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It is a short distance from St. Anthony, Minnesota, and is a favorite place with travellers in the West. {Shea o'er the prairie first The Indian trod, And on his vision burst This work of God, No wonder he should claim it A lovely sight, A laughing sprite, And sheath)g forth, should name it, With rapt delight, Minue•ha•ha I Long ages passed, I weep, And none came near To view this charming scene, Its music hear ; Before the forest ranger Heard its sweet clang, • It rushed and rang ; To human eyes a stranger, It smiled and sang, Minna•ha•ha To surnmer•bloorning dowers That fringe the brook, To clustering leafy bowers That on it look, To the deep vale, extending Far on below, Whose echoes go, 'Twas ever sweetly sending its tuneful flow, Minnelia.ha ! When winter's mantling snow Lay by its side, When bright flowers ceased to glow Along its tide Amid the trost•barps, builded lv the ice-king, Eitel( silver string With golden sunlight gilded, It still did sing, Miune•ha•ha ! Stars in the silent night, Might be enchained, Birds in their passing flight Be long detained, And, by this scene entrancing Angels might roans, Or make their home, hearing, in waters duneing, ,pear and fham, Mittne•hallti Methinks there is a strain, A saddened sound, A balreoncealed refrain, A. requiem toned. And teardrops, softly falling Along the steep, In the wild leap Of sparkling waters calling For them that sleep, Minne.nu-ha Thousands who erst have viewed This glad cascade, Wild sons of solitude, Who hither strayed, Have passed away forever Come they no more, Nor hear the roar Of this bright, laughing river, Singing of yore, Minue.ha.ha But hardy pioneers, A pale faced throng, Surmounting toils and fears— Stalwart and strong ; Their Eastern hotnes forsaking For this grent West. Th e i r chosen rest Blooms in the desert making— Are welcomed, blest ; illinne•ha-ha Shout to the sons of peace, A glad "what cheer," Whose pilgrim bands increase With every year ; Whose art and taste are giving To lake and land, To prairie grand, A glory bright and living, That long shall stand— Minim-hale I Sing to the rising State, With cities fair, Whose power and honor great Her sons shall share ; Bidding all foes defiance, Their• happy choice Shall then rejoice, While Freedom, Truth suit Science Blend with thy voice, Miuue•ha•ha Sing on—a hundred years, And then h./ bright This glorious realist appears To human eight I All things here shall enter ; Blessings shall teem, Religion beam, Our country's crown and centre This shall seem I Minne•lra.ha Verson Lawn, THE RUBBER„ ........- Lewis was the master spirit of a gang of highwaymen, who lived by robbing tra vellers and committing depreettions upon residents, chiefly between Chambersburg and Bedford, where they harbored in the forests of the mountains. They were a terror io the comtnunity, and western merchants who travelled on horseback, go nerally armed themselves when going to the east, so as to be prepared to repel an attack, and for greater security sometimes went in companies. It was understood, or at least believed, that some of Lewis' band were stationed at Pittsburg, where, by mix• ing in genteel society, and being unsuspec• ted, they would inform themselves of the time when merchants of that city and from parts further west intended making their semi-annual trips to Philadelphia, and would t hen find means to convoy the Intel ligence to their accomplices along the road. Lewis was a young man of handsome appearance and agreeable address, and it was said he supported his mother and sis ter upon the fruits of his unlawful pursuit. His more immediate associates were Con ner and Connelly, who, at the time we are speaking of, kept amongthe gorges of Side ling Hill, where, at a distance of several miles from the public road, they had er ected a shanty, which was well supplied with provisions and other comforts, which Lewis, after remaining about Bedford and Bloody-Run as long as he could do so with out exciting suspicion, or until he had . re ceived letters which ho expected, would resort and remain for days and weeks con certing measures for robbing some unsus !petting traveller or of obtaining booty in some other way. Persons who have travelled the turnpike between Mc(lonnelsburg and the Crossing of the Juniata will remember Reamer's tavern, on the eastern slope of the moun• tails. and Nyium's on the western, the in turvening distance being about eight miles, which formerly presented little else to the eye than scrub-oak thickets, Interspersed with rocks and fallen timber, with here and there a slight opening, through which the cattle feeding during the summer had trodden paths which served the hunter as a guide and pnssage when following game along the mountain range in winter. It was, indeed, a gloomy road, with nothing to break the monotony, save. perhaps, oc casionally the cawing of a orow, as he ho vered over head, or the hidden bound of a seer aroused from his lair, by the noise of approaching footsteps—and the lonely tra veller, as he wended his way slowly up the steep ascent, now urging his jaded steed to greater effort, arid now relieving it by leaping from file saddle and walking by his side, would