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BY S.B. ROW.
.CLEARFIELD, PA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1860.
YOL. 6.HTO. 35.
IF WE KNEW.
BY Rl'TH BENTON.
If we knew the cares and crosses
Crowding round our neighbor's way,
If we knew the little losses.
Sorely grievous, day by day ;
"Would we then so often chide him
For his lack of thrift and gain
Leaving on his heart a shadow,
Leaving on our lives a stain i
If we knew the clouds above us,
Held by gentle blessings there,
Would we turn away all trembling,
In our blind and weak despair ?
Would w shrink from little shadows,
Lying on the dewy grass.
Whilst 'tis only birds of Eden,
Just in mercy flying past ?
If we knew the silent story,
Quivering thro' the heart of pain,
Would our womanhood dare doom them
Back to haunts of guilt again ?
Life has many a tangled crossing ;
Joy bath many a break of woe ;
And the cheeks, tear washed, are whitest;
This the blessed angels know. ,
Let ns reach in our bosoms "
For the key to other lives,
And with love towards erring nature,
Cherish good that still survives;
So that when our disrobed spirits
Soar to realms of light again,
"We may say, dear Father, judge U3
As we judged our fellow-men.
HOW KISS PHIPPS BECAME ZftBS. PHILLIPS.
A LEAP-TEAR 8TOB.Y.
Authors and artists have imposed some
most ridiculously untruthful types of charac
ter upon us. For example, what is the con
ventional notion of the old maid 1 Thanks to
those unchivalrous caricaturists, the phrase
suggests a picture of a lady with a figuie like
a ramrod, and a laco like a winter apple a
crab-opple reserving her small remnant of
sour milk ot human kindness for her cat; as
afraid of the men as Horace's Chloe ; and
feasting like a ghoul upon the mangled repu
tations ol her youthful sisters.
Well, now, my reader, look around your
circle of acquaintances, and tell me honestly
how many of such veslals you can find. I
never met witb one, and with your permission,
will introduce you to a little body who is the
very opposite of that abominable portrait
roy friend, Miss Rhoda Phipps.
As plump as a partridge, as blithe as a ma
vis, bright-eyed as a robin such is Miss
Fhlpps, as, on the last night of 185 she sits
in her doll's house of a cottage, in Pogis Par
va, with her elder sister, Harriet, e(2rtaining
a tiny party of village friends.
The topic of conversation is a Mr. Phillips,
a shy autumnal bachelor, who has recently ta
ken up his residence in Pogis. So very, shy
is be,that he has had his pew in church screen
ed, not only in front, but also at the sides,
with lofty curtains, above, which when he
stands, up, the top ot his head can just be
seen by his fellow-worshippers, and behind
which, at the close of the service, he remains
perdu until the church is empty, having taken
care to be the first to enter it. All the week
long, he never stirs from his own premises,
which he would seem to have selected for the
snke of a brick-wall and a high hollyhedge,
which shut them in on all sides.
The rector is the only person who has visited
him, and he reports that Mr. Phillips is an in
telligent and well-in-formed, but most ridicu
lously nervous man, with a perfect horror of
woman-kind. His servants, to whom he rare
ly speaks, can give no lurther gratification to
their village gossips curiosity aboi.t him, but
that fce spends the day in reading in his study,
or moping in bis garden ; and that they often
overhear him walking up and down his bed
room at night, talking to himself.
Here is a mine of mystery for speculation 1
Our ladies, fur the most part, are very unchar
itable in their conjectures. The rector's wife
believes him to be a concealed atheist. Why
cannot he show his face at chnrch, she asks,
like a decent Christian 1 Mrs. Squills, the
surgeon's spouse, suggests that night-walking
and talking point to remorse for some great
crime perhaps a murder. Swindling finds
more favor in the eyes of Mrs. Brown, the re
tired tradesman's wife. She would like to
know whether Phillips is his name, and how
he got bis money. '-Perhaps he's a coiner,"
whispers, in an awe-struck voice, her daugh
ter Belinda, a grestjeader of romances.
Miss Harriet P&ipps, who is suspected of
having had a love-aflair long ago, is the only
one who is not censorious; she hints that
blighted affections may have caused his mel
ancholy. But this compassionate hypothesis,
in common witb all its unkind predecessors,
Aunt Rhoda scornfully scouts. In her opin
ion, the man is merely an absurd hypochon
driac old bachelor, who has grown half silly
through living by himself, and having no one
else to care for; and, as usual, sharp sighted
littlo Aunt Rhoda, is right. She declares,
moreover,that she will rout him out,and make
him take a wife, and do some good ifi the vil
lage, instead of haunting his house like a sel
fish old ghost.
