I Ii I IE II IF I It
j.TOD" UITTCIIIXSOX, Publisher.
I WOULD RATHER BE RIGIIT THAN PRESIDENT. Henry Clay.
TERMS:
rsa.oo pen axxi'm
VOLUME 2.
DIRECTORY.
FaPARB0 KXPRE3SLY FOR "TUE ALLEUHASIAN."
"list or POST OFFICES.
Past OTtce.
Post Masters
District.
YoJer.
Blacklick.
tzai Creek,
listhsl Station,
urrolUowa,
Cans Spring,
(.":3oa,
tj-aiburj.
fillea Timber,
wiilitzia,
it
Joseph Graham,
Joseph 8 Mardis,
Benjainiu Wirtner
, Carroll.
Daul. Litzinger,
John J. Troxell,
Mrs. II. MCague,
Isaac Thompson,
J. M. Christy-,
Joseph Gill,
Win. i'Vjough,
II. A. Ijogs,
W'va. Gwinn,
E. Wissinger,
A. Durbin,
Francis Clement,
Andrew J. Ferra!
G. W. Bowman,
Joseph Mover,
George Conrad,
B. M Coljtan,
Win. Murrav,
Miss M. Gillespie
Andrew Beck,
Chest.
Washiut'u.
Ebensburg.
White.
Gallitzin.
Chest.
Wusht'n.
Johnst'wn.
Loretto.
Ccnein'gh.
Munster.
Conem'gh.
Susq'haa.
White.
ClearnV.i.
KichlanJ.
Washt'n.
Crovle.
Washt'n.
S'mnierhill.
Glea Lonaen,
iiiinlock,
Johnstown,
r ....tt.t
U aeral Point,
Maaiter,
Nri'iiing,
fliiurille,
S i!p Level,
Samnfrhill,
JTiiicors,
CIU'RCIIES, 31 1 SISTERS, &c.
prflyurian Rev. D. Harbison, Pastor.
.-.sohia-t every Sabbath uiorniug at 10
auu in me evjuiug :u o o tiutn.. oaw-M-.h
School &l 3 o'clock: A. M. Prayer uieet-
;ecrr Thursday evening at C o'clock.
Mt.hj'Ls! Episcopal Church Rev. J. Seane,
frjiciier in charge. Rev J. M. Smitu, As
i.VMl. Preaching every Sabbath, alternately
i; 10; o'clock in the morning, or 7 in the
ieiin. Sabbath School at 9 o'clock, A. M.
:rer ueting every 1 huruay eveniug at
it';.'.-i Independent Ret. Ll. R. Powell,
Fi:or. I'ruaching every fcabbath morning at
o'cljck. and in the evening at G o'clock.
SbSia School at 1 o'clock, P. 51. Prayer
:?:in;.on the first Monday evening ol each
La'.h ; and on every Tuesday, Thursday
til Friday evening, excepting the first week
:eich month.
d'.cAiznt Methodist Rev. John- Williams,
?ij::r. Preaching every Sabbath evening at
1 tz 1 6 o'clock. Sabbath School at 1 0 o clock
1. If. Pr.iycr meeting every Friday evening
i ; ov.or. Society every xucsaay evening
n I o'clock.
D'.tro'ti He v. Wm. Lloyd. Pastor Preach-
:ig f f -rr Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock.
Pi'r.ic'ilar lijpliits Rev. David Jenkins,
?n:or Preaching every Sabbath evening at
It Jl Kk. Sabbath School at 1 o cloeK, f. ii
Ciiviic !!2t. M. J. Mitchell, Pastor
Isrri-.-ei everr Sabbath morning at loj o'cloc k
ui'.Vpers at 4 o'clock in the evening.
MAILS ARRIVE.
I r.irn. daily, at 11 o'clock,
ffw.t.-ii. ' a", 10.V " '
ma.ilsclo.se!
tv.sra, daily, at 4.1 o'clock
si'.trn. " at 6 "
M.
31.
M.
M.
P.
P
A
t-i rhoM:tils, from Butler.I ndiana. Stronjrs
sc., arrive on Tuesday and rnaay O;
5 week, at a o clock, V. M.