long to gain the summit where he might proceed more speedily, and with inure comfort to himself and his animal. On ascending the mountain from the west, one sees now on the south side of the turnpike a patch of cultivated ground em bracing several acres, which has been clea red for a number of years, but was a dense forest at the time to which our story has reference. It was here, immediately op posite the cleared field, that Lewis perfor med one of his most daring explqits, and which led to his arrest and subsequently cost him his life. It appeared from what transpired after wards, that Lewis had received intelligence from some of his gang, of an individual carrying a large sum of money going East• ward on horseback, and that Lewis and two associates were on the loolimut for him, ready to make an attempt at sscuring the rich prize whenever it should come within reach. From some cause or other, however, that individual's departure was delayed ; but about the same time designa ted by Lewis' spy, a Mr. McClelland, a merchant in Pittsburg, started for Philadel phia to purchase goods, travelling on horse back and having in his saddle-bags some two thousand dollars in silver. Ile had got to Nycum'son Saturday evening where he remained until Sunday morning, think ing to breakfast at Reamer's, As he was walking his horse up the mountain, and when Ile had proceeded several iniles, he espied, some distance ahead, a man who wore a slouched hat and an ill-fitting, some what tattered coat, walking rather awk wardly, his body inclined forward, now shooting diagonally across the road, and then, taking up and balancing himself, mo ving on again in a straight line. As Mc• Clelland neared him, the man once or twice looked around, exhibiting a pair of black ened eyes, as if he had been recently en gaged in a tight; and McClelland inferred from his whole conduct and appearance that he had been in company drinking and got himself handsomely pummelled with out having been sobered by the operation. As they neared the summit, McClelland gained upon the fellow, until at the point which we have been endeavoring to de scribe, he was about passing him; but at that moment, and before he suspected any danger, he found himself dragged from his horse, the drunken man, as he had taken him to be, having sprung upon him at a single bound, while in the same instant a man with a cocked pistol jumped up from either side of the road, the one seizing the horse's bridle and the other corning to the assistance of their leader, who was no oth er than Lewis himself, and who had as sumed this disguise to prevent suspicion. The two who had been lying in wait were Conner and Connelly—and there ,nn be " LIBERTY AND UNION, NOW AND FOREVER, ONE AND INSEPARABLE." HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, 11/ no doubt but some one of the gang had their departure or whether they were still seen McClelland the day or evening before loitering about, awaiting his death. In a and that they had prepared themselves du- slight opening in the woods, at the distanee ring the night to attack him in the morning of half a mile, ho at length espied them, Had he tarried at Nycum'a later in the pressing on with all possible speed 4 and in day, arid, perchance, got some company, a moment his resolution - was taken to at he would most likely have been permitted tempt his escape. Mounting his horse he to pass unmolested, and the counterfeit entered a ravine near by, which he judg drunkard, who, with painted eyes and tat ed must lead him in the direction of Rea tered garments had been seen straggling mer's and then urging the animal forward along the road would scarcely been thought as fast as the nature of the country per of again. I milted, he kept in the ravine, leaping over The spot was well chosen by the robbers rocks and fallen trees, and in an incredi for the accomplishment of their purpose. bly short time reached the point he was On the north side of the road, for a dis- aiming for, where he gave the alarm and lance of at least a quarter of a mile, the urged immediate pursuit. woods were more open here than at any I We may here remark that among thoce other point on the mountain ; and whilst backwoodsman who employ most of their McClelland was hurried off by two of the time in hunting andsfishing, Sunday is not men among the thickets, his horse gallop. generally reverenced as it should be, and ed at full speed through the open space, so it will therefore cause n surprise to learn as to be out of sight, should any person that McClelland arrived at the tavern just chance to come along the road. flaring mentioned he found there some half a doz. commanded 'McClelland to observe silence en of more rugged mountaineers, who if she did not wish to have his brains blown had called in for their , biners" prepara out, they led him onward for several miles tory to starting into the.woods in quest of the other man with the horse bringing up game. No sooner were they mode ac. the rear, until they reached the robber's quainted with the robbery that had beau list, which had been constructed of light' committed than they volunteered to go in logs obi covered with bark, where they search of the robbers, and in a few minutes