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I0L. MILLER, EDITOR iXD PUBLISHER.
THE CONSTITUTION AND THE UNION.
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i TERMS $2.W FER mi, L1 ADTAKE.
VOLUME II. NUMBER 41, j
WHITE CLOUD, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1859.
WHOLE NUMBER, 93.
XHE HOMES OF ETDIAHA.
IT J. B. OAEE9.
jti Iniiiaa cotUf hornet?
H pletwntly ifcey witm
h betity or ber fertile hi.-!,
Pfjith tb B.Mr akin;
TVy fprcW ipoa ber flowsry plains
Bar geatle MmHinf hills
aastla n tba graves that bead
Above her boo it ay rilU.
Kieh fiUs oferiiatoa, rreea u4 foW,
Lika qaiat mm ara tiwrw;
Ami baaglM that flnwp with laaeiaw fraits,
An toatinf ia tba air;
The clear, cold spring comet swelling forth
fnm oat its moss-hang care, j
Ai o'ar tba flowers that kiss Its Area,
Tba sbclteriBf lecnta ware.
' Aroaad ia troxea arcbei stand
The riaat forest trees,
Aftd wreathiag vines aod hleaejs fling
Tbeir fragraaee oa the breeze;
Tba pawpaw rear its silver shaft
Above the mandrake green,
Aad Uoaodinf oVr the fallen tree,
The graceful drer is seea.
Tbejoroat humming of th bees, '
Tbe disiaat haaier's Knra,
The farm-yard soands, tbe forest notra,
Bleat, ia tbe breath of morn;
Aad when the eyes of Heaven look thro
Tbe eight air Jim and chill, (
la plaintive melody is bearJ
The mournfal ubippoorwitl-
Tbe ladiana happy homes!
Withia tbeir lovely walls
Are forms as fair ind hearts a true
As dwell la sculptured halls.
There wemta's love, mans friendship warm,
Aad chi Idbood's glee, anita
To throw aroaad their qaietaesa .
A halo of delight.
The Inditna pearefol home?
Each boasehold hearth above.
The ready rifle hanp, to guard
Tbe lind its owners tore.
'a tyrant loot-print slams the soil, ,
By freemen only trod,
Who never have ia snppliance knelt.
Save when ia prayer to God.
THE MYSTERIOUS GAMBLER.
BY AX OLD STAGER.
I hve made several passages tip tlie
Mississippi and Ohio rivers, and never
without seeing on board the steamers
more or less professional gamblers. It
is t thriving bnsiness on the boats wliei e
time bangs heavily on the hands of the
passengers, and the blacklegs carry off
large soms of money. They usnally re
main on board bnt a day or two long
cnongh to have their trae character ex
posi. This gentry had become such an intol
'rble nuisance that the captains of the
loan did not knowingly permit one to
came on board ; and not unfreqnently a
b ce of blacklegs were landed in the
woods when their profession was discov
ered. Dur'ng one of my trips the boat pnt in
t the month of the Arkansas river, and
a? wual, I took a stroll on shore. I heard
the fcall for the departure of the steamer.
Ml kastened back to the landing. As I
w en my way, I was overtaken by a
grotleman with a broad brimmed hat,
Pwn goggles, and a white neckcloth,
tagging along with a large valise.
'I am rather late, am I not ?" said he,
he joiaed me.
"Tree enongh. sir," I replied, respect-
lf 'or Pnt'eIfm was a clergyman,
"hodi;t itinerant, I supposed.
'My valise is rather heavy, and I fear
d I shoolj lose the boat."
Let me help y0n carry it, sir."
He accepted my civil offer, and I took
hold of the valise, which was certainly
T7 heavy for a Methodist parson. In
lew moments he reached the steamer,
M I passed on board ; bnt my new ac
jomtance had accomplished bnt half the
iisUnce, when the plank canted, and he
thrown into the river. Fortunately
Whim, I was prompt in my efforts to
him, and he was immediately drawn
board, with no other detriment than a
thorough docking. ,
.."ty We id, whom, as I never learned
name, I shall have to call him Rev.
toggle,, retired to a vacant state
m. It was now nearly dark, and I
not see him again that night,
usual, in the evening, there was a
i J" i e cb!n' devoted to cards ; in
v M. there was gambling without stint
one ohiected tA v. .
