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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-04-25

his birth iniers, of an unintelleciua cast of
counenance, good reader and bat little of an
orator, displaying no great genius, except in an
occasional aptitude Of expression in the quaint
style Of the early English divioes, but display
ing great earnesnPss.
This earnesRess We conside, 10 he, from all
that we can learn by the descriptions of eye
Witnesses, his distinguishing characteristic. as
well as the basis and source Of his power. He
seems, and is believed by his audience. 10 be
anxious 10 accomplish all that he says. He us
ually deals with truths as they merit, and as if
they were indeed dread solemnties. His gen
eial argument is enforced by series of illus
trative anecdotes and pointed pecuIiarties of
expression. Sometimes they are ludicrous. but
certainly not more so than those used every
Sunday by preachers like Henry Ward Beech
er.
He seems, and probably is, egotistcal In his
manner. His style in sermon writing be,ravs
that fact, but lie exhibits none of the miserable
contorlons Of limb and body employed by the
lecturer Goueh, and is entirely free from The
rant that disfpures the so-caled "west-couniry'
oraions. HIS style has many blemishes, but
it is easy 10 see that they are not essential. and
therefore do not permanently hinder his elIec-
iveness. He is often dsconrteuus 10 his oppo.
nents, but this will wear off in time lie has
good faculty Of logical arrangement and
''siicks In his text" lie compresses well, and
makes his inferentaI matter brief and pithv.-
His language is plain, and his disseciions Of
opposing doctrines are often bitter beyond a
proper zeal. His manner is conversational,
and his sentences short. sharp, terse and telling.
With the doctrines which Mr. Spurgeon in
culcaies Of course We have nothing TO do. As
yunthlul phenomenon who has brought about
state Of things unprecedented in the annals of
preaching, he is worthy of the consideration of
thinking men. Clergymen too, of all denomi-
nations, fom High Church Epscopaan TO City
Missionaries who preach on the wharves, may
learn from the history of his life and his re-
markable success, as well as from his written
words, much that will be of interest and profit
In theifpecular and difficult vocation. Apathy
or cold logic will not do for the audiences Of
the nineteenth century in England or America,
aud the cleey in high places there will look on
with increasing astonishment until they shall
have learned that earnestness, and an arousal Of
the whole nature TO a consciousness of the
mighty import Of his theme, is as requisite 10
the success Of the pulpit as of the secular ora
tor.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-04-25

DAMAGE TO THE CIGAR TRADE.-Some lady
who has more reverence for the inspiration sh'
draws from Helicon than for that imported frou
Havana, comes down after the following styl'
upon the patrons of the weed. Let her praye
be answered, and large dealers in cigars mus
hedge on Maccoboy or cave in
''May never lady press his lips,
His proffered love returning,
Who makes furnace of his mouth,
And keeps his chimney burning.
May each true woman shun his sight,
For fear his fumes might choke her:
And none but those who smoke themselves
Have kisses for smoker"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-04-25

already love as son. My girl has been
good daughter. and will be good wife,
While the words were yet on his lips,
troop of yearlng cattle scampered into the
highway from the open gate of a park. The
horses Of the Colonel's carriage were startled,
and, by their sudden bound aside, the rens
were twitched from the coachman's hands.
Feeling no control, the alarmed animals sprang
forward at full speed but they wen, no great
way ere their divergence from the mid line
caused a violent overturn Of the vehicle into
shallow side ditch. The inmates were thrown
clear out upon one side of the road which,
fortunately, was grass common. The coach
man and Sir Robert Innes, being both of light
frames, were very little injured but the poor
veterans fall was heavy and severe one. He
lay at first perfectly nsensbe In few min
utes, however, he regained his consciousness,
and in some degree his bodily strength, but
complained Of pain in his chest and shoulder
Sir Robert as may be supposed, was greatly
agitaed and at loss how to get his kind
friend within reach Of immediate advise and as
sistance. But the coachman was able, happily
to overtake the horses, and it was resolved to
move slowly backward to the boarding school,
from which they were only mile and half
distant.
The distress Of Miss Wnram on seeing her
father return so Unexpectedly, and in such o
condition. was extreme, and although medical
assistance was Immediately procured the veie
ran occupied a sick bed for several weeks, du-
ring which time he was faithfully watched by
his daughter and the Barone,.
Our story draws TO close Sir Robert pro-
posed, and was accepted. The marriage took
place as soon as the veteran could leave his
couch, and the career of the young Scottish
knight whom our narrative took up in so un-
promising condition was, by the remarkable
incidents detailed, rendered one of much hap
piness throughout the whole of its after dura-
tion. His beautiful lady brought him one sole
child and daughter, whose personal charms at
tracted the admiration of the noblesi in the land
One suiior for her hand was a gentleman who
afterwards acceded TO the title of Duke of Rox.
burgh but eventually Miss Innes of Orion be-
came the wife of Lord Forbes Her son is the
present possessor Of that ancient title and of
her daughters, one became Duchess of Athol,
and another the wife of Sir John Hay of Havs-
Inn.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-04-25

