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.11314.. GMO. UT: BTELDICII.
'TIENTIST, careftilly e..tende to ell operations
ly upon the teeth and adjacent parts thutdis
ease OJ irregularity may requite. Ile win also
insert Artificial 'Peep' of every description.
such es Pivot, Single and . Block tr etli, and
teeth with "Continuous Gums;" and will con
struct Arttfictul Palates, Obturators, Reg
Pines, and every appliance used in the
Dental Art.—Operating Doom at - the residence
of Dr. Samuel Eltiott, East High St. Carlisle
Pr; '011:1033.G.M Z. 131111T71,
Alitt...7-Y:
tiWILL perform a
~... •• *.f.‘04,..1.
luttrr ° i7l.29rir operuons upon the
,'''''''' " , teeth that may he re
required for their preservatton. Artificial teeth
Inserted, from a single tooth to seen ire set, of
the mist scientific principles. Diseases ci the
1 , 1 tutt.ind irre4ularities carefully treated. 01
file at the resides so of his brother, on North
Pitt street."Carlisle
DR. l r . C. LOOTVZIS,
W ILL perform all
crrat.„,
utzet,WopOratious upon the
Teeth that are requi
red far their preservation, such as Sealing,Filing
Plugging, &c, or will restore, the loss of them,
by inserting Artificial Teeth, from a singletoo.lll
to a fall sett. DZYOlfice on Pitt street, a few
d torejtouh.of the Railroad I - Trtel. Dr. L. is al ,
en t heal Carlisle the last ten days of evert ,
month.
WILMINGTON HOTEL.
C. G. STOUGII having taken the "Washing•
ton lintel," lately kept by Mr. FL L. Burkbol.
_der._in pre pit re.11..1 cchm TPA fitg. litiLlrlcpsts
and the public generally. Every effort will be
made to give full satisfaction to such as may
_ favor. him .with their_ patronage. Tgrans_mod7
trace. [Carlisle, May 10. 1854.,
pßovz CALIFOB3IXA
~r: =~
~~`~~
~~r~~~,
VON lIEIIJEN respectfully informs the'
; citizens of Carlisle nod vicinity. that lie
has jot returned from California, and is prepa
red to en scale all kinds of work connected with
his line of business. lie has always on hand a.
large as , ortment of ready mode
Rifles. Guns, Pistols, Locks,
Keys, Gait Tritninings. &e. allot which lie will
sell wholesale or retail. fie also attends to re
pairing Guns, clucks locks; &e; engraves on
brass, copper and iron. lie hopes that by strict
attention to business, and a desire to please, he
will merit and receive public patronage.
ssrtf.sidence— West Main street, opposite Cro
zier's lintel.
VT' Alf kind+ of Fire Arms made to order.
Apl 11154-1 y
SPLENDID oIrEWLLEIn .
Holiday Presents, &lc,.
THOMAS CONLYN
'West High strect,ll few
, doors west ol Iturkhol
c./3 'Hotel, Carlisle
`l 3 has just eceived the
and moat elegant
assortment 01
SUPERIOR JE‘t ELRY
ever itilered• in Carlisle, consisting in Part I
Gold and Silver Wdehes ol evi ry variety, arid
at all prices; eiglii-day CLOCKS. Silver table
and tea sooons, silver table fortis and butter
knivex, gold and silver spectacles, ladies' and
gentlemen's gold pen and pencil, gold chains ol
everydescription, ear awl finger rings, breast
pins, &a. qt all . prices. Also Accordeons and
iltisical Boxes, with a great variety or Fancy
Articles, Belot:led expressly for the Holidays.
Persons desiring to purchase are invited to cal:
and examine the assortment. We are prepared
to sell at very reasonable pikes, Quality ol
' all goods warranted to lie as fine so sold for.
THOMAS CONLYN,
West High Street•
Dee ?R, 1853
2134 , , , 1'0vezz a
SPRING , rasxxxoras!
rraE subscriber desires to inlorin his old ens•
JL tumors and the public
. 1/1111 he line temporn•
rill reingved his establishment lour doors south
of hi; old stand, oil North ILinover street,where
be It last opened a large assortment of
800 I'S, SE-10ES. GAITE.RS, &c.
whichscannot be surpassed in style, quality and
price, and to which he invites the attention of
the public
LADIES' WEAR
For Ladies and Misses his stock is well se'
' ce d e d and complete, Cole prising the (Oust lush*
ionable styles of Congress. Silk Gaiter:, color.
ed French Gaiters, Morocco Boots. hoard atilt
palest. leather, or all colors sod qualities, to•
go her . with Missos . Gatt‘ rs, and auull supply oh
every description of Boots Shoes and Limners
for Ladies, Misses and Childrens• N‘ear,at oil
pricer.
GENTLFAIEN'S WEAR
Calf, Nip and Coarse Boots of Moretti qualities
and prices; black and drab 'Congress Genera ;
patent leather Sultan Walking Shoes; Alimte•
re yfies and Pemps,'patent lea.her and cloth
fancy 'roilet Slippers, Sie. A lull assortment
of the above styles' of Boys' wear. Also a
general assortment of ' UM( Kip attd: coarse
Alottrees and- Shoes at all prices.
extensive suet of mew and fashionable
styles has been selected with great care and the
quaky is warranted. They only need to be
ortat olned to be appraed. He also dominoes
to manufacture all kinds of work as before.
0 - Itips - will be repaired gratis. • Foolin g
_confident his roam tment will give entire satis•
faction, both as _regards -quality and price,.be
respectfully solicits public mittunage.
'writ ft 3. JONATHAN CORNMAN.
