BY DAVID OVER..
KANE'S ARCTIC EXPEDI
TIONS.
THE Arctic Explorations of Dr. EUSHA
KANT KANE, have just been published by
Petersen & Child® of Philadelphia. The
work is one of deep interest, and ntust have
.m extensive circulation. We copy a few
extract* which we find in a late number of
tL New York Tribune
-The specific features of Dr. Kane's plan
cf research, consisted in making the land
ini.v- tne north of Greenland the basis
cf operations, assuming, from the analogies
<.f geographical struoture, that Greenland
v be regarded as a peninsula approach
ing the vicinity of the Pole, rather than as
a a z.uNs of islands connected by interior
glaciers. On this hypothesis, the course
v.to pass up Baffin's Bay to the most
L rthcin attainable point, and thence, press
ing on t-ward the Pole, as far as bouts or
AeJg-'-i eoald reach, to examine the coast
-1 .ties for vestiges of the missing party. The
Ex; ..;i'n which sailed in the Advance
to:. !- tl cf seventeen man, besides the
t, unmanJer The equipment was simple.—
A quantity of rough boards to serve for
liOLt-the vessel in winter, snuidndia rub
l.r u i canvas tents, and several strong
sh built on a convenient model, cotn
piirt-.d the outfit. For provisions, they took
a liberal supply of pemuiicau, a portion of
R.'irdeuN meat-biscuit, some packages of
prepared potato, a store of dried fruits and
vegetables, beside piek'led cabbage, the salt
1 ef an i pork of the Navy ration, hard bls
•c .ii and flour. A moderate supply of li
quors m. Jo up the bill of fare, although
t_: party were pledged to total abstinence
from this article, unless dispensed by spe
•cial order.
Leaving New York on the 30:h of May,
1853, the Advance arrived at the harbor of
i'irkc ou the Ist oi July. They pro
ceed J gradually along the coast, until on
the 27:b of July, they uearcd the entrance
of Melville Bay. Here they encountered
their first serious obstruction from the ice;
Dr. Kane promptly decided to attempt a
passage through the Lay by a new track;
uni after a rough transit of eight days, the
uKiorn of the plan was confirmed by its
L. lu.-. than a week (bey entered
Smith's Sound, and landing near Littleton's
i-.'-.ud, deposited a boat with a supply of
st': -, witi, the view of securing a retreat
in case of disaster.
"\Ye found to our surprise that we vere
E: t the first human beings who had sought
5..-iter in this desolate spot. A few ruin
ed walls hero and there showed that it bad
o:K-e been the scat of a rude settlement; and
'ii ;be little knoll which we cleared away,
to cover in our storehouse of valuables, wc
found she mortal remains of their former
inhabitants.
'•-'ot'.i.ng car. be imagined more sad and
Ifm. -.t-s than these memorials of extinct
l'fe. hardly a vestige of growth was traec
''! eou the bare ice rubbed rocks: and the
! '> resembled so much the broken frag
- that surrounded them, that at first
' /'it i; was hard to distinguish one from
tzo other. Walrus bones lay about in all
'Ore/'ions, showing that this animal had fur
nished the staple of subsistence. There
*erc some remains, too, of the fox and the
narwhal*, but I found no signs of the seal
* reindeer.
" i hese Esquimaux have no mother earth
'" c "o their dead, but they seat them as
'n tne attitude of repose, the knees drawn
to the body, and inclose them in a
""•it of skin*. The implements of the liv
lnr man arc then grouped around him; they
: -t" covered wtih a rude dome of stones, and
" d tuirn is plied abovs. This simple ceno
"•ph w:!i remain intact for generation after
r-'.-ration. The Esquimaux never disturb
grave."
On the western cape of Littleton Island
>oy erected a cairn, which might serve as
* • -con to any following party, wedged a
" -tT into the crevices of the rocks, and
spreading the American flag, hailed its folds
1 • three cheers, as tthey expanded iu the
c / Uiiuiiigbt breeze. They immediately
resumed their course, bearing toward the
north agaiu*t wind and tide, and soon arriv
:Rc the regions of thick-ribbcd ico, where
1 ie y were compelled fo moor their vessel to
•be rocks. Among the petty miseries which
now began to suffer, was a pack of
eoaiq fifty dogs, whioh formed a very incon
venient appendage to the travelling patty.
