Logansport Democratic Pharos (Newspaper) - August 19, 1857, Logansport, Indiana VOLUME AUGUST 19, 1857. 7 683. MISCELLANY. THE the not the Sigh not early Would you have those beings back Who have crossed life's stormy Would ye have them on Time's 'Mid its rocks and ocean the a tear O'er the pallid child of O'er the That a thousand storms have Living grief bath ears to It will bless thee for a the should it gain its early But thy tears and care might Strength to timid flowers that the not the Plant gay flowers above their for songs arc for the for peaceful are their For their songs once our And their smiles gave hope her the not the Sigh not for the early Eather weep for those whom death Leaves to breathe Life's poisoned Weep for sad hearts round theo Heaven claims not a sigh or merchant appeared bo sure of that he placed all the money in the student's and prepared for his We selected for the purpose a summer house in the perfectly and having no means of exit but a window and a door which we carefully after placing the young man Wb put ting materials on a small table in the and took away the We remained outside with the peddler among In a solemn he began to chant the following risoth slow from the ocean waves And the stormy phantom pale sets his blackened foot On the fresh green raising his voice ho your the GHOST Uncle who his career very early in the present as a will tell Among them he tells his Single Ghost story so that I am heartily tired of it. In I publish the in that when next the kind old gentlemen offers to bore us with every one may say they know it. I remember every word of fine autumn about forty years I was traveling on horseback from Shrewsbury to I felt tolerably and was beginning to look out for some snug wayside where I might pass the when a suddon and violent thunder storm came My terrified by ths fairly took the bridle between his and started off with me at full through lanes and until at length I managed to pull him up just near the door of a neat looking country thought was in your old since it brought us to this comfortable I gavo in to the fitout farmer's boy as The inn which was also the was neut and very like the pleasant hostelry by Izaak There wore eral travelers already in the driven there for wero all warming themselves by the blazing while wc waited for I joined tlie being summoned by the we all sat twelve in to a smoking repast of and corned beef and and stewed The conversation turned on South replied the white light arising near the but it has no it is like an uncertain the remained profoundly you asked the merchant in a loud am replied the student a moment's the peddler stamped three times on the and the phantom white whose clay cold once so Dries with his shroud his clinging vest His sea-tost more the solemn who would see revealed the secrets of the what do you see student answered in a calm but like that of a man describing things as they passed before see the cloud taking the form of a its head is covered with a long stands you am looked at each other in while the lifting liis arms above his chanted in a sepulchral the phantom as be rose from lifts his his shall know me in I will go to my smiling and As in our first do you said see the phantom Francis he the yon fearful moment uf silence then the student but in an altered and the merchant then the phantom said to the mocking come from the Put thy hand on my heart on mouth on my do you he approaches pursues is st retching out his he will Save you afraid asked the merchant in a mocking and a by the of one seemed to have had his full were the only reply to this terrible ' ' that rash I chant but it is said the won the for me to had been off his and driving in a had boon upset in a muddy all had got a thorough and agreed unanimously that it was dreadful a regular and ghosts prefer for their Sabbath a fine moonlight to such weather as j words were uttered in a solemn j and with a strange by one j As soon as tho senses were the He a he asked vehemently where was the said old Mrs. whilst making her first visit to the Edgerton seed many of your neighbors said have been here so and none have been to see us until We wero beginning to feel like unwelcome But I suppose they were all much attached to the people who lived here before and dislike seeing strangers in the place of their old that ain't they was afeard to said of wo heard you was all if you was and we was afeard would git ourselves into tba I did not said we had anything so formidable in this quiet little and I am sorry that our neighbors should make such bugbears of and us wanting in civility to we wasn't tho The quality lays that on so thick one till you begin to rub your eyes and wonder who you sure you must be the Pope of Rome's then they push you one side before you know like as if you wasn't fitten to tote their puppy But sich a sight of trouble when folks begin to have anything to do with tho They lives eight miles but the quality is a sorter restless that's allers a about outer their mighty and you see my daughter Betsy Baker likes fine and took to 'em She was powerful anxious for 'em to come to see so one Sunday she seed 'em all at and axes 'em to come take dinner the next they all stood up thar in tho house talked a power of dictionary talk 'bout of rural but whether they was a or Betsy she couldn't Betsy she better be on the safe so she kept up a mighty all tho When Saturday came she had everything as fine as a bride's tho Betsy she wouldn't put that on till she made sure if they was a She had been working mighty hard all the