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From the Chicago Tribune.
AN OLD MANS SPEECH.

We print below the remarks made by a
veteran one hundred and seventeen years of
age, at the Pioneer Festival in Madison,
Wisconsin, on Thursday last. What events
have been crowded into this mans life -
When he was born, Frederick the Great, was
engaged in furious war, and Anson was
making his remarkable voyage around the
world. He was "chunk of boy when
Franklin made his great discoveries in elec-
tricity, of which the electric telegraph is
the result. At the time of Braddock's de-
feat he was as old as many alad who carried
a musket under the lead of Washington
twenty years later. He was rs years of age
when resistance to the stamp act in Massa-
chusetts began, and was qualified by his
years to occupy seat in the first Colonial
Congress in 1856.
He might have accompanied Boone in his
explorations of Kcntucky-a State that now
contains more thana million of people. Had
he gone to Europe when he was over thirty
years of age, he might have seen and heard
Hume, Burke, johnson, Pitt, Goldsmith,
Voltaire, Klopstock and Lessing-all long
since dead, and historically valued by their
successors. He was middle aged man, in
the full vigor of life, when the war of In
dependence closed, and Washington was
President of the United States. He saw the
rise and opening of the French Revolution !;
He was witness of the whole career of Ma
poleon. He was old-more than three score
and ten-when Hull surrendered at Detroit;
yet, how few who were there then alive to
tell the story now He has seen the country
grow from collection of English, French
and Spanish colonies, containing popula-
tion of less than two millions, to the rank of
a first class power. But, in one hundred
and seventeen years, what has he not seen !!
Joseph Crelie, whose remarks we copy
from the Madison Journal, is probably the
oldest man in the United States He said:-
FELLOW PIONEERS II have looked for
ward with deep interest to this MEETING
IeTullt ue, du olu Adn, Will Ihe Aioeto VI
one hundred and seventeen winters now
whitening my brow, to greet you to-day and
to you express the hope that you may live
these many years to meet together on similar
occasions. My own pioneer life has been
peaceful, rather than eventful. A native Of
Detroit, I was partly raised at Kaskaskia and
Prairie du Roche, in Illinois, and subse-
quently became an inhabitant of St. Louis,
under Spanish rule, and for many years Of
the last century was engaged as voyager
between St. Louis and Prairie du Chieu,
via Wisconsin and Fox rivers and Mackinaw.
I was, in 1914, participant with the Amer
leans in the conflict at Prairie du Chieu, and
served as an express carrier in the Black
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~ eff a man would see gray hairs upen
his head before their time, beggary and ruin
the sole legacy left to wife and children,
now rolling in every luxury, and brought up
to it all if he wants to see defrauded and
indignant creditors, an old age of penury
and dependence, a family driven by debtand
false ideas into every degradation and crime
then let him spread all sail which he can
borrow credit to every reckless customer,
boast of his sales, live in brown stone and
rosewood, surround himself with carved furn.
iture and costly imported lu1uries of all
kinds; let him bring up his children to be
waited upon by troops of servants-the end
will come sooner than he expects; he will be
caught in some nip Of the ice, and sink like
lump Of lead into the mighty waters"
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Hawk war when companion was shot dead
by my side by the stealthy Indians in am
buscade: being myself a Frenchman, and
my wife related to the Indians, l have rea.
son to believe I was purposely spared
Forty-one years ago located at the Wis.
consin Portage, and nearly third of cen.
tury since l was mail carrier between Min.
eral Point and Green Bay. 1t has fallen to
my lot to live successfully in the same coun-
try, under French, British, Spanish and A.
merican Governments-and I have defended
the latter at the hazard of my life. Though
I have thus spent my life upon the frontiers,
my memory is too frail to permit me to 60
into dates, and could I recall them, I fear
they would only serve to fill up the picture,
already but too we'll known, of border dan
gers, difficulties and privations. Ihave been
three times married, and of nine children
but a single one survives-the seventh by
my first marriage, and she has nearly reached
the age of three score and ten allotted to
our race. But have grand children al
most without number; and for the benefit
of some of the latter, hope yet to obtain
some bounty land from Government for my
earl services.