China s Glass and Queensware.
AI L]) housekeepereand young, with those also
'LA who are expecting to beimme huusekeep•
era,
tire invited to call at
11ALShIRT'S•POI.ILY GROCERY
and examine hie eitigant assortment of China,
Glass and .Queensware;and other netieles in
the housekeeping line, such as French and
Engli4h ten sets, heavy handed end pled,
YVfiito Granite, gilded end blue du,
Dinner sets of every variety and price,
Bowls and pitchers, turmoils.
Glass.wa•er--centre table and mantel lumps,
Candelabras and other lamps. great variety,
'Pablo and bar, tumblers. goblets, &e.
Fruirand prase; ye dish is, in variety,
Cedar•warc—tube, buckets, churns.' '
Ilona!' prints and Wier, meal buckets, &e.
Bruslies—sweeping, white wash', scrubbing,
!laid and shoe braeltes, duelers, brooms, &c.
Market, 'clothes and travelling:basket's.
Alan a choice assortment of Tobai - co utod Se
gars. Call yOwho are fond of ciMice brands oh
Sugars and try the• Principe's. fiegalins;
other'Cubn varieties, end you Will
find them of unimpr callable quality. ALSO ball
Spanish and Common Score. with . choice
Sault - and obeiwirtg tobacco. '
-The. Spring of .1854. .
wILL bo n.rnemorable one in-the iitilinte of
"AT • our florinig,ltior i the L A It G EST
,STOC K,• hadditirnest, cheap, at ,and -best
0 . 008 are riouil rapidly 'at Bentz
St Brothers nheapsiore. Our moult coneit•teol
Bkreges, Tissaus„Lawns,' Mirage ,tle
. Llins Pa, I3oges, Alpachas, Cali;
cues,
euea, Checks, Tit:hinge. Diapers. bi.O.•
Bonnets, Ribbon, Parasuls. klitis for summer,'
• Olpeueo flosiery, Edgings,. Spring'
Shawli, French Worked Collura, Trimmings,
Stet Cloths, Casaimers, yeetinge anilaumnito
stun fur Men and Buy's •Wocir, togSilter, with
'• n hirent' manynix' goods maittiontuhßei•Oi
but nn otatittitioion inn; stuck will' b-fouin`ifto
,he thu lanteetin Cuniberlaud county, ,anti will
A.Pril 12, 'f! , S. • • BENTZ & 1111.0TUERSJA
THERE ARE TWO THINGS, SAITH . .ORD BACON, WHICH MAKE A NATION GREAT AND PROSPEROUS,—A FLIIPILE SOIL AND nusy WORKSHOPS,—TO WHICH LET ME ADD KNOWLEDHE AND FREEDOM.—Bisho,
slutti;io of grand. ,
A PEDESTRIAN EXCURSION, i
081/LOGICAL FFATURES- FCENTFRY OF THE FUG
QUEIIANNA-SUNRURY, NORTHUMBERLAND,
DANVILLE, &IL, &O.
Mr. Editor—ln my last letter I gave you
some account of our peregrinations as far as
Georgetown. From there we held our course
up the river for nine miles to Jones' Tavern,
with nothing of special interest occurring ei
ther to enhance or to diminish the pleasUre of
our trip. It is true, We were greeted at every
step by swarms of mosquitos of which this re
gion seems to be unusally prolific but against
these voracious foragers on human blood, we
waged such a successful warfare of defense
that we came off tin almost every instance vic
torious from the scene of carnage, suffering
but a few slight,wounds, inflicted by the pene
tration of their stings through the interstices
of our impervious coverings. At 6 o'clock A.
M. on ,the 21st, we again resumed our mareh,..
and during this and the following day, our way
has been through some of the most delightful
and interesting portions of this or any other
region of our states. In our course we have
passed through Sunbury; Northumberland.
Dnnvillaand Catriviissa, four the most
notable little towns on the Susquehanna,
and_associated with some of the most thrillinr,•
incidents recorded in the history of our state.
Before I proceed, however, to give you the
results of our . Visits to these place's, I must
mention a geological feature of the country
passed over, which, to me has been a matter
of much interest, although my knowledge of
geology is so limited as to unfit me ft:: the
task of instructing you in the reason of every
thing. After leaving the calcareo argillaceous
region of Cumberland Valley, in most parts of
which; the lime Stone as you ore aware obtains
a decided predominance, we passed into an ar
gillo-arenaccons region, in which sandstone of
a- coarse, dark appearance abounded most
plentifully, accompanied with gravel and slate.
The water also, which had hitherto been strong•
ly impregnated with lime, became soft, an-I in
some, instances was chalybente This feature
of the country continued without interruption
until we arrived at Georgetown, where a vein
of limestone again protrudes itself to the sur
face, communicating to tho water a calcife
rous taste. After this, sandstone, gravel, and
slate again predominated, until within a few_
miles of ,Sunbury, where on leaving the road,
and confining ourselves exclusively to the riv
er's bank, sometimes creeping along hedges
of rocks, that jut out over the river in shaggy
cliffs, at others, sallying out and directing our
course hlong the water's edge, amid sandand
pebbles, we were again met i by limestone, in
larger quantities, than any we have seen since
we left Cumberland Valley.
The hillside, having been cnt down in places
to the depth of some thirty feet we had a fine
opportunity of examining the different strata
of which the hill was composed of at this place.
