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Bigelow.
We get the following sketch of the
great Bigelow, from a northern ex
change :
Bigelow was a man of great physical,
as well as moral, conrage. Had he
lived in the days of martyrs, he would
very likely have died at the stake. Two
or three well-attested incidents may
illustrate his character in this respect.
At a camp meeting, of which he had
charge, in the southern part of the
State, after the services of the night
had closed and the congregation retired
to rest, he was still on the lookout to
protect the ramp from disturbance or
loss. About 3 o'clock in the morning
a rowdy crept up stealthily to the rear
of a canvas tent and had just com
menced cutting into it with his pocket
knife. when he felt a hand upon his
shoulder. He turned his head and en
countered the calm and fearless look of
Bigelow. Amazed and overawed, the
fellow began to stammer out an apolo
gy, and expressed sorrow for what he
was doing. “Yes,” said Bigelow, with
a firm hold upon the man’s Bhoulder,
“1 know you are sorry; you are sorry
BECAUSE I HAVE CAUGHT TOU.” TIlC
man pleaded to be released, and prom
ised to retire immediately from the
ground, or conduct himself with be
coming propriety. Bigelow told hint
before they parted they must kneel
down and pray together. They knelt
side by side. Bigelow still keeping
hold of the man, offered up one of his
fervent prayers. When they arose
they found themselves surrounded by
quite a number, who bad been attracted
to tbe spot by the Well-known voice.
Being re-enforced lie concluded to pro
tract the exercises ; a number of hymns
were sung, and prayers offered with
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poor sinner. At length deep convic
tion seized his heart, lie cried out, in
sleep anguish of spirit, “God be merci
ful to Inc. a poor sinner !” Surrounded
by this praying circle he pleaded for
mercy, and before tlie dawning of tlie
morning tlie blessing of pardon came,
and lie was a new creature. At anoth
er time a camp meeting had been great
ly disturbed by a disorderly band.
One night, under the influence of whis
key, moved and instigated by the devil,
they determined to break up the en
campment entirely. They selected the
most resolute and desperate of the
number to act as captain or leader, and
met together some distance in the
woods, after dark, to mature their
plans. A large fire was kindled at the
side of a fallen tree. They drank and
blasphemed, making night hideous
with their'dreadfnl oaths. The wildest
excitement and confusion prevailed.
Being informed of what was going on,
and having charge of the meeting.
Bigelow felt called upon to adopt
measures to prevent the disturbance.
For tins purpose he selected six stout
resolute men to go with him, aud have
a conference with the lawless rabble.
As they approached (he place, and saw
the number and desperation of the
crowd, the fortitude of the escorts
failed, and with one consent they de
clined to proceed. But Bigelow, not
in the least intimidated, went forward
alone. Uuperceived by the mob he
mounted the fallen tree, and the first
thing they knew of his presence was
the announcement of the text, in a clear,
commanding voice:
“Ye servants, ye generation of vi
pers, how ran you escape the damna
tion of hell!”
The cry was immediately raised.
“Take him down“throw him into
the fire,” etc., aud some hands were
reached out to take hold upon him.
The man ot God was unmoved, and
raising himself to his greatest altitude,
his words fell upou them like shocks
of electricity:
“No, you dare not touch me! I am
God's minister, hearing to you a fear
ful message, and he says, ‘Touch not
mine annointed, and do my prophets
no harm.' Let no man dare to put his
hand upon me, but listen to what I have
to say to you in the name of my Mas
ter.” He then commenced his sermon.
With such a theme, aud such an audi
ence, we may imagine his words fell
in torrents as barbed arrows aud two
edged swords. The stoutest hearts
quailed before him, aud one by one
disappeared, till the captain of tlie gang
stood alone before the preacher, chained
by a mysterious power he could not
break. Still tlie sermon progressed,
and as the truth flashed and flamed be
fore the terrified imagination of the
hearer, and burned upon his heart like
scoals of fire, be beca uc so overpowered
that he fell headlong and insensible to
the earth. Bigelow now called for his
companions, and gathering up the
fallen man, they carried him to a tent,
and prayed and labored with him till
he was most powerfully converted.
Such was the wonderful power at
tending the preaching of this man that
sinners would not only tremble under
the fearful warning that he uttered,
but whole congregations would fre
quently rise to their feet unconscious
ly, forgetting everything but the grand
eur and the glory with which he in
vested the subject. Judges, statesmen,
men of education aud science, men of
high degree, would be enchained, over
whelmed by the force of bis logic, and
the startling, magnetic power attend
ing bis ministrations.
