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THE IVOUIWIOI'SE CLOCK.
What a life-like "picture in little" is this by
lloon of the "torrent of rugged humanity" that
eets toward an English poor-house, at the sound
of The Work-House Clock ! Remark, too, rea
der, the beautiful sentiment with which the
extract closes :
There's a murmur in the air,
And noise in every street ;
The murmur of many tougue9,
The noise of many leet.
While round the work-house door
The laboring classes flock ;
lor why ! the Overseer of the Poor
It etting the work-house clock.
Who does not hear the tramp
Of thousands speeding along,
Of either sex, and various stamp,
Sickly, crippled and strong,
Walking, limping, creeping,
Frem court and alley and lane,
lut all in one direction sweeping,
Like rivers that seek the main 1
Who Joes not see them sally
from mill and garret and room,
In lane and court and alley,
From homes in Poverty's lowest vallcv.
Furnished with shuttle and loom:
I'oor slaves of Civilization's galley
And in the road and footways sally,
As if for the Day of Doom ?
Some, of hardly human form,
Stunted, crooked, and crippled by toil,
Iingy with atuoke and riut aud oil,
And smirched beside with vicious toil,
Clustering, mustering, all in a swarm,
Father, mother, and care-full child,
Looking as if it had never smiled ;
The seamstress lean, and weary, and wan,
With only the ghosts of garments on ;
The weaver, her sallow neighbor,
The grim and sooty artisan ;
Every soul child, woman, or man,
Who lives or dies by labor !
At last, before that door
That bears so many a knock,
Ere ever it opens to Sick or Poor,
Like sheep they huddle and flock
And would that all the Good and Wise
Could see the million of hollow eyes,
With a gleam derived from Hope and the skies,
Upturned to the Work-House Clock 1
Oh ! that the Parish Towers,
Who regulate Labor's hours,
The daily amount of human trial,
Weariness, pain, and self-denial,
Would turn from the artificial dial
That Btriketh ten or eleven,
And go, for once, by that older one
That stands in the light of Nature's sun
And takes its time from Heaven !
ENGLISH DESTISITV.
The North American, of Feb. 11, alludes to a
superstition of Sir Walter Scott, that the middle
of every century had always been marked by
some great convulsion or calamity to the British
Empire. So fixed was this superstition on Sir
Walter's mind, that he confidently predicted,
and repeated the prediction but a short time
before his death, that England had much to fear
&t the middle of the present century.
It is curious to go back and mark the grounds
n which this singular prediction was founded.
In 1743, England was invaded by Charles Ed
ward the Pretender, and had he been allowed to
liave followed the dictates of his own courage,
and advanced on London, the Hanoverian dyna
sty might Lave ended. About 1G40, was the
great civil war of the Parliament against the
KlIJg, who was beheaded in 1G49. Near 1550
m the important struggle between the Protes
tant and Romish churches. 1450 was noted for
wars of the Roses. In 1350, it would be
jufficult to find a parallel. The English were
then engaged io. their wars oa the continent
under Edward III. and the Black Prince; nor
18 necessary to go further back, for aU that
find is the Norman conquest of 10CG.
i JJle of the present century has been
cied, and finds the English Empire the most
cn81Te and powerful in the world, and yet
h tie elements of insecurity in her entire
onatruction. The inequality of property, the
rjing condition of many of her laboring poor,
"amense load of debt under which she stag
"S' anJ the annual burdens which must be
1 upon the people to meet even the current
Peases and the interest on the debt, aU com
e'q to weaken the real strength of England,
,Ut Ler gers from within are greater than
ose from without, and probably the best means
reconciling &n the difficulties of her internal
ondiUon, and of bringing each part the more
08ely together, would be the prospect of a
"rtifcn. invasion.
The North American speculates to a conside
rable extent upon the probability of such an
invasion, and urges that Louis Napoleon may
be driven to it from the very necessities of his
situation. The French are an excitcable people.
