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A Family Newspaper Independent on All Subjects
BY G. W. BROWN & CO.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, OCTOBER 1, 1859.
NUMBER 11 VOLUME 5.
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ft.
from DiclgkCt Journal of Mutic.
To lae Mocking Bird. .
Carolling bird, that merrily, night nd day,
Teilest thy raptures from the rustling spray.
And wakest the bh inline with tby varied lay.
SinfiBg thy matins
When we have come to beer thy sweet oblation
Of lure and jovanee from thy sylvan elation.
Why in the place of musical eantation,
Balk as with prating?
We stroll by moonlight in the dnskj forest.
Where the tail cypress shields thee, fervent cho
risil And sit in haunts of Echoes, when thoo poormt
Tby woodland solo.
Hark! from the next green tree tby long com
mences: Music and discord join to mock the senses,
Repeated from the tree-tops and the feaoes. "
- From bill and hollow.
A hundred voices mingle with thy clamor;
Bird, beaut and reptile take part in thy drama;
Outspeak tbey all in torn without a stammer
Brink Polyglot!
Voices of Killdeer. Plover, Duck, and Datterel;
Notes bubbling, hissing, mellow, sharp, and gut
tural; Of Cat-bird, Cat. or Cart-Wheel, thou const utter
11,
And all-untaught.
The Raven's croak, tbechirping of the Sparrow,
The scream of Jays, the oroaking of Wheelbar
row, And hoot of Owls all join, the soul to harrow.
And grate the ear.
We listen to tby quaint soliloquising.
As if all creatures thou wert catechising.
Tnningtheirvoiees, and their notes revising.
From far and near.
Sweet bird! that surely lovest the noise of folly;
Most musical, but never melancholy;
Disturber of the hour that should be holy.
With sound prodigious!
Fie on tbee, O thou feathered Paganini !
To use thy little pipes to squawk and whinny.
And emulate the binge andspinningjenny,
Making night hideous!
Provoking melodist! why canst thou breathe us
o thrilling harmony.no charming pathos,
Xocheerful song of love without its bathos?
The Furies take thee
Blast thy obstreperous mirth, thy foolish chat
ter. (iag tbee, exhaust thy breath, and stop thy clat
ter. And change thee to a beast, thou senseless pra
ter '
Sought else can cheek thee !
A lengthened pause ensues but hark again I
From the new woodland, stealing o'er the plain,
Comes forth a sweeter and holier strain!
Listening delighted,
Thegalesbreathe softly, as tbey bear along
The warbled treasure the delicious throng
Of notes that swell aooordaut in the song.
As love is plighted.
The Eohoes, joyful from their vocal cell,
Wi
l.ssp with the winged sounds o'er hill and doll.
ill kindling fervor, as the chimes they tell
- lowakeful r.ven
They melt upon the ear; they float away
They r.se, they sink, they hasten, they delay,
And hold the listener with bewitching sway,
Like sounds from Heaven !
Mature Performing one of the Most Wonderful
Chemical Experiments in the World.
Mr. Henry K. Strong, of Pennsylvania,
has written an article in the Philadelphia
JSoHh American and Uazeite, on the qual
ity of the water of the river Schuylkill,
from which that city in supplied by the
Fairmount Water Works. After referring
to the immense volumes of sulphuric acid
water discharged from the bottom of the
sixty-six colleries on the head waters of
the Schuylkill, he says :
"It will be seen, therefore, that the
mountain streams that, make up the
Schuylkill are strongly impregnated with
sulphuric acid, which kills all the fish in
the Schuylkill and its tributaries, for more
that thirty miles below the mines. The
water is clear, but has a peculiar greenish
blue tint, from the coal region through
the entire broad belt of the Devonian for
mation. But, as soon as it enters the
great Silurian limestone above Heading,
and receives the waters of the Maiden
creek and other limestone tributaries,
there is a sudden changed appearance of
the waters. Both streams are clear and
transparent above the junction, but below,
the united stream presents a milky and
cloudy appearance. Here nature performs
one of the largest, grandest and most use
ful chemical experiments in the world !
Here two streams of impure water one
impure by the amount of lime held in so
lutiou, and the other impure on account
of the quantity of sulphuric acid received
from the mines are made one, and puri
fied by the chemical attraction of the im
purities of both. Here the lime, held in
solution by the waters of Maidon creek,
unites with the acid which impregnates
the Schuylkill, and forms gypsum ; first
coloring the water a blueish white, and
then reuJoriug it clean and pure before it
reaches Reading, by the sinking of the
gypsum to the bottom of the stream
"The importance, in an economic point
of view, of this great chemical action,
which nature is constantly performing,
Patrick Hoary.
Very little is known of the most eloquent
orator of our revolutionary history, one
who derived all his power from original
genius and the study of nature and men,
and had no acquaintance with books. The
following sketch of his character and hab
it Mr. Webster received from Mr. Jeffer
son, and is found in the published vol
umes of Mr. Webster's correspondence :
"Patrick Henry was mgiaally a bar
keeper. He was married very young, and
going into some business, was a bankrupt
in less than a year. When I was about
the age of fifteen, I left school to go to
college at Williamsburg. I stopped a few
days at a friend's house in the county of
Louisa. There I first saw and became
acquainted with Patrick Henry. Having
spent the Christmas holidays there, I pro
ceeded to Williamsburg. Some questions
arose about my admission, as my prepar
atory studies had not been pursued at the
school connected with that Institution.
This delayed my admission about a fort
night, at which time Henry appeared in
Williamsburg, and applied for a license
to practice law, having commenced the
study of it at or subsequently to the time
of my meeting him in Louisa. There
were four examiners Wythe, Pendleton,
Peyton Randolph and John Randolph.