•^■Goldsmith is supposed to hav*
referred to the Greoian Bend, when bo
wrote. “She stoops to ••onquer.'’
OUT ENTERPRISES.
A Look Inside—The Logic el
Peter Funk—The Rationale
or the Thing—How they Fix
their Victims—The Police
Powerless.
A pleasant writer in Hours at Home
for October thus describes the interior
rationale and workings of one of these
National Banks of Deposit:
First calliug upon a police magistrate
with whom I am acquainted, and ob
taining liis signature across the back of
one of my cards, l proceeded forthwith
to the office of Bark, Bite & Co. I
found it,.as designated in their adver
tisements and circulars, located hi the
lower part of Broadway, surrounded
by the offices of bankers, brokers, insu
rance companies, etc. Their rooms
were handsomely fitted up, in the man
ner usual to brokers and bankers. An
iron railing, behind which were several
desks, separated the manipulates of
the “Garroters and Robbers’ Grant
Presentation Enterprise” from the
ordinary mortals having business with
them. At each of the six or seven
desks sat a sickly-looking clerk, engag
ed in entering names in ledgers, ad
dressing circulars to confiding victims,
or preparing fresh announcements to
catch new ones.
A fcOX EST FAMILY.
A brisk young Englishman, who
spoke With a truly British disregard
for his “h’s,” and who pronounced “g”
like “k,” bustled’ up to the counter, and
said :
“Can hi do anything for you, sir? ’
“Is Mr. Bark'in?” I asked.
. “No, sir,” was the reply, “’ecs gone
to AA’asington.’,
“Is Mr. Bite in ?”
“No, sir, ’ees gone to Boston, and
won’t be back till Chewsday week.
Can't I attend to you?” pressed the
vonne arentlemun.
“Is Mr. Co. in?-’ continued I.
“Mr. ’oo ? sir.'’
“Mr. Co., the other partner, or any
other partner or ngont, or manager. I
wish to see some responsible person.
“Oh, no, sir,” said the clerk, “there’s
none of the partners seldom 'ere you
know—the business ere hall done by a
manager, but ’ecs bout at present.”
AN OPEN SESAME.
1 gave the young man my card and
said I should be happy to see the mana
ger at my ofl'ee at his earliest conven
ience. Tlic clerk looked at my name
and then at tlie signature of the police
magistrate, with whicli lie seemed
particularly impressed. Mis manner
changed instantly, and dropping his
half impudent, self-important “chatil
ing” tone, he said respectfully, I hat tire
manager would be sure to call on mo
at once.
THE PRINCIPALS.
I may here remark that I have since
called at the office several times, and
have never been able as yet to see any
one of tlie gentlemen who are announ
ced as the directors of the scheme.
The business is always transacted
through the medium of cheap and im
pudent clerks, who are employed prin
cipally on account of the readiness with
which they can badger, blackguard,
and bully persons who, like myself,
call to “obtain satisfaction.” In nine
cases out off ten they will so abuse the
seeker for information that he would
rather abandon his claim than again run
that gauntlet of profanity and obsceni
ty. Bark, Bite & Co., may possibly ex
ist bodily in the flesh, but if so, they
keep themselves so completely in the
background that one is led to believe
that “there ain’t no such person.’
MONSIEUR THE MANAGER.
lu accordance with a promise made
to me, a person styling liimself “the
New York manager for the Garroters
and Kobbcrs' Enterprise,” called to see
me. He was a sharp, shrewd, business
like, loquacious young man, and we
soon got into a general conversation
regarding the gift enterprise busiucss,
during which he gave me some infor
mation regarding that particular brauch
of swindling which I deem it worth
while to repeat.
The name of my friend, the magis
trate, was undoubtedly the key which
uulockcd Mr. Manager's longue.
“GETTING THE LAW ON ’EM’’
These gift enterprise swindlers con
duct their business so as to be within
the law, and although the attempt to
punish them has frequently beeu made,
it never has succeeded. They have
been arrested by the police authorities,
their places of business entered, their
mails, consisting of hundreds of money
letters, have beeu sized, yet in every in
stance the rascals have escaped puuish
ment, and in the end succeeded iu com
pelling the authorities to restore all
the property seized. The reasou is
this ; every ticket which they sell claims
to be a ticket of admissiou to a “grand
concert,” aud this is held to be a valua
ble cousidcration for the moucy paid,
and hence a perfectly legitimate tran
saction—a simple case of buying aud
selling goods.
