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Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-04-14

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Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-04-14

E. S. Dundy, Esq. of Archcr, Nebraska
Ty. left here on last Wednesday morning
for his western home. While here, Mr.
Dundy was rendered and accepted, com
pIimentary supper by his former associ-
ates in the legal profession A report of
the correspondence and proceedings will
be found in another column.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-04-14

ffNrThe European governments are said
10 beahoG' to adopt measures TO stop the
emigration to America.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-04-14

CoNGRrssIoNAL.-Since thedisagrecmcnt
between the Senate and the House on the
bill for the admission Of Kansas, very lit
tie has transpircd in either house. 1t is
now believed Il committee Of Conference
will be appointed and that an agreement
will be arrived at. The Senate has passed
the bill for the admission of Minnesota.
givingher two representatives. The House
has passed the Deficiency bill.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-04-14

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Esu.. this evening. committee tu udrr to
Won a complimentary supper At Che NNnsl"n
House. uu auy evening you wly suggest, prior
tu your departure fer your home in h''u,h''
Trusting that you will authorize tlr Com.
mittrr to report favorable auswr. Nr rrm"u
Yours truly, lunN J.. Ctutr,
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-04-14

THS ScHUTE at Lick Run Mills has been
repaired so as to be again safe and easy TO
run; and although notentiraly completed
is in as good order as before it was dana
ged by the ice food Mr.. Irwin deserves
great praise for the promptness and ener-
gy which he has displayed in prosecuting
the repairs.
RMNY WEATHER has prevailed in this
region for some days, and still continues
without much appearance oi clearing oil.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-04-14

LEGlsLATIyE.--Our State legislature seems
to be following in the footsteps of its illus
trious predecessors. Its time is PRINCIPAL
ly occupied, either in doing nothing, or
in doing something that had better be left
undonc. The frequent yet .indicious use
of the veto power by Gov. Packer, indi-
Gates the character Of much of the legisla-
ton of the present session. No bills of
Importance have yet passed This body.
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LOOK BEFORE YOU KICK.

A minister recently, while on his way tt
preach funeral sermon in the country, call
cd to see one of his members, nm old widow
lady, who lived near the road he was travel
ing. The old lady had Just been making
sausages; and she felt proud of them, they
were 50 plump, round and sweet. Of course
she insisted upon the minister taking some ol
the links home to his family. He objected
on account of not having his portmanteau
along. This objection was soon overruled
and the old lady after wrapping them ir
rag, carefully placed bundle in either
pocket of the preachers capacious coat
Thus equipped he started to the funeral.
While attending the solemn ceremonies oi
the grave, some hungry dogs scented tht
sausages, and were not long in tracing then
to the good mans overcoat. Of course this
was great annoyance, and he was severa
times under. the snecessity of kicking the
whelps away.
The obsequ at the grave completed, the
minister and congregation repaired to the
church, where the funeral discourse was tc
be preached.
After the sermon was finished, the minis
ter halted to make some remarks to his con.
pregation, when brother who wished to
have an appointment given out; ascended the
steps of the pulpit and gave the minister's
coat hitch, to get his attention. The divine
thinking it dog having design upon his
pocket, raised his foot, gave a sudden kick,
and sent the good brother sprawling down
the steps. ;,
sYou will excuse me, brethren and sisters!'
said the minister, confusedly, and without
looking at the work he had just done, for
could not avoid it. have sausages in
my pockets, and that dog has been trying
to grab them ever sincel came upon the pre-
mises.'
Our readers may judge of the effects
such an announcement would have at afnne-
raj.
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side, and he would not But he is shut out
as large Arab; constantly told that he is
noisy, that he is awkward and meddlesome,
and plague in general, the boy has at last
found his own company in the streets, in the
highways and hedges, where he runs till the
day comes when the parents want their son,
the sisters their brother, and then they are
scared at the face he brings back to them
as he comes all foul and smutty from the
companionship to which they have doomed
him.
Depend upon 1t if tits too much trouble
to keep your boy in your society, there will
be places found for bim-warmed and light
ed with no friendly fres-herc he who finds
some mischief still for the idle hand to do,
will care for him if you do not. You may
put out tree, and it will grow while you
sleep. but a son you cannot-you must take
trouble for him, either little now or a
great deal by aud by. Let him stay with
you at least portion of the day; bear his
noise and ignorant ways. Put aside your
book or work to tell him story, or show
him picture; devise still parlor plays for
him, for he gains nothing by being allowed
to spoil the comfort of the whole circle. A
pencil, a sheet Of paper and Il few patterns
will sometimes keep him quiet by you for an
hour, while you are talking, or IN corner
he may build block house, annoying no.
body. If he does now and then disturb you,
and it costs you more thought and care to
regulate him there, balance which is the
greatest evil-to be disturbed by him now
or when he is a man.
Of all you can give your Charley, if you
ar a good man or woman, your presence is
the best and safest thing. God never meant
him to do without you, any more than chick
ems were meant to grow without being
brooded.
Then let him have some place in your
house where 1t shall be no sin to hammer
and pound and make all the litter his heart
desires and his various schemes require
Even if you can i'll afford the room, weigh
well between that safe asylum and one
which, if denied, he will make for himself
in the streets.
OF all devices for Charley which we have,
few shelves which he may dignity with the
name of a cabinet, is one of the best. lie
picks up shells and pebbles and stones, all
odds and ends-nothing comes amiss; and
if you give him pair of scissors and a little
gum, there is no end to the labels he will
paste on, and the hours he may innocently
spend, sorting and arranging.
A bottle of liquid gum is an invaluable
resource of various purposes, nor must you
mind though he varnish his nose and fingers
and clothes, (Which he will do of course if
he does nothing worse. A cheap paint box
and some engravings to color, is another;
and if you give him some real paint and
putty to paint and putty his boats and cars,
he is made man.
All these things make trouble-to be sure
they do-but Charley is to make trouble,
that is the nature of the Institution; you arc
only to choose between safe and wholesome
| trouble and the trouble that comes at last
! like whirlwnd. God bless the little fellow
and send US all grace to know what to do
with him.
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TILE ORIGIN OE TuEE yS

