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r THE BLESSINGS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE DEWS OF HEAVEN. SHOULD FALL ALIKE UPON THE RICH AND THE POOR-JACKSON PLYMOUTH, IND., FEBRUARY 21, 1856. VOL. 1, NO. 15. MAISMALI (TM DEMOCBAi s I i i i ii " r i - 1 -.-. 1 1 " . ' i . i Hujiness Cards not exceeding three lines, inser ted under this head, at $1 per annum. Fersoni advertising in the "Democrat" by the yar, will be entitled to a Card i:i the Business Di rectorv, without additional charge. Äsfall (fountii Htmotrat AND JOB PRINTING OFFICE. We have on ham! an extensive assortment of And are prepared to execute JOB 1XD Of everv description and quality, such as CIRCVLAM, l.t.lUKILU, LABELS, CATALOGUES, rAMPIII-ETS, bcsi5e5s cards, blank deeds a mortgages; And in short, Blanks of every variety and descrip tion, on the shortest notice, & on reasonable terms PLYMOUTH KANNER, BY W. J. BURNs. t'lvmouui, iiui. BROWN I.EK & Co., DEALERS IN DRY .mmIs anl Groceries, first door cast side of Michipui street .Plymouth, Ind. 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LOO AN k O... DKALE!'.- IN Lumler, kc Plymouth, In 1. "TTOSEPH POTTER, SADDLE V HARNESS V Maker Plvmouth, In.i. A MERICAN HOUSF a. p. ruEitUY x . . . Plym uthInn. X jL'n Proprietors,. . . . , BARRERINR AND IIAIRDRFSINO, MY Alfred Billows, Plym mth, Ind. M ITCIIELL k WILCnx. MANf'""1" rrv of Plow, kc, PIviu uU, Ltl. clcctcii Jottrg. THE TOAST. The reader will find in the annexed stanzas one of the noblest and most eloquent of all the graphic productions of the preat Bard of North Britain the late Sir Walter Scott. The fire and spirit with which iti imbued, awaken the heart's enthu siasm, and makes one's blood tingle, even to the fingers ends. The feast is o'er! Now brimming wine In lordly cup is seen to shine Before each eager guest; And silence fills the crowded hall. As deep as when the herald's call Thrills in the royal breast. Then up arose the noble host, And smiling, cried, "A toast! a toast! To all our ladyes fair; Here, before all, I pledge the name Of Staunton's proud and beauteous dame, The Iadre Gundamere!" Then to bis feet each gallant sprung, And joyous was the shout that rung As Stanley gave the word: And every cup was raised on high, Nor ceased the loud and gladsome cry; Till Stanley's voice was heard. "Enough, enough.' he smiling said, And lowly bent his haughty head; That all may have their due, Now each in turn must play his part, And pledge the ladye of his heart. Like gallant knight and true!" Then one by one each guest sprung up And drained in turn the brimming cup, And named the loved ones name; And each, as hand on liiph he raisml, Hisbd ve's grace or beauty praised, Her constancy and fame. 'Tm now St. Icon's turn to rise; On him are fixed those countless eyes A gallant knight is he: Env'ed bv w, admired by nV, Enr-ftmd in ladvs how.-r and hill, T!i flower of rh'valrv. Sf. L'ot? r:::-' ! l!i- . ir-I t: : i - til' M ' ; ' I :il :'.!! t J lä-h. " Ii...--; ipi le j:.--, !' ::;:ty jie. jv.tv. I, ..'it t'ii-; 'j':,U-:i TiiS !,! id n' ! :';. h.-a:i, i ' .! Vv !) i. ' . M' . t r It,. '- . 1 ,il - : t u' !..-. i.-' -r- -.:-:..: So holy ti- : im i To one who-.- love Iiath lender dwelt, More decyily fixe-i, more keenly felt, Than any pledged lyyou." Eaeh puest upstarted at the wotd, And laid a hand upon his swunl, Vith furv-rl.itfliiiif? eve; And Stanley said: "We crave the nanif , Proud kni-rlit. of this most peerless dame. Whose love you count hidi." St. Leon paused, as if he would Not hreatlieh'T name in careless mood Tlius lightly to another; Then bent his noWe head as though To irlve that word the reverence due. And pently said, "My Mother!" For the Democrat. THE CALIFORNIAN S DAYS OP ABSENCE. nv viscK.vr michak.u. Davs of absence! sad and drcarv, Clothed in sorrow's dark array; Pays of atsen"e! I am weary, From my friends so far away. Hours of Miss, too quickly vanished, When will anglit like you return? When the heavy sih be banished When this bosom cease to mourn? Not till those loved voice? pTret mc, Which so oft have charmed mine car, Not until my friends can meet me. Who to mc are ever dear. Pays of absence! then will vanish, Joy will all my pans repay; Soon my tears of trouble banish, To meet those far away. All my love is turned to sadncits, Alsence pays the tender vow; Hopes that filled my heart with sadness, Memory turns to anguish now. I-ove may yet return to greet me; Hope may take the place of pain; Some fair Dame with kisses meet me, Hrathing love and peace again. This is the Califoiniaii'sniver, AhhoMph it nnv never conn: Yet those thnt iivt pny ran shnre No part in a h ppy h"ire. I kiirilv ! ' V'U :!! :''"'l tvi . Til! a tii'-re c'!M rsM-nt ! v. Wln-ncVixs "f :k!'''i." e :!) j'.