THE swindler's rationale.
“You pay youriponey for that,” said
the New York manager to me. “ll
promises nothing, and you get what il
promises. You may be notified thal
you have drawn a prize, valued at $200
aud you send us the five per cent, asked
for—we send you a watch valued ai
! $500 but worth $20—what are yov
j going to do about it ? What does youi
: ticket call for ? We admit the swindle
but what are you going to do about it I
You’re got no eltitn ou u* beyond er
an admission to Irving Hall—come to
Irving Hall and we’ll admit you—whan
we agree to—We haven’t fixed the titne
yet."
WHICH I* THE WOEST ?
When the New York manager(whom
j I afterwards ascertained Was but an or
j dinary clerk) had learned from me that
; I held a number of tickets which were
said to have drawn prizes, he did not
hesitate to inform me that they never
intended to give prizes of any value,
and justified such a course by saying
that every person who bought a ticket
did so in the hope of gaining an advan
tage over some one else—of getting a
prize worth five, teff or fifty times the
amount he invested. To use the ex
pressive language of the manager “they
hope to ‘beat’ us, so we make sure of
‘beating’ them—they want ten dollars
for owe, while we take ten for nothing
—where's the difference between us?
They try to overreach us and we do
overreach them—morally considered,
which is the worst?
Pirn,
A correspondent of the New York
Post thus describes pin making:
The pin machine is one of the closest
approaches that mechanics hnvc made
to the dexterity of the human hand. A
small machine, about the height and
size of a ladies’sewing machines only
stronger, stands before you. On the
back side a light belt descends from
the long shaft «t the ceiling that drives
all the machines, ranged in rows on
the floor. On the left side of our ma
chiue hangs on w peg a small reel wire,
that has been straightened by running
through a compound system of small
rollers.
This wire descends and the end of it
enters the machine. This is the food
consumed bv this snappish, voracious
little dwarf. lie pulls it in and bites
it off by inches, incessantly, one hun
dred and forty bites to tho minute.
Just as he seizes each bite, a saury lit
tle hammer, with a concave lace, hits
the end of the wire three taps and “up
sets” it to a head-, While he grips it in a
counter-sunk hole between his teeth.
With an outward thrust of his tongue
lie then lays the pin sideways in a lit
tle grove across the rim of a small
wheel that slowly revolves just under
his nose. By the external pressure of
a stationary hoop these pins roll in
their places, as they arc carried under
two sgriea of small files, three in each.
These nTCWgrow finer toward the end
of the series. Tlia^lie at a slight in
clination on the points'of,the pins, and
by a scries of cams, levers and'wprings,
made to play “like lightning.” Thus,
tho pins are pointed and dropped in a
little shower into a box. Twenty
eight ponuds of pins- is a day s work
for one of these jerking little automa
tons. Forty machines on this floor
make five huudred^and sixty pounds
of pins daily. These are then polish
ed. Two very intelligent machines re
ject every crooked pin, even the slight
est irregularity of form being de
tected.
Another automaton assorts half a
dozen lengths in ns many difi’erent
boxes, all at once and unerringly, when
a careless operator has mixed the con
tents ofboxes from various machines.
Lastly a perfect geuius of a machine
hangs the pins by the head in an in
clined platform through ns many
“slots” as there are pins in a row on
the papers. These slots couvergc into
the exact space spanning the length of
a row. Under them runs the strip of
pin paper. A hand-like part of the
machine catches one piu from each of
the slots as it falls, and by one move
ment sticks them all through two cor
rugated ridges ot the paper, lrom
which they a* to be picked by taper
fingers in boudoirs, and ail sorts of hu
man fingers in ail sorts of human cir
cumstances. Thus you have Its gen
esis :
• Tall and slender, straight and thin,
Pretty, little, useful pin."
Precloua Metals.
Precious metals are older than histo
ry. Two thousand year* before the
Christian era, Abraham, the Chaldean
shepherd, whose children have never
lost their faith, uor his thrift, through
a hundred and fourteen generations,
returned from Kgypt. “very rich in
cattle, in silver and gold." After
wards, says the Biblical record, he
bought the cave of Machphclan (where
his bones were to rest beside those of
Sarah, the wife of his youth) for four
hundred sheckels of silver, “current
money with the merchant.” The
Catholic version lias it, “common cur
rent money." Herodotus asserts that
coinage originated with the Lydians.
