ex
pedient he adopted to get his wife, though he
never could make out exactly whether she
had humbugged him or not.
IRON AND ITS USEFUL APPLICATIONS.
The United States has iron in unlimited a
bundance ; and iron is, of all metals, the most
important. Better be without our gold mines
than our iron mines ; in lact, we ma' almost
estimate a nation's might by the quantity of
iron it consumes. It enters into the composi
tion of almost everything, and without it noth
ing substantial can be effected. The farmer's
plowshare, the woodman's axe, the instruments
of agriculttiie,. the wheels of carriages, the
shoes of horses, the multiform machinery of
manufactures, and the tools of every trade to
say nothing of the railroad and the steam-engine
all these powerful auxiliaries of man
are chiefly composed of iron. We have not
an article of utility in tho household which is
uot dependent in a great measure upon this
metal. While iron is the source of our pros
perity in peace, it forms also the very nerves
and sinews of our strength in war; the cannon-balls,
the sabre and the bayonet those
terrible instruments of destruction are all
composed of this same metal. Upon the sea
it is equally omnipresent ; there, in the shape
of a steamship, it forms the vessel of war, the
most formidable agent that has been yet em
ployed by man. Thus, no subject can abound
in deeper interest to all nations than that of
iron ; and the greater the facility with which
any land can produce and employ it, the more
does she possess within herself the true ele
ments of wealth. No nation, however, should
be content with the mere knTTwledge that na
ture has enriched its territory with the 'ele
ments from which this metal can be produced.
Her people must also be instructed in the most
economical methods by which the buried trea
sure may be drawn from the bowels cf the
earth and transformed into articles subservient
to the us(j of man. All nations, accordingly,
which have made any considerable advance in
civilization, have devoted a large amount of
time to the study of the art ot making and
working iron. This most valuable metal is so
abundant in the earth, and is produced so
cheaply, that to compete in the production,
not only the ore but tho lime and fuel for
working it must be had ; and as these are re
quired in so large a quantity, the three must
be found in close proximity. Each tun of ore"
requires one tun of coal and one-third of a tun
of lime. In many portions of the western
States iron is fonnd m horizontal beds with
similar beds ol" coal and lime, all cropping out
in the ravines which have been cut by the ac
tion of the water through the strata, so that all
three are quarried by drifting in horizontally
from the ravine. Along the shores of Lake
Erie, and in many portions of New England,
furnaces are employed in smelting bog iron
ore. It has long been known that this kind of
ore increases in quantity, or grows. Af ter all
the ore was once removed from a bog, in a few
years it would be found to be filled with a
fresh supply. It has been ascertained that
this iron is brought into the bog dissolved iu
water; and in some cases it is simply deposi
ted , while in others it forms the coating or
shields of microscopic animals. Though the
little beings are so small as to be individually
invisible to the naked eye, they exist in such
innumerable multitudes that great furnaces
are employed for years in melting down their
shields into cast-iron.
Investor of Perpetual Motion Dead.
Jas. G. Hendrickson died at his residence, at
Black's Mills, New Jersey, on Saturday last,
in the 69th year of his age. The last 40 years
of his life he has engaged in the pursuit of the
perpetual motion, and he succeeded in con
structing a machine, very simple in its ar
arrangement, which appears to realize the
idea. It has been exhibited in various parts
of the country, and in several of the large ci.
ties, and so far has defied the closest scrutiny
to detect in it the imposture. Of late years
his attention has been absorbed in the one idea
of his life, to the neglect of the ordinary mode
of acquiring a livelihood, and he eked out a
scanty support by the proceeds of the exhibi
tion of his machine.
"Mr. Jones, have you got a mntch ?" "Yes,
sir, a match for the old boy ; there she is mi
ing up dough." Jones pointed to his wife,
and then slid from the front door. The last
we saw of him he was. "kitingr" down the
road, hotly pursued by a red-beaded lady with
a cistern pole at a threatening angle.
