VOL. XXXI.
”MMENII
OFFICE/IS OF COLIIIIIIiIA CO. ,
Provident Judge—lion. William Elwell.
towlate Judges— { P e Der r,t I
Pete ilerbein.
f'roth'y and CV k of Courts—J maw Coleuluil.
Resistor and Recorder—John O. Freeze.
,Allen Menu
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Comuaissioners— to o h n n ts P o . u t'o r ;: rler
Cole.,
Sherif—San:lnel nyder.
Tressurcr—John J. Stiles.
Daniel Snyder,
Auditor.— L. B Rupert,
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John I '.
. Ilannan.
Commiesioner'n Clerk—Win. Kriekbaum.
Corureimiour's Attorney—E. 11. Littb , .
Mercantile Appraiser—Capt. Geo. W. Litt.
County Surveyor—lsaac A. Dewitt.
District Attroney—lklilton )l. Traugh.
Coroner—ltiilliem J. lkeler.
County Superintendent—Chas. G. Barkley,
Aisesors Internal Revenue—ll. F. Clark.
I John Thonie.4,
ieme
Assistant Assessor— • .B. D
T. 11. Ikeler, r,
J. S. 1 Voods.
Collector—Benjatnin '. Bettina!).
NEW STOVE AND TIN SHOP.
ON IN Ally eITIIPP:I'. CVF:AIRLY OPPOSITI:
MILLERIP BLOO.IISOURI, PA.
THE amderslicled nay run sited up, ■nd opened.
aila nitro
13111111% Ant) TIN s 11101",
Sil this plate. where he is prepared to make up new
Tit WARE of ell kinds in hip line, and do repair.
Ii with tiNititess and disp ach, upon the fno.d rue.
sostatde tem., Itemise keeps on nand rtl'oVei of
'rations patterns and sty lee, which be will sell upon
terms to suit mirth
Give N 0.., 111. Ile is a goo( mechanic, and do.
serving of the otibllc patronage.
JACOB METZ..
Bloomittnirg. Sept. 9. 18611.—1 y.
PLASTER FOR BALE.
The uuderslgued Is about Mulls sp
state PENN PURNACF: MILT 9, u d niq GO%
the public ONE 11UNDaEli TONS tiEdr
111ovia Scotia While l'lal•ter.
prepared ready far use In Inantittee In roil purchas
ere, at any time from !Go first 1.4 Matt xt
J. id. hIcSINCII.
Catmints. Jan. Si, IRO7
BOOT AND SHOE t 11OP.
OSCAR P. C11?T0.1",
Re•iverifully INtwtn• the public that ha fa nowbre
pared to maoufacturo alt kinds of
niBOOTS AND SHOES,
at the LOIVESTTe. Pr:res ;
.nt thort notice and In tit* very best and Weld atvt*t
Er. Girton, (Is Is wen-knot% n to Itloont.tbura.) nn
had nanny p.r.ra or ineer..4l'.ll etp..ris ore with a r..p
tatalmn for good work, integrity and honora , ile nrnl
1114 IIII•tirp311111..l.
nt Plana , C tniainaso Awn!, I:+at COIOOF
111 Hod Iron rtrtele. OVt . r J. K • Girtofee Ron,.
M=Mll3o=l
J; 01:1:S HOTEL,
t.1:0. W. MAEGER, Proprietor.
.111 , 1 1.1 10 1 ,1 wel6annwu 111' , 11•111/IS ref/ 1 1111y ender
j..ln• ta.ibal C/1/111jto in it. arrangement..
end il• hrol.rli ter raondor.•. 1.. nu Inr•ucr ru•unu
sl,l the lreiroliille puutle them Ina rcenmmudutimt•
t..t the ram tuft Of Lie 'nests ere arcing In unur, 111
the country. liia table will alweys be found rep
plied. not Poll with eubetuntiel (and. but with al
Nte delielleiel of the are•mut. 1 / 1 4 4 411111 n..t 111111nri
(except that beePruee kuewn as . ..tic ilex py.',
pun:haeed direct (ram the impmitiii beetle.. !!..s.l•
IttelY Wire. and free fr. in ail prii.enone drues.
is throe fel for a liberal patronage in the beet, and
*III continuo to denture it In the future.
Jima 13. 18811.-tf.
MA.CHLNE AND REPAIR 811 UP.