The world’s coins since have been like
leaves of autumn. Most are extinct,
| but the British Museum preserves more
titan one hundred and twenty thou
! sand varieties. The Paris collection is
! still greater, and is increased by two
| or three thousand every year. The
! cabinet of the Philadelphia Mint con
I tains' many antique specimens. Here
are the- self-same coins which pious
ancients placed between the cold lips
of their dead to pay old Sharou the
j ferriage over the Styx. Hero ore faces
of rulers and captains, down to our
, own day, from Alexander of Macedon,
and the mightiest Julius who bestrode
the narrow world like a Colossus.
ggg*A correspondent of tlie Journal
I of Agriculture says that sweet oil ad
j ministered to a horse with hots will
> effect k core.
THE JOSH BILLINGS PAPERS.
AM AMa om Lomk Br«*rh.
Long branch iz a work of natur, and
iz a good job.
It la a sumtaer resort for men, wim
miYl and children, especially the latter.
Children are az plenty Irene, and az
sweet az flowers in an out-door gardin.
They play in the sand for work, and
git their feet wet for fun.
1 didn’t see but one woman who waz
dressed too ekonomical, and her dress
waz plenty long enuff at the bottom,
but the front side of her shoulders
seemed tew lack something.
I put up at the Continental Hotel,
near the roof of the building, IVotn
choice.
I kau say that this house is kept a
good deal, without neutralizing my
dignity, for I paid the game price that
the rest of the boarders did for my
Tittles.
I shall put up here agin when I kum,
if I hare tew straddle the ridge pole.
I never leave a good hotel for a bet
ter one; I leamt this fishing.for frogs.
If I’m where the frogs bite good, that’s
my puddle. I have known folks to
swap a good horse for a poor one, jist
for the sake of S10 tew hoot.
My wife put up with me gt. the same
hotel; it iz an old fashioned way we
have of doing things.
She always goes to fashionable re
sorts, where young widders are ennv
wavs plenty, to put me on my guard,
for I’m one of the eaeyst critters ou re
cord to be imposed upon.
She has saved me (by the hair of the
head) more than six times already,
from being spilt by the widders.
She iz an ornament tew her sex—my
wilb i«.
I would like tew see a young widder.
when tnv wife iz nround.
If I jist step out sudden to git a soder
cocktail tow cool my aching brow, my
wife goes tew tlie end of the vcrandy
with me, and waits for me. and if I go
down onto the beech to nstronomize
jist a little all alone by moonlite, she
stands on the bluff like a beacon lite,
tew warn me of the breakers.
No man wbo/.c feet are slippery, and
who liaint bin accidentally insured
against recent widders, ought to be al
lowed on tlie Ucnch without a wife
who understands her bizz.
Tlie hotels now are pliat with folks,
awl ov whom ackt lust rate, except tlie
pesky widdersf and i dont see enny
thiug so very awful about them, hut
my wife duz, and 6ho knoz.
The biggest tiling they have got
here, for the present, is a pool ov water
in front ov the hotel. This pool said
hv good judges tu lie 3000 miles long
and sum places 5 miles thick.
Into this pool,every day at 10 o’clock,
the folks all retire, males, females and
widders, promiskuss.
They dress In flanhcll attire, ov men
ny colors, and look cz nere alike, when
they are in tlie pool, cza flock of ducks
and drakes.
The Grecian Crook is prevailing here
just now among the young ladys.
Tlie bend seems to he sumwherc nere
the small uv their backs, and gives them
a very intellectual look, the same az
the anshent greeks had, altho i think
their walk resembles tew much a sore
footed goose.
The turnouts are tinkonimen menny,
and silk, four in hand, are frequent. 1
had tlie espeshall honor ov being slung
around the butiful avenews and through
the queenly grounds on Mrs. IIuov hi
four white footed sorrels, dressed in
russet nnd white harness, and driven
tew an elegant drag by their owner,
Prof. Eastman of Po'kecpsic.
I set upon the back seat ez still ez a
bridegroom, and evry boddy seemed
tew hav their eyes close reefed on us.
The bands of musik in front of the
different hotels played for ub.
I must say I felt a little big.
And it ain't to be wondered at, for 1
hav bin much in the habit, ov late
years, ov going afoot when I rode.
The scenery hero iz grand, especially
the pool, and the air is ns bracing as
milk puntch.
