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(Graduates of American Dental Colleges.)
Broadway opposite Palmers
COI'NTIL BI.l'FFS, IOWA.
Satur'lar M.iv. 18iV7. nl-il
DOUGLAS & LAR(E,
Ciirpeuters & Joiuers,
FAVK I.ATKI.Y OPKNED A snop ox LOWE*
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buck "1 tbe Old
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pareU t-» Willi promptness,
nil oidero
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with ilteiu. They
will fQiniaii it U»vsjre«l. upon bbwit u piun» huU
for
buildings.
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Coun^i biuiia. Juue 27-od-u
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TEST.
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and Councilor* mi
(•ENTERAL LA!\D AGENTS,
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ILL
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11 ILL PROMPTLY
VV A^nru»*, 0»li*oti"ii«
in« and Selimp Laud W,
IOWA.
ATTEM) TO LAND
investing M«-uey,
mt*, »nd all
o'her
to Uicir pi oteMtiou io Western Iowa aptl A'o-
e. w. r&tcc. W. c. JAMES.
PRICE 4B JAMES.
AT LAW, LOI XCIL BLUFFS.
Iowa.
ought
Money Loaned and Land J£nterf4 fn Time. L.tud
fr'trr«tu!
k.-pi ouustautly for
*ale at tbe
lowest
(WIDER
^PUBLISHED
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MAT AND I.
i n w w i
4
TloT^'m majestic mien,
.MB. to hcd a Und«rnr
others, o'er the rur»l
M,y Ma I, oft wanJer forth,'
^eadatb ber mellow, droway ,y$
,,e«
with
tearful extacjr,
yic wonderous grandeur of the Biffci.
par brightly gleams yon placid lalllM
H,.w calmly alee
pa yon. dewy plf#
soltly glide the wavy shadeaM
'^Jlong yon sea of golden grain!
00
three nuntbs •».... I.....HOO®
OH Oilnnm, at jrear ••••*,• ..ou00
tlx m.ditm,. it.W..u"»v
Jhtf not alone ber loveliness
Vie hart est moon to us endears,.
aye ber smiling face brings bacH
J5l|(|
three months, i...••••••• ^.,'...60 00
BUtfCulumn .»ne year,.:..-... *•*'"""J
3000
•»'m 20 00
tl.ree inunth 30 00
OMtlunrtb Column, one ,j0
T7T .. six ninths.. 15 ooo
-•#. three month*,
jiveet mem'ries«f tbe bygone
y,
Street mem'ries of one happy nigh*,
l^loam Iroin tbe pas» wKfc brighteairay
6
&tkt blessed night in barveat time
TChcn wooed and »m was my dear Xay.
eat upon yon mosay bank,
^|ieatb the proud maple's spreading boughs,
I»I
there, in rapture uiidescribed,
TTe first exchanged love's tender
A little briiok ran wimpling by
Among- tbe step-stones at oar fe«3C'
tiny bells on lairy steeds,
It tinkled music low and sweet.
silver mist the moonbeams
•(be
m\SlClXS8 StftfcEOXfi.
rich
and varied landscape •,
»iM distant mountains faintly gleamed,
"r hngs 0( some fir dreamland shore.
gpl we in love's strange mystery wrapped—
.#ur life's wild pulses all a-giow,
Qcwce saw the glory if the ^cene— s
ptarce beard the music, sweet
Bright years have passed, and side by
side
jllung life's
journey me bare sped,
.... 1^10 buds of promise, resb and yosag,
n8"
H, KUTT. F. A. TR1TLE. S. ANDBSWS.
"Herchants Exchange Bank,
OF
8. C. JUJTT & CO.,
i Council Bluffs
SIGHT
AVI. TIME DRAFTS B0UGIIT AND SOLD
Collections made an.l
p,.ctld,
Street fragrance round our path«wbe4,,
i
L«£u('ng
Ait maple spreads a broader shad#—
:'%ie brook still bubbles softly b»j,.
lovers woo upon that bank,
As happy as were Xay and
I.
JSM
tai May and I,
f-runipt.y remitted
our hearts still yMli
Ihoush paihering years upon
vanee in the violation of our Neutrality
Laws began to bo discussed. The represen
tatives of the great European Powers at
Washington were astounded at the cool au
Racitv of such a proposition, and a meeting
of the principal of them was immediately
held, the result of which was the designa
tion of Count Sartiges to proceed to Gov
ernor Marcy and remonstrate against so rash
imd violent a procedure, as calculated to en
danger the peaco of the world and give se
rious offense to tbe great commercial power
and her allies.
bosirwis
nt-u
4. COCIIHASI,
Gonaral tmnd Agont,
OI
XFMI,
BIX*TS,
IOWA.
WII.I.
PROMPTLY ATTESn TO THE LO-
CATION and Sul» ut Larni Warrants for non
resident* the pavmwit Tnxe.s, anl tbe purchase and
8,tie of Heal E?«i ite generally. Will also enter Jauds
for settler* and h'ive tune for jMjuieott* (u2-u.
a. &. miit.vM. s. H. iiwviJi.
B- H. PEGRA9I & CO.,
Bankers & Dealers in Exchange,
COl'NCIL BLL'FFS, IOWA.
H. C. BLOO.UEB,
I*uhUc Comftirfartotttr mt Hiili far
th* »tmt9 ©r.V»c %%ork»
fcEEDS A: COX VFYAM'E* OF ALL KIXDS,
fM "Ul ami avkiu tolgPt.
T)
EEI
XJ
.0^Office in Umpire Flock, fpj«sH§ Pacific BABM.
[iron
D. (. BLOOMER'S
Jlfncy and Exc/i.v MIM^
EMPIRE HLUCK.
Accordingly, the magnificent Frenchman
proceeded in state to His Excellency the
.Secretary of State, who received him in his
usual plain and good-natured wav, asking
him to take a chair find a pinch of snuff in
the same sentence. The Frenchman took a
feat, and prOce«ded in a magnificent exor
iliutn, prepared for the occasion, to unfold
he object of his visit, lie began by show
ing the importance of preserving the peace
of the world in the present condition of af
fairs the great commercial interest the
United States had in the maintenance of the
most friendly relations with the gr«atpowers
«f Europe, and then proceeded to ghow that
th e principal of those Powers were all now
united in close alliance: that any nation
which wronged or offended one of them in
curred the hostility of all that if Great
41* branches oi' THE L4"M» AGENCY Dritain conceived herself unjustlv dealt bv,
_TV BuMnch pr-yinitlly altendrd to. L.i.-mI boucht al»l 4 o i- 7.4
'J* ranee, Austria, Sardinia and Spain would
bound fo give their aid in resenting or
ratea.
t^jT i uinre Block, opposite Pacific
House.
J. H. snsttJiAir.
Is,
SUERMAK,
Attorneyt, Counselors at Law A Notaries Public,
COUNCIL
BLUTRS,
IOWA.
