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BY S. B. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., "WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1860.
YOL. 6.JT0. 25.
HOW THE HONEY COMES.
Queer John "has sung, bow money goes,
Uutow it comes, who knows '. Who knows ?
Why everv Yankee mother's son
Can tell yon how '-the thing" is done.
It comes by honest toil and trade ;
By wielding sledge and driving spade,
And building ships, balloons, and drum ;
And that's the way the money comes.
IIow docs it como ? Why, a3 it goes,
By spinning, wearing, knitting hose,
By stitching shirts and coats for Jews,
Erecting churches, renting pews,
And manufacturing boots and shoes ;
Jfor thumps and twists, and cuts, and hues,
And trails and hearts, tongues, lungs and thumbs,
And that's tho way the money comes.
IIow does it come ? The way is plain
By raising cotton, corn and cane;
Jiy wind and steam, lightning and rain ;
By guiding ships across the main ;
By building bridges, roads and dams,
And sweeping streets, and digging clams.
With whistles, hi's ! and bo's ! nnd hum's !
And that's the way the money comes.
The money comes how did I say ?
Kot always in an honest way ;
It comes by trick as well as toil,
But how is" that why. slick as oil,
By putting peas in coffee bags ;
By swapping watches, knives and nags ;
And peddling wooden- clocks and plums ;
And that's the way the money comes.
How docs it come ? wait, let iuo see,
It very seldom comes to me ;
It comes by rule, I guess, and scale,
Sometimes by riding on a rail,
But oftener, that's the way it goes
Trom silly belles and fast young beaux;
It comes in big, nay, little sums,
Aj I that's the way the money comes.
THE PEirCE'S LOCS.
CONT1SIEU.
CONVERSATION A BOLT AFIUNCE'S LIFE.
The introduction to the fctory, which wo es
pecially wish to relate, has proved indeed
koruewhat longer than the story itself. It is
Iwajs the way, when one knows bitter how
to talk than to narrate. The reader raubt make
all allowances.
It is well known that Duke Louis, immedi.
htely ' upon his succession, introduced many
important changes, both in the administration,
as well as among the occupants of tho highest
places of the court. For show, or the aggran
dizement of his dignity, he cared little. In
exorable towards the negligent or the defaul
ting, he was more strict towards the higher
officers than the lower ones. He insisted that
the humblest citizen should bo treated with
courtesy, and was ever ready to commend the
meritorious.
It is inconceivable what life suddenly inspi
red the whole course of affairs. Before a year
had passed, a new spirit, h new tone pervaded
the State. The higher officers, from the Pics
ident of the privy-council down to the lowest
clerk, being personally responsible for their
subordinates, watched over the activity of the
rest with the greatest care.
'Well," said the duke one day, in a chcer.
f ul humor to his Irier.d ; "well, dear Leinau,
ur affairs go on well. I see it everywhere in
the looks of the people; they are contented
with us. I am glad, lor I am respected for
my own sake. From tho spirit pervading the
land, the man is known who presides over the
whole. You do more, and ought to do more
than I ; but my merit is, to have placed you at
the head of affiiirs, or, if you will not allow it
to be a merit, I will call it my- fortune. What
pleases ine most is, that I have reformed the
court, and that all intrigue and miserable
eye-service have ceased ; and I am convinced
that every one docs his duty because he loves
It, and not because he wishes to carry favor
with me."
0, my good prince ! and do you really be
lieve that it is so 7" said the President.
"Certainly."
"And I am convinced of the contrary," said
the baron. ''In a country like ours, where
tho prince has full liberty to do anything,
good or bad, where no law restrains him, be
cause he is himself the law, there is no real
safety for the life or property of the individu
al, because all are in the power of him who has
the power, it would be strange, in this state
cf things, if the purest and best man among us,
could not be branded as a downright criminal
by a single look from you. The character of
the prince is a most unsafe constitution for the
people. It is the constitution of the Asiatics.
The best man in your dukedom has as little
ecunty for his property and honor as tor the
permanency of your virtue."
"Then we are as badly oft as the Turks 7"
"So I think, and, indeed, we are worse elf,
for here liberty and life may be invaded under
legal forms, but in Turkey only by brute force.
"With us, the law, so far from being a shield
for the rights of all, is a spy-glass for the eyes
f officials to examine the rights of the indi
vidual, and it magnifies or diminishes, accord
ingly as one holds it. Indeed, it may at any
time act as a burning glass. What is law,
right or safety among us V
"I do not understand you, Leinau."