Tate traderalined %mild moat reapertfally
liallitte to the public artier:Olt. he Is prepared
to weals all kinds of NACIIINGItY. at Jii.SEPII
11111AIIPLCS4' FoUNDItY. to Ill.noorburg. where he
can 4111 i) • be found read, to du all kinds of rep:ta
lus. including Threshing Ma , Hines. aliJ to Winn. all
of Farming Utensils, ALSO. TUANINO AND
VITINtf. UP ur CASTING AND .1/ ACIIINDNIN
dime oa nhort, notice, in et good wmkutahllha man
1 ,, T, upon Von 010.1 TVW•i•It••1110111111.
111* snag eipenenee in the tllonoio,llll foreman Its
the shop of I,•Wi •H. Maus of titl. plfo'ci. fur o — at
Dios palm warrants him in sa._ tad that ho Nit Ova
entire vattsfactlou to all wha ma) favor Mat With
heir work.
Dloornshurg. Nov.
FALLON HOUSE.
IT lig subscriber having purchased the •Tallml
Holm," la
LOCK 1114.14:1, Pa.,
properly of E. W. llhinny. Ertl., would any to the
maids of the house, hie acquaintencee. amt the pub.
lic generally. that lie tett:Ws to ..kery. a Hoist.,
with the accoulmudatlon• and comfort. of a !lover,
and !tenthly aolictte their 'Deportee...
J. 0 fI'ENIC IRK.
Late of the llia.limon House. rhtladalphia.
Lock Haven, Dee. Yu, inik.
m ISS LIZZIE PETERMAN,
wouhi.„,,,,,ine. to this la llra ni 11!onrushing end
the nubile generally, that Om has Just received lrom
the eastern elite tier
springand Summer
!lock of
MILLINERY GOODS,
folllllillillg or all articles novelly found in first class
Millinery atoms. Her goods are of the but quality
and among the most handsome and cheapest to the
m~rkrt. lull and motion thetu for yourselves.
Nobody should purchase SlaeWhPre belore alantill•
ing Mien Peterinsit'a stock to goods Bonnets made
to order, on the shortest not ice, or repaired.
Store on Main street. 3d tkor below the store Of
bleilet.hull It Rupert,
Blousisburg, May 11,
NEW TOBACCO STORE.
H. H. HUNSBEFIGER,
Main Street, below the "American Houle,"
9100111911121111, PL.
Where b. Leaps on haul, and furnishes to the horns
And country trade. at Philadribbis (lowest) prices,
FINE I'UT.AND PLUG TOBACCOS,
DOSIERTIC AND %IPORTF,D CIGAR 1111 kinds 01
SROKING
Pauße, Meeting:num and Briar Wood Pipes, and all
artelleolertaloing to till trade.
r""ntose small retail dealer. In cigar. and chew.
tag *Mumma, would do well to luta taw a call, in
every ankle they
• pedlars.
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aro paid except it the Whin of the editor.
RATES 01 ADVMMINO.
11111 WWI CONITIVUTpc a vb17•11li.
017.5 sotiarecinto or Owe Inanition". in
E.'very subsequeut looration lean was 13
IL :W. 3x. ex, It.
God of the harvest now we lift,
Our hearts to Thee hi grateful praise,
For every good and needful gift,
That crowns the measure of our days.
The Seasons in their annual round,
Combine the goodness of thy hand,
bile each with its own blosAugs crowned,
Each blesses us, at thy command.
The reed we cam into the duet,
Committed to thy gracioni care,
We wait with patient, hopeful tru.t,
Till we ehall reap the golden ear.
Nor I are our patient hopes been vain.
Thit Sion thou halt designed to bless,
With warming Sun and moistning ruin,
And grantetl us a large increase•
With faith we watched the growing hlatie,
With hope we saw the blo.sltits come,
Rejoicing in the Fbeaves we made,
bank God, we've brought the harvest home
Thus may thy goodness ever mst,
Upon our wide extended land,
And we so rit.hl7, fully blest,
In latutble would own illy hand.
ii:l:wate , r, .July 26, NG.
11s arilictiscrmrs Cl' PAT
RICK HENRY.
