Raftsman's journal. (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, March 20, 1861, Image 1
r I : i , w a 3 -m BY S. B. ROW. CLEARFIELD,. PA., "WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1861. VOL. 7.-NO. il ri fJ i FX 1 rilll M 1111 1 THE VOICE THAT WINS ITS WAY. If words could satisfy the heart. The hearth might find less care ; .Jut words, like summer birds, depart, And leave but empty air. A little said, and truly said, Can deeper joy impart Thau hosts of words which reach the head But never touch the heart. A voice that wins its sunny way A Lonely home to cheer, Hath oft. the fewest words to say, But, O, those few, how dear '. A VISIT WITH THE DOCTOS. How are you to-day, Mrs.Carleton 7" asked I)r. Farleigh, as he sat down by his patient, who reclined languidly id a largo cushioned chair "Miserable," was the faintly spoken reply. And the word was repeated "Miserable The doctor took one of the lady's small white hands, on which the network of veins, most delicately traced, spread its blue lines everywhere beneath the transparent skin. It was a beautiful band a study lor a painter or sculptor. It was a soft, flexible hand soft, flexible, and velvety to the touch, as the hand of a baby, for it was as much a stranger to use ful work. The doctor laid his finger to the wrist. Under the pressure lie felt the pulse heat slowly and evenly. lie took out his watch and counted the beats seventy in a runute. There was no fever, nor any unusual disturbance of the system. Calmly the heart was doing its appointed work. "How is your head, Mrs. Carleton 7" The lady moved her head from side to side two or three times. "Anything out of the way there 7" "My head is well enough, but I feel so mis erable so weak. I havent the strength of a child. The least exertion exhausts me." And the lady shut her eyes, looking the pic turn of lcebleness. "Have you taken the tonic, for which I left a prescription yesterday 7" "Yes ; but I am no tronger "How is your appetite ?" "Bad." Have you taken the morning walk in the garden that 1 suggested ?" "O dear, no! Walk out in the garden? I'm faiut by the time I get to the breakfast room ! I can't live at this rate, doctor. What am I to do 7 Can't you build me up in some way 7 I'm a burden to myself and every one else." And Mrs. Carleton really looked .distressed. 'lou ride out every day 7" "I did until the carriage was broken, and that was nearly a week ago. It has been at tho carriage-maker's ever since." "You must have the fresh air, Mrs. Carle ton," sid the doctor, emphatically. "Fresh air, change ot scene, and exercise, are indis pensable to your case. You will die if you remain abut up after this fashion. Come, tike a ride with me." "Doctor! how absurd!" exclaimed Mrs. Carletcn, almost shocked nt the suggestion. "Hide with yon I What would people think 7" "A fig for people's thoughts ! Get your shawl and bonnet, and take a drive with me; What do you care for meddlesome people's thoughts 1 Come?" Tlie doctor knew his patient. "But you are not in earnest, surely, doc tor?" There was a half-amused twinkle in the lady's eyes. "Never more in earnest. I'm going to see n patient just out of the city, and tho drive will be a charming one. Nothing would please nie better than to have your company." There was a vein of humor, and a spirit of "don't care" in Mrs. Carleton, which had once made her independent, and almost hoydenish. But faohionable associations, since her woman-life began, had toned her down into ex ceeding propriety. Fashion and convention. ality, however, were losing their influence, since enfeebled health kept her feet back from the world's gay places; and the doctor's invi tation to a ride found lie sufficiently disen thralled to see in it a pleasing novelty. "I've hall a mind to go," she said, smiling. She had not smiled before since the doctor came in. "I'll ring for your maid," and Dr. Far leigh's hand was on the bell-rope before Mrs. Carleton had space to think twice, and endan ger a change of thought. "I'm not sure that I am strong enough for the eiloit," said Mrs.Carleton, and she laid her head back upon the cushions in a feeble way. "Trust me for that," replied the doctor. The maid came in. 'Bring me a shawl and my bonnet Alice ; I n;n going to ride out with the doctor." Very litifcuidly was the sentence spoken. 