BY S. B. ROW. CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1860. VOL. 6.-NO. 40. J I LIKE AN OPEN, HONEST HEART. I like an open, honest heart, Where frankness lores to dwell, Which has no place for base deceit, Nor hollow words can tell i But in whoso tbrobbings plain re Seen The import of the mind, Whose gentle breathings utter nought But aocents true and kind. I scorn that one whose empty act And honied words of art, Betray the feelings of the soul, With perfidy's keen dart; Kt more kind friends fn euch connde, Nor in their kindness trust, For black ingratitude but turns Pure friendship to disgust. Contempt is but ft gnntle word, A feeling far too mild, For one who confidence betrays And guilt has sore beguiled ; That bate which hellish fiends evinco, When in dark torments toss'd, Is not more loathsome to the soul, Than one to honor lost. Then give me one with heart as free And gen'rous as the air. Whose ready hand and greeting kind (Jive proof that Truth is there. Whose Finiling countenance well shows Affection warm is found, And springs, pure as saints, whose notes Through Heaven's vaults resound. BACHELOR'S LOVE-MAKING. You would have known it lor a bachelor's den, the minute you put your head in the door ! Blue, spicy wreaths of cigar smoke circling tip to the ceiling newspapers under the table Castile soap in the tiny bronze card-receiver slippers on the mantle piece, and confusion everywhere. And yet Mr. Thornebroke poor deluded mortal solemnly believed that his room was in the most perfect order! For hadn't ho poked the empty champagne bottles under the bed, and sent the wood-box to bear them company, and hung his morning gown over the damp towels, and dusted the ash sprinkled hearth with his best silk handker chief! He'd like to see a room in better trim than that guessed he would ! And now he was mending himself up, preparatory to going calling, to call on the very prettiest girl in New York. Not that he was particularly fond iI the needle, but wlien a fellow's whole foot goes through a hole in the north-east toe of his stocking, and there lns't a button on his shirt, it's time to repair damages. Now, as Mr. Thornebroke's whole stock of industrial implements consisted of a lump of wax, an enormous pair of scissors and one needle, the mending didn't progress rapidly. II is way of managing the button question, too, necessarily involved delay ; he had to cut all these useful little appendages from another shirt and sew them on,and next week , when the - ithirt was wanted, why it was easy enough to make a transfer again ! See what it is to be a bachelor of genius ! it never occurred to him to buy a few buttons extra ! "Buttons are not much trouble," said Mr. Thornebroke to himself, as he wiped the per foration from his hrow, "but when it comes to coat sleeves, what the duce is a fellow to do 1 I havn't any.black thread either," and he look ed dolorously at a small tear just in his elbow, where some vicious nail had caught in the broadcloth. "A black pin may do for to-night, and to-morrow I'll send it to the tailor. The fact is I ought to be married ; and so I would, if I only dared to ask Lillian. Ob! dear, I know she wouldn't have me and yet I'm not so certain either if I could only muster the courage boldly to put the question ! But just as sure as I approach the dangerous ground, my heart fails me ! And then that puppy, Jones, with his curled mustache, and hair parted in the middle always hangiug around Lillian, and quoting poetry to her if I could have the privilege ot kicking him across the street, I'd die happy ! IIo isn't bashful, not he! If somebody would only invent some new war of popping the question something that wasn't quite so embarrassing !" Our hero gave his black glossy curls an ex tra brush, surveyed himself critically in the glass, and then with a deep sigh, set forth to call on the identical Lillian Raymond, revol ving, as he had a thousand times before, that if perhaps may be Oh ! the bashfulness of bachelors. When Mr. Thornebroke arrived within the charmed precincts of Mr. Raymond's hand some parlors, velvet carpeted", chand6liered with gold and ormolu, crowded to the very doors, with those charming knick-nacks that only a woman's taste provides, Miss Lily was "at home" in a bewildering pink merino dress, edged with white lace around the pearly shoul ders and a crimson moss twisted in among the rippling waves of her soft brown hair. She never looked half so pretty ; and.thank Prov idence, Jones wasu't on hand, for once in his life. But what was almost as bad.Lily's cousin was there a tall slender,black-eyed girl, with arch lips, and cheeks as red as a Spintzberg apple. O how Thornebroke wished that Miss Esther Allen was at the bottom of the Red Sea, or anywhere except in that particular parlor. And then her eyes were so sharp he hadn't been doing the "agreeable" more than four minutes and a half before she exclaimed: "Dear me, Mr. Thornebroke pray excuse nic but what on earth is the matter with your elbow ?" Mark turned scarlet the traitorous black pin had deserted its post. "Only a compound fracture In my coat,Miss Allen," said he feeling as though bis face might do the duty of Raymond's chandeliers both, put together, "you know we bachelors are not expected to bo exempt from such things." "Hold your arm, sirfand I'll make it all right in one nirment," said Esther, instantly producing from some secret recess in the folds of her dress, a thimble and needle, threaded with black silk, and setting expertly to work. 