-'-s , ! "!1 it-ef '.on ?!; it are fur : i ' I ' .; , Caaiofiiia, P.-e. .'il.-t, ! -.' n (it;iixoTi-v.S)me lovesick !,,;. i r!!er ha 1 dropped lh following lac. nie ecistle in the street. In it was enclosed a little bunch of red hair, which looked as if it had been pulled out with a fine tooth omb, but without the least appearance of any thinr moveable thereon: .;!i. Eiddv. t'k- darlint. f ff''s a l-.ck ' rn- hair. A ? ; if t !:!-' a vriAi! i,i ii, 'i'l ).!: I :) 'T.,i '-iro, A tyhow. I'm goin ofr, Hiddy. To work on th track. Y can tak it ami kapj it Until I get back, If ye like. In vi tue'H eyes, the good are always gic.-it, the great not always good. X SKETCH BT DR. WM. ELDEK. AVhcn a man's life is heroic, and his name has passod into history, the world wants to know him personally intimately. The 'grave and reverend chronicler pass ing over his beginnings, presents him ab ruptly in his full-grown greatness; men render the admiration earned, but the sym pathetic emulation awakened is concerned to know how he grew into his maturity of excellence. This curiosity is not an idle ness of the fancy, but a personal interest in the facts that springs out of those aspi rations which put every man upon the ful fillment of his own destiny. How came this man to excel what was in him; what happened to develop it? 'Some men are bom great; some achieve greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them." How came this man by it? Is it within my reach also? and, by what means? History provokes us with such queries as these: Biogiaphy answers them. Doctor Elisha Kent Kane is not quite thirty-four years old, yet he has done more than circumnavigate the odobe; he has vis ited and traversed India, Africa, Europe, Suth America, the islands of the Pacific, and twice penetrated the Arctic region to the highest latitude attained by civilized men. He has encountered the extremest perils of sea and land, in every climate of the globe; he has discharged in turn the severest duties of the -oldier and the sen man; attached to the United States Xavy as a surgeon, he is, nevertheless, engaged at on5 time in the coast survey of the trop ical ocean, and in a month or two, we find him exploring the frigid zone; and all the while that his personal experience had the character of romantic adventure, he was pushing them in the spirit of scientific and p;iil:!Titl: pic esitM pi ise. A-. a 1 "V Iiis instinctive bent impelled itirn i" tis i:idiilge:i:.e and enjoyment of y'ii-h ,rhvi:tii's as were lest fitted to train hira t'-r & work before him. His colle gia studies suliorcd some postponement while his physical qualities pressed for thir necessary training and discipline. It was almost in the spirit of truancy that he explored the IMue Mountains of Virgin- ; in, as a student of geology, under the gui- clam. of Professor Rotlijers, and cultiva- ted, at once, his hardihood of vital energy and thoso elements of natural science which were to qualify him for his after ser vices of the field of physical geography. Hut in due time he returned to the pursuit of literature, and achieved the usual hon ors; as well as though his college studies had suffered no diversion his muscles and nerves were educated, and his brain lost nothing bv the indirectness of its tie- I velopcment, but was rather corroborated for all the uses which it has served since. He graduated at the University of Penn sylvania first, in its collegiate, and af;er- wards, in its medical department. His snocial relishes in study indicated his nat- ur;il drift-ehemistrr and surovrv! natural j a j ' science in its most intimate converse with substance, and the remedial art in its most heroic function. He went out from his Alma J later a good classical sein dar, a good chemist, mineralogist, astronomer, and surgeon. But he lacked, or thought he lacked, robustness of frame and sound ness of health. He solicited an appoint ment in the navy, and upon his admission, demanded active service. He was appoin ted upon the diplomatic staff as