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tw (;,kx!s of the following articles, all
best quality. Groceries such as
. Coffee, Sugar,
Tca, and Syrup
f MoLisscs, a little
of the, best that has
ever been brought to
ibis town before. ALSO
"Starch Corn which is very
delicious for food, in fact he
'has everything that is iu tlie
Grocery line. ALSO-1-A good as
sortment of fancy stationary and no
tions. ALSO he has added to his
tock a good assortment of HAIiVESl
TOOLS, which is very important to the
sier at this time, consisting of the fol
'Z articles such as
SXATHES,
FORKS,
HAKES, all of a good qual
itr. ALSO Agoodassort
" ment of DRUGS and
MEDICINES to
mention.
A larzc I. ,t of C, 0 01) FL O VIL ALSO
? RON, NAILS, and GLASS. '
-1UuJ see anl examine foY j-oursclveg, j-ou
"tot regret by doing bo.
f ROBERT DA1S.
rg,irul 0, 1856. S7.
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Tremendous Excitement !
THE UNDERSIGNED WOULD RESPECT-
fully inform the citizens of Ebensburg and
the surrounding vicinity, that he has just arrived
from tbe Eastern cities with a large and varied
assortment of Goods of all descriptions, viz :
COFFEE, TEAS, SUGARS, MOLASSES and
SPICES of all kinds, together with a large lot of
FISH, from Salmon down to Ilerriug, which will
be disposed of by the barrel cr dozen.
TQRAUCO, SEGARS AND SNUFF,
of all brands and'priccsr NOTIONS and CO N
FECTIONAIUES in abundance.
We have also addqd to our stock a well selec
ted assortment of
SCHOOL ROOKS & STATIONARY,
which will be disposed of to suit the times. Also:
Hardware, Taints,
Oils, Drugs,
Dye Stuffs, &c, &c.,&c.
Our stock of Flour, Meals, Iron, Nails, Steel
liorax, &c, is large and will be disposed of at the
lowest cash prices. .
All kinds of Grain and Marketing in general,
such as Butter, Eggs. Poultry, &c, will be taken
in exchange for goods, and the highest market
price paid.
pT? Give us a call before purchasing
SliLv. ii elsewhere
R. DAVIS.
Ebeusburg, Dec. 9, 1857.5
TALI AHLC FAR31 FOR SALE.
T
HE SUBSCRIBER OFFERS AT PRIVATE
Cambria township Cambria county, containing
19G acres. About b5 of which are cleard and
in a high state of cultivation and well fenced.
The Improvements are a good hewed log House,
a Bank Barn, other outbuildings, and a thriving
baring orchard. The woodland is well timbered
with Cak and a cooper shop about 30 rods from
the Huse . Tnere is also a never failing spiing
of water, in almost every field on the farm.
The farm is situate about four and a half mile
North West of Ebensburg, two miles from the
Ebensburg and Carroll ton Plank Road, with a
gX)d township Road leading from the Plank
Road through the premies. Any person wish
to purchase a farm, would do well to examine
this property, as I will sell on reasonable
terms.
OWEN R. ROBERTS,
March, 10th 1858.
EBENSBURO FOUNDRY
HAVING purchased the entire stock and fix
tures ot the Ebensburg Foundry, the sub"
scriber is prepared to furnish farmers and others
with
lMoughg, Plough PolntM, Stoves. 3I1U
lroiiM, Tiircsning Itlueliluew,
and castings of any kind that may be needed id
the community.
By strict attention to the business of the con
cern, he hopes to merit, and trusts he will receive
a liberal patronage from those in want of articles
in his line.
All business done at the Foundry.
EDWARD GLASS.
March 22, '55-tf.
ORPIIAXS'COURT SALt.