'There now, consider yourself whole." "How skillful you are," said Mark, admi ringly, after he had thanked her most sincere ly, "But then you have so many nice little concerns to work with. I have only a needle and some wax, besides my scissors ! "You ought to have a house-wife, Mr. Thornebroke," ,'6aid Miss Lily, timidly lifting np her long lashes in bis direction. Lily nev er conld look at Thornebroke witnout a soft, little rosy shadow on her cheek. ' "Awhat?,'demandedMark,turning very red. A housewife." ' " Yes," said Mark, after a moment's awkward hesitation, "my my friends have told me o very often and I really think so myself, yon know. But what sort of a one would you recommend, Miss Raymond ?" "Oh, any pretty little concern. I'll send yon one in the morning if you'll accept of it," she added, with a rosy light on her cheeks again. "If I'll accept !" said Mark, feeling as if he were in an atmosphere of gold and pearl, with two wings sprouting out of his broad cloth, on either side. And just as he was o pening his lips to assure Miss Lily that he was ready to take the precions gift in his arms then and there,without any unnecessary delay, the door opened and in walked Jones. Mark was not at all cannibalistic in his pro pensities, but just then he could have eaten Jones up with uncommon pleasure. And there the fellow sat, pulling his long moustaches and talking the most insipid twaddle sat and sat until Mark rose in despair to go. Even then he had no opportunity to exchange a private word with Lily. "You you'll not forget "Oh, I'll be sure to remember," said she smilingly, and half wondering at that unusual pressure he gave her hand. "Ladies often do provide their bachelor friends so !" Mark went heme, the happier t individual that ever trod a New York pavement. In deed.so great was his felicity that he indulged in various gymnastic capers indicative of bliss, and only paused in them at the gruff caution of a policeman, who probably had forgotten his own courting days "Come, young man, what are you about 1" "Was there ever a more delicate way of as suring me of her favorable consideration ? Was there ever a more feminine admission of her sentiment? Of course, she will come herself an angel breathing airs from Paradise and I shall tell her of my love. A house wife, oh I the delicious words! Wonder in what neighborhood she would like nie to en gage a residence how soon it would be best to name the day 1 Oh ! if I should awake, and find it all a blissful dream !" Early next morning, Mr. TlTornebroke set briskly to work, "righting up things." How he swept and dusted and scoured the room was aired, to get rid of the tobacco smoke, and sprinkled with cologne, and beautified gener ally. And at length, when the dust was all swept in one corner, and covered by a care lessly disposed newspaper, he found the win dow glass murky, and polished it with such a vengeance that his fist, handkerchief and all, went through, sorely damaging the hand, and necessitating the ungraceful accessory of an old hat to keep out the wintery blast for the time being. However.even this mishap didn't long damp his spirits, for was not Lily coining. Long and wearily he waited, yet no tinkle at the bell gave warning of her approach 'It's all her sweet feminine modesty," thought he, and was content. At length there was an appeal below, and Mark's heart jumped up into his mouth, beat ing like a reveille drum. He rushed to the door, but there was no one but a little grinning black boy, with a box. ' 'Miss Raymond's compliments, and here's de housewife, sir." ((Tha li rkii emvtfa r An littln imn at Fpnlina "Yes, sir, in the box, all right." Mark slunk back into his room and opened the box, half expecting to see a full-dressed young lady issue from it, a la Arabian Nights ; but no it was only a little blue velvet book, and full of odd compartments in azure silk, containing tape, needles, scissors, silk, thim ble, and all the nice little work table accesso ries. "And she calls this a housewife !" groaned Mark, in ineffable bitterness of spirit at the down-fall of his bright visions. "But I won't be put off so." Desperation gave him courage, and off he hied to the Raymond mansion, determined to settle the matter if there were forty Joneses and Esthers there. But Lillian was alone.singing at her embroi dery in the sunshiny window casement. 