surgeon to the first American Embassy to China. The position gave him opportunity to ex plore the Phillippine Island, which he ef fected mainly on f ot. He was the first man who descended into the crater of Tael; lowered more than a hundred feet by a bamboo rope from overhanging cliff, and elamberini; down some seven hundred more through the scoira?, he made a typo graphical sketch of the interior of this great volcano, collected a bottle of sur phu rous acid from the very mouth of the crater; and, although he was drawn up al most s.'is'-k'ss. he hroiwht with him his portrait of this hideous cavern, and the ' -i f ni! s vviiieli it ;tfl.rd"'d. ! I E f r-c he ii?tui 1 1 r -f I from this trip h ha 1 i ascended the 1 1 iii):i!.sv:i an I 1 1 i i iroi l id - 'iv' - ee. o fool; he l::.d isiN-d (Vlon. the E'r.tM-r Nil-, him! all the niv.hoo-i; r - gion of Egypt; traversed tho route and making tho acquaintance of the learned Lepsius; who was then prosecuting his ar-chceoloo-ieal researches. At home again when the Mexican war broke out, he asked to Ihj removed from the Philadelphia Xavy Yard to a field of more congenial service, but tho Govern ment sent him to the coast of Africa. Here he visited tin slave factories, from Cape Mount to the river Uoniiy and through the infamous Da Souzagot across to the bar racoons of Dahemey, and contracted, le- sides, the Coast Fever, from the effects of which h has never entirely recovered. From Africa ho returned before the close of th Mexican "war, and believing that his constitution was broken, and that his health was rapidly going, he called up on President Polk and demanded an op portunity for service that might crowd the remnant of his life with achievements in keeping with his ambition; the President just then embarrassed by a temporary non intercourse with General Scott, charged the Doctor with dispatches to the General, of great moment and urgency, which must be carried through a region occupied by the enemy. This embassy was marked by an adventure so romantic and so illustra tive of the character of the man, that Ave are tempted to detail it. On his way to the Gulf he secured a horse in Kentucky, ?,'ich as a night errant would have chosen for the companion and sharer of his adventures. Landed at Ve ra Cruz, he asked for an escort to convey him to the capitol, but the officer in com mand had no troopers to spare he must wait, or he must accept, instead, a band of ruffian Mexicans, called tho Spy Com pany, who had takan to the busine ss of treason and trick o y for a livelihood. He accepted them, and went forward. Near Puebla his troop encountered a body of Mexicans escorting a number of distin guished officers to Orizaba, among whom were Major General Gaona, Governor of Puebla; his son, Maximilian, and General Torejon, who commanded the brilliant charge of horse at Uuena Vista. The sur prise was mutual, but the Spy Company had the advantage of the ground. At the first instant of the discovery, and be fore the rascals fully comprehended their involvment the Doctor shouted in Spanish, Bravo! the capital adventure, Colonel; from your line for the charge!' And down they went upon thr enemy; Kane and hs gallant Kentucky charge ahead. Under standing the principle that snds a tallow-; candle through a plank, and that the mo mentum of a body is its weight multiplied by its velocity, he dashed through the opposing force, and turning to engage after breaking their line, he found himself sur rounded, and two of the enomv'giving him their special attention. One of these was dipos"d of in an instant by rearing his horse, who, with a blow of his fore-foot, floored his man; and, wheeling suddenly, the Doctor gave the other a 6 word wound which opened the external iliac artery, and put him hnra de comlmt. This subject of the Doctor's military surgery was the young Maximilian. The brief melee ter minated with a cry from the Mexicans, 'We surrender. Two of the officers made a dash for an escape; the Doctor pursued them, but soon gave up the chase. When he returned, he found his ruffians prepar ing to massacre the prisoners. As he gal loped past the young officer whom he had wounded, he heard him cry, 'Senor, save my father.' A group of the gueril la guards were dashing upon the Mexi cans, huddled together, with their lances in rest. He threw himself before them one of them transfixed his horse, another I'ave