1 l i A T- ,....IT THE EEEI3BC3 0? OOVE33UfflXE3T, LODE THE DET5T8 07 HEAVEN, 8II0UU I JZI3UTED ALIKE UPON THE HIGH AND THE LOW, THE RICH AND THE P00U. 3 - n m O il ii beMbur'Hfe :otahy 22, 1855. aoawi'SBRiBa. : r ':: VOL. 2. JS O. 2!'. 71 T' 1 T B R !J 8 : THB DEMOCRAT 3: SENTINEL, ia . publish. ed svery Thursday ; morning; in . JEbensburg, Cambria Co.,Ta;, at l 60 per annum, I? faid Tir adtakcs. if not $2 will be charged. " . ADVERTISEMENTS will toe conspicuously in . serted at the following rates, ni ; aquare 8 inaertions, , r - - Every subsequent insertion , 1 square 8 months, . J . Q .... j i i" "f .- ::: 1 year, - ' --. v.'coPn 1 yeat,i v :-. , - . '. " , " Business Cards with one copy of the . Democrat & Sbittiwix. per year, ; ' :i 41 00 25', 00 J 00 12 00 30 00 15 00f 00' Wert :Sorfrq:!; y! . From the Dublin University Magaaiuv'. A HAID RECUSED BESIDE A STREAM. j ; A maid reclined beside a stream r r -' At fall of summer day, - - And, half awake and half a-dream,-- -v - ' ' She watched the ripples play. ' --? .; She marked the waters fall and hcare,. v'i The deepening shadows throng, V ' - . - - And heard, as darkened down the eve,' ; . ; - J-. That river's babbling song. - : ' I . And thus it sung, with tinkling tongue, - '.:) That rippling, shadowy river : r v ' Youth's brightest day will fade away - - Forever and forever !" - . ;' - ; ! The twilight past, the moon at last -' - - ' Rose broadly o'er the night,5 ' '' Each ripple gleams beneath her beams As wrought In silver bright. Ihe heaving waters glide along, :' "r; But, mingling with their voice, ' " ' : The nightingale now poors his song, ; ' ' And makes the shades rejoice. " , I i ' ' -'Aad (hus he sung with tuneful tongue, . . That bird beside the river -"- ' When youth ia gone true love shines on ' For ever and for ever." " : - ! MT COISTRT. - -1 love my country's pine-clad hills, ' S Her thousand bright and gushing rills, ; Her sunshine and her storms; . : - Her rough and rugged rocks, that rear , - llieir hoary heads high in the air, r ; . In wild fantastic forms. . - I love her rivers deep and wide," " ' " And their bright streams that seaward glide, ' ' To cek the ocean's breast; t ' : Iler smiling fields, her fertile vales, " - -' 7 Her shady dells,ier pleasant dales," ' j " Iler haunts of peaceful rest. I love the forest dark and lone, For there the wild bird's merry tone ' ' , " ' ' : Is heard from morn till night j ' - - And there are lovlier flowers, I ween, : 1 Than e'er in eastern lands were seen;' - w " ' In varied colors bright ' ' Her forests and hei valleys fair, ' : K a Iler flowers that scent the morning air, Have all their charms for me; , - But more I love my country's name, , ' , ' ' Those words that echo death Uss tame, And sound from sea to sea. , , :; JVANN1E NEALv : I am a 'bachelor ! Don't smile or pass judg ment rashly upon me I mast tell why I am what I am, . ! ' . , - lean scarcely remember when my father removed to the new village of BrookvUle. , It seems, too, that there is a dim remem brance of an old house by the lake.". It is all vague, dim, and uncertain, however. Yet I sometime s find lingering within me a vision of an old brown building, with elms in front, and a sleepy lake down in the vale, and such, I have heard my father say, was our home These impressions seem to mc as much like dreams as realities and no woader, either, for the footsteps of long years have marehed over them. '; But I do remember distinctly a broad river that we crossed on our way to our new home, that is the most distinct of all it's silvery waves flashing , around the flat we crossed over on, are not to be forgotten. , . .The street of Brookville, were not cleared f stumps when we entered a little cottage on main street. There was a newness and a freshness about everything there. It was not long before it began to assume a busy appear ance, as new settlers came in, and new stores and; new shop -went up.; My father was a bricklayer, and I carried, some of the brick "and mortar thai went into what is now called " the old Court House at Brookville," and I I helped to rear its brown walls ? , Time fliesl Among others who come to Brookville, was a man named Neal. . He fcd been a merchant in one of the seaport cities, but failing by in judicious speculations, he had