'I'm afraid, doctor, it will be too much for we. You don't know how weak I am. The Very thought of such an effort exhausts me." "Not a thought of the effort," replied Ir. Farlit-gh. "It isn't that." "What is it 7" "A thoucht of annearanees of what nnnU "ill say." " 41 "Now, doctor! you don't think me so weak that direction." "Just so weak," was the free-spoken an swer. "You fashionable people are all afraid afeach other. You haven't a spark of indi viduality or true independence. No, not a spark ! You are quite strong enough to ride ut in your own elegant carriage but with the doctor ! oh, dear, no ! If you were certain of not meeting Mrs. McFlimsey, perhaps tbe "peritnent might be adventured. But she is always out on fine days.". iClor' kf shame ! How can you say that V And a ghost of color crept into the face of , Carleton, while her eyes grew brighter a most flashed. The maid came in with the shawl and bonnet. Dr. Farleigh, as we have in Vated understood his patient, and said J two or three words more, ia a tone half contemptuous. ' "Afraid of Mrs. McFlimsey ! l ! nor of forty Mrs. McFIimseys !" Mrs i not t,ie Eost of color that warmed ? Larl-'ton'8 face now, but the crimson of a Huicuer and stronger heart-beat. She actual ly.6. ,from ner chair without reaching for sL 8 . nd and 8,ood firmly while the fein u ouu iuoiv mo iuusc with ' nrticed that she sat up ercctly.and few n arCey a siSn f the languor that but a r. .utes before had so oppressed her. cirri, c when yu ee Mrs. M'Flim rtV.. i nQ araw yur yen closely. She'll , dream that it's yon." ..." j auu lhc uwuiiufc-aii il kji lieu d,,,, "d nave a charming ride," said tho 11 ' VIVJMItf.fi III IIMH1IIH III. 1 STL K II 1 f II I Tl "It III.. "I'll get angry if you play on that string much longer!" exclaimed Mrs. Carleton; "what do I care for Mrs. McFlimsey ?" How charmingly the rose-tints flushed her cheeksl How the light rippled in her dark sweet eyes, that were leaden a liftle while be fore. Away lroni the noisy streets, out upon the smoothly-beaten road, and amid green fields and woodlands, gardens and flower-decked orchards, the doctor bore his patient, hold ing her all the while in pleasant talk. How different, this, from the listless, companion less drives taken by the lady in her own car riage a kind of easy, vibrating machine, that quickened the sluggish blood no more than a cushioned rocking-chair. Closely the doctor observed his putient. He saw bow erectly she continued to sit ; how the color deepened in her face, which actually seemed rounder and fuller , how the sense of enjoj'ment fairly danced in her eyes. Returning to the city by a different road, the doctor, after driving thro' streets entirely unfamiliar to his companion, drew up bis horse before a row of mean-looking dwellings, and dropping the reins, threw open the carriage-door and stepped upon the pavement at the same time reaching out his hand to Mrs. Carleton. But she drew back, saying "What is the meaning of this, doctor ?" "I have a patient here, and I want you to see her." "O no ; excuse me, doctor. I've no taste for such things," answered the lady. "Come I can't leave you alone in the car riage. Ned might take a fancy to walk off with you.'- Mrs. Carleton glanced at the patient old horse whom the doctor was slauderiug, with a slightly alarmed manner. "Don't you think he'll stand, doctor 7" she asked, uneasily. "He likes to get home like others of bis tribe. Come," and the doctor held out his hand in a persistent way. Mrs. Carleton locked at the poor tenements before which the doctor's carriage bad stop ped, with something of disgust aud something of apprehension. "I can never go in there, doetor." "Why not ?" "I might take some disease." "Never fear. More likely to find a pana cca there." The last sentence was in an under-tone. Mrs. Carleton left the carriage, and crossing the pavement, entered one of the houses, and passed up with the doctor to the second story To his light tap at a chamber door a woman's voice said "Come in." The door was pushed open, and the doctor arid Mrs. Carleton went in. The room was small, and furnished in the humblest manner, but the air was pure, and everything looked clean and tidy. In a chair, with a pillow pres sed in at her back for a support, sat a pale, e- maciated woman, whose large, bright eyes looked up eagerly, and in a kind of hopeful surprise, at so unexpected a visitor as the la dy who came In with the doctor. On her lap a baby was sleeping, as sweet and beautiful a baby as Mrs. Carleton had looked upon. The first impulse of her true woman's heart, had she yielded to it, would have prompted her to take it in her arms and cover it with kisses. The woman was too weak to rise from her chair, but she asked Mrs. Carleton to be seat ed, in atone of ladylike self-possession that did not escape the visitor's observation. "How did you pass tho night, Mrs. Leslie?' asked the doctor. "About as usual," was answered, in a calm, patient way ; and she even smiled as she spoke. "How about that pain through your side and