ft MAN & SLOAN, PUBLISHERS 1(11:11F, ed, betokened the long desired buffalo. Away I horse was rapidly failing, great flakes of foam went romanoe and reflection. The ardor of the I flew from his mouth. Covered with mud and hunter took possession ohne, and hastily loosing drenched with sweat heatill, however, toiled gal my pistois and glancing at my rifle lock; I struck I lantly onward, spurning the wild sod of tile prai spur- I my steed and galloped forward, Dever tie with his flying hoofs But the goal was near deubeng that the opportunity so ardently cove• ly won Ob: if be could hold his pace a little ted was now at. hand. longer! The tireless mustangs of the Indians Cusreing down the hill and across tfe. miter —no match for his fleet limbs in a short stretch, veniug vsliey I r)se another gently swelling toll now exhibited their wonderful powers of endu of the prairie, said as I gain , I the summit, again rauee °award they swept after us with undi tue ro wing cloud of dust met my gaze, and this ininished speed, their unshorn manes and sweep. time considerably nearer, and as I closely regarl j ing tails mingling with the flowing drapery of ed it. I perceived that it was rapidly approattalug the wild 'riders. and flying out upon the wind and I begetn to discern the flashing of bright oh The timbered banks of the "Little Blue,"— jects gleaming out from obscurity Tuts looked which I had s) earnestly longed for, had been unlike the buffalo, and as the obieet, whatever it t some en nneata concealed by a long but gen might be continued to appreach, I halted for a tie event. the summit of which I was approach ' better view, and was Dot lung in inakeig ,ut a ing If from here the white wag our camp large ,haul of mounted lull Ads, their buoy/ white ehduid b- visible over the uninterrupted plain I shields and burnished Attlee head, glancing should yet reach them But oh: if another of brightly in the morning sun these interminable ridges should intervene! My Still, however, 1 scarcely thought of the Paw-' poer horse was on his last legs. But to perish need. but supposed it might be some hunting par in sigat of satety—to be taken within view of ty of triendly Pottawaennies or Sioux: and at all the camp by these implacablesavages: My brain event,. knowing th e mettl e and p ewers of my t teemed with these maddening doubtsas I neared horse. and having a retreat at pleasure, I thou e rtit I the spot which waste decide my fate, and I trem- I incurred no great risk in waiting for a more as- bled with eagerness for 'the view which might teafaitery inspection Gradually across the broad e ensign me to despair ezpatise ef the prairie, they drew tie tier and I !Jeered the summit; another bound and we nearer, 11 or disappearing teem view 'teeing were over, and were flying with faltering steps some del hollow. and eireiu displayed iu down a gentle inclination which swept away in bold relief against the sky a , th, y sum 'anted gentle uoduiatiens to the longed for timber, still some prominent ridge ' ebent a mile ahead. I strained my eyes for in• t At length their distance was diminished t. lei, die-items of my comrades; and oh! rapture an than e quarter of a mile. and, thinking 1 speakable: far away, but directly before me, aequiseatauce undesirable, I turned my Lurse' . nestling :it the base of the long dark line of cot head with a view of riding moderately toward , tonw.) "1, in full view of the panting fugitive, camp til. they should manifest some d. sign to loomed ap the white circles of tents and wagon follow me, ween imagine the chili of horror which teps—dearer to my longing gee than to the de eurleded my blo o d as I eaw ter sma' ' i perte.s iu ben worn pilgrim the lofty minarets and marble my rear, galloping together treat either eide to palaces of Eastern story cut off in., retreat, and heard the terrific yeti A shout of triumph and exhieltetion burst from which ail three raised as tL y saw weir wily uie- my lip, a•• I diSCOVered the welcome scene, and noeuverdiecuvered, and that further silence wetted recognized the gate of my' deliverance. I looked be useless hack Oue after another thesavages came bound e the main body hai eiutinuel to attract ing over the ridge, pressing on with the wild fu. my attention by advancing cdospicueuelytuware ry et disapp ;lured rage. But their practiced those two parties had taken inlvautage tit , yes were u/t slow to discover my refuge, and the nurnereus hollows, which at times had eon- ou after another pulled up his panting steed and eve:o.l (nem temprarhy from view, to diverge, gee el with baffled malignity after their expected and be a wide circuit, attain my rear, I, green vieem horn thet I was, never dreaming 0; this coinui , n But 1 was saved: Covered with sweat and Itei.su stratagem while stupidly reearding the fit u, uiy gallant preserver burst into camp, and, fir t aui cosy object which had attracted my a- l sprang fr :in the saddle into the midst of e Eric of de) June, Six years ago' gaze But was there not yet tune' The two -tar tie! eutoredes, with a groan of e.thsee ertuger than fiction it seems that un this tone.; tele pert:es were , rapidly cenvergeig t tiea he •uuk quivering to the earth. The teeth e ..ati‘ersary of that ever eventful day, after war t , eft,. ,f w, r treat, and we, .:Ciiatar, toiled CU the last; he had done his al] the viciss.tu le., of experience, af. iveL f lirter ut a mite of eleb 0 her. white 1 t' powers were exhausted, and yielding Lee the compass of stormy seas and was u.e w rie tuau half that distince frem the at iast to utter prostration, he stretched his wea tics Elands with every extremity of fortuo-, Lientri• fhe main body with feerte au.) .p :fiesta- r. limbs upon the awar I , and I thought that the at. dat last in this quiet little sat:- t.d out., e: in My lees. ive, fleet and last race of my gallant grey was run How 1 : ham of that mighty city, which was true, hut he was alai travel worn and fatigued reused bin though that bug night, how I cover ::se you, of our tole., ar o u n d me, the wild 11 wc, Lug could he distance thiihe wild coursers ed him with my own store of blaukets, and supplied i. a t the Winetate, prere exchauge I for I einster But there was