Because you are too noble to understand
what is base. But it is your unhappy lot to
be a prince, and as a prince, you can neither
come to know those about you, nor obtain a
just knowledge of yourself. Princes become
tyrauts, not because they wish to be so, but
because their people will to be slaves. The
more serious your defects, the more carefully
will they gild them over. A prince seldom
has a true friend."
But I have you, baron."
"Yes, but you are an exception among
princes."
i ."How don't be so set. . You are a little out
of humor to-day. Let us take a ride to Fricd
nsheim." i "I am in an excellent humor. But It were
worth the trial to ascertain which of us were
.wrong in this case."
, ' "II ow shall wc make the trial 7"
"Choose one ot tho worthiest men in the
dukedom. Seem to be angry with him, at
least discontented, reserved towards him.
Then see how every one will fall upon tho un
happy man, like the innocent upon the guilty,
and all to please you. See if the honor or
property of the noblest in tho land aro safe,
. when you wish to ruin him. Choose, for ex
ample, the Registrar Ilelmold, a right honest
man, of whom not a soul now complains. His
salary is small and yet he has never solicited
any augmentation of it, although ho does, all
tho drudgery for the State secretary, who is
content to let him do it, although ho has a
large salary and is rich besides."
"Indeed," said the duke, "I have often
thought ot doing something lor, the faithful
J'elrncM. lie has three or fguv-children. and
very little property. His office cannot yield
him much. But I cannot bcarto torment him."
"But the lesson to be got is worth the trou
ble. You can compensate the innocent man
afterwards. At present no one knows any
thing against him. In a little while every one
will be able to bring some charge against him.
Thus you will learn to know your peoplo. The
good man Ilelmold shall not suffer. I will
step in at the right moment. And you must
compensate him liberally for ail that he is
made to suS'er, tho end being a good one."
"I do not see what they can bring against
him."
"For that very reison let us play the come
dy. Perhaps I am wrong."
"Well, Leinau, so be it. I will pay him for
it. Let us see whether my people are slaves."
THE PRIXCK'S LOOK.
"Is not that tho Registrar Ilelmold going
across the street there 7" asked the duke of
his court one day, as he stood at a window of
the saloon.
"It is," was the reply. ?
"An nr.commonly repulsive countenance,"
added the duke.
"lie certainly has something proud and of
fensive in his bearing, but for all that he is a
very, fine man," said Pi ivy-councillor Strom.
"There is something cold and forbidding in
his leatures ; that cannot be denied," said the
State-Secretary Wandal ; "but lor all that I
know he is a very worthy man."
"Worthy man!" cried the duke hastily,
while he knit his brow and threw a contemp
tuous glance at Secretary Wandel. ''You are
too good natured. That Ilelmold is not to be
trusted, or nature is a great liar in him. Do
not speak to mo of the man again. I wish he
were anywhere but in my service."
The secretary grew palo when he saw the
duke's look. Every one was silent.
"Wandel," said the duke, after a pause,
"why are you so pale 7 I cannot 'suspect you
of taking part with the man 7"
"God forbid, your grace," said the secreta
ry. "I have never had any intercourse with
him but what my office required. I have had
nothing to do with him, because, as your grace
justly observes, there is an appearance of lur
king'treachery in him. I have often thought
of proposing to your grace to dismiss him.
He is a clerk under me, and corresponds
with may foreigners, and has much important
business in his hands. I cannot trust him."
'Unless he has been guilty of some overt
act of treachery, I cannot dismiss him," said
the duke, "that would be unjust."
"I called him a good man," said councillor
Strom, "because I wouldnot speak ill of any
one. The man has a wife and children. I
would not wish to injure them. But as we are
talking about him, my duty commands me to
declare to your grace that this Ilelmold has a
dozen times deserved imprisonment or ban
ishment. I can bring proofs, that this Ilel
mold has often, in the journal which he pub
lishes, exposed both the constitution and the
nobility to contempt. IIow can any loyalty or
revel ance for the laws exist, where such inso
lence goes unpunished 7"
And here a church-councillor took up the
word ; and then a couple of generals and a di
rector of the police, and so one after. another
mentioned something against nelmold, until
he no longer seemed so honest as he was tho't
by Baron Leinau. Not only were proofs of
fered cf the truth of the various charges bro't
against the Registrar, but very respectable
men were named as witnesses."