him a severe wound in the jrroin. He killed the first lieut. wounded the sec ond lieut., and blew a part of the Colonel's beard off with the last charge of his six shooter; then grapling with him, and us ing his lists, ho brought the party to terms. The lives of the prisoners were saved, and the Doctor received their swords. As soon as Gen. Gaona could reach his Son, who lay a little distance from the scene of the last struggle, the Doctor found him sitting by him, receiv ing his last adieus. Shifting the soldiers and resuming the surgeon, he secured the artery, he put the wounded man in a condition to travel. The ambulance got up for the occasion contain ed at once the wounded Maximilian, the wounded second lieutenant, and the man who had prepared them for slow traveling, himself on hislittcr, from the lance wound received in defense of his prisoners! When they reached Puebla the Doctor's wound proved the worst of the party. He was ta ken to the government house, but the old General, in gra itude for his generous ser vices, had him conveyed to his own house. General Childs, American com mander at Puebla, hearing of the generosi ty of his prisoner, discharged without mak ing any term, and the old General became '1 e piinciple nurse of his captor andjien cftcior, dividing his attention between him and his son, who lay wounded in an ad joining room. The illness of our hero was long and doubtful, and he was reported dead to his friends at home. When he recovered and returned, ho was imployed in the coast survey. While engaged in this service, tho government, by its correspondence with Lady Franklin became committed for an attempt at the rescue of Sir John and his ill-shtrret! com panions in Arctio discovery. Nothing could ho bettor addressed to tho Doctor's governing sentiments than thisadventure. The enterprise of Sir John ran exactly in the current of one of his own enthusiasms the service of natural science, combined with heroic personal effort; and, added to this, that sort of patriotism which charges itself with its own full share in the execu tion of national engagements of honor; and besides this cordial assumption of his country's debts and duties, there was no little force in the appeal of a nobly-brave, spirited women to the chivalry of the A merican navy. He was 'bathing in the tepid waters of the Gulf of Mexico on the 12th of May, 1050,' when he received his telegraphic order to proceed forthwith to New York for duty upon the Arctic expedition. In nine days from that date, he was beyond the limits of the United States on his dismissal voy age to the North Pole. Of this first Amer ican expedition, as is well known to the public, he was the surgeon, the naturalist, and the historian. It returned disappoin ted of its main object after a winter in the regions of the eternal ice and a fifteen months absence. Scarcely allow ing himself a day to re cover from the hardships of the cruise, he set on foot the second attempt, from which he has returned, after verifying by actual observation the long-questioned existence of an open sea beyond the latitude 82 deg., and beyond the tern pe ratine, also of 100 deg. below the freezing point. His 'Per sonal Narrative,' published early in 18o3, recamts the adventures of the first vovage and discovers his diversified qualifications for such an enterprise. The last voyage occupied two winters; in the highest latitudes, and two years and a half of iinintermitted labor, with the risks and responsibilities attendant. He is now preparing the history for publica tion. But that part of it which best re ports'his own personal agency, and most justly present the man to the reader, will of course be suppressed. Wo would glad ly supply it, but as yet this is impossible to us. His journal is privat; prop erty; the extracts which may expect to make, will be only too shy ofegotism, and his companions have not spoken yet, as some day they will speak, of his conduct throughout the terrible struggle which together they endured. To form anything like an adequate esti mate of this lastachievement, it is tobe re membered that this whole company amount ed to but twenty men, and that of this corps or crew he was the commander, in naval phrase; and wc are apprised that his port folio of scenery, sketched on the spot in pencil, and in water colors, kept fluid over a spirit lamp, amounts to over three hun ted