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BY O. N. WORDEN & J.
Av Indepekpent Familt and
OOE...B' J.o- 'ittii.
Sng fu Co Agricultural F.ir.
One morning. t ihe 6rst sad Fall,
Poor Adam and hi bride
Sal ic the ..hade of Eden's wall
But on the outer side.
They heard the air above them fanned,
A light slep i D ihe sward.
And. lo ! they aw before them stand
The angel of the Lord !
Behind them, smilinj in the morn,
Their forfeit Garden lay ;
Before ihem, wild with r. and thorn,
The desert siretched away.
She, blushiu; in her fig-leaf suit
For the chaste carl) of old ;
He. sithinft o'er hi bitter frail.
For Eden's grapes of gold.
"Arise!" he said, "why look behind.
When Hope is all lief re.
And patient hand and willing: mind
Your loss may yet restore r
"I leave yon with a spell whose power
Can make tne desert glad,
And call around you fruit and flower
As fair as Eden had.
"I clothe your hand with power to lift
The curse from off ycer soil ;
Your very doom -hall seem a gift.
Your loss a gao, through Toil.
Co, cheerful as yon humming bees.
To labor as to play."
And gleaming over Eden's trees
'I he angel passed away.
The pilgrims of the world went drill.
Obedient to ibe word.
And found, where'er they tilled the earth,
A garden ol the Lord !
Once more, oh ! white winged angrl, sianj,
Where man still pines and gnevcs.
And lead thiotigh Ton. to Ejen-laud,
New Adams and new Eves!
!)e Cljroniclt.
FKID4C, OIX'. 26, 1V6.
Pennsylvaniaaway from Hume.
There is injustice iu lite muuucr iu
which the late election iu our suae id
alluded lo by some Republicans. W e
might give many illustrations ot tins
fact, from leading journal ; but the
following extract from a private let
ter written by a native of Union coun
ty, now a cuizcu of a Western State,
will sullice for a salty i-peciiucu ol the
encomium bestowed upon us :
"There are other poinls than
the election ot Mr. J ucba nan or Col-Kreinoui.
involved in the contest jut cioseJ The sham
Democracy is ciUuuercU iu tne free oiih
Botbiug out its Soutneru strength has given it
even tue name of victory. Loud, deep, and
umveisal are the execrations heaped upon
Pennsylvania, i feel uiyseif disgraced even
by the slightest allusion to ber. Look at New
York, Massacnu-eils, and oiher Northern and
Western tilalrs.as they are covered wi h glory
by ibe migbiy tuuiupn they nave achieved in
the great contest between oppression, disun
ion and the power of slavery ou the one hand,
and equal represenianon, freedom of speech
and ol the press, and the eternal principles of
the Declaration of Independences the other.
Would I could draw the pall ol oblivion over
Ihe deed thai has made your State ihe ally of
Brooks and 1'uombs and Wise and 'he other
alave-dnviug rurlians and tyrants ot the Souib!
but the waters of Penns creek and all your
noble rivers can not wash the foul blot from
your escutcheon, nor can the shadows ol all
your mountains bide it from a contemptuous
and wondering world as it throws its blacken
ing lines across the noon-day blaze of the
nineteenth century. Thai u has been accom
plished by the J'Uiil agency of falsehood, cal
umny, bribery, Iraud and ibe machinations of
third parly, can scarcely mitigate the enor
mity of the deed, while such a plea would be
paying no very Haltering compliment to the
intelligence, patriotism or virtue of your peo
ple ! Still, the friends of freedom have cause
to rejoice in the merited rebuke which has so
heavily fallen upon the leading traitors to
the North. We have maue a gmd beginning,
and oorcanse is just so keep organized, and
ready for another barle in IHtiO."
"Skipping the hardest words" as we
did in copying the above, and remin
ding the reader that it is not a "wild
Yankee Abolitionist," but a sober
Union county Dutchman, who wrote it,
we remark that our friends in other
States all seem to forget one very im
portant fact, and that is, that we had
to eucounter not only all they had, but
in addition we had to battle with a
State Pride worth to Slavery 30,000
votes, and without which it could not
have obtained the vote of Penn'a on
that aide. A State always with the
President elect, but never having one
of its own a State ot the number and
power of Penn'a any one who knows
human nature must see would make a
desperate effort to make one of her
sous, President, the- first opportunity
that presented. Any other than one
from this Stale, we thought and still
think would have lost it to the Dem
ocrats and insured it for Fremont.