Iheie animals were voracious as wolves.—
ft was no easy matter to supply such a
family with food. They devoured a couple
c ' bears in eight days. Two pounds of
raw flesh every other day was a scanty &1-
ftwacce; but to obtain this was almost im
possible. The pemmieau could not be spar
fc>l~ core-meal or beans they would not
touch—and salt junk would have killed
them, TLe timely discovery of a dead nor-
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whale or unicorn proved an excellent relief
affording six hundred pounds of good whole
some flesh, though of rather an unsavory
odor.
But a more serious trial was at hand.—
The vessel had been released from her moor
ings, and had fought her way through the
ice for several days, when the sky gave
tokens of an approaching storm. Ou the
20th of August, the storm came on with
unmistakable Arctic fury. Its effects can
be described iu no other words than those
of the journal of the dauntless command
er:
"By Saturday morning it blew a perfect
hurricane. We had seen it coming, and
were ready with three good hawsers out
ahead, and all things snug on board.
"Still it came on heavier and heavier,
and the ice began to drive more wildly than
I thought 1 had ever seen it. I had just
turned in to warm and dry myself during a
momeutary lull, and was stretching myself
out in my bunk, whec I heard the sharp
twanging suap of a coard. One sixMnch
hawser had parted, and we were swinging
by the two others, the gale roaring like a
lion to the southward.
"Half a minute more, and
twang''' came a second report. 1 knew it
was the whale line by the shrillness of the
riug. Our noblo ten incb-maniila still held
on. I was burr)ing my last sock into its
soal skin boot, when MeGary came waddling
down the companion ladders. "Captain
Kane, she won't bold much longer; it's
blowing the devil biui*elf, and I am afraid
to surge."
"The manilia cable was proving its excel
lence when I reached the deck, and the
crew as the y gathered round me, were loud
;n its praises. We could hear its deep
Eolian chant, swell ing through all the rat
tle of running-gear, and moaning of the
shrouds. It was the death-song! The
stranusgave way with the noise of a shotted
gun; and iu the amoka that followed their
recoil, we were dragged out by the wild ice
at its mercy.
"We steadied and did some pretty warp
ing, and got the brig a good bed in the rush
iug drift, but it all cauie to nothing. We
then tried to beat back through the narrow
ice-clogged water-way, that was driving a
quurter of a mile wide, between the shore
and the pack. It coat us two hours of
hard labor, I thought skillfully bestowed;
but at the end of that time we were at least
four utiles off, opposite the great valley in
the centre of Bedevilled .Reach. Ahead
of us, farther to the north, we could see the
strait growing still narrower, and the heavy
;ce-tables grinding up and clogging it be
tween the shore-cliffs on one side and the
ledge on the other. There was but one
thing left for us, to keep in some sort the
command of the helm, by going freely where
we mu3t otherwise be driven. \Y e allowed
her to send under a reefed for topsail; all
handa watching the enemy as ae closed, in
silence.
"At seven o'clock in the morning, we
were close upon the piling masses. 1\ o
dropped our heaviest anchor with the des
perate hope of winding the brig; but there
was no withstanding the ice-torrent that
followed us. We had only time to fasten a
spar as a buoy to the ehain, and let her slip.
So went our best bowerl
"Down wa went upon the gale again,
helplessly scraping along alee of ice seldom
less than thirty feet thick; otio floe, measur
ed by a line as we tried to fasten it, more
than forty feet. I had seen such ice only
once before, and never in such rapid mo
tion. One upturned mass rose above our
gunwale, smashing in our bulkwarks, and
depositing half a ton of ice in a lump upou
our decks. Our staunch little brig'pbore
herself through all this wild adventure as if
she had a charmed life.
"But a new enemy came in sight ahead, j
Directly in our way, just beyond the line of
floc-ice against which wo were alternately
sliding and thumping, was a group of bergs.
We had no dower to avoid them, and the
only question was whether we were to he
dashed in pieces agaiust them, or whether
they might not offer us some providential
nook or refuge from the 9torm. But as we
uearcd them, we perceived that they were at
some distance from the floe-edge and separ
ated from it by an interval of open water.
Oar hopes rose, as the gale drove us to
wards this passage, and into it; and we were
ready to exult, when, by some unexpected
cause, probably an eddy of the wind against
the lofty ice walls, we lost our headway.—
Almost at the same moment we saw that
tho bergs were not at rest; that with a mo
mentum of their own they were bearing
down upon the other ioo, and that it uiuit
be our fate to bo crushed between the two.