shoulder ?" "It may have been a little easier." "You slept ?" "Y'es, sir." "What of the night sweats ?" "I don't think they have diminished any." The doctor bent bis eyes to the floor, and sat in silence for some time. Tho heart ol Mrs. Carleton was opening toward the baby ; and it was a baby to make its way into any heart. She bad forgotten her own weakness forgotten, in the presence of this wan and wasted mother, with a sleeping cherub on her lap, all about her own invalid state. "I will send you a medicine," said the doc tor, looking up; then speaking to Mrs. Carlo ton, he added "Will you sit here until I visit two or three patients in the block?" "Ob, certainly," and she reached out her arms for the baby, and removed it so gently from its mother's lap that its soft slumber was not broken. When the doctor returned he no ticed that there had been tears in Mrs. Carlo ton's eyes. She was still holding the baby, but now resigned the quiet sleeper to its mo ther, kissing t: as she did so. lie saw her look with a tender, meaning interest at the white, patient face ol the sick woman, and heard her say, as she spoke a word or two in parting "I shall not forget you." 'That's a sad case, doctor," remarked the lady, as she took her place in the carriage. "It is. ' But she is sweet and patient," "I saw that, and it failed me with surprise. She tells me that her husband died a year ago.' "Yes." "And that she has supported herself by shirt-making." "Yes." "But that she has become too feeble for worn, and is dependant on a younger sister, who earns a few dollars, weekly, at book folding." "The simple story, I believe," said the doctor. Mrs.Carleton was silent for most of the way home ; but thought was busy. She had seeu a phase of life that touched her deeply. " You are better for this ride," remarked the doctor, as he hauded her from the carriage. "I think so," replied Mrs. Carleton. There has not been so fine a color on your face for months." They had entered Mrs. Carleton's elegant residence, and were sitting iu one of her lux urious parlors. "Shall I tell you why i" added the doctor. Mrs. Carleton bowed. "You have some healthy heart-beats." She d'd not answer. "And I pray you dear madam, let the strokes go on!" continued Dr. Farleigh. "Let your mind become interested in some good work, and ypur hands obey your thoughts, and you wilj be a healthy woman,' in bouy am Your disease is mental inaction." Mrs. Carleton looked steadily at the doctor. "You arc i) earnest," she said, in a calm, firm way. "W holly in earnest, ma'am. I found yon, an hour ago, in so weak a state, that to lift your band was an exhausting effort. You are sitting Jerect now, with every muscle tautly strung. When will your carriage be home ?" He asked the closing question abruptly. "To-morrow," was replied. "Then I will not cll for you, but" He hesitated. "Say on, doctor." "Will you take my prescription 7" "Y'es." There was no hesitation. "Y'ou must give that sick woman a ride in to the country. The fresh, pure, blossom sweet air will do her good msy, indeed, turn the balance of health in her lavor. Don't be 'afraid of Mrs. McFlimsey." "For shame, doctor ! But you are too late in your suggestion. I'm quite ahead of you.' "Ah ! in what respect 1" "That drive into the country is already a settled thing. Do you know, I'm in love with that baby ?" "Othello's occupation's gone, I see!" re turned the doctor, rising. "But I mav visit you occasionally, as a friend, not as a medical adviser ?" I presume, if 'As my best friend, always," said Mrs. Carleton, with feeling. "You have led me out of myself, and showed me the way to health and happiness ; and I have settled the question as to 1113' future. It shall not be as the past." And it was not. Mvstehiocs and Horrible Affair. -On the 28th ult., the wife of B. B. Cooley, living in Frederick county, Va., was missed from home, and discovered under the most extraordinary circumstances. A letter to the Alexandria Gazelle says : "Darkness approaching, and the lady continuing to be absent, caused consider able alarm, and the bands who had then come in from the field, instituted a search. On ap proaching the meat house, groans were heard emanating therefrom, and as the key could not be lound attempts to break down the door were begun ; but while these were in progress the key was lound in the dwelling house, the door opened, and the ladj, in a complete state of nudity, was found sitting on the floor, with her hands covering her face, and perfectly iin- conscious, borne of her clothes were hang- Kinr f mm t h n mpnt-hnib- a in t J i n riftArfi o ml some were strewd about the floor. A salting O " - ' ' IIV HffV. tray was almost filled