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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-05-29
VOL. XIV.
p 0 L T r Y.
THE OLD FOLKS ROOM.


The old man sat by the chimney side,
His face was wr,ui led. and van:
And he leaned both hands on his stout oak can
As il all his work we're lone.
III, coat was of good old fashioned gray,
The pockets were deep and wide,
Where his "spccs' and his steel tobacco box
Lay snugly side by side.
The old man liked to stir the fire,
So, lear him the tOngs were kept
Sometimes he mu~cd as he gazed at the Goals
Sometimes he sat and slept.
What SAW he IN the embers there?
All pictures uf other YEARS;
And now and then they wnkcned smiles,
rut oitcncr started tears
Ills good wife -at ON the other side,
In u hgh-back, flag seat chair,
see meath the pile of her muslin cap
The sheen Of her silvcry hair
There. II happy look on her aged face,
As She bu>ilv knits Tor him,
And Nellie takes up the stitches dropped,
For grudmotherS eyes are dim.
Their children come and read the news,
To pass Il Z time each day;
How It stirs the blood in an old mans heart,
TO hear oi the world away.
lis honcly sccue ,ol you So,
But pleasant it is to view;
At least thought it 50 myself
And .ketched il down for You.
Re kind unto the old, nv friend,
They're worn with this worlds strife,
Though bravcly once perchance they. fought
The stern, fierce battle ofIiic
They taught our youthful fee, TO climb
Upward lile's rugged slope -
Then let lis lead them gently down
To where the weary s,eep.
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lrroni the Boston Journal |
TO THE ROBIN.

Sing away. robin, thou gay little thing;
Thy melody herads the coming Of spring;
Bright vcrdure is Spreading DER meadow and tree,
And bud, leAfing out where thy dwelling shall be.
Where the AR shall be vocal till summer Shall fade
At morning. and eve. with thy sweet .erenadc.
Then sing, robin, sing, sound thy notes loud and long
Our heart, fill with love rs we list to thy song.
The sun. all unclouiei, is opening the dav
q, sing, merry bird, while the dew mclts away;
The earth wears smile at the charm of thy voice,
The cchoing groves aud the valleys rejoice;
The 1ephyrs breathe bhidy the light branches bend
Their delicate rustlings in harmony blend;
The tiuklirg of bells. and the brooks. lend chime,
And with thy sweet warhling all nata'e Keeps tine.
Then sing away. robin, thou beautiful bird,
With gra etu emotions our hearts shall be stirred,
And joy shall abound where thy music is heard.
May TO- 1858. Q.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-05-29

ANIMAL TRACKS OF THE CoNNEcTICUT VAL
LEY.-Among the most deeply interesting pa
pers read before the Scientific Convention at
Baltimore, was one by Professor Edward Hitch
cock, upon the tracks of animals found in the
Connecticut Valley. He described the valley
as classic ground for these sandstone tracks, ten
times more of them having been found there
than elsewhere the globe over, As to the age
of the rocks thus marked, he had recently con-
cluded that portion of them, at least, was as
modern as the Las formation. The cabinet Of
Amherst College contains 5000 individual i'm
pressions of these tracks. Professor Hitchcock
said that most of his time for two years past
had been given 20 grouping the individuals lie
had made ll9 species and 60 genera of them.
He made 81 bipeds, % quadrupeds--lS having
more than four feet, II without feet, and three
of uncertain footing Upon this he dwet the
more, because in the .iInual Of Scientific Dis
corery he had been incorrectly reported as Civ
ing up his theory that they were bird tracks.
Among the quadrupeds he had concluded, but
without evidence that entirely satisfied him, that
five were marsupials-the youngest OF the mann
malials. OF the bipeds, IA were of the thick
toed birds, like the ostrich, and OF the mar
row -toed tribe. These statements OF the most
accomplished Judge of snch matters in the world
and man of great caution, give us astonishing
plimpses into the period when such variety OF
extinct monsters went t.amping or writhlng up
and down the valleys of New England'-boston
Journal.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-05-29

