THE BLESSINGS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE DEWS OF HEAVEN, SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED ALIKE UPON THE HIGH AND THE LOW, THE RICH AND THE POOR.
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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-
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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
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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.
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