Judge M'Leun was the choice of the
Delegates from this Slate in the Xa
tioual Conveution, but we honestly
yielded to the decision of the majority.
While the Buchanan party made a
show of opposition iu all the Free
States, their real btbenuth was saga
ciously concentrated upon Pennsylva
nia and other Border States. Feeling
sure of the South, they rightly judged
that Peun'a and one other Free State
would be sufficient to carry the day.
Hence their strongest men were sent
here Clerks at Washington and ne
gro owners in Carolina were taxed to
swell the immense fund "to carry
Pennsylvania."
iih all these peculiar and special
drawbacks, Buchanan's maj. (if any)
over all is less in his own Stale than
in Indiana les than 500 ! Consid
R. CORNELIUS.
News Journal.
ering how other Border Stales voted,
we merit more praise than censure in
our peculiar position.
Vliile the great metropolis of New
York gives her 30,000 for the Slavc
oeratie favorite, she must not wonder
if our great city still further South I
follows her example.
. NewEngland will observe that with
the superior advantages of New Jer
sey, the gave a less per cent, of her
vote for Fremont, than did Penn'a.
So long as Illinois has its "Egypt,"
Indiana its "Nubia," and Ohio has its
Durke and Hamilton and Hocking.it
does not become them to talk or print
too much about our Greene and Nor
thampton and Berks.
Here we mav be told that the rea
son why Fremont did not succeed in
those localities in the other States,
was because the people were misled !
slow to change interested personally
in Slavery afraid of Disunion and of
being overrun by Negroes illegal
a'.id Catholic voles deceived by the
Fillmore leaders." fcc. fcc. We can
not deny the force of these "powers
of darkness," but we niot respectfully
ask if all these reasons were not quite
as operative in Pennsylvania as any
other Free State ? and if it extenuate
their lailures, may it not ours also ?
Here we may be met by friend's
in oiher counties of this State, where
they were entirely successful, and a
comparison between themselves and
other counties suggested. But let it
be remembered that in all the Border
States, Fremont carried the Northern
and Buchanan the Southern sections.
The common school system is not 21
years old in our State, but the settlers
in otir Northern counties brought the
fruits of the system with them.and the
hearts of the people had beeu prepar
ed by years of previous reflection and
discussion for the late contest. And
yet Tioga has a mis-named "Liberty"
township, with its CO or 70 maj. for
Buchanan ; Bradford bur "Willliot '
district Toting Anti Wilmot ; Su-que-h
urn a her Apohtcou and Silver Lake,
her Lathrop, Liberty and Choeonul
voting something like Lehigh and
Monroe counties. Until ail these
dark points iu their own midst arc
politically evangelized, they who arc
of one language and "send the school
master abroad," should not reproach
those sister counties where different
languages prevail, and where as yet
the value of a school-master is not
assessed above nine dollars a mouth.
Union the ouly Fremont county in
Ceulral.Eastern or Southern Penu'a
it is admitted on all hands has done
her duty, at least comparatively. We
therefore have a right to be beard in
remonstrating agaiust the unadvised
censures cast upon our friends in por
tions of the State where our vote was
small. Such censure is both unjust
and impolitic. We had PECULiAR.we
had much the greatest obstacles, to
overcome ; and in no State did the
Republicans contest the field more
nobly than in our own. Now to add
to the taunts of their euemies, the
reproaches of their friends, is not the J
way to encourage the gallant few in -.
the strongholds of the opposition.
They need your sympathy, encourage
ment, and applause, instead of harsh
and incorrect denunciation. It is
true that Pennsylvanians are not fast
to move ; but they do love Liberty ;
and let efforts be forthwith made, by
sensiblerspeakers and judicious publi
cations, to spread true Republican
doctrines, and good Jesuits will in
due time appear in our Slate.
The effort to defeat Buchanau by a
union of his honest opponents, was
successful as far as it was effected in
New Jersey, Illinois and Iowa, and by
it we gain two Anti-Slavery Govern
ors and other important power. In
Ohio, Republicans felt strong enough
to go alone, but lost several Cong
ressmen, and have but 15,000 instead
of their 75,000 majority of '51. In
Indiana and Pennsylvania, the union
failed by a few thousands votes only...
and in that failure, the last battle
ALSO WAS LOST 1
Without croaking over the past, or
lowering ourstaudard an inch, as in
the past so iu the future we shall use
all honorable means to induce honest
men and true patriots whatever
mere party name they may prefer to
support Republican men and Republi
can measures.'