The tables arc full uv vittles, and the
servants are az polite az dancing mas
ters. I gave one ov them a 50 cent
shinplaster, and be opened and shut in
front ov me foqfive minutes, az eazy as
a jak knife that had bin recently
greased.
The last touch of civilization has
finally reached Long Branch. Some
enterprizing missionary has just opened
a club bouse, where all kinds ov gam
bling iz taught.
I leave to-morrow at 3 o'clock p. m.
Cahpet-Bagger and Scalawag.—
The luka Gazette thus defines the dif
ference between a carpet-bagger and a
scalawag. It says:
The carpet-bagger is a Northern
thief, who comes South to plunder
every white man who is a gentlertTan
of any property or respectability, ami
1 get all the otHces be can. The scala
wag is a Southern-born scoundrel,
who will do all the carpet-bagger will,
aud, besides, murder the carpet-bag
ger for the gutta porcha ring bis sister
gave him when he left home. Nice
men these to rule a Christian country.
Radicals all.
Mr* An incorrigible loafer, being
taken to task for his laziness, replied
‘T tell you. gentlemen, you are mistak
en, I have not a lazy bone in my body,
but the fact is. T was born tired "
Slum oh Woman.
At a recent dinner party in this city,
at which no ladies were present, a
man, in responding to the toast on
"Woman,” dwelt almost solely on the
frailty of the sex, claiming that the
best among them Were little better
than the Worst, tho chief difference be
ing in tire surroundings.
At the conclusion of the speech, a
gentleman present rose to his feet, and
said:
"I trust the gentleman, in the appli
cation of his remarks, refers to his
own mother aud sisters, and not to
ours.”
The effect of this most just and
timely rebuke was overwhelming; the
maligucr of women was covered with
confusion and shame.
This incident serves an excellent
purpose in prefacing a few words
whtch we hare for a long time had it
in our mind to say.
Of all the evils prevalent among
young men, we know of none more
blighting in its moral effects than the
tendency to speak slightingly of the
virtue of women. Nor is there any
thing in which young men are so thor
oughly mistaken as in the lowr estimate
they form of the integrity of women—
not of their own mothers and sisters,
thank God, but of others, who, they
forget, arc somebody else'* mothers
aud sisters.
As a rule, no person who surrenders
to this debasing habit is safe to be
j trusted with any enterprize requiring
integrity of character.
Plain words should be spoken on
this point, for the evil is a general one,
and deep-rooted. If young men are
sometimes thrown iuto the society of
thoughtless or even lewd women, they
have no more right to measure all oth
er women oy wimi 11117 see ui uicee
than they Would hare to estimate tlie
I character of honesteand respectable
citizens'by the developments of crime
in our police courts.
Let young men remember that their
chief happiness in life depends upon
their utter faith in woman. No world
ly wisdom, no misanthropic philoso
phy, no generalization can cover or
weaken this fundamental truth. It
stnuds like the record of God himself
—for it is nothing less than this—and
should put an everlasting seal upon
lips that are wont to speak slightingly
of women.—Packard's Monthly.
Home Duties.
Only let a woman he sure she is pre
cious to her husband—not useful, not
convenient simply, but lovely and be
loved, let her he (lie recipient of his
polite mid hearty attention, let her fee!
that her care and love are noticed, are
appreciated and returned, let her opin
iou he asked, her approval sought, and
her judgment respected in matters of
which she is cognizant, in short, let her
only he loved, honored* and cherished
in fulfillment of the marriage vow—
and she will he to her husband, chil
dren, and'society, a well-spring of
pleasure. She will bear pain, toil, and
anxiety—for her husband's love is to
her a tower and fortress. Shielded
and sheltered therein, adversity will
have lost its sting. She may suffer, but
sympathy will dull the edge of sorrow.
A house with love iu—and by love I
mean love expressed in words, and
looks, and deeds (for I have not one
spark of faith in love that never creeps
out)—is to a house without love as a
person to a machine, one is life, the
other is mechauism. The unloved
woman may have bread just as light, a
house just as tidy as the plher, but the
lauer nas a spring oi oeauiy uuoiu nrr,
a joyousness, an aggressive, penetrat
ing, pervading brightness, to which
the former is a stranger. The deep
happiness in her heart shines out iu
her face. She gleams over it. It is
fair and graceful, and warm, and wel
coming with her presence, she is full
of devices and plots, and sweet surpri
ses for her husband and family. She
has never done with the romance and
poetry of life. She, herself is a lyric
poem, setting herself to all pure and
gracious melodies. Humble household
ways aud duties have for her a golden
significance. The prize makes her cal
ling high, and the end sanctifies the
means. “Love is Heaven, and Heaven
is love."— The Mother's Journal.
