LEWIS
BURG
CHRONICLE
II. C. IIICKOK, Editoe.
0. N. WORDEN, Printer.
LEWISBURG, UNION COUNTY, PENN., FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1853.
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VOLUME IX NO. 51.
"WnoLE Number, 471.
LB WISH U lt& CIIllONICLKi uan,li at the first note of alarm. But thatj twcen two of tbe logs, and left exposed to
i necessity uas passed away, ana lis evil ; proiane eves iue mysteries 01 iuo loujrc
rp rjuuuiu pass WUU 11. iioviu. Aubutucu vy luai jauuuuiu cpiut
luued en FKWA Y mnrning at Lewuburg
Union county, Venmtjltamc,
A few years ago, one of the largest of i of inquiry to which she was fairly entitled
rJfywKVo?' jatlSKf. oaH being dead, was taken to a saw-j by virtue of her lineal descent from the
w;'Aiuii'DitpiJhc(ireiiiey-arexpir':ic.iiir..r ,ujii In the middle of one Ioe, the saw firstwoinan mentioned in Scripture, aniem-
iior-la number. ul.rir.liona for aix ui withs or le.. to I f r '
tr nid u advance. iiivutiBuanr o:ioui with the . runi! uDon a smko or nail, which nearlv per ot the.tuuulv bclped berselt to the 00-
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iwntunEm hamisnmy inserted at 50 vut ir destroyed the saw. An examination was
ei'lire, one wivlai $1 four wciVi. $5 a year: two atjuares, , , . , , ,
$1 for ii Mouiiui. ; .r a Tear. Mercantile a.i.-ru!- made, aud it was found there were over
menu, not exceeding one fourth of a coluuin. $10 a year. I ) i .1 l .1
Jo U WORK and ewual aJvcrtucuicnU to be raid for i One hundred growths Or TlllgS abOVC the
wh.o handed in or deli.erea. ........ Unltn Jiwlfino- n nrMm'ni anrvnv nf
Omumcati0.vi ioiicKL-o onaii puqjccis i.i ecnirai inir-, i'-- . 0 4-. . ' - j
rejt nil within the range of party or sectarian couUiO.
All letter roust come post-paid, accompanied by tlie real
a-ldnwa of tlie writer, to receive altcntiim. 4fJTutse
relating exclusively to tlie Kliwrial IV'-arlment. to be di
rected to iil'Jkt I . tltcxox. r.-q-. tAiiwr aim woe on
Imainex to O. X. n owitv. i''ltslr.
Corrospond.incc cf the Lewisburg Chron'ule.
IIarisbi:r, April, 1S53.
Mr. EpiTok : The Legislature has ad
journed; the Members and Officers and
also outsiders are hastening homewards ;
and Harrisburg is getting decidedly dull.
...But it is a beautiful Spring day ; and
if you are not too busy, we will take an
Lours walk upon the Turnpike leading
to Ilummelstuwu, Lebanon, aud Heading.
True to the ancient error, our road leads
crer Lilla which could be passed arouutl
with much more case and within as short
a distance. Science can certainly make
better roads than tradition, as a compari
son of this old route with any modern,
toll-taking highway ,will abundantly prove.
Yet you will find hundreds of honest and
independent farmers, toiling up and down
these hills year after year, who will stur
dily maintain that their fathers made much
Letter roads than these " book-learned
youngsters can do with their instruments
and their paper calculations.
much over 100 years ago.
From the south-cast corner of the church
building, is the burial ground, surrounded
" Yes," he said,-" I often tell mother
so; but she says that I help her a great
deal now, and that she wouldn't spare mc
for the world ; and father says I'm the lest
nurse he ever had, if I am Hind."
"Iam sure you are a good boy, Robert,"
I answered quickly.
servatory thus created one evening, and " No, sir," he said, " I am not good, but
treated herself to a view, gratis, of the sub- have got a very wic'icd heart; and I think
lime exhibitions of the (at that time) great a great many wicked thoughts and if it
and glorious " handmaid's " exercises. j wsu t for the Savior, I don't know what
Attempting to descend from her snblime' I Would do !"
From the SaUonai Era. I lay, there was nothing to le found Lot' ngmnt it, and the smaller one
height, she fell, and received a serious
wound. She confessed, at once, the means
by a firm stoue-wall, and a warning upon ! of her injury, and lived many years aftcr-
the entrance gate not to speak or conduct
irreverently over the slteping dust beneath.