At first I Observed that to the depth of thirty
feet, strata of slate and limestone alternated, six
inches or more in thickness: a little further
on the slate disappeared, and solid blocks of
pure limestone formed the wall of the entire
cut. Again the limestone appeared mingled
with aluminous earth in globules of various
sizes and shapeS, as if formed by the infiltra
tion of the rock, in a fluid state, giving it the
appearance of irregular masses of lead cooled
ib variable moulds from a state of intense igni•
lion. This feature continued only for a (Wi
tt:nee of some two miles. .
The - reason why I have been thus minute in
describing a feature, which to many may pos
sess little or no interest, is founded in the o•
pinion that the peculiarity observed hero, is .a
geological feature of no mean importance. es
tending not only along the valley and great
mountains of l'ennsylvania,•hut also into Vir
ginia, where I have observed in nearly the
same longitude,tbo very same
.fcaturel of
country
The valley of Virginia, as Cumberland Val
ley, is a region abounding in limestone. Turn
ing west from Staunton, in a short time we
are lost in a chain of mountains, possessing
every respect, the geological phenomena men
tioned above. ,AnaloAlcally considered, this is a
fact worthy the attention of s ,prnetical men of
And why? simply because this is a
region of immense mineral Wealth„—coal and
non of various kinds abound. Why not the
samentinerel we:llth in' a region, possessed in
many respects,-of analogous features, and in
some respects similarly situated? My
.convic
tions aro that immense mineral resourceilie
buried in those regions of Virginia, which have
not been thoroughly explored by men of sci
ence, the discovery and development of which
are yet to enrich future ages. •
But I must return to my narrative. At
Stinbury we had the good fortune to meet a
graduate of our good 'old alma water, en ingen
uous, noble soul, who greeted us with the kind
ness of,o friend, and the warmth of a brother
Union. Our vinittto Sunbury was rendereid
highly interesting and instructive by the gen
crosityrind intelligence of our new acquaint
ance and friend, whose hopes and carriage
were soon at our trervice to convoy us to all the
places of interest in and about Sunbury. • ,
. .•.
MEM
Suninkry is an ':old town, having beep laid.
out by tlAt.'; sorveyor•goneral, John Lukins, a
bout ties year 1778. It is situated on the left
bank efilte,Suminchanua just shove Shamok
in dam, and contains at present a population
of about tricnty•five hundred'. The sight is
beautiful ? ' Above and below the town'-are high
ridges, giving:e'xtended Views of the
rich ~;nl
ley seatery which etreitMet; Up, and down the
river. • • •
fly Inilhe,inost beautiful nmciiig these views
ie that iake!i froia Cale's'alllll,.eti the Cute-
N‘lesa road, ebou a toile and a hair . abuye, the
town; to this , pialm we were conveyed oar
iiqgO,bY oi/O'riend 'Mr.,P. irho . not otilT the's'
gave ai; opportunity of, wittnisstrig one, of
the most ohm ming. piece's of varlegated:scene
. 47, have , inirr had the satisfaction 'of look-
ing upon; but hlso'entertnititil 'us with lino do.
oariptionti of the nin:routiitig . nduntry. the Ids
story of tlio' town, awl itsinturo brilliant pros,
. ,
It would be uselegs to attempt a description
of the scenery witnessed from this point, - such
as would convey to the reader an adequate idea
of its extent, complexity, and yet sorpaiSing
synimetry and beauty. From the highest
point on the hill the river is seen for ten
miles below in all its serpentine windings,
with its uumerotts verdant islands, scattered
over its surface like trees of evergreen in a
garden of flowers. Opposite the beholder is
the confluence of the two branches of the river,
the North and West:hranches. while Northum
berland at their junction, with its two bridges,
is in full view. ,The Blue Bill. too, opposite
Northumberland juts out into the river, pres
enting a bold and rugged front, sevetql hen
dret feet above the level of the river, upon
which at some distance up, is situated the cel
ebrated leaning observatory of the late eccen
tric John Mason.
For the Herald
BETLIVICR, July 16
To realize all the magnificence and gorgeous
beauty of this min.:Jed scene of art and nature,
the traveler should visit at the close of a clear
day, when the gilded sun, having icing since
accomplished his meridian transit :is hovering
for a few moments over the ~western hills, as
if reluctant to quit this scene of beauty. It is
then that his slanting rays fall like showers
of gold on the tranquil surface of the Western
Branch, scattering profusely over its peaceful
bosom a rich drapery of tinseled beauty, of
such exquisite hues as no artist can paint oh
fancy conceive: appreciable only to that Di
vinity who rules amid worlds of beauty.
the•-• - evenin g--vve. crossed over from
Sunbury to the opposite bank of the-Susque
hanna, in order to ascend the Blue Hill. visit
the Mason House, and spend the night in
Northumberland. The Mason house is situ
ated on Blue Hill nearly opposite Northumber
land. We reached it by a steep ascent of.one
mile from the right bank of the.main river. Ib
is a curious relic of bachelor itnnuity and
bachelor taste. There are on then Kisome three
or four small buildings, but none of there are
of special interest except s te i observatory,
which consists of a frame buil ing, about fif
teen feet square and thirty feet high, standing
immediately on the verge of a precipice which
is from two to throe hundred feet high, and al
most perpendicular. What is still more curi
ous, the structure itself leans over the preci
pice at an inclination of some 15 degrees mak , .
ing one tremble lest the next moment it go
tumbling headlong into the river. Upon the
top of this singular structure (around the per
imeter of which there is a wooden balustrade)
I was told this singular individual used to sit
with his glass for hours, and look over the
river, the town, and the surrounding country.
The prospeet is traly.grand , though surpassed
in beauty by that Mut Catawissa hill above
Sunbury. The weather•boarding on this little
building for ten feet above the ground is cov•
ered with the names of those whose curiosity has
led thorn hither to visit th issingular relic.
