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VOLUME XVI.
RETAILERS or MERCHANDISE.
Classification of Merchandise in Huntingdon
County by the "Appraiser of Merchantile Taxes"
for the year commencing the Ist day of May, A.
D., 1851, viz :
Alexandria Borough. Class. Amt. of Lie.
Bucher & Porter 12 812,50
John N. Swoopo " 1850
Charles Porter 13 10,00
Dorris & Walker " 10,00
Michael Sissler 14 7,00
flarree Township.
Hartman & Smith 14
John Creswell & Co.
Gillum & Frank "
William Walker
D. Longneekere
Charles C. Ash, Agent. "
Brady Township,
Kessler & Brother 12
do. for Pat. Med. 4
Irvine, Green & Co. 13
Washington Buchanan 14
Speer & Irons 13
Birmingham Borough.
James Clarke IS
James Bell 14
Ettinger & Brother
John R. Thompson
Cass Township.
Read & M'llduff 13
James Henderson 14
Clay Township.
E. B. Orbison & Co. 14
Cromwell Towsnship.
Thomas 4. Orbison & Co. 13
lsett& Wigliton
George Sipes 14
David Etnier
.Dublin Township.
Brice X. Blair & Co. 19
George Asking 13
James Creo 14
Franklin Township.
G. & J. H. Stunobraker 11
Shorh, Stewart & Co. 13
J. W. Mattern & Co. 14
Isett 13
John Conrad 14
Huntingdon Borough.
Fisher & M'Murtrio 12
J. & W. Saxton 12
George Gwia 12
Dorsey & Maguire 12
Thos. Read & Son 13
do. for I'at. Med. 3
William Dorris 13
Jacobs 13
Dr. 'William Swoop. 14
William Stewart' 14
T. K. Simonton 14
do. for Pat. Med. 4
William H. ?eights' 13
A. Willoughby 14
B. & W. Snare
Jacob Snyder tf
Neff & Miller
James T. Scott
Levi Westbrook
Horace Smith
Jackson Township.
B. & A. Stewart ' 14
William Cummins'
Robert M'llurney
Jolla A. Wright he Co. 13
Hopewell Township.
Wigton & Moore 13
James Entrokin 13
Henderson Township.
Hoary Cornpropst 14
Morris Township.
George W. Patten & Co. 13
George H. Steiner 13
do. for Pat. Med. 4
Irwiee & Kessler 14
Steiner & WWilliams 14
Law & Yetterhoof 14
do. for Put. Med. 4
Porter Township.
S. Halfield & Co. 13
Joseph Green & Co. 13
Petersburg Borough.
Abraham Creswell 12
John IL Hunter 12
Shirleysburp Borough.
John Long & Co. 13
Henry Brewster 13
David Frisker 14
Bowman, Gooshorn & Cu. 14
Shirley Township.
Samuel F. Bell 13
John Sharra 13
aloes Kelly & Co.! 13
Penn Township.
Frank & Neff • 19
Jas. Campbell & Son* 13
Tell Township.
A. C. Blair & Co. 14
Springfield Township.
Robert Madden of 11. 14
Tod Township,
Horatio Trexler & Co. 14
Mordecai Chileote 14
Hare Powell 14
Union Township.
Glasgow & Brother 14
Walker Township.
James Campbell* 13
Given & Orlady 13
West Township.
Cunningham & Myton 13
Dr. Peter Shoneberger 13
Warriorsmark Township.
Benj. F. Patton 13
Abednego Stevens 13 B
Joseph B. Shugurta 14
Joshua R. Cox* 14
Warehouses.—Morris Township.
Cunningham & Creswell 14
Distilleries.—Barree Township.
Robs. & Daniel Massey 9
ileorge Bell 9
Brady Township.
Ja. & John M'Donald 9
Penn Township.
Isaac & John Peightallo
Breweries.—Ale.randria Borough .
Henry Henry Fockler
Huntingdon Borough
John Fockler
Classification of Beer, Oyster, Eating Houses
snd restaurants fur the year commencing Ist day
Of April, A. D.,1851, viz:—
Alexandria orough.