'Dear me, Mr. Thornebroke, is anything the matter ?" Perhaps it was the shadow from the splen did crimson cactus plumes in the window that gave her cheek such a delicate glow perhaps but we have no right to speculate. "Yes." And Mark sat down by her side, and took the trembling.fluttering hand. "You sent me a housewife this morning !" "Wasn't it right ?" faltered Lilian. "It wasn't the kind I wanted at all !" "Not the kind you wanted ?" "No ; I prefer a living one, and I came to see if I could change it. 1 want one with brown hair and eyes something, in short, Miss Lilian, just your pattern. Can't I have it?" Lily turned white, and then red, smiled. then burst into tears, and tried to draw away ner hand, but Mark held it fast. "No, no, dear Lily ; first tell me can I have the treasure I ask for." "Yes.V she said, with the prettiest confusion in the world; and then, instead of releasing the captive hand, the unreasonable fellow took possession of the other, too. But as Lily did not object we suppose it was all right. And that was the odd path by which Mark Thornebroke diverged from the walk of old bachelorhood, and stepped into the respecta ble ranks of matrimony. Raise Carrots. We have so often urged upon farmers the value of root crops, that we hope they will awake to the real value of the same. Among the many valuable and profit able roots we may name the carrot. Every farmer that keeps milch cows and horses, should surely raise carrots. This fino root is also excellent for milch cows; it not only in duces a greater quantity of milk, but much richer. And it is also very beneficial for the cow, giving her a fine glossy appearance and materially benefits her in flesh and in general health. For horses there can be nothing bet ter; and all who wast to see their horses im prove and look well, as also to give them vi gor of muscle and a lively and cheerful action, let them have carrots, at least a peck three times a week. Carrots wiil pay the farmer well. Twenty to thirty tons can be raised on "an acre. The land for this crop should be well and thoroughly plowed and made fine, and planted in rows by a seed-sower. The muscles of the human jaw produce a power equal to four hundred and thirty-four pounds. This is only what science tells us ; but we know the jaw of some of our lawyers is equal to a good many thousand ponnds a year to them. The question is discussed in some of the Missouri papers, whether raising hemp is good business. A much better business than being raised by it. . SKETCHES OF METHODIST BISHOPS At present there are six Bishops : Rev. xuuiuaa x. iu orris, oi iincmnati, elected in I8dl; Kev. E. S. Janes, in 1844 ; and Rev. Matthew Simpson, of Chicago ; Levi Scott, of nujingion, juei., Kev. U. U. liakei, of Con cord, N. II., and Rev. E. R. Ames, of Indian apolis, Ind.. all elected in 1852. BishopMorris is a native of Kentucky, where he grew up to manhood, and commenced his ministry. His education was good, though not iiDerai, out by diligence and god natural parts, he soon attained to eminence. Having served as circuit preacher and presiding elder, he was made Book Agent at Cincinnati in 1828, Editor in 1832, and Bishop in 1836. lie is now nearly seventy years old, the senior Bishop, a porny ana well-to-do old gentleman, taciturn, out genial, a gaod but not brilliant preacher, and a decidedly respectable rather than great man. His Southern proclivities are supposed to be pretty strong, and he has a son who is a preacher in the Southern Methodist Church. Bishop Jans is a native of Connecticut, but his early life was passed in New Jersey, where ne nrst entered the Methodist ministry. He continued the regular pastoral work only a few years, relinquishing it to act as an agent for Dickinson College. About 183G, be was transferred to New York, where he remained in the pastoral work for four years. He was afterwards made one of the secretaries of the American Bible Society, in furtherance of a plan, inaugurated some years before, to bring the Methodist denomination fully to the sup port of the American Bible Society, which previously had not been the case. This work ho successfully accomplished. He is about hfty-four years of age, a man of medium height, a little inclined to corpulency, and generally of a good physique. Ilis voice is peculiar a kind of double falsetto, which, however, becomes deeper and more sonorous as he grows warm and animated in his dis- conrse. As a preacher, he is earnest and zealous, yet not eloquent. Ilis sermons are distinguished for their hortatory style. As an administrative officer he is diligent and pains-taking