CIRcAssIAN INpEPENDENcE.--The new leader
Of the Circassian forces against Russia is Me-
hemed Bey. This is his Mohammedan name;
his Christian name when Hungarian COM
mander, was Cangya. He took with him 10
the Circassian head quarters at Quabs, 200 IN
structors in military tactics, and expects to have
in the field by the first of May force of 10000
we'll trained Circassians. Mehemed was re-
ceived with great enthusiasm by the troops and
the people. He was with the Circassans dur
ing their last war with Russia, and he said TO
an English friend after assuming the chief COM
mand Russia will soon have an opportunity
of convincing herself that new spirit prevails.
know the materials which are placed at my
disposal, and am of opinion that nation which,
without military organization, could resist its
enemy for thirty years, will, when properly or
ganized, be able TO achieve its complete inde-
pendence."
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-04-25

"People are all summer busy learning to
leave door open, and all The winter learning
to close it,"
That's so,' as all in the PhGnix Office can
testify; and when you remind them Of their
negligence, you receive the very satisfactory in
formation ,ha, they 'are going right out again
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-04-25
New Series. Vol. 3.
P 0 E T R Y.


ny ALBERT @. GREENE.
The dawn has broke, the morn Is up,
Another day begun,
And there thy poised and glided spear
Is flashing In the sun,
Upon that steep and lofty tower,
Where thou thy watch hast kept,
A true and faithful sentinel,
While all around thee slept.
For years, upon thee, there has poured
The summers monday heat,
And thro' the long, dark, staress night,
The winter storms have beat;
But yet thy duty has been done,
BY day and night the same;
Still thou hast watch'd and met the storm,
Whichever way It came.
No chilling blast In wrath has swept
Along the distant heaven,
But thou hast watch upon it kept,
And instant warning given;
And when mid-summer's sultry beams
Cypress all living things,
Thou dost foretell each breeze that comes,
With health upon its wings
How oft I've seem Mt early dawn,
Or twilight's quiet hour,
The swallows, In their joyous glcc,
Come darting round thy tower,
As II, with thee, to hail the sun,
And catch his earliest light,
And offer ye the morn's salute,
Or bid ye both-goOd night.
And when around thee or above,
No breath of air has stirred,
Thou seem'st to watch the circling flight
Of each free, happy bird;
Till, after twittering round thy head,
In many may track,
The whole delighted company
Have settled ON thy back.
Then, II pcrchancc, amid their mirth,
gentle breeze has sprung,
And prompt to mark its first approach,
Thy eager form has swung,
rve thonght almost heard thee say,
As far aloft they flew,
Snow all away here ends our play,
For have work to do !"
Men slander thee, my honest friend,
And call thee, In their pride,
An emblem Of their fckleness,
Thou ever-faithful guide
Each weak unstable human mind,
A "wcathcrcock" they call
And thus, unthinkingly, mankind
Abuse thee, one AMI all
They have no righ, to make thy name
by-word for their deeds;
They change their friends, their principles,
Their fashions, and their crecds;
While thou hast ne'er like them, been known
Thus causelessly to range,
But when thou chdngeSt sides, canst give
Good reason for the change.
The thOughtless oft condemn,
Art touched by many airs from heaven,
Which never breathe on them;
And moved by many impulses,
Which they do never know,
Who, round their carth-horn circles, plod
The dusty paths below.
Thro ode ihofe dark and cherries night,
Thou well has kept III, trust,
hui now, in glory, DER thy head,
The morning light has burst;
And unto earihs true watcher, thus,
When his dark hours have passed,
Win come 'the day-spring from on high"
To cheer his path, at last.
Bright symbol Of fdeiity,
Still may think Of thee
And may the lesson thou dod teach
BE never lost on me
But still, in sunshine or In storm,
Whatever task is mine,
May he faithful to my trust,
As thou has been to ihn2
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-04-25

