THE BLESSINGS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE DEWS OF HEAVEN, SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED ALIKE UPON THE HIGH AND THE LOW, THE RICH AND THE POOR. EBENSBURG, "JUNE 3, 1857. VOL. 4. NO. 31 T-pj fTVTl t-a p V U U UlLl i Is published every Wednesday Morning "One Hollar and Fifty Cents per annum payable In advance; 'ONE DOLLAR AND SEVENTY-FIVE CTS. If not paid within six mcnths, and TWO DOLLARS If not paid until the termination of the year. No salscripticn -will be tula-n for w-wu-r p.. Jn other "vf.irds.as W3 say hVrK" tfio coun poriod than sixmontl.s. and no tuls-.-nU-r y!l be hecaUlQ unhealthy for him." Unfortu- t liberty to discontinue n paper un ti a. ar- j J lowevep Le bad been a .. leete too editor "o" I ' Inr nrrsnn subset ihin fur tix months will be charud ose dollar, uuitsi the money is paid i la advance. ! Advertising nates. One insert'ii. 'Two do. Three Jo. 1 square, '2 squares, 8 aqnaies, "12 lilies '21 lineal CC lints $ 50 1 CO 1 50 3 months. 41 o '2 60 4 00 6 00 10 00 io 00 41 00 j '2 00 1 2 00 C do. $:i 00 4 uO 7 00 9 CO 12 00 3 00 12 do. 45 CO n f'i. 6 lines or less. 1 square, 12 line 2 squares, '24 lines Z squares, CO lines Half a column, lz 00 - 14 oo I 20 00 i Oue column. 15 00 22 00 15 00 ! All advertisements must bo nuirkA with tho number of iu.strtions desired, or they will be omtinuvd uatil forbi.l, anl charyetl acturdiuj;ly. (Cijoirr ortrq. THE SAPTIsM CF TEAKS. IX ELLfcN C. nOV.'AKTH. Grr.e, I will sing fcr thee a gentle lay, Like tho.se I bang thee oft in happier hours, And thought ofthee like suum ei 's guldea ray, bhall liht i-nce ruie my heart of withered fl-jwers. Bring ir.o the lute aud I will wr.ke ng da ltd tender notci t pulsions, In pvs and fears ; Ah, ieilo dif am, wild ptviiiUc saoly vai:, Its every chrvd has bu baj ti.ed iu tears. , I rone to St. Louis to take charge of the -'Stake And I am ehauged ; my sau jet tr.u.quu brow of zion anj if pslblw re-liaht the Lumin- Duth criins..ii not Ixncata th.no enrneat gase ; j ary a jiortnpn paper) whicbwa3 extinguish y hand doth tumble not to greet hee low, j e, jnHt season for waiit of proper furl. A it hath trembled iu our earlier days ; j just before lcaving us he had two young My cheek btstmys no n;.-re the pacing thought, (listers) sealed to him against their vrill My rye thu sadvleu'd tr.ice cf st.rrow weass ; and in !pite of tlseir tears and remonstrances Yt,Oh ! how dearly was tiiia cluines bought, I Their father was a bigoted Mormon, and coui- F. r every tinill ha:h Lueu bul.Ji.d by tcaii. 1 pelie 1 them thus to bccon e concubines to a J man who lias several wo;i;eu in his liarem al- I rcav lo mr? roved 1 v bt;Jlcn start i M lvo r. r thte, wheii uthe.s s-peuk by narijo, Pjr I h-vo iearu'd at In.-1 to veil my heart, I Though every ir.mr-t feelii.g le the same ; J 2"Corhail 1 wd i!y grieve if thoufvrget j Hose I h,ie lovw.1 thee, iwngaijd weary years, I "Sot cliide tr.ee n.ore iu paioiiate regret, i Fr evtii ibv iove hath brought mo bitter tears. ( Thou r4 u,,,e -i. kiU6 w t . .-. .-11 4l.Ci.r.a z-K-ft ( My s .iul to te.us. aud yet not even thou May'tt re.vl a am my deep undying hvc, l)y quivering lip, pale cheek or du keu'd brow, V sea of fcoirow rolls it waves between This rjretLivrj, end tho clap of tar.ier years. And thy Iov;J image in my he.irt hatli been Laptiscd anl puride-I by liiuniiijc tears. ,"9L'l".."J,uf -SLILL FURTHER. FRO II UTAH LICEXJTIOUSriESS. OUTRAGES AUD LIURDERS. jS3T"We have before us a b ttor iu the New York Times, dated " Gnat Suit Lake Citii. i April 1 1S57," from which we copy the sub- I nom 1"glja1 s owce. witti a young gin. ap . : ... .... , , i parcntly some sixteen or seventeen years old, joined thruaug and starting trtracts : Ltin. if t i t i t . ,. i ' 1 to whom he had just cecn ' sealed. Monday, March 0. The carri-.T of the Southern mail brings news to-day of an attack T i v t, v-:i,. - r .. , . ,J . . Joseph loucg, the net over-riright on ot ou a party which lett here a thoi t time jiuce i . 1 . c , , . r p . , J -pp ,1 I'nghani, returned last fail from a mission to lor Caiaoi ma, cousitiLg ot tour-men named i t. , , .1 c .v i , i i I .iiirl.i till As tli srm of rhf lrfinirt tin irae Ktr;l I l.r.Ml ntill t IV .