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(OTAWS LOVE.
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4 to the fierceness and un
the whites, entertained by
lilt chiefs, stands the kind•
.ng devotednest of the Indian
:Derail' , a foe to the pale, face,
‘,ll friend. Tbe. o
history o>f the
hasStufficiently attested this fact,
4eord hue sometimes been written
Indian disdains the thought that
' from ins purpose, by the weft
soma°, yet h 6 often is. He is not
tte voice of affection, though in his
sidles t 9 be thought so. Sympa
,re once born in the heart of a red
{, r est, she rests not until that cap-
recollect, that the occupaqoo
.of some parts of Minnesota,
Itiey may not, however, be con-
IRA's with which the pioneers of
''son, had to contend. The
all their foes were the Deco.
Ire now generally termed, the
• nick Chiefs, Web a shaw,
Lis'As-mai:mend others, for a time
ogs of bitter hostility to the pale
was licit until the U. S. troops
it Fart Ripley on the Minnesota
time, that they were prevented
ISl—Mareun Cooley, then some
lr% of age, left hie home in Ver-
• 4 for th e far weer
rJ tat hopes, untiring energy,
:teislon 1.3 y degrees ho worked his .
W..t..ru States "prospecting,"
until he had reached the borders
)Imlssippl, above the Falls of St.
a: be f quid a place to allibcblin.—
kolyerer, he determined to remain,
destiny that fate bad in. store
!taig a " c!ai cu" he proceeded to
ho ,ng-hat, and the improvement
S,me three weeks after his arrival,
y startled by tbo appearance of s,
girl at the door of his house
taices, be heckohed to her to
3naletit she perceived his eyes
ilie started like the timid fawn,
irpths of the f,rest. The nest
to came again, until his man
cross the threshold and stand
shi,e engaged in his homely
At lit she accepted from him
o thleb•she looked long and ad
;to , toiliug face, that it briliantly
I
lie gave her some trinkets, all
reerite with gay laughter.
tbe little trappin , r, she would
raver, to Mge her image in its
limo, become, that he had
tyvt ti,r p ile day she failed to
The West was all atilow
b"*, and tht fun wail just sink'
ort.t‘n au..ttatl figure throe its
,t,: , •nu t 4 his bumble hocue.
imi aiso.ver, L l a Warrior, dressed
's'L' tuststier iif the Daootah war
Arcti.l t - thp .4/an ger .
ItA.`•Q Biark-wiog-of-thuo
R ortal of the pale
y Ttir brave of many
ufrio the stranger that bait
t tilt- heart ie i GO -0 1 , the
"Jr .1 , the kic , )tahp?—thoph :"
""Ltie . me have yuur hand in
LEIPII Dot that rhr lodtao waideo
th I vY 4P r her e I would be
and ati ) ,, ur 'raw "
k•heocut.r), when how the dark
coot.. NlAnitou' s lire is
t itr,t
.lie 11..1 river of the ,
>ka I ,, su up.m 0., tu deoroy with
lad wttb their bad heart s
Tlye
the mac."
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repo ti l
e•Kkii " 1 e. , lne
Kt :SI: 1 1-.14•1 tru,- !wither
tv f rAtid Price 14 my
• :.., f L.. G , rbl eat . that
everiTeak a flu., but Itice the
i ' .l "'tn• I. lux word+. Ben,ath
, •yem that Nati—lies are hid
oliv• mikwieted. I know )(rut
13'"1.
b 1 tLeD, n,pt peaceable! What
1 avP I 4•vi r (dewier/
• Qi.• ‘letting Sooty dr‘p, shoatri
44•• r•rottiNt.l come to the wig. • hi. luau, to he the
l"l“s•••% When le4 I who, red
ar I ..se-seings of our tribe
apm her
lip—there were ar k t)eti Once like the 'prey
dancrd - in the light of her
' Nine, like the sbadow to the
41 4 a darkness above her kola.
i"iva t ai; la the Meek wing-of
' 4 4 a feebl e old squaw!" Or will
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‘•Agsio t say that I have not injured you.
If blood be your object say it, and let the God
whom you call fdanitou decide air the fight."
As the young pioneer thus spike, be toed
&
niataelf in an attitude of hum. 'The 'an
however, declined a ellanbat on such terms. He
hastily withdrew hioiself from The but, uttering
the well knows sound,
" Umph!"
" Umph, means that you will retnrnP' said
Marcus t..) himself, when the savage had ' left
him.
"Sobeit my dark warrior! If we sre to be
enemies, better know it4it ones I shall be on
my guard "
There glided to his side s snail white form!
He looked down uponlah-le too-eh. She seised
his hand and covered it with kisses
Snowdrop—Jlove—white—man—Rood!"
Do you then speak my language!" Be asked
supprise.
tie found that he did to a limited ex
tee',
The Missionartes who to earlier days had pen.
etrsted to these fastnesses found her a child, and
had imparted a knowledge of English to ber.
As she became more soeustotned to his uttersnee
she found that ber memory brought back the
language.stli i had almost forgotten. We will
not give bet!imperfeet words, but their connect.
ed substance Raising her from her dropping,
position, Cooley led her to the rude 'bench he
had constructed, sod wished her to be seated.
" No thus, at your feet will Mable•too-ah re.
pose She loves the pale face who conies to ber
forrest home: There is truth dwelling in his
dark eyes, and she would read his soul.
She threw herself upon the cabin floor and
with ber bead resting upon his .knee looked up
into his face.
PE
Tah a-was sa has ben here," she said, ta
king one of his labor soiled bands, and passing
it over her dark silken hair . " Beware of him .
the lightning is not more fatal in its broad de.
strnotion than be. Be is the chief of our brives
and next to Ma-le-too-ah's sire, is the most fear.
ed."
