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BY S. B.EO.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1860.
VOL. 7.-M 14.
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A MODEL WORSHIPPED.
'TI1 me about the sermon deaf ; .
Take off your shawl and hat.
And eome and ait beside me here;
The text first where was tht?"
Well, really. Aaotr, I don't know,
I have forgotten quite ;
I wish you could soe Jane Monroe,
She dresses like a fright!
Mif Lyman wore a splendid shawl,
With that old horrid bonnet.
The rery one she wore last fall,
With 'that old trimming on it.
'Rut Mrt. Deacon Jonei had on
One of the richest collar
I ever sow. nnd her new dress -
Must hare cost fifty dollars.
'Strange what extravagance and waste
Some people always show !
Then 11 at tie Bell, what want of taste
the dresses with you know."
. Tltn audience you remember, dear,
If you do not the sermon ;
Which preacher do you like to hear,
It u one, or Air. Herman .
rman '.
an, for
, aod his4L J
ihow!"
Oh, I like Mr. Herman
lie's handsome, aunt,
Then he's so graceful
ilow splendidly they show!
THE MYSTERIOUS HIGHWAYMAN. -
ITROM TAB JOCRSAL OP AS ENGLISH POLICE OrVICEtt
There was a shrewd robber somewhere. The
farm-houses were robbed ; shops were robbed ;
the tills of the bars at the wayside inns were
robbed ; and the people had their pockets pick
ed. All this happened in the region of coun
try between Sidney and Lowstone not a field
of vast extent and yet the robber or robbers
could not re round- Omccrs had searched in
every direction, and several suspicious look
in; individuals had been apprehended; but
the real culprit still remained at large. One
day the mail was robbed, and on the next a
man had his pocket picked of five hundred
pounds, while riding in the stage coach for
tuy narrative dates back to the old coaching
lnys. Tlie money had been carried in the
breast pocket, and he knew that it was stoleu
from him whilo he was enjoying a bit of a
done on the road.
I had been confined to my house by a severe
cold for several days, and was not fit to go out
now ; but this matter was becoming so serious,
1 felt it my duty to be on the move, and accor
dingly I fortified my throat and breast with
warm flannel, and set forth. I had no settled
plan in my mind, for 1 had not yet been upon
the road, ami was not thoroughly "posted up."
A ride of five miles brought me to Sidney, and
thence I meant to take coach to Lowstone,
where Sam Stickney, one of the shrewdest ol
men, lived.-.; Stickney had already been on
the search, and I wished to consult him before
making any decided movement. . 1 reached
Sidney at half-past five in the morning, and
the coach left at six. Lowstone was sixty
miles distant, so I had a good ride before me.
Durirg the early part of the day I rode upon
the box with the driver, and from him I gain
ed considerable information touching the va
rious robberies that had been committed, lie
was forced to admit that several people had
been robbed in his stage, though he declared
(hat he couldn't see into it, for he had not the
most remote idea even of who the robber
could be.
We reached Bonniville at noon, where we
stopped to dine, and when we left this place I
was the only passenger. At the distance of
twelve miles, at a little village called Caw
thorne, we stopped to change horses, and heie
another passenger got up. I had been occn-
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i be wider than the others. and cave me a better
opportunity for lying down; and when the
new comer enteied he took the back seat. lie
was a young man, I judged, and not very tall
in stature, but so completely bundled up was
he in shawls and mufflers, that his size of frame
was not so easily determined. He was very
pale, and coughed badly ; and J at once made
up my mind that he was far less fit to travel
than 1 was. After we had got fairly on our
way, I remarked to him that I had been, suffer
ing from a severe cold, and that this was the
first time I had ventured out for quite a num
ber of days. He looked at me out of a pair
of dark, bright eyes; and when he seemed to
have determined what manner of man I was,
he said : .
"I have something worse than a cold, sir."
He broke into a fit of coughing which lasted
minute or so, and then added "It won't be
great while befote I shall take my last ride."
Again he was seized with a spasm of cough
ing, and when he bad recovered from it, he
continued "The disease is eating me up and
shaking me to pieces at the same time."
He further informed me that be had started
on a tour for his health but that he had given
it up, and was now on bis way home, which
place he was anxious to reach as soon as pos
sible. Another paroxysm seized hira at this
point, and be intimated that he was unable to
converse, as the effect brought on his cough.
I had noticed this, and had made up my mind
Co trouble him no more, cveu before he had
given me the hint.