A BUCHANEER ON THB BlBXI. I. N.
Morris, a candidal for Congress, in a
speech at Quiucy, III., on Saturday previ
ew to the election, said: "If hm j
Black Republicans on Tuesday, tbey will
ceate to exist, aye, be swallowed up in the
political whirlpool a the children of Israel
vert in the Red Ota." Ye. J that's juet
the way they will be wailc-wed up.
LEWISBURG, UNION
trnm the Ar'Ui.
A Musical Convention.
Messrs. Editors: Profs. Johnson and
Frost have expressed a desire to hold a
musical convention in our town, provided
we raise them a hundred dollars. They
propose holding it some time in the month
of January next, which makes it necessary
to have the required amount subscribed as
early as possible. Most of us are acquaint
ed with the modus operandi at these con
ventions, but for the benefit of those who
are not, and whb the hope of awakening
an interest and engaging the assistauce
of many in our own town, neighboring
towns and the surrounding country, I will
briefly state it The company, consisting
of Profs. JohnFen and Front, Mis White
house and Miss Ruwson. meet the mem
bers of the Convention, say at uiue o'clock
A. M.. and sing until twelve meet again
in the afternoon and also iu the evening--thus
making three sessions per day and
each three hours in length, lor four or five
consecutive days. Concerts are then giv
en for defraying the expenses, and the
overplus, if there lie any, is taken tare of
bv the Professor liimsell. The advanta
ges growing out of such practice under in
structors of so preat eminence, is surpris
ing. to the truth of which we Iiave the
testimony of the people of Danville. Mun
cv, and of whatever town this company
have visited. We then-fore earnestly im
plore the material, as well as active exer
tions of our town's ptople iu behalf of the
enterprise. The reward will be (Treat ;
the standard of a most sacreG nnd refining
science elevated, and we may then have
music in our Churches befitting their more
than ordinary elegance. The time fixed
upon is, in a business point of view, a dull
season of the year, and is especially con
venient for ladies and gentlemen living in
the country. We urge you, then, to call
on Mr. Jos. L. Yoder, who has one list of
names uumliering twenty-live, and there
will he other papers soliciting subscrip
tions circulated through the town. We
shall expect, indeod we have the promise
of about thirty names from Mifflinburg.
Our Selinsgrove friends have already roan
il'ested a readiness to join us. Shall we
not have a hundred names in Lewisburg?
That alone, at a dollar each, would secure
us the Convention. V.
The editor ol the Suubury American has
been visiting our town, ami iu his paper of
the 20th inst, gives the following; favorable
notice of one of the "institutions" of Lew
is burg :
LcwJikarf Court Honse.
While in Lewisburg ou Monday last,
we visited the new Court Uovse which is
almost completed. The buildin is one
that rcliects the highest credit on U ii'itr
ality and enterprise of our Lewisburg
neighbors, who have iu this, as well as in
a number of other i.isUmes, given evideuce
what perseverance can accomplish.
The new Court House exceeds anything of
the kind iu Northern Pennsylvania, and in
poiul of convenience and ueatness iu style,
has few if any superiors in the Slate.
The cells of the prison departments, are
in the basement story as is also the kitch
en ol the Sheriff. On the first Uoor are
the offices ol the Prothouotary, Register
and Recorder, Sheriff, Commissioners and
others, with fire prool vaults adjoining
and at the lower end, Ihe parlor and din
ing room, 4c , of the Sheriff. On the se
cond floor is the Court room, which is a spa
ciuus and handsome hall, conveniently ar
ranged. On the same floor and above,
are rooms for the Grand and Traverse Ju
rors, witness room 4c. Every apartment
is warmed by registers with heated air,
generated by two lurnaees in the basement
story. The building is of brick 100 feet
long by 00 iu width, and is a model for
compactness, utility and architectural
taste. It was designed after a similar
structure in Camden N. J. Mr. Palmer is
the builder.
MAMOMC.
At the last regular meeting of Charity
Lodge No. 144, of A. Y. M, the following
offi -era were elected to serve duriug the
ensuing Masonic year :
Rev. R. A. Fink,
J. W. Pennington.
W. M.
s. w.
J. w.
(i. Y. McLaughlin,
Theo. U-r'addin,
T. H. Fisher,
Secretary,
Treasurer.
Jq The members of the Lodge are re
quested to meet in their Hull on Saturday,
the 27th inst., at 2 o'clock, P. M., when
the officers elect will be inaugurated.
