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."The Chariots shall rage in the streets, IADIANAPOLTS, I PETFR rAT?TXTPTnntTT tttt? -n wwnno PREACHER. i I From the National Magazine. We once travo a skulcli of I'dtur Cartwriirlit in these pages. It would be unpardonable to omit the adventures of such n diameter from litis class of "jottings;" we must then call him again into your presence, "courteous reader," even if we should repeat some of his stories already told. He appears broken with year and labors, and you perceive some paralytic tremblings in his attitude and voice; but, there is, nevertheless, a general aspect of strenuous vigor about him. lie looks as if he might yet wrestle with bears and come off conqueror, ns we learn he really has heretofore, lie is war-worn and weatherbeaten. His complexion is bilious, the integuments of his face wrinkled and tough, his eyes small and twinkling, and defended by a heavy pair of spectacles with green side-glasses, his mouth compact and full of force, his head largo and round, his forehead deeply indented, and his hair there is no description of that; it looks ns if he had poked it into the bag of the Kilkenny cats, and had not had lime to comb it since its extrication. And yet do not suppose there is any fierceness about his caput. Nay, verily; a face more finely characterized with good nature and gallant generosity is not to be seen. Should we attempt an intellectual portrait of Peter Cartwright, we should summarily say that he is characterized by good sense and good humor. ' We know not that we can better describe him. He strikes right at the object before him, and never fails to hit it; and he has Unit characteristic of the highest wisdom brevity, scntentiousness. . We never knew him to speak in General Conference more than five minutes at once. His humor is always spontaneous always ready. It sometimes cuts sharply, but is usually genial and generous, relieving rather than exasperating the ease. Humor is a rare excellence, but it is not, like gems, valuable chiefly for its rareness; it is intrinsically valuable. It should not be too severely grinned at, with elongated faces, in even ecclesiastical bodies; it often (fleams like exhilerating sunlightamong lowering clouds of discord, and sometimes dispels them, and does infinitely more than the strongest logic or the loudest rhetoric to remove obstructions to business. Still, a man of combined good sense and good humor is liable to suffer some disparagement.. Our poor human nature has a sort of self-complimenting propensity to speak of a superior man with a qualifying "but," the import of which is, that though he excels us in some things, we can see in him defects we have not ourselves. - He has imagination, "but" he has not much sense; he has humor ;bur he has nojpiiLqliflu thins worse. Peter Cartwright is not merely a man of humor, but of genuine sagacity; woe be to the man that attempts to circumvent him in debate. If some of his short sayings were di vested of their humor, and spoken by a grave man, they would pass for unique utterances of wisdom: as they are, they pass for pertinent jokes happy hits. Peter Cartwright is a "Doc tor of Divinity." liood old Ueorgc ricKering, when asked once if the Methodists had any Doctors of Divinity, replied, "No, sir, we don't need them; our divinity has not yet become sick." Those healthful days seem, however,1 to have passed, if we may judge from the ' ample pro visions made for theological medication among; us now-a-days. Some college in the West deemed Peter Cartwright too knowing in the Materia Medica, or too skillful with the scalpel, to die untitled, and therefore, dubbed him D. D. We know not that he pretends to encyclopedic erudition, or is more skillful than some other doctors we are acquainted with in the learned languages a knowledge of which is usually presupposed in giv'ng that title; the only learned quotation we ever heard from him was in respect to a matter of business, which seemed to be beyond the reach of his brethren; it was, said he, "in swampus non comalibus." The learned doctors around him smiled very cognizantly, as they usually do at college commencements when a Latin phrase is quoted which, though unintelligible to the vulgar throng, is always remarkably striking to them. . ' His fellow-soldier in the West, James B. Finley, gives the following further account of him, of which we gave an extract once, but now give it fully: 1 "Immense was the gathering at the Methodist camp-ground near Springfield, on the second Sunday of September, 1 832. A powerful magnet had attracted this great mass of people from their homes in many counties a hundred miles round. The new presiding elder, a late arrival from Kentucky, an orator of wide-spread and wonderful renown, it was known, would thunder on that day. The prestige of his fame had lightened before him, and hence the universal eagerness to hear one concerning whom rumor's trumpet-tongue discoursed so loudly. "Morning broke in the azure east, bright and beautiful as a dream of heaven; but the exI.