j "5s nt done by professional black
vf.; lnever played, bnt I often stood
table to observe the progress of
the
Plivm'' Dd Study tbe. look8 of ihe
fipH. i '"J were g"atea Dy tne
.c.hn8of amomenu
cWV 1 WM tho8 Aching them, I
a I?n0n tlie 0PPwte side of the Uble
interest the plays of
ea7r. - , 18 nilested a desire to
"Sed out.Pl4Ce f 0n8 wh0 ba!d.bcen
eom'j S00n,PPnt tbat 'the new
mer was . skillful player, and time af-
laJ es.wePtthe board of all that
5 ? B f enon8Uof Jtnd th-
r. tr, . ."un rge snm of mon
gWork! 1 S4tU6ed WiA hU
T . tne ar deck nntil aH
' : i
--6rs nad retired, and then left
Much curiosity had been manifested to
know who and what be was. Nobody
had seen him before, and nobody remem
bered when he came on board, and what
seemed most singular of all, he was not
seen the next day, though the boat was
not stopped during the night. "
Tbe next day was Sunday, and at
breakfast time my Methodist friend made
bis appearance. "
My young friend, I have to thank
yoo for the good service yon did me last
evening. I am poor ; I have none of
this world's goods. I trust that all my
treasures are laid up in heaven. But the
Lord will reward yon, if I cannot"
' "Don't mention it, my dear sir. I am
happy to haye been the means of saving
yon.
We conversed awhile upon the matter,
and my friend then spoke of having a
service on ooard, if agreeable to the pas
sengers. Of course it was aereeable, and
the parson prayed and exhorted with a
seal that would have done honor to the
most celebrated of the revivalists.
The impression produced by the ser
vice, I am sorry to say, was not perma
nent, for when evening came, the gaming
table was spread out as usual, and the
games commenced. The mysterious
gambler appeared again, much to the
surprise of all, for it was believed that be
had landed, or been lost' overboard. He
played, and swept the board as before.
Some of the weaker ones beenn to think
he was the devil in disguse, and their
belief was almost confirmed when the
next day nothing could be found of him
' The passengers made him the subject
or tneir conversation, and quite an ex
citement was kindled. The captain swore,
if he appeared again, be would throw
him into the river. A thorough search
was made for him, but in vain. My
Methodist friend was especially indignant,
and believed it would be a good plan to
hang every gambler. As soon as the
trne character was discovered, I agreed
with him entirely.
One yonng man from Cincinnati was
particularly distressed in the sudden dis
appearance of the blackleg, for he had,
under the influence of an overdose of
brandy, staked and- lost a half eagle,
which his mother had given him just be
fore her death. It was not the loss of the
money that distressed him, for he had
plenty of that, but it was the associations
connected with the coin itself. There was
a history belonging to it, be said, and he
would give tho gambler double the value
of it, if he would return it, with a little
ring attached toil.
That evening, to the disappointment of
all on board, who were prepared to deal
with him in a summary manner, the
blackleg did not appear. Man or devil,
he had the means of knowing the indigna
tion his acts had caused. There was a
strange mystery about him. Every part
of the steamer was again searched in vain
for him. and it seemed certain that he
could not have gone ashore.
The next day I was talking with Rev.
Mr. Goggles, not about the gambler, bnt
on general topics. Of course, his life, at
an itinerant, was full of interest to me.
He told me how cheaply he lived, and
travelled from place to place ; that he
was often hungry, and never had over ten
dollars at once.
"I have only five, now," he said ; and
to verify his statement, he took from his
pocket a half fagle.
I glanced at it. There was a hole in
it, with a ring attached I It was certain
ly the property of the yonng man from
Cincinnati. "
"What is this ring for?" I asked. '
"This piece was given me by a woman
in Arkansas, wbo was converted under tuy
preaching." .
Tlie liar I I had already made np my
mind that he was an impostor, in short,
that he was the mysterious gambler. Be
fore dinner time, I had an opportunity to
whisper my view to the captain, and
while we were at dinner, his state room
was searched. A large sum of money
was found there, and many of tbe gam
bler's tools, as well as the dress the "un
known" had worn. , .
"Parson, can yon swim ?" asked the
captain, as the Rev. Mr. Goggles came
npon the boiler deck. ;
"A little," he replied, with a very de
mure smile. .