Thmj. McFaiidik, Sec.
.
w Branch History.
We are informed by the author that the
first edition (and as the work is not stereo
typed, the only edition which-will be
printed) of ihe History ol the West Branch
Valley is already more than half exhaus
ted, consequently persons who wish to se
cure a copy of this truly valuable work,
bad better do so soen.
John H. Mears, the companion of the
late Dr. Oardiner in his frauds on the
United States, since he obtained his por
tion of that plunder, has been a wauderer
and lost and squandered all his money.
At length he became a trafficker iu small
wares, and took his goods from one place
to another in the various trains and wag
ons that go through Mexico. A few weeks
ago, he was accompanying one of these
trains from Nieves to Mouterey, and oo
their way it was altackei by ibe savages,
and Mears with his lamily and several
other persons were mnrdeied.
The best and most conclusive reason
for an effect that we ever remember to have
beard, was given by a "one idea" Dutch
man, in reply to a friend who remarked,
"Why, Hans, you hnve the most lemiuiue
cast of countenance 1 have ever seen."
'Oh, yaw," was the reply. "I know the
reason tor dat my mother tens a woman.
J, A. Galligan, a young Irishman ar
rived in New York three years ago with
$13,000 given to him by his father. A
day or two since he drowned himself, and
75 cenU of bis last dollar were found up
bis pr3B. The rest had beta dissipated.
CO., PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 185G.
Coincidences. In the election in the
Chester and Delaware district for Congress ,
in 1854, in Delaware comity,
Hickman, D m., had 10 09 votes.
Kroomall, Whig, 1882
Hickman's maj. 87
Iu '50, Hickman had just 1000 again.
Boeo, Itcpub., 1882
Ilickman'a maj. 87 again !
(Each year, an "American" ran off
enough votes to elect Hickman.)
In Oct, 1856, for Prothonutary of
Union county, R iush had 23.r votes in
White Deer towmbip, aod juet 235 maj.
in the county.
In Nov. following, Fremont had 337
votci in Lewisburg, and just 337 maj. in
Union county.
Cheap Bread for the Million!
A Revolution about Home !
Id Brooklyn, on the comer of Fultnn
avenue and Elm Place, there is now in
successful operation one of the great inven
tions of the age "Rerdan's Automatic
OvK!f." We say this, bearing fully in
mind the Railroad, the Magnetic Telegraph
and the Photograph ; and when ws tell our
readers that among the other advantages
eecurcd by this Oven, is the redaction ofi
the I'ri'-e of Bread from forty to fifty per
rent, they will not wonder at the rank
which wit assign it.
Our readers must rid themselves of all
notions and prejudices, just or unjust,
agaiust "machine bread," "steam baked
bread," and the like. The bread produced
at this ovcu is made iu the ordinary way,
and baked in a brick oven by radiation, or
heat applied from a brick surface, just as j
the bread is which is made in tbo old fire-
side hrijk oven. It is not raised by any !
new fangled chemical invention, but with :
yeast ; aud it comes from the oven baked
through and through and not burned. j
The Oven is of briek.eighteen feet, long, I
sixteen feet broad, and thirty two ft high, .
having a lower aud upper storey. Uuder-
neatb the oven is a furnace from which the j
heat is conducted to and through the oven j
by means of Ere brick tubes ; and the
fornace is so constructed aod arranged
that by means of a self acting damper
afiach1 tn a piece ot metal wtneu peu '
an I shuts, as ibe metal contracts and
expin Is, the heat in the oven can be
r-'guiated sni kept constantly at the
line temperature. The mercury stood at ',
-02 degrees at the time of our visit. Four
doors or eutrances to the oven, two iu tbe
lower and two in the upper store. Within
tbe ovun is ao endless chain, to which are
attached arms, aod upon wfyoh thirty-two
forms are laid, about two feet apart. This
chain can be moved either by band or by
lteain power, (tbe latter being used in the
present ease,) aud revolves perpendicularly
through the oveu at just tbe rate of speed
required to bake the bread with a single
revolution. By means of a conical cylinder
the time of the revolution is regulated to !
tbe fraction of a tniuute. Tbe thirty-two
platforms support thirty two bread-pans. 1
Outside, and by the doors of the oven, are :
two waiting or tender-cars, and all these
cars and oven doors are moved by tbe same
power that moves tbe endless chain.