"Is the man, then, really so bad, so dan
gerous T" asked the astonished duke. "Why
has he not been brought to account long ago,
and treated according to his deserts?"
The duke retired from the assembly in anger.
TUE CONSEQUENCES THEREOF.
The Registrar Ilelmold soon felt tho effects
of the 'prince's look.' People began to be
very shy of him. It passed from ear to ear,
that he did not stand well with the duke. The
higher officers treated him with sternness and
coldness. His equals avoided him. His ene
mies played off their malicious wit upon him.
Ilelmold soon perceived that something was
in the wind, lie inquired of one and another
they shrugged their shoulders and would
fain appear to know nothing. Ilelmold kept
quiet. "What is the matter with the folks,"
said he, "I have injured no one ; I have done
no wrong : I did my duty ; what have they
against me 7 Fortunately, their friendship is
not necessary to my peace."
Thus he thought aloud ; but in his secret
heart he thought differently. He suffered more
than he pretended. He avoided company, and
lived for his familj-. He had an excellent
wife, a lovely daughter, nnd two promising
sons, from twelve to fourteen years of age.
The sweet Emma, the very apple of her fath
er's eye, could have made the noblest in the
land happy with her hand. She was now nine
teen, but, as yet, no oue had asked that hand,
for she was without a portion. The Regis
trar was accounted a poor man. His salary
was not sufficient to enable him to educate bis
children, so he was compelled to devote his
spaTe hours to writing, which brought him in
but little pay.
In order not to pain his wife and children,
Ilelmold kept his anxiety to himself, and said
not a word of it at home. So mnch more ter
rible to them was the thunderbolt that fell
from the growing storm, of which they had no
suspicion.
One day the Stale Secretary sent for Helm,
old. Ilelmold came. Von Wandel met him
with the last number of Ilelmold's monthly
periodical. "Who sent to your journal this
account of the public debt 7" asked the sec
retary. "Nobody, Mr. Secretary ; I inserted it my
self." "Who empowered you to do it 7"
"No one in particular ; similar statements
have appeared in the journal before, and you
never objected."
"I do not read your journal, and of course,
could not object. But you aro forbidden,
without my permission, to show any ot the
state documents."
"But the statement of the public debt has
appeared in other periodicals, and even in a
foreign journal. I did not take it from tho
office."
"That does not justify you, as an official, in
giving it such publicity., Go, sir; you are
accountable."
A few days afterwards, Ilelmold was cited
before the High Court. But before this took
placo, there arose another "incident. The
duke wished to see the copies of a secret cor
respondence which the deceased prince, his
uncle, had carried on with the minister of a
certain foreign court. The State-secretary
demanded the originals of the Registrar, in
whoso hands they had been placed. But the
latter could not" find them. The secretary
shook his head suspiciously.
The next day, police officers entered Helm
old's house, declared him under arrest, and
demanded all his papers, which were sealed
up, and given in charge of the director of the
police. The whole family were overwhelmed
with terror and grief. Ilelmold, conscious of
his innocence, sought to console them as well
as he could. - He himself remained composed.
In the formal examination of Ilelmold's pa
pers, which was carried on in his presence,
certain papers were discovered, belonging to
the office of state. These he declared, he had
brought there when be was sick, and had per
mission to do his work at home. That they
had not been returned was owing entirely, he
said, to forgetf ulness. For this he must, he
said, beg pardon.
His private papers and letters were all read
through, for traces and proofs of a treasonable
correspondence. And some expressions in the
letters of his foreign friends appeared to jus
tify suspicion. Letters were found, in which
he held forth pretty freely upon tho duke's
appointment of the president of the privy
council, and in which he called the latter a fa
vorite of the duke's, predicting little good to
the land from his benificent changes in the ad
ministration. But it was evident, also, that
he had changed his opinions with the bright
ening prospects of the land, and that these
conudential letters really threw no more sus
picion on his loyally than similar opinions ex
pressed to a friend in common conversation.
Yet there the fatal lines were, in black and
white. Everything was tortured into a charge
against him. A formal warrant was made out
against him, and he was arraigned as a state
criminal and treacherous official.