VI'ILL PRACTICE THEIR PROFKSSIO*
V
in all the urt* uf l.,*a ami Xelniiska. All
atrondivl I., pi imptiy.
the 1
collection* entrust!
t-itc, aiv
drawn »mv 1.s| tteli. ai'kii..viiiluuieula
iistniimnis
taleu. Ac.,
CATION of lands i?» luwa and Nebraska
t'»payment
«e taxi's on I.HUWestern
-IS -f non-resMteata and tke
coHectien and rcmitUiico ot claims.
Mtnw»:
jj'
|!H».srs. rage s,
St. Loiti*.
Anderaon Jc 61
v
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Me»?r!t. Pay'*' fit HftCMl.
v
«*!"". |l"k«T, Reeivk A
Willi, Vi-let. A Co.
Wm. P«i^v EL Messrs. Bryaa & to
Mouoncjhrij
U
-k ot Brown- i'c
Baltimore, i"?™ ."M"1'",',?1'
Com. A F. B'k"i Hakim.,re!*, k'f
Baltimore Savinits Bank. jOlark
Keasm. Jobuttuu ABn',
Miles White, i
•Vr-
Co.
Exchange Bank.
Buna, Et»q.
T. LT,FRAN.
R.'t'ert OarrPt A Svins.Ill'.'n
T.
Iir5h
Siunti, Ksq.
X*tUno Pusey,
Col. JIN-.. WILLIAM*,
JtcktonriUc, ///.
Vor*.
Jno. Tb
'ii-.i,v,n.
H«a.
lion. Wm. Brown'.
Uii'hanl Yftte*.
Philadrlwhto'
K. R. Kiliott,
jtirfliriiftfiii-r'riii
A,e24tf*-
punishing such injustice to their great ally.
Having thus, as he imagined, excited the
apprehensions of our Secretary of .State,
the eloquent Frenchman next touched upon
the reported intention of our Government
to dismiss the British Minister. He could
not credit so alarming a proposition. He did
not believe that so experienced and conserv
ative a statesman as Mr. Marcv could be
ttontinti Kicen to htivinn mi) s^liniji real e»- 1 1 1 •. -a
ii, ns in N.-hr«ka brought to acquiesee in so rash a trifling
Ac.
u
vnmneawnu mntmm nm.
JU 9, CASADT.
JDaaleis in Exchange,
Council Bluffs, Iowa.
H.Hf,
"g'twr
IMMI&orriccR W.M. M. PUSEV, AtVyatLmw
OFFICER & PISEf,
VL F.ST .VTF. nnOKr.RS,
And Dealers In Land Warrant, and Exchange,
COr.VCIL B1XPFS. IOWA.
U,71"' ATTEXD TO SELECTION AND LO-
writing I with the peace cf the world, and it was to
be assured of the justice of these convictions
that he now called on the Honorable Secre
tary, in tbis frank and sincere way, to com
municate the views which were entertained
by his Imperial master on this topic, and
which had the approval of the representa
tives of other European Powers. During
this magnificent oration, Governor Marcy
sat in his usual position, with his bead
down, his face maintaining its heavy un
changing expression, and his sleepy, gray
eyes now and then stealing n stealthy view
of the eloquent and cxciteu Frenchman, as
if measuring his full proportions—intellec
tual and physical—and then relapsing into
their favorite range of observation—the
dingy old carpet of this most ancient of our
public offieers. Of course, the most elo
quent and telling of the Minister's sentences
were honored and recognized by the inevi
table pinch of snuff.
il. 0. TEST.
CASADT & TEST,
Janlie
At last Count Sartiges concluded his ter
rible harrangue, and with reddened face,
perspiring brow, brightened.eyes and quiv
ering frame, paused for a reply. What was
the astonishment, stupefaction and disgust
,if this representative of Imperial greatness,
•o observe the American .Secretary of State
rnand:ng
him tbnt funny old Dutch horn
Snuff-lmx^vrith an invitation to try the mer-
contents,
followed by the inquiry:
Well, Mr. Sartygh—this was tho nearest
the Governor could ever approach to the
rather dfficult French pronunciation of this
name how is Mistress Sartvgis and ail the
little Sartyjris if tho bare idea of dis
missing a British Minister could'so astound
the renchman, we may form some concep
tion of his unbounded amazement at the
very irrelevant and extraordinary response
to so serious a communication,. Me was,
however relieved .ua. Uu ucxt jaj by the
Wrffrmpt dccisivc and pointed answer to
Ttirtif
MtiWM iff mfrkr wiffnlrf ti
ETERT SATURDAY MORNING,
[For tWy—t"*11'
V
I-
same
kind
moon above their frMfc,
.,.j
.^Jfce same mild lustre in the air,
Jpi eyes as bright, and hearts as fW*
i(nd vows as truthful, all are tUM ,s
press,
Seme oib'ring we were once uke tUea,
Tfcitt' pleasure iu their bappinetfi.
|po4 often the barrest moon,
Jlbgiiis A^ew ber peaceful reini,
If# seek tbat memory-hallowed spot,
And dre&in our yoaog loves o'er iCiinl
W. B. H.
From tbe Cincinnati Inquirer.
HUMOR A!NI BI.l TESS OF THE LATE
GOV£K.OIl MARCV.
The late Governor Marcy was remarkable
for a certain bluutness and directness of
manner and speech, which were very annoy
ing to formal and ostentatious people. His
stern lo^ic and intense hatred of all hum
bur, parade and circumlocution, and not
maliciousness, ill nature or sourness prompt
ed this peculiar mode of bringing •hifalutin'
people down to the standard of common
sense and a matter-of-fact style of speech
and conduct. Indeed, he was an exceed
inrlv amiable good-natured man, with a
great penehimt for a good joke, and a elv
humor underlying all his social and even
much of his political conversation.
The old story, which has been so much
harped on by the newspapers and by politi
cal declaimers, in regard to the eh trge Mr.
Marcy made against the State
of
illustration of
WHOLE.SALK IX DRY-
(irocwii's,
Boot*,
Uupfflj"' 1
.SUJDKALMIS
C», CtoUuug Liquors,
rr,
&c.,
Ate.,
and
lOKWAKUJ.VC & COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
XiL, Street, Ml, JoiM-ph, Mo.
N w York,
of fifty cents, for patching his pants, was
not, as some have pretended, so much an
the Governor's strict ahd
literal observance of law ami stern honesty
as it was of his humorous turn of mind,
which could not forego BO happy an oppor
tunity of carricaturing a foolish law. We
have hoard
of
other incidents, illustrative of
the same trait, which are rjuite amusing,
though much of the humor of the Gov
ernor's remarks is lost in the relation, as
his quaint, solemn expression, the invariable
pinch of snuff with which he preceded all
his observations, and the sly expression of
his sleepy-looking eyes, gave great eOi-ct to
his humorous hits. "Thus the story told of
his interview with the pompous and i-xcita
ble Count Sartiges. the French Minister, can
never be fuliv appreciated except by those
\vho wera familiar with the Governor's
manner. It was when Mr. Cramptoii's ex
pected dismissal, on account of his
his impertinent protest, contained in official
notification, that Mr. Crampion had received
hi* dwmissiil.