After this he drew bis outer shawl more
closely about his neck and face, and having
secured an easy posture, he closed bis eyes,
and I was not long in following his example.
Toward the middle of the afternoon the coach
stopped at a small village, where four passen
gers got up. This broke up the arrangement
or my friend and myself for rest, as he had
to take one of the strangers on his seat, whjje
a iook another upon mine, the other two occu
PFine t.ha middle ceat. The new comers soon
iroaclied the subject of the robberies ' which
una oeen committed in that region, and I lis
jened .to . gain information, if. possible ; but
'nuew no more than any one elso' knew.
They had heard all about it, and were inflated
With wonder. i
. One an old fanner asked me if I knew
anything of the robber. I told hira that I
knew but little of the affair in any way, hav-
uB ucu eica, ana unable to be out amoncr
folk.
Then he asked my consumntive friend
it he
knew anything about it. Th ittr
raised his head from its reclining position,
and was on the point of answering, when he
heard the driver, in a quick, abrupt tone, or
dering some one to get out or the road. ' 1
instinctively put my bead out of the window
to see what the trouble was, and my eye was
just quick enough to detect a load of fagots
n tune to dodge back and avoid tbetn. The.
wad was quit, narrow at this point, and as'
("6 were i loaded . very widely, it1 was
iK8lb.,or th0 arlve, td wholly avoid fheni.'
ad the side of the coach was swept by them
quite smartly. I escaped without being touch
ed, but not so with my friend. I heard an ex
clamation I thought rather a profane one
from his lips, and on looking toward him I saw
that one of the fagots had struck bim over the
left eye, making quite a mark upon the pale
sum. this incident turned the conversation
from the subject of the robberies, and it was
not again alluded to during the day.
AY e reached Lowstone shortly after dark,
ana l went at once to the residence of Mr
Mickney, whom I found . at home. He had
been out all day and had made all sorts of ef-
Kts to obtain some clue to the perpetrators of
fesfttfaberies that were being committed, but
without effect.
He said be could learn nothing on which to
hang suspicion. Two shops bad been robbed
in his town, but he could gain no clue to the
perpetrators. We consulted together, and fi
nally proposed to go in the morninsr and soe
another detective officer named Gamblit, who
resided about twelve miles distant in the town
of Orton.
This met the views of my host, and so we
lett the matter for the evening. On the follow
ing morning we were up early, aud as the
coach would take us directlv to Garablit's
bouse, we chose that mode of conveyance,
ana repaired at a seasonable hour to the tav
ern for that purpose. When we reached the
inn, we found the old farmer, who had been
one of my fellow passengers on the nig
lore, stepping about the door m a high state
of excitement. He had been robbed of three
hundred pounds, and he was sure it must have
been done in the stage, for he had slept with
his pocket-book under his pillow. He had
not thought to look into it when he retired,
out no had round it empty that morning when
he got up. He said that wallet had been taken
from his pocket and put back again he knew
it. As soon as he saw me he was anxious I
should bo searched. Of course I allowed the
operation to be performed willingly. Alter
the excitement was allayed, I asked where the
pale young man was, that came in the coach.
and was told by- the landlord that he went a-
way soon after the coach arrived.
My Ci st aim was to satisfy myself that the
old man had been robbed in the stage coach,
ana or tins ne succeeaea in convincing me.
After this my suspicions rested upon the con
sumptive man, and I believed, if I could find
him, I should find the rogue. So I bade the
landlord to keep a sharp lookout ; and also
spoke to the driver who had brought me from
oiuney, anu wuo was now on tne point ot re
turning; requesting him, if he saw anything
ot tne pale man, to see that he was secured
The suspicious individual had only remained
at the inn a few minutes on the previous eve
ning, and had then gone away m a gig, which
had come for bim ; but no one could tell what
direction he had taken.
The coach for Orton soon came to the door
and Stickney and myself took our seats inside,
the farmer having determined to remain where
he was until he heard something about the
money. There were two other passengers in
side, and two or three outside, but they were
strangers to me. We had gone two or three
miles, when the driver pulled up before a
small farm house, where a woman and a trunk
were waiting by the garden gate. The lady
was handed into the coach, and took a seat
facing me, and as she turned to give the dri
ver some direction concerning the baggage,
she threw her veil over her bonnet. She was
pretty very pretty with rosy cheeks and
sparkling eyes. Her hair hung in glossy brown
ringlets over her neck and shoulders, and was
a type of beauty in itself. I looked at the
rosy cheeks again, and into her dark lustrous
eyes. My gaze was fixed upon this latter point
when she caught my glance, and quickly drop
ped her veil. At first I felt a little ashamed
at having been caught staring at her so bold
ly ; but as the face was hidden from sight,
aim 1 haa opportunity lor reflection, it struck
me that I had seen those features before.