Wythe and Pendleton ai once rejected
his application. The two Randolphs, by
his importunity, were prevailed upon to
sign his license ; and having obtained
their signatures, he applied again to Pen
dleton, and after much entreaty and many
promises of future study, succeeded in ob
taining his. He then turned out for a
practising lawyer. The first case which
brought him into notice was s contested
election, in which he appeared as counsel
before the committee of the House of
Burgesses. His second was the Parsons
case, already well known. These and
similar efforts soon obtained for him so
much reputation, that he was elected a
member of tho Legislature. He was as
well suited to the times as any man ever
was, and it is not now easy to say what
we should have done without Patrick
Henry. He was far before all in main
taining the spirit of the revolution. His
influence was most extensive with the
members from the upper counties ; his
boldness and tbetr votes overawed and
controlled the more cool or the more tim
id aristocratic gentlemen of the lower part
of the State. His eloquence was peculiar,
if, indeed, it could be called eloquence,
for it was impressive and sublime beyond
what can be imagined. Although u was
difficult, when he had spoken, to tell what
he had said, yet while he was speuking,
it seemed directly to the point. When
he had spoken in opposition to my opin
ion had produced a great sensation, and
I myself been delighted and moved,
have asked myself, when he ceased,
'What has he said ?' I could never an
swer the inquiry. His person was of full
size, and his manner aud voice free and
manly. His utterance was neither very
slow nor very fast, ilia speeches gener
ally short from a quarter to half an
hour.
"He was a man of very little knowledge
of any sort ; he read nothing, and had no
books. Returning, one .November, from
Albemarle Court, he borrowed Hume's
Essays, in two volumes, saying he would
have leisure in the winter for reading. In
the spring he returned them, and declared
he had not been able to go further than
twenty or thirty pages in the first vol
ume. He wrote almost nothing he could
not write. The resolutions of '75, which
have been ascribed to him, have by many
been supposed to have been written by
Mr, Johnson, who acted as his second on
that occasion ; but if they were written
by Mr. Henry himself, they were not such
as to prove any power of composition.
Neither in politics nor in his profession
was he a read man. His biographer says
that he read Plutarch every year. I
doubt whether be ever read a volume of
it in his life. His temper was excellent,
and he generally observed decorum in de
bate. On one or two occasions I have
seen him nngry, and his anger was terri
ble : those who witnessed it were not dis
posed to rouse it again. In his opinions
he was yielding, practicable, and not dis
posed to differ from his friends. In pri
vate conversation he was agreeable and
facetious, and whilo in genteel society
appeared to understand all the decencies
and proprieties of it, but in his heart he
preferred Tow society, and sought it as
often as possible. He would hunt in the
pine woods of Fluvenna, with overseers
aud people of that description, living in
a camp for a fortnight at a time, without
a chance of raiment. I have often been
cannot be too highly estimated. Without
thn arid fmm 4a vial mlnM in nautrftl.
lze the lime, the city of Reading would i astonisnea at ms commana 01 proper iu
be without a pure soft water for domestic
purposes, for the factories, and Tor the en
gines which drive their furnaces, and
without the limestone tributaries of the
Schuylkill, to neutralize the acid from the
coal mines, Philadelphia would now be
without a pure water for household pur
poses, and without a water fit to be used
in the twelve hundred steam engines that
now make her the greatest manufacturing
city in the Union." .
The Tranafignraaoa of Memory .
In Mrs. Stowe's r,ew novel of "The Min
ister's Wooing," the following beautiful
passage occurs : '
"As there was as hour when the fish
ermen of Galilee saw their Master trans
figured, his raiment white and glistening,
and his face like the light, so there are
hours when our whole mortal life stands
forth in celestial radiance. From our
daily lot falls off every weed of care, from
our heart-friends every speck and stain of
earthly infirmity. - Our horizon widens,
and blue, and amethyst, and sold touch
every object Absent friends and friends
gone on the last iournev stand once more
together, bright with an immortal glow,
and, like the disciples who saw their mas
ter floating in the clouds above them, we
say, 'Lord, it is good to be here!' -Ho
fair the wife, the husband, the absent
mother, the gray-haired father, the manly
son, the bright-eyed daughter,! Seen in
the actual present, all have some fault,
some flaw; but absent, we see them in
. their permanent and better selves. Of
our distant home wo remember not a dark
day, not one servile care, nothing but the
echo of its holr hymns and the radiance
of it bright days of onr father, not one
hasty word, but only the fullness of his
manly vigor and noble tenderness ; of onr
mother, nothing of mortal weakness, but
glorinei form of love ; of our brother,
not one teasing, provoking word of broth
erly freedom, but the proud beauty of his
noblest hours; of our sister, our child, only
what is fairest and sweetest."
guage ; now ne obtained a Knowledge 01
it I never could find out. as he read so lit
tle and conversed little with educated
men.
"After all, it must be allowed that he
was our leader in the measure of the rev
olution in Virginia. In that respect, more
was due to him than any other person.
If we bad not had him, we should proD
ably have got on pretty well, as you did,
by a number of men of nearly equal tal
ents ; but he left ns far behind. His bio
grapher sent the sheets of his work to me
as tbey were printed, and at the end asked
for my opinion.. 1 told him it would be
question hereafter whether his work
should be placed on the shelf of history
or panegyric. . It is a poor book, written
in a bad taste, and gives so imperfect an
idea of Patrick Henry, that it seems to
show off the writer more than the subject
of the work."
Caa Iron and Steel Plates Resist Shot?
A series of experimental trials have
been carried on during the past fortnight
at rortsmouih, with a view of ascertain
ing the amount of resstance offered by
iron and steel plates of various manufac
tures when opposed to heavy ordnance at
Montreal Described.