There are a few points in the history of timid
man which I was able to gather while in the
neighborhood although the accounts were very
conflicting.
Ile was bornin Philadelphia, Dec. 7th, I7GB,
and seems at one time to have possessed con
sider:loe property. Ile was engaged in the
lumber business at Northumberland, where he
is still remembered for his benevolence and
kindness, Through his attention to the witnt's
of others he sometimes lost sight of his own
interests. Ile never married, although he liv
ed to the age of 80 years. His remains now
rest within ten paces of the little observatory
above described, with nothing to mark the spot
but a simple marble stone, plainly chiseled
and bearing this inscription:
DEPARTED THIS LIFE ATI LONG BEACII FARM,
(Now Newberry, Lyeoroing C 0.,)
APRIL 25, 1819. -
AGED 80 YEADS, 4 bIONTITS Alp 18 DAYS
From the Mason House we crossed over the
West Branch of the river, on the bridge to
Northumberland.' The town is beautifully
situated immediately at the confluence of tho
two branches of the river, but from some cause
or other, it seems to have lost sight of the ad
vant4iges of its situation, and never to have at
tained' to that iinporninge which was antici
,pated by its founders, and which has often
since been predicted by travelers. "The
country expands behind the town in n semicir
cular form, rising in gentle swells toward
Monte„ur's ridge, which crosses between the
two rivers at a distance of about three miles.
Opposite the town, in the North Branch is a
long' and — belintiful isl nd. Two splendid
bridges connect this island with the main land .
on either share. Another splendid bridge,
which answers also nti a tow path crosses the
West Branch at its mouth." The town
inquiet
and rencefdl, and the citizens kind and oblig-.
lug, but the place seentsto want life and activ
ity. The . re mine enterprise among its inliabi
tante and the town bears the marks of age
with little of the taste of modern improvement,
Here at sun rise the next morning we visited
the'last resting place of tilevenerable Priestly.
I reached the spot a quarter of an hour in ad
vance of my comrades; and ,seated myself in
front of 'the plain marble stone, tint designates
the spot. where rest Ilia ashes. Others'mny'
think lightly, if they please, of the character
of title pima; old man, and Call him'an incon
sistent believer, or even an Infidel,' but as for
myself I have tt x'elerence: for 'his, name," and
could not suppress my emationslylien I for.the
first tine in my life stood before his lowly and
neglected grave..
.;
.
.Ithong!it of ':the pride and circumstance of
glorious : ivar" = tho. tattle of military heroes--
'the spleiidii Monuments and trophies that
have been reared to, the memory - the tour
dcr.OS pf 'our race 7 ,the heralded
. glory which
follows the' deeds of the villain who devastates
countries,mverturne hingdotits, turns out ujun:
'the world without t home or fri,endS,.the widow
and the'orplinn, larthu i tMltio hands in the, blood
of his kindred, and finally goes (low% to his,
'grave all coveredrith laiirels for leving.del
:uged thu world with , carnage, and dpiciii L.-4h
J. soy, rthought of such - aaniscreant, and how
'peer 'fallen hunatinity is'prono to idolize this
liumatiblood hound; and' then I turivid
gain; had gaged Upon 'the plain marble Stone,
and thought of,tlie ingratitude of mon, the fol.i
CARLISLE, PAL., WE , ' Ni . pSDALIV; AUGUST 9, 1854.
JOHN MASON,
DONN IN PII/LAPELPIIIA DEC. 7, 1768,
Vol' the race . , dad, the injustice done ttillie
world's real benefaetors until my heart wee
sick and my tears of sorrow wereaningled With
the dews of night• that DOW sparkled on the
delicate leaves of the simple wild rose which
grow at his feet.
July 22d at 10 o'clock A. M. we reached,
Dnnvillo,. At this place We had not time to
acquaint ourselves with all that would Lave
been of interest to know concerning the plan—
its wealth, resources &o. •
We visited the Montourlron Works, created,
and formerly owned.. by Col: Cli , ilitibers, but
now under the supervi . sion of - the - Messrs.
Droves. These works we learn are the most
extensive in the United States. One million
and a half dollars were expended in the con.
struction of the works. They employ the la
bor of fifteen hundred hands, who reside near
the worksin 800 small but neat houses pro
vided for themselves nod families. 20(1_Q tons
of iron per; month are here prepared for use
mostly tail - road iron, in the preparation of
which n ton and a half of omil is used to every.
ton of iron, worth from $2,30 to' $2,60 per
ton. In working the forgo 3 ninety-horse
power engines aro employed, equal to :two
hundred and seventy horse power.
Danville seems to be all life - and enterprise.
The populationln 1840 wns.estimated at 1000:
now I am informed it amounts to between
seven and eight thousand. Tito - canal runs
nearly thriiug the oe . ntro of the place. After
visiting the works, we ascended the contigu
ous IL quarter of a mile and were met
writ' another..of ihose grand - views for which,.
the Busquebnnna is so famous. From the
summit of ibis hill we could see down the riv ,
er to Northumberland, a distance of twelve
miles, up the river to Gitawissa, about nine
miles, and in every other direction proportion
ably. Danvill itself seemed almost at our feet,
and we could number the streets, count the
houses, and the number of pillars of the bridge
as easily as if we had gone to each point.
There are a number of these beautiful de ,
vation, all along up
. the Susquehanna, from
which views aro taken of the surrounding
country. At Sunbury I saw a beautiful paint
ing which had been taken from Catawissa hill.
there is a point just back of the town of nab-
lot on an elevated piece of ground, where
hero have been taken , some beautiful pro-
CJELEBS.
spectivo views
grltrt Galt.