'Why not ask him yourself, Aunt Rhoda V
says Miss Brown. "Next year is leap year, I
yon know.''
"Well," laughs Aunt Rhoda, "if I can't
manage it any other way, I will."
"Ob, Rhoda !" exclaims shocked sister Har
riet. Thus they sit chatting nntil the bellfs burst
out with tlreir joy-peal at the birth of the new
year, when with many expressions of surprise
t the quickness with which the time has flown,
they give each other the customary greeting
ol the aour ; and when the visitors clog and
cloak, and scatter to their homes, tho rector's
wile tossing her head contemptuously when
sbe meets the Methodists coming out of their
"watch night" service in their little meeting
house, in manifestation of scorn. I cannot
sympathize with Mrs. Rector, there seeming
to me to be a deal of solemn poetry in that
rite. The few minutes before midnight, pass
ed kneeling and in silence, whilst the clock
ticks audibly in the hushed chapel, as if it
were the heart of the dying year fast hastening
to its final throb, struck me, when once I wit
nessed the service, as being about the most
thrilling time I overspent.
Leap-year is not three days old, when in
company with Mrs. Squills, Aunt Rhoda pre
sents herself at the gate of Holly Lodge, and
requests to be ushered into the presence of its
owner. In vain does wondering John, the
janitor, inform her that "Master don't see no
oody.miss." He mm see her, as she has
come on business. But when they are seated
in the drawing-room, comes a request for the
ladies to send their raestage, as Mr. Phillips is
too unwell to leave the library.
"Very well, then we'll go to him, John,"
says the undaunted little woman ; and go she
does, dragging her companion with her. Mr.
Phillips, a tall, pale-faced man, with witching
lips and quivering fingers, starts from his
chair at the apparition. Since they have bear
ded him in hisMen caught him sitting on his
form, perhaps, would bo a more appropriate
figure he tries hard to bo polite, kicks over
the coal-scuttle in a nervous attempt to hand
them seats, and stammers out a welcome, to
which, however, his startled eyes give a decided
contradiction.
He looks a little relieved when be finds that
the intruders have come for no more formida
ble purposes than to solicit a subscription to
their Coal and Blanket Fund, and permits them
to put down his name for a munificent sum,
evidently hoping to bribe them into a speedy
departure ; but still Aunt Rhoda stays, rattling
on about the weather, and the neighborhood,
and general news, until hisjook of pain chan
ges into a look of puzzle, and eventually into
one of semi-pleasure.
It is a novel and not altogether disagreeable
sensation to have the stagnant waters ot bis
existence stirred. Women he finds,like other
reputed monsters, are not quite so terrible
when closely scanued ; lie can talk, after a bit,
without stuttering and hlushing, and when
his visitors leave, escorts them not only to the
hall door, but also to the garden gate.
. Other local charities afford pretexts for oth
er calls. Ruthlessly does little Rhoda bleed
his purse, affirming that she ought to extract
heavy fees for the good she has done him.
And, indeed, he is marvelously improved.
Ho no longer denies himself to the village la
dies, all ot whom Rhoda introduces to him in
turn. He ventures outside his gate on the
week days; he joins the Book Club, and at
tends its meetings at first, indeed, with tho
scared look of a snared thing,but he gets used
in time to hearing his own voice in company,
and proves a valuable acquisition to tho so
ciety, not only by bis suggestions as to the
selection of their literature, but also from tho
interesting nature of bis conversation. His
front curtain at church is now undrawn, and
rumor says, that he looks a good deal more at
Aunt Rhoda than at the rector. Belinda
Brown, who is rather an old young lady, adds
that it is really immodest for Miss Rhoda
Phipps she doesn't "aunt" her now to call
so often at his house ; but sho supposes that
her age protects her.
At this spite and tattle, Aunt Rhoda only
laughs. In all honesty of purpose, she simp
ly tried to win a fresh patron for her poor
clients, and to convert a sullen recluse into an
agreeable neighbor. She has succeeded, so
let rumor and Belinda Brown say what they
Tleas3. It must be owned, however, that sho
takes a great interest in her protege, and cham
pions him on all occasions against Harriet,
who,nowthat her love theory has proved false,
and he lives like a commonplace gentleman
instead of a romantic hermit, is rather apt
with a most mild malignity, however to de
preciate him.
New Year's Eve has come again ; and a
little after eleven the sisters aro sitting this
time without company in their littlo parlor,
when they hear a knock at tho front door.
Rhoda, much astonished, runs to open it, and
is still more surprised when Mr. Phillips en
ters. He has bad a sad relapse his mauvaise
honte has come back as bad as ever.