Nay! fear him nos" replied\kbe pioneer, u
he ran hie fingers through the rib muses of
her hair, and gazed into her liquid rity.. "He
loves the Snow drop!"
" But she loves not him" war the qui re—
ply •
" She will wed Ifo one but the stranger
the stranger loves her."
Cooley's heart beat strangely In all her
native innocence, there lay the moat exquisite
beauty, that he had ever looked upon. • Her full
round form in curves of graceful ease met his en•
raptured vision Bee dark eyes were smiraming
with liquid beauty, The rich tones of her musi
cal voice fell like the murmur of distant waters
upon Inc ear The full ripe lips, distilling
swertnem with every breath, were upturned to
his But no thought unworthy of a man, or
offensive to' - her purity, crossed his mind. He
look, d at her long and musingly.
" Yes!" hT said at last, 0 the stranger loves
hie gentle Itidian girl."
Sbe 'prang to her feet at his declaration She
twined her arms around his neck and imprinted
a singleltiss upon his forehead. Then drawing
herself to aer fall height she exclaimed
Be that kiss, our betrothment Now hear
me: Tab a wa-earmantri Maim me for 63abri.11f.
In another moon he thinks that I shall be lila,
but I will sooner go to my resting place_in
.Man.
iton's hosom , than live in bin wigwam I am
torer. r!"
Again •he threwi.b, rself into his embrace
She hwtic back the kiss she bad given, with late
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" Hut he will not rest, until either he or you
are gone to the far hunting ground," she mus
ed
" fie sever forgives " Then suddenly star.
ting up again, she continued " You have the
arm of strength, and the courage of the brave!"
If he comes here it is only to entrap you. Cut,
bin, down like the withered tree that shuts out
your view .rom the prospect beyond. Yon mast
show no mercy fcor he will stow nobe to you. In
a moment, when the back of the stranger is turned
Tab a was-ea will - throw his tomahawk into his
rain Rime ber!"
lie was a
Away sped the glad maiden.
Not long was Marcus left in doubt as to the
tuteutions of his enemy. Numbers of the paint
ed warriors were daily seen atoned his clearing.
Frozp , beitteatb the dark underwood, darker eyes
looked forth thrtiteningly upon him. Go where
he would, dos what he would, there seated:to be
a hundred eyes fastened upon his every move.
went Still he did not heed them. With a wary
eye, and careful observation he noticed every
ehange A week had thus passed, and no deci
ded demonstration bad bees made. One morn
ing while bathing early in the calm water of the
Mississippi. be perceived the treacherous Ta-ha
wa-sa steal down to the bank, with the evident
intention of abstracting his rifle. Springing to
the shore be caught the Indian in the very fact.
Seising his weapon he presented it at the breast
of the warrior.
"Pig of a Dac'otah" he' cried "back to your
people ! Are you not a thieving Simi. Be ,
gone I say, and ecru no more to my hut. We
are not friend., nor it are meet again btood may
bp shed " ,
" the white man's blood that Tab a.wa-ea
would have The strange?' scalp must bang
here at the belt of the breve."
There flashed in the riming sunbeam the glitter
of a tomahawk With a deadly atm the radian
threw it full at the bead of Cooley. A slight
Movement of the body, and the weapon was bur:
led beneath the silent water!' of the riser bevad.
The white man escaped, but the next moment
the warrior was rolling upon the ground In the
agonies of death Cooley's bullet had not missed
its mark.
Then uprose on the air the yells of a hundred
infuriated savages. Cooley hastily resumed his
light costume and stood waiting for the coming
‘.yeet There were loud calls, among the In ,
dotes. as if from lip to lip ran the summons to
the spot. In a few ? moments more, 'hem every
direction appeared the rod devisee's of the for
est Stealthily they approached. 'There was a
terror la the meaner with arlich the white man
win regarded as he -"toed therein.ondly, nodatiiit.
ed-sod defiant. " As they closed upon tdin the
Snow-drop. rushed into thek midst, and throw
ing herself into the urns of- her white lover,
t urned towards the approachingnumbers. With
passionate exprOssiona, she addressed them.—
With fervid elect/once she held them spell-bland
She might have triumphed had not a new char
! acter presented himself upon the scene. This
I was Wab.a-sbasi, the hiesd chief of the tribe sod
I the mighty warrior of them all. Over his broad
1 capacious shoulder, and Cermet his breast; hung a
rich, and elaborately worked blanket A glitter
log tomahawk was in his belt of wampum. He
was a noble specimen of the breve Sachems of
lidd Striding up to the dead body of the Indian
he nth red one sad cry, then motioned to his
people to ,r.-move the corps of their kinsman.
fie glared fiercely spun the young adventurer,
who bid so aufortnnately invoked yttrium
Ms daughter Mabik-too.ah stood behind hiti as
be addressed Cooky.
"You have come to the haunts of the . red.
MAD to murder and destroy ! When yont IMO
first resounded through these eroods,mv people
Came 10 and and said, that the pale fhce had
eboaen• himself a hype amid their native wilds.
They would then' havesent him in the swift
Neopertr..; i t oz. oft
canoe down into the far wai v ers of you river :
boa Wa-bs•sbsw said - , no ! 'Let the white MID
spay Behold how we are repaid. A Dsootah
brave has been peas to Mteitou's bq►nting
ground., by the' bulk' of the straw. The
pale face mast die !"
"Wen-shim her me—"
"No ! the wind in its fleeting whisples but
presages the aorta, Wa.ba.ehae will not Getea !
The spirit of out unuievid brave is shrieking for
vengeance l no Daeotalt has yet died, without
oar having the murderer's scalp."
His tomahawk was raised to strike. Demonise
passioti worked in every leatare. Cooley stood
eilml n ylacing him awaiting with folded arms
the blow 'blot be felt he could sot avert. But
ere the weapon descended the Indian maiden
stepped for Ward and arrested_, the arm, in its mad
career.
