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A Skating Adventure.
BY TIEC , 9OI:CE S. F.T.
I am not philosopher enough to coin
prebend fully the curious and sudden
changes of temperature incidenq to aluipst
every climate; and there is something
particularly unaccountable in the extra
ordinary severity by which the seasons
are occzisiontilly characterised. The win
ter of iS—, was one of these, and will re
wain indelibly impressed upon my mem
ory. One week especially was, intensely ]
cold ; the sky was clear and blue, the air
had a delusive caluthess ! that beguiled
some victims forth to death. A Walk
across the street affected us with acute
pain in the temples; a moist /land woild
1 freeze instantly to the iron baluster Of t.be
steps—stage-drivers and hackney-coach
men were found stiff and dead upon them!
boxes. The student's ink congealed by 1
the fire; the affluent, with:all the • •
antes of wealth, could not keep themselv
'comfortable; and the heart aches to recall!!
;the condition of the poor, shiveritiO and: l
trembling around the cheerless fire-places
of their dilapidated dwellings, half-naked,„
ALLEGANY HOU:SE,huni , ry and destitute—it was, indeed, a i
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4 ` ll l , M. Proprietor, Colesburgl dreadful winter for them. Many perish :1
?utter Co-, Pa., seven miles north of Cou- some directly from the cold, while,
lal-4 " 0 441rt. Oil the Wellsville Road. 9:44 though . others lingered till` the weather'
moderated, yet sickness and exposure Itad,
OLEA.N HOUSE,
0 -• broken down their constitutions, and the!
Proprietor,. l corner of
ioa and North lat Olean, N. I. of spring blew lover their
runs to and from all the Passenger '"
on the New York and Erie Railroad. i The snow in the street had a granite
consistency, sparkling, like diantoad
D. E. OLMSTED,
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In a novel being published in Alacktrood.
entitled •• The Light on the Hearth,"i are'sothe
very beautiful ideas. We have mit for a long
while met with anythingmore sweet thlin tie
piece of poe ry we copy below. It is sugges
ted by the appelrance of Little Ro'se—ilie'pet
of the neighborhood, the arling'of the house
hold—in the garden playing among the flow
ers and with 'hem decorating the large ',New
foundland dog. Domingo, who, taking. upon
himself the office of guardian, watched her
every movement, and'seemed proud of her at
tentions. " All the elements in her Ilittle
world:" says the novelist, "yielded and i rain ,
istered to the young - life. She was evr_nl al
lowed to make free of all the satictuarte, r in
the church-yard—might pluck blrissorusifrOnt
the favori e shrubs—weave daisy chaina on
the graves, or strew buttercups on ; the ittirnac
ulate paths, without reproof; and old Will, (the
grave-digger,) would lean on • - his spade 4and
look at her, en less observed, when be wOuld
return to his misanthropy." This lovely Phase
of life thus inspires the author:
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She comes with fairy footsteps
Suftlp their echoes fail;
And her shadow plays like a summer shnde,
Across the g trden
The golden light is dancing bright,
'3l,d the mazes of her hair,
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And her fair young locks are wavinglfrO
To the r oolnr , of the air. •
Like a spor , ful fawn she boundeth
So gleefay along, . •
And as a wiNd young bird she darolletli.
The burden of a song.. •
The summer flowers are clustering thick-
Around her dancing feet.
And on her cheek the summer breeze
Is breathing soft and sweet.
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The very sunbeam seem%to linger !
Above that holy head,
And the wild flowers at her conning
Their richest fragrance shed.
And oh hon - lovely light and:fragrance
Mingle in the life within I
Oh! how fondly they co nestle
Round the soul that knows no sin!
She comet, the spirit of our childhood-
A thin.: of mortal birth,
Yet bearing still a breath of heaven,
To redeem her from the earth. -
She cunles. in bright-robed innocence;
Unsoiled by blot or blight,
And i.ass , :s hr our wayward path,
A Team of anztd
Oh ! blessed things are children!
The gifts of heavenly love ;
They stand betwixt our worldly hearts
And better things above.