Y virtue of an order of the Orphans' Court
of Cambria county, to me directed, there
wlil be exposed to public sale on the premises on
THURSDAY the 3i, day of April, next, at
1 o'clock iu the afternoon, the following real es
tate of which Jacob Paul died seized to wit :
One tract situate in Richland township, in the
said county, adjoining lands of the heirs of Ja
cob Stiill dee'd. on the southwest, hinds of Dan
iol Strayer on the north anu hinds of the heirs of
John Paul dee'd. on the south cortainiug two
hundred acres more' or less, about seventy acres
of which are cleared and in a good state of culti
vation. A large two story brick Dwelling House
bank Bain, Blacksmith Shop and outhouses
thereon erected and a large apple orchard there
on growing.
ALSO One otlr tract, situate in the said
township, adjoining the above described tract on
the smith, land of JoLn R.Sidroan on the north,
taint ot Abraham Paul on the eat and lands of
the heirs of John Paul dee'd. on the south, con-
j taining seventy six acres and siventeen perches
I and allowance, and bavins a saw mill ia cood re
pair thereon erected.
The above tracts of land will be sold together
or separately to suit purchasers.
TERMS OF SALE One third of the purchars
money to be paid ou confirmation of sale ; one
third to remain charged upon, the premises, the
interest of which to be paid to the widow, and
at hor death the principal to be paid to the hens,
and the balance two equal annual payments, to
be secured by- the. bonds and mortgagae of the
purchaser on the premises.
SAMUEL. S. PAUL.
Trustee of the real estate of Jacob Paul dee'd,
March 10, 1858 It 17.
Tlie Cassvlllc Seminary.
ONLY $2250 PER QUARTER.
TUTS SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES AND
Gentlemen is unquestionably the cheapest
one of the kind in the land. The expenses for
room rent, furniture, fuel, board and tuition are
only $22.50 per quarter.
Piano Music is only $5.00 per quarter. All
the Languages and tbe Ornamental.- are propor
tionally cheap. Send for a circular. Students
are expected to notify me before coming. Address
"JOHN D. WALSH,
Cassvillc, Huntingdon co., Pa.
Feb. 24, 1858.tm
FOR BALE OR RENT.
HE UNDESIGNED WILL OFFER FOR
Sale or Rent, his property situated m the
Borough of Loretto, a large Frame House, with all
tlie necessary conveniences attached, together
with two lot?. The above if not sold will be rent
ed for a tet ni of years.
WILLIAM LAKE.
March, 10, 18, tf 1S58,
AUIHIXISTRATOR'S XOTICC
ETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION HAVE
been granted to the undersigned on the es
tate of illiara Byerly. late of Johnstown. Cam
bria county, deceased. All persons knowing
themselves indebted to said estate are requested
to make immediate payment, and all persons
holding claims against said 'estate will present
them properly authenticated for settlement.
HENRY CREVEL. 1 .
CI IAS. BILESTIXE. AUni 5
March 10, !S58:lC:Gt
PROCRASTINATIONS.
Br Charles Macket.
If Fortune with a smiling face
Strew roses on our way,
When shall we stoop to pick them up?
To-day, my lore, to-day.
But should she irown with face of care,
And talk of coming sorrow, .
When shall we grieve, if grieve wo mnet?
To-worrou-, lore, io-morroie.
If those who've wronged us own their faults.
And kindly pity pray.
When shall we listen and forgive?
To day, my love, to-day,
B'lt, if stern Justice urge Tebute,
And warmth from Memory borrow.
When shall we chide ii chide we dare?
To-iMwrow.lwe,io-morrotr.-
If those to whom we owe a debt
Are harmed unless we pay,
V hen shall we struggle to be just?
To-day, my loce, io-day.
But if our debtor fail our hope
And plead his ruin thorough,
When shall we weigh his breach of faith?
To-morrovr, loce, lo morrow.
If Love, estranged, should once again
.Her genial smile display.
When shall we kiss her proffeied lips?
To-day, my lote, io-day.
But, if she would indulge regret,
Or dwell with by -gone sorrow.
When shall we weep if weep we must?
To-morrow, loce, to morrour.
. For virtuous acts and harmless joy
The minute will not tay;
We've always time to welcome them,
Tu-day, my love, to-dty.
But care, resettm.nt, angry words.
And unavailing sorrow,
Came far too oon, if they appear
To-morrow, lore, to-morrow.