retire! with a , litOe wreck of hl8 fortune to the new village, itherto recruit, or to spends eveningof his life in quiet. I never i,:-u ij. had , beep a hard drinker during the last few years the.demon in the wine glass hxd been the main rock on which he wrecked his all and his wife he left in the city, in the gravel yard behind the steeple church sent there by his abases and cruelty. ' So said the old ahoemaker who came with Neal from the city. Nannie Neal was a bright star gleaming in the fctormnighfc among - the clouds. . She was the only child of the sew comer, and a lovely being aha waa I , She wait jat my age, l neerly, not quite from April to Jane was the different T ktlitu , ' feu manatvtwi from oura; anJhe. wSh his daughter, a aour vtrTl hekeeper, and the old shoe- - f ae ' d I ere not long ia: beco Q fast friends; we met, one sunny afternoon, down in the ' clearing at the brookside, after which the village was named, and there, for a full hour we played ''captive's base". among the broad walnut and poplar stumps that stood like watching sentinels in the vale." '. ' . ' The very next day we went out together on the bills, with our baskets, and gathered whor tleberries and talked ;and played among the rocks, and when wc grew tired, she sat'down and told me of her mother of how she used to weep while ' she sat at her feet, and then died in the cold night of consumption and a broken heart, and that the' Priest -said she went to Heaven to live with the Virgin An-gelc2-I has jpe though, that -perhaps her mother was a Catholic, but of this I am not certain. . . . i v Neal put up a tavern in Brookville, Snd the settlers gathered there and drank. I remem ber the first night there was a noise and laugh ing, fiddling and dancing, and singing there, and I thought it ifust be something very nice,' but my mother told me it was a very wicked place, and that I must never go there." I of ten wished my mother had never told me that, for. my Nannie was there,- and she was my dearest friend. .. -a a. ? .1 Years passed as others had, and Nannie and I grew up ; she was one of the loveliest crea tures of female beauty I had ever seen. She was as gentle as the whisperings of .the white winged tephyrs among the April -flowers, and as pure as the lilly that bent beneaath the summer breeze ' to the kiss of the rippling waves of the meadow rill,' and yet she was reared among the wrecks of a father's fortune, and . had heard, time after time, the rude, coarse jest, and drunken ribaldry of drunken meni around the little bar her father kept. ' Nannie was happily in possession of the vir tues which ennoble and beautify' woman's character. ' She was kind and cheerful, nei ther wild nor melancholy, yet the lovely calm of her countenance was tinged with a shade of sadness motion, look, tone, deed, were gen tle as the spring time sunbeams glimmering among the garden flowers. Nannie Neal waa the loved one iu Brookville. ; ' ' -: I loved her when we were children playing on copse and heath on rock and dell; and now, that we were grown, I loved her with all the passionate idolatry of my yonng man hood. Not a whisper of love had ever passed our lips ; and yet the secret was written in, and fondly cherished, by each hidden heart. Ah I we were happy iu the secret heart wor ship. ; We . were often, together, in the wild nock where we had gathered , berries when children; along the brood where the waves danced o'er their pebbly path that led to the river ; in the ' old woods where oak and pine pointed their taper spires up to Heaven, wc rambled and dreamed and loved in silence, with none but nature with us. , Fcr hours we have sat on the brook brink, watching the frisking fish gliding like golden creatures among the crystal waves, ana the clear wave lets hastening away, and the mellow sunlight trembling on "the tee tops, and fading away behind the hills, and all the time we felt that our hearts held sweet converse in breathless whispers thus a holy tie was weaving woof and web into our life and hopes and destinies. ' Old Neal became aware of our growing in timacy, and became enraged. ' One evening, when I had gone to spend a few boors with Nannie, at her home, (at an inn as it was, I could no longer stay away,) the old man came to the little sitting room, where we were, and