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12.50 PEREAH. ABYAliCr. $3,00 IF iXOT PADjIW ADTAKCK Ho postage on papers dfcliTered within this Ooaty. ' - 1" v - ft J CcrwponJneetof th Bastbn Joamal: , . THE WHEAT FIELD OFTHE NORTHWEST4 Its Area and Richnssi 3ttr Urns w nns N0m, Jaly, 1869. I want to hold a ' fa miliar Malk ' thii morning with the great multitude of people in the East about this country of the Northwest. T .1 WIIER.K WE ARE. . ' . ' Spread out before you, nay friends, the nip of North America not of the United States alone, but a map that will show you the British possessions of the Northwest. Let it be a school atlas if youhave nothiT better. Lay a ruler upoo it. and draw a fine northwest from Chicago running throo"h St. Paul, or through Minnesota. At the western boundary, on the bank of the Bed Hirer of the North, you will fied ear caap. . , , - 1 look out from my tent and see the water gliding past, to pour its evcr-increas jug flood into the frozen oceau of the North through Hudson's Bay. Here the river is perhaps one hundred and fifty feet wide and six to ten feet deep. iijiik tras "rows upon its . banks; wild foul build thcr rests along its reedy shores bobolinks are pouring forth their rollicking sont;s; the sparrow sends up his cheerful chirp; the willows are twittering niernlv: insects are humming in the air; the sun shines through a mellow haze, while ail around as far as the eye can tee there is such richness of verdure, such wealth of tireenness and display of flowers that the language descriptive of the Klysiiii fields and the choicest and best of piesy is too forceless and fee I tie to convey an iJea of (he richness and beauty of ibis lair region of the world. EXTENT OV TUE DOMAIN. Follow in imagination the line which jou iiavedtawn tr ui Chicago. Here 3011 are i'.KI ;i;i!cs distant from that city. Follow 011 the tract which some of our part v arc (o take and you will find just kucti verdue, such soil, such climate, such tiotuis in bloom, even..1 though jou travel one thousand units Iroiu this point to ll.e oril.t-t. Fifteen huidied Uiilcs fruit: V'liu-siio, iii tbc lar Noithwtst, jou il! l.er lie i-oboluik flouring out bis love tii; juu wiit Hud ilie soil aslei liie. there, ri-e ciiunie us mild, suiuuier and winter, li e prasric.t aiounii Like Michigan. 'i he livtas of win at 011 tb.tse plains of the N01 lliwc.-t aie lusuiiant lurlhcr j jiialixU (M-day than in New Kliglaiid. j J il cen uajs hence the reapers-will be cutin s the w lieal, and the harvest will go ou l.c:f just as it does in New l'ugiaud. j CI.1MATOI.ipGV. j One I'f tbe must wonderful features ofi ll.i itginn i.- its climate. Hero we arc in Liuudc forty six feveial degrees further i.nrih than llos'ort, Lut tbe summers are hiiucr than in Massachusetts, and the ainttrs 1 hough colder. are lesn severe nir is drv, the tlun in that Mate. The davs calm, and the hundreds of men that I meet, who have come thither from Maine and New Hampshire, selectifg this as their tuture home, say that this climate is far .referable to that of New FCnghud. Yts'etday saw a Scotchman, who lives Eve bundled miles ii miIi of this point in straight line, on the slioies of Lake Wiiutccg. The winter there, he says, is lift so severe as at Chicago. Scientific bjcii have speculated on this 'phenomena, lut e have seen no sa t islaci.013 csplanatlnn I I . ., . . u ... -. Hon of cause's the ii.fl ieiioe of i h great lakes on ihe one sidt and the Uock .Yiouu- j 011 the othei to the iMissouii and : Misissii i,i and lied iiets. to the currents air Mucpiim up ihe Missouri valiev from th dry piaius of Nebraska. Be the i 1 . .. . I -se al ...ay. the lact remains mat l--cadng ,rom Chicago northwest "er a tciriu.iv r.u hraci mr iioiim n ti l I Ho 1 v .Villa., p,ta, li.eotah, Northern Montana, '"1 a aSt legion in the iJritish l'ruviuces he ll.e nbcat lands of North America. ... -I CI c-t ev Ml AUlsON WITH OTHER LANDS. Nn iitf..r ............ i... u .1 Thcil.i.. t- it 1 Iji 11s ut Uavaiia and lluncarv, up DiifU r.... ii' 1 . I " cu ii 1. cntral J.urope . relies lor its trui- ni.it. u . 1 1 -lu,., Utlltrti Wtitllfl tint V .ti 1. r.'!i .11 tin. e'e tiutity iu Miuuesota. '1 be fiue - - w - - - - - ; 1 "ls of Prussia have thin soil while heat lie Ids of F rancc have been culmated In la.ant.vn .. ' 1 i- . 1 1 r centuries, and are 01.lv kept in lut 1 1,.. ,1 . ;i : -. - . . ku 1. lie tl.e soil Is 111 its virom Kt:itp jit idii:" such returns as are not nhtaiiu il lanv other land, unless it be in the San J4'iin aud tauto CI lira vallevs of Ualilurnia. Th fe most fertile acre of the Gantrcs V, ey in India will not vield a urreater r'utu than those of the Northwest. The 1 lle aim the Yangtze their fertility reBeicd by each annual flood may vie the uplands of Minnesotabut there " sections along this lied .llivcr of the - wlias ,lic (;na)euiie anj Mouse iVers lDacotah, which are not surpassed J 1 e lichest iu the heart oft'hiua or on "el'elia of the Nile. OCR INHERITANCE. I know that many of those who will u 'ins Utter are accustomed to look intt: e tuture and to take enlarp-ed views aLs a I .... - .;. 1. . : . I uU1 i-uuuiry is io ue 111 I lit 1 am rnii!i,) tif thai ih coming J 'N uui I ..... ..,..l .i.i .1 .... 1 Ta... t ... . n . . '1 vvuuucui iu a L 11 ia uu ven Ii 1 m of the most comprehensive J , mat nas taken 1 just measure of greatness of tins region, , t.K .any those who mav, perobanoa, a a" of tbie ii,1(s have visited JUi d tteu the wheat and . coru lielda ivated land of that State, reaching oi tb n lu MOUdless expanse have hear4 tit..tt'BiSIC Jt 'ie real'r gathering iiie ned cram have beheld the harvest ' all in their glory. Think now of UU56 Hal A.. . w ... Butt aieuded as far as it is frou from u maha ov,r fraet as.wide as CanT'1,'0 ilajelplfia, and yp bin. ,e wf lh re ot " the wheat field It i nhw.est ot Chicago. ls region presenting features differ-