ENGLISH PUT TO Coop UsE.-Prentice of
the Louisville Journal brings his terrible sar-
casm to bear on the last subterfuge of the ad-
ministration, and the following are among his
latest shots -
The administration might with just as much
sense and propriety have said to the people of
Kansas, you may vote as to the truth of the BIZ
Bile, and, if you vote in the affirmative, in you
come with the Lecompton instrument.
Mr.. Enghsh's bill, though neither fish nor
fesh is unquestonably foul
The Buchanan administration seems likely to
become notorious for its use Of bad English.
We have often heard of peoples abusing the
kings English. We think that president Bu-
chanans English cannot be too roundly abused,
for our president has really got the meanest and
basest English that king or president ever had.
An anti-Lecompton editor says the fall of the
apostate author Of the conference bill will GER
tainly break his neck. We have no doubt of it.
Before another month has passed thousands of
his favorite constituents will be paintingthe NOR
al of ambitious treachery IN broken English.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-05-29

JUDICIAL DIGNITY IN NLoUIsIANA.--Speaking
of Grand Juries reminds me that the Parish
Court is now in session here his Honor Kiah
Rodgers, presidng-old Kye, Ky" as they
usually call him. Old Ky was passing sentence
on criminal, and delivered himself as follows:
"Prisoner, stand up. Mr.. Kettles, this Court
is under the painful necessity ofpassing the sem
tence of the law upon you, sir. The Court has
no doubt. Mr.. Kettles, but what you were
brought into this scrape by the use of intoxi-
eating liquor. The friends of this Court all
knors that ef thar is any vice this Court abhors,
it is intemperance. When this Court was a
Young man. Mr.. Kettles, it was considerably in
clined to drink and the friends of this Court
kno,rS that this Court has materially very high
temper. and ef this Court had not stopped short
off, and stopped the use of intoxicating liquor,
! have no doubt, sir bnt what this Court, sir,
would have been in the Penitentiary or IN its
grdre"
Another case was before the Court. An over
seer, who had been discharged. brought suit
against his employer for the whole years wages,
alleging that he had been discharged without
sufficient grounds. Old KY charged the jury
as follows:
The jury will take notice that this Court is
well acquainted with the nature of the case.
When the Court first started out in the world,
it followed the business of overseeing, and ef
there is any business which the Court under
stands, it is hosses, mules and nggers-though
the Court never overseed in its life for less than
SSOO-and this Court in hoss-racin' was always
materially gifted and this Court, in running
quarter race whar the hosses was turned, could
alters turn hoss so as to gain fifteen feet in a
race and that on a certain occasion. in the par
ish OF West Felicrnu, it was one of the condi-
tions of the race that Ky Rodgers shouldn't tmm
nary one Qf tie bosses"
Another case was up. and two lawyers got in
to ight-one of them preacher of our church.
Old Ky called hastily for the Sheriff
:" Mr.. Sheriff Mr.. Sheriff Take them men
to Jail ~ I'll be hanged eff this Court will have
her dignity insulted in this manner
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ALExANDER II. PIKE.

Manufacturer Oi
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&c, manufactured and furnished to order
100000 Feet of Cha pbon rds on hand.
ny Address WEST WARDSBORU, VT.
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ESTEY g. KATH N,
. e MIS- & w ARE i.

Manufacturers nf
WOODY WORTH'S FLAMING MACHl Es,
Of superior style workmanship V various sizes and prices
by the improved styles
PIancrs with TOnsuersS X Growers nftuchcd'
WOOD TURNING LATIlES ANn SAW ARBORs.
1F All orders promptly attended "a
Three doors South the Bridge Mai-s, Brattleboro VI
/ NJ BENIs 1861 \. IL. WARE
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L. G. RICE, PIANO FORTE TUNER,
w be in Braeboro each MONTHS for the purpose OF
Tuning. Newly Swinging. RcPairins. New
ieatherins Hnmmers. ana hcsu'"t"s
The Action Of Piano FOrtcs.
may f the Bookstore of seen and receive
r..r,I.i iltiD AIinu
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-06-23
THE JOURNEYMAN GENTLEMAN
BY GEORGE ARNOLD.