sketches, we have a hint of the extent and variety of the offices he filled on the voyage. He was, in fact, the surgeon, sailing master, astronomer and naturalist, as well as captain and leader of the expe dition. This man of all work, and desperate dar ing and successful doing, isin height above five feet seven inches, weight, say one hun dred and thirty pounds if health and rest would give him leave to fill up his natural measure. His complexion is fair, his hair brown, and his eyes dark gray, with a hawk look. He is a hunter by every gift and grace and instinct that makes up the char acter; an excellent shot, and a brilliant horseman. He has escaped with whole bones from all his adventures, but he has several wounds which are troublesome; and, with such general health as his, most men would call themselves invalids, and live on furlough from all the active duties of lif?; vet he has won the distinction of beinff the first civilized man to stand in latitude 82 c 30 and gaze upon the open Polar Sea to reach the northernmost point of land on the globe to report the lowest temperature ever endured the heaviest sledge journeys ever performed and the wildest life that civilized man has successfully undergone; and to return after all to tell the story of his adventures. The secret springs of all this energy is in his religious enthusiasm; discovered alike in the generous spirit of his adventures in pursuit f science; in his enthusiastic fidel ity to duty, and in his heroic maintainance of the point of honor in all his intercourse with men. In his deportment there is that mixture of shyness and frankness, simplicity and fasiidiousness, sandwiched rather than blended, which marks the man of genius, and the monk of industry. He serins con fident in himself but not of himself. His manner is remarkable for celerity of move ment, alert attentiveness, quickness of com prehension, rapidity of utterance and sen tentious compactness ofdietion, which arise from a habitual watchfulness against the be trayal of his own enthusiasm. He seems to fear that ho is boring you, and is always discovering his unwillingness "to sit" for your admiration. If you question him about the handsme official acknowledgements of his services by the British and American governments, or in any way endeavor to turn him upon his own gallant achieve ments, he hurries you away fiom the sub ject to some point of scientific interest which he presumes will more concern and engage yourself; or he sys or d c something that makffs you think he is occupied with kis inferiority in some matter which your con versation presents to him. One is obliged to struggle with him to maintain the tone of respsct which his character and achieve ments deserve; and when the interview is over, a feeling of disappointment remains for the failure in your efforts to ransack the man as you wished, atid to render the trib ute which you owed him. We wish wo could be sure that he will not, in his forthcoming work, give us the drama without its hero; or we wish the ex- pedition and its hero had a chronicler as; worthy as he would be wore he not the principal character in the story. Dr. Kane's Narrative of the Expedition, now preparing, and in process of publica - tion by Messrs. Childs A: Peterson of Phila delphia, will embrace the important discov eries made in the frozen regions far beyond the relich of all the predecessors of the American exploring party and their perilous ', adventures, crowded with romantic inei - , . i - i i , , . cients, which, in the language of the N.-C- o rotary of the Navy, "not only excite- our wonder, cut borrow a novel grandeur from the truly benevolent considerations w hich animated and nerved him to his task." Graham's Hoya zinc, Feh., ICoG. How Jedediah was Sucked in. Is the 'Squire tu hum? inquired an elongated individual yesterday, who push ed his head into the Recorder's office. It being about the dinner hour, none of the officials happened to be 'tu hum;' but a couple of cits, who wen? lounging inside, invited him in, and inquired his business. Well,' says he., in a beautiful nasal, 'my business ain't much, but du tell me which is the 'Squire?' He is at dinner, sir answered one of the pair, 'but if you have anything very urgent, we will send for him.' Well. I ain't got much in pertickler,' ansAvered the eastern man, 'but jest this mornin a fellar from the jmin State of Illi nois, played mo one of the alfiredest mean tricks I've hearn on lately What was it like?' inquired the listen er. Well it wan't much like any thin;' says he, 'but an all createtPsuck in." Whe;e"is that 'Squire?' ho burst out again, 'I'll hev the mean critter jerked intu jail of it costs me a dollar!' What did he do?' persisted the ques tioner. Well, 'twan't much of anythin except a sell,' said he, and then breaking out again, he exclaimed: 0h, Jedediah Dexter! that anythin cute as you're allowed to be, shud be drawed intu seeh a trade by a yalk-r look in, ague shakiu, corn raesiu sarpint as that fellar.' 