EWisburg on Mondays and Thurs
at T o'clock. A. M.
'tfThe Mails from Newman's Mills, Car-
'..wr.. A-c. arrive on .Momlav, vv euncsuaj
viiFr.in- r,t" .a.Vi wppV- at 3 o'clock. P. M.
av K'jenburg on Tuesdays, Thursdays
:1 Si'.ara ivs. at 7 o clock, A. M.
Wl Piqf Onii-e nnn on Sunday from 9
' 19 o'clock, A. M
nAII.UO 116 SCIIEDl'LE.
WILMURE STATION.
it -ETnrpss Train. leaves at 8.55 A. M
" Mail Train, "
t-Express Train, "
'' Fsst '.ino, "
" VTail Tia;n, "
8.07 P. M
7.18 P. M
12.12 P. M
6.03 A. M
rmv-T"v nrnr rns.
11 in of th Courts. President, Hon. Geo.
f..'. i. . . . . n-
.'iur, Huntingdon ; Associaics, vjcuic.
ll'f.v, Kit-hard Jones. Jr.
P'otkonotartf. Joseph M' Donald.
- jizi mm tccururr. .uh unci -. .
b'pn'y RtjUter an J Recorder. John Scan-
1.
.jr. Robert P. Linton.
Ipu'y Shrrif. William Linton.
D-tlrtct A'trnf Philio S. XoOtl.
Commitsionert. John Rearer, Abel
-Oyd. DavM r Sl.irm.
Ij CommUiioners. George C. K. Zahm.
"-!-!,, i0 Commitsiovrt. John S. Ul-ey.
Inamrtr. John A. Rlair.
rW n rt: , riavid O'llarro.
f" limn Treasurer. George C. K. Zahm.
r,"r Home Steward. James J. Kaylor.
H-rtantile Appraiser. Thomas M'Connell.
Ad-'oTs.ntmy llavk, John F. Stull. E.
Lytic
Surveyor. E. A. Vitkroy.
r0,r.jauif.g Todd.
Sjp'rinttndent of Common Schools. T. A.
"jnire.
tBEXSBrR 1JOR. OFFICERS.
Jvtticet of the Peace. David II. Roberts,
bl-'oa Kinkead.
7ejj.- Andrew Lewis.
"fit Council. William Kittell, William K.
,:.Pi Charleg Owens, J. C. Noon, Edward
'soaker.
Clk to Council. T. D. Litzinger.
Bvouyh Treasurer. George Curler.
'5 M.ister. William Davis.
School Directors. Ed ward Glass, illiara
yl", Reese S. Lloyd, John J. Lloyd, Morris
;Tni, Thomai J. Davis.
'"nurer of School Board Evan Morgan.
)fitable. George Gurley.
' Collector. -George Gurley.
i'V4""" Richard T. Davis.
Slettion.U.c Evans.
EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST
to Victory.
Loud we answer ! lo we come,
Responsive now to Freedom's call!
In faith we come, iu strength we come,
To do a sacred work for all ;
A3 did our fathers, so shall we,
Move fearless on to victory.
God is our guide 1 From field and wave,
From plough, from anvil, and from loom,
We come our heritage to save,
And speak a tyrant faction's doom ;
All o'er the land from sea to sea,
Resounds our watchword, '-Liberty."
Hail to our flag ! Let Lincoln bear
The glorious standard to the van,
Through stripe and star inwoven there,
We read the natal rights of man ;
Our fathers loved it so will we,
And onward move to victory !
THE FALSE FUNERAL.
I never liked my uncle's business, the'
he took me when my lather died, and
brought me up as his owu sou. The p;ood
man had co children. 11 is wile was lon
dead : he had an honest old woman for a
housekeeper, and a flourishing business, in
the undertaking line, to leave to some
body ; bat he did not leave it to me, and
1 11 tell you the reason.
hen 1 had been about eve vears witn
him, and had grown worth my salt, as he
used to say, a death occurred in our neigh
borhood, which caused trrcater lamentation
than any we had heard of since my ap
prenticehip began. The deceased gen
tleman was a Mr. Elswortby. The lamily
had been counted gentry iu their day. 1
should have said my uncle lived in York,
and all the world knows what Yorkshire
milies are. Well, the Elsworthys were
of good family, and very proud ot it, tho'
they had lost every acre ol an old estate
which had belonged to them time out of
mind. I am not sure whether it was their
grandfather's dice and cock-lighting, or
their father's going surety for a friend,
who did something wrong in a govern
ment office, that brought them to this
i . . i ti
poor pa.3 ; hut there w:s no noue in an
lork where candles went iurtner, ana tea
leaves were better used up. There was a
mother, two sisters, aud a cousin who lived
with them. The mother was a stately old
ladv, never seen out of black brocade.