An Exchange says a friend of his "died
without the aid of pbysicl&n." Singular !
THE BATH OF BLOOD.
About the year 1610, Elizabeth Bathora, sis
ter to the King of Poland, and the wife of a
rich and powerful Hungarian magnate, was the
principal actor in the most singular and horri
ble tragedy mentioned in history. She occu
pied the Castle of Csejta, in Transylvania.
Like most ladies of that period, she was sur
rounded by a troop of young girls, generally
the daughters of poor, but noble parents, who
lived in honorable servitude ; in return for
which their education was cared for and their
dowry secured. Elizabeth was of a severe
and cruel disposition and her hand-maidens
led no joyous life. Slight faults are said
to have been punished in the most cruel and
merciless tortures. '
One day, as the lady of Csejta was admiring
at the mirror those charms which that faithful
monitor told her were last waning, she gave
way to her ungovernablo temper, excited per
haps, by the mirror's unwelcome hint, and
struck her unoffending maid with such force
in the face as to draw blood. As she washed
from her hands the stain, she fancied the part
which the blood bad touched whiter, softer,
and as it were she believed she had found the
elixer r.la, the lount of never-fading youth and
beauty. Remorseless by nature, and now urg
ed on by irrepressible vanity, the thought no
sooner flashed across her brain than her reso
lution was taken ; the life of her luckless hand
maiden was not to be compared w ith the pre
cious boon her death promised to secure. E
lizabeth, however, was wary as well as cruel.
At the foot of the rock on which Csejta stood
was a small cottage, inhabited by two old wo
men, and between the cellar of this cottage
and the castle was a subterranean passage
known only to one or two persons, and never
used but in time of danger. With the aid of
these old crones and her steward, Elizabeth led
the poor girl through the secret passage to the
cottage, and alter murdering her, bathed in
her blood. Not satisfied with her first essay,
at different intervals, by the aid of these ac
complices and the secret passage, no less than
three hundred maideus were sacrificed on the
altar ot vanity and superstition.
Several years had been occupied in this piti
less slaughter, and no suspicion was excited,
though the greatest amazement pervaded the
country at the disappearance of so many per
sons. At last however, Elizabeth called into
play against her two passions even stron
ger than vanity and cunning love and re
venge became interested in the discovery of
the mystery. Among the victims of Csejta
was a beautiful virgin, who was beloved by and
betrothed to a young man of the neighborhood.
In despair at the loss of his mistress, he fol
lowed her traces with such perseverencc, that,
in spite ot the hitherto successful caution ol
the murderess, he penetrated the bloody se
crets of the castle, and burning tor revenge, he
flew to Presburg, boldly accused Elizabeth Ba
thora of murder, before the palatine In open
court, and demanded judgment against her.
So grave an accusation brought against a pur
son of such high rank, demanded the most se
rious attention, and the palatine undertook to
investigate the affair in person. Proceeding
immediately to Csejta, before the murderess or
her accomplices had an' idea of the accusa
tion, he discovered the still warm body of a
young girl whom they had been destroying as
the palatine approached, and had not time to
dispose of it before he apprehended them.
The rank of Elizabeth mitigated her punish
ment to imprisonment lor life, but her assis
tants were burned at the stake.
Legal documents still exist to attest the
truth of this circumstance. Paget a distin
guished traveller, who visited Csejta about
twenty years ago, says : "With this tale fresh
in mind, we ascended the long hill, gained the
castle, and wandered over its deserted ruins.
The shades of eveding were just spreading o
ver the valley, the bare, gray walls stood up
against the sk-, the solemn stillness of eve
ning reigned over the scene; and as two ra
vens, which had made their nests on the cas
tle's highest tower, came toward it. winging
their heavy flight, and wheeling once around,
each cawing a coarse welcome to the other,
alighted on their favorite turret, I could have
fancied them the two old crones, condemned
to haunt the scene of their former crimes,
while the infernal mistress was cursed by some
more wretched doom."