Here are five or six generations of kindred,
laid side by side children, brothers, fa
ther, grandfathered perhaps great-grandfather
of some man of mature age. Our
informant states that he had occasion a
fiw years sines to dig a grave, in a spot
where no one had any knowledge of any
being having been lain. He soon, howev
er, disinterred the remains of a child be
neath that, were the remains of a woman,
or youth of 13 or 1G and below that, of
a large-sized man, whose teeth were sound
and entire yet no one could give him any
insinuation concerning them, whatever.
So full of the bones of our brother man,
has this little spot become, in less than a
century and a half. How many tears have
here fallen ! How many Lopes lie buried
wards : but, to her dying day, nothing
could induce her to disclose the mysteries
she had discovered. Sho could " keep a
secret," for she Jul.
Of a roan whose life had been anything
but " fearing God and regarding man," it
" And how does the Savior help you ?"
" 0, sir, I pray to him, and then Le
comes into my heart, and says 4 1 forgive
you, Robert ; I love you, poor blind boy !
I will take away your evil heart, and give
you a new one.' Aud then I feel so bap-1 close and heavy air of civil and religious
py ; and it seems to mo as if I could al-( despotism, do I feel what he was, and all
most hear the angelssiuging up in heaven!"! h$ did for us, for freedom, and for God;
" Well, Robert, that is right; aud do
is related that when he died, a clock which ! you ever expect to see the angels 1"
had long been silent commenced striking
with fearful rapidity, and continued for
sonic time a chicken cock crew at a tre
mendous rate and the ghost of a negro
boy who had been suddenly missed, rose
; behind his bed ! .
A settler here during the Revolution,
was suspected of being a Tory, aud went
off to one of the Carolinas, where ho pro
ved his character by an outrage against
some one who Lad fiieds in Puxton. Af
ter the war, he had the assurance to ap
pear in the Paxton Meeting-house of a
here! How many of the tonderest svm-1 Sabbath-day. Theconureiration eencrallv
pathies of our nature, have here been J Lad too much regard for the day to exhibit
crushed! What holy ties have here been ' any disrespect towards him. The Whiff
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lirukc
blood of (Jtipt. C., however, could not
brook the indignity. He retired from the
room, provided himself with a tough grape
wine, aud as the congregation took to
- . ....o ' P hai ii within tills TK)t l lai.
nfurnnnn hronil flio.-r r.riiiiiKitur anit mi. iv.'KK' heart once i ri-iinnut with relcfftial fire.
O ! I!:intK thnt thi n.l ..f ..mi.tr. .;. I.... .i..vMl
rncrous fields of wheat neat and well' or wakeu toen.iry il iivmu ijrc!"
1,;( ... 1 1 . ii,. ....,i;What liravcrs what s;im.l;.'.itirin liavi
uiit;- ei anuw vii ruiinvy nil. U"U13 UUJI a j ii , 1.11 - . .
...xi ...t.. i:..n i.: ir I ron,, nn km tl,,,t. I,n,wn ,,. .1.;. their horses (carriages there were few if
Surely.if harPmeSCdireud,,ip,neSter-i'o Heaven! But tW Suppliants iiaTC I any in those days) Capt. C. mounted his! eiuch interested, and made up My
J . ..... tl-A lull .!.-. V... t , ; f took KOnifi nmnoi nuf. nf mr .-.,. I-.of
knew tluni once shall know them no more! ' '" "tul' uuk KKli JU,"P : . 7. S J f"-"-1' "u
" U, yes, sir I hen -I die, my spirit
will not be blind. It is only my clay
house that has no windows. I can see
with my mind now, and that, mother tells
me, is the way they see in Leaven. And
I heard father reading in the Bible the
other day, where it tells about heaven, and
it said there is ' no night there.' But
here it is night to blind people all the
time. O, sir, when I feel bad because I
can not see, I tnink about heaven, and it
comforts me J"
I saw now that Robert began to be un
easy and acted as if he wanted to go on.
I said, " Don't you like to talk with me,
Robert?"
" Yes, sir, I do ; and it ' very kind of
you to speak so to a poor blind boy but
mother will Le waiting for tho clothes."
