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For the National Era.
HUNGARYs ANCIENT CHIEFTAIN.
BY v. ID. G.

From Scytha's boundless plains, beyond where runs
Lone Uras tide to greet the Caspian sea,
He came" Gods Scourge," Atilla-wth his Huns.
Countless, fearful, his flying cavalry
Rushed like an Alpine avalanche set free
From lev chains, FER Europes garden earth,
Terrible as the Man of Destiny
Startling " the bue-cyed nations of the North
Which one by one were crushed, or owned his martial
worth.
Zen Rome, eternal as the seven hills
Wherein she sat and ruled in peerless pride
Barbaric kings, the Huns bold advent thrills
Profoundest dread, through empire far and wide.
And though her eagle screamed along the Danube's
side,
The Scythan war horse paved fair Amos plain
And like her captive princes, at full tide
Ofconquest rule, Rome in her turn did deign
To sue for peace, though basely leagued with open
shame.
Carpathian mountains bound the eastern verge,
The Alps the west, of that illustrious land
Where wild Atilla tents were pitched, and surge
On surge of many bold but yielding band
Were forced on Adriatic's sunny strand.
Thus Venice, throned in beauty on the lucid sea,
With marble palaces on either hand,
By chance received her birth-by arms made free
Through Europes night the life and pride of Italy.
Ere, beyond the Pyrenees, the eonqro bow
Had twanged its fearful notes of victory,
NearsBudas site the spoiler laid him low,
And nations joyed that they at length were free
From Gods dread Scourge, the victor king Of Hun.
gary.
The nuptial night Ton this the thewarror ded)
Marcan in dream, (how strange the mysteryD
Beheld, while sleeping mid Byzantium pride,
ATLAS bOw-IIun type of power-in twain divide
Beneath silk pavilion on the plain,
His corsc, in solemn pomp, reposed in state
As round it squadrons wheeled, in martial strain
The requiem swelled while blood for tears did safe
The grief of those who moumed their leader s fate
At dead ofnight doomed captives dug his grave,
Wherein the spos of nations, mean and great,
Were with him tombed DER which oblivions wave,
Now rolling, hides for eyermore the sleeping brave
New York City.
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TO GEORGE CONWAY, OF THE OuBwAY


Hail to thee, chief from the far forest land
Hail to thee, prince of the wild wood band!
From the n.crowned hills of the glorious West,
Where wild winds billow Superiors breast
Thou hast travelled DER broad AtIantic's foam,
Where sagcs ofpeacc to their council come
Thou hast trodden in halls of ancient glory
And traced the records of olden story
Thou hast grim relies of ruthless ire,
And tortures unknown at thy camping fire.
The war-fend was worshipped by pale-faced men
AS well as by braves in the forest glen
And torrents of heart-warm, human blood,
Have poured over Europe, a wasting food
But the worship and honor Of carnage is past;
Earth's glorious jubilee soundeth at last
Child of the forest to thee il is given
To speak in rich cadence the message of heaven;
To bid the pale face with the Indian combine
The oak of our country with olive to twine
To bid the wild war notes forever DO etjn.
uIse hngeis ufe e"sopss,s "A An
And glory to God in the heights abovs,
The Father of all-ths Fountain Of Love"
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For the National Era.
THE INDIAN PREACHER.
BY CONSTANCE.

GEORGE Conway, of the 0jbway nation, with an
energy and selfdevoton we'll worthy Of all imitation
has devised and forwarded plan for the civilization
and conversion of the scattered tribes of Indians
in North West Territories, by collecting them on
some suitable locality and nstructng them in the arts
and sciences of industry well teaching them
the doctrines of our holy religion George CONWAY
was delegate to the Worlds Convention for Peace,
and earnestly and eoquently did he plead for the
form among Christian nations which shall induce saw
age tribes to believe in the reality of that gospel whose
glad annunciation was, Glory to God in the highest
on earth pence and good will to mem
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WASHINGTON, ID. C..

BUELL. 4 BLANCHARD, Printers, Washington, D
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CHAP. III.
The Prairie Home.

Have you forgotten Prairie DO la Fleur, dear
reader, in the long episode through which we
have wandered to reach Its borders again :
Here it lies in the mellow light OF summer
afternoon, green and glorious as ever. Inc
forest green around. Oh, surely never was y
iaiver temple dedicated u the genius OF Agn-
culture!
IL was ON such an afternoon, late in GUNNER,
tbst two young men were urging Jaded hoTso
through the shadowy arches OF the grove
road toward the sun-bathed prairie. A low,
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A ploodx prama in New Jersey.

