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U u j j- . f BY S. B. ROW. CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1856. VOL. 2.-NO. 44. m - - THE WAY OF THE WORLD. In the season of darknesj and sorrow, When hope has fled far away, When we know of no joy for to-morrow, . And feel cf the despair of to-day- When our friends of the past hare desorted, And at you their hatred is hurled, Jnit because you hare fallen in station . .Never care 'Us the way of the world . When death at the last would be welcome, And yon think with a heart-broken sigh, "Ah ! soon will life's battles be o'er." How sweet it will then be to die ! VThen the flowers of love have all withered, . And the shaft of black malice is hurled, , When your heart is all sad and forsaken Never mind 'tis the way of the world. When fortune again smiles upon yeu, And the frowns of your friends disappear, And the put asites flock around you With words of false welcome and cheer 'Tis best to receive them as ever, And not with the lip of scorn curled, For they have merely followed their instincts, And acted the way of the world. ETHAN ALLEN IN CAPTIVITY. - Among the episodes of the Revolutionary war none Is more strange than that of the queer genius, Ethan Allen. In England, the event and the man being equally uncommon, Allen seemed to have been a curious combi nation of a Hercules, a Joe Miller, a Bayard, and a Tom Hyer. lie had a person like the Belgian giant, mountain music like a Swiss, and a heart plump as Cceur dc Lion's. Though born in New England, he exhibited no traces of her character, except that h!s heart beat wildly for his country's freedom. He was frank, bluff", companionable as a har vest. " For the most part,' Allen's manner while in England was scornful and ferocious in the last degree, although qualified at times by a heroic sort of levity. Aside from the inevitable eg otism relatively pertaining to pincjtrces, spires and giants, there were, perhaps,- two special, incidental reasons for the Titanic Vermontcr's lingular demeanor abroad. Taken captive while heading a forlorn hope before Montreal, lie was treated with inexcusable cruelty and indignity. Immediately upon his capture, he would have been deliberately suffered to have been butchered by the Indian allies in cold blood upon the spot had he not with desperate intrepidity availed himself of his enormous physical strength by twitching a British officer and using him for a target, whirling him round and round against the murderous toma hawks of the savages. Shortly afterwards, led into the town fenced about with bayonets of the guard, the commander of the enemy, one Col. McClond, flourished his cane over his captive's head with brutal insults, promis ing him a rebel's halter at Tyburn. During bis passage to England in the same ship wher in went passenger Col. Guy Johnson, the im placable Tory, he was kept heavily ironed in bc bold, and in all respects was treated like a mutineer ; or it may be, rather as a lion of Asia, which, though caged, was too dreadful to behold without fear and trembling, and conse quent cruelty. And, no wonder, at least, for on one occasion, when chained hand and foot, lie was insulted by an officer, with bis teeth be twisted off the nail that went through the mortise of bis band-cufTs, and so having his arms at liberty, challenged the insulter to mor tal combat. Often when at Pendennis Castle, when no other revengement was at hand, he would burl on his foes such a howling tempest of anathemas as fairly shook them into retreat. Prompted by somewhat similar motives both on shipboard and in England, he would often make the most vociferous allusions to Ticon derago, and the part he played in Its capture, well knowing that of all the American names Ticonderoga was, at that period, by far the most famous and galling to Englishmen. Israel Potter, an exile American, while strolling around Pendennis Castle, where Allen was eonfincd, chanced to hear him in one of his out bursts of indignation and madness, of which tho following is a specimen : "Brag no more, old England ; consider that you aro only an island ! Order back your broken battalions, and repent in ashes ! Long enough have you hired tories across the sea, forgotten the Lord their God, and bowed down to Howe and Kniphausen the Ilessian! Hands off, redskinned jackall t - Wearing the King's plate, .as 1 do, (meaning, probably, certain manacles,) I have treasures of wrath against yon British." Then came a clanking, as of chains ; many vengeful sounds, all confusedly together. Then again the voice. "Ye brought me out here, from my dun geon, to this 'green, aflrenting yon Sabbath aun, to see how a rebel looks. Bnt I'll show you how a true gentleman and christian can conduct in adversity. Back, dogs! respect a gentleman and a christian, though he be in rags and smell of bilgewater, Yes, shine on, glorious sun ! "Tis the same that warms the hearts of my Green Mountain boys, and lights up with its rays the golden hills of Vermont !" Filled with astonishment at these words which came from over a massive wall, inclu ding what seemed an open parade space, Isra el pressed forward, and soon came to a black archway leading far within, underneath, to a grassy tract, - through a tower. Like two boar's tusks two sentries stood on guard at either side of the open jaws of the arch. Scrutinizing our adventurer a moment, they sugnea mm to enter. I Arriving st the end of the arched war, where the sun shone, Israel stood transfixed at the scene. Like some baited bull in the ring, crouched the gigantic captive, handcuffed as before; the grass of the green trampled and gored np all about him, both by' his ' own movements and those of the people around. Except some soldiers and sailors, these seemed mostly town's people, collected here out of curiosity. The stranger was outlandishly . arrayed in the sorry remains of a half-Indian, half-Canadian sort of dress, consisting of a fawn skin jacket the fur out side and hanging in rugged tufts a half rotten bark like a belt of wampum ; aged breeches of sagathy ; the darned worsted stockings reaching to the knee; old mocca sins, riddled with holes, their metal tags yel low with salt water rust ; faded red woollen bonnet, not unlike a Russian night cap, or a portentous ensanguined full moon, all soiled and stuck about with half rotten straw ; un shaven beard, matted and profuse as a corn field beaten down by hail-stones. His whole marred aspect was that of a wild beast, but a royal sort, and unsubdued by the cage. "Aye, stare? stare! thou but last night dragged me out of a ship's hold like a smut ty tierce, and this morning out of your litter ed barracks there like a murderer for all that you may well stare at Ethan Ticonderoga Al len, the conquered soldier by ! You Turks never saw a christian before. Stare on ! I am he who, wher. your Lord Howe wanted to bribe a patriot to fall down and worship him by an oiler of a major generalship, and five thousand acres of choice land in old Vermont ha ! three times three for glorious Vermont and the Green Mountain boys ! hurrah ! hurrah! hurrah ! I am he, I say, who answered your Lord Howe : You, you offer onr land 1 You are like the devil in Scripture, offering all the kingdoms in the world, when the cursed soul hud not a corner lot on earth !' Stare on, I say!" "Look, you rebel you, you had best heed how you talk against General Lord Ilowe, here !" BaNi a thin, wasp waisted, epauletted officer of the castle, coming near and flourish ing his sword about him fike a schoolmaster's ferrule. General Lord Howe 1 lieeU how I talk of that toad-hearted king's lick-spittle of a pol troon ! the vilest wriggler in God's worm home below. I tell you the hordes of red-haired devils are impatiently shouting to ladle Lord Howe with bis gang you included into the sccthiugest syrups of Tophet's hottest flames." At this blast the wasp-waisted officer was blown backwards as from the suddenly burst head of a steam boiler. Staggering away w ith a snapped spine, he muttered something about its being beneath his dignity to bandy forth words with a low lived rebel. "Come, come, Colonel Allen," here said a j mild looking man, in a sort of clerical undress, "respect the day better than to talk thus of , what lies beyond. Were you to die this hour, or what is most probable, be hung next week at Tower wharf, you know not what might be come of j'ourself." "Reverend sir," said Allen, with a mocking bow, "when no better employed than braiding my beard, I have dabbled a little in your the- j ologies. And let me tell you, reverend sir," j lowering and intensifying his voice, "that as ! to the world of spirits of which you hint, tho' I know nothing of the mode or manner of that world, no more than you do, yet I expect, wtien I arrive there, to be treated as any other gentleman of my merit. This is to say, far ! better than you British know how to treat an honest man and a meek hearted christian, cap tured in honorable war, by ! Every one tells