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VOL. 8, NO. 38. ent from the country along ; the highway opened to San Frapcisco by , the Union Pacific road. , The plains of' .Nebraska and Kansas magnificent in . exteot-r-are traversed by, no grea water courses.' The streams are few and when the eummer heats prevailtbey dwindle to rivulets, and Decome wholly dry; but here they are overflowing streams, and, lakes ' of pure fresh water, fed by never-failing springs. Ride where you will over this vast territory and you are alwajain sight of a river, a creek, or a lake of purest water, where the waves break pn.peLbly In? aches, and where, thousand . of water-foul rear their young beneath the oaks and maples that frinjre the rippling streams. Beautiful as are the praties of Illinois ana iowa, nature Has been even mere generous in her ardernnieot of the North- ' west. The larger lakes are bordered bv :
parks and groves, pteseuting landscapes printing presses and mii'lions of free peool indescribable beauty. Many a pioneer j te i its train "ritain . Ar,n . T
on this Northwestern verge of civiliiaiion iuojf iowa. uui trom in uoor 01 ms log caom on scenery as enchanting as any iu Old England, liue, there is no batksround of mountains, no rocky crag, or deep and tortuous defiles but there are undulations. sunny slopes, gentle swells, rounded woodcrowned summits, looking down upon lakes I and ponds, dotted with emerald island?, or clear waters dancing in tbe sunlight, or reflecting from the glassy surface the transceudant beautv of the landscape. 'Ibis region is attractive, not ouly be- I clime not because there is great prospect of mateual wealth but here nature has done much la promote that esthetic cultuic without which a community never car. reach the highest plauc of civilisation, Here in coming years, on the borders of these hikes, cosily mansions will be reared. lure now the ( lonccr ieids his pigs will be seen parks and lawns; where now tbc ground is cneuu. beted nith wrecks of c.irts and the -led: or i neape.l wills manure lrom will stand bv and bv woiks of 1 a - -table, ait chiseled from tiacst marble. YVII11E 15EAK LAKE. ,,- . t .1 . 1 1 1 1 v euld that vou could look down unon : White lie; , , , - , 1 . nar Jikc, atiu s-ce 11 as L saw it . 1 . , .. ground overlooking its northern shoic. It stretches southward a distance of twelve miles, indented here and there by a Wooded promontory with sandj' bc.iches sweeping In m.igniucent cuives; with a wide patch of woodland on the eastern shore oxersprendint; the slope, with a ;reeii fringe of stately oaks and eiuis mid limitless uelus, whose verduie changes 111 varying-hues with every passing cloud waul-, ing ouly a background of Highlands to I. r. I I.. . : 1. .1 iiahe 11 as loxeiy as ttiuueinere iiie most enchanting of all the lakes of old I I'ltiglitiitl. You see at your feet tiio little : village id" -G ten wood, which in coininir' years wi'I be l lie retort of tourists, artists and seekers alter pleasure. It inn n rn f',ktl tt fi w!i 1 n i rn rtiir ir - tk . ... ... ,, una mnc null iiic suiuu 01 1 Jfi l III ru ' v : 1 11 4 .1 1 .1 1 testcrday morning There are pickerel in ti.cse ponds ot Minnesota such as we arc not accustomed to Catch iu New England. A four pounder is a large fish to ill lt-.li. llid ., t .. . . I' 1 .. I- a l'ii,inA.aii . UUII I V UI lll KMIO VI AJIIC II III ll I , 1 . 1 . . , 1 . r , kee. but I hauled up a nttccn pounder, 1 .1 11 a 1 . yesterday, and the people here say they J . , ., : 1 . . c j 1 catch them weighing twenty-five pounds! 1 , ,i . .ii. .1 L dare say that ihe very thought of catch , ",. 1 . ", , -,, - 1 1 injr such fresh water sharks will ouicken ,,"... ,. . .... ,.i, ' ing rmrc ui iiidbl u uvi , aiiu I lid i'3 funic & 1 ( of the old folks would like to drop a lir.e 1 in these wants. Dut to return to tbe 'subject Trom which we have strayed and it is rtot the first lime 'vc have played tru uit by gning fisbing. 'We have said that this niheiitance of the American people 'teaches lW" n,,,l's nothwtst ol t. lucago it is that r... 1.. iti.i ii.,.Li. ,..t. ; ;.. n,.i..i. - j ... ......... America, and that earn- , only to the , tsotlicriiial line ol uo degtees mean sum-1 mer temperaiurc. 1 ou may on nve , , ... . .1 .1 i 1 : hundred miles lurther to the north branch of tbe ska.cbawon before teaching the 1 northwes.e. n boundary of the wheat field, j THE mountains. . . mi ' All nl this iciutory lies north and cast ..... 111 , . . of Missouu, and this side ol tbc llockv .. w , , J Mountains. We have spoken el it as a w iieai uciu, aiiu saiu it'tiilll tll its other resouices, but here are ihe supplies of timber from which the people of more southern sections are to receive their fu .. 1 t; .1.1 .. .j 1 . 1 .. . l : : . ture building materials. Jioking out from my teut to she northeast 1 can see, on . ... ' tbe honson, the dim blue outline of tbe timbered ret ion around the streams form ing the head waters of ihe Mississippi. I II we travel west we shall find exhaustless supplies of coal. Between the lied lliver ot the rsorth and tbe lloek v Mouutains i