in labors abundant." He is constitutionally careful, and on all stirring questions is generally found on the conserva tive side. Bishop Simpson, a native of Western Penn sylvania, was a student in Allegheny College In 1835 he entered the Pittsburgh Conference, ana was stationed successively at Pittsburgh and Wheeling. In 1839 he was chosen Presi dent of Asbury University, in Indiana, where he remained till 1848, when he was appointed editor of the Western Christian Advocate at Cincinnati. Four years later he was chosen Bishop. He is rather above the medium size with heavy shoulders, and stooping, brown hair, and sallow complexion. His voice, at the beginning of his discourses, is flat and whining, but it soon deepens and becomes muscal. His elocution, though violating all the rules of the masters, is both pleasant and vigorous, and he exerts that peculiar magnetic power, by means of which other minds will ingly yield to his influence. As a preacher, he ranks in the first class, both as to matter and manner. Bishop Simpson, accompanied by Dr. McClintock, visited Europe in 1857, as olhcial visitors to the English Wesleyan Con ference. They attended the meeting of the Evangelical Alliance, at Berlin, and with Rev. Dr. Nast, of Cincinnati, fa native German,! and Governor Wright, the American Minister at Berlin, (who is a Methodist,) gave quite a Metbodistic character to the American delega tion to that body. He then extended his tra vels through Greece and Palestine, returning by way ol Constantinople, the Black Sea, and the Danube. For nearly a year after his re turn he was prostrated by sickness. He is constitutionally a " progressive," but the Ep iscopal office holds him in check. In 18-50-51, when the t ugitive Slave Law was first promul gated, as editor of The Western Christian Ad vocate, he uttered strong words against its ini quity, and generallyihas been recognized as an anti-slavery man. In private he is genial and communicative, and as a presiding oiheer he is able, ready, and pleasing. He is by many es teemed the most able man on the Methodist Episcopal bench of Bishops. Bishop Scott was born near Wilmington, Del., about the beginning of the present cen tury. The field of his ministerial labors has been chiefly in the city of Philadelphia and the surrounding region. He is a man of medium size, with sandy hair and beard, pale complex ion, and a calm and dignihed expression, lie is a good speaker, and an able minister. Though usually in rather delicate health, he performs a great amount of labor, for besides a fair share of the duties of attending annual conference at home, he has in the eight years of bis Episcopate, visited Africa once, and the Pacific States twice. Personally, he is not old fogyish, and it is believed that on the subject of slavery his instincts and judgment are on the birth and residence, as well as his official po sition, exercise a constraint upon his naturally spontaneous disposition. Bishop Baker is a native of New Hampshire. He is about fifty years old, five feet ten inches in height, slightly corpulent, with dark hair, florid countenance, an acqmline nose, gold spectacled, and a small and ' closely shut month. He was educated at the Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Ct., and during his earlier years was a teacher in Vermont and New Hampshire. He held the pastoral office one year, and that of presiding elder two years ; and when the Theological School at Concord was organized, he accepted one of its profes sorships, f rom the chair of which in 1852, he was called to the office of Bishop. As a prea cher, Bishop Baker is rather scholarly than oratorical. His sermons are all finished pro ductions, often delivered from the manuscript, or memoruer, clear and pointed in style. As presiding officer he excels in his knowledge of Methodist law and precedents, and his ready recollections of passages. Bishop Ames is a native of Ohio, but of the old Massachusetts stock ; aged a few years over fifty ; of medium height and thick set ; dark, ruddy complexion, and a fine, robust physique. He was educated at one of the V estern Colleges, and was for a short time Professor at Augusta College, in Kentucky. tvniie yet a young man he was appointed pre siding elder in Indiana, contributing largely to the ascendency of Methodism in that Stato, and becoming personally acquainted with its territory and people. Kumor has it that his knowledge of the country has had other than purely ecclesiastical results ; that valuable investments in public lands, by the aid of such knowledge, have been made by himself and nis mends. And so generally have these operations proved safe and profitable, that it uas Decome, in certain circles, a proverb in In diana, that a scheme in which the Bishop has a hand is4snre to succeed." Settling early in the State, when