her and the a reddin up the house and up their But when eleven come no Betsy give 'em they all took off their close went to gitting every day They had to but it was all ready arter a The hands was close to the Betsy jest hollered to 'em to come to their Arter the dinner was all everything washed up and sot to the all sot to mo Betsy sot down in tho entry to cool 'Bout four o'clock Barney Baker ho como back from the did thorn hired men come into says was so taken up expecting them folks to that I about your and Jim Junes to split as so fur I reckon they didn't hear when I called the hands in. I didn't blow the tho says all jest for the and I reckon you'll go along with just to bo with quality when they ho jerked down the born a alway She don the bouse talk to keep 'em from prying the Lord don't I will try to you want me It the and last says all seed ' 99 this Says one on Ip her mighty from our and bst says wouldn't your own lo that those didn't know no I it made Betsy think they'd fur they to see that in a last Sayn mighty we went to see our uncle take his seat in Congress as an honorable says I ain't clean So Jake is a if ho ken make speeches as fast as he ken lay he's a glib But I don't approve of people off a good trade up with what they don't know nothing Now Jake was a mighty good are says uncle is the Hon. Jacobi reckon I ain't Old Jake never had but two your young if your believe Betsy was out of it was no ways anxious 'bout so I picked up a mighty fine little shiny snuff in one of their says is a new fashun snuff mighty is not a snuff says right off is a card I looked right up to the top of tho 'The Lord help your poor says you ain't eighteen years a your cards about to play gamble with all day are not game they are visiting says iGt me see showed me 'twas on the Lord's yearth but a piece of white paste with Netty on docs you do these worth while to fetch 'em we all your nigger in the uniform told all o' your names afore you could got a chance to tell wo wish to pay if we do not feel like going in or the persons wo aro calling on are or do not wish to receive wc just send our to with one of equivalent to a We had some calls to mako on our way here this says all don't set much store by each ef a find be knowed all the time that she wanted a right clean plato to cat that piece o' goose off they had all made a mighty hearty the old lady tuck her hands done 'em so at Dileo like she wanted 'em the niggers had been 'round the table all tho Dilce was bent on how smart she So she flew at the old soul's hands set to 'em like all but Miss jerked 'em and says want a she was tuck all But she is a mighty smart ef she is don't be put She in a minute the porringer she keeps on tho top shelf to give sick people chicken soup in. So she had it filled with handed to Miss She her hands in him a Let him keep his i you would a thought all the stages that ever ey and be wise in was thar at Jest then walked rapidly We opened j a mighty fuss in the front the door of the and found ' when we thar was a fine carnage the student in A paper full o' with bosses hitched up with was upon the As soon as tho and spit it all the Thinks you don't git mo to eat no more chicken soup out o' that quality rest o' the quality when they seed thar was no more porringers all washed their hands in their I looked with all my eyes to seo 'em drink tho water when they was done and spit it back in the but as good luck would have it they I know it would a made Barney mighty mad to had to smash up all them new tumblers arter tho quality had used and fur my I can't seo what they bedaub their se ves with they eat and can't git up from table till they are 'Twould a been a heap less trouble to poor Betsy ef they had a kept their bands under the table a let the niggers a fed the time the dinner was over it was purty Wo thought shore they was a gwine to stay all But fust thing wc thoy axed for their what they call thoy war on their Barney told 'em thoy better that 'twas dangerous to ride miles over that load after says never go out before dark if wo can avoid Old Sol's too ardent beams are so says tho gentle moonlight is .so soft and says poetical and soul says tho stars looking like the ever watchful eyes of our guardian looked like ho thought it was his duty to warn and to ax 'em to stay all but seemed mightily relieved when they wouldn't bo lie told there wasn't no but they said them coachman bosses carriage was all used to 'bout at so they fixed on their head gear and took their little sun fans Betsy wus hard at work lo tho last a their for she bound to have that in says don't in a jacket a of pasteboard know which looks the you or my does as I put it mighty par of old oxen Ben Gill has boon working most to don't Mr. said have much respect for your personal appearance Gen. Harney is He is considerably over six feet and is large boned and His hair was but thickly mixed with He wears it and begins to be bald on the crown of his His and beard are nearly and are also thick and clipped Hia eyes are blue and for he uses In younger years he must have been a model of physical vigor and but he now looks older than ho really for bis I does not exceed in St I heard an of his which I have never seen in Being in New York many years bo passed a storo in one of the principal streets in which an auctioneer was soliciting bids for an engraving of General Both tho seller and the crowd no political friends of the subject of aad iHn every ' possible much am I offered for the Hero of New cried the man at the half a he's worth a after