"Yon have a chance to try ; I am go
ing to throw yon overboard."
The captain took him by the collar,
and explained the matter to the astonish
ed passengers, who were qnite ready to
assist in emptying his pockets, and then
throwing him overboard.' The money
taken from him was paid over to his vic
tims. -. ;
The last we saw of him, he was swim
ming vigorously towards the shore, curs
ing the captain with as much seal as he
had nsed in praying and exhorting.
The yonng man from Cincinnati got
his cherished coin, aad I trust, learned a
useful lesson. ,
An editor had a bottle of London Dock
Gin Dresented to him. and alter drinking
the whole of it he wrote a "notice'? of
the article. ' Here is a specimen of the
style : : ; ', ' ' ?i''
"Here's to the ladies and other branch
es of business hie in and around town
and especially the Mesident's Pressage,
Monington Washnment, etc.. all of which
may be had cheap at the Buck Drook
Brook and Dok Store Binigera Old Lon
don Dock Gin, for 92 a year if payment
is delayed until the end of the Atlantic
Cable."
TO MARY. ,
I wail Car tW, Miry! Ito rapcr's low Ml .
liu tolled for tfa day-light tmmnl kII;
My hark U iojpatMBt to booao o'er too on;
Bot Mary, aiy Mary, Tm mJtiaf tV!:
Far fcoaeF, aftt too hi Bow, a hen I ha
Delightful with blouoa, lad pleaiaal with iliado,
Whrro lire ahall pan faily, lika heaatifal droaatt, ' '
At bright aa tbe na-ahiaa, aj glad as the Mroaau. "
I wail Car thee, Mary! aay heart heateta root;-. '
. Tbe fatore if paioted with hoes from the past,
Aad faaey! crealioos, tho brighter aad belt, t
TJke bearoaly eitioaa .rite ia aay breast.
Tho stars shed their iastre, the asm smileth bright.
Earth sleeps ia the bosoai of goardiaa Bight;
My boat Is inpatient to fly o'er tho sea
Sweet Mary, asy Mary, I 'a waiting for thee!
A Hew Yorker's Election Sally. -The
following, from the Buffalo Repub
lic, is one of the best burlesques on "elec
tion rallies" we ever saw : v
VOTERS !.
Only a few hours will intervene before
yon will be called upon to exercise your
rights as freemen, and at the ballot-box
state your preferences for rulers and offi
cers. BE TREPARED 1
DOX'T WEAR YOUR BEST
CLOTHES ! ' J '
Patriotism doesn't reqnire the sacrifice of
your other clothes for the sake of
the Union. ' ' :
ROLL UP YOUR TROWSERS AND
" GO IN!
VOTE EARLY!!
' VOTE FREQUENTLY ! ! !
, . VOTE OFTEN!!!!
KEEP ON VOTING ! U !
When yon get well known at one
Ward, go to another; but vote manfully.
and for whom yon like, and frequently '
we insist, frequently. ' .
DON'T VOTE FOR GENERAL JACKSON
for he is dead. -
RALLY ! RALLY ! ! RALLY ! ! !
. TO THE POLLS!
. SAVE YOUR COUNTRY ! ! ;
Have yon wives and children ?. Vote
that those orphans may enjoy hereafter
the political privileges yon are enjoying,
and let not the traitor and the treason
strike them down. If they do hit, hit
back. Y e need not suggest bitting nard
when you hit .'
See that the infirm are bronght to the
polls in ene-horse wagons. Don't put
the beggar on horse-back we need not
remind our readers where they will go.
VOTE UNTIL SUNDOWN!!!!
DON'T LOSE A CHANCE ! .
PUT IN ALL THE VOTES YOU
CAN!!!!!
GO IT! GO IT! GO IT! .
Swear in your votes ! If yon can't
swear your votes in. swear at the inspec
tors of elections. Have a swear at home
body at any rate. -
VOTE ALWAYS ! . 1
Never mind your dinner or supper, but
stay at tbe polls and vote.
DRINK CONSIDERABLY !
The more you drink the better yon'll
feel. Moreover, the candidates pay ' for
the liquor. See that there is nothing left
over, therefore. ,i .- s
In conclusion, we would say, r i :
CONTINUE VOTING ALL DAY !