with blood, apparently fresh spilled. Marks, resembling those made by the pressure of fingers were upon her arms, ana tier head, neck and sides were horribly mutilated by what appeared to be a punctur ing instrument. Her shoes and .stockings were lound under her bed, in her chamber, saturated with blood. Medical aid was prompt ly proourtd, and everything done for the un fortunate lady that science and skill could suggest, but all was of no avail. She lingered in the same helpless condition in which she was found until Saturday last, when death came to her relief. Her husband, who had started from his home on the freight train of the Manassas Gap Railroad, with cattle for the city, on the same day his wife met with this terriblo calamity, was telegraphed to return instantly, but returned just in '.inie to see his estimable lady expire. No clue has yet been obtained for the solution of this most extraor dinaTy occurrence. Will thf Tope Remove the Papal Skat to Jerusalem? A cot respondent of the Liver pool Mercury, writing from Rome, states that French officers have latterly been very busy in obtaining information respecting Jeiusalem and the state of things in that quarter. He adds that they had been taking measurements in several localities, particularly the ground that lies about the Mosque of Omar on Mount Moriah. From Jerusalem they bad gone on to Hebron, Gaza and other points, for the like purpose. Jt was also currently reported that a body of French troops wa? shortly to come to Jerusalem while another would be stationed at Jaffa,, and a third on Mount Carmel. At Beyrout, he says, the French officers openly affirm that their government had no intention of withdrawing the force sent out, but wrere about to employ them shortly on a new and very different errand to that for which they ostensibly came. The French were also ac tively employed in makiDg a road from the Holy City to Damascus, along which they were erecting houses at certain intervals. It is said that suchja scheme as this intelligence shows to be in course of development, points to the realizing ofl'io Nono's favorite plan of removing the seal of the Papacy to Jerusalem. PtnLic Lands. In a commendatory notice of the report of tbe Commissioner of the Gen eral Land Office, the National Intelligencer remarks: "It is not perhaps generally known that the public lands of the United States em brace an area of nearly three times their ex tent at the ratification of the definitive treaty ot peace in 1e.J with Great Britain, and more than two-thuds the geographical extent of whole country. Tho Department which mana ges this immense territory, with the multitu dinous interest it involves, is one of the most important in the Government, and requires tbe highest executive abilities. What an in calculable labor is the mere survey of a billion of acres of land, extending over every vanety of surface of hill, swamp, plain, and valley constituting our present wide spread public domain, and which, with all our industry, is only as yet partly completed. A forcoof not less than six hundred men is now engaged, day after day, and through every season of the year, in carrying forward to its completion this indispensable part of the public service ; and that these officials prosecute their task with energy is evident from the fact that dur- ng the last year alone nearly ten million acres were surveyed and prepared for market." The two great fortifiications of Florida, Fort Pickens and Fort Taylor, aio nqw in regular seige trim," and could hold out for eight months, wero all the soldiers in the South sur rounding them. The sixty tremendous guns added to the Utter and the reinforcements of artillery added to the first named, have rend ered them, ic the estimation of able engin eers, perfectly impregnable to all probable laeausp,? attack. The garrison are fed on the usual barrack allowance, b,qt waste is prohib ited, tort Jetierqn will sqon be on a war fqot(ng. There are about one hundred and ten men in Fort Taylor. A White House has been hired at Mont gomery, Ala., for the use of the President of Jhe Southern Confederacy, at $5000 year. THE NEW CABINET. The new Cabinet, appointed by Prsident i.incoiu ana conurmea by the beuate, seems to give general satisfaction. The gentlemen composing it are all men of distinguished a bility, undoubted patriotism, sterling integri ty, and well fitted for the respective positions to which they have been called. We subjoin brief sketches of the lives and public services of the President's assistants in the administra tion of public affairs, which will be read with moro thau ordinary interest at this time : WM. II. SEWARD, SECRETARY OF STATE. Mr. Seward