lies the great coal fields of this granary ot buiied with it. . tbe Continent. On the streams that find The Knquircr represents that Mr. Pcntheir way mto Lake Superior and on the dleton is tbe most " popular -Democrat : in Mississippi, are sites for manufactories, the North., What made his popularity? where, in coming years, the hum of ma- The mass of the people" khov him . only chinery, the clatter of the shuttle and tbe tl t utih his public acts. 'These made his buziing of mill wheels will break the stiil- groat popularity with the Democracy, il'he nees ol tho primeval solitude. ! has it. Hut wheu we allude to' his public Go on to the dividing ridge of the con- (acts, stating what nobody will deri'y, the tinent-to Montana with its gold, its j Enquirer complains because we mention
fcilver, its iron and coal, feitile Valleys and I timbered hills; take a look at what lies; beyond in Oregon, Washington and annonvpr - at thn Water nower of the Cr.himbia and its tributaries the lorcst ot pine, 1 . . . - .; . p A . .1... .1. i..:..i., ..i:i.. ...;.l bu lit: use ludi tui: i ) t i . 1 1 . auui uui in ii:iu day dues not dispel itn darkness ' and lands and to tbe gloom to tbe arable mines of Idaho, the coal of Pusut sound, the habors, unequajed in thf world, fronts ing China and Japan; and over the f-hort-est line between the Orient and Occident; with a climate as mild ck that of Virginia;' to a half dozen mountain passes where the) altitude does not eyeecd five thousand feet to a region where less sncw falls 'than last winter fell upon the hills of : Berkshire; to a region "which is yet to be the Xew Knglapd of the Pscifio Coast; ' take in the boundajiet of this inheritance not all as yet beneath our country's flg, but ere long tQ be; think of the immediate future, jf you muld obtain an Hcsiof the material.
II E tTN I 0 N ,! T HE CONSTITUTION, AND T : : ... 1 " v i " rr: r : : "
Bit OOKVILLE, INDii? FRIDAY AUGUST. ''ziim-
wealth of the Northwest ''waiting only the appearance of .the husbandman. jM He .will &oon be here. f. V 'in: k a l-t it s 1 j - - , Oar oomnanv iaiwntinir tn.dav nn - iiiA ! kinL nr na.n'cP,.i nl wjio lives up toe stream , and tends log ferry where we crossed vesterdav has one neighbor within twelve miles, but, a twelvemonth hence these acres will, be dotted by rm i.,i,.c ' t.i i,., i;,nnn.t to a sermon from Dr. Lord, who preached beneath a canvass roof. We were called together by the blowiog'of a tin trumpet, but a year hence the sweet and solemn tones of church bells will ectio over these verdant meadows. The locomotive the great , ctvilizer of tl.ia cnautrv. will be Here KoC.ro th flowr bloom anotber . snrino- ' Tt will l.rin iors villas Amh.-, h'nnl Vm.co. ican hear, in imagination, the voices of the advancing .multitude of iight.hearted maidens and sober matrons, of bright-eyed boys and strong armed men. The wild roses are blooming here to day; and . sod as yet is uuturned, and the lilies . of the field hold up their cups to catch the falling dew, but another year will bring the beginuiug of the change. Civilization, which has crossed the Mississippi, will soon flow down this stream, pouring its waters into the distant oceau of the North; jt wiH sweep on to the vailey of the upper j Think of it, young men of the East, ! you who are measuring off tape for young ! iadiC9, shut up in a store through the ion ad earK-.uie hours, barely earning i vou'r living. Throw down the yardstick i;nj Comc- out here, if you would be men. Let the fresh breeze Ian your brow, take I holtl of ,!ie (lIoW) beuj down ior a lew ! vcars t0 ,iard work with determination to , wiu atld success will attend vour effort. i is i lis teiier too enuiusiasiicf tvin those who read it say ' he has lost his bead and gmie : daft, out there ou the ! prairies?"' Not quite. I am an, observer here, as I have been in other., lands. I . 1 ... .. nave najeii many times over tne great L. . . .. v .1 . 1 .1 (venues ui ine oruiwcsi, nave seen iiie j riches of.Santa Clara and Napa west of j the Sierra Nevada; have looked out over ihe meadows of Yang to-ze and the Nile, and can say with honest conviction, that 1. 11 one who has hud a home iu New lug!aud, I have seen nowhere so iuviting a field as that; of Minnesota none with greater -. undeveloped wealth, uoue with j sutb prospect of quick development.. j . Carleton. , I Dead Issues. In our notice of the nomination of Mr. Pendleton, we briefly alluded to the chief points iti tbe history of his statesmanship, as t'olkrws: ' "A"8 a national statesman, Mr. Pendleton is distinguished as one who did not comprehend his epoch. :Vuen secession , . , . , , - , . began, he was for. letting the Union tall to nieces, without an eltort to save it, neo no more than two States had passed ordinances of secession, he pronounced tbe Union Dually dissolved, and an independent nation established. . He . . opposed g every measure to raise men or money tor 3 . , , ,, . . J the national defense. He argued that we , , , , , , . should leave the new nation to work out , , . ,, , . . .. her destiny, ile continued this course all . , ,J , - through the war, arguing that the maiu. . ; . tenance ol the Union by force was both . . . , . , . . iin,inhliihiin. q n il imnndl ha gnil th.