The sisters v.ere not over voun
or nanu-
some, hut tney uressca as unu u.i
could. The cousin was counted one ol the
prettiest women in Yorkshire, but slie
walked with a crutch, having met with an
accident in her childhood. Master Charles
was the only son, and the youngest of the
family; he was ;i tall, handsome, dashing
young man, uncommonly polite, and a
great favorite with the ladies. It was
said there were some red eyes in the town
when the story got wind that he was going
to be married to the Honorable Miss
Wtstbay. Her father was younger broth
er to the Earl of Ilarrowgate, and had
seven girls beside her, without a penny
for one of them; but Miss Westbay was
a beauty, and the wonder was that she had
not got married long ago, being nearly
seven years out, dancing, siuging, and
playing tip-top pieces at all the parties.
Half-a-dozen matches had been talked of
for her, but somehow they broke down
one after another. Her father was rather
impatient to see her olf; so were her sis
ters, poor things, and no wonder, for grow
up as they might, tot one of them would
the old man suffer to come out till the el
dest was disposed of, and at last there
seemed something like a certainty of that
business. Young Mr. Elsworthy and she
struck up a courtship, lie was fascinated
isn't that the word? at an assize ball,
paid marked attentions at the bishop s j
party, and was believed to have popped
the question at a j ic-nic, after Lord ilar
rowgate, the largest shareholder in the
North Eastern Bank, got him promoted
from a clerkship to be manager. It s true
he was some years younger tnan Jiiss
Westbay, and people said there had been
something between him and his pretty
cousin ; but a Lord's niece with beauty,
accomplishments, and a serviceable con
nection does not come in every young
man's way ; so the wedding-day was fixed
for the 1st of January ; and all the milli
ners were busy with the bride's bonnets
and dresses.
It was just a month to come, and every
body was talking of the match, when Mr.
Elsworthy fell sick. At first they said it
was a cold; then it turned to a brain
fever ; at last the doctor gave no hopes,
aud within the same week Mr. Elsworthy
,i;,l Th wlw.lft neiirhhorhood was cast
intr niournin??. A nroniisinjr young man,
in n manner "the onlv dependence of his
f.n.iilw nourltr nrnninfpil tj a btatlOD Of
t rust aud influence, and on the eve of mar
ii i i J 1 : ..-.;xt
riage, everybody lamented his untimely
death, and raPazedbe
relations, and his intended bride. I think
my uncle lamented most of all. None of
his customers, to my knowledge, ever got
so much of his sorrow. When he was
sent for in the way of business, it struck
me that he stayed particularly long. The
good man could talk ot nothing but the
grief of the afflicted family how the
mother n-ent into fits aud thesisters tore
their hair how the cou.-in talked of
wearing mourniug all her days and how
it was i eared that Miss Westbay, who in
sisted on seeing him, wouM never recover
her senses, 'lhe co:int3' pipers gave ex
pressions to the public grief. There were
a im-at many verses written about it- No
body passed the house of mourning with
out . a sigh, or a suitable remark. My
uncle superintended the making of the
coffin, as I liad never seen him do to any
other ; and when the workmen were gone
home, he spent hours at uiuht finishing it
by himself.