They love glory more than liberty, and the re
nown of their leaders more than the prosperity
of the country. This impulse may drive them
to war; and their ancient hatred of the "here
ditary foe" force them to attack her. Louis
Napoleon dare not trust his subjects to a period
of calm contemplation of the. extent and char
acter of his usurpation. It will seem better for
him to employ the exciteable temperament of.
his countrymen against some enemy, than to
allow it to gather to a head against himself. An
invasion of Eagland would meet the approbation
of every despotic power on the continent.
On the 2Gth ult the following startling state
ment was published by the Morning Chronicle, in
the letter of its Paris correspondent :
AVI 11 France Invade England!
I am credibly informed that at the present
moment the President's whole idea is with re
spect to the invasion of England; that he has
consulted generals, studied the plans of the
Bologne expedition, received reports on the
feasibility of the passage of the Channel, &c.
There is not a man connected with the Elysee
that docs not affect to speak of the invasion as
an affair that is not only practicable, but which
will be attempted. Let it not be supposed that
a pretext is necessary. There are, unhappily,
too many points, on all of which it would be
easy to rouse the feelings of the French nation,
and any one of which would be an excuse for
war. The friends of Louis Napoleon imagine
and I fear imagine truly that the French
people want to have their revenge for the defeat
at Waterloo, and for the imprisonment of the
Emperor at St. Helena. Such a war, they say,
would be popular, and in such circumstances
why should they not undertake it? I know
nothing of the feelings of other countries, but
here the belief is that Russia would join in any
attack which France might be disposed to make
on England. Certain it is that since the 2nd of
December the representative of Russia has been
the most assiduous in his attendance at the
Elysee, and the most honored -of the diplomatic
corps ; that Russian nobles are more plentiful
in Paris at the present moment than they have
ever been since 1848; and that both amongst
the French and the Russians it is currently
stated that an arrangement between France and
Russia could easily be managed, for that Russia
would not interfere with the extension of the
French frontier to the Rhine, if France would
permit Russia to seize on Constantinople.
An Apology for Tobacco.
Excepting slavery and liquor, nothing has ever
been so virulently aud universally abused as to
bacco. From King James the First to " Sene
ca, " nobody has written about it that has not
written against it. Dickens redicules it, Ware
abuses it, Greeley denounces it, and "Seneca"
would do all, but from the unfortunate inability
to do either.
Calhoun was the avowed apologist of slavery,
Fallstaff enters a pica for a " Sherry sack, ?' Tal
ford "old Port, " and Redi, the Italian poet, for
liquor generally but nobody has a word to say
for that weed, which Indian legends say a god
dess produced, and which history says a hero
first used. Everybody uses it, but nobody de
fends it. Charles Lamb tried his hand at a sort
of poetical apology, but the poetry was bad and
the defence was worse. Have chewers, smokers
and snuffers lost all spirit, that no one can open
his mouth for this creat tooth-c.leanpr. bpm.
giver, heart-softener, sociability-promoter, and
acquaintance maker? "We reckon not, we
'spose not. ,'
We use tobacco we love it we avow it
Half the great men in the nation use it. Henry
Clay snuffs, Joe Marshall chews, John Van Bu
ren smokes, and John Quincy Adams used to do
all three, but quit, and died !
Tobacco cures the tooth-ache ask any smo
ker if it don't and one young enthusiast ex
pressed his earnest conviction that it was good
for corns. Robinson Crusoe, when he got sick,
chewed it, smoked it, and drank a decoction of
it in rum, and got welL
Every wit at Will's coffee house, from Dryden
to Sadwell smoked. Tobacco is a provocative of
wit. The Scotch all snuff, and the Scotch are
remarkable for the acuteness and - subtlety of
their metaphysics, and the rigidity of their right
eousness. Tobacco is a promoter of metaphysics
and morals. The Germans smoke and the Ger
mans excel the world in the extent and minute
ness of their Biblical and Classical research,
their persevering application, and speculative
philosophy. Tobacco nourishes learning, specu
lation and perseverance The French snuff and
smoke both, and the French are the leaders of
taste and the fountain of fashion the best of
mathematicians and most skillful of surgeons.