sternly ordered me away. I arose, and a tear drop hung upon Nannie s eyelid. ; I took my hat, and, as I went out, the old man sung out after me "hod carrier " . - . t The old housekeeper flattened her ugly face against the glass door between the two rooms. and echoed the chorus "hod carrier I The old shoemaker stopped hammering his leather, as I went out, and spoke low, and said he would see me that evening.,, The rabble in the dram 6b.op, through which I had to pass, caught the notes of the derisive taunt, "and shouted it after me " Hod Car rier 1" The infernal taunt yet rings in my ears. That eveniag the eld shoemaker saw me, and told me Nannie loved roe, and that we should see each, other clandestinely. I thanked him, and through his interference Nannie and I met almost every day, and talked and loved. And in this way we spent some of our hap piest hours, dreaming of the bliss that was to be ours in a few short months, for when the summer was past we were to be married. Love with us now was a reality, and in the solitudes about Brookville, we dreamed of its bliss, as together we watched the. drifting of. the white clouds riding on the blue ocean of the sky. ''" Our dreams were like the clouds. ' A cloud was in the sky with a storm in its bosom,'' too, but we saw it riot. -' ! 1 "- - Christmas day we were to be married. None knew it, however, j except the old shoe maker and Rob Lincoln. Rob was to convey her to a neighboring . house in his new sleigh, and I was to meet mm there with the village parson. Such was the arrangement. ' The day before Christmas the hills and hous es' were white with snow. " Brookville was all life for the enjoyments of the season.' That morning two strangers appeared in our midst. Nona knew from whence they earner 1 I met them on the street early in the day. . I disli ked th:ir looks and turned aside.- There was a lurking look of sin lingering about the face of the oldest heartless looking wretch. The younger appeared but EttTe better All day long the rovel IncreaL I in and about Neall's house. Once or twice there came near beinga fighti - Just after sundown, P Boo Lincoln running towards his fath er s bouse at full speed. I had no time to ask him . amgle question. . There waa the wildest terror flashing from the brave voung man's eyes. r;j ' .' t " " ' Run with me to Neal's-runreaJ.ilUmcs there TT and he grasped ray arm and started tfl crag ma. - f tore myself frog tin grasifrnd boToded awiwkh bia. -, . : f - Hist I the wind blows now just as it shrieked by - my ' ears as I '. ran up the snow covered street of Brookrille 'on; that fetal, evening. Draw your chair closer ; I wish ; to ppeak in whispers now. , - Within NealV house, . when we reached it, was this cene. v ,, . . The old housekeeper stood with her, chap ped hands bided in her, yellow apron, with her face flattened against a diity pane of glass door looking into the tavern. A few of the villiage sots were staggering around the room, or half dozing on the pino benches at the fire The old shoemaker seemed pledged with Neal, who was nearly drunk, to revoke some decree of his; and mj own Nannie-was struggling ii the arms of onaofthe two Etranger8,whila the' other stood a little wav off, grinning with grim satisfaction I My blood boiled in every knotted vein! , When I sprang into the arena, old Neal stammered into a drunken slang. ; So, ho ' Mister Hod Carrier, I've sold Nan to a city' gentleman I" and he held up a roleau of gold coin. . A low laugh gurgled up from the throat of the infernal purchaser. . -, ; "Nannie soldf. n. i'v -:. ',i .. I grew dixiy the room with its tragedy seemed to whirl - around with me.; I heard the familiar voice of the old ' shoemaker cry out; Mr. Neal, how can you barter your own pure child away to one whose heart is to-day as black as any "purgatory,, after promising your poor dead wife to be both father and mother to the dear child?" ... '--, ". A drunken curse came from the hot lungs of the father against the shoemaker and his own child; "better that than the wife of an infamous hod carrier 1" ' ' ' 3 '' ' ' ' ' I saw the old woman's pitted face grinning against the glass; and then I saw the mild blue eyes of ray poor, half distracted Nannie almost starting from their sockets, and her right hand, that was free from the monster's