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VOLUME 4.
DIRECTORY.
L.IST OF POST Ot l'lCES.
Post Offices. Post Jfirsters. JJixtricts.'
Bethel Statioa
'Cirrolltown,
Che33 Springs,
Conemaugh,
Cre33on,
Ebensburg.
Fallen Timber,
Gallitzin',
Hemlock,
Johnstown,
Loretto,
Mineral Point,
Munster,
Plattsville,
Roselaud,
St. Augustine,
Scalp Level,
Sonman,
Suinmerhill,
Summit,
Wjlmore,
tnoch Kecse, llackhck.
William M. Jones, Carroll.
Danl. Litzinger, ChcBt.
A. G. Crooks, . .Taylor.
Wm. W. Yonncr, . Washint'n
John Thompson,
Isaac Thompson,
J. M. Christy,
Wm. Tiley, Jr.,
I.E. Chaudler,
JI. Adlesbergcr,
IS. Wissinger,
A. Durbin,
Ebensburg.
White.
Gallitzin.
Washt'n.
Johnst'wn.
Loretto.
Conem'gh.
Munster.
Andrew J Ferral, Susq'ban
(V. W. Bowman, White.
Wm. Ryan, Sr.,
Georpe Conrad,
B. M'Colgtn,
. F. Slick, ,
Clearfield.
Ricblaud.
Washt'n.
Crovle. '
Miss M. Gillesiiit, Wasbfn.
Morris Keil, S'merhill.
CHURCHES. MSISTEUS,-M.
Presbyterian Ret. D. Harbison, Pastor.
Preaching every Sabbath morning at 10
o'clock, and in the evening at 3 o'clock. Sab-
oath School at 1 o'clock M. Prayer meet
ing every Thursday eveTiS at C o'clock.
Methodist Episcopal Ch ttrcli Uev.S.T. Show,
Preacher in charge. Rev. W. Long, Assis
tant. Preaching every Sabbath, alternately
at 10J o'clock in the moTuing, or 7 in the
evening. Sabbath School at J o'clock, A. L
Prayer meeting every .Thursday evening, at 7
o'clock.
Welch J.vlpemientRzx Lt. R. Powell,
Pastor. teaching every Sabbath moruingat
10 o'ciock, and iu the evening at G o'clock.
Sabbath School at 1 o'clock, P. M. Prayer
meeting on the first. Mcwiriay evening of -ch
month ; and on every Tuesday, Thursday and
Friday evening,' excepting the first week in
ach month. '- ' ; :
tnlviiiistic Methodist Rkv. Joux. Williams,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath evening at
2 and C o'clock.. Sabbath School at 10 o'clock.
A. M. Piaver meeting every Friday evening,
at 7 o'clock. Society every Tuesday evening
at 7 o'clock. . .
Disciples Rkv. W Lioyi, Pastor. Preach
ing every Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock.
Particular Jhip'ist Kkv. David Jeski-s,
Pastor, P'reacLing every'abTatli ovening nt
Z o'clock. Sabbath School at at 1 o'clock, P. M.
Catholic Rkv. M. J. .Mitchell. Pastor.
Services every Sabbath morning at 10 A o'clock
and Vespers at 4 o'clock in the evening.
."EBCXSItL'RG 3IAII..S.
MAILS AURIVK.
"Eastern, dailr, at 10J o'clock, A. M.
"Western, ."" at K.l o'clock, .A M.
MAILS CLOSE. -Eastern,
daily, at o'clock. P. M.
Western, "" at 8 o'clock. P. M
Eay-Th mails from Rutlerjndiana, Strongs
town, kc, arrive on Thursday of C-ach week,
at 5 o'clock, P. M. . .
Leave Ebcnsburg oa Friday of each week,
at A. M.
piTlie mails from Newman's Mills, Car
f nil town, Ac, arrive on Monday,' Wednesday
nd Friday of each week, at a o'clock, P. M.
Leave Kbensburg on Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays, at 7 o'clock, A. II. , ,
RAILROAD SCHEDULE
CRESSOX STATION
West Bait. Express leaves at
Fast Line 44
Mail Train 44
East Through Express "
" Fast Line "
Fast Mail " ,
4t Through Ateom. il
WILMORK STATION.