He can hardly be persuaded to be seated ;
he fidgets with his hat ; he looks askance at
Miss Harriet, as if annoyed by her presence,
but turns pale with fear when by chance she
rises, if about to leave tho room ; he hems
and haws; he begins sentences, and never
ends them. "Deeply grateful to Miss Rhoda"
"object for existence" "not let the year
close," aro the only intelligible portions and
these but partially intelligible of his frag
mentary utterances.
Miss Rhoda soon understands him,however,
and cheerily exclaims ; "1 know what you
mean, Mr. Phillips ; but you'll never say it,
if I don't help you, for we can't send Harriet
up into the bedroom this cold night ; and if I
wait till the clock strikes, I shall lose my
chance of helping you. You want me to
marry you, don't you 7 There, Harriet! I
said this time twelve months ago that I'd ask
him. and see I have !"
Neither Harriet, snugly housed in, nor'we
who visit at her happy, hospitable home have
had any reason to regret that Miss Rboda
Phipps became, a month afterwards, Mrs Hen
ry Phillips.
Fond of Physic. No one objects to a man
dosing himself in any way he pleases,provided
that lie does not commit actual suicide. With
some men, the taking of medicino seems a
form of monomania. Bishop Berkley drank a
butt of tar-water ; and a person named Samuel
Jessop, who died at the age of sixty-five, in
ion , naa suca an inordinate craving lor pnys
ic, that in twenty-one years he took no less
than two hundred and twenty-six thousand
nine hundred and thirty-four pills, besides
forty thousand bottles of mixture; and in the
year 1814, when his appetite increased, his
consumption of pills was fifty-one thousand
five hundred and ninety ? Dp. David Hartley,
not content with Joanna Stephen's specific,
bad during his life eaten two hundred pounds
weight of soap as a medicine. k
"Love Rcles the Court." A Jury in Tex
as lately acquitted a man on the charge of
horse stealing, although the crime was clearly
proven against him, simply because lie stole
the horso to elope with his sweet-heart, who
was present in court during the trial, and
waiting to marry him if acquitted. The jurors
had probably all been in love themselves, at
one period or another of their lives, and there
was not, perhaps, one of them but what would
have done the same thing, in their younger
days, If they couldn't Lave got their .wives
without.
Three hunters from Kansas, lately returned
from a month's bunt on the Arkansas river,
bringing with them the skins of three hundred
and seven wolves. Another party of twelve,
in two month's time, secured over two thous
and skins. The skins are worth one dollar
apieco.
Some of the Catholics of Cincinnati are at
variance with the archbishop, I hey bad
made arrangements to celebrate St. Patrick's
Day by a ball. The Archbishop forbade the
ball, as being a violation of the rules of Lent,
but it was given, nevertheless, and was largely
attended.
REMINISCENCES OF THE N. Y.HEEALD.
We find in the Herald, published at Grand
.traverse, Michigan, the following remimscen
ces of early times in New York. They are by
tne editor, Morgan Bates, Esq., are of his own
knowledge and of course interesting;
now Bennett Started the New York
IIerald. As James Gordon Bennett is the
confidential counsellor and adviser of the Pre
sident of the United States, and his is the ac
credited organ of the Administration in the
city of New York, it may not be uninteresting
to our readers to know how and under what
circumstances a paper was started which has
attained so great notoriety and wields such
powerful influence over a certain class of the
whole community.
We are cognizant of some facts connected
with its early history, which came under our
immediate observation at the time, and which
are probably known only to Horace Greeley,
Gordon Bennett, and ourselves. We violate
no confidence in placing them on record as
matter of history, and as tending to illustrate
the fact that that which is conceived in sin and
brought forth in iniquity will grow and flourish
only in a congenial atmosphere of pollution
and infamy.
In 1834, just after Horace Greeley & Co. had
started the New Yorker, in the old yellow two
story building which then stood on tbS south
west corner of Nassau and Liberty streets,
there stalked in the office one day a lank,
hard-visaged, squint-eyed, villainous-looking
man, who appeared as if ho bad just escaped
from or was about to be sent to the peniten
tiary, and introduced himself to Mr. Greeley
as James Gordon Bennett, late editor of a
Philadelphia paper (the Pennsylvanian, we
think, though we may be mistaken in the
name.) He stated that he had called to hold
a consultation with Mr. Greeley relative to the
expediency of starting a cheap daily in New
York. As Mr. Greeley was busily engaged at
the time, Mr. Bennett did not fully unfold his
plans, but promised to call again. The next
day he spread out his programme.
The main feature of which was a paper de
voted to scandal in "high life," but to be con
ducted with such consummate ability and tact
that it would "take" with all classes. He
said he had one thousand dollars to invest in
the enterprise, but as that sum was not suffi
cient to insure success he wished a partner who
could furnish a like amount, and asked Mr.