"Just then a broad scounce-piece or low
washed berg came driving up from tho south-
ward. Ibe thought Sashed upon me of one
of our escapes iu Melville Bay; and as the
sconce moved rapidly alongside us, M'Gary
managed to plant au anchor on its slope?
and hold ou to it by a while-line. It was
an anxious moment. Our noble tow horse,
whiter than the pale horse that seemed to
bo puisuing us, hauled us bravc-ly on, the
spray dashing over his windward Banks, and
his forehead plowing up the lesser ice as if
in seorn. Ihe bergs encroached upou us as
we advanced. Our channel narrowed to a
width of perhaps forty feet; we braced the
yards to clear the impending ice-walls.
"We passed clear; but it was a close
shave—so close that our own quarter-boat
would have been crushed if we bad not
taken it from the davits—and found our
selves under tho lea of a berg, iu a compar
atively open lead. Never did heart-tried
men acknowledge with more gratitude their
merciful deliverance from a wretched death.
"The day hud already Lad its full share
of trials; but there were more to come. A
flaw drove us from our shelter, and the gale
soon carried us beyond tho end of the lead.
Wo were again iu the ice, sometimes escap
ing its onset by warping, sometimes forced
to rely on the strength and buoyancy of
the brig to stand its pressure, sometimes
scudding wildly through the half-open drift.
Our jibboom was snapped off in the cap:
we carried away oar barricade staunchions,
and were forced to leave our little Erie, with
three brave fellows aud their wards, out up
ou the floes behind us.
"A littlo pool of open water received us
at last. I was just beyond a lofty cape that
rose up Ike a wall, and under an ice-l>erg
that anchored itself between us and the
gale. And here, close under the frowning
shore of Greenland, ten utiles nearer the
Pole than our holding gronud of the utorn
iug, the men have turned in to rest.
"I was afraid to join them, for ti.e gale
was unbroken, and the floes kept pressing
heavily upon our berg, at one time so heav
ily as to sway it on its vertical axis toward
the shore, and make its pinnacle overhang
our vessel. My poor fellows had but a
precarious sleep before our little harbor
was broken up. They hardly reached th°
deck when we were driven astern, our rud
der splintered, and tLe pintles torn from
their boltings.
"Now began the uippings. The first
shock took us on our port quarter; the brig
bearing it well, and after a momeut of the
old fashioned suspense, rising by jerks
handsomely. The next was from a veteran
floe, tongued and honeycombed, but float,
ing in a single table over twenty feet in
thickness. Of course no wood or iron
could stand this; but the shoreward face of
our iceberg happened to present an inclined
plane, descending deep into the water, and
up this the brig was driven, as if some great
steam screw power was forcing her into a
dry dock.
"At one time I expected fo see her car.
ricd bodily up its face and tumbled over on
side. But one of these mysterious relaxa
tions, which I have elsewhere called the
pulses of the ice, lowered us quite gradual
ly dewn again into the rubbish, and we were
forced out of the liDe of pressure toward tLe
shore. Ilere we succeeded in carrying out
a warp and making fast. We grounded as
the tide fell, and would have heeled over to
seaward, but for a mass of detached land
ice that grounded alongside of us, and al
though it clove our bulwarks, as we rolled
°ver it, shoved us up."
We must also give bis account of the se
quel.
"I could hardly get to my bunk, as 1 went
down into our littered cabin on the Sunday
morning after our hard working vigil of
thirty six hours. Bags of clothing, food,
tents, India rubber blankets, and the hun
dred little personal matters which every man
likes to save in time of trouble, were scat
tered around in places where the owners
thought they might have them at hand.
The pemican had been on deck, the boats
equipped, and everything of importance
ready for a march, maDy hours before.
"As our brig, borne on by the ice, com
menced bcr ascent of the berg, the suspense
was oppressive. The immense blocks piled
agaiust her, range upon range, pressing
themselves under her keel, and throwing her
over upon her side, till, urged by the sue*
cessive accumulations, she rose slowly, and
as if with convulsive efforts, along tbe slop
ing wall, Still there was no relaxation of
the impelling force. Shock after shoak jar
ring her to her very centre, she continued to
mount steadily on her precarious oradle.—
Bnt for the groaning of her timbers, and
the heavy sough of the floes, we might have
heard a pin drop. And then, as settled
down into her old position, quietly taking
her place among tbo broken rubbish, there
was a deep-breathing silence, as though all
were waiting for some signal before tbo
BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 7. 18-56.
clamor of congratulation and comment could
burst forth."