This evidence of the little fellow's frank
ness and fidelity pleased me. I Lad be-
was over
turned. Tbe child was, however, saved
by the circumstance of Laving been pla
ced oa a cushion, which floated down th
current, and carried the child to point
of the shore where some boatuca took it
up. When rescued, it still hold an appl
in its Land.
" -y in ..-i u ili-.il LIU. J l
MAZtprA Voltaire, in bis historr ot
a stranger. A robbery occurred on the i- harlcs All., says: " Maieppa was A
turnpike opposite the place about fifteen i Polish nobleman, born in the Palatinate
years ago, and one of the parly who.wcre "f Podolia. He was educated as a page
attacked and shot at, said be returned the j'o Jean Casimer, at whoxe court Le c
fire of the robbers, and was certain he hit j quired some knowledge of the Belles Let
one, but Le was supposed to have died of , res. An intrigue which Le Lad with th
Lis wound in Cuttawissa. j wife, of a Polish Palatine Laving been dis-
. " ' ' rZZ- -T . covered, the husband Lad Lim tied naked
, EICiIclaie- , , ln a wild horse, which was then let loose.
The Carlisle Democrat reports tho fol- i . . , t-i
i L- . i . .i , i , , 1 1 he horse, who came from Ukraine, went
lowing case, tried at the last Cumbi.'rlaiid i, , , . . . . , , . .. '
Quarter Sessions : ba5k ,ilItDr, carryiug with him Maseppa,
J I 1 y i i i ... n
Commonwealth c.Pr. Wagoner. This! ual1 ueaa Irora Hunger ana latigue. Some.
WaslllEgtaa'S Character and Influence pieces of an old coat intertwined with small
Rome, Feb. 22, 1853. roots, a few brass buttons snd whetstone,
Never, in my own country, do I remem- which led tLein to believe he had been
bcr to have felt such emotion as I feel to- foully dealt with. His shall was very
day. in a strange, forc-cn laud, on the small, lut Lad no scars upon it, and the
anniversary of the birth of our beloved ' smaller bones of the body bad decayed
i.nf..ii WnshWinn. Tn this love- ! away. The inhabitants about there re
ly but degenerate climo, the glory of whose member no one having been missed from
past is but a norccous nail, enveloping mong them and think ho must nave been
but not hiding the death and decay ot its
present, surrounded by a people powerless,
hopeless, indolent, and oppressed, bntwith
the despairing soul of great possibilities
looking from their eyes, like some forgot
ten prisoners gazing mournfully through
strong dungeon bars here, breathing the
was a very amusing case, the l'octor bein
indicted for obtaining money under false
peasants took care of him : Le remained
with them a long time, and distinguished
, by the following " cute" strata-! himsclf in several excursions against the.
I m : .I... 'i,nnK. . ..i .i , r
1MU u tug uuaiiu nil, piiijcu vu uuu
his patient. He told his patient, who was
and my heart glows with fervid gratitude
to Heaven for the immeasurable riches of
that great gift, not to us alone, but to the
world, to the ages, of a pure, heroic life,
embodying, di fending, and enthroning, . pretenses,
among men, the eternal principles of jus
tice and freedom.
When 1 find the character and career , a consumptive, evidently pretty far gone,
of Washington studied here, by tho few ! that he could, by invoking the assistance
wot fs.Tfli fi.l f flu. f,.rl.-irn luirvn nf Tt'ilinn i cf the Holv Snirit and three private inter-
frecdom-when I see bis name bring the views, cure him, or he (the doctor) would . S uth lL ltorical fact which fur.
unaccustomed light to eyes heavy with have no share with God, which the patient j 'Iied L.M J LJron wuh the 'i of
rutniitnni mniinifiil iritli .lUnnnnint. ! was credulous enoush to b'lieve. and oran- : P'Jln with this title.
ment-when I Lear that name spoken ; ted the doctor the first intemew, where-1 Keooositi03i of Liberia. The Xew
with deep rcverenco by lips that have .upon the doctor asked for a black thread, iywk ,ainj. of the refusal of
sworn devotion, to the death, to la UUrUx measured the sick man's arm and side, then j tLo tQ rec ;M the in(le.
ddpopolo, then I realize, as never before, . requested some salt and bread, and a small I rK!neencc of Liberb and five mon.