Greeley to join him. Greeley listened pa
tiently to all his plans, and then, in his blunt,
off band way, told him that such a paper might
pay if a man could be found to conduct it who
combined the requisite talent and meanness
and flatly refused to have anything to do with
it. And this is the reason why Bennett has
hated Greeley ever since.
At this time there was a printer in Ann
street named Anderson, who was a general
jobber and newspaper printer, but who did not
publish on his own account. Bennett procur
ed an introduction to him, and by lair pro
mises and false pretences induced him to en
ter into the scheme and the New York Her
ald was ushered into being.
Anderson soon found that Bennett had de
ceived bim with regard to funds not one pen
ny of the thousand dollars ever having been
paid over and that he would have to bear the
whole pecuniary burden until the paper should
work its way up to a self-sustaining point, lie
expended a large sum of money to keep it
alive, until, just as it began to bo remunera
tive, the great fire of 1834 occurred in Ann
street, which made such terrible havoc among
the printers, and Anderson lost presses, type,
and cveryth;njr, with little or no insurance
His friends, who had faith in the ultimate suc
cess of the Herald, aided him to procure a po
wer press and other materials; but Bennett,
meantime, made clandestine arrangements
with another printer, and the Herald appeared
the next morning with James Gordon Ben
nett as editor and proprietor. He refused to
recognize Anderson at all, or to pay him a
penny for his interest in the paper, or lor the
large sums which he had advanced to sustain
it. Anderson took the matter so deeply to
heart that.be died in a short time, and there
it ended.
About this time Ellen Jewett, a beautiful
and celebrated courtesan, was murdered at the
house of Rosina Townsend, in Thomas street,
by a young man named Robinson, who was a
clerk for Joseph Iloxie, and through whose in
fluence be was acquitted. The murder was a
devil-send for Bennett (he never had a God
send.) He procured, or pretended he had, a
list of the names of all tnose who lodged at
Mrs. Townsend's house that night, some seven
ty men, most of whom were married, and occu
pied high positions in society and threatened
to expose them in the columns of his paper.
This ruse brought to his coffers an untold
amount of black-mail; and before the affair
was ended he had made money enough to buy
a printing office and set up business on bis own
account.
It is not our purposo to follow him any fur
ther in bis course of infamy, our object being
only to show how the New York Herald was
started. Pec&niarly he has met with unbound
ed success the success of infamy and crime.
But he has not reached his present position
without stripes. We havo had the pleasure
of seeing him twice cowhided on the public
street, kicked down three flights of stairs by
his journeymen printers, and cuffed and spit
upon by the late Thomas Ilamblin ull of
which be submitted to with the abject humi
lity of a coward.
Such is a faint outline of James Gordon Ben
nett, the editor of the New York Herald, and
bosom friend of the President of the United
States. '
The Pope of Rome is now in his sixty-eighth
year, and even should ho be obliged to flee
from the Eternal City, he will have quite e
nough to maintain himself comfortably for the
remainder of his life. It appears that "Peter
Pence" contributions have already amounted
to about one hundred and sixty thousand dol
lars, of. which sum Ireland has contributed
eighty thousand dollars, as much as all the
other countries of Europe put together. Be
sides this, it is currently reported that the
Pope has no less than twelve million dollars,
the pious offerings of good catholics, packed
away in boxes at the Vatican ; so that, in case
he should consider another hegira necessary
the money for his traveling expenses is abun
dantly provided.
Cold prayers are as, arrows without heads,
as swords without edges, as birds without
wings ; they pierce not, they cut not, they fly
not up to heaven. Cold prayers always freeze
before they reach ueaven.
THE JAPANESE.
The Japanese war-steamer Kandinmurrah
arrived recently at San Francisco, as the avant
courrier of the Powhatan and the Ambassadors
of J apan, with their suite of seventy attendants,
on their way to Washington City.
Recent publications, among which are the
works of Dr. Wood, ol the Navy, and letters
from our Ambassador and the missionaries in
Japan, have given us the opportunity of know
ing something of this very interesting people.
A new work has just been issued, written by
Mr. Oliphant, private secretary to Lord Elgin,
the English Ambassador to China and Japan,
which adds materially to our previous know
ledge. The Japanese are obviously of the general
Mongol type, but they have marked peculiari
ties. They are by far the most interesting
and agreeable of the races living beyond India.