'Was he a sucker?' inquired the gentle man. Well, hi wan't much else,' said the af flicted mourner, 'and the fullest grown one I've seed lately cuss his pictur!' But you have not told us w hat his of fence was,' continued the other. No,' said he, I ain't, and what's wus cera denied sight, I'm ashamed tu all cre-a-tion! that 1 shud a !een so teetotallv green! I swow,' said he, starting, 'I b'lieve I Won't tell it I'l! jest let tho mean var mint slide It won't bear telliii on. Wliv ij f ttiil wlili1 tmai it i! ...t I .J w , cu.. ... .w oo lu v ouueucui, 1 couldn't never show myself at avy futur thanksgivin in them latitudes they'd hol ler meal at mo jest as quick as tho'd clap eyes on me.' 'Oh! come,' shouted both listeners, 'you are not going to leave without enlighten us, now that you have raised our curiosi tv as Well, I guess it won't hurt you much of you don't beer it,' said he; and he was about to move, w hen one of his auditors informed him that it was absolutely neces sary that he should stop ami lodge his com plaint, for evidently some wrong had been committed, and if he kept silent, and allow ed it to pass unpunished, he would lx con niving at the evil, and thetoby make him self liable. Is that the law ?' inquire I the bitten claimant. Both listeners signified tho affirmative to his query. Well, I don't wan't to go agin law much said ded, 'so you kin hev the hull upshot of this in a minit, and you'll allow it is mity mean. A Illinois fellar this morn ill walked intu my shop, where I'm mar- chimlisin alongside on the market, and got todickerin some butter with me for groco rios and other notions. His pots of the cow's grease were dreadful nice on top, and tasted like now milk arter spring grass it jest tu k mo all of a heap, and 1 bar gained for all the critter had, and sot to Sellin him the little lixins in exchange. He looked so etarnal sott, and saw nved round so alii red green, that I didn't once hev a dream in of the critter bein tricky; so the trade was did up mity short and ho. travel led. Well, jest a minit sc nee I turned a pot eout tu sell a customer some, and 1 swan tu man of two-thirds on it wan't an Ingiu meal dumplin!' A burst of laughter here broke from his auditors, and as they appeared to keep on at it, instead of sympathising w ith Jed, ho raised himself proudly up under his load of injuries, and moved to the door. 'Ah! ha, ha, ha! Ingin dumplins, ah, ha!' shouted one of tho convulsed listeners, as Jed was retreating. 'You needn't take on so,' says Jed, 'for of he. don't think of his sins when he s wal lers that tea I sold him, then I'm mistaken in the yarb. It's parfectlv awful on a man's bowels specially when he ain't used to it;' and amid a shout of laughter, detl dis appeared, congratulating himself on at least being even. Brother Crafford's Farewell Sermon. REPORTED BY BILL EASEL. During my sojourn in Mississippi, (short ly after I heard the great sermon, which was played on a harp of a thousand strings.) 1 had occasion to visit a friend in the iu-igh-borhood of Pert Gibson. The next day, being Sabbath, I accompanied him to Ziön Chapel. A new minister had been called t3 that neighborhood and this was to Lu his salutatory sermon. Zion Chapel was some hundred yards from the main road and surrounded bv for ¬ est trees. Having anived rather too carlv fr the service, myself and friend sauntcr- ed ab ut the woods, rather actively employ ed in brushing away the cloud of musqm- too.s that rair.uTi-'L "Af.!cMgthasfr:mcr ! specimen of the genus homo made his ap- ; pearancc on horseback; it was Brother ratioru. His dress was decidedly jnTuliar. On Iiis head he wore an old-f -ishioned bell-crowiK-d beaver, several sizes too larg . To remedy this defect a cotton banda:. i handkerchief was stuffed between the lint 111 1 1 -W T .1 !'