Prairie Du Chien Leader (Newspaper) - January 9, 1858, Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin VOLUME I PRAIRIE DU CHIEN CRAWFORD CO SATURDAY JANUARY NUMBER 26 STORIES ABOUT CHICKENS HILL lu Ho well Block THK Or THC M TIJK IX THK STATE WEST OF Tm li every at the I'.! 00 1 one year To ami Mull u of will bv lu OF 3 I M 1 30 1 IS A A TM 1 f iun u r t ii cf ft vf N foi QM 4 10 IS 11 nit 1 mi 3 n in 4 1 of Hues r one Inch line Stray tour l nl Hie uy law 5 00 fiO 2 00 Jlon District IllA II County WM A County Court I I County JHA II of Deals Clork of Jl E H II HAM Surveyor Coroner II M In Ar street for fc anJ In cloths K1 At ill tho In WK Ac At OM In mwl tie Ac 41 Wien of Klines Hotel Prairie dn Chlen CO 1 r Tuwn ilu on Hour country tic Also Store NI THOMAS lit IMV In Law Street Will to all to their curt K W II LAW LAND AND JOHNSON A nt In St Will to nil to In Ax 4 Liin v V Office Church Strict du Chlen WIs anil on Main McGregor Iowa the Atlantic THE OLD MAX'S XT 0 W Oh for one of youthful Joy I live buck my twentieth I'd rather a boy limn reign n king I Off with the wrinkled of I Amiy with crown I Fear not written vote And Ita ilown I One moment let my From fount of flame I me reeling dream 01 life all love und fame I My listening angel the prayer And 11 If I hut touch thy silvered hair Thy wbh lint aped Hut li there nothing In thy track To bUl theu fondly the hurry back To tho day truest soul of womankind Without HIM what were One I cannot leavo I'll I The angel took n sapphire pen And 11 would he a boy again And be u husband too I And Is there nothing yet unsaid the their gifts have led dissolving Why yes memory would recall My fond paternal Joys 1 could not to leave them I'll I The smiling dropped his Why this will never do I The man would he a hoy again And be n father tou And 10 I woka The with Its And wrote my dream when morning the gray-haired boys Live for he not Look about thee for Sit not down to Is tho Joy Folded are ever weary Lettish hearts arc never gay Life for hath Active be then while you may tn thy pathway 1 cheering than gold and silver W llh their wild As Che sunshine falleth on earth let sympathies and Madden well the darkened earth Attorney lit the In Church Street Will to maile ttfl nil led to care faithfully to Attorneys nl will to all to their care In thin and the Cor and Church du Wli It Attorney and nt Law Office Corner Wisconsin du 1 MASON over Drug Store Pr I found at all hours of lire night nt Ilio anil Dr may be found In the night time at Ms residence building In the lower OLD My son why Jo you filthy tobacco Precocious youth To get the juice out of it oM NOT So Bio A FOOL YET Prince kowsky the rumored husband was to of denies lie is already married and has 5 children PROSPECT or A MILD WINTER M et of the French predicts from the character of the thermal circuits that ths old cyclo of tho three or four years past has ended mid that we are now on a succession oi warm seasons rising is a charming thing for people who to bed early but bad for those who are compelled to sit up till mid- night latest case of absence of mind is that of lady who on returning from a walk with si lover rapped him on the face nnd bade good night to tho door tradesman who dacs not advertise liberally has been very appropriately com- pared to a man who has a lantern but is A correspondent furnishes the Y Tribune with the following remarkable history of n truly noble woman SIB a noble deed erty is never recorded on earth Let us rescue one too good to be lost In dark scenes to come it may waken some of mercy or cheer soine broken heart At the close of a long hard winter more tlian two years since we were summoned from the institution one morning past and to one of those vile imitations of tho Tower of Babel a rear tenant house in the low region between tho Five Points und the Bowery In a small even in misery was the patient She was the young owed mother of lour ones a cate woman ing with brown hair eyes red with ing and thin pale features once handsome but then the picture of despair There was a strange timid reserve Having en up to die as she afterwards said she only wished to have a inquest She had neither flush nor neither fever nor consumption A horrible cion flashed upon mo It appeared that she lived by sewing that she was of no wealthy charch to help but only of a Tract Ward Mission and that after her rent was paid left from her scanty earnings loss than fivo cents n day for each in those times to clothe warm and live persons Except an occasional better meal from friends without meat butter or vegetables she had lived at times for months on dry bread est to a fault she would die rather than beg There she was the very shadow of the Song of the Shirt At length forgetfully there was ed to her nourishing food It was too much She answered with a gush of tears and a fond look at her children like that a consumptive mother sometimes gives in parting Just as Arctic or African lers long famished on scanty food at last faint to rise no more in tho plenty of a great city she was sinking ation of gradual Some kind nursed her to life and helped to win her history it TOns full of sadness Left early a lone orphan she afterwards sacrificed the good will of tives and some property expectations in