4 ; . ' - ' V A. T n - in v .Hi hi ,v.. -.: THE BLESSINGS QOVERNMENT, LIKE THE DEWS OF HEAVEN, SHOULD BE EISTBXBUTED ALIKE UPON THE HIGH AND THE LOW; THE EICH AND THE POOR. NEW SERIES. EBENSBURfc, APRIt 22, 1857. VOL. '1Y0.25. 111 !: . i : : ' l tUE DEMOCRAT SENTINEL,. li publish every Wednedday morning, io Ebunsburg, ''Cambria Co., Pa;, at $1 60 perS.nhum,iF PAtu ih advance, if not $2 wrH be charged. ADVERTISEMENTS vrM bo conspicuously in serted at ithe following rate, viz : 1 square 8 icscrlion, - $1 00 Jlverr subsa-iweut insertion,, - 26 . 1 square's months, . GO X 6 TOO 1 year, 12 00 col'a - 1 year. 50 OO i r- i . rr is oo , P.uinea Cards. 6 00 QOTwelve line constitute a square. (Dljoire orfrq. The Sew VIUlRins un1 His IMimti. , Jonjf Dkah the Cuachmaa, having succeeded ia recovering Lis loving wife, Mariauaa Petronella Bbker, licw Dean a' c raic paper if tbis city (STew York,) thna trutlifully bits iff tte romantic adventured of the happy pair. nOW THERE WAS A FAIR DAfOHTEH. 'Ti of a rich merchant ho in Gotham did dwell, lie had a fair daughter, who did cul agreatswxll, ilariat.ra retroneila this f.ir ono was c:dlod. And h had a large fortune in rum, schnapps and gel'1 . . Singing too ra lal la rol lal Co-ni ac-a. HOW fits FSIL IN LOVE. As' this danghtar was uaikinj in the tabic one day, A smelling the sweet savor of horses nnd hsy. )T:r I-jvyer tha coachman unto her he Raid, Nuw lot us go right oft and get mar-sr-ri ed. Singing too la lol la ral lol Mem's Ver ze ny. now nirr got VAiinir.r. Ye,' John, said thia fair maid ; I'll -t my (11 hat, fr that father Hnd tbo prcaclier will not kmjcU a rat, llien awvy to the nat(ilJ tly wer.t sice by pide. And down in tho basement the knot it naa ti'd. Singing too la lol la rd live-do!lars-to-pay. HOW THE rAEIRNT FM.T. Tlien back she went home ; but htrfeyther fund out ' ' Tle mUchief these lovers hail just been about. And you Letter believe there was thunder that day. Ftjr .ctm mi that had played while ti e cat was away. Singing too ra Lal la ral thodev-il-to-pny. WHAT THZ B.1ILB SAID. Oh, John, eaid tha maiden, I feared 'twuuld bo so, Although we are mr-ri-ed, I find it no go, 'Tu true I hsvc choseu a gallant young spouso, But a!! he ain't handy to have in the house. Ringing too la lal rol wc-must run-a way. WHAT THE PARIENT PID. Tlien the daughter o loose he shut, up very tight, And carefully watched her by day and by night, But the newspapers told about John and the heiress, How the one was in love and the other in d:reaa, Bicging too ! lal la rol lal isu't-thU-gay now joux went tq Law. lint the Irishman said, ?.uro the vargin id mine, tty lov and the lar , aud cotninaudruents divine. An' by rmbeas rpus h-r fair corpus I'd hnve, I wjll, HUiher IVher, widout asking your " iave." . Singing too U 11 la r-J, I'il-go t--law-lny. now thzt rnociUTSir.i. Though married, thtir courting ws joht now i Vcgun, And judges and lawyers thrj' mixed in the fun. And the public for ru:n and schnapps du't care a pin. I'ut pat John on the back, and say " gcod boy, go iu.M bitigng tojla lol la ral lol, go-in and-win. ! , now johs oor ms uw-e. A month, pcrhapa more, did these lawyers delay. But at last the bld judgn to this parient did pay, It. no uao a talking; tho'd mairied that's sure, John takes her; don't cry over what ym can't cure." -Pinging too h Ul la ral, adjourned for-tlie-tlay. Tbo Crocua aud tiie due ZJli'tl iu n Siuw tslorm. . . - ' BT rSAKCES & A A O S v - : Tirst boru' among the flowera, Golden e3-ed 'daughter cf a sunny ray. What lured tboeto this chid world of our 'This fnowy day? . " Yaa it the blue bird's song, Twittr'd so luringly above thy head, .Asking thy love, the cold, bare boughs among - That called the from tby bed 7 ' I iLorest thou hij note so we', , ' 1 That it could, warm thee, ice-bound earth,' ' Bidding hope' germ within thy bosom swell And quicken.' into birth ? , , '. j ; - ; r - ' - 1 Did Sympathy, the dew-eyed child , blootri. Of Love, plead with thee, to , give forth thy Tosoothaand bless his passion, lone and wiid, .'