was born in Orange county, in the State of New York, on the 16th of May, 1801. He was educated at Union College, iu that State, and took tbe degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1K20, and of Master of Arts in 1824. At the age of twenty-one he established him self at Auburn in the profession of law, and soon acquired a lucrative and extending prac tice. Early in his public and professional life he traveled in the Southern slave States, and is supposed to have formed at that time the opinions and principles hostile to slavery to which he has since given expression. To a greater degree than is known of any other American Statesman Mr. Sumner, perhaps, excepted the object of his life seems to have been, to counteract the extension of slavery. Upon other questions Mr. Seward's policy may be described as humanitarian. He is in favor of the education of the people, of the amelioration of the laws and of the develop ment of the material resources of the United States. In these respects be has ever been a mong the foremost of the American states men, and may justly claim the praise bestow ed upon him by his friends, and scarcely de nied by his opponents, of being "the best and clearest bead in America." Iu 1830 he had acquired such influence and character that he was elected a member of the Senate of the State of New Y'ork, then the highest judicial tribunal of the State, as well as a legislative body. In 1834, at tho close of his term of four year?, he was nominated a candidate for the Governorship or the State of New York, in opposition , to Mr. William L. Marcy, the then Governor and, later, the distinguished Secretary of State of the United States. On n-- r - t mis occasion .nr. aewaru was aetcatea ov a majority of 10,000. Iu 1839, bis party becom ing bolder and stronger, he was triumphantly elected, iu opposition to Mr. Marcy, tho ma jority being greater than his previous minori ty. Without having passed through the low er stratum of the House of Representatives, he was in 1819 elected to the Senate of the United States for six years. Ho gave so much satisfaction that be was re-elected. S. P. CHASE, SECRETARY OF TREASURY. v- Salmon Portland Chase- was bora at CornJ&hr JN. II. on the opposite bank of the Connecti cut river from Windsor, Vt., in the year 1808. When nine years of age his father died, and three years after this bereavement, in 1820, young Chase was found at the seminary iu Wortbington, Ohio, then conducted by the venerable Bishop Philander Chase, his uncle. IIro he remained until Bishop Chase accept ed the presidency of Cincinnati College, en tering w hich, our student soon became a chief among his peers. After a year's residence at Cincinnati, he returned to his maternal home in New Hampshire, and shortly after resumed his studies in Dartmouth College, Hanover, where he graduated in 1S28. He shortlj' after commenced the study of law in the city of Washington, under the guidance of the cele brated William Wirt, then Attorney General of tlie United States. He sustained himself during the years of his professional studies by imparting instruction to a select school for boys, composed in part of the sons of the most distinguished men of the nation. He was admitted to tho bar at Washington in 18 20, and entered upon the practice of his pro fession, in which he soon rose to eminence, and in which he was distinguished lor indus try and patient investigation. He was subse quently elected a member of the United States Senate, and upon the expiration of bis Sena torial term, he was put in nomination for Gov ernor ol Ohio, and elected. He was again elected to that position. SIMON CAMERON, SECRETARY OF WAR. Gen. Simon Cameron was born in Lancas ter county, Pennsylvania. Reverses and mis fortunes in his father's family cast him very early in life on tho world to shape and carve out his own lortune. After having removed to Sunbury, in Northumberland county, his father died while yet a boy. In 1817 became to Harrisburg and bound himself as an ap prentice to the printing business to James Peacock, who is still a resident of Harrisburg, and one of its most worthy and respected ci tizen. During this time ho won the regard and esteem of Mr. Peacock and all his fellow workmen by his correct deportment, his in dustry, intelligence, and faithfulluess. His days were devoted to labor and bis nights to study. Having completed his apprenticeship, he went to Washington city, and was employ ed as a journeyman printer. In 1821, though scarcely of competent age, be had attained such a position and influence that his party then in tbe ascendancy in the Congressional district proposed to nominate him for Con gress, an honor