The contempt for parade, ostentation pre
tense and humbug, which was to strong a
characteristic of Governor Marcy, was hap
pily displayed on a certain occasion daring
the Mexican war, to the very great disgust
of certain parties. After the battles of
Palo Alto and Resaea de la Palma, tbe
Governor of Louisiana gave permission to
ewrtain of bis aids—ambitious young law
yers and politicians—to proceed to General
Taylor's camp for the purpose of congratu
lating him and surveying the field of those
glorious victories.
On their return these gentlemen brought
memorials of the battles, in tbe shape of
various trophies and one them, Colonel
who happened to be a candidate
for U. S. District Attorney, hurried to
i Washington, City, where in his undress
uniform, he became quite lion, on account
of his familiarity with the scenes, events
and character of those then recent victories.
Having brought with him a Mexican lance,
stained with the bleod of its once owner, it
was suggested that he might make a favor
able impression by presenting it to the
Secretary of War. Accordingly, quite a
little procession of gentlemen was arranged,
headed by Colonel bearing the
lance in his hand, and proceeded to the war
office. They were ushered into the Secre
tary's room, where the sturdy old official
was engaged in dictating a dispatch. Taking
a quiet pincn of snuff, the Governor wel
comed the intruders with quite as much
courtesy as was natural to him, but with a
strong internal disgust. Colonel step
ped forward, with the lance in his hand, and
proceeded in a grand oration, to announce
that he was fresh from the fields of Resaea
de la Palma and Palo Alto—which had been
made immortal by American valor—gave a
graphic and vivid"narration of those achiev
ments, and concluded by alluding to the
trophy snatched from the grasp of some
Mexican cavalier by American prowess,
which he begged the honor of tendering to
him, by whose wisdom and energy the war
had been directed with so much success.
The eloquent gentleman then presented the
lance to the Secretary, who received it in
pretty much the same style in which he had
been wont, when a farmer's laborer, to
handle a rake or pitchfork. Squinting
curiously as he remarked: "Its a very
queer instrument and, then turning to the
chivalric donor, inquired of the militia hero
with a waggish leer of those sleepy old eyes
The young politician used to say that he
was some what disappointed in getting the
office ho had applied for, but that was noth
ing to the chagrin and disgust which he ex-
Orleans Delta as a correspondent. lie was
the author of the celebrated Mustang letters,.
which embody by far the most accurrate 1
orders were to deliver them to Governor from
Marcy's own hands immediately on his (tjJ(J
arrival at Washington, without sleeping or jon
stopping by the way. Freaner fastened the
inelosure containing the despatches to his 1
1
riding and passing through innumerable
perih, Freaner reached the United States
Dressed in the Mexican caballero
leneral Scott's camp, Freaner's appear-
ennni-
Indeed, a more desperately^ngandisb-look-
The Governor drew back in horror, while
the savage intruder could not suppress a
chuckle at the queer appearance of the ven
erable politician, in his white night-Cap and
long shirt. This mutual surprise was soon
interrupted however, by the ''brigand's"
disengaging some object, from a very com
plex arrangement of his inner garments, and
Iianding a darkened, stained package to the
Governor, who received it ratnersuspicious
ly. Our Fra Diavolo, with an abrupt
iibucnos
noces" then hurried down stairs,
and, opening the door, proceeded to his
lant army in the valley of Mexico was given
to the world. That intelligence was con
tained in the package which Governoj Marcy
had received in the mysterious and alarming
manner we have described.
gST'A few days ago a young man caught
a turtle in Spark's mill pond, in Dumbar
ten, whose back was marked as follows
"Nathan Gntterson, 1832. "The turtle was
a large black one, and moved along easily
with two young men standing on his back.
From I[aywards'•( N. H. Gazetteer, under
the bead of Middleborough, Mass., we copy
thefollowing: "Shubael Thompson found
a land turtle marked on the shell, M._ W.,
1747.' Thompson toarked it, and let it go.
Elijah Clapp found it in 1773 W.
tipmj okw
BY
je ,vWp®tlIlJ8
curl|n
COUNCIL BLUFFS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1857.
THJB WEST AMD WESTERN M£S,
*Y V. B. SHATJ*.
Very few eastern people have a oorrec*
conception of western society, or the rapid
progress of the West. The exultant "Eure
ka" springs to the Hps of the self exiled
wanderer from boyhood's eastern home,
when he treads the horizon-bound prairies,
or roams along the shore of the "Father of
Waters," or some of its swift rolling tribu
taries bat it dies away unuttered as he
mingles in our society, or compares our
works of improvement with the timo in
which they nave been accomplished, for
then bis soul is filled with surprise and won
der to find that the west is so unlike what
his day dream fancius had painted it. The
prairie with its rich soil and profuse vege
tation—a wide expanse of "nature's gar
den plat"—is like what he had conceived.
The forests, the rivers, the lakes, the
mounds—these are somewhat like his fan
ciful ideas. But the characteristics of the
people of the west, and the works they have
performed, are totally unlike all that the
eastern people have imagined.
In immigrating to tne west, men have
come here not to be conquered by nature,
but to make her lavish beauty subservient
to their wants and aspirations.
Therefore, in our western homes, rude
ness aud vulgarity, or ignorance, arc rarely
met. The fathor remembers the gentle
courtesy that guve such a charm to the so
cial intercourse which made bis earlier years
a long season of almost undisturbed happi
ness he remembers how, in his former
home, the priceless boon of education rais
ed men far above the common level he
looks forward to the coming time, when his
children will jostle through a crowded city,
r.r dwell in a country wnose every acre of
vieic
ward—and helbuilds school houses, patron
izes booksellers, and introduces into his
family all the refining influences that endear
to his memory his old home. The mother
has like hopes in the future of the west,
and shares tier husband's wishes, and en
courages and aids him. Thus it is that plea
sure, comfort and intelligence—free, per
haps, from many of the restraints of east
ern life—are almost invariably to be found
in western homes.
In western life the trials and obstacles
before the early settler arouse his dormant
energies, and he becomes active and perse
vering. Nature repays his toil with abun
dant harvests, ana his heart warms with
gratitude and grows great with generous
"Did you take it yourself V" The effect of impulses. Around him are cities, villages,
this query, both upou the party addressed and farm houses, built up with a rapidity
and his companions, can only be imagined
by those who have seen Governor Marcy.
rivaling tha fabulous wonders of the Ara
bian lights, and he drinks in large draughts
of the spirit of enterprise which does all
this. He sees men whom he knew in the
East as only nobodies, aspiring to be some
bodies in the west—heading the van of po
coun-
penenced when old Marcy put to him that litical parties, boldly debating in the c.
very irrelevant interrogatory. I
reminded of an incident in which the Gov
ernor was paid off in his own coin. After
the battles in the valley of Mexico, before
of the
P^P1?'