( And cheer bis gloom ? ; j . , Hast thou no leaf his note ' Vill turn to coldness eve tho day goes by r ; -And oniure wing away will float, - . r 7; Leaving thee here to die? t-oj ', ' iow the cola wind sweep! Will he still cheer theo 1 will ho sweetly sing. Bidding thee ceaso for the sunny skies to weep. -And rest beneath his wing? . ' ' Sweet flower of spring, thv fate ' V Reminds me of full many a maiden's doom; Trusting a smile, she finds when all too late The feky overhung with gloom. And ho who in the hour Of sunny brightness, suns in genial tone. Leaves her to brave the Storm-King' angry. power Betrayed, despoiled, alone. .,--, ' Maiden,' beware the voice ji- Of Lim t-ot.ij-c;ufao wtien ingni tKie glow, Wait till the storm ia pat, then make thy choico, And 'scape the woe. . Jtii5rd(niifmi0. HIGHLY INTERESTING FK0SI CHINA TERPuBLE SCENES AMONG THE IN SURGENT. Death cf the Fastern snd Northern King Destruction of the Porcelain Tower. The New York Commercial is indebted to a friend for a llong Kong paper, containing a long letter from the Key. Dr. Jjridgmau, carrying the narrative down to the middle of last December. It is too long for our col umns, and will rather gain than loose in in terest ia this latitude by abridgment and we present to cur readers u careful synopsis. Dr Jiridgtnan's information was obtained from three eye-witnesses of what he describes These persons wero with the insurgents at Nanking. Chinkiang, Wuhu and other places in Nganhui ; were frequently at the palaces of tL.3 chiefs and had the auiplest opportuni ties of acquiring iiiforati'ii. One of them wa3 an illiterato native, and the others beieg foreigners were unacquainted with the Chinese hnuage, uud Dr. liridgman therefore expe rienced some difficulty in fixing exact dates if. occurrences, but of the substantial trulh of tho carritivo ha entertained not doubt. tho slightest The native was a youth and was in the service of the insurgents for more than a year, though only as a bearer of burdens. The for eigners were "gentlemen at large," adventu rers we presume, for they had first entered the service of the imperialisms, but receiving no pay, and seeing no prospect of any, went over to , the insurgents, with whom they re mained until the two principal rebel chiefs were cut off, when they abandoned the insur gents also, and coming from Nanking by the way of Chinkiang and Tantu, reached Shang hai in tho latter end of December." They re ported that they left only neven foreigners with the insurgents, viz: five Manila men, one Italian and a Negro The two chiefs of the insurgent force were Yang, "the Eastern King," and Wei Chang hui, "tho Northern King." As mentioned above, both these chiefs are dead. Yang was it seems, proverbial for iustigatiu; tho most bloody ma.-sacres of all who stood in the way of his ambitious designs as well as for hi blasphemous assumptions. lie had reached tie pinnacle of despotic swa.J, and livcu in true oriental luxury !; Vis palace, ttt Nanking, lie rarely wc" "beyond the gates of the city, but wtii the waiis was all but supreme. Due of tue leaders among the iusurgents.IIung oiuhlnen, and entitled the " Celestial King," for some reason had become obnoxious to him aud Yang resolved to encompass bis death. This design he communicated to one of his generals, who for some reason not assigned, revealed tho plot to the intended victim. Hung, who appears to have been a Drothcr of the Northern King, sought aid from him, and the massacre of the Eastern King aud his fol lowers was determined upon. The mode of accampiiihing this was truly Chinese 'J ho Northern King, by concert with the Celestial King, entered tho city in the dead ct night, posted his -followers quick ly aud silently at every avenue to tho palace of the Eastern King, and at a given signal, Yang and hundreds of his officers and people lay weltering io their blood. , Yang's follow ers in ' the city, , however, were counted by tens "of thousands,' and further treachery was necessary to complete the tragedy. With the morning's dawn came the revelation of the massacre, and the design of -. Y'ang 1 was an nounced as the reason for it. In order to get more