W. L. Philips class 8 $5,00
W. L. Philips 8 5,00
Baru Township.
S. W. Myton
Brady Township.
John Montgomery.
Lienderson Towroihy,
Anthony White
Buutingdon Borough,
Henry Africa
N. & C. Snyder'
fta v 1.1 I lazzard
8 5,00
e 7,00
7 10,00
7 15,00
t 1 5,00
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John Marks 8 5,00
Rohl. 1)o Corsey° 8 7,50
John Manta 8 5,00
Morris Township.
Samuel 13eiglo•8 7,50
John Stahl* 8 7,50
Jacob WolfB 5,00
Walker Township.
Joseph DouglasB 5,00
Those marked thus (*) selniquor.
NOTICE is hereby given to the above named
dealers in Merchandise, &e., that I will attend at
the Commissiohers' Office, in the Borough of
Huntingdon, fur the purpose of hearing persons
who may he desirous to appeal from the above
classification, at any time previous to the 15th day
of July, after which no appeal cnn be granted.
Any person selling Patent Medicines yearly to
the amount of $lOO, or snore, in connection with
other merchandise, is required, bylaw, to pay an
additional license. Any person keeping an Eat
ing House, tic., whose yearly sales shall amount
to $5OO or snore, or shall carry on a Distillery or
Brewery . , or shall sell Patent Medicines without a
license, is liable to be indicted and fined $2OO or
snore, as provided for iu the Act of Assembly
passed 10th April 1819.
If the above license fees are not paid to else
County Treasurer, or not exonerated by the un
dersigned, he is directed to sue for and .recover
else stone, adding ten per cent to the license for his
trouble. HENRY W. MILLER,
Appr. of Mere'lo Taxes.
April 2, 1851.-41.
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Why Hoard up for Others.
An eminent writer says we should bear con
stantly in mind that nine-tenths of us aro, from
the very nature and necessities of the world, born
to gain our livelihood by the sweat of our brow.—
But what reason have we to presume that our
children are not to do the same 7 If they be, as
now and then one will be, endowed with extraor
dinary powers of mind, these extraordinary pow
ers of mind may have an opportunity of develop
ing themselves ; and if they never have that op
portunity, the harm is not very great to us or
them. Nor does it follow that the decentlants of
laborers ore alsesys to be laborers. The path up
ward is steep and long to be sure. Industry, care,
skill, excelence in his parent, lay the thundation
of a rise, and, by and by, the descendants of the
present laborers become gentlemen. It is by at
tempting to reach the top at a single leap that so
much misery is produced in the world. Society
may aid in making the laborers virtuous and Imp
py, by bringing children up to labor with steadi
ness, with care, and with skill; to show them bow
to do as many useful things as possible ;to do
them all in the best manner; to set them an ex
ample in industry, sobriety, cleanliness, and neat
ness; to make all these habitual to them, so that
'they never shall be liable to WI into the contra
ry ; to let then always sec a good living proceed
ing from labor, and thus to remove from theta the
temptation to get at the goods of others by violent
or fraudulent means, and to keep from their minds
all inducements to hypocrisy and deceit.
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Mrs. Swisshelw on Bigamy,
This lady thus discourses on matrhnony, biga
my and conjugal duties in her paper, the Pitts
burgh Saturday Visitor. She has a free and easy
way of treating these subjects; we like her spun k.
"We would like to be able to imagine how a
women feels when she has succeeded in catching
a man, and using the strung arm of law is compet
ing hitn to enfold her in his loving embrace! If
it is necessary to the public weal that every man
should live with his lawful wife, let the public at
tend to its own welfare, catch the truant, bring
him to the lady he is to love and cherish, and see
to it that ho performs these important duties. It
surely never can be for the weal of any woman,
that a husband who trusts to get away from her
should be compelled to stay, and we cannot un
derstand the puriotism which could induce her to
attend to the business of the commonwealth, and
enforce obedience to the laws at her own personal
expense! What any woman would want with a
husband who had gone off and married another, is
more than we eau tell, unless she wished to send
his 'tether' wife a pair of gloves, or handsome
dress, or some other token of gratitude! She
might wish to see their baby and take it a new
frock, or a rocking-horse, or something of that
sort; but to interrupt their felicity would be one of
the last things we should think of.