The funeral was to set out for the fami
ly vault in the Minster church, at Ueverly,
about three o'clock iu the afternoon. It
was made a strictly private affair, though
hundreds of the towiiMiien would have tes
tified their respect for the dead by acc.uii
ranviu r it all the wav. The members cf
the family, in two mourning coaches, and
the undertaker's men, were alone allowed
to follow poor Elsworthy to his last resting
r.Licc and the colfin was not to be brought
1
till the latest hour. My uncle had got it
finished to his mind, but evidently did not
wish me to look at his work, lie had a
long talk with Steele and Stoneman, two
of his most confi Jential assistants in the
workshop, after hours, and they weut away
looking remarkably close. All was iu train,
and the funeral to take place the next d ly,
when, coming down his owu stairs they
were rather steep and narrow, for we lived
in one of the old houses of York my un
cle slipped, fell, aud broke his leg. 1 tho't
he would have gone mad wheu the doctor
told him he must not attempt to move, or
mind any business for weeks to come, and
I tried to pacify him by offering to conduct
the fuueral with the help of Steele and
Stoneman. Nothing would please the old
man; I uever saw him so far out of temper
before, lie swore at his bad luck, threw
the pillows at his housekeeper, ordered me
to bring him up the key of the work.-hup,
and kept it fast clutched in his hand. I
sat up with him that tight. Iu a couple
of hours he grew calm and sensible, but
could uot shep, though the house was all
rjuiet, and the housekeeper snoring in the
corner. Then he began to grc-t'.n, as if
there was something worse than a broken
leg on his mind, and "Tom," said he,
"haven't I always been kind to you I'"
"No doubt of it, un:le," said I.
"Well, Tom, I want you to do :ne a
great service a particular service, lorn,
and I'll never forget it to you. You know
31 r. Elsworthy 's funeral comes off to-morrow
at three, and they are very high peo
ple." "Never fear, uncle; I'll take care of it
as well as if you were there yourself."
"1 knew you would, Tom 1 knew you
would. I could trust you with the hears
ing of an eail's coffin; and for managing
mutes, 1 dou't know your equal. But
there's something more to be done. Come
over besides me, Tom; that old woman
don't hear well at the best, and she's sleep
iu
ji.w iiTiit no ivnsr:iK ill von nrnin-
i ii 1 1
ite me" aud his voice sunk to a whisper
"that, whatever you hear or see, you'll
make no remark to any livirg, and be as
cautious as you can about the body ? There's
foul play," said he, for I began to look
frightened; "but maybe this leg's a judg
ment for taking ou such a business. How
soniever, I'm to have three hundred pounds
for it; and you'll get the half, Tom, the
full half, if you'll conduct it properly, and
-. . j --, .
? me your solemn promise, j. kuuw
'11 uever break."
. t : ii .
you
"Uncle," said I,'"1 11 promise, and keep
..1. !. !
it too; but you must ten me what it is.
"Well, Tom, and lie drew a long
breath "its a living man you're going to
put in that coffin in the workshop? 1 ve
made It Illgn auu mil ui au-uoies; ue u lie
v. i , i i i l .
quite cnmJortahie. iNooouy Knows aoout
it but Steele and otoueman auu yoursen :
they'll go with you. Mind you trust no
one else. Dou't look so stupid, man ; can't
you understand? Mr. Elsworthy didn't
die at all, and never had brain fever; but
he wants to get oft' with marrying Miss
Westbay, or somethingof that sort. They're
takiug a queer way about it, 1 must say;
but these genteel people have ways of their
owiu It was the eousin that prepaTed my
mind for it in the back parlor; that wo
man's up to anything. 1 stood out against
having a hand in it till I heard that tife
sexton of Beverly Church was a poor rela
tion ol theirs. The key of the coffin is to
be "-iven to him; it will be locked, and uot
screwed down, you sec; and when, all's over
at the vault it will be dark nightly that
time. lOr We UOU l move im nutc,
time j short-hVll come
VelP Mr. Elsworthy out J smufgle
an.i .
far we don t move till three, ana
him off to Hull with his son tli2 carrier.
There's ships enough there to take him
anywhere under a feigned name."
"Could he get off' from the marriage no
easier V said I, for the thought of taking
a living man in a hearse, and having the
service read over him, made my blood run
cold. You see I was young then.
"There's something more than the mar-
riage in it, though they uidu t tell me.
Odd things will happen iu my business,
and this is one of the queerest. But you'll
manaire it, Tom, and "et my blessimr, be
sides vour halt ol the three hundred
pounds; aud don't be afraid of anything j
coming wrong with hnn, lor I never saw
any uiau look so like a corpse."
