Tioga Eagle (Newspaper) - July 17, 1850, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania WEDNESDAY 17 l Tu For Ihe V VON HE I HI NO OF Till OF Z. J. At VY A 'Twas ever and return to rosy m to break tho spelt 113 home quick for soon nil his wayward beams i his throne all hud scene to t ill circling flights lad so on sun. burning lip eyu Hrm seal of was he upon tint glowing j it broad ii Vs mighty long gleam that played upon and linked their spray wilh r tlic scene long he deep of that let her and a His his only fur were gathered round i iii irk the spirit's n no lines of up by in it His pule beams phot forth from out cor Hi tl antl fell across in agonies of lie sii I. Fare thee he cold in is she worn track of ray ut had soared round the thr JAMES BOW or r Theodore of a of introduction im on plied the American with ol social existence on side Wm hut people of the back drew for the other's a vivid of the of the famous of listened wilh eyes to the close of the and burst of involuntary en- C the man was greater than rr nearly equal to Odin to build him an witli heroic in 3 rubbed his hands of and made hii story of bloody by miracle could it happen that fellow escaped the capital penalty of violations V as he himself could return no satisfactory 1 ton readers have perhaps without conceiving a 5'il-iti6n, i; not be to as a cldar cin bo in a few Let it be that great that perfection of human the Saxon prevails all tha States of the wholly J of ss to TI and of punishment annexed nevertheless in its practical it 13 controlled by the power of a omnipotent law of public in most courts juries uto of both the law and r interpretations often evince direct with tho of my Lord Coks sic comments of 8ubJect of homicide in bounds of of w settled as an immutable to anybody who ought latitudinarian he waa by with addenda to their to hia character In most of siv grew out of his in- r to espouse the the One hv by pe. and be- a and be- of the heart I On the evening of the 4th of 1835, the steamboat Rob started St. Louis to New Orleans with a full Immediately after under good adopt a favorite one person attracted universal attention by the annoying eagerness with which he endeavored to make up a party at his oft repeated and persevering efforts to that end soon become insulting and unendurable and yet his was such as to deter the bravest on board from administering the which he so richly He was a huge mass of mighty bones and with swarthy bearing the impress of many n piercing that seemed to possess the power of blasting the cold gleaming such as haunt the memory painfully a rank luxuriance of coal black hair immense whiskers and The savage-looking figure costliest and adorned with a profusion of while the outlines of several derous weapons were plainly distinguished be- neath hia gaudy vest and superfine Nor did he need to render him an object of A connoisseur in the science of ent would have confidently him a match for any five men on the without any aid from lead or cold At after many he prevailed on a wealthy young merchant of Natchez to join him in a game of They sat down beside a small table near the and soon absorbed in that most perilous of most ex- of which the two alluring ingredients are the vanity and pride of individual and the uncertainty of general At stakes were arid the run of cards seemed wholly in favor of the but presently they bet more and gold eagles and dred dollar notes were showered down with ex- and then the current of for- tune away from the young merchant and the professional bler in a stream the ocean's As usually happens in such his want of cess only piqued and maddened the and he sought to recover by venturing such desperate ventures as could not but deepen and his And thus they continued during a whole summer The intensity of excitement became equivalent to Every nerve was energy the brain was taxed to the were sej hard as those of ists in tug of sweat rolled from their brows like great drops of The formed a circle around the and looked on with that interest which concentrations of intellect and passion never tans to urn at and the gambler attracted all and kept many awake and gazing till Among the latter was one presenting a countenance so piteous that it might have melted hearts of ble to A pale and exquisitely beautiful faca peeped incessantly from the half opened door of the weeping as if impressed by some dreadful sensation of It was the merchant's lovely wife weeping her farewell to departing There was one spectator whose ance and action excited almost as must osity as the players did He was a spare mar. of about with handsome golden keen blue eyes of natural and his thin lips wore a perpetual smile of the the most inscrutable With tbe exception of his red calico this person dressed wholly in ornamented with long swaying arid figures wrought out of after the fashion of some western lie beside the and held in his left hand a sheet pf in right a large with which ever and anom he dashed off a few as if engaged in tracing the progress of the Still merchant and the cd in their physical and mental The dial of the with its thousand fingers of golden pointed to the of but still they did not It still was fle and and pass ante and I call and raked own the Towards the morning a tremendous storm red lightning Hashed hail poured like a frozen great river roared till it rivalled the loudest thunders of and the very pilot at the wheel was But the mad players heard it What was the tumult of the raging elements to them whose destiny hung upon the turning of a the smiling blue-eyed stranger in still stood by them with his pencil and calmly noticing the of the the storm as beautiful grey out like a thing of glory in the traded with his infatuated dis- of his He dared the climax comprising his last cent of on two pairs of The bier they showed and blackleg had pairs of the The merchant dropped to the floor as if he had been shot through and that beautiful young wife flew to his side and fell AT TWO DOLLARS A Whole No. 622. shrieking upon his They were both borne away insensible to the Indies As the winnings the gambler emitted a hoarse laugh that ed frightful as the chuckel of a but he instantly lost color asa calm ed in his you play strong hand rent but here stands one whi can beat you at all of f who are you to banter a gentleman thus rudely am James of the other with a ringing laugh and you are John a bastard of the old The gambler