Their most marked characteristic is a gen
eral gayety and insouciance. They are every
where lively, lovers of pleasure, ever ready lor
a joke or laugh. In the midst of Lord Elgin's
conventions in making his treaty, the high
Commissioners were constantly on the alert for
fun, considering gravity by no means essential
to diplomacy. The impression in this respect
6eeius to have been the same in all the persons
who have visited them.
But this love of amusement does not imply
neglect of business. The whole empire is in
good order. The cultivation of the fields and
gardens is fine; grounds are well and pleasantly
laid out; the whole population is industrious;
their manufactures are actively prosecuted.
Indeed, they seem wiser in this respect than
we are. We mean that they appear to combine
better than the grave Anglo-Saxon tho ideas
of business and amusement.
There is very considerable sense of beauty in
the Japanse. They are very cleanly. They
bathe frequently. Their houses are the very
home of neatness. They wear only sandals of
cloth in their houses; the floors are covered
with matting, the walls are hung with the
nicest paper, the woods used are soft and often
like satin, the whole giving an impression of
refreshment, coolness and neatness. In this,
as in, many other respects; they greatly differ
from the Chinese.
There is much politeness in these heathen.
Their crowds are not dangerous, or, beyond a
strong curiosity, disagreeable. The spies con
duct themselves courteously. They treat each
other like gentlemen. Their ingenuity and
quickness are marvellous. They learn every
thing directly. They eat the food of Euro
peans and Americans, never seen before, at
once. They can go through a dinner party
passably, after once seeing it. They joined in
drinking of healths and shouting hip, hip,
hurra, with the English instantly, though they
had never heard of it before. Tbey made exact
copies of American and European furniture
they have none in the toy-shops in which
they live-and furnished Lord Elgin's house
comfortably at once.
The Japanese remind us of the Persians and
the French. They are deceitful in certain
ways, but there is much honesty in their
dealing. The Government is all-pervading and
manages many things admirably. Their reli
gion seems to have but little hold upon them.
It reminds usof the Greek faith, rather a slight
objective form of religion, not penetiating
much to the deeper elements of humanity they
havo indeed, speaking loosely and generally,
something rather Greek about them.
The young women aro much prettier than
the Chinese, or the South Sea Islanders, or
East Indians. The married women blacken
their teeth and pluck out their eye-brows.
Adultery is punishable with death. But a
vast system of licentiousness is arranged and
licensed by the Government. This is one of
the dark features of Japan.
The trade of this large empire is eagerly an
ticipated by the Californians, and the prospect
in their future, when the Pacific Railroad shall
be finished, and Japan open to us the gates of
Asia, is certainly bright. Meanwhile the re
ception of the embassy will be an interesting
episode. We hope it will be done handsomely,
especially as we are tho first nation thus
honored.
Joe Smith. Mormonism has again shown
itself in Illinois, and under widely different
auspices from the modern Mahomedanism of
Utah. Young Joe Smith claims to be the true
leader, as a matter of inheritance, we suppose,
of the Mormon Church, and at Amboy he was
installed into office by a conference though
no account is given as to the source from which
the delegates derived their installing power.
His title is "President Prophet," and a church
is organized under him, that is declared to be
entirely independent of the organization of
which Brigham Young has so long been pro
phet, priest, and king, binith opposes poly
gamy and the other vices of the infamous dis
ciples at Utah ; and declares that he will only
teach the two doctrines of religion and moral
ity. He also inculcates patriotic duties and
obedience to the laws of the land, speaks
kindly of the Anti-Mormons, and says that he
holds no feelings of enmity towards any man
living. It is hoped that his teachings will not
be without influence, even in far-off Utah,
where reformation is much needed.
The Interior of China. The voyage of
the Earl of Elgin, two years since, up the
great Yang-tse-kiang, of China, the particu
lars of which are only now first made known
to the world through the publication of the
narrative of the mission, has furnished some
interesting facts relative to the interior of
this empiie. . The ruin which the rebels have
caused can hardly be believed populous cit
ies have been destroyed, and the country ev
erywhere laid waste. Chirkiang, Which once
had a population of 500,000, did not contain
500 souls. The great city ot Ching-kiang-foo,
which had been taken by the rebels, was
in a most deplorable state. "A single dilapi
dated street, composed only of a few meat
shops, was all that remained of this thriving
and populous city ; the remainder of the
area, comprised within walls six miles in cir
cumference, contained ' nothing but , ruins,
weeds and kitchen gardens." At Woo-chang,
a city, of 400,000 inhabitants,the party landed.
They found its walls thrown down,large tracts
were covered with the ruins ot houses des
troyed by the rebels, and so solitary were por
tions of the ruined city,that in its very centre
the officers scared up two brace of pheasants.