Thus our readers have aa plainly as we
can describe it, tbe Automatic Oveu in
repose. When it is put in motion, one
of the oven-doors rises of its own accord,
an empty pan truudles out of the oven. aod
is placed upon tho tender-car, by which it
is carried to a door on the other side of the
oven. A pan coatainiug sixty loaves of !
dough is placed on this ear. The door !
opposite to which the car is, opens, aod
tbe loaded pan at onoe moves iuto tbe oven ;
the door instantly closes after it, aod tbe
pan commences its revolution upon the ;
endless chain. Immediately after tbe i
close of this door, tbe other door opens, j
and another einptv pan moves out, is filled
at once wilb its freight of dougb,aud then ,
takes its station like its predecessor at the i
first door, aud follows after in the same :
mauuer until the thirty-two cars are tilled;
the pans always entering at one door pod
i-sumg at the other From the time that '
all tbe paiiB are loaded, a pau of baked
bread comes out aud dumps itself at one
d lor of the oveu as fast as the dough is
put in at tbe other door. Tbe sight of the
oars full of baked bread as tbey emerge
quietly and slowly from their fiery furuace
aud deposit their rich freight, all brown
aud fragraut, in tbe baker's basket, all
without tbe aid or intervention of a aiugl
baud, is very interesting and gratifying.
Thus much of what is to be aeeu; but
it ia worth while to cousidcr what this lu
veuliou will effect iu so important a mat.
ter to tbe private individual aud the poli
tical eeouomist as the supply of bread lo
large communities. Reliable statements
and calculations show that Mr. Berdau's
oven will bake five hundred barrels of floor
daily. Tbe oven is kepteoutiuually bust
ed, and at the same tcuiperature,not vury
iug five degie-t , uuless adiffereut temper
ature is desired. The machinery is kept
Ooualantly in motion. Baking is thus go
ing oo continually. -We have inquired of
experienced bakers who inform us that
dough for baking can be supplied without
difficult,, to keep the oveu at Work at ail
, time. We bar eaten tii bitd, aud i
compared it in quality and quantity with
that of four of the best bakers in New
York. Its quality is much superior, both
ou aocouut of the thoroughness with which
it is baked, and its sweetness.and in quan
tity tbe loaves from Mr. Berdan's oven
were from forty to fifty per cent, heavier
than those furnished at the same price by
ordinary bakers. Tbe loaf, too, cuts much
less to waste than the ordinary loaves.
It is stated on scientific authority that
a largo percentage of the nutritious pro
perties of bread escape by the process of
baking in the ordinary oven, and that tbe
same are retained in the bread baked in
the Automatic Oven. Tbe fact can be
ascertained by analysis. Now, suppose
this oven can bake 250 barrels of ilour in
to bread in twenty-four hours one half
of its capacity What is lbs actual ex
pense, per day of twenty-four hours, fur
running this baking machine and turning
250 barrels of flour iuto good and whole
some bread of the best quality 1 We can
not make it more tban forty cents a barrel,
and tbe inventor claims tbat il will be
greatly less Compare this with cost of
baking a now carried on, and the differ
ence in the aggregate is gtartliug. In
Brooklyn, before Mr. Berdan's oven was
put in operation (we have been informed
that many bakers have enlarged tbeir
leaves aiuce) tbe price of bread to the con
sumer was double the price of flour to the
baker that is, tbe cousuoier was charged
from 87 to $3 a barrel for baking. Now
this profit at first view appears enormous,
and we are ready to condemn tbe baker
at once for exactions upon tbe staff of life.
But let us examine fairly into the baker's
business, and see if he can afford to obarge
much less. Tweoty barrels of flour a week
or three barrels a day, is more tban is ba
ked by the majority of our bakers. Hence
it will be seen that tbe baker with one or
dinary oven is obliged to pay bis men and
all his expenses, and support himstlf and
family, out of the profits be makes upon
baking three barrels of flour a day ; aud if,
iu addition to all this, he makes a fair
profit, which be ought to do, it does not
appear tbat be could afford his bread at a
price much less. There are, we believe,
at least three hundred haksrie in tba
.nj r Brooklyn. Ihe competition in
baking is great, and iu such cases, prices
are uot, generally, far from wbat affords a
fair remunerative profit.
It will at once be perceived tbat the ad
vantage of Mr. Berdan's oven consists in,
1st, the concentration of tbe business un
der one roof, which is scattered over the
city in three hundred tenements tbus
saving in rent alone more tban one hun
dred thousand dollars per annum. 2d.
