Locomotive, Volume 46, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1858 — Page 1

ELDER & HARKNESS, "The Chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings." AoAum,u, 4. Printers and Publishers. VOL XLVI INDIAN APOLTS, IND SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1858. NO. 8.

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THE JOURNEYMAN GENTLEMAN

Joe Conway was an odity. . lie especially delighted in mysteries, disguises, unexpected denouements, intrigues, and romance generally. Consequently he was always getting into very bad scrapes, and superfluous assertiou there was always " a lady in the case." This made liim a bit of a misogamist an amateur woman-hater. ' Yet, for all that, he could not let the sex alone ! , . A profund love of nature and dissipation attractedJoe and myself to the little village of D : ,on tho banks of that charming stream, the Erchwon. We went to fish, to sketch, to see scenery, and to drink ; for as Joe remarked, " the waters of the Erchwon possessed peculiarly refreshing qualities when mixed with a little cognac." . The afternoon of the second day of our sojourn found us seated upon a flower spangled slope, skirted by willows, whoso gnarled roots were bathed in the pellucid Erchwon. We had sought the spot to smoke, converse, and digest our somewhat elaborate dinner, in peace and quiet, with the beauty of nature before our eyes. : . , . ; ' As is very apt to be the case, when two young men get together, our talk was of woman. Woman 1 what an inexhaustible subject for speculation, conversation, writing, oratory, painting, sculpture, and matrimony. ; , . " It's all gammon," said Joe Conway, " women don't appreciate cultivation, intellect, nor good fellowship. All they look for is wealth and position when they love. If they don't find these amiable qualities, they won't love, and if a fellow hasn't got them, he had better let tho sex alone. It takes a gilded key to unlock their precious little hearts. That's so 1" " You are sadly mistaken, Joe," said I, " and the worst of it is, you don't know it You are angry with the husband-hunters who have given you a chase, and revenge yourself by damning the whole institution of dimity. You are wrong. A man like you, young, rich, and well, yes, without flattering I think I may say tolerably good-looking, has no chance. You see only the designing ones, who are bound to marry your bank-account in spite of yourself, and they play off their charms upon you, ad naueeum." " But where are the artless ones, who don't want money who are willing to sacrifice themselves, and all that for the sake of tender passion t" - " They are modest. The brazen-faced fortune-hunters crowd about you, and accustom you to being sought. The reality good girls require seeking, and that isn't in your line, you never know how many nice ones there are in the world 1" . " I'll tell you what I'll do 1" cried Joe starting up suddenly, and half choking himself with a mouthful of cigar smok " I'll test that question. I'll do it here in this very place I'll turn a mechanic, ignore my money, and my family, make up to the proudest, prettiest girl in the village, and show you she won't marry me poor. Then I'll come out in my true colors and show you that my cash is puissant to do that which my conversation and acquirements cannot begin to do 1" " What ; marry her 1" " Not much make her ask me to, and then laugh at her." I confess I secretly hoped that Joe would not test the question. He was a capital fello w, as rich in accomplishments and cultivation as in money. Now I knew very well that D contained some very charming girls daughters of retired sea-captains, merchants, etc., who, however much they might like a mechanic, would not see him. Au contraire, a young gentleman of wealth and position, would probably prove very acceptable. But he was determined, and when I left for the city, I left Joe arranging a chest of tools, and getting himself up in a pair of blue over-alls and a paper cap 1 ' . Joe had a wonderful talent of doing everything tolerably well. He played upon half a dozen instruments, could survey, had dabbled in the fine arts, understood short-hand, a little surgery and medicine, was a finished jockey, a fair gardener, had built a stone bridge, written an epic, and half-soled a pair of boots 1 With these somewhat varied accomplishments, he had no fears, of course, but what he could get on remarkably well as a carpenter. No one knew him at D , and when he introduced himself to the " boss" carpenter of the village, he succeeded in persuading him that he was a journeyman of unusual talent. He received several commissions during the first fortnight of his experiment, but, on the whole, it was rather lucky that he was not compelled to subsist on the proceeds of his