DIR. G. w. HORTON,

Respectfully informs the inhabitants BrateboTo and cln
ty that he has established himself In the practice Physic
and Surgery in this place. hoping to receive a share Of
public patronage.
a Rooms in Blakes building, Of Main and Elliot
Streets Office In Fisks Building opposite the Post Once
Bratleboro, April 18th, 1856 tie
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-04-25

CousINlNG.-A country gentleman lately ar
rived at Boston, and Immediately repaired to
the house of relative, lady who had mar
ried a merchant Of that city. The parties were
glad 10 see him, and invited him to make their
house his home. as he declared his intention Of
remaining in that city only day or two. The
husband Of the lady, anxious to show his a,ten-
The genleman's horse 10 livery stable in Han
over street.
Finally his visits became visitation, and
the merchant, after lapse of eleven days. found,
besides lodging and boarding The gentleman,
pretty considerable bill had run up at the livery
stable. Accordingly he went to the man who
kept the livery stable and told him when the
gentleman took his horse he would pay the bilI.
VERY good" said the stable keeper, 81 un-
derstand you
Accordingly, in short time, the country
gentleman went TO the stable and ordered his
horse 10 be got ready The bill, of course.
was presented 10 him.
co." said the gentleman, "Mr-my rel
alive will pay this"
"Very good, sir" said the stable keeper,
"please to get an order from Mr.. - it will
be the same as money"
The horse was put up again, and down went
the country gentleman to Long Wharf, whero
the merchant kept.
"Well, am going now," said he.
"Are you - said the gentleman, "welI good
bye, SIR"
"Well about my horse the man said the
bill must be paid for his Keeping"
"Well suppose that is all right, sir"
"Yes-well, but you know I'm your wiic's
cousin.''
"Yes," said the merchant. 81 know you are,
hut your horse is mott"
| We once heard an old fellow, famous all
over the country for tongh yarns, relate the fol-
lowing:
He was telling what heavy wheat he had
seen in the State of New York.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-04-25
NHE PERIODICAL DEPOT HAS BEEN RE

IL moved from opposite the american House to Biakes
Building two doors north Of the Revere House, where
extensive and better selected stock Of Newspapers Pee
Toys, and Fancy Articles, than before, will be
kept, by l.. j. CARPENTER.
BratlebOro, Nov. sth, 1855. ~
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-04-25

"My father" said he, "once had a field Of
wheat the heads of which were so close togeth-
er that the wild turkeys, when they came to eat
it, could walk around on the top of it any
where"
We suggested that the turkeys might have
heen small ones.
"No, SIR" continued he, "ihey were very
large ones. ! shot one Of them one day, and
when | took hold Of his legs TO carry him, his
head dragged in the snow behind me ~
"A curious country you must have had, to
have snow in harvest -
"Well, DECLARE" said he, looking little
foolish, 81 have got parts oftwo stories mixed"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-04-25
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Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-12-03

he, Of his own personal knowledge, knows
that the said Fenner Ferguson, did in the
summer of 1857, live upon and improve
said tract of land, by blowing, fencing,
and planting different kinds of vegetables,
and raised, and gathered, and garnered,
the same and this deponent further says,
that he, of his own personal knowledge,
knows that the said Fenner Ferguson,
did not leave a residence to which he had
a title, for the purpose of pre-empting the
said above described tract Of land.
A. C. STRICKLAND.
Subscribed and sworn 10, before me,
this the Both day of November, AID. 1857.
Witness my hand and seal of office,
T. b. LEMON,
Notary Public, in and for Sarpy County,
Nebraska Territory.
MARSHALL w. %SroDDARD, being du-
ly sworn, deposes and says, that he was
for the last summer past, one of the firm
of Coilman & S%toddard, proprietors of the
Benton House, in Bellevue, Sarpy Coun-
~, Nebraska Territory, hat one Eli p.
Watson, presented to him sometime in the
mcuth of September, last, an affidavit
written, by whom, he does not know.
That said affidavit was general, and that
he signed it, and that he makes this afi-
davit, for the purpose of explaining said
affidavit that he lived as he had stated,
a few rods from the place formerly occu.
pied by Judge Fenner Ferguson, some
time before he pre-empted his claim
that said Judge Fenner Ferguson might
have cultivated, occupied, and improved
the claim he pre-empted, and this depon-
ent not have known it, as this ~deponent's
business occupied all his attention about
his own premises.
MARSHALL w. STODDARD.
Subscribed and sworn to, before me,
this the second day of December, 1867.
Witness my hand and seal of Office,
SILAS A. STRICKLAND.
Notary Public, in and for Sarpy County,
Nebraska Territory.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-12-03
Washington, Nov I3. 1857.