l come down to you, fellow pioneers, from
former century-an old man, with the hab-
its, customs and feelings of the simple heart
ed, contented race of century ago, with
few wants, and no ambitious aspiration. I
can in truth say that love my native land ;
1 have cheerfully risked my own life in its
defence, in repelling the British and Indian
foe; and [ trust there are none here to-day,
who will fail to stand by our country in every
hour of trial and danger-none who will
ever, under any plea, lend themselves to the
disreputable work of weakening the ties that
bind together our glorious Union. I have
lived here in the West, under despotic sway,
aud know full we'll how to appreciate the
blessings of free government, which I hear
tily commend to your final love and protec-
tion.
In conclusion fellow pioneers, can only
give you-it is all I have to ofer-an old
mans prayer and blessing.
Of the proceedings the Argus and Demo-
crat says:
The old pioneers went off into the most
jovial reparteeing Of their own, telling sto-
ries, making comments on the progress of
the West, and indulging in not few hearty
old-fashioned jokes. An occasional scintil-
lation of wit from rough and hearty sold
settler" would convulse the house in laugh
ter, and again sudden outRRHFsttt utlRyRHtt lb0rsl
feeling not unfrequeutly .t into the eyes of
those present. The occasion was one of ex-
traordinary and peculiar interest, and all
seemed to feel it so, from the new conner to
our State to the first adventurers within its
wild territory years ago. Quite number of
the fairer sex, who were pioneers also, and
had shared in the joys and SORROWS of from
tier life, were present, and joined in the
Some of their children, men
and women growh, were also there and
pointed out with pride by the speakers, who
fairly run over with enthusiasm.
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Our misguided heroine lived as we hav
said, and died not of broken heart, but o
restless spirit,a discontented soul-and sh,
left no halo round her name-but we vii
hope that "aftcr life's itful fever she slep
we'll"
And he of whom we have spoken-he wht
was her fate, it may be asked, what became
of him ? Had he no share of suffering p
Well, he did feel uncomfortable about it a
first. He had given her all the love that ht
could spare from himself, even more than he
had ever given any one before, and he wa:
sorry that she was so exacting. During hi:
acquaintance with the pure-minded and de-
voted girl, he had felt himself "not all evil;'
he had even dreamed of an existence differ,
ent from all the past; he had began to en-.
tertain respect for the virtues and proprie,
ties of life-they had lost some of their in.
sipidity. He thought he might make a re-
spectacle family-man without too much effort,
and if he did retain favorite vice or TWO,
he could do so in the quiet manner which
would suit his indolent temper, as well as it
would suit his altered circumstances. But
when the curtain of the past was undrawn,
and all the degradation of his former life,
and the deformity of his disposition laid bare
before the astounded girl, and he saw its
horrifying effect upon her, he concluded that
to set it all right; to make for himself new
character in her eyes, to regain her conf
dence (heartless as he was, he knew that she
had given him an undying love) would re-
quire stronger effort than he had the cour-
age to make; in short, there were too many
women in the world, no one was worth so
much trouble, superior though she was so
with well-acted reluctance, and many high
sounding words about "a blighted heart-a
joyless existence" and few beautifully
written letters (Which were boarded through
life, as the miner boards his gold) he accept
ed the freedom she gave him, and returned
perhaps with renewed zest, to the life which
his episode with her had interrupted. A
dissipated manhood, disreputable age, ard
a solitary death were his.
Young man, young writer, let not "your
soul be sad," indulge no idle melancholy,
brood over no fancied injuries, grieve for no
faithless friend, or lady love. twill scarce
ly entail upon you suffering like that we have
described such is for women
only, and fortunately but for few of them,
but it may paralyze your energies, cause you
to neglect opportunities which may not offer
themselves again-unGt you for rea! active
life. You have no right to despair: for
The gls9%est niss day hath glssms Of light -,
And twiakles thro' the cloudest night
Some solitary star to cheer it.
The gloomiest soul is not all gloom;
The saddest heart is not all sadness,
And sweetly DER the darkest doom
There shines some lingering beam of gladness.