A correspondent sent the following des
cription of Montreal to the Cleveland Her
ald a few days since :
"Montreal is the largest citv in the
Canada, and takes the lead in wealth and
commerce. It lies on the left bank of the
St. Lawrence river, one hundred and sev-1 a short range. The trials are understood I a letter dated at "Great Malvern. Julv
cmj nines auuvo yueuec, ana ta&eg lis I tu iiavo reiereuce 10 me luture coating oi I zain," as tollows:
name Irom the eminence at the foot oil the steam rum now in progress of con
which it lies, called Mount Royal. This struction. The practice has been carried
hill rises to the hight of seven hundred 1 on from the Stork gunboat, tender to her
feet above the level of the river. Around Majesty's ship Excellent, gunnery ship in
tne nut there is a splendid road, nine l ortsmoutn harbor, both from a 32 pound
m 1 1 aa in lanfftli Tin. aAAnaM. fa...... tki. I nnd a ...... U n 1 1 1 .
hill .n.p.i io i n,.. ti.. I . aniM r;n lh w Jh . is it. -.t,., f nd but little of that cock-pistol expret-
principal private residences are on the side powder ; the distance of range. 200 yards. A& of J?efi.an.C8 and. pulsion which so
of Mount Royal The Gray Nnns have a At this distance the results of the expert- m1 agnnien deem it necessary to
arge farm 0n the west side, and the menu have demonstrated in the clearest r" ""cu uoJ """""8. "D'c"
Priests' Farm is on the south side, cov- possible manner that no iron or steel plate Lnt conversation, in the course of which
enng the whole side of the hill. The that has yet been manufactured can with-
streets and sidewalks are very narrow, but stand the solid shot from the 95 cwt. gnn
are kept clean. Toe principal street is at a short range. I he first shot would
Notre Dame. It is the street of fashion-1 not penetrate through the iron plate, but
able retail stores and the favorite prom- it would fracture it, and on three or four
enade. . I be great i rench Koman Cat ho- striking the plate in the same place, or in
lie Cathedral is on this street. It is one the immediate neighborhood, it would be
hundred and thirty-four feet wide and smashed to pieces. As the results of the
two hundred and fifty feet long, and cost trial affected the steel plates, it proved
$500,000. It contains paintings from all that a steel-clothed ship could be far more
parts of the world and of a large number easily destroyed than a wooden-sided one,
of saints. The cathedral will seat eight and that on the smashing in of one of the
thousand people and will hold twenty steel plates, the destruction of life on the
thousand. The bell is tho largest in armed ship's decks, supposing the broken
America, weighing twenty-nine thousand plate to be driven through the ship's side,
four hundred pounds. There is also a would be something dreadful to contem
chime of ten bells. One window of plate, from the spread of the splintered
taiued glass measures sixtv-four feet in material. At from six hundred to eight
hight by thirty-two in breadth, and cost hundred yards, iron-clothed ships would
$7,500. There are many other churches, he in comparative safety from the effects
most of which are Romau Catholic. The of an enemy's broadside, but it must be
oldest was built in 1725, nnd contains the borne in mind that the effects of concen
finest altar in the citv.: The next build- trated bring have yet to be ascertained
Pictures of England.
Geo. S.'Hillard. who is traveling in
England, and writes admirable letters to
the Boston Courier, which affords so re
freshing a contrast to the Belle Brittan
and Dr. Mackay style, that we are greatly
delighted with them. We extract from
TALK WITH A BRITISH FAB5IER.
I found myself seated near a gentleman
between fifty and sixty, with one of those
healthy complexions which showed a life-
locg acquaintance with the sua and wind,
I revealed my nationality. I generally
do this under such circumstances; it seems
to excuse a departure from the common
usage of the country Englishmen very
rarely addressing a stranger and it lubri
cates the ways on which discourse is
launched.' My neighbor was a farmer;
probably not a landed proprietor nimself
but holding a considerable estate on lease.
He informed mo that the wages of ogrl
cultural labor in Hampshire, where he
lived, were about twelve shillings a week;
somewhat increased at harvest and haying
time; that the price of good farming land
was from iiO to i.80 an acre; and that
the net return to the owner was rather
less than five per cent, the legal interest
on money here, lie stated that acout
one-third of the gross yield of an acre of
land was absorbed in various forms of tax,
including land tax, income tox, tithes, road
rates and poor rates. I explained to him
our own system of levying and collecting
Huang Tne In California.
The California Chronicle gives the fol
lowing description of a nutmeg . tree dis
covered in that section of California :
"We were recently shown, by Mr. John
ing which claims attention is the Bank of on the sides of an iron or steel-clothed 8na ne saia ne snouia pay wnas ne
Montreal .lilt, rtf finalv.rttif i;mot shin and annonnt lsn miiei U, toVon nf did more cheerfully if he could do it in
ami costing not far fmm 2mmn All the damage the wood work forming thn so simple a way as we do; paying it all
nf thn nrinriral hnil.tin. ... .tn.tW inner sides nf snrh a oKin wnnU raraitro at one time, upon one bill, and to one
and the walls are from three to five feet from the driving in of the broken plates, omcer,
in thickness. The quavs or docks of the aud which, as far as the present experi- the ceremony or shakiko hands.