Something to Thank God for. We
find the following remarkable sentence at
the close of an article in the Nashville
Union and American, npon the late elec
tion in the North:
"The Democracy of the North have
every reason to be proud of the manner
in which they nave sustained themselves
on those issues, for if they have not ab
solutely triumphed over the Opposition.
they nave mucn more man maintained
their relative strength." -
That's equal to the poor fe'lew who,
with his wife and little ones, was "wreck
ed " on the Mississippi. . Finding the
boat bound to go down, he leaped over
board and swam ashore, leaving his help
less family to their fate. Crawling np
the bank and taking a view of "things,"
he espied his dog which followed him
from the sinking vessel, and in the exu
berance of his gratitude, he exclaimed :
"Mary Ann and the children are gone ;
bnt thank God, Ponto is safe !" Athtnt
Pott . ": : "" '..
What is Dkmocract ? This question
is thus satisfactorily answered by the
Knoxville (Tenn.) Whig: '
To be a Democrat, in whom there is
no guile, a man must swear allegiance to
fio narfv 1 If the rjartv hold a seoarate
creed in each State of the Union, every
member is required to swear that there is
.. far I . .
no inconsistency :n max i 10 oe naiion
1 iw mnst follow every Democrat in
the nation, irrespective of his principles !
And to be.sectional is to oppose anything
said or proposed by the Administration !
No man is to be proscribed because he
- T1 a.1 .
mav reject any one or even u me mcies
of faith in the Democratic creed ! v While
anv interpretation, given to any or all the
articles-of the.Democratic creed, hy any
man, North or South, is perfectly legiti
m.to I ' And 'all who remain in the or-
eanlzation" of the Democratic party, no
matter woe re uorn, wu cuun w
f.itVil nr from National. Btate. or Ceonty
organisation, , are Simon Pure Democrats!"-
- ':
Lata from Cherry Creek A Bath
er Unfavorable Account Fighting
Among the Digger Letter from a
St. LoTusian. .
AcsUbia City, K. T , Jan. 19, 1859
We have had a most pleasant Winter.
No suffering whatever has been experi
enced by our friends. On the contrray,
all have enjoyed mostfine health, and
are in excellent spirits, :
Day before yesterday it was warm as
Summer. Yesterday the thermometer
stood above Summer heat, and to-day it
is as warm and more agreeable than ei
ther of the previous days, the heat being
tempered with a delichtlal breeze.
Some persons have already commenced
working in the mines ; bat so far it pays
poorly. Diggers who have been tbe most
successful have not averaged three dollars
per day, and some have not made fifty
cents, working hard at that The gold
is very fine. It takes from 20 to 25 par
ticles to make the value of a cent Thi
largest speck which I have heard of, will
not weiga more than 25 cents m value.
All tbe large lumps that yon have receiv
ed in St Louis, as Pike's Peak gold, was
never obtained in this region they be
long to California. All the accounts of
gold findings of an extravagant character,
are the fabrications of speculators.
wish to put yon and others on their guard
against those stories ; especially ben.
Larimer's account I will venture to say
that he does not know anything about
tbe matter. 1 have not found a good
prospect yet ; and I am on the ground.
I venture the prediction that few persons
will make fortunes hnnting gold in this
conntry. iiut as "seeing is believing,
let all who wish to have a sight at the
"elephant" come on. I am beginning to
get a view of hun. - , , ,
There are more than two hundred cab
ins built here ; and two, hundred more
are to be erected before the last of March,
A mod hotel will be ready for "the boar
ders" by the end of May. It is to be
two stories high, seventy-five feet in
width, and one .hundred and twenty' feet
in length,. Speculators are already bus
'ily engaged in laying off cities around
the diggings, and they are the fellows
who are sending to the States such glow
iosr accounts of gold tfiscoveriea. "
If enough of gold isjnot found before
the latter part of MaJ, many now here
will eo to California, btw Mexico, and
Arizona, while not a few will pitch their
tents in this new region for life. -
As I am writing, I hear that there is
an affray coiner on about two squares from
my cabin. Three or four men have got
into a quarrel, and the report of pistols
is distinctly heard. If anybody has been
hurt, I will write yon the particulars. :
The principal amnsement here, daring
the Winter, has been card playing, tel
ling yarns, and drinking most execrable
whiskey. The latter is worth 810 per
gallon in St: Louis it would cost 20
cents. I must not omit to tell yon that
I have not teen a. white woman since I
left the States. H. L. Boltov.