of his followers into their power, how ever, deception was necessary, and the females of liung's palace becarue a decoy. From the balustrades of the palaco they announced that Wei, the Northern King, and his men", bad exceeded their orders ; that as a punishment, Wei was to" be bastinadoed ; and Yang's sur viving ocers; as some atonement, were invi- .ted to be present at tho infliction of the pun ishment. At this announcement, the North ern King's followers, beieg previously in Etructed, manifested the utmost sorrow and distress. -' . The reader probably anticipates tho sequel. It is thus described by Dr.' liridgman : ' " As the second day advanced, eome of the favorites were permitted to enter and rifle the palace of the slaughtered rebel." But the scene of greatest interest lay in another quar ter. In front of Hung's palace, in accordance with the summons of the previong day, mul titudes Lad assembled at an early hour, and there, not u any yarfs from the tribunal from behind which decrees were brought forth and proclaimed aloud by his female heralds,' the chastisement began, :Wei and his captains meekly (and cunningly) submitted. ' l i The phara succeeded r five or six thousand of Yang's tr&ops-suf pecting' that ' . nothing harder than the bamboo awaited wthm-al-lowod tbemselves to be .deprived of their arms and placed lor safe Jceep Ing iu two large buil ding, on .ordose to their: late master' no desecrated palace. Once in, their fate was -fccaled ; evcrj ouo f them was put to death; and not only these, bus other thousands also Thus day after day the victims were arrested, and made to suffer. Even little children were not spared. ; Heaps on heaps the corp ses accumulated ; for nearly ttiree months this dreadful work was in progress, and was then arrested in a very singular manner; When the Eastern King's plot was revealed to the Celestial King, the latter summoned to Nanking the "Assistant King," fchih Takhai, as well as the Northern King, Wei.' The as sistant King, however, refused to obey the summons, he being friendly- to the Eastern King, iang. As he did not mako his ap pearanee, it was supposed ho had taken um- tc ud' Joined - tlie imuerilfcta;- BrcutS proved, however, that the surmise was with out foundation. He gathered his adherents, and sent to tha Celestial King a demand for Wei' bead, on pain of an attack upon Nan king and its destruction. - The demand was complied with, j Tho bead of the Northern King was "taken off, placed in a box, de spatched totho camp of the Assistant Kins. and there, with many other heads, was h$og up and exposed to the public raze." These events occurred in November last. The way being thus prepared, for some of Wei's cap tains had also been beheaded at the demand of the Assistant King, the latter marched to Nanking, about the beginning of December. The adherents of Yang and Wei were of course immediately prescribed, . among them were Dr. Dridgman's informants, who fled ' to save themselves from the executioner. We can now comprehend why, in the last few months, tho insurgents have made so lit tle progress, comprred with earlier periods. They Lave I een engaged with feuds among themselves, of a sufliciently tragic character. Hung bintsinen.thc Celestial King, was known to be alive as late as the 12th of December, but was in concealment ; and Shih Takhai, the Assistant Kinr, was at the latest advices in possession of Nanking, and apparent su preme chief of the insurgent force. The prop erty of Yang and his party had been conCs cated, and his palace reduced 'to ruins. Dr. liridgman says that "it seems to have beon intended that no memorial should be left of him or his estate, and that every relative and friend, and follower, should be exterminated and their houses and goods destroyed " . It was also reported to Dr. liridgman that the far-famed porcelain tower of Nanking, in ar chitecture the pride of tbe 'Upper Kingdom,' had teen levelled to the ground. Its demo lition appears to have been connected with the averthrow of the Northern King : "it was blown up because thre were some great guns in it." biaS Takhai