Many of our readers have heard of tbs
"First Families of Virginia." but few, ws
take it, know how the term originated. An
exchange explains it thus:
In the early settlement Of that State, it
was found impossible to colonize it unless
women went there. Accordingly, a ship load
was sent out, but no planter was allowed to
marry one of them until he had first paid
one hundred pounds Of tobacco for her
passage. When the second ship load came,
no one would pay more than seventy five
pounds for the matrimonial privilege, except
it were very superior article. Consequent
ly, the descendants of all those who were
sold for one hundred pounds of tobacco
we're ranked as the first families. While
those who brought but seven,y-fve pounds
are now ranked as the second families, and
the reason why, no one can ever find any of
the second families, is because you can's
get Virginian to admit that his mother
only brought seventy-6ve pounds Of TO-.
bacco.
The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-11-27

Hon. W. l.. Dayton once made very
long speech to prove that California never
would be of any use to the United States,
and, says the Baltimore Exchange:
"ln 1923, Major Long, standing on the
South. western shore of Lake Michigan,
described Chicago as wretchsd village
composed of few filthy log huts and bark
houses, inhabited by degenerate race Of
Indians and half breeds. After making an
official reconnaissance of the village, and its
surroundings, with view to ascertain its
ahsaneges h a" port Of entry he
navigation of the lake-the scarcity OF har-
bors along the coast, and the sand banks
were in continual process Of formation on
on the Eastern and Southern shores, would
prevent any works of consequence from
being undertaken to improve that frontier
trading post, and must even prove q serious
obstacle to the increase Of its commercial
imIc1tance.''
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 81, 1858. ~'
A STREET L-E-G.-Nor BY GRAy.

"A sacrilegious wretch who is still at large, write
hus Of an observation the muddy streets On rain!
lay:l
The rustiing sik-the knell OF parted gold,
With waving ease floats by me like sea,
When rising, lo!-from many a lovely fold
Much grace appears to sunshine and to me-
From out the ample hoops-invaluable shade
Where heave twelve yards in many agracefu heal
Each i'll its place, asssif half afraid
Feet like mice from out their lair to peep.
Full many part hid from the eye terrcnc,
The deep recess of crnJiine doth hear,
Full many charm is born to walk unseen,
And waste its graces in the darkest air.
Let not grim prudery, with useless toll,
Hide all these charms in over-anXiuus care,
For cynics hear with disdainfu smile,
OF the dear witchiDg legends OF the fair.
For them indeed doth busy commerce strive;
The bleeding kid parts with its outward wear,
And Lynn on Massachusetts bay, doth thrive,
Where Yankee Crispu plies his thrifty care.
Who, not to dumb torpidity prey,
At once a pleasing vision e'cr resigned
Passed trim ankle on a muddy way,
Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind?
The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-11-27
DEATH OF THE FLOWERS.