the universality of his greatness and the piece of the gentleman's old shirt tail, a9fMti have now recognised the iadepen
quiekening immortality of his memory, j whieh were all produced, when the doctor jiluncj of Lik.r; and our owa Republio
I believe that, though God has sent .and in a manner very sanctimonious, or to u,e ; Franee, Pres.
yet may send leaders as pure and true as , the expression mide u.se of by the old ja; anJ M wc m MoTmei .
our Washington-gifted with more of tae.Ju,-witness, in the way which "St. Paul-!ate Monrovian - j,-
electric element of genius-shining with j would haye done Lad he been upon ;succcssive, a,ni;tteJ ' . Africaa
more splendid qualities cf heroism, that ; earth, stitched the penace in the waist-f .
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Tartars. lib superior information made.
him highly respected amongst the Cos
sacks; aud his fame which was daily in-
... : - . 1 1 .1.. r . i -
i-rtaiiu, tuuueuu iue v.zar 10 create una
'a Prince of the Ukraine."
he has been and will be the secret soul of band of the man's breeches, and told him
; while the United States, which ought to
Ou our right, a good distance from the
road, appears the residence a rich family,
who have a very large farm, abundance of
barns and sheds, and house-room enough
to entertain scores of way-farers at a time.
....But no, these are the domains of the
jor lustead of the rich ot tbe land ; it is
a home furnished Ly the county for the
homeless, the friendless, and the destitute.
And wb5n you hear a Dauphin county
farmer fairly exult in the happiness offered
the needy in that rctrca and express his
tPgtx. iixing ohor lioor slave-like
sold to the lowest Liuder for keeping, we
may iy nothing, but wo can not help
thiitkinj that it is strange the genci ou.
farmers of Northumberland, Union aud
Lycoming counties eo steadily vote against
the system of furnishing the helpless of
every couoty with a permanent aud com
fortable Lome.
But, passing along the road so well lined
on the south with the locust tree a shade
while living, and highly valued f r its lon
gevity when (fwl within about two miles
from Harrisburg we see on our left, near
ly half a mile back front the Turnpike,
the object of our tea:xh the old l'axton
for ever." Here are names, upon tomb
stones erected by the strongest impulses,
of whom no one liviug perhaps has any
further kuowledgo than the tombstone.
Here nre mounds which cover precious
dust but who knows what form was there
interred? Stones are pointed out, of fa
milies once the " first '' in all that region,
of whom no represenlative is now known.
Many, however, are still familiar as El
der, Rutherford, Sturgeon, Simpson, Col
lier, Ritchey, Espy, M'Clure, Awl, Crouch,
Bigger, Jordan, Jnguo, liray, Maclay,
Patton, uulap, Montgomery. Sonic of
the records- are on sandstone, almost quite
illegible ; others on rcdstonc ; some ou the
finest marble ; and one (about 75 y;ars
old) on wood, still serviceable.
One of the tombstones states that the
" Simpson family settled here about the
year 1720." I know not whether any
church or other records indicate the pre
cise time. The first settlers were all Scotch
Irish Presbyterians. Among their descen
dants were men at the siege of Quebec;
aud Paxton soldiers were in almost every
battle field of the Revolution. Since then.
their horses the stalwart arms of the Cap-! Bave 11 to Lim, "telling Lim to take it to
tain dealt Lis Leaviest blows upon the ! kuv something for his sick father. Again
back of the Tory, who ultimately escaped! tne tcars nlled n'3
only by the superior speed of his horse, j " 8'r" Be a'd " jou are too good ! I
but in a plight only equalled by John I wfts Just wishing I could buy somethig for
Gilpin. The chastisement was the cause 1 Pnor 8ict PaP B0 has no appetite, and
of as much merriment as any incident pre
served in the unwritten annals of Paxton.
QUI.
Heaven.
Presbyterian Meeting House. lu its grove j thc3' liavo spread abroad to all parts of the
of native oaks on the hill-side, this plain, Union BufRtloe Valley and the North
unprcteeding lime-stone fabric makes no jUmberlacd country not excepted; and cve
challenge of regard. Its steep roofs and I ry where, they exhibit the mauly physical
small, square window panes, alone give j frames as well as retain the faith of their
evidences of age. It is believed to have ! ancestors. Here, however, the Germans
been erected (on the site cf a log frame) j Lave silently dispossessed by purchase most
about the year 1710. The building is nit of the original Scotch-Irish farmers.
large, but is entered by two doors. For-1 1 he slaves held by these families were
aierly, the pulpit stood in the middle of buried outside the wall, and their bones
the house, fronting the southerly door.