or
_• »r advance new ana gigantic enterprises—ana
Kefemng to the -Iexicun War, we are for!I)S
come a
our army had entered the city, there was for
a long time, an interruption of communica-
vigorously laboring to
a
more exalted and correct esti-
mate oi' mankind. Perhaps he grows am
bitious too, and endeavors himself to be-
|pajer instead of a follower. He
tiUg wi(V 0WQ hlUMj/ more acros
,v#t in receipt of a large ftock of
]n
Qur
1 1
e s i i o n s a a v e e v e e e n u i s e Pmore
of this war. Freancr was intrusted w»h
General Scott's dispatches relative to
buttles of Contreras,Churubusco,Chepulte-
1 ceneralil complete ,:uck ,.1 Kti
O the
0
'p^,,
2«n
*"itics in
iiu"
f"rB»H,ues
Atooidereu Robe* i.iui sijirui
0 w
iiiB» n'Jil UaiuJi, Linen and L^g jjjs
Bioofc. lie In
SAJSIIT k MSi. As it
•The
1 ra
pec, &c., and, indeed all the operations of jj(ul
tho army after leaving l'uebla, and his
6, PtSofcis BLI
ri8es
,n'-'s
rut
j,
new
F,oe
bodv and proceeded on his perilous journey, i, wtrtih*
I 'l -1 lOng milter X—»ellulUnUI,ir Wllld..w rnrm»l
killing several horses on his way by hard fn„
bir(j8
It was not, therefore, without just cause I them the doctor to cur
tbat when he proceeded, at twelve o'cleck at' lawyer to settle or to ma
night, to the private mansion of Secretary and the speculating ci
Marcy and violently rang the bell, that the money out of them
the door drew back in has become a villn
servant who opened
alarm from so fearful a Fra Diavolo and,
to the inquiry whether Mr. Marc^ was in,
replied that the "Governor had gone to bed
and couldn't see anybody, and especially
such as him." "Get out of the way," re
plied Freaner, shoving aside the frightened
menial "show me the way to the Govern
or's bed-room or I'll cut off' both your cars."
The terrified servant pointed the direction,
and Freaner stalked up stairs and knocked
at the door of the Secretary's chamber.—
Presently a hoarse and indignant voice wa3
heard from within.
"Who's that who dares to intrude on my
slumbers in this way?"
"James L. Freaner," was the answer
•'Who in the devil are you?" was the
next rather churlish query.
"I am bearer of dispatches from General
Scott."
"Well, sir," replied the Governor "come
around in the morning and deliver your
dispatches in business hours, and don't come
here like a burglar to alarm my family."
"Can't do it, sir—orders imperative—
Qeiieral Scott—not sleep—deliver in per
son"—were the words that rvached the now
almost furious Secretary through the key
hole. There was no alternative he had
evidently encountered as strict a construc
tionist as himself, and could only be relieved
of his presence by receiving him in person.
So he opened the door of his bed-room, and
there beheld a specimen of hirsute humani
ty, which, at that hour of the night, and
under the circumstances, might have alarmed
a man of even greater expenencs in the
tiying scenes of war than the hero of
Rousse's Point.
Snow found
it in 1775: Jonathan Soule found it in 1790
and Zeni Smith, in 1791. Each marked it
with his initials. Whether the critter is dead
parent w.mw shades
a
|,,
./l„.r,.9, i« Damjskuiaii knid»
iu ll
Suu)mer
in safety and hastened to Washington,,
which he reached about.twelve o'clock at Smo'of the tir«t
V
59 e\
BAttiilTT fc ROSS.
ilttlOII.
slroke8 thfm hig
night
sty
not
General ocotrs camp, rrcuner-s «PP™ tailor and shoemak
ance was not calculated to leave a very la- dressmaker to cloth
vorable impression on the minds of civilians, an
tyle, with long beard and uncombed hair,
ot having changed his clothes since he left
A murn
A SALMON* s.ufrerior ew
se?tk,r,'t0 liT(. with
taUor an(, shoemakC
l'h(.
and
J'merchant
t«i
th
mg character was never before seen at the
peaceful seat of our Government.
/fllrlner
t0 raise thpj
master to teach their chines. Ac., ,i minister
tQ proach t0 an(J coun
»BITT A"
86
ien
llage, not
eastern one,
but a wide-awake, go
lage.
The newspaper soon'
lead western vil-
lakes its appear-
Adventurers push out into the country,
pick out new locations, and build up more
He inquiries of travelers, and roads news
papers to learn what he can of the country.
Twd or three years pass before he fairly
makes up his mind, aud then he starts for
the west. When he reaches the spot he had
selected, great is his surprise to find vil
lages and cultivated fields all around him,
and that the west of which he had dreamed,
and the hardships which he had come pre
pared to meet, were still in a far-off
hotel before Ac servant, who had gone for exercised—because he lives well, laughs oc
a police officer to arrest the "burglar," had casionally, and is always light-hearted.—
returned Then the man is a man indeed—intellectu-
The next day the first official intelligence ?."? «d physically invigorated by western
of the great victories achieved by our gal-
the
Utopi­
an land He find9 that bis new home is to
be where he can enjoy all the comforts,and
jneet with all the refinements ot the east—
among a people whom he cannot but ad
mire, and whose peculiarities will soon be
his own.
He gains a freedom that be could not
have experienced in the East His labor is
repaid better here than it was there. His
mind every day coming in contact with tho
quick nnd strong intellect which character
izes western people, recovers its natural
polish and elasticity. In health he gains,
ecause both mind and body are properly
W08t uselul meD
age—a
Our eastern friends who rnad western
newspapers, undoubtedly think western
people extravagant in praising Up the many
attractions of their country, nnd in boasting
of their own works. And yet alfaf us were
eastern people but a tew years since, and
thought of the west as our eastern friends
now think of it, that it was tho place to
make money, but not the place to live.—
And what eastern man can you remember of
in your list of acquaintances who have come
to tho west, who did not write back to bis
friends as if life had new charms for him,
and that the west appeared as though the
most extravagant description fell far short
of the reality.
If we boast of our own works of im
provement in the west, have we not, on
every hand, a thousand proofs to sustain
ns? The former wild prairie, now a culti-
MAtNAllD & LONG. OFFICE, NO. 1 PALMER'S BLOCK, THIRD STORY, COUNCIL mgFFS
tie while ago, rolled on undisturbed in its
lonely beaaty tbe chorehe* and school
house* that stand where stood, A few sum
iters stoce, the Indian's wigwam the steam
cars that fly across the land swifter than
the light-footed Chippewa, the arrow from
his bow, or tbe deer be Irnnted—are not all
these ^proofs enough that we are justified in
boasting of what we have accomplished?—
If our eastern friends think not, let them
go and do as much as We have done, and
lirfrmia from boasting if they -.
EATI.G HOUSES.