Tobacco produces refinement and elegance, pro
found reasoning and steadiness of nerve. Eng
lish sailors all chew, and their honesty, courage
and generosity are proverbial. Tobacco causes
the fullest dcvelopement of all the noble feelings.
Indians endure torture with more firmness than
all the stoics from Zeno to Cato. Tobacco infu
ses a lofty contempt of death. Americans chew,
EBEXSBURG, THURSDAY MiRfll , 852.
smoke and snuff, .and Americans by universal
concession combine all the good, qualities of all
other nations, and possess besides,' an ingenuity
and enterprise that none of them have.' This
can only be attributed to the fact that' tobacco
grows here, and is used in more shapes and more
generally than anywhere else. '. '
An English King wrote a " counterblast to to
bacco. " He hated it most cordially and he
was the firmest believer In the "jure dlvlno" of
all the Kings from William the ' Conqueror to
William the Fourth. A belief in the divine right
of Kings, a most slavish doctrine, and hatred to
tobacco always go together. The English aris
tocracywori't use it they revile it as disgusting
say it is a plebian practice to use it. Tobacco
i3 the dread of aristocrats.
It was the favorite electioneering tool of Davy
Crockett, and a " chaw " will conciliate one of
the unwashed quicker than anything but a wink
of red eye. Tobacco is a Democratic institution.
A dandy will ask a cub-tailor for a cigar light '
wealth will spit in the' same box with poverty
and dignity and dirt must sneeze alike if they
snuff. Tobaco is a leveller of distinctions.
No true patriot and republican with an aver
age allowance of brains ever opposed it. Gree
ly says hard things about it, but Grcely is a
radical and an enthusiast He opposes slavery,
and hanging, and liquor drinking,' and all the
glorious institutions that our forefathers fought,
bled, and all that sort of thing, for.
Dickens laughs at it, but he is an English aris
tocrat, and of course contemns any favorite of
the Democracy. " Seneca " abuses it, bet Sene
ca is a twaddler, and wouldn't have made' a bad
figure in the Dunciad.
But this is not all. Since the introduction of
tobacco into the Eastern continent, Science has
improved, Literature has been more generally
diffused, and we have no doubt ' but that the
whole system of Inductive Philosophy owes its
origin to this invaluable vegetable. Until about
three hundred years ago, the world had puzzled
itself with the subtleties of the schoolmen, the
chimeras of the alchemists, the absurdities of
astrologers they had educated nothing practi
cal invented nothing useful. " Sir Walter Ral
eigh introduced tobacco then, and not until
then Bacon conceived and published Jus system
of Philosophy, and the world was many steps
farther in its progress. Experimental philoso
phy is a result of tobacco.
It is 6aid that it stunts the growth and injures
the health of the unfortunate individual addic
ted to the use cf it. We know better. We have
as extensive dcvelopement and as good health
as any man, and we use it habitually and from
practice.
Family Secret.
While ascending the Mississippi, some eigh
teen months since, onboard the steamboat Hunts
ville, the commander of that excellent vessel re
lated the following anecdote of a couple of wor
thy desciples of old Father Miller:
In Coles county there lived a man named Dod
son, and his wife, who were both firm believers
in the prophecy of old Father Miller ; and not
doubting for a moment the correctness of their
Prophet's calculations for the eventful clay that
was to terminate the existence of all sublunary
things.
