Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 December 1859 — Page 1

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A very beautiful thing is the Superstition of Childhood, and we cannot help numbering it among-»thosc whose passing nw3j wc arc constantly mourning.

It may indeed have its origin in ignorance, just as the loveliest of flewers-some-timos sprinjout of the darkest of soil but it does not necessarily end in a heretic or •conclude with an Ante de Fo. For what is superstition but child-like belief in agen•cina that waited no mortal breath to kindle to being of something hovering Around and above us, like the wings of •ngcls. £f.-something greater than we, dflgl.be shadows, that is not shadow of something always within our reach, and always unattainable of something that makes us feol a sympathy with him who ventured to declare, that "spirits do walk the earth, both when we wake and when we sleep."

And it is only in that early twilight of Childhood, only when the first pearl billow of dawn is breaking along the east of life's morning, that we note these beautiful effects of light and shadow, that we denominate Superstition. We would make a plea for them here, if we could, would urge that God made them to fringe the broad day of these lives of ours made theu, that for once in the world, wc might dwell on the borders of spirit-land, and think earth not 80 very far off from Heaven made them for the children whom he loves and to whom in times of old, he extended an invitation and who are accepting it oven now one after another for the doors up aloft have always been left a little ajar, to let them in whenever they come.

Look at the mysterious awe that some times steals into the eye of a child, as it •catches glimpses here and there of something in the twilight something we cannot see, that is not fear something we cannot hear that is not reproof something that renders it thoughtful but not sad. Who shall dare to say that it is nothing? Who, that less gross and rudely fashioned than time has made us, tbey do not hear the sound of wings when all birds are in their nests or catch the glance of gentle guardian eyes that are never closed in sleep?

It is well, perhaps, that their lips are sealed at first that the gift and perfection of spccch are denied them all through the morning, but should disclose things yet unwritten, and reveal how loosely woven is the curtain that rustles around the world, and which unhallowed hands have vainly assayed to draw aside or to remove.

For the Children's sake we plead that thoy be allowed to dwell as long as they can, in the morning twilight that mistaken zeal may be" forbidden entrance there, with his farthing rushlights, to make a noon before the dawning is well over, that he cease to explain unto d.'.'ith everything thai is my.storions, everything that is wonderful. that he be no more permitted to wipe away every drop of dewy freshness and bentity from nature's face with a napkin, fold up all the mists, "remand the morning clouds below, the horizon ngnin, and make a dull old day ot' it., when it is searec an hour and a halt- old. W sh^ild h::e to know what business auybodv has to interfere with the sunny-haired child, thai paying under tress in the summer, lays a stone upon some cool shadow, tin Maple has! Hung down upon the grass that the wind may not blow it quite away while he ehasos a flower of a butterfly that, is fl ittering iu a field? The shadow is very beautiful to everybody as it lies there, showing here and there as it does, a little lining and sprinkling of gold, but more beautiful to the child than to us. Don't you wish you could remember what wonder you felt when you found on returning, that the shadow bad somehow sliped out fro under the stone, and was rolled up together, perhaps, round the root of the tree? And why should you tell the sweet little candidate for the Kingdom of Ileavcn that the shadow is not the mantle that t'.ie tree flings off when the sun comes out in his glory? What right have you tc spoil the wonder as to how it puts it on agaiu, and why he cannot BOO it when it is on, and what it wears it for at all, by tumbling into the midst of his romance, your Optics and Opaques? Why not suffer hitu to wait and fancy and dream in the twilight he tarries in, as long as Ilcavcn will let him?

Ho found a faded yellow ring on the gras.s this morning, it looked like a circlet of very dim old gold, and his eyes were dilated with wonder. Somebody—perhaps it was grandmother, and happy are children that have one!—had told him that the fairies had danced there, at midnight, and had ho been awake, and said something or other over backwards, he could have seen tho little people iu their revels, as plain as though they had been made out of so many moonbeams.

Now, if some night, you see a little white nightgown with a small head at the top of it, mounted upon a chair at the window, and waiting for the dance of the fairies on the grass in tho yard, you are to order him to bod with a growl, and pronounce his grandmother a fool, and the fairies a fiction—are you? You must mar as sweet a little poem as ever was written—a perfect "Paradise and tho Peri,"—must you?— And so go on, till Chemistry has resolved rocks and roses into kindred for him, and rendered blight own cousiu to beauty, until the child arrives at the scientific conclusion that pretty much everything upon earth is nothing but dirt. Do you sup. pose you ever wrote anything in all your life as beautiful as that child's dreams were, of fairies that went into full blown roses and shut the doors after them, and turned them back to buds before morning? Ot little beings in white, with pinions like doves, that "played in tho plighted clouds." and nobody knows what beside? ..is* That blue eyed darling of yours has been watching a Rainbow, one of whose ba3e went down, "clear to tho ground." as she •aid over in the meadow, and the first thing you know, she was flying away through the grass yet dripping and heavy with rain, to catch tho sijjuet of God on the cloud, and come home with her arms full of fragments of Rai»bojr a piece for-mother and jou, ancl cvery one in the bouse, and the neighbors beside. Ah! it warn beautiful errand she went on and beautiful w$re the gifts she dreaded she'd be bringing^— And tell us, we pray, what wears doing