ANALYSIS OF B0SWELL-
The history of the fame of James
Boswell. has had a somewhat fluctuating
course. In his own day, if stood low enough;
for, although liked for his convivial pleasan-
try and buoyant animal spirits. Jus naDus,
foibles, and tollies ot all sorts, were such, and
so well known, as to deny him general res
ncct. He was a bit of a sycophant, more
than a bit of a drunkard : the vaiuest of the
vain ; the most superstitions of men ; full of
silly prejudices ; characterized, too, by cer
tain niuiserics of conduct which would have
been loathsome, had not the folly of the man
made them appear ludicrous ; and all this
was counterbalanced by no very eminent tal
ents, or acquirements, or genius. So soon,
however, as his 'Life of Johnson" appeared,
its interest, aud its dramatic skill were so
great, and the amount of information and of
compact recorded sense and wit from its he
ro's lips was so prodigious, that most people
forgot their prejudice at the giver in their
gratitude for tlie gift. The book was hailed
with rapture, and Boswell would have been
crowned with very rich laurels, had it not
been for his untimely death. Some thirty or
forty years after his departure, his memory
was assailed in the most contemptuous style
by Macaulej, in the Edinburg lteview ; his
foibles and faults were exaggerated ; his mer
its as a biographer were', iudecd, fully admit
ted, but all other talents and accomplishments
were denied him. The article in which this
attack appeared was one of its author's raci
est effusions, and, indeed, read like a portion
of Boswell's "Johnson," in its unmitigated
cleverness and vein of lively sarcasm. Its
animus', however, at Boswell, was evident,
and somewhat lessened the effect. JJe seem
ed to hate him with a perfect hatred, as well
as to despise him with a supreme scorn both
feelings being disproportioned, alike in kind
and in degree, to the demerits of the object,
who, as ''nobody's enemy but his own,"
scarcely deserved such savage hatred, and
who should have evaded contempt by the
frankness, now of penitence, and now of boas
ting bonhomie, with which he reveals all his
own follies, -frivolities and faults. The liter
ary world accordingly felt, in general, that
the attack was overdone, and were prepared
to welcome a rejoinder, which speedily arri
ved, in the shape of a paper in leaser's Mag
azine, from the pen of (Jarlyle. It seemed
rather a singular quarter whence Bozzy's
help arose ; for, although Carlyle was known
io be a great admirer of Johnson.yet few were
prepared to find in him the panegyrist of his
bear-leader. Yet this seems to have sprung
from a total misapprehension of Carlyle's na
ture. Whatever he may bo now, he began
life as a Boswell of a vaster size, a sincere,
enthusiastic, and even excessive worshipper
of heroism and genius. No one can read his
early essays such as his papers on Burns,
Goethe, Jean Paul Bichter, and Edward Ir
ving without feeiing convinced that his wor
ship of certain men was enormous, and that
he regarded these heroes not in the light of
sympathy, but of prostration ;. not as his
equals, but as his superiors. lie seems ulti
mately to have altered somewhat his point of
view, partly, perhaps, because he has now
"set up for himself." and partly because ex
perience, and the disenchanting glance of
chagrin and melancholy, have darkened the
glory of his early idols. Like that Shepherd
in Virgil, he "has become acquainted with
Love, and found him an inhabitant of rocks"
and that much of the beauty surrounding him
was lent by imagination. .Ero this process,
however, had begun, it was natural for him
to sympathize with and to praise his fellow-hero-worshipper,
Boswell a man, . indeed,
whos chief claim to immortality lies ia his
being the most devoted of that class recorded
in the annals ot literature:
Carlyle's account of Boswell, while full of.
his usual faults of style, looseness of construc
tion, wilful oddity of expression, rough, ab
rupt, convulsions, like the jags in mountain
chains, is exceedingly rich in thought and
graphic in writing. As you read it, and com
pare the different magnitudes of the two men,
and think of the one or two qualities they
have in common, you are reminded of a lion
patting and patronising a cat, because they
vboth belong to the feline tribe. Thus Car
lyle seems to stand over Boswell, with an air
of kindly; yet lord-like condescension, and to
cry,. 'W bat beautiful whiskers, although not
quite bo large as. mine! very respectable
claws, these, although not quite able to crack
the back of a rhinoceros ! Is that something
like an incipient mane on the creature's neck?