1 promised my uncle to do tne business
aud keep the secret. A hundred aud fit-
ty pounds was no joke
beginning the world in
to a young man
au undertaking-
line-; and the old man was so pleased with
what he called my senses aud under
standing, that before falling asleep, close
upon daybreak, he talked of taking me
into partnership, and the jobs we might
expect from the Ilarrowgate family ; lor
the dowager-countess was uear fourscore,
and two of the young ladies were threat
ened with decline. Next day early iu
the afternoon, Steele, Stoneman, and I
were at work The family seemed duly
mournful ; I suppose, on accouut of the
servants.
Mr. Elsworthy looked wom'er-
lullv well in his shroud ; aud if one had
not looked closely into the coffin, they
never would have seen the air-holes.
Well we setout, mourning-coaches, hearse
and ail, through a yellow fog of a Decem
ber day. There was nothing but sad fa
ces to be seen at all the windows as we
passed; I heard them admiring Steele and
Stoneniaii tor the feeling hearts they show
ed :
but when we got on the Beveily
road,
the couiu gave us a
went a rattling pace ;
sigh, imi away we
a funeral never rot
over the ground at such a rate belore.
Yet it was getting dark when we leached
the old Minister, and the curate grum
bled at having to do duty so late. He
got through the service nearly as quick
as we got over the miles. Th coffin was
lowered into the family vault; it was more
thau half filled with Mr. Elsworth v's fore
fathers, but there was a go d wide grate
in the wall, and no want ot air. It was
all right. The clerk ami the clerjrMnan
started off to their bonus ; the mourning
coaches went to the Crown Inn, where
the ladies were to wait till the sexton
came to let them know he was safe out
the cousin would not go home without
that news and 1 slipped him the key
at the church-door, as he discoursed to
us all about the mysterious dispensations
of I'rovidenee.
My heart was light going home, so
were Steele and Stoneman's. None of
us liked the job, but we were all to be
paid for it; ind I must say the old man
came down handsomely wiih the needful,
not to speak of Burton ale ; aud I was to
be made his partner without delay. We
got the money, aud had the jollification ;
but it wasn't right over, and I was just get
ting into bed, when there was a ring at
at our door-bell, and tho housekeeper
came to say that Dr. Darks wanted to see
me or my uncle. What could he want
and how had he come back so soon '!
l'arks was the Elsworthy 's family doctor,
and the only stranger at the funeral; he
went in the second mourning coach, and
1 left him talking to the sexton. My
clothes were thrown on, and 1 was down
stairs in a minute, looking as sober as I
could ; but the doctor's look would have
sobered any man. "Thomas," said he,
"this has turned out a bad business; and
1 cannot account for it ; but M r. Elsworthy
has died iu earnest. When the sexton
and 1 opened the coffin, we found him
cold and stiff. 1 think he died from fright
for such a face of terror I uever saw. It
wasn't your uncie's fault; there was no
doubt he had air enough ; but it can't be
helped; and the less said about it, the
better for all parties. I am going to Dr.
Adams to take him down with me to Bev
erly. The sexton keeps poor Elsworthy,
to see if anything can be done ; and Ad
ams is the only man w could trust; but
I know it's ot no use."
The doctor's apprehensions were well
founded--Mr. Elsworthy could not be
recovered ; and after trying everything to
no purpose they laid him down again in
the coffin with air holes. The ladies
came back, and we kept the secret; but
in less than six months after, a rumor
went abroad of heavy forgeries on tho
North Eastern Bank. On investigation
they proved to be over fifty thousaud, and
nobody was implicated but the deceased
manager
His lamily new nothing about
it ; being ail ladies, they were entirely
ignoraut of banking affairs ; but they left
York next season, took a handsome house
at Scarborough, and were known to get
money regularly from London. They
never employed auy doctor bat Parks ;
28, J8G0.
and his medical management did not ap
pear to prosper, for they never were well
and always nervous; not one of them would
sleep alone or without light in the room ;
and an attendant from a private asvlum
had to be
think the
;ot for the o sin. 1 don't
matter ever
loit inv
uncle s
mind ; he never
would undertake an odd
job afrer it ; and all the partnerships in
Jngland would not have made me con
tinue in the bu"ness, and ruu the risk ol
another false funeral.