By the 22d of August, they had reached
the latitude of 78 deg. 41 —a distance
greater than had been attained by any pre
vious except Barry on bis Spitsbergen foot
tramp. About this time, some of the party
began to exhibit, symptoms or discon .eut.—
The rapid advance of wiuter, the deprivation
of rest, and the slow progress cf the Expe
dition, tended to produce depression. One
person volunteered uu opiuioa in favor of
returning to the south, and giving Ap the
attempt to winter. It was no time for half
way measures. Dr. Kane at once called a
council of his officers, and listened to their
views in full. With but a single exception,
they declared their conviction that a.further
progress to the north was impossible, and
urged the propriety of returning southward
to winter. Tho commander maintained the
opposite view explaining the importance of
securing a position which might expedite
further sltdge-journies, he announced his in
tention of warping towards the northern
headland of the bay. Once there, he eould
determine the best point for tho operations
of the spring, and would put the brig into
winter harbor at the nearest possible shel
ter. Ilis comrades received the decision
with cheerful acquiescence, and zealously
entered upou the perilous duties which it
involved. During the process the gallant
little vessel ran aground, and in the night
had a narrow escape from fire. A sudden
lurch tumbled the men out of their berths,
and threw down the cabin stove, wish a full
(.barge of glowing anthracite. The deck
blazed up violently, but by the saciiiico of
a heavy pilot-cloth coat, the fire was smoth
ered uutil water could be procured to cxtiu
guish it. The powder was not far cfi. A
few moments mote might have brought tho
expedition to a sudden close.
About the tenth of September, the vessel
was brought into a sheltered harbor between
the islands of the bay, in which she h n d been
ying for some time, aud all bands prepared
for winter quarters. Of their mode of life
during the long darkness, of an Arctic
winter, a vivid idea is given bv the follow
ing extract from Dr. KANE'S journal :
"How do we spend tlie day when it is not
term-day, or rather the twenty-four hours?
for it is either all day here, or all night, or a
twilight mixture of both. How do wc spend
the twenty-four hours?
"At six in the morning, McGarv is called
with all hands who have slept in. The decks
are cleaned, the ice-hole opened, the
refreshing beef-nets examined, the ice
tables measured, aud things aboard put to
rights. At half-past seven all Lauds rise,
wash on deck, open the doors for ventilation,
and come below for breakfast. We are
short of fuel and therefore cook iu the
cabin. Our breakfast, for all fare alike, is
hard tack, pork, stewed apples, frozen like
molasses candy, tea and coffee, with a
delicate portion of raw potato. After
breakfast, the smokers take their pipe until
nine o'clock, then all hands turn to, idlers
to idle, and workers to work; Ohiseu to bis
beach, Brooks to bis preparations in cauvass,
MeGary to play tailor, Whipple to make
shoes, Bonsall to tinker, Baker to skin
birds—and the rest to the "offi-el" Take a
look into the Arctic Bureau. One table,
one salt pork lamp with rusty chlorinated
flame, three stools, and n3 many waxen
faced men with their legs drawn under them,
the deck at zero being too cold for their
feet. Each has his department. Kane is
writing and sketching aud projecting maps;
Hays copying logs and mcteorologieals;
Soutag reducing bis work at Fern Rock.—
A fourth, as one of the working members
of the hive has long been defunct; you will
fiud him iu bed, or studying 'Littell's Living
Age.' At twelve o'clock, a business round
of inspection and orders enough to £ll up
the day with work. Next, the drill of the
Esquimaux dogs—my own peculiar recrea
tion—a dog trot, specially referring to legs
that oreak with every kick, and rheumatic
shoulders that chronicle every descent of the
whip. And so we get on to dinner-time,
the occasion of another gathering, which
misses the tea and coffee of breakfast, but
rejoice in pickled cabbage and dried peach
es iustead.
"A dinner, as at breakfast, the raw pota
to comes in our hygienic luxury. Like
doctor stuff generally, it is not as appetiz
ing as desirable, GratiDg it down nicely,
leaving out the ugly red spots liberally, and
adding the utmost oil as a lubricant it is as
much as I can do to persuade the mess to
shut their eyes and bolt It, like Mrs.