The following curious paper is copied
re/twins from a manursoript of Mr. Jeer
on, which a correspondent in the interior
or the State has put into our hands, with
tire privilege of retaining it for a few days
that any of our readers who may desire to
see the handwriting of the author of the
Declaration of Independence way be grati
fied with a sight of the paper itself. The
well-known chirography of Mr. Jefferson
made familiar to the world by the mime' ,
()el lac linn;leg of the fret draft of the Dee
! latation, taken iu connection wills the inter
nal evidence which this manuscript bears of
having come from his hand, renderi any
argument about its genuineness; superfluous.
Hid recollecticris of Mr. Henry, and the
view which he presents of his character,
although somewhat startling and at variance
with the cherished and traditionary reputa
tion of the great orator, are far to valuable
to be suppressed. and form a contribution
to history which it is strange has been so
long withheld. They will be read, especially
those portions derogatory to Mr. Henry as
a man of personal integrity, with souse
caution. 'flier° arestatements iu this paper
the accuracy of which we very much slues
lion, and in relation to which we shall in a
day or two take ad opportunity of stating
our views. The paper, however, whether
as evidence trustworthy or not, is a great
curiosity :
My acquaintance with Mr. Henry com
menced in the winter of 1759-GO. On my
way to the College I passed the Xmas holi
days at Col. Dandridge's, in Hanover, to
whom Mr. Henry was a near neighbor.
During the festivity of tho season I met
him in society every day, and wo because
well acquainted, although I was much his
junior, being then in but my 17th year and
he a married man. The spring following
he came to W'rnsb'g to obtain a license as
a lawyer, and he called on meat College.
lie told rue he had been reading law only
weeks. Two of tho examiners, however,
Peyton and John Randolph, men of great
facility of temper, signed his license with
as much reluotanoe as their dispositions
would permit them to show. Me. Wythe
absolutely refused also Rob. C. Nicholas re
fused at first lett on repeated importunities
and promises of future reading, be biped.
These facts I had afterwards from the gentle
men themselves, the two Randolph' ac
knowledging he was very ignorant of law,
but that they perceived him to be a young
man of genius and did not doubt he would
so soon qualify himself,.
He was some time after elected a repre
sentative of the County of Hanover, and
brought himself into public notice on the
following occasion, which, I think, took
place in 1762, or a year sooner or later. The
gentlemen of this country had, at that time,
become deeply involved in that state of in
debtedness which his since ended in so
general a crush of their fortune.—the
Speaker was also Treasurer, an officer al.
ways chosen by the Assembly. He was au'
eamellmit man, liberal, friendly and rich. He
had been drawn in $o lend on his own amt
great ante of mosey to persona of thin de
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BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA Co., PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1867.
merlption, and especially those who were of
the Assembly. He used freely for this pur
pose the public money, confiding for its re
placement in his own means and the securi
ties he had taken on those loans. About
this time, however, he became sensible that
his deficit to the public evils become so enor
mous as that a discovery must soon take
place, for as yet the public had no suspicion
of it. He devised, therefore, with his
friends in the Asseutbly a plan for a public
loan office to a certain amount, from which
monies might be lent on public count, and
on good landed security, to individuals. This
wi4 accordingly brought forward in the
House of Burgesses, and, had it succeeded,
the debts due to Robinson on these loans
would have been transferred to the public,
and his deficit thus completely covered.
This state of things, however, was not yet
known ; but Mr. litany attacked the scheme
on other general grounds in that style of
bold, grand and overwhelming eloquence
tbr which he became so justly celebrated
afterwards. Ho carried with him all the
members of the upper counties, and left a
miuority, composed mainly of the aristuc
racy of the country. I•'rout this time his
popularity swelled apace, nnd, dying
about 4 years after, his deficit was brought
to light, mid discovered the true object of
the proposition.
The next great occasion on which he sig
nalized himself was that which may be con
sidered as the dawn of the Itevoln. in
March, 171 . 4. The British Parliament had
passed resolns. preparatory to the levylng a
revenue on the colonies by a stamp tax. The
Virginia Assembly, at their next session,
prepared and sent to England very elaborate
representations, addressed, in separate forms,
to the King, Lords'and Commons, against
the right to impose such taxes. The fatuous
Stamp Act was, however, passed in Jan.,
17135, and in the session of the Virginia
Assembly of Nay following Mr. Henry in
troduced the celebrated resolutions of that
date. These were drawn by George John
son, a lawyer of the Northern Neck, a very
able, logical and correct speakers. Mr.