society was assuming its shape ouu cnaracier, ne entered zealously into all its social, and, to some extent, into its political auairs ; ana it nas been said that m more than one instance his personal influence controlled the State election. In 1846 he was appointed one of the Corresponding Secretaries of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with the special oversight ot the mis sions on the t'rontier.both among whites and In- aians. in this capacity he traversed the whole frontier from Lake Superior to Texas, visiting me outposts or civilization, and the Indian tribes. At the first session of the Choctaw Le- gislative Council in the West he was chosen their Chaplain, and aided them by his counsels S it i-. iu lunuing meir iorm oi government, t rom 1844 to 1852, he exercised the office of presid ing elder in Indiana, still further molding the character of Methodism in that State, especi ally in the department of education. In 1852, ne was elected Bishop. As a preacher he is sound,earnest and argumentative,with a sharp and untunable voice, and but little ornamenta tion of style. As an administrative officer he has few superiors, while his natural powers of strategy, nad he been a politician, would have made him a formidable antagonist. In his early life, his political affinities were with the old Democratic school, but on account of the mutations of that party he is no longer of it, nor in sympathy with its leading doctrine. His instincts are clearly with the progressive measures of the denomination, on slavery as wen as other but Methodist Bishops are com pelled to be prudent. EACE WITH AN OX. oome lony years ago me managers ot a race course near Brownsville, on the Monon- gahcla, published a notice of a raco, one mile beats, on a particular dav, lor a purse of $100, r ree tor anything with four legs and hair on A man in the neighborhood named Hays. nad an ox, tliat he was in the habit of riding to mill with his bag of corn, and he determined to enter him for the race. He said nothing a bout it to any one, but rode him around the track a number of times, ou several moonlight nights, until the ox bad the hang of the ground pretty well, and would keep the right course, He rode with spurs, which the ox considered disagreeable; so much so that he always bel lowed when they were applied to his sides. On tho morning of the race, Hays, came up on me ground on horseback on his ox. In stead of a saddle he had dried an ox-hide, the head part of which, with the boms still on, be placed on the ox's rump. He rode to the Judge's stand, and offered to enter his ox for tho race ; but the owners of the horses obiect- ed. Hays appealed to the terms of the notice. insisting that his ox had "four legs, and hair on," and that therefore he had a right to enter him. After a good deal of swearing, the lud ges declared themselves compelled to decide that the ox had a right to run, and was enter ed accordingly. When the time for starting arrived, the ox and the horses took their places. The horse racers were out of humor at being bothered by the ox, and at the burlesque, which they supposed was intended, but thought it would be over as soon as the horses started. When the signal was given they did start. Hays gave a blast with bis horn and sunk bis spurs into the sides of the ox.who bounded off with a terrible bawl, at no trifling speed, the dried ox-hide napping up and down and rat tling at every jump, making a combination of noises that had never been heard on a race course before. The horses all flew the track.every one seem ed to bo seized with a determination to take the shortest cut to get out of the Redstone country, and not one of them could be brought back in time to save their distance. The purse was given to Hays. A general row ensued; but the fun of the thing put tho crowd all on the side of ot the ox. The horsemen contended they were swindled out of their purse, and that if it had not beerffor Hays' horn and ox-hide, which he ought not to have been permitted to bring up on the ground, the thing would not have turn ed out as it did. Upon this Hays told them that his ox could beat any of their horses any how, and if they would put np a hundred dollars against the purse be had won, he would take off the ox hide and leave his tin horn, and run a fair race with them. His offer was accepted, and the money staked. They again took their place at the starling post,and the signal was given. Hays gave the ox another touch with the spur, and Taurus gave a tremendous bellow. The horses re membering the dreadful sound, thought all the rest was coming as belore. Away they went again, in spite of the exertions of their riders. v a - "vhile Ilavs galloped his ox around the track and won the money. A witty young rascal, passing through the town of A , in Alabama, -not long since, wan ted some whiskey, and knowing it could only be obtained by a physician, wrote himself an order, signing it with his own name, to which a learned M. D. was attached. He presented it at the drugstore of a gentleman,who though unrecognized by him proved to be an old ac quaintance. Hallo, Frank," said he, when did you get to be a doctor ?" 