The Wabash Courier, Volume 21, Number 24, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 February 1853 — Page 1

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TIIE.UASSACREAT PIfHCON IIOOST. MR/EDITOR:—A little fiction once appeared in one of the Bedford paper*, founded upon the enormities of the Indi* una, committed on tlie settlement of Pigeon Roost. It shownd its author to he ignnrnnt of the facts in this romtinre. The following is a true statement of the whole transaction, hy one who was a settler of the same settlement:

Until near the nlose of 1812, the Keillors of Pigeon Roost, in bcott county. In this State lived in compnritive pence with the lied mnn. We had con Hinted his favor, and studiously nvoided giving offence. Tho Indian* were likewise seemingly pcscoful. Prior to this time, they hid committed no grievous outrage upon the settlers. But near the close of the! memorable year of 1812. there were Rome slight whisperings of danger to bo apprehended from a neighboring tribe of Indians. A*such reports were frequently put in circulation

the purpose of alarming the credulous we gave them hut little credence. We know thai the battle of Tippecanoe had jusi been fought, and the celebrated Shawnee prophet, at the head of the combined Indian forces, defeated by Gen. Harrison therefore we foolishly supposed that we now had nothing to fear. But a short time convinced us, to our sorrow, that there Is sometimes truth even in "flying reports,"

On the third day of September, a .party of eleven Indians came into our vicinity, and the outrages and savage brutality then and thero perpetrated up on innocent and helplessness, roacJo an impression upon my mind that can never be educed. Although this has been years ago, still 1 remember its minuiiffi afe distinctly as though it were but yesterday.

Abaut four o'clock in the evening they came to the house of Klias Paine, on the Pigeon Roost fork of the Muscatatack." Messrs. Pain* ondJMoffut. brothers in-law, were out a short distanco From home, when they were attacked ty tho Indians and assassinated. Paine's •wifo and six children shared the same fate. From here they pursued the path leading to the house of Richard Collins, and on tho way they met the wife of llenry Collins, on an errand to her relations. She fled me three hundred yards before she was captured, though tho Indian is remarkuble for fleetness.-—

Mrs, Collins was inhumanly butchered and left in the woods, to feait tho savage beasts of the forest.

Persuing their merciless way, they arrived at the snug little farm-house of Kichard Collins, who was then on a campaign into tho Interior. They entered tho dwelling, and with pitiless cruelty stauglucrcd in cold blood the wife and seven children of one, who though far distant from home, was no

doubt at

ting the domestic happiness of an endeared family circle, for it was at the silent hour of rest. A more melancholy

youngest

spectacle could not be imagined than was here presented. Beautiful and bright eyed little forms horribly mutilated.— The youngest was three month's old;

its little head was struck from its body, and placed to its mother [sic] nipple, present-

ing a roost revolting sight. 1 atn tracing ihi bloody trai\ not cause it gives me pleasure to recite those cowardly deeds, but to rescue in some degree from oblivion tho memory of those who were unfortunate victims.— have since often regretted that we were not more jealous in keeping in readi ncss a protecting force. Five men of us could have defeated them, and saved to our country and their friends, ibe lives of many valuable eitiiens. It was the want of consideration. We were reposing, as we supposed, secure, unconscious of the treachery around us.

The peaceful abode of Mr. Morris was the next to suffer. He too was in the service of his country. Mrs. Morris.her mother, and their innocent little children were tortured to the extinction of life. Hard by was the {louse of William Collins, and on their way thither, two of their number fell in with Henry Collins. Ho was a man of herculean proportions, and fought his antagonists long and hard, with nought but the weapons given him by the God of na* lure. He conquered, but died soon afterwards from his wounds. Mr. Morris and family were visiting at the residence of William Collins, and Here, for the 6m 'me Indians were resisted. Four of ir number were immediately ahot and another badly wounded-— r. cover of the night, these two "*h were enabled to escape bv re* nio a cornfield. The Indiana ili..*'* dead tinder a laqje legend

concealed their wounded, one in the brush, with provisions and water for month, on the expiration of which time they came and took him away, as it was afterwards ascertained. They had now collected together considerable plunder and after firing the house, they beat retreat starting about 3 o'clock in the morning.