- i.-.i nf,t ma(a liis advent. ' Eleven . o'clock came-the regular hour of the detonation I of the heavy gun of orthodoxy and still there I was no news of the clerical iion. A common circuit preacher took his place, and, sensible ot the popular disappointment, increased it by ' mounting a miserable failure. The vexed and I restless crowd began to disperse, when an event happened to excite afresh their curiosity and con centrate them denser than ever. A messenger rushed to the pulpit in hot haste, and presented a note, which was immediately read out to prevent the people from scattering. The following is a literal copy of that singular epistle: "Dear Brethren': The devil has foundered my horse, which will detain me from reaching your tabernacle till evening. I might have performed the iournev on foot; but I could not leave poor J J . . . 1 A n.i. TT Paul psrwciallv as he never left Peter. Horses have no souls to save, and, therefore, it is all the more the duty of Christians to take care of their bodies. Watch and pray, and don't let the devil get among vou on the sly before candle-light, when I shall be at my post. Your Brother, PETER CARTWRIGHT." "At length the day closed. The purple curtain of ni"ht fell over the earth from the dark-

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ening sky. God's golden tiro flashed out in heaven, and men be low kindled their watchfires. , Thu encampment, . a village of snowy tents, was illuminated with a brilliancy that caused every leaf to shine and sparkle as if all tho trees wero burnished with phosphorescent flame. It was like a theater. It was a. theater in the open air, on the green sward, beneath the starry blue, incomparably more picturesque and gorgeous than any stitgo scenery, prepared within walls of brick or marble, whero the elite of cities throng to feust their eyes ou beauty and ears on music. . ! "Presently a form arose in tho pulpit, and commenced giving out it hymn, preliminary to the main exercises, tttl every eye became riveted to the person of the stranger. Indeed, as some one said of Burke, .a single flash of the gazer's vision, was enough to reveal the extraordinary man, although in the present case it must, lor the sake of truth,, bo acknowledged tli ut the first impression was ambiguous, if not enigmatical and disagreeable. : II is figure was tall, burly, massive, nnd seemed even more gigantic than the reality, from the crowning foliage of luxuriant, coal-black hair, wreathed into long curling ringlets. And a head that looked as large as a half-bushel; beetling brows, rough and craggy as fragmentary granite, "irradiated at the base by eyes of dark fire, small and twinkling as diamonds in a sca-lhey were diamonds of the soul, shining in a measureless sea of humor a swathy complexion, ns if embrowned by a southern sun; rich rosy lips, always slightly parted, ns wearing a perpetual .smile and you have a life-like portrait of the far-famed Backwoods Preacher. 1 , "Though I heard it all, from the text to the amen, I am forced to despair of nny attempt to convey an accurate fdea of either the substance or the manner of the sermon which followed. There are different sorts of sermons the argumentary, the dogmatic, the poslulary,' the persuasive, the punitive, the combative, "in orthodox blows and knocks," the logical, and the poetic; but this specimen belonged to none of theso categories. It was sui yeneris, and of a new species. ' ' "He began with a loud and beautifully modulated tone, in a voice that rolled on the serene night-air like successive peals of thunder. Methodist ministers are celebrated for sonorous voices; but his was matchless in sweetness as well as power. For the first ten minutes his remarks, being prefatory, were commonplace and uninteresting; but then, all of a sudden, his face reddened, his eye brightened, his gestures grew animated as the wnftures of a torch, and his whole countenance chanced into an excressjon of peculiar eloquence poured fourth like a mountain torrent. Glancing arrows, with shafts of ridicule, hon-moh, puns, and side-splitting anecdotes sparkled, flashed, and flew like hail till the vast auditory was convulsed with laughter. For a while the more ascclic