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HIAWATHA.
A Heston man (John Smith) has let oat the
+met dale authorship of Hiawatha. He says
I.migrellow hod nothing w•halet•er to do with
nit it was written by Lint
Smith
ft contract with Barn.
111,1. trIQ ,11 , 211( . 1, of Longfellow
by laying a wager of “twice five thousand dui
:4,i" that he could not remain silent for six
months. But we will let him tell the rest of
hi Flory in trochaic measure
Next the poet he engaged--
AL., John Smith, by mortabl called
Cave ine money--paid me freely,
fu eomand fur him the poem.
At first I. wrote in :wing rhyme
With measure. cadence, so at:
A simple thrilling Indian stoty,
Filled with mist and legends hoary
Or our hills and lolly mottittains,
Or our streams and gushing rountaitis,
Or the dark hluesliy that quivers,
O'er our deep majedie rivers,
Or.our coccrn, rude,
(ir our woods' deep,olitmle,
1,,0 1111 . , rolling waves,
111 . our patriot fathers' graves.
Or the p: rill once belore them.
the green grass growing o'er them,
"fill my sonl seemed all on fire,
Soaring like all eagle :
limit riv chockol 11i , 4111--
litou s i,t /1,:.
mill time,
Nonwnw. Smith, pray leave thy 8 , 11180 j
.1 V., it a 1,1; JI; lu eaten the pent,
A t
A 11;1v In en .di law) and vlialT;
"For tho, hearts SO 11,511 mid simple,
bolii•vo that in all ages
-Every !Inman heart is human,
"Writ with little skill of song...craft ;
"Call it Song at iliawatiia ;
in and gems, and flowers—
awl tufts of crimson berries—
( )1.1 stone walls—neglected churchyards,
‘.l Lintel v phra,e, —tender pathos—
"llisna iworprinis—llapping eyries
-4•Stinshinc--nnuovdtine—lternn--benver-
• and iniiings--strivings—yearnings,
"Eugl,*.; flapping—ever singing.
"lit the land of l'at-kintatnes.—
"In the land ul U•liejtistt,t"
Dacutalts. t Ojilieways.
did IJisciil;in .
1 , 0,n the Phil:ple!phin Iltilhtin
THE OUTCAST AND HER CHILD.
A STORY OF T I.; SNOW STORM.
n Every woe a tecr 11131 y
Except a fallen sistor . 3 Amu,
"•. young female was found by the polite,
..NYllll , l,lllg about the streets during the hei t
the sbatn. ;;he Inv, Gttrrliiul awl m
''iitlitttl itt her armn. She teas taken to the
;;ahem house.
Such is n brief paragraph that appeared
in the newspapers among the incidents of
the recent severe snow storm, and which
compressed within five short lines a tale of
wretchedness and woe more substantial
and infinitely more terrible in its dreadful
reality than the stories of the sufrerings of
love-lore damsels, and the troub:es of high
born dames. with which the writers of ro
mance are wont to excite the sensibilities
of their readers. There arc thousands who
would shed tears, free as rain,over the fic
titious sAhrings of Ming:nary characters ;
who would peruse the paragraph quoted
above, perhaps, without giving it a second
thought, and certainly with.mt feeling a
sympathetic pang fur the barefoot mother
and her halinaked babe, wandering, chill
ed to the heart, through the deserted
streets, with the howling storm enveloping
them in a snowy shroud which they Joust
have found had they not obtained shelter.
How sad the task to look back at the •
history of the '•young female" of the
newspaper paragraph. How fondly was
she loved by her dear mother, and how
little did the doting parent—who anticipa
ted her every wish, who carefully shield
ed her from pain and from harm, who
watched her• anxiously as she grew from
babyhood to girlisimess, and who felt •
pride and love, glowing in her heart as she
saw the slender girl ripening into the
blooming woman—how little did that do
ting mother dream of her pet wandering
through the streets—with the child of
shame in her arms— through a furious
winter storm, with no covering to hor
and no roof for her head.