"We cannot imagine how any woman with one
spark of delicacy, could ever enter into a contro
versy to retails a legal claim upon a husband who
really wished to be rid of her? I would rather
shovel coal into cellars for a living, lire in a poor
house, quit living and die in a fence corner, than
live with a husband whom nothing but the strong
arm of law could compel to live with me. Out oh
such profanations of the sacred marriage tie!
Such a semblance of =wrap is like a spirit mule
of mud—like an immortal soul manullictured
from brick clay. It does not, cannot exist. A
husband's love is a good and sufficient reason for
bearing with many limits, for sticking to him
through poverty, crime, degradation, scoffing and
insult—and while a couple prefer each other to all
others, the world cannot umnarry them, the legal
sanction' to that marriage is necessary and beau
tiful; but when law undertakes to continue a mar
riage against the will of the parties; it has got
beyond its depth, and attempts impossibilities."
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er"What are you about, dear?" said his
grandmother to a little boy,. who was sliding
Along the room and casting fugitive glances at
A gentleman who was paying a visit.
" I ant trying, grandmama, to steal papa's bat
out of the room, without letting the man tree it,"
said ho pointing to the getleman ; "fur papa wants
him to think he's out !"
The most sober flocor will often Mc:worn
from the bud that has datieerl the most lightly in
fhe run bCII/11$.
HUNTINGDON, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1851.
I?om.Arikur's Home Gazette.
I PRAY FOR TREE.
I pray for thee every night, mother,
I pray for thce every night ;
When the shadows fall, like a mist o'er all,
'And the vesper star shines bright.
I kneel where the tumults wind, mother,
Steals into my chamber dim;
And the breathing mild, of my sleeping child,
Is the only sound witliiu.
I pray that the star of hope, mother,
May dawn on thy darken'd way;
That love, like the air of the summer fair,
May some joy distil each day.
That sadness and grief mny fade, mother,
Like a dream that returns no more;
And the tears that flow, be of joy, not woo,
As you pass to a brighter shore.
At the gate of every joy, mother,
A Mordecai sits—
Ilat never despair, the seeming ill there,
Our Father for good permits.
In the heaviest cloud that frowns, mother,
God's tender smile I see,
Oh, look from the cloud to the smile, mother,—
A daughter prays for thee.
COME ROUND THE HEARTH
Dl' ALFRED CROWQUILL.
Cone round the hearth with .rudy blaze,
That roars with forked tongue,
As if ewould give a chorus wild -
To all the lays we sang.
Come mother, feather, children all,
Como, happy smiling band,
Come, mystic chain of fervant love,
Linked by great Nature's band;
Come round the hearth,
Come, bring those star-eyed pledges near,
That on life's threshold stand,
The buds of our domestic wreath,
The strangers iu the land.
And let those wondering eyes behold,
Their clustering kindred round,
And press them to the chain of hearts,
To which they must be bound.
Come round the hearth.
Come, lead those loved and aged ones.
To their accustomed place,
That they may scan with thankful eyes,
Each well remembered face,
No absent one calls for a tear,
All brighter than before,
And rosy lips yet to be kissed,
Are added to the store.
Come round the hearth.
Come round the hearth, then, thankfully,
With that heart-cheering glow,
That only those who live in love
Can well and truly know.
Then bless the winter for his snows,
Ali I bless him for his cold,
'Tis he that gathers all we love
Within our happy fold.
Come round the hearth.
RECOLLECTIONS OF CHILDHOOD.
It only seems like yesterday,
The morning fresh and cool,
Vhen.tirst with satchel on my arm,
I bent my steps to school.