strove to resist the current of their own spontaneous emotions. - These, however, soon discovered that they had tindertaken an impossible achievement in thinking to withstand his facitw. His cverv sentence was like a warm finger, tickling the ribs of the hearer. His very looks incited the mirth far more than other people's jokes', so that the effort to maintain one's equilibrium only increased the disposition to burst intoloud explosions, as every school-boy has verified in similar cases. At length the encampment was in a roar; the sternest features relaxed inW smiles, and the coldest eyes melted into tears oi irrepressible merriment. This continued thirty ninutes, while the orator painted the folly of tin sinner, which was -his theme. I looked on ard laughed with the rest, but finally began to fiar the result as to the speaker. !.'.. ; ; "'How,' I exclaimed mentally, 'will he ever be able to extricate hisnudience from that deep whirlpool of humor ? I he ends thus, when the merry mood subsides, md calm reflection supervenes, will not the revukion of feeling be deadly to his fame I Will not (very hearer realize that he has been trifled within matters of sacred and eternal interests ? At al events, there is no prospect of a revival to-nijjit ; for even though the orator were a magieian.he could not change his subject now, and stem Ihe torrent of head-long laughter.' ' "But the shaft of myinference fell short of the mark : and even then L commenced to change, not all at once, but grdually, as the wind of a thunder-cloud. His futures lost their comical tinge of pleasantry; hitvoice grew first earnest, and then solemn, and son wailed out in tones of deepest pathos ; his eye! were shorn of their mild light, and yielded strems of tears, as the fountain of the hill yielded viler. The effect was indiscribable, and the rcbund of feeling beyond all conception. He descared on the horrors of hell, till every shuddering fab was turned downward, as if expecting to see thsolid globe rent asunder, and the fathomless, fiergulf yawn from beneath. Brave men moaned, an fair, fashionable women covered with silken dipery and bedight with gems, shriked as if a kife were working among their heart-strings. j "Again he changed.he theme ; sketched the joys of a righteous deal its faith, its hope, its winged raptures, and fgels attending the spirit to its starry home wji such force, great and evident belief, that all yes were turned toward heaven, and the entirtcongregation started to their feet, as if to hfl the vision of angels at which the finger of th preacher seemed to be pointed, elevated as itas on high to the full length of his arm. ' . "He then made a cl for mourners intothc altar, and five hundreSmany. of them till that night infidels, rushedforward and prostrated themselves on their kes. The meeting was continued for two weekand more than one thou ; sand converts were add to the church. From ... . .. ,,,, ,., that time his success w . unparalleled, nnd the fact is chiefly due to hinimitable wit and masterly eloquence that Ithodism is now the prevailing religion in Illint. "He was distinguish, by one very unclerical peculiarity combativess. His battles, although always apparently in f; defensive, were as numerous as those of thoelebrated Bowie. The only difference was thi that Bowie faught with

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deadly weapons, while the itinerant used but his . enormous list, which was as ed'eciive, however, in the speedy settlement of beligereiit issues as j nny knife or pistol ever forged out of steel. Let the reader judye from the following anecdote: I the cainp-nieeting held at Alton, in the autumn of 1833, the worshippers were annoyed . by a set of desparadoes from St. Louis, under the i control of Mike Fink,' a notorious , bully, the triuuipiiHiit nerooi countless tights, in noneof which he had ever met nn equal, or even second. The coarse, drunken ruffians carried it with a high hand, outraged the men and insulted the women. so as to threaten the dissolution of all pious exeri cises; and yet such was tho terror of the name I ,.r ,!... 