1 CUlTV
OF
the
CiiAUACiKH. Over the
p'uin and apricot there
and beaury mora cxo'iis-
beauty of
n-mw-s : l.l.tmii :ind lip.-m'v iiinrr
. . J
ite than the rruit itselr a sort
delicate
Hush that overspread its blushin
; cheek
l':N'w if yoa strike your hand oer that,
j once. The flower that hangs in the morn-
ing imp.earled wiih dew arrayed as no
i queenly woman ever Mas arrayed in jcv.--!
els ouce shake it so that bauds roll off
j and you may sprinkle water over it as
I you please yet it can never be made again
! what it was wheu the dew fell silently
j upon it from Heaven ? On a l'roiv
morning you may see the panes or glass
covered with landscapes, mountains, lakes
and trees, blending iu a beautilul fantas
tic picture. Now la' your hand upou
the glass, and by the scratch of your lin
ger, or by the warmth ol your palm, all
the delicate tracery will be obliterated.
So there is in youth a beauty and purity
of character, which when once touched
and defiled can never be restored a
fringe more delicate than frost work, and
which wheu torn and broken will never be
re-embroidered. A man who has spotted
aud soiled his garments in youth, though
he may seek to make theiu whiie again,
can uever wholly do it, even were he to
wash them with his tears. When a
young man leaves his father's h.mse with
the blessing of his mother's tears still
wet upon his forehead, if he once loses
that purity of ehara.uer, it is a loss that
he can never make whole again. Such is
the consequence of crime. Its eilects
cannot be contradicted, it can only be
forgiven.
Ccniois Ai.lkiikd Discovery in
Flouicultckk. - is said that ex-Mayor
Tiemunn, of New York, at his paint facto
ry in Maiibattanville, lias accidentally
made a discovery which threatens to revo
lutionize horticulture. One of the factory
hands having thrown some liquid green
paint of a particular kind on a llower bed,
occupied by white anemones, the tlowers
have since made their appearance with
petals as green as grass. The paint had
in it a peculiar and very penetratinvr
chemical mixture, which Mr. Tieniann lias
since applied, with other colors, to other
plants, annual, biennial, and of the shrub
kind the result being invariably that the
flowers so watered took the hue of the
liquid deposited at their roots. By com
mencing experiments early next year, du
ring seed time, and applying different col
ors, we shall no doubt soon be enabled to
"paint the lily," which was Solomon's
ambition.
"Mother." O word ot undying beau
ty! Thine echoes sound along the walls
of time, until they crumble at the breath
of the Eternal. In all the world there is
not a habitable spot where the music of
that word is not sounded. Aye, by the
olden llower of the river, by the crystal
margin of the rock, under the leafy shade
of the forest tree, iu the hut built of bam
boo cane, in the mud and thatched cottage
by the peaks of the kissing mountains, iu
the wide spread valley, on the blue ocean,
in the chaii'-elcss desert where the angel
came down 'to give the parched lips the
sweet waters of the wilderness, under the
white tent of the Arab, and iu the dark
covered wigwam of the Indian hunter ;
wherever the pulses of the human heart
beat quick and wirm, or float feebly along
the current of falling life, there is that
sweet word spoken, like a universal prayer
"Mother."
Repentance. If there be anything
that we suppose men would not admire,
it is repentance. It does not seem to be
an experience which has much that is ad
mirable in it. Men usually think of it as
a kind of shame-faced, crying, pocket-
handkerchief state of mind ; but it you
take it from tiuman infirmities, and pre
sent it to men so that they see the thing,
rather than the ftctor, ij is beautiful in
the eyes of every one.
In a wide-mouthed bottle dissolve
eiht ounces of the best glue in a half-
pint of water, by getting it in a vessel of
r.r A Viifttiiwr it fill .HtKnlvAf! Add
WillCI UllA lirtllllp, . - - -
slowlv. constantly stirriuir, two and a half
ounces of strong nitric acid. Keep it well
corked, and it will be ready for uso. Tliis
is tho celebrated "Prepared Glue, of
which ie hear sq raaca.