Here was a study for me, and I was buried
in it at once. Where had I seen that face ? I
whispered to Stickney, and asked bim if he
had ever seen her before. He said he had not,
and joked mo for being so curious about a
pretty face.
We stopped at a place called "Turner's
Mills," in the edge of Orton, to exchange
mails, and here 1 jumped out to see the post
master wno was an oia menu ot mine ana as
I was returning to the coach the thought struck
me to look at the trunk which had been last
put on, and sec if any name was on it. It was
marked with the simple initials "A. M." So
that was all I gained from that source. As I
came to the coach door I approached it from
behind, and as 1 cast my eyes up I found that
the beauty bad her veil raised, and was look
ing in at the post office as though anxious for
the mail to come, that we might be off. The
expression of anxiety detracted somewhat
from her beauty,and as I looked upon her now,
seeing her face in a different light, I was struck
with a sort ot snake-like cast which was per
ceptible in the whole character of her features.
lest she should catch me a second time, when
a light motion of her head rolled her curls
over her temple, and I saw a faint line, some
thing like a vein over her left eye. It was a
mark a livid scratch where something had
struck. It might have been the stroke of a
whip. But no ; I quickly glided back bo-
hind the coach, and there I reflected. Such
a mark as that could be made by a fagot.
when I returned to piy seat in the poach
the fair stnfnger's yeil was down again. Could
it be possible thafmy suspicions were oorrecti
anq mat etiance had thrown in my way a solu
tion of the problem which had Vexed my dep
uties so much 7 Yes, I was sure ot it; the
more I compared the two l'acs in my mind,
the more I saw a resemblance. Either these
cheeks had been painted red to-day or white
yesterday. The eyes were the same, the con
tour the same, and that broW, with Us tell-tale
mark, not to be mistaken.
' We soon stopped at the door of the inn at
Urton. 4. fia uri ver announceu mat iney wouwt
stop there fifteen or twenty minutes, to change
horses and wait for the mail, and also inform
ed the passengers that they would find plenty
of accommodation in the house if they chose
to go in.
The lady at first did pot get out, but at length
she did so and went into the hotel. I deter
mined now to find out who she was. I left my
deputy at the door of the room she entered,
having ordered him to rush in, in case he
should hear anything that warranted his intrusion-
Op going into the apartment I found
the beauty ' was sitting by a window, gazing
otit between the blinds. She started up as I
euteredi'and let ber'ycll fall.
"I thought this was a private room, sir,"
she said. Her voice trembled and sounded
unnatural.
"It may be," I returned ; "but that does
not exclude those who have business. I came
on purpose to see you."
There was a momentary struggle, and then
she appeared as calm as could be.
"Who are you ?" she asked.
"I am an officer from Bow street," I repli
ed. "I want to know who you are. "
"Stop one moment," she said: and as she
stopped she canied her hand beneath her
cloak. It was quickly withdrawn, and in it
was a pistol, but she had grasped a portion of
her dres3 with it, and before she could clear
it, 1 had sprung upon her and seized her by
the arms. But it was her no longer. There
was more muscle iu that slight body than I
naa oargamea tor However, my man "con
ped" in the moment he heard the scuffle, and
the beauty was secured. The glossy brown
tresses fell off during the scuffle, and some of
the paint was removed from the cheeks
As soon as the prisnor was secured, I had
his trunk taken off and brought in, and upon
overhauling its contents we found disguises
oi an sorts, ana quite a sum or money, besides
watches and jewelry ot much value. I made
him assume a proper male attire, and when he
stood forth in propria persona, I found that
he had not only used red paint for the blushing
ueauty or to-aay, tut mat ne applied a more
cadaverous coloring matter for the consumptive
individual of yesterday. As he stood now.
he was a lithe built, intelligent looking youth,
of not more than five-and-twenty ; but with
cofd-blooded expression upon his marble face,
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buu uu evii iook in bis uanng eyes.