grasp, held out imploringly to me for help. She screamed my name. I rushed to the res cue. Rob Lincoln was before me! - ; Draw your chair closer." ' Old Neal was enraged that we should dare to rescue his child from the - infamy to which he had sold her,- and grasping the old shoe maker's hammer from the bench, he hurled it at us. . The weapon flew close by Rob's ear and struck the head of my poor Nannie. With a low murmnr of "mother, mother J" she sank in my arms to the floor. ; The two strangers fled forever from Brook tille. . I called again and again to Nannie to - tell me she had not fled from earth to heaven ; but she kept her blue cyesfixed upon me. and a changeless smile rested upon her damp face. JAnd mil thi timer, the old housekeeper' kept her hideous face pressed against the' glass, grinning through the scene. And old Neal stood, with his arms folded, clutching in one hand the roleau of gold.. I called again and again to Nannie : and, like a child whispered in her ear that I loved her still ; but the changeless smile was the only answer! ' I held her head in my arms' and ' wept.1 ' The old shoemaker ran and brought the village sur geon." He came and knelt down by her on the tavern floor, and took her pale hand in his. I loved him more than ever for holding it so softly and tenderly, examining the livid spot half hid by her auburn hair, where the ham mer had Btruck. ' I could bear it no longer ; I whispered, Doctor; is Nannie gone 7" I could not say dead, but worse ! " . ,' And he laid his slender fingers significantly on his noble brow. . Rob Lincoln, the doctor and the old shoe maker carried Nannie from the tavern to the doctor's house ; and I followed. f; ' r ' ' And the blood of that victim fell, drop by drop, on the pure white snow.' V ' ' ! The next day old Neal went to eternity. The Angels of Retribution had watched his steps, and had marked his last going out. The shaft of the Pale Archer had struck him to vex, and then destroy. In the battle strife witn tne demon of delirium tremens lie was overcome, and his spirit shrieking with fears, went to be judged by Him who weighs Im mortality in the eternal balance of Truth . - He was buried beneath the snow-web ' that lay on the yard behind the -village' church, and no eye in Brookville wept. ' - . .Day after day I watched by the bed-aide of poor JNannie, and whimpered to her, and wet her dry lips with water." bnemostlylay witn her languid eyes closed, but when she did open them they started out after me with such ter ror that I shrank from them. . And she would point her finger at me, and call me a monster, and command me to carry her back V Brook ville,1 to her own dear . Oh I how agonising that was I To hear her call my own name! and link it with the fondest ' endear ments yet look upon 'me as the monster who had bartered eoldfeT her loveliness. -'-Thus', days and -nights passed,. and the faithful surgeon talL the time endeavoring to call back her wandering mind.. It was all in vain ! - " I he cloud that bad drifted m our summer sky had burst upon us in a' winter storm that knew no spring time in life ! '- My poof loved and lost Nannie Neal l She sits in the bread flock of sunbeams that fall through her window ' in bno - of ihe little rooms at the D- ; Asylum a harmless, dreaming LcnaUo ! "And there she will sit and chatter to ner bird ..and her straw until the' good; Angels beckon her way I ":- I have sat- by ber side in that neat. "little cell, looking into the dreamy eyes, many lonely hour, btt she ' has never known me.! - She sometimes calls; to ber kind hearted matron - and bids her take, the ' stranger wayl"- . - - And I have sometimes seen tears in that kind-hearted woman'seyes as I hare departed, at ..the same time nrgag her lo' treat poor r m---- - ": '' " ... '-' And now, fairreadcrs, do you, wonder that I am a bachelor .v?. i;.-- J )l .('' -.-i Believe this tor me, there never was but one Nannie Neal, 'and ahe 'yet lives, "bat - ..Rum did all &i I v Important and Interesting Reminiscence- . The1, celebration rof the last . anniversary of tbe " memorable 8th .of, January, -1815. at Tallahassee, FloridaJ was 'honored - by i the presence of the veteran General R K. Call, known as an active Whig and "as one of the bravest of the gallant men in the battle of New (.means, ' In the course of a very eloquent ;ech on the occasion referred to, he' related most, Interesting "incident, j which is quite uew to us.