-fc Ill it- t i.nir i 'j.i nti. r:inififil about ) iiiiles below t .iruw.in fun last Southern bt'lemcut on the lload to au ! Bernardino before coming to thd uuw nettle- ! ment of Los Vegas, while they were waiting j for tho mail to come up. The place selected J for their ramp was at the foot of a perpctidic- j nUr ledge of rouka in the vieiLity of some j tushes. About -1 o'clock iu the morning, the moon shining biightly at the time, the attack- I ing party crept up and fired dowu on them j from the top of the rock Tobin was shot i r -. . - - through tho head, tho Lah entering close uu 'der the eye, passing diagonally through tho ncpo aud cheek, and lodging in his neck. He was also shot in five other places, aud left for dead. The other men escaped into thu Lush ca, one of them, however, haviLg been shot in the back of the neck, and another Laving had two fingers shot off. When the party "returned to the camp they fouud that Tobin ras alive, and with the assistauce of the mail party, who Boon overtook them, they carried liiro along with them. From the reports it is somewhat doubtful whether he recovers. This Tobin was Orderly Sergeant iu Capt. Morris' command, U. S A , which nerved as -an escort to Capt Guunisoti, when he was killed ou the Plains Af.er bin murder tho "command wintered at (Jreat Salt kake City and during their sojourn iu Zion, Tobin at one and the same time, became imbued with Mormonism and impressed with the charms of Alice Young, daughter of the Prophet Brig ham. He embraced the fiist i bjectof his ad oration, and was led to believe, by the wily rphet. that, in the fulness of time, he wo'd permitted to emhr&Crt thn .fr(.ii- After serving out hb enlistment he returned here last Spring, brimfull of love and Mortimnium and ngured extensively as employee and con- r,f XV , ' ana roIeor or tne Art V i f ,,.n. 1DS recruits to serre in the ex- coiasion between the United States aud that; instead of any hope of improvement, af JUonaondom, provided th iacomiDg Admin- fairs daily were growing worse when th istration docs not shirk the question as the outroii:g one has for the past four years. To rtiirn to Tnhin . thfi current of true love with him, as with all heroes, ran with a ripple, and vaiious reasons are assigned why the fair Alice took sanctuary in the arms of one Ili ratn Clawson, where some three or four doves had nestled before her. The gallant Tobin souqht consolation in the society of a Miss IVck ; but even the charms ot love and conso lations of religion tailed to satisfy Lis ambi tious longings. He found it best to make a - ... . i:p. I iitiiriiv Lfi t Jill ill iiu ,1..1. ,;.,; ota, 1 into t ha mi ntnrioa nf 1 nr. monism to be permitted to leave tne country, after his close intimacy with the Governor of Utah. When the attack was made the party were asleep, rolled in their blankets, and the bandits fired at their heads, but most of the hots were aimed too high. Their boots and l,n,a l.oiiinr fit thmr wnd vmdfr tliA liltinlvnta. deceived the assaillants as to their true posi tion, hence their escape. They counted 56 bullet holes iu their blankets, and what was u'te significant, the balls were from revol- v - rs f tne n:ivy size' The Mormons here, in speaking cf this transaction, wink their eyes to each other. and say, " The Indians are verv bad on the lower road " There isjio doubt but the at tack was planned in thit City, and that orders were sent from here to execute it. It was said publicly by the Mormons, immedi ately after the party left the City, that they would not live to get th rough California, and reports came in several days in advance of the mad that they had been killed The bacdits thought that they killed Tobin. and probably sp ike cf ic to some person ou their rtturn. The Mormons do not hesitate to publicly pro claim that no apostate shall be permuted to escape fiein their community "to tell their d d tales about them." We w re deposed to rfgard these threats as mere expedients to fright n u. but are forced to the conclusion that they intend to carry thetn into execution. " m With the mail that left fr the States on the I lit int., was Horace L. Eldridge, who has ready. lie whs too conrieuo!i" a person a go in the Church te prudently thwartid, and the father inclined a deaf ear to their entrea ties, and turned them over to a creature whose soul mu.