'I'm not a doc tor." Why, what's this M. D. to your name for, then ?" Frank saw he was caught ; but, determined to make the best of it, put on a very innocent look, and meekly answered : "Oh ! that's for Mighty Dry !" Of course he got the whiskey. One Method of Fixing a Personal Iden tity. Prentice, the incorrigible wag, sug gests, in view of the notorious insecurity of life in New York, and the great difficulty in identitying bodies discovered in the rivers and elsewhere, that every New Yorker should have his name tattooed on his breast, or some other secure place. As to marking the place of re sidence, that would be impossible, for New Yorkers move every May day, so that a full grown man or woman would look like a print ed directory. Isaac V. Fowler. It is said that Fowler has fled to South America. If this be true he js destined to add another to the list of men like Swartwout and Forsyth who have wan dared up and down the earth for a few weari some years and then died poor and broken hearted. ...... . . ... ; THE FIRST AMERICAN WITCHES. Salem has hitherto cnioyed the bad reputa tion of the mother of American witchcraft. But this is an historical error,as was shown by Mr. Hopkins in a lecture before the New York Historical Society last week : " The first legal enactment on the subject of witcncralt in thiscountry, appears to have been made by the Maryland Assembly, in 1653. which adopted the English statutes on the sub ject. In 1639, Maryland directly provided for .punishing with death, sorcery, blasphemy and idolatry." In 1641. the Massachusetts laws were promulgated providing that witch craft should be punished with death. Rhode Island followed suit in 1637 ; New Jersey about that time, Delaware in 1700, South Car olina, in 1712, restoring the statute of James the First, and Pennsylvania soon after. The laws of South Carolina on the subject remain ed on the Statute Book until 1837. Delaware adopted the statute of James the First in 1719 He believed that witchcraft existed previous to 1604-5. The Hebrew motto was, "the more women the more witchcraft," but his idea was, that they were no longer old and wrinkled beldames," but young, and gay, and lovely creatures." Connecticut, he believed, had from 1641 to 1697, twenty-one trials lor witchcraft, although a large quantity of the State archives containing the authentic details are destroyed. Massachusetts punished witch craft in 1748. An anecdote is told of one John Biadstreef, who plead guilty, but the court knew him to be so notorious a liar that he was acquitted. In connection with Salem witch craft, it should be remembered that in Geneva there were five hundred witches consumed by the flames within three months ; that fourteen houses in England furnished fourteen victims to the flames, and that the Salem horrors have been greatly exaggerated. He discussed the Salem excitement at length, criticising the part of Cotton Mather, and of tho witnesses whose testimony was given in one hundred and thir ty cases, mostly against their individual ob jects of hatred. Up to 1665 there is no trace of any law in Jsew lork as to witchcraft, and when it did appear it was confined to the Eng lish settlements on Long Island out of our ju risdiction. The Indians said the devil would have nothing to do with the Dutch. In 1672 Sarah Dibdin was accused of withcraft in New Jeisey, but fled to Connecticut. In 1683 Wil liam Penn presided over a Court in which a woman was tried and acquitted on a charge of witchcraft. Virginia had a like trial in 1705, and North Carolina in 1670. Altogether there were four hundred and sixty accusations of witchcraft in the colonies, thirty-two execu tions, and three more condemned who escap ed. New York alone, or perhaps NewHamp- shire, never condemned a witch, or passed a law on the subject. Of the methods of dis covering a witch, one Perkins gave eighteen tests, seventeen of which were insufficient, and eighteen were impracticable. In conclu sion, the paper contrasted the horrible tor tures,cruelties'and barbarities of foreign pun ishment of witchcraft, and the comparatively mild form of the delusion in the American Colonies." Improving: the Language. The newspapers nave greatly contributed to enrich the English language. We shall shortly have thanks to the gentlemen of the press a pretty, delicate, idiomatic turn of speech for all the principal affairs of life. Thus a widow is "a fair relict ;" a young woman making her debut at a police office is an interesting