"Hold Wa-ba-shatr l" she cried. "He is a
ebief of the Dacotaba, and you due not harm
him. The customs of our rue are that when
the daises ter of our king, weds, the granger, he
becomes a,,chief. The pale face is the master of
Malstle-posah the Melting Boow.drop of the
tribe. litre in his bosom I remise, and if be
dies I die to 4. Taks-aswass-ra was a dog who
sought. the lif4 of the stranger."
Her presencle of mind saved him. Wiaba.shaw
savage though he was, could not resist the plead
ings of affection. His warriors, who had never
loved the deed tyrant, mule no objection.
Years afterwards !ben civilization spread its
influence far in the north west, when other white
men came to settle upon the lands that our gov•
enameut had purchased, of its dusky owners,
Dooley and his lovely Indian bride still *rlwelt
beside the "Father of Waters." The- children
of the' twain belt mingle in the best !moiety of
St. Paul, while the "White Chief of the Daeo.
tabs," and his warm hearted wife, enjoy the re
spect of all who know them
Walled Lake in lowa—A Curiosity.
A correspopdont of the Cisseiniaati Gazette,
writing from lowa, makes the following wonder
ful otAketilest :
I have intended_ for some time to give the
readers of the Gazette a description of the Wall
ed Lake, which is situated in Wright county,
lowa. To me it was one - of the greatest curiosi-
ties i bad ever seen—enveloped as its history is
with a mantle that will probably never be with
drawn. This lake lies in the midst of a large
aiu—.the. rich, gently undulating prairie ex.
tending for many miles iu every direction. The
lake very an area of about 1900 acres. The
water *clear and cold, with a hard sandy bot
tom, froda two to twenty five feel deep. There is
a strip of t'Ver about half way round it, prob
ably ten rod wide, being the only timber in
many miles'ere is a wall of heavy stone all
around it .\
it... 15 oo aecidentatruatter. It has been built
with human hands. In some places the land is
higher then the lake, iti4ehieh case the wall only
amounts to something likes Rip Rap protection.
This, I believe, is what ea ears ca ll it. But
I in other places the water is higher in the lake
utbsn the prairie outside the waif. , The wall in
i some places is ten feet high ; it is ‘l3 feet wide
st the base, sloping up both sides to h feet wide
on tie. top. The wall is buil it qurks; I mm hast.
I. nets , trom tome tons in sote, down o Aft y ode.
, They are ail , what are called lost rock amp°
r ge , ,logi,t, and consequently CaO g ive un leareed
I deseripoon cf them. 'Rey arc got, however,
pativrT "to the manor born." Nor has the wall
, beat made by the steishing away of the earth and
I leaving the rocks. There is no native rock in
this region Besides, this is a continuous wall,
two miles of which at least llchigher than the
,
;land, The top of the wall is level, while the
I lend is undulating, so the wall is is some places
two feet, and in others ten feet high. These
, rook*. many of them at least, must have been
i brought a long distance—probably five or ten
miles In Wright" county, the lost rocks are
scattered pretty freely; but as you approach this
lake they dlomppear, showing that they have been
gathered by lonia agency, when or by whom, his
tory will never unfold. Some of the largest oaks
in the ground are growing up through the wall,
pushing the rocks in, in some uses—outside in
others, accommodating their shapes to the rooks.
The lake abounds with excellent fish. The laud
in that township yet belongs to the government.
Whet) I was there,du the spring of 1856, the
wind had blown a live piece of ins against the
southwest part of thet.wall and h oohed it
down, so that the water was running oat and
flooding the farms of some of the settlers, and
they were about to repair the wall to protest
them crops. It is a beautiful farm land nearly
all around this lovely lake. ‘s.
The readers of the Gazette should not imagine
that the wall - around this lake is as regular and
as nice as the wall around the Founjain in frost
of the City Ball in New York-, nor need any en
tertain the theory that it is a natural wall ; but
it has been built hundreds, and 'probably thou•
sands of years. The antiquarian may speculate
by wham tit& mighty a well as ornamental
work was done, bet it will only be speculation.
t Noterftbstinding the water in the lake is pure
and cool, there Is no visible feeder or outlet.—
This late is about twelve miles north -of the lo
(sated line of the Dubuque and Facile railroad,
and about one hundred and fifty miles east of
the braise, plea.. The time is eoraimg when the
lake will be,* great pleas of public remelt
as. The Washington correspondent of she
Courier and Enquirer tells a very good storrof
General Seott:
The House has lately adopted a resolution aut.
sing off from' the privilege of the door Al persons
except Justices of the Supreme Court, Governors
of, the States, offieenkpf the House, &C. Teeter
day, while the House was in session, a tall, stouts
gray haired old man dressed in very Wain clothes
approached the principal entrance of the ball,
and evidently not aware of the new et,
sttem pled to en ter. He wee stopped by t door
keeper, who inquired if be was a Uhlef Justice
or a Governor. "No, sir, but by resolution of
Congress) am en tiled to the privilege of the floor."
"Are you au officer of the army?" asked the
doorkeeper, looking with some doubt at the ital.
wart old man. "leni, sir, my WWI is Scott—
Winfield Scott, of Hie United States army."--.-
The manner of the doorkeeper underwent an In
stantaneous change, u be very politely informed
the Gen. of the repeal of the resolutide, wbieb
gave him a right to the floor. "But,' l saint,
pus in Gen. I will take the responsibility my.
self." . "No, sir," was the answer, "I do not wish
to violete any rule, sir, I will go to the gailery;"
and the brave old man whose name is synonymous
with the military glory of the United States,
climbed the long range of stairs and took his
seat in the crowded gallery, alone and unnotieed.
gm. "At an euchre party - en evening or two
ego, one ~ f the members iodnlged pretty freely
in milk witb whisky in it. Indeed, he overload
ed his stoma; *ad as a natural consequesee
bad to leave the room for the purpose of 'mating
np amonate.' Risieg -from the table, bis
failed him, and be stumbled headlong into tbi
lap of a spectate*. :-4--_
" I Shall I siiiisiyotir mid, his friehd, ems.
miaerating Ais pitiable oondition. .