Oh, what a mew he utters, an infant roar, a
faint approximation to that with which I shake
the desert 1 Above all, with what compla
cent delight and self-forgetting homage he
purs around the chair, and looks up in the
face of his master !" Truly he is a "hunter
of spiritual notabilities, loving such, longing
after such, and even creeping and crawling
to be near them.
Amidst Boswell's "sycophancies, coxcomb-
lies, sensualities, pretension, and boisterous
imbecility," Carlyle, with strong, clear eye,
discerns him in an "open sense," a love of
excellence,' a spirit attracting him, not toward
the temporary pets of the public, to its paltry
'lords many and gods many,' but to the true
andreat'men of bit own era. We must not
suppose that Bosweii admired nobody except
himself and Johnson"; although Johnson
seemed to intimate so, when, in a fit of spleen
he told him. "Sir, you have only two sub
jects yourself and me I ani sick of both."
He saw ani proclaimed the greatness of Pao
li ; he was a devoted admirer "of Burke ; ha
appreciated the merits of his own countrymen,
Hume, llobertpon, Blair, Kames and Lord
Hailrts He admired Young of the "Night
Thoughts," Pope, Milton and Shakspcare.
He did not, it is true, do full justice to Gold
smith's genius, but this arose partly from per
sonal pique, and partly from the position they
both occupied to Johnson. Two satellites
circling one sua may appreciate their com
mon centre, but can hardly do justice to each
other's actual or relative magnitude the
earth and the moon, however different in size
and while both looking up to the sun, both
Jook down on each other. But, taking Bos
well as a whole, he was.a sincere worshipper
of worth and talent, find them where he might
Nor was this entirely the prostration of a slave
before a lord a brute before a man a cold
sunflower before a warm sun. We hold that
there can be no genuine, and still less any
prolonged worship of energy, without some
eercv ; of truth, without a little truth ; of
virrue, without a degree of virtue ; no wor
ship of man iu the woman without a portion
of tLe Lnaulike ; no worship of woman with
out a ood deal of the feminine ; and no rel
ish for the powers and wonders of genius
without a ler-ser or larger measure of "genius
itself. Ou th?s principle, which indeed lies
at the root of genuine hero-worship, and even
at the worship of .Ieity, Boswell's very in
tensity of adoration proved his possession of
a degree, however small, of the true and the
excellent. He had sense enough to perceive
the sensible ; wisdom enough to know where
wisdom lay, if not to sounu its depths ; eye
enough to see into, if not to tbe very bottom
of, the Gastalian springs. He was, in short,
potentially, if not actually, a good, although
not a great, critic ; full of critical instinct,
and with a clear, photographic mind, but des
titute of depth, eloquence, inventiveness", or
imagination. He was to a great critic what
a boy of fine fresh literary tastes is to a grown
and thoroughly-furnished man of genius.
He saw merits and beauties without being
able to render reasons for his appreciation of
them, to analyze them with profound discrim
ination, or to pjaise them with glowing elo
quence' That his admiration of Johnson, or
Paoli, or Burke, was altogether disinterested,
we do not believe ; he had some notion that
it was only in their company that he was like
ly to go down to future ages ; but it was not
this feeling, it was natural instinct, that led
him at first to seek their society ; and unless
his admiration of them had been genuine,
could he have sustained himself iu it? and
had not the work of writing Johnson's Life
been a labor of love, it is likely that a man so
dilatory and frivilous as he would have' ex
pended so much time and toil on its composi
tion ? Undoubtedly he was a vain man; and
hence according to Wilkes, (in one of his let
ters,) he sometimes palms off remarks as his
own " which he could not, and .which John
son did make ;" but this is seldom ; the ac
curacy of his statements is, on the whole, in
controvertible ; and surely a man who has
expended so much admiration on others may
be permitted to reserve a portion for himself;
and surely a cook maybe allowed to lick his
fingers, nay, to appropriate a few pullet's legs
to.his own priqate use, and to boast of his
own cookery, who has furnished us with such
a Camacho's wedding of dainty dishes, in the
name and to the honor of the rightful provi
der. By long intimacy, too, with Johnson,
he had got so much into his track of thought
and cast of style, that be spmetimes.was ena
bled to utter sentences almost worthy of the
leqicographer, and might have even written
an "imaginary conversation" cr two, nearly
as good as the original.
cahlyle's estimate ov boswell.