-ll we should withdraw and disband our armies. ' ; "It is a terrible mistake for a statesman to fail to comprehend hjs epoch, in ruattars vital. to bis country's preservation. It is a melancholy rcflVeiion for a statesman that, in the only great emergency of his l:fo, the course which he urged would have his country's ruin, and that he ot.mLd with all his ... .. Wi 1 , , , , , ' ... tern be a blunder in a statesman ought to ' , . , ... . 1,11. tMrh Uuu , "'!,J ''"t WOU,de. be8t intent in obscurity, buch a deficiency at a time winch tries the souls ot statesien ought ever after to cause diffidence in iowcr ?uvni 1113 ci'uiiu mini 1u.11. laying down policies to guide a Country." To this tbe Cincinnati J-Jnqiiirer replies, not doming that this was Mr. Pendleton's course, but assailing the Ga2elte for revivmg uead issues, to ibis campaign ... t atid throwing them inDead issues! Is Mr. Pendleton a dead issue? : This is the history of his public life." Strike 'out this, and Mr. Pendleton is a man of no political significance. If he had no record of public life, tbe Democracy Would uot have takeu him for their standard bearer. They chose him because of his record. To say that all this t-hould 'be buriod with the dead past, is to say that he should be them. Herein is a political phenomenon a candidate ot wonderful popularity, whose past course will not ' bear to ' be touched upon; a candidate whose party asks its opponents to say nothing ' about his past lite. This is a plea of forbuaranse' toward the penitent, and -not a sons of triumph over the popular favorite, Dead issues) U-is the great, tbo tiicehctuned, the bold and iudoiuitable Democracy come to this humblu pitoU, that wbcu it presents its most popular niau as a candidate, it pleads that the record of his statesmanship must not ba touched upon! That it asks that tho oblivion of the grave may cover all he has done iu public life! .-. . ; Iead issues! We would that they were dead and their memory da parted; thM they had never drenched the laud with the blood of its own citizens; that they had never afflicted our sight with maimed reliea, and widow? and ornhans, and harvft parents;
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1 it'1 t ni a m-: i 11 nut 911 h'uh that the fierce hat&s'Wnrchi ciif 'waVleaVes tenina tor a generation -iurj bete ' been engendered; tnat tse Dres' wMcti ,un nu.BOerru , gQcraueM -will , gton. atd - . ... . ' io kad never arisenptbatitbe I)enBoeraI leaders hd never, prepare the - minidf of their nartv for secession, and that ttv I nd peaceably acquiesced in the result of j the ballot, "instead f appealing to " the bullet."';.: tn- ;.! ). r .. " Bwl .Democracy did notit allow it to be bo, and we have to , deal with the con dt- , trons.it, has forced upon us. Are the issues dead which -were created J by ' the course' of the Democratic party, in which !Mr. Pendleton was ' a - leader? ,' . Jven ' bow the disbanded soldiers of tbe republic are working to raise means to build an asylum for the orphans left by the nation's defenders; to rescue them from the poorbouse; to relieve widowed mothers who have to support them by hard , labor, and to give them a home and education fit, for those who are the nation's children. .. Are the issues dead whose sad fruits are thus forced upon our attention? m ' ' ' ' What does the JSnquirer specify as a living issue, such as Mr. Pendleton would make prominent in the canvass? The mode of treatment of the public debt. What is that debt? The burden created by the war of rebellion which the Democratic party made, and which Air. Peadletou's course in Congress . eocouraged. Is that the getting out of dead issues into living ones? v What shall' be the spirit that will govern the course of bit. Pendleton and of hie party toward 'the public debt?. Theic hatred of it because it was created in put ting down the Democratic rebellion. Is that the leaving of dead issues and the taking up of new questions? ' What other issue is specified as alive? State Rights. .The very, instrument of jhe rebellion is repeated in the Democratic platform, The Democratic party will not lefthe old issues dia. Its existence Is a perpetuation of till the old issues. ;lt has uo issues but these which caused the war or grew out of the. war. The only way to abolish those issues is 'for "the the party that made them to disband. The fit time for that has long stuce arrived. Theparty leaders and organs" recognize it by their plea for the burial of their history. A party which seeks the oblivion of " ;Hie tomb for all its past acts ought to seek the deodorizing properties of the grate for its carcass. pCiuciunati Gazette. The Farmer Boys. I am sick of boeing in tbe corn, And follufeing the plww. Of working hard trom dewy mora , Till eve, with heate l brow; Ko longer will I may to mow,' Or pttrh the scented hay; To the great city I will go, AY here wealth id gained by play. Tut, tttt, my mm, hush up thai aoagj Let widoui be your guide; That dream pf wealth may lead you wrong, And wrtck you on ihe tide; Sit ttown with ute, upon tkia tne, Your team will tlie no. barm, If we arn't kings upon the throne, . We are upon farm. ' 1 " GoiTg healthy breexes round yon blow, His birdit, your maio make, ' ! " I ' And sweeter rest is yrtnrs, you know, '.V hen night dulh ve.