the half of Our lives, the most of us, chasing the Rainbow? and about those tokens of promise and hope she went after, and wept because tbey receded and fled—that would have been poor Anna's sweet erran-9 for life, had she not heard ... "a voice wo could not hear,

That bade her not tD stay.

and gone away one morning before the dewg were off the world. And must we tell her it is not abridge that the angels come down on, and good children ascend—the ladder of Jacob buiilt anew? The world in these days, is more than a world too wise it has come very near ruuning childhood altogether, and the unwritten poetry within it, and leaving in its stead, a satchel full of books, and a Lexicon full of barbarisms.

In those days it was, that we built castles in the air—some of us have not done building yet—homes in the clouds that we caught glimpses of old familiar faces looking through their clcfts that we heard those speak that syllable men's name, where mortal lips are not that we lay so close to Nature's heart, that we coald count its pulses, as we had learned to count at all that we believen some Angel brought 'the baby' and through the evening air came gliding, on a cloud hung round with crimson and with gold that mid early twilight, we looked with childish eyes confidingly to earth and trustingly to Heaven.

A «IIOST vroitY.

[From the Boston Traveler. 10th.] Mr. Hector McDonald, of Canada, was recently on a visit to Boston. When he left home his family were enjoying good health, and he anticipated a pleasant journey. The second morning after his arrival in Boston, when leaving his bed to dress for breakfast, he saw reflected in a mirror the corps of a woman lying in the bed from which he had just risen. Spell-bound, he gazed with iutense feeling, and tried to rccoguizc the features of the corpse, but in vain he could not even move his eye-lids, he felt deprived of action, for how long bo knew not.

He was at last started by the riuging of the bell for breakfast, and sprang to the bed, to satisfy himself if what he had seen reflected in the mirror was real or an illusion. lie found the bed as he had left it, lie looked again into the mirror, but only saw the bed truly reflected. During the day he thought much upon the illusion, and determined next morning to rub his eyes, and feel perfectly awake before he left bed.

Rut notwithstanding these precautions, the vision was repeated with this addition,

After composing himself, he related to his friend what he had seen, and both concluded that a good breakfast only was wanting to dissipate his unpleasant impressions. A few days afterwards, however, he received the mealanchily intelligence that his wife had died suddenly, and the time corresponded with tho day he had been startled by the first vision in the mirror.— When he returned homo he described minutely all the details of the funeral be had seen in his vision, and they correspond with the facte. This is probably one of the most vivid instances of clairvoyance on record, Mr. McDonald knows nothing of modern spiritualism or clairvoyance, as most of his life has been passed upon a farm and amoug forests. It may not be amiss to state that his father who was a Scotch Highlander, had the gift of "second sight." ,•

SfirTbe Turks are more Turkish than ever they have just thrown into the Bosphorus, with cannon balls to their feet, fourteen boys, the eldest not fifteen years of age their crime was their being on board the frigate that ran over the Sultan's cacique some two months past. Turkey is truly "si k"—sick of an incurable barbarism.—Paris correspondent of the New Orleans Picayuiic."..."

Such items as the above are well calculatcd to make the American public heartily ashamed of the sympathy which they manifested for Turkey when she

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fSTA London paper's Paris letter says Lo'uis Napoleon will soon hare a fleet of fweuty-twQ steel plated ships of the lineyproof agaimt everything bat lightning.

The following narrative of the return and recognition of Matthew Brayton, the long lost son of Elijah Brayton of this county, who was stqjen by the Indians 34 years ago, will be read with interest. It was kindly furnished by Mr. J. W. Chamberlin, of Carey, and can be relied upon as true. "w

On the 20th of Sept., 18*25. two children of Elijah.Brayton, then residing near Springville in this county, were sent out after the cows. After going a short distance from home, the younger one, Matth ew, a lad between seven and eight years of age, became fatigued and started for a neighboring house, close by, while the other continued the search for the cows. Since that time nothing has been heard of the child, until lately. The country was thoroughly searched, by all the whites, and friendly Indians, that resided near this settlement, and continued several weeks, but without effect. At the time he was lost there were two scars on hia person, one on hi« head, caused by a boil, and one on the big toe of his right foot, caused by a cut witb an axe.