In this instance it was tho "old tale so
often told." The winning face and the
bland smile, with the serpent under the
maslc—and when, by smile and deceit the
victim was fascinated to her ruin, and her
weak heart was tnade captive, and her re
putation stung to death, she was left to
follow it to the grave alone or live on and
bear her burthen of shame, and support
her little one ns best she might. As usual
there was scant charity for the•fallen errs-
ture, and the poor deceived and deserted
dupe sought temporary relief fur her sor
rows in strong drink. This bad recourse
at best, only plunged her still deeper into
the abyss of rms.
It would be a sad story—could its &
tails be laid bare—the progress of that bro.
iiun. and ruined toyulita fwiti tba ,iine she
took her first step in her downward career,
until the police found her wandering about
with an infant in her arms. Those who
were in their on•n warm homes on that
rough night and who only took a shudder
ing glance through their lace curtains at
the furious storm without, can lone but a
feeble notion of the sufferings of the
barefoot mother and her famishing child.
Let those who dreamed of flying half•na.
Iced front their blazing dwellings, and of
saving nothing front the wreck of home
but the babe in their arms lot them but
imaging that the flames had devoured up
everything—home, friends, reputation,
hope—all—and if they will but fancy that
the wintry storm comes down fast and fu•
rious when ruin overtakes them, and they
are thrown desolate and friendless into
the streets, with their helpless babe—then
they may conceive the sufferings of this
wretched outcast barefoot mother, with her
shivering charge hugged close to her warm
breast.
There is certainly something radically
wrong in the social system that suffers
such things. The villain who accomplish.
ed all this ruin escapes unwhipt of justice,
and goes through the world seeking new
victims, while his dupe and his child are
spurned by society, and are only rescued
from death in one frightful shape to find it
perhaps in some other form critic Ily terri
ble.
There are many sad stories of long suf
fering hidden in short paragraphs, and the
newspaper reporter is apt to learn in his
professional experience that each day
there are scenes enacted in the great Dra
ma of Real Life that for pathos and terror
shame the most successful writers of fic
tion. To our thinking the barefoot wo
man and her child in the streets, in such
a storm as that of Saturday night, realign
as profound a depth of wretchedness and
destitution as ever Dickens portrayed or
Hood sang of.
LAUGH ANDiEHEALTHY.
We regret we are unable to name the
writer of the following. 'Vito philosophy
of mirth here presented, has been a favor.
ite "dogma" with us, in public and private
fur years. We give it a place at this time
that it may stimulate our readers to adopt
its teachings, and profit by the practise
during the coining year.
"Professor Plogel devotes 270 pages to
a profoundly philosophical investigation
of the origin, use, and benefit of laughter
generally, and treats of its different can
nod aspects under thirtpseven distincnt
heads. lie is able to inform us how to
judge a man's character and disposition by
bearing hint laugh. The melancholy man's
laugh is a poor hi, hi, hi!.-the choleric
temperament shows itself in a he,
he!•--
the plegmatic in a cheerful ha, ha, ha!"
anti a sanguine habit is betrayed by its
own characteristic, ho, ho, hp!"—J!'est•
WillSier Review.
Two hundred and seventy pages devo
ted to laughter! But not too many. As
a remedial agent nothing equals it. One
hearty laugh every day, will cure each
and all who are sick, or any way ailing of
whatever, and keep those in health always
well ! The laugh cure will even beat the
water attic, potent as it is. And the two
combined, if universally applied, would
soon close every apothecary shop, lay ev
ery physician, water cure included, on the
shelf, and banish every form of disease
front among men. All its giggles effectu
ally stir up every visceral organ, churn
the stomach and bowels more effectually
than anything else can possibly do—hence
the easy laughers are always fat, hurry the
blood through the system tvith a real rush,
burst open closed pores, and cast out mor
bid matter most rapidly; for how soon
does hearty laughter induce free perspi
ration, set the brain in motion to manufac
ture emotions, thoughts, and mentality, as
nothing can excite it ? and universally
practiced would be worth snore to the race
than if California deposits covered the
whole earth ! Only when fully tried, can
it be duly appreciated. Laughter is life ;
while sadness and long faced sedateness
is dea!lt.