Squeers's molasses and brimstone at Dothc
boy's Hall. Two absolutely refuse to take
it. I tell them of the Silcsiaus using its
teaves as spinach; of the whalers in the
South Seas getting drunk ou the molasses
which had preserved the large petit oes of
the Azores; 1 point to this gum, so fungoid
and angry the day before yesterday, and so
flat and amiable to-day—ail by a Dotato
poultice My eloquence is wasted; they
persevere in rejecting the admirable com
pound.
"Sleep, exercise, Amusement, and work
at will, carry on the day until our G o'clock
supper—a meal something like breakfast
and something like dinner, only a little
more scant, and the officers come in with
the reports of the day. Dr. liases shows
luo the log,l sign it; Sontag, the weather, 1
sign the weather; .Mr. Bonsall the tides
and thermometers. Thereupon comes in
mine ancient Brooks, and I enter in his
journal No. 3, all the work done under his
charge, and discuss his labors for the mot
row.
"McQary comes next, with the cleaning
up arrangement, inside, outside and OD
decks, and Mi. Wilson follows with ice !
measurements. Aud la'st of ail comes my
own record of the day gone by; cvory line,
as I look back upon its pages, giving evi
dence of a weakened body and a harassed
mind.
"We have cards sometimes, and chess
sometimes, aud a few magazines—Mr. Lit
fell's thoughtful present —to cither away
the evening."
Why the liie.
I may be asked, why, if the righteous ar e
so de ar to Christ, and so valuable to the
world, they arc doomed to death at alt?—
Wby does not religion, which saves us from
a thousand other evils, release us from this
law of mortality! lu answer, I remark:—
The reasons are obvious on reflection. Ex
emption frctu death us a reward of piety
w oukl appeal so strongly to the love of life
—the quickest, most enduring in. tine: of
our being —as o override the freedom ot
choice, and thus mukc rational, voluutary
piety impossible. We should adopt it as '
starving man would clutch offered bread, or
the man dying of thirst weald seize the cup
of cold water. Aud besides the violence
done to our nature in making the propensi
ties decide a question belonging, under the
present econctmv, aud in proper fitness and
adaption of things, to the intellect, the
heart, the will, the incongruity would fol
low of proposing a carnal, earthly motive
for a spiritual life. On such apian, Chris
tianity must approve what she now repudi
ates, aud the holy considerations by which
she now seeks to win us from error to wis
dom, from earth to heaven, would all be
neutralized and lost, and the world to come
be doomed to borrow the forces of time to
achieve its noblest victories. The evil of
sin cannot be show:; but by it J punish
ment.
This conclusion is legitimate front what
is revealed of the divine administration,and
from what is revealed of the divine admin
istration, an! from what wo know of the
process of conviction in the ndnd of man.
God hates sitt. It is a blot upon his do
minions. But he has not left the world to
learn the fact even from the awful denun
ciation of his word, but he has written it :u
the catastrophe of nations. The deluge,
famine, pestilence, fire and fcrim-tcuc from
heaven have been the messengers of Lis
wrath and the instruments of his retribu
tion. And where, save in the crucifixion
of Christ Jesus and the damnation of the
guilty will you look for a more impressive
demonstration of God's justice and bis in
dignation against sin, than in the dying
aszonies of infant innocence, or the mortal
couvulsiou3 of him who dies unto the Lord.
It is written, "The body is dead because f
s*.ii, even vvuea the spirit is LFe because of
righteousness.— Bishop Pierce.
A PRETTY WOMAN.
The subjoined waif we have discovered
in an exchange:
A pretty woman is one of the institutions
of the country—an angel in dry goods and
glory. She makes sunshine, blue sky.
Fourth of July, and happiness wherever she
goes, ller path is one of delicious roses,
perfumes and beauty. Sin* is a sweet po
em, writteu iu rare curls and choice calico,
and good principles. Men stand up before
hi ias so many admiration points, to melt
into crc-am and then butter. Her words
float around the car like music, birds of
Paradise or the chimes of Sabbath bells.