" No, *dal., ass tremendous gulp relieved
him of at leastU half pint of undigested intne.
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V 50 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
ERIE, SATURDAY MORNING*, FEBRUARY 20, 1858.
'Oh, dome, don't get 'discouraged,' said
sweet Carrie Linton, as she stood by her husband's
side, one bright moonlight summer ei , ening.
know the season has been bard, and we base had
trial Upon trial; but we have ball many blessings
too.'
4 lahould like to know what you call blessings,'
said the moody husband, his bead resting upon his
hand, and his chair tilted back against the log
cabin. .
Here we have been toiling and moiling fur
the last year and a half, on a bleak, miserable
prairie, not a hill in sight, and the winds away.
lag as ten months in a year like tornadoes. Last
year I bad to have the ague so that I sotakin't
tend my crops, and this year the spring frost bad
to come and kill all my corn, and' then the drought
spoiled all my wheat.'
g Oh, well, George, theke things may never
happen aids.'
6 I know that's .the way you always reason
8o you said last year, and kept saying, 'Don't
get discouraged.' If it hadn't been for you, I'd
barb quit this last fall, and gone back to old
Oneida.
What would you have done there?"
Done a darned eight better than I'll ever do
here, in this heathen country,' was the pettish
and almost profane reply of the young farmer,
who bad sought a borne for himself and wife on
theprairie of Illinois, in the year 18—and
-sarrie was hurt. A tear sprung to her eye
and a quicker throb to her heart; but she knew
his mood might be changed, and she knew too,
were she to speak one desponding word, he
would give up utterly, and insist upon returning
to the old haunts of his childhood, where his
situation would only be that of a laborer. 'So
she choked the rising emotion, and again answer
ed with a tone of cheerful encouragement and
mild reproof—
'On don't speak so, George. I know we bare
not been very successful, but then we are settling
in a new country, and beginning a new life. We
must struggle on and not giiti up After a few
years, our locusts will break the wind, and the
loss of one planting of corn nt. wheat I hope will
not prostrate us as now.'
But bow am I ever to get where I can help
myself;--torn spoiled, wheat blighted, and cow
lost in the prairies; the wolves have killed my
sheep, sod now my best ex must die You may
talk of blessings but I don't, and I am determin•
ed to sell Out my claim to the first rovn that will
take it, and quit the cotintry.'
Is not this a blessing?' she auk rd, laying a
crowing baby boy, the very image of his father,
into his arms.
The father smiled faintly; hiS heart was really
sad. The hardships, trials and depri..stious;
* now country were more than he could patient.
ly bear: but with his faint smile came a low
acknowledgement—
Yes, Carrie, Dinh is a blessing.' "
' And is not Carrie a blessing?' she added, as
she left the warm kis.s of affection upon his
gloomy brow.
Aye, and Carrie is a blessitig,• ws+ his run.
ponce in a lightenoci tone- ,
Aud wit good health a blessing t
Ye 9, supnUse sn,' 'LAW
•.i.nd ma th, soft eon! 1 1 ' air, Ibis mellow
moonlight, an.i the :our spuogle I heavoitt,
blosping!'
I Of courp., '
S ee ..or :tut 11E11 garclett ; how softly it i
sleeps in the moonlight Itil you not tilt mkt
today, that in never StitiV stleh beats and cab. /
bags, 14%01 , oulons and squashes and shall we
not havhpntatoot for ourseires and our neigh
bors, if We should only tie so hkee.d as to have
any ?'
Why, Carrie,' said be, taking the si ft Land
in his,
that was puttiog back the hair, smoothly,
from his forehead,•. , one would think we had
nothing but blessioo,, to hear you tell the story.
And lam nut done ; 1 think I Lave a;
blessed little bikes here •in this clean, sweet 1
pleasant cabin, and the blessedest good, kind
husband in this pleasant workl, if he would not
get the blues, and threatea to leave this beauti
ful land, and go back to New York., every time
the wind blows the wrong-way Aye, George,
I Don't get discouraged;' all well yet go'well, and
we shall bless the day that we stuck oni.'stakes
on the prairie.'
4 Well, I suppose I shall have t o s t a y, 1 1,6 s
it is bed or not, you arc so detenuiac , l to be
blessed witlaubverything; but women folks don't
have to suffer as men do '
Carrie sealed to, herself, as she t.ok her hobo
upon her breast, and remembered the hours of
toil and trial through which she bad passed, of
;the nights of wearisome watching and care,
of the days of ceiseless exertiims, oft. u when
scarcely able to Lear the fatigue. But the did
not fem to murmur. There was to her a joy in
duty, in being true and earnoet iu working out
ones destiny. That spade all the hours, and da y s j
worth living,,though there was Itro and there,
as she looked over the past, dark shad•iwa flitting
to and fro, like the cloud shades over the billowy
prairies, while the can gilded all the rest with
brightness
Long and earnestly Limy eat and chat Ltd at the
cabin door r end her geinaltivords and kindly en
eouragetneats lifted up hi. tkart e and he rose on
the morrow, and went forth ti his, work with a
renewed resolution to struggle.and to conquer'
* #
Let us skip over the score of years..., 11ri you
, see that fine flourishing village, with a `railroad
track coursing through, its very center? D. you
see those fine brick school houses, with ther
buries and clear sounding bells, calling togetha,
the hundreds of children, to teach them of the
, mysteries of science, and put into their hands
' that wespor,of defence and power for the future,
a good common school education? Do you see
you imposing building in the distance, with its
massive walls and towering roof? That is a col.
legs. Mark those Church spires, that point
heavenward; listen to the busy hum of machinery,
the mill and the factory, they bristle of trade.