They link us w th the spirit-world
Br purity and tr:th,
And keep our hearts still fresh and young
With the presence of their youth.:
The choicest werldinz ever known,
W,ls held in Eden fair;
to there. as pr'.es.4 the Lord appealed,
To bind the hAppy pair.
He led the woman to the man,
And. peerleF-s, ds she
fie' old my crowning work! lie=aid,
And called her very 2:nod." '
°• Thy crown!" so tho7l;rl2: the first of wen—
So thought the Ang ,, ts. too,
Aro; chicted the first Brii.:ll Hymn
Creat;on ever knew.
El BE
Wilt thou this :roman take, he said,
Thy ?ovine- mate t.) be ?
Tee. he replieL—bone of my Saone,,
Heart La;. heait is she.
A bight h is filien on Eden since,
Bat st;l.l the altsir stands;
And by it the same ansrei waits,
To wind the silken bands.
His blessinz on this favorite pair
We humbly n•-w ,
Sweeter and sweeter be their joys,
And welcome, a} e. the yoke.
—Berton Olire Branch
E. d. JONES
Ctnirt tirAing.
G. D. KELLY
Debolza l to be: ?.rivipfes file Liseii)irptioi of gip) ffetn3;
A Poetic Gem. .
BRIDAL HYMN
From fhe Conereliatiun
'CUITDERSPORT, POTTER. COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1859.
the brilliant sunshine, lwhich shone" all
- day with the ineffectual fervor;:of the moon
upon its unniclted wreatbs—and rock)
banks. Those; who could, kept in. doors.
Those whom business called abroad, could
scarcely be recognized through the mul
tiplicity of garments. Over 7 shoes and
tuoccasons, buffalo-skins . , and blankets.
shawl's, fur gloves and caps, and volumin
ous cloaks over great cloaks, every where
met such eyes as could penetrate through
the rich and curious frost-work which ac-1
cumulated with every breath upon the I
w ndow-pan6s.
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Of course. the city was locked up in ice.
Canals and rivers all over .the country
were closed up. , A silent bleakness and
desolation reigned on laud and water,
wdrthy of the pular regjons. The Hudson
spread out a solid field; and!:en . the bay
—a very unusual event—presented to the
!eye one vast mass of motionless ridges,
interspersed with plains of glassy-smooth
! ness ; brhken masses of ice, which the tide,
lin the act of congelation, had forced. up
tin heaps ; and hills of-snow, the remnants
lof a heavy.storm by which this eitraor
-1 dinary " period •of cold weather had been
, preceded. The southern mails were con-
veyed from the Jersey s n ide in sleighs in-1
stead of a boat, and the .. . Rapers mentioned,
h as a curious fact, that a pedestrain had;
crossed to the city from Staten Island,
with only the loss of one of his ears.
The excessive cold terminated as sud
denly as it had commenced. A southern
wind one morning blew o,er the city with
a more moderate breath, the sun regained
its warmth, and, in a few days, the eaves
of the houses began to drip, and ponder
ous masses of snow to slide from the slant
ing'roufs, to the imminent danger of the
foot passengers below; the wooden sheds
and house -tops reeked with the steaming
evaporation—the streets grew wet and
sloppy, and all things relaxed under the
influence of a general thaw.; still, however.
although the bay began to discover indi
catiens Of a breaking up, under the com
bined power of •the sun and those .rapid
whieh rush, in opposing currents, from the
East river and the Hudson, yet the latter
remained bound in its bright prison, af
fording a strong temptation to persons
fond of skating—an amusement which
the mud-miners and mill-ponds render
almost peculiar to boys, yet which, in the
present, instance, was found irresistible to
large numbers of our population of all
ages.
I was at that period a stripling of twen-
ty!! of rather a solitary turn of Mind, though
nut averse to sport, of which skat ing must I
I ever be considered one of the most agrcea- !
ble varieties. It is an- exercise full of!
fiery excitement and exhileration. Dist- !
I;ince is traversed with VelGctty incredible!
= every muscle of the form seems laid out I
I with unaccustomed force upon the Power;
of motion— you glide, you float, you fly—.