no time to deliberate him carefully and cautiously with grass and wa • f a dingy offic e , toy shur , ing char- Now or rawer was the chance .Ir. e!ier m eneut ter, hew trudged along on foot day after day for :.scarueia for this old aim hair; the badge vr...11 uc too late. Grasping my ride with a hr. the uezt two weeks and led and cherished him t'otieer laid aside for a wore peaceful but iner clutch. stud re-essurlng with ,caressing words as carefully as a feeble child, I have nut tine to weep el, tus -gray goose quill the frightened steed, who alouc c save me tell, but although many a mile he carried me in years of stern experie nce, of lonely from a eorriole fate, I made a boil uisla f.. the after days over those dreary deserts, and many a of ever charging, never ceasing toil interval which still separated tee deeiehei p ,r- time briught me alongside the flying buffalo in il, have changed the boy into the wau, ties, an lup in which w..•re ripi 1.) clesiug his mid career. yet never again did hr run an • romance of the emancipated Neey the gallant auiwa, resp n, led co the eel. eight mile .tetiiiie against the field, with fists un tie the stern, fixed purp•ise s , the utilita- Spurting with terror at the wi!il shouts of our trill •d iur,cra of the desert for his competitors, . - -as of the slave of 1)o-:tie's. But have pur s u e -, treinfeing in every limb th the an I site, pitu• , : , l warriors yelling in his rear :ea stormy vicissitudes and will excitements tensity et exertions, he flew over tue ground eelfrem the mind the fearful memories of and with the fleetness of the win I, he d esed be , terrine ieene, long ago, when the tyro of the tweeu the approaching hordes, within a hundre ::•oess first looked on death? Ah, uo: On yards of us on either band. With the energy of , Ith anniversary of that memorable day the d. spelt- I erasped the saddle with my kue , - au I rig men - iries of that tearful bour crowd bee; f eeverd t, assist hie flying course Di , e e , upeu tue Inc' first sudd , n moment of tower , ' the 'Die hope of saf y. fifty yeil.uz .te .. the terrible war hoop. bur-ting from fifty mans ClA:id upon our tracks, their lb:athlete and :e throats, the reok!ess, dear. - ration, the fiucry lying in the viol. onward I neat .7[l tlCltern et ef that and conic e.gtit suers ant pursue 1, over the breed eee tit - situ fifty painted demons sailing after me teat etie os, au r d mustangs, I heeappaii.hg fear, as the S.: stu the fleetness and snood of my AI. red .0 the flan uay flying gray, C teeiu tell ou the c, iuriuz ui' Sc loam new from his heaain i : nostrils. lest f'o'es: mustangs of the In detes S on- ..; 'rev:, ape helium uld eel we ir, my wort m illtite I were greillta:iy Ir titre:M.(3, and. tab...i.e all Li, exu.iiug rear. ant atter ruuuiug tw. ir tor tits •s y • .IgraJitude arid rapture when the wnite were settee iltt in a ,oeg' hue Lie'lind ld •". yipe of my comrades t: ice in sight, we usiiv 1 =i,.ek,.ned speed, tor I well kn• w that the • r the surhaet f the lest fell that divid- bet; :u AD: en hirer - ice .f Indian h-rtes. e - , ru inset',. an I 'viii it ox! of the be- tom, t traverse immense distances at a a.u,:le bur-t my atart.Pit Cr', all, all c .33C stiet, •• almost wither: limit. and .aany a ! )11,‘ f eteti, .ind teat un-p aka- wi l e w as still before us. Again they w. old di. •;aisiou of • we Ti my friehtened naiols'i the distance, and agato I wits eleig. , l to -usbed iuto cutup, and , hi- duty dour, his ur,ze buy ;:adod Steed to his best eff .r. s B ut 1 'pent. his p ia , is ex. a i••• -I I. pied ;if,- was b.2ZILUItig to breathe freer, the nrat .rtiitig the earth, atel a., i i,eited irom the sad- 11 ,, trin distance waste- ed fervontiy ILahite.l char Protioiertre wh If my gillant could tee in en .it:. hes tie. eked -lawn upon and prate rye toy men i exerciens for four unles more I was •afe .. Lied Onee .0 sight of camp and the pruience if my essoo this (ley six ys , irg ago E ghty flee of %ee l pinta rs wee I gbsuee bur once eign wanderers .a.r toe traek.ess prairies, ty Au) r. in riE• . which weui J glean, ft en tw eet:Cu aft rii ntti triTitig ,award to this litutl wagon whet Is -• laud t f d, whoa. I.•fty sierras and I was new descending a but gentle in :far ;..ien• hate gall.. red th. ir eternal ritoatt iu toward a broad level depressi-a in the *i teeny a member of that ;ea:lent, pra re , weleh spread out about a e .uple of huh liana I• wits Sunday in the wader- dr, :1 Nitril , wei •at its base My see a l e p 'u e wag ,us all e .rr .• -A ou the banks , if e r were f o a cu,,niant out ul sight ',null ttc r.,11 w , •rn mul e s Scattered I had lust I reached th, , • fee n.pplog the y,rCtu grass under tb. ire at this speed, my steed plucieei forward tin. vigilance ~f the guars SO.De of 00 what seemed herd gr , utl; and. 0, despair: .ry were bathing in the clear stream, sine s a nk t., ti,s belly in a treacherous sevemnl wendnig c..thes, washing, lounging, can the eatheriug years of all futurity t clog, an d ai l enjoylog to the toll of a g:'- from In:, Ilicrniiry the despair of :I, a ,wtu, uy day f ra.st au l indolence, when m e wl' Ii •tc , far tnti, imps-selde b ir evil genius po•seseed me with the sudd u ri, r et:en:led up and i•ivitu the rite w,e •fi Ii •to it the tire: ef the perty to slay the lout ytd-1 it I coilel ❑-t guess A teryfy• ye.: • "buffaie. - an al1111.1•1 we Lad not 111 C warriors as dill anti , . Lreii ,aver elect peetrn. P, 4 1.1 P.,L,M,44011 , .' ,41 •gg OLD CaI:TECH BELL • ~• Sabbath fn,rn'n( e 'le Illlnbesais ars adorn iqg hills soJ Alleys fstr wintry srloas are sigiiint )Wt Weir •re Iraq, ••. c , so f, blos.is sad bars.