During the latter part of last August, it was ascertained through the medium of tho papers, that a returned Indian captive was at Cleveland searching for his relatives. Search was made for this person, but he was not found until Tuesday evening, Nov. 15tb, when he was discovered at a farmer's house near Sugar Grove, Warren county, Pa., by Wm. Dayton, who started with him immediately for Adrian, where he arrived Thursday noon.

The news flew like wildfire through the neighborhood, and the people have been visiting him constantly since his arrival, questioning him until he is almost exhausted. The scars, corresponding to those on Matthew Brayton when lost, were found on his person. Ho is a man about 5 feet inches in hcighth, and of light complexion. He has some tattoo marks on his

chest, also some scars on

that he recognized in the corpse some re-: large pipe made of flint, which weighs nine

semblance to the features ot his witc. In the course of the second day he received a letter from his wife, in whieh 3he stated that she was quite weli, and hoped he was enjoying himself among his friends. As he was devotedly attached to her, and always anxious for her safety, he supposed that "his morbid fears had conjured up the vision he bad seen reflected in the glass, and went about his business as cheerfully as usual. On the morning of the third day. after he had dressed, he found himself in thought in his own house, leaning over the coffin of his wife. Ilia friends were assembled, the minister was performing the funeral services, his children wept —he was in the house of death. lie followed the corpse to the grave he heard the earth rumble upon the coffin he saw the grave filled, and the green sod covered over it yet, by some strange power, he could sec through the ground tho entire form of his wife as she lay in her coffiu. lie looked in the faces of those around bim, but no one seemed to notice him he tried to weep, but the tears refused to flow his very heart felt as hard as a rock. Enraged at his own want of feeling, he determined to throw himself upon the grave and lie there until his heart should break, when he was recalled to conciousness by a friend who entered the room to inform him that breakfast was ready. He started as if awoke from a profound sleep, though he was standing before the mirror with a hair brush in his hand.

himself, but it was told him by the various tribes, as he traccd himself back to Ohio. lie remembers back to the time he was owned by the Sioux, which he says was twenty-six years ago.

To use his language, "I was then ahead shorter than I am now." He was purchased from the Sioux, twenty-five years ago,

last April, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, by the'

Snakes aud Copperheads, with whom he has resided ever since. lie lived in Iowa two years, then moved to Minnesota, where he staid six mouths thence to California, where he resided years thence to Oregon, where they staid two years thence to the Russian Possessions, where he has resided ever since, except when traveling to and from their trading points. He lived near Behring's Straits, two hundred miles north-west of "Big Esquimaux" village, 60 deg. north lattitude. lie has crossed the Straits several times in the winter season, on the ice.

He was crossing once, a few winters ago, on the back of a large elk, going at a pretty sharp pace, when the elk ateped into an air hole, throwing him over his head into the water. At the time this took place the lamented Dr. Kane, with his expedition was in that section. After getting out of the water he met one of the crew, a man by the name of Thomas Hickey. Since his return to the States, on his arrival at Cleveland when he got off the train, he saw Hickey who recognized him instantly, calling him by his Indian name.

He was in St. Paul, when it only contained seven houses. About eight years ago, his tribe being nearly famished by hunger, went to Hudson Bay in search of provisions, where he first learned that be was a pale face. The whites being unable

to purchase him (the Indians refusing to part with him,) threatened to take him by force, but the great desparity of their numbers preventing them from putting their threat in force. They would not visit auy white settlement for three years after that, for fear he would leave them or be taken away by the whites. They then visited Lord Selkirk's settlement and Red river,

that he was a while man. He had been at St. Paul seven or eight, times on trading expeditions also at Lord Selkirk's scttlc-

ened with subjugation by Russia, in JS53 tribe that if they did not let him go to th -inrj t. States, to search for his relations, they

and 1854. It is now evident that their sympathies were miserably bestowed.— Better, by far, would it be for Turkey aud the world to have this utterly effete and corrupt Mohammedan Empire blotted out of political existence, and the young, progressive and vigorous Empire of Bussia take its place. ^'THe sooner "manifest destiny" is fulfilledj_irj this particular, the

would take him from them by force. He left his residence September, 1358 left St. Paul on the 10th of April, 1859, in company with his Indian brother, (chief elect last fall,) six Indians, three ponies and five dogs. They came with him to Chicago, where he was taken sick, and plaoed in the hospltarfor treatment, and kept there till he recovered. is Indian friends there left him and returned to their tribe. He wept froai- there to Dejtroit, Michigan thence to Ohio thence to Northern Pennsylvania. where be was fodnd bj Wm. Brayton, Esq. He was then on his way to some lodiaoa i» New Yotk. He «ao speak five different Indian langaagu. vic

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NEW SERIES-VOL. II, m. CRAWFORDS VILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, L\DIA.NTA, ..DECEMBER 3, 1S5».