is represented as acting the part of Dictator. Provisions and muni tions of war were plentiful at Nanking, and though it is supposed that, as the consequence of this jealousy, plotting and treachery, thirty thousand persons were killed, the numbers of the insurgent forces were not sensibly dimin ished. Of tho relative positions and strength of the Imperialists aud insurgents, it is difficult to form an opinion. Dr. liridgman represents that of the thirteen prefectures of Kiangsi, nine arc bxld by the insurgents, with nearly ths whole province of Nghanhwii, large coun tries of the river, and many lorts along its backs ; and their courage, readiness to tight, &c , far surpass those of the Imperialists Dr. liridgman, however, hajsuchan evideut bias in their, that his opinions and inferences must be received with some mistrust He even admits, at the close of his letter, that when his informants left. Nanking, a plot was on foot against the life of Hung, the Celestial King ; and that soon after they left the city, " much loud cannonading was heard iu that d'rectiou." 3Ieu who cau practice euch whole sale treachery end slaughter among them selves, are not, one would think, likely to prove permanently formidable foes, and it is difficult to suppose that their rule cau be a blessing to any people. To claim for such men a knowledge of, or a belief in, Christi anity, and its civilizing, humane precepts, ia only to bring the christian religion into con tempt. r . ' A' Legal Anecdote - A friend at our elbow, sajs that an exchange relates a legal anecdote which is too good to be lost It is ot course located "out west," that region is so fauied for its luminous jurists ; and illustrates the ruling passion-" poker," ; even among western members of, the bar. ' The court is in session, the judges are on the bench,, and tho case of Smith vs Brown is called up. " All ready," shouts tha council for the de fendant, but the counsel for the plaintiff does hot respond. , ri . - ; . . ; ; ". ' V Who's for tho plaintiff ?" inquired the Judge somewhat impatiently.' f ' ' " May it please the court,"- eaid a rising memter of the legal fraternity;' Piikins is for the plaintiff, but I left him just now over in the tavern, playing poker. lie's got the sucker there and he'a sure to skin him if he only has time. Iiea got the thing all set to wring in a"coldduck,V in which case he will deal ' for himself, four aces and bis opponent four queens, bo that your honor will perceive he must "rake the persimmons." The look of impatience soon vanished from the face of his Honor at once, and an expres sion more of sorrow than of anger took its place. At length he eaid with a sigh i " Dear me that's too bad I -It happened at a very unfortunate time. I am very anxious to get on with these cases . . .v , ' A brown study followed, and at length a happy idea Btruck the judge. ' ' . . , i ' "Bill," eaid he, 1 addressing the friend of tuo absent Piikins, who had spoken,' "." you .understand poker . about as well as Piikins. Supposo you go over and play his hand." . : 1 " - Toni, you sot. man to a tippling friend, cum tciufcraucc --'.A ty. . " Buch .stuff as .yoa do ?i. Why, the viry hogs wouldn't touch that brandy !" ' That's cause thoy is bruits;" Bafd Torm . " Poor creatures, theydunno what's good " .v " J' Correspondence of the ' Jew York 'Daily Times. j Governor Robert J, Walker. 1 I . r. Washisgto, March 26, 1857. Until Mr. Robert J. Walker can rrevail rpon his family, and some of his intimate friends, io drop their strong opposition to his naking Kansas his home for so long a period a? would be requisite in order to accomplish tie task, in that Territory, which tho Admin istration requires at his hands, I . fear, it will be difficult for him to go. nis health, seri oUFly impaired by the National Hotel attack, coald scarcely be benefited by the anxieties of a Western sojourn. He has never been phy sically very robust, and at the present time caXitTwiire neecEsary before he can recover hi3 usual vigor. Still, the general: impresr sioa h that he hat, made up his mind to accede to the personal