Ilenry snored and Johnston seconded those
resolutions successively. They were opposed
by Randolph, Pendleton, Nicholas, Wythe
and all the old meinhers whose influence in
the House bad till then been unbroken.
They did it, net from any question of our
rights, but on the ground that the same sen
timents bad teen, at their preceding session,
expressed in a snore conciliatory form, to
which the answers were not yet received.
But torrents of sublime eloquence from Mr.
Henry, Lacked by the stolid reasoning of
Johnston, prevailed. The last, however,
and strongest resolution was carried but by
a single vote. The debate on it was most
bloody. I was then but a student and was
listening at thedoor of the lobby (for as yet
there was no gallery) when Peyton Randolph
sifter the vote, came out of the House and
fetid, as he entered the lobby : "By God I
would have given five hundred guineas for
a single rote." For as this would have di
vided the Rouse, the vote of the Speaker
world have rejected the resolution. Mr.
Henry loft town that evening, and the next
morning before the meeting of the House I
saw Peter Randolph, then of the Council,
but who had formerly been tlerk to the
!louse, for au Lour or two at the Clerk's
table searching the old journals for a pre
cedent while he was clerk of a resolution of
the House erased from the journals by a
subsequent order of the House. Whether
he found it or nut I do nut remember; but
when the House suet a motion was made
and curried to erase that resolution; and
there being at that day but one printer and
he entirely under the control of the Gover
nor, I do not know that this resolution ever
appeared io print• I write this from mem
ory, but the impression wade on me at the
time was such as to fix the facts indelibly in
my mind.
I came into the Legislature as a burgess ,
for Albemarle in the winter of 1768-9, on
the accession of L'd Bototomt to the gov
ernment, and about nine years after Mr.
Henry bud entered on the stage of public
life. The exact conformity of our political
opinions :•trengthened our friendship, and,
indeed, the old leaders of the House being
substantially firm we had nut after this any
differences of opinion in the 11. of B. on
matters of principle, though sometimes on
matters of form. We were dissolved by
Ld. Botetourt at our first session, but all
were re-elected. There being no divisions
among us, occasions became very rare for
the display of Mr. H.'s eloquence. In ordi
nary business ho was a very inefficient mem.
ber. He could not draw a bill on the most
simple subject which would bear legal criti
cism, or even the ordinary criticism which
looks to the correctness of style and ides; .
for, indeed, there was no aecurucy of idea
in his head. His imagination was copious,
poetical, sublime, but vague also. He said
the strongest things in the finest language,
but without logic, without arrangement,'
desultorily. This appeared eminently are
in a mortifying degree in the first session et
the first Congress, which met in September,-.
1774. Mr. Henry and Richard Henry Lee
took at onus the lead iu that assembly, and
by the high style of their eloquence were,
in the first days of the session, looked up to
as prints' itikr parrs. A petition to the
King, an address to the people of Great
Britain, and a memorial to the people of
British America were agreed to be draws.
- ,ppointed for
and Jay for
their debut
designated by
petition to the
King, with which they wore charged, and
Mr. Lee was charged with the address to
the people of England. The last was first
reported. On loading it every countenance
fell and a dead silence castled for many win
utes. At length, it was laid on the table for
perusal and consideration till the next day,
when first one member, and then another,
arose, and paying some faint compliments
to the ootnpositiore, observed that there were•
still certain considerations not expressed in
it which should properly find a place in it-
At length Mr. Livingston, (the Governor
of N. J.,) a member of the committee, rose
and observed that a friend of his ha 1 been
sketching what he had thought ntielit4ie
proper for such an address, from which he
thought some paragraphs might be advati
tageously introduced into tho draught pro
posed; and ho road an address which Mr
Jay had prepared, de botc else, as. itewerm
There was butientidlettinent of admiration.
The address was recommitted for amend
ment, and Mr. Jay's draught reported and
adopted with scarce any alternation. Those
facts were stated to me by Mr. Pendleton
and Col. Harrison, of our own delegation,
(except that Col. Harrison ascribed the
draught to Oov'r. Livingston,) and were
afterwards confirmed to me by Guv'r Liv
ingston ; and I will presently mention an
anetelote coufenuativo of them, from Mr.
Jay and R. 11. L. themselves.
Mr. Henry's draught of a petition to the
King was equally unsuccessful and was re
committed for amendment. Mr. John
Dickinson was added to the committee, and
a now draught prepared by hint was passed.