UGLY AS SIN
, Well stranger, you''atr chawed• up pretty
coustderablo bad, awl tilat'a a fact. Bar or
ontnmount ?'
The scene was the country store nt the cress
roads, in the town of 11--which all who
have hunted or traveled much in 'Herkimer
county will recollect; and the polite interroga
tor was a large, bushy-whiskered, hair-laced
man, in a red flannel shirt, whose appearance
no lees than dialect, proclaimed him to he from
the far %Vest. It was evening, and it group of
loungers were smoking and chewing by the
open flea, whose wartntly•thouglit it was mid
summer night, was far from unplt(ariane.
The person to whom the question was ad•
dressed, partly turned his head towards the
speaker, but did not immediately reply; and
I took the opportunity of examining it more
closely than I had done upon his entrance.—
FIo without exception, the ugliest, most
pitiable specimen of humatty4 have ever seen.
One of his legs had been amputated above the
knee; his right hand was withered and con
tracted, as if by a severe burp ; his shoulder
had a curious hump; 'nticl t l ite 7 Cords of his neck
were so drawn and shortened' that the Cheek
seemed to rest upon t, as on a pillow. Ilis
eye lashes were gone, oral his blood shot eyes
were continually moving uneasily with their
raw and inflamed But more painful to
to the behOldor than all this, was a strange
undefined expression of fear and horror, which
was never nhsent from his face and which told
more strikingly than I is wounds, the story of
}some awful trial t) w ich be had been subjeo
ted.
With all this, helve •er, there was something
so mild and Ontlemanly in 'his manner that ho
'seemed to challenge and obtain the pity and
sympathy of every pea. ills entrance into
the store, apparently a total 'strangOir, had
checked the lively flow of the ordinary bar
room conversation, but .more then one chair by
the fire was Offered' him, and many a glance of
commiseration exchanged tteiween the haw! ,
era.
"Mir or entemount ?"repeated the Hoosier.
"I theaght;' said the stranger,'in the hollow
voice of a'consumptive, 'that' I should find
some one here to night who woundrecollect
me. I recognize many of your faces And
yet,' he added Badly, 'my own mother (lid not
know rue.'
• Therc'Was a quick movement in the group
about him at these words and every eye was
bent once more upon him But no one spolo.
4 Deacon Pelton,' returned the ugly man,
'your son Bill mai asesl to go to school to
gether•down at the creek.' • , •
'Lord help us,' said tie good old deacon, 'to
think of the changes I Well,' he added resign
edly,i 'it's--what mu I
ir w all come to.' It was
plain• that the elder wa fairly puzzled. '
'I never thought
. 11 lately,' punthed the
cripple, 'that. I . shpuli be obliged ., to tell my
name to my old aornpriqns aud friends. Look
at me again.' • • i
'No, no,' muttered , tl
audibly ; - lonadpok a d
much
tie I eon 00111fOrt1
. amp in'the red shirt
nt that follow in no
ly stagger under.'
taking a step or, two
ugly J991'8, fucc,•for
air and said :t d
orkine .• 1. •
the dencori, 'why we
But the, stora:lieeperl
forwertl,,tittzao Into tit , '
a moment with an cage
I .. . : N 4 e en La
iilibOrkii3a I' s
re,itte Ben
tioartl,you were clang.'
gniq enpn,'. said the
11 by a true story
'You will_heor tbot
pois , ooMer,;• •
UM
Tbdre wag nn nwhvr
rrlendo the liootLinni
!yv hair native 'doll
tboir. cinanion. BAC
bomenw•bitil for
From suolA 'Ornb'arrnion
odd ;-be,
puthping a tufa! again.
climuse for the old
with nil Welt ,
whisli• restrained ,
western 'inse t - who
time, ras‘Vholty free
Dint. gluelt, given td
.1115 ivill,` , but. I ebotild
like to 'know how you come so, just to keep
out of such a serape myself.'
crime here this evening,' gold the ugly
man, 'on purpose to meet ns many of my old
acqualhtances no I could, and tell my story. I
knew I should have to tell it some time or oth
er, and I wont to have it over, to feel that' my
misfortune is known, and that I am free from
questions.'
lie lilted his seat no if to obtain an easier
position, and continued:—
'Those of you who saw me to couple of years
since, will recollect that I was then, ns I had
been for many years previously, a warm and
active polittoiarMow that I have come home
to die among Sou, it seems of .little moment
who comes out the winner in these doubtful
races; but then it was a different thing to me,
and I believe I was never wonting in any ser
vice which my party asked of me, from the
tiMe of the election of the good old General
Harrison, who is I trust', In a better plane than
the 'White Houk' now'
' Amen !' said the red shirted man, Solemn-
, When I emigrated to Ohio two years since,'
continued Larkins, carried my enthusiasm
with me, and became pretty well known in the
section of country about tie village of
where-I settled. You must remembei:, at least
all of you who rend the newspipete, that our
lost gubernatorial election was an unesually
exciting one. I belonged to one of the State
General Committees, and as the retains on
election day name in by express, we bean to
grow fairly wild. We had before hand made
all the necessary arrangements to have the ear
liest fintlielitie nevi's of the reiult posted off to
the New York papers, and I agreed to see that
a certain budget of returns which we expected
to receive during the evening should be sent
into the town of some thirty miles dis
tant, by the railway, as soon its it arrived, and
had chartered 'an engine, which' was to be io
readiness at eleven o'clock that night.