It was remarked by Dionyslus, the sophist,
in counselling moderation in pleasure, that
"honey should be eaten from the tip of the
jfiDger.",
ART AND LIQUOR IX EUROPE.
The following letter from Theodore Parker, da
ted at Rome, in February last, and addressed to a
iriena, will repay the reader tor its perusal :
"It is curious to Btudy the institutions of Rome,
and see how man decays here with such a Govern
ment. Tho people of the Roman States about
tnroe and a quarter millions have one of the fi
nest climates and countries in the world, free
what they make of it. They have about 25 or 30
miles of railroad one track to Frascati, another
to Civita v eccbia though other lines are laid out
The commerce is inconsiderable : manufactures al
most nothing. All the spinning and weaving in
Rome is done by hand ; so is all the sawing. Ag
riculture returns to the rudest form. In all the
fertile campagna about Rome they get but one
crop of grain from the land in three years; the
rest of the time it lies fallow. The favorite work
of agriculture once was to produce the vine, the
olive, the fig, nuts, and various grains. Now the
farmer seeks chiefly the spontaneous product of
the soil grass and on that he pastures his oxen,
sheep, and swine. The labored products of the
farm are on the decline. Rome exports about one
million pounds of wool a year. I think it is her
chief export, and may be worth two or three mil
lion dollars. In the city the chief industry, after
supplying the daily wants of the back and belly,
is devoted to the fine arts. I find that last year
Rome sold old pictures to the amount of 816.000,
and new ones to $134,000 say 150,000 for pic
tures. 5he sold S2.000 worth of old sculpture, and
$2:J0,000 worth of new. Then she exports cameos,
mosaics, jewels, church ornaments, tc, to about
$500,000 a year. Perhaps we might say her in
dustry in the fine arts brought her in $1,000,000 in
1859. But the sale of these things is quite preca
rious, and depends on the number of strangers
here. It is a hard time the poor artists have this
year when there are bo few foreigners in town. It
is curious to seo the contrasts of uiccness and rude
ness in tho same street. In a studio men make
statues of most exquisite irraco and beauty the
triumph of mind over matter ; in a 6hop next door
others make the strong boxes to hold those statues ;
they put a log of wood on two clumsy horses, one
man gets on top, another underneath, and with a
miserable old saw they cut the log into planks to
make the box. (We don t make many statues in
lioston, but a top sawyer is not known .) Ahc el
egant arts aro held in high esteem, while the use
ful sink into neglect. It is curious to see how long
it takes mankind to respect tho industry which
feeds and clothes, houses and comforts, the human
race. The work of ruling, of fighting, of "wiving
the eoul" by some sort of hocus pocus this is
thought decent and respectable; but farm work,
wood work, shop work, that is mean and debasing I
Such is the notion that prevails in the classic wri
ters of Greece and Rome, and with the "gentle
men" and "ladies" of New England to-day I
mean with the ornamental males and females.
Slavery is only supported by the profound con
tempt for productive industry which marks the
South ; and it has its support at the North chiefly
in the same contempt. Miss Diddle-de-diddle is
aescended Irom a blacksmith at lieverly or Alar
blebead ; he was grandfather to this foolish thing;
she is ashamed of her origin, and never sees an
anvil without a blush of mortified vanity. Now,
if 1 had a son. I should rather he would be a great
engineer, a great mason, carpenter, or railroad
builder, than a great painter, sculptor or fiddler;
and certainly I should rather my son were an or
dinary third-rate tailor, shoemaker, or brazier,
than an ordinary third-rate sculptor, to spoil mar
ble and waste the time of men he strove to make
statues of. How much better to be a common
house painter than a stupid dauber of canvass. In
America I mean in the free States the mass of
the people, in their collective action, work right
in respect to this, though uncounted individuals
make the greatest mistakes; but here it is the
community as a whole that falls into the error.
Alas for them! the miserable rags which are the
clothing of the people, and the wretched food they
cat, are consequences of the fatal blunder, and the
haggard, meluncholy faces of the common people,
ill housed, ill clad, ill fed, are the protest of na
ture against the worship of beauty and the scorn
of use. Think of a city exporting one million dol
lars' worth of trinkets, while she has not a saw
mill nor a power loom. We manage this matter
better in New England. There were seven paper
mills in Massachusetts, a foundry at Saugus, and
saw-mills more than I can recollect before a pic
ture had ever been painted in all New England,
or a statue made. Jonathan had many a useful
notion before he made him a fiddle.
In Europe you see many things which seem
strange to an American. Take the use of wine.