Render, are you a bachelor, anflf So you
take your meals at Eating Houses If so,
*e should like to have your private opinion
of these feeding places Of late, we have
been compelled to take our dinner at them,
and we view them with mingled feelings of
respect and horror. Of respeot, because
«e are daily at the mercy of their proprie
tors—of horror, because our recollections
of the meals we have got there are anything
bat delightful. The steam of an eating
bouse is at least half a dinner, and, if vou
eater, the manner of behavior of the fre
quenters and waiters is a considerable dis
count off the remaining half. Cannibals, on
every side, areyellintr for "roatt Turk" and
"baked Indian-," knives and forks lly about
in alarming skirmishes after truant salt and
mustard plates, pickles and bread are hurl
ed fearlessly at the unhappy gourmands
sounds more complex than those of the ma
sons of Babel, and louder than the 'clubbed
sounds of the blown Baltic,' discordantly
vex the air ambious waiters rush about with
piles cf dishes more curiously built than a
llebraie pile of hats, and threatening anni
hilation to any interposing body tiiesfeel
themselves a priviledged body, and desposit
theimelves without any respect for popular
prejudice and miraculous feats of mental
calculation are performed by the hosts,
compared to which EUCLID'S first book of
Problems is the merest amusement. The
butttr looks strong enough to help itself
without your being helped to it the cheese
seems mitey as truth the coffee is as unset
tled as some of the customers' board bills
the mustard looks peppery the salt as if it
was in the last stage of a billious attack:
the knives seem to have forgotton every
cutting principle of their existence, and are
disgustingly indifferent to polish or edge
the forks forgot to "fork over" the bits of
bread and potato, and turn their prongs all
manner of ways and the table cloth looks
as if it had been neither baptized in, nor
sprinkled with, water, for a twelvemonth.
In short, the whole establishment looks like
the boarding place of Ilarpies, and unless
you have an appetite as ravenous as fam
ished hyena's, you feel that it is impossible
to quiet tbe barking of your stomach in such
an Inferno. Of course, there are exceptions
to this picture, but they prove the rule.
THE QUAKER'S COR.\-€RIB.
A man had been in the habit of stealing
than
hig filt lltrper cropg
tmns between the army and tho Govern- ^,lu ti/^, i^c., ate. For sale »t anticipations
ment, the guerrillas holding possession of
of th
all the roads to the coast. I he first person
and S(
who came through after the battles was Jas.
and c||
,a
ilnpuUe
vivified
4,«*ig EttbroMel western
L. I rcaner, who had been sent to thu scene peo. j[.. rgetic
of the war from the newsroom of the New
perst
But the Quaker was not prepared to en
ter
u rapid
iDto
any such measures, lie wanted to
punish tbe offender and at the same time
!)ring
ter
and
his reformation, if possible. So he
e
wi men oiiar*.
fixed a sort of trap close to the hole through
which the man would thrust his arm in get
ting the corn.
The wicked neighbor proceeded on his
unholy errand at the hour of midnight, with
back bag in hand. Unsuspectingly he thrust his
apes hand into the crib to seize an ear, when, lo!
he found himself unable to withdraw it!—
In vain he tugged and pulled and sweated,
and alternately cried and cursed. His hand
was fast, and every efiort to release it, only
made it the more secure. After a time, the
tumult in his breast measurably subsided.
He gave over his useless struggles, and be
gan to look around him. Aii was silence
and repose. Good men were sleeping com
fortably in their beds, while he was compel
led to keep a dreary, disgraceful watch
through the remainder of that long and te
dious night, his hand in constant paiu from
hich held it.—
the pressure of the cramp which held it.— n *'l 1
His tired limbs, compelled to sustain his robing the Bank,
wants weary body, would fain have sunk beneath
school-1 him, and his heavy eyes would have closed
i
in slumber, but no! there was no rest, no
i sleep for him. There he must stand and
sick the watch the progress of the night, aud at once
7r difficulties, desire and dread the return of morning.—
ists to make Morning came at last, and the Quaker look
the settlement ed out of his window and found that he had
"caught the man.
What was to be done? Some would sav,
al and lumbering country and proposes man awav embittered and muttering curses No one biding more, he handed tho man tho
more improvements to the village in anv of revenge. The good old man hurried on
one number of his paper than would be suf- his clothes, and started at once to the relief "Aad now, sir," he remarked, seising
ficient to parylize a down east community
and punishment of his prisoner.
"Go
ood morning, friend," said he, as he
came in speaking distance. "How does
villages. More farmers, mechanics and thee do?"
lumbermen come into the country their The poor culprit made no answer, but
products are more than sufficient to supply burst into tears.
the home demand, and a railroad is pro- "O fie!" said the Quaker, as he proceed
posed to carry off the surplus. In half the
ed
time it would take an eastern company to
organize, a company is chartered, the route
surveyed, the stock subscribed and the road
builti
Perhaps at the time when the first pion
eer is erecting his log cabin, in some farm
house, or up in the attic of some city board
ing house, away down east, sits one who
has a map before him. He sticks a pin in
some particular pointj and tries to judge
whether it would be a good place for him
to select for his western home.
to release him. "I'm sorry tbat thee has
KOt
thy hand fast. Thee put it in the wrong
,J
poor fellow was obliged to stand and
hold
the bag while the ola man filled it, in
terspersing the exercises with the pleasant
est conversation imaginable, all of which
were like daggers in the heart of bis cha
grined and mortified victim. The bag was
filled
nnd the string tied, and the sufferer
hoped soon to be out of the presence of
his tormentor, but again his purpose was
thwarted.
"Stay," said the Quaker, as the man was
about to hurry off, having uttered once more
his apologies and thanks. "Stay, Ruth has
breakfast ere this thee must not think of
going without breakfast come Ruth is call
ing."
This was almost unendurable. This was
"heaping coals" with a vengeancc. In vain
he pleaded to be released from what would
be to him a punishment ten times more se
vere than stripes and imprisonment. The
Quaker was ineiorable, and he was obliged
to yield. Breakfast over. "Now," said
the old farmer, ns he helped the victim
shoulder the bag, "If thee needs any more
corn come in the day-time and thee shall
havo it."
With what shame and remorse did that
guilty man turn from the dwelling of the
pious Quaker! Every body is ready to say
that he never again troubled the Quaker's
corn crib. I have something still better than
that to tell you. He at onco repented and
reformed, and my informant tells me that
he afterwards heard him relate, in an
experience meeting, the substance of the
story I have related, and he attributed his
conversion, under God's blessing, to the
course the Quaker had pursued, to arrest
him in his downward course.
Death mt Mnta Anna.
The tndependUnte, a Spanish journal,
published in New Orleans, atates, in its is
sue of tho 24th ult., that on the departure
of tbe steamship Texasfrom Vera Crut, ru
mors were in circulation that ex-President
Santa Anna had died. No pvtioulan are
given, and the b%4tf&ukt%U%&to tbat these
rumors probably sprung from the same
1 *"Uy
•EKPCOWU
We are one of that DeaocrHasfatn Moi of
philosophers who love a jovial faoe. If
there is anything of which we may B* prodi
otoostor
With a great deal
gal, without cost or prejudice to'
but With a GREAT deal ofbeneAt to ethen, ti
isofoaroMlM. Smiles are •ONTWOUSBUD
so
are their opposite*, eloomj MW
ant looks. Good Heavsns reader, OH try
and carry a cheerful face. There is nothing
that clears away the bile from the User, and
the eobwebs from the brain, like a hearty
laugh. "It is worth," CHAKLSS LAJU
•ays, "a hundred groans in any state of the
market." It is said of the gloomy old TE'
icographer, Dr. JOHNSON, whose brain was
generally "lined with blaok," to use Brarov't
Ehrase,
that his laugh was a kind of good
umored growl. "lie laughs like rhi
noceros," said Ten DAVIS. But EVEN this
forced laugh is better than sighing and
groaning over the ills of life. What if your
path be beset with perplexities ?—don't fret.