!n'1 ,4ls .K'rci" 11X6 Cu? Y'lS "V ! uiost ancient pattern; blue with brass but- ., ,, . .i, n n ti j tons, short wai-t and Ioiigswallow tail. 1 he collar came within an inch of hiding the i back part of his head. His vest was cx- i tremely long, and his pants ditto short. Tl latter were held down by a leather Mrap passed under a huge pair of brogans of a:i ! untanned leather color. Altogether hi pies ! ence strongly suggested Dan Marble i-i hi-; ; anl.ee character of Jonathan l.oinetj-un. but to the sermon or at least a portion . i U tor it was utterly iniTosiLi,e to H'i,it .I.1 the whole. The congregation was large as it ha 1 been "norated" abroad that a new sm vant of the Lord was to make his debut M Zio!j. Brother Cra.ford slunk into the pulpit with more than ordinary humility, and after devoting a few moments to silent prayer rose. Gingerly pushing up the sieves f his s tore coat, w hereby he displayed a pair ( largo, long, bony hands, of hec:-rcl col or. He grasped the handle of an earthen pitcher and poured into a tin cup adiaught of wator which ho drank v. i.h iwiniLall gusto. His appearance in the pulpit was a study for an artist. His face was long, and lank, eyes pale grey, nose aquiline, complexion sandy, hair greyish sandy, head bald on the top, with the exception of a small patch on the organ of reverence, (as if t shade it,) and, altogether, the picture of Greely whilst indicting a Freesoil Aboli tion document for the benefit of his south ern subscribers. He began apologetically as follows: "You don't see me to-dav in the tlros I allers wear. 1 come among you as a slrau ger, and 1 am iiuw tricked out in mv store clothes: I am not a proud man, but I thought it would bo more becoming bwfre stia'i ors." After this he raised a hymn in which th congregation joined. Ho then beg-tn l.i sermon: 'My dear brethren aiid listers, first and foremost, I'm gwinc to tell you about the afleoting p-Jirliu' 1 had with my congrega- I tion at J'thei i r.ai.el. A for I had o-ot. through with my farewell sermon as I came down ou'.en the pulpit, the old grey headed brethren and sixers who had list ened to mv voice f.jr twenty years, crowd od around m , and wi ;h sobbing oi-esa:id tearful eyes, said Fx n mil H father Crof- . r , f, ladies tricken out in their linerv of brass jewelry, gewgaws, jimeracks, paints, and flounces, looked up with th.?ir bright eyes, and pronounced with rosy lips Fart well Broth., r ( 'rajfur'f The young men in their tight patt.t leather b "ots, high collars, audll.i.-hv waist coats smelling of pomatum and tobacco smoke with their Shanghai coats and stri ped zebra pants they too said Farnnll Brother Cra't'ont. The little children lambs in the fold lifted up their tinv hands and small voices, and w ith one accord, sai 1 Frrctnil Broth er Crajl'ord. Theoolortd brethren of the congregation now came forward ( black sheep w ho had been admitted to the fold vpder my minis try,) with tears rolling down theii pv-dde cheeks, they too said Faretrell Brtln r Craji'onf. As 1 got on mv horse and bade adieu to my congregation forever I turned to take a last look at tho old church where I had preached tho unsarchalde riches of Christ for mor'n twenty years and as I gaze al its dilapidated walls ami moss--oo ered roof, it too seemed to say Farewtll Brother CnitVord. As I rode down through tho village, the people who p.iked their heads uten the w inders, and the servants w ho leant on thir brooms, all seemed to say Farcin If Broth - er Cr afford. As 1 passed along down the highway. through the forest, the w ind as it MghoJ and whistled through tho tree-tops, playing on the leaves and branches the burden of sal vation, it, too seemed to say, Fore we'd Brother CrotTortl. Crossing a creek that was gurgling and singing over its jcbbly lied, as it rejoiced on its way to the groat orer.n of eternity, it, too, seemed to say Fare will Brother CrafforJ. As I rode down a hot, dusty lane, an old sow that wasasWpin a fnceccr:.or, jump ed out of a suddent, with aloud bnxvoo, broo-oo she too seemed to sav Farewell Brother Croffvrd. My horse got frightened a id jumped from under mo, and as h curled his tiil over his back kicked up his heels, and ran off he too seemed to say Fare will Broth' er Crafford. Wo learn, by privato dipateho4, that baled timothy hay was selling at New Or leans on the 30th, at 527 per ton. ' if ' v 'S