Have yen taken it all in?
Now lOk again. See you that matronly woman
upon whose brow forty summers, have scarcely
Lefts foot print. The glossy bah- show no min-
Iteetoftheilver4;.the ma
bud
di fad
ng ed fromt u b:
de d into full bloom, and the red at the heart is
not quite so deep; the voice is still soft, and the
laugh silvery sod cheerful.
Don't get discouraged, George;, all will yet
come one right.'
I Iv i e not heard anything else bat don't get
discouraged George, ,these twenty yeary, Carry;
lam tired of it. Just think what a fix lam in
now, after all my struggling.'
6 It is very unpleasaut to be sure. ' but don't
you remember bow often). when we Lived in the
old cabbie here, here on this very spot on the
lone retie, you used to fetrl just so, and threats
ened to leave sad go bleklo \ tlu) old haunts"
' What if the company should fail shall we
be hankrupt2 Shalteire complain, if out of our
abisidatos, in such a time ofariels as this, we lose
with other?' •
' Yes, but,' and George, the influential Judge
of the county, the owner sod indneller of that
teautifulinausion, who held in ponention half
of the great surrounding landscape, the
rich railroad man and bank- director mopped
as if be did not know what reply to make
~4.1,44- j tielavireA,MlSlFAStileAre
DON'T GET Dzsootrß4GED.
BY TRANCIS D GA(1I
' Bet why, George?' asked his pleasant wife,
laying her baud erns upon his brow.
'l'ddn't waist you should say 'doss get dircour.
a 'Then
' Then don't give me ooeasioo, my dear. I
pledge you [ will not. But really I don't know
why you should so much dislike the phrase,
for out of it has come much of thesueoees of your
life.' •
And that is thq very reason, Carrie. A man
when-he gets the blues, don'tlove to be reminded
of his own weakness. But really, Carrie, I will
own up.
.That hopeful heart of yours has kept
me from a hundred misfortunes when I should
binesunk down in despair and let the waves roll
over me I felt this, about as gloomy as I did
when we were traveling on this pnrie, with one
yoke of oxen, a cow, and our household stuff in
a cart, and ten dollies in my parse, and looking
:over the lonely land s cape .
i
Do you rememtm. bard I begged your
'consent, to turn round avid plod bask? Row I
even accused you of unwifely disobedience, and
of setting up your will, When you &Awed that
yOu• had rather make a bed of prarie grams, or
sleep in the cart, than turn about so faint hearted?'
Yes, I remember it all.'
And how I sat dowli and growled in despair
when the old in died?'
Yes '
And'—and he looked up with a laugh of half
shame—'when they bested the railroad through
my farm?'
Oh! George; one would think you would ton.
er have the blues again- '
for with all these acci.
dents—and there have been many which were
grievoui at the time, and bard to be borne—we
have bad so much of good luck and prosperity,
that when I look back over the past, the mis:
females are so covered up with blessings,
that I see only the brightnem and beauty over.
all the way. So 'don't get discouraged, George.'
And she stopped again, and left her kiss upon
his brow, as of old.
And though he had lost his thousands, though
hie heart was Eire over the treachery of trnsteti
friends, though his plans of future speculation
had to be abandoned, ibougb his bank bad sus
pended; and his railroad operations were a dead
loss—his heart rose from its despondency, and
seating himself by hisrpletaanli vine.eovered
window, in his old arm chair, with wife by his
side, he bade Carrie, the second, open the pi.
ano, and play an accompaniment, while be sang
the following:
"When U. lona black Isthind Ilst:to U. Gods was presented,
A lint of .hat' foto to each 'mortal toteadoodo,
At the long het of Ith • kind angel relenkA,
And at in threoblessingn, wise, children and trion4B.
In min surly Plato declared he wee ebeatnd ,
That Justlee dlvino could not compass . bis cede
The echelon of mese s tall be 'maintained man defeated;
And earth because bemires with with nide, children and 'friends
The dna of our Wien, ',ben in Ntraticees hands rested,
The fund 111 erearni, oft In bankruptcy ends;
Bar fell 'semi Ulla that at* never probated,
When ,Imnro on the nem of ..k, childrcel and friend.. '
The storm cloud bad, passed over, and the
earnest, energetic man, full of power end force,
gathered up his strength and went forth to his
business, and righted up in a few days what he
bed, in his wuments of dispoodency, set down
a. 4 an utterly bankrupt concern.
There is many a man wan sinks down in help
less desoundencv,. for the *ant of Anleasszit wont
se aieering tool; many - an one, in a time or
powerful pressure and misfortune, by cold words
of reproach and murmuring, has been dritten from
the petits duty and honesty to crime, in
sanity and even suicide; many an one, too, by
recklessness and wild speculation, by spurning all
conned or help from her, who is compelled to be
a sufferer in all his mistakes, has worn ont a
faithful and cheerful heart, and brought upon
himself the torture of a wailing and tried spirit
that goaded him through all his future years—
a spirit that might, had it been allowed to sym.
pal him and cheer, have staid his strengthened
steps, through all the changing vicissitudes
of life, and gone down witb him, in trusting
faith and love, to the end of the earth's pilgrim•
age, blessing and being blessed.
In these times of trouble, let wives be ch. .
ful and ready to bear their part of the burthens,
and husbands fail not to trust and honor them
with confidence and love.