After having- " set their house in order, " the
following conversation took place :
" My dear wife, I believe I have made every
preparation for to-morrow. I have forviven all
mine enemies, and prayed for the forgiveness of
all my sins, and I fell perfectly calm and re
signed. "
" Well husband, I believe I am ready for the
sound of the trumpet. "
" I am rejoiced to hear it. But my dear wife,
I have no doubt there are many domestic secret8
which wc have hidden from each other, which,
had they been known at the time of their occur
rence, might have produced unpleasant feelings ;
but as we have but one day to live, I reckon its
right to make a clean breast to each other. I
am ready you begin husband. "
"No, dear, you begin, "
" No, husband, you begin I can't. "
No you know, my lave, Paul says, " hus
bands have the right to command their wives. "
It is your duty, as a christian woman, to obey
your husband the father of your children so,
begin love. "
" In the sight of Ged I reckon its right, so I
will tell you, dear husband your oldest son,
William, is not your child. "
"Great God, Mary! I never dreampt of your
being untrue to me ! Is that true ?
t GoJ forEive me true. I know that
I did very wrong, but I am sorry for it ; in an
evil hour I fell, but there is no help for it now. "
"William not mine! Iu the name of God
whose child is he ? "
" He is Mr. Graham's the constable. The
Lord be near your poor wife ! "
So William ain't my child ? Go on "
" Well, our daughter Mary, named after me,
Ein t yours neither. "
" Salvation ! Talk on, Mary come rigut out
Who's Mary's father?" .
" Mr. Girder, the man that built the meeting
house, and went to the lower country. "
" Well, as there is but one day more, I'll bear
it, so go on if you have anything else. "
"Well, there is our youngest "
" I suppose Jimmy ain't mine ?
" No, dear husband. Jimmy that we both
love bo well, ain't vours
"Merciful Lord ! Is it so ? In the name of
me oaviour wnose is be ! "
He is the one-eyed shoe-maker's who lives
at the forks of the road. "
"Well, my God! Gabriel blow, blow your
horn! I want to go NOW!"
; -,idd TIIK COUNTRY PARSON.
Taalatc lamented. Praed whose poems have
been-publishedln a collected form here, but not
in Ids own country i9 beginning, at length; to
be talked of in England. The excellent humo
rous, poem which we pubUsh, from his facile and
felicitous hand, is among the choice morceaux in
Mis Mitford'j work. The reader will find it
exceedingly graceful and amusing.. Journal.
Some years ago; ere Time and Taste
- Had turned our parish topsy-turvy
WheikDarnel Park was Darnel Waste,'
Ael roads as little known as scurry
The man who lost his way between
Salary's Hill and Sandy Thicket,
Was always shown across the Green,
guided to the Parson's wicket.
Back flew the bolt of lissom lath ;
Fair Margaret in her tidy kirtle
Led the lorn traveller up the path,
Through cleau-lirt rows of box and myrtle ;
An Don and Sancho, Tramp and Tray,
Upon the parlour-steps collected,
Warged all their, tails, and seemed to say.:
"Uur master knows you ; yrou're expected.'.'
Up rose the Reverend Doctor Brown,
Cd rose the Doctor's "urlnanma mnn.n.t
The lady laid her knitting down. .
new nosoaua clasped bis ponderous barrow.
Whate'er the stranger's caste or creed,
Pjmdit or Papist, saint or sinner,
He" found a stable for his steed,
Aud welcome for himself and dinner.
If, wfen he reached his journey's end,
An warmed himself in court or college,
He hid not gained an honest friend,
An twenty curious scraps of knowledge!
If he departed as he came, ...
With no new light on love or liquor,
Good sooth the traveller was to blame,
Au( not the Vicarage or the Vicar.
His ikk. was like a stream which runs
. Wifc rapid change from rocks to roses;
It slijjped from politics to puns ;
It passed from Mahomet to Moses 4
Beguiling with the laws which keep
Thj planets in their radiant courses,
And Ending with some precept deep
F01 dressing eels or shoeing horses.
He ws a shrewd and sound divine,
Of Joud dissent the mortal terror ;
And jrhen by dint of page, and line,
lle'stablished truth or startled error.
The Baptist found him far too deep ;
" TU4 Deist sis-hed with Mvincr snrrnw
' O O - w . . 1
AniJ ilie lean Lcvite went to sleep
auj areamt 01 eating pork to-morrow.
His sermon never said or showed
That earth is foul, that heaven is gracious.