which he promptly declined, as interfering with the enterprise in which ho was then engaged. He was appointed Adju tant General of the State in 1828, an office which he filled creditably and acceptably du ring Gov. Shultz's term : and in 1831, unso licited, he was appointed by General Jackson as a visitor to West Point, a compliment, at that time tendered only to the most promi nent citizens. To no single man within her borders is Pennsylvania more indebted for her great systems of public improvement and public instructions. Nor did he hesitate to invest bis own means, when prosperity and fortune dawned upon Sim, in enterprises of great public importance. In 1834 be origin ated and carried to successful completion tbe Harrisburg, Sount Joy and Lancaster Rail road, surmounting difficulties and prejudices which would have 8ppalled and paralyzed a man of ordinary energy and determination. In 1838 he was nominated for Congress, but declined. . He was engaged in public enter prises from which he would not permit him self to be drawn aside by any consideration of office or personal elevation. In 1851 he was mainly instrumental in the formation of the Sus quehanna Railroad Company, now consolida ted with the Northern Central Railway, by which the upper valleys of the Susquehanna are connected with tbe capital of the state. There was still another link wanting to form a direct and continuous railroad to New Y'ork city, tbe great comtnercial metropolis of tbe Union. General Cameron's practical mind soon suggested the mode and manner of sup plying this want; and the Lebanon Valley Railroad Company was organized, and that road built, and now consolidated with the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. In 1832 General Cameron was elected cashier of the Middletown Bank a position he held for twenty-seven consecutive years. So that a bout the year 1854, he was at the same time president of the Lebanon Valley Railroad Company, president of the Commonwealth Insurance Company, and cashier of tho Mid dletown Bank, besides being director and man ager in several other institutions, and having a large private business of his own to manage and superintend. Y'et, notwithstanding the vast labor and responsibility of these positions be performed the duties of them all satisfac torily and successfully. MONTGOMERY IILAIR, TOSTMASTER GENERAL. The State of Maryland will be represente'd in the Lincoln Cabinet by Judge Montgomery Blair, who resides at Montgomery Castle, near Silver Spring, Montgomery co., Md. Judge Blair is the son of Francis P. Blair, well known in General Jackson's time. He graduated at West Point, went to the State of Missonri, practised law in St. Louis, was made Judge, and was appointed by President Pierce one of tbe Judges of the Court of Claims, from which place be was removed by President Buchanan. Judge Blair is now in the prime of life and mental vigor, and there is no man south of Pennsylvania who is more devoted to Repub licanism, or who is more popular among the radical Republicans all over the North and West. Ho is son-in-law of the late Hon. Levi Woodbury, of New Hampshire, and brother of Frank P. Blair, Jr., Congressman elect from the St. Louis district. C. B. SMTTII, SECRETARY Or THE INTERIOR. Mr. Smith is well known in Indiana, and is reputed to be possessed of a vigorous intellect, and considerable administrative tact and abil ity. He has been in Congress, and was Com missioner on Mexican cUims. In regard to his political faith, it is not certain that be has made any decisive declaration, but it is very generally presumed that he is a moderate Re publican. GIDEON WELLES, SECRETARY OF TUE NAVY. Mr. Gideon Welles, of Connecticut, is the Northern Postmaster-General. Mr. Welles has bean for upwards of thirty years a leading politician in Connecticut, and for much ol that time has been connected, directly and indirectly, with the public press, wielding a partizan pen, and always exhibiting evidences of unquestionable hostility to his opponents, in the advocacy of his opinions, political or otherwise. He for some time held the office l.of postmaster of Hartford, under Mr. Van Bu- ren's administration, and left the office soon alter tbe election of Mr. Harrison, in 1840. During a part of Mr. Polk's administration he occupied an important position in the Navy Department. Like many other prominent Northern Democrats, Mr. Welles disagreed with his party on the subject of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which breach was still further increased by tbe Kansas policy of the Pierce and Buchanan Administrations. The Territorial question "being the chief one at issue, ho became indentified with the