me, as yourself just told me, as crossing the sea, every billow dinned in my ear that I Ethan Allen, am to be hung like a thief. If I am, the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress shall avenge me, while I, for my part, will show you, even on tho tree, how a chris tian gentleman can die. Meantime, sir, if you are the clergyman you look, act your consoli itary function by getting an unfortunate Chris tian gentleman, about to die,a glass of punch." The good natured stranger, not to have his religious courtesy appealed to in vain, imme diately dispatched his servant, who stood by, to procure the beverage. At this juncture a feint rustling sound, as if the advancing of an army with banners, was heard. Silks, scarfs, and ribbons fluttered in the back-ground. Presently a bright squad ron of bright ladies drew nigh, escorted by certain ont-riding gallants of Falmouth. "Ah," said a strange voice, "what a strange sash, and furred vest, and what leopard-like teetb, and what Aliened hair, bnt all mildew ed ; is that he 7" " Yes, it is, lovely charmer," said AUen,like an Ottoman, bowing over his broad bovine and breathing the words out like a lute ; "it is he Ethan Allen, tho soldier ; now, since ladies' eyes visit him, made trebly a captive." . "Why, he talks like a beau in the parlor this wild-mossed American from the wood," sighed another fair lady to her mate ; "bnt can this be be we came to see 7 I must have a lock of his hair." "It is he, adorable Delilah ; and fear not, though excited by the foe, by clipping my lock to dwindle my strength. Gire me your sword, man," turning to an officer "ah, I'm fettered. Clip it yourself lady.' ; "No, no I am" "Afraid, would you . say ? Afraid of the sword friend and champion of all the ladies, all around the world 7 Nay, nay, come hither." The lady advanced ; and soon overcoming her timidity, her white hand shone like whip ped foam among the waves of flaxen hair. "Ah, this is. like clipping tangled tags of gold lace," she cried ; "but see, it is half straw." ; . "But the wearer is no man of straw, lady ; were I free, and you had ten thousand foes, horse, foot and dragoons how like a friend I could fight for you ! . Come you have rob bed me of my hair ; let me rob the dainty hand of its price. What 1 afraid again 7" "No, not that, but" , "I see, lady ; I may do it by your leave, but not by your word the wonted way of all the ladies. There, it is done. Sweeter that kiss than the bitter heart of the cherry." When at length this lady left, bo small talk was had by her with her companions about some way of relieving tho lot of so knighly and un fortunate aman,whereupon a worthy, judicious gentleman of middle age, in attendance, sug gested a bottle of wine every day, and clean linen every week. And these, the English women loo polite, and too good to be fasti dious did actually send to Ethan Allen, so long as he tarried a captive in their land. The withdrawal of this company was follow ed by a different scene. A perspiring man in top boots, a riding whip in hand, and having the air of a prosperous farmer, brushed in like a stray bullock, among the rest, for a peep at the giant having just entered through the arch as the ladies passed out. "Hearing that the man who took Ticonde roga was here in Pendennis Castle, I've rid den twenty-five miles to see him, and to-morrow my brother will ride forty for the same purpose. So let me have the same look. Sir," he continued, addressing the captive, "will you let me ask you a few questions, and be free with you 7" "Be free with me 7 With all my heart. I love freedom above all things, I'm ready to die for freedom ; I expect to. So be as free as you please. What is it 7" "Then, sir, permit me to ask what is your occupation In life t in time of peace,! mean." "You talk like a tax gatherer,"repliedAllen, squinting diabolically at him. "What is my occupation in life 7 Why, in my younger days, I studied divinity, but at present I am a con jurer by profession." Hereupon "every body laughed, as well at tho manner as the words, and the nettled far mer retorted. "Conjurer,-ch 7 Well, you conjured wrong, that time you were taken." "Not so wrong, though, as you British did, that time I took Ticonderoga, my friend." At this juueture the servant came in with a bowl of punch, which his master bade him give to the captive. "No ! give it to me, sir, with your own hands, and pledge rac as a gentleman to a gen tleman." "I cannot pledge a state prisoner, Colonel Allen, but I will