The ()cession of my learning from Mr.Juy
that he was the author of the address to the
people of Or. Britain requires explanation
by a statement of some preceding circum
stances. The 2d session of the Ist Congress
met, on their own adjournment, in May,
1775. Peyton Randolph was their Presi
dent. In the meantime LIE North's con
ciliatory proposition came over to he laid by
the Governors before their Legislatures.—
Ld. Dunmore aeeordingly called that of Vir
ginia to meet in artlllP. This obliged P.
Randolph, as Speaker, to return. Our
other old members being at Congress, ho
pressed me to draw the a►.swer to Ld. North's
proposition. I accordingly did 60, and it
passed with a little softening of some ex
pressions for which the times were not yet
ripe, and wire-drawing and weakening oth
ers to satisfy individuals. I had been ap
pointed to go on to congress in place of
Peyton Randolph, and proceeded immedi
ately, charged with presenting this answer
to Congress. As it was the first which had
beCn given, an the tone of it was strong,
the members were pleased with it, hoping
it would have a good effect en the answers
of the other Stak , . A committee which
had been appointed to prepare a declaration
to be published Ly Gem Washington on his
arrival at the army, having reported one,
it was recommitted, and Dickinson and my
self added to the committee. On the ad
journment of the House, happening to go
out with Govr. Livingston, one of the com
mittee, I expressed to him my hope be
would draw the declaration. Ile modestly
eecused himself and expressed his wish that
I would do it. But, urging him with cots
aiderable ireportuuity, he at length mid:
"you and I, sir, are but new acputintanoes;
what can have excited so earnest a desire
on your part that I should bo the draughts
man?" "Why sir," said I, "I have been
informed you drew the address to the people
Great Britain. I think it the first compo
sition in the English language ; and, there
fore, am anxious this declaration should be
prepared by the same pen." Ile replied,
"that I might have been misinformed on
that subject." A few days after, being in
conversation with it. 11. Lee, in Congres'
Hall, a little before the meeting of the
House, Mr. Jay observing us, came up, and
taking R. H. Lee by a button on the coat,
said to him pretty Mandy: "I understand,
sir, that you informed this gentleman that
the address to the people of Great Britain
presented to the committee by we, was
drawn by Goer. Livingston." The fact was
that the committee having consisted of mile
Lee, Livingston, who was fotherdn-law of
Jay, and Jay }timed, and Leo's draught
having been rejected, and Jay's approved so
unequivocally, his suspicions naturidirTell
on Lee as author of the report, and the
rather, as they daily had much sparring in
Congress, Loa being firm is the revolution
ary measures, and Jay hanging heavily on
their rear, I immedistery stopped Mr.
Jay, and assured him that, though I had
indeed been so informed, it MO not by Mr.
Lee, whom I had never heard utter a word
on the subject.
I found Mr. Henry to be a silent and al
most unmeddling member of Congress. On
the original opening of that body, while
general grievances were the topic, he was
in his element, and captivated all by his
bold and splendid eloquence, But as soon
as they came to eperitle matters, to sober
reasoning and solid argumentation, he had
the good sense to preceive that his deela
mation, however excellent in its propper
place, had no weight at all in such an &mem
bly as that, of cool-headed, redacting, Judi
cious men. He oeased, therefore, in a
great measure, to take any part is the busi
ness. lie seemed, indeed, very tired of the
place, and wonderfully relieved, by appoint
meat of the Virginia Convention to be Col.
of their Brat regimen; he was permitted to
leave Caesar about umlaut otJily. How
he acquitted himself of his military sommand
will be better known from others. He was
relieved profs ads pidgin again by being
appointed Governor on the art organirtatiog
of the government. After myservioe as his
successor in the same office, my appointment
to Congress in 178; mission to Europe in
'B4 and appointment in the new government
in 'B9 kept us so far apart that I had no
further personal knowledge of him.
Mr. Henry began hie career with very
little property. Ile acted, as I have under
stood, as barkeeper in the tavern at Hano
ver C. H. ffir some time. Ile married very
young, settled, I believe, at a place called
the Roundabout in Louisa, got credit for
some little store of merchandise, but very
soon failed. From this he turned his views
to the law, for the acquisition or practice of
however, he was too lazy. Whenev
er the courts ware closed for the winter ses
sion he would make up a party of poor
hunters of his neighborhood, would go off
with them to the piny woods of Fluvanna
and pass weeks in hunting deer, of which
he was paesiouataly fund, sleeping under a
tent, berme a fire, wearing the same shirt
the whole time, and covering all the Jilt of
his dress with a hunting-shirt. Ito never
undertook to draw pleedings if he could
avoid it, or to manage that part of a cause
and very unwillingly engaged but as au as
sistant to speak ie the cause. And the fee
was an indespensibic preliminary, observing
to the applicant that he kept no accounts,
never putting pen to paper, which was true.