When Uelmold heard these charges he rose
and with a smile, replied : "Proofs are sought
against me, and they are found. I confess that
I have-permitted state-papers to remain in the
house, but no hurt could possibly accrue there
from to the state. I confess, I have been free
in giving my opinions about state affairs to
confidential friends, but uo harm could como
of that. My more recent correspondence and
my published sentiments in my periodical,
show how my opinions have changed through
the wise and happy measures of the adminis
tration. But this. 1 suppose, will have very
little weight. If -any one of you, gentlemen,
were to be treated in this way, if instances of
forgetf ulness were to be strictly interpreted,
if your papers, your private letters, j our opin
ions expressed in confidence, were to be thus
called in question,there is not one of you who,
perhaps, would not be just as worthy of con
demnation as I."
Theso declarations excited the greatest in
dignation in the court. Ilelmold continued to
speak in this tone with dignity and force. "He
was, at last, interrupted by the murmurs of the
judges, and the president bade him be silent,
and ordered him to be led away. Upon this,
a gray-headed councillor, Feilach, rose, and
said : "It is wrong to interrupt the defence in
this manner. We prove, by our treatment of
tho defendant, that he is in the right. We are
carrying on this trial, not in the spirit of jus
tice, but hostility. I protest against this
course. I will not give my assent to ft, and I
demand that my protest be recorded."
In vain was it attempted to teach the old
man better, to warn him how be tempted the
anger of the duke. "I have grown gray,'? he
said, "in the service of the state. I have al
ways loved justice. When such inquisitorial
proceedings are permitted, his grace must al
low me to think as I please."
When the Baron Leinau and the Duke learn
ed the arrest of Ilelmold, and his trial, they
let the matter take its course. But when the
bold language of old Ferlach was reported- to
the duke, he appeared to be struck. The
courtiers all observed 'the prince's look,' and
every one seemed ready to ask, "Shall we ru
in him too 7"
The dwelling of the Ilelmold's was filled
with mourning. Ilelmold was in custody, ac
cused of serious crimes. He was put in close
confinemert. Even his wife and children were
forbidden to speak to him except in the pres
ence of witnesses. In a short time, money
began to fail in the household. Mrs. Ilelmold
applied to her friends. They endeavored to
avoid her, and kept away as from a house on
which the curse of the Lord rested.
TO BE CONTINUED.
Five Children burnt to Death. In the
night of Friday, the 28th ult., the house of Mr.
Luther Briggs, iu Delaware county, New York,
was consumed by fire and five of his children
perished in the fiames. Mr. and Mrs. Briggs
went to spend the evening at a neighbor's, a
bout half a mile oflf, taking with them an infant
child, leaving six at home the oldest a daugh
ter ot 17, and the youngest 3 years. The
children went to bed before the parents return
ed, and the fire is supposed to have originated
from the stove. The oldest and youngest
slept below and the others up stairs. The
girl waking up, finding the house on fire, ran
up stairs to wake her brothers, the oldest of
which, a lad of fifteen, jumped out of the win
dow, and the girl, it Is supposed, attempted
to go down stairs for the child in her bed.
The boy opened the door frem the outside,
when the flames burst into his face and burnt
him severely, but they think not fatally. All
the others perished.
Russian Babies It is said that the Russian
babies look like so many idols with their heads
carved out, and the rest of the body left in a
block. This appearance is caused by their be
ing rolled up in tight bandages, leaving only
the head out, that they may be put away out
of mischief and danger. On going into a Rus
sian house you may find one little fellow left
on a shelf, another hung to the wall on a peg,
and a third hung over one of tho main beams
of the roof, and rocked by the mother who has
the cord looped over her feet. "Why that, is
a child !" you exclaim, looking close, to be
sure you are not mistaken. "Of course what
should it be 7" answers the mother. Yes,
sure enough, it is a child but so dirty that you
cannot helping asking "When was it wash
ed?" "Washed! What? wash a child 7 you
would kill it."
Eclipses. An exchange paper says : There
will be six eclipses this year two of the sun,
two of the moon and two of the Locofoco par
ty. The two latter will occur in October and
November one of which will bo visible in
Pennsylvania, and tho other all over the
Union.
A brigand has been captured in Sardinia,
who is known to have perpetrated 60 murders.
THE "WHITE QUAKERS OF DUBLIN.
We have occasionally seen, in "the English
and Irish papers, allusions to these people,
but the first complete and thoroughly intelli
gible account of them that wo have ever met,
is given in the following letter to the Anti
Slavery Standard, dated,
Dublin, Ireland, Oct. 1, 1S59.
I have been a good deal interested by a pa
per in a recent number of Ilowitt's Journal.