labors. Otherwise, he might have found it difficult to pay his board especially as he commissioned me to send him five dollars worth of cigars every week. . . One day, after he had nearly exhausted his patience, and had done no end of plotting and planning in vain, the village carpenter asked him to undertake the restoration of a cornice on one of the oldest and most aristocratic houses in D . . ' . Joe agreed, and in a short time was mounted on a scaffold, almost on a level with the third-story windows of the mansion of old Commodore Hulkington, dexterously making his measurements and plans for the new cornice. - i , , It was no easy task, for the work was elaborate and the weather warm. . Two days elapsed, and Joe had only got ready to commence putting up the brackets which sustained the heavy mouldings. Lunch-time came, and the amateur carpenter, getting in the shade unpacked his little dinner pail, and began a repast at once simple and nourishing, when he saw that the window nearest him was open, and that papers lying on an escroitoire inside were disposed to blow away. " I know it's a trespass," meditated he, " but it's for the proprietor's good. I'll step into the room and save, perhaps, some valuable documents." A little gymnastic exercise brought him down from the scaffold, through the window, and into a very elegant chamber. " Hum," said he " a woman's room." There were naintinffs. statues, ormolu ornaments. and forty other luxuriant nothings, such as woman of taste love to gather arouna uiem. a guitar reposea on the bed, with some books in French and Latin. The couch itself bore tho impress of a form, as if the tutelar deity of the chamber had been lying down, and passing her time with music and literature. There was a portfolio open upon the table, with a very pretty water-olor sketch, half finished ; a well-stocked library in the corner bore evidences of the cultivated taste of the occupant, and everything about the chamber, from the bed, with its shower of snowy curtains falling from a massive gilt ring, to the canary bird in the window, bespoke a refinement and delicacy on the part of whoever had arranged the apartment, seldom found, except in young and beautiful women, who aspire to have their surroundings like themselves. " Something elegant about this," said Joe, gathering up the scattered papers, and placing them beneath a paper weight on the escroitoire. " I must investigate tlus here's an opening for a splendid bit of romance poor young carpenter, and rich lovely woman, eh? Lord bless me, there has been bushels of novels written on the same plot." After a hurried examination of the room, he regained his scaffold, and consuming his lunch, set once more about his labors, a little more hopeful than be fore. Thus passed a week. Joe pot in a very imprudent habit of entering the chamber almost daily, in hopes of meeting the occupant of so charming a temple. He

became familiar with all the books and music, whistled the canary into a convulsion of song, and drove himself half crazy with speculation upon the fair unknown. He had heard her sing very sweetly of a morning when she opened the window, and just caught a glimpse ot her form ; but she, seeing him, had withdrawn suddenly, and he had not been able to discover whether she was beautiful as a rose, or ugly as a camel. lie had found a half-finished bonnet on the table, several long, fine, brown hairs, apparently plucked out in a fit of abstracted meditation. Evidently, this girl was a blonde. ' He had found gaiters, of-delicate colors and wonderful smallness gloves of corresponding delicacy and tasteful and artistic dresses and sacques. What will you say-, oh, my matter-of-fact and practical reader, when I tell you that my friend Joe Conway fell in love with a woman he had not seen one of whom he knew next to nothing ? Quite naturally the erection of the cornice progressed but slowly. The master-carpenter wondered at it, but Joe assured him every morning that it would only take a day or two longer. , One fineafternoon, Joe found,lying ou the escroitoire, an essay on music, written in the 8ame beautiful hand which he had so often seen and admired on the margins of books and the papers in the chamber. Grown impertinent to an alarming degree, he laid down the saw which he had unconsciously brought with him, and perused the essay carefully, , , . It was well written and powerful, but there was an error in the philosophy. It would be dull for me to explain here the mistake which Joe saw at onceitis enough that the fair writer had confused the laws which governed melody and harmony, and Joe devoutly wished an opportunity to point out the error to her who had made it. - He was just meditating an epistle to be left with the essay, when the door opened, and deesse inconnue entered !