her marriage and the young couple had left their home in a distant seaport to bury themselves in Now York Misfortunes had still followed Just before the birth of their fourth child her husband had gone to New Orleans for employment where delirious with fever and unable to send a message he had died a few days after his arrival leaving his destitute family in a dark New She said It was so strange 1 She had secretly prayed to Heaven a whole year that her children might be taken from that vicious neighborhood Eighteen months have passed since her first venture in trade mother has been roused Her little shop is full of ful devices quite Parisian With special tenderness to the poor she is kind and obliging to all She is prudent strictly honest and willing to sell cheaply and wait patiently for success Before the financial crisis she was slowly gaining She has striven in more trying seasons till she has fainted from exhaustion till toiling by her dim light shining through crevices long ter midnight brought watchman for- burglars to her doors till pressing monthly bills have been paid by oil meat for dinner These sacrifices have told They dimmed her sight threatening that the nerve of ion the blind drop serene of Milton or the of surgeons and they have caused repeated and tree raising of blood They will probably keep out the sheriff but we fear the undertaker five minutes walk east from the Bowery in a wide street on the south at the first corner from the commencement stands a neat and stretching beneath the eaves is the sign Cheap Fancy Store It has been tilled with that last AVe have dreamed that in the trials of a panic Win ter the patronage of the good neighbors who may recognize this portrait and its claims may possibly turn the scale between the that may crush and the com- fort that may restore She has won her freedom and she de- serves to live Entirely her simple humanity we present this strange history for publication partly as a prescription to keep off blindness and con- sumption And the circle around her to whom it is thus addressed one else can easily test its entire truth A Wall street President and a leading firm in the her neighbors have kindly ed as soon as this shall appear and bo known to her to save deeper questions that might wound her by acting as references But from the beyond we have treasured these incidents from real life hoping that they may influence many who may never sec the Heroine of the Half touch the hand that carried it with their trade In a crisis when thousands arc facts illustrate great principles in lence That busy home With its tears of joy around which but one storm has yet gathered is eloquent with the thought that the way to raise the downcast is to help to help themselves The divided loaf pleads with the poor to bless the Havings of hunger and a poison cup warn the rich with velvet pews that the Yo unconscious of his fate for hnt months mid wondering why thc poor dead ked and the nnt write and send then m vision 0 Judgment way be J Jr OT Suwon In Sinner's front Street near the uu Wli K P WOOD M to In II the of lit Drug Klines not write and send them money The embers died on the hearth and last crust was gone Terrible gloomy days followed Her little ones came like the children of Ugolino in Dante and crazed her by crying for bread Her brain bed and she reeled to and fro with maniac She calmed It was dark night By the dim light she saw on the mantle a cup of poison ready mixed She tried to nerve herself to give and drink and quiet all Starting back with a she ed for deliverance as she thought for the last time the door but with a strange impression of somethin wrong in that room a Ward Missionary of the City Tract Society tho Rev Mr I calling late above groped his way to the basement below Till the left for a charge in the country nil was changed for the better Then by a sort of too to buy a candle Well Augustus you have been apprenticed now three months and have seen the several departments of our trade I wish to give you a choice of sir Grocer Well now what part of the you Augustus with a sharpness beyond his up sir Suddenly a knock was heard at Ignorant of what was passing while his followers are sleeping But the faith that starved its own to feed the stranger only to reap a reward no tal could foresee has for every human be- ing a sublime moral As is on a rainbow skirting dark clouds is inscribed Oust thy bread upon water for find it after A DISPENSARY PHYSICIAN The following bird gossip is selected The San Francisco Price Current N P Willis marks as follows of this I should riot do justice to the birds of our neighborhood however without ing that on an adjoining farm was born last week a Whether such caprices of nature occur very often I know my bor thinks his fowl acle Tho nearest we to it in our hennery was a chicken we called it the by which waddled about in a brood at Idlewild for a week or two and of its rental resemblance the poor thing ly was very much ashamed It made for a bush and hid its webbed feet and tal tail whenever it was looked ological sensibility which was curious at least in one of that family While speaking of fowls by the way I may as well record for our friends the some evidence that has turned up at Idlewild within a few days on the