It is entitled "Singular Sects a day with the
White Quakers," and it gives an account of
a number of seceders from the Society of
Friends who have settled in community on a
handsome farm of 130 acres, about six miles
from Dublin, where they eschew animal food,
hats and bonnets, and mahogany. They wear
white clothes, and shoes made of leather of
the natural color. They go to rest with the
sun, and rise at a very early hour, 'to com
mence their labors ot weaving, sewing, spin
ning, basket-making, &c, while one of the
members reads aloud from some instructive
and amusing work, selected for the purpose.
Having breakfasted, they adjourn to the fields.
Men, women and children alike assist in the
cultivation of the farm, for it is one of their
axioms that every hand is able and ought to
supply its owner's mouth with food. The com
munity consists at present of thirty persons,
children included. It was at one time still
more extensive, but the increasing strictness
of their rules has caused the lukewarm and
unworthy to fall away. They have large gar
dens, a haudsome green-house and grapery, a
bundance ot fruits and flowers, native and ex
otic, luxuriant crops of wheat, oats, beans, &c,
the whole the produce of spade labor. Their
whole establishment is a model of neatness and
cleanliness. They appear to live very happily
together, and are extremely kind and charita
ble to the poor in the neighborhood. They
hold that the earth was given to all for a heri
tage, and that the distinction of noble and pea
sant, rich and poor, are but the creation of a
corrupt order of things, which is sure to give
place to a brighter and happier day. Besides
all their other possessions, they have a library
well stocked with books, tho vjalls covered
with maps, and the 'tables strewed wish seve
ral volumes of beautifully illustrated works.'
What struck us most was the chaste simplicity
and exceeding purity of the whole."
Now this report is all very pleasant, and I
beliove it is true, for it agrees substantially
w ith an account of this community I had from
a friend of mine who visited it about a year
ago. Yet it is difficult to comprehend how
such a civilized and peaceful Arcadia, so near
an approach to an unexceptionable monastery,
could have been the work of such a people as
the White Quakers were but a few short years
ago. The leading members of the sect were,
without exception,. rigidly strict and consist
ent, straight-laced members of the Society of
Friends, severe against all departures from the
"testimonials," stern upholders of the disci
pline very worthy, good people kind to the
poor, and wishing well to all, but chiefly in
terested lor the prosperity and purity of their
own little corner cf Mount Zion. Among
them was the most valued of the society's
ministers, a f emale Boanerges, who denounced
mixed marriages with such awful warnings as
must often have made the blood of "young
women Friends curdle within them," and she
enforced plainness of dress with terrible ener
gy. There was an elder and an overseer a
mong them, and all the rest wore steady
Friend3, pillars .in the society, with the pro
foundest faith in all stories of Quaker mira
cles, dreams, portents, revelations, and prophe
cies. Tbey were, in short, the very last of its
members from whom the society could have
apprehended an insurrection. But they re
volted, nevertheless, and in this wise :
Joshua Jacob, their leader, who was at that
time a prosperous trader, a Friend in good
standing, a regular attender of meetings for
worship and discipline, a good neighbor, kind
to the poor, and greatly respected began to
"appear in the ministry," or, in plain terms,
began to preach. An unitiated person, like
you or me, would not have been able to per
ceive much difference between his communi
cations and those of the most approved minis
ters. Suffice it to say that they 1ere marked
by all the peculiarities of the Quaker gallery,
equally free from the text-taking, connected
ness, ani other trammels of pulpit eloquence.
But his preaching did not satisfy the elders,
the appointed judges among Friends, o'.' the
acceptaLIeness and right mission of the candi
date lor the ministry. Joshua was advised to
withhold his communications and was coun
selled and labored with, and a degree of pa
tience was exhibited toward him, such as I
verily believe would not have been extended
to a refractory priest in any other community
in Christendom. He kept on, never heeding,
and preached all the more, tho more ho was
advised to be siletit. At length the elders
brought the matter before the monthly meet
ing. But the monthly meeting bad no terrors
for Joshua; he refused to withdraw rhen his
case was under consideration, and when they
sent messengers to him he denied their juris
diction. At length he was formally disowned.
But as he held stoutly to the doctrine of the
inward light, and did not look on himself as a
"man-made minister," or as amenable to man's
judgment for the exercise ot bis gift, he
preached without intermission ; and when the
Friends, wearied with his obstinacy, kept bim
out of the meeting-house, ho preached in the
passage. lie had a fine ringing voice, and a
tremendous sing-song, which I would have
thought very holy when I was a little boy.