Dispatches were received by the State
Department to day from Chief Justice
Echols, of Utah, dated at Camp on
Sweet Water, twenty one miles east of
South Pass, October l3, 1857" Judge
EchoIs says:
IAN express has just arrived from
Green River, and reports that on the night
of Oct. 3, a train of twenty six wagons
was captured by the Mormons, twenty five
miles from the Pacific Spring. AT the
same time Two other tralus were taken
heal Green River-in all seventy eight
wagons and loading. The Mormons SAID
they had seven hundred men there, and
fifteen hundred more al Salt Lake City.
"Col. Alexander is encamped on Hams
Fort, thirty miles in advance of the front
train, which is destroyed. He sent Capt.
Marcy with four hundred men back to
Green River, to enable the teamsters to
collect their cattle.
The Mormons killed no one, for the
reason that no resistance was made.
"Col. Smith will collect the trains on
this side and escort them forward. One
train is now before us and two behind
We are in good spirits, and that is a great
help to all. The Mormons will likely at
tack US in a day or two and may rue their
iInpudence. We have forty seven men
in this command, but Col. Smith is a host
within himself. We have determined, if
atta cked, to use the rifles in the lines
We shall most likely take The route OH
Bear River for Salt Lake City. The
want of forage for our mules is the great
est hindrance, but we will go on if we
have 10 walk and carry our provisions"
The above despatch, showing the first
overt act of Mormon treason, was imme-
dirtely laid before the President of the
United States, who summoned the mem
bers of the Cabinet for consultation upon
its contents.
The intelligence was considered in
Cabinet meeting in the afternoon, but no
definite action determined on. The Sec
rotary of War thinks it would be hopeless
to attempt to send reinforcements or sup
plies so late in the season as this. Des-
patches are anxiously looked for from
Col. johnson, who is in comm and of the
army for Utah.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-12-03

The BELLEVUE GAzErTE.-We have
received several numbers of the above
paper, from which we learn that its News
and Local department, is under the edito-
rial management of Henry M. Burt, a
young Printer from New England, who
was in the Journal Office for a couple of
months before going to Nebraska. Mr..
Burt is one among the many young men
who have left their New England Homes
to make one for themselves in this glori-
GUS western country. We are pleased to
see Mr.. Burt, thus prosperous in his pro-
~fession, and wish him success in his pres
ent undertaking-all but the bogus dsmoc-
rdcy and so far as this is concerned,
we hope he will inculca,e wherever and
whenever he can, the only true principles
of our beloved country, freedom and the
rights of humanity.
We annex his Platform.-Beloi Vs.
Journal.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-12-03

BELLEVUE GAZETTE.-From the far
Territory Of Nebraska, comes a good
looking paper, with the above title, edited
by Henry NJ. Burt. Judging from the
advertisements, &C., Bellevue is a lively
and hourishing place, with hosts of law
yers, doctors, merchants, sc. May sue
cess attend this new paper, and may u
advocate the true democratic doctrine OF
equal rights to all of every race, color and
clime.-C hieopse Mass Journal ~
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-12-03

Those who visi, the national collection
of curiosilies over the Patent Office in
Washington City, will find in one of the
cases, duly labeled, a piece of leather said
to be tanned from the skin Of a negro ! n
Georgetown, ID. c.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-12-03

BERNHARD NEVER, being duly sworn, de-
poses and says, that he has resided with his
family on the northwest quarter of section
sixteen [l6l, township thirteen [l3], north Of
range thirteen [l3l, east; in Sarpy county,
Nebraska Territory, since March, A. ID. 1855;
that he has known intimately, since that time,
Judge Fenner Ferguson, of said county, and
territory; that he knows well the tract of land
prs-empted by Judge Fenner Ferguson, July
9th, AID. 1857, TO wit: the northeast quarter of
section nine [91, township thirteen [13l, north
of range thirteen l3L east Of the principal
meridian; that said tract Of land, pre-empted
by Judge Fenner Ferguson, as stated and de-
scribed above, is hy section lines, exactly one
half a mile from this deponsnt's land, describ-
ed above, which this deponant p~re-empted at
The land Office, at Omaha City, the l4th day,
Of July, a. D.. 1851; and upon which land
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