Saving in labor. More than twelve hun
dred men are now employed in the differ
ent bakeries in Brooklyn. Fifty men in
Mr. Berdan's Mechanical Bakery will bake
an equal amount of bread. This difference
in the labor of bakiug is almost inorcdibls
but it is nevertheless true. The difference
in fuel is equally noteworthy. Suppose it
costs tbe bakers of tbe city, on an average
seventy-five cents a day for fuel (we be
lieve it costs a dollar), at that rate tbe
fuel for bakingtbe bread of Brooklyn costs
$275 per day. Mr. Berdan's oven a- d
engine consume but one ton of coal a day,
at $5 or SO per ton. We need look no
further to understand why bread by this
Mechanical Bakery can be afforded to the
cousumer forty per cent, cheaper than by
tbe small bakers, and leave a fortune every
year to tbe inventor.
We understand that Mr. Berdan pur
poses to charge at wholesale for bread of
the first quality, but one dollar, per barrel
of flour, for bakiag that is if be purchase
flour at $ 7 be makes it into good bread
for IS. and the wholesale dealer, who takes
it at the li'kery, pays no more. Now tbe
consumer will pay one cent a loaf more ts
the retailer. This will amount to about
SI 50 p"r barrel in alditioo, making a cost
to the consumer of $2 50 per barrel, in
stead of $7, as he is now charged a diff
erence of $4 50 per barrel, or, to the con
sumers of bread in the city of Brooklyn,
of more than Eiuht Hundred and Fifty
Thnu-and Dollars a year.
It will be seen that the importance of
this invention can hardly be overrated A
reduction of nearly one-half in the price
of the great staple of daily food, introduces
in fact a new phase in political economy.
The ability to make balf that reduction
would have postponed, if not averted, the
French Revolution. The subject is of
sufficient moment to command the atten
tion and tbe practical co-operation of men
of intelligence and capital.
As to the practical workiog of the In
vention, we may say that the oven has
been in operation about a fortnight. On
tbe first day, one hundred and sixty loaves
were baked and got rid of with some diffi
culty; since when tbe orders have so stead
ily and rapidly inoreased tbat over thir
teen thousand loaves are now delivered to
bakers daily. And we learn tbat com
plaints having been made that the loaves
are inuonveniently large, they are lo be re
duced somewhat io site and sold at four
cents. N. T. Family Courier.
The cost of this machinery, sn 1 whe
ther it is patented, we twve, nut learned.
At $1,50 Pkr
fir th ltlsttug ClirocirW.
A Hot-Bad.
Ma. Chronicle I have long regretted
that Farmers so generally neglect their
OAKDENs the most profitable part of any
farm, whether we look at comfort or profit.
Hot beds are scarcely ever seen in coun
try gardens, and our summers are too short
to perfect some of tbe best vegetables aod
fruits as sweet o aloes, melons, Ao.
If soma of your readers would f irnisb
instruction bow to make s proper hot bed,
at small expense, I think it would be a
good service, not only to farmers, but to
all who have gardons. I am anxious to
make one myself, but do not know how.
KMTt.BPRIiK.
The Unexpected Visitor.
"BUS JUNO A SAW "
Among the first settlers of the Stlsqiie
haoDa valley, was one John Cutler, who
built the first house soar where Ibe village
of Unadiila now abends, ou the opposite
side of tbe river. He also built near by a
saw-mill, and employed many hands, whom
he mastered in bis own valley and that of
the Delaware. He superintended tbe
running of his lumber, was himself an
expert steersman, acquired a larpe prop
erty, and purchased many acres of heavily
timbered laud on both sides of the river
belonging to the Dexter Pate-ut.
Iu the ?priug of 1800, Old John, ss be
was called, decided to trust his lumber to
a friend, and stay at tbe mill himself.
His wife had died the winter previous,
aod be did not liko to leave Luay alone.
Lucy was a dark-haired, sprightly girl of
fifteen, and managed ber father's house
wi'h ordur and neatne.s ; but she missed I many wives and children bow desolate and
her mother sadly, and spent much of her wretched, would be cheerful aud bappy !
time io turning ever tbe leaves of a time- ' It is wisdom then to put under the ban of
worn Bible, on tbo little stand near ber ; proscription an enemy that has wrought
mother's arm chair, and reading verses j so much rtbuiiicf, desolated so many fire
marked by ber hand, with tear dropping j sides, and has uot one redeeming feature
eyes. Poor Lucy was glad ber father did i le save it from universal reprobation.
not leave ber this sad spring time. And
is it a wonder that tbe old maa found a
mysterious pleasure in the same oeeupa-
3 r .
tion ? There seemed a strange spell in
.
side to listen to her clear, rich voioo as
she read therefrom : and tbe worldly old
, . . ' .