His powers over a jury were so irresistable
that ho received great feea ii,r his services,
and had the reputation of being insatiable
in mousy. Atter about ten years practice
in the County Courts he 021110 to the Gen].
Court, whore, however, being totally unquali
fied for anything but mere jury causes, he
devoted hitneelf to these and chiefly to the
criminal business. From these poor devils
it was always understood that he squeezed
exorbitant fees of $5O, $lOO mid $ 2OO --
From this source he made his great profits,
and they were said to be great. His other
business, exclusive of the eritnnal, would
never, 1 am sure, pay the expences of his
attendance. He now purchased from Mr.
Lomax the valuable estate on the waters of
Smith's ltiver, to which he afterwards re
moved. The Lurchase was on long credit
and finally paid in depreciated paper, not
worth oak leaves. About the close of' the
war he engaged in the Yazoo speculation,
and bought up a great deal of depreciated
paper at 2s. and 2s. 641. in the pound to pay
for it. At the close of the war many of us
wished to reopen all accounts which bad
been paid in depreciated money, and have
them settled by the scale of depreciation.—
But on this he frowned most indignantly,
and, knowing the general indisposition of
the Legislature, it was considered hopeless
to attempt it with such en oppoilentat their
head as Henry. I believe he never distin
guished himself so much as on the similar
question of British debts in the ease of
Jones and Walker. lie had exerted a de
gree of interest in that case totally foreign
to his character, and not only seemed, but
had made himself learned on the
subject. Another of the great occasions on
which he exhibited exalaplea of' eloquence
such as probably had never been exceeded
was on the question of adopting the new
Constitution in 1788. Te this he was most
violently opposed, as is well known ; and
after this adoption he continued hostile to
it, expressing more than any other man in
the United Stater his thoieugheontempt and
hatred of General Washington. From be
ing the vilest of all anti-Federelists, however
he was brought over to the now Coustitution
by his Yazoo speculation, before mentioned.
The Georgia Legislature having deelaired
that transaction fraudulent and void, the
depreciated paper which he had bought up
to pay for the Yazoo purchase was likely to
remain on his hauds worth nothing. But
11. 4 olIne i 's funding system came most oppor
timely to his relief and suddenly raised his
paper from 2s. 6cl. to 275. 61. the pound.—
Hamilton pteame now his idol, and aban
doning the Repel Hun advocates of - the
Constitution, the Federal government on
Federal principles became hie political creed,
Gen. Washington flattered him by an ap
pointment to a mission to Spain, which be
declined; and by proposing to him the
office of Secretary of State, on the most ear
neet solicitation of General Henry Lee, who
pledged himself that Henry should not ao
eeept it. For General Washington knew
that he was entirely unqualified for it, and
moreover that his aalf-esteem had never
suffered him to act as second to any 112341
on earth. I had this &et from information,
but that of' the mission to Spain is of my
own knowledge, because, after my retiring
from the office of State, General Washington
passed the papers to Mr. fleny through nip
hands, Mr. Henry's apostacy sunk him to
nothing in the estimation of his country.--
He lost at once all the influence which Fed
eralism had hoped, by cajoling him, to
transfer with him to himself ; and a man
who, through a long and active life, bad
been the idol of his country beyond any one
that ever lived, descended to the grave with
less than its indifference, and vitrified the
saying of the philosopher, that no man must
be called happy till he is dead. —P/li/wiet
ph iu Age
MO' A forlorn printer's devil says thus
plaintively : 'When Susie's arms her dog
imprison, I always wish my nook was hia'n
bow often would I atop and turn, to
get a pat from halide like bern, and when
she kiwi Towne, nose, 0 don't I wish
that I were those.
AKIN.
BY BAYARD TAMIL
Little one, come to my knoe
Hark how the rain us pouring
Over the roof, in the pitch-black ti Qht,
Aud the wind in the woods a roaring
Hush, my darling, and listen,
Then pay for the story with kisses;
Father was lost in the pitch-black night,
In just such a storm as this is I .