Figure to yourself a young girl say of nineteen or twenty whose every lino and contour spoke of grace nnrl llP!lltll-wlirt:a r,oaoiitintorl nlionlrs. KrirrLt. PVM and lips like- the inner fold of some tropic sfiell, told of vivacity, freshness, and purity. Her hair was of the peculiar pale brown almost a wood color which may perhaps be best described as a mingling of ashy and solden tints, and fell in tangled masses half ringlets, half disorder on each side of a neck white and deli cate as the petals of the camelia. She did not scream when she saw the carpenter sit ting coolly in her arm chair, making himself obviously at home. She only opened her large gray eyes, hesitated a moment, and said : " Well, sir I" with an accent between surprise and disdain. ' ' Joe rose and bowed politely. ' , ' ' " What do you wish, sir 1" - Joe was somewhat put to his trumps. ' " I wished to see what kind of a fairy inhabited so delightful a domain ?" Truly, a nice speech for a journeyman carpenter to make to Commodore Hulkington's only daughter. " Possible, you are not aware that you are intruding, sir. You will oblige me by departing." " Certainly," said Joe, now in full enjoyment of the romance of the thing, " certainly I will go, but you must pardon me one tiling, I wish to explain a little question on which you have doubts. Harmony in music appeals to the intellectual or reasoning portion of the soul melody to the passions and feelings." - The young girl looked a little alarmed, and drew back a step or two. "No!" said Joe, divining her thoughts, "I am not insane.- In your essay on music, you say that ' education refines and intensifies our perceptions of melody.' You should have said 1 harmony,' for that rules the brain, which organ is susceptible to the influence of education. Melody is lord of the heart alone, and you, mademoiselle, ought to be well aware that the heart cannot be taught, either in music or love 1" ' Miss Hulkington was astonished. - " Sir," said she, " I do not know what to make of your conduct. You are very imprudent, and very very " ' - " Audacious ! Yes, I acknowledge that," interrupted Joe, " but you must pardon me. I first entered your room to place some papers in safety, which the wind was about to blow out of the window. Once inside, the air of elegance and refinement exhibited here attracted me. Doubtless, you have noticed that one's surroundings become permeated, as it were, with something of one's sphere so, in your room, I experienced an emotion of pleasure a consciousness of the presence of some invisible but charming spirit, and I made bold to enter often, believing that, if you knew my motives, you would forgive me." The young lady was beginning to feel pleased. All women like admiration, even from their (so-called) inferiors, if it is delicately expressed. Their conversation proceeded. Jce proved to the fair essayist that she was in error, and astonished her by the depth of his thoughts the variety of his knowledge, and the elegance of his diction. . On leaving he held out his hand almost as soft and white as her own: and she, stifling the last traces of a false prejudice, gave it a cordial pressure. ; " You have not worked long at your trade ?" she said. " Since my boyhood," unblushingly answered Joe, "but " added he, glancing at his hands "I have generally done the nicer kinds of work joinery and the like." . This excuse passed very well with a woman who had never had the honor of the acquaintance of a mechanic before. , . . The next day, when Joe heard the window open, he presented himself, and after exchanging salutations, the twain again fell into a discussion, which became so earnest that Joe was compelled once more to enter th room. -' . Alas, for the progression of the new cornice 1 For two weeks this state of things continued ; at the expiration of that time, Louisa Ilulkinston was com pelled, maugre her pride, to acknowledge to herself that she loved Joe Uonway the journeyman carpenter. He would not believe it. It contradicted his theory of the mercenary character of woman. And, I notice, we never believe anything which contradicts our theories. Finally, when the cornice had to be finished, Louisa petitioned her father to have an ornamental wardrobe put up in her chamber. ; Of course Joe had the task, although the old Commodore grumbled terribly about employing such a slow workman. It took Joe six weeks to make the wardrobe ! By this time the job was done very nicely done it was, too Joe's theory was quite done up, and the sweet Louisa Hulkington had promised to become his bride, in spite of her father in spite of Joe's blue over-alls and paper cap in spite of the notions of the world. Sensible girl ! There was only one thinp; left for Joe to do to re veal to her his true position, which I was very happy to corroborate. Three months afterward I said good-bye to a newly-wedded pair just starting to Europe on a honeymoon trip. As I held the tiny white-gloved hand of the bride, and saw her charming face beneath the gossamer-tissued veil depending from her " love of a bonnet," I said to the proud and happy bridegroom : " Well, Joe, if you remember our conversation on the banks of the trehwon, last summer, you can tell me