Without her, society wouid lose its truest
attiaction, the church its firmest reliance,
and young men the very beat of comforts
and company. Ilor influence and generos
ity restrain the vicious, strengthen the weak
raiso the lowly, flannel shirt the hcathcu,
and strengthen the faint hearted. Wbcroser
you find the virtuous woman, you also find
pleasant fireside boquets, clean clothes, or"
der, good living, gentta hearts, muste, light
and model institutions generally. Bhe ;s
the flower of humanity, a very Venus in
divinity, and her inspiration is the breath
or Heaven.
E]r"Laring one of the great political I
conventions of the present campaign, a j
Methodist church was engaged for a meet- |
mg. The boys, who were all alert for ex- j
citement, took early possession of the gal- >
lory, well supplied with sticks to beat the '
floor in response to the speeches. One of j
the excellent Method!-t brethren had been
very justly grieved that the house was lent j
Jor such a purpose, and hopiug to save it as J
much as possible froui desecration, he went j
up into the gallery before tho meeting be - ,
gau, and told the boys that they ought to i
remember, that they were in the church, !
and to behave ia a manner becoming o ho- j
ly a place; especially, he hoped they would I
not disgrace themselves and the place by ,
making a noise, rapping or shuutiug or |
whistling, or anything of that sort. "But j
if there should anything le said which j
pleases you very much, then, boys, you may f
say, 'Bless ray soul,' 'Atnen,' and so forth,
as the case may be."
The meeting began. The chairman sta
ted the object of the assembly , tho great
honor he had iu being called to preside, the
proudest day of his life, and becoming
| warm, he launched out into such eloquence
•as to arou;_ the spirits of the boys, who
! would Lave gi.-cn him a round of applause
with their sticks, but for the old man's ad
j vice, when recollecting his permission, they
!at oneebeg'n to cry out, 'Bless my soul! :
and at tho end of the nest sentence,' Amen,
| and soon a chorus of youngsters cried out,
I 'And so forth,' to the astonishment of the
J cbairmau, who addressed himself to the
j galleries and said he should have them
: cleared if that interruption was repeated,
whereupon the whole race of them shouted
aloud,'As tho case may be!' The excite
ment became so greet between the galleries
and pit, that the boys Ly.i to promise to
j withhold any turther exptessions of their
j enthusiasm, and they were then allowed io
j remain.
% A CIGAR.
Dr. >l , as shillfst Mv, physician vs
J New Fork can boast of, tells us the follow
ing story —wuieh the medicine man voucb
j es fur, and which wo feel safe therefore, iu
| endorsing as a fact.
; Two or three yeur3 ago, a Spaniard from
f Cuba cutae to this city to be treated for a
i disease of the lungs. lle came to Dr.
| M , described his symptoms, ar.d put
himself in the Doctor's hands.
"Well," said the Doctor, "If I undertake
your cure, 1 shall be obliged to impose one
condition—and that is rather a Lard one for
you to comply with."
"What is i.: ;
"That you entirely cease smoking until
' I give you permission to resume."
".Never! I'd rather let the thing kill
me. What pleasure is there iu life if one
| cannot smoke/''
The Duotor was a smoker himself, and
felt some sympathy. So he said:
"Well, perhaps that is beyond your pow
er. But you must solemnly promise me to
smoke but one cigar per day, or I will not
undertake your case."
The Cuouu promised, for it was Lis only
1 chance. Four or Ave days afterwards the
; Dr. thought he woula call him as he
= passed his house, ani thus save him a wait
to the office for a nay. He walked up
stairs, knocked, —"Come iu'"—behold the
Cuban with a cigar eighteen inches loug anj
a proportionate thickness. He confessed
that he had had that brand made to order
i for him—bu', sai l he:
|
"Doctor, 1 smoke but one a day, as I
• promised."
CURIOUS HISTORICAL FACT.
The wife of the celebrate! lord Clarea.
Jon, the author of the History of the lie,
bellion, was a Welsh pot girl, who being
extremely poor in her own country, jour
neyed to London to better her fortune, and
become a stevant to a brewer. W bile she
was in this huusble capacity, tho wife ot
her master died, and he happening to fix
his affections on her, she became h:s wife*
Himself dying soon after, left her heir to
his property, which is said to hsve amount
ed to between jC'2O,OOO and £30,000.