sub- ject of posthumous recognition It may be remembered letter of two or three months since I mentioned a demonstration of remarkable attachment and constancy between a bantam cock and his hen Polly Polly died as I pathetically narrated the particulars But from the almost human interest she excited amongst the children it was thought best to conrer upon her the nearest approach we could make to human her to tho city that is to say to be stuffed for what future there might be in salt and spices Polly's purgatory was unexpectedly long so long in fact that we had almost ten all about but a day or two since she and no more to as natural as life itself though in thc blessed ornithology of a glass case She was set upon the dinner table though stuffed not to be eaten but admired but presently there was an acclamation among the children a table moving of the liest to introduce this apparition to Jake What would he say to her Would he lur V In three months had he forgotten The glass cover was removed and Polly was taken out upon the lawn where with the square block to which her feet nailed in the grass she stood erect and apparently in thc lull feather of life and beauty They went to the stable for the had my The experiment involved questions is magnetism AND BRANDY re tion The brandy spoken of is quoted at California brandy distilled from the tive grape be bought in market and of a quality equal to the average brands of Cognac imported here and greatly rior to the brands James T SIcDougall Co were thc pioneer ot California grape brandy and have for some months been lar sales to the trade from their distillation of last season which amounted to the very respectable quantity of 500 octaves Soma of their brandy was shipped to New York where it met with favor and realized for a first figure From the grape crop this year it is estimated gallons will be or 300 and 400 per cent more than last year At this ratio of increase we do not hesitate to say three years hence fine brandy will be one of our exportable products For two years past various classes of wine made from the native grape of Los Angelos have been growing upon popular notice and favor The Alia California in an article on the Methods of making says it is estimated that gallons of wine were made in the State last year and from the grape crop this year it is expected gallons will be manufactured Wo see no reason to question thc accuracy of these figures It is notorious that a great number of new vineyards have been planted in the vicinity of Los Angelos since and the annual rape crop since then has increased that tho bulk of thc grapes have been used in making wine and that the business has proved profitable We have idence in thc fact that last year and this present one fewer grapes have been sent here for sale than in 1853 Thc Alta says that thc grape chiefly grown in California for making wine is of Spanish stock and was introduced bj the priests when they established their missions between the years and 1780 The vine is hard and healthy and the berry juicy and strong An acre of vines is to yield gallons of wine and never less than 800 although 400 is con- an average yield in Ohio and Eu- Almost every variety of grape is however being cultivated at time after time came long sickness and sore trials relieved so far as they were known by the unsought kind attentions and public appeals of her friends lor years ladies of Home of the Friendless But she grew weary of troubling To one it was er to fast than to beg easier to hide than complain Three sorrowful years had passed from the poison scene to the time of our first it and the commencement of our NOT AT hen tibber once went yncc morc given up to to visit Booth and knew that he at jt was n dark hour before dawn Friends home a female domestic denied him bcr took no notice of it at the time but when in n few days afterwards Booth paid him a visit in return ho called out from the first Hat that he was not at home How can that answered Booth do I not hear vour voice To be sure you 1 VAN Olli Window Ulivi Notions llw Mil K nl In etc turner of K In OIN Itf o r nml nml In mid turner trull roll rci orner ot Church nl t CO anil In Foreign mill lie Main e r retail In K W Cor Bluff Chlen All will convey ami free of Street Prairie WIs to from the anil 1 n t M U H Dopol anil Verry Warm nt nil hourD Hook flook In nml un Water street Milwaukee roret will be to comfort of ill So S nt ration to nnd P K of for York Ik i i Ohio lows r Dealer In Hlock Uw MlUiwkM Railroad Depot Chlen Brlow near n R Depot ilu A with linm h a Table ami Saloon K excellent A Cib bcr but what I be your servant maid and it is hard you won't believe mo A MAS of thc most fashionable dressmakers in N ew York turns out to be wan For several years past he has been fitting dresses to the charming forms of ihc New York ladies and titling ladies to forms of their dresses He is said to have been extremely popular with the ladies and ninny regret that the discovery of his sex extended beyond themselves Osr of the unposted up guests at the rard thc other day having taken possession of his room locked it up to go into the city and leaving the key at the bar told wick with great simplicity not to wait dinner for him And we believo Chad wise it's so reported The