There's no use in fretting, though you
are in debt, and business is doll, and your
friends can't lend, and the note-shavers ask
five per cent, a month. Getting vexed with
yourself and wttt)body else won't help the
matter—no, not a bit. You may fret your
self into fiddlestrings, but yoo will only make
yourself more wretched, not cure th« evil.
If you jam your fingers in the crack of a
door, or stumble against a pile of brick left
carelessly on the sidewalk, or are half a
minute too late for the cars, or reach the
bridge just as it swings out into the stream
take it coolly, at least till dog days are over.
Fretting won't heal the mischief.
If tne girl you like gives you the mitten,
or you have got married and found your
self egregiously "taken in," keep cool—fret
ting won't bring back the one, nor make an
angel of the other. If your umbrella "comes
up missing" when it is raining cats and dogs
or you getcr.ught in a rain-storm with your
new five-dollar Leary and Sunday clothes
on—if you want to be captain of a military
company, and can't, or run at an election for
pound-keeper and get defeated—if your
trunk is
lost in traveling, or some gentleman
ly pick-pocket relieves you of your snperllu
ous bank bills— if newsboy "chisels" you
out of five cents for stale newspaper, or a
hackwan extorts a V from you tor carrying
you half a mile: take it easy—fretting may
elongate your face, but won't afford you
any cunsolation for your troubles.
Learn to be patient under perplexity. It
is scandalous lor any man, however unfor
tunate, to be always fidgeting and fussing
growling and grumbling. One mend-fault
is worth ten find faults all tbe world over.
Why, what a fever will a man put himself
into to-day about something which he will
only laugh at to morrow—aud yet, perhaps,
the very next morning you will find the same
individual in a perfect frenzy of passion
about some other matter ten tunes more tri
fiioj?
Keep cool, then, and don't be needlessly
worried. Remember that care once killed a
cat, and it may kill you yet, if you are not
careful. "There's nothing," it has been well
corn from his neighbor, who wasi a Quaker, 'Mike coolness—it breaks things in its
Kverv night he would go softlv to the crib, impatience. Coolness—did you ever see it
•., ,v i° i_
"up»n-uvc.
Why, he's worth a cent, surelT, after
Make it a cent, won't
you, gentleman? Now then, how much am
I offered
"One hundred dollars,"
said a voice, very
emphatically, as Colonel Ilarney entered the
door "one hundred dollars, sir," he repeat
ed, making his way through the crowd, half
a head toiler than any other man in the
room.
Tbe auctioneer, naturally astonished, in-
cl"ired
ance. Tho editor talk3 largely on the pros- that'll cure him." But not so said the Qua- interrupted the Colonel "and if no one bids
pects of the village, and of the agricultur- ker. Such a course would have sent the
A*W
if the man was in earnest, and start-
"f«ri nut and ffifii him a trooii nonhiHintr again on his witticisms.
Go out and give him a good cowhiding
just as he stands, and then release him 'Sir, 1 am in earnest, and I claim my bid,"
B1(^e
1
claim the picture."
m0De.v and
his address.
1
him by the collar, and dragging him to tho
lloor, "1 cliam the privilege of applying the
bastinado to your body for your duinuablo
impertinence."
And having caned him to his satisfaction,
no one in the crowd venturing to interfere,
he strode out of the store, and continued to
walk down the street.
Analyze the quality of character necessary
for a man to be tho actor in such a scene,
place, or it would not have been so."
The man looked crest-fallen, and begging "Vf }'ou *'1' discover the traits which
forgiveness, hastily turned to muke his military men consider to fit G«n. Harney
for
retreat. "Stay," said the persecutor, for
he was now becoming such to tho offender,
who could havo received a blow with a muoh
better grace than the kind words that were
falling from the Quaker's lips "Stay,
friend, thy bag is not filled. Thee needs
eminently as the leader of this Utah cxpedt
tion.
THE YANKEE CAPTAlS'SPCDDINQ.
The following story is told of a Yankee
captain and his mate:
Vhenever there was a plum pudding made
corn, or thee would not have taken so much by the captain's orders,'all the plums were
pains to get it. Coine, let us fill it," and put
put in one end of it, who, after helping him
self passed it to tbe mate, who never found
any plums inbis part of it. Well, after this
game bad been played for some time, the
mate prevailed on the steward to place the
end which had no plums in it next to the
captain. The captain no sooner saw the pud
ding, than he discovered he had the wrong
end of it. Picking up the dish and turning
it in his hands as if merely examining the
china, he said, "this dish cost me two shill
ings in Liverpool," and put it down again
as though without design, with the plum end
next himself. "Is it possible," said tho mate
taking up the dish "1 should suppose it was
not worth more than a shilling," and as in
perfect innocencc, he put the dish with the
plum end next to himself. The captain look
ed at the mate, and tbe mate looted at tbe
captain the captain laughed, "i tell you
what, young one," said the captain, "you've
found me out so we'll just cut tbe pudding
lengthways this time, and have the plums
fairly distributed hereafter.
TE LIDDLE PLACK BOHV.
Chon you recklememper dot liddle plack
bonv 1 pyed mit the pedlar next veekP*
"Yah, vot of him?"
Notings only 1 gits sheated burdy pad."
Yah, You see in de vurst place he ish plint
mit bote legs, unt ferry lame mit von eya.
Den ven you gits on him to rite he rares up
pehint unt kicks uppefore so vurser as a
chachmule. 1 dinks I dake him a liddle rite
yesdertay, unt so sooner I gits straddle his
pack be gonsmence dat vay shust 'so like A
vakin poam on a poatsteam: unt ven he gita
tone, ^was so mixed, up mit eforydinks, I
vints minexelf zittin arount packvards, mit
his dail iu mine hants vor de pridle."
•'Veil, vot you going to do mit himf*
"Oh, I vixed him potter as cham up. I
hitch him in the cart mit his dail
boat out to
cn cuts
soon
ward*. Burdy soon hosMwhleapsbiM, ant
sits town on his baaah—, (St LOOK. WE h«
tbey
bssrdsw. "Davo
tsqr cartful of
being ia a eon
extra attention
AteftfftMM.
..Tfcejrwr—!
kfeoft a
thMfaix}
finding tin
last*
vuoiuesa—uiu juu ever act
fall his bag with the ears which the good tumble up stairs, or do itself a mischief,
Quaker s toil had placed^ there. F.yery jjtujy
and
old
morning the old gentleman observed a dimi
nution of his corn pile. This was very an
noying, and must be stopped—but how?—
Many a one would have said, "Take a gun,
conceal yourself, wait till ho comes, and
fire!" Others would have said, "Catch the
villian, and have him sent to jail."
t0
(36
000
i—even houso is
fire, or the horse runs away.
are
f'8°
Dangers re­
treat when coolly they're confronted."
GENERAL liARMEY.