Tbc New Postage Stamps.
The Postmaster General has just
awarded the contract for the supply of
stamps to the department for the en
suing four veal's to the National Bank
Note Company of New York. The
new stamps will be somewhat smaller
than those in use at present, but they
are of a superior style aud finish, with
a novelty in design. The two
cent stamp contains an engraving of a
post-boy on horseback in full speed.
The threc-cent has a locomotive under
full head of steam, the great carrier ol
of our domestic service. The five-cent
| stamp contaius a head of Washington.
The teu-cent, the finest of all in design,
and execution, has a miniature engrav
j ing of the Declaration of Independence
I executed with such delicacy and pre
! vision that the picture sutlers nothing
! under nmagnifyiugglass. The twelve
j cent has an ocean steamship, and the
| thirty-rent has a tlucly executed en
i graving of the surrender of Burgoyne
When it is considered that over a mil
lion stamps are issued daily the ini
i portanco of this contract is at onco ev
idenr.
Thurrer-Hrfdl.
The following account of “thOrtcr
Breds” will ba found interesting. It is
from the pen of a new humorist:
Thurrer Bred IIou.:—A boss which
has had his breed improved by means of a
Bulky, contain in a feller with a long
whip, till he aint worth 18 sents for any
purpose except a gambling masheen.
Thurrer Bred Gentleman :—A bob
tail cute, a 3 sent papur koller, a white
kotten weskit, yaller trowses without any
cloth into the legs, shiny lether boots, a
pare of yaller gloves, and inside of ’em all
a thing got up in imitasbun of a man, but
as the kounterfeit detectors say, poorly
executed and not kalkelated to desevc.
Must swar, drink shampain and tolk
horse. Mustash indispensabttl, branes
on treasury.
Thurrer-Bred Bizness Man :—Wun
that knows enuff about stealing, so’t thare
kant ennybody steal from him, and enuff
about law, so't he kin do his own stoalin’
legally. A kareful nnalasis of a fust kluss
specimen gave the fullerin’ result:
Honor—Jest enuff to keep him out of
jail.
Konshuns—None except in very yottng
specimens.
Lyin and. Steelin —As much as will
pay.
Honesty—Jest a kloke pattern.
Respectability--—Accordin to his suk
cess.
Thurrer Bred Haekal:—Same as abuv
with the cxcepshun^of the kloke.
Thurrer Bred Ijrtdy:—The old fushuud
idee, about a woman sich as Clod made
belli a lady is expoded—a modern thurrer
bred lady is up as follers commencin at
the top :
1 Btlr A ctViK rtf' linir vifnlfl fpnW tlif*
w
korps of h (led puwpcr in the old kuntry.
2thly. A hed with es much vacant
room into it in proporshuu to the sire us
to a six story tenement house.
3dly• A dress wast, kiverinin a French
kossit, into which is komprest about equal
quantities of natur and art—art occupying
the front seats.
4thly. A hoop skirl, showin when tinted
“a'la moad,”-a pare of sawdust kalfs ; the
hull bein kivered with an outside dressin
of silk and kept in runnin order at an ex
pense of about five hundred dollars a
month for repairs
A lieu lit i I'll I lMcturi*.
The man who stands upon his own
soil, who feels that by the law of the land
in which ho lives—he is tho rightful and
exclusive owner of tho land he tills, is by
the" constitution of our nature, under a
wholesome influence not easily imbibed
from any other source. He feels other
things being equal, more strongly than
any other the character of a man as the
lord of an inanimate world Or this great
and wonderful sphere which, fashioued by
the hand of God and upheld by his power,
is rolling through the Heavens, a part is
his, his from the centre of the sky. It is
the space on which the generation before
moved its round of duties, and he feels
himself connected by a link with those
who follow, and to whom he is to trans
mit * home.
Perhaps hts farm has come down to
him from his fathers. They have gone to
their last home; but he can trace their
last footstep over the scenes of his daily
labors. The roof which shelters him was
reared bv those to whom he owes his bcintr.