During the evening of the 3d, the wife of John Biggs hearing the report of firearms in the direction of Collin's, concealed her children, and with the heroism of a woman, ventured her life to learn the suspected cause. Finding her father's house surrounded by sava ges, she fled to the residence of Robert Braggs, the distance of two miles, and gave the first alarm about the hour of midnight. Soon a company of nine men were marched to the scene of action, with all possible speed. We arrived at the spot where bui a few hours previous stood the pleasant little residence )f William Collins, now a heap of glowing embers. We were here juined by others until our little band became quite formidable. We were soon upon the trail, but had not pursued it long before we arrived at the dwelling of Richard Collins. What scene was presented for our vision! For cruelty and pittiless barbarity it beggars description. Here wus one of tho largest and most respectable families of the settlemenl "a slaughtered heap." Indignntion and revenge took possession of our hearts. "Foul fiends and snvnge barbarians, we will avenge the dead, was the universal cry. Leaving number ot our little pnrty to ierform the melancholy ceromonies of tin interment, we continued in hot pursuit, and about three o'clock, P. M., we were three miles in the rear.

Cnpt. Dewnlt, who was out with scouting party from Salem, discovered lie same Indians and though ignorant of heir recent heartless atrocities, a skirmish ensued, which resulted only in the re-taking of the plunder, and the woundng of three Indians, with tho loss of one white man by the name of Sinks. We pursued them till they crossed the Muscatatuck, when all their traces were lost, and wcro compelled to abandon the pursuit as hopeless.

Many of tho persons named in this tragedy are not unknown to a number of your readers. They have relations this county that often tecur to it with emotions of sarrow and sadness.

A PIONEER OF THE WEST.

A TOUCHING STORY.—The following story is related by Lieut. Parsons, in his Nolsonian reminiscences. Richard Bennet, when mortally wounded, in one -of Nelsons great battles had requested that a miniature and a lock of his hair be given by Lieut. to his sweetheart, Su-cu, in Scotland. The gallant Lieut, thus describes the interview: "It was at tho close of a day, when a bright July sun was on the point of setting, that I arrived at the pretty cottage of Susett's mother. I tremulously stated who 1 was to tho most respectable looking matron I ever saw. of French extraction. In broken bitter accounts of heartfelt grief, she toid mo her daughter's death was daily expected, nnd requested time to prepare her to see me. •At last she expressed a wish io seo the fiiend of Richard Rennet and 1 was admitted io the fairesi daughter of Eve.

And I found this world unequal to her charms. She was propped up with pillows, near the open lattece of her bedroom that was clustered with roses. Her white dress, and the drapery of the room accorded with the angelic vision, who now turned her lustrous eyes upon me. veiled in long fringed eyelids. She held out her transparent hand, and gently presied mine, as I stooped to kiss I prr$*CJU HHU^I wo o»wv|'v\i to Kiss HJ

tears dm? on it.soft-

murmured *1 wish I could cry that would relieve my poor heart.' She gasped for breath, and respired with difficulty. 'The lock of hair—quickly let me see it!' She caught at it, wildly pressed it to her lips nnd heart, and fell bark. Her mother and I thought she had Tainted but the pure and innocent soul had turned to God—God who gave

The New York Tribune gives rumor, that Messrs. Layard and Rawlson. now engaged in their investigations at Nineveh, have arrived at the conclusion that ihe prophecies of Daniel were undoubtedly written after the events of which they refer had taken place, and that the whole of this book is probably nothing hut a political satire!"

one of the elder Pharoahs [sic]. These are more in number than the Jewish Decalogue, but some six or eight of them are the same." ~~~~~~~

A Detroit paper is guilty of the following story of an accident which happened to a near sighted gentleman at a bait in that city: He wiaied upon his partner to a s«ft»t afier a "love of a polka," when he espied the embroidered edge of a (supposed) handkerchief at the feet of his divinity. He hastily seized it, when the "fy, fy. sir!*' of the lady informed him that he was taking improper liberties with the scollops of her/ape*.

Action is, after all, the main business of our live* we are to wotk while ii is called to-day and thought la worth nothing, unless it leak to and embody itself itHo practice.

A BIRD CONVENTION. U'hr'." We witnesed a few years since, A congress or convention of birds, the character of which was unexplained, and is unexplained in all ornithological works. We question whether Messrs. Audubon or Wilson ever saw the like, for if they had they would have been quite likely to have made a note of it. Spending some days at a friend's house in Wyoming county during haying time, we were among the mowers, one of whom, with his scyihe, cut in twain a large spotted adder, or milk snake,the parts of which he tossed over the fences on either side of the dead snake, and within one hour there was a large flock composed of almost every variety of birds of our forest. It was truly a mixed assemblage sitting upon the same rail were birds that we seldom if ever see in close proximity, twittering, fluttering, singing, as if they were having a jubilee.