Without refreshment on the road
I rom Jerome or from Athanasius ;
And sure a righteous zeal inspired
The hand and head that nenntsl nnd nlonno.1
For all who understood admired, them,
Aud some who did not understand theiu.
He did not think all mischief fair,
Although he had a knack for joking;
He did not make himself a bear,
Although he had a taste for smoking.
And when religious sects ran mad,
He held, in spite of all his learning,
That if a man's belief is bad
It will not be improved by burning.
And he was kind, and loved to sit
In the low hut or garnished cottage,
And praise the farmer's homely wit,
And share the widow's homelier pottage.
At his approach complaint grew mild,
' And wheu his hand unbarred the 6hutter,
The tlammy lips of fever smiled
The welcome that they could not utter.
He always had a tale for me
Of Julius Ciesar or of Venus ;
From him I learned the rule of three, .
Cat's-cradle, leap-frog, and Qua? genus :
I used to singe his powdered wig,
To steal the staff he put such trust in,
And make the puppy dance a jig
When he began to quote Augustiuc.
Alack the change! In vain I look
For haunts in which my boyhood trifled;
The level lawn, the trickling brook,
The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled !
The church is larger than before,
You reach it by a carriage entry ;
It holds three hundred people more,
And pews are fitted for the gentry.
Sit in the Vicar's seat, you'll hear
The doctrine of a gentle Johnian ;
Whose hand is white, whose voice is clear,
Whose tone is very Ciceronian.
Where is the old man laid ? Look down
And construe on the slab before you
"Hie jacet Gulielmus Brown,
Mr nulla non donandus lauro."
Kldd, the Pirate.
In old times, just after the territory of the
New Netherlands had been wrested from the
hands of their High Mightiness the Lords States
General of Holland, by Charles the Second, and
while it was as yet in an unquiet state, the prov
ince was a favorite resort of adventurers of all
kinds and particularly buccaneers. These were
piratical rovers of the deep, who made sad work
in times of peace among the Spanish settlements
and Spanish merchant ships. They took advan
tage of the easy access to the harbor of the Man
hattoes, and of the laxity of the scarcely organi
zed government, to make it a kind of rendez
vous, where they might dispose of their ill-gotten
spoils, and concert new depredations. Crews of
these desperadoes, the runagates of every coun
try and clime, might be 6een swaggering, in open
day, about the Streets of the burgh ; elbowing
its quiet Mynheers; trafficking away their rich
outlandish plunder, at half price, to the wary
merchant, and then squandering their gains in
taverns; drinking, gambling, singing, swearing,
shouting ; and astounding the neighborhood with
sudden brawl and ruffian revelry.
At length the indignation of government was j
arouseu, ana it was determined to ferret out this
vermin brood from the colonies- Great conster
nation took place among the pirates on finding
justice in pursuit ef them, and their old haunts
turned to places of peril. They secreted their
money and jewels in lonely out of the way pla
ces ; buried them about the wild shores of the
rivers and sea coast, and dispersed themselves
over the face of the country.
Among the agents employed to hunt them by
sea was the renowned Capt. Kidd. He had long
been a hardy adventurer, a kind of equivocal
borderer, half trader, half smuggler, with a tol
erable dash of the pickaroon. He had traded
for some time among the pirates, lurking about
tne seas in a little rakish, musquito built vessel,
prying into all kinds of odd places, as busy as a
Mother Cary's chicken in a gale of wind.
This non descript personaee was pitched upon
by government as the very man to command a
vessel fatted out to cruise against the pirates,
since he knew all their haunts and lurking places
acting upon the shrewd old maxim of "setting
a rogue to catch a rogue. " Kidd accordinslv
sailed from New York in the Adventure eallev
gallantly armed and duly commissioned, and
steered his course to Madeiras, Bonavista, to
Madagascar, and cruised at the entrance of the
Red Sea. Instead, however, of making war up
on the pirates, he turned pirate himself captu
red friend or foe enriched himself with the
spoils of a wealthy Imdiaman, manned by Moors,
though commanded by an Englishman; and hav
ing disposed of his prize, had the hardihood to
return to Boston, laden with his wealth, with a
crew of his comrades at his heels.