In personal appearance Gen. nar&ev is
impressive. He is considerably oversixfeet
tall, and is large boned and muscular. His
hair wus red, but is now thickly mixed with
white. He wears it sho. t, and begins to
look bald on the crown of his head. His
moustaches and beard are nearly white, and
1^1C^ aid
_i.:_k ,u„ ...1.1 .u 1 are blue and dull, for be uses spectacles.—
clipped short. His eyes
In younger years he must have been a model
of physical vigor and strength, but he now
looks older than he really is for his age, 1
believe, does not exceed fifty-five. While
in Si. Louis, 1 heard an aaecdote illustra
tive of his character, which 1 have never
seen in print. Being in .New York many
years ago, he passed a store in one of the
principal streets in which an auctioneer was
soliciting bids for an engraving of General
Jackson. Both the seller and the crowd were
no political friends of the subject of the pic
ture, and were ridiculing it in every possible
manner.
"How much am I offered for the great He
roof .New Orleans?" cried the man at the
stand.
"Only half a cent."
o* servant
of tfa+1
rt win
This satisfied red-head, and after a thor
ough 'ileing,' they left the room. In about
two hours the boarders came home from
church. 'Good gracious what is it? Bless
my soul, Mr. G., 1 shall faint oh! my dear
there must be an unclean uiimai in the
room and a thousand other expressions
were heard, as the boarders got a sniff at
the Patch Chewley when tbey entered the
house. The master and mistress of the
house were puzxled, confounded, indignant,
and in vain endeavored to discover the lo
cality of the 'smell.' At dinner time there
were not half a dozen boarders at the table,
and those that were there were rapidly
thinking of backing out, as the three girls
who were 'iled' were waiting on them. Fi
nally dinner was given up, and with doors
and windows opened, the inmates alternate
ly froze and suffocated. The day was a dire
one to them, but it wore away,
At night tbe three girls attempted to comb
their hair. The alchohol had evaporated
leaving the balsam of fir and honey, and
they might as well attempt to comb a bunch
of shingles. At tbe very first dash that red
head made, her comb caught, and through
the influence of the potasse at the roots, the
whole mass of front hair came off the side
of red-head's cranium, which she discovered
with a yell that would have rendered a
cannibal envious. The same result a. tend
ed the rest of her hair, with the exception
of enough to do up as a scalp lock to orna
ment with feathers in Indian style. The
other two girls met the same fate and about
ten o'clock that night they might have been
seen wrapping up tbeir lost 'pntch-chewlee'
locks in pieces of paper. The next morning
they were informed by tbe mistress that she
did not desire to employ bald headed servant
girls, and with their 'chists' thev departed
in almost a scalped condition, the discov
ery of Dave and Bob's connection with the
transaction was not known till lately, but
their toilet articles have been as saered from
touch as the tomb at Palestine.
TWO SHTSTER A&ECDOTCS.
Shyster one morning, last week)
was coming towards the Watch House, when
he met one of his old prostitute clients on
her way borne from a night in the saw dust.
"Well, Mrs. ——, 1 have just learned you
were in trouble and was coming down to re
lieve you. How didyou get out sa soon?"
"My name was about the first one called.
1 plead guilty, paid my fine and left."
"You are "a fool." -i
"Why so?"
"For paving your Itrfc )t «6tt!d niter
have been "collected.'*
"But, if I had not paid it I should have
gone to the Bridewell."
"No you wouldn't. Give me half aa
much as Blodgett did Marsh, and I will get
it back The &ne is clearly unconstitution
al."
"How do you make tbat out?"
"Why, you was fined for keening a house
of ill-fame on Monday last. And now vou
are fined again on the same charge, when
the constitution is explicit that no person
can be twice tried for the same offence."
So, according to Shyster ,if a man
is once punished for a crime, he can never
be punished again upon that charge, al
though he should keep on committing it un
til tile end of time.
Unlike Shyster C—, thw® i» a Shyster
named N- who actually made a raise
out of the same class.
Shyster N Wrote out an argument
covering two pages of large foolscap to
show that the city had no authority to break
up houses of iH-fame. He Went around
among the houses of ill-fame and read it,
and said he oniy wanted one hundred dol
lars to start the suit, and would acree to
ask nothing further. Accordingly the har
lots made up a pane of this amount and
handed it over.
The last that wtt beard of Shyster N-—
was that he was on his way to the East
een obtaining money under fWse pretencOs.
Chicago Democrat.
Ranaarian (Brass..
bunch, the product of 'a aingls
aemwwefw*
ofasbi^
comprises fifty three (talks, and as
many hea*a» tbe seed* fnem which would
probably fty a half-nint «MMure- He has
one hundred acres of tlte grass, and thinks
it a magniloent erop. It it just the thins
he says, for this water* oouatry. Its yield
ie front throe te fonr toas per am. The
andlias to hp sown
:nce for fudder and
bo tha& tihe two wtw n&HWUt
$3 00 PER ANNUM.
VMMww
for
UMMM*
pint OF
aton»
FNMFEbit of
t&it oostly hair oil
and that ail the aer-
van* gklaia tta house emitted tha sams
pnrfn*e they did* |T was not loqg before
they came to Ute penclusion in the matter,
So oiie T^HAUU that the hair oil eras*
was empty, tSsy teOk the bottle whiob had
oontaiBei IT, a»4, FFEAIGHI Ihey went to the
drug store. THAN® was a whispered conver
sation with a laMiing elerk, a mixing of
VARIANT articleefB A pint bottle, and the fol
lowing was marked an the prescription beak
as the contents:
ISM RAEPE*IVEL*«a4
it. for six years:
yeaao par
Cert, te.
fetal, 11,711,7^1 5WR":
THE RATIO of increase which tfcja tabla
presents, it
will be borne
by the
Of La«. Asafotida—£milk of a«afotidt»,
which, for the information of our readers
we will
state,is %bighlyooaeertratedestreat
of that deUciOaTdrug)—of rtfiri o*.
Of Liquor Potasse—(a fluid slightly cele
brated for its eorrosive power, having the
power of taking the hair off a dog in tea
seconds)—of this 1-2 as.
Balsam of Fir—(the stickiest and gunuei1
est article known) 1 os.
Honey 1 os.
Alchohol—to make the ingredients Said
1-2 pint.
This was well "shook" and deposited in
the usual place occupied by tho hair oil
The next aay (Sunday) Dave and Bob dress
ed themselves for church, and after finish
ing, traveled down staira. But they eajae
up another stairway in a few minutes and
secreted themselves in a room adjoining
theirs, where from a couple of pones of
glass over the door, they could seo every
thing that went on. After the people of the
house had cone, two or three servant girls
came into Dave's room.
•Whist, Mollv,' says a large red headed
one. 'Misthur Dave has some more of the
ile, and my hair's dhry as powdher let's
have a regular fix up, wid the /oiks all
away This was acceded to, and all went
to oiling their locks, being very lavishing
with the tiuid, which was quite tnin in eon
sequence of the alchohol. la a few minutes
red-head says:
•Whirra what smills so!' with her nose
turned sky-ward.
'Shure it's the parfumt,' interrupted a
short and dumpy specimen, with ber hair
down ber back.
'Parfume, indade." says the red-bead,
'that's not parfume—that's the rale bad
smill.'