-lHke, . . . . , ; r. The hrreci will your toil repay; Those fields of waving gfftin, ' ' Alt growing through -the imer day, And ia the sumouer rain. , T.. ., , - Men ih the shade, work hard as you, O'er books a.nd paper bend, The woik of lifa is easy made, ' Only by sweet content; It nmy be nows, my friend, ta you, , . - . j ut it's tbe truth t till, ( i:..- ,,t ;.- All work is very hard to do, . . t To those who do it well. .' ' In speculation you must stand ' ' ' The rough C onmereUI shock, ' : ' ' Yoa may in safety reach the tana, t Yoa may land upon (he looki; . , ' Your ray is certain on the farm, 'Though grain may not be sold, 1 In pnmes yon feel b alarm,-' 1 is - Wheat is as good as gold., tit.- - Pick upyoar whip aid hid your team ' . JJrug on the tioble plow,. And d. not le. an idle dream , , Becloud your youthful brow; i In years to come1 trtre-n children roam, You'll take (hem by the aria. And say, "you'd better eta at home, Upon tle gjod o'd farm." ' - v..'-- j. w. M. A Boy's Composition on Ice t like ice. ' When It's cold I like it best. Ice is good for a great many things; It is good to skate on, and good to make ice cram. I like fc skate. Sometimes I lend my skates to Lizzie Jones, and she lets me bu-kle them on for her. She wears striped ''stockings,' with red, ' and while and blue stripes running around them, and her legs look like a stick of can dy. Father says ice is good in cobblers than other ways. ' 1' suppose I 'shall be a great deal wiser when 1 grow up. 1 like ice cream with plenty' of' vanilla in it. There is more ice cream1 in summer than in winter, aud more ice iu winter than in summer. ; : ul ",' " "There ate. hesips of things I do not ubstand. Mother 'says if I eat too much ice cream it wilt make ifi" stomach hurt. 1 eat all I want, but I am careful not to ewt too much, because mother tells me not toi When next winter comes, Jtsie Jones and I are going' to' skate some ' more. There will not be any more winter aotil after summer comes.' Tbe "seasons' are mighty odd jo this country. Sometimes winter cornea before summer and ome times 8ummer?orses before winter.- Spring always comes after winter.- Father says 1 may have a new pair of skates next summur. When I net to be a man, I am goHog to pour'red stuff on the iue to, warm it; before I put H in ray rnoutn, rise iatu er does. -' ' :1 ' ' . : y - ; in tbe other world." Her little cirl V ' , S F t . T : - "Well mamm,a, wbo oopka wash-day? for yon koovt tkay pamitMTe a, big wash, as their 'girmeote Are ilwaya wkite,''. .
v t m v!lLVH..sr1i W Uephas, barberry's kitchen window. The the. .polinea'l .questionsgenerated by the leg was followed finally by ihe entire perwar, wbjcb will dominate our party con. Bon)f a Wfely Yankee; attired fh bis Stintesdbnn tha 'hfitrmn of t1ia rencfa rf.Wrt ..ifetiYiilmh It was it. abort
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- J'36 ' : Tire Bewitched Clbfck.7"1AboUt half 'etewb.'elock on San 3 d.v niht Km,n ;nv4an..t I- Kin. a J r"- "-l-lJ " W y' : vaaw Jwoad oUth, ight have been teen entering Joe JMaywaad. who thus lugubrously, in the dead of night, won his way into the, beacon's kitchen. -T ... oniler how much the old deacon made by brdiHn" me not'tor darken bis door guin''1 soliloquised the : young man. r"Promised him I wouldn't, but didn't sa v nothin' about winders. . Winders is just as gbi-d as doors? If Ibere 'ain't no nails' to tear your trowsers onto. Wonder if Sall'll comeidowii?fj 'Ihe .critter, .promised me. I'm ., afraid to move , here, cause I might break my shins over sumtliin' or'- nother,' and wake the old folks'.' Cold enough to freeze a polar bear bete. : Ub, here comes Sallyl 1 :.- 9r.i;.i!' ,.. u- ' 1 The beautiful paid.en descended with a pleasant smi)e a tallow candle and, a box of matches. v 'After"' receiving a rapturous greeting she made up a roaring fire in the cooking etove, and the happy ebuple 1 sat down -to eayoy tba weet , interchange of views, and . hopes. But the course of true love ran no smoother in old barberry's kitchen than it did elsewhere, and Joe, who was making up his mind to treat himself to a kiss, was' startled by the voice of deacon,-her father,, shouting from her chamber door; , . , . , , . "Sally, what are you setting up in the middle of the night for?" ' Tell him it's most morning," whisper ed Joe.. ...-.:' - - j "1 can't tell a fib," said Sally. "I'll make it atrutb, then,'' said Joe, and running' to' the huge old-fashioned clock that stood in the corner, he sat it ut flv. : ' 1 : ' "Ijook at the clock, , and tell me what time it, is," cried, tbe old gentleman ( up stairs. "'It's five by the clock," answered Sally, arid corroborating 'the words the dock struck five. J -i . n U... ! ; . The lovers sat down again and resumed the conversation. Suddenly the staircase bejran to creak. "Good graciou! it's father." "f be deacon,' by thundeil" cried Joe: ?bide me, Sal!" 