Carlyle justly speake of Boswell as having
appreciated Johnson more thoroughly than
his age, which looked on ' 'him. as a huge, ill
snuffed tallow candle." This is undoutedly
in some measure true; Johnson had great
power in the world of letters, and unrivalled
sway as a couverser in those circles where he
mingled, but there were strong prejudices
against him, partly on account of his coarse
manners, partly on account of his dogmatism
partly on account cf his political partisanship
and High Church zeal, and partly m protest
and reaction against the idolatrous homage
paid him by a clique. It is ridieulous iu
Thackeray talking of Johnson's pen having
been the great support of tory principles un
der the earl)' part of George tbe Third's reign
on the contrary, nothing weaker and less tel
ling from the pen of a man of similar ability,
than his "Taxation on Tyranny," and other
political pamphlets, exists ; he seems in them
a mere angry and raving child compared to
Junius and Burke ; what a far inferior return
for his pension, vou think, did he make than
Burke and Dryden, who wrote tbeir very best
pamphlets or poems to the tune of government
ingots. " The only good he really did to tory
ism was by his lively sailiesln talk, as when
he called the devil the first whig, or said that
whiggism was the negation of all principle.
In fact, he was too surly a dog to be shackled
by a pension or place, and to bark only when
he was bidden. And tory as he professed
himself to be, there beat in him as high a
heart of independence, and burned as severe
a scorn of servility, as in Burns himself. A
tory by education, he was a republican by
nature. To a man of this kind, placed in a
false position, employed by the government.
yet unbeloved by the aristocracy, nusing
J - .i .... i i i t. - -
under a scratcu-wig ana uusiy urowu coas u
spirit as proud, as self-reliant, and well-nigh
as miserable as Dante's
"For a Tory too hot, for a drudge disobedient,
And too fond of the right to pursue the expe
dient"
rather feared than cordially admired by the
literary world ; fonder of commanding a lit
tle select circle than of contiliating many, and
who liked better to "fold his limbs and have
his talk out" by his own fireside than to haunt
the levees of princes, or cool his heels in the
antechambers of dukes to such a man Bos
well came like a ministering angel, aud both
might, on the day of the introduction, have
exclaimed, O jtrixclarum diem I Boswell
could gratify Johnson with that quota of in
cense which was denied him by the great,
and which, haughty as he was, had become
as necessary to his mental comfort as tea to
his bodily solacement ; was always disposed to
listen to his conversation, to give him texts
for talk, ready to be at times his butt, and,
like a lightning-rod to carry off the fury of
his sudder tornadoes of passion ; chimed in
with all his prejudices and superstitions, less
from sycophancy than from sympathy ; knew
how to manage his weaknesses and to soothe
his melancholy, the rather that they were no
strangers to his own constitution, ho being,
like Johnson, on a different scale, a compound
of intellectualism and animalism, of gayety
and gloom ; by constituting J ohnson a lather
confessor for his own faults, he made Johnson
in exchange, reveal a good deal of his secret
history, of which, however, he makes a spar
ing aud no augenerous use ; and he suited
Johcson, moreover, because he was the son
of a laird, doing- homage to tbe son of the
keeper of a Lichfield "book-stall ; because he
was a Scotchman, humbling himself before
the great enemy of his country ; and because,
instead of sometimes sneering at him like
Bcauclerk, quizzing him like Garrick, or con
fronting him in argument like Burke, Bos
well was always the ready, unresisting pillow
for his eloqueace or his wrath, his wisdom or
Lis-passion, "bis outspoken scorns and chagrins
or his sullen sileuce. Johnson ToreS.w, too,
that his life, when published by Boswell,
would become oue of his most enduring titles
to fame, and would, in a degree second to
scarce one of his veritable works, display the
force of his intellect, the depth of his sagacity,
the extent and variety of his knowledge, the
readiness of his wit, and the rich resources of
his conversational genius. Boswell, on the
other hand, knew right well what he was
about, aud that in erecting a pillar to John
son, he was building SLvionumeutum aere per
eunius to himself. Hence he endured a great
deal from Johnson without a murmur; and
Scott happily compares him a jockey showing
the points of a high-fed charger, who. while
he receives not a few kicks for his pains, tries,
with writhing lips, to pass them off a3 a joke,
and as only the "Lanimal's wiy."