'you pass through space with a th,..ught
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! wheeling. circling, darting—and rivaling
`the shallow in its airy gambols. The'
!bosom rejoices as if •;n the possession of
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; newly discovered power.
I The sun-was about an 'hour above the!
I horizon, when, alter a light dinner, I took'
a pair o. skates under my arm, and bent
liny way down to one of •the wharfs on the
I western side of the town. The cold had
I now, in a great measure, abated, and I
ifound thousands of men and boys enjoying
themselves upon the ice, darting by each
ocher in evkry direction, wheeling and fiy
ing with ceaseless velocity and various
motions, which resembled the play of a
'swarm of insects in the summer ail.—
' Here a troop of little fellows limped along
on one skate, there another glided with
!both feet equipped fur the sport ; at one
1 moment approaching within a few yards
of the land, and again hurrying Sway off
:kill they lost themselves amid the busy
"multitude.
Every boy bred, in New York knew
how to skate ; but the faculties fur prac-!
tieing this inspiring sport are passing!
away so effectually and rapidly under the''
',jurisdiction of our street-cutting, house
shifting, hill-levelling, pond-tilling curpur- '
tion, that I. - fear the time is nigh at hand
when the `art will be almost extinct.* The
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very climate itself is growing more even
and insipid, as if a member of the con-'
spiracy to exterminate our ancient favorite
amusement. Be that as it may,• on tills
memorable'occasion I entered into the en
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r joyment with all my soul. The ice pre
sented a great variety of surface on the
'part selected by the skaters as 'the most
[convenient for their purpose. Between
,the rough cakes and hills which. some
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!, tunes tb,tructed our career, there wound
if little narrow passages, of silversinoothness,
IWhieh again expanded into fields fozen in
Ifurrows and ridges, as if the congelation
had arrested the water in the act of lifting
its wares. I skated leisurely along, inns
'
Jing upon the peculiarities of the scene,
till at length I wandered far from the
Ishore, anxious to escape the riot, jostle,
Iboif.teroUs lang,hter, and shouts of the
I crowd, and to reach ice; that upon
-1 " - We can assure Mr. Fay, who has been now
several years resident abroad as American
t Minister, that the Art of Skating is now en
tirely renewed.—Ed. Coned/tax:on.
Which I had been sketing being much
cat up by the innumerable tracks, and al ,
so a little - wet and•sloppy: On, therefore.
I went,, finding ample companionship in
my own thoughts and observations,;till at
length I awoke to the sudden conscious
negs that the stin had set, the night shades
were gathering around,, and
_nearly every
individual of the vast numbers who, When
last I looked' towards the shore, were
swarming around me, bad disappeared.
I wyseir had been lured'on by a sheet of
ice unmarked by a single track, and shin
in the perfect, unbroken beauty of
a mirror, much farthettlan I intended.
" By my_ faith," I thought, as I arous
ed myself for a hasty return, "this would
be a rare place to spend the night in, tru
ly, and I aWay down the bay; full three
Miles from the shore. I have been over
venturous hefe."
The last &limner of day faded from the
sky, which had stretched in broad yellow
radiance aboVe the dimly-seen hills of!
New JerseyHbut the tight being without
a moon, the stars crowded out iq soft rich
clusters, beaming and Sparkling above'my
head with beantiful and unwouted-splend
or. As I gazed up a-sensation of weari
ness came over we. I had exerted my
self much beyond my strength, and now
that the evening breeze blew upon me, I
felt chilled, tired r and exhausted. Anx
ious to•reach home, however, I called up
all my strength, and made the bestof my
way toward the city, which laY far.befdre
me—the countless 'lights flashing out
from its dark,beavy mass. But the max
im of the inspired Roman poet, however
oft quoted, I !Lund again sadly applicable
to my present condition: Facilis descen
sus A eer ni, &c. I recalled my steps with
g.reat difficulty, and, among many obstruc
tions; I found it a laborious task to gain
a way with my feet through the ice masses
which now appeared to lie around we in
great numbers. I sometimes had to pick
my steps with toil and awkardness, where
my skates were rather an encumbrance
than an assistance,—and at length, in
climbing over a line of confused broken
pieces of ice, a strap - which bound the
skate to my right foot snapped asunder,
and I found every endeavor to repair it
fruitless. 'I was compelled then to disem
barrass both ny feet, with the agreeable
pro.pect of finishing my expedition 'by
walkine•—an exercise which, even on ter
ra firma, I did not care to have thus un
ceremoniously thrust upon me—but which
now, hungry, faint, fatigued, far from
home, and- on ice, was a peculiarly un
pleasant etude of conveyance. My cha
grin was considerably enhanced too, and
some serious fears flashed across my mind,
with a force which rendered all my pre
vious troubles comparatively insighiticant,
on finding that the ice was evidently un
dergoing a thaw—its surface being half
an inch underwater, which, in someplaces,
appeared of a much greater depth.