hand you the punch with my own hand, since you insist upon it." "Spoke and done like a true gentleman ; I am to you." Then receiving the punch into bis manacled hands, the iron ringing against the chain, he put the bowl to his lips, saying, "I hereby give the British nation credit for half a min ute's good usage," at one draught emptied it to the bottom. "The rebel gulps it down like a swilling hog at the trough," here scoffed a lusty private of the guard off duty. "Shame on you," cried the giver of the bowl. "Nay, sir, his red coat is a blush to him, as it is to the whole British army." Then look ing derisively upon the private, "you object to my . way of taking things do you 7 I fear I shall never be able to please you. You objec ted to the way, too, in which I toot Ticonde roga, and the way I meant to take Montreal. Sclah ! but pray, now I look at you, aro you not the hero I caught dodging around in his shirt, in the cattle pen inside the fort 7 It was the break of day, remember." "Come, Yankee," here swore the incensed private, "cease this, or I'll tan your old fawn skin for ye with the flat of this sword for a specimen;" laying itlasbwise but not heavily across the captive's back. Turning like a tiger, the giant, catching the steel between bis teeth, wrenched it from the private's grasp, and striking it with his mana cles, sent it spinning like a jugglers dagger, into the air, saying, "lay your dirty coward's iron on a tied gentleman again, and these," lifting his hand-cuffed fists, "shall be the bee tle of mortality to you." The now furious soldier would have struck him with all his force, bnt several men of the town interposing, reminded him that it was outrageous to attack a chained captive. "Ah," said Allen, "I am accustomed to that and therefore I am beforehand with you ; and the extremity of what I say against Britain is not meant for yon, kind friends, but for my insnlters present and to come." Then recognizing among the interposers the giver of the bow, he turned with s courteous bow saying ; "Thank you again and again, my good sir ; you may not be worse f or it ; ours is an unstable world, to that one gentleman xiever knows when it may bo his turn to be helped of another." But tho soldier still making a riot and the commotion growing general, a superior officer stepped up, who terminated the scene by re moving the prisoner to the cell, dismissing the townspeople, with all strangers, Israel among the rest, and closing the castle after them. GENERAL WILLIAM WALKER. From the Loiuia?ia Courier. We perceive In many of our exchanges, within the last few days, an extract from a late number of 'Blackwood's Edinburg Magazine,' on Nicaragua, in which it is stated that Gen. Walker, whose position in its affairs has drawn all eyes upon him, is about forty years of age, and is a native of Alabama, and giving some details as to his early life and education, which are some times correct and sometimes other-wise. The writer of this articlo has known Wil liam Walker from his childhood, and has it, therefore within his power to correct several errors which prevailed with regard to him. In the first place, then he is a native of the city of Nashville, Tennessee, his father be ing of Scotch birth, coming we believe, from Glasgow or its vicinity, his mother, who was a sister of John Norvell, at one period a Sena tor in Congress from Michigau, being a native of Kentucky. William the eldest of their children, is about thirty-three or four years of age, is of rather diminutive stature, with whitish hair, fair complexion, much stained on his cheeks and about the eyes with freckles, grey eyes, and a countenance, on the whole, rather tame and unpossessing. His voice is low and decidedly nasel, being what the child ren call singsong; bis manners are uncommonly quiet and reserved, if not awkward ; but w hen in company with intimate friends, or when in terested in any subject, he wakes up, and his whole appearance greatly changes. At school and college, Walker was most taciturn and studious. He was particularly proficient in mathematics and tho exact scien ces, and on his graduation at the University of Nashville, he went to Edinburg, where he went through the School of Medicine, and af terwards attended lectures on that science in Paris, and then traveled over a considerable portion of middle and southern Europe. On his return to Nashville he found that neither his health nor his temperament fitted him for the life of a physician, and he came to this city