We had a paragraph, two or three days
since, respecting the murder Of a gill, aged
L years, and a boy, aged 8 years, children Of
Timothy OBrien, Of Bergen county, W.,
by an Irishman named eating. The muir
derer has been arrested, and has made con-
fession, of the monstrous deed He gave as
a reason for the massacre, that he had mon
ey in 0'Brien's care, which the latter refused
to giveup. In his confession, be says he
was not in his right mind when he commit
ted the decd. He is 55 years old, and Of
most disgusting appearance. The country
in the vicinity is greatly excited.
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Vhe 5. & II. valley railroad,

The friends along the line of this road will
no doubt br happy 10 learn, that the entire
amount OF stock apportioned to this county
Tor the construction of the s. & H, v. Rail-
road, has been subscribed.
ln the joyous anticipation Of ''the better
time coming" the ground was broken on
the east end Of town, where the road crosses
the Turnpike, on New Years Day, amid
vast concourse Of people, and the booming
Of cannon. A short but appropriate address
was made on the occasion, by John II. o.
Neill, congratulating the citizens, at their
prospect Of speedy connection BY railroad,
OF River and Lake, and the varied advanta-
ges that will accrue TO them by the opening
Of this great thoroughfare. .5.1.-
We consider this truly a new era in the
history of Somerset. Hitherto we have been
enclosed and bound up as il were by com
mon fate, unable to move iD our business re-
lsiions, except as the "hewers of wood and
drawers of water for other places more fa-
yored by pature and wealth than we are.-
But new prospect opens before us. Ere
long the iron horse will be passing by our
place freishted with the abundant products
Of our county, and the advantages of mar.
ket will be opened 10 our farmers, the value
Of which they will soon appreciate. !.
We learn that about two miles and a half
of the road, extending on either side of the
two, including the summit, has been award
ed to our old friend, Henry Dittoe, ESQ.,
Mr.. D. has considerable experience in mat
ters Of this kind, and no fears need be en-
tertained but that the road embraced with
in this contact, will be pushed through
with the utmost diligence,
The remainder Of the road has been con-
tracted for by Messrs. Sherman & Co., who,
il is said, designs connecting this place with
Newark as speedily as possible. We pre-
sumo they will put a strong force Of labor
on the road at an early day.--Snnsrsst
Post. r }tNf.
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Flexible Powder,

The Japanese do not bury their dead in
collins, but place them in tub two feet and
q half in diameter at the top. and two feet at
the bottom. The Aexibility of the usually
rigid dead body is produced by putting a
powder called Dosia, into the mouth, ears
and nostrils of the corpse. The following is
related by an eye witness: s a., = (,
Anexperiment took place in the month Of
October, 1888, when the cold was pretty Sc
yere. A young Dutchman having died iD
our factory at Desima, ordered the physi-
cisnslt 10 cause the body to be washed, and
left all night exposed to the air on a table,
placed nearan opengwindow, norder that
IL might become completely stiff. Next
morning several Japanese and myself, went
TO examine the corpse, which was as hard as
apiece Of wood. One Of, the Interpreters.
named zeuby, drew from his bosom .'sau-
lock or pocket book, and took, out an, obong
paper filed with d coarse powderresembling
sand. This was the famous "Dosia" pow
der He put pinch into the ears another
pinch into the mouth, and a third into the
nose, and presently Whether from the effect
Of this drug, orsome trick which could not
detect, the arms which had been before cross
ed over the breast dropped Of themselves,
.nnd In less than twenty minutes by the
watch the body recovered all lie dexibihy.
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PORTSMOUTH, o, FRIDAY FVENING. JANUARY n 1853
signs of,the FutureI.