AN INDIAN CA PTIVE RECLAIMED AF-1Snake, Copperhead,: Crow, Utah: and FlatTEH THIRTY-FIVE YEARS' ABSENCE—INCIDENTS OP IFIS LIFE. the Tiffin Tribune.) S

his right leg, it,

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battle some three years ago. Tho Indians iu performing the necessary surgical operation, strapped him to a log, and sewed up the wound (some 8 inches in length) with a buckskin throng, making but three stitches. The scars made by the needle and thong are nearly as large as that made bv the cut of the tomahawk. He has with

until he was sold by them to the Papaw Indians, who gave 5.V gallons of whisky for him, and they sold him to the Winnebatroes for 11 gallons. They w'ere living in Michigan at that time. The Chippewas bought him of the Winnebagocs, and kept him two months and, a half, and then sold

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head. He also-speaks the English language very fluently and correctly/which he saya came.to him almost intutiVely-on meeting with the whites. The tribe: with which be Jived had a compass and watch enclosed in one copper case, which they used in traveling. They purchased it of the Russians for $100. -. He says the Snakes, Copperheads, Crows, Utahs and Flatheads together number 10,500 souls—men,' wbmen and children included,

He married the daughter of the. Grand Chief seven years ago. He haa two children, so# and daughter. His daughter's name iS Tefrona. (Tame Deer) and is five years old. His son's name is Tulloosa, two years old last June: His own name is, Owahawah Kishmewah- When he arrived at Chicago, he was dressed in Indian costume, daubed and painted. His hair hanging down to his kness. While in"the hospital, they cut off his hair, and scrubbed him with sand, soap and water, until all vestige of the paint was removed. He eat meat raw, bnt will not eat food containing salt.

SINGULAR CONDITION OF AN UNFORTUNATE INVALID. The forms of human Buffering arc as varied as they are nmnerous, and though mankind has endured physical pain in every conceivable phase, wc doubt if an exact parallel to the following can anywhere be found on record.

In a neighboring village, bnt a few miles from this city, lives an old man of three score years, who for some time past has been totally blind. Very recently he was attacked by illness, which bns since confined bim to his bed. About a week ago the lower part of his body began to grow cold, and though every means were employed to impart to his limbs an artificial heat, the chill gradually ascended to the region of the stomach, where it stopped.

Since that time, the upper portion of his

The most singular part of this story—

him to the Sioux for eleven gallons of the which is cold and dead as death can make "firewater." This he docs not recollect it, he is suH'crimr all the tortures of the dam ued.—Ciacinnali F.nquirvr.

conversation he had with BROWN'S wife, which shows that BROWN, for along number of years, meditated such a design as he lately attempted to execute. The wri ter says: "I referred incidentally to the design upon Harper's Ferry as having been pre meditated for two years, to wbich she immediately replied: "Not for two years, but for twenty! He had been waiting for twenty years for some opportunity to free the slaves wc had all been waiting with him the proper time when he should put his resolve into execution and when at last the enterprise of Harper's Ferry was planned, we all thought that the time had now come. Mr. Brown was sanguine of success wc all were equally confident he had no idea.

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ItfpAmong the patent snnnon" of Dr.Dow. jr., find.»n Illustration of. reined j.foir. ih0r.''jcrut."'rputic3," if caused while '"Balli AunVawav." Itcml. «. I

f«*arn and digest: ranu'rn, Lmourtj. I know not why. '.C U,: I fc«l most.ihundvriiiEqiH'or

I do not feol a pain all ftVr. ... .c .. But fad^MnoatiacBT Hays. mourning ain for roliuivcs •*»'*_ pr.fiirrff and fnmoij'fo cl«V— *-5*" _£jltV •iomotifflcs wr t—I mc-tirii bf-causo

My Siilly Ann'sdwsy. 7

'-8hr 's *af- in old ConnertKnt. Whcrevirwic'ibounil Where beauty lasts full thirty years

Without the least decline. 1 here young men never raking zo, ,s -r Except Lt'a raking has know it's all rii ht. yet I mourn ,, Ais .r'Cnuso Sallys Ann's away.