The disapproval of his course was pretty
general in the society, but there were impor
tant exceptions among the more rigid profes
sors, in many of the monthly meetings. They
looked on him, as ho looked on himself that
is to say, they had a very high opinion of him.
They espoused bis cause, talked cf "a perse
cuted recusant," prophesied an evil day to the
society, preached like him, were equally re
fractory, and wero in like manner disowned,
were kept out of tho meeting like him, and
held forth in the passages as ho did.
1 .Joshua then assumed a white dress, of un
dyed cloth, wore untanned leather in his shoes,
banished all; his mahogany furniture, using
deal instead, pulled down his bell, abstained
from clocks and watches, brought forth his
looking-glasses and broke them to pieces in
the open street for a testimony to the people,
cramped his business as much as possible, and
t length he put away his. wife.' This last ex
tremity he resorted to because she seemed un
able to keep up with him in the rapid progress
of his reforms. He also denounced, with tin
sparine fidelity, all his followers who faltered
by the way, who clung to dark clothes, or ma-
hotranv. or their huibanas ana wives wuen
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theso displeased him. I should say, to give
him his due, that he allowed his owu particu
lar rib to return to the community as an hum
ble companion, on her earnest entreaty. She
is tho mother of his six children, who are all
living with him.
Meanwhile all tho "White Quakers" bitter
ly abhorred and denounced the "Black Qua
kers," and refused to hold any intercourse
with them on any terms looking on them as
apostates and enemies of all good. No ties of
kindred or friendship shielded any from this
condemnation mothers left their grown-up
children and grand-children, husbands their
wives, and wives their husbands and children,
denouncing and inveighing all sorts of bitter
things against all their old acquaintances who
were uaiprepared to "go the whole hog" with
them. They threw their property iuto a com
mon fund, and made Joshua Jacob their chan
cellor of the exchequer, as well as the keeper
of their consciences. A sister-in-law of J osh
ua's, being left a widow with five children and
9,000, threw tho whole of the money into
their treasury at his instigation ; and when he
was summoned before the Court of Chancery
to explain this appropriation of the property
of orphans, who, as such, are its wards, he re
fused to appear, and was sent to prison for
contempt of court. There he lay for many
years, attended by his faithful friend and fel
low laborer, Abigail Beale, with whom he o
punly contracted a Platonic union.
It was during his incarceration that l:o a
doptedkthe patriarchal habit ot wearing his
beard and now he has a fine long one, and so
have all his masculine followers. Previous to
this imprisonment, the little community were
indefatigable in the distribution of tracts and
papers in explanation of their views, relating
their sufferings and persecutions, and denoun
cing all their foes; in fact, ' "dealing damna
tion round the land," and terribly hot and hea
vy against the unhappy "Black Quakers," spa
ring neither age nor sex, ignorance or inuo
oenco. Joshua and his followers have been
hailed out of steep-houses, mobbed in the
streets, brought up before magistrates, mocked
at by silly peoplo in the highways, and by the
more respectable (behind his back) in drawing
rooms. In short, they suffered a very sufficient
share of petty martyrdom, and they rejoiced
accordingly. During tho imprisonment of
their lender they subsided a good deal, became
a very quiet set of bodies, and are now hardly
spokeu of even in the "society," which they
once convulsed to such an extent that they
formed the staple subject of the gossip at quar
terly meetings, and on all occasions when it is
customary or proper for people to gossip at all.
AX AMERICAS 5TATESK AIT.
The lollowing sketch of Hon. Edward Bates,
of Missouri," by the St. Louis correspondent of
the N. Y. Times, will be read with interest :
Mr. Bates is a native of Virginia, and is a
bout sixty-five", years of age. He came here
at twenty years of age, and soon engaged in
the practice of law. lie was one of the dele
gates who framed the constitution of Missouri,
and such was his prominence, even at this
early period, that he was selected a3 the first
Attorney General of the State. Since that
time he 'has for the most part devoted himself
to his profession, though he has been a mem
ber of Congress and a Judgo of the State
Courts, and has held various other high offices
tendered to him, both local and national He
married a most estimable lady of North Car
olina, by whom he has had a numerous family
of sons and daughters, eight of whom are
still living. The oldest son is a lawyer of
very eminent abilities, though he is chiefly
devoted to farming in tho vicinity of St. Louis.
Another is a physician, and others are qualify
ing themselves for various pursuits.
Mr. Bates lives In aplaiu though large and
handsome brick house, recently erected on a
commanding site, four miles west of St. Louis.