female." Formerly a criminal was to be banged, but now he is "launched into eternity." A man was some times drowned in old times, but it oftener oc curs that he was "immersed in the liquid ele ment till the fire of life was extinguished." When a man fell down in a fit, a surgeon used to be sent for ; but now, medical aid is said to be in immediate attendance," and should he die before the surgeon comes, the vital spark has fled." In the time of our plain-spoken ancestors, horses and cattle were sometimes killed by lightning, but tbey are now struck 1 A W . . SI . oy me e.eciric nuia," ana noooay but rum- suckers get struck by "lightning." Again, a ship was formerly launched, but there is noth ing of the kind now; she "glides majestically into her native element," in which native ele ment, by the way, she never was before. In the old fashioned times, bridegrooms and brides used to be married. We are really quite ashamed to say there is no such thing as marriage now: the "bride is led to the hyme nial altar." The wedding guests sometimes danced in the evening, but now there is no such thing ; we 'trip on the light fantastic toe.' In Captivitt Thirteen Years. The Lan caster Express says that recently Mr. George Brubaker, a citizen of that county, returned home after an absence of seme years. He was captured by a band of Caraanches, while on his way to California, in 184 , thirteen vears ago, and had just escaped from them. After becoming acquainted with the language and habits of the Indians he was made a medicine man, and in that capacity did a great deal of good among them, preaching to them, and has succeeded in converting over two hundred to the Christian religion. It was only after the most solemn promises that he would return that they would allow him to depart, and he will go back as soon as he has seen his family, who have mourned bim for years as dead. A diver who has returned to Halifax from Cape Sable, says be descended several times into the interior ot.the wrecked steamer Hun garian. The scene which presented itself was appalling in the extreme ; for although there were no corpses in the interior of the ship, there were nearly twenty bodies discovered entangled in the wreck alongside, and in the gullies close by. These frightful remnants of poor humanity exhibited all the stages of dis memberment of hands, neaas, arms, legs, &c. and all more or less in a state of decomposi tion. Those seen appear to have been up and dressed, or partly so, as some of them were evidently in the act of putting on their shoes, stockings, or other clothing, when the king of I terrors put a stop to their toilet for ever. A Sensible Girl. A youth, smitten with the charms of a beautiful maid, hinted bis passion by shy looks, now and then touching the fair one's feet with bis toe,under the table. The girl bore his advances a little while in silence, when she cried out, 'See here if you love me.tell me so ; but don't dirty my stock ings and hurt my shins?"'" Samuel G. Goodrich, better known to mil lions as "Peter Parley," died suddenly, week .before last. Age, about 65 years. ' POLITICAL ITEMS. The response to the nominations of tho Chi cago Convention by the people and the press all over the country has been as. cheering as the most sanguine friends of our cause could wish. The free west is in a perfect blaze of enthusiasm, and tho satisfaction is general. Especially cheering are the indications that the ticket will form a rallying point for all sec tions of the Opposition to the party now in power. The evidence of this feeling is very apparent everywhere. A most impressive in dication of what is to be looked for in this res pect is the fact that the Bvffalo Commercial Journal, the organ of Mr. Fillmore in 1850, responds heartily to the nominations, and gives them its support. We publish the last para graph of a long and ably written article in that paper which indicates in an ucmistakablo manner its position and purposes: "With such views of the Chicago platform and nominations, with the knowledge that the little strength belonging to John Bell in this State is already diminished by a considerable secession to Sam Houston, and with old Whig hatred lor Democracy, nursed in with our mo ther's milk, and strong to-day as in 1844. in, our hearts, we conceive it to be our duty to place the names of Lincoln and Hamlin at tha head ot onr columns, as a pledge that we will extend to them such honorable and faithful support as may belong to our position and in-, flnence." A gentleman who has travelled through some of the Western States since the adjourn ment of the Chicago convention writes that the nomination of Lincoln iudeinr from th intense enthusiasm mapifested by the people. everywhere, will prove a popular one. He has in him all the elements of popularity. A man of the people, he has worked