Tbesundon't shineftj 't use todid, hr.t\ .Xh» moon mushroom seems tttSThe Nniads all have gone to *l« op lir.*ido the sluggish stream*. ••r,

I xnmetim?* counterfeit a laugh Tu make folk* think I'm KJiy— I it E iT a

For Sally Aun'i away. Peaches don.'t tute like penchcs now,

I don't know pork from v«ail 'vjl'vinabine or mush and milk for me Wonld answer for meal.

There's Pecgy tho'—she'll cheer mettji—

I'll visit her to-day. Ami mak« arrangement!* for tho time That Sally Ann'* away.

ASTOUNDING REPUBLICAN ELECTION FRAUDS. A contested election case has been before the Morgan County Circuit Court which cannot fail to excite public attention and indignation when the facts are published! At the October election in 1858, Fesler, Republican, was elected Treasurer of that county over John L. Knox, Democrat, the incumbent, and candidate for re-elec-tion, by 116 majority. Frauds having been discovered, Knox gave notice of contest. The case came up for trial on last Friday, the 18th ultimo. Hon. James

and as chilling as an iceberg to the the poll list-, and took the Democratic tick- rp

a a a a

warmth has more than gained by the other, Republican" tickcts in their stead. In Every effort to restore to the body an equi- placing the names upon the poll list, in one librium of heat has entirely failed, and instance, the name of a man was put upon though no change lias taken place in the it who had been dead fifteen j-ears, and unfortunate man's condition for some days whose body was dissected at the time of past, all hope of his recovery has been his death. The examination was continued abandoned. until Tuesday afternoon, when the attor-

h"im his Indian do-', called Neini, and a which is well authenticated—is the fact sequence of the overwhelming amount of

'Rush and l-'ount the evidence iu the

Post that Old Bitouw was driven to com- would have ridiculed the idea that the mit his late foray at Harper's Ferry by the "moral" and "immaculate" Republican

slaveholders in Kansas. The correjpou-

dent aforesaid, in a late letter, details a

treatment ho had received from party could be guilty of the gross and

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nor did any of the family, that the experi- doubt but that a different result would have mcnt would result in defeat we all looked

tempts he did, and for which he is so soon to

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to it as fulfilling the hopes of many years.' good citizens, not onlj' moral but relig"I wrote down these sentences a few jous, wink at or encourage such frauds upon moments after they were uttered, and as I th elective franchise? Our political sysrepeated them, she added tern is based upon the purity of the ballot!

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Hughes, Hugh O'Neil, Esq., and W. V. Burns, Esq., appeared for Knox, and Hon. {above remedies Jona. W. Gordon, W. II. Harrison, Esq., prompt and active emetics till the stomach and J. S. Hester, Esq., for Reiser. In the js entirely emptied of its contents. To ilprogress of the trial the most astounding luptrate the danger of allowing anvthincr to touch the teeth, I will state that after having so far recovered from tho efl'ccts of an accidental dose, as to be able to sit up and chat and laugh (E could nut stand,) 1 put my finger down my throat to assist

and wicked frauds were conclusively prov en. In one township it was shown, upou unquestioned evidence that eighty-three Democratic tickets were voted. But the

body, including bis arms, seems to be election officers, who were Republicans, reburning up with a raging lever, while the turned only fifty-five. To makeup the lower portion is as numb as cold can make I vote, these officers, placed other name3 on

nevs for Pcsler abandoned the case in con-

that the sufferer, while lie experiences no testimony as to the frauds practiced by the

1 le saws it took him O.NI: MJO.V to unnatural sensations from the abnormal Republican candidate for rcasurer, oun drill the hole through his pipe, which he condition of the upper part of his body, the Republican leaders of Morgan couiity, did with a piece of steel, some bears oil! believes the lower portion to be in a eon-j in the October election of 1S:~8. and water. He was stolen bv the 1'otta- suming fire! His constant cry to those The Republicans have most stoutly dewatomie and Canada Indians, and was shift- a rutin 1 his bedside is to do something to nied the frauds charged and proven upon ed from one of these tribes to the other, -quench the flames that are crisping the them in the clectious of 1850. There is fiesh and seething the blood in bis lower not a doubt but that in Fountain, in Rush, limbs. To a priest who was called in to !in Marion, and in many other counties, the shrive him he said there was no hope—j elections were carried by frauds of various that half his body was nlrcrd/*.ii hell kinds. In that year it was accomplished