Garbltho the ScHiPTcnrs. Horace
Greely, in a lecture on the sin of coveting
Cuba, says : "If any of our readers are
infected with the Cuba fever, or are in
danger of catching it, we will thank them
to take down their Bibles, and read J
thoughtfully, from Exodus xx : 1 ,' that
commandment which runs thus : 'Thou
shall not covet thy neighbor's house, nor
his wife, nor his ox, nor anything that it
thy neighbor's.'"
Our sharp cotemporary of the Peters
burg Express takes np him of the white
hat for ignorance of tbe Bible, and says
there must have been poor Sunday schools
where he was bronght np. Let us. says
the Express, enlighten his benighted mind
by informing him how this divine law
does run, (Exodns, xx: 17,) placing in
Italics some of his remarkable omissions
from i
'Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's
house, thoQ sbalt not covet thy neighbor's
wife, nor hit man servant, nor Ait maid
tenant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any
thing that is thy neighbor's.?, i .
. Horace remembers or respects only
what suits his creed. . . While the Express
had its hand in, it. might also have re
minded Greely of that other command
ment, which says: "Thou shalt not steal."
Ocr Federal Fahtlt. The admission
of Oregon made the number of 8 fates
thirty three all makers of flags will please
remember therefore that thirty three stars
is now the proper number, although space
had better he left for one or two. as it
doubtless will soon be needed.' It is cu
rious to observe by the following table of
the dates of admission, since the forma
tion of the Union by the "old thirteen,"
how the Free and Slave States have gen
erally been admitted in couples :
. ..mi r ,,
Vermont,
1791
Missouri,
1821
1836
1836
1845
1845
1846
1848
1850
1858
1859
Kentucky, : '
Tennessee,
Ohio, ', ,
1792
1798
1802
1811
1816
1817
1818
1819
1820
Michigan,
Arkansas, -Iowa,
-
Florida,
Texas, 1 1
Wisconsin,
California,'
Minnesota,' 7
Oregon, '. .
Louisiana,
Indiana.
Mississippi,
Illinois,
Alabama,
Maine, 1 "
. Sharp. The New York Tribune says:
"Tbe railroad companies having lately
agreed with each other to grant no free
Dasses. we learn with surprise that all
railroads of this Stats continue to bestow
free tickets oa the members of the Legis
lature, just as they did before that agree
ment This is done under a reservation
which allows the companies to pass their
own employees." 4 - ......
FROM PLATTE BRIDGE.
An Indian Dog Featt Jfytteriout Gold
Juuut Diteovered by an Indian 1 he
Salt Lake Mad Weather, de.
Correspondence of the St Joseph Journal.
: Plattb Bridoi. K. T., Feb. 6.
As the gold mines are the only topic
riveting public attention, some of your
readers who think of visiting them may
wish to know something of the frivolities
of the red skins, whose country they will
have to travel through in reaching the
modern Ophir. I will therefore give
them an account of a visit of a couple
young friends of mine, to sn Indian vil
lagetheir experience of Indian life, and
their introduction to a general dog feast
Having received an invitation from their
red brethern to come and partake of a
sumptuous supper, they at once repaired
to tbe village and then to the lodge ot
their host
On arriving, they were politely ivited
in and seated at the sumptuous table next
to their host. On either side of the. ta
ble were seated tbe red faced guests, anx
iously awaiting to partake of tbe sumpt
uous supper. In the centre of the lodge
was a large fire, and on each side ot the
fire a large stick made fast in the ground.
The dog was then sliced in two pieces
and on each stick was placed a half. As
soon as it was partly roasted, it was ta
ken off, laid on a board, sliced, and then
the head of the feast commenced distrib
uting it among the guests. Of course
the two pale faces were not slighted, bnt
each was helped to a slice. It so hap
pened that two young warriors had fin
ished their meat before their white breth
ren had fairly begun, so they gave them
their share, which was accepted with sav
age joy, and devoured with avidity.
: The proprietor of the lodge got very
indignant because his white brethren did
not seem to relih the dish, and remarked
that better meat white men never ate.