"Well, the bu lget cache promptly at the
time, and the news was quite as favorable'as
we desired, and much more so than we expect
ed. I suppose it was this fact that so sudden
ly determined me to carry the intelligence on
myself. At any rate, I hastily resolved to go.
on the locomotive, and seizing the returns, I
ran down so the depot, where the engine. was
fired up and whistling its readiness for a start.
It:wae but the work of a moment to persuade
the engineer to take me - With him, for the fire
man who was to accompany him was nowhere
to be found, and the engineer had resolved to
run over the, track alone. I voluteered at once
to assist him as well as I could, and immedi.
ately mounted the engine.
"It was a dark and will, though nwerni
night, and everything gave indications of en
approaching storm. Fearfully black clouds
were rolling up in the sky, and what,waaa
rather singular phenomenon at that season of
the year,•the lightning was flashing vividly,
and the thunder was muttering,ns grandly Re
in a summer shower. But the excitement of
success banished every sensation of fear from
my mind; we both knew that we had the right
of way, and, so far as human ingenuity and
foresight could protect us, there was no dan•
ger of running at any rase of speed at which
steam could drive us. Careful men had during
the day been sent forward to FCC that each
switch was in its place; the night train from
B— was to wait for our nrriVid; the road
was reasonably straight; and; except the or.
dinary dangers from defective rails or axle
trees wo had nothing to apprehend.
"It was thirty miles, as I said,,..to B—.
'What time oan you make it in ?' said I to the
engineer as I got upon the platform with him.
I onoe ran over the road in three-quarters of
an hour with an engine,' replied ho. 'Make it
a half hour this time,' cried I, 'and I will give
you twenty dollars. Every minute is worth a
fortune„ I must have been insane. The flush
of victory, after so many weeks of enthusins•
.tic struggle, had almost, if not quite, turned
my brain. Just at this moment the engineer
discovered that the light in front of the engine
was burning thinly, and threatening to expire
IVith an anathema upon the negligent fireman,
- he le iped down to examine it. The-lamp had
not been filled. 'For Gods oak,' shrieked I,
when - learned the fact, 'don't stop for that
trifle; I can travel in the dark if you can.—
You are not afraid ?' I continued, tantingly.
as the'enginceaStill hesitate I, can ride to
the devil ns cooly as you ea ,'he rejoined cheer
ily. and resuming his post, st ;led the machine
"As we emerged from the station house, I
remember thinking I had never seen a blacker
night. The first motion of the engine had ex
tinghished our lightl — ntstor NVIIF to be seen
in the heaven; end tile JeW lighted windows
which dotted the landscape here and there only
added to the general - gloom of the scene.—
Fliished and wild as I was, I experienced n
thrill of. horror tur the engine plunged madly
into the darkness. I strained my .eyes until
they itched; I held my breath and contracted
my muscles, us if falling, so rapid seemed the
rate at which we were flying.
t't But n new and pleatilintert4nsation soon
took the place of this terrqr. None but those
who have actually experienced it can imagine
the maddening delight which excessively mild
motion produces. We were under full head
way, and with no lorid to retord our speed.—
Now and then 'a lighted window by the side of
the track flew past us like a motor; while
farther If in. the gloom, q solitary taper would
sometimes seem madly striving to emulate our
pace—soon distanced, however, and soon lost,
In lees time than I havo'been talking, we had
arrived at ti little village, where the limps in
the street were burning, and which I knew
was juStlen miles fromW--,—. I stooped
do vin . and"examined we toli by the•hght , or
UM engine lire. We travelled the first tMt .
Miles, in less than ten minutes". Faster!', I
shouted madly' to the engineer, nal stemmed'
another ping stick under the ' But it
was,hardly possible tcncoolerate'ourapeed:--
Thewheels / actually leaped along. the:rails.—
'll43feW dr'ops of ruin which , Commionally:-felb•
4itruok-agaltitit toy' face' like Tim
iltololl yillititiOLkPpt up nmendiebs shriek, as.it
the 'engine whre'some tnonstroits goblin, tor- ,
tured'bryond , andUrsuoiti•by an inhuman fiend,'
while tine ricep bays of'th'e itio'ren!iini thunder
yninglod..vvlpn the wilii:rattle of our wliCels, and
formesd a chorus which the Furies:might have
envied. As nay ears Were gradually stunned
by these complicated noises, nod mreyes
wearied by their unnatural exertions, I fancied
that I heard other noises and saw other sights,
which could have been only the prodnet , of a
bewildered brain. 'As we dashed lute some
gloomy gorge, I FCCITIod to hear angry voices
warning and uphitnitling me; as we flew over
some lofty embanlimetp 1 saw dark spirits in
the air, who waved Ineith with wild gestures,
or struck at me 1\ Airiy bliaes. The light
nings became more vivid and frequent.' Now
they showed us the threatening crags that
overhung our path, and now they lichted up
a raging torrent far beneath us. My compan
ion, however, wad - ns calm and completed as
though his cr dle had been rocked by tempests.
The' flashes by which I occasionally caught 11.
glimpse of him, gave, it is true, an unnatural
ghastliness to his face, but his manner was as
cool and cellented as I had always known it.
I could feel him managing the engine as quiet
ly an I carefully as if it was a. summer's day,
and-he had the lives of It hundred passengers
to answer for, besides his own.