And still he lives his heart and brain on mostly by importations, double voting, and

lire and his pulse heating high and warm, while through the lower part uf his body,

by votes of minors. By these means, this county was carried at the State election in e'lrriarrc^ to choose li This can be shown by undoubted

evidence. How it was accomplished in

which the evidence satisfied a a

Wbat was

by bis political friends. there, has been done by the same party elswhere. So far are men led astray by religious and political fanaticism that they even bring themselves to think that they are doing God service in defeating their opponents by any means, fair or foul. Notwithstanding their oath to fairly receive and canvass the ballots handed them by the voters, there are Republican election officers who think it no crime, but "all fair in politics," to swindle the voters of a majority, out of their fairly expressed choice. The frauds of Morgan county were practiced in many counties at the last October election. We are well satisfied that the Democracy of Carroll county were defeated by fraud. If the votes deposited in the ballot boxes in this county had been counted out as they ttefe voted, we have not a

announced. Will those who claim to

"'Forhe has borne the yoke of theop-.jjox, the integrity of elections. This were off, and he had willy-nilly to drink ... pressed, AS if on bid owu neck, for these crucible in which all political issues beel raw .spirits, which nearly took fn thirty years!'" and questions, are tested. Corrupt that, |hi breath away, and by way jf restoring th

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suffer death. sentiment and the public will, the only agency by wbich self-government can be TRANSFER OF STEVENS TO THE UNITED [exercised, it will not long be respectedi STATES COURT.—The transfer of Stevens, Whatever doubt there may have been |:io that of a dissolute youn to the I "nited States Court, which will heretofore as to the charges of fraud person of the debauchee or inebriate infa-

where they got°into a skirmish with the cious approval of some of the Free-soil there can be none .in the Morgan county over him to testify her disgust at his ex whites. The whites told him there, also, journals of the North. They do not like (case.

ment, Hudson's Bay and St. Anthony's sonal peril to those individuals. Tbev! conservative members of the Republican himself, and to debauch others whose

Falls'. The whites" repeatedly told his 'need rrive themselves no concern on that organization who have been incredulous as heart has been steeped in sin so tbwt it i.

justly excited community where Brown's carrying elections? For several ycar.3 past

free States were treated with forbearance and kindness. The people of Staunton and that neighborhood are eminently quiet and law-abiding, and the witnessess will be mnob more secure there than those of sequences our own people who have been exposed to Abolition machinations.—Richmond (Va.) Dispatch'~x,

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GEKBIT SMITH.—The Balltmore Exchange learns from a private letter, written by a near connection of this gentleman, that his physician does not regard bis «juptoo»*s tadiealii%«apeedyre«»rery.

in Staunton, does not meet the gra-! brought against the Republican party, my is written. How Nature bang? labels

The contest was

head." The card of Mr. Sennot, one of to the charges which have been brought black all ov*r, is an offense to the heart oi'

Brown's counsel, shows that, even in the against its leaders for corrupt practices in

rorso.MNG M'II IR STRYCHNINE. A'sufferer savs:—"The action of this A

'jpoison Commences with :i fni^ling sensa- iittcudod t!ic Into jtioniuihe i'oet, gradually rising to the i., h:id au iutc

IA AT LIHt-itTY.

Ihe sailors of a British fleet of six linc-of-battlc ships and many smaller vessels, have been ashore at Malta, with plenty of and money in their pockets in search of fun.—

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contesta nt these counties, especially the ^j,e change, then driving off a id fan-

fl@~The correspondent of the New York latter, will mosc satitiaetoi 11} show. them in the most iacadaisical v.ay.— Independent—BKHCHER'S paper—puts to presume that the Hon. Jonathan At the opera it was their acting and not rest the storv started by the New York f3?r1d?n-11before the commcnccmcnt of the that of the performers that the audience trial in the contested case .Morgan eoun-j had to attend to. Most had some ox'raor-! dinary pels—young pigs with spectacles

'waiter take one himself and t/citintr him tion

little dogs dress up, rabbits, monkeys. iVc

rom a

abandoned by the ample! How she loosens all his jotutu

the idea of some of their magistrates be- Republican attorneys, so conclusive was jjunds tremors along hin muscles, and bonus hor-je-power have lu(H in cylinders sr. in" called as witnesses before a tribunal in the evidence. Should not the develop-1 forward his frame! The wrctch, whose jtj i-truke r.n'J with wheels Si f-.-et

Virginia. Tbey affect to apprehend per-jraents in this case open the eyes ot those life-long pleas'irc it baj been to debase inches diamftor, mad-i eighteen revolutions

crime was committed, his lawyer from the money has been freely contributed by A SNAKE.— A party of hunters from St., artilery at

thoughtlessly, without doubt, as to the cm-

before them oan they, as good citiiens,

longer identify themselves with or support apolitical party who..io secure success, are willing to .corrupt the only source of power in 4 free representative government.-^ Indianapolis Sentinel.