— rtugint. peallog out hip,a tb•aLr • :o'•) stau,.o MIMI see: •zbr.t:uo IME rr ‘li> , ,f W 44,4! ai and weasy, .J,zli t , i , Lir - pattai Ives &ad dreary saJ chit poor inn nor t hew .vs, ... . . •t .e ; we lint Marry soup.] I -' ~..t A '..1.1 :h• meadow♦ „,/, aleopits •ch(4. [OWL- :.,144eeut sluuat.it•i all Olt lisauntq • J &! Ic.er. J.11:1.... Lot ie [iv•eu III=IIIIMEEMI!I . pia,at.ve - a. Jean/1y wad slowly, . th• htch wed lowly . the pas/I.og knell,— e• - ti t4:813111:1 CONIC tpg a' :::1,111.11p-L.:13111.1t.411491. Id LOOll6 I' , y_ ;AY 4Pi gal (V-11:)rr.JW e I 4711'. id:Mai:lt t,Og e ....oe. upwartl g s :fie leeptE fOUnt. of :eed ' , y that iron tongue, • ~+•ru<rrt.Al9 41a SCA, t[le Leas rinunir h(!Oct T(lScfll~int . =I MULE CHASE ON THE PRAIRIES F. , )m the Callf , rtlia P:ttheer 4uh.red. but which 0.. w begiu t be t he AL! ;! , •tlio •uver.t , , all I iuuj..vturo rti i • biv were h , int , ng , urk.P.l in the ‘c• ;1.:tr....i11'•'1 3.) I suit,. Ihp my •tt :tad, with rifle ±"fte h,w. ,t.trted ,ut IL• uortovrarl. ~ b .erved my departure t zebanged • Li. "t TUN pr it.tblr disappluttneut, but tr•vniu: , f I' • turill AtcL uture that ri..411[1 , :. :Cltri. ugh we knew 'cc w. r.. aLiu, the C 'Jfil• ••• • kJ; ores, an I had tude,d tAaru e S by a c f trappers whom we had wet but a few •oreei -us rcturuing fr•Jui their wintering In toe euntaitis, wax parties yet C wtident tu ,ur uuLuu r.. uti i the 'toabtlns of ..ur unpr.tet )e. detect - L"es of thou we had ac•rioure I the well warnlng of the mountaineers r, her to a uessi.n .3.:ering than any thio4 auu • iesmsed those wild Betio:nos ef the prat *hum we had heard so much, but Lad as td to see :e Lissy over the beautiful undulating and tosoin of the trackless prairies I role gent • , tir , •ci the gut Lit t for auy iu licattous of of my th-sires; but, though I eager); 1 , 1 ill.- hornsoci as I pr)deedei, a tiring uL•I nu eye except a few shy au , elems, vary caution and quack p. .13 reu them toy .ssible of ap e ro.m.o up , Ti t open -.ett Far as the vision could reach, uouznt uluo,,toua4 au lulating surtaeo ofg, ut.y lag and naked ou:y by the . grass A Id 9 , were if e v,r , j hue. t xtended "er, direction toward toe far horizon, wa••11 sky " i sum wrtal,s e d the distant ht, s, wing in the fresh verdure of the advancing ' Jt, with the v , ictles- a illeituie of this 110- . leaert I rude aiuwly al.m I•u;nu- , the strang vicisaitu lis wlue..iL,sd so au I trsualstect me tr.,ul !bp, wad had almort 111.11M.redIst.61.1, lo reT,ts or eight ma.. ' Letweca We rUki , amp, fat iu the durance, directly in front vi am e , 'gloss:sod a °alum of dors w tooth u i suppos- ERIE WEEKLY,-----OBSERVKR the .r -,t f time ridge an I recogli , z 1 th , I .} mq th , y hal too truly anttetpatei re ire htl,c Imy bi.i J In that bri-f mod.l.!ut, ad the wt •.; sAvages tame ebarging.down the ht! olgt - tts of home All 1 friend , . rn.u gt• /with the bright auttelpation , v) long eli-r:•11. e l , of x ~:o1.1•13 lutur' in the hold o. pr eiMe tor ,ug;ug in wild e,onfti , t n tly• :ay t,J. Drill! 'Caere was one hip -1.•1 ate a, I• --mei; but there vra:4 no tun- f oh eratt ,pp rtunity f r eh R WAS 1.1.1.1d110n5 I WS.4 hemmed In on every but oue. Straight ahead was my uEII . N Ch trice might floUnder through, and, at all events, suf fie or capture in the bug Will DO vrirse iii.stautanti Jus destructiJu where I was. Dashiug the r iwels into the trembling enimal, I mails urgel tuna forward. Tue sot, though covered wit., gri*4 and apparently tirm, gave way at every step Plowing his way by gigantic eff n)w fir au instant nitsing himself on some. bar der sp it, then sinking-to the sAdle girths, urg .1 by Lk, frshuc exertions, terrified to phrenzy by the appalling yells of the approaching enemy and the .hots which had began to whistle ar mud us, the n , ble animal toiled gallantly on and gained tie firm hank just as the dusky form Any pur suers. infuriated at the possible loss of their prey. were cl'istering on the opposite side, seeking a far +rable sp it to follow. Tit .r &liberation saved ma It required a strum; o-u'r,l of reason ta walk my failing horse si iwly up cue hill, while to , Indians were ti-hin dering -tt:er me tth.i inch the swamp But I Tlith!:y ju 1,01 that a little breathing time would not b. was.,:d on him I turned the summit of the hill psi as the Ise .Inste.l Indians were be , g,itiunig to crawl uut of the bog, and again put ttng spurs to my jaded horse, once more we sprang ; forward in that mad race of life and (Lath On ward we rushed over hills and valleys, ecru* , stream- au 1 through ravines, in ilea ilung flight, pursuers awl pursued. The tiinuer which marked the camp grew more di s tinct- 13 1;W for a moment concealed by an le i tervening hill—and again as we flew over its semagis ming nearer sad dearer Ia view. The Indian Yinion of St. Ignatius We dud appended to the report of Gov. the- Ven, ou di,: Northern or Oregon route fora rafl rua i Pa,ofic, an account of a canoe voyage mad , Uv Dr Geo Suckley, Assistatit Surgeon Cor.•:!. dates Army, from Fort Owen, down aid B t' , . r R C,.i.rk's Fork, and Columbia rivers, V,tu..oth er. le 0. 1 / 5 account some interesting potty are given in regard to the Roman C k: Mlssiull of St. Ignatius, situated on the \I t: y', rte •r, and under the care of Father H Tu,s mission has been established for , e• _ sr-, ssud the Indians who are brought nu ! r 11.:11.1 , :LICe comprise the remnant of several t•.l • -w., fat the name of Kalis:..elcus is given. tir.. two years, the missionaries lived in hut. m.t.le of and accompanied the In uu their hunting and fishing Lipeditions. I t fount it very hard to live. Afterwards, le)wevor, they estAbilshed permanently, and com :ll.llt,' 1 ttiiiug the ground, adding a 'tittle every t ,, the su, text. cultivated, and steadily in ,r, ,;iig in we,f.1,13 They obtained pigs, pout cattle, horses, agricultural implements and • Their supplies of clothing, groceries, took 1 , .1. , are snipped directly from Europe to rnr ColaLuht.. river toe it t two lay brethren, Brother Francis, j 1 , 21: at all 'rades, being by turns a carpen t r. n:,, h.