The old pulpit became a receptacle for
squirrels and hornets before it was removed;
fcut all is now renewed, and the room fur
nished in the neatest style. Here, for over
one hundred years perhaps for one hun
dred and thirty has the Gospel been pro
claimed. To this wooded temple formerly
came multitudes from the region round
about, even from beyond the river. Other
congregations have since been formed, cir
cumscribing the boundaries of the church
worshiping here ; yet a Sabbath meeting
of substantial professors of their father's
faith, is here regularly fustuincd.
At the south-west corner of the church
building, is a log house, about twelve feet
square, long time used by John Elder,
(the preacher for the l'axton church for
fifty-six years,) as his study, but since then
often as a school-house. From this house,
Parson Elder would march to his pulpit,
have occasionally been found by the farm-
I er's plow or spade.
Here lies buried John Harris, the foun
der of Harrisburg, and son of John Harris,
the original settler of and founder of Har
ris' Ferry. He died in 1791, at the sup
posed ago of C5, and was said to be not
only tho first white children west of the
Conewago hills, but the first person who
introduced the plough on the Susquehanna.
The dates would fix his birth at 172G six
years after the alleged settlement of the
Simpson family.
Here also lies John Elder, not only a
preacher for CO years, but also Colonel of
Paxton Rangers. He died on Lis farm,
near this yard, in 1792, aged 80. Thom
as Elder, Sr., President of the Harrisburg
Bank, is his son.
Uerc lies also Wm. Maclay, son-in-law
of John Harris, once owner of the present
site of the Capitol, who with Robert Mor
on, haaren la nearer than mortale think.
U l. th..y lr& vilh a trembling Uul
At the mi'ty future that lreu.-ht- on.
I. mmi uwvie ot iue ueau. - -
Tia no li.n. iale In a houndlea main,
Nu hrilihul'but distant cb'jrc.
Where tl.c lovelv ones arbo arc called away
Must 0 to return no more.
Ko : heaven ia near u ; the mighty Tell
Of mortality bliuda the eye.
That we sv not the aiiKI bauda
Ou the diorus of uteruity.
Yi-t t.ft. In the honra of holy thon-bt,
To Uic UiirMiiiK aoul ia jriven
Tlmt power to pii-nx through lb milt ofaeua
l'o the beautoua acenea of heaven.
Then Tcry near vein its pearly piti a,
And MWin'tly ita harping Iu4;
Till the noiil ia m.tleMi to anar awy,
And long for tne aujrel call.
2 know, when the ailver chord if loosed,
t lien the veil ia rent away,
Not long and dark aliall ttie'pasaa ha
To tbe realms of eadieas day.
The eye that ehut in a dying hoar,
Will op-n the next in b!ia;
The welcome will aonnd in a bearealy world,
Ere the farewell ia ItusUed in thia.
We paea from the elaap of moarning friends,
Tn the arm., of the Icred and loat;
And thoee aoiilittu; larva will greet us thoB
Huirli on earth w hava valued nioau
we Lave nothing iu the house but potatoes.
He tries to eat them, and never complains;
but if I could only get a chicken for Lim,
it would make Lim Letter I know it
wouliiU But I don't want you to give mej
tne money can 1 1 worn tor yon, and earn
every popular uprising against orpressiou uo.v w j.oua w.it u. uu.ucy ,.,..,,li;,,lnn(iwn.I,. v
every noble political revolution; for,hadinthe world, which modest request persLit3 Jn J(;nj;ng hcr cU;mi Mj
Lis grand endeavor was sanctioned and .was alsa complied with, the doctor dolib- :trciltin,r Ler .j.j, colJ neglect This is
sanctified by a complete and pre-eminent , crately selecting first a two dollar note, :uotarn;i,erofpuiiaothropiointerest Jone.