NUMBER 1.
American YouusJlcu,
American history presents many re
markable instances of vounsr men taking
prominent and commanding .stations at au
age which would be thought very young
in other countries. We subjoin a few
striking examples from the list of those
who have passed off the stage of liumau
action.
At the age of twenty-nine, Mr. Jeffer
son was an influential member of the Leg
islature of Yirginia. At thirty he was a
member of the Yirginia Convention ; at
thirfy-tvvo a member of the Continental
Congress, and at thirty-three he wrote the
Declaration of Independence.
Alexander Hamilton was only twenty
years of age when he was appointed a
Lieutenant Colonel in the army of the
Revolution, and aii-de camp to Washing
ton. At twenty-nve he was a member of
the Continental Congress; at thirty he
was oue of the ablest members of the Coa
ventiun which framed the Constitution of
the United States : at thirty-two he wa
Secretary of the Treasury, and organized
that branch of government, upon so com
plete and comprehensive a plan that no
great change of improvement has since
been made upon it.
John Jay, at twenty-nine years old, was
a member of the Continental Congress,
and wrote an address to the people of
Great Britain, which was justly regarded
I as oue of the most eloquent productions of
the times. sx thirty he prepared the
Constitution of New York, and in the
same year was appointed Chief Justice of
the State.
Washington was twenty-seven years of
acre when he covered the retreat of the
iJritish troops at Braddock's defeat, and
was honored by an appointment as Commander-in-Chief
of the Virginia forces. .
Joseph Warren was twenty-nine years
of age, when he delivered the memorable
address on the 5th of March, which roused
the spirit of patriotism and liberty iu his
section of the country ; and at thirty-four
he gloriously fell in the cause of freedoru
on Bunker Hi".
Fisher Ames, at the age of twenty-seven,
had excited public attention by the
ability he displayed in the discussion of
questions of public interest. At the age
of thirty, his masterly speeches in defence
of the Constitution of the United States
had excited great influence, so that the
youthful orator of thirty-one was elected
to Congress from the Suffolk district, over
the Revolutionary hero. Samuel Adams.
De Witt Clinton entered public life at
28 ; Henry Clay at 20.
The most vouthful signer of. the Decla
ration of Independence was Wm. Hooper,
of North Carolina, whose age was but
twenty-four.
Ox Equal Ground. Tom Hobbs was
a queer fellow in his 'lay, and lived some
where down in what is now Ocean county,
New Jersey. Tom would drink like a
fish, and when he had taken his fifth
glass of a morning, no man possessed more
shrewdness. When in this condition and
in his happiest mood, Tom one morning
met a gentleman on horseback whim he
had never put his eyes en before. As is
customary in the country, Tom immedi-
.ately accosted him.
"Ah . here you are, my good Jellotv,
how d'ye do? Upen my honor it does me
good to see you once more! How's your
family and the eld woman ? We haven't
seen her this long time. When is Five
coming down to see my wife?"
"I am quite well, I thank yotf," said
the gentleman, ''but indeed, sir, you have
the advantage."
"Advantage, my good fellow! what ad
vantgae?" inquired Tom.
"Why, really, sir, I beg your pardon,"
replied the gentleman, 'but I do not know
you."
"Know me!" exclaimed Tom ; "well, I
don-'t know you ; and I should like to know
where the deuce is the advantage, then?"
tf- Beau Brummcl once had his pock
et picked. The pecuniary loss he bore
with great equanimity, but declared he
would hang, if he met with them, the un
gentlemanly villains who, by neglecting to
rebutton the pocket of hid pantaloons, had
caused him to walk the length of tho
street with his pocket turned inside out.
E9u, A sensible writer advises those who
would enjoy good eating to keep good-natured
; "for," says he, '-an angry man
can't tell whether he is eating boiled cab
bage or stewed umbrella."
Go down only upou one knee to a
young lady. If you go down upon both,
you may not be able to escape quick enough
in case of the appearance of, au eorsged
father.
eSF A truly, independent taaa i Le
) -wfco is free from obligations.
1