-:u.th, gunsmith and Unman, in each of Lie a good workman. The other, bro tocr. iiro' her Magean, superintends the farming. T r, tn. y have built a windmill, carpenter's sLicps, barns, &e , besides an .1 nt cusp's, and a dwelling house of hewn •to t..:r t the indssionaries. The church is quite larze, and is tastefully and even beautifully de cor Toe handsomely carved and gilded al tar, and statue of "Our Maker," brazen crosses, •i ii i !lett oronze founts, which ornament it, one ~•u. t ,uppse must have been imported, but were u..t They are the result of the patient lab and ingettuity of the missionaries. But ~f oruarn.rat are not their only deeds. atatistone, uewn out of the nauve rock, and by the same hand which made the chi .,.,c wrought it; tin ware, a blacksmith's shop ploughshares, bricks for their chimneys, owu t.thttee , ) pipes, turned with a lath out „f wood, and lined with , tiu—all have been made ~y tons industry. They also make their own ealuiliv, soap, vineg..r, at;. They have a farm a ?lb nt one huudr--1 an I silty sores, and raise wo-at, parley, onions, and garden vegetable gen erally The Indians are ezoessi,ely fond of car rots, and if the children see carrots growing they man: •at sine. Father lioecken says, "I must ,nut toy tlei to the theft, because they cannot, ,•-:•t tile temptation " NIMBI uul the Mibsion buildings are the houses )! ,• v (Elves, built of logs and hewn the tribe i•emphatically wandering one iiiie,lol2 and it. vicininty is looked upon az, IA i ctirrer,. ca , ir wanderingsdo not gen er.i.iy extent' over a tract of country more than Li till 11: e i .niles qltiaretand they subsist by fish• iti;, tiuniing toe (ger and heir In the win ter tut: wuul band moves to some noted veusion groan I, where during the heavy snows the deer elonot ei.c4p, , , and are readily pursued and killed with e‘uu, lu tine, wey they have extermina ted Cu,. „Imam 10 a I except one or two places, and unies they pay inure attention to cultivating toe earth, they will soon suffer greatly from the WAD' f,ud PM IVtieu the cuissiouaries first came among these Indian., they were a poor miserable, half starved race, with an iusuffi.lieucy of food, an , l nearly naked, living upon fish, camas and other roots, ani to the teat extremity, upon the pine tree moo. 'fury were of a peaceful thspoettion, brave, droll tiup•red aul wultug to work Ot }pinta :at trilug, they were utterly ignorant, having no idea u: a future state or of a Great Spirit; uei tuer tuey auy idea of a soul. In fact, they bad not worm, iu their language to express such ideas They e )u•ideretl themselves near ly allied to the beay. , r; but grtater than the bea ver, becsii.e th , y sa,d, "the beaver builds houses like us, and 11.! 13 very cunning, too; but we eau catch the beaver, and be cannot iamb us—there fore we are greater than ie." 81 50 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. ERIE, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8,1855. They thought when they 'died that was the last of them, and often buried alive the very old and the very young, because they coul d . n o t t a k e care of them. The missionaries had an arduous labor before them, but sooa gained the confidence of these poor red men by kind Amos, such as at , tending their sick, furnishing them with food, and teaching them farming. The missionary I told them of their Creator and &vicar, and they listened and believed The name whiob they gave the Creator, in their own Lingua, is "the i One who made himself." Of the soul Ley had no conception, and at first the idea was singular ly translated to them that they had a gut which never rotted, and that this was their living prin. ciple or soul. The chief of the tribe became converted and., was baptised, and the mass,of the tribe followed , the example; and now almost all pray, and have , devotional exercises in their families. They have great respect and affection for Father Hoecken Previous to the advent of the missionaries they believed in charms, and every man had Waitron let, or deity, of which he expected good or ill. With some it would be • moues, a dear, a buffr Lo, fish, feather, or any similar object, and what ever it might be, a portion at least of the artiste the savage always carried with him. No youth on growing up was considered a man until he had discovered hi. medicine or charm This was done by going to the top of a mountain and re maining there without food until be had dream ed of an animal; the first one dreamed of becom ing his amulet. - During the Winter all the large game killed is brought to the camp, and dietnbuted equally among all but one man, who is chosen diatribe tor for the Winter. Singular to say, no grumb ling or dissaffeetien is ever inanifeeted at the dis tribution The land occupied by the mission is poor, and the missionaries have often tried to in duce- the Indians to remove where the soil is bet ter, but without avail. They reply, "This is our country; bare are the graves of our forefathers; here we were born, and here we wish to die; we do nut wish to leave our country poor as it is " The missionarieh have done great things for them —their holies as well as their souls. Theft is a rare occurrence, sal the people seem devoted to religioi so far as external forms go, and to the extent that their pr , :sentlimited understanding will admit The "Hard Shell Baptists" are a well known seet in the south and south-west. They are not related, that we know of, to the Hard Shell Democrats. though their christen name is the earn , . They oo dead against the Bible, temperance and education societies; hate missions to the heatlieu. aud iii modern schemes for converting the rest of mankind. Of conies they are opposed to learuinit, and speak as they are suddenly moved. A Georgia correspondent writes to the Drawer, and relates the following of one of their preachers: "Twoof them were in the same pulpit together While one was preaching, he happened to say "When Abraham built the ark " The one behind him s•rme to correct his blender by saying out loud, "Abraham warn't thar " But tLe spcsi-, , :r pushed on, heedless of the interrurioo, and only took ocesaion to repest, still more doeidecHy,"l!isy, when Abraham built the ark." "And T say," ei3eil out thi 6thet, "Abraham waru'i thar."' The Hard Shell *as too hard to be beaten in this wlv, and addressing the people, exclaimed with great indignation, "I say Abraham was thar, or 'Aar abouts " To th , - same southern correspondent we are in debted fur annther reading of a passage which has been variously e , astrued It will be recol leered that in nur July number we told the stur) of the preacher who understood the passage, as he heard it rend, "Now these eight did W eak] bear," to invan "now these eight did milk a bear " Our friend says: "This brought to mind the story of a good old dame who was plying her distaff, and listening devoutly to her daughter reading the Bible at her aide She was reading in the Book of Genesis, and being not perfect in the art, she would now Rod then miscall a word So it chanced that she read, stammeringly these words—" Now these eight did Milcah bore " "What, what's that?" said the old lady, "read that arin " The goad daughter complied and looking more carefully, read, "did Milcah bear." • "Ah, that will do," said the old mother, "they might milk a bear, but to milk a boar, my laugh tcr, is imposible "—Harper's Magazine. KISSINt. IN A TUNNICLI...