A medical neighbor tells the following:
..NV Idle on a picnic excursion with a par.
ty of young people, discerning a crow's
nest on a a rocky precipice, they started
in great glee to see who would reach it
first. Their haste being greater than pru
dence, some lost their holds, and were
seen rolling and tumbling down the hill
side, bonnets smashed, clothes torn, pos
tures ridiculous, &c., lint no one hurt.—
Then commenced a scene of the mi , st vio
lent and long continued laughter sit' which
being young people well acquainted with
each other and in the woods, they indul
ged to a perfect surfeit. They roared out
with merry peal on peal of spontaneous
laughter; they expressed it by hallooing
when ordinary laughter became insufficient
is express the inerrimen
" LIBERTY AND UNION, NOW AND FOREVER, ONE AND INSEPARABLE.
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1856,
own ridiculous situations, and those of their
mates ; and over afterwards the bare men
tMn of crow's nest, occasioned renewed
and irrepressible laughter.
"Years after, one of their number fell
sick, became so low that she could not
speak, and was just about breathing her
last.
'Our informant called to see her, gave
his name and tried to make himself recog-
nized, but failed, till he mentioned the
crow's nest, at which she recognized him,
and began to laugh and continued every
little while renewing it, and from that
time began to mend, recovered, and still
lives a memento of the laugh cure."
The very best application •f laughter
is in connection with intellect, as in the
soul•stirring, speech where some public
folly or wrong is held up to merited ridi
cule—the location of mirthfulness at the
side of casualty indicating their conjoint
exercise.
But we laugh wisely or foolishly, at
something or nothing, at ourselves or oth
ers, let us ha ha many times a day, and
laugh off many of those ills and petty an
noyances at once, over which too many
now fret and cry.
The hi hi hi. he he he, ha ha ha, ho ho he ,
mentioned in the above quotation ns signs
continued laughter, continuity and appli.
cation ; while a short ha ha of only two
of character, are all true, but embody on_
ly the merest glimpse of those character
istics disclosed by different laughs. Thus
ejections, and the first the most forcible,
signifies "good on the Spirit," but without
consecutiveness. What such can do with
a rugh, they will do first rate, yet will plod
over nothing. Whole souled, spontane
ous persons, laugh right out heartily and
loudly while secretive persons suppress
their laughter, and hypocrites change their
countenance into an unmeaning leer.—
Warm feeling but reserved persons hold
in for a while, then burst into a broad hear
ty laugh. Such will be cold and stoical
on first acquaintance and towards uncoil
genitals, yet warm and devoted friends
when their affections, adhesive or conjugal
are once enlisted. Discriminating per
sons laugh with sense or only when soul.
thing laughable is presented; while the
undiscerning, laugh about as mach at what
is a little laughable as at what is superla•
lively ridiculous.
Cast iron conservatives laugh little, and
then by rule ; and proud aristocrats must
keep on a dignified, hard faced look, while
true republican familiars laugh freely.—
Vain persons laugh much, at least with
their faces, and at what they have said and
done. Forcible persons laugh ' , good and
strong," while tame ones laugh tamely.—
Some laugh mainly with their faces, others
with both face and body. The former is
better for health than nothing, yet a thou
sand times more healthy is the latter.
The old fogy notion that to laugh out
loud is decidedly vulgar, especially for a
female is simply ridiculous. It is on a
par with breathing, thinking, and every
other natural curiosity. True, there is a
coarse, gross, sensual, and an exceedingly
vulgar laugh, yet its vulgarity consists in
sensualism of the laughter, not Its hearti
ness.
There is a sad truth repeated in the
above lines from the poets. The deser
tion of friends in adversity is an ugly trait
in our selfish human nature. 'rite world
flies from the unhappy. The Priest and
the Levtte pass as far from the sufferer as
possible. It is only the genuine Christ.
man—the good Samaritan, that over pauses
to listen to the sorrows of the wretched, or
to pour the balm of kindness into wounded
hearts and hopes. Misfortunes are coldly
treated as crimes ; and that, too, when
prosperity or adversity depend upon a
:nere accident, as uncontrollable as the tur
ning of a card or the toss up of a copper.