We carried bim back to Lowstone, where
we found the money of the old farmer upon
him besides other money which had been lost
by different individuals. At first be told strange
Biunes oi nimseu, out nnany, wnen ne kuew
that the worst was come, he confessed the
whole. He was from London and had come
into the country on purpose to rob. He had
two confederates with him, who had belped
mm irom place to place. One of them bad
taken bim away from the inn the night before,
ana the other bad brought hira and set him
down at the farmer's gate that morning. We
made search for these confederates, but thev
had got wind of their principal's arrest and
were not to be found.
However, we had got the chief sinner, and
had broken up the game. After he had been
iouna guilty ana sentenced, ho seemed to
enjoy himself hugely in telling how he had
deceived the good people of our country.
Now he would turn himself into the old
woman, who had given the driver so much
trouble about ber bandbox. Then be would
be again the meekbrowed minister, who had
distributed tracts to the passengers, and pick
ed their pockets while thev read. Then he
would draw himself up into the little hump
backed old man, who had been lifted into
and out of the coach, and robbed his helpers
wnue tney nxea his crutches for him. It
was lunny very and perhaps we might
neer have caught him but for the accident of
the fagot. That was not so funny for him ;
and I doubt if he found much fun in working
at the hard stone hammering earlv and laie
with an inexorable master over him when
he lagged.
HENEY CLAY ON SECESSION.
In relation to the much discussed "right of
secession" the opinions of llenry Clav should
be entitled to, consideration. In & letter to
Daniel Ullruan and others of Xew-York, in
1S51, Mr. Clay said :
"If there are local exceptions at the North
and at the South of rash and misguided men
who would madly resist the Constitution and
laws of the United States, let us not despair
of their return, in seasonable time, to
reason and to duty. But suppose we should
be disappointed, and that the standard should
be raised of open resistance to the Union, the
Constitution, and the laws, what is to be done ?
There can be but one possible answer. The
power, the authority, the dignity of the Gov
ernment ought to be maintained, and resist
ance put down at every hazard. Government,
in the fallen and depraved state of man, would
lose all respect, and fall into disgrace and con
tempt, if it did not possess potentially, and
would not in extreme cases practically exer
cise, the right of employing force. . The theory
of the Constitution ot the united States as
sumes the necessity of the existence and the
application of force, both in our foreign and
domestic relations. Congress is expressly au
thorized "to raise and support armies," "to
provide and maintain a navy," "to provide for
calling forth the militia to execute the laws of
the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel
invasiors." The duty of executing the laws
aDd of suppressing insurrections is without
limitation or qualification ; it is co-extensive
with the jurisdiction of the United States, and
it comprehends every species of resistance to
the execution of the laws, and every form of
insurrection, no matter under what auspices or
sanction it is made. Individuals, public meet
ings, States may resolve, as often as their
tastes or passions may prompt them to resolve,
that they will forcibly oppose the execution of
the laws, and secede from the Union. Whilst
these resolutions are made on paper, they aro
harmless; but the moment a daring hand is
raised to resist, by force, the execution cf the
laws, the duty of enforcing them arises, and if
the 'conflict which may ensue should lead to
civil war, the resisting party having begun it,
will be responsible for all the conspquences."
The Secession cockade seems to be fashion-
ionable only with the middle aged men of
Charleston. A card signed "Many Ladies."
is publfshed in the 'Evening News,' which re
proachfully asks: "Why is it that our cbival-
ric young men and our gallant old men do not
adopt thd emblem of secession ?" The fair
querists threaten that if the men have not
spirit enough to show their colors, they will
set them an example. .
A follow was doubting whether or not he
should volunteer to fight. One of the flags,
waving before bis eyes, bearing the inscrip
tion, "victory or D.eath," somewhat troubled
and discouraged bim. ''Victory is a very go.qd
thing," said he ; "but wby put it Victory or
Death ? Just put it Victory or Crippled, and
I'll go that?"
A speaker at a stump meeting out west de
clared that be knew no east, no west, no north,
no south, "men," said a tipsy bystander,
"you ougb$ to go, to school and 'larn'your geography."
SOMETHING ABOUT DIPHTHERIA.