-t beii;s?nMbla t i every generous eino tiun. What else could l?o expected from a devotee of Mormoni.aru. whose religious belief is that woman should be tha passive int-tru ment for t'ue gratilication of men's sensual ap- rvr tit jiiul wliti l.in H tn senrn t!it ida nf her moral or inteUeetuai worth. 1' kiday, iMarcn Jo. l-a.t everiinjr 'our peaceful city" Was tlirown into commotion by an attempt, on the part of somo persons high up in the Priesthood, to get away from T. S Williams his daughter who is not yet four teen years of aire. In otdor that you may muv coMiDicbciid the casj I must give you a short sketch of Thomas S Williams and his family. His father is one of the oil Mor mons, having bocn with them from the begin ning of their ca.eer, and is, moreover, a con spicuous member of the Danite Baud. His ! grandfather, old as be is, has been ' sealed" ; to three young women within tho last three weeks A few days since I met him coming f. ...,..i ,. o.i ..i..,n, i,:nnA.i v... f ...... . . thu faithful abroad, aud has returned inflated with vanity r-ecr to bursting lie left ayoung wife behind him when be went, whom he has entirely neglecUd sitid- bis return, except to keep her locked up in his father's seraglio lie has lately been "sealed" to two young wo men, one of them oaughter of one Grant, a brother of th late Jedeiiah She is about seventeen years of age, and represented to be very amiable and lovely. She was mo.-t bit terly opposed to the marriage and begged and implored her father not to force her into the arms of a man whom she loathed ad abhor red ; but he was deaf to her entreaties, for the sou of the Prophet must be gratified. Since she was "sealed" she refuses to associate with him and walks her room all night, her agony unrelieved by tears, in a 6tate bordering oa insanity. -Alice Young, the daughter of Brigham, who waB last Winter "sealed" to II C. Claw zon, a pimp of the Prophet's, who bad pre viously three other wives, a short time since packed up her effects preparatory to leaving her husband; but the storm has blown ovsr. or was stilled by the voice of the Prophet. I am told that Cluwson now seeks a younger sister to Oe "sealed" to him. The mother Brighnm s first wife is almost beside herself with fear that ho will obtain the father's con sent to it " Perfect happiuess rcigrs in all the families iu Utah I" A young woman, who forsook her friend. in England and came to this o untry last Fa ! under the delusion that if she could oolv reach r Zion" her happiness would be completely ! inenrnd in tlila w. nA In tl, nort iraitn. ken on her arrival into Brigham's family as bis mistress, when the monstrous state of af- fairs was soon revealed to her. She was told Oh ! I am lost ! lost ! ! lost ! ! !" Monday, March 23 A few days ago we received the news of the robbery of a man Darned Parrish, (a dissenting Mormon, who was intending to leave the Territory.) in Spfingville, a town about sixty miles south of here. Some men came to bis premises in the night and took two span of horses and a wagon, with which he contemplated to leave the Territory this Spring Hearing them mo ving bis property, he went.to.tho door, where be was "met by a man who presented a pistol to bis head, threatening to blow his briins out if he made any noise or offered any resis tance. The next day he found one span of his horses in the stable of one Bullock, the Mayor of Provo lie claimed the horses, but Bullock refused to let him have them. lie then applied to the Judge of the Probate , f ' ., ii t.u i .i ITrrii-t q Mcminn In). mini tint t hft nisi V J Iiilirr. left us since the forcible dissolution of the U- ! nited States Court ) for a writ of replevin, which the Judge refused to issue, and he co'd get no redress. We have now received the report and par ticulars of the murder of Parrish and two oth er men. A party of five -'apostate" Mormons Parrish, his two sons, Potter and JJarger, having been stripped of all they possessed by Mormon process and open robbery, de'termi ncd to leave the Territory at all hazards. Iieio"; unable to procure teams, they star ted on foot and passed out of Springville in the afternoon. They bad been watched, and as soon as they had started, several men were calleaout lo assist in the affair. The party had hardly proceeded a huudred yards from the gate of the town before they were bred upon by a band of d auised Danites. Potter was killed outright, having been pierced by five balls. The murderers then