tucce ; ho attained to the very height , then a five, telling his patient that a five k ig 0Qe fjf practicjJ camruercial import
and crown of his heroic undertaking, and , dollar note was better than a two, andancc The coufinuance of the t
there he stand,, for all time, boldly re-, then selected two gold dollars and lrC.oxerumtnttawwOMUbem
licved against heaven, the terror of tyran- .si.vcr, amounting m all to twelve dollars j wiu goon fc . o biennis
ny, the strength.and inspiration and cx- and twenty-five cents, asking bis very du- ; aU Qur withWesf
ample of tue oipresscd the bold rebukcr ( titul patient to mate choice between these jgrn frjca,'
of kingly wronc, the stern vindicator of two propositions, "to continue in Ladj ,
I the people's right the rebtl triumphant ! health, or wish the selected money to pass ' Distressiso Accident. On "Wednes-
' tl. c.,1 .1 a1;.a tnrnrnnA tTiA .-rnf . mil. HT HW lCr!lf
. .uv vuir.iuiiiii.u, . u v. wu ' O
liis crowd of hearers parting for him to pass, jris represented Pennsylvania in the first
without Lis speaking a word to them so
dignified was his sacred oflico esteemed.
In this house (as well as in New England)
trusty fire-arms were taken for some years,
while engaged in worship. On one occa
sion, it is said the wily Indians had calcu
lated on reaching the l'axton church, and
gathering a rich harvest of Ecalps, on a
Sabbath day ; hut by mistake they came
on Monday, and before the next Sabbath
they Were discovered. (By-the-way, the
custom of seating women at the iuner end
cf slips exclusively, is said to have origin
ated iu those times when men were required
United States Senate under tho present
constitution. Maclaysburg, originally
north west of Ilarrisburg, is now incorpo
rated with it.
There are in this neighborhood, tra
ditions and reminiscences in abundance,
two or three of which may be worth re
cording. A Masonic Lodge was instituted at an
early day, and held its sessions in the up
per room of a log dwelling. Against one
end of this building, was a lean-to erected,
the upper portion of which was higher
than the second Moor. Some of the "chink-
to be ready to pring to zmn gua j,, in, aaci tJw daubing y.
Blind Robert.
One day I met a little boy in the street,
who was going along very slowly, feeling
his way by the houses and the fences ; and
I knew that he was blind. If he Lad had
eyes to see with, he would have been run
ning and jumping about, or driving a hoop,
or tossing a ball, like the other boys in the
street. I pitied him. It seemed so hard
for the little fellow to go about in the dark
all the time, never to sec the sun, or any
of the pretty things in the world never
to see even the faces of parents and
brothers and sisters. So I stopped to talk
with him. He told mc that his name was
Robert, that his father was sick at home,
and that his mother had to take in wash
ing, and work very hard to get a living.
All the other children had some kind of
work to do ; but as he could not see to
work, he was sent after clothes for his
mother to wash ! I asked him if ho did
not feel bad because he was blind. He
looked very thoughtful and solemn for a
moment, and then he smiled smiled just
as I think the angels smile in heaven, and
said, " Sometimes I think it Lard to creep
about so. Sometimes I want to look at
the bright suu that warms me and at the
sweet birds that sing for me and at the
flowers that feel so soft when I touch them.
But God made me blind, and I know that
it is best for me 1 and I am so glad that he
did not make deaf and dumb, too. I am
so glad that he gave mo a good mother,
and a Sunday school to go to, instead of
making me one of the heathen children,
that pray to snakes and idols."
" Bat, Robert, if you could see, you
could help your mother more" I said
this without thinking, and was sorry as
soon as I said it, for tho little boy's smile
went right away, and tears filled his blind
eyes, and xuj down his pale cheeks.
followed him. without Li glonousIyacccmplished,which,amid treach- proved did not come within the Act
crous straits of defeat and despair, off per- Assembly, and that iu this land of liberty
ilous shores of rock-seted power, anchors a man had a perfect right to make choice
safe against leagued tempests, tho great 'of any one of the various systems of medi-
hope of the world. Grace Greenwood.
Courting in the Backwoods.