The following report from the pen of t
leading physician of Delaware county, in re
lation to this singular and fatal disease, and
more particularly in regard to certain facts
disclosed by examination into a fatal case hap
pening during the course of his practice, will
be found of importance and general interest
to the community, particularly at the present
time :
"This disease, which for the last four or
five years has been making its way westward,
has appeared in various localities through this
county and by its fatality, has caused consid
erable alarm in the public mind. It is charac
terized by the formation of a membranous ex
udation covering the throat and roof of the
mouth more or less completely, and in some
cases extending into the windpipe, causing
death, as in croup, by suffocation. It is not
iaenticai with a form of throat disease which
has occasionally prevailed in different parts of
the country and which has been variously des
ignated as malignant sore throat, putrid sore
throat, erysipelas of the throat, Black Tongue,
&c. The tendency in this form of disease is
to a rapid death or gangrene of the parts af-
ici.eu; ana it lacks wholly the meuibranou
exuaation which is the peculiar feature of
Diphtheria. The disease is not altogether
new. Several epidemics have been described
in wnich this peculiar exudation was observed
anarnyBicians in every country have occasion
auy met with cases of throat disease accom
panied by a membranous exudation, but lack
ing altogether the fatal tendency that has
marked this epidemic visitation of the disease
The danger from the extension of the exuda
iion into the windpipe has been referred to
Inis undoubtedly in some cases is the direct
cause of death, but very many cases prove fa
tal in which there is no affection of the wind
pipe and no material obstruction to the respi
ration. Death has been supposed to result, in
such cases., from the terribly depressing effect
or me disease upon the nervous centres.
Perhaps a large majority of the fatal cases
have been of this character and until the in
teresting fact developed b' a case that occur
fed in the family of Mr. liodman Prichett of
.Last Goshen, but little has been brought out
to satisfy the minds of intelligent Physicians
as to the precise cause of death in those cases
in which the difficulty about the throat is in
sufhcient to accouut for the result. In Mr,
Prichett's family the disease first appeared in
June last and at that time counted its two
victims. Last week it again appeared and
added two more to the list. In none of these
did the exudation extend to the windpipe nor
was there an amount of disease of the throat
to explain the result. The attending Physi
cians finding themselves baffled in their efforts
to arrest the fatal tendency, sought, in the
last case, and readily obtained the privilege
or making a post-mortem examination, which
developed the fact that in the cavities of the
heart there had been formed a mass of firm
leathery consistency, and more or less firmly
adherent to the lining of the cavities. Much
the larger amount was found in the cavities of
the right side of the heart, forming when roll-
ea together a mass nearly an inch in diameter
a ne auuesions to tue wails ot tne heart in
some pans were so nrm as to renaer it im
possible to separate it without leaving parti
cles still attached. It is true that a gelantiu
ous mass Is often found iu the heart, formed
by its contracting upon the coagulated fibrin
of the blood, during the last moments of exist
ence ; but the leathery character of the mass
removed and the firmness of the adhesion pre
clude such a theory of its formation. A more
rational explanation is found in the altered
conuition oiine norm ot the blood which is
the remarkable feature of the disease. The
existence of such a mass would account, not
only for the rapidly fatal termination, but al
so tor the existence of an extremely feeble
pulse in connection with a violent, tumultu
ous action of the heart as is so often observed
in fatal cases of this disease. Should this
condition be confirmed by subsequent exami
nations great practical good may result in di
recting the attention of Physicians to another
source of danger than the local disease of the
throat and lead them by early and decisive
measures to counteract more successfully the
Diooa-vice, upon which the disease depends.
One other point may be wortny of notice as
calculated to do awoyjwith unnecssary anxiety
upon Demg brought in contact with cases of
Diphtheria. It seems to be purely and simply
an epidemic disease, dependant upon a cause
or causes existent in the atmosphere, and that
t will select localities and individuals that
have most affinity for it, without reference to
direct exposure to the disease."
Remarkable Case of a Fast Woma. The
Cleveland, Ohio, Plaindealer says, in that city,
recently, a woman, still young, and in whose
face traces ol former beauty were still discov
erable, was sent to the county jail for vagran
cy. Five years ago she was a school teacher,
in a small town in the State of Michigan. She
was pretty, educated, and captivating in man
ners. But she had an uncontrolable passion
for dress, and was one day detected in the act
of stealing a costly silk from the counter of
the village store. She was arrested, but un
der promise of leaving the village, never more
to return, she was spared the pain and morti
cation of a public trial for larceny. She trav
eled West, and encountered a Southern plant
er somewhere on the route, who employed ber
as a governess in his family. She accompa
nied bim to his home in the far South, where
she succeeded in captivating him, causing bis
wife to sue for a divorce. After thoroughly ru
ining the planter, and scandalizing his friends,
she eloped with a light mulatto, the most valu
able servant in the planter's collection, and
went to St. Louis. There, becoming sick of
the mulatto'she sold him for $2000. She is
next beard of as a manageress and leading ac
tress of a strolling theatrical company in the
interior of Missouri, playing star parts upon
the stage, and 'doing' susceptible grain-merchants
off. The St. Louis papers last spring
contained nnmerous reports of her dashing
swindles along the Missouri river. She ran a
wild race in Chicago, and brought np in Bride
well, where she served out a short sentence for
theft. She reached Cleveland in the course of
time, hopelessly dissipated and shattered.