halted and forthwith entered upon an exa- I had all things in readiness and set out, res titivation of their booty. After ascertaining I olved to do their best. the amount, Lewis turned to 'McClelland I The hunters had a general topography and Ailingly said he was "not the bird of the mountafris, directed their steps to they had been watching fur, nevertheless word a point some distance beyond that these were pretty rich pickings," and lie designated by M'Clelland as ono where and his associates were amply compensated he lied last seen the robbers ; having reach thereby for their trouble. Conner and ed which, they divided into two parties Connelly then proposed they should put and moved some distance apart, in this or- McClelland to death, alleging as a reason der had not proceeded very far when they that if he were set at liberty he would in- espised the objects of their search, by form on them and mt,glit cause their arrest; whom they were seen likewise at the same against which Lewis stoutly protested and instant. The robbers tried to escape by at the same time handed to McClelland his running, but before they could get beyond watch and ten dollars, saying that would the reach of the hunters' rifles, Lewis carry him back to his family and friends. I was wounded by a ball, and one of the This done, preparations were made by others killed, whilst the third escaped un• the robbers to start with the money taken harmed. Lewis woo secured and carried tram 'McClelland to some plucc whore tbosy to Itedford jail, them Acwait Isis trial, but would deposit it for greater security, and I afterwards made his escape and was pur ho was told that if he offered to move from sued and whilst rowing himself across the the spot before their return, his life should i West Braves of the Susquehanna in a ca• pay the forfeit of his temerity, That they nee, was shot dead by one of his pursu intended to return has always been doubt_ ed, and it has been judged, awl with very good reason, that their object was to induce him to remain there during part of the day whereby they would have ample time to get out of harm's way before he c,iuld give the alarm and start anybody in pursuit.— In order to matte sure work, however, they produced a pint flask filled with whiskey ordered him to drink freely, thinking no doubt that by so doing he, a man (mucus tamed to strong drink, would soon fall a sleep nud might not awake for many hours. NlcClellund thought the liquor offered contained some deadly poison, and the rob bors were taking this method to get rid of him ; and knowing he was in their power, and that if his death had been resolved on all his pleading for life would be unavail ing, he concluded to die with as little pain as possible, and therefore, to their surprise drank the entire contents of the flask.— Fortunately however, the liquor was not poisoned ; but the robbers thinking their prisoner had taken enough to answer all their purposes, now left, otter ordering him to he down in a corner of the cabin. M'Clelland was now alone The inci dents of the morning clustered around his mind, and his distress was indescribable.— Within the space of a few hours all his earthly hopes had been blasted. was not only beggared, but, in all likelihood, 4looined to die, perhaps in n few moments, away from his friends and kindred, where his body might become food for vultures and wild beasts, and his requiem should be the winds as they passed howling over his bleaching bones! lle pictured to him. self the distress of his family consequent upon his sudden and inysteious disap pearance, and their fruitless conjectures in regared to his fate, and then ran, with his mind's eye, over the pages of their fu ture history, lamenting their desolate and forlorn condition as they should be drifted without an earthly protector on life's wide scents, tossed by the waves and exposed to the tempest. But he felt admonished to dismiss these reflections and turn into oth ers. Every moment he expected to feel a deadly stupor coining over him, and ever and anon he cast his eyes upon surround ing objects to assure himself thit all was not a dream, and that he was still in pos session of his reason. Such was the in tensity of his feelings that it counteracted the effects of the spirits which he had swallowed, and impelled by that love of life which clings unto man to his last mo ments, he ventured to ascend to the rode!' the shanty and then cast inquiring looks far into the forest, anxious to ascertain whether the robbers hail actually taken While in prison, Lewis stated that he had concealed a largo sum of money un der a rock—the specie in a vessel and the bank bills in a bottle—near a iMall stream on the west of the Allegheny mountain; and after his death dilligent search was made for the treasure, by different persons and at different places but it is not known that it has ever been found, and that the probability is that it had been removed by some of Lewis'. assochwes. Had Lewis' mind been directed into the right channel and subjected to a prop. er course of training. he might have lived an honor to himself and his family and been useful in his day and generation; but having a penchant for the romantic and lawless, where he