- That able paper', the TaUahat- tee Floridian gives it as follows: , " Among the many stikicgincidents with which- the address abounded; we mention par- .-tilarlY one as dieoloaing bow tua lntelhgenee of th,e invasion of Ncw'prleans was commuui- cated to general Jackson.- - We -Teferto this because it gives to"" Know-Nothingism such a heavy blow. M As briefly 'as we can state, and from our understanding the narrator, he said in substance : A large quantity , of cot ton had accumulated in New Orleans, present ing a peculiarly inviting object to the specu lator in Liverpool, . - The expedition against New Orleans was secretly fitted out in Liver pool. A mercantile ; house in that city was let into the secret of th expedition, . : ; t ,7 No doubt was entertained of the success of the British army; the capture of New Orleans, the acquisition of Louisiana, and the possession of its.4 body and beauty " were considered fixed facts. This mercantile house wrote to a firm of like character in Havana, giving an account of the expedition, assuring them- of its success, i and inviting them to participate in a great speculation, and one likely to place all concerned in the possession of great wealth. It so happened, in the order of Providence, that one of the members ' of the Havana firm was an American by birth. He' was' nursed by a patriotic mother in Massachusetts.' Here was a 'struggle with him". ' On the ' one hand, immense wealth in prospect; on the other, his duty to his country i the latter prevailed. And how was he to communicate the intelli gence to the defenders of his father's fireside ? British crusiers and pirates were then in pos session of the Gulf of Mexico, the little fleet of the American navy was captured by the enemy, the safe arrival xf a letter would be next to an impossibility.. "At ait events ne resolved to try it ' us country his country- his duty to his beloved country required him to act.' He writes too letters; and without knowing ' who the com mander of the American army in the Gulf was for he had not then heard of Gen. Jackson,) sends one without signature, addressed to the commander, whoever he wafUbe. at New Or leans; to the other he affixed his signature, and addressed it to a member of a mercantile house in Mobile'. JSoth letters arrived at their destination. . '- The gentleman of the Mobile house was a Scotchman by birth. - He had grown up in his own native land under the government which was now at war , with the land of hu adoption, for- he had , become' a naturalized citizen i the United States. He was thus differently situated from the Massa chusetts man in Havana; but he had sworn allegiance' to the land of bis adoption. - - Its soil was to be Invaded, and that, too, by .. the country of his birth, and by the people with whom, he, as a merchant, was niojst peculiarly allied. . - r-.-, V - .': ,' 1 I - :..- ; : The prospect of great pecuniary advan tage from the information he had was before him ; but the land of his adoption was to be ransacked the government to which be owed allegiance was to be dethroned in Louisiana his fellow citizens by adoption were to be sacrified arid : plundered. - His duty to his adopted country prevailed. . '.With this letter he goes to General Jackson. ' Un his adopted country's altar he laid the communication with the information so serviceable to this ' happy land. From this the energies of the brave hero in command were aroused, and the sequel ia known. Owing to the fact, said the orator, that the disclosure of the name of this individ ual might prejudice him in his business re lations in England, his name nas been kept a gocret. But now, as he has departed this life, and gone to render an account for his fidelity to his oath and adopted country, he would disclose it.' The speaker, then, with an air of satisfaction and pride, announced the individual to be James - Intierarity,' who re cently died at Pensacola, West Florida; A' ' "Here, then, was a disclosure which showed that the country owes its wrorul independence, says a living witness of its battles, to the fidelity of an adopted citizen. Is it nbt some what striking," that a Scotchman and an Irish' man's son (for such was Jackson) should have been singled but by Providence as instruments for accomplishing 'such mighty - results'" as flowed from the battle of New Orleans ? Let the" marrow-minded Know-Nothings think of it." A Mendicant Lknding PivgHcsnaED Dol laks. The " Buffalo "Republic - states that a merchant of that city was "short" 0500, -a few days ago and found it difficult to raise until a friend took him to the house of a worthy old German, where," on "giving good security, it was handed to him, all in'specie, Cith the offer of 500 more if it was' wanted.