" .......
eommunioo with toe spirit ot bis dead
wife tbat time-worn Bible the golden
link between them.
It was a bright morning in May ; the
bands bad all started down tbe river' . , , , ,.
a barn door, snd turns op tbe while of her
except one, and he had gone to a place . ... ,,-., c, , -
f 6 r eye like a duck in thunder. Sue s in mu-
soine twenty miles distant, aud was not . . ,
1 , , .. sical ecstaey. is tbat gal ; she fsuis good a. I
cx tected back till tbe next evening. Old ,. ,
... , . ,, over: her soul is ruin'; out alotis with tbat
John took his dinner-basket, aod, bidding . . ,
music. O, it s dunne, and sbe s au aogej.
Lucy not to be lonesome, set out for the - , , , . ,
3 , ., ,. ..Id full m love with her; but as I am a
mill, about balf a mile distant, in the , , . , .
... man, at least what S left of me, 1 0) list as
deep forest. Lucy bad a hearty cry, as t i t .i i .
r J , soon fall iu love trtth one thai a a leetle,
soon as be was none ; but the grief t-toroi . , , . .
6 ' , , jtst a leetle m .re rf a woman, aud a leetlo
eoon weut by, aud tying on her hood, she . , ,
J J . r les of an angl. tJt, hallo ! what unuar
too went forth into the "clearing. Ihe. , . .
' the sun, i sbe aoout r by, ber voice is
sun shone brightly, aud merry birds war- ... .i
6 - ' J . gum down her own tunat, to gum strength,
bled in tbe budding tree tops, as sbe half . . , ,
, aud here It. come out as Jeep toOed man s,
unconsciously entered tbe forest and too . , ,
7 , wnile that d-tudy feiu-r a.ong side of her
tbe foot path to tbe mill. Lucys heart .
r is sniijin wbat tbey call falsetter. Ihey
grew lighter as she strolled along, now ml i - t tl .
e e 've actually ehanged voices: That gl
stoopins to gather wild flowers that gre . , , ...
f sines like a msu, and that screamer like a
by the way, or pausing to listen to the
universal hymn, of pratse that arose from , u fe me .f
all animated nature arouud ber. ..' v c, l.
, , lur . oj'ov ot'ifc.
While Lucy was thus wecd.ag her way, j ,
ber father had stopped the motion of the J Ultimate St ccess or the Eepubli
machinery of tbe mill, in order to go to : CAN 1'aiuY. 1 dj nut prediat the times
the rear of the building and remove som- or seasons when one or oiher of the con
slabs left there the previous uight. Iu his tending political el-uieiirs shall prevail. I
absence, a huge black bear eotered tbe know this, tbat this State, this nati'-n aod
mill unobsorved, quietly devoured John's this ear'h am to be the abode and happy
dinner and. iust as Qilletlv tumioif about,
depoeited his great bulk for a 'uap' upon
tbe very log io tbe midst of which the
glittering saw bad jut been suspended in
its operations.
As Lucy came in sight of the mill, she
was surprised that it was not going ; and
looking about for her fattier, sbe caught a
glimpse of the dark object lying on the
half sawed log ou the frame. She hasteued
forward, tbiukiug her father might have
been taken suddeuly ill, and lain down
there. On her near approach, however,
she discovered the bear, apparently asleep.
Where was ber father ? Tbe thought was
horror to ber his rifle was on the books
against tbe oetltng of tbe log house she
had left ! But sbe neither soreamed nor
fainted. A thought etruok her, and sbe
darted towards the mill; tbe next moment,
she was able to boist the big gate, and the
saw iustautly started off with g.eat speed.
Bruin roused up at tbe noise. He eho k
himself violently, aod uttered a warning i
growl ; but on daahed ihe saw at a furious
. , , i , . il- . . i .
rate. The Dear looxea suaaiasi aa me
glittering blade, aod began to show BIS
teetb, too ! then, raising himself on his
bind legs, he awaiied tbe advancing fos 1
The saw moved steadily on on ou !
until at last the eDraged bear sprung for
ward with desperate valor, and grasped
his great paws around tbe glseuiiug steel !
An instant, and all was over ! The bear
fell apart, sawed in two pieosa !