1 i.. i?!.. i. ... yji mio icauei, j'uiK, liispueu inai no one could be found bravo eneugh to face his prowess." ; "At last, one day, when Cartwright ascended the pulpit to hold forth, the desparadoes, on the outskirts of tho encampment, raised a yell so deafening to drown utterly every other sound. The preacher's dark eye shot lightening, lie deposited his Bible, drew oil' his coat, and remarked aloud : "Wait for a few minutes, my brethren, while I go and make the devil pray." ; "He then proceeded with a smile on his lips to the focus of the tumult, and addressed the chief bully : " . " 'Mr. Fink, I have come to make you pray.' "'The desperado rubbed back tho tangled fes toons of his blood-red hair, arched his huge brows with a comical expression, and replied : " By golly, I'd like to see you do it, old snort er.' : ' 1 " 'Very well,' snid Mr. Cartwright ; will these gentlemen, your courteous friends, ngrco not to show foul play ! ; " 'In course they will. They're rale grit, and won't do nothin' but tho clear thing, so they won't,' rejoined Fink, indignantly. " 'Are you ready ?' asked the preacher. "Beady as a race boss with alight rider, answered Fink, squaring his ponderous person for the combat. 1 " 'The bully spoke too soon, for scarcely had the words left his lips, when Cartwright made a prodigious bound toward his antagonist, and accompanied it with a quick, s-hooling punch of his herculean fist, which fell, crashing the other's chin, and hurried him to the earth like lead. Then, even his intoxicated comrades, filled with involuntary admiration at the feat, gave a cheer. But Fink was up in a moment, and rushed upon his enemy, exclaiming.' , ., : " 'That warn't done fair, so it warn't.' "lie aimed a ferocious stroke. Which the preacher parried with his left hand, and, grasping his throat with the riirht. erushed0h,im dojvn. j ed, nnd writhed in tho dust; but all to no purpose, for the strong, muscular fingers held his windpipe ns in the jaws of nn iron vise. When he began to turn purple in the face, and ceased to resist, Mr. Cartwright slacked his hold and inquired : ' ' "Will you pray now ?" ' "I doesn't know a word how," gasped Fink. "Repeat after me." . i "Well, if I must, I must," answered" Fink, "because you're the devil himself." 1 . "The preacher then said over the Lord's prayer, line by liue, and the conquered bully respond ed in the same way, when the victor permitted him to rise. ' ' , ' , ' At the consummation the rowdies roared three boisterous cheers, and Fink shook Cartwriaht bv the hand, declaring : ! "By golly, you're some beans in a bar-fij-ht, I'd rather set to with an old "lie" bar in dog-days. You can pass this 'ere crowd of nose-smashers, blast your pictur 1 "Afterward Fink's party behaved with extreme decorum, and the preacher resumed his Bible and pulpit. ; , ,; ' . ; . An odd scene that, certainly ; and "not very apostolic," say you, sober reader. We join you in the remark; but it is characteristic, as we said in another case. We give it as a fact from our old friend Finley a fact that illustrates not only the character of the man, but of the country and its early times. "Circumstances alter eases," is a popular proverb in the West, as well as elsewhere ; and even good men are heard occasionally, to affirm out there, that Lynch law is better than no law. While ho was preaching, years ago, General Jackson entered the church, when a pastor, seated in the pulpit, gave his "Brother Cartwright" a nudge, and whispered that the old hero had just come in as much as to advise, "now be particular in what you say." But Peter, to the astonishment of everybody, louder than ever, exclaimed : "Who cares for General Jackson ? He'll go to hell as soon as anybody, if he doesn't renent. !" When the sermon a home-made one was ended, a friend asked the General what he thought i ' of that rough old fellow, and received for answer, "Sir, give me twenty thousand of such men, and I'll whin the world, incliidino llip devil !" L O It is quite possible, brother reader, that your and our notions might not quite agree with the General's ; yet neither of us can fail to see in this eccentric but veteran evangelist the man of his times and his circumstances. Truth read it. The following truthful sentiments we clip from the New York Ledger, and commend them to the careful perusal of the reader: "He who by his conduct makes friends on one hand, and bitter enemies on tho other, gives evidence that there is something of the bold upright man in his disposition, while the chickenhearted, imbecile man is making neither friends nor foes. Threfbre, we say to all, but more particularly the young man, whatever you do, do it earnestly, zealously, fearlessly. Next o being upright and faithful in the performance of your duty, be decided, and then you will make either friends or foes worth having we say worth having, for there are some people in the world that are worth more to have for enemies than for luke-warm friends." No merchant ever disparaged his own goods. Drive your business, let not that drive you. It is honorable to die for our country. Duelling proceeds from cowardice.

ELDER & HARKNESS Publishers.