what you think now of the sentiments you then ex

pressed." " My dear treorp-e, said the Journeyman uentleman, " there are exceptions to all rules." ..m . IProra the Commercial Advertiser. 1 MY WIFE'S COUSIN. Some time aao I called on a cbusin of my wife who resided in the city of Philadelphia. I had not seen him for a long time, but, having understood he was in affluent circumstances, I was but little prepared for the condition in which I found him. Through information derived from a Philadelphia directory, I went to one of those alleys with which that city abounds, and found hb name on a sign board, associated with that of another man, over a dark and dingy shop. The sign purported that they were locksmiths and bell hangers; also, that locks were repaired and keys fitted. v uhout ceremony, I walked into the cloomy recess, Where there was a blacksmith's forge, and where, among several muscular looking men up to their armpits in work, was "my wife's cousin." lie received me most cordially, and for a moment intermitted filing a brass key on which he was engaged, and the shake of my own dexter by one ot his broad brawny nanus 1 can liken it to nothing nearer than the shock of a young earthquake. " lake a seat, take a seat," he observed, "and lust as soon as I finish this key, we'll make tracks for home." I of course replied that I was in no hurry, and at once became interested in the facil manner in which he was metamorphosing a rough casting into a polished key. . .As. soon as it was completed, he washed the worn ot the dirt from his hands, hung up his work apron, and putting on his coat and hat, remarked m a cheerful tone, "Gome now, cousin Aleck, let's go ana see whether wite has got any tea lor us. After we were in the street, our conversation insensibly ran on business, and I took occasion to sav to him that I had been of the opinion that he had re tired from his trade on a handsome competency. " Don't sav a word about retirement." he replied: "it nearly makes me sick to think of it. People talk of .. i l 11 ., - reureing irom Dusiness wnue iney are neaitny ana aoie to work: why, I tell you, Aleck, they don't know what it means. I didn't know what it ment until I tried it, but now retirement and misery sound, to my ears, like words of about the same meaning." - Perceiving that he had struck a subject on which he could easily be communicative, I looked inquirin! ly, when he rejoined, " Perhaps you never heard the particulars ot my retireing. : ; On mv ronlvinf, tlmt. T Lad nrtf Via T-nvwoodpfl "You see, Aleclc, it is about three years ago, that having, as you would say, a competency, I made up my mmd to. stop work, and move into the country, So I sold out my share of the business to my partner. spent a year or more looking at two or three-score of country places, and at last lound one, that wile ana mTselt were considerably pleased with, t me double house, four acres beautifully shaded, vegetable garden not to be beat, and soil ofa superior quality. The place is still in my possession, but, before I would go and live on it again, I d give it away ; yes, Aleck, l see it sunk in the middle of the Dead Sea. But I am getting a little ahead of my story. For two or three months, matters and tilings went on very well, because I had something to attend to in making a few little improvements about the house, and in furnishing a number of the doors with locks of my own invention ; but as the whole premises were in excellent repair when I bought them, I soon came to a point where there was nothing to look after, but the cultivation of the garden. I was not long thourh in making the dis covery that I had no genious or taste either for. digging around roots, or pulling up weeds, and so, as wife didn't wish the garden to run to waste, I employed a regular English gardener to carry the thing handsomely through. " Well, I didn t mmd the expese he put me to m the way of guano, new-fangled gardening tools, and pattent watering apparatus; for I had fully expected to spend money, and, thanks to our previous economy, we Had the money to spend ; but, Aleck, it was very amusing to see what the fruit and vegetables raised in nnr rra.rflpn. ntnorl no In TVfnL-TTirr noo tlio litfla arithmetic I was master of, I recolfect that I ciphered up the cost ot some ot the table hxms, and the result was cucumbers, seventeen cents apiece ; green peas, a dollar and three quarters for a half peck ; currants, fifty cents a quart ; raspberries, thirty cents a pint ; beets, fourteen cents each, and every thing else in Eroportion. All this I cared nothing about, but, someow, I felt out of my gearing in not having the right kind of employment. Wife did her best to coax me into gentlemanly ways, had the old mechanical grime all thouroughly scrubbed out of my hands finger nails cleaned out and rounded so as to make it appear that I had never done manual