reeled in his chair as if he had been struck with a but recovering again from the shock in a asked in a firm Whit game do you wish with firsthand pistols play replied rejoined the and they took their seats at the For a time the success seemed about equally and the gain and loss being At last the gambler ventured one of his skillful manoeuvres in Bowie smiled ly as his quick eye detected the He sauf but looked at his and bet five thousand staking the money in ten large The gambler went five sand dollars Which resulted in a Bowie held four jacks Cut with habitual fiendish his antagonist showed lour exclaiming as he did so By the pile is mine shouted both hands he raked a heap of notes to the tune of twenty thousand dollars his own Choking and purple with rage and the gambler To the hurricane and let pistols trumps this turn Good ss gold replied and the two hastily ascended the stairs and assumed their separate gambler over the etern and over the At that instant the sun was rising in a cloudless Nature looked The woods and waters appeared as parts of one di- vine with the boundless blue of heaven for its back The broad-bosomed river rolled away like an immense sheet of burnished speckled here and with the flash fishes gamboled in the sparkling wave and all the bright those sweet whose life is a and that dream only their wild anthem to the new while the two great the most deadly ever known in the and their fingers pared to slay and be I am give the cried Bowie in his ringing and that inseparable smile of strange meaning on his I am Fire shouted the gambler in tones murderous as The two pistols roared Bowie did not though he barely escaped with his for the bullet of his foe had cut away one of the golden locks of his yellow gambler was shot through the and drop on the of the had almost into the He was buried by the squatters the next And thus a bastard son of the great pirate There was a jury in the West who would have brought in a verdict against any man for killing more under the because lic opinion pronounced that he ought to be And were the desperadoes that Bowie commonly generous victor immediately proceeded the and restored the winnings gambler to the young merchant and beautiful who both received the boon gift from with much gratitude and If we should write a volume concerning the exploits of James not be rendered more transparent than it is revealed in the foregoing He always the friend of the protector of the and the sworn enemy of He was brave without beyond he had gigantic he atoned for all the errors of a life by the splendor of his magnificent His tomb is the his the and will fill a humble though safe niche ih the Temple Freedom through all He can never be forgotten till bowels of the earth cease to furnish metal for the fabrication of those bright blades of steel which bear hia imperishable Sunday RARA rare and noble specimen of the true Man in our office A young citizen who takes and pays dailies and There is a gem in He is iij sound he is in. constant good humor and say man an We Why Epidemics Rage at It in one night that perished by the plague of London of 1665. It was at night that the army of Sennacherib was Both in England and on the continent a large proportion of the cholera in its several havo been observed toy occurred between one and the The danger of exposure to night has been a theme of physicians trom time but is remarkable they have never yet called in the aid of chemistry to account for the fact It is at night that thd stratum of air est the ground must always be the most with particles of animalized given out from the and deleterious such as carbonic the product of the duct of In this and vaporous substances of all kinds rise in the air rarefaction of at when this leaves they fall by an increase of if imperfectly mixed with the while the gases evolved during the of remain at nearly the same It is known that carbonic acid gas at a partakes so nearly of the nature of a that it may be poured out of one vessel into it rises at the temperature at it is exhaled from the but its dency is towards the or the bed pf the in cold and At The alarm of cholera at night in some parts of the city was so that on some occasions many refused they should be attacked unawares in their Sitting they probably kept their stoves or fires burning for the sake ot and that warmth giving the expansion to any gases which promote their dilution in the the means ol safety were thus unconsciously At Sierra the hive a practice in the sickly season of keeping fires constantly burning in their huts at assigning that the fires kept away the evil to in their they attribute fever and Europeans have begun to adopt the same and who have tried assert that they have now entire immunity from the tropical to which they were formerly sub- ject In ihe epidemics of the middle fires used to be lighted in the streets for the purification of the and in the plague of of Iff fires in the streets were are at one time kepi burning till extinguished by a vio lent storm or trains although sound in must out of be on too small a as measured against an ocean of atmospheric to produce any sensible Within the case is different It is quite possible to heat a room sufficiently to produce a rarefaction and consequent dilution of any gases it may contain and it is of course the air of and that alone at which comes into immediate contact with the lungs a person above is from the is no doubt perfectly It is also known that the heat body is about two degrees lower at during than through the This may also account for much by people not being careful to keep on enough of clothing at hot to maintain the proper decree of heat In warm southern a fine net enveloping the bed like a while it selves for a also answers the pose of A upon the principle of Sir Humphrey Davy's 'The justly be asked is carbonic acid gas naturally a cause ot This no one can answer wilh for lysis of the in places infected with has yet been able to detect anything peculiar Yet for all and reason should not be lightly and such we hold to be of the article we have Amer. .An Anecdote of a Highland No man the peasantry of will deny effects produced on them popular During of Buenos a Highland while a prisoner in the hands of the having formed an to a woman of the and charmed by the easy life which the tropical fertility of ihe soil enabled the inl habitants to had resolved to remain inl South When he imparted this to his Ihe