could indulge his pas sions without restraint, he became alienm ted from society, an outcast and a byword and in his death we have but another proof of the truthfulness of the proverb that the way of the transgressor is hard." —lndiana Pa. Register. cicct "Scissoes!" A tailor having amassed a fortune by his trade, cut the shop and removed to the country to live in dignfied leisure. His Wife was a bit of a shrew, and apt, es all wives are to find out all her husband's weak points. One o! these was a shame of his former occupation, and she harped upon the jarrin strings, until the poor wretch was nearly beside himself. Her touch word "scissors, 'spoiled his bon-toots and embittered his grandest entertainment: it was flame to tow. He stormed and wheedled; the obnoxious instrument was brandished before his eyes. They were walking one day on the bank of a river bounding his grounds. ..You observe." said ho, ~ the delta form ed by the fork of the river. Its beauty decided me to close the contract." .Very probable, my dear..-it reminds one so much of a pair of scissors." One push and she was struggling in the water. "I will pull you out if you promise new to say that wcrd again," helloed the still foaming husband. uSeissors!" shrieked the wife, and down site went "Scissoas !" ns she rose again. The third time she came to the surface, too far gone to speak ; but as the waters closed over her, she threw up her arms, cross• ing her fore fingers and disappeared' AY 28, 1856. Connubial Adventure, . The Buffalo Republic relates that recent• ly a false hearted man in Detroit attempted to elope from his lawful spouse with ano ther woman to Canada. The guilty cou ple crossed the river in one steamer, while the injured but spunky wife pursued them in another; and just as the train was lea. ving Windsor, the latter sprang upon the rear car and ran through the coaches, until she found the runaway couple, quietly seated side by aide. She upbraided the mat' for running away from his lawfully wedded wife, and insisted that he should leave the cars and return with her. This the husband stoutly refused to do, when the wife appealed to the Conductor, and produced the necessary vouchers of her identity. The Conductor, with much good sense, decided that a woman was entitled to her husband, and informed the man that he would be under the necessity of deliver ing him over to the custody of his bet.er half. By this time the passengers had gathered around and the scene became ex ceedingly ludicrous. The man declartlti that he would not leave his dulcinea, and she persisted in retainig him . . The tears and entreaties of the wife were too muoh for the sympathetic Conductor; he pulled the check string, stopped the train, ejected the husband from the car and deliveied him to his wife, • several passengers holding on to the other woman, who made the most desperate endeavors to follow. The man tried hand to get on the cars alter they were in motion, but was unable to do so in con sequence of the tight grasp of the wife on to hie coat tails. The last that was seen of the pair they were rolling down the bunk closely looked in each other's embrace.— The frail fair one, who was the cause of the trouble, was carried out of the reach of her companion for a time at least. The Prince of Wales Soundly Thrashed. The Birmingham (Eng.) Journal prints the following account of a flogging the Prince of Wales received from a poor boy: • Dining her :Majesty's residence,' some years ago at Osborne, in the Isle of Wight, her children were accustomed to ramble a long 1.119 sea-shore. Now it so happened on one occasion that the younger Prince of Wales meta boy who bad been gathering sea shells. The boy had got a basket full. , The young Prince, who is the heir appa rent to the throne, presuming upon his high position, thought himself privileged to do what he pleased with impunity. So without any notice he upset the basket and shells. The poor boy was very indignant, and observed, "You do that again, and I'll lick you." "Put the shells into the bas ket,". said the Prince, "and see if I don't." ll'he shells were gathered up and put into the basket. "Now," said the lad, •touch 'em again, if you dare," whereup on the Prince again pitched over the shells and the lad , pitched into him,' and gave him such a licking as few Princes ever had. His lip ens cut open, his nose knock ed considerably out of its perpendicular, and his eyes of a color which might have well become the champion of a prize tang. Ills disfigured face could not long be con• coaled from his royal mother. She inqui• red the cause of his disfigurement. He was silent but at last confessed the truth. The poor boy was ordered before the Queen He was asked to tell his story. He did so in a very straight forward manner. At its conclusion, turning to her child, the Queen said,—"you have been rightly served, sir. Had you not been punished sufficiently al• ready, I should have punished you severe ly. When you commit such an offence, I trust you will always receive a similar punishment." Turning to the poor boy, she commanded his parents to her pres ence the following morning. They came; and the result of .the interview was that her Majesty toll them she had made ar rangements for educating and providing for their son, and she hoped he would make good use of the advantages which I should be placed within his reach. Srrow.