labor. " Then we must get behind a couple of Morgan ponies which I had purchased, and make fashionable calls in the day time on those who had called on us ; and my wife wanted me to soften down my voice and to be particular about my grammer and the subjects I talked on ; but sometimes forgetting myself I would revel in the proud memory of the locks and keys I had handled in happier days and commence a history of my exploits in that line, when wife would look as though she was going to sink through the floor. In fact she wished to keep a perpetual lock on my lips (so far as our anticedents were concerned) with the key in her pocket. But I sighed for the shop, and time hung so heavily on my hands, that an hour spent in stupid listlessness about the house seemed longer to me than a day did, when I had orders ahead for locks, and was driving hard to get them finished at a given time. My youngest brother, who is a college-bred man and a lawyer, sent jne, at my request, a .fine collection f books on all imaginable subjects, so that my library outdone that of the parson or indeed any other man in the place ; but I found I had no more taste to set down and read than I had for trimming current bushes. Time was, after I had finished a hard day's labor at the shop, when an hour at books was a real solace, and I also believe an occasion of improvement. Then I envied those whose leisure allowed them to feast on books perpetually; but the mistake I made was in failing to discriminate between the mental habits and requirements of the professed student, and those of the working man. " In this wretched manner did time at my country seat drag heavily alonw. Visiting was a perfect bore, for not feeling the slightest interest in such masculine topics as corn, grubs, and manure, and careing less for the leuuniue ones ot dress and local gossip, 1 didn t know what to talk about. Books set me to sleep, and not having the society of my two boys, who were off at boarding school, 1 became fully satisfied that "nothing to do" was equal to having everything to sutler " My most delightful place of rosort was a blacksmith's shop some two miles from the house, where occasionally I would handle the hammer, and clang a little on the anvil, but my wife making the discovery one day that my hands were getting grimey again, I was obliged to own up to the cause of it, and this to my sorrow was succeeded by a prohibition on her part from my taking any further exercise at the forge. After this, when I would sometimes ride past the shop behind my prancing Morgan horses, the tears would start into my eyes at my being debarred the only employment which was in the least adapted to me taste or capacity. . ' But, Cousin Aleck, to shorten my story, wife perceiving my unhappinesswas increasing, at last consented to move baok to town, and let me resume my

business. I had no difficulty in renewing an arrangement with my old partner, and hence here you see me hard at work and happier than the President I am perfectly able, in a pecuniary point of view, to live without work, but I have learned to my satisfaction

two lmporiani truths: rirst, that we never enjoy ourselves so well as when we are uaefullv emnloved : and second, there is no occupation on the whole for, wtncn we are so well fitted as that to which we have been long accustomed, and which has hence become to us, as it were, a second nature." I was much pleased with the good sense of "my wife's cousin," as evinced in the small section of his autobiography which he had given me, and very soon after he had finished it we reached his dwelling. If 1 " 1 T O ma uup was umgy, mere was no dinginess here. The edifice was built On the rililadplnlna atvln. liavino- a largo dining room back of the two parlors, and a Ho me Kitcnen in ine rear 01 the dining room. The whole floor, as well as the airy and pleasant bed rooms above stairs, was probably adorned with a better description of furniture than the Governor of Pensylvania. Everything was in perfect order, and, although the lockomiiu b wiib was somewnat uppish in nor notions, i soon perceived she was a capital housekeeper, and that my friend was proud of his house and proud of his wife and proud of his two sons who had come from boarding school to spend the vacation. 1 tound that these lads were quite intelligent, and that they w-ere both intended for the learned professions. While one of them entertained me with some music on a parlor organ, the worthy smith begged me to excuse him for a few moments, after which he reappeared in perfectly clean linen and a suit of dainty black. We supped at a table spread with the utmost luuiusLuii, emu in me evening, some company coming in, conversation asd music filled up the passing hour. I was deeply interested, and concluded that "my wife's cousin," the locksmith and bell-hanger was a wise man, and that unwittingly he had discovered the true philosopher's stone. Daily work was as necessary to him as his daily bread, and the toil of the shop only served to enhance the pleasures and recreations of a refined and happy home. On taking my leave, I realised that I had been taught a valable lesson : Employment is the healthful lot of life, and he that would seek happiness in a state of perpetual repose betrays a profound ignorence of the beneficent laws which govern his being. ———<>——— DESCENT IN A DIVING BELL.