'•A few minutes—ten or twelve perhaps—
hatielapsed since I. had looked et my watch,
rind I had begun to think that our journey's
end was near. We were passing, as near as (
could judge by the sourul of the wind, over a
level, open tract of country, when I - fancied I
felt n momentary jar; on light, however, and
unimportant, that p it would have passed (rota
my recollection it •once, had it not been for
what -- followeck — Just -- at that - moment; a-longer—
and brighter dash of lightning than I had ever
before seen, attended-not-followed, by an aw
ful crash of thunder, lit up again this surroun
ding scenery. • Bit high above the deafening
peal, above the lesser thunder of the wheels,
above the raving of the wind, I heard n shriek,
a shout of horror, so 'wild, so awful, so like
the utterance of a lost soul, that it vexes my
dreams to.,this hour. It was a sound which
no physical pain could have elicited front a
human being, which nothing but supernatural
fear could have produced, and which no ono
who once heard it could _ever banish it front
his recollection.
' , lnvoluntarily I felt for my companion. He
was gone! I grouped hastily about the con
fined space in which we had been standing,
and at once realized the nature of
,my situa
tion. I Was alone upon an engine which woo
tearing madly forward, at the rate of sixty or
sevnty Miles an buur, rapidly approaching my
destination, about to dash hen* ng, at Still
speed, into the mid . st of an eager and excited .
crowd, and with no more knowledge of the
management or government of the crazy thing
than an infant. For an in s tant I was thorough
ly paralyzed by fear. Coltl drops ofperspira•
Lion stood upon my brow, and I fairly scream
ed in impotent agony. But in a moment more
I recovered myself. I had some indistinct no
tion the speed of an engine was accelerated
or checked by operating the levzrs which stood
by my side, and forthwith commenced a series
of experiments with them. 11.zt my untkil.
fulness or agitation prevented my employing
the propei• means, and I fancied I had only
increased the speed. Another resource 11 tolled
upon me. I might pull out the blaziud woad
ntid coals and reduce the fire. It was a mad
idea, for my ungloved hands were my only
tools for the Miterprize ; bn; I chuckled wildly
to myself as I thought how feasible it was, and
how secure of success. Eagerjy I stooped
down and pulled out n flouting stick from be
neath the - boiler. The seething pitch scalded
my hands and the live etnbers burned them
cruelly; but I hardly felt the pain, as I hurl
ed it frantically into the dot linens.
" But I did not stn )p 7ain. For no I tur•
n'ed to continue my vain tbcrs. another flash,
one of those lingering, wavy,. (lancing flashes,
which seemed to lorry as if delighting to gaze
upon the terror they cause, once more lit op
' the' scene. I trust that' death will efface its
horror from my mind. I know that I can nev
er forget it on this side of the grave. The
81)1'4 of my ccmpaniod which was otill ring
ing in my ears, no longer surprised MO. /no
longer wondered at his mad leap from the on
gine. It was the excess of my terror alone
which prevented my following his example.—
' I no longer cared for .the murderous speed of
the locomotive; I no longer thought of my
own danger. All utheivings, all leors . for my•
self, were swallowed tip and merged in one
vast, 'shudddeting, iudeszribable horror. For
there, just before me upon the boiler, with its
lips parted into a fiendish grin, with its eyes
wide open, and storing upon me, and the glare
imparting a life like glow to its stony features;
there, within reach of any palsied fond, even
as I shrunk back In craven , fear to the farthest
limits of my moving
, prison, sat a pale, gory,
hideous, and mangled Human Heed.
"You smile, gentlemen," continued the ugly
man, with to inelancholAair, "and it seems to
me that if I should 7n.l4._the story , told by
another as yotraro now doing, in a quiewootn,
with a firm floor beneath my feet, a cheerful
fire before me,' and friendaaroMni, I should do
the some thing; but believe me,'' dropping his
voice so low that I could hardly hear hint, "it
is IL different thing in to wild night s alone, and
l i,
with a sudden d awful death impending over
. .
"Keep mo , y - gvstranger," said rho man in
the red shirt, en/eking a hickory nut, "it's , a
hood as a Bullion. Pass en to the second
head. ' ---
you."
"It could, of course," punned the ugly mar,
without heedi'ng the untimely jest, "he but:a
few minutes, or perhaps seconds, bidoro this
terrible dre'am must conclude ; but no prison.'
or ever longed for 'freedom as 'I did. for the
final otStoh, Which Idtnew would end. My life
end torment tOgothor. I made no'•forthor
form to stop he locomotive. I was, hardly
nWare that' it'wasMill tearing
. !nadlY on. ne
though frhiti toned like mysOlf,'itt its 0111141 y
burden.' The lightning still Ibis:mil 'rit inter: '
U,kla,' rind illuminated tlio .clayey' face; but
iW not need is-gleams to see thb horrid
For through. die pitchy chillness npd, the blind.
rain, it glared uponmO-,ea I hod Wield it
t' imagination..
t tynktlint terrorloul so sharpened tny.vlisibtis
tlint. though all Ohm was wytippod in dmpene 7
frithie gloom I could see'its glossy eyeballs,
its 'pallid chooknoind its bloody, grinning'
tRillllll.
. •
"1 have Since learned-LI do .not think that,
VOL. LtV NO 49
I knew at the tinic—that all this while, the
fire-wood in tho•tepder behind tne was blazing
furiously. It - bed caught either by a spark
from the engine;or, which is more probable
from the burning stick which,,,l had on hastily
toQiied nwny. But, ns said, I . - do not know•
that I woe aware of it: if I had been, it could
not have added another pang of terror to my
heart; and I only mention it gow as nn inci
dental element in the .horror of my situation,
and also for the fact that the unusual light nl
mined:the watchers at the station, and puttng
them upon their guard, prevented any destruc
tion of life on my arrival.