Pennsylvania made the first turnpike road
in the United States, laid the first railroad, es
tablished the first waterworks, ran the first lo
comotive, established the first hospital, the
first law school, the first public- museum, the
first hall of mqsic, and the first library in the
world open freely to all. Good for Pennsyl
vania I
A LITTLE EOMANCE ABOUT GABIBALDI.
The London Jllhenaum says that a bit of ro
mance about Garibaldi may help to explain the
hostility of the Dictator of the Two Sicilies to
France, and that of the Emperor of the French
toward the Liberator of Italy. The family of
Garibaldi, like the family of Bonaparte, isCor
sican ; and the name of Pozzo di Borgo or of
Louis Blanc is evidence with what fiery hate a
Corsican may pursue his vendetta against that
lucky race. The Dictator's grandfather, Jo
seph Battista Maria Garibaldi, was one ot those
patriot Corsicans who gave the Crown to Count
Von Feuhoff, crowned Theodore the First of
Corsica, and being sent by the new king on a
message to bis mother, Madame Von FenhofT,
who lived at Peddench, near Ruggeberg, in
the Mark Country, (now part of Westphalia,)
Garibaldi fell in love with the king's sister,
Catharine Amalie, and, with his sovereign's
consent, married her. The registry of this
marriage, we read in a Rhino paper, is still to
be seen at Ruggeberg. In the same year, Gar
ibaldi took Catharine home loAjaccia; but
fortune failing the patriots. Theodore fled be-
lore the Genoese to England, where ho became
tne iaoi ana butt of Walpole. who traduced hi
character, and wrote the inscription over hi
monument in St. Anne's church bewailing
the fortune which "bestowed a kingdom and
denied him bread."
Joseph Battista Maria Garibaldi fled from
Corsica to Nice, where, alter the French con
quest and occupation of the island put an end
to the last hopes of independence, he forgot
politics and practiced as a phvsician. II
grandson is the Dictator the present Garibal
di. Meanwhile the offences of the Bonaparte
against the Garibaldi's have grown in bulk and
atrocity. Corsica has been made French
Nice has now been made French. The old
country, the new country, aro aliko gone
.More, tne very last home of the hero is men.v
ced. Caprera, the lonely green rock in the
Straits of Bonifacio, which he has bought with
nis gains ana peopled with hi pigs and asses
belongs to the island of Sardinia, and must
follow its path sliould a new "recovery" of
territory to France take place.
Thus, the Bonapartes seem to chase the Gar
ibaldis like an evil fate, leaving them no foot
oi earth on which the soles of their feet can
rest in peace. Who can wonder at the Dicta
tor's doubt, suspicion, and dislike. A ronian
tic speculation may be allowed to close the
record of these romantic facts. Theodore
King of Corsica, left no lawful son. An i lie
gitimate son, known about London streets as
Col. I redenck, a man of mark in his day, pis
toiea himself under one of the porches of
Westminster Abbey. The title has been de
clared by the Corsican Parliament hereditary
to Iheodore's family, a near branch of which
Dictator Garibaldi now represents. Thus
Garibaldi's title to the throne of Corsica is
just as good as that of Louis Napoleon was a
dozen years ago to the throne of France.
Sectioxal. Andrew Jackson of Tenn. was
President, and John C. Calhoun of S. C, Vice
President both from the extreme Southern
"section," and both slave holders in 1828.
Yet the Union endured. In 1836. Fillmore
and the Northern Union-savers voted forllar
nson ot unio and Granger of N. Y. on the
same ticket. And the Union "snrwived ."