Some of the Indians on Lake Superior have
formed a temperance society. The occasion
of this was as follows: A large number of
them had collected a considerable amount of
money in small sums, which they intrusted to
the keeping of a chief in whom they had im
plicit confidence. This dignitary was not in
fallible, and one day went on a spree and
spent it all. The red men held an indigna
tion meeting over it, and, after a most empha
tic series of grunts; formed a self-protective
association, based on fundamental principles
that is to say, the first Indian who got
drunk was to be tied to a stemp and whipped
with twentv-five lashes.
Jcst So. "Gov. Willard's connection with
Brown's Lieutenant is a misfortune which we
are not disposed to aggravate by censuring him
for acting in accordance with natural feeling.
But suppose, instead of being brother-in-law
of a Democratic Governor, Cook had been a
brother-in-law of Gov. Morgan or Gov. Chase 1
Suppose they had gone down to Harper's Fer
ry to labor for his acquittal? What a howl
would have been raised by the Locofoco pa
pers ! How zealously would they have
harped upon the fact as evidence of 'compli
city with the insurrection.' As it is, they
will be silent as the grave for 'circumstances
alter cases.'"
Tho Agricultural Bureau of the United
States Patent Office have received intelligence
ot the shipment from Havre, France, of a
large swarm of Lombardy bees. These bees
will be sent upon their arrival here direct to
the Agricultural Bureau. They are of a lar
ger size than the ordinary bee, and having a
larger bill are "'e to suck flowers inaccessi.
ble to the A"ericau Dee The product of an
old hivo of these is sometimes 150 lbs of hon
ey in one season. : These bees will not bo dis
turbed until 1861.
A New Ticket A wag suggests that, (in
consideration of his valuable services to the
party,) "Major General Brown" be put on the
ticket for the Vice Presidency, with 'old Buck'
in 1860. The General is-a courageous fellow,
but we can't think be has distinguished himself
sufficiently t' the ranks to merit so sadden an
elevation. However, that is a matter ior Lo
cos to settle. '"Sack. & Bro-n,,--ilreedTrelL
EXPLAINING THINGS.
Nothing can be fully explained. In every
department of knowledge, if we go a few steps
from that which is visible upon the surface,
we come to absolute mystery which no man
can explain. Ask the most learned surgeon
to explain the motion of the hand. He tells
j ou the little hand is at one end of a bona
which has a joint at the other end ; that a band
of flesh, which he calls a muscle, i attached
at one end to this bone and at the other end to
another bone beyond the joint, in such a way
that, when the muscle contracts, the bono
moves upon the joint and carries the hand a
long. A nerve leads fiom the brain to the
muscle and carries the influence by which tho
will acts upon the muscle. If you ask the
eurgeon how the brain acts upon the nerve,and
the nerve upon the muscle, he cau tell j-pu no
more than the smallest child or the most ig
norant savage can- What the nervous iflu
ence is whether it is a fluid or a vibration, or
whether it is something diiTerent from either
of these is known to God, but it is not known
by any of the childien of men.
We see a pebble fall to the ground, and wo
are told that it is drawn by the attraction ot
gravitation; but what the attraction ol gravi
tation is how it reaches np from the earth
and takes hold of every atom of the pebblo
and pulls it down Is to us an un fathomed
mystery. There must be some material con
nection between the stone and the earth. This
was so plain to Sir Isaac Newton that he re
garded the person who denied it a incapable
of comprehending the proposition. But if wa
pass our hand between the stone and the earth
we cannot feel any suVstance, we cannot see
anj' with our eyes, and yet we know that i hero
is some matter interposed, between the two
bodies which draws them together with tre
mendous power. We know some of the pro
perties of gravitation ; we know that it diaws
all ponderous bodies together with a force
proportioned to the quantity of matter which
they contain, and in inverse proportion to the
square of distance between them. But what
its essence is, and how it takes hold of mat
ter, no human being has ever learned.