-West Bait. Express leaves at
Mail Train
E ist Through Express
'. Fast M ail
41 Through Accom. 44
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COl'XTT OITICEHS.
Jaljen of the Courts President, Hon. Geo.
Taylor, Huntingdon ; Associates, George W.
Easlty, Henry C. Devinc. : .
Prolhonotarif -Joseph M'Donald.
Jlejhler and Recorder Ed.vard F. Lylle.
Sheriff John Buck. - , '
District Atiorn'ii. Philip S. Noon." ' ,
t'matg Commissiort'rs James Cooper, Pe--tcr
J. Little, John Campbell.
t -Tmiurer Thomas Gallia'.
Poor House Directors William Douglass,
'George Delany, Irwin ltutlc-dge.
Poor Home Treasurer Geo,'Se C. K. Zahm.
Auiitorx Thomas J- Nelson, William J.
Wifnanij, George G. K. Z v'i'ii.
Coudtif Surveyor. Henry Scanlan.
Cimner. -James Shannon.
Mercantile Appraiser Geo. WT Easly.
Sap't. of Common Schools Henry Ely.
i:ni:xsqnia ison. officers.
ninov::i at lakhk.
Jif'ites of the Peace. David II. Roberts
I-ar-iion Kinkcad. .
r,nrrjet James Mvers.
$rhod Director Acl Lloyd, Thil S. Noon,.
Joshua I). Parrish, Hugh Jones, E. J. Mills,
H-ivid J. Jones.
EAST WA It I .
Contahler-F.vvn E. Evans.
ToH-n Couiiril John J. Evan., Thomas J.
Javis, John W. Uoberts, John Thompson, 1).
J- Jones.
Inipectcrs William D Davis, L. Rodgers.
Jiltt of Flection Daniel J. Davii.
Azcor Lemuel Davis.
WEST WARD.
Constable W. M. O'Neill.
Town Council R. S. liiinn, Edward Glas,
John A. Blair, John D. Thomas, George W.
Oatman. '
Intpevtojs William Rartie'j, JnO. II. Evatis
J'l-hl of A7fjipif--Mtchftel Haon.
Atsor George G'urley,
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Select IJoctnL
Our IJiiion.
BY ALFUE1) B. STREET.
. Onr Union,-the. gift piir.fiUijers 1 . . ,
. In Mrath. wars the' foisipest above f
The darker and nearer our danger,
The warmer' and closer our love.
Though bleeding, it never shall perish ; '
' It. bends, but not finks to the blast ;
Foes rush on in fury to rend it,
But we will be true to the last.
-Our Union, ordained of Jehovah,-
Man sots not th5 fiat aside!
. . As well cleaveoiho welkin asunder -
As the one mighty system divide.
: The grand Mississippi sounds ever, , ;
Fi'cm pine dowu to palm, the decree ;
'The spindle, the corn, and the cottwn,
One jiajan shout. Union, to thee !
Our Union, the lightning of battle
First kindled the flame of its shrine !
The blood and the tears of our people
Have made it forever, divine. J . "
In battle we then will defend it !
Will fight till the :iauiph'is won !
; Tiil the, tate form the realm of the Union
As the sky forms the realm of the sun.
a mouse'in the boqel
A careles.s obssver of iheoJJ wo'rld in
which wo Jive ami kelp to make it strange
uitht tbink" the. lives .f old maids rxne
ventl'ul, viewing the seemingly dull, still'
tenor ol' their isolated beiugs with an
npa.tb.etic,' uninterested eye j.but old maids
ihemseivcs-kiiovir Letter. And both 3Jet
scy luw aiid-Nancy Poody can cite, as sin
instance, that period of their existence
when, both spinstcfrp, ami jiomethin past
thirty, they uict, were mutually pleased,
joined hands, struck a bargain, got a lew
housekeeping things, took a room together
and commenced boarding themselves.
This was at the lafge boarding and
lodging- house of the energetic Mrs.
Piirk. - ' - i :
The two spinsters promised thernselvcf
great happiness. They, eat, sewed, sang,
cooked, and ?lcpt together, and moralized
upon the evils of marriage - and man's so
ciety, with much harmony ; audborc an
equal share in the expense of board and
rent, and in the household affairs of their
one apartment ; and might have been liv
ing there together to this day, if
Uetgey was buxom and a hearty eater
If shdiad sorrows, tdie "revenged herself
upon her wittles," as thesaying is ; taking,
in fact, such thorough vengeance, that
Nancy said she often had the nightmare,
and "snored horrid,'.' the which was very
annoying to Nancy, who was but a thiu
and timid being, a spare eater, and nerv
ous and wakeful of uights ; iand , Naucy
gradually complained to her chum of the
discomfort to which fehe was put. i .