'Where cau I bide you?'' cried the distracted girl. "Oh, I kno," said he, "I'll squeeze into the ctaek case.' ! - . ? . And without another word he concealed himself in the case and drew tbe door behind him. The deacon was dressed, and sitting himself down-by the cooking etove pulled out his pide, lighted it, and commenced smoking very deliberately and calmly. , "Five o'clock, eh?" said be, 'Well, I shall have time to smoke three or four pipes, then I'll go and feed the critters." "Hadn't you better go and feed thecrit ters first, sir, and inke afterward?''; suggested the duitiful Sally. ; , "No, smokin' clears my head and wakes tne up." answered the deacon, who seemed not a whit disposed to hurry hit enjoyment. Bur-r-r-r whiz-z ding dingl . Went Ute!ockewn ( r. .. ''Torrinented lightning 1" cried tbe deacon, starting up ; and doropping his pipe on the stove.' "What in creation's that?" if'lt's only Ihe clock striking five said Sally, tremulously. -i: ';i , !;.,.v , Whiz! ding! ding! ding! went the old clock furiously. - ' Po wers of mercy," cried the deacon. Striking five! il't? struck a hundred already.".,. 6 ..r.w :'. if a-, . . . r,lea.con ; Barberry!" cried the deacon's better half, who had hastily robed herself and how came plunging down staircase in tho. wittiest.:-state of alarm, "what is the matter of tlye clock?')' , ; , ; Good uess. only knows,"' replied tho old man. "It's been in the family these hundred years and never did I kuow it to carry on o iiefore." ' --!. .' . Whiz! bang! bang! i bahg! went the old: clock. . , ? . It'll burst itself," cried the old lady, shedding a flood of teat3, "and there wen't 1 be nothing left of it." ; . "It's bewitched," said the deacon, who retained a leaven . of New England superstition in his nature. "A n how," he said, after a pause, advancing resolutely toward the clock, 'T it see whats got into it, "Oh, don't,"cried the daughter, affections (Italy seizing one of his: coat tails, while his faithful wife hung to ihe other. 'Don't' chorused both ihe women together. Let go my raiment!" shouted the deacon,."! ain't afraid of the powers of dark ness., liut the women would not let go, so the deacon slipped off his coat, uud while, from the suddeu cessation of icsistance, they fell heavily on the floor. hi darted forward and laid his hand on the door of t be clockcasc. But no human power could open it.,. Joe was holding it in side with a death grasp. The dcacau began to be dreadfully frightened. ''He gave f one more tug. An unearthly yell, as of a fiend in distress, out from the inside, and than the clock case pitched headioremost on the floor, smashed its face and wrecked its proprotions. The ,current of air extinguished the light the deacoo, the old lady and Sally fled up stairs, and Joe Mayweed, extricating himself from trie clock, ' effected his retreat in tbe saiao way that he had enter ed. -The next day all Appleton was alive with the story of how deacon t Barberry's clock had, beep bewitched; and lhough many belteved'itsyersiori', some,' 'ind especTalfy Joe Mayweed, effected discredt the' whole affair, hinting that iheu; deacon 1 had been trying the experiweutof.tastin Barrett's reaeir yaw . yodlh. . n 1 . f 11 1 m 1 . 1 1 . ' . , Tire rreajiatn. awarded to Barrett'
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cCWeOIiE NO.400. -'. Enlbrhbed Alive. ' For thirty jears I have j'miirle 'my home 1 on me piaius ana atiijcg ice lasiaesses 01 .the lvocky M6u"ntkT6?"ll80 spending a portion ol the time' in ' tin Golden5 State Of the Pacific.1 'In 1849 I started : with a party to eroaff the plains, in bepeof .making my fortune a digging for the shining dust that people , said was to be bad for picking up. ' There was a dozen of us. all first rate jovial fellows, all oftbem hiving bad more or less experience in roughing it , cut on the prairies of the West. We had no womenkind among us to binder our progress, so we got over the ground pretty fast, and reached Salt Lake" several -days before we had expected when we set out.n; were all well and, nearly, and in the best of spirits: and af ter spending thr ifuvh Ttii ti, ;nta ..1 .i.r.. view of some of thS ladies claimed by lirigham and his elderslwho didu't teem at all averse to our comhany, we turned our backs upon them, aril set our faces toward the setting bud, i ." - -i .. " The plains were no' longer before us; hnt ruunirv fillArl uritH Ar. nnrl! . " r -----jsteep rugged mountains. Th ihirrl ifav' fter entering upon this region, we ca'tup-
ed for the night on the bauk of a wild tor- !er,a Ce'ure or since fainted away, rent that was awolUn lmnst in the Kizi nf! ' Ilow ionZ I remained insensible I knew5
a river by the recent rains. It had been only with great difficulty that we got safely across; and although it was but tbe middle of the afternoon, we resolved not to go any farther that night, as one of the party complained, of not feeling well., After the arrangement for camping had been well nigh completed, and as the sun was still two bcurs high, and not feeling very much fatigued, I threw my rifle over my shoulder, and told my comrades that - - - - - - ' - 1 was going to take-an hour s tramp up the stream where a dark gorge opened among the mountains, iu hopes, to get a chance at something that would serve to help make up a supper.' None of the boys offered to accompany me; and after receiving a caution not to wander too 'far. and to rcturu to camp before nightfall, I set out.