Oxygen is more ready to enter into chemi
cal combination with zinc than it is with cop
per, but why this is so not all the chemists in
the world can tell. Vast iudeed is the amount
of knowledge in regard to chemical affinity ;
what substances exhibit its power with the
greatest energy, how to manifest itself in
thousands ot curious and complicated and
wonderful operations, all in accordance with
fixed and infallible laws, have been learned by
patient and laborious study of many among
the greatest intellects of our race ; but what
the essence ot chemical affinity is, or how it
takes bold of the atoms whicii it moves, ha
uever been ascertained.
If we attempt to understand thoroughly any
fact whatever which comes under our observa
tion, we shall find thai a few steps will- bring
us to the dark gulf of profound and iiniathom
ed mystery. Carlisle says : "Sooty Manches
ter, it too is spanned by the skyey firmament,
and there is Life in it, and Death it it ; and it
is every whit as unimaginable, as inconceiva-
ble, as the oldest Salem or prophetic city !."
Ait about a Pair of Garters. Tho De
troit, Michigan, Free Pres, of a recent date,
tells the following story : A blooming young
damseljWho called herself Rosa Johnsn,mado
complaint agai:ist another equally attractive
maiden named Martha Jane O'Brien, before
Justice Pnrdy, charging her with having sto
len an elegant, costly, and altogether invalua
ble pair of garters, unlawfully appropriating
the same to her own comfort and delectation,
much to the detriment of the peace of mind
of the said Rosa. It appeared from the state
ment of the pretty and much aggrieved Rosa,
whose blue eyes suffused in tears as she told
her grievance, that those articles of feminino
wear had been the joy of her heart. A sea-,
faring lover of hers had brought them all tho
way from Buenos Ayres, where the Spanish
ladies indulge in little extravagancesthat way,
and they w ere very unique for such a country
as this, where a lover never would think of
presenting, as a token of esteem, a dozen of
garters, as they do down there. They were
figured with elaborate devices, and inscribed
with a pretty motto in Spanish, which she said
he told her meant all about love and kisses,
and such like ; and had a Cupid on one end
who embraced a heart on the other when the
article was clasped. She missed them on
Sunday morning, and kicked up such a row
about it that there wa3 no peace in the family
until all the girls it was some sort of a femi
nine manufacturing institution agreed to a
search. When it came Martha Jane's turn,
however, she demurred on the ground of ex,
treme delicacy, whereupon they all set upon
her and threw her down, and then made a for
cible inspection, which revealed the stolen
property in all its pristine and unblemished
beauty. Rosa said she would have rather lost
her best silk dress, and demanded that sum
mary justice should be done. Martha Jano
plead the great temptation and the instinctive
weakness of her sex. for the little vanities or
the world, and maintained that she only wan
ted to borrow them for the occasion
ah of which so overruled the majesty ot th
law that she got off with only a lathe: ly ad
monition to a better conduct in future. Somo
thought it was no great sin atter all. the offence
was so peculiar and the sinner so pretty.
About the most remarkable piece of brutal
ity we have ever, heard of was perpetrated on
Thursday evening, Sd instant, in Cincinnati.
Some persons unknown caught a little daugh
ter of Mr. Charles Relth, only tveo years old,
stripped and covered her from head to foot
with tar, and let her find home in that condi
tion. The father had offered a reward ol $50
for the villains.
Mr. Israel Woodbury, aged 100 years, died
recently in Salem, N. II. He was at the bat
t e of Bunker Hill, and was for three Tears in
the hands of the British as a prisoner. Two
years ago, one hundred of his descendants sa
luted him at bis home. . -
,rat,fuhpldiDR ioT'ih in rTf oi women,
conclude, thus, "Oh, my hearers, depend up!
on it, nothing beats a good wife.' I W
your pardon," replied one of his female audf
tors, "a drunken husband does." .
L..9hi ! the reat country for raising raw
silk. N o less than 1.000,000 of pounds were
exported last year. All classes in Pekin wear
xt lor common clothing. - -.
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