" Good heavens:" I exclaimed aloud,
now truly and justly,alarwed, " the ice is
breaking
I loosed anxiously around. Not.a be-,
ing was to be seen. No boat, of course,:
of any description could penetrate.here—
no vessel was in my neighborhood ; and if
there bad been, of what use would she be-
to we, if, as I now feared. the ice was
melting. I examined,the surface around
we. It was evidently yielding to the in
fluence of the warmth of a remarkably
mild evening,and perhaps_ the restless and
powerful tides. In many places more ele
vated, it was still wet and soft;• and at,
length, to soy unutterable horror and.deS
pair, I perceived-that I stood upon a mass
which was almost. detached from that
above rue, and swayed around with a heftyy
slow motrua—a mere island—about to
float off to 'sea. I shuddered with cold
horror. My heart beat quick. My eyes ' I
glanced wildly around in fruitless search
of some means- of escape. I could not;
swim, and not even a plank appeared iu
sight. "Is it possible ?" at length I tho't.
Ecas my time at length arrived? Shalll,
cease to exist before morning? Shalll
never see the sun again ? - Those dear
friends, who are waiting for me now at
home, can it be that I have parted from I
them forever—for everand ever?" These,
thoughts rolled tumultuouSly through my
mind s while I was striving continually to'
dash through the little sea which benan.
already to encompass me. I tried in twen
ty places to regain the main fields, which
1 hoped might 'yet be attached to the
shore : but wherever I advanced, the water',
spread around me, baffling my endeavors,
and, in several places, the unstable Mate
rial on whiCh I stood,. bent fearfally be
neatli my tread. Once my foot broke
through, and the cool element chilled me
with a feeling of approaching death. Wet;
exhausted,. hopeless and desperate, I felt
that it became me to-collect my energies
and perish—if I must perish—with the
composure and dignity of au honest man
and a Christian. I addressed a prayer,
therefore, to the - Merciful Power which
had.illed we into being, and then entail,-
ed up on a bill of wet,ice, several pieces
of which crumbled at my touch. With
the blood curdling in my veins, I here
saw the piece upon which I had been en=
compassed, gradually, and with a heavy
crash, disjoiued from the rest, so that the
flood of the river:, swollen by a long re
strained current'. gushed up upon the frag
ment, and almost flowed to my feet! '
" The God of heaven receive me," I
murmured, closing my' eyes and claspino
iry hands convulsively together, as 1 felt
uyself in motion, and saw the clear, cold
water, now on every side of me, washing
against thy frail bark, . and sparkling in
the dim star-light. I was aroused by a
voice. A rush of tumultuous hope poured
in upon my soul: I sprang up and shout
ed; the voice replied
_ " For God's sake, who is.there ? lam
in danger of my life. Can you aid me?"
" Gracious heaven !" I exclaimed, tears
of anguish bursting from my eyes at this
cruel disappointment. "We -are both
lost, then : I ate drowning. We must
perish together."
I heard a groan of horror, and then
dimly through the dark shadows I could
' discover a horseinan distuotinted.
"You have a horse," I s aid, a hope of
life again shooting through my heart.
"I thought." replied the stranger, "that
I could cross the river on horseback, but
I am adrift."