—Dick Tinto, the Paris correspoa lent o' the New York nnes, tells the fallowing story of Home Vernet, the eminent French Painter: Tue artist was coining from Versailles to Pa ris in the ears In the same compartment with him were two ladles whom ho had sever seen be fore, but who .werc evidently acquainted with him. They examined him very minutely, sal commented upon him quite freely—upon his martial bearing, his bale old age, his military pantaloons, etc., etc. The painter was annoyed, and determined to put an end to the persecution. As the train pas sed under the uuinnel of St. Cloud, the three travelers were wrapped in complete darkness Vernet raised the bank of his hand to his mouth, and kissed it twice violently. On emerging from the obscurity ha t found that the Ladies had with drawn their atnistion from him, and were accus ing each other of having been kissed by a man in the data: Presently they arrived at Paris; and Vernet on leaving them said: "Ladies, I shall be puzzled all my life by the inquiry, 'Which of these two ladies was it th.t kissed me?' " A JUVENILE SAMARTTAN —Four weeks ago, en elderly and re•pcetahly dressed gentleman was found lying senseless upon the side walk in Cincinnati A crowd soon gathered around him, some said he was drunk, while others said he was in a tit. A little girl apparently twelve years of age, emerged from the crowd, raised the fallen lan's head into her lap, and then used means whereby he was so tar revived as to call for wa ter, and a coach, and requested that the little girl might accompany him home. He proved to be a retired merchant and his prostration a case of paralysis, while the juvenile Samaritan who con tributed to his reliet was the daughter of a poor widow. He was so far recovered that on Monday last he rode to the residence of the motherof the child, and presented her with a chick for two hundred dollars, hung a handsome giold chair around the neck of the little ministering angel, on which was suspended a plain but costly gold watch, upon the ease of which was the following inecriuption—"Preseuted to Mary C Perkins by her friend, William Broilers " se.idre Cueover, of Onondaga county, the lady to whom was awarded the lira' prise for rid ing at the '•Ladies' Eloostrian Esnibitiou" of the State Fair, held at Blatira is dead. She contract( a sescre cold on that occaeion s from the effects of which atie new mamma. Ovid Ist. The Hard Shelia Pres 164 Pisani. lanklessia. WILLIS MILL. DIMS in yeader.oliailowed Where the death-tide waters Where huge phantom ever Ugh • Mitts the Amin, fainting etml. W here the hymn of death la waking • A In the gloom with meemtivd ( 1 ) Thithor mat, our heart-otrinip Weakly& Little, loving Willie Boil. All the opriag-time played he gladly, With the sera-beems from the eicr— this„ In the mummer wombed .Madly the spring Goers and Ma; And be weeded by hrook.iddm Where the Imelda( MINIM Mt— Where the easel's mos at elgitt-dde Marie low to Willie Bell. Bet whoa summer blossoms &dad, And the &amain lams dew by— Whoa the patio bedew's', shaded By the mow 'maths from oa high. Theo a votes ma* down trots Ilanven. Like the waves in winding shell, Thee an angel crown was gives To the brow el,Wirlie Dal Folded then his head of whiteness. O'er the marble, lifeless breast, While sweet strains from harps and brightest@ Welcomed him to heavenly not; And the eyes of bias were dosing O'er the obeek whore death-damps OW. While la dreamless sleep reposing- Was toe form of Willie Bell Down within the grassy meadow, Down within the silent vale, Where at *yea comes the shadow Of She moonbeams, still aid p.k, Than, apes the cold .arch's bosom. 'WA the snow-flakes as they Nil, Laidvre our bright immune? blossom, Lov'd in death, moot %Mlle 8011. The Cradle away iv in the Garret, BY M. LOUISA. CELITROOD It was an old fashioned little cradle. The proud daughter-in-law would scorn to have it in the nursery. Her children sleepin dainty cribs; and the relic of oldened times is pushed into a darkened corner, away up in the garret It is a quiet autumnal day; such days are fall of memories; and the old grandmother is thinking, thinking. She arises at length, and totter up, and up, the lofty flight of stairs; she panes through the elegant rooms; she gains the garret, and sinks down beside that unsightly cradle; and bows her trembling head over it, as if watching the. slumbers of a babe. That little garret, with one long beam of sunlight streaming from the high window; and the spider webs woven over the rafters, and one cricket, singing lonesomely from some silent corner, is a good place to dream Memory is unfolding picture after picture, for the grandmother to look upon. She sees a cabin home. It is in the flush of summer-time; there are green boughs in the fire place, and around the elock,and over the mantle board There are short, white muslin curtains, drawn partially across the windows. There are two beds, with a bureau between, standing in the eastern part of the room; and a little stand, with a Bible and hymn-book upon its white fringed cover, beneath the little looking-glass. There is ber cupboard, withits brightly polished pewter; and the pine table, scoured by her own hands.