solicitations of Mr, Buchanan and that he will be Governor Geary's suc cessor. , : It bad escaped the notice of people here, as it was not regarded for the moment as havinxr any political significance, that tho President. notwithstanding the pressure of public busi ness upon him from all directions, bad taken opportunities of frequent and lengthy inter views with Mr. Walker during the past fort bight, which are now understood to have have had reference , to Kanzas. Mr. Buchanan had, probably, made up his mind previous to tne advent ot ix-uovernor Ueary, whom he would appoint zn his place, and hence the in timations which were thrown -out that a states man of the first order of talent and energy would be chosen, and that opportunities of higher distinction would be afforded in Kan sas, than could be enjoyed by any other ap- pouueo 01 nis auimni&trauon. It seems to be the common supposition that Mr. Walker is entirely identified with the ex treme Southern interest, and that his sympa thies are with the school of Davis. Toombs aud others of the secessionist stripe. . . This t4 not tlic case, and scarcely ought to be charged against the man who was chosen to the United States Senate from Mississippi, as the opponent of Mr. Poindextcr, in th very campaign in which the latter gentleman stump ed State the under the Palmetto flag, as the advocate of South 'Carolina nullification! Mr. Walker's course, at that time, met with the approbation of every Union man through out the land. Jl is standard was the flair of the Union, which he wore around Lid waist, in which costume he denounced disuuion as treason, in every principal town and village of his adopted Southern State Bobert J. Walker, the son of Judge Wal er one of tho Judges of the' Supreme Court of the United States was born in Pennsylvania, and, I believe, not far from the home of Mr. Buchanan, ne studied law uuder his own father, and practiced his pro fession at Pittsburg, where he married a daughter of Franklin Bache, of Philadelphia ana a grandaughter cf Benjamin I rankhn. 1 ho first nomination ot Andrew Jackson for the Presidency was made by young Wal ker, shortly after he was admitted to the bar, at a Convention of the Pennsylvania Democ racy. After his emigration to Mississippi, he became identified with Texan independence, but took no leading part in national matters until the declaration of South Carolina in fa vor of nullification bad excited his zeal in behalf of the Union. Then succeeded the famous struggle between himself and Poin dexter the latter the right hand of Calhoun iu Mississippi, through whom be hoped to to gain over that State to the cause of seces sion, or an unconstitutional States Bights ex treme. No Missisiiippian will ever forget that famous canvass, nor ought it to go out of the ! memory of patriots in the North. Whatever ! may have besn the real causes of complaint j against Mr. Walker since, ho did Lis duty , then manfully, triumphantly, and in a way which caused Lim to take Lis seat as an eptial among the giants who composed the Senatorial 1 body of that period. j - Walker, in tho Senale, soou became a con- I fidential friend of Jackson, and took a lead- j ing part in the annexation of Texas ; but be it remembered by those who distrust him on account of his supposed Pro-Slavery proclivi- J tics, that ho strenuously opposed Mr Cal houn's project of making all of Texas Slave : Territory, and was the main . instrument of 1 making the freedom of the soil of the' North- , ern portion of our newly acquired possessions a condition of annexation. Walker was first requested by Mr Polk to enter bis cabinet as Attorney-General, that post being deemed most io accordance with his tastes ;' but subsequent events transferred him to the Treasury Department. He then inaugurated the " Revenue," as distinguish ed from the ' Protection" tariff system, and drew up and reported the tariff of 1846. " It was a bold measure, reducing duties more than one-half, on an average, and that at a time when the country was involved in a war,' and in opposition to the views of the commer cial moneyed