Alarmed at the sudden starting of tba
mill, the father rushed back just in time
te receive tbe fainting lorm of Luey : but
many years did tbey live to Iaugb at tba
pluck of tbe bear in taking a "fair tight"
with a running mill-saw, and devouuy to
j tUsk Ua1 I jr tba r dcliTsrunce 1
Year, always ic Adtaxck.
Selectei for ts Lav.sbor; Chrn.cl.
It X7oa't lat n Alone.
" Too let it arnue, and tV will let yoa
aloue," said a liquor dealer, when urged
to abandon tbe traffio. But this is not ao.
There are thnnands who let liquor alone,
attd yet snffL-r immeasurable evils in con
sequence of its use by others. In proof
of this, wbat an array of startling facTs
miuht be a.UareJ! Mrs. D. is a lady of
education and accomplishments. Tbe first
f:w yars of ber married life were pleas
ant, prosperous and buppy.' She bad
ki i-l aud aff -ctiouate ho'band, and an in
teresting and lovely family of children.
But " the worm of the still" invaded that
happy firoside, and spread desolation and
miry over that circle. The husband and
father acquired on appet'te for strong
drink. The habit increased, his busiaees
was neglected, his property wasted, and be
becaroo a loathsome drunkard- Things
grew worse, till Mrs. D. was relnee-l lo
O'.ter poverty, and ber husbaud was sect
to prison for aa offence committed while
in a drunken spree. Now observe, Mrs.
D. and ber children let liquor alone, tat il
did not let thrtn atone. Sj of a boat of
tax payers. It has been shown beyond all
reasonable doubt tbat tbree-fourtbs of tba
criminal prosecutions and seven eighths of
the entire pauperism in tbe laod, may bo
traced to strong drink. Of course three
fourths of tbe expense of the whole sys
tem of criminal jurisprudence, tbe cost of
our jails, penitentiaries, and prisons of
very description, are fairly to be put down
to the use and abuse of liqior. If liquor
would let those alone who let it alone, bow
much suffering would be saved I How
FabI!oka3lE MoC.- What's tb.t?
It's musio. Well, that's artificial, too
.., . - , , . ,
it s tcieatifio tbey say it a done by rule.
Jist look at that ar' gal at the pinny !
uosh tew snakes I i irst ooiues a l::tlo
. . . . .
German thunder good airtn and seas,
, . , . , . , , ,
. wbat a cn-ih ! It seems as if soo d bang
'"e insirameni tii icw mte
cro t -r ianiw
guess she's vexed at somebody, auJ is peg
ging into tbe piany jist out o' spite. Now
j comes smgtn ; s-e wiiat tacts sr.e muKes
hnw l,i ktmti-liM her month rin.,n l.lra
, borne of Free Meu. Its bins' and Its Val-
leys are to be the fields of Free Labor,
Free TboJght, and Free Suffrage. That
consuniiuaiion will come when society ia
prepared for it. My labors are devoted
tn that preparation. I leave others to
cling to obsolete traditions and perLh with
them if they must; but, in politics as in
religion, I desire to bs with tbat portion
of my feilow-men who hold fast to tie
truth with hope aod confidence, enduring
through all trials, to its complete aod eter
nal triumph." Seicard.
Os tbb Dxyil's 8ids, Now ! Wa
heard an anecdote, the other day, of the
lion. R. Teoinbs, which as the newspapoia
say of anything particularly riob, is "to
good to be lest?" The Senator was then
a Representative an old Hue Whig Rep
resentative who was doing ba'tle man
fully, against the old line Democncy !
Well, he chanced one day to meet his
friend George Pierce, now Bishop, aod ac
costed bim familiarly as follows: "Friend
George.it strikes me tbat you and I are en
gaged in pretty muob tbe same calling.
i"ou are fighting the Devil and I am ttght
iug tbe Demoav.ti .'" The Senator hai
since gona ovux to the other side ! Cu.
Citizen.
ACuttD'sCoMPRoMist. A energy n a i
wbo bad been staying fur some time at
the house of a frie-ad of outs, cn goiug
away eailed M bim litCe Eddy, tan t'uer
y ear-old son of tbe boat, and asked vLu
he should give bint for a present. Eddy,
ho had great reepeet for the "cl'Mb,"
thought it was bis duly to sutrest aurnis
thiog of a religious nature ; so be answer
ed beaitatiugly : "I I 1 think I sho'd
like a TVsta ueot, and I Umw 1 ebou'l
Ilko a sjwrrt Jn I"
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