same ter once stopped at the Astor house where they put him up of course under the roof and two in n room During the night his felt cold and proposed routing out a servant for blankets quoth Green hush 1 I'm wake poor old Mrs Astor of you go to holler in round this time In the morning being pleased with his breakfast he in- formed thc waiter in a tone meant to bo very gratifying to he thought old Mrs Astor a very good she fried them buckwheat cakes first rate and concluded by asking if they bought their as they used such a lot they kept a cow And when we lived at the La Pierre there was one customer who always called Mr Sykos Mr Magazine COM Paulding comes honestly by his skill in arresting unlawful expeditions His father was that celebrated John Paulding the farmer who was ono of the three captors of Major An- dre Hiram was born in Winchester Co nnd early in life entered the Navy where ho has gradually worked his way up thro tho grades of Midshipman Lieutenant Commander and Captain Ho has ever been cue of tho most efficient and valued officers in the service and Government r short time sinco showed its appreciation o tho fact by appointing him of tho command of tho Home Squadron which lie now holds We observe by tho Pro-Slavery papers that Iho Commodore exceeded his tions in so promptly capturing Walker were enlisted and for many months she was kindly watched They discovered that she had long borne an exemplary ter and that amid the threatening bath carousals in the Sixth Ward she might sometimes be -seen pale and weary climbing filthy tenant houses to distribute tracts One day a lady friend found her greatly agitated 11 seemed that some time previous while iti want herself she had searched out a destitute Irish family sick and starving and repeatedly interceded lor them in vain with a of their church who could have helped He had promised but forgotten Sabbath morning came but no relief She had but one loaf eft and no money to buy more With a such as only a mother can feel in aking bread from tho mouths of her shed children she cut her last loaf in two ind robbing her carried half to feed hose of another Too late her careless neighbor learned iow his omission had been Some time afterward as he lay tig with dropsy he remembered his fault sent for this self-denying of another consequently has an area of 3 square miles which is about A this country has for some time past attracted much of the public attention and is likely to do so for some time to come a ical description of it might be of interest to many readers who meet every day with newspaper accounts of events occurring there Nicaragua lies between the 10th and luth parallels of north latitude it has an average length of 220 miles to a breadth of about 220 consequently li about square miles the size of the State of Illinois part of the surface of tho whole State is covered by the Lake of Nicaragua which is 110 miles long with an average breadth of -10 miles and lies in the part of the State ten or twelve miles fiom the coast This a great many small streams of water and es them again through the river San Juan pronounced San which running from the south west end of alter a course of about 100 miles empties into the Sea Arenas in the south east corner of the State It was at this point that Walker landed with 400 of his military followers on thc day of last month The river is deep but narrow and crooked and is navigable for small steam vessels from its month to the Nicaragua is bounded on the south by after death can there be sympathy reciprocity of bowels what is the length of memory how about mortem is recognition instructive without motion or exchange of looks etc etc It was to be Nature's bare and blunt decision on these tender points and there could have scarcely been contrived a live more anxious anticipation In the habit of being taken hand to be fed Jake was easily caught and up for tho interview and with thc hold standing around with expectant der he was set down suddenly in the dis- emboweled presence of his Polly He stood a moment expecting evident ly the usual Polly syllabic of welcome but no cluck 1 The doubt or thc delay was only for a moment however The repetitions of trot and the ex- tension of the wings to the ground thc first sign of bantam were most busily gone into and then followed the most voluble utterance of rooster ments pecking with the bili and Polly being several times knocked over but her irresponsive tions and the evident setting of her up again bv tho children producing on the iag Jack no beginning of incredulity or mistrust In dread at least of damage to tho personal appearance of thc Polly we removed him once morc from his mortal sight and sent him back with refreshed memory to the stable a widower once more And with these precious facts for tion and theory perhaps our clairvoyant friends will be assisted to a revelation RECENT DISCOVERY AS TO THC N is INHABITED It has lon been known that the moon revolves on its axis in the sains which around the earth and that it consequently always presents nearly the same side towards the earth while the opposite side is never seen from our globe No bodies of water or clouds can be seen on the moon by aid of thc most powerful telescope nor is tho parent direction of stars close