.Hut the bold IJetsey laughed at the
"nervous Nancy, and denied her charges ;
and when Miss I'oody insisted that she
did. Miss Daw paid as positively that she
didn't. This was the begiuiog of the.
eu'd. Their oppositea began to disa
gree. '
Mis3 Pubdy was always particular about
the door being fastened ; and if they hap
pened to retire without Ltingsure on that
point, Miss Jaw was called upon to get
up and make sure, I'oody . being, mortally
afraid pf moving about at all in the dark.
Miss Daw was pioudof her own boldness
a-vholcsale sort of a creature aud afraid
of but lijtie.
Then Pgain. -while the careless Betsey
was engaged busily in sleep, the tearful
Nancy gave herself much trouble about
the multituuious liiidni&kt noises in the
street ; the occasional bacchanalian jells,
or songs, or laughter, approaching steps,
alarm!? of 6re, etc. and would often wake
her chum to get sympathy or encourage
ment ; and as often would. Betsey rebuke
her, and pooh ! pooh ! And the measure
of Nauej-'s horizoutal cares werffHipd up
by Betsey's snores and nightmares, tcssv'
ins, elbowing?, ai d kickings of the clothes
off, with occasional apprehensions that a
spider was in the bed, or a man under it;
and of course she called upon the bound
ing, billowy Betsey to cease her motions
or'cyiotions, or get up and search, and see
if all was right. . ; -;
If thc?e evils wore upon the suspicious
and fcusccptible Nancy, they in time alto
wore upon the fctolid, solid Betsey, who,
! wearied with so many interruptions of her
slumber?,' wheu .roused, complatned in
turn ; ttud then they would have loud
criminations and ' recriminations by the
hour-, thoughtless of whomight b disturb
ed in rooms overhead or adjoining.
4,I never heard of tuch ta scarecrow,"
Bctscv would declaim. 'YoU are afraid of
jour own shadow, and ho suspicious you
will sn.wct vourself into a consumption
i j -
vot our nerves are out ur urucr,
and
you ought to take something to prcveu
I ocing so rcsiie. , . -"
: assafictida is good for the nerves. '"AYliy
i don't you take fcbmc t"
EBENSBURG, PA:, THURS D AY APEIL
"It is you who are restless," feplicl
Nancy ; "always on the move when you
are asleep, aud "making such loud cries
that I wonder the people iu the house or
the watchman haven't complained before
this. I ofton tremble for fear they will
break the door open and come in; and
then I should certainly give up, and diejef
fright and shame."
"He, he I" laughed Batsey. "I should
laugh to spe them make such foob 'of
themselves." ' V
"You cat too much, and that's w)iat
gives you the nightmare. If you keep on
eating so much, you will die iu a lit."
"I must cat what . I want when I'm
hungry," declared Betsey. ' You mustn't
be afraid of your victuals, neither.; 1
pay half. Now, you don't eat enough. -You
should more, and exercise, and you
woull be as tout and well as 1 am "
"I know you are fatter than I am,"
said Nancy; "but it isn't the fattest peo
ple that can stand the most. I don't be
lieve it is healthy fat.' You mustn't blame
mo for being worried about you, Betsey;
bat I rfru af raid that if you keep on eating
so iuuch and having the, nigh tin ac, you
will sometime be carried off in your sleep,
and I shall wake up and od 3-ou dead by
my side, and perhaps, be charged with
murder, and hung, wheu it is vail your
own eating." tf - " ,:
"Hn, ha No danger of dyjng aDd
your not kuowing of h. For you're al
ways awake as a mouse, and not Iiali
so-bold." . . ...
''Besides, you talk in your sleep, some
times, and miglit tell secrets," added Nan
cy, wishing to frighten Betsey by further
prudential considerations. : But Betsey
was impregnable, turned her back,
pshawed mildly, fell asleep again and
snored. ' ':'
Nancy, now, not only heard that, -but
heard, or fancied she heard, another noise,
new to her timorous hearing. Betsey
had compared her to'a mouse aud no'.r
did' she? she ' 'thought fhe hearer - a
mouse. A. mouse ! a:d that mouie in
the room. . .