That Johnson should have had some curi
ous feelings in the presence of his future biog
rapher and literary undertaker, is not at all
improbable. To be measured for your coffin
ere you are dead to feel around you the air
of a. postmortem examination while still in
perfect health to have your witticisms as
serious sayings recorded in a journal, as if in
the pages of an obituary to be eyed with a
look which seems to say, "How will this ges
ture or that word tell in a biography ?" to
hear stifled sighs, having reference to the
postponed sale of your literary Keinains,
heaved, as you tell your friend, in answer to
his kind inquiries, that you were never bet
ter in your life to see suppressed smiles in
his hypocritical visage, as he observes your
pale cheek, or hears your chest-shattering
cough, or sileutly notes your increasing wrin
kles or gray hairs to watch the step and eye
of the scoundrel through a window, as he
hurries in on a report of your sudden apop
lectic seizure and contrast it with the ficti
tious joy which mantles his face, as findiug
you in your usual health, he grasps you war
mly by the hand, and cries, "May you live k
thousand years !" to have your body treated
as Burke says the French revoltttionists wish
ed to treat the Duke of Bedford, their only
inquiry being, rhow he cats up, how he tal
lows in the caul, or on ths kidneys," "prick
ing their dotted lines upon your hide, and,
alive as you are, dividing you, like an ox,
into rumps, and sirts of pieces for roasting,
boiling and stewing" all this cannot be very
pleasaut for any man of woman born ; nd
vet all tnis nas been suoumieu w Dy not a Tew
men of genius, and was consciously so. by Dr.
Johnson, who. besides being permitted to
read Boswell s record, might be said to. enjoy
j the privilege of presiding at his owu posthu
i mous dissoctiou ! There is a pretty myth by
I Beresford, author of of the "Miseries of Hu
man Life," (quoted by Carlyle as a real story.)
that Johnson, when told that Boswell was to
wriie his life, threatened to prevent him, by
tahing Boswell'h ! In reality; howeTer, h
felt the deepest interest in the wort, and al
though he growled, at times, at the small fol
lies which the biographer .chose to perpetaate
in it as his own. he smiled grimly as lie p&tv
the colossal image of himself arising, to live
for evermore, and probably regarded Boswell's
anecdotes vf his own shortcomings and sillin
esses as grotesque ornaments, relieving the
gravity and setting off the proportions of the
at ructure.
Western Hospitality and Law.
Thfit 'sqiiatter," with his one-roomihanty
and his remoteness from courts and consta
bles, is thus described by a correspondent of
the Boston Transcript:
"My host has a hired man from Massachu
setts, who attends to his farming and house
keeping. He makes good bread-toast, beef
steak, tea, coffee, ect-i cooks all the vegeta
bles. washeB dishes, .and sets things to rights
generally. Housekeeping consumes a great
deal of time, as the housekeeper brings all
the water more than a mile on a dragdrawn
by oxen. Pire men, besides my host and my
self, were entertained and lodged in this smalt
squatter's house One of them walked more
than twenty miles in the rain, in order to
vote on the fifth of October. Two others
were digging a well on the premisis a verv
necessary, yet a very difficult -job in this
neighborhood. This was the second party
who had undertaken to make & well in this
farm; the first abandoned their undertaking
in a few days, and these second contractor
also fouud it harder than they had expected,
and gave it up while I was there.