Despair is never quite despair;
Nor life, nor death, the future closes;
And round the shadowy brow Of care
Will hope, and fancy twine theirroses."
COLUMBIA, June 26th, 1857.
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A "TAIL" OF A SNAKE.

"Animals," says the lawyer, "sometimes
very nearly approach reason in their cum,
ming.
81 got interested in the study of serpents
down in Arkansas, where spent most of last
year. don't know why, but I was con-
stantly watching them and testing their sa-
gacity, by placing them in new situations,
and surrounding them with novel expedi-
ents. Of all kinds, I experimental most
with rattlesnakes and copperheads.
"One afternoon I seated myself on a lit
tie knoll in the woods to smoke and read
for always had book or newspaper with
me-and had been enjoying myself for some
time, when espied a copperhead making
for hole within ten feet of where sat. Of
course I threw down my book and cigar, and
proceeded to try new experiment. As soon
as I stirred the rascal made a rush for the
hole; but caught the tail as he got nearly
in, and jerked him some twenty feet back
ward. He threw himself into coil in no
time, and waited for me to pitch in. But
concluded not to let him try his hole again.
"After while he started for it, stopping
when stirred to coil himself up; but as l
kept pretty quiet, he recovered confidence
and again wentin. Again I jerked him out.
No sooner did he hit the ground than he
made grand rush for the hole in straight
line for my legs! But that didn't work, for
l got out of the way, and gave him another
firt.
"This time he lay still awhile, appearing
to reflect on the course to be taken. After
time he tried it again, though rather slow
ly. After getting his head little way in,
he stopped and wriggled his tail, as if on
purpose for me to grab it. Ibid so; and
quicker than flash he drew his head out,
and came within a quarter of an inch of
striking me in the face. However, jerked
him quite distance, and resolved to look
out the next time. Well, he tried the same
t5o YurcK Tor hin.
"This time he lay in coil half an hour,
without stirring. At last, however, he tried
it once more. He advanced to within five
feet ofthe hole very slowly, coiled again, and
then, by heavens got the start Of me by one
of the cutest tricks you ever heard o."
Chow was it" we all exclaimed, in one
breath.
"Why," said the narrator, sinking his
voice to the acme of solemnity, and looking
as honest and sober as man could look,
",chy he just turned his head topards my
hand, and aoent down that hole tail first"
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pering with such natures by those who have
charge over them. Few who have not been
taught by sad experience know the mental
sufferings of a timid and nervous child
Many man and woman now in robust
health secretly suffers from the injudicious
and criminal course pursued towards them in
their infancy; for so delicate machine is
the mind, and especially the young mind,
that slight shock will cause arrangement
in it which years seem powerless to efface.-
Philadelphia Eyening Journal
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ate from each other. At the hour of repass
the members of each family divide; two
brothers, two sisters, and even husband and
wife, parents and children, have each their
respective basket. They place themselves at
the distance Of two or three yards from each
other, they turn their backs, and take their
meal in profound silence.
Among the greater part of the American
Indians, the host is continually on the watch
to solicit his visitors to eat, but touches no.
thing himself. In New France the host wea-
ries himself with singing to divert the com.
pany while they eat
The Tartars pull a man by the ear, to press
him to drink; and they continue tormenting
him, till be opens his mouth they then clap
their hands and dance before him.
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ba~ SATURDAY NIGHT! rich in pleasant

Ba@ SATURDAY NIGHT rich in pleasant
thoughts and memories! There is low,
murmuring music in the phrase, like dying
away of Sabbath bells. The tolls of busy
week are ended and the grasping throDg goes
seeking home and its rest. The fires of
trade, per centum and gain, burns down dim
ly, and a soothing tide flows back into the
deep of the heart.
Saturday night! how suggestive of many
pleasant things Rest to the Masses. Peace
to the stirring SONS of toll. As the shadow
of the evening lengthens, blessed vision
creeps up in its wake of welcome smile
blessing happy home, and of fat armed
children with dimpled cheeks playing watch
and wait around vine shadowed gate. To
some, and their name is legion, it stirs Wis
ion of a dove like creature waiting in eager
suspense for a we'll known football upon a
graveled walk, and pleasant reunion with
nothing but moonbeams to mar its enjoyment
Somehow it is an evening of more memories
than all other evenings. The focks and
herds may not know when it cometh, but
somehow their bellshave softer chime, and
the birds are longer in getting their bills
under the wing, and even after the shadow
of twilight has departed they chatter lula
by like little children before they slumber.