— And she is sitting by the window, her foot gently touOiug.that same dear little cradle; and her eyes, lifted from her sewing, now and then, to see if her heart's pride is coming Flow deliciously her Lear is stirred to the music of sweet thoughts. It is her first-born, her darling Johnny, sleeping ia the cradle. Never yet have his dewy; rose-bud lips murmured "mother;" but his dimpled arms clasp her neck; his velvet cheek nestles against her breast, his dear blue eyes look lovingly into her own. She is the young mother again, as memory paints that sweet baby face. She hears the bees humming in the little bed of pinks, be low the window She sees the shadow leaves of the Virginia creepers, playing upon the grass, in the sunlight, as the breeze stirs the long Gimping arms that cling about the rough logs. She hears the rivulet's ripple as it winds through mrsy spots, an I leaves the roots of the old 'yea whose shadows fall upon her roof She nears the birds singing, away off in the woods She sees, IV best of all, her husband ooming home from his daily labor. His step is on the sill, his merry voice speaks her name and then little John ay is clasped to his heart. Another picture. She is a little older now It is winter; there are drifts of snow on thefeaves; as farts she can look, one unbroken mass of snow She hears the winds moan through the gyms more. The flowers are dead; the rivulet frozen; the birds silent. But there is a bright fire upon the hearth, and the cabin home warm with its crimson light Johnny's playitl with father; and a baby girl, the little Lizzie, is in the cradle; fragile, delicate, beautiful; she has dark eyes, like mother's, only they bear a sadder, softer look, d h(r baby smile seems sad also; her hands are ohisped and thrown above her head and she smiles in her sleep, as if the angels were whispering to her. Another picture It is in the month sf. May, and all out of doors is so beautiful. Fl were in the woodland; birds in . the woodland; iy-musie everywhere. Everywhere! No, there is sadness in the cabin house There is another babe in the cradle. It is robust, and the blood of health flows in its veins. It is Charlie. Why are they sad, then? Johnny sits with his face hidden in his mother's bosom, and she is sobbing. Under the front windowis eomethingoovered with white. The neighbor women are moving noiselessly about, speaking but little. Lazy is in her eoffin. There is an empty grave where butter-cups dot the grass. Dear little Lizzie; Joy that the angels took thee home so early Another picture. Johnny has grown up to nearly manhood. Charlie is a stout, merry boy, and there are others about the ire•side. The mother ie a good deal older now Her hair is streaked a little with silver; her brow furrowed; and her cheek very faded. There are fair daughters and sons; that have been born unto her slim Lizzie di ed. Grace, with her dazzling blue eyes, and golden hair. Mary, with sad dark eyes, like her dead sister. Annie, with her lips ever dewy with love and joy. Reginald, with eyes and brow so like his father's. And Louis, the youngest, the pet and the darling. An unbroken family, but not for long. Another picture ' She is a widow now Her beloved sleeps with little Lizzie. God knows how bereft she is; to Him she looked for balm; to Him she prays for her dear children, and most of all for Meginald—the proud, the passionate, wilful Reginald. Ah, the mother's heart! How it goes with her children. How it would bear every pang, that they might be saved. Yet, how often it is torn, crushed, broken by those she has sheltered in her bosom! God pity the mother whose heart thus beats against thorn s. - Another picture. 0 God, have pity: The house hold altar is almost desolate. You have gone by—sad years. No wonder the pa Wed hand trembles, as it clasps the cradle. No w onder tears fall where sunny beads once nestled. No wonder the old grandmother cries out "V ether have mercy!" .for she feels the need of st rength and love. Johnny is still with her, he is growing wealthy. Mary is in the grave, Aril en in arty weasel:loud, when life seemed se brigh t. Besati fel Ouse, is goo; abs kern us vlsisbst.— Beauty, to hex, was a curse, sad she did to a 1 eon= questiiiii a e on the mon, mane , i. sp, distant lead with owe fascinating u a serpent, ! peered, as Limesswiremly stated, that hilt soap bet already wedded. Annie joined her fortunes ; micro In eommunity to me, alas! unirorthy, and died far from her I I thought, it might be EasAbk Chat in soma mother's house, of • Woken heart. Reginald ; a place, -I could ascertain trUelleit he had lately went inta tiniest , world—was tempted—was lost/ ; passed a hundred dollar note,liif litteltiaS4 Iwo —and the grave of the drunkard and debanchee ' been likely to have don. if it wee tree closes over his bright head. Louis, the pet, the had not enclosed it in the New Haven I te tu re4 4 l .4 4l , youngest, is winning himself a name beneath Calling at the store which received won of b;mv a Italian skies; the beautiful life of the poet- custom, I introduced myself t.) the proprietor , 4 painter is his own, and his face is inspired, al. I made a oonfldant of him to some extent, sa d - . [i most, by the beautiful associations about him learned that the very day after that on whis k saw Over the ouean do his mother's prayers often go ' aforesaid letter was mailed, its author Awed kis to him. le payment fora barrel a flour, a hundred dollar Another picture - Oh no, it is too real The old I note on the bank from which a bill of the 14 8 garret—the to empty cradle She is I denomination bad been obtained, as before it with Johnny, in his costly home She is I cooed, in exchange for the "small trash." The oonsidered an intruder by the daughter-in-law; I merchant could not change it, bat sent the derv, and her sou—iier Johnny—the first-born, whom andchangedrisill which ht supposed to be the this had watched over and cradled on her breast, ' same a few days afterward. 71 and loved so, gays: Armed with .hese irresistible facts, I poised " Nether is getting to be quite troublesome; ed to call on the adveaturous deceiver of the she is growing childish." clergy, who had attempted to make owe member The desolate old grandmother knows this, and , of that body =mod his intention to cheat sae. Imp for the grave. She has outlived all that mikes ' trier "Insatiate archer: could not one saber life attractive. o,a compass that weary, almost 1 "31r T—," said I, after some preliminary woravat heart, with His love, and take her to his I tiouvenation, "it's of no use to mince matters. house of many taimeione. 