His fame has proceeded him. The alarm was
given of the re-appearance of this cut-purse of
the ocean. Measures were taken for his arrest;
but he had time, it is said, to bury the greater
part of "his treasures. He even attempted to
draw his sword and defend himself when arrest-
ted; but was secured and thrown into prison,
with several of his followers, They were car
ried to England in a frigate, where they were
tried, condemned, and hanged at Execution Dock.
Kidd died hard, for the rope with which he was
first tied up broke with his weight,' and he tum
bled to the ground ; he was tied up a second
time, and effectually ; from whence arose the
tory of his having been twice hanged.
Such is the main outline of Kidd't history :
bnt it has given birth to an innumerable progeny
of traditions. The circumstance of his having
buried great treasures of gold and jewels after
returning from his cruising set the brains of all
the good people along the coast in a ferment.
There were rumors of great sums found here
aud there ; sometimes in one part of the country.
sometimes in another ; of trees and rocks bear
ing mysterious marks, doubtless indicating the
spots where treasure lay hidden; of coins found
with Moorish characters, the plunder of Kidd's
eastern prize, but which the common people took
for diabolical or magic inscriptions.
Some reported the spoils to have been buried
in solitary unsettled places, about Plymouth
and Cape Cod. Many other parts of the eastern
coast, also, and various , places in Long island
Sound, have been gilded by these rumors, and
have been ransacked by adventurous money
diggers. Curious theory relative to the deluge.
A clergymen of Cincinnati, the Rev. Mr. Stuart,
has broached a somewhat novel hypothesis re
specting the scriptural account of the deluge.
He insists that it is an allegory, and assumes
that the ark is intended to represent the church
established by Noah and his posterity, into which
was incorporated every principle of doctrine and
duty necessary for the salvation of man at that
day. To enter the ark was to be confirmed in
the life of religion which it represented. The
flood of waters he considers the emblem of an
inundation of evil and impiety, and refers to
various passages in Daniel, Isaiah, Jeremiah,
and the New Testament, for the purpose of
showing that the encroachments of fallacious
reasoning and false principles are not only coi-
pared in- the scripturos to floods of water, but
are actually called floods and the overflowing of
rivers. This, he argues, is the real import of
the flood in the time of Noah. The perishing of
the millions by the deluge is to be understood,
he says, in a spiritual sense, as the perishing of
souls by the overwhelming influence of sin. In
a lecture uport the subject, delivered by Mr.
Stuart, he advances many plausible arguments
in support of his theory. A literal flood, like
that described by Moses, the reverend gentleman
says could not have taken place. Men of science
reject as an absurdity the idea of a universal
deluge having occurred since the creation of
man. Geology utterly confute this supposition.
The learned Dr. Buckland, the orthodox Dr.
Hitchcock, and many others equally worthy,
have abandoned it, and none stand out for the
literal flood except a stubborn few who make
the omnipotence of God the scape-goat of phy
sical impossiDiiitics. These are Mr. Stuart's
views as we find them reported in a Cincinnati
paper, and we give them as somewhat startling
innovations upon the general belief, without
J cxpresMng any opinion as to their soundness.
NUMBER 21.
Tne Valley or the Amazon.
Of more than twice the size of the Mississippi
valley, the valley of the Amazon is entirely in
tertropical. An everlasting summer reigns here.
Up to the very base of the Andes, the river it
self is navigable for vessels of the larger class.
A natural canal through the Caciquiari con
nects the Oronoco. Giving draining and fertili
ty to immense plains that cover two millions of
square miles, it receives from the north and south
innumerable tributaries, which it is said afford
an inland navigation up and down, of not less
than CO sr 70 thousand miles in extent Stretch
ed out in a continuous line, the navigable streams
of the great water-course would more than cu
circle the earth around at its largest girth.