My path lay through a pleasant lane,
Where leafy boughs did meet
Above my head, while, treed in gold,
They play'd around my feet.
At length, I reached the little school,
A calm sequestered spot;
13y me, far down the vale of year,
It is not yet forget.
Our teacher kindly took my hand,
And sweetly on me smiled,
For, oh ! she had not yet forget
That she was once a child,
She still look'd young and beautiful,
But to my fancy scem'd
That, even in her happiest moods,
Of brighter lands she dream's!.
She often spoke of some flu• shore,
Where all her treasure lay,
And said that soon her little bark,
'Would moor within its bay.
We thought she'd like the holidays,
That thither she might fly—
To that bright land, where tears she said,
Aro wip'd from every eye.
One morn we mised her from the school,
Day followed after day,
Another teacher filled her place
And she still stay'd away
And still she stay'd, and neer return'd,
For unto her was giv'n
A never-ending holiday,
In the bright land otheav'n.
"Mother," said a little boy, "how long is it be
fore the Fourth of July I"
"Four weeks from to-day, sonny."
"I'll be hanged if I wait," says Bob, "give me
my crackers, and I'll fire 'em now."
Tb• Women nr our Country.—ANGELe—
not fallen angels, though angels without wings.
True Social Dignity,
To be ashamed of their origin is, just now, in
American Society, the weakness of the little minds
that compose it. The man who rides iu his car
riage shrinks from the acknowledgement that the
money which enabled him to buy that carriage
was earned by his father, dollar by duller, with
toil and patience, in a tan-yard, behind the coun
ter of a shoemaker's or a tailor's shop, or by hon
est industry in some other useful occupation, be
low (so called) the grade of the merchant or pro
fessional man; as if the man did not honor the
work, and not the work the man.
To such let Daniel Webster speak. Hear
him did not happen to me to be born in a
log cabin, hut my elder brothers and sisters were
born in a log cabin, tnised among the snow drills
of New Hampshire, at a period so early that when
the smoke first rose from its rude chimney, and
curled over the frozen bill, there was no similar
evidence of a white man's habitation between it
and the settlements on the rivers of Canada. Its
remains still exist—l make it an annual visit, I
carry toy children to it to teach them the hard•
ships endured by the genertions that have gone
before them. I love to dwell on the tender recol
lections, the kindred tics, the early affection, and
the narrations and incidents, which mingle with !.
all I know of this primitive family abode. I weep
to think that none of those who inhabited it are'
now among the living, and if ever I fail in slice-'
tionate veneration for him who raised it against
savage violence and destruction, chcished all do
'nestle virtues beneath its roof, and through the
tire and blood of seven year's revolutionary war,
shrunk front no toil, nu sacrifice, to servo his
country, and raise his children to a condition bet
ter than his own, any my name and the name of
my posterity, be blotted forever from the memory
of mankind."
And we will add, that he who is ashamed of
the poor bather and mother, whose honest labor
supported hint in childhood, and whose daily toil
was taxed to give hint the education by which he
has been enabled to raise to a condition above the
one they occupied, is unworthy to be the associ
ate of wise and good men. All such will dispise
him; and no matter how lofty ho may curry his
head, he is nothing in the estimation of America's
true noblentem—lfoinc Gazate.
Spanish Etiquette
So snored, et one time were the feet of their
Majesties, the Queens of Spain, that to think of
them was a peccadillo, to speak of them an out
rage, and to touch them a capital offence. Princess
Ann of Austria, bride of Philip IV. arriving in
Spain, was presented with a parcel of silk stock
ingshy the stocking manufacturers of a city where
she rested. Her major-domo, swelling with hon
est indignation, flung the stockings away exclaim
ing,—"Know that, the Queens of Spain have no
feet ?" "Alas I" cried the simple hearted bride,
bursting into tears, "if I had known my feet were
to be cut oft I would never have set foot in
Spain I" On another occasion the second con
sort of Charles 11. came near losing her life
through this ridiculous etiquette. Riding out
one day, her horse, a spirited animal, taking fright,
reared up in such a manner that the queen slipped
off, one of her feet at the same time catching in
the stirrup. The horse began to kick. The
queen was in imminent danger. But as it was
death for any male save the king and the chief
of the pages, to touch any part of the queen's per
son, to my nothing diem feet, no ono of her es
cort was at first bold enough to attempt her res
cue. At length, her peril increasing, two cave-
liers ran to her assistance. Ono held the horse,
while the other extricated her Majesty's pedal
extremity. Not waiting for the thanks customa
ry on such occasions, the two heroes took to their
heels with anything but hero-like haste, and, hav
ing Ordered out their swiftest charges, were about
to exile themselves, when a messenger came to
inform them that her Majesty was graciously
pleased to pardon their offence.