with the intention of studying law and obtained admittance to the Bar. He pursued his studies for somo time, and was admitted to practice, but never, we thiuk, made any very strenuous attempt to advance in the pro fession. Shortly afterwards, he became con nected with the "Crescent," and devoted him self with great earnestness and zeal to editori al labors. The experiment did not, however, prove so fortunate as he had expected, and he therefore gave it up, and followed the exam ple of many other adventurous and ambitious spirits, by going to California. In that State he was also for a while connected with the Press, and at the period of the descent upon Sonora, which he made with a handful of fol-. lowers, ho was, if we have not been misinfor med, again trying his luck at the Bar. How ever ill-advised and unfortunate that adven ture may be regarded by many, all will agree that so far as its history has transpired, Walk er displayed indomitable nerve and heroism in the midst of the sternest difficulties. Under bis calm and unreserved exterior, Walker conceals the rarest determination and most unflinching personal courage. - He is, wo are inclined to think, slightly fanatical in his views, when interested or resolved upon a matter, and probably never thinks of conces sions to any person, or under any circumstan ces. He is also strictly just and impartial in his course, and little given to making distinc tions in his treatment of those who offend against discipline. In proof of this, we heard the other day from a most reliable source, that his own brother, who held a commission, hav ing been guilty of an impudence which dis qualified him for duty at the moment, he or dered that he should be reduced to tho ranks and his commission forfeited, nor would he recede from this position, altho' strongly ur ged to clemency by many of his leading and most trusted officers. Too Goon to be Lost. The pupils in the schools are aroused on the subject of tho Sum ner outrage, and recently one of the boys scanning tho JEneid continued bis quantity in perfect feet thus : "Anna virumquo ca.no Brooks Sumner ab oris." The principal called on him for a translation of the line to which he had insensibly impart ed the tone of his thoughts. He was not dis concerted, however, on being apprisod of his interpolation, and promptly rendered it, "Brooks, an armed man, caned Sumner ovr the countenance," (ab oris.) Tribune. "And so I left." A Western editor says a young fellow, upon being asked, "Why did you leave old man S.'s so early last night 7" answered Why, you see, I called to see Miss Nancy, and she wouldn't have anything to say to me. So I sot a while longer and then one of the boys came and took me to the door and gave me a push, and then I thought may be my company wasn't wanted there, and to -I left l" ' ' . THE WILD WOMAN. The Cincinnati Commercial, of a recent date, says Yesterday we called at the U. S. hotel to see the "Wild Woman of Wachita Moun tains. Mr. J W. C. Northcott, her captor, in troduced us into the room whero she is a pris oner. We saw a tall, gracefully formed, young white girl, scantily but neatly clothed, stand ing with a stout rope about bcr waist and at tached to a bed post. ,Tho first impression was similar to that of being in the presence of a fierce maniac. She stood at the foot of the bed, partially hiding behind it, and rocking slowly, but with nervous uneasiness, from one foot to the other, and staring fixedly upon us with great, bright, unwinking eyes, so widely opened that a ring of white surrounded the pupils, which, with the wild and intense glare of the orb, gave it a strange and frightful ex pression. Beneath the eyes were deep circles, showing long continued and excessive excite ment or exertion, mental or physical. Ucr hair was long and thick, hanging in heavy matted masses and wiry tangles about the face, neck and shoulders, and in color dark brown, ner complexion was fair, even delicate, and her features decidedly handsome. Her mouth is small and finely formed, the lips thin and red, but tightly compressed, and her teeth even and white. But there was not, that we could discover, any trace of humor in her face, and we were informed by her captor that he had never seen her smile. There is not a line in her face to indicate any human pas sion, the only organ of expression being her eye, and that does not seem to seek, or even to have known human sympathy. The woman employed by Mr. Northcott to be the attend ant of his "pet," as he