- This gener ous offer was declined, and a the merchant turned to leave, the door opened, and in trooped the three or four ragged children of the money lender, with baskets on their arms, whom the borrower at once recognized : as ' regular customers at his house, and who had just that moment returned from his larder, with their customary supply of cold victuals. ",-y;il . ... -' m'v-'; ' . -' - IntKtis, Theib Visits. The idle levy a very beaty tar upon the industrious, when by frivolous visitations, they robHhemselvee of their time.- : Such persons beg their, daily happiness, from door to door, as beggars their daily bread, and like them " sometimes meet with a rebuff.1 A mere gossip AroK not td wonder if we are tired of him seeing that we are indebted for the honor of his visit sirrly and solely to the 'cireum-uicc1 oITs "beisg tred of himself. 4-.' 7 The Beginning of Mormonisci. ' Twenty-eight ycars'ago 'Joe," Smith, 'the founder of this feet, and Harris,' his first con vert, applied to the senior editor of the Jour nal', then residing in Rochester, to print ; Lis "Book of Mormon," which Joo had found in the eleft of a rock to which ho had been guided by a vision.? . .. ; . . iWe attempted to read the first elm pter, but it seemed such unintelligible jargon that it was thrown aside. Joe was a tavern idler in the village of Palmyra Harris, who offered to pay the printingwas a substantial farmer. Disgusted with-what we considered a. " weak invention" -of, an, iroposter, ad not caring to strip Harris of his hard -earnings, the proposi tion was declined. - . ; . , . ; The manuscript was taken to another office across the street,' from whence, in due time, the. original " Mormon Bible" made its ad vent. , . , - ''' . . " Tall trees from little acorns grow." v ' But who would have anticipated from fueh a bald, shallow, senseless imposition , such world wide consequcnce?,i .To remember and contrast Joe Smith,, with his loafer book, pre tending to read from a miraculous slate-gtone Cplaced in his hat, with the Morroonism of the present day awakens thoughts alike painful and mortifying. There is no limit, even in this most enlightened of all the ages of knowl edge, to the influence of imposture and cre dulitv.. If knaves, or even fools invent creeds, nothing Is too monstrous for beliefs Nor does the fact a fact not denied or disguised that all the Mormon leaders are rascals as well as impostors, either open the eyes of tbeir dupes or arrest the progress of delusion. Poor Poland.' It has already been stated that a consequence of the enormous expenses of the present Euro pean war, the Emperor of Russia has ordered a heavy impost to be laid upon the Polish provinces, which few of them will be able to fay. The contingent to be paid from the 'olish treasury is increased 9U00,000 of sil ver roubles. . What the former contingent was we have no means of knowing, but how great the whole sum must be our readers may judge by the statement that to meet the de mand the land tax will be increased sixfold, payable in twenty-four instalments The lo cal authorities affirm that the prop ictors will not be able to meet this demand in twice as many instalments, and hence it is, said they are making exertions to induce thegovt rnment to relieve them of the enormous burthen i by finding some ether sources of income. In this we may read the-caufces TrhlchrttDpcl thelius-T sian government to seek pea5e Ly agreeing to the four points laid down by the allies. The cost of military operations of Russia, " in the pending war, far exceed the financial capacity of-the government. All exterior credit is of course impossible, and the country itself is not able to maintain a war carried on upon so gigantic a scale. ?It seems likely, therefore, that if the war should be protracted, the cx csssive burthens of taxation will foroc the dis sented provinces into rebellion. ' " Jeu D'Efiprit " .. i .' . Founded on certain coincidences noticeable in contemplating the names and lives of the first seven Presidents of the United States : Washington-, - ' - . J. Adams, " : ' Monroe, Jefforson, : "-' J. Q. Adams, Madison, ... ,!.: Jackson, - 1st. v Four of the seven were from the same State, (Virginia.) ' - '. . 