Travelers encounter strange adventures
delight. I
knowing it Ho went to a little old look
ing house, that , seemed to have but one
room 1 I saw that he put the bread and
chicken under the clothes, and went (as I
thought by the sound) close to his father's
bed before he showed them then drop-
ninp' the e lntlins. Ii l.alil im it lrtnf In
one hand, and the fowl in th- nrW ?n.d.fiud .ut n.,ore. ab?at coautr7 in a
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Health was of course . day last a timber raft staved on Hueh'e
lit"- with clean and empty hands, feuch is the wisned lor, and tue doctor pocketed the Rock, above MeOiHs' Ferrv. in th Sn :
I made him take the money, and tticn ' tor-reaching depth, the eternal vitality of (dustto get it out of the man's fight; and Iquchanna river, and was literally torn to
watched him, to see what he would do. ! one heroic life, sending its roots j to do this more effectually he thought it 1 pieces. There were e!ght or nine persona '
He went as fast as he could for the clothes; I abroad itJ H lands, and lacing together j advisable to leave for farts unknown. This , on the raft at the timeof tho accident, all
then bought a chicken to make broth of ;; continents and nations in bonds of unseen i arrant old villian escaped upon, legal 0f whm were in imminent danger, and
then a stale loaf -of bread, for toast; and ! but inestructible sympathy such the far- j grounds. The Court telling the jury in two of whom were drowned. They were
felt his way home, trembling all over with I sounding weight of one mighty purpose j their charge that the offenco as laid aud !hoth young men, named John B. Bitner
of iand - Zook. and resided with Dp. A.
Bitner,in Washington, the former eagaged
in the study of medicine. The sight, at
tho time of tho accident, is described bv
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cine now practised, and tnat if he was those who witnessed it as having been
gullible enough to adopt the salt, bread, !,nost terrific. Tho bodies of the nnfortu
and shirt tail system, he ought to pay for jnate young men have not yet been found,
it Tho jury brought in a verdict of not The parents of the former reside in Lock
guilty and defendant to pay the cost of ; Haven, Clinton county, Pa., and tho moth
prosccution. j er of the latter in Washington. CVm6u
Pr. Cox s description of Chalmers' pro-1
nunciation, is not bad : j Personal effort is the secret of all sno
"When he began to speak, though I jcess; and personal thought, the secret of
had heard of his Fifeshire accent, or rather !H true independence. Happy he wh
broad Scotch brogue, the sonorous quaint- i has learned this the most essential of all
ncss and earnestness of his voice surprised ' life's great' lessons. He will never bo Con
nie. In prayer, I was sometimes mysti- ;tpnt to drag cut a worthless existence a
tied at first by such expressions sounding j the petted child of foolishly doating pa
as the following: "O Lard, a gudo and j rents, or the wealth pampered effeminate)
a blessed thang ut az, toluve and to sarve ;of listless luxury. But nerved to effort
tlia ; and a bettir thang ut ax to san agnnst j by an inborn fire, he will find his truo el
tha. O Lard, may ol thi Kraschun gras- jenieut in a sphere of restless activity, and
ses ba in us and grow, partookoolyrly the-i will profit himself and the world by niing
grass of fath." Bp bettir there, or rather jJing the son's of toil, assuming the
briilirr, he meant bitter; though, a he . ue dignities of labor, and engaging ia
first uttered it, it struck my car and my ' tue glorious career of ennobling aud unti
soul as a terrible or confounding sentiment! . ""g act'00- TVilliamfport Prtu.
The disciples of Emmons could scarcely r,. .ZLZ'T.ZZcZZ. r tT .
. , ' ... , J Piotkkssinq Sce.xk. In Boston on
go it I come of his expressions, however. I n- , , .
b , , ., .' (Wednesday, a young woman named Su
ing, " See, father ; see what God Las sent
you!"
He then told about my meeting him
and giving him the money, and added, "I
am sure, father, that God put it into the
kind man's heart; for God sees how much
you wanted something to nourish you."
I am afraid, children, that there were
some tears in Uncle Jesse's eyes, as he
turned away from tho blind boy's home.
How beautiful to love God and to trust
in him as poor Robert did ! Could you
be so contented and happy, if you were
as poor as Le was, and blind, too ? Think
about it, dear children and perhaps 'I'll
tell you more about blind Robert some
other time. Central ChrUlian Uerahl.
Takecaeeof tour Health. Health
has a great deal to do with what the world
calls talent Take a lawyer's life through,
and high health is at least equal to fifty
per cent, more than brain. Endji.uce,
cheerfulness, wit, eloquence, attain a force
and splendor with health which they never
can approach without it. It often hap
pens that tbe credit awarded to the intel
lect belongs to the digestion. Though I
do not believe that genius and cupopsy
are convertible terms, yet the former can
never rise to its loftiest heights unaided
by the latter.