1:1111=1
Row a Church wu owed of Framable
1::::=111
The Hartiord Times relates the following, and
couches for its truth:—
" A Congrasional church in a neighboring State
tot so completely enlisted in the presidential
contest, for Fremont and Jessie, that little at
tentit\nt was given — to religous questions. The
utiniste't-was constantly (preaching, praying, and
exorting aro political issues—and his deacons
and laymenl,lloved snit at the prayer and con.
ference meetin* Finally, a worthy old farmer,
one of the stantA s eat and beat members of the
church, and a flan," \ undeviating Democrat, was
we.; called upon to oirdr \ s prayer, which he did as
fellows: ~
...
' 0 Lord uphold the bid Democratic party,
which has received Thy protecting support
ever since the great, Jeffersonian struggle.
Continue to bless the old party silieb has, under
be t
Thy protection and providence, brcu ht great
blessings upon this Republic'. If it b y pleas
nre, and I believe it will be, 0 carry t t party
through this sti.uggle to a complete trlnmph.
Bless James - Buchanan, the tried ‘4l,nd
honest statesman, and guide him safely,
to the Presidential chair. Bless John C. Break.'
inridge, the young and sealons Democrat,
sad open to him a path of duty as well, as that
whieh leads straight to the Vice Presidency.—
Give them victory. 0 bless the opponents of
Democracy • personally, but utterly destroy
their fanatical and injurious political eche ,
toes, if it will be tby will to do so, as T veryily be.
. of Democracy, 0 Lord
last fifty years, and on
and bitterness which
are rendingikeut esaunderoiestroying their use.
fulness, and turning them, unhappily, ipto mere
political ussociations. Lot us hear something of
Thy word and mercy on the Sabbath. We have
already been plied to fulness with political fa.
naticisto, and our minister has becomi-,a stump
orator'againat the good old party which Thou in
Thy wisdom but held up so long, sad so
Idly guided to victory, and sustained in the
tablishment of monad measures. 0, taro his min
from these things, and direct his attention to his
religious duties, or turn him over directly into
the hands of the Federal or Abolition party, and
let them take care of him, and provide us with a
true minister of. the Gospel. At any rate the
present elate of things cannot last. If politicians
&Alto rule, I shall claim one half of the time in
behalf of the Democratic party, so that there may
be fair discussion within these walls. Amen!'
"This was a stomper. It was the first prayer
ever offeredpublialy in that house for the mo
ose of the Democratic party and its nominees,
though hundred* of prayers and exhortations
had been made tat that part:. When the
old tu l 2 bad fl ail, there was silence foe half
702 hour,. and then the weeliag adjourned. And
thus ended the preaching in that church.
From that time forward the miabWr attended to
Mall Whiten the luau.
favorite son, and the
once more settle down
nstesci-of waring wick.
n, intermit against in.
brother. And 0, I
the Ohristian church
t • •
his gospel duties and left all polities, gond=
to be settled by the people outside of the Atwell.
Again his society prospered, and there was a
better-feeling among ha members—more eristion
charity—more brotherly love. The old man's:ear.
nest prsyerwas answered in moreways than one."
TES Will VS. THE DEACON
lII=
Harper has a drawer of fun sad original
anecdotes, sad why should potyou noweed thee
publish a little yarn if any of your readers Opel
disposed to write one for you I send you the
following, and if you think it good enough to till
a variant space in your columns, theta are a "few
more left of the same sort" whieh I shall be
happy to send you from time to time lam
upon honor with my readers, (if I should have
any,) and assure them that though I call it a
yarn, it is nevertheless a true story :
In one of the quiet, country towns of Vormout,
there lived a few years since nn eccentric speei.
men of humanity named BonOreos. lie Was
man ready wit, good at a repartee,efull of quiet
humor, and when occasion called for it equally
full of biting sarcasm B— loved his friends
sincerely and hated all his enemies (except New
England ruin) most cordially. Though none of
his enemies had ever abased him half as mach
as old red eye, be could always find room in his
capacious heart to forgive him all the injuries he
had received, and they were sure to kiss and
make friends whenever they met.
If B— hated one class of men more than
soother, it was that class who are overmuch re
ligious and who were constantly by exhortation
and threatenings seeking to break friendship be
tween him and his long established habit of tido
bibing too freely. Of this etas@ he hated partici•
ularly and perseveringly Deacon B-- of the
hard shell Baptiste Cherish, and never let a good
opportunity pass when be could give the Deacon
fits. On one occasion when altlands had turned
out with plows, shovels, crowbars and hoes to
mend their ways, it fell to B—'s lot to hold
the plow while the lighter implement, the hoe,
comforted the )Id Deacon. A few rounds of the
team served to raise B—'s anger and perspi•
ration both at the same time. He vowed venge
ance op the Deacon at once, and contrived in his
own mind a plan quick as thought to rid himeelf
of that hateful nuisance .
Throwing, down the handles of the plow he
exclaimed . "Gentlemen 'can't go on." "What
is the matter T" asked all lands while the know
ing ones saw fun ahead. "That feet is," began
B— "I had a dream last night, and it troubles
me, I'm not superstitious as you all know, but
this maroon led (Imam makes me nearly crazy."
"Out with it said all "let us have it.,
we eau eiterpeet dreams." "But you wie," amid
B— "I aught hurt your religious feelings esi
perially the feeliogs of Deacon tie-- and I don't
want to do that you know." "Never mind, tell
us the dream" said all but the Deacon, he said
nothing. "Well
.. you see" °optioned B—
stifling d o w n h is emotions and clearing his throat
for a beginning "Ties dream seems like a re
ality more than •a dream. I thought I was going
home later one night, and on the mountain met
the Devil He came up behind me and laid his
Ofillhartift u .
Ile said you will never be prepared to go any
where else , for you resist the prayers of Deacon
S— and all the good pi-334°g people of this
section, and y an must go with me ; you are mine.