calls her, ays that she has seen the girl look pleased, even seem to be amused, but her lips never curled in a smile, and nothing like a laugh ever found utterance. We need hardly say that she does not talk. The only sonnd she makes with her mouth is a kind of mumbling, moaning, grumbling, with which, when hungry or thirsty, she expresses a desire to cat or drink. But sometimes, her attendant says, she looks with the most ani mated curiosity at her, (the attendant,) and Mr. Northcott, when they are talking in her presence, and seems to wonder bow they make such noises with their mouths ; bat they have not succeeded in inducing herto imitate them. Her nose is handsome, and her profile well cut and striking', but the only indication of char acter in it is a kind of untamed audacity. There is nothing like timidity in her looks, only the discomposure mingled with defiance which gleams in the ej e of a panther. The appearance of a maniac, which, to our glance, she wore when we entered her apartment, grad ually passed away, and thero was a softer ex pression, and something like a gentle glow of intelligence in her still vivid eye. Becoming more composed, she sat down, and her nurse, at our request, brushed back the tangles of her hair, showing her cheeks and forehead. These were fair. The cheek was thin but its outlines quite womanly, and her brow and temples show intellectuality of no mean or common order. Whatever she is or may have been, she is by nature gifted with capacities of high intelligence. Tho story of her capture, related hy Mr. Northcott, is quite tcmarkable. In the spring of 1855, Mr. N., with a party of eight gold hunters, was sojourning in the Wachita moun tains, on a branch of the false Wachita river, camped near an extensive and almost impene trable thicket. They were gold seekers, hav ing been attracted thither by a false alarm that there was gold in that region, which our read ers will remember, had much newspaper cir culation, and as nearly as could be calculated, their camp was threo hundred miles distant from the frontier settlements of Texas, and in what is familiarly called the Camanche coun try. One night in March, it was his turn to watch, and there was bright unclouded moon light. In the middle of the night he saw a figure approaching that seemed to him to be a Camanche, and be lay close and at foil length on the ground. The figure approached, walk ing briskly, and passing within twenty yards of him, entered the thicket, and bo saw by the moonlight that it was no Indian, but a young woman, dressed in a robe of skins. He was amazed beyond conception, and told his com panions of his discovery, but they hooted at the idea, and contended that be had seen a Ca manche, and that they wonld no longer be i-afe in that locality ; and so next day they packed their mules and hurried off for Texas, in spite of entreaties. They were all green in the lore of backwoodsmen, but he had spent twenty years on the frontiers, and knew what be was about. So strong an impression did this inci dent make on his mind, that late this winter he enlisted half a dozen hardy follows to ac company him, and set forth on a trip to the Wachita Mountains, on a hunt after tho wild woman. So many difficulties were encounter ed, and the weather was so severe, that all of his companions but one backed out. He pres sed forward, however, and early in March reached the encampment where he bad seen the woman enter the thicket. The first thing in order was to search the thicket, and they were not long in finding a kind of den, a little cave, or rather a long and narrow aperture a- mong the rocks, which he was convinced must be her biding place. With this conviction, be waited, and watched for her twodayt and nights, when she came forth. He says that bo had been afraid to enter the den, and that now bis first care was to slop Up the mouth of it, and wait for hor to come back. After a few hours, sho returned, and took alarm on obser ving that - her door in the rocks was closed against her. . i?e had two dogs, which be set upon her, and after running about one hundred and fifty yards, she turned about, as if con fused in her fright, and fled towards the cave. He ran to meet her with a lasso in her band, and as she approached, worried by the dogs, he threw it over her neck and' called off tbo dogs, and she, (riving a spring, jerked him "to the ground, and at the second leap threw her self, the nooso having by that time fastened about her throat and choked-her. - He