-It was a slight, rattling sound. She
listened. Her ieart beat violently.
Again hhe heard it. It must be a mouse
- a thieving, uiischievious, mercenary
mite of a thing, come peraiubulatingafter
provender, and she was horrified.. She
thought that, as there was plenty of food,
ihe should hereafter be constantly worried
by another nightly torment. .
Afraid to get up in the dark, and afraid
of the mouse, fd;e again awoke her impa
tient chum, announced the ariival of a
new terror, and begged her to arise aud
strike a light, aDd search. .
"Dear lue ! what a I'oody !" expo?tdla
ted the sleep' Betsey. "What harm can
come of a mouse ?" ,
"4I wouldn't slocp with a mouse in the
room for worlds !"
"Why not? They won't bite."
"I think I've heard of people running
mad from the bite of a mouse. Do get
up."
"Nonsense ! A rat-bite is poisonous ;
but a mouse' can't bite, more than a canary-bird.
8ome folks make pct.3 of them.
I'd as lief have a little tame mouse in bed
with me, all night, as not "
"0 you wretch ! How can . you tease
me so? Do get up, if you ain't afraid,
and hunt." . . ( ... "
"It isn't'- a' roonse ; ."folly, ''can't be!
There ain't any holes here."
"ITow do you know, when you haven't
looked? I know if you should strike a
light and look sharp, you'll find one.
There's the noise again.' Hark !'''
"I dont bear anything. ' But to please
you, I'll get up. 1 aint afraid of twenty
mice. . There are things worse than mice
iu this world, to toTment fwlks. Booh!"
Betsey got up and lit a lamp, and com
menced fumbling about the rooln. receiv
ing anxious directions, a she proceeded,
from the tremulous Miss I'oody, who,
during the reeonnoisauee, leaned on her
elbow, a general and sentinel, at hcT bed
post. . ,
"Look a Utile more, do. ITcre There!
Over yonder! Uudcr the bed. Under
the stove. Wash-stand lounge the cor
nersin the drawers. I thought I heard
him, just then."
But Betsey, having trod , on a lack,
jammed a corn, bumped her head, and
bruised a shin, with a sudden- expression
of scorn and contempt, blew out the
light, jumped into bed egaiu, aud vowed
she would hunt no more.
T wnn't tret tin no-ain. even a rat should
come! If you want, to cutch a
you must get a cat, or a trap.
-O L '
mouse,
Watch
for yourself, you're eo fond of keeping
awake. I'm going to sleep, and -dou't
you daro to wake me up. If you do, I'll
bite you myi-elf J"
And f-o Miss I'oody was left to her fate,
and lay quivering till daylight.
When morning broke, nerved by des
ecration, fchc went out and bought a
before breakfast.-' It was a'
cheap affair,- cosiing but sixpence. But
it was bored for three mice,iau shepauie
back with rn air of triumph, confident
that it was good for three mice a night,
and would thu3 stand picket over her sin
less slumbers. - "
--. As she had'TKy'ehees, sha .baited it
with bread j.,and (though a reiwed search
of the two chums resulted in the discov
ery of no mouse-hole, "Nancy relied upon
the trap toseizthe intruder that night,
and retired with' comparative calmness,
leaving , tha injseoiou apparatus in : the
middle of tSe rvon, where evx'n i blind
mouse wQuld'he'luible 'to-find it. Hhe
watched long, till exhausted nature entrap
ped her into a doze, when suddenly she
started, for she had heard it spring.
Instantly, she aw-jke her snoring chum,
who rcluctantlj rose and lighted the lamp.
The trap was indeed sprung, but no mouse
was to be seen. ' :
"It. must bt a -poor trap,- or you didn't
et it lightf' Sid , JJetsey, snappishly,
resetting it. "Ihe least jar will set
these cheap affairs going." "And out
went the light again, and in went she.
Por'two or three such nights, at inter
vals, Miss Poody heard, or fancied she
heard, the ominous noise ; but Betsey. was
obstinate, and the tnp remained un.sprung;
and Nancy, declaring that her health was
declining, complainel to Mrs. Prink, the
landlady, vowing that either the bouse
was haunted, or infested with rats or
mice. .