Have your Heart at Home.
We sometimes meet with men who seem to
think that any indulgence in an affectionate feel
ing is a weakness. They will return from a jour
ney, and greet their families with a distant digni
ty, and move among their children with the cold
and lofty splendor of an iceberg, surrounded by its
broken fragments. There is hardly a snore unnat
ural sight on earth, than one of those fismilies
without a heart. A father had better extinguish a
boy's eyes than take away his heart. Who that
has experienced the joys of friendship, and values
sympathy and affection, would not rather lose all
that is beautiful in nature's scenery, than be rob
bed of the hidden treasure of his heart Cherish,
then, your heart's best affections. Indulge in the
warns and gushing emotions of filial, parental, and
fraternal love. Think it not a weakness. God is
love. Love God, everybody, and everything that
is lovely. Teach your children to love; to love
the rose, the robin; to love their parents; to love
their God. Lot it be the studied object of their
domestic culture to give thou warns hearts, ardent
affections. Bind your whole family together by
these strong cords. You cannot make them too
strung. Religion is love; love to God, love to
man.
DON'T GILUNBLE.-110 is a fool that grumbles
at little mischances. Put the best foot forward, is
an old and good maxim. Don't run about and
tell acquaintances that you have been unfortu
nate; people do not like to have unfortunate men
for acquaintances. Add to a vigorous determin
atidn a cheerful spirit if reverses come, hearth=
like a philosopher, and got rid of them as soon as
you can Poverty is like a panther ; look it steadily
in the face, and it will turn from you.
// YIWA7r
Living for Others.
The greatest of all practical mistakes is the at
tempt to secure happiness by seeking our own in
terest exclusively, instead of living for the advan
tage and well being of others. If we were to set
about giving the most perfect and infitlible recipe
for the production of the greatest amount of un
bearable wretchedness, we should certainly say—
live for self exclusively, supremely, and you can
not fail to be miserable, whatever your outward
circumstances may be—high or low, rich or poor.
The idea of living through a series of years, says
the "Boston Register," without thinking of any
thing beyond one's personal pleasure and profit, is
not to be endured. It is narrow and low and bad
enough at the outset; but our general purposes
in life re-act on the character. One who starts in
life with taking little interest except in Mott in
sonic way promotes his own wishes or advantage,
will probably, as ho grows older, groW more sel
fish; his generous sympathies will dry up from
disuse; while the natural product of selfishness—
the jealous and distrustful passions, a fretful, com
plaining, misanthropic temper, will spring up into
vigorous growth. The matt ceases to believe in
the virtues of other men, and it; the midst of the
world, dooms himself ton solitary and wretched
lot; while lie who endeavors to make himself use
ful to others, is by that effort confirming all gen
erous sentiments. The world grows brighter as
he grows olden Ile lives loving and loved, and
life goes flown its old age, pavilioned round about
with all blessed memories.—N. )' Organ.
All Look Upward,
Were there no other evidence of a God, it might
be found in this fact, that every thing in nature
turns instinctively to something higher than itself.