—An editor of a paper in the interior is rejoicing at the melting of the snow, which has covered the ground in his neighborhood since Christmas. He gives vent to his feelings in the words of the poet : ' , Farewell, old snow You've been enjoyed, you have old fellow! liven by the elderly people, whose top-knots Are whitened for the other side of Jordan Elver; and by the young folks, the cheeks of Though dipped in the deep carnation of the deathless, Rose, you have wade ceder and reder—even as red Au an awful great big blood beet. But you are bounrCto go. Again we bid you a Wog farewell, humbly re- questing 'You to call on us when yon visit this coun try again." I At what agn are ladies most hap py 1 Marriage. THE DUELIST OUTWITTED. Sir. George Beamont, when . a young man, when one day in the Mount—n fa mous coffee house in London—with Har vey Ashton. Among others present there was no Irishman who was celebrated as a duelist, having killed at least half a dozen antagonists. Ashton talking some to his acquaintances swore that he would make the duelist stand barefooted before them. 'You had better take care what you say' they replied : 'he has an eye on you.' 'No matter, rejoined Ashton ; declare again that he shall stand barefooted before you, if you will make up a purse of fifty guineas.' They did so. Ashton then said in a loud voice, "I have been in Ireland, and am well acquainted with the natives.' The Irishman was all ear. Ashton pro ceeded •The Irish, beit horn in bogs, are eve ry one of them web-footed,' 'Sir,' roared the Irishman, starting up, 'it is false.' Ashton persisted in his assertion, .Sir,' cried th,3 other, , I was born in Ire land, and I will prove to you that it is a falsehood.' So saying, in great haste he pulled off his shoes and stockings, and displayed his bare feet The joke ended in Ashton sha ring the fffty with the Irishman, giving him thirty and keeping twenty. MEANNESS EXTRAORDINARY-SOMC years ago while Captain Ward was sailing on the upper lakes, a man fell overboard in the evening. The fact was immediately discovered, and, the captain promptly threw a number of loose article into the lake for the drowning man to seize upon. Among these happened to be a bunch of shingles from a lot which the imperilled gentleman was transporting on the boat. When the vessel was turned about, it was found that this bunch had floated within reach of the non and that he had sustain ed himself upon it. lie was tabs!: ca board, and without expressing any gratitude for his deliver ance, lie told the captain, with considera ble agitation, that he should expect pay for his shingles that had been thrown over board ! Capt. Ward replied that he was very sorry ; that if he had known the shingles were his own he would not have done it ! This is a true story, and when anybody can beat it, he shall have our hat ; and if he desires it, a written acknowledgement of our unqualified belief in the doctrine of total depravity .---De 1 roil 7', ibune. THE WIFE-SYS TEN IN TURKEY.----A tourist giving his impressions of the Orient, relates the following little episode, which a lady told him, of Turkish life in the household : , 'This day we spent out of sight of land, and chiefly in conversation with an elderly lady, who had been stay ing at Constantinople upon a visit to a Tur kish harem. Her descriptions of the scenes site witnessed there were exceed inely graphic. The pasha had twelve wives, and in the evening they all assem bled together and chatted, without rivalry and without jealousy, until, at a certain hour, a black gentleman entered the room and bowed to one of the ladies. The '•wife" immediately rose and left the ap artment. The others then looked at each other just as ladies do in England before they leave the dining-room, and then sep arated (or the night, One of our co voya gers ventured to ask whether the black gentleman always bowed to the same lady. •We were there ten days, and the same la dy was never bowed to twice,' was the an swer." XV* Two young men waited upon the Inc Peter S. Duponceau, to rsk his pro fessional assistance. One of them corn• menced ••Mr. Duponceau, our father died and made a will." "It is possible ? I never heard of such a thing," answered :11r. Duponceau, "I thought it happened every Jay," said the young insp. qt's the first case of the kind," replied Mr. Dupnnceau. "Well," said the young mnn, "if there is to be any difficulty about it, we had bet ter give you a fee to attend to the busi ness." The fee was given, and then Mr. Du. ponceau observed: . 40, I think I know what you mean.•— You mean your father made a will and died, Yes, yea, that must be it." pjp During April, 3;202 emigrant pus• stingers were carried over the Pennsyl►p• silo Railroad, West. - • The losses by hre in this country during April, reached $3,000,00n. VOL. XXI. NO. 22. THE MONTH OF NAY. The flowery month of May has ever been a favorite season for poetical description; and some of the muses' sweet brerithiugs have been sung in its praise. Thus Milton has the following beautiful apostrophe : "Hail, beauteous Mee! that