Then, Frank Pierce of New Hampshire was
rresuieut, and Jesse Bright of Indiana acting
vice rresiaent Doth Irom Free States in
1854. But the Union wasn't "split." In 1856,
we ottered them x remont, away down at the
South-West, and Dayton up at the Central
North-East. But the Union-savers preferred
a "sectional" ticket from Pennsylvania and
Kentucky.central States almost adjoining each
otner. jnow, the Jreople choose a man from
the farthest East, and one from the Central
West men much wider apart than Jackson
and Calhoun, Harrison and Granger Harrison
and Tyler, Buck, and Breck.. or Pierce and
Bright and the split, divided, mauled, broke-
np Democracy call it "sectional." Tut, men
you don't remember the facts of history, or
you wiuuiiy oeue mem :
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The steamer Glasgow, with European dates
of the 8th inst., reached New York on the
20th. Lord John Russell's dispatch on Italian
an airs had caused much excitement aud some
ill-feeling among the diplomatic corps. About
15,000 Neapolitan troops, 4,000 horses, and 3i
guns, had been pursued by the Sardinians into
the Papal States, where they were disarmed
by the Papal and French authorities. Francis
II. had lost about 30,000 men in less than one
week. There was a report that negotiations
were not going on smoothly at Tientsin, in
China. Chowfoo had been captured by the
rebels, and Maypo and Ningpo were threaten
ed. Private telegrams speak of the recom
mencement of hostilities.
It seems that the early French settlers and
the Indians in Western Pennsylvania were ac
quainted with the natural oil or petroleum
wells, which are now thought by many persons
to be a new discovery. At 1 ranklin, old oil
vats have been discovered, with trees a centu
ry old growing in them. An old well, sup
posed to have been sunk for obtaining the oil,
has also been discovered, with the remains of
an Indian ladder in it. The early settlers used
to place a dam on the creek, then take off the
oil which floated on the surface, by absorption
with blankets. This they used to" sell in vials
as a medicine for curing rheumatism.
Lincoln an Investor. We were shown at
the U.S. Patent" Office the model of a steamer
combining buoyant air chambers with a steam
boat or other vessel, for the purpose of ena
bling their draught of water to be readily les
sened, that they might pass over- bars or
through shallow water without discharging
their cargoes. This method of lifting vessels
over aboala was invented by Abraham Lincoln,
President elect, for which he received a pat
ent, May 22, 1849. Washington Star.
V. Barnes, a native of Eastern Virginia, and
a resident of Harper's Ferry, writes to the
w heeling Intelligencer that, having avowed his
design to vote tor Lincoln, he was threatened
with indignity ana compelled for personal
safety to leave that place before the election,
and is not safe in returning, ne is a Metho
dist. Such Is the Terrorism that reduced the
Lincoln vote in the South. If men dared vote
n the Slave States as they wished to, the re
turns would indicate quite a different result.
A German journal speaks of a young author
ess who has distinguished herself in the liter
ary world. She is called tb Baroness de
Clokekrikerstecae Pickalkrenten.
COOKED VS. DEY C0EN FOB HOGS.
The following valuable facts are frora th-j
Valley Farmer: Upon the question or "how
much pork will a bushel of corn make Mr.
Richard Thatcher, of Pennsylvania, gives, in
the New York Tribune, the result ot his feed
ing scalded or cooked corn meal, in several
instances, to fattening hogs. The result or
one trial gave sixteen and one-half pounds of
pork for each bushel of filty-six pounds of
meal f;d out. In another instance; seventeen
and nearly one-half pounds were 'the gain from
a bushel. The breed of bogs experimented
upon was the "Chester" (county, Pa.,) white,
w hich we regard as among the best breeds now
in the country. We have recently seen ac
counts of several other experiments of feeding
hogs in the same way, with similar results,
while the same breed of hogs fed iu the ordi
nary way, upon dry corn, in the ear, gave a re
turn ot but about one-third ol the weight com
pared with those fed on the cooked meal.
The experiments of Mr. Clay, ot Kentucky,
as detailed in the December number of the
Valley Farmer, for 1850, afford conclusive evi
dence of the advantages of feeding cooked o
ver raw food. In the experiments on the same
animals, it was proved that dry corn'would af
ford a gain of about five and three-quarters to
six and three-quarters pounds of pork to each
bushel consumed, but when changed to food
prepared by grinding and cooking, gave a re
turn of from fifteen to nearly eighteen pounds
of flesh for each bushel of corn fed out. These
various experiments demonstrate facts worthy
the consideration of farmers and' others.