1 The fact is, yon did not send the money in that ' New Haven letter. Yon offered it the day after you pretended to mail it, at Mr. C.'s store. Yea see I've found out all about it, to I hope you will not deny the truth in the matter." I then gave him his choice, to send the but. dyed dollars promptly to his New Haven sorra*. pendent, or allow me to prove in a pablia' ma uler, the dote in my possession. &log thus bard pressed and finding himself cornered, he confessed that he had _prepared fits letter which was receeived in New Haven--Tote script, double wafers and all—before he/effigies, and that while crossing the street from the bank to the post office, he substituted this for the one he wrote in the clergyman's study! be promised to send the money, and pretended to have safer. ed severely uu r tus feelings, on account of this dia. honest sot. Cheating the Clergy (The following extract from a forthcoming work by J Holbrook, ILaq , Special Agent of the P. 0 Department, entitled "Ten Years Among the Mail Bags,'• will give our readers an insight imo the way adopted by a great many people, to cheat their creditors, and lay their own rascality upon the hroad back of Uncle Sam's of ficials:] "Our collection of "outside" delinquencies would be iheomplete, were we to omit the fol lowing. case, -which was investigated by the au thor not long ado, and in which not s. little in genuity, of the baser sort, was displayed. It will serve as a specimed of a numerous claas of cases, characterised by attempts to defraud some cer respoodist, and to fasten the blame of the frsUd upon some one connected with the .Post-Offues We could give many instances of a similar kind, did our limits permit. A person of good standing in community, who laid claim not only to a good morel, but a religi ods character, was visit i iug in a large town on the Hudson river, about midway between New York and Albany. This person owed a clergyman, living in New Haven, Conn , the sum of one hundred dollars; and one day be called at the house of another clergyman of his acquaintance in the town first mentioned, and requested to oe allowed the privilege of writing a letter there to his clerical creditor, in which the sum due that gentleman, war to be enolostd Writiug ma terials were furnished, and be prepared the let ter in the study of his obliging friend. and in his preseuce. .. After he Lad finished writing it, he said to the City: We hive had considerable excitement in Alton wife, I wish to be able to prove that I clergyman, Now, as the mails are not alwa)s —the cause a gay widow of thirty-five, fat and Latin actual ly sent the money I shall therefore consider fair, and of very genteel appearance, who was it a great favor if you will accompany me to the very vulgarly dragged before a justice upon slow bank, where I wish to obtain a nundred 'dollar charge of forgery, knavery, cheatery, and hum bugging divers rod people of Alton out of about note for some small trash that I Lave, and bear witness that I enclose the money and deposit the ". 1)430 within a fe w mon ths past Let me introduce our fair heroine as Mrs. letter in the post office " 3lergaret. Agnes Kenney She always spelled Tne naverend gentleman readily &weeded ter hi: request, and went with him to the bank, where ju t h 'r maiden name ' Mr... Margaret Agnes is au Irish lady Slie came to Alton some six a bill of the required deuominatiou was placed in the letter, which was then sealetiwith a wafer, months ago, bet where from—the devil only the clergyman al. the while looking on -v.,- knows at all. She represented herself as an Irish lady of education and refinement. She had Tic -y then went to the pest-office, (which was lett _rs stating that she was an neiress of £lO,OOO, direct.y opposite the bank,' and after ea:litig tide attention of his companion to toe !otter !Lad its left her b) her grandfatte rin Ireland She had' address, the 'flier thereof dropped it into the an uncle, alsr , . who Lad very kindl, dropped off, - letter box, and tide two persons went their several and left her a few thousand pans " Conse quently Mrs. Margaret cut a big stiff in Alton ways. f tic ;et•er arrived at New Haven by due course for five months or more She bought house, of wail, and it so happen•Ai that the clergyman rented douses, and fUllinalnd in upaid-for try. to whom it was addreeeed was at the post ffi oce, goods, bought boles of soap, star candles, and witting our the assorting of th e mails iihe saw g'N.. 1 Malaga raisins, by the box, for her family use, sAd a partici** friend a lot, to wh3ob ono- thrown into lain box, and ealied for it a 3 soon A. ry window was opeu,.4 ther , riginal owner was not aware that he had .. .. Upon .. i.-g the seal nod reading the letter, par t e d it-i•kii his fee simple; and to- grease the warantee deed, she forg d the justice signature he fcuud himself requested to '.Please . find .ne hundred dollar.," ie., with which rigors; he to the aanowledgement would cheerfully have • complied, but tur one 01 one citizen she borrowed 1700, of another 8370, of another 8150, of another 850—sod CU iluisLa.tieu, uamei), (Alt IllieK.W,:..t of the bank -aote:g .olaess knows how much more will tarn up.— This fact was apparently ace out I for dv a ' Of one dry goods merchant she buys 81,51 X) i. proscript, written in a heavy, rule hand, entirely ' worth of g.kids, and she obligingly patronises a jeweller to the tune of $2.70. During ..his time, different from that of the body of the letter, and reading as follows: , turtherniore, the iloistrious Mrs Margaret Agues "P. S I have taken the liberty to borrow takes a view of her biter end; and is anticips , that you , tion thereof proceeds to make her will, wherein this money, bat I send the letter, 10 needn't blame the man that wrote it " she gives to this dear friend in Alton 81,500, to ,Signed) "Posi Bat " auotn-r $3OO. an to bogus relations in Cultist- The rifled document was_immedtaielv shown c a ti and N2Ol Yu several hundred each, that to the post master, and in his oplntou, as well as divesting herself f some ten or fifteen thousand that of the clergyman, a daring robbery hot been dollars of her gra dfather's estate on one 'sheet ^f paper. The will is now before me, and is a committed. The