Mrs". Prink indignantly declared that
such a thing was never said of her house
before, and entered the room and made a
thorough search for mouse holes herself ;
but all to no purpose, thimgh baggage and
bedding were included in the noisy and
fussy investigation. .
One of the male boarders assisted, and
after suggesting the propriety of stopping
the keyhole, and keeping the stove tight,
a.viured them that thej would be.iu les
jeopardy if they shout I have a little beH
handy, during the night, aud ring' it
whenever they heard th-j little persecu
tor. " i '
"It is a s,ure cure for mice, in a short
time," said he. . "They hate the)u.d of
a beli. My uncle has tried it."
With much thankfulness, Miss Nancy
promised to adopt this easy -plan ;- aud
for watit of a smaller, borrowed the large
hand-bell used by Mjrs. Prink to summon
her boarders to meals.
"What it is to be pestered with nervous
old maids!" sneered the landlady, irrita
ted at the trouble proceeding lrom the
affair, and the fuss made Jby the boarders
011 account of.it. . . ,
44 What it is to lire in a houe where
there are mice !" worried Mis Poody.
"What it is to sleep in the same bed
with a wakeful wouiau
Betsey Daw.
I" thought 'Mis
"What it is to be bothered by two
noisy chattering women all nijiht, right
under one's bed room !" grumbled an old
bachelor, who had long been annoyel by
the screams and altercations of the two
spinsters beneath, and had vowed to be
avenged on them in some way. ; -
The introduciion of the bell, whicli was
now regularly heard two or three times a
n':rhf. irl th fniirl msrinnsive lailhtcr Of
the boarders all over the house, who
knew the. clamorous jangle to be the sig
nal of affright, increased the nightly dis
turbances of the two excited -chums ; and
when, nt la.-t, Miss- I'oody, finding that
the added .introduction of a monstrous
rat-trap was of , no more avail than the
bell, secured the services of two torn cats'
for her room, and those feline monsters
fought like fiends in the dark, most of
the night, the combined array of disagree
able noises induced Mrs." Prink to believe
in the idea advanced' by some ill-natured
body, that the old maids had some spite
against her; that there was no mouse in
the -room ; and that the conspirators were
evidently determined to render her house
a nuisance, and disgust txll ber boarders
away. 1
"I'll sleep in the room with them my
self," said the suspicious hostess, "and
I'll see, then, for myself, whether there is
really the first sign of a mou'c, and if the
nightmares are humbug or bona jdJi.y'
She accordingly aced upon this shrewd
conception, .and ensconced herself on a
sofa which stood in a jog of the room
much to the sincere relief of Miss Poody.
And in the dark they.-now watched to
gether, Miss Daw treating them to two
nightmares and a powerful set of snores
before midnight came.
At about the dread time "when church
vards yawn,
Miss Daw having relapsed
7 as warn .
into temporary - siiencc, both lrs. JTinn
and Miss -Peony heard the long sought tor
sound. -'" -
"He's come, or coming ! There's
come,
cried
the
nioue
r-f-n.l Mi. '.!, Itf itl Jl lUUll
. -. . m w T, ...
whisper. : - .
"I. hear him,'
responded the landlady,
mouse-tran
30,1803. O
softly. f'J?onV move for tho present."
; -But Miss Poody,-emboldened by the
presence cf a third party, and anxious to
strike a light in. time, to conviucc her,
rose softly and crept toward the lamp,
near the landlady, juste at the moment
when that person, half-riseu from tho so
fa, felt something light and cool passing
over her expectaut countenance.
"Here he is!" she shrieked. "lie's
just touched my face.' Strike a light,
Nancy." . . : .".
Nancy lit the lamp in an instant, but
did it so soon Jhat .Mrs. Prink at once
suspected her of touching her face in the
dark, and tryiug a trick on her; particu
larly a3 no mouse was found, and, as she
afterwards declared, "it didn't feel exactly
like a mouse." ..
She now loudly berated the unfortunate
Miss Pood', "eausing another midnight
row, and went off to her own room, scold
ing, to the great astonishment of. the
wakefui -boarders in the iight,:and; their
inquisitiveness in .he inqroiug. ;
The end was not yet, but soon ' come.