Re publican party soon after its organization, and has since been one of its leaders, taking a prominent part in its Conventions, State and National. He was a delegate from the State at large to the Chicago Convention, and con stituted one of tho committee to Springfield with the official uotice ot Mr. Lincoln's nomi nation. He was also one of the Presidential electors. Nor was his visit to Springfield the first time he had met that distinguished gen tleman. While in Hartford, a year or more since, they formed a somewhat intimate ac quaintance, which resulted in the warmest mutual friendship and confidence ; so that Mr. Lincoln has, in tbe selection, no doubt acted as fnuch upon his personal know ledge and esti mation of tbe man as upon anj solicitation of prominent New England Republicans. EDWARD BATES, ATTORNEY GENERAL. Edward Bates was born on the 4th of Sep tember, 1793, on the banks of the James river, in tho county of Goochland, Virginia, about thirty miles above Richmond, lie was the seventh son and youngest child of a family of twelve children, all of whom lived to a mature age, of Thomas Bates and Caroline M. Wood son. Both of his parents were decendants of the plain old Quaker families which had lived for some generations in the lower counties of the peninsula between James and Y'ork rivers. They were married in the Quaker meeting, ac cording to the forms of that simple and virtu ous people, in the year 1771 ; but in 1781 the father lost his membership in tbe Society of Friends by bearing arms at the siege of York town a volunteer private soldier under Gen eral Lafayette. In 1805, Thomas F., the fath er, died, leaving a very small estate and a large family. Left at an early age an orphan, and poor, the son was forfunatu in what ivas better than a patrimony, a heart and a will to labor diligently for promotion. Besides, sev eral of his brothers were industrious and pros perous men, and treated the helpless with gen erous affection. One of them, Fleming Bates, of Northumberland, Virginia, took him into his family as a son, and did a father's part to him. He had not the benefit of a collegiate education, beipg prevented by an accident tho breaking of a leg which stopped him in the middle of his course of study, and confi ned him at home for nearly two years. In childhood ho was taught by tbe father, and af terwards had the benefit of two years' instruc tions of his kinsman, Benjamin Bates, of llaa over, Virginia, a most excellent man, who, y'ng 'eft behind him none more virtuous and few more intelligent. In 1812, having re nounced service iu the navy, and with no plan of life settled, his brother Frederick (who was Secretary of the Territory of Missouri from 1807 to 1820, when the State was formed, by successive appointments under Jefferson, Madi son and Monroe, and was second Governor of the State, invited him to come out to St. Louis, and follow the law, offering to see him safely through his course of study. He accep ted the invitation and was to have started in the Spring of 1813, but an unlooked for event detained him for a j'ear. Being in his native county of Goochland, a sudden call was made for volunteers to march to Norfolk, to repel an apprehended attack by tho British fleet, and ho joined a company in February, marched to Norfolk, and served till October of that year, as private, corporal and sergeant successively. The next spring he set out for St. Louis, and crossed tho Mississippi for the first time on the 20tb of April, J8 J4. Her be studied very diligently in the office of Rufus Easton, a Con necticut man, a good lawyer, regularly educa ted at Litchfield, tmd once a delegate in Con gress from Missouri Territory, lie came to the bar in the winter of 1SIG.17, and practiced with fair success as a beginner. InlS53he was elected judge of the Land Court of St. Louis county, and after serving in the office about three years he resigned, and returned again to the practice of the law. He acted as President of the River and Harbor Improve ment Convention which sat at Chicago, and in 1852 acted as President of the Whig National Convention which met at Baltimore. In 1850 he was appointed by President Fillmore, and confirmed by the Senate Secretary of War, but declined tbe appointment for personal and domestic reasons. Mr. Bates was complimen ted with the honorary degree of LL D, in 1858, by Harvard College. Sopio years befote ha had been honored with tho same degree by Shurtleff College, Illinois. DTJCXS IN SUMMER. There is no doubt of its being true, and it's a good one, if I can bit on tho right way of telling it. Aaron was a tall, strapping fellow, near seventeen. Y'ou never saw a more susceptible) youth. Being