latter gentleman wa, advised riot special , n of what a keep, shrewd woman can by the post master to proceed at once to New York, and confer with the Special Agent, and at du with a blind, bat-eyed man the same time to lay all the facts bf ,re the Post ' Besides this, Madame Margaret Agnes had Master General He did so, and it was not plenty of beaux, who were tremendous food of long before the Agent had commenced the in- the rich enchantrese, and, she borrowed their earn veetigetion of the supposed robber)tugs, scrapings and hoardings to the last dime. In additiono the proscript app-nded,otte let- She also endeavored to become the "Lady Bounti ful.' in a smail way, by making delightful presents ter bore other indications of having been tam , of dress patterns and jewelry to dear friends, and most witL, which at the first eight would seem she adopted one yung pretty lady, clothed her, almost conclueive as to the point. Upon the enve- I and wade certain arrangements to send her to lope were two waters, differing in color, one partly sobool at Floinsant, St. Lonus County, Missouri overlapping the other, as if they had teen put ! , The material part of the arrangement, however, on by differerent persons at different times. tb- forking over the rhino, was not consummated Notwithstanding these appearances, there were circumstances strongly conflicting with the sup- by her ladyship, Mrs Margaret. position that the letter had been rubbed. The_ Thu time sped along on his well greased axle postscript was an unnatural affair, for no one ! and al! went well, except that Mrs. Margaret's guilty of opening a letter for the purpose of ap- I legacy did sot come. Tier friends began to spar propriatiog its contents, would stop to write an ,her up, when suddenly she received the loot explanatory postscript, especially as such a course looked•for andeuocemeut that the money had ar would increase the chances of Lea own detec- rived and in store at the Metropolitan Bank, New tion. Ancl o itt the present instance, there had i York. So the lady starts for that place last b d Saturay morn i ng accompan i e d y been no delay of the letter to allow of such an two maw addition. 1 pecting friends By a visit to' the office where the letter was I Two of her creditors chanced to meet on the day mailed, toe agent ascertained that it midst haveay of her departure, and after comparing note concluded' there must be "something rotten is left immediately after being deposited, dad- the - advanced age sod excellent character of the pest Denmark " They take a certain deed and other , master, who made up the mail on that occasion, papers before a young lawyer of Alton; he pro.. entirely cut off suspicion in that quarter nounced that a forgery and swindle had beat An interview was then held with the clergy• t committed; telegraphs to personal friends at c in theago, over his own name, and at a very respect- Man who witnessed the mailing of the I Ater, and Zle hour for early risers-on the next (Sabbath) from him were obtained the facts already stated,• morning, the fair Margaret 'was routed from her Concerning the writing of the documatit, and its deposit in the letter box in a perfect state, after eleePing apartment in the Sherman Rouse, and transferred to one a trifle less oonunodiorto, ill the money had been enclosed, he was ready and that very popular hotel in Chicago, yolept the willing to make oath, and had he been called upon he would have done so in all sincerity and "wmhs honesty. , My paper is exhausted --my romance must tad In reply to an inquiry whether he used more off eint• Mrs. Kenney was brought to Alton, b e , had a hearing before Joannelaischarde (warns , ihtu one sort of letter paper, he informed me had had but one kind in his study for several ) name she forged;) the roughest ki n d of testimony - menthe, and at my request, immediately brought )ie the shape of assinillidg, gouging and keen in several sheets of it. A comparison of this financierilig, eame up agaipst her; $ 2, 000 of in. with the sheet upon which the ri fl ed epistle had I debtednees for goods sofa and money borrowed been writsee, showed that the latter was a total- was presented, at an hours notice against hoe; ly different article from the first; the shape so d I she, was seat to F a sinareviiie jail, and for imams deli ;a of the stamp, the size and the shade of the I dude trial at this term 01 Cou.rt, the witneesee paper, were all unlike. Morever , the wafers used I were served with a speCial "Louse puck," to go at the bank, where the hundred-dollar note was I over to that ancient berutestify spew ben o obtained and the letter containing it, sealed, were i"I the o prospect 4. that Agnes will codas very dissimilar to either of those whieh appeared her eetlikuthropie ileruons to pickning oakum, or sawing upon c onvict's fine wuoven shirts, in the upon the "posteboy" letter. From, the emisideratios of all these facts,' was Pimiterittal7,,where she 'Hine doubt tontine satisfied thit a gross and contemptible fraud had to keep. been perpetrated by the wriesr of the letter, sad lost no titan in proceeding to the Tillage where that pawner lived. I called upon the Post Mow sea obis some inquiries Tektite le the ehmetihe cad peemakey eholosetehotetelle par B. F. SLO.O, EDITOR.' NQN_IBER 30. There is no United States law providing for the punishment of snob an offence, bat publio opinion and private conscience make nicer die ticuons than the law can do, and often mate oat a well deserved penalty to those wbo Glade the leas subtle, ministers of justice. In the present instance, the foregoing story was made public by direction of the Post Master General; and theauthor of the trick, unable to su,taia the indignation and contempt of the Mini mum t y in which he lived, was compelled to make a hasty retreat from that part of the country. A Beguiling Widow Tbd 21.1t0n oorrespondant of the St. Louis Republican writes as follows (gemming toe operation of a bewitching widow is that 16 i so to •01116 parts of Versant lad a - Little boy who fell off a sow aid Lb. other dity t arm 1) &1 41 0 Up 1 4 , 4 81 w go t ial9 AOR !PP sooty f asatta.
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