Sumo interesting domestie tradition is
connected with every inelosure. The
favorite fruit was planted by his father’s
hand. lie sported in boyhood beside the
brook which still winds throug the mead
ow. There lies the path to the village of
eatlier days. Ho still hears from the
window the voice of the Sabbath bell
which called his father to the house of
God; and near at hand is the spot where
his parents laid down to rest, and where,
when his time come, he shall be laid by
his children. These are the feelings of
the owner of the soil. Words cannot
paint them ; they flow out of the deepest
fountains of the heart; they are the life
spring of a fresh, healthy and generous
national character.
Tli« Dying \cvcr Weep,
It is a striking fact—the dying never
weep! The circle of sobbing agonized
hearts around produce not a tear. Is it
not that be is insensible and still already
in the chill of dissolution ? That cannot
be, he asks for his father's hand us if to
gain strength in tho mental struggle, and
leans on the breast of mother brother,
sister, with still conscious affeotion ; and
just before expiring, at eve after a long
day's converse with the angel of summer,
ho says to his oldest brother—last audible
“good night” of—“kiss me, kiss!” It
must be because the dying have reached a
point too deep for our earthly crying and
| weeping. They are face to face with
higher, holier beings, with the Father in
Heaven and his angel throng, led by the
Son himself and what are griefs of a morn
| iug, tears of a dying farewell.
*qtf“The greatest of all earthly bless
I ings is to be able to lean your heart
against another heart—faithful, tender,
true, and tried—and record with a
i ’
I thankfulness that years deepen instead
of diminish, “I have got a friend.”
Aftothvr laveitlUa IM Stentto
GigiiMi.
A new invention has been introduced
into the meehaueial world, which promiso9
to Work an entire revolution in the appli
cation of steam to the various purposes of
life. People had supposed that about the
last improvement that could be made in
steam engines had been made, but this
new invention proves*lhat people in sup
posing this were mistaken.
A machine has been introduced which
does away with the cylinder prinoiple alto
gether, as well as with the piston, crank,
steam chest, oil cans, etc. The engine
which makes all these changes is the
Centrifugal Steam Engine, and is the in-,
vention of Benjamin Franklin, of West
moreland county. Already it has taken
high rank among the recent inventions of
the day, and it w morally certain to over
come all obstacles and win its ways to a
foremost positron. —The most competent
practical engineers have examined it, and
pronounce its success certain. They con
fidently predict that it will supersede all
other kinds.
The facts which recommend it arc many.
As we have said, it docs away entirely
with the cylinder principle, depending on
centrifugal force Thus the mechanism is
greatly simplified, and the engine is much
more easily understood and much more
economically worked than the old kind.
In the new engine friction is almost en
tirely overcome. It will produce fifteen
hundred revolutions to the minute with
ono forth of the steam required to produce
the same number of revolutions in the old j
syIc and with the same amount of horse
power. The centrifugal steam engine
condenses almost all its steam, which it is
ntedlcss to say, is itself« great saving.
Another prime recommendation ot the
new engine is the fact that its great sim
plicity of construction makes it much
more economical than any other. It can
be constructed for not more than one
forth of the expenses required for the old
style, and when made it is almost impossi
ble for it to get out of order. So simple
is it that a child can run it. The engine
is nuW on exhibition at the Atlas Works
in the Ninth Ward, and all should seo it.
—Pittsburg Post.
Kamie Plant.—rScveral samples of
the material manufactured from the
ramie plant grown in the St. James
parish, Louisiana, were submitted to
us yesterday. The article comes all the
way from Germany, and is certainly
fine. The machinery used in prepar
ing it we understand to be a German
invention. The difficulty hitherto has
been in preparing the article for mar
ket, the means of doing so not having
been in existence. Now it is placed
beyond a doubt, and we foresee that
the plant will bo largely cultivated in
the south when the machinery for Its
manufacture shall he accsssible to the
planter. We are informed that the
cost of preparing the ramie for market
by this process will be two cents per
pound, which can well be afforded bv
an article Worth eighty cents per pound.
This machinery is very costly, but it is
probable that an association of capital
ists will be formed soon for the purpose
of setting nn establishment in motiou
in New Orleans for the purpose indi
cated.—New Orleans Bee.
a9*“I'm afloat! I'm afloat!’’ ex
claimed a young lady of powerful
lungs, and fingers to match as she ex
ercised both at the piano. “I should
think you were,” growled an old bach
elor, “judging from the squall you
raise.”
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. J. "77. BURNET,
Being permanently located at Des Arc,
will continue the practice of his profession in
all its branches.
Office at Col. J. M. Burney’s Drug Store.
DR. ROB'T. B. TREZEVART,
Tenders his professional services to
the citizens of Des Arc and vicinity.