With care in breeding from a'-good stock
of bogs, and with their proper' management
throughout, keeping the hogs constantly thri
ving, at least an average of fifteen pounds-of
flesh may be received from every bushel- ef
corn consumed. A few well conducted exper
iments in feeding, with appropriate apparatus
for preparing the food, compared With- facta
determining the amount of gain from the ordi
nary method of feeding, would settle the ques
tion and lead to valuable improvements-in this
most important interest to farmers generally.
Bad Aia and Intemperance. A London
city missionary attributes much intemperance,
to the poisonous influence of bad air. He
thinks that the atmosphere of the damp, ill.
ventillated cellars to which the lowest classes
are confined, induces a fierce craving for stim
ulants an opinion which has much probabili
ty. When the vital forces are forcibly dimin
ished or exhausted, nature braces against the
depletion, and looks in every direction' for the
means of recovery. The missionary fortifies
his opinion by the statement of numerous ca
ses, in which persons who had been enabled to
change their ill-accommodations for pleasant
and healthy lodgings, deserted the gin-shops
of their own accord. This is an excellent hint
to moral reformers of every kind. The great
secret is to begin the work of reform- wfth their
improvement. If a bad man is hungry, Asked
or homeless, the first step should h to1 fee!,
clothe, and comfort him, whereby, in a' major
ity of cases, the way of his reformation will be
greatly facilitated. This is especially true of
the young to whom the discouragements of
want and poverty.are a certain means of de
pravation. The statement which has occasion
ed thia paragraph goes farther, however, sad
touches the recondite, but very certainly es
tablished fact of the interdependence of moral
and physical conditions a subject of great
importance, but little considered.
Parson Browklow, of the Knoxville. Ten
nessee, Whig, pitches into the Disunfonists in
the following refreshing stylo:
'Union Men, be on tour Gcard! Thero
are those all over the country, and in all of our
towns and villages, who talk long and loud a
bout the horrors of Lincoln's election, and tal
king advantage of the events which themselves
and associates have hastened, call rrpon ns sit
to unite to let 'bygones be bygones' and all
act together as a united South. The object of
these men is to get as many Union men to.
commit themselves to the cause of Secession
as they can. Let them know, wherever they
meet you, that, as law-abiding citizens, loyal
to our blood-bought government, you will nev
er consent to see our soil ravaged by the terri
ble strife which would result from Secession,
and on the very threshold proclaim your de
termination to oppose all the mad schemes of
Disunion and to stand by this Unlou of States !
Tell these secret emissaries and street talkers
that you admit the value of cotton as an arti
cle of commerce, but remind them in the next
breath that Kentucky and Missouri hemp, as a
necklace for trait-rs, is an article of still
greater value for home consumption."
The Western People aro so disgusted with
those New York merchants who sought to cre
ate a financial panic at the close of the cam
paign, fin order to defeat Lincoln, that they
have determined to adopt the poMicy of non-
intercourse with every New York merchant
who entered into this treasonable conspiracy.
Through cno of their journals, (the Detroit
Advertiser,) they call upon the Republican pa
pers of New York to publish a list of the dis
union merchants of that city.
A sporting gentleman in New Orleans, own
ing a horse, which, he asserted, Could not be
ridden by anybody but himself, Miss Ellen
Dennisbn made the attempt ; the horse plung
ed, ran away and brought up at his stable door;
on again being brought out, after grooming,
he ran away again, and on being secured, was
again led to the stable.; the lady having stuck:
to him throughout, mounted him the third
time, and the horse became quiet as a lamb.
A Nail in the Brain. Geoffrey J. Le-
TaUe, who was shot In a flgh .witb T. B. Ker
shaw, at Petersburg, Va dfed on the 12tn
inst. The wound was inflicted on the 15tb ol
October, and the pistol was charged with a
horse shoe nail. The nail was found in his
brain, where it has been for nearly a month. '
At the late vote on annexation in Naples, a
woman, who, from ber heroism, has become
famous, La Sangiovannara, claimea the right
to vote, and voted. She is the leader ot a
large districtin the City of Naples, and fought
at Capua. Having borne arms she was ad
judged to have gained the right of suffrage.
Q The Vermont Legislature has passed a Hw
against prize fighting principals, tea years
imprisonment or $5,000 fine ; aids, seconds or
surgeons, five years imprisonment or $1,000
fine ! and eitizens of the State who attend a
prise fight in other capacity, out of the State,
to receive the same punishment.
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