Joe Conway was an oddity.
He was especially delighted in myste-
ries, DISCUSSES, unexpected documents, in.
trigues, and romance generally.
Consequently, he was always getting in
TO very bad scrapes, and-superlluou as
sertion-there was always "a lady in the
case"
This made him q bit of misogamist-
an amateuer woman hater.
Yet, for all that, he could not let the
sex alone!
profound love Of nature and dissipa-
ton, attracted Joe and myself to little
village of D, on the banks of that
charming stream, the Erehwon. Wewent
to fish, to hunt, to sketch, 10 see the
scenery, and to drink, for, as Joe remark
ed, the waters of the Erehwon possess pc
culiarly refreshing qualities-when mixed
with little cogniac."
The afternoon of the second day of our
sojourn found US seated upon flower
spangled slope, skirted by willows, whose
gnarled roots were bathed in the pelucid
Erehwon. We had sought the spot, to
smoke converse, aud digest our some-
what elaborate dinner, in peace and quiet,
with the beauties of nature before our
eyes.
As is very apt to be the case, when two
young men get together, our talk was Of
women.
Women ! what an inexhaustable sub
Ject for contemplation, conversation, wri
ting, oratory, painting, sculpture, and
matrimony!
ats all CANNON" said Joe, ''womer
don't appreciate cultivation, intellect MOI
good fellowship. All they look for is
wealth and position, when they love. II
they don't find those amiable qualities
they won't love, and ifa fellow hasn'
them, he had better let the sex alone
1t takes gilt key to unlock. their pre-
.cious title hearts. That's so %
"You are sadly mistaken joe" said |
''and the worst Of it is you don't know it
You are angry with the husband-hun.er,
who have given you chase, and revenge
yourself 10y damning the whole institu.
iioR of dimity, Your wrong. A mar
Hike you, young, rich, and--well, yes
without flattering, | think / may say toll
'erably good-looking, has no chance. You
sec only the designing ones, who are
bound TO marry your bank-account in
spite of yourself, and they play off theil
charms upon you, ad ad,tSean,"
"But we are,t the artless ones, who don
want money-who are willing to sacrifice
themselves, and all for that, for the SAX,
OF the tender passion ?" .r
They are modest The brazen-faceC
fortune hunters crowd about you, and ac
custom you to being sought. The really
good girls require seeking, aud as that ism !
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-06-23

my soul, and Iwould fain have drunk OBJ.
livion from the wine cups fiery brim, that
same dark eyed woman came, and babe
me in the name of God, to shun the fatal
snare; and, twining her arms around my
neck, while her eyes beamed with loves
deep inspiration, she poured oil upon the
troubled waters told me of purer hopes
and higher aims, and in my ear whispered
a golden word that has outlived ali sor-
row. Leila, would you know the name of
my first love? 'Tis MY MOTHER %
80, Paul, III forgive you, and will share
your love indeed will"
81 knew you would, Leila. Second love
is as dear as the first"
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2LEARFlELD, PA. WEDNESDAY JUNE %, 1853.

ed his theory Of the mercenary character
of women.
And, notice, we never believe ANYTHING
which contradicts our theories.
Finally when the cornice had 10 he fin,
lshed, Louise petitioned her father to have
an ornamental wardrobe put up in her
chamber, Of course, Joe had the task,
although the old commodore prumbled
terribly about employing such slow work.
man.
1t took Joe six weeks to make that ward
robe
BY the time the job was done-very nice
ly done, 1t was too--Joe's theory was quite
done up, and the sweet Louise Hulking-
ton had promised to become his bride in
spite of her father-in spite of her father
in spite Of Joes blue over.alls and paper
cap--in spite of the notions of the world.
Sensible girl
There was only one thing left for Joe to
do--to reveal to her his true position,
which | was very happy to corro6orate.
Three months afterwerd, said good
bye to a newly welded pair just starting
for Europe, on honey moon trip.
As held the tiny white gloved hand of
the bride, and saw her charming face be.
meath the gossamer-tissued veil, depend
ing from her "loye of bonnet" said to
her proud and happy Bridegroom
well, Joe, if you remember our con-
versation, on the banks of the Erehwon
last summer, you can tell me what you
think now, Of the sentiments you then ex-
pressed"
my dear George" said the Journey
man Gentleman" there are exceptions to
all rules"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-06-23
Seeing the Elephant-A snnno