to its edge changed by refraction as would be the case Ho 1 n The same complaint was ArnoW s friends against John Paulding less history and public opinion Journal U thc most southern of thc Slates of jf enveloped the Central America on the north by the State lt has been inferred by Whewell of Honduras east by the Sea j reputed author of a late work entitled and west by the Pacific Ocean It has Qf plurality of that the moon about 300 miles of coast on cither it was on the side of the lake and in the vicinity of and ada that most of Walter's military exploits were performed Nicaragua has a population of in all counting the remnants of the tribes and Spanish of the last there are but few but they are in fact the strength of the State being ly priests and officers of government and owners of the soil and masters of the native population Nowhere perhaps on the Continent of America has thc original population reached so great a depth of nan degradation as in the Central them they are faithless and filthy to thc last degree subsisting on the bounties of nature and when this resource fails on any description of offal or garbage that presents their id palates Tho climate is warm and they require but little clothing and this little is so as to render the sight of them un- bearably loathsome Whether Walker's success would improve their moral or ical conditionals a fair subject for Journal a sled on States With no prospect of small sum by way of atonement tion before them And it was the solemn tender of the money n the hand of the dying man and his features and faint accents that had io overcome her Through her friend thc story soon spread In France it would have won for her thc mous medal for Public Virtue But with the genius of a commercial city it was decided to honor her with the more useful present Fancy all furnished A few gave them from earlier sympathy but three-fourths of the capital and tho al successor the whole enterprise depended on that noble act The gentleman who ried her first subscription said it was this that moved him and that for weeks thing whispered in his ear Half a Haifa Keen eyes in Wall glistened with a the tale Her old friends of the Home were early in the field and delicately appealed through their Money freely It reminded one of thc origin of Franke's Orphan at Halle The carpenter shoemaker printer were all nors At bare cost an artist neighbor tered in gift on a neat hanging sign out- Thread Needles iery and Fancy another equally kind wrote prettily on n large card inside Children's Toys and ed later a bright with Stationery Fine ladies in carriages distributed her cards A poor old man asthma ing all day rose at the dawn of a summer morn gift to paint her window and a Sabbath scholar of nine years surrounded with luxury spent weeks in his sick room making kites as he said to help thc poor widow day she left the tenant house and mored her pleasant store wept tears of OLD WITH A NEW once requested the autograph of Jules Janin Tho witty journalist sent him the I acknowledge tho receipt from M do of twenty bottles of Johannis berg for which 1 return infinite Jules Janin has no atmosphere or water and no inhabitants is shown to be inconclusive by a recent dis- covery of the astronomer Hansel whose study of the moon's motion continued for many years has established tho fact that thc centre of gravity of the moon instead of being like the earth at the centre of ure is beyond that centre and further from the side next to thc earth than it is from the other side by seventy-four miles The nearer side of the moon therefore is a vast expanded protuberance of mountain miles high and tho fluid whether air or water would How downwards from the nearer to the further side of the moon where for aught that we know intelligent living beings may exist The nearer side of the moon cannot be inhabited at least by beings to whose existence air and water are essential as is thc case with all trial animals Thc late celebrated matician Gauss proposed as a means of settling thc question whether the moon was inhabited that a huge monument be erected on the steppes of Siberia as a signal to the inhabitants of the moon in hope that they might be induced to erect a similar signal to apprise us of their ence The discovery of Hansel shows that such an experiment could be attended with no success inasmuch as the inhabitants of the moon if there arc any being on thc ther side could never see a monument on thc earth It may not be uninteresting to add that it has been discovered few years by means of long continued hourly observations with a barometer that the moon exerts an appreciable influence rope known rious points throughout the State and among them many will doubtless be found to which our soil and climate arc admirably Wine maUns is but in its infancy yet although astonishing progress has already been achieved tn the South of Europe the culture of thc vine has for centuries been thc leading occupation of the people and its produce has contributed largely to the national wealth There however thc soil is worn out by long con tinned culture and successive failures o tho crop have caused the prices for wines to advance beyond all precedent Thc crude beginnings of California wine makers have thus from the outset