Leap into the water with your horse,"
I said ; "he can carry us both to =the
shore."
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"He is alredy spent," replied the
; man, "and I dare not leap into the cold
I water ; I should freeze to death or drown.
IMay heaven have Mercy on our souls! for
I this is our last night."
" Do not die," shouted I,
."without an
[ ' effort. - Your horse will carry us safely
across. Try him, if you would ever see
!daylight again."
My words aroused him. saw him
mount the_anintal; who started, as if him
' self fully sensible of his danger.
I " I will take the leap, friend," he cried;
"but should I perish, promise me, in case
Hof your escape, to go to —, and inform
- my wife and children that 'blessed them
in Invlist moments. I have seen Many
nights of peril, but never before one like
this."
Aftei giving to me a promise of 4 na
ture similar to that which he had exact
ed, he dashed the rowels into the flanks
of his affrighted steed, who reared again,
and l started back from the brink.; At
length, Imwever, a deep heavy plunge an
nounced that they were committed to the
flood. A groan and shriek arose above
the:rush of they rivet, then for a moment
all was still. I listened in an agony of
suspense. There was again a splaShing.
and smothered'screa•us, bubbling, as the
waters died around their victim, I heard
no wore, except the measured strokes of
the steed, and a snorting and peculiar
neighing, singularly expressive of terror.
In a little while this, ton ceased, and ev
erything was silent. I flung myself down,
and buried my face in my hands, stu,nued.
It was a blessing that my senses left me.
I awoke with my dear mother's hand
upon my forehead. I had been ci;iscov-
Vered at day-break upon the fragment of
ice, which had been lodged near QOvern
or's Island. and a small boat had jtaken
;me off. For a week I had been raving,
and my life nearly given over. I heard,
j with curious feelings, my mother subse
1-quently remark upon my good fortnne in
having escaped, as she had learned from
the papers that a man, on the same night,
thadperished in an attempt to cross the
civil' with a horse.
The Riches of the Poor,.
"Is he dead ?" that fearful qUestion
drew us near the little group who stood at
-the corner of the street. • I •
" Fell from the scaffolding,"
" we !heard
at our elbow. We glanced up at the
half-built house, and then with a shudder
looked from the scaffold to the groutid ex
pecting to see a laborer who had' fallen
from his post. Alas : theme was before us
no man, cold and dead, but a little! child,
poorly clad, of obscure birth. He had
seen some four swum rs, and, with child
ish daring had climbed the scaffold to see
.‘ papa" build the house. His little face
was set, and the fearful pallur of! death
was spread over the small featurefi.
his side, as he lay on the cold atones,
knelt a rough man, down whose sunburned
checks the tears poured as he moaned,
"Oh, Leroy Leroy r Who'll tell yotir
mammy, unavourneen ?"
No need to tell her—such sore news
travel fast. Even while we itoodl there,
she came through the crowd, her arms
covered with soapsuds, her cheeks ;pallid,
her tearless eyes wild with thatl awful
news. Her first cry-was, "-Oh Jimmy I
how. can you let him ie on the cold
ground ?" and she caught the poor little
body to her mother's heart. Then .the
tears cane--and seated on the stones, she
rocked to and tro with her sad burden
clasped close to her breast, moanitig and
wai ing far her only child:
Kind friends gathered around. Thatigh
faces softened, and hard voices sounded
sweet with words of sympathy. One com
forter wEspered—
FOUR CENTS.
TER#S.--$1.25 PS 'ANNUM.
44 • e's better off now, honey. You.are
very_ poor, v tf know."
The mother looked up, and oh ! the F.-
thos in her voice as she said—
" i 'et—he teas all the riches we had
Temperance in the Kansas
. Legislature. -
[We find the following in the Lawreno
RepUblican, among the proceedimrs of ,
Territorial Council of kansni. ,
rank legislators can find loony iten, - ,
common sense in it; and even the whisl.y.
bibbers of Potter county will do well
consider some of the arguments directed
against a license law, contained therein.—..
ED. JOURNAL.]
Iv:.
Debate on the Lieeroe La w .—...Wkisky
Lager Deer, d-e.