, •I can never bring myself to beleve that so
short a time "elapsed, ns I know must have .
passed, before the wild awful vision ceased
lt seems to me now, and always when I recall
that dreadful night, ns though I must have--
spent hours braced back against• the tender,
sot during to take my eyes from the spectral
face, pnrolized and crony with fright, my hair
like reeds, and the cold sweat bursting from
every pore. During all this time, I knew that
I never regarded the incident as any either
than sepernntural. If it had occurred to me
dial it wins nothing but what it seemed, a dead
head, perhaps, Possibly, I might have rallied.
But there was somthing so hellish in that stony,
gaze, alone visible through the - tinurkey nighty
the earth and earthly incidents were alike for
gotten by tee. Heavens thought I, is this to.
hist forever?, Am I dead, and :are these the
torments of the damned ? Will this torttire .
spier Inns's nn_zrt? •
The end woe even then nt hand. I shot
Past brilliantly lighted streets, whose bright,
new made the corpse glare still more hideous
ly upon me, I heard shouts of fear nod warn-
log, bet they could not distract my attention.
I caught glimpses nt the station of the groups
of agonized and horror stricken faces: what
were they to the distorted features of the Head
before me? A crash, a feeling of denth-like
sickness, and when I awoke, a midnight ride
had been the rounds of all the newspapers,
and been forgotten."
The ugly man arose and adjusted Isis crutch,
as if to leave.
'Pray, sir," said a little, Silent man from
corner, in nn excited manner, and speak..
for the first time, "was that the engineer's
MSS
"Oh ! no," answered the narrator, with-an
air of relief, as though he was glad his tale
was ended; "I learned when I got well enough
to talk and ask questions, that the engineer
ernwledinto the town about dawn the follow
ing day weary, torn, and bleeding, but without
any permanent injuries. The head belonged
ton poor maniac, who had often attempted the
Strangest forms of suicide; and that. evening.
escaping from his confinement, had lowered
himself down into a cattle ditch., keeping his ,
head some six inches above the surface of the
road: The cow-catcher, no he probably inten
ded it should do, had cut his head cleanly and
smoothly off, and had thrown it so high that
it lodged end stuck where I first saw it. His.
body was afterwards found unmangled in the
ditch beneath. And that neighbors, is the way
I came to be the wreck you see me."
"That's n right smart yarn. now stranger,"'
snid the ninn in, the red shirr, "and Loupposo
likely enough to happen on 'some of them
"Wu rails;'Little River Rond—l
stop down to Little River-when I'm tn home--
thry don't allow noWead heads.",--Knicherbocker.
WIPE LOST AS SOON AS POUND
INCIDENT ON TUE RAILROAD.—A correspon
dent of the Port Huron Commercial command.
c des the fo lowing to that journal:
At the time-and place of nine ing tI ail
of cars, ofmntimes amusing incidents occur.
I must record ono of the most ludricous, and
at the same time awsward affairs. In punning
by the Ingersoll station, there was a great'
crowd of people who bad escorted a collide
who hail been joined in the bonds of wedlock.
tll were smiling as the morning sun. Tho
'baggage had been checked for Detroit, where
they were destined 11's tip ir bridal trip. The
couple was seritod in the oars, which only tar
ry in few moments, when the bridegroom, at her
Suggestion, stepped out to some cakes:—
While inching clajtige the whistle blew, and
Midi trains started. lie jumped on /111(1 pas
sed out, and after very leisurly stowing away
the cakes in his pocket, he started forward to
hunt his bride. Ire looked 'ill through the
train without finding her,'nnd then- accosted
ibeeenductor ns 'follows, in great excitement:
say, captain some of the passengers are left:
.Cantlielp it sir,' replied the condUctor. 'But,'
says the bridegroom, was married this mor.i
tulng,ond my wife Wait ationfraid ,r dent see
how she got Out.' The conductor seeing what
a fix he was in, end where the mistake woe,'
asked him Where 'ho wee going, to which he
replied,that halves going Is Detroit. 'Well .
then,' says the conductor, 'yea are the one who
got out. ,You are now dajtik towards the Ni
agara falls." .Great, God, is that so 1' Well
"top ~the care immediately,' says the bride
groom. 'COIN, rib it,' says the conductor. ""We
never stop for anything,"But,' says the man,,
I nut just married this morning, and hero I eat,
going ono way and my wife the other. : Was
. evev l ,rt man in snob a fix, and the captain watt
stop the cors.'• 'I know it is a bed fix to ho
in,' said the * conductor; 'hut I edn't help it. I
know how you feel, I hove boon married, aly•
self, but I muat obey orders.' By this time _a:
crowd 'in the oars had collected around the tin.
fortunate men, all of whom knew the whole 0f, , .
fnir t A, lantern jawed specimen of a Yntikeo,
'tear, hearing it all, put in a word 'or two:-. 7 "
Look a hero old follow :you have got , to grin
find Pear it., I wish I could belt 'yen as you
linve.rnisetdnil my, feeliege. put I say, con
tinued he, 'I gess she won't take anybody else,,
for you; 'when 11110 gets to Detroit,' for :they:-
don't hbve'riiiy.ef that kind:' 'TiMt kind,' said ,
a Married njtc r n, "teltatclu you mean?' , "Why,'
saysthe Yankee, "they don't liave any so up,
ly.' This led to a row and thfnexeltement be-
bog over,' I, left for my seat, and laughed for
Lou minutes nt least. . •
taia'n c,riii;),tioe;l,y .
Ain °gun sometvlint glvim . to 4trone
"1 would liho a quantum of opiritn, axon&
mint of molasses in conitinotiori h -'•isqiiixiiiittio•
vr,yer ; lint dl3l;l)iirioty l ivlth t,:"413,80111";#101
Man of r • ,•
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