"There is one step more to make your Johnny Reckless, a drunken loafer, is sod
life comfortable, and to advance your for. denly seized with the "California fever,"
tune, and that is well to dispose of yourself and rushes on board the first vessel up fur
in marriage; certainly a business which the Golden land. Stumbling into a gold
requireth grave consideration. Ride not mine, he returns at the end of five years
post for your match; if you do, you may n millionaire, bespangled with diamonds
in the period of your journey take Sorrow and hailed as "a jewel of a man." Fifth
for your inn, and make Repentance your Avenue palaces open their doors to his
host. If you marry, espouse a virtuous auriferous touch ; and he who was regar
person a celebrated beauty like a fair, ded as a lazy, dirty, vulgar lout but a few
will draw chapmen from all parts. Make years ago, is to-day courted and coddled
choice of your wife by the ears, not the as a gentleman of most exquisite purity
eyes. He that in a choice of a wife doth and parts. An accident has made him,
believe the repoof of his sight, is like him what nature never designed him to be—
who telling out the portion in his thoughts what the world calls a gentleman,
takes the woman upon content, not exam- Springing from the same sod, we may
ining her condition, or whether she be fit Point to one, the very opposite in or
for him. I would not advise you to marry ganization and character of the coarse clod
a woman for beauty; for beauty is like we have sketched, who was ' , born with
summer fruits, which are apt to corrupt, a gold spoon in his mouth," early amis.
and not lasting. Never marry so much touted to the tenderest care and most mil- •
for a great living as a good life; yet a fair tied culture of all his faculties ; who is lo•
wife without a portion is like a brave house ved and envied from his cradle up ; but
without furniture you may please your. who, in early manhood, is suddenly bereft
self with the prospect, but there is emit- of fortune and of health ; and, by a turn of
ing within to keep you warm. Si vie MI- that tide, which often so mysteriously con
r boo! pari these weddiugs are the happi. trels •the aditir, of men." finds himself
HOW TO MARRY.
The quaint, straightforward sense of the
following, while it can hardly fail of seg•
gesting thought, if read with attention,
will, in a marked manner, illustrate the
difference between the homely but honest
counsel of our ancestors, and the namby
pambyism of the present. It is an extrnct
from ' , Herman Prudence," a little volume
printed some two hundred years ago, and
addessed to a friend :
est where the parties are first matched be
lore they marry. If a man marries a wo
man much superior to himself, he is not
so truely husband to his wife as he is una
wares made slave to her portion. 15a sure
you love her person better than her state,
for he who marrieth where he doth not
love, will be sure to love where he doth
not marry, and love without ends hath no
end. Love is the child of Folly ; its the
strongest of the passions, and often found
in the weekest minds. Young men are
amorous, middle age affectionate, old men
are doting. There is a great difference
between a portion and a fortune of your
wife if she be not virtuous, let her for
tune be ever so great, she is no fortune to
you. Its not the lusture of gold, the
sparkling diamonds and emeralds, nor the
splendor of the purple tincture that adorns
or embellishes a woman—but gravity, dis
cretion, humility, and modesty. A young
Lacedemonian lass being asked by an ac
quaintance of hers, whether she had yet
embraced her husband ? made answer.