Saturday night! how it stirs up olden men,
cries; and some blessed ones, the like of
which we shall never see again; but let the
heart utter its thanks devoutly that bright
and blessed SABBATH breaks upon the To-
n,orrop !-Spiri of the Age.
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nr Or GouNsE1. To PARENTS the fol.

p@ OF COUNSEL TO PARENTS, the fol-
lowing is an excellent chance bit:-"What-
ever you think proper to grant child, let it
be granted at the first word, without entreaty
or prayer, and above all, soithont making any
conditions. Grant with pleasure, refuse
with reluctance; but let your refusal be ir-
revocable-let not importantly shake your
resolution, let the positive "No," when
once pronounced be wall of brass, which
a child, when he has tried his strength a.
gainst it half dozen times, shall never more
endeavor to shake"
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her cheeks, that we're so charmingly becom.
ing, and that half smile dimpling the rosy
small mouth, that he could hardly believe
had said such ue,y unkind things to him
only few hours before.
Now, Harry Leeds was very proud of his
wife, and of the evident admiration which
her occasional advent at the store always ex-
cited. He rose up to meet her, the surprise
in his face halfchasing the cloud therefrom.
She came close to him.
"Harry," whispered the soft, eager, timid
voice. "1'm so very sorry I said those cross
things to you this morning! I was greatly
to blame, and they've made me unhappy ever
since solve come clear down here to make
up, and hear you say once more that you
love me-"
The cloud was all gone. There was
world of fond tenderness that looked down
from those dark eyes on the lady.
"Why, bless you, Adeline! you haven't
come clear off here for that? I was more
to blame than you great deal but some
business matters were troubling me, and I
am touchy fellow, any how, 1 guess"
"No, you're not. felt all the time that
you were displeased with me. But you do
love me just as well as ever?"
That smile, that glance. would have salts
fed any wife.
"She is a jewel, any how" murmured
Harry Leeds to himself, after she had left,
as he arranged his disordered desk, with his
face as changed and bright as the sky out
side, for the sun had suddenly plunged
through the clouds. eff We have pretty
good sales this week, I'll just get her that
carpet for Christmas present, see if 1
dom t."
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LARGE EARN1Nas.-Mr. Joseph Segar, a
candidate for the Legislature Of Virginia,
who has already served in that body, and
who voted for all works of Internal Improv-
ment engaged in by his State, in an address
to the electors of his county, informs them
that: J
All over the United States railroads far
worse conditioned than our own are paying,
and paying well. All the Southern and
.WestArn.s Nhielrzrsra6s s.Hsnnslss
per cent. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
with worse curvature and climate and far
sleeper grades, requiring six-tenths of its
gross income to pay working charges, is earn
ing more than s5,O00,0OO year, more than
s5O0,0O0 a month, $4,000 a day, more
than $500 per hour, and $12 per minute.
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BEAUTY.-socrates called beauty short
lived tyranny; Plato, privilege of nature !;
Theopharstus, a silent cheat; Aristotle af-
frmed that beauty was better than all the
letters of recommendation in the world !;
Homer, that it was glorious gift of nature !;
and Ovid, alluding to it, called it a favor
bestowed by the gods.
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"a A man should never be ashamed to
own that he has been in the wrong; which
is but saying in other words, that he is wiser
to-day than he was yesterday. So says Pope,
and truly too; yet how many fools there are
who persist in their own opinions to the dis
gust of all sensible people.
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SLIDING SCALE OF CR1ME.-DeQuincy
says, "if once man INDUCES himself in
murder, very soon he comes to think little
of robbing; and from robbing he comes next
to drinking; and from that to iucivility and
procrastination.
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Criminal 4oetrp.
Written for the Yorkville Enquirer.


TO MAGGIE.