, The way was rougher than I expected, ; , . h . i .t . ii j t ii- - j '.might remain to. me. Jly compaaionn and more than once I had half a mind to i , , r .. r -
turn back; but I persevered, and for half an hour picked my way up the rough valley, which was hemmed in by rugged mountains, or, ratherj by high cliffs that, owing to some convulsion of nature,, had cast huge masses from their sides, almost blocking up the narrow space that extend ed betweeu their base and the banks ofi the ravine, and in some partially tilling! ll.e bed of the stream,' over which tUe; Wnlor rimhpfl vittl u .noiaA atmml itufVn. I
I had lost siche of the smoke that aro?e j uPon DiC crushing mc, as it were, into the"" from our5 cari.p" fire, fawing to the course of canh- Man' wre the hours of danger3the sireaai tbat confihed itself to the vah-j ,hut 1 ,,ad Passed through tiroes whea.it. lej; .ivd-alt '.this time I had seen nothing denied that there was uo possible ehaneeji ihat I would deign to waste powder audjof escape; jet hope had never completely bullet upon, so that 1 began to think 1 fprsakeu me as a had now f Uviti should be obliged to returu to;thecamp The ray of light faded away .and all as empty handed s I, set out. was darkness. ' Night liud c jiiio 19 me iu 1 toiled on, perhaps fifty yards - further. I 'tail, ae dark'nd terrible as' 'though.1 clambering, over, the jagged rocks that.1 waB surrounded by scores of moulder-j blocked the w'av. and at fast, disctmraped ' inK deati- As timemust sctiu to the
at y want of success, I was on the point J . . . of turning back, when 1 espied but a short distance before me, close to where a few bushes grew out of tbe cliff, a small crea ture though from tbe glimpse I got' of it, I contdttot distinguish what it was. Glad of the chance for : a shot, I: scrambled alonir over the rocks to.- a nosition that F coveted; but before it was , reached tho J creature, whatever it was. bad disappear i ed.'and no traces of it could I find' after j searching teveral minutes where I was) sure I had seen the animal. - ; - Disappointed, V we on the point "of! turniinr back, when a loud dan of ttitin- i der resounded throuirh the kv. and the ! - :r next moment large drops of raiu began j to fail. Started at the sudden arr.roat-h! " ' ' ' . of the storm I hadbeenall unmindful of, I looked upward and saw that a dense black cloud was rising above the cliffs, that h ad been the means of my not per - ceiving its approach. ' 1 knew full well ihat one of these sudden storms was no slight thing to encounter, and that unless I could 'find some place ot bhelter among the rocks, 1 . must experiences thorough drenching, as it would le itupo'ssihle for me to reach the camp before it would break forth with all its toryi - It suddeuly occurred to toe that a short distance back 1 had seen what appeared to be the entrance to a cavern. 1 had no ticed it particularly, from the' fact that a ' large ruck hun above the entrance, which 1 appeared tome as if the faintest jar would; displace it, and seud it crashing down ever the ajiorture. j I hastily retreated to this spot, but upon reaching it I hesitated about entering, j The great boulder, lyiug upon a mass of! crumbling rock, looked even more threat-1 ening than when I had passed it. Then I ; thought 1 was childish iu my fears, as tbe ' rock had doubtless remained for ages in tbe same position that it now occupied: Another clap of thunder and a deluge of rain decided me, and I passed into lto the id tried i i Cave on all tours, but not until 1 had the boulder with all my then 1 could ish it was in Arnare nt! v ed to shake the entire cliff, as far as effect-1 ing any result was 'concerned. ' ' "'' 1 found tbe cave to be about" ten feet in length, half as many in breadth. !aud perhaps four in height. "'It was' lighted to its furthest extent, and there was a nar rower passage extending from thence further into the mountain, though so" obstracted by sahd and large totks that aperture left would hardly have' admitted! of the passage of a fox. ' AIT this I noticed as iseatcil ; with' -my' r eui nf hafinc Married to inrr4irl in intensity, and 60 I began to think that Ij sh"al nae to ptss the night where r a,. "...