The next, night, the climax arrived,
and there was a teriSc outcry from the
haunted room. ' ' - . - " - "T
Tle: enraged hostess, accordinp; to a
concerted plan, forced the boarders to go
with her They entered, pell-mell, with
lights, and found, net only the legitimate
occupant? of the room, but half a dozen
mice, alive and scampering about; and
the odds were so great that all were pui
to death, when the victors retired, the
exasperated Mrs Prink, notwithstanding
the discovery, .warning her two noisy ten
ants that they must surely leave next
morning.
To cut the mystery short, they did so;
and after they were fairly andcompletcly
gone, it was discovered, by the confession
of the vindictive old bachelor overhead
himself, that .he' had qut a small hole
through a corner of the ceiling,- and had
niaue tne mytenous noise uv lowering a
penny through the hole
, '"that continual
ight result in the
ana increasing uproars mi
ejection of the two spinsters from the
premhes. His last device was the procu
ring of the six hona fih mice, and thrust?
ing them, also, through tne hole
"And
now, said lie, "uo with me
as
you please. I am ready to meet my fate.
But all wcrv so glad that the noisy
chums were gone, that the laudlady par
doned the old bachelor on the spot!
Danoehs
mentions one
of PnncociTT. "Bartlet
hundred and sixty-three
children endowed with extraordinary
talents, among whom few arrived at an
advanced age. The two sons of tuintil
ian, so vaunted by their father, did not
reach their tenth 3-ear. llcrni.igen?s, who,
at the age cf fifteen, taught rhetoric to
Marcus Aurclius, who 'triumphed- over
the most celebrated rhetoricians of Greece,
did not die, but at twenty four lost his
faculties, and forgot all he had previously
acquired. ' Pica di Mirandola died at
thirty-two ; Johannes Secuudus at twenty
five, having at the age of fifteen composed
admirable Greek and Latin verses, and
become profoundly versed in jurisprudence
veloped itself at ten rears old, r did not
ni.i nf rors I '.ural. rhnsn fTni!i
Pascal,
He-
H otf.tn thir-rl nP'l cnnhirir Ti 1 701 -1
( child was borne al Lubeck. naaied Henri
Ileinntken, whose precocity was miraeu-.
loas. At ten months of age, he' spoke
distinctly, at twelve learnt the Pentateuch
by roteS nd at fourteen months was per
fectly acquainted with the Old and New
Testament. At two yeirs he' was as fa
miliar withncient History as the most
erudite authors' of antiquity. Sauson and
Danville ouly could compete witli him in
geographical knowledge, la the an'-ietit
ntul modern languages ho was 'a proficient.
This wonderful child was unfortunately
carried off in his fourth year;-
Citf A ten year old who, though uu
govcrnablet calls his father Governor,
asks his older sister : ' ' "
"Is the Gov'nor up stairs, Maria ?"
"If you mean father yes." .
44 Well, then, . tell him if he wants to
speak to me about stayiug out late of a
night, he haa tictter come down ana uo
so now, as I have
an appointment at
)uic the two Mips
teu o'clock, to take ho
Sparkles ! Be lively, there's a good girl
5-5 A precocious youth, a student in
an academy, not fifty miles from Delhi,
not having the fear of sseesh before hirh,
and instigated by the spirit of truth., being
!sked in his geography what they raised
in South Carolina . replied : ."They used
tr raise mE-crs and cotton, but now thev
but
- C is ' y
arc "raising the devil "
! ,.. A . 1 . r . m
fy- (jnc or the Lest jokes ol the season
1 is the statement th?t one or the cnui-
; v;ho was ".tumiinc the State," go, some
thirteen miles into Canada, makiug specc'ii-
S cs to the k nucus, before he k
- fm if liisi ntvn ''li-ii li wi r-l:
;neT he was
i 0ut of his own "bailiwick.'
: NIIMBERSli
, JacUsoa auU CJliuiuu 1
A scene at the Wrhile House in 1833,
at the lodgings of John O. Calhoun, tho
same night, aud a death-bed scene, at the
Hermitage, were -thus graphically" por
trayed by iSnuater Cowan.of Pennsylvania,
in the debate ou the Confiscation Bill,.