Dan Rice had the misfortune 10 sho,A
his show up at GAINESVILLE, Ohio on H..
peculiarly unlucky day, last Fridoy 'u"S ,Ic
day noted in all the newspapers for-tan -
nadoes, deluges, thunder storms and ~,
the promiscuous deviltries of tIa oIa I
ments. We will let the Aurora fell ba,.
the show showed: '''' 40"
Now the canvas gives a iirl, 10 fboI,
ward circus man shouts out. "Ginv - 80,
broke y and out breaks Madam tia SPpe
morse morse ana all Another circus man shouts
mOut OF this all ofye as soon as Won can p;
lhen helter-skelter, down off the seats
pitching, tumbling, crowding. TEARING
tugging' dragging, screaming women. orS.
ing chlldren-every body making for the
door-while the great old rag was iunnino
ana swing about over head upon lis tall
poles IKE crazy balloon an extra boa.
Wy blast OF wind, and down came a wet
dirty, heavy thing, trailing over the peo.
pie whlle the women gave one grand
scream, ana the men lodged each other
anu every, body else out of the way of the
falling poles. @' y 'io
AT this point in the performances neo.
pie began to ''see the elephant dist;netI,,
when the lightning flashed unon tbe
scene. NP'" WIG
Then and there were bonnets and dres.
SeS' which once were gay in their bright
Golors' now, alas crushed, mussed mud.
qy' ana altogether ridiculous looking
Ladies who had just crawled from npde,
TIE prostrate canvas were holding tbni.
dresses as high as they pleased, and doin.
'heir Dest through about foot deem N
mud and water. Men and boys went about
IN the peltins rain without hats. which
were taken off by the falling tent and tha
mud running off the end Of their noses,
friends were hallooing to each other in
the night and storm. Sarah Jane was cry.
ing ior Mary Ann, whom she said was
u -ad' Folly was stuck fast among the
seats, and many other girls were in 9nfc-.
tunate and unbecoming situations. Pa.
rents were seeking their children, children
were crying for parents, any of whom o
that moment might be founderinp under
the canvas like polywog caught in q
collee sack seIn. While into all this LAST
scene walked the brigandish looking show
men with flaming torches stuck upm,
poles, Illuminating a picture which. could
1t be described, would cap the climax Of
the ridiculous, and-the rest of this thrill ,
ling story will, we hope, be found in thy
New York Ledger Price five cents a CO.
py.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-06-23
ORIGINAL POETRY.
TWILIGHT HOUR,

NY W. W. SHAW.
o happy hour Of rest from toll,
Thy advent with refreshing power,
Genes silently as richest spoil,
At twilight hour.
When is the hour / sve to stroll
Mid bending boughs of every flower,
And gather the faireSt Of the whole
'Tis twilight hour.
The hour of muse 0 sweet art thou
When contemplation weaves a bower
or grace as full as Nature now
Is twilight hour.
o hour of thought! of deepest thought,
When soul and lutte are fraught with power,
And naught but peace surrounds the spot,
Is twilight hour.
0 glorious hour of charming hope
Thy lucid tint doth now assure
a brighter eve will hence elope,
Next twilight hour.
blissful hour A dulcet spell,
Now welcome as a ycrnal shower
Around m steals within the lell,
at twilight hour.
0 cnlmest hour thy murmuring breeze,
Has lulled to rest the busting world,
And philomel alone relieves
Still twilight hour.
0 hour of joy thy rapture fills,
The fount of love with fancied bliss,
And whispers seem to hush tho rills
AT twilight hour.
o dying hour with golden sheet,
Watt in thy breeze holy wish,
To Pagan lands beyond my feet,
This twilight hour.
Stay passing hour Stay thou my light,
Fain would my being wing its way,
Where glows one hour tnat knows no night
Long twilight hour.
Pa, June 7, 1858,
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-06-23

GUARD AGAINST VULGARrY.-We should
guard against the use of every word that
is not perfectly proper, Use no profane
expressions allude to no sentence that
will put to blush the most sensitive. You
know not the tendency Eof habituallv
using indecent and profane Ian suage. Ii
may never be obliterated from your heart
you grow up youwill find at your
tongues end some expression which you
would not use for any money. was on
you learned when you were young. b
being careful you will save yourself d
great deal Of modification and sorrow
Good mon have been taken sick, and b..
come delirious. In these moments the
have used the most vile and indecent lar
guage imaginable. When informed of
after restoration to health, they had
idea of the pain they had given the
friends, and stated that they had learnei
and repeated the expressions in childhood
and though years had passed since, they
had been indellibly stamped upon thr
heart. Think of this, ye who are tempt
ed to use improper language, and never
disgrace yourselves. .T
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-06-23
A Tale of Horrors-An Incarnate Fiend
Can il be?