"One of the well-diggers above mentioned
related an instance of squatter redress of griev
auces, in settlements remote from towns Ho
was. employed, he gaid, by a squatter, to as
sist him in putting up a building on land
claimed by another party, which is then called
"jumping a claim." His enrployer was warn
ed off by the other claimant, and threatened
with squatter penalty it he "should not desist
The intruder withdrew, tnt, being taunted
with cowardice for doin J, returned to his
building the nest day; but scarcely had they
resumed their work when the crack of a rifle
was heard from a neighboring thicket, and
the intruder fell dead. Thsj" avenger of his
own wrongs fled, but his wife endeavored to '
shoot the man who had induced the intruder
to jump the claim.
"This claim-jumping is not unfrequently
resorted, to, when a neighborhood desire to
exclude an obnoxious person. It is also, oft
entimes, the only means ef wresting from un
scrupulous squatters a plarality of claims that
some assume to hold, -contrary to law and
common right. Whenever resorted to, it is
very liable to lead to bloody feuds, in which
whole neighborhood? may be involved."
The Eveuing Post says, apropos
"Whoever has a comfortable place anil
plenty of well-paid work at the East had bel
ter stay where he is; but if auy stout, able
bodied man, with a sound mind in a sound
body, cannot find "a home and competence
here in these. times, (aud there are hundred
of such), let him look to the West, where en
ergy, honesty and Lard work arc certain "tb
bring both."
The Utah Movement.
Tt is expected that a force of three htfiuiJvl
more recruits will leave the New York Station
for Port Leavenworth, about the 1st of April,
to reenforce. After that addition only about
200 more will be required-to fill up all the
regiments to their full complement of men.
There will then be accumulated tt that fort
about S00O men. who will probably take up
their line of march. for Utah between the '20th
of April and the 10th of May; at which time
the grass along the route will be long enough
for the horses to nibble. The 'distance from
Fort Leavenworth to Camp Scott, where Ool.
Johnston is now statioaed with 1500 men, is
nearly 1000 miles, and from that point to
Salt Lake City about 92 miles. The move
ment upon that nest of rebels will be made
early in June, unless they should nieanwhil
have the good sense to surrender; and it is arl
that if the re-en forcements this 6ide of tie:
Bocky Mountains should be detained hj aay.
cause the Colonel will not hesitate to etxake el
blow with his little army, strengthened as ifc
will be, about the 20th of Apri, jy tho ar
rival of Col Sumner's dragoons, S0K strong.
SKxOirLEBfiK 't iv-vr.
. - a.ict- wor
thy mdividaal, of the mavch of intellect school
was "laying down the. law." recently., to a.
knot of acquaintances in one of the streets of
Cupark he caught tho eye of & carter hard by
who had baeh vainly endeavoring t raise &
sack of potatoes upon his cart and wbv ou
the instant, thus appealed t theniaa know
ledge: "Come awa.' Mr. knowledge.
is power ye keu gCe tt$ a lift w this
p'oiatlei"'
'M9 " dprf?"rw.n urn a. AnlatAitn i
htruct one of his Sunday scholars, a plomgh-
"boy, on the uature fa miracle. "Now'.idt
m v . u . J
J . . JHipue you were io Me trie
sun rising in the middle of the night; what
should you caU that Y' The mune. tdeaie
zur. "A, bt, said tbe clergyman, 'sup
pose you knew that it was not the moon, but
the sun, and that you saw ii actually rise in
i tie mmaie oi me nigm wuat Bbouid
think rPlcase, zhr. I should think it
time, to get up."
yom
How do I look. Pomrev?"' r.f .
young dandy to his servant,, as he finished
dressing. 4 Elegant, massa ; you look hold
as a lion." "Bold as a lion, I'ompey ! How
do you know ? You never saw a lion."
Oh, yes. massa, I seed one down to Massa
Jcnks." in his stable." "Dawn to Jenk
hasn't got a lion. That's a jackass.' '-Cant
help, it massa; you look just like him'
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