"No, but he had embraced her." And
there is little or no use to be made of a
mirror, though in a frame of gold, encha
sed with all the sparkling variety of the
richest gems, unless it renders back the '
true similitude of the image it receives;
so there is nothing of profit in a great por
tion, unless the conditions, temper, and
humor of the wife be comfortable to the
disposition and inclination of the husband
and that he sees the virtues of his own
mind exactly represented in hers. Choose
such a wife as may sympathise with you
in your misfortunes, for marriage is just
like a sea voyage-.-be that enters the ship
must look to meet with storms and tem
pests. If you have children, its better to
leave them a competent estate with a pro
fession than great riches without it ; for in
the one there is a place for industry, but
the other, like a lure, winning all birds of
prey to devour them. lie that breeds his
children well, though he leaves them little,
gives them much. The ancients placed
the stature of Venus by tki:t of Mercury.
to signify that the pleasures of matrimony
chiefly consist in the sweetness of conver
sation. They who sacrificed to Juno as
the goddess of wedlock, never consecra-
te d the gall with the other parts of the
sacrifice, but having drawn it forth they
cast it behind the altar, thereby implying
that all passionate anger and bitterness of
reproach should be terminated from the
threshold of nuptial cohabitation. If you
will be happy, never have above one wo•
man in your bed, one friend to your bosom
and one faith in your heart."
Summer Friends.
"The friends who in our sunshine live,
When winter comes are flown,
And he who has hot tenrs to give
Must weep those tears alone."
"Deserted in his utmost need,
By those his former bounty fed,
(to the bare earth exposed he lies,
With not a friend to close his eyes.
"Is there none of all my halls have nurel,
Page, squire, knight, groom,
No one to bring
Sonic blessed water from the spring
To slake my dying thirst?"
stranded and deserted upon "this bank and
and shoal of Time," an outcast and .a waif, 1 *arum'
forsaken and forgotten by tho very friends
who swarmed around him in his golden
dawning, and gaily fluttered in the sun-1 The Prospect
shine of his brighter hours.
The Baltimore
These are sad views to take, and to ex- ! of t h e
Southern r
hibit, of human character and human prac-
mars to put as inn
Lice; but none who has lived observantly !
I Bible to wheat seed
can deny the truth of the picture; and set-
ginitin holds that
dom a day passes that we nre not painfully !
!State may be coati
reminded of .man's inhumanity to man," i die o f D ecem b er , a
by the consideration bestowed on the ficti-
often been 'node
tiuus surroundings, and not on the charac-
from December see
ter of the individual. To see Society ta•
remunerating price
king off its hat, and bowing and smiling
next year the Virg
on some heartless, brainless money-bag, or a contingency, and
some pinchbeck counterfeit of humanity,:
believe from inforn
lifted by accident into a transitory gleinn
increased breadth o
of prosperity ; while it shores its cold ! with the prospectiv
shoulders against better men, whom rnis• of brendstuffs, has
fortune's eclipse has cast into shade is en- this portion of the
ough to make a misantrophe of the kindli- lowestcatmint, o f I
est hearted philosopher, did not the tho't- in England and Fri
fill eye look through and beyond the prea- two countries may 1
ent phantasmagoria of unequal conditions, m illi on b us h e l s. A
and see the enigma solved by the retribu- be made up before
live adjustments of a Future life. question arrises
Nobody
plies to come. It
i that the crops of wl
If nobody's noticed you, you must ho small, 1
jf • out the whole of N
nobody'; slighted you, you must be tall ; •
If nobody* bowed to you—you must be low, deficient, and L spec
If* nobody's kissed you--you're ugly, we know, inees sod the interii
II nobody's envied you—you're a poor elf; ,
If nobody's flattered you—Sattor yoursoli flour is at this mom
If nobody's cheated you—you are a knitve, • suck. In fact, the i
If nobody's hated you—you area slave,
stuffs from these on
If nobody's called you a "foul" to par face,
Somebody's wished fur your book, in its place ; except the United
If nobody's celled you a "tyrant" or "scold," mark, Sweden, Spa
Somebody thinks you of spiritless mold ;
If nobody knows of your limits but ''a friend," Egypt, it will pro f
Nobody'll miss of them at the world's tool; 1 meet the deficienc y
If nobody clings to your purse like a fawn,
in France. Cattail
run liku a hound when it's gone ; .