Governor M'WilIie, of Mississippi, Is
charged by the Vcksburg Southren with
having pardoned out of the Penitentary
man named Dyson, who had assassinated
another man by the name of Nelms, for
which he was simply sentenced to the pri-
son for fourteen years. That paper says
of the criminal;
He waylaid his victim, with whom he
had deadly feud brought him down at
the first shot, and then, emerging from
his hiding place, tainted his dying victim
with words of insult and reproach, and fl
nally concluded by placing the muzzle of
his gun to the body of Nelms and firing q
second time. This shot produced instant
death, and so close was the gun to the
victim that the flesh of the murdered man
was burnt by the explosion. Having COM
pleted the work of slaughter, he deliber-
ately mounted his hor erode to the house
of Nelms, called his wife out, informed
her he had murdered her husband, and
directed here where to find his mangled
corpse!
Dyson is blood-stained, blood-thirsty,
incarnate fiend. He is not a man but
ferocious tiger, ard Governor M'Willie
has no more right to turn such beast
loose upon the community than he has to
open the cages OF whole caravan of ri.
gers. His antecedents are well known,
too, and they should have forbidden all
hope Of executive olemency. The murder
of Nelms was not his first taste of blood.
He had previously, in most base and
cowardly manner, murdered lawyer ma
med Moss, of De Soto county, by shooting
him in the back as Moss rode from him.
He had murdered three of his negroes, and
one of them in a manner so horribly ap-
palling as to cause the death of his own
wife. This case occurred at his sown table,
and the victim of his fendish rage was a
woman. Taking offense at something the
woman did, or omitted to do, while wait
ing at the table, he rose, drew bowie
knife, and with single blow, ripped her
open. His wife swooned, and when she
awoke to consciousness, he had cut the
negro's heart out, and, with it upon his
knife, he thrust il into her. face! She swoon-
ed again, and the result of her horror and
fright brought on convulsions, from the
effects of which she soon died.
The Governor of Mississippi, in this
event, beats the Governor of Ohio in his
acts of executive clemency.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-06-23

Ba9pW have some funny stories about
the freshets in the Vest, but here is one
from the Memphis Appeal which is tri-
fe ahead of any of the others THE Kate
Frisby on her last trip, had among her
passengers gentleman of Bolivar, who
was going to see friend Of his fifty miles
up the river. His business was this: One
day last week he saw nondescript sort
of article floating down the Mississippi
near his plantation; it resembled a minia-
ture Noah's ark, with the hull knocked off
Curiosity led him to board it, when he
was astonished to find himselfi in the store
of friend residing fifty miles up the river
The contents were not greatly injured.
He tied the store TO the shore, and s,arted
off to let his trading friend know where
he might find his lost place of business" 4"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-06-23
rA- The following are from Harper. /.

Magazine:
Davidson College, North Carolina, con
tributes good story of a man with very
bad habit. As 1t is all about living the
reader will believe it or not as he likes
I'm the old North State lives certain
John Long, who draws long bow wher
he has any thing to tell, and his charac
ter for truth and veracity has been below
zerow for many years. Captain Johnson
had been so taken in by one of Johns Out
rageous stories, that he said to him in
pet:
"lf you make me believe one of ypur
lies again in month, III give you fifty
dollars"
John pretended to be quite hurt by the
offer, and went off. few days after,
wards he was riding by the Captains post
haste, on horseback, when the Captaiu
called out to him:
II say, hello, Johnny stop and tell III
lie or two this morning !'
John rode on, but cried most dolefully,
'No time for lying now; brother Jimmy
has just been killed in the machine, anJ
l'm going for the old folks" On he went.
Captain johnson ordered his horse and
rode over to see the dea6 man and Offer
his services, but found him alive and well,
ginning cotton, and in no danger from the
machine.
Just then John rode up and demanded
the fifty dollars. The Captain declared
that it was rascally trick, but he would
have had to pay the money if John had
not let him off"