city are built of solid masonry, and are ments have illustrated, would appear to When we parted he held out his hand
upward of two miles in length. The pop- prove that an iron or steel-clad ship, on to me, and shaking mine very cordially,
ulation of the city is eighty five thonsand, receiving a concentrated broadside from thanked ma for the information I had
of whom seventy-five thousand are Ro- a. .frigate, armed in a similar manner to given him. I mention this little incident
man Catholics, and are very constant in tne Mersey, and struck near her waterline, m.inW in illnstratn a noint of difference
their attendance at the churches, which must sink then and there, with her armor between English and American manners,
are open all the time." on her back. which our countrymen do not always ap
prehend. Shaking hands in England is
Tho "Auantio" on Public Schools. not a ceremonv. but a symbol. Strangers,
The September number of the Atlantic when first introduced, do not, as a general
has the following on our public school svs- rule, shake hands: but they often do
tern : when thev part The act shows that
"Is this magnificent system of public I certain relation of friendship or acquaint-
Hansen, a branch taken from a tree of the instruction, the glory of the world, to turn anceship has been formed; and the hand
i . t : . i..nna f . i - t i r r i - i , , 1 1 - 1 i . : c. . : it.
uuuuck epevics, tajuiBimug a viudici ji uub merely a vasi luauuiue lor gnnaing I u extenuea in pieuge urraifiuuauuu lucia
tne iruu to the number ot seven, ine down loung America, just as the system of.
tree irora which these nuts were taiten of middle-men. similarly organized, has an English countrt scene.
was discovered sometime since by a man ground down the Irish peasantry ? Look . I passed by two or three stately man
engaged in working on the Mokelumne at it 1 as now arranged, committees are sions, embowered in foliage, and with
Hill flume, about fifteen miles distant, responsible to the public, teachers to com- green velvet lawns running up to the door,
There are two trees standing near each mittees, pupils to teachers all pledged and several cottages, one or two of which
other, very nearly of the same size ; sup- to extract maximum crops to cbildish might have been put into an artist's sketch
posed to be thirty feet in height, and the brains, tach is responsible to the author- book as perfect types of the class of build-
trunk two feet in diameter. In appear- ity next above him for a certain amount, inss to which they belong. Iu front of
ance they closely resemble trees . in the and must get it out of the victim next be- them a sturdy brown-cheeked little dam
torrid zone, shooting up iu a single stem a I low him. Constant improvements in ma- sal of ten or twelve years was tending a
distance of twenty feet before giving on chmcry perfect and expedite the work ; baby with a most motherly air, the twain
-,,.1 n1! l : j . j .i r i ,. . i : j :.n.
ouj umumcB. luvicntcstuouiiucuiuoi impiuveu gauges uuu lliuas uiKtiu me lorin making a pretty picture, reueveu ugaiiiBt
beautiful deep green on the upper side, of examinations) compute the com para- a back-ground of roses and hollyhocks.
lighter on the under, are narrow, about tive yield to a nicety, and allow no eva- I spoke to the little girl, but could get
two or three inches in length, and arranged sion.. The child cannot spare an hour, for nothing but faintly uttered monosyllables
alternately upon loot slaiss irom a toot ne must keep tip witn the other children; in reply, oho seemed so overpowered
to a foot and a half in length. ItisadifE- the teacher dares not relax, for he must, with the consciousness of having been
cult matter to determine by what chance keep up with the other schools ; the com- snoken to by a gentleman, that her tuind
these trees should, in the first place, have mittees must only stimulate, not check, had no room for any second thought. In
found their way so far from their native for the eyes of the editors are upon them, the course of my stroll I had proof of the
clime; and most strange it is, how they and the municipal glory is at stake ; mildness of the climate in the shape of
survive the frosts of this; for it has ever every one of these, from highest to low- two myrtle trees trailed over the side of
been supposed that they are indigenous I est, has his appointed place in the tread-1 the house, starred with pearly blossoms,
to tne torrid zone. The nutmegs ol com- mill, and must keep step with the rest ; I and musical mthbeet.
merce are procured from the Last India and only once a year, at the summer va
Islands, principally from the Molucca cation, the vast machine stops, and the
group. . When mature, tbey are subjected poor remains of childish brain and body
to a method of curation, whereby they I are taken out and banded to anxious pa-
are deprived of the power of germinating. I rents 'Here, most worthy tax-payer, is
As tbey are easily propagated from the the dilapidated residue of your beloved
seed, persons having gardens and grounds Angelina ; take her to the sea-shore for a
will be well rewarded by procuring the few weeks, and make tne most of ber.' "
Eight Days Later from tho MinesT j
The Express arrived iu this city from j
the mines early yesterday moming. Ja
rett Todd, Esq., came through as messen
ger, and bronght in thirty-three thousand
ilollari, consigned to. the following par
ties : .
Murphy & WallinforJ, ,.$12 500
Benj. Burroughs, '" ' 4,000
Jones & Co., . 9,000
Campble, of Indiana, ' - 3,000
Mr. Kershaw, 4,000
Smith, Cobb, and others, 500
The Express also brought in seven
passengers. The accounts from the mines
are cheering, and gold dust is said to be.
abundant.
Mr. Todd informs us that he has fin
ished the survey of the dividing line be
tween Kansas and Nebraska, and estab
lished the corners. The line runs eighteen
miles north of Denver City, and one and
a half miles south of Boulder City. Greg
ory and Russell's Diggings are eight miles
south of the line, and the Dead wood Dig
gings, six miles. The line leaves all the
principal diggings in Kansas. The west
ern corner was established on the summit
of the mountains about fifty-five miles
west of Denver City. The surveying par
ty had a pleasant time, and consummated
their labors without difficulty. Leav.
Herald, &pt. 2.1th.
Follr of Pride.