rubed upon them, and cut Parritlis throat from ear to ear and ripped open his bowds. Other wounds upon his person Ehowed that he struggled hard. His son, though severely wounded, ran about 80 yards, when he was overtaken, and his thro it icas cut and his bowels were rip ped open. The other two men being a little iu the rear escaped. We have reports of others being killed, but hnve no positive knowledge, as the Mormons take care to hide from us every dark deed when they can help it. One of the Bishops the other day, in preaching to his congrega tion, Slid that he would cut the throats of the apostates with as litte compunction as he wo'd go iuto a pen of hogs and butcher them." Ouo of the " Seventies" said that at first he shuddered at the idea of killing all the apos tates men, women and childreu but had become reconciled to it ; tl at he was satisfied he would be saving them aud assisting in building up the kingdom. 1UE X crchasb or Ucba. .Mr. bouie is at Washiogtoo, and has probably been con sulted in relation to the appointment cf a new Minister to Spain It is intimated that the purchase of Cuba will be attempted uuder the presc-ni Administration. A Washington cor respondent, alluding to the subject, says : It is a matter as to which EugUnd and France will have something to say. Thur consent and influence must be obtained as a necessary preliminary to a successful attempt ti jUichasj Cuba from Spain. A tout one hundred and fifty or two hundred millions is all that the United States will consent to pay, or be bound for. They do not expect to pay it 'rom the Treasury of the United States. But the Cuban Creole plauters and slavehol ders will promise to pay the money, as well they might, considering that by the immedi ate rise in the value of their property, they will make about the clever sum of seven hun dred and fifty millions. But the United StateB must assume tbe payment of this sum, in anuual instalments of twenty-five millions a year. The next Congress is looked to as being more likely to favor this scheme than any-1 oue that has preceeded it, or may soon follow it. But there is not much probability that the matter can be brought to a head before the seeoud session of the next Congress. Meanwhile it will be uece6ary o overcome the scruples and misgiviugs of the South iu regard to the effect of this measure upon tueir iuterests. To ruiu all these sugar interests is of uo accouut, for that will soon be done by the cultivation of the Chinese aud Afiicau su gar cane. To withdraw their capital and la bor from present employments, aud leave these lands worthless, is a matter of little concern to most of tho old Southern States, for the same process of depletion is now going ou ; the life-blood of the old Atlantic slaveholding States being drawn off rapidly towards the newer States. It is a question, therefore .-between Texas i nd Cuba chiefly Shall the old slaveholding States back up Cuba or Texas ? I think they incline to decide for Cuba, be cause Cuba will never form but one State. wLile Texas, should it once be divided, will afford two non-slaveholding States. Tub "Way or the World. First Boy " Say Bill, then yonr getting a dollar a week now 1" . Second Boy. Well, you might a knew that, by seeiu' all the fellers come soapin around tne, thai wouldn't a noticed me when Iwifpoor.' poor woman in her agony exclaimed, Recapture of Children Stolen by the Mor mons and Arrest of Elder Pratt Frowrte St. Louis Leader, May 21. AlK)ut two months ago wc published an ac count of the kidnapping of several children by the Mcrmons at New Orleans : The father, H. II. McLean, was absent at the time iu California, and the mother, who had been de luded by the Saints, lent herself to the infa fanious scheme by which her own children were t.o4ejrjuined. The kidnappers started with the children from New Orleans to go through Texas, Arkan sas and the Indian Na tion to the Salt Lake trail; but were fortu nately intercepted by the father, who having heard of the affair, had returned and started in pursuit of them. The following is an es- . . e , . . . , . . .. , tract from him to his friends in this city, and gives some cf the particulars of arrest Fort Gibson', Ciikrokee Natiox, May 7th, 1857. Dear Friends : I have just arrived from a sore tramp, on which I succeeded in coming up with Eleanor and the children, and