The young men assured him that they
were satisfied in looking on. I hey then
joined their host in a smoke, and so end
ed the feast with them, but the Indians
kept up the frolic by dancing nntil day
break. I have been told a story, the truth of
which I don t doubt as my informants
are gentlemen whose veracity cannot be
doubted, about a mysterious gold mine
discovered by an aged warrior of the Ar
rappahoe Indians. The exact locality of
the mine is a secret to every one put him'
self, some three years ago the Indian is
said to have discovered the mine, and
dug out gold dust to the amount of 8300,
which he laid out for goods bought from
a trader. A number of his tribe have
been watching him to find out where his
mine is, but they tell-me he is too old a
coon to be caught he has a pick, spade
and pan which he uses for mining. 1 bese
I have seen myself. There is no other
Indian in the tribe who has like imple
ments, as they have no use for them.
I have been informed by Good Friday,
a Cheif of tbe tribe, who was raised in
the States, from boy to manhood, by
Major Fitzpatrick, but who has been
with his tribe for about eight years, and
who speaks jrood English, that thir In
dian only goes to his mine in the Spring
of the year, and that about two or three
. . . ... ....
weeks before he starts, ne secretes nis mi
ning implements several miles from the
village. When he gets ready to go he
chooses a dark night and is careful that
no one is watching him. He then gets
on bis pony, and is gone eight or ten
days, returning at night thus making
his absence a profound mystery.
Tbe Great Salt Lake Mail is making
railroad time ; just think, 800 miles in
ten days ! The weather here at present
is balmy and delightful.
Years, c, t aussonai.
A Rm.B Workiks Both Wats. A
correspondent of the Journal of Com-
msWY-A. in erwaVintr of Plvmouth ConntV.
- . n j j
Massachusetts, which he had just visited,
says:
T aaar rint one town which made no
show of bnsiness, and that was Duxbnry
i -. a
a very pretty place, wun many nouses,
which denoted men of substance. But I
was told that it was finished. As my
informant said, it was Sunday every day
here, and he added that 'politics had been
the rain of the place.' Though he left
me without an explanation, I called to
mind an anecdote which I had heard, and
which may, in some measure, serve as a
solution. In 1851, the citizens of Dux
bnry; and the adjacent town of Montpe
lutr. arat a delegate to Washington, to
obtain from the Government proper mea-
sures for the improvement oi me narnor,
which had been obstructed. About the
ssme time they held a meeting and adop
ted resolutions denouncing the fugitive
slave act, and declaring their determina
tion to protect any fugitive slave from tbe
application of the law. Secretary Gra
ham, to whom the application in relation
(a thai harbor was made, took out from
his drawer a copy of the Anti-Slavery
resolutions, and remaraea mat we ppu
eants seemed to be independent ot the
Government, and. need not call for its aid.
Lately tbe Inhabitants made an attempt.
without success, to cut a cnannei, ana
abandoned it
"Mr. P.Trd. from the Judiciarr Com-
se.irrei nt rka Fsurim Senate. TeDOltS that
Indiana, in electing Lane and McCarty,
treated tbe Senate with contempt. We
think the conntry will nave nut one opin
ion on this head. Served the Senate
right Lam. Jour.
MY WIFE AST) CHILD,
ar d. w. SEUSLE.
I aaro two put isos jewels.
Too Surest eeaae of sank
I lore tkose, res, I lor thaw.
For taoir owa iotrfasie wortk.
Too oaa, whoa earn oppress see,
Aa4 satfa... in. saj heart,
Ta sMokaoea Susan s Wees are.
With hoe soeJaaVaria( art. -'
Her see, like aistaat teepees,
latpire mj heart witk joy.
Where, hka a foarliaa aaeel.
She seethes ear tittle hey,
latil hit eeeaiaf's sraaabef ,
la asasie soft aoe Seep,
Aol as a spirit waieheth
Bit eaha aaS peeeeral sleep.
Tho otliii th! whattoeare
Dwells ia her plsjfel ayes '
Men lika the feast which sparkle
At OTOaiaf ia tho skies;
AaS the her artless ausaiery
Of all oar hoasehoM ways
She tiap wheaoVr her start ttn-s,
AaS prays whoawVr she pears.
Park jewels God hath firea.
To share ray heaable cot.
At saostenren frost Hearea,
To bless say horrible lot;
Aa4 whoa tho tsrilifht TsArta,
Aad darkoest Slats tho west.