Occasionally they would leave the fences, light in the road, nnd form a hollow square, in the centre of which would be the body of the dead snake.— The scene continued about two hours, when the birds mostly returned to their haunts in field and forest.

It was as if a common enemy had been slain and they were celebrating the event, for iheir demonstrations were joyous one—had none of the appearance of funeral obsequies. The species of snnke to which the dead one belonged, fascinate birds, and thus make prey of them they break up their nests, devour the eggs and unfledged young ones. Do not these facts furnish a solution of tho mysterious and singular gathering? But by what silent and unseen ogency did tho news go out to all the haunts of those birds in woods ond meadows, bush and brier, orchards and gardens, ond so soon effect gathering so numerous and in congruous?

WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN PARAGUAY.—In a scries of "'Sketches of Paraguay," written by George S. Raymond ond now in course of publication in the Boston Museum, we fine the following attractive description of lemale habits. Everybody smokes in Paraguay, and nearly crcry woman and girl, more than thirteen years old chews. Stop a moment I am wrong in the last assertion. They do not chew but they put tobacco in their mouths, keep it there constantly except when eating, sleeping, or sucking the mate, and instead of chewing, they roll it about with the tongue and suck it. Only imagine yourself about to salute the rich, red, pouting Sips of a magnificent little Hebe, arrayed in satin, and flashing with diamonds she puts you back with one delicate hand while the fair taper fingers of the other she draws forth from her mouth a brownish black roll of tobacco, tho size of your thumb, and quite two inches long, looking like a monstrous groub, dead by mortification, and dopositing the savory lozenge ou the rim of your sombrero, puts up her fuce and is ready for your salute. 1 have sometimes seen an over-delicate foreigner turn away with a shudder of loathing under such circumstances, and get the epithet of'e/ salvaco,1 (the ssvage,) applied to him by the offended beauty for his sensitive squeamisness. However, one soon gets used to these things in Paraguay, where you are, per forco of custom, obliged to kiss every lady you ore introduced to, and one halfyou meet are really tempting enough to render you reckless of consequences, and you would sip the dew of the proffered lip in ihe face of a tobacco battery, even were it the double distilled "honeydew" of Old Virginia."

FLUENCY IN CONVERSATION.—Roll

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The Tribune further says: ••In one of the works upon Egyptian Hieroglyphics recently published in Germanv, which has come under our notice, is a table of Commandments copied from an inscription of the date ofjs#nl niker always avoid.

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empty barrel down hill, and what a noise it makes. So with an empty carriage over the pavements. So also with an empty head. When it contains but a few scattering ideas every body can hear them rattle. You almost seo them when that fellow who carries such a head passes by you. Have you not such an idividual in your mind's eye? We have. His name is Dick, Jim, Bill, or Joe, but he is the same every where,wags the same tongue, and shoots forth the some ideas. He thinks he is wise, but every body thinks otherwise.' Had he real knowledge, he would lal less and say more. Generally a man of sterling worth talks but very little yet every word tells. Addison was a person of this description. He was always embarrassed in conversation. Some of our best living authors—men of genius— ha«e been noticed for their conversation. Yet

who know scarcely any more

than twice two make four, are always rattling off words, and pass for persons of some consequence. They utter words without meaning,words that would puzzle an editor to understand. An inces* in his

presence we feel about as happy as on the brow ol a cataract. In an office or store what is more trying than a person with the gift of gab? what but a straggling musician under your window or fiddler in your garreu.

The thief, sometime intimates that in helping himself out of somebody's till, he has merely taken bis own. It was a part of the debt uncanceled, that society —that enormous bankrupt had refused to pay.

The whole theory is fraudulent. The rule is the reverse. We owe the world an upright life, and in return the world will give us a litiog.

True religion la the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabrc cannot be •table nor lasting.

FEMALE PHYSICIANS. The Boston Journal strongly aavo cates the introduction of females into the medical profession. We consider the needle a much more appropriate weapon in the hands of a woman, than ihe scalpel or bistoury."