have taken the children fiom her by force. I have placed Eleanor in charge of the United States Marshal, and have succeeded also in arrest- inj Pratt, who is now in the guard-house of the Fort. The U S. Marshal will start with his prisoners for Van Buren to-morrow, and I will, by a different route, in company of Capt Cahil and lady, leave with the children for the same place. I arrested Pratt and E. J. on a charge of larceny in stealing the clothing on the children when kidnapped in value 8 or $10. This is the only way I could reach them in those Territories When I fail before the U S. Commissioner at Van Buren, I mean to have him arrested for hav ing fled from justice from St. Louis, Mo., and get a requisition from the Governor of Mis souri for him. You are fairly posted. See Strong, and inform me forthwith of the best manner of proceeding. Natural Ice Cavk at Decoraii, Iowa. The mouth of the cave is at the foot of a high ledge of limestone rock set in a high bluff or bank of the Upper Iowa river, north of the town. The entrance to the cave is from the side of th hill, about forty feet above the level of the river. An opening of about ten feet high and some six or eight feet wide, forms the entrance, which descends into the rock at an aDgle cf about forty-five degrees. The extreme length of this cave has never yet been explored, but it has been penetrated to a distance of three hundred feet in various directions Iu the wiuter season this cave is warm aad dry, but in the summer, fall and spring, it is bitterly cold, aud the tempera ture of cold increases to an almost insupport able extent as it is penetrated to a lougcr dis tance. In the warm season, vast icicles are formed in this cave, by the cntinual drip pings from the top and sides, and in sufficient quantities to supply a large city. At any time in the spring, summer or fall, any one with little labor could cut down several tons of the purest crystal ice in a day, and just as soon almost as it is taken out, it is replaced by fresh ice. At a party held on the side of the bill by the Decorah people on the fourth of July last, over eighty barrels of the solid j ice were takea out, and scarcely any impres sion was made oa the quantity in the cave. The most singular feature of the cave is, that the hott'-r the weather becomes outside, the more intensely cold the atmosphere be comes in the cavt Persons goiog into the cave ia the warm season are obliged to put on the heaviest clothing, and even then become badly chilled. Can aDy philosopher of Dubuque or other cities explain this great phenomonon of na ture ? If so, let us hear their explanations. Decorah at least will always have the lux ury of pleuty of fine ice, without any trouble layiag it in. Dubuque Express efr JJeruld. Death Warrant 1 Gov Pollock basis sued the death-warrant of David Stringer M'Kim, confined in our County jail for the murder of Samuel Townsend Norcross. It was read to him by jailor M'Clure, in a clear and audible toue, iu the preseuce of Dr. D. X. Juukin and one of his counsel, Mr. Jolly, and auother person whose name we did not learn. The prisoner, during the reading of the warrant, evin ed no emotion whatever, but a perfect indifference, asking no quei-tions but whether it was the 21th of August ? The day fixed for his execution is Friday, the 21r August next. Iltjll. Whig. Crops at the fcoutt Great Scarcity. Loctsville. May 14th. Since tho late rains, grain crops around here look quite promising. Same accounts from Louisiana and Virginia. Knoxville papers say jrovender is scarce people cut trees to let the cattle eat the buds. Greatest - want among the poorer classes. Circuit Court, Jacksonborough, obliged to adiouin without sitting ; could not get feci the hcrss of Judges and Lawyer. The Territories. The following faots, ia reference to the vast extent of the Territories belonging to the Uni ted States, are worthy of consideration. They are from the St. Louis Democrat : " They suggest serious reflections touching the overwhelming preponderance of the North oyer the South when these Territories shall have been filled up with population as will in evitably be the case in the course of a few years more. There arc now for settlement the Territo ries of Minnesota, Oregon, Nebraska, Wash ington, New Mexico, Utah aud Kansas. These Territories contain, according to a compendium of the census of 1850, published i in 1854, tho following area : Minnesota, Oregon, Nebraska, Washington, New Mexico, Utah, Total, luG,025 square miles. 