Again : a wise man, with a great enter
prise before him, first looks round for suit
able instruments wherewith to executo it ;
and he thinks it all-important to command
these instruments before he begins his la
bour. Health is an indispensable instru
ment for the best qualities and the highest
finish of all work. Think of the immense
advantage you would have in a suit in
court, if, after a week's or a fortnight's
investigation of facts, you could como in
for the closing argument on tho last day,
fresh and elastic, with only so much more
of momentum , and fervor for the velocity
and the glow you Lad acquired.
brief tour than its inhabitants ever knew.
Madame Pulsky, for example,- gives us a
piece of information about love in the
backwoods which will probably astonish
the back woodsmen themselves. She writes:
" Soon after the arrival of Ujhazy on
the banks of the Thompson River, when
he and his party had hardly pitched their
tent, a young backwoodsman came on
I horseback up to them, and said, 'Which
is the daughter of the Hungarian Gcner
eral?' Miss Ujhazy, who spoke English,
asked him what ho wanted ? ' I reckon
it's time for me to marry,' was tho reply ;
' and I came to propose to you.' The young
lady began to laugh, but her novel suiter
declared that Le was in full earnest; that
ho did not live far off, and that he would
assist hcr father in every way. But when
he saw that his proposal was not accepted,
he rode off to his business, without Laving
alighted from his horse during the conver
sation. The Hungarians afterwards learned
that in the backwoods not much time is
wasted in courting young ladies, or paying
them attention before marriage. The pion
eer visits a neighbor who has grown-up
daughters, and r-sks, ' How do you do V
places himself on a chair before the chim
ney, chews, spits in the fire, and utters not
another word ; after a while he takes his
leave, and when he has paid a couple of
such taciturn calls, he says to the young
lady, ' I reckon I should marry you.' The
answer is commonly, ' I have no objection.'
Tho couple, without further ceremony,
proceed to the justice of the peace and
make their declaration, and when the
Methodist Missionary happens to come in !
their neighborhood, the civil marriage is
solemnized religiously."
Skeleton FouNtw-While some work
men were clearing brush off the route for
the railroad, about a mile and a half from
Mt Camel, they discovered the skeleton
of a man, which from its appearance had
been lying there for five or ten years.
After digging up the ground on which it
were simple, filial and beautiful, as well
san M oran, with a pretty infant at her
as touching in an eminent degree. One . . !. . . j
o firiuit. tr.lit i.rnntf hi intA fuir anil in.
I will quote, as I well remember it, in ..... . , . , .
t xt r l victcd of bomg a common drunkard. A.
the main: " May our luve for tha, our
police officer on Tuesday evening entered
... a t 3 v. . l r
I , , ' 1 the cellar on Ann street, ia which she lives,
may it ba like that of apowskls and the janJ u witBcsged wa, rfl
Kraschuns of the martyr ages; may wa M ,
sarve tha bakous wa luve tha and luve : fl dead wUk
thabakous wa delight to da tha honour ffom wrU
I give these as the best approximate Fi-! wWcn ,he had cttt bj ting it
mens of his enunciation and his utterance j A u a of . j, a St rf dnll.k. .
that I can recollect or command-certainly !cnncsfc ;BfaBt j fcet
from no thought or allowance of caricature I
and with a tender demur lest I should tU itM,f was ilso .e
seem to disparage him with any reader. Thj court tmtewx4 the womM to tw.
A Pretty Incident. A journal of tho months in the House of Indnstry.
sonth of France mentions a circumstance yKE lKESiPfJsl KntO, it is said own.'
connected with the saving of the passengers ed an cstate tcre9 0f r;ta fend if ,
from a Parisian steamer, the "oiler ; Pallas county, Aht.,with 150 slaves. ft
which exploded on the Rhone. An in- is a!s0 fi;lic tnat j, has left the hnll; of
fantwas handed from one passenger to j pr0pcrty to the poorest of his relay j0nt
another until it reached a small boat ' tjlOU h)j artf comfortably provided for.
which had ome to the aid of persons on -
board ; but, just as the child was received j G. W Kendall, Esq., of the N. O Pic.
l,v the mn in the boat, a larirer boat, by yune. has been appointed and ConBrmed
some mismanagement, came violently aa I'oaUnaater of New Oilcans.
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