and manufacturing classes. On the passage of tho bill, Mr. Evans, Senator from Maine, and considered the financial lea der of the Whigs, declared, in his place, that the revenue of the 'next year would not" be $12,000,000. Daniel Webster left a memo randum with tho clerk of the Senate, that it would not produce 14,000,000. Abbott Lawrence and the banking interests of this city and New England considered tho policy as destructive. Walker's recorded estimate was that it would give, in the first year, $30, 000,000 It . gave $29",000,000 - and eome hundreds of thousands, and has gone on in creasing until it has reached its present pro digious amount. - 1 i f ; Walker is tha only Cabinet officer who has had his reports'reprinted abroad 1 Sir Robert Peel had them printed for the benefit of the" House of Commons, and his- is the honor of being the only financial minister ' ich-ym the icorul Jutt produced, who has advanced Gov ernment Stocks,- and maintained them above par, during a foreign war. and while it was borrowing money daily. If this sketch sounds to you like a panegyr ic it is because 1 havo cared to present you only one 6ide ?)d a true one, of the character if a very remarkable man, who is about to bo entrusted with tho practical rare of settling the most important question which has agita ted the country for many years, and who, it is believed here, will do it in the interest of the Union, in accordance with the principles of the .Ktnsas-Nebmska law, and if the majority (as is doubtless the case) of people of Kansas are Free State men, in a way to securo the triumph of freedom over slavery. Westward Ho! .VAn ague-stricken hypocondriac,Jwhohas been on a trip out west, thus answers some questions in a letter to the Saturday Evening 1'ost: ' The first question comes from Cambridso port Mass., and reads as follows : " Which is the best time for going West, in the Sprin or Autumn.?'-' , , . , - The best time for going West, is when you hive the ii:ost money about you, and the least fear of losing it. If you come in the Spring you are sure to shake yourself to death-before fore fall. If you come in the fall, you will live until Spring, if you don't freeze to death before you get there. If you come at all you bad better got your stomach lined with water proof cement, so as to be able to digest corn bread, bacon and whisky ; for this is all we have to cat, except a few French hogs, and billious looking tadpoles, which we can catch when the river runs down., Second question" What part of the 'West is me oest part to emigrate to, taking into consideration the healthiness of the climate. A variety of opinions about that, my dear fellow. Our Senator, Mr. Douglass, says Nebraska is the beet. So it is, if yow. want to go into stock business, raising ao unruly kind of mixed cattle that wiilstrav. of to Can ada, ia spite of the compromise of 1850 or 1856, or Senator Douglas. Or, if you want to speculate in pappooses, white scalps, and get your own taken off scientifically, go to Nebraska, by all means. Lf you want to play poker for a living, and set Tip whiskey drink ing for a business, live on corn-bread and ba con week days, and slippery elm bark on Sundays, come to Illinois. If you want to go where they have no Sundays, or anything to eat, only what they brought from the East go to Iowa, or if you waat to go to grass on all fours, and do as other kinds of cattle do go to Salt Lake. If you want to go where they receive the mail annually, where they live on wild cran berries crumbled in water from the Mississip pi river, where three wigwams make a city and a paper of pins and a bar of Yankee soap make a merchant go to Minnesota. Third questiun ' Docs the fever and ague prevail much in WiscoesVo?" Of course it doc,. Nobody out Wrest is fool enough to a.k suoh a question. Every body shakes. 