Do you! Just suppose volrrself a forlorn sick bachelor, in the upper story of some noisy boarding-house, whose in mates don't care a pinch of snuff wheih er you die, or get well. Suppose you've watched that spider in the corner weave his web, till you are quite quailed to make one yourself, suppose you have counted for the thousandth time, all the little shepherds and shepherdesses, dis* torted little dogs, and trees on the papered wall of your room gnawed your finger nails to the very quirk, and twitch ed your moustache, till every hair stands up on its own individual responsibility. Then—suppose you are at your last gasp, the door opens gently, and admits, not a creaking pair of boots containing an oracular, solemn M. D. grim enough to frighten you into the churgh-yard, but a smiling, rosy-cheeked, brigt-eyed, nice little LIVE woman doctress—hey?

Well, she pushes back her curls,^ ihrows off" her shawl: Venus what a figure/ puHs off her glove, and takes your hand in those rosy little fingers.— Holy Mother! how your pulse race!— She looks at you so compassionately from those soft blue eyes: lays her hand on your lorehead,and then questions you demurely about your "symptoms," a few of which she sees without any help! Then she writes a prescription with those dainty little fingers, and tells you to keep very composed and quiet, (just as if you could!) smoothes the tumbled quilt —arrnnges your pillows—shades the glaring sunlight from your eyes, with an instinctive knowledge of your own unspoken wants and says, with the sweetest smile in the world, that she'll "call again in the morning and so, the last fold of her dress flutters through the door arid then you crawl out of bed the best way you can—clut'.'h lookingglass to see what the probabilities are that you have made a favoruble impression! inwardly revolving, as you place yourself between the blankets, not to get quite well as long as she will come to see you! Well, the upsho* of it is, you have a delightful and lingering attack of heart complaint!

For myself. I prefer prescriptions written in viasculine hand—shan't -submit my pulse to any thing that wears a bonnet! FANNY FERN.

BRIDAL CHAMBERS.—We would call attention to a prominent feature in all this great increasing and vulgar display in hotels and steamboats. This is the "Bridal Chamber." In each new boat or hotel, this is furnished more sumpt uously than any preceeding it. And so soon as a bride eniers a hotel or a steamboat, ihe coming is buszed about spite of all the delicacy or discretion of captains, hosts or hostesses, all the eyes of ail ihe impertinently inquisitive are directed to the bridal chamber," and all their tongues are busy with the gossip and speculation. A "bride"' must be rather leaden to endure this without annoyance, and rather brazen to receive it complacently. Is this an improvement in Ainerican manners? Regarding domes tic relations as sanctities, wo would guard them from the coursely suggestive mystery of the Asiatics, and the no less coursely suggestive publicity ofsome Europeans. In England, births and promises of birth among the "nobility and gentry" are "gazetted." In Germany, lovers go into newspapers about their betrothals and holiday presents to their beloved Gertrudes and Wilhelminas, and particularly upon the wedding wardrobe and baby linen and husbands expatiate in the same field, upon the hopes, consummations, sufferings, recoveries, churchings and christenings of their own dear Sophias and Gustafinas. More Jignity, more delicacy, more respect for woman, have been ihe rule among Americans. Is that rule infringed by the pompous display of these public "Bridal Chambers?" Brides who do not wish to blush before so much company, will be discroet in avoiding them.—Philad. Ledger.

FEMALE PRESENCE OF MIND.—A

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lady,

one day returning from a drive, looked up and saw two of her children, one about five and ihe other about four years old, on ihe outside of the garrei window, which they were busily employed in rubbing with iheir handkerchiefs, in intimation of a person whom ihey had seen a few days before cleaning the windows. They had clambered over ihe bars which had been intended to secure them from dangor. The lady had sufficient command over herself not to appear to observe them,she did not ter one word, but hastened up to the nursery, and, instead of rushing lorward to snatch them in,which might have frightened ihem, and caused them to lose their balance, she Mood a little apart, and called gently to them and bade them come in. They saw no appearance of hurry or agitation in their mamma, so they took ame, and deliberately clijnbed the bars, and landed safely in ihe room. One look of terror, one tone of impatience from her, and the little creatures might have become confused, lost their footing, and been destroyed.

Jeremy Diddler, who sponges on so* ciety comforts himself with the idee that he is thus getting some of the ^ebt the world owes him.

As men of sesne say a great deal in a few wordsao the half-witted have a talent of talking much, end yet say noihiog.

TERSE HAUTE, IND. FEBRUARY 5,1853.' WHOLE Wfitl

CHINESE IN CUBA.