bis way from the lowly position of a wood chopper to that of an, eminent attorney, solely bv his own enercv and. industry. He has. educated himself and, raised himself to his present available posi tion. It is plain that we are to have a rcpiti tion of the enthusiasm of 1840. The old fenco rails in Sangamon county, mauled by him 30 years ago, will find endless,repetitipns in this country of worm fences. We shall hav,e rails in all possible shapes rail houses, rail ros trums, rails horizontal, rails perpendicular, rails in all possible positions : and the iRail Mauler of 1830 tho representative man ot honest labor is to be to us what the Log Cabin ' boy of 1840 was. It needs no prophetic vision to see the victory in store for us. Honest old Abe will be the next President, depend on it. "We venture to say " declares. The Cin cinnati Gazette, "that there is not in the whole est a man who stands higher in popular con fidence than Old Abe Lincoln. He is a man, of the people. He has risen, by the force of his own. energy from the position of a flat boat man to the honored head of the Illinois bar. He is a man whom no obsfacle could intimi. date, no defeat check, no misfortune embitter. A man whose life is a synonym of honesty, capability, and energy, is Abe Lincoln," The Useful and the Orxamental. How often you hear of such and such a person in society, the remark, "He or she is neither nse- ful nor ornamental." Unfortunately, "nsiifnl-. ness" is oftener wanting than ornament " Few people to whom God entrusts wealth usq. it as a means of doing good ; fewer still bring np their children with the one idea and prin ciple always before them, that no day of.' lita is well spent which does not witness some act of worth chronicled against their names in. the book of the Recording Angel, is a dav lost. and made . an offering to the fiends that gloat uu uuman iony ana seinsnness. it has always appeared to us that parents make the worst of all possible mistakes in attemntiner tn fnr their children to be good. Goodness and force or restraint are antagonistic, always. Persua sion, love and confidence are the only weapons with which to war against the influence of tho world upon a child. Such a child, from tho moment he can begin to comprehend the idea, that he has something to do in the world that he can't escape it; that every false step or blemish will only make his work harder; that to do good, to create something, a book, a thought, a machine, whatever you please, so. it be something he originates for the benefit of society and the good ol his species.; pos sess him with the ambition to be great some how, no matter how, and you plant a germ self-respect in a young heart which, no matter though it be no larger than the smallest of all seeds the mustard seed will grow steadily up to a great tree, and shelter all his. future life from the contempt of folly. The Illinois Central Railroad, at a town call ed Mattoon, is crossed by the Terre Haute and Alton Railroad. Every day at about 2. P. M., are seen fonr trains coming from four dif ferent directions, arriving at this point at tha same time to a second every day. They can be seen as they approach for ten miles in each direction, the prairies there being a smooth,. broad expanse, stretching away to the horison without any ineqnalities to obstruct the sight. As they arrive their cow-catchers approach to within twelve feet of each other, as though exchanging salutations, when gracefully back ing, as though bowing an adieu, two of the trains go on to the switches, while the other two scream away over the iron-bound prairie.. Cholic in Horses. A correspondent of tho Southern Field and Fireside says : 1 notice, in the last number of yonr paper, a, cure for cholic in horses, contained in a letter from Thurmond, of Athens. Permit me, sir, togiteyouone much more simple and con venient. It is simply to pour cold water on the back of the animal for fifteen or twenty minutes. Pour the water on from tho weath ers to the loins, so as to run profusely over sides and stomach. I have seen it tried in fifty instances. It will give almost entire re lief in an hour. A Georgia Giant. There is a man in At lanta Georgia, who offers to fight. the Benecis Boy" for $10,000, tho match: to come off this summer, South of Mason & Dixon's Line. He is six feet and one inch high, weighs 210 pounds, is in the prime of life, and is said to be a Hercules in strength and an Apollo in symmetry. If Ueenan will not fight bim, be oflers to fight with any man in the world. Long Sermons. Rev. William Taylor, In. The Model Preacher," says : Often when a preacher has driven a nail In a sure place, instead of clinching it, and securing well tho advantage, he hammers away till be breaks, tho head off, or splits the board." Y
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