The simple herb expands itself, as if seeking the
law of its growth in the shrub that bonds over it
like a guardian angel. The shrub finds its type
in the tree; and the tree itself, because there is
nothing higher, looks up to heaven. The tides
swell to the moon; the vapor expands in the sun
beam. So all animals that are brought into con
nection with him, look up to man. Is the great
law to be arrested here? Is all beyond this a
blank void? Is there na higher than himself,
which may preserve Ibr man the upward tenden
cy of all things—nothing which can stimulate and
sustain, and be the ultimate of his aspirations?—
Nature and reason alike reject the idea. It there
were no great sustaining power to preserve the
balance—if the connecting chain were ruputred
here, man would be thrust by the projectile forces
below into utter and universal annihilation, oven
to his physical being, because he could not, from!
his own strength alone, resist the upward impulse.
The philosophy of swain will illustrate this; for
the expansive force acts powerfully from below,
and there is no outlet above, the accumulation of
power must terminate in explosion. In nature
nothing is abrupt, therefore the chain of being
cannot terminate thus suddenly in man; for as his
body is an elaboration of the refitted elements of
all below, so his spirit reaches out of itself, and
expands into the essence of all above.
Bad Temper.
Bad temper is oftener the result of unhappy
circumstances than of an unhappy organization;
it frequently, however, hue a physical cause—and
a peevish child needs dieting inure than correct
ing. Some children are more prone to show tem
per than others, and sometimes on account of
qualities which are valuable in themselves. For
instance a child of active temperament, sensitive
feeling and eager purpose, is more likely to meet
with constant jars and rubs than a dull, passive
child; and if he is of an open nature, his inward
irritation is immediately shown in bursts of pas
sion. If you repress these ebullitions by scold
ing and punishment, you only increase the evil
by changing passion into sulkiness. A cheerfid,
good tempered tone of your own, a sympathy
with his trouble, whenever the trouble has arisen
from no ill conduct mt his pa.t, arc the best anti
dotes; but it would be better still to prevent be
forehand, as much as possible, all sources of an
noyance. Never fear spoiling children by making
them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in
which all good affections grow—the wholesome
warmth necessary to make the heart blood circu
late heartily and freely; unhappiness, the chilling
pressure which produces here an inflammation,
there nn exeresence, and: worst of all, "the
mind's green and yellow sickness—ill temper."
Government by Women.
When the mutineers of the British ship-of-war
Bounty had accomplished the destruction of the
rest of the crew, they sailed with the ship to Pit
cairn's Island, in the South Pacific Ocean, which
they made their residence. Being without female
society, they sailed for Otahitne, one of the Soci
ety Islands, and obtained for themselves wives of
the native women, and returned to their Island'
home, thinking how perfectly they would now act
out the part of " the lords of creation." But they
had wrongly calculated, and in acting out their
high prerogative, they aroused the native spirit of
the women, who conspired together, and, in one
night, slew all the men save one, (Mr. Adams.)
From that time to the present the government
and business of the Island has been in the ban&
of the females, who are hardy, industrious, peace
ful and virtuous.—South Sea Travels.
65- It is said that there is a woman in London.
employed as a book folder's fore-woman, who re
collects the year and chapter of every act of Par
liament upon every subject. She is in great es
teem with the lawyers.
Or If you would increase the size and promi
nence of your eyes, just keep an account of the
money you spend foolishly, and add it up at the
' end of the quarter.
NUMBER 13.
Anecdote of a Hawk.
An English .work on Game Birds and Wild
Fowls, recently published, contains the following
curious anecdote
" A friend of Col. Conliam—the late Colonel
Johnson, of the Rifle Brigade—was ordered to
Canada with his battalion, in which ho was then
a captain, and being very fond of falconry, to
which he had devoted much time and expense,
he took with him two of his favorite peregrines as
his companions, across the Atlantic.
"It was his constant habit' during the voyage,
to allow then to fly every day, after feeding
them up,' that they might not be induced to take
off after a passing sea-gull, or wander ont of sight
of the vessel. Sometimes their rumbles were very
wide and protracted. At others they would
accend to such a height as to be almost lost to the
view of the passengers, who soon found them au
etlbetuttl means of relieving the tedium of a long
sea voyage, and naturally took a lively interest in
their welfare; but as they wore in the habit of re
turning regularly to the ship, no uneasiness was
felt during their occasional absence.