His style of living is simple but generous, the
administration of the household being conduc
ted with tho utmost order and system. His
table has all the abundance characteristic of
tho teeming Vvest; tho meal is never tasted
till the blessing is asked from on
high.
At
an early hour in the morning, the family, ser
vants and all, summoned by the big bell, are
collected in the parlor. Here a chapter in the
Holy Book is read, and tho prayer offered.
Family prayer also closes the duties and
pleasures of the day.
In person Mr. Bates is a little below the
middle height, but of substantial form. His
general aspect prcseuts a mixture of modesty
and dignity.' His hair and beard are full, and
silvered over in patches ; his countenance is
cheerful and lively, and during animated con
versation exhibits rapid transitions with the
play of his mind. His brow is prominent, and
his eye piercing, manifesting a high develop
ment of the perceptive faculties. He is elo
queut by nature, and is one of the most finish
ed orators of the Great West ; as a lawyer he
stands in the front rank.
Though Mr. Bates, as well from tiste as the
claims of a large family, has shunned political
life, he is still known and regarded as a pro
found statesmanacquaintcd with the history
of ancient and modern governments, and es
pecially familiar with thatiof our own country.
On these subjects he has long been a copious
and influential writer. In connection with him,
I have been particularly struck, not only with
his mass of political facts, but with his pow
ers of analysis, and the force and felicity with
which he seizes and presents the genius of po
litical systems subjected to his consideration.
Queer Fakct. The very best fisherman on
Lake Ontario is an old monomaniac, popular
ly known as "Commodore." His recollection
of what passed before bis lunacy is entirely
obliterated. His theory ot advent into this
world is that he was, at about the age of 700
years, ejected from the planet Jupiter for some
violation of tho laws in that orb, and," on re
covering from the effects of that tremendous
I fall, found himself on the shores of this lake.
At first, he says, the food ot this earth did not
suit him,' he having subsisted before his fall,
entirely on electricity the only food known in
Jupiter. However, after having nearly per
ished from starvation, be discovered that whfs
key and gin so nearly resembled electricity in
their effects upon his system that he has made
shift to support nature by using a plentiful ad
mixture of them with fish, flesh and fowl,
vegetables and tobacco.
It is said that the silver mines of California
aro of greater value than the gold
The voluntary fund for the relief of John
Brown's f.mllr it is eaidwill reach $30000.
AS IRISH EXPEDIENT.
Simon Snyder, tho Governor of the Kcystona
State, was sitting comfortably in his parlor at
Selinsgrove, his rural abode, the cares of State
sitting lightly on his breast, for ho had junt
left his dinner table, and felt at peace with &U
the world, when a knock was heard at tho front
door.and PatrickO'Hannegaa was ushered into
the presence of the good-uattirei Governor.
"Guv'ner Snyder, I suppose," said Pat,
with an attempt at an elegant bow.
"Sol am called ; pray be seated, and tell
me what I can do for you to-day."
Pat cast a look around the room, rubbed
bis knees as ho sal down on tho edge of tho
chair, and, after a few moments, hesitation,
he began in this wise :
"Wal, Guv'ner, it's about six years since I
came till this country, and I've been a liviu
all that time up there on Lycomiug creek, and
I thought it was about time I ;vas goin' home
till the ould counthry, to see my poor ould
mother, God bless her! before sho dies, and
all my ould friends there; nnd so I'm on tur
wa3' yu see, and I thought, as I had heard
the people talkin' a great deal about Guv'ner
Snyder, and what a great Guv'ner he was, that
1 would stop and pay my respects till him.'
Hero Pat took a rest, and began again : "And
so I'll be goin' to Philadelfy, and a good long
step it is to go afoot, and then I'll go to New
York, and go aboard a ship, and sail till etild
Ireland, and" (here ho took, a long look at tho
side-bo rd, sparkling with its well-filled de
canters) "when I see my ould mother, and all
my ould friends, I'll telWthctit how I called on
the Guv'ner rl Pinsylvany, and how he was
mighty polite, and gave me a glass of braudy
to drink his honor's health."
The Governor tcok the hint, and filled a
glass, which Pat emptied as soon, saying,
"Your health, Guv'ner, and long life till yo,
and all your kith and kin !"
Down sat Pat again, and after answering a
few kind inquiries of tho Governor, ho arose
and spoke : "Wal, I s'pose'l must bo tcovin'.'