, .
House went into Committee of the
Whole on Bill No. 22: being a bill for reg-
I ulating the sale of intoxicating drinks--
1 alicense law. •
Jude Wright moved to amend the 3d
section, to allow. fermented and vinous li
quors to be sold without reward. He WM'
decidedly in favor of lager beer, but op=
posed to whisky and strong drinks.
Mr. Scott moved to amend by allowing -
license to be granted for the sale of beer,
km., at one half the usual rates:. •. •
Dr. Danford opposed the amendment. _
He considered lager beer and kindred
drinks worse, even, , than the stronger
drinks. Those who learn to tipple with
these lighter drinks, are paving the way
for the drunkard. , The only difference
between these drinks is, that one wakes
a man drunk sooner than the other. La
mer beer contains 10 per cent. of alcohol:
he did riot wish to offer a premium upon
Ithese 10 per cent. dosts. The foundation
of drunkenness is laid in this wine and
, beet drinking. He Was in favor of going
. to the root of the evil.
Mr. Wright was not the advocate of
drunkenness or rumselling. He had al
ways been a temperance man. In Swe
den and Ireland, every man is drunk who
can get liquor enOugh to get drunk _on,
becauie they use whisky. But in. Ger
many and France, where they use lager
beer and wine,
you don't see men drunk.
The Germans don't get drunk here until
they become Americanized, and learn to
drink corn whisky. ; lie hated the- rutu
, seller, but he did not want to go to far.
Mr. Scott' wished to take practical
,mr(..untl. lie wished, the matter referred
to the peopie. Is a teetotaler himself.
When he traveled in Germany, he never
uncorked his bottle of wine, although it
Iwas set by his plate each day at dinner.
I He would not give his example to, wine
i drinking.•
•
I Mr. McDowell did not consider this a
temperance bill, nor a,prohibitory bill, but
a bill for increasing; county revenue. All
' were agreed as to the evil of the sale of
intoxicatir.g drinks: but the remedy ?
that's the question. Thought that, under
the amendment, lager beer would. be ex.-
, tensivelv mixed with , whisky: -
Mr. ilmberts; of Leavenworth, said-that
li , -had no speech to make on this subjee..,
but would propose the following for fc,r
, •
a license to be given in case ttie bill shoul , l
pass. i
To A— B— : Yon have been
recommended to us as a suitable perso::
to engage in the enterprise hereinafr.er
discribed and defined ; therefore, •
1 For and in consideration of ten dollars
paid into the County Treasury, the re
ceipt of which is hereby acknowiedg,t-d.
you are hereby authorized and empower
ed to open a school in your house, in .-------.
for the purpose of teaching your - friends
and nciglibirs the best mode of, sowing
Ithe seeds of discord, liu the neighborhood
. in which your school is located; -- to cause
men to lose their selt-rapect, and to pre
pare -them to accomplish, in the most ap
proied-manner, the following thingti,_vix;
tb beat.and abuse their wives and families,
and, to reduce them to beggary and desti =
tution, and as such, to throw them upon
the hands of the community, to fill; or
poor-houses, jails and penitentiaries,. and ,
to supply the gallows with victims; in a
word, to promote, to the,best of your abil- .
ity, all kinds of crime. and, in everyiway
possible, to augment the aggregate of hu
man misery. c
And, for all this, you have this; our
warrant, which shall-be your, >iiiitffielent
authority, and a complete pardka-i_q:acil
vance; for all such crimes to whip& you
may be accessory. , , .
. lie thought this was just the question
at issue, whether, for ten dollars, we would
authorize men to commit such twin:lo2U
such a thing had come down to- us from
the dark ages, we shim d look upon it with
abhorence. It was like the indulgence
granted . by the Pope , for the commission
of crime. This evil was the most dread =
ed, the most terrible, that afflicts humani
ty. No pestilence nor famine cortld•com
pare with it. Yet, we propose to license
men to do these things.' _ _
• The committee postponed the farther
con*ideration of the , bill, until a report on
this same subject can be had from the
Committee on Vice and Immorality. ,