I told him that it' wai not fair to take snap judg
ment fellow in that style for r had not got
my corn harvested, or potatoes dug, or anything
for ley family to live on. But the devil kept
his grip uu my shoulder, and it aches at this
minute. I said let us reason the case, for you
know I am pretty good at pettifoging a ease bee
fore our Esquire, but a devil a bit of reason was
there in him Ile said ho would have me any
bow, for be could do any thing be had a mind
to.
"I said if you will do some things I ask you
to do I. will go with you. Its a bargain said be.
I told biro to push over a big tree that grew dose
by an, and down the mountain it went, roots and
alf,,tnore than forty rods. Split that big gran.
its cask, said I, and down mune his big iron fist
and ground it all to powder. I thought of all
manner of impossible things, and began to feel
that the Devil had me sure. So I said getting
desperate, sit lows' here and tell me more lies
than Deacon S-L-- ever did, and I will go with
you; and don't you'Ahink the poor Devil set right
down and cried That dream, Gentlemen, and
the pain in my shoulder, it what is -.the matte
with me " MAX.
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A Bronson with his Wives \ awl Babies En
Route for Wasitingtou.
A good )lormon story is told by a friend of
ours now traveling in the West, looking after the
commercial inrerests of the douse with which he,
is connected, and who possesses a large fund of
shy wit, which ih brought admirably into play
on all fitting occasions.
While stopping a short time since at a hotel
in Cleveland, Ohio, it happenedithat the Marsh
Children, a trunp of juvenile commediana family
iar to us all, numberAng 28 or 80, arrived and
put up at.the same house. .
Their first appearance in the dining room
Laterally attracted great auention, and muy
Isere the inquiries made in reference to them,
wen, and what they were, where from and wither
going, fins, le.
They\ occupied an entire table—all ander
twelve yeof age, dressed alike, and nearly all
girls, with eor six middle aged females—their
teachers—spr kled among them. AN the head
of the table sat 'M.:. Marsh himself, grave, solemn
'and dignified in 'manner, a sort of Alexander
Selkirk in a smelt lby, monarch of alt he stir
'eyed At the table• and by the side of Mr.
Quiz sat two or three gentlemen somewhat rural
in their aspect, who were evidently a good deal
mystified at the appearance of things, and on
putting the question of what it meant, they were
informed that the grave personage at the head
of the table was a delegate from Brigham Young,
a prominent and noted Mormon, on his way to
Washington to settle with the President the dif
ficulties in Utah, and the elderly ladies present
were his six wives, and the thirty children were
'portion of his -progeny.
The thing took. The "rends" after taking a
good look' at Marsh, then at the family arrange'
meats, retired, and the home, as well as the
town itself, wasssoon in oothmetion, .411 eager ,
tq look upon a true prophet and his barest. ' 4 4.41..
• suing smart children for the-kind," says . one.
ti bat disgusting women," exclaims Miss Prima
"W . an. old wretch," responds i whole troupe
of CleSand ladies, as they would gaze and stare
at the Ut , sainr with all their eyes.
The obi. a at hit became alarmed—their
teachers next, ad Marsh was quite beside him ,
self, not knowin _ whether to look upon all these
attentions as favo .le to his success, or_p_rtitend
ing something of a .• . . serious nature . The mat
ter finally exploded • • • • was itruteral scat
tering, with a giggil - , panystens by the
ladies, and hearty ws • • the part the am
who were sold. . biarab •t• • • to altow
his tard—ordered.lile bills to . ileintediabelp
posted, while - Ws himself stepped .• • tki the sari
in parsuit of businsesand—iurther • • .
We hope be found both. N
=3!E
MIE
B. F. SLOAN,
NUMBER 41. p
SO? LOIIIIIIOOODI %OM' ACTING 1081
" liloki that ere boas down to the. 'earth."
" He's sprssdiag hilteai k il" ktow." . .
"lieetbista mbar be ts.
These sled like espreirioes ease addressed to a. -
queer•lookiag, longelegged, short- bodied, Aim-
haired, hopeyed, fussy ,sort of a genius, hadh
from some Atwood bendelothing stow, and num. ,
ted on "Tarpole," a nie.tailed,rlong, poor -bone, ,
and enveloped all crier in a prtfeet net work of
bridle reins ' cruppers, martiagales, strap', Mrs
dogleg sad red kneeing, whollted reined up ia,
front of Pat Neck's grocery, amoug a crowd of
wild monutaineers, full of fight and bad whist.
kY•
" I say, you darned ash este, jist keep your
shirts on, will you? You never seed• a rest horse ..:
till I rid up. Tarpole is next to the hest. horse
that ever shelled nubbins, and he's dead sail.
still worm, poor old Tichey Tell.
" What killed him, gut ?" said an. anxious
liaquirer. •
" Why, nothin" you tusation fool; be jail
died, standin up at. that. Warn't that good
plonk ? Froze stiff; no, not adnictly, frut,starved
kit and then froze afterwards, so Ptilf that when
dad and me pushed him over, he jist stuck out
so [spreading hie atms and legs] like a carpen
ter's bench, and we waited sdventeeo days for• •
him to thaw, afore we could skin him. Welt,
that we wusLeditel and Mi,,(ectunting his fingers)
dad an' me, Sal an' JakA-fsA Jet - a we seed to
eall him for short—an' Phineis, an' Simeon, an'
Jonas, an' Charlotean, an' Culpitia, an' Cattier. .