Oh Maggie when the sunset,
Pours gold o'er yonder hill,
And the breeze is softly sighing
To my lonely soluble still
When the stars in mildest splendor
In that distant land above,
Shine upon the earth as tender
AS young Beauty's dreams of love;
Oh tits then my gentle Maggie,
That I love to think of thee,
When my soul in all the heaven
Of thy loveliness is free.
Basking then in Hopes sweet sunlight
Dreaming what my fate shall be
Only is the future bright,
When I think of love and thee.
But those dreams soon pass away
And my soul is left to pine,
Till thy smiles like gentle starlight,
Comes with soothing so divine.
Oh I'd give, Fame, Wealth and Honor
All the treasures of the sea,
Heaven itself, if it would win
Only win thy love for me.
June 1857.
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HARD T1MEs.-Si:ting on q cold grind.
stone and reading tho Psssidsaps msssss.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-03-19

Henry Beekman and Elias II. Herrick. old mer'
chants Of New York, died on Monday last.
The bark Rhodes, from New Orleans for Genoa,
about the eafety of which fears were entertained
arrived safely ia port Feb. ID
The first regiment of New York volunteers was
to have celebration in San Francisco on the 9Th
instant, the anniversary CT their arrival in Cali
fornis.
public reception il to be given to Hon. Caleb
Gushing At Newburyport, Mass, on his arrival
there from Washington.
A. H Lawrence, an eminent lawyer Of Wash.
ington died Tuesday morning.
President Buchanan's Hrst dinner party comes
off to-day.
Col. r. A Claybrook IL q candidate for the Ls
eiss,ure from Northumberland.
TAsrs arc 15s students in the College Of South
CAroiins.
A salute Of leo guns was fred in Austin, Texas
on the 4th inst, in honor Of the Inauguration O
President Buchanan.
The famous horse North Star was sold at auc.
ton last week. In Providence. r. l.. for $500.
Judge Roberts OF 6hslby co., Texas, has bees
slscted 70 the Supreme Court of that city.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-03-19

MOB IN MINNEsoTA.-The removal of the seat
Of government, is M!nnesota, and the consequent
"claim'jumping," has caused considerable disorder
in that Territory. At st Peter, persons have
barely escaped with their lives during the tumu,t
and the sank Rapids Frontiersman publishes
Claim Association" of Upper St. Cloud figured
largely. siezpg three young men, Messrs. Boone
Orr aud Wilson. who where making claim near
the plsce-p;nioning them, shaving their heads,
snd then, says the Frontiersman, 'for pa slime
during the night they would drink all round, then
throw their prisoners on their faces With four men
to hold them and to apply the cowhids and deal
out number of lashes on eaQ5." The villains
also threatened to shoot them, aLd were W ith dis-
fcuity deferred from doing so
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-03-19

,iyos $40 uEIiEg .S~u@.VQU
-: 1:ais i-Ss.1 $40; halves ,; Quarters $50
PLAN 0R The LOTTERY.
sts N,ubgTs from . 50 100, corresponding with
'a N,I1bsr. on tie I.aSe.s printed separate
80 Of pspersro onoirdied VIA saiI sin suoes ana
p6ssd IN ole " nee ., =, .-,,
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s-- p,scgd IA smother wheel.
- wheels a.e then revo!ved, and a number is
- ron III wheel Of Numoe ana st the same
t+,.. = gtize is drawn from the oteer wheel The
- sad Prize drawn ont are opened and exhib-
-, ne audience, LEd registered By the Commits
,ir.r,; the Plize being .sced against the Number
srawn TLis operation Ia repeated until sil the
PrIzesgre Drawn 0nt.
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tfs Two cssediug kumhofs to these drawing the
81, IL prizs. will be entitled TO the IS A.prI xims-
80 PT,ze. according TO the scheme.
Ths 500 prizes OF $50 will be determined By the
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gnr srsmpie. d ths pumber drawing the $4,000
,izs esas with No, then all the tickets where the
snrohsT enst in viii ba entitled to $40. If the
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. Csr.:icstes of pacsasas viii be sold st tine FOL.
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" 10 haf ...... 90
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Ir ORpERIsG TICKETS OR CERTIFICATES,
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