Amongst those who frequented the tap at
the brewery was a Mr. Ilyde, then a poor
barrister, who conceived the project of
forming a matrimonial alliance with her. —
He succeeded, and sor.u ied th orcwor s
widow to the altar. Mr. Hyde being en
dowed with groat talent, ar.d now at the
command of a large fortune, quickly rose
in his profession, becoming head of the
Chancery bench, and was uflerwards the
Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. The eldest
daughter, the offspring of this uoioa, won
the hparttf James, Duke of York, and was
mairied to him. Charles 11. scat immedi
ately for his brother, aud having first plied
him with oouui very sharp raillery ou the
subject, finished by saying". "James, as you
VOL. 29, NO. 45
have brewo, so you must drink," and forth
with commanded that tins marriage should
Lc legally ratified and promulgated. Upon
the death of Charles, James the 11, moans
ed the throne, but a premature death frus
trated this enviable consummation in the
person of his amiable dutches 3. He?
daughters, Lowovsr, were Mary, the wife 0 f
>i 111. and Queen Anne, both grand
children ci the ci devout pot girl from
Wales, and wearing in succession the crown
of England.
ARISTOCRACY DOES NOT MAKE THE
MAN.— It is the mind—the expanded intel
lect—an affectionate heart—and gentleman
ly actions.
No matter hew broad the purse, if he
lacks capacity. lie is no man—that is not
one mentally - Were he possessed of the
wealth of Croesus, it would cot change his
nature or fii I'.pou him with definiteaess the
pure Grecian of which is unthrop s. ' The
mind is the standard of the man," thd
gu-ige of his thought, the metre of Lis ca
pabilities, the impress of his greatness or
littleness.
A Ml MAX LirE SAVED!
pow/.aiAC, Mich, March 11, 186C-'
• J. A. RHODES, ESQ : Dear Sir—As I took
' your mc-tlieine to sell oa consignment, "no
' cure no pay," I take pleasure in stating its ef
fects as reported to nie by three brothers who
lire in this place, and their testimony is a fair
specimen of all I have received:
W. S. CONKLIS told me 1 had taken nine.
bottles of Christie's Ague Balsam, and contin
ually run down while using it until my lungs
' and liver were Congested to that degree that
blood discharged from my mouth and bowels,
so tliat all thought it impossible for me to live
through another chill. The doctors too did
all they could for me, but though I must die.
Nothing ah; any good until I got Rhodes' Fe
ver and and Ague Cure, which at once rcliev
; ed no of the distress and nausea at my storu
| acl: and pain in my Lead and bowels, and pro-
I duv.ed a permanent cure in a short time.''
i 11. M. Cot: itt::: s s: I had bean taking mc-
I dieice oi as good a doctor as we have in our
county, and taken any quantity of quinine
and specifics without any good result, from
do August to 17th December. But seeing Low
nicely it operated or. my brother. I got a l>ot
tlr of It II ODES' FEVER AND AGUE CUBE,
which effected a perin-aent cure by using two
ibir.i ' of a bqttlc."
S. M. CofiKLis was not here, but both the
other brothers say his case was the same as H.
M's. Isold the medicine to both the aamo
day, and the cure was as speedy from the same
small quantity, and 1 might so specify. Yours
with respect. A. II tTNTXJS"GTON.
The above speaks far itself. Good proof as
it is, it is of no better tenor than the vast rum
bur of like certificates I have already publish
ed, and the still greater amount that is contifl
| ually ; • u:ing ia tome. .
On- .bing more* Last year I had occasion
I to Caution the Public in these words:—
"7 notice one firm whs ,'iare taken one of my gen
oral circulars, substituted the name of their zos
! tram for my met-cine, a.id then with brazen impu
! dcnce end their pamphlet with the exclamation,
. l Le! ihe proprietor cf any ether medteint say ai
j ranch if he dares,' " fc. c.
Now I take pleasure in sating -hat tht U'au
; lion referred to the same --Dr. Chiistie'lAgue
Balsam" that is monti-ned in the above ccr
i titicate.
i There arc several other industrious people
who are applying to their poisonous trash alt
' that I publhli about my Fever and Ague Cure,
1 or Antidote to Malaria, except the certificates
i of Cures, and the Certificate of the celebrated
! Chemist, Dr. James. R. Chilton of N. Y., In
' favor of its perfectly HARMLESS CUAKAC
TEK, which is attached to every bottle. These
: will always serve to distinguish civ medicine
from imitations.
JAS. A. RHODES. Proprietor.
providence, K. I. "
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