5 even the trees shake, you cant coax a plum to stay on when it is good for anything, it will shake a man out of bed, kick him out of doors and shake tha bedstead at him till he gives up. Fourth question " How lorg does a pre emption stand good ?" That depends upon circumstances. If you have a good rifle, and know how to use it, you havo a chance to ten that you may live until you Etarve to death But if you can't stand fire, and arc not a good shot and a quick one, take my word for it, you had better stay in Jerico until your beard be grown ; they are all too smart for you in these woods. Fifth question "Is there land to be had in the northwest part of Ohio for 1,25 per acre and i3 it g'd." That's ftil fudge, got up by soma "pecula tors to gull some greenhorn like you or me for the best of my knowledge and belief, Ohio was worn cut ten years ago. The whole bu siness of the railroads in warm weather, is to carry back persons who have been fools enough to come out West. All the railroads are do ing this winler is carrying dirt into Ohio out of Michigan to raise a few beans and oats, to keep the folks from starving next summer. As to the land in the northwest of Ohio, it is eighteen inches nnJjr water most of the year, and will probably be worth $1,25 par acre when water snakes and copper heads bring as much per barrel in New York as potatoes are worth per bushel in Alton. And Isstly, be wants reliable information: a short article in your paper relative to the subject aud he wants to go to a healthy lo cation, decent land and fair water. ' - . Exactly ! Why, my dear sir,- thera is no such thing as reliable information out West, unless you "pay well fjr it. A lawyer won't tell the truth unless you give hira 500. and then you can't believe half he says. A witness won't tell the truth in court un less vou first scare him to death, and then make him swear ha won't and neither himself nor anybody else knows whether he tells the truth or not. " 'v' ::ff '- ' " On the whole, if you feel obliged by our short article," so do I. If you want to go to a healthy country, stay at home, and don't be a fool like myself and come out West. And ss for drcent land, my dear fellow, what do tju mean ? Ycu must know that our wild prairie is very indecent, especially whea it is fcurnt over ana lett a nasea as 11 was corn. 'Tis true nature weaves a sort of fig-leaf apron every summer out of a coarse kind of grass, but it soon gate burnt off, and i3 indecent as ever 1 . . As for fair wato., we hare none, it is all a billious compost of liquid mod, doad buffa loes, fish and rotten rattlesnakes. ' Our,. common driuk, when we can't get whiskey, is onetbird prairie mud. and one third tobacco juice. . ' " ' ', Upon the whole, if you have good water, and get enough to eat, stay wheie you are. . Yours truly, . .W 3T Snow has fell inehes in this pbice to thai" depth of four A Laughing Clergyman. , We Lave heard the auecdoto of the minis-' ter whose gravity was so overcome at the lu dicrous antics of a man who had fallen asleep' on the steps of the church door, and had been upset by a pugnacious ram, who had naiatoot his nodding for a signal of defiance," ani char ged upon him accordingly. "The rnhm!er be held the scene through the open church door, and burst into laughter in the midst of his sermon much to the amusement of 'Lis hear crs, who could not . understand the cause his mirth.. -.His mortification -atrthifl outwrrd incident was so great that he would never again enter the --pulpit.-- In-the' Recollections of a' Life time, byS. G. Goodrich, we find related a circum staace cf somewhat similar nature, which be gives as follows r ' . : " Once upon a time there was a clergyman, the Rev. Dr. T., a man of high character and distinguished for his dignity of manner. Bat it was remarked that frequently, when ascen ding the pulpit stairs, he would smile, and! sometimes almost titter, as if beset by an un controllable desire to laugh. This excited re mark, and at last scandal; finally it was tbo'fc necessary for some of his clerical friends, at a meeting of the association, to bring up tha matter for consideration. The case was stated, the Rev Dt. T. being"' present " Well, gentlemen,"" said ho. th fact charged against me is te, but I beg you to permit me to offer an explanation, A few months after I was licensed to preach, I waa ia a country town, and