I'm goin' from here to Philadelfy, and it's a
long step to go afoot, and from there I'll go
till New York, and then I'll go aboard a ship
to ould Ireland, and tbon I'll tell all my ould
friends that here I called oh the great Guv'ner
of Pinsylvany, and he gave me two glasses of
brandj to drink his honor'shealth." ,
The Governor tvas caught, and poured out
the second glass, which loosened the other end
of Pat's tongue, and ho went over the rigma
role again, ending with three glasses of brandy.
"Ah"!" said tho Governor, "but you havo
not had three glasses."
Pat was cut up and down by this unexpect
ed answer. He pushed his lingers through his
hair, diopped his lower jaw, and looked like
deeply wounded "jintleman" as he was. A
happy thought hit him, and brightening np,
he said : "But 3-ou wouldn't have me tell my
ould mother a lie, would you 7"
The good Governor was melted lor a mo
ment, and the third glass passed from the 6ida-,
board into the longing bosom of the dry Irish
man, who drank, and thus began : "A tboi
sand thanks, Guv'ner! the saints bless and tho
Virgin kape you, and give you long life and
plenty of such brandy as this, your honor!
And now I'll be goin' to Philadephy, and it's
a long way there afoot, and then "
The Governor could stand it no longer, but,
half laughing, and half mad at the impudenc
of Pat and his own readiness to be coaxed, ha
showed his guest to the door, and told him, as
it was so far to Fhiladelphy, he had better
be making tracks in that direction without
any more delay.
Clay and Pennington. In either 1815 or
1810, Henry Clay became embarrassed to such
an extent that he had to mortgage Ashland.
In the mean time, a movement had been start
ed in. New Orleins by somo of Mr. Clay'a
friends, to pay his debts and relieve him from
his embarrassments, and Mr. A. II. Trotter,
the agent of the Northern Bank in New Or
leans, was sent East to confer with Mr. Clay'a
friends. The cons?quence was that about
$50,000 was subscribed, and the lion. Win.
Pennington was sent to Kentucky with tho
money, and reached Lexington known tt
scarcely any person. He walked into tho
Northern Bank, and asked Mr. for Scott, tho
Cashier, and upon his being shown that
gentleman, aiked if there were not several
notes of Mr. Clay's that were due in a few days,
and was answered that there were. Mr. Scott
was requested to give tho whole amount of Mr.
Clay's indebtedness, which was done, and a
draft on one of the New York Banks was hand
ed him, and Mr. Pennington left the bank with
all Mr. Clay's notes paid. In a few days Mr.
Claj- came to town to arrange for a renewal of
the notes, if possible, and was shown in tho
side room of the bank. After sitting a few
minutes he asked Mr. Scott if there could b
any arrangement to run the notes for a longer
time. Mr. Scott looked at Mr. Clay to see if
he were not jesting, and finding that ho was
no,t, told him that a gentleman from New Jer
sey had called yesterday and paid all his In
debtedness. Mr. Clay started when Mr. Scott
spoke, looked at him a few minutes, burst in
to tears, and left the bank overwhelmed. No'
man ever had such friends. Where Mr. Clay
lived, his personal friends are rejoiced that
William J. Pennington has been honored with
he Speakership.
llos. Thaddsus Stevens asd the "Cback
or Doom." The Lancaster Express, commen
ting on a sketch of IIou. Thaddeus Stephens,
says "The latest and best joke of Mr. S.,
however, is the reason ho gives for voting
for Pennington, of N. J. It will bo re
collected by our readers, that about a week
since he announced his iutention of stickins
to Mr. Sherman until the "crack of doom..'
But on Friday ho voted for Mr. Pennington.
Supposing, no doubt, that his friends at homo
wondered how he could reconcile that vote
with his previous declaration, he wrote to ona
of them to relieve them of any apprehensions.
He said that on Friday morning he had been
reading an account of the earthquake la South
Carolina, and he thought that was nlittl$
crack, and concluded to go for New Jersey I"
"Johnny," said a mother to a son nine years
old, "go wash your lace ; I am ashamed to se
you coming to dinner with so dirty a mouth."
"I did wash it, mamma," said Johnny, and
curling his upper lip, he added gravely, "I
thiuk it must bo a moustache coming."
"Did you save your baggage ?" asked noma
sympathizing friends of a gentleman who had
just escaped from a wrecked ftoaroboat on th
nf ;.ri..;n.vt rv i-aa " ni,l )ia nnfritlnir.
with a ei jniflcant look, to htj wife.
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