robbing tho Make it a cent won't how much am I hundred paid a voice very emphatically as Colonel Harney entered the hundred he making his way through the half a head taller than any other man in the naturally inquired if tho man was in and started on again his I am in earnest and I claim my interrupted the if no one bids more I claim tho one bidding he handed the auctioneer the money and his he seizing him by tho collar and dragging him to the claim the privilege of applying tho bastinado to your body for you damnable having caned him to his no one in the crowd venturing to ho strode out of the and continued hia walk down tho the quality of the character necessary for a man to be the actor of such a and I think you will discover tho traits which military mon consider to fit Gen. Harney eminently as the leader of the I had set him down in my vile who had mentally mind as a travelling merchant or j him to such a horrible would next neighbor was a kill lie him throughout tho fashionably dressed young in then with speed of a into a peal of must know tho and customs of ghosts very to be able to tell they dislike getting wet or first giving him a dark speak not so lightly of things above your you mean to imply that there are such things as there if you had dashed off tho wo never is my Ghost how is that after that you don't believe in said tho first time I hoard my dear said my tho student nor tho merchant I over and the guineas i belonging to me and the other travellers were alike Those two a about over the one o' tho puffed up niggers they had dressed up like a on a high bench outside the was bounced off like a rubber I thought the might be and run to but he jumped right up stood up before fields in pursuit and made sich a you never seed the saw either of them i like of jest like it was a part of his a better make a snuff box of I tried mighty hard to 'em for poor I tuld all 'bout blue dye copperas wus tlie best way to sot which would hatch pullets which how to keep a dog from a of all 'bout Betsy's baby a tho measles both at But ef you believe they never a word I wus So I jun through let 'em was all a up with all our when Betsy como to tho axed 'em all to walk out to It wus a powerful relief all When wc got to the dinner thar wus a mighty nice dinner spread thar Jim ready to set Tho quality looked at Jim then looked at each looked for all tho world like they never her to your old I have for har or I'm gwine to take caro of and you've got to let them quality folks I don't see in that my wife should bo a up herself this says of all poultry that's been all wont to bed pretty causa you the equality had pretty nigh used us Bat dono with them long in tho night I hoerd a great at the front I jumped got a wont to see what was to as 1 thar stood one o' these nigger a a as soon as he got of 'The lord ray says I your missis sent you here to fetch one o' axed to eat dinner didn't cards this time o' look at young man stood up flushed with But presently resuming his he taunt would you if it were not such a foolish foolish exclaimed tho throwing on the table a heavy leathern are fifty I am content to lose within the I do not in showing who aro them after enacting a which had tho back of their heads ' like believed to be flowers all fixed in bad wound a bad name Bad books are public fountains of Chance of fortune is the lot of Defer not what thou intendest to Empty vessels make the greatest Fair and softly goes far in a Gluttony kills more than the the form ot any ono your and after you recognized you will allow your We all each but not what is not your Lean liberty is better than fat still in the mocking other's will do will said the will stake these fifty on condition that you ' pay a similar sum if you a short the young man said my worthy are more than a poor college sizar ever but here are if you are I shall be most willing to other took up his saying in a contemptuous you wish to draw exclaimed the if I bad fifty you should see if I wish to draw four guineas which I will stake on your Booner bad I made the proposition than the rest of the attracted by the of the came forward te lay dowa their and in a minute w two the buy a pig in a Of two evils choose the Past labor is present Quick at quick at Haze not tho pillars of a fair Say well is but do well is That is which is worth Undaunted minds defy not all in ono Wanton kittens may make sober Youth is the season for Zeal is commendable in all aro as easy caught as Let a circus arrive and in less than a half tha boys in town will be throwing and breaking their necks over an empty mackerel editor of tho Lynn News thinks children's game are becoming popular with older persons as he has seen recently a largo number ef full grown men chasing hoops in our says Miss Miss Netty By that time Barney had got the bosses and says Mr. liad better bo a the door them folks here so he did it. It was well ho told mo who they for such a cargo I never did see little and little silk fans in their hands they called I reckon they much acquainted with the or they wouldn't thought he was a them purty little Then they had flounces all over their frock and all over their they called and they was from tho tops of their heads to the bottom of their all the flounces like only a heap had run back soon as she got the fust 'cause sho had on a mighty dirty but she put a now white satin shawl ever then she looked as fine as any of axes 'em to walk take set bo Arter awhile told 'em sho was a for 'em all the says old Miss engaged to bo hero to we never dine before it wants some