Take some quiet, sober moment of life,
and add together the two ideas of pride
and man ; behold him, creature of a span,
stalking through infinite space in all the
grandeur ot littleness, rerched on a
speck of the universe, every wind of
heaven strikes into his blood the coldness
of death; his soul floats from his bodv
like melody from the string ; day and
night, as dust on the wheel, he is rolled
along the heavens, through a labyrinth of
worlds, and all the creations of God are
naming above and beneath. Is this a
creature to make for himself a crown of
glory, to deny his own flesh, to mock at
his fellow, sprung from the dust to which
both will soon return ? Does the proud
man not err ? Does he not suffer ? Does
he not die ? When he reasons, is he nev
er stopped by difficulties? When he
acts, is he never tempted by pleasure ?
When he lives, is he free from pain ?
hen he dies, can be escape the common
grave? Pride is not the heritage of man;
humility should dwell with frailty, and
atone for ignorance, error and imperfec
tion. hudney Smtth.
fruit as soon as it is matured, and treating
it in the same manner as the peach, or any
other nursery seeds."
County Convention.
Pursuant to call, the Democracy of
Johnson county met in convention on
Monday last, at this place, at 2 o'clock P.
M.
On motion of B. M. Jewett, Henry W.
. A Close Shave.
Last June the Palmerston-Eussell Coa
lition turned the Derby-Disraeli Ministry
out of office, bv a vote of thirteen, in the Jones, Eq , was chosen Chairman, who
fullest House of Commons on record. It addressed the convention in a few brief
has since happened that sevenot the mem- but appropriate remarks. W. Bronaugh
bers who comprised t!us majority were was chosen Secretary.
"unduly elected" that is, thev have been On motion of Dr. Jewett, a committee
kicked out of Parliament for bribery and of five was appointed on credentials, which
corruption. This exactly makes such a reported the various delegations complete,
difference in the division on the want-of- and proceeded to choose candidates by
confidence vote, on which the whole brib- ballot ; those receiving a majority of all
ing seven joined, that, had the reaUii elect-1 the votes cast were declared the nominees
ed members been present. Lord Derby's of the convention.
Ministry, instead of having thirteen ma-1 The following named gentlemen were
jority against them, would have had a I selected as the candidates of the Democ-
majority of one in their favor, on which 1 racy by the convention
they probably would have remained in I For Legislature L. S. Comwell, Olathe;
omce to this day. This may appear to I Cnas. ii. Sims, spring mil,
be close shaving, but we believe that the
Habeas Corpus Act, (tho benefits of which
are so widely diffused in this country to
this day,) was passed in the reign of
Charles the Second by a majority of one.
and that such majority was caused by a
piece of iocositv on the part of one of the
s .. ...... . .
tellers, at the division of the House of
Commons, who, jesting with a member
almost as stout as Daniel Lambert, as he
passed through the bar, humorously
counted him as two which error was un
noticed at the time and passed the Bill,
which Iird abaftesbnry bad humanely
and wisely framed. fhilaMptua 1 rets.
TBB ISLE OF WIGHT.
I think the attractions of thiB island are
more felt by tne Americans than by
Englishmen! and this because the scenery
is so unlike what we are accustomed to
see at home. ' The beauty which charms
ns here is a trimmed, dressed, regulated,
and cultivated beauty. All irregularities
have been pared down, all rongh places
smoothed, and a uniform air of finished
neatness has been given to the whole,
Not a tree, not a shrub, hardly a blade of
grass has been allowed to grow "at its own
sweet wiH;" but everything has been made
tn hend to a common result. From the
small size of the island, and the decorated
elegance which everywhere marks the
scenery, it looks as if it, might serve as a
brooch to a giantess, if one were big enough
to wear it. Jr.very square not ot the but-
face, not dedicated to pleasure grounds, is
under cultivation; and the abundant bar
vests, now ripe for the sickle, show the
fertility of the soil and the care with which
it has been tilled. I be houses are gen
erally cnbic in form, and built of light
brown stone, which harmonizes well with
the rich green of the landscape. Flowers
and flowering shrubs roses, myrtles, jes
samines, hydrangeas, fuchsias, and lau
rels grow around tbem in great profusion
Hard Times High Taxes.
From all parts of the Territory come
up complaints of hard times and high
taxes. ' The monetary stringency which
has pervaded the whole country, has fonnd
its way to Kansas. The time has passed
when we can depend upon the influx of
foreign capital, and the time has not quite
yet come when we can expect any very
abundant prosperity from our internal re
sources. Many of our farmers in the in
terior are upou new claims, out of which,
in a few years, tbey will carve beautiful
and prosperous homes ; but now, their ut
most energies are taxed, their utmost re
sources exhausted to pay for their lands
and make the improvements necessary to
a successful beginning. These things be
ing so, are our people just now prepared
to assume the increased taxation of a
State government ? The cost of a State
government to the people of Kansas will,
the very brat year, be 1U0,UUU at least
more than a Territorial government will
cost them. Are we prepared for this tax
ing ? The land must vau it. What ssy
the farmers ? Leav. Herald.
For County Attorney-Q. M. Waugh, Lndlrjriance; and pains are taken to
Matrimonial Aftocnon,
An incident that has recently occurred
has just reached our ears, and thinking it
pretty good, we give it to our readers :
Mr. M-- and brs wife were sitting
quite c'oee to each other, in their home ;
the husband feeling somewhat loverlike.
although for years a married man, put bis
arm around his wife and saluted her quite
affectionately. .The .wife pushed him
away, saying; "You shouldn't do such
things when the door is open and people
are passing. 4.uejr wui tuius: we are not
married if they see us kissing each oth
er.". ;:. , , : ,. . " :
(7- The Agricultural Society which
holds its Fair at Dundee, Illinois, in Oc
tober, offers a premium of five dollars to
the young lady "who will pare a peck of
potatoes in the shortest time and do it the
best." ...
- ft5"New Post Offices have been estab
lished in Kansas, at Scipio, Franklin
county, and . at St. Nicholas, Atchison
county. Leal. Herald.