WHOLE jVUMBEli

knees, thighs, trunk, arms, jaw and head, Mr. "Washington, who w.is one of old the niascles beci uiing rigid, anc the ctlecl.-: iirown j.-risoner iu the L. S'. Armory, 'increasing in strength till all U:o-nr#rt!s

iare perfectly paralysed,'the A\e-sidf ami

Some of these occasionally eseaped, and his dogt and negroes. A near neighbor of Jack very unceremoniously gave chase, his, hearing the hubbub, and thinking that climbing in the most extraordinary manner perhaps C'apt. Cook had stolen down the in what appeared to be impossible places, mountains, and made another attack on the

Pigeons, fowls, and cats escaped were Colonel's place, collected his negroes and comparatively harmless! it was the concert! started over to "fan" the Captain out arising from the pigs and dogs varied oc-'if necessary. Nearing the homestead, ho casionally with the crowing of some of the was met by the jubilant darkies, who, when cocks that bad cscaped into the upp'er asked what all this fuss meant, told the poxes—that prevented the possibility of reinforcement that "Massar's done come attending to tbc music. The sailors do back safe and sound, an' we's a kiilia'do not understand Italian, nor are they re-j fatted calf." strained b}' any false modesty in letting!

An old Italian gentleman in the pit took some trouble to translate one of the songs as it was sung. To show the sailor's gratitude, half a dozen bottles of rum were passed to him to drink from. He thought to escape by saying be could not drink

byttlc". In an instant a dozen shoes

the unpleuisbed.—Horace Mann.

leading Republicans to carry the elections Joseph, Mo., while out bunting in that topped wooden tro'i 'b. about twe inches in this city and county through fraudulent vicinity heard one of their dogs growl a:. 1 wide, tae same depth and twenty tect and corrupt agencies. They have done it then howl a short distauce in a thicket, and long, was made, one

They have not considered Spoils of a hnpe seroent. Thev soon killed and a common :i:iiskc-t

of his misery,

or.t) imoivx's HUMANITY. MiJigaishcu citizen of Indiana wu6 trials at Ol/arlftstown, tcrview, wtiilc- there, with

Mr. Wa^hiuu-ton freely a luiits -that tho

|ri,.j:-:?

brain being the last effected.' Iu my own ::nl hutii'ifiity, yet.ho coin,' to the.coficl't. jcadc,,although 1 had a narrow sion. tf at. in some respects, old lroua is reasoning powers nnd eye-cigh: were nnd_ a torrildo mfli.-iU at heart'/ A my complete'control. lt«*t\v een the spasms I A'-ecrdtr/c tt Mr. W statement, o!d I was a seeing, thinking, ?»rcathing sta'.nc. Brown, during the investment ot the. :irIn cases ot' poisoning with this drug, care tnory and tho attack upon.it by the troop*,-:: should be taken that the patient does not. was the busiest and most vigilant ot All throw his head backward. The best po.si- the rebels in watching through loop-hoifia tion is to have the oatient seated in a i-hair, 'and crevices for opportunities to kill those with his head resting on a table, the arms 'outride. Whilst he Mas thus watching, dropping by his side. In administering ritle in hand, one of his own sons was shot, any remedy great pains should bo taken through the body and tell within tour or that the article containing it should not be five feet of him. The young man groanallowed to touch the teeth, as if it be ed and cried aloud in his agony, begging upoon or other similar hard substance, they I that some one of his Qpmradcs would kill will immediately close upon it, and tetanus him at once. Thereupon old Jrown, tnrn(or lock-jaw) ensue, or if glass, a peice will ing for a few moments an nnmoAxd and un* be instantaneously bitten out of it, to the sympathizing glance upon his oxpinrrg son, great danger of the patient. Neither sternly bade bim be silent an die like a should anyone be allowed to touch the man, and then instantly turned his atteupatient if it can be possibly avoided, the tion back to bis own work of killing. A effect being similar to that of a galvanic short time afterward, his other son was battery, and if the contact be long contin- shot, down almost exactly like the first, and, ued, would bring on renewed spasms, even [with loud umnns, called upon a comrade after relief bad been partially afforded, for a revolver that he might kill himself. The most available if not the surest reme- And old Brown, turning upon him as he dies are a strong solution of camphor dis-jlmd upon the brother, rebuked him for his solved in alcohol in liberal doses,^and sweet oil ad libitum. If the patient does not loose his presence of mind, these can be administered in a saucer, from which he can sup without coming in contact with the edge. Should the contrary Le the case, other means must be resorted to. The bould be followed by

«vri' treated with gentleness

noise, without a word or .t look of sympathy or regret, and straightway betook himself to the business of murder. .Artd all the while, standing with his two dying children behind him. and holding his riflo pointed in front, he was drumming at intervals upon the barrel of his weapon of death, with the lingers of his left hand, as calmly nod with as much apparent unconcern as if he had been engaged in tonio amusement.