1S6.0S0 " 355,882 123,023 207,000 269,170 1 1 ft c t 4C 1.980,136 Kansas, 111,798 or 896,168,040 acres. " The first named six Territories contain 2.28G.136 square miles, or 923,128,040 acres of land, and, as the total area of all the States and Territories belonging to the Union is 2,93G,1GG square miles, they comprise nearly one half of the whole. They run through some seventeen or eighteen degrees of lati tude, and embrace many millions of acres of the finest land and mineral deposits and the finest climate and the finest rivers in the world." No Uss roii. Tuowsuis. On the morniDg of the meteoric shower in 1S33, old Peyton Roberts, who intended taking an early start to his work, got up in the midst of the dis play. On going to his door, he saw with amazement the sky lighted up with the falling meteors, and he concluded at once the world was ou fire, and that the day of judgment bad come. He stood for a moment gazing in speechless terror at the scene, and then with a yell of horror sprang out of the door into the yard, right into the midst of the falling stars, and here, in his efforts to dodge them, he com menced a series of ground tumbling that wo'd have done honor to a rope dancer. His wife beiug awakened in the meantime, and seeing old Peyton jumping and skipping about the yard, called out to him to know what in the name o' sense he was doin, out there danciu" round without bis clothes. Bin Peyton heard not the judgment, and the long black account he would have to settle in ado him heedless of all terrestrial thing3, aud his wife by this time becoming alarmed at his behavior, sprang out tf bed and running to the doer, shrieked out at the top of her lungs "Peyton, I say Peytou, whatdo you mean j urn pin' about thar ? Come iu aud put on your trowsers." Old Peyton, whose fears taJ. nearly over powered him, faintly answered as he fell spraw ling on the earth : " Trowsers, Peggy ! what the hell's the uee o' trowsers when the world's a fire V Repeal is the Word. Should the Main Line be sold ucder the infamous bill recently passed into a law by the Legislature and sanctioned by the Governor, the question very naturally arises in the mind is there no remedy for the people who have thus been so foully aud infamously wronged ? We think there is. The act is not one like unto the laws cf the Medcs and Persians, un alterable. We are of the opinion that the next Legislature can repeal the law and rc-' sume the control of the Main Line. The Con stitution, wc are aware, inculcates the doctrine of the inviolability of contracts, and frowns upon any attempt to impair their binding ef fect. But the Constitution is opposed to all wrongs committed upon the rights of the peo ple, and all fraud and dishonesty on tho part of public servants. Laws which are mani festly euacted through the appliance of fraud and villainy, and iu contravention of the pop ular will, can have no countcDauce m the or ganic law of the Commonwealth Fraud vi tiates any contract, and we apprehend the fraud attempted on the tax-payers of the Com monwealth, by the passage of the bill, will vitiate the sale cf the public work. We shall have more to 83y on this subject hfreaftor. In tho meantime let the Demo cratic' press of the State speak out on this subject and make the repeal of the law an is sue at tho election in October The Right Day. The Legislature ad journed siKe die on Friday vulgarly termed HaDgman's Day." In our opinion, it was a very appropriate time for such a sot of po litical scoundrels to put an end to their oSEci il ex's'tnee The people are lejoicing that they are at last rid of this intolerable nuisanoe A more corrupt or villainous tody of men we mean tho majority never before convened at llarrisburg. The K. N. Legislature of 1854 was a paragon of virtue compared with this. May we nover looktapon i8 like- again io Intel. HUMOROUS. We find tha following " Right Merrlo His toric," in oLe of our 'exchanges: A certaine rnayden was beloved of a cer taine youth, but her father did much object to their union. So this youth did always seek to avoide ye old gentleman, and when ever that he came in sighte, did run swiftlye away, or did hid himself in somo obscure