NO 10. The Lord'B Prayer. A fiiend tells us an anecdote of Booth, the great tragedian, which wo do not recollect having seen in print. It occurred in the palmy days of his fame, before the sparkle of his great black eye had been dimmed by that bane of genius strong drink : "Booth and several friends had been invited to dine with an old gentleman in Baltimore, of distinguished Wiiidn.hH, urbanity, and piety. The host, though disapproving of theatres, aud thea-tre-going, had heard so much of Booth's remarkable powers, that curiosity to see the man had, in this instance, overcome all his scruples and prejudices. After the entertainment was over, lamps lighted, nnd the company re-seated in the drawing room, some ono requested Booth, ns a particular favor, and one which all present would doubtless appreciate, to rend aloud the Lord's Prayer. Booth expressed his willingness to afford them this gratification, and ali eyes wero turned expectantly upon him. Booth rosy slowly and reverently from his chair. It was wonderful to' watch the play of emotions that convulsed his countenance. He became deathly palo, and his eyes, turned trembling upward, were wet with tears. As yet he had not spoken. The silence could be felt. It became absolutely painful, until at hist the spell was broken as if by an electric shock, as his rich-toned voice,, from white lips, syllabled forth: "Our Father who art in Heaven," etc., with a pathos and fervid solemnity that thrilled all hearts. He finished. Tho silence continued. Not a voice was heard or a muscle moved in his rapt audience, until from a remote corner of the room a subdued voice was heard, and the old gentleman (their host) stepped forward with streaming eyes and tottering frame, and seized Booth by the hand. "Sir," said he, in broken accents, "you have afforded me a pleasure for which my whole future life will feel grateful. I am an old man, and every day, from my boyhood to the present time, I thought I had repeated the Lord's Prayer, but I have heard it before, never. "You are right," replied Booth, "to read that prayer as it should be read, has cost me the severest study nnd la-' bor for thirty years, and I am far from being yet satisfied with my rendering of that wonderful production. Hardly one person in ten thousand comprehends how much beauty, tenderness, and grandeur can be condensed in b space so small, and in words so simple. That prayer of itself sufficiently illustrates the truth of the Bible, and stamps upon it the seal of divinity." So great was the effect produced, (says our informant, who was present,) that conversation was sustained but a short time longer in subdued tnanniivJi)lrj.iii, py""r.Wif atic"'cvirivpanj- uiifke up, and retired to their several homes, with sad faces and full hearts. ' The Sound Dues. The Providence Journal learns from "the most reliable authority," that a messenger from this Government is on tho way to, if not already in Denmark, charged with important dispatches to our representative at Copenhagen, directing him to enter into negotiations anew in regard to the Sound Dues. . The Journal adds : . . ." - "Of course nothing is known as to the instructions he takes to the United States Charge des Affaires therej ' It is sufficient; however, to state that our Government has no desire to force a friendly power, situated as Denmark is at the present time, into any hasty measures which may compel her appeal to either of the present beligerent nations for the defence of a system of taxation on commerce which is her chief source of revenue. It would be undignified in a great nation like the United States, to resort to hostile measures which would tend to embroil a weak power like Denmark in tho struggle now going on in Europe, which might result in her overthrow. - It is a wise measure, therefore, in the Secretary of State, to settle this difficulty amicably; and if Denmark is unprepared at present to concede anything, there would be no sacrifice to extend our present commercial treaty for a couple of j'ears, by which lime the contest now going on may have subsided. Hats Prose Rhyming. If your tile is dilapidated, read the following poetical prose, or pro-, saical poetry,' then consult the advertising columns of the Locomotive for the location of our fashionable hat stores, aud treat yourself to a handsome covering for your head. A hat's the dome, the steeplo-top of thought; the attic room, the cockloft of the head; the hive where fancy's honey-bees are caught, which else, beyond the memory's reach had fled. A hat ' well brushed is a top-stone to the man; Corinthian column he with cap to match; a column it were poetry to scan, and with a glance its fine proportions catch. . A crownless hat lacks poetry; and he, whoe'er the miserable man may be, whose tangled hair stands peering through the crown, far from the graces quite hath tumbled down: sans hat, sans coat, sans character, sans all. Who thus hath fallen, how piteous is his fall. . . jt5?Great men never affect anything. It is your three-cent folks that put on airs, swell, and try on the pomp. : The difference between the two is as great as between a barrel of vinegar and an angel's disposition. . Wanted. The club with which an idea struck the post. A stick to measure a narrow escape. The hook and line with which the fisherman ' caught a cod. An umbrella to use in the reign of tyrants. Some lemonade made of a sour temper and the sweets of matrimony. Some of the other fish the mau had to fry. A cement for fillino- the decayed teeth of saws. A lock of hair from the brow of a mountaion. A tooth from the mouth of Wabash river. Little and often fills the purse. Blood is not washed out with blood. A little stone can make a great bruise. It is hard for an empty bag to stand uprigh. Habit will reconcile us to everything but , change. On the stage of life, interest is tha principal actor. Ho. that knows himself, knows others.