If nobody'; eaten, his bread from your g Ina, nore, ot relied
Nobotly . ll call you "a miserly bore;" 'or set,.n million btu
It' nobody's slandered you—here is our pen—
which the expendss
Sign yourself Nvlicel.y, quick as you cam
in fact been prod
[From Household words] Spain, Poringal, Et
FEMALE FACES.
of the Danube can
I know a woman who might have been
furnish the balance
the ancestress of all the rabbits in all the
teen millions, of th
hutches In England. A soft, downy-look
mg, Rttr , placid woman, with long hair
cos to France, the
looping down like ears, and an innocent
face of mingled timidity and surprise.--
in England, rangin
She is a sweet-tempered thing, always thirty to fifty milli(
eating or sleeping—who For this supply, say breathes hard
obtained fr om when she goes up stairs, and who has as hte
few brains in working order as a human send more "rain to
being can got on with. She is just a Feted in wheat rnu.
t
man rabbit, and nothing more—and she he world durin the
g
looks like one. W 'iodations for that 3
We all know the setter
woman—the best of all the types—gracc
ful, animated, well-formed, intelligent,
with large eyes and wavy hair, who walks
with a firm tread but a light ono, and who
can turn her hand to anything. The true
setter is always married ; she is the real
woman of the world. Then there is time
Blenheim spaniel, who covers up hor feed
in her ringlets, and holds down her head
when she talks, and who is shy and timid.
And there is the greyhound woman with
I lantern-jaws and braided hair, and large
knuckles, generally rather distorted.—
There is the cat woman, too; elegant,
stealthy, clever, caressing, who walks
without noise, and is great in the way ef
endearment. No limbs arc so supple as
hers, no back bone so wonderfully pliant;
no voice so sweet, no manner so endearing.
Sho extracts your secrets from you before
you know that you have spoken, and half
an hour's conversation with that graceful
purring woman has revealed to her every
most dangerous fact it has bean your life's
study to hide. The cat-woman is a dan
gerous animal. She has claws hidden in
that velvet paw, and she our draw bloods
•vhon she unsheathes them. Then there
is the cow-faced woman, generally of
phlegmatic temperament and melancholy
disposition, given to pious books and tee
totalism. Aud there is the lurcher
man, the strong visaged, strong-minded fe
male, who wears rough coats, with men's
pockets and large bone buttons, and whose
bonnets fling a spiteful defiance at both
beauty and fashion. I have sever seen a
true lion-headed woman, excepting in that
Egyptian figure, sitting with her hands on
her two knees, and grinning grimly on the
Museum world, as Buhastis, tho lion-head
ed goddess of the Nile.
urn wontun will cling to the chosen
object of her heart like a 'posutn to a guns
tree, and you can't separate her without
snapping strings that no art can mend, lea
vinga portion of her soul upon the upper
leather of your allections. She will some
times see something to adwire; awl when
Iter fondness is once fastened on a fellow
it sticks like glue awl molasses in a bushy
head of hair.
Mr•IV hen once infidelity can persuade
'nen that they shall ,lie like beast.;, they
will soon be brought to lice like bea,t,,
New York Bottom
than twenty million
exported to Englent
glis h Board of Tra,
erago of 915,030
eight million bushel
eight vs ar.s front IS
"If, then, as has b
available surplus cx
the United States
world should be sup
of course will still r
even should we be u
Haired amount, we t
without a surplus f
at the cease of the t
that purpose prices!
In conclusion, we wi
Itiwing important hie
ginian: Our harvt
month in advance
rope, and will cause
season just at that p
ey will be most seas
in fact, when prices,
must be irrespective
English or continent
It is now quite too
talk about increasin!
1555. The extent
determined weeks
crop of the United
trait than that of win
and meal exported,
few millions of dolla
etc , much of which
Between this and ph
our farmers may cal
for prices, and plant
can be but little deal
every species of gra
ral produce will brit:
least two or three ye
much longer no one
degree of certainty.
safe for farmers to
spring all the corn
Spring Wheat for It
also to grown with
peas, beaus, etc., wi
turns, and will probr
of winter wheat itt to
fore, if our farmers t
all thing,' read• for
tittinwr crops, thu v
; . rettly boleiittd,