"At last, one evening, after a longer flight than
usual, one of the falcons returned alone. The
other—the prime favorite—was missing. Day
after day passed away, and, however much he
may have continued to regret his loss, Captain
Johnson had at length fully made up his mind that
it was irretrievable, and that he should never see
her again.
" Soon after the arrival of the regiment in
America, on casting his eyes over a Halifax
newspaper, he was struck by a paragraph an
nouncing that the captain of an American
schooner had at that moment in his possession a
fine hawk, which had suddenly made its appear
ance on board his ship during his late passage
from Liverpool. The idea at once occurred to
Captain Johnson that this could be no other than
his much-prized falcon; so having obtained imme
diate leave of absence, ho set off for Halifax, a
journey of some days. On arriving there he lost uo
time in waiting on the commander of the schooner;
announcing the object of his journey, he requested
that he might be allowed to see the bird. Jonathan
had no idea of loosing his prize so easily, and
stroutly refused to admit of the interview, 'guess
ing' that it was very easy for an Englisher to lay
claim to another man's property, but 'calculating'
that it was a ‘tarnation sight' harder for him to get
possession of it; and cotteluded by asserting, in un
qualified terms, his (satire disbelief of the whole
story.
"Captain Tphnson's object, however, being
rather to recover his falcon than to pick a quarrel
with the truculent Yankee, be had fortunately
sufficient self command to curb his indignation,
and proposed that his claim to the ownership of
the bird should be at once put to the test by an
experiment, which several Americans who were
present admitted to be perfectly reasonable, and in
which their countryman was at last persuaded to
acquiesce. It was this. Captain Johnson was to
be admitted to an interview with the hawk—who,
by the way, had as yet shown no partiality for any
person since her arrival in the New World; but on
the contrary, had rather repelled all attempts at
familiarity—and if at this meeing she should not
only exhibit such unequivocal signs of recognition
and attachment as should induce the majority of
the bystanders to believe that he really was her
original master, but especially if she should play
with the buttons of his coat, then the American
was at once to waive all claim to her. The trial
was immediately made. The Yankee went up
stairs, and shortly returned with the falcon; but
the door was hardly opened before she darted
from his fist, and perched at once on the shouder
of her beloved and long-lost protector, evincing,
by every means her delight and affection, rub
bing her head against his cheek, sand taking hold
of the buttons of his coat and champing them
playffily between her mandibles, one after another.
This was enough. The jury were unanimous. A
veidict for the plaintiff' was pronounced; evou the
obdurate heart of the sea-captain was melted,
and the Neon was at once restored to the armed
her rightful owner.
Bear Hunting in Sweden.
In some parts of Sweden great depredations are
committed by bears, which issue from their
haunts and destroy the flocks and herds of the farm
houses and villages. When such depredations
fall severely on any particular locality, the peas
antry assemble together in large numbers, and ex
tending themselves in a lino, beat through that
part of the forest in which the "grisly monsters'.
are supposed to be. The bears, aroused by the
shouts and firing with which these proceedings are
accompanied, collect themselves together some
times to the number of twenty, and the hunter.
then combine their forces, and make a simultane
ous attack on the general enemy. Hunted in this
way, the bear soon pays the penalty of his mis
doings; but when attacked by a single batsman, he
often meets with better fortune, for, should the
latter miss his aim, or strike any other part of the
bear but the head, the enraged beast rushes on
him and wo betide him if he but get him in hie
grip. In the northern part of Sweden, however the
peasant issues kith, undaunted, in pursuit of the
boar. Sometimes ho takes with him two or three
small dogs, which, when the bear is found, divert
Iris attention by barking around biro, and the
hunter is enabled to obtain an opportunity of
leaving a steady and certain aim at him. In this
manner, oftentimes, a peasant will destroy six or
eight of those animals. The peasants of Norway
exhibit equal intrepidity,and will, single-handed,
attack a bear with whatever instrument may be et
command,