3 On thu 6lh.inst. Mr. MAasa..ilf nf Cal.
in speech before the Lower House oi Con-
enss. said he iniended 10 oifat ! Nsalution
TO instruct The COMMITTEE on Ways and
Means to report a bill placing st Inc disposal
OF the Presiden. The sun of ten millions of
dollars, TO be used BY him at his discretion 10
any emegencyaihat may arise in-odf foreign
Affairs. He was yery severe on the whig
administration for is conduct IN regard 10
Hayti and Nicafsgua. Senator Cass has in
,roduced . resolution relsfifmlng ihe Mon
roe doctrine upon European Colonization on
this Continent, which will be discussed on
Wednesday next. Mr. Mason has gisen no.
tlce that ne viii move 70 rater that nQrtInn
81 .Ane Z rEesiaeh VI ~ ioucnife lile Irr-
PaiuVe ifea'y pioposi'ion Oh England apd
ria'ioe.
Mr, oass anu others explained that they
woulu % NOT nave Votea ior Inc bulwef and
Clay 'on treaty, 'ouecning e oeh.fal America u
Il n9a Deen ullueis'oou a. tue 'ilne' lnat 'ne
constructions placed upon Its provisions by
the parties craving H. oid mol exclude Eng
land from any part OF central America; and
IN 'hese explanations A'r' clayton was DE-
nouncea IN severe 'erms'
ine onc'e sam IN our S'atfsman is NOR
ouguiy touseo. lney CONSIDER 'ne lofeisn
pohcy OF Fillmore as a gross outrage upon
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A Disastrous ExpEDirIoS BY our la.
test adyices from the Pacific cosst, we have
the intelligence from Mexico that the at.
tempt to annex Sonora to France, by Count
Brelbon and his followers, has ended disas.
trously to these adventurers. The fight al
Hermosillo was very disastrous TO him. He
lost 50 men in that engagement out Of 2A.
All Of his officers were killed. and he from
illness was compelled to, be carried upon a
litteron the march to Guaymas. They were
met by a messenger from the city. who rep
resented that the town was destitute of lood
and deserted i and that they would ineyita-
blyall perish unless they gase up the wsr.---
He surrendered On receiving Gil. l.Ooprfrom
Gen. Blanco, and left the country fosa Ma.
satlan, gs 2 24-'ss Sg slss'aa
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pIt is said that the recent speeches Of
Senator Mason and Gen. Cass, upon the Gu
ba resolutions, to which we referred few
days since, foreshadow the foreign policy OF
the new administration with regard to Cuba
and other attempted territorial acquisitions
Of foreign governments on This continents -
It lis understood that while General PIERCE
will frown down and repress every thing in
the shape Of filibusterism, he will maintain
the dignity Of our national character and
fearlessly protect the American fiag and de-
mand reparation for every injury to those
over whom ii waves. s@ "A
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We learn ifom one Of s seNgstSs nom
this county, that instead Of the trensen-
dous "row" which our 'whigl opponents
were preparing to herald as having occurred
in the democratic State convention Of the
9th, the greatest harmony and good feeling
prevailed. There was no more excitement
than that which usually attends similar gath
erings. This is positively a pity The de-
inocracy ought by all means to do something
which would tend to raise the low spirits of
hewhigs- This good feeling which exists
throughout the democratic ranks is too dis
couraging to our opponents, and we fear
we shall not have the fun Of beating them
again. q
The nominees are all, doubtless, first rate
men, We know four OF them are, and the
other two, we trust will prove themselves
such, before they have served out more than
half their term of Office. The names Of the
nominees are
For Goyemor--Wm. Medill. ~
Lieutenant Governor-A. A. Bliss, Of Al
len, tr @' Y
Treasurer. g. Breslin.
Secretary ofState-Wm. Trevilt'
Board ofPubiic Works-W@, ,Griswold of
Pickaway..
Attorney Gen.-G. w. McCook, Of Co.
lumbiana.
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WheeIbaIrow Factories.

Not the least extensive among the manu-
featuring establishments of this place. afe
those Of Messrs. VIM. Hall & Son and Mr..
Wait. Those who dispair of ever seeing
this city much of manufacturing place,
owing TO its close proximity TO the Great
Western mart, Cincinnati, may learn les
son from our wheelbarrow factories. The
demand for these articles since the railroad
mania began, has induced men OF enterprise
and capital to turn their attention to making
:hem, and workshops have been built and
machinery invented TO the end of expedition
and cheapness. The establishments Of the
above named gentlemen can turn out, we
suppose, some two or three hundred pei
week, and a large majority Of these find a
ready market in Cincinnati!
One would suppose that there was very
little profit in selling at Cincinnati rates,
but we are told that our manufacturers re.
atize handsome profit, over and above tht
prices at which they sell their articles here
Each establishment employs some ten or fif
teen hands, aud is fitted up with all or mos
OF the improved machinery, in use at tht
present day in like establishments.
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Road 10 the Cemetery.