ine second, an' Cleopitry Antaby, en' Jane Lind,
in' Tom Bullion, the baby an' Oar prospect, ate
najtean herself, all left without any , boss to crop
with. That was a nice suers( fora . iliptigable
family to be slashed about in, intro t s it ! I de
clare if I didn't feel like stealio' a hors:, some
times. Well, we waited and rested, and waited
uatil well unto straw-berry time, hoping some
stray horse wont come a !Ong, but dog my
'cats of any eich lock as that . ter comes what dad
is, he's so drutted mean, an' lazy, an' savage, an'
ugly, an' tryin'. ,
Well, one cite, dad he lay ',wake all uite, a
Norio' an' a rollite, an' a whi,perin' at warm;
an' next mornin' says he:
• "Set, I'll tell you what well do; I'll he hose
myself, an' pull the plow, while you 'drive me,
and we'll break up corn ground, and then the
old quilt. [that's mann] and' the brats kin plant
or let alone, jilt as they pleaste 3 "
So out we goes to the papa!, in' pealed a right
smart chance of bark, and mare/ and me made
gears for dad, and they become him mightily,
thou be would have a bridle—so I gits an old
umbrella what I found—it's a little piece of iron,
sorter like onto a pitchfork, ye know—an' we
bent an' twisted it sorter into a bridle bit, nail
shape, [dad wanted it curb, as be hadn't worked
for some time, and moat sorter feel his oats,
and go to oavortin.) Well, when we got the
bridle all Seed on dad, he chomped hie bit jilt
like a real has, (be always rue a most complete
old fool, etty how, and warm alien eaid ' So
,wheu
be warn ', about ,) then I put on the gears, at' out
dad an' roe goes to the field, I a leaditr dad by the
bridle, and totin' the gopher plow on my back
p" hen we coos to the knee, I let down a
fey; that made dad mad, he wanted to jump Lite
IliCtre gl i p/f2 n r,linci'May,lwellt, h ildi d Aitkie
for'ard4to hie puffin' right peart; and we made
sharp plowin', dad gain right over the bashes an'
sprouts same as a real hose, the only difference .
is he went on two legs. Presently we came to
a easafras pato, and dad, to act up has character
as a hoes, bulged squat inter it, and tore down a
hornet's nest nigh as big as a horses' bead, and
all the tribe klvered him rite strate. Ile reared
and kicked once or twice, and fetched a squeal
wars near any bone in the eleestrict, an' sot into
main'away jist as natural as ever you recd.
" I let go the plow and hollercl won, dad, woe!
but ye moot its well said woe to a baoometive.—
Jewhillikius ! how he run When be came to a
bush he'd clear it, gopher end all; per'aps he theist
there moat be another settlement of bald borueta
in it, and that rue safer tr go over than tutu,
an' quicker dun. every now and then he'd paw
one aide of his head with fuel one furs leg and
then tattlers then he'd gin himself an open betid.i
ed slap, that sounded like a wagon white -and
mania' all the time, and carryin' that gopher
jilt about as fast and high from th'e yeartb as
ever a gopher wu carried, I swan When he
cum to_the . fence he busted rite titre it, tarin'
nigh , onto seven panels, scatterin' sad Lreatio'
the rails mightily; and here he laft the gopher,
gears, swiugletrees and klevis, all mixed up, not
wrath a duro; most of his shirt stuck to the bru:''
ken end of a splintered rail, and nigh two a
plat o'hornets staid with the shirt, a stingin' ft
all over—the balance on 'em about a gallon mid
a half, kept on with .dad. He seemed to rub pit
adsactly as fast as'a hornet could fly for it wad '
the tightest race I ever did sec down thrn ilia'
grass they all went, the Loruets sorter makin' it "
look like-smoke all around dad's head,- and lip
with tiothia' on but the bridle sad nigh onto a
yard o plow line sailin' behindhim. I seed he
was aims/' for the swimmin' hole in the creek,
what the bluff is over twenty feet perpendicular
to the water, and it's nigh onto ten deep. To
beep up his character as a hobs, when he got. to
the bluff he jiat leaped off, or rather, he jilt kept .
on manic'. Now right that, bile, be oasdid the
thing, if that wise what he true user, for there',
nary a hoes ever foaled durned fool enough, to
leap ever Bich a place; a conic milt have, donn,ii,
bat dad wasn't actin' mule. I crept up. to the
edge and looked over. Thar was old dad's bald
head, for all the world likes peeled ingun,,a bob
ia' up and dowo,'and a homes a Bailie and' eir
olin' round, turkey-bouszd fashion, and every
onee in a while, -
one, and sometimes ten, !tad
make a dip at dad's bead. He kept ups pearl
-dodgin' under; sometimes they' hit, him and
sometimes they'd hit the water, and the water
min Witted with downed hornets.
" on yearth . are ye doin' thar, dad r
says I.
1 " Don't (clip) you see these infernal varmints
(dip) onto me T .
4 " What,' red I. 'Them are hose flies :char,
ye ain't reall,T afeareil of them, are ye ?" ' --
4" Hass flies 1' sed dad; they're rale (dip)
ginewize bald hornets, you (dip) infernal ouse."',
I" Well, dad,- you'll have to stay that till iilte
and arter they go to roost, you come home and T9l
feed yen.'
" And knowiu' dad's unmodified natal., I broke
from them parts and sorter nova to the copper
mines. I staid hid about till next stternoon t
when 1 seed a fellow traveling, and sed I: '
" What "us goin' on at the cabin this tide of
the tneek, when you passed it ?' ;
I" Why, amain' much, only a man was littln .
in the door with nary shirt on, and a womanwai
peanut' his back and arms, and his bead we"
about as big as a ten gallon keg, and he bidet
the feat sign of an eye—all smooth.'
444 That man's my dad,' sad L
....
ug Been much then in this neighborhood bite..
ly ?' sod the traveller, dryly.
4 " Nun math speikin' of, personally or pate.
Warty; sed I.
" Now, boys, I billet seen dad rives, s$
would be shard to meet him in the negf tale
loam Let's drink," • -4
,
as We are curio" to know kow many het
in female arithmetic, go to a mile, because we
um set wisk a lady yet whose oboes were not
to lay t . ke Wa r a sibs too big for bet
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EDITOR.