We ask oar (ratioat Father
Ta foard at while wo rest.
Advicb to Emiorasts. We take the
following excellent reflections from the
Springfield (Mass.) Republican:
We bear of a considerable number of
oar well-to-do mechanics and artisans who
are seriously considering the question of
a visit to tho Kansas Gold fields, or emi
gration to tbe West for permanent settle
ment this Spring. As usual, those who
are doing well now, pecuniarily, are the
uneasy men who are anxious to do better.
The men who spend as they go, and live
but one remove from the poor-house, are
generally content where they are, and do
not aspire to anything better, either from
a conviction that they cannot escape what
seems to be their destiny, or because Pro
vidence blesses with the great solace of
contentment those to whom she denies
the gifts of fortune. This will be found
to be the general fact. The man who
prospers above his fellows is always first
to seek new enterprises in the hope of
gaming money etui faster, and those who
are now talking most earnestly of a ven
ture to the gold diggings are those who
have good situations and good pay at
home.
But it seems to ns, after all, that the
inducements for emigration to the West
for permanent settlement are much tbe
greatest Ibere is abundance of the best
land in the world in Iowa, Minnesota,
Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri, in a
healthful and delightful climate, which
can be had at the merely nominal Gov
ernment price, or a slight advance npon it
in the more settled places or for nothing,
if Mr. Grow's Homestead bill, which has
passed the House, shall also pass the
Senate. There are also thousands of good
improved farms, almost anywhere in the
West, that can be had just at this time
for half what they would have brought
two years ago. Their owners are embar
rassed and want money. They will sell
their places very cheap for cash, pay their
debts, and push on farther towards the
outer line of settlement
There probably was never a time when
improved farms, well situated, on lines of
communication and in the vicinity of
growing cities and towns, could be bought
so cheap as at the present moment and
it is not probable that another such gen
eral opportunity of this sort-will occur
for manv years. At Jeast it is to be
hoped no such prostration of business
will again embarrass the western farmers,
as now cheapens their cultivated soil.
Those, therefore, who have saved a few
hundred dollars can invest them in a
farm at the West, with as near a certainty
as we can get in this world that it will
speedily doable in value on their hands,
and it does not need a practiced farmer to
get a living on western land. Here in
sterile New England, the mechanic who
should leave his shop sad attempt to get
his subsistence from tbe soil, wonld be
very likely to find it hard work, and wish
himself back in bis shop again, iiut ag
riculture at the West is comparatively a
simple business, and although skill and
labor pay there as well as here, tbey are
not so indispensable to existence.
Of the Prince of Wales's foreign (onr
through Germany snd Italy, an English
paper ssys :
"His pocketbook well lined with cir
cular notes, and the parental blessing
heaped npon him, a Bible in his port
manteau, ana eoogn lozenges in ois cnest,
H. K. H. will start with the God speed of
his future loyal subjects; and, on the whole.
he ass as good a chance as sny yonng
gentleman in Europe, of having "a jolly
j :, rs rr .. v... .
WU IIUIS Ul se. u vmm
be sown, better that the home farm should
not be selected for that species of hosbsnd
ry ; the continental common is by far tbe
best place for that kind of operations for
such illustrious youths.
A RnrrntMf Fact. -The Chersw
(S. C.) Gazette gives the following as a
fact:
One of the stationed preachers in
Charleston states that the colored portion
of his congregation ftf one-third of the
expenses of bts church tee rr contTibn
tions amounting to from 91,000 to 81,-
Ki annum t1t tho evnnsr nsaravtna
WV SIW.UI , " www J-
attached to the four Methodist Episcopal
. . ..... . . t
Chnrebes in that city conmoute annually
about 91,000 to missions.
" Don't Abandon Your Farms!"
We find the following excellent advice
in tbe Omaha Times, and commend it to
the attention of farmers in this locality :
We are truly sorry to learn of a num
ber of oar Nebraska and Western Iowa
farmers, who think of abandoning their,
farms for the purpose of going to the
Cherry Creek Gold Mines. Such a more
is very had policy, if not the height of
folly. .We are well aware that tbe remu
neration of the past year, affords bnt poor
encouragement, but a brighter day is
dawning, and the profits of agriculture
daring the succeeding years, promise to
make amends for the past. With the
labors of the past few years, in arranging,
breaking and enclosing yonr farms, and
the knowledge that yon can raise almost
fabulons crops, ought to induce yon to
remain where yon are, even if produce
would command but a moderate price.