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TIeaa a prtieoIa tfma fa spctiCe4 waehiaitfl, idtttUseBt will b wabaaWiualli-M-daiad ot aad chafed aacwaiujjlj. . , , - - . . r f : ' fi:.- r I knew by tie .ihun'derjug.of tLe'4wt'er in the ravine that it ws fast" nsid''.1 rbm, whfcre I iati iadeed,1! couid'see' M reuts in tuintHtnrp-. -aiaritr-ts dsaliingldwB the iaeo -the elifo)Brth upjiOfciter iBid ? M,?ire3Mi.: .Ute-.ejl VaiKi Vl mot as the flood tt jial" have' appeared '"t asToo!nimeiVceTiiciit.' : " '-:! t.' ;"ihid !bg iW to fcvl VVart, tn c ni y -pidk of refuge; arid-the fact f, the huge i)ftl? der being, above my hadu.oJongcr troub led me, whcn.ujldeulyt tiriy; unspeakable terror, 1 saw a fmne roek waslicdJ'roiu J 'I8 sand lase and S plubiug dowdnto lThe "v"'e- ,",lfo'rtr,' what if "tho j lorB ahwald. fa4i and bltck uwafl ci f l riBe.anpiiM. tttwar4,he-rutfr l-l--l'r.V,v f1?! P Wf fel.t,o.oi v r.c j v -B .. . ltjT ' ,. . "Heaven hale nhicx?"! rtieaasTITeTl tho "wveaaem 61 ihe cfSiav Tno ao ih ,0 m' Aor-ror- ai.4 deppf ir h'gret o'Mer looened;by the lorrenU M ! ?UPP,ea, from . its resting, pbct 'p.a r.l "' estMpe hemmed ice in perfect d'ark'- , ' '; 1 was entooibed alivtl 9X11 J a bort or or my. Mtua tion cs me Jipon j me ,w."b. suu ivT M'.t'Vd I nevnot but When ut last 1 came' ito: myself again I thought it whs a terrible dream, liut the illusion eaou . worep.vff, and I began calm!yto think ofwhat chance 1-Lad of e'capifcg from' my living tomb.'Very little indeed was there' to hcpe in tbe prospect before tee. No prison" barf were as strong as those that; held me bajck from the outer, world, fhat, X.had oever prized so highly as I now beganto dn. There seemed no possible hope; for '.man, with his unaided strength 'fld" never move the huge rock that sealed up the entrance to my sepulchre. ' -,-lilf- . a A faint ray of light come,in one.side of my prison door and through the crevice came t tie sound of the i oaring" 'Water,' ! swollen to double its usual volume, down iu the bed olJbe ravines r-.l be 3 crevice would give me air, and would tell mew heir I I.l l . .jiu nuutu- ouuoucss scarcn long ior nic,' ana could I not make myself heard ebonld? they chance to pass-neai? This gave luo a ray of -Lope-that I hugged lo nry heart as drowning n.cn will,, ..they, tay,. clutch at straws, but my heart, agaiu sank within me as the roar of the torrents filled my cars. No human voice could be heard above ihe terrible sound,' which 'was rn.f creasiug.in violence every ;iuomcat. ; , j. I thicw rnvt-elf cown on the bottom of ( it.. i .h. : .t., I spirits ofxhe fost o that I'tigttf feeemed l. X! r . 1 . r to me. jviornin" catuc at last.- and Jiaainft. a little hope returned with tbtray f light, .that 1 was not cutircly cut ,,1'f frotu ,hor world. The roar'of the torrent still sounded i ri " my cars, but Mot so loucf as it had done'lfJ ray comrades should com up' to'seek n,' n aj,ht ,be possible tbt, I igkt tmkejj rayself- heard. . But how was ' l-j.tQfknowf wljeH ,1)ey had come? Try as I would, I ' cou,d nvt g"'a posifFon' where' I could ' get a glimpse of the world, without, c My oi,, chance wa tn, fU aloud, at thop, c' 111 Y voice. ind, hour after hpur. J.did, could, hard- - f r - UI" 1 was hoarse that 1 1 1 . . 1 ... 1 1. l' . i ' :t 1 - s niu 1 j.c-an. out. 1 oearu noining no m w 1 1 rr out lo repay me lor the cxertio W s -I" tiat 1 Ulade- 1 ,ie forenoon worts away, and I began to feel the pangs of hunger and j 'hirst; and theu, and uot until then, didl, j flil!J tCi,Il-e ,llc horrors, of my situation,; i My despair was ten ible, and, iu my agony 1 threw, myselfon my face upon the flo'oV of ,be cavern, and witb the ction,'a new " (hope spruag up within my hdartj n i j For'tbc first time since my imprison 1 ment the thought came to me that , possibility' of escape; .lay, at. f he . fiack of the cac. If I could but remove the ob.struc- f tions that blocked up the passage, so'tlat' I could pass through,' it .might . possibly. t lead to daylight in some direction. CuVes oftcti have more than one outlet or en trance, and such might be the case with this one. ,. . .',- , . .', raint ua this hope aa, ,T oiu ig to , it and went to work with, a vk 1 1 1 -, j.Tbe,ioeV I found that I could uot move frasily, aoU the sand I scraped away with my la. and soon I had a place large cnoiigh, t; f force my way through. . K net Mirage J pv thin, I did so, and after., crawjjng. oloti some lift eeu or twet ty i'cet, I found my-.. self in a lai-gc apartment- o!ta .height that i.iiLiu .ijii..t'."ii. v. t a jjciLitii iiiaw; would admit, of tiiuaini erect. - Another . 1 . '-r k. passage led oil to thy 1 ht Ironi thjs.. and I at uuce e.it;re,d j, hi though if e.jtcied ti. Hithough "it was s da: k that had tufeerj myt.'.w:ij jijng The wa was qrooked, tui uing starp""ati-j. 1 . ' ' .1 t ' ..':'. .'- '? t '.rt-'J.??J iu a few u.oments t stool, in' 'the bright sunshine I bud utur expected to itc r , . Ut,..d,;i:,.n-'.t . 1 ou Qap jmagii! e. t he j,nt.oi .my Jeelings as 1 made my way ' dowii th 'batik ol'thoj stream, " after ca'stiiig rtne 'lowk ti "where" the-great, boulder was 1 ing fhai hac ed up. my toiiib. . It ? larger tSa'n d sealT had
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