'Mebbe,' says dumpy, 'its the Patch Chew
ly (Patchchoiili.) I've h'ard that Patch
C'hewly smills dhreadful at fust a pershon
must get used till tbe-smill before they like
it. Shure, its a perfume used by the quali
ty.»
is MI*D» is JER
wiU be eeea that jn
venod tha JBersaaed nroduelia* at wheat ie
367 per oenu, eont 361 pet eoat., and eats
401 percent. Now, had any JMPMAADA
an estimate of the crep.of iaea £er UM i
all approximating the faaraa breach!
eut
eensus returns of that year, ha weald
deabtleee have had all the UI fogy editors
in the State, who imagine tbat ths farmers
ataaa hfetess and nnprogzeaaive aa them
aelvaa* ridioutiag his figures, and charging
hw with a propensity to exaggerate tha
truth. By tks way,,it is no smmMeoMti-
TOO* WEAS that IHTSTX
mere than smyef his eetemparaift^eeslais
himself to the actual alatistics of ifegswwth,
ia the moat accused of bavinr a disnoeifloa
te be G«*MO.,«X mueh does
Ike «3£E)£
•MP th* aapeetatiene of tho meat- ean
guine.
MI nur (RUN.
Hon. 0. H. Smith-gives tbe following ac
count of Me first appearance ia a legislative
capacitv
I had been A} Coanersville about eighteen
months when to my surprise I saw my name
announeed aa*gandidate for the legislature.
Nothing was (K farther irem »v thoughts
than to eater the field of pobtiim my ambi
tion was to make myself a good lawyer. I
was elected however, and. the next
winter
found me at Cory don, a representative. It so
happend that it was tbe greeneet lagielatare
ever convened in the Stale. Tha ram ma
terial was not so defective as the experience
of the members. This accounts for the
fact tbat the speaker, General Washington
Johnson, announced my name as chairman
of the coarmiUee on the judiciary. On the
third day of the session we went into joint
eonventien to count tho votes for Goveroor.
Wm. Hendricks was elected. The Secretary
bad progressed till the county ofDecatur
was called. Tbis return was not sealed and
directed as the Constitution required. The
bodies mired to their respective chambers
to discuss the important question. Mr* PUT
sett, Gen. Stapp, Col.
Scott, Col. Jomes,Mr.
Dumont and Dennis Pennington had spoken
when there seemed to boa pause. AReyee
were turned to me, as the chairman of the
Judieary committee, supposing of oonrae
that 1 knew all about it. The house was
filled with a distinguished audienee, from all
all parts of tbe State, and several from
Kentucky. I arose. It was my first effort
afterwards remember of my speech, 1 grew
blind, and down 1 sank in my chair, almoet
unconscious, when Major Henry P, Thorn
ton, who was our clerk, sprang from his
desk, ran to where I was seated and whis
pered in my ear, "My dear sir, you must
have studied your speech at home, you hate
made a powerful constitutional argument."
6JT Cnrran and Erskine frequently Mt,
and must have looked upon each other's
power with respect: but the egotism of th«
English barrister sometimes shook the Irish
man's philosophy. Grattan's name Was
mentioned and Ersk:ne casually asked,—
"What he said of himself" "Said wf
himself," was Curran's astonished reply—
"nothiug: Grattan speak of himself! Why,
sir, Grattan is a great man. Sir, the tor
ture could not wring a syllable of self-praise
from Grattan a teuia bf six horses eould
not drag an opinion of himself out of him.
Like all great men, he knows the strength
of his reputation, and will never condescend
to proclaim its march, like the trumpeter of
a puppet show. Sir, he stands upon a na
tional altar, and it is the business of os in
ferior men to keep up the fire and incense.
You will never see Grattan stooping to
neither the one or the other." Curran ob
jected to Bvron's talking of himself, as a
great drawback on his poetry. "Any sub
°ect," he said, but that eternal one of self.
am weary of knowing once a month the
state of any man's hopes or fears, righta or
wrongs. 1 would as soon read a rcgiater
of tho weather, the barometer up to so
many inches to-day, and down to so manv
inches to-morrow. I feel skepticism all
over mc at the sight of agonies on paper
things tbat come us regular and notorious
as the full of the moon. The truth is,
Lordsbi'
eyes wit]
sun ws iuv wwiie *a« »i ititl ie| gn
bins weeps for thopress, and wipes
his
ritn the public.—Eclectic Review.
Kegmaaaia.
THE new epidemic ijmaking fearful strid se
among tbe democratic editors. Since th*
public appearance ef Douglas in tbis eitv,
with a hot fever of the disease on him, tne
contagion has spread among the "uawasfcnd"
with a fearful rapidity. And taking into
consideration the fact that the dog-star
reigns, there is no telling what horrors wilt
result from the virulence of tbe malady.
The disorder in its effects somewhat resem
bles mania-a-potu, except that instead of
snahes the victims see niggers:
Kissera to th* ristt of them,
NiHnr* to tbe leu o» i
*iss*ra tu Irani of Uem—
in their beds, and niggers at theif tab lee.—
In short niggers, niggers, niggers is tha one
idea—the ever-present, horrible phantom
continually haunting and bedevilling tneir
deranged and disordered brains.
Our neighbor of the Jbgittir ieanongthe
worts of suffefers. or more than a month
has the terrible affliction been upon him.—
Medical aid has been employed IN vain—he
grows worse daily. He bos tried the tooth
ing effect of "lager" time and again but a
grinning little nigger face stares at him ont
of the half drainod glass, and he eetait down
with a shudder He has sought consolation
in that "mysterious hottlo"—but no sooner
is it set on the table before him, than he
fanoies it all covered over with blaok wool,
and sees it transform itself into a
1
7 sleep.
grim and
sooty African. Poor fellow!—Andeapefctal
ly is he horrified at the thought, that atiould
tlie disease carry him off, he will have A taal
settlement to make with aUidrdevil. Ugh!
we would not be a Democratic editor fortke
world*—UUnoit Jour•
A TALISTED CONOTRIS.—A eortetpos.
dent ef the Lowell YETTRITOL says: In leak
ing over a list of tha aemtws of the twen
ty-third CONGREESF -which ooouseoeed De
cember 2,1838, and elosediJaroh 2, 1835,
1 wae saaaewhat surprised at the number of
members who have fitted
high
poeitiana un­
der out Government. Six mwafepw OF that
ftlk
no* VM riiiiwWNi
Meters, Calhoun, Jtfcneon, Tylfc, ffcUmote
ia
tha Hungarian
MrA Lipoohi, of Oakwoed*
our ofice some specimens of
grass. One
and
no LEA*
'|&5
8 jamhers M«s«ATjAN*T!
CWR John FWHRFC Daniel
WATFLM. Jwm M, Clhilmi and Bdward
Sverett aavedlled the «SATof gaeratarv of
Stat*
TORTJ-two membetp
hare
hoe* Gov­
ernors of Statea, and twenty-three MEMBERS
OF THTHONM have tinoe xrved in theSeaate^
•iiiniaiimm,
The 1/nicen, alaading janrpilef
it certainly entitled to leather midal for
the liheruttt of lib vieenK forft iMtonda