—An interesting trial was made, yesterday, of the diving bell invented by Van Buren Ryerson, and used by Kroehl & Husted, in removing Diamond Rock, east of Governor's Island. The bell is of a new and very ingenious design, and operates on the same principle as the Nautilus, no machinery being used to lower or raise it; and it can remain below for hours, independent of all communication with the upper world, and then is raised or lowered by its occupants simply touching valves, which, let in or out condensed air or water. Five men went down at seven o'clock yesterday morning, and remained below, at the depth of twenty-two feet, working at the rock until 1 1/2 P. M. During this time they bored a hole six feet long and two inches wide, in solid rock. The bell is formed of two shells of strong boiler iron, placed about a foot apart, and divided by horizontal floor and vertical partition, with different compartments. At the bottom, a heavy cast iron hollow ring is attached, to give to the apparatus the necessary weight, which is twenty-two tuns. The out side diameter is ten feet, and of the inside eight feet, and the extreme hight of the bell is twelve feet. The bell is cylindrical in shape, with a convex top. The admission of water into the cells sinks the machine, and its expulsion causes it to ascend. When the air inside becomes vitiated by breathing, a spray is thrown by a hose, and this taking up the carbonic gas, restores to the air its freshness and vitality.—<N. Y .Post>. ———<>——— THE COURSE OF THE STORM.—The hail-storm that visited us yesterday must either have covered a great extent of territory, or there were several storms playing about at nearly the same time. It approached this place from the north-west and struck about half-past three in the afternoon. About nine miles west of this, on the Dover Road, the storm struck at four o'clock, blowing a terrific gale, and accompanied by rain mixed with small hail. At Buffalo it struck about two o'clock in the afternoon, being similar in its features to the one experienced here. The Buffalo <Commercial> says the hail-storm was terrific, and that the streets were rivers as it were, while the sky reverberated as with celestial artillery, and fierce eddies of wind drove the biting storm round corners and down streets with terrible violence.—<Cleveland Herald>. ———<>——— IE3T The following are two coroners' jury verdict lately rendered in two county towns of Georgia : " We are of A Pinion that the Decest met with her death from Violent Infirmation in the Arni, produced r from Unoan Cauz." " " We are of opinion that the deceased came to his death casually by an accidental stroke of thunder." ST " You have lost your baby, I hear," said one gentleman to another. " Yes, poor little thing I It was only five months old. We did all we could for it. We had four doctors, blistered its head and feet, put mustard poultice all over it, gave it nine calomel pow- ' ders, leached its temples, and had it bled, and gave it ! and gave it all kinds of medicines ; and yet, alter a week's illness, it died." A bride of some months, finding herself one evening alone with her spouse, was attacked with a se- ' vere fit of yawning. " You are tired of being with me, I presume," he said, somewhat offended. " Not at all, my dear love," she replied : " but you and I are now but one ; and, to say the truth, I always get stupid when I am alone." The Salem Register, Black-Republican, says : " A Waltham machinist sits in the gubernatorial chair, and a Natick shoemaker holds the honorable office of U. S. Senator, while the trained statesman and scholar brood over their disappointments, and the places that once knew them know them no more." The Cable. Old Gmbbs grows " rathy" at the , fuss they are making about the cable, and thinks the , mermaids might find a use for it : : I'm tired of tbe fetched thing. And hope old Keptunie's " daughters' " Will take 11 for a causet-string, Or use It up for garters. . '" ' Pale ale and ale pale is all the same. But there is a distinction with a difference between a rump steak and a stump rake, as well as between boiled onions ; and oiled bunions. A Feeschman's Mistake. A Frenchman repeatedly hearing the word press used to imply persuasion, one evening when in company, exclaimed: " I say squeeze that lady to sing." " Cuff, why didn't you kick that dog ?" " What ' am de use of kickin every cur that snarls at you ? Don't you know dat am de way dat he wants you to bring him into notice ?" A countryman, who witnessed a lady lifting up her dress, exclaimed, upon beholding the numerous tiers of hoops that encircled her petticoat m the shape of crinoline, "Well, may I be danged, if she arn't got a five-barred gate wrapped round her." .