rThe year has passed into the "sere and yellow leaf
The days Of melancholy musings have come, and th
mind ipyountarily reverts to BRYANr's death Of tn
Flowers" poem of unsurpassed beauty and one whc
makes the annual round Of the press We present
our readers without word Of apology. 1t will bea
reading at least once year-nSact, 1t really seems
improve with age.l
The melancholy days have come,
The saddcst OF the year;
or waiing winds and naked woods,
And meadows brown and sere,
ueaped in the hollows Of the grove,
The withered leaves lie dead;
They rustic to the eddying gust
And to the rabbits tread;
The robin and the wren have flown,
And from the shrub the jay;
And from the wood-top calls the crow,
Through all the gloomy day.
Where are the flowers the fair young flowers,
That lately sprang and stood
In brighter light and softer airs,
bcauteous sisterhood?
Alas, they are in their graves,
The gentle race Of flowers,
And lying in their lowly bed,
With the fair and good of ours.
The rain is falling where they lie,
But the cold November rain
Calls not out from the gloomy earth
The lovely ones again.
The wild flower and the violet,
They pcrished long ago.
And the briar-rose and the orchis died
Amid the summer glow;
Rnt on. the hin the sriIeu Ioo,
Aud the aSter in the wood,
And the yellow sun-tower by the brok
In autumn beauty stood,
Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven,
As fell the plague on men,
And the brightness Of their smile was gone
From upland gland and glen.
And now when comes the calm, mild day,
As still such days will come,
To call the SQUIRREL and the bee,
From out their wintry home;
When the sound of dropping nuts is heard,
Though all the trees are still,
And twinkle in the smoky light
The waters Of the rill
Tie south wind searches for the flowers
Whose fragrance late he bore,
And sghs to find them in the wood
And by the streams no more.
And then think of one who in
Her youthful beauty died,
The fair, meek blossom, that grew up
And faded by my side;
In the cold moist earth We laid her,
When the forest cast the leaf,
And wept that one SO lovely
Should have a life so brief.
Yet net unIucet il was that one,
Like that young friend of ours,
So gentle and so beautiful,
Should perish with the flowers
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EL0WER AID RIRDCLOCkS.

The great botanist, Linnaus, once invent
cd a flower clock, by placing in circle such
plants as expanded their blossoms each at a
certain hour of the day. In like manner n
German woodsman has invented an ornitho-
logical clock-by marking the hours of the
waking and first notes of the little singers.
The signal is given by chafinch, the earliest
riser among all the feathery tribes its song
precedes the dawn, and is heard in summer
from half past one to two O'Clock, A. NJ
Next, from two to half past two O'Clock,
comes the black cap, whose wnrhlings would
equal those of the nightingale, if they were
not so very short. From half past two to
three O'Clock the quail is heard From three
to half past three the hedge sparrow. Then
from half past three until four O'Clock, We
have the black bird, the mocking bird Of our
climate-which initiates oil tunes so we'll
that NJ. bureau de la Male made all the
black birds of a French canton sing the Mar
seillaise, by letting loose n black bird which
had been taught that tune. From four to
half past four the lark pcurs forth its melo-
dies and from half past four to FIVE o'clock
the black headed titmouse is heard. Lastly,
from five to half past FIVE o'clock-the spar
row--the gan,ia of the skies, awakes and
begins to chirp. Queer horology that!-
Quarter past quail, half past sparrow, and
about eleven minutes of blackbird.
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rwIt is sad to think how many of the
most frequent and popular figures of rhetoric
crumble into nothing as the world moves
on. The Phoenix, with clipped wings and
yielded up the ghost. The Norway mael-
strom which has served to point so many
morals, has been itself whitfield to po9in,
so small as not to be visible to the naked
eve. And now, fersooth, we are told that
famous, or rather Infamous, upas tree OF
Java does not exhale the deadly malaria
which has been supposed, in our simplicity,
to come the mower and reaper over all who
breathed in it. The juice is poisonous, but
all the rest is sailors yarn. So all the
fine talk about the terrible valley of dry
bones around the deadly Upas' is, it seems,
sheer CANNON! What next, we wonder9-
Boston Post.
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FaiIurc of The silk crops!
VI At Td-U N III Fl IITC
Great rise in the price Ui stocks!
Ii IL Ii, I1. L Il

Tho nlacard had not been displayed long
before military officer passed:
'Ah ah = said he, "a battle in India =
So, so. wonder whether my friend Char
ley Fitz Gibbin was in it? hope the English
have beaten the rascal!y blacks. mus
have the paper and see. But why will these
newsvcnders bore fellow with the price OF
stocks? Who cares whether they rise OF
fall? In he went and purchased the paper
and went on his way.
Soon passed another man-sharp- eyed ant
bustling. He cast look on the placard ant
saw the announcement, Failure of the silk
cropsn
BLESS my soul.' he exclaimed. 'blcss my
heart alive. Failure Of the silk crops. I'm
possible! Dreadful, What are the sill
worms about? must know more of this
But why on earth do they trouble us com.
mcrcal men, with Marriage in high life.'-
might as well put my marriage in the pagt
of a newspaper
He then bought the paper and hustled Of
to his silk warehouse, passing on his way {
fashionably dressed individual, with an en-
tirely 'uscd up look on his countcnance and
who cured his mustaches with his finger as
he walked. As the silk merchant passed h,
gave the swell n look Of unutterable contempt
who took no notice, and lounged easily along
towards the news shop.
When he was opposite the placard he stop
ped and said:
.Aw! Mawwiage in high life