on a Sabbath morning was about to enter upon the duties of th church Back of the pulpit was a window , which looked upon a field of clover, then n full bloom, for it was summer- As I rose to commence tho reading of the Scriptures, I cast a glance into the field, and there I saw a man performing the mest extraordinary ev- olutioBs jumping, whirling, slapping in all directions, and with a ferocious agony cf ex ertion. At first I thought be was mad, - but suddeuly the truth baTst upon me 7 kact buttoned vpa bumlle lee in his jxintaloona I am constitutionally nervous, gentlemen, and the shock of this scene upon my risible sensi ble sensibilities was so great that I could hard ly get through the services. Several times I was upon the point of bursting into a laugh' Even to this day, the remembrance of this scene through the temptation of th devil -often comes upon me , as I am ascending the pulpit. This, I admit, is a weakness, but I trust it wdl rather excite your sympathy and 1 your prayers than your reproaches. William Wikt and Ton Conwix. It is said that Tom Corwin, as he is familiar called -was ence trying a case in which" he was-op- posed to the late Mr. Wirt, when the letter tried a somewhat novel mode of discrediting the evidence of Mr. Corwin's chief witness, on whose accuracy and discrimination everyi . thing turned, by showing that ho was a per- . son of astonishing credulity. Wirt Have you read Robinson Crusoe T Witness Yes. Wirt Do you believe it all ? ' Witness Well, yes," Squire; I don't know ' but what I do. . The same answer was returned as to GuUi"- : ver's Travels, and seveial other works of fie- tion, Corwin all the while fidgeting and get ting hot. Presently Mr. Wirtconsidering the man entirely flattened out "resigned him with a balmy smile Mr. Corwin said be had only one question " to ask, and put it " Mr. Corwin Have you read Wirts Li& of Patrick Henry? Witness Yes. Corw'm Do you believe it all ? ' Witness Why, no, Squire ; I can't go that. Traces of Sik Jons Fuanklix The St. Paul's (Minnesota) Pioneer, publishes tho w following extract of a letter, dated Ked River 1 Settlement, Hudson Bay Territory, December 0th : " I received a letter from Roderick by the last mail, and expresses a with that I should wiitc to you by the first opportunity, and state more particularly about the reports ' -we heard last Euranior about some traces of whites being seen in the North. I have just returned from -, who was at Norway House last J uly, and saw the man who bro's r down an express to Sir George Simpson from - Mr. Anderson, ia M'Kensie's River district, stating that Indians bad brought over report's to one of the tra-. ing .points in thet quarter, that Indians had seen two or- -more oucainp- " mcnts of whites on an is-land on tome point where Anderson aud Stuart turned back in 1S55, nd that one of the encampments par ticularly was quite fresh, supposed to hare been abendoned a day of two befjro the In-. dians saw it, and from tho" traces thought there might have been ten or twelve nien. I could not hear of the exact locality, further than that Anderson and Stewart were within a very Ehort distance of 'tte place where tHV traces were seen. I hope yoa have hear9 more particularly about tho report.' . . . . 1 .-. . .. N - , Rsvoltiso Affair is Martian. Tha fol lowing tragic occurrence took place at Win ston, Md., on the 27th of March : , A son of Thilip Pendleton and . a young roan by the name of Drain, from.. Chicago had f oe misunderstanding, which resulted' in Drain challenging young Pendleton Hj acorpted '.the challenge, and" chose Loirie knifes. They nailed themselves down to a " two inch plank by -the pants, and fought until -Drain was mortally - wounded. Young , Pen dleton was cut nearly in pieces, ands now 1 lying in a critical position. Part of Pcndle- ton's knife is still in Drain's hoad There h no hope of -his recovery. The Dr- think they will both dio. Drain was 22 yer, o years old, aud small of stature, wbileIqidlrt- son was about 19 fif-l - . J -. , -4 K I. . V Trfr f . -. . -
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