latter did not argue with but leading him to his he placed hini by his lide and sang no The spell was on The tears came into his and wrapping plaid around he Lochaber nae maun gang The songs of bis childhood were ringing in his and he lei t that land of ease and plenty for the naked rocks and sterile valleys pf where close of a toil and he might lay his head in his mother's THE LANGUAGE OF Being prevent at a party long our knowledge was brought into tion by persons who were desirous of sending to their composed of flowers significant of their As well as we are we give the most approved floral language attached to the most common It is a pretty thought talk in brightly tinged things which God has strewed all over the hill sides and A celebrated the we think it a dial of The flight of time was told by their opening and The language commonly attached to the DAHLIA BIOE I must be sought to be WHITE would not net contrary to BACHELOR even in CAPE heart are entitled to my have no cause for but in BROOM me not when it seemeth you are one of nature's PEACH I fix my have my ask no love is like the changing ROSE hast stolen my this for my re- member love is thy besetting very looks freeze me. shall part are too wild for sober I j honor you WHITE has spoiled your mean to insult care of your they are the best irritability hides your other good Box change WALL affection is above time or thine art is known thy spel binds near me BUTTER is often thus covere SHORT Abstemious who never tastes nor lad learning by the necessary to make him a who considers the ability of hia grandfather to be sufficient ment for all of small quantity taken in large tities by those who few grains of sobriety and no scruples of the father's sin visited upon the but more often the child of our own sina visiting its Height castigate with whip or a man whose openly avowed ous principles forbid his fighting even in self- Height defraud lord or tailor for the sake of discharging gambling Height of quarrel with all your neighbors who will not With your own views and notions of Height of starve self death in order to illustrate the beneficial effects of the Graham flower which withers when but blooms not again when watered by for publicly whipping the v common act of memory which may be exercised without common disturbance caused by your neighbor in making his o leave your old in a and bring away a new impertinence ot your Reflective have your umbrella inside out While turning a j feelings of a caught in the tie a canister dog's and observe whether he runs east or a servant to his l Unfortunate born with a con- Young Man's Best who takes him when he cannot take THK great admirer of Avon's who in- quired where the passage is found Is that a flC B 4 me ii informed that it maybe found in whose murderous SENSE The greyhound runs by and this we observe as a fact The flies his two hundred and fifty miles by from point to point of which he has this is only onr con- The fierce with twelve thousand lenses in his darts trom angle to angle wilh the rapidity of a flashing and as rapidly darts turning in the but with a clash reversing the action of his four only known that possesses this Hia both forwards and must be with his and instantaneously calculating the distance of or he would dash himself to But in what of his e res does this consist t No one can A cloud of ten thousand gnats dances up and pt wn in the the gnats being together that scarce the minutest interval between yet no one knocks long upon the a leg or long and delicate as these Suddenly amidst admiration of this matchless a peculiarly high shouldered vicious gnat with pendant darts out of the rising and falling and settling on your inserts a poisonous What this wretch Did he blood in the mazy fiance 1 No one A coach comes suddenly upon a flock of geese on a drives straight the middle of A goose never yet fairly run or a They under the wheels and and they contrive to flap and Waddle safely oSv Habitually heavy and they equal to any Why does the lonely when he descends goes to stop several times on his listen and before he takes his draught 1 No one How is it that the species of taken in battle by aunts to be made should be the black or negro No one Poor Anecdote of Dr. A person well known in Glasgow for superior talent and scientific but for a tinge Of scepticism in was met by an old companion hurrying to the Tron the bells for the afternoon said I shall do no such was the Do you think t would trouble myself to hear a i You had better judge for by com- ing for taking his they were both speedily seated the densely crowded What was astonishment of the sceptical when the Doctor gave out am not most noble speak forth the Words of and He that false judgment of the er .as it voice from and the sermon which he object of which to charge of ness where it ought on those believing in a future continue to live without God arid without while it waa shown that truth and soberness were only those who act their belief and of the admirably fitted for deepening the impression made by tbe and removing the flimsy arguments of philosophy falsely so From that day the gentleman a constant hearer of Dr. a confirmed believer in the and a steady performer of the duties of Christian The of Upon the edge of the sharpest razor with a it will appear fully ai broad as the back of a uneven and notches and An small needle resembles an iron But the eting of a bee seen through the same exhibits everywhere the most beautiful polish without the least or in- and it ends in a point too fine to be The threads of lawn than the yarn with which are made for weh pears perfectly smooth and and where smallest dot that is made with a pen appears irregular and Bat the little specks on the wings or bodies of are found to be the most accurate How magnificent is the system of The Mechanical Labor on a Few persons have any idea of the vast amount of mechanical independent of the mental which ia required in the production of a The London with mammoth supplement has 72'closely printed which contain made up of more than a million pieces of bur thousand copies of this paper tnd meat have been printed in aboat four The greatest number ever printed in one day was and the paper weighed raven the usual weight being four and The surface printed every night a single ia thirty the Weight of type Constant use is seven and 110 tors and 85 pressmen ara and fleas are supposed to be of and j E W