Extrtitt from a private Letter from Cuba. The wild, uncivilized look of the negroes here strikes one verv forcibly. Constantly one sees teeth filed like those of a saw, which gives a most shark-like look to a large mouth, and nearly every darkey one meets has the long cicatrices on his cheek or forehead that in Africa mark the iribe or the people to which he belongs. I do not know if these foreigners have increased much in number lately, ahhough we hear from all sides that large cargoes of them have been landed. Indeed, the excess of males on the plantaiions.and cruelly hard work keep the slaves from increasing except by importation. The English will have great difficulty in preventing it. Bold and skillful slavers can easily run their, vessels inio friendly ports. I had strong hopes, and still have, that the Chinese emigration may act as a check upon this infernal business. "There have been V&6 thotisand Celestials in the island for some years.— They were imported at an expense of 8125 a head, and receive 85

THE USE OF MONEY.—The sea renders her tributes but ihe eatth presents to industry richer and infinitely varied contributions. Money is not weolth, it is only the representative of wealth.— Money is coveted because it can command labor but of what use Wouid it be if labor would not bo commanded!— What would it avail to possess all the riches of Potosi. if thereby we could not acquire the products of ogriculiure?— What freights the barks of commerce in their liquid flight,threading every channel, and whitening every spot, but ihe products of agriculture? Whence does the government derive its revenues but from the fruits of agriculture? What constitutes the wealth of the country but her coiton, hemp, sugar, rice, tobacco, wool, wheat, beef and pork! Agriculture only can be considered as ih» creator of wealth. The manufacturer, and sailor, ihe various ariizans and tradesmen perform their part in making the products of agriculture more valuable in transporting them so that the advantages of climate are equaled, and in putting ihem in condition for use but agriculture alono produces. Like the leader of Israel, she strikes "the rock, the waters flow, and the famishing people now are satisfied she supplies, she feeds, she quickens all. Agriculture is the commanding interest of the country, with which no single interest, nor indeed all oiher inieresw of a secular nature combined, can be brought into competition. —Coleman.

UNPROFITABLE BOARDSR.—A

for the eight or ten years during which they arc bound to iheir employers.— Thus far they have given great satisfaction by their industry and intelligence, so much so thai a planter who has worked a number of them said he should pay them 88 a month, when their time was up, rather than lose them. Eight thousand more have been subscribed for, and six ihousnnd are said to be on their way hither. Perhaps Providence may make use of the surplus population to drive out the curse of slavery from among us. Who knows where the Chinamen may next oppear. now that the whole word is becoming as one coumry..~!New Jprk Evening Post.

TNE GREYHOUND AND THK HORSE.—A gentleman of Bristol, England, had a greyhound which slept in the stable, along with a very fine hunter, about five years ago. These animals became mu tuallv attached, and regarded each other with the most tender affection. The greyhound always lay under the manger beside the horse, which was so fond of him that he became unhappy ond restless when tho dog was out of sight. It was a common practico with the gentleman to whom they belonged, to call nt the stable for the greyhound to accompany him in his walks on such occasions the horse would look over his shoulders at the dog wiih much anxiety, and neigh in a manner which plainly said, 'Let me also accompany you.'— When the dog returned to the stable he was always welcomed with loud neigh he ran up to the horse and Hcked his nose. In return, the horse would scratch the dog's back with hts teeth. One day when the groom was out with ihe horse and greyhound, for exercise, a large dog attacked the latter and quicklybore him to the ground on which the horse threw back his ears,and in spite of all the efforts of the groom, rushed at ihe 6trange dog, who was worrying tho greyhound, seized him bv the back with his teeth, which speedily made him quit his hold, ond shook him till a large piece of the skin gave way. The offender no sooner got on his feet, than he judged it prudent to beat a precipitate retreat from so formidable an opponent..

physician

relates the case of a boy, only twelve years old, who from a feeling of inanition, had so strong a eroving that he could gnaw hia own flesh when not supplied with food, when awake he was constantly eating. The food given him consisted of bread, meat, beef, milk, water, butter, cheese, sugar, treacle, and pudding, pies, fruits, broths, potatoes, and of these he swallowed, in six successive days, three hundred and eighty four pounds eight ounces averdupois, being sixty-four pounds a day on the average.

A man should never put a fence of words around his ideas, because many who otherwise give him a fair bearing lack resolution to cliigb over wch a rugged ef|cio«tire« erf i'j .rgi

THE FOWER OF MUSIC.