If I am right, the Europeans consume about 6,500,
000.000 gallons of wine. In France, leaving out
of account the pasture land which is not farmed
and the forests, of the actual arable land, one third
is devoted to the grape. Yet there are immense
districts where no wine can be raised at all. I see
it stated that the government returns make it ap
pear that the people of France drink 850.000,000
gallons of wine, and the calculation is that the a
niount is not much less, than 1,000,000,000 ! Yet I
don't believe, in the year 1859, there was so much
drunkenness among the thirty-nine million peo
ple of France as among the three million Yankees
of New England ! I have been four months at
Home. J here are wine shops everywhere. Iam
out-doors from three to six hours a day. and I have
not yet seen a man drunk ; now and then one is
merry, never intoxicated. The Romans, Italians,
French, tc., are quite temperate ; they drink their
weak wine with water, and when the take liquors,
it is only a little glassful at a time, (which does
not contain a spoonful.) I don't believe there is
a bar in all Italy where men step up and drink
rum and water, gin and water, fcc. Excessive
drinking is not to the taste of the people. In the
north of Europe, and even in Switzerland, it is not
so. The English, without help from the Irish and
Scotch, drink about 600 or 700.000,000 gallons of
' beer every year, not to speak of the wine, spirits,
Ac., they take to wash it down withal. There is
drunkenness. So you find it in Scandinavia, in
Holland, and North Germany. How do you think
the Americans will settle the drink question ?
Certainly not by taking merely to water, tea, cof
fee, 4c. We shall have more beer, perhaps, re
turn to the making of cider, and certainly plant
vines where they will grow. Drunkenness is such
a monstrous and ghastly evil, I would do almost
anything to get rid of it. But I sometimes think
we have taken the wrong track. I am glad to see
the License law introduced to the New York Legis
lature, and think it will do more good than our
New England scheme of prohibition by force.
Just now, the two prominent nations of Europe
are doing a great work introducing a liberal
scheme of commercial intercourse." Really, Napo
leon the Little, as we used contemptuously to call
him, seems to be the most statesmanlike head in
Europe, and is far wiser than the other Napoleon,
who broke wickedly with the ideas of the ago,
and so properly set down on the little rock at the
end of the world, to point the moral of history and
adorn its tale. I dislike much that Napoleon has
done, but must confess an honest admiration for
his efforts to liberate Italy, and to advance the in
dustrial interests of France. After all, it is prob
ably true that his nation deserves no better rule
than he gives it, and is not capable of more liber
al institutions. Those Celtic people have got e-1
quality ; the old aristocratic regime is perished ut
terly; all depends on universal suffrage; liberty
is something they care little about. A strange
people are the French, with so much military cour
age and no civil courage at all. I don't see how
they could live nnder a republican government
one like ours, I am sure, would be impossible.
If yon would succeed in life, attend well to your
own business and let that of others alone.
An exchange ays lead is an animal production,
because it is found in "pigs."
THE GREATEST DUEL 01T RECORD.
An old Mississippian furnishes the following
to the WoodvilJe (Miss.) Republican :
The famous duel in which .forty or moro
gentlemen were engaged, in 1828, is still re
membered in Natchez. Col. Jim Bowie, the
famous fighter and inventor of the knife, which
bears bis name, used to spend a great deal of
his time in Natchez. He was challenged by
a gentleman of Alexandria, La., whose friends
to the number of twenty or more, accompanied
him to Natchez to see fair play, knowing
Bowie was a desperate man, and had his own
friends about bim. All parties went upon tha
field. The combatants tooK their places in tha
centre, separated from their friends in the
rear, or enough not to endanger them with
their balls. Behold tho battle array thus:
Twenty armed Louisianians fifty yards behind
their champion and his seconds and surgeon,
and opposite them, as far behind Bowie
and his seconds and surgeon, twenty armed
Mlssissippians. Behold tbe heights of
Natchez thronged with spectators, and a
steamer in the river rounded too, its decks
black with passengers, watching with a deep
interest the scene. The plan of fight was to
exchange shots twice with pistols, and to closo
with knives, Bowie being armed with his own
terrible weapon. At the first fire both parties
escaped. At the second the Louisianian was
too quick and took advantage of Bowie, who
waited the word. At this Bowie's second
cried "foul play!" and shot tho Lousianian
dead. The second of the latter instantly kill
ed the slayer of his principal. Bowie drove
bis knife into his man. The surgeons crossed
blades, while, with loud cries, came on the
two parties ol friends, the light of battle in
their eyes. In a moment the whole number
were engaged in a fearless conflict. Dirks,
pistols and knives wcro used with fatal effect,
until one party drove tho other from the field.
1 do not know how many were killed and
wounded in all, but it was a dreadful slaugh
ter. Bowie fought like a' lion, but fell
covered with wounds. For months he lin
gered at the Mansion House before he fully
recovered.