the stimulus of higl values to urge them on to greater excellence and increased Gas FCB depresses price of furs renders it all tant that those who catch the animals properly prepare the skins since only such will sell at a remunerating price Inexpe- men as well as boys who are not Nimrods by occupation but occasionally catch a fur-bearing animal require tions or else need to exercise morc care in the preparation of the skins to render them saleable at first class prices Well-handled skins will always sell for 10 to 25 percent and sometimes 00 per cunt more than lar skins badly handled What we mean by the technical term is the preparation of thc skin which is a very simple matter to those who know To tho very large number of our country readers who do not know how we have to In the first place carefully avoid getting lood or dirt upon the fur before skinning E that is unavoidable carefully clean and ry it before take off the pelt which of U small animals such as mink fox wca el cats wild or tame muskrat fisher ot- er rabbits squirrels should be taken oft ripping down the belly and no ones should be left in legs or tail and no esh left adhering to the pelt This must x carefully scraped or picked off before or peltis stretched which is best done pon a thin smooth board or shingle cut little tapering upon which the skin c turned inside out as soon as it is ed from thc body and drawn smooth and ght and tacked fast and then hung up to ry in the air or in the smoke with but tile heat from the fire If you are in thc voods or where you cannot get boards or make your you musi dopt thc Indian's mode and stretch your upon a bow made of a hickory sprout T other tough wood which after trimming smooth you will slightly notch ir he middle of the length and bend he notch Then from the nose nd cut two notches and insert a brace will be held in place by tying a tring around the ends so as to bring them ust near enough together to suit the size your pelt It is sometimes necessary to lutin two or more braces to hold the side thc bow firm and wide enough apart to tretch the skin into a good shape and to he utmost tension which adds to their alue It is not necessary to stretch skins fu side out to show the quality A good judge can tell a good pelt as soon as he sees thc iesh side The prince in doubled thc on the pressure of the atmosphere and ty and sent him forty bottles This is the joke about nnd crew of rakes writing pieces of poetry and handing them to Dryden so that he might decide which was the prettiest poet Rochester finished liis piece in a few minutes and Dryden decided that it was the best On reading it the lines were found to be the I promise to pay to the order of John twenty A GOOD story is told of country who for tho first time heard an Episcopal clergyman preach He had read much of the aristocracy and pride of the Church arid when he returned home he was asked if the people stuck up Pshaw replied he why the ter preached in his so by means of long continued magnetic observations that it exerts an influence on the declination of the magnetic Courier A GOOD story is told of a Michigan man who recently wont down into Indiana tc buy a drove of horses He was longer ab sent than ho intended and failed to meet a business agreement On being rather re preached for not being home he made du apology I tell you how it is squire a every little darned town they wanted m to stop and be president of a WOMAN'S Stono refuse to pay her taxes at Orange N Y- on th old Revolutionary principle of no without Hid the is about to levy on THE NEW ENGLAND DINNER The New York papers contain long lints of thc late dinnn England dinner in that city together great many prominent persons who wens invited but were unable to attend Of tlw latter we present a few brief extracts As tins celebration is not without its political they may not be without inter- est to our readers Henry A Wise of 1 then decline But it is not for want of any respect or gratitude to tho of ew England Thc v 1 men who looked to the real and not to the shadow of men of God whose walk and conversation was founded on the of thc Gospel were w ong for the cause of religious t 1 hey were brave and earnest and honest and manly in maintaining human by tho observance of law and order and decency n all things If were at all deluded md practiced any delusions it was always n their hearts and consciences on thc Lord's i against the devil and all his ind suffered and fought for it they gloriously triumphed over their cal and spiritual foes and handed down a of liberty and law worth for all ages at all hazards by their And they were BROTHERS of of Virginia and in the last struggles were bound to our Fathers by norc sacred tics than brother's blood They themselves and their heirs forever Lime events other struggles renewed more bloodshed greater interests responsibilities weightier grander prospective scenes greater dread of worse disasters than could once be con- everything which has grown up or come after or is gone or now is or s hereafter to be binds us the heirs and descendants of the forefathers of this republic to each other more than they were bound together From ex-Governor Walker's letter which drew forth a good deal of applause we take the following specimen of grandiloquence