placo. Now, ye principalle reason why ye father did. so much dislike the daughter's wooer, was that he did wear much bearde and an exceed ingly great mustache upon his face ; ye Ilka of whyche, ye old gentleman did asserte, was ODiye lit for ye faces of beastes whyche are hairye by nature. But ye youth yeclopt Wax Green, of Tyrone City, shaved not. One day it chanced that ye father entered ye maydea's chamber, and as he came therein, did perceive yo young man to flee therefrom. So ye daughter, to seem innocent, did begin to search about for something, and did 'My father, have you Eeen my apron?" And ye old gcntclaian did answer in this wise : Have I seen your ape run? Yes, I did see him run just now, and had he not, I had kicked him severelye !" And ye may den, albeit she sorrowed for her lovyer, did laugh much. The New Cent The Ledger states that G0,000, six million pieces, of the " nicks" were paid out on Monday and Tuesday. There are at present nine presses engaged in making the impressions upon this cw coin ; five mills are also in constant operation, form ing the rim on the coin previous to receiving the impression. These last named machines are capable of making rims upon three various kinds of coin3 at the same time ; at present, however, they are engaged upon the new cant exclusively. About one hundred persons in all are constantly engaged in the operation of the Mist, and at the present time the who! force are employed on the cent." Each of tho presses throw off eighty-six finished coins per minute. At this rate, working froai 9 o'clock, A. M., till 3 o'clock, P. M., the nins presses throw off, each day, the sum of 2. 78u 40 id cents, that is, providing the pres ses are kept going regularly. Own cp the Corn. A lot of backwoods men were assembled, tot long sicca, at a tav ern ' Out West," aud were relating tho lar gest kind of agricultural yarns. After a lib eral statement of facts, one of the circle, who had but recently returned from that beautiful region, tho prairies of Illiujis, startled the wonder if not the credulity of his hearers, by relating the following : " While gathering the crop from one cf those celebrated thousand acre fields, one cf , the oars foil point downwards to the earth. and io consequence of its great weight, suak to a considerable depth. It having-bcen! found impossible to extricate it by ordinary means, a stout yoke of oxen were attached to it, and after incredible exertions on the part of said oxen, assisted liberally by the 'cad' of ; the driver, the cob was drawn out clean fear- ing a wall 6ixty feet deep, completely pared in tha most thorough manner by the kernels!1 The Rage 07 Speculation. A letter in the last Dubuque Herald, written from' tha Osage Laud Ofiice, Iowa, says that there aro about two thousand persons in attendance on the land sales, and that great competition ex ists between speculators and the settlors. This competition has been carried to biJUiag $101 per acre for wild land. The settlers had held a meeting, and organized tbPmselves icto a club numbering seven lundred, and had de termined that every settler should have the privilege of bidding off a quarter section of laud, in addition to ona quarter covered by pre-empticn, at Government price. A Sensible Father. The Sunday Atl&s says a gentleman of great wealth in New York, but who hag never cared to mingle much in fashionable 'society, recently Eettled 15, COO a year on a daughter who had married to Lis satisfaction. In speaking on the subject to a friend tho other day, he was willing to do the same by his other daughters, on one condition that they married respectable, upright and in dustrious young men. He did not care how poor they were if they were only of this de scription, and their character would bear in vestigation. A young lady at a ball ww asked by a lover of srious poetry whether she hi seen Crabbs's Tales';" . Why uo," she answered, I didn'tknow that crabs had tails.' " I beg your pardon, Miss," said hs, ' f mean, have you read " Crabbe's Talcs?" "And j tssuroyoa. Sir, I did not know thatredcrabpi jpr.aay other. Lad tails." An experienced farmer says he has found from experience that a heavy crop of buckwheat, followed by a crop of oats seeded with clover, will almost r?u:pMely tradieite i tha Canada thirl. n II
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