good ltoking, the girls were all easily smitten with him. They used to flock out to the country on Friday evenings. Talk of a colt ! There is no such romp as a town girl turued loose in the country. Sho races, she jumps, sho climbs the trees, shak ing tbe wild berries down upon the timcrous beaux beneath her. Oh, she is the most beau tiful, winning, delightful creature in tho world. Mose was much younger than bis cousin ; he knew Aaron was taking on about that haughty lass, May Stelton. And May was in love with Aaron. May, and Ttoup, and Sue and Bate, all came out on Friday e vening, with Mose's sister, Angeline. Mose got off early Saturday to lot Aaron know. A aron was for running over to his aunt's. No, says Mose, 'bring the gun ; the woods are full of squirrels. We might kilt a dozen walking the two miles.' The road led along the creek bank. Aaron was in a brown 6tudy thinking of May. Mose was looking up in tho tree tops and among the bushes, anxious for a pop at something. It was the shadiest and quietest of places. So far and no game. Let's leave the road a hit, and go to the head of tho creek,' said Mose. It's so out of the way nobody ever disturbs it,' We'll see something there !' And they did. Let it be July 21. What is it t asked Aaron, aroused a little. Mose put his band to bis ear ; . 'Ducks th.e biggest kiud !' This time of year 7' 'I see 'em.' Give me the gun.' No couldn't think of it.' Klick, Klack. 'Well, blaze away'; they'll flv if you go near er.' The bushes are in the way,' said Mose, bringing the piece down to his shoulder. 'Shoot anyhow !' insisted Aaron running up. 'Ifs the girls in a su-immiu' !' They sat down liKc snow-flakes. They were white as the petticoats strewn on the pebbly beach. Their teeth chattered. Along silence. At last Aaron looked slowly around at Mose with the meanest sort of countenance. Mose's face, as be returned the glance, was a regular sheep looking one. Can they find it out !' I reckon not, if we are sly.' Let's climb up the tree ; it leans right over them.' They crt pt along like snakes. They reach ed the tree. Mose being the lightest, gave the gnu to Aaron, climbed far out on a tree over the creek, and got into a squirrel's nest. Aaron wasn't so high. It was a pretty sight of course. You've read of nymphs, syrens, etc. They wouldn't compare. Hair loose, and floating on the wa ter arms etc. ? glistening in the water. Kate was as white as snow. Sue was as plump as a partridge in pea time, and sat in the waves like a bird in its nest. Troup was slim all o ver, with a few exceptions. Aaron promised not to look at Angelina if Mose wouldn't wink-at May. Impossible! Angeline sported gracefully like a native of the clement, and May was a black-eyed houri, coleur de rose, from top toe. They splashed and paddled, and chatted like mad. The tree began to shake. Aaron had a ter rible back ague, and Mose began to smoko and burn, commenced at the ears. There was a louder noise than usual among the unconsious bathing beauties. Aaron stretched his elongated week, at the same time bitching the gun forward. Unfortunately the trigger caught in a vine, and it went oil with a deafening report. Ii was the climax of the adventure. Mose tumbled, from excitement, Into the creek, plum right between Sue and Kate. The gals they dove badly, strangled, ran up the bank, their whito retreating forms gazed at by the eyes of the fish haw k that bad pounced amoung them. They arc robed in a twinkling, but not one with her right dressn. Aaron dashed into the woods. There was a terriblo scream as he ran right into their midst. All ran in different directions, and came dropping in ono after another at Mose's mother's. The boys took a long turn into the woods, and did not get back before night. They said they had been deer hunting, and hadn't seen the creek. The girls appeared to believe them. A Jersey Woman an Inventor. A lady of Burlington has patented a device for throwing reaping and mowing niachienes out of gear by means of the driver's seat. When the driver takes his seat, his weight throws the mechino into gear ; when he leaves his seat, it is thrown out of gear. Many accidents have occurred from reaping and mowing machines when be ing diven to and from the field ; this is inten ded to render these machines safe. A San Francisco paper reports the arrival at that city of a Japanese merchant who came to purchase goods to be sold in his own country. The Pennsylvania Legislatnre has appro priated thirty thousand dollars to the relief of tbe Kansas sufferers. This is commendable. It is computed that 500 copies of Dixie' Land" aro sold every day by mueic publish ers throughout the Uiiited States. I- t t T ir