A BEAR STOBY WITH A FISH SMELL.

The following instance of the power of music we find in the San Antonia Ledger:

An old poet telts us of the wonderful power of Timoihcus on his '-breathing lyre." There are modern musicians who have gained as great victories as the bard of former days. A short lime since, Jim Johnston, the celebrated ban* jo player, in company with a friend started forth on a hunting excursion. Rapid horses conveying them a longdistance from San Antonio. At night full the rude trunk of some fallen tree was iheir piilow, and a stray dome their chamber ceiling, while tho wolves became their harsh cerenaders. Two days had these amateur hunters spent in fruitless pursuit of game. But the grim hunger now beset them. They thought ihey would die from starvation ere they could reach town. In very despair, Johnson drew forth his constant companion, his veteran banjo, and commenced to warble, in accompaniment to its sweet tones, a mournful dity. He thought ho would sing ere he died. Strange to say, as he progressed in the song, and hi voice swelled out upon the morning air, a huge bear was seen io approach from a distance and then another, until finally some seven of the species formed around our two hunters and began to dance.— Johnson played on, while his comrade used his death-dealing weapon. In the space of a few minutes, tho entire seven were killed, and our Nimrods satisfied their appetites.

EXTRAORDINARY WEALTH OF A SOUTHERN PLANTER.—The New York Tribune translates the following from a German paper: "A rich planter, Mr. Delabitzsrher, descended from an ancient French family, recently died in New Orleans. He was a young man at the time of the first French revolution, and fled from the guillotine to become a merchant's clerk in the Crescent City. After a time he married the daughter of a rich planter and carried on the plantation so skillfully, as inn comparitively short time to acquire the reputation of one of the richest men in Louisiana. Since his death the division ef his property has shown its aggregate to be an amount, which from an European point of view, is almost fabulous. It consisted of 31 plantations, upon branches of tho Mississippi. affording an annual profit from the cultivation of coffee and sugar of $50,000 12 steamboats upon the ocean, and 35 merchant vessels, the aggreaate income of which, at the lowest calculation, is $150,000 shares to the amount of $500,000 in railroad stocks, producing annually $150.00:1 7 limited partnerships in Europe, one in each ot the cities of London, Paris, Bordeaux, Lisbon. Cadiz. Naples and Constantinople, each producing an annual profit of $80,000, in all $460,000 Cash to the amount of $7,000,000 the Bank of England, drawing 2 per cent., producing $140,000—making in all an annual income of $2,140,000, or about 14,000,000 of francs. His property in furniture, collections of works of art, books &c. were in proportion. The property falls to threo heirs."

The happiness of many a lifetime 1« made of little pleasures, common bless* ings and joyful moments—all very tri fling to look at singly and alone. But he who waits for happiness until everything around him turns to his will,waits long and fruitlessly. He who can only rejoice over great actions has few holidays. He who husbands his energies for the performance of great deeds has a fair prospect of a life of leisure. He who feels only great woes, and has charity but for the deepest miseries, will have but few demands upon his sympathy and benevolence.

There is nothing purer than honesty, nothing sweeter ihan charity, nothing warmer than love, nothing brighter than virtue, and nothing more steadfast than faith. These, united in one mind, form the purest, the sweetest, the richest, the brightest, the holiest, and most steadfast happiness.

It is not so great a mailer to live lov« ingly with good naiured, with humble and meek persons but he that can do so wiih the immoral, wiih the willful and the ignorant, with the peevixh ond perverse, he only haih true charity remembering that solid, true peace of God consist in being occupied in suffering and furbearance rather than in contention.

A man without money and a heart full oi philanthropy, whose coat is a little threadbare, is shunned like a thief, and a man with a pocket full of money and a heart full of villainy, is courted for bis virtues.

Life has an ultimate purpose. We are not appointed to pass through this life, barely that we may live. We are not impelled, both by disposition and necessity, :p buy and sell barely that we may get it.. "There is an end to business beyond supply. There is ah object in the acquisition of wealth beyond success. There is a final cause of human traffic aud that is virtue!

All doubled flowers nte produced by cultivation—a fact tha*ehows marriage is necessary to rose bufhes as to other people. In our opinion, a. promiscuous life will ruin the character of a Dahlia almost as quick as it would a woman's. Our green house friend will make note* ofihis.and keep themselres within their OVD tirHMHU -bwU.' 94,9a

PENALTIES.