then tied her, during which operation she uttered such horrid screams that the bair stood np on bis head, and he had the most singular and awful feelings he ever experienced. After se curing the girl, he entered her den, and fonnd there large quantities of nuts and berries, and roots, such as could be gathered and digged in the vicinity. Tho principal fruit was a kind of large red haws, which were thereabout very abundant, and she bad a kind of nest to sleep in, while everything indicated ber utter soli tude. The garment Bhe wore was of skins, qnee rly tied together, with bits of leather, and also with a kind of grass. The skins were those of a large animal, neither bear or buffalo, Mr. Northcott says, and the hunters could not tell exactly from what manner of beast they were taken. It was his opinion that she had found an animal dead, or that she might have been attacked by and mastered some beast. But there is an air of improbability about this that the strange and almost terrible reality of the woman herself docs not quite dispel ; and we have not room here and now to 'argue the. loint. The garments were so strong, says Mr. N., that they protected the' female from the teeth of bis dogs. For five days after her capture, his pet refused to taste food, but then partook of red haws. She was'then taken 200 miles intervening between her den and tho nearest civilised settlements fn Grayson coun ty, Texas, with a rope arontid her waist, the ends of which were in the hands of himself and his comrade, while the dogs followed af ter. As soon as ho could procure it, he bad a hack so fixed as to make of the body a kind of cage, in which he confined her, and conveyed her safely until he finally got her on a steam boat. She arrived here on the steamer Hick man. For a time sho rejected all prepared' food, but now she will eat almost anything that is offered, that is not very salt or very sweet. Mr. Northcott says' bis great object now is to civilize her, to learn her to talk, and to hear her story, for he thinks he is sure that she has talked at some day, and that she has a dim notion of having long ago been with folka similar to those she now finds hersclf.with. He is impressed from observing her that this is the fact, and thinks that the presence of ci vilized faces., being in bouses, &c, &c., has caused dormant memories to faintly revive. He disavows any intention to make a specula tion out of her, and says that he will only take money front visitors that he may use it for her benefit. He shrinks from no examination on the subject, and has called several physicians to look at his strange pt. If this is a hoax, and it is so wonderful that we are not able to' give it full credit, the girl, (whose age is, per haps, twenty-two or twenty-three years,) looks the character she is made to personate so. con -sumately that the like was never before beard of, or dreamed. We would have it thorough ly understood that this is no exaggerated' puff of a showman, but a plain and sober narrative of that which we saw, and which was in tho utmost apparent good faith related to us, and which seems to be a veritable realization of romance. Coot. A fellow was once brought before a magistrate on a charge of stealing. The mo ment the tnngi6tr.it.; saw him be exclaimed' with vehemence : "I see the villain in yonr face." I never thought," said the prisoner, quite cool, "that my face was a looking glass." A raw nights since, in Janesville, Wiscon sin, an ox, having- got a beer barrel on his head, blindly pitched down a flight of steps into a saloon among a number of young Luks. They thought their time, or the "Ancient Henry," bad come, which caused some of them to decamp rather precipitately. In 1551 our trade with Canada amounted, iu the aggregate, to less than $13,000,000, about $9,000,000 which were exports and $4,000,000 were imports. In 1855, under the influence of reciprocity measures,this trade has increas ed to about $81,000,000, the balance still be ing largely in our favor. The young married couple who thought they could livetra love and moonlight, find thero is some virtue in baked beans. For taking tho romance ont of young folks, marriage is near ly" as bad as a lawsuit . : , A young chemist of Cuba, named Peyroa net, has discovered a process of making wico with the juice of the orange aad pine apple, as delightful in flavor and equal in quality to good champagne. ' ' i L " Thb tsw from Chicago to New York is now made, according to the new trae-ables, in SS hours. ir