Gardner.
For Probate Judge E. S. Wilkinson,
Olathe.
For Sheriff Pat. Cosgrove, Olathe.
For County Clerk S. B. Myrick, Ola
the.
For Register of Heeds 3. Henry Blake,
Ulatbe.
For Coroner C. B. M'Roberte, Oxford.
give each dwelling place, however small,
an air of individuality and isolation.
The roads, which are very narrow, are
bordered by hedges so high that the tall
est man endeavors in vain to overpeer
them. One chafes sometimes at being
thus cribbed and cabined, and pants for
wide new and a broad horizon; but pret
tier prison walls than these were never
reared, and they are now gay with the
finest tapestry of flowers, among which
For Sup't of Public Schools Mr. Chris-
terson, Lexington.
tor vounty irtasurera. a. oqmres, kail tvn mnn.inrnm. or St .Tnhnu.
AUDery. . ..... " I wort; the lovely blue harebell; the bram
tor lowwy purveyor A. Slaughter, We which resembles our high-bush black
nsxington. uiathe Menu. . : ; berrr. but with a purplish blossom; the
yarra; the wild thyme; the convolvus;
Qfr An Indiana editor says "Mrs. I the eorse: the broom, and those denizens
by the men employed to repair the dam- Swisshelm is a fierce old hen." I of our gardens, the honeysuckle and the
The Hew French Wheelbarrow.
The Lew wheelbarrow, which is worked I
age occasioned by the fetes in the gardens
of the Tuilleries, is attracting much atten
tion. The novelty of the machine con
sisu in the two legs of the barrow being
replaced by two wheels, smaller than the
one in front, and which are fixed imme
diately under the body of the barrow.
The bandies are raised so as to be on a
level with the hands of the workman;
and thus, upon a level road, a slight push
No doubt she'll come to the scnUh, foxglove.
LausvilU Journal. ........
Wajhisotos, Sept. 5, 1859.
Congress having, at the last session,
adopted a resolution calling on the Postmaster-General
to report at the next ses
sion what further legislation, if any, is
necessary to diminish the number of dead
letters, or provide for a return of the same
to the writers thereof, that functionary has
sent circulars upon the subject to all the
postmasters of the " country. Many of
these postmasters have already reported,
agreeing with the views of the Depart
ment that most of the letters returned as
dead were so returned by reason of mis
takes or lmperfactions in the direction,
and from the .fact of the existence of a
large floating population in the country.
As the Post-Office Department apprehends
that the taking of letters from the general
boxes, and the transferring of them to the
advertised list, too often prevents their
delivery, an order is about to be given
requiring that no letter shall be advertised
until it has been in the general boxes at
least one week. In the largest cities, the
duty is enpined upon postmasters of
making proper search both among the let
ters that are advertised and those that are
not advertised, no matter what the addi
tional labors that mav be imposed. A cir
cular has been issued to postmasters con
taining some fifteen sections relating to
dead lotters ; alse, a form of circular from
the dead-letter office to postmasters, in,
forming them of the presence there of a
letter of interest to the person addressed,
though not containing valuables, and in
quiring if he could be found, and was
willing to pay postage for the return of
the letter, with one cent additional, l he
number of dead letters yearly returned to
the Department is two and a quarter mil
lions. The number containing valuables
is twenty thousand. Cor. Jf. X. Tribune.
Qeneral Unanimity.
We are glad to see that the papers iu
all sections of the country, and without
distinction to party, nnite in commending
the recent action of Postmaster Holt con
cerning the abuse of franking. The claim
that the frank of an official entitled to it
may be affixed to a mailed document by
any other person than himself, is prepos
terous. The privilege is purely personal,
and cannot be transferred. It is bad
enough to permit any one to exercise such
a privilege, but if he may authorize every,
body else to write his name and frank
letters therewith, the Department might
be left without a dollar of revenue. X.
Y. Times.
05 Superintendent Ruckcr, of the
Cleveland and Toledo Railroad, had an
unexpected compliment paid him laBt
week. He had gone on the Michican
Southern Railroad in order to see for him
self what prospects there wereforaBpeedy
termination of the difficulties on that
road. The "strikers" put him on a sepa
rate locomotive, and started bim home
ward, carefully excluding the officers of
their own road.
the i&le or wight axd Newport bcisebt.
Here, a in most places on the English
coast, the beach is but a narrow strip of
shingle between the cliffs and the sea.
The charm of the Isle of Wight consists
mainlv in the rich verdure, the exauisite
We can only answer our fair co tern do- I cultivation, the' gentle nndnlations. the
raryin kindred poetry, which we trust 1 trim hedges, the velvet lawns elements
hi uau our ineuuBuip more strongly i arawn from, ana peculiar to. tns iana ana
Heaven's Trustee.
Beauty, we sav, is given by God ; it is
a talent ; position is given by God it is a
talent; but money, we are apt to say,' is
proper wages for our day's work ; it is not
a talent, it is a due. We may justly
snend it ourselves, if we have worked for
it. And there would be some snauow oi
excuse for this, were it not that the very
power of making the money is itself only
one of the applications of that intellect or
strength which we confess to be talents.
Why is one man richer than another r
Because he is more industrious, more per
severing, and more sagacious than others.
Well, who made him more persevering or
more sagacious than others I I bat pow
er of endurance, that quickness of appre
hension, that calmness of judgment, which
enables him to seize the opportunities
that others lose, and persist in the lines
of talents are they not, in the present
state of the world, amons the most dis
tinguished and influential of mental gifts?
JalM HusJan. .
Economy of Sewing Machines.