Bat when we take into consideration, that
produce will be worth twice as much
here as at the East and that it will be
nnprecedentedly high there ; that it will
command a ready sale, and for cash ; that
tbe demand for it can't be supplied with
out importation ; and that yon are fixed
for raising produce, the inducement for
yon to stay on your farms becomes so
strong, that it looks like madness for yon
to abandon them.
We are aware that the gold mines pre
sent great attractions, that fortunes will
be made there, and all these thinjrs, but
yet there are certain things always to be
taken into consideration, when an impor
tant step like this is contemplated it
won't do, it isn't safe to make a more
like this in the dark. We hold (and a .
careful examination will demonstrate the
truth of onr position, to every reflective
mind,) that, by farming, yon can make
as much here, as yon can in the mines. '
and there are all the comforts of home, the
pleasure of being with friends and kin
dred, the advantages of society, and the
conveniences of civilized life ; all these
should not be flung carelessly aside as
unworthy of consideration. If yon leave
your farms the labor of past years will
be thrown away, the certainty of a fortune
abandoned for the probability of one, and
new farms will be opened to yield fortune
and position to their owners, instead of
that your farm might have yielded yon,
bad you not deserted it Again we say,
"Don't abandon your farms."
Aboutiomsm a Disease. The Boston
Courier expresses itself on this subject in
this wise : "One of the most interesting
and instructive facts in the history of tho
human race is tlie recurrence from time to
time, of diseased conditions of the pnblie
mind, constituting moral epiJemics.which
infect society with moral delusions, just '
as its physical condition is occasionally
disturbed by infections or contagious dis
tempers. Whenever one of these moral -epidemics
seizes npon the public mind, it
becomes morbidly sensitive on some spe
cific subject ; it runs into tbe most pitia
ble extravagances ; it seems to lose all
sense of reason and judgment ; it exhibits
the symptoms of temporary deliriousneas.
The prevailing sentiment in the Eastern
States, in regard to the negro race, con
stitutes a striking illustration of these.
intellectual epidemics, and one which in
future times will be looked back npon
with the same mingled sorrow and
amazement with which we at this time
regard the witchcraft mania of the old
colonv of Massachusetts.
The following hints, thrown ont by a
cotemporary who had been annoyed by ;
tbe avalanche of unintelligible manu
script, should be read attentively by all
writers for newspspers. . Some et our
own correspondents may profit by wast
is said: There is nobody permitted to
write unintelligibly for oar paper, bnt
ourselves. One unreadable manuscript a
day is as much as the genius of onr com
posing force can master. Therefore, every
one who expects to hsve his communica
tion printed so as to make sense, mast
take the trouble to write it so that the
whole collected talent of the office ahall -be
able to decipher its meaning. It wonld
take more than one Champollioo to un
ravel some of the hieroglyphics sent us
for English. We keep translators only
from living languages into the American
tongue.
"Keef Yoca rownv.a Dar." The
Newbnryport (Mass.) Herald ssys: "It
is rather a remarkable circumstance, that
the powder which was used in 8andwich, -in
firing off the cannon to celebrate the .
connection by a cable, of England to the
L nited S tatea, is tbe same w hich was par-
chased in the wsr of 1812, to fight onr
then English enemy. It has been kept .
in a tight cask in the old magazine, sun
ated ia the old cemetery, since that time."..
A Relic or nra Olbew Tim. It is
said that Col. Henry C. Harris, of Cev- -
lngton. Kentucky, can-tea a gold watch
that was made by Williams in the year
1652. and is consequently 2Uo years old.
It Belonged to CoL Harris's father and
grandfather, and was worn by the .latter
gentleman during the war of the Heroin- .
tion, who was aid-de-camp to General 1
Washington, and one of his near rela- "
tires. L--,
Mr. Jefferson never franked letters for
any members of his family, and corres
pondents frequently inclosed ia those at- .
reeled to him, letters for some of his fa
mily, bnt Mr. Jefferson invariably gave
notice of the fact to the Postmaster, aad
had the postage of all such tetters charg
ed to him.

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