As your Fathers landed on your bound shores there dawned the faint glimmering of the great principle of which rose upon enfranchised Humanity in all its meridian splendor on thc 4th of July 1776 That great ple of self government is about being sub- to a fearful and perhaps a final in an unhappy western territory If this principle can be subverted there and such JURYMEN SHOULD SOT BLOW NOSES following story is told of the Sergeant of the English one occasion he was counsel ior a poor girl who had been charged with robbing icr master It happened that just before rose to address the jury one of the latter had been blowing his nose so as to produce a red and watery about the eyes The incident was adroitly to account by thc learned advocate who exclaimed 1 perceive one of the jury has been and follow ing up thc words in a tone of sympathy for the accused he so worked upon thc feelings of the jury that veritable tears at last did respond to his appeal and the con- quickly spread through the court The consequence was the acquittal of the prisoner guilty or who never ined before that she had been so wronged OPINION or ator Seward is a shrewd observer and who makes this prediction to which he is ing to stand In my judgment the acceleration of iness is going to bo rapid just m tion to the rapidity with which business has declined and I expect to see day and every hour of the day marked by a nse in the prosperity of tho country graduated just exactly by the suddenness of the de- pression Tho causes of the disaster are gone I think there is nothing before us but a groat revival of business and plethora of money to revive it in all I may be mistaken in this but I witting jj tS truths have been promulgated in thc Dec- of American Independence the blood of the Revolution will have been wasted on a soil where military and power will soon resume their swav as under our suicide the freedom of our try and the world forever sank with its last bubbling into that great deep it should remain until the sea give up their and man shall answer for his crimes at the dread judgment scat of his creator Asa I have no claim or ancestry on New England and presume that for thk kind invitation to your anni dinner I am indebted to mv who is n descendant of the illustrious ton printer boy Benjamin Franklin in whose principles and virtues I have ored to rear my Public business at Washington detained Senator Seward and he transmitted tho subjoined excuse for non Tuesday Nov 10 1857 DEAR I have the honor of the invitation of thc England Society for which I pray you to them my grateful acknowledgement Inasmuch as the festival will fall on a dav when I shall be in attendance on public affairs at ington I can hardly promise myself tho pleasure of participating ir iU celebration Cut I certainly shall if the indulgence shall not conflict with official engagements A native of York proud of her present position and hopeful of her future ness I am sensible nevertheless that her fume dates from the revolutionary age On the other hand I think most enlightened men will agree that England has an important history reaching back and con- with thc great civic revolution of England Others may detract from land in modern times but for myself I con- fess that I regard her policy as the surest guides to that national and eminence which we all arc that our country shall attain I ani dear sir with sincere respect and esteem your friend and humble servant WILLIAM II SEWARD To Hoy E D GETTING OVER A class which graduated not over a thousand years ago embraced among its members one Tom ElHott an incorrigible wag who was not noted for any particular and marked tion to his studios Mathematics was a object of Tom's disregard and this caused him an occasional jeu with the dry professor of conies On one sion thc professor during tho recitation asked Tom to explain the horizontal lex of the sun Tom replied I don't know how said thc professor suppose you were appointed by thc to ascertain it what would you gravely responded Tom amid the conclusive laughter of the lass and even thc professor actually a grin all thc that can possibly be imagined for i working man after daily toils or in tho there is nothing like reading s or a book It calls for no y exertion of which already he has had perhaps too much It relieves his ionic of dullness and sadness Xay it companies him to his next day's work and ives him something to think of besides tho drudgery of his every day something ho can enjoy whilo and look to with much sure If I were to pray for a taste that would stand by me under every variety of circumstances and be a source of happi- ness and cheerfulness to me through life and a shield against all its ills however things may go amiss and the world frown upon me it would be a taste for Sir John A KNOWING beggar posted himself at the door of the Court and kept saying A penny please On- ly one penny sir before you go in And why my man inquired an old country gentleman Because sir the chances are you will not have one when you come the reply WASTING Arnott TFM one day while panting with the looking out of and was almost deafened by thc noise of a brawling fellow who was selling oysters Said he That extravagant has wasted in two conds as much breath as would for ft month