j. I-
We have had occasion at least once before
TO S eak of the bad condition Of the road
leading frem town to the Cemetery. AL
though there have been several days ofwarm
and delightful weather, the road from Chill
licothe street as far out as the Railroad cross
ing is still 10 avery muddy condition, and
almostimpassable to persons on foot. The
large foot procession which attended the fu-
neral OF Mr., Lange was obliged to march out
the railroad and follow the track, while the
hume rons carriages which followed the
hearse were on road as bad if not worse
than the main one. We,have taken the trou.
BILE to ascertain the cost of graveling the road
from Chillicothe street TO the grave yard, and
find il will moi be near as much as we at
first supposed. A gentleman, who is well
acquainted with such work informs us that
he will gravel The road nine inches thick and
nine feet wide, from Chillicothe street 10 the
foot Of the hill at DR.. Hempstead's, for the
sum of six hundred dollars. This amount
can doubtless be raised by subscription, il
eny one win take the time and trouble TO
press the matter upon our citizens.
While speaking upon this subject, we may
as we'll remark, that if the alleys of the
gfave yard were graveled, il would be vastly
to the credit Of our place. Every thing, at
present, indicates that our people care but
little about the dead. saa
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EDITORIAL CERTIFIcAfEs-If subscribers
to journals, like church members, in sstop-
ping their papers, were required to produce
an editorial certificate before they could sub
scribe for another, there would be some cus
rious developments; as, for example We
certify that A. B. stopped his paper because
the editor refused to allow him six columns
fora personal vindication, which concerned
nobody but himself. We certify that c. d.
refuses the paper because the editor did not
publish the obituary notice Of "a relative that
was never sent 10 him, but which be ought 10
have detected in some Of his exchange pa
pers. We certify that E. F, wishes TO trans
fer his patronage to another paper, because,
having taken this paper six years without
paying cent, he felt himse Il insnlted by
having bill sent TO him by way Of remind
er. We certify that g. H, in bis opinion, is
a poet of the first water; but the editor un.
fortunately differing from him in that opiin-
ion, is regarded by him as wholly unqualified
for his Office. We certify that /. J. has
stopped his paper, because the editor had
the temerity toiexpress an opinion on a GER
tain matter without having previously as
cerlained the opinion Of this particular sub
acriber. .Nssc York, Presbyttfiaa.
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The Martha washington Case.

TLo 60 - 'un. -
ne oo'p,.i sSioleIs on 'f aufhotity OF tht
nuiI .ose' dec,aeu, 'hiS morning, that "a thi'
Ao'"inae,oi 1pe tes'imonS u young Fillr',
NJ, S;i,a sI0siuas, Wpeii Tue examination .
h a. NY TuS "suthss9.a 3,.
wa.S;,,a, SUn ~. . n W. uls.ofy q the Msrlil'
,ns 1I Sa,,H ~ ISot; ~ soy iast' ne Cam it
I i5a. NUS h .ue Isoiuaiy previous 10 make dis
w1ots b,S S,s ,ao,;. u;u NV nave On opportunity
k,yh;ch ba msds @ S,,ll oGs Ina ne sisneai'' II
IT, A. I',els,G ~. iui uioliosulo. 'Y s ,t
Tho ,aaS;, a"ID.'',:pa Iou.sel neie opleclso Y
bn, @ dss;rsS % ,bai 0Slon ,Sa c OIL .ile s.a'eme
rela;n i W w commissioners siiouic
INA con, !, -; -, -.
a.,s;h,s,x e NJ ;e. nv - assulne .ue
snd Il was acco,dinpfv Ssads ~. ;e ooUss. sun an,
Ipases III foolscan NE ~ Y ess's 'ou'
Ii The statene n vonns I';,,v sevs,th. -
at the lime NJ. sale was mad rsfs ~
firm had no white sole leatb4r aoJ oai, ~
about 900 or 400 dozen sheen sk;ns. ,ha,
Cole gave his notes for ss0O0. thai he + na.'
nothing Of The sbnment IN tbe Mar'ba
Washington until he was Afterwards info,n- ~,
ed of il, and that afterward he was iniormed
by the Chapins, his partners. that il was ali
fraudulent, and that any man who revealed
it would be shot down. In less Than hours
he was told that The Martha Wash,noton WA ., :
10 be burnt, that L. Cole got nm the Schene
and Kissane was the next dee nest ;nyol ved
in it, having cot more fraudulent ;nsn,ace
than any oil lhe Others; that The clerk. Mich.
olson, told him, that any one who revealed
the Transaction would be shot: that he did
not know what was shipped on The MarIba
Washington, as he was sick at the time; that
.ney maae tle drsyman drunk in order TO get
IA @iOn ~ a. e. as ne olu' sIu .that lhey gave
Ear 9is9 lor q strong afhdiasvit.
=. a. carter was then caaed.
am agent ior the Etna Insurance Compa-
ny ID, Hartford; Stevens got an insurance of
%, ,ool A. on goods SAID to have been ship
pea on tne Maitha washington, on the 9th
January, leo2; after the loss the insurance
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The weather,