The Wheeler & Wilson Sewing M v
chine Company has prepared tables show
ing, by actual experiment or tour diner
ent workers, the time required to stitch
each part of a garment by hand, and with
the sewing machine. The superiority of
the work done by the machine and the
healthfulness of the employment are ad
vantages quite as great as the saving of
time. We subjoin a summary ot several
of the tables :
BY MACHINE. T BAUD.
Hours, ilin. Hours. Min.
Gentlemen's Shirts, 15 13 31
Frock Coats, 2 38 16 35
Satin Vests, " 1 14 7 10
Linen Vests, '48 5 14
Cloth Pants, 51 5 10
Summer, 33 2 50
Seams of any considerable length are
stitched ordinarily at the rate of a yard a
minute.
(r"The consumption of railway iron
in this country in 1853, was 403,995 tons,
of which 105,000 tons were manufactured
in the United States. In 1856, the con
sumption was 298,051 tons, of which 140,
552 tons were manufactured in the United
States, showing an increase of more than
one-third during that time. int. Railway
Review. '
fjJ-The Rorhy Mountain News gives
the returns from thirteen precincts, show
ing the vote on the State Constitution.
It has bcon defeated by a decided vote.
In these thirteen precincts the vote stands
as follows : For Territorial organization,
2,179. For State organization 563. The
returns are not all in, but the above indi
cates the result Leav. Herald.
Tor Od Ibrald of .WJoa.
Beautiful Workings of American Slaverr.
St. Joseph-, Ma, Sept. 18, 1859. :
Dear Hebald: Would you like a lit-
tie gassip served up ' for your raderi
Dainty tit-bite? Nay, lis coarse, repulsive,
the dish I shall set before them. . '
On Fridav last, the particulars of a
fiendish murder in this city leaked out,
and became noised around town. ' These
are the particulars of the "painful circum
stance," as the Journal of this place calls
it:- "
Several days ago a young negro girl,
about 16 years old, "belonging" to a Mrs.
Wash, of this city, was missed, and Mrs.
Wash was terribly exercised thereat, and
raised a tremendous excitement, declaring
the said chattel had run off, or been stolen
by the abolitionists; and immediately
officers were started on the track to find
the said runaway human property. On
Friday she was found, but in a place least
thought of by those in pursuit. In fact,
I believe she was found by accident by
those not on the "hunt"
It appears that Mrs. Wash is a woman
of not very amiable disposition, and does
not follow the golden rule in the treatment
of her slaves, as the sequel will show.
Instead of the girl fleeing from Inhu
man persecutions, or being spirited away
by some abolitionist, the ghost of which
forover haunts some people, it appears
that her mistress terminated, several days
ago, a series of revolting cruelties which
might almost put to blush the bloody
Spanish inquisition. For month after
month have the people living within hear
ing distance of Mrs. Wash, had thoir ears
pierced by shrieks and groans proceeding
from her premises, the result of tortures
she was inflicting upon this slave. But
they have terminated. The last blow
has been struck; the last shriek penetrated
the gates of heaven; the last prayer of the
poor black jirl been registered. Death
put an end to the cruolties. The lastbeat
iug Mrs. Wash gavo her she used sticks of
wood, and anything she could lay her hands
on, and called in the aid of a hired man,
and the two together freed the spirit from
the tortured body. Then there was a
burial a secret burial in which the wo
man monster and her hired man minion
scouped out an uncouth grave, and into it
laid their victim. . The earth hiding her
from human gaze, the story was that she
had run off, maybe aided by abolition
hands, and what an excitement was cre
ated! How eagerly persons started in
pursuit! But the pursuers found her not
She was found, however, and taken out
of her grave a day or two after being
buried, and her head was found to no
bruised almost to a jelly. She was a hor
rid sight , .
But let her rest .Another victim to
American Slavery has gone to heaven's
court as a witness. i. .
The femalo murderer is a sister of
Wright, tho negro-trader, who was shot,
some time since, by a slave whom he had
bought and was about taking South. .
I would make a comparison or two.
Dr. Doy was accused of aiding negroes to
their freedom, and what a howl went fort h
from slavery's den. Its minions were at
work, its money offered, its hounds let
loose, thirsting for his blood. Mrs. Wash
Jails one with sticks of wood and other
missiles she takes a life she cannot re
store, and calls in the aid of a hired man
to aid her in her fiendish work and it is
treated as a "painful circumstance" peo
ple "regret" it, but that is all
A negro is bought by a tracfbker in hu
man bodies a roan without heart or soul,
who makes a living off from the tears and
OThe Pennsylvania Railway Com
pany are substituting wrought iron com
pound beam-bridges on their road, for the
remaining wooden structures. They are
made by tne Phoenix Iron Company, are
from fifteen to forty feet span, and costing
from $18 to $20 per lineal foot Am.
Railway Review.
OirThe Gold Reporter says: "The
mines are still being energetically worked
and are paying much better than they
have done at any time this season. Every
thing seems quiet in town, but a trip made
through the gulches this week convinced
us that the miners are nearly or quite all 0Kit 0f others to be sold far South, to
making wages, and many being richly .,. frnm hU famil Md . tz0.
-a r. Ik. .klf , m - ' - "
Iniaea aiiue iuuuu, m.iim w
does iust as all of us would do under like
who go in to swim. Io England, the mag- . , i. , t v.w
istratesset such offenders free, and con. r". -.
demn and ridicule the conduct of the aMmnotsica iuio,"
complainants. It strikes us that the to burn him alive if tbey catch him.
English course is the best All things Wash brutally kills her servant
that promote neaitn snouia oe encourage, lMbm eM89i people stop a mo
and swimming promotes it greatly. 2to-l6 . . .
ton Traveler.
07" Marriages are frequently made by
two clergymen in these times, one rev
erend gentleman "assisting" the other.