There can be no doubt of old Brown's coolness and untamable coinage, but such qualities can not compensate for the absence of the ordinary sensibilities of human nature. Tt is not enough that he can

vomiting by titillation, when my teeth in- look upon his own death ns immovably as stantly closed upon it, cutting it severely, he could contemplate the death and hear

dessertspoonfuls of mustard mixed the death-groans of hiv children.—J.ouis-

in warm water, iu the absence of a more vt/'c Journal. efficient emctic, is a harmless one in all cases ready at hand. In conclusion, waste not one second in securing the services of an able physician."

THE.MVST.KKIES OF Tin: WATCH.—Willis, iu his letter describing the American watch manufactury at Waitham, Massachusetts, in speaking of the astonishing mi nutcness of some essential parts of the, watch, says in regard to the screws used in puting the works together:

A small heap of grains was shown to us, looking like iron filings, or grains of pepper fir.'.n popp"-r-castor—apparently the

A writer from Malta thus describes them. They are !o be seen in all directions, in inear dust of the machine, which turned all sorts of grotesque costumes,, as if it them out—and those, wheu examined with were carnival time—many in "long tongs,'" a microscope, were seen to be perfect Jim Crow hats others with bell-topper.-', screws, each to be driven to its place with with boles cut in them, or wreath- around a screw-driver. It is one of the Waitham them—in short, anything different from sta isties which is worthy re nembjring, other people. Mv.:y have been driving that "a single-pound of steel, costing but about in the very best carnages that fifty cents, is thus manufactured into cue could bo hired, aping the ladies in driving hundred tbou.--and S'TCW.?. which are worth to shops and having gocds sent out to their eleven hundred dol-pr*.'.'

driving to the'! ice CI-F-AIN aii'.l fo:. WASHINGTON'S NI: es, making the incidentally indeb'ed to r.

-:s.-—We cro

family conneofor the follow-

of Col. Wash

ice the love of the and his deeply-set.-

ing. ft lx-trays at negro for hi.- master religious sentiments

Upor. the return hutao of Col. Washington from his imprisonment, by Brown at Harper's Ferry, the most demonstrative enthusiasts in gladness .'it his return were

that fact be known. The dem ind for an RESISTANCE or In ON PLATES TO ARMEnglish song was loud and vociferous, I SRONU JMIOT.—The Trusty, steam floating many of Russell,s were named, and many I battery, has undergone an examination in staves from Diddins were volunteered by order to ascertain the injuries she met with the sailors themselves. It was possibly fortuuate that tbc prima donna did not understand English, for some of the remarks and criticisms were not very complimcntary-

during the experiments that were made on her to test her capabilities of' resisting tho effects of the shof fired from the Armstrong cannons at Shooburyncss. The icsult of the survey has demonstrated that this kind of iron-cased floating batteries presents comparatively no resistance whatever to tbc shots from the Armstrong guns. Although the Trusty is covered with massive wrought-iron plates of extraordinary thickness, yet every shot that struck them shivcaed the plates to pieces and entered the vessel some of the shots, it is evident om the examination, having passed rough the iron plates and beam-: of the

who, as be left, pressed upon him a bottle unanimous opinion ot the oflicersand others of rum for his old woman at home. who have examined her, that vessels of th:s i• class will be found to be almost entirely ftas^No wreck is so shocking to behold useless when fired upon by guns of tho man On the Armstrong eh--?—London JCnginccr.

speed made by the Persi

her first trial nip in 1850, u&s lO.j knots an hour. The engines of 8••*) rotnir.al indtsrs and 9

minute. Tbe draught «*a'.-sr wa-. 17

00l

(j jnch.es forward and 1? feet .3 inches-

$5fln so sr.* irul.t luict' by I reccr.

rusiiincr thither they found him in tbc rubber cloth. Oa being idled wit.i water.

Aziz, a long, rectangular,, opoo*

end

pieccs.

.{©""Can auy of our fashionable ladies tell why tbc Lord, when he made Eve frota steamrs malzo abo.it one of Adam's ribs, didn't make a hired crossing the Atlan^ie girl from one of bi? fingers or tee*?

being in lia-

1 ho:

EST Ibe engines tt the iarge ocean 2)0.000 turns in mc between Liver] 34LD VO-X YT!