2nd. ' Two others bearing the same name, (Adams) were from the same State. -. 3d. 'AH of them except, one, were 66 years of age on r'itireing from office. ' ; - 4th. All these at last mentioned served two years. , . . ( ; ' ... V 5th The one who served one term only, had ne served two terms, would also have been 66 years of age on retireing. ., . 6th. Three of the seven died on the 4th day of July, and two of them on the same day and year. . ' ' 7th. One only! of the seven, bad a son, and that son was one of the seven Presidents 8th. Two of them were of the . Sub-Committee of three that drafted.the Declaration of Independence, and these two werehey that died on the day and year, and on the anniver sary of the Declaration of Independence, and just a half century from the day of Declaration.- ' ; : " 9th. Tho names of three of the seven end in son, yet neither of these transmitted his name to a son. ' , ,, j.''. ., ' 10. One difference aa respects the elder Adams and the jounger, (not worth nothing on any other occasion,) was that the lat ter sported a Q. in his name and the elder the Cue on bis back, as an appendage to his head dress. ; - - ' ; 7 11th. In respect to the names' of all. it may bo said in conclusion, that the initials of two of the seven were the same and of two others were the same and the" initials . of still two others were the same. ri ;The remain ing one who stands alone in this particular stands alone, also, in the admiration and love of his countrymen, and of the civilized world Washikqtow Boston TrinscriX; - As Ere to Bcsixess. -The following is a verbatim copy of the proclamation with which a deputy sheriff of Colusa county closed a dis trict court a while since:-" Oytzl Oyctt ! Oyezft! The honorable the ninth district court in and for the county of Colusa, is now adjourned until next regular term the "races will commence over the Colusa course on the nineteenth ultimo and any gentleman in this crowd who flatters himself that he has an ani mal that can beat my horse for a single dash of a mile, may then and there on the day afore said, by trotting out the aforesaid animal, have an opportunity to win i", and singular the several scads in my pocke ! Oycsf! gST Alexander K. M'Clure, of Chambera- burg, (the defeated Whi candidate fcr-'Au- j ditor Ocsaral in 1S6C) ie to b?' Srlat? 4et cf public .Prariisg. '.""! The Yoia; ' jori isu vsCicc-rs. ' Previous t the war 1 aiury a a- fi vfa- g 'r T-t 'appeared "to 1iaVeTacLu a pTTJiili" nTt extravagant. - 1 oung men and eldoriy -men seemed, to vie with each otLt-r iu providing means of inordinate peJf gratification. " llhu club boutes of tuu xnctropolis btcaiuo, stock places of refined and elaborate -iii-yii-ou.ncfs. . If. on t!;e Di-rby?ay, or.Oik .cay ' ol 1853, one Lad wslkodin ta Xt'jt&le st'ro, avout 11 o'clock in-Ah6Uiiariiru, th!u; 'Vr-rV' to be seen 'the!younr;:iiicn of failion. with ihcir adnurable spjc-inUjtl e;irrian;-8, prt paring i lucfuuns ui uii' uny,, una iuosi .oi .iiiutii with blue yells tied around their hats, iuteq ded to be used 'as guards for th'ir complexion, when encountering the sun and. dust of iho road. If one walked on to tlie Army and Navy Clubhouse, in Iall-Mall,' the most pre posterously luxurious of all the places in tbo neighborhood, there were other sirjilar groups. Among all these young men, though in the drew of civilians, where officers f the regi ments generally stationed in London, the very rcgiineDta which ; have been performing, such extraordinary foata of. valor . These young men, who thought it necessary to guard their faces from the sun of a . British r uinincr day,, arc the same who have Iain iu their touts up-u the heights above Sebastopul. R?