Held up on the lonely mountains,
Where the wild men watched and waited ;
Wolves in the forest, and bean in the bush,
And I on my path belated.
The rain and the night together
Came down, and the wind came after,
Bending the preps of the pine tree roof,
And mapping many a rafter.
I crept along in the darkness,
Stunned, and bruised, and blinded—
Crept to a fir with thick-sot boughs,
And a sheltering rock behind it.
There, from the blowing and raining
Croachiug, I sought to hide we ;
Something rustled, two green eyes shone,
And a wolf lay down beside me.
Little one, he nut frightened,
I and the wolf together,
Side by elide, through the long, long night,
Hid tom the awful weather.
His wet fur presied against me ;
Each of us warmed the other ,
Each of as felt, in the stormy dark,
That beast and man was brother.
And when the falling forest
No longer mashed in warning,
Estit of U 4 went from our hidiug•place
Forth in the wild, wet morning.
Darling, kiss me payment!
liark how tho wind is roaring ;
Father's house is a better place •
When the stormy rain is pouring !
Magacity of the Deur.
Sever I anecdotes related to me by our
guide &morning the habits of the black
bear, would seem to entitle him to a higher
position in the scale of animal iuNtinet and
sagacity than that of almost any other quad
ruped. For instance,• ho said that before
making his bed to lie down, the animal in
variably goes several hundred 3 arils with
the wind, at a distance from his track.—
Should en enemy now come upon his track,
he must approach him with the wind ; and
with the bear's keen sense of smell, he is
almost certain to be made aware of his Ares-
once, and has time to escape before he is
himself seen. lie alto states that, when
pursued, the bear sometimes takes refuge
in cares in the earth or rocks, where the
hunter often endeavors, by making a smoke
at the entrance, to force him out; but it not
unfrequently happens that, instead of com
ing out when the emoke becomes too op
pressive, ho very deliberately advances to
the fire, and with his fore-feet beats upon it
until it is eatinguklted ; then r2treata
the cave. This, he assured mc, ho had of
ten seen.
Although these statements would seem to
endow Bruin with something more than
mere animal instinct, and evince a concep
tion of the connection between cause awl ef
fect, yet another anecdote which was rela
ted to nu: would go to prove this curious
quadruped one of the moat stupid fellows in
the brute creation. My informant says tb'rt
when the bear cannot be driven out of the
cave by smcke, it sometimes become nec
essary for the hunter to take his rifle, and
with a torch to enter the cavern in search of
him. Ooe would suppose this a very haz
ardous undertaking, and that the animal
would ►won eject the presumptuous intruder,
but on the contrary, as soon as he sees the
light approaching, he sits upright on his
haunches, and with his fore-paws covers his
face and eyes, and remains in this position
until the light is removed: Thus the hun
ter is enabled to approach as close as be de
sires without danger, and taking deadly aim
with his faithful rifle, poor Bruin is sluin.
These facts have been stated to me by three
different Indians, in whose veracity I have
touch confidence, and I have no doubt are
strictly true.
LYING IN BED.—It is often a question
among people who are unacquainted with
the anatomy and physiology of men, whether
lying with bead exalted or level with the
body, is the moat wholesome. Most, con
sulting their own ease on this point, argue
in favor cf that which they prefer. Now,
although many delight in bolstering up their
beads at night, and sleep soundly without
injury, yet we declare it to be a dangerous
habit. The vessels in which the blood pass
es from the heart to the head are always
lessened in their cavities when the head is
resting in bed higher than the body ; there
fore, in all diseases attended with fever, the
head shou'd be pretty nearly on a level with
the body; and people ought to &custom
themselves to sleep thus, and avoid danger.
—Medical Journal.
118. Two school teachers in Indiana fell
out and had a fight. A great crowd was, of
course, the necessary consequence. A ner
vous individual cams np, in breathless ea
citement, and inquired of a wag the cause.
"Why," said he, "they fell out about spel
ling the word 'bird.' " One said it was
"bra," and the other oontehded is was
"burl"
Mr An Irishmen had loft his native
catustry, and Naught an asylum in Amerlos
attack•
by a
..ok ) np a
P stans was
at, 'what
list loose
Accidents of simocki
Pat has long labored under the impute•
tion of making more "accidents" with the
tongue than any of his fellow mortals, but
it can bo very readily chosn that the "bull"
is not necessarily indigenous to Irish soil.