It is a very striking picture : ., ? V
Mu. Puesipe.nt : If Calhoun '. had
been executed for his " treason in 1833,
there would have been no rebellion now ;
and perhaps he caraa nearer his executiou
than most people are aware. You. well
kuow the conspirators in South Carolina
proceeded to the commission of the overt
act. ' ' ' '' '."'
Calhoun was the jhicf aivisef. e'en.
JAUson kuew. it well, and determine!
that: the law should be put iutq execution
against him, nt against the poor misgui
ded men that followed, but against the
chief conspirator.- lie liad Tesolveol oii
his prosecution and trial,' and if convicted,
lils executiou for - treason.1 -He said , that
if he had an Attorney General that would
not draw an indictment, he would ".find
onehat would. Things were approach
ing a crisis.' Calhoun became, aware -6f
JacksoiiV determination, and senIetcher
of Kcnfuikjr eoiifer.with ; hiui on the
subject, and ' to lear?! his real iotcntious.
He went Jo the" President's h'use. It
was 'already late at night. The President
received hiui with. his usual courtesy J but,
tir, that mild blue eye, ''which at . times
would fill and overflow Jike that, of , a
woman, was .kindled up that njght with
unwonted lire. He reasoned with hiui
for a while, then paced the floor. ' His
indignation became 'fully aroused. V. At
times he stormed in passion towering and
sublime, till, rising to its full height, his
frame dilating and quivering, every fea
ture glowing with the living fire within,
with that oath .which iuhtni never seemed
profane,' but ihj struggle of a great crul
to take hold of tho: Almighty . for ths
streuglh-'of his purpose, he d'eclare'd to "
Letcher thnt if another step was taken "by
the internal,' he woulJ try Calhoun lor
treason, cud if convicted, he would hang
him on a gallows as high as Haman's !
Letcher could -not misunderstand his
purpose. He saw that he was terribly in
earnest. Prom that iuteiview he hasten
ed to the lodgings of Calhoun. ' He had
retired to .his bed. He knocked at 'hi
bed chamber and was admitted. Calhotju
received him sitting up in bed, . ilh hi
"cloak around, him. Letcher detailed all
that occurred, giving the entire conversa--tion
between him and :; Jackson,- and
described the old hero as. ha .took that
oath. - .
There sat Calhoun, driukin'g iu eagerly
every word, and as Letcher proeecded he
became pale as death, aud trembled like
an jspen leaf. Yes, sir, Calhoan, great
as he was iu intellect, quaked in his bed !
And for what? AYas it from fear or
cowardice?. Ah, no. It was the. con
sciousness of guilt. He was the arch
traitor, who, like Fatan in Paradise,
''brought death into the world and all our
woe." Within one week he CJiuc. intJ
the Senate and voted for every section of
Mr. Clay's bi'.l, and Geueral Jackson va
' preval'ed upon not to prosecute him ' Vsc
1 his crane. '-';
I have been told, upon authority ' upon
which I rely, that during the last days. of
General Jackson at the Hermitage while
he was slowly sinking under the. ravages
of consumption that mysterious disease,
which, while it wastes the body; leaven; if
possible, the mind more clear and nearer
to inspiration he hal a convcrsaiiou
with his family physician and friend.
While lying upon his bed one day, and
spraking of his, past Administration, he
inquired : " '. - '
-"What act in my " Administration, in
yor.r opiuion, will po tcrity condemu with
the greatest severity ?'' , . '
Thcphyiciau replied that he was una
ble io answer that it migiit1 be thu
removal of the departs. . ' . -' . '; ;
"Oh, r.o I" said the General.',
"Then it may be the specie circular I"
' "Vot at ail V
"What is it, then?" : v'
4I can tell you," said he, riing up in
j his bed, his eyes kindling up : "I;can
I tell you. .Posterity will condemn me
more because I was persuaded not to hang
John C. Calhoun as a traitor thuu for any
other act of my Kib." ' ' f ' . :i
Sir", does net this seem inspiration now ?
If Calhoun, the originator of this conspir
acy to dissolve the Union, aud to .build
up the Southern Con fed era y, had been
executed lot his treason, wo would have
had no rebellion now.
Never did a'n Irishman utter a bet
ten bull than did ;ui honest .John, who be-
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a friend: 44 11 as vour sister
1 got a son or a daughter ?" , lie answered.
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