We have been blessed, for some days past,
with the most delightful weather The ait
is just bracing enough to counteract the ef-
feet Of old Sops rays, otherwise i; would be
absolutely warm. This time last year, we
hadaplentyof ice and snow with the ther-
mometer some score Of degrees below zero.
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Washington Affairs. I
d ~. I /. \ WAsHINarnN. Ian. &

The President has sent in to the Senate,
the nomination of G. c. Badger forthe va.
cant Judgeship in North Carolina. sl sis
The steamer Fulton has arrived at the ma.
w yard having been hastily fitted up. by Or
der Of the Secretary of the Navy.
Mr.. Kings physicians think it prudent 10
avoid any changes D ! Norfolk; ii uncertain,
however, when we viii leave Washington.
The jackson monumentnow stands firmly
inits position in Lafayette Square, the aiss.
ing Of it having been completed this NOM
ing. 49,,
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The breach IN thcrpitcud near Scioto Fur
mace made BY the recent heavy rains. has
been repaired. The .aamagstwas -nthmex
tsns'se, and lihe carsIhsye maasbet one dip
each day since itoccmreaa sTo-duythsy will
Irespms their regular trips,
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0The fre compeniesof our City were
out in large numbers. on Sunday u attend
the funeral Of Mi. HI sLanga, who was very
worthy member Of The Neptunes, The pro.
cession numbered, altogether abou. five
hundredsl u sall
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Interesting to Hom@opathists.

DR.. J.L. Sullivan, in a letter published in
the Christian Register, says: s.
When the French army in the winter Of
1912, and 'l3, retreated from Russia in ex-
tremg dessitution, depressing the yital pow
er, the misery Of the soldiers generated and
developed the most Malignant Typhus Fever
taa i had ever been seen. Physicians could
do nothing with 1.-THE symptoms were
various. Wherever they came The inhabis
tants were infected. Constantine, who had
accompanied Alexanderto Wilma, took II and
but just lived-the streets of that city were
piled with the dead. 1t approaches Dres-
den and Leipzig. The King Of Saxony, now
requests Hahnemann, the founder Of Hom-
@opathia--which name expresses the law Of
Specific Remedies--to try if any Of them
would cure. Accordingly be went among
the dying soldiers--in the presence Of his
professional foes and the world-and calmly
in The midst of the greatest personal danger,
investigated all It's symptoms In every yari,
ETY. Of case. From this formidable group ol
snfferings he, e,chosa con the principle Of anal.
agous powef,s two remedies--the Rhiis Rho'
dodendroh. and the B,yona Albd- admins.
tered them alternately and the disease wai
cuieQ.f .lsilN w lif ~ f,
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0T About the most delicious thing we
have tasted lately was an orange, large and
fresh, from the establishment Of VIM. Mil
Ter, on 4th street, See his advertisement in
this mornings paper sss ~ se ii
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~ . HIT a Southern contemporary says Il On
thecsh of Msrch, Frank Pierce viii be sworn
into Office and Millard .Fillmsss and his
Whis and Abolition crew. viii % swearing
out. Very likely ~ A.se ' ao.a
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Terrible Railroad Accident--Nar-
row, Escape of Gen. Pierce, the
President Elect---IKimseIf and
his Wife severely injured, and
his Son Instantly Killed.

=. ~. stn l.f oOSfoNt vdli' u. &
The train on thelBosion.and and Maine
Railway was thrown off the track, to-day,
near Andover. Among the passengers,
were Gen. Pierce, his wife, and his son,
ten years old. The latter was instantly
killed, being crushed to atoms. Mrs.
Pierceis dangerously, thought is:thought
not fatally injured. One Of the Generals
limbs is injured, though he complains
most Of his back. The car was thrown
down an embankment twenty feet high,
and turned completely over, falling upon
q pile Of rocks and was smashed to pie
ces. Gen. Pierce wasthe first to extricate
himself. His injuries are not considered
serious, Sd M
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sa.Oes Some person has sent us the osation'
of chps. Anderson upon the character and
pubic sessices o. lIEssy CRAY, deliysied in
oincinnaA Nov 2, lsb2. before ihe Clay
Mon0men0l Association, - z
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wv. ID. Kidd testified: h.. u. .--.s.,s,i,
L.sasriser reporter for the Chamber oI
Commerce last January, was on board the
Martha Washington the afternoon before she
sailed, to get liss Of the freight shipped
and got list of the freight from either the
clerk or the agent. Here the court took a
rocess Of one hour.