A Frenchman named Callon, who died in
Paris not many years ago, was remarkable
for a bovine tendency. There is a letter
of his in existence as follows :—"My dear
friend : I left my knife at your lodgings yea.
terday. Pr.,y send it to me if you find it.
Yours, Callon, P. S.—Never mind send•
ing the knife I have found it."
There is a note to hie wife, which be sent
Lome with a basket of provisions, the post.
script to which read : "You will find my
letter at the bottom of the basket. If you
should fail to do so, let me know as ma as
possible,"
It is said of this same character that on
one occasion he took a lighted taper to find
his way down stairs without accident, and
alter getting down brought it blok with
thanks, leaving himself at the top of the
stairs in the dark as at first.
A lady once asked the Abbe de Matig
non how old he was. "Why, I am only
thirty-two," said he, "but I count myself
thirty-throe, because a little boy was born
a year before I was and died, evidently
keeping me book a whole year by tool
dent."
It was a Scotch woman who said that the
butcher of hor town only killed half of a
beast at a time.
It was a dutchman who said a pig had no
car marks except a short tail ; and it R 24 a
British Magistrate who, being told by a
vagabond that he was not married, respond
ed, "That's a good thing for your wife,"
At a prayer meeting iu New Hampshire,
a worthy layman spoke of a poor boy whose
father was a drunkard and whose mother
was a widow.
At a negro ball in lieu, of "Not transfer
able" on the tickets, a notice was posted
over the door, 'No gentleman admitted un
less he comes hissolf."
Au American lecturer of note polainly
sail one evening, "Parents, you have chil-
dren, or if you have not, your daughters
may have,"
A Western editor once wrote :—"A cor
respondent asks whether the battle of Wa
terloo occurred before or after the corn
mencewent of the Chri.dian era, We an
ewer it did,"
Those two observing men, one of whom
said he had always noticed, that when he
limd through the month of May, be lived
through the year, and the other of whom
said ate wedding be had remarked that
more women than men had been married
that yesr, were neither of them Irishmen.
Wake up, Solomon
"Wake up, Solomon. It's time t o g el,
up," shouted young Harry to his sluggish
brother one End Jll3 , morning, as be lump
ed gaily out of bed, arid began (Irelilt% •
"What time is it ?'' yawn,!(l :!olonton.
"Nearly replied his brother "and
mind, Sol., wo start at eoveu.'
"It's too early W get up yet,'' said Solo
mon. •! snooze till a quarter to seven."
So the hay fellow turned round, and was
soon fast asleep again. When he awoke his
room looked very full of sunshine. The
house was very quiet, too, and rubbing his
eyes, he muttered,--
"I wonder if it is seven &clock yet ?"
Crawling out of bed, he dressed himself
and went down stairs. There was nobody in
the parlor, nobody in the sitting room, no
body in the dining room.
"What can be the matter?" thought Sol'
onion, as he rang the bell for the maid to
bring him his breakfast.
"Where arc they all?" he asked, aa soon
as she appeared.
"Gone to the city," replied the maiden•
"They started two hours ago•"
"Why, what time is it?"
"Nine o'clock."
"Nine o'clock ! But why didn't they call
me 7"
"You were called at mu o'clock, and
wouldn't get up. Your father would've
have you called again. He said he would
teach you a lesson."
"It's too bad 1 " cried Solomon, dropping
hie head upon the table and bursting intd
tears.
it was tco hal that the lazy boy did not
learn the lawn of that morning so se to
turn over a new leaf in the book of life. I
am sorry t ) say be did not. He loved sleep.
He hated work, Ile was the blare of lazy
habits, and is to this day.
What sort of a man will Solomon Slow.
ooach be? Well, if he don't die of idle.
noes before ha becomes a man, be will be
a shiftless good-for.nothing fellow. He
won't have any knowledge, because be is
too hut" to stub. ; nor any money, because
he is too lazy to work ; nor any good char
acter, because he is too !sty to conquer him
self.
Wake up, Solomon 1 Woks up, my dear
boy ! Shake off the chains that are upon
you! If you don't wake np you will boon
be a lost boy. Wake up, Solomon, wake
up ! If you don't, you will make ahlpwreok
of your lite.
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NO. 23.