All the climates of India are there. Indeed,
we may say, that from the mouth to the sources
of the Amazon, piled up one above the other, and
spread out, Andean like, over steep after steep,
in beautiful unbroken succession, are all the cli
mates, and all the soils, with the capacities of
production that are to be found between the re- "
gions of eternal summer and everlasting snow.
The valley of the Amazon is the place of pro
duction of India rubber an article of commersc
which has no parallel as to the increase of de
mand for it, save and except in the history of our
own great staple since the invention of cotton
gin. We all recollect when the only uses to
which India rubber was applied was to rub out
pencil marks and for the manufacture of trtpp
balls for boys.
But it is made into shoes and hats, caps and
cloaks, foot balls and purses, ribbons and cush
ions, boats, beds, tents and bags; into pontoon,
for pushing armies across rivers, and lifting
ships over shoals. . It is also applied to a variety
of other uses and purposes, the mere enumera
tion of which would make us tedious. New ap
plications of it are constantly being made,
soundless forests of the Saratiga tree are found
upon the banks of this stream, and the exporta
tion of this gum from Jhe mouth of that river, is
daily becoming a business of more and more val
ue, in extent and importance.
In 184G 7, pontoons for the British army in -India,
and tents for the American army in Mex
ico were made in New England from the India
rubber of the "Amazon. It is the best in the
world.
The sugar cane is found here in its most luxu
riant growth,1 and of the richest saccharine dc
velopement, It requires to be planted but onco
in 20 years.
There are produced of excellent quality and
in great profusion coffee and tobacco, rice and
indigo, cocoa and cotton, with drugs of virtues '
the most rare, dyes of hues the most brilliant,
and spices of aroma the most exquisite.
Soils of the richest'loam and the finest alluvi
ans arc there. And there too, lying dormant
are the boundless agricultural and mineral ca
pacities of the East, and West, all clustered to
gether. If commerce were but once to spread
its wings over that valley, the shaddow of it
would be like the touch of a Magician's wand :
those immense resources would at once spring
into life and activity.
In the fine imagery of their language, the In.
dians call the Amazon the " King of Rivers. "
It empties into the Ocean under the line. Lieut.
M. F. Maunj. j""
An lucltlcut for HUlory.
Circumstances have been developed, by the
arrival in this city within the last few days of a
family from California, which arc characteristic
of our time and country. They are these : lit
the spring of 1849 an emigrant party started
from their homes iu Western Missouri for the
land of gold. They were among thousands of
other hardy adventurers whose white tents cov
ered the Plains for many months, and made the
wild prairies of the northwestern territory ap
pear like the camp of an immense army. Du
ring the ascent of the Sierra Nevada a daughter
was born to one of the emigrants, and the occa
sion was celebrated by a general halt of the
party, aud the devotion of a day to such festiv-
ty as the place and their stores would permit.
The litttle stranger was named after the great
mountain near the summit of which iho first saw
the light, and the emigrants resumed their toil
some march. The placers were gained towards
the close of the year, and a busy multitude were
soon engaged in withdrawing from the rich val
ley of the San Joaquin the rewards of their toil.
Our little cmigarnt party became iu a short I'ma
the centre of a large population ; houses were
erected and streets laid out, and the period ar
rived when a new city should be incorporated
and named. The incident near the summit of
the great Sierra was not forgotten ; and as the
little girl, whose birth was celebrated there prat
tled upon the knees of the founders of the new
city, they declared it should receive its name
from her, and it was called Nevada. It is now
a populous and a thriving place, and surrounded v
by sources of wealth ami future greatness ; while
the little girl, whose birth occurred whin it was
a wilderness and from whom the nrroe of the
great mountain descended to it, is, after having
traversed California, sailed the Pacific ocean,
crossed the Isthmus and the Gulf of Mexico'
still fondled in her mother's arras as they now
ascend tho Mis.MSbirri towards that mother's
early heme. riccrune.
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