Wo must suppose this precaution is taken
in order to meet the increased facilities I negro servant in a freak of passion.
for divorces that modern benevolence and
law have provided. The couples are tied
with double beau-knots. bosfm Jrav
tier.
raent, maybe say "too bad," and that is
the List of it.
Look at it rightly. The negro killed
his master to keep from being separated
from his family. Mrs. Wash killed her
The
first is guilty o an . offence that calls for
tortures dire; the 'second what. .Tha
first is black; the second white; herein
lies the difference.' ..
I clip the following advertisement from
the West: ' ' V
60 NEGROES WANTED 1 ' .
Yea. with talons tomatet. -
Sneh workmen as no Prentice matches;
fnould we meet yon there,
ra rood br to rmir hair.
For 'tis ion who will then fo to serosal.
JaxeG. Swissbelm.
llrwVwh onstratioa "pugnis et cold not the sea.' In some respects, the seen-
the heaviest load. The three wheels be
ing almost close together, the act of turn
ing tne barrow in tne smallest space be
comes as easy as possible, lhe workman
has but to lean on one of the handles, and
the front wheel is lifted from the ground,
leaving the barrow free to be manceavred
like a common band-cart.
husf
Mr prett Jane, say ana rest Jaae,' .
Ah. never look so shjr.
But meet me in the sanctum, Jane,
; Waea tha iaeou's ailed with rje.
Journal,
ry wonld have an advantage over a cor
responding spot on your coast, but not in
all. Indeed, with my fresh recollections
of this fairy land, I cannot recall anv one
point that I think equal to the Cliff at
Newport, on a brilliant afternoon in Ao-
dtr Miss Mitchell has caused an observ-1 gust; taking into account the wide sweep
atory to be built in Nantucket, for the I of the horizon, the curve of the beach,
accommodation of her new and beautiful I the sail-dotted waters, and the splendid
telescope. She takes great delight in I coloring thrown over alL
ftjr A London letter says the harvest in
England will be probably above the ave- this instrument, and frequently passes the
rage. The sudden and early ripening of entire night in her observatory, watching (ttr M'lle Rosa Ronheur has undertaken
the crop has caused an immense demand the heavenly bodies. Her new telescope, the pictorial illustration of a work on the
for labor, and better wages are now being which is a very powerful instrument, was I "Agriculture of. France," from thepen of
given man nave Deen lor several years I presented to ber by a few personal mends. I M. Louis uassin, professor at the Normal
past. Ainsn courier, - .Boston Attar. n - Agnnilturai lwtrtate or Beanvals.
05" A new shot-gun has been perfected
at Colt's armory, which will probably be
in market next winter. It is made for
five charges on the revolver principle, and
is loaded and fired with great facility; it
r carried throoA the most dense wood. 'JL groes T
BUU IU IW U.W. rm J Ul.UUVI j HIMlUUt
accident
Croup.
Halts Journal of Health, an excellent
medical authority, furnishes a simple
remedy for this common but dangerous
complaint :
"When a child is taken with croup, in
stantly apply cold water-ice water if pos
sible suddenly and freely to the peck
and chest with a sponge. I he breathing
will almost instantly be relieved. Boon
as possible let the sufferer drink as much
as it can ; then wipe it dry, cover it warm.
and soon a quiet slumber will relieve all
anxiety."
QCT The Washington correspondent of
the i. I. Journal of Commerce, referring
to tne expenses of tne rest- thee De
partment, aays that the ordinary revenues
of the department are much, diminished
by the extent to which the telegraph is
used, and asserts that it is well ascertained
that telegraphic correspondence bow sub
tracts a million of dollars a year from the
revenue of the Pocvcmca Department.
r t. c:r.
is of convenient size and weight and may 6 " ' ""V. 'ZTZ.
twenty-five years men, womeivX
Ml
"That's tne Way tho Money 0000,
In an article the other dar upon the
Civil Service Estimates, the Times began
a sentence by remarking that: "As for
the public purse, it is a mere' abstraction."
Yes, exactly. That's just it The pub
lic purse is just a ' mere abstraction" from
our private pockets. Punch.
05-The Annual Report of the Regis
tration of Births, Deaths and Marnagea in r CAvron' plaster cast of tha
England has just been printed. The births f Liberty " which was bronght
wi tuJ pwi veil UaQ UWU as vAwsw uj
243.256: and the deaths also exeeed
boys and girls for which we will pay tho
highest price in easo. ...
0 irrt rrtwT rr " vtt l err
siuiiua a. naou,
WM. M. CARTER. '
The person represented by the first sig
nature is the husband of her who murder
ed her negro. W onder if he wants soma
more victims for ber thirst tor Dioodf. , .
Another page m the volume of Ameri
can Slavery. Let us close the book. ,
from Italy in sections, bss been put up in
tv. .14 o... L.ll - Wehinotm II. li
thour of previous years by upwards of Tfcs fi u twenty-five feet in height
20.000. ' - - I T? j.-t rpk. -nK l,.nl raata
irom us peaeatsu. u
fttrElihu Burritt the "Learned Black
smith" and noted philanthropist, has giv
en up the editorship of his paper, the
Sorth and South, and will soon go to
England to plead for the general disarm
stent . The Aortt and South was. partial
upon the hilt of a sword, of which tha
point reacfies to tne leev a no ue u.u
grasps wreaths, and rests upon a shield.
The bead piece la the figure of an oaf la,
writh winm half spread. The body la
clothed in a royal robe. The statue, when
sVUDAitJs) AU1 AWIWI mm UWIVI wsaf,ytpsii- a ww 0 L - f
ly devoted to tha cause of "compensated east In bronze, is to surmount tbl dome ol
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