The Morocco War Ejtded. Peace Las been
concluded between Spain and Morocco, on
terms decidedly advantageous to the first
named power. She gets not only 20,000,000
piastres to pay the . expenses of tho war, but
she gets commercial advantages, gets the rght
to have a Minister at Fez and to send Spanish,
missionaries there, and she gets an impor
tant cession of African territory. On this
strip of land, bordering on the sea, doubtless
Spain intends to plant a colony, which shall be
to her what Algeria is to France. The two
European Christian nations, working side
by side on African soil, may accomplish
great ends, and immensely promofe the wort
of civilizing Africa and developing its wealth.
Our chief mfcfgiving arises from" the fact that
nearly all past Spanish efforts at colonization
and eonnnest. hownvp nrnmisfnir at flrsf ham
terminated disastrously. Cuba and Porto Ri
co are itie oniy important possessions neid now
bv Snain- which fnrmprlv IipM nnrlw nil tha
American continent and islands. . Even these
two islands Would be far more prosperous un
der almost any other flag than the Spanish.
Whether Snain will snocfiprr anv hptrpr m hf
attemps to colonize Africa,remains to be seen.
Avtv.k "Mntn" llinpivrca A ill..l. n
residing at Perrvnnnlis Vawittt C. HiiicH,.mri'l...i
an "eloapment" which recently occurred there :
-T.u luajiiiicui un lucsuaj jigui a young ir
Ilixenbaugh And Miss Hasher Eloped From Per
ryopolis Took passage on the Cars for Pittsburgh"
for tho Purpose of Getting married this privilege
uciug iijcctuu vy mcir panems on me account ol
their ages; on his accompanying her home the
dot was marie, thnv vcpnt infn hor It ritUpiVl.ur.
and they thought that he was still setting talking
iu ucr us usual, ou -eii morning louna mem uota
TnilTlff ttnil hnrl t.rtj-.lr nitoe... n Ka f 2m
suit of moar happiness And Joy go with them."
Not oct op Raxge. Old Governor Stuyve?ant.-
some years after the British took possession of New"
iom, appeared uciore tne liritish liovernor (Uar
taret.) with a complaint that he was annoved bv
men and boys bathing in front of his houae in a
nude state. Governor Cartaret assured him that
it should be stopped, but happening to recollect,
said : "Why, Governor, your house is at some dis
tance from the river, and how can it incommode
the ladies of your family?1' "Yy, you ice," said
old Peter, shaking his cane, "mine gals have got
a pig spy-glass !''
A popular preacher tells a good story as a hit at
those kind of christians who are too indolent to
pursue the duties required of them by their faith.
He says that one pious gentleman composed a very
fervent prayer to the Almighty, wrote it out legi
bly, affixed the manuscript to the bod post, then.
on cold nights, he merely pointed to the "docu
ment," and said "Oh. Lord ! those are my senti
ments!" blew out the light, and1 nestled among
the blankets.
One of tho neatest replies we ever heard in a le-
fflfllatilTA knilir AW n 1 r- n.n VMa I nl.l . .1
by Mr. Tilson, of Rockland, Maine. A member
had replied to something Mr. Tilson had said, and,
pausing a moment, he inquired if he saw the line
of argument. "Mr. Speaker," said he, "in answer
to the gentleman, I would say, I hear the humming
of the wheel, but cannot see any thread."
Afflictive Dispf.nsatios. Within the past six
months, sixteen children hare died within a mile
of Shingle's Church, in North Coventry township,
Chester county all of putrid sore throat. In that
short space of time three families have lost all
their children, namely John Stacer's, Rudolph
Reifsnyder's and Owen Posey's. Lewis Spies has
buried four children, but has two left.
A terrible encounter took place, a coucle weeks
ago, in Powell county, Kentucky, between a man
named Hall and his sons, and one named Bowler
and five cf his sons Old Hall was mortally woun
ded and one of his sons killed and another severely
Etabbed. Old Bowler was also badly wounded.
At the Orphan Asylum in Lexington, Ky., tho
children recently ate by mistake some arsenic pre
pared for the destruction of rats. Twenty-one of
the victims of this mistake were seriously poison
ed, but by great care were saved from death.
The subiect of a re-union of the Methodist Epis
copal Church. North and South, is being extensive
ly discussed in various papersof the Church. The
present year is the centennary anniversary of
Methodism in the United States.
The forests in Natchitoches parish,' in the State
of Louisiana, are literally strewn with the carcas
ses of cows, sheep, hogs, 4c., which have died
from famine during the winter.
Emnggins hae electrified humanity by the dis
covery that much of the ricKness in JNew Orleans
is occasioned by bad health.