The Penatty of buying cheap clothes, is the same as that of going to law—the the certainty of losing your suit and having to pay for it.

The penalty of marring, is a mother* in-law. The penalty of remaining single, la having no ono who "cares a button" for you, as Is abundantly provod by the tho state of your shirt.

wThe

penalty of thin shoes, Is a cold,

u^Tlic penalty of ,a pretty cook ia an empty larder, sife =.s mix*h The penalty of stopping in Paris* ia being shot. ^The penalty of tight boot is corns. ISlTho penalty of having a bunch of ven* son sent to you, is inviting a dozen friends to come and eat it. 5 .The panalty of popularity is envy.

The penalty of a baby is sleeplesa nights. The penalty of interfering with a man and wife, is abuse, frequently accompa* nied with blows from both

The penalty of kissing a batiyi ts half a crown (five shillings, if you aro liberal) to the nurso.

The penalty of a publicdinner, is bad wine. The penalty of a legacy, or a fortune, is the sudden discovery of a host of poor relations you never dreamed of, and a number of debts you you had quite forgotten.

The penalty of lending, is—with a tiook or umbrolla—the certain loss of it with your name to a bill, the sura payment ofit and with a horse, chance of ever seeing him, back ogain sound,-— Punch.

ANOTHER TERRIBLE CALAMITY.—The Stuebcnville Union of Saturday gives an account of another heart rending calamity, that occurred at Section

SPOT ON THE SUN.—A writer in the Delaware Republican calls attention t3 an unusually large spot on the Sun, which may bo seen through smoked or colored glass'i The writer adds:

By a rough measurement of the present spot I found its diameter to be about thirty three thousand miles, con* seqcently occupying an area on the Sun's surface of eight hundred millions of square miles, equal to four times the superficial contents of our mighty earth. It serves to give some idea of the stupendous bulk of our solar orb, when such a vast deduction may be made of its luminous surface and yet any dimunition of emitted light be imperceptible.

We have seen tho idea somewhere suggested by astronomers, that these solar spots served to produce hot summers and mild winters if true we may consider our present winter an illustration."

COULDN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE.—A loafer got bold of a green persimmon, which (before they are ripened by the frost) are said to be the most bitter and puckery fruit known.

He took the persimmon outside the wall, and commenced upon it by seizing a generous mouthful of the fruit, which proved to be in a state io frizzle his lips and tongue most provokingly. "How do you like it?" inquired iha owner of the garden, who had been watching him.

The salva was oozing from the comers of the fellow's mouth, and he was able only to reply— "How do I look naberl Am I vif si in' or tingin'V' -A'd ... ftri

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Steubenville and Indiana Railroad, on Tuesday, 12th ult. The eastern end of the tunnel had been driven but about 15 feet, and there were some ten per* sons in it at the same time—among them one of the Messrs. Salisbury, contractor—when tho rock roofing over head gave way, crushing five of the men to death in the twinkling of an eye. A sixth maa was partly buried in the fragments of the rock and was dug out with his leg bsdiy broken and crushed.-— Those who wero close up to the termination of the work in the hill escaped.— The unfortunate men were dug out as soon as possible, ond on Wednesday evening were brought to Cleveland and interred in the Catholic burying ground. Toledo Blade. ^rVit

WOMAN'S LAUGH.—A woman has

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natural graco more bewitching than a sweet laugh. It is like the sound of flutes on water. It leaps from her heart into tho clear sparkling rill and the heart that hears it feels as if bathed in the exhilerating spring. Have you ever pursued an unseen fugitive through the trees, led on by her fairy laughnow there now lost, now found? We have, and we are pursuing the wandering voice to this day. Sometimes it comes to us in the midst of care, or sor* r.,w, or irksome business, and then we turn away and listen, and hear it ring* ing through the room like a silver bell, with power to scare away the ill spirita of he mind.

The lounger about the grog shops or other places of loafing, may indulge in idleness under the consolation of being so large a creditor but we will just tell him bow the world will pay him ultimately. It will square by an installment of hunger, poverty, contempt, degradation, and the alms house. It will give him rich dividends of scorn and starvation, and linally pay him in full, with six feet of earth and a paupera grave. Perhaps as he goes along, ha will receive occasional payments on ao* count, by generous orders on the county jail or Stato Prison. In the latter place we believe the world liberally throws in anew suit of clothes of vtflf gated colors,