Office—At B. F. Johnson Drug Store.
sep21
J. E. GATEWOOD, J. 8. THOMAS,
GATEWOOD A THOMAS,
mOUITIAIUW
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
13. F. Johnson
D Ft XJGrG-I S T,
DES ABC, ABKANSAS.
KEEP on hand a large assortment of Drugs’
Medicines, Paints, Oils. Perfumery'
Patent Medicines, Wines, Brandies. Whiskey’
for medical purposes, which he will sell low.
Prescriptions and orders filled promptly.
Terms cash. feb. 16, 1808.
P. LEPTIEN,
Watchmaker and Jeweler.
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
_
Tam now prepared to do all
kind, of work in my lino. Meud
I ing, Cleaning. &o.
—“ Thankful for paal faeora, I aolicit i
* oontinuanca of the patronage heretofore be
•etjwed o» me. <kh-S if
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
Z. P* Al * P A R At,
ATTOP.UST AT LAT,
LITTLK ROCK, ARKANSAS.
H. 3r\ Vaugban.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
&tes ARC. ARKANSAS.
WILL practice in theCourte of the oountiee
of Prairie. White, Jaokeon, Woodruff and
Monroe. Particular attention given to the
collection of claims any where in the State.
sepTtf.
T. E. EMERSONj
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND GENERAL LAND AGENT,
AUSTIN, PRAIRIE COUNTY, ARK
Special attention given to the colleotion
and securing claims, buying and selling lands,
paying taxes, cxaming titles, &o. april 11
J. A. P. ALDRIDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Cotton Plant, Arkansas.
Will practice in the Circuit Courts of
Woodruff county, and the Circuit Courts of
the seventh Judioiai District, and give prompt
attention to all business ontrusted to hit
oaro, janlSy
8- 8. B»»TT. W. ». BSOFACOW
OAWTT A BBONAUGH.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BROWNSVILLE, ARKANSAS.
Prompt attention given to collection of
claims. aprli
W. J. ROGERS,
ATTQRMY AT; LAW,
BROWNSVILLE, ARKANSAS.
Prompt attention given to the Collection
of Claims., Investigation of Land Titles, Pay
ment of Taxes. &c. myli)
.iAMER II. PATTERSON, LUCIAN C. OAUSE,
Augusta, Ark, Jacksonport, Ark.
Patterson & Cause,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jacksonport and Augusta, Arkansas.
Will practice in the Counties of Woodruff,
Jackson, Independence, White, Lawrence,
Randolph, Green. Craighead and Cross, and
attend to special cases in any part of the
State. Address cither office. myl8-ly
J. C. JONSON, Office—West Point, Arkansas.
JNO. M. MOORE, Office—Searcy, Arkansas.
JONSON &. MOORE,
Attorneys at Law,
SOLICITORS /iV CHAN CERT,
—a tin—
uener&l Land and Collecting Agent*,
SEARCY, ARKANSAS.
Will give prompt attention to any business
in the counties of Independence, Jackson,
Woodruff, Monroe, Prairie, White, Conway
and Van Buren. mar9
SOL. t. CLARK. SAM. W. WILLIAMS.
JOB W. MARTIN.
CLARK. WILLIAMS & MARTIN,
Attorneys at Law,
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.
WILI. practice in all the Courte. prosecute
Claims of all kinds, collect debts, and
act as Real Estate and General Agents.
Offick—Markham Street, near State House.
april'J8-tf
JAMES J. GALLAGHER.
Attorney at Law,
COTTON PLANT, WOOPRVFFCO. ARE.
Will practice where called.
sep28-tf.
VM. ». COOPT. V. MO lAI
COODY & McRAE,
itlOftWIll AT TAW
SEARCY, WHITE COUNTY,
ARKANBAH.
Will practice in all the courts of Arkaheae.
mar24
DR. ALLffiXT
Offers his services to the citizens of
Des Arc and vicinity in the practice of
medicine. Thankful for past favors,
and by attention to business he expects
to share a liberal prtronage.
Office—At bis residence—late the
residence of W. G. Frith. sep21
Dr. R, B* SHELBY,
TENDERS bis professional services to the
Citixens of Des Arc and surrounding
country, in the practice of Medicine and Ob
stetrics. He hopes from an txperienoe of
’ over fifteen ycare in Southern practice, to
1 merit a share of public patronage.
Office one door Kail of Burney’s Drug
Store. «iiT«hm*K8iy