minutes to that out her fine gold tho' the clock was right before Betsy looked as blank as if she'd run for sheriff and didn't get a But she run right in the the way she hollered up the whole tuckin of from tho tater the wash the all as I got tho quality all I wont out to help poor I was sorry for Sich a sight as the kitchen Thar was half picked half killed everybody like she was the demon of Every side of tho kitchen was she was 'round all sides at Says do let me help Says what ken you whether to set down or be knowed what they wus but I So says take seats set down an help you Jim set down and full These are my Jim did sot right down fell shore they never cared a mite ef the quality had a stood over 'em stared at 'em a quality seemed they was gwine back in the hall But they give another look at tho I reckon they was as hungry as Jim for they sot right sort o' got their selves ono on 'em looked at ono o' tho nigger gals and hand mo tho looked at Betsy mighty Betsy frowned at looked like sho know all about tho handed the says the quality asked for the she looked hard in the plate o' raw jerked up that handed it to is says quality gal turned her nose right Betsy's what never her no thought they were very says poor didn't know you preferred salary to needn't trouble yourself to bo said got no your fault they don't grow awhile one on 'em had eat everything out o' her plate right says I believe I will change my and take a bit of that says mighty So ho cuts off a nice piece bowed again says presents her respects to Mr. and would be much obliged could he lend his The coachman being by the darkness ef the night so unfortunate as to run off the side of the causeway and upset tho carriage in tho seized him by tho collar and give him sich a uniform and jest like I was a up a Says captain general didn't you say so at What did you stand a talkin quality talk to me all your misses a about heehs over head in Cow hered me a a strange an came down rolled up in a when he saw me collarin of the fine says jest turn that feller over to go right up stars git into some directly start right off. Them quality women their flankey little sun snuff is all keeled over in Cow says much for and to moonshine of a dark and starry eyes of But he hurried and I gave tho nigger a jest te remind him 1 had o' him says for your life to that fust nigger house you come and tell without no mind to jump right an sit tho and CENTRAL is well the late black republican legislature of New York passed an act transferring from the people of the city of New York and Brooklyn tho right of 30-lecting their own and vested tho appointment in slato selected by tho That becomes the virtual bead of police the two They also selected a street for the city by tho appointment of the While thus destroying all municipal power and the was careful to mako tho cities pay tho expenses of those which wero selected by tho and thrust upon them their reason of. this procedure upon tha part of the black republican legislature can bo briefly In tho first they desired the local offices and patronage of the cities of Now York and and being in the minority could never obtain them by popular and so they legislated themselves into aro not in favor of liberal like the old prefer a central despotism to liberal self leading republican papora all over the country sustain this of the and we presume its principle may bo considered an of tha republican it behooves tho to make it an If the State legislature can take away from a city the right of self and vest the municipal power in the thoy can also do tho same thing for every township and county in the and make tho magistrato all-powerful and republicans will be pretty certain to do that in those cities and townships where in tho minority and cannot got the offices in any other If state constitutions are in tho way they will evado as they did in New by joining two or throe counties or cities and tho officers appointed to rule over district having same as the old municipal friends of local self government must rally and put down the black if they wish to preserve their municipal for that party is as hostile them as ever were the British Stuarts in their palmiest days of cities and villages in this State may look ta see a warfare made upon by attacks upon in case the next legislature is black They will in order to get tho offices and governor strip the of their and vest it in the hands of lieutenants appointed by Governor Cincinnati and you help have it ready right let him go you would a thought I had shot him off. I put a pile o' blankets in the Barney and Dan went down five miles to Cow Pond fished 'em all out an carried 'em and we've washed our hands of them quality ever its most Good on his own which was full o' all i You're mighty pleasant o' with Miss the notionate woman eat a bit o' Barney's dinner arter she got I didn't know what made Barney myself is to bave a ' light on your uose just as the Bolam like he was a mischief Como j ist pulls cut bis watch and as he turned in the private letter from contains the following interesting It an item of I would inform you that your defaulting was at St. a town in Floyd a few weeks and purchased a largo amount of land of the honest settlors report hath it that not having cient of Ohio's money in his he made good his deficit by paying them in currency on broken down About two thousand acres of first class lands ate tho amount of his so I am iur Hoping the Almighty will give him strength to meet his accusers up under hia kindness of heart which to a positive I