-rc..'Ty thtltc-r'-ed from the coll damps of a November' nigM. and have started with alacrity at the first sound of the trumpet or the druci, in the raw mists of the morning, to lead their men into the most terrible conflicts that ever soldiers were engaged in, and to face death in every terrible aspect that death can assume. t r Extraordinary Presemimet or rcz Ap PfcoACn or Dxatu. A few tights ago, a lit tle boy of rare intelligence, named Fillmore, son of George Fisher, residing in llc'iFtertown, Baltimore County, about the ftitdnight hour, awoke his mother and informed her that ha was going to die. He told hi3 farher the Bme thing, and when tolJ.that hj was dreaming, replied he was awakevarnl knew he wasgning to die. YTho parents - tlibught nothing more about it, and the child slept' comfortably un til morning. - When he awoke in tho morning he repeated his: presentiment to Lis parent: uiiil as soon as breakfast was over he insisted on being alloweif'to go and tell Mrs. Walt j-s, a neighbor, that he was going to die. , His mother told hiin -,t!iat ho had better go and see his grandmother if he was going to tiie. lie made a'vfcit to' his graudmoilier, and also to Mrs. Walters, after ' which he" returned to bis home; - Duritig the afternoon of the Earc day, histnother was called out of tbs " house for' a few minutes, and wt?u ."he r turned she : found ihe littly follow- av.Xul'j burned by his clothci baring taken fire.- As soon as the fire was.cxstinguishcd he said to his mother, " I told you I was going to die," A phjsician was called in, who dreBsed his injuries, telling hint that- he would soon, be well. 'He ftid, " No; Fillmore is going to die F and during the night the little boy breathed his last. This was aiBost cxtraordi- nary prcscntimeut, and daring the whole day he .poke of djing, though he had enjoyed excellent health, Baltimore ItepuUican, Feb. 2. ' . - ' . Dubbs is the Legislatcbe. -Owing to a new phase in politics;' Dobbs was elected to the Legislature.:' Though' gratiSod, he was also a little intimidated by the h:nor, and bul for the thought that he was eot necessarily obliged to speak, would have Uttciiucu serving. As it was, he accepted. " . A A ' J -; , All things went on. smoothly for a tiuKs ---Mr, Dobbs could vote on other people's UiO tioas though he couldn't make any himself. One unlucky day, however.' the proceeding beingrather dull, and Mr. Dobbs rather thirsty he concluded to go over to Congress Hall, a;- d and get a glass of lemonade. As he 'rose, .to leave the hall, he caught tbc Speaker s eye. The Speaker supposed he intended to address the House, and accordingly announced in a loud voice . . : " Mr. Dobbs ' v.'. . " ' - ' Dobbs started as if he had been shot. . The assembled wisdom of the State had their eyes fixed upon him.' He-pulled out his pocket handkerchief to wipe away; ihe perspiration', and feeling it necessary . to.-,sa something, blundered out .... t -r. - ' -Li . - Second the motion." -, , . . r . ."There; U no motion before, the Houso,? said the Speaker. . , ... . . . -. , ..... " Then I I--" ' .". .; : l't . : The silence was brcathlcff .' '...,'.' 4 ; 1 I w - "i' -'-'; -' Dobbs couldn't think of anything to say. Rut a bright idea came to him, and he finished the sentence v -' " ': .'" ' : 1 "I move we aJjoum." -'-i ' - 1 The motion didn't go, but Dobbs did, and nothing more was seen of him for that day. Albany Knickeihochar.. ,. r , j Not so vert Grkes. A. young and appa rently verdant slip, who gave his hailing place as "old Varmount," found himself surrounded, upon a certain occasion, by a crowd of quia sing upstarts, who Bcemed bent upon difplsy ing tbeir own smartness, at the expense of tho Yankee." ; - " Hello. Jonathan I" says one, "where are you bound?" - ' ! " Deoun to Bostiog.'on a little tramp," was the reply. -. . What's tout business in Boston contin ued th inquiaitive gentleman . ' ' Oh, I'm deoun arter my pension money tesponded greeny. - ' ' " Pension money? ejaculated whiskeree how much do yoa get, and what are you drawing pension money for ?' : . . - V Oh V aujwered greeny, I get four cents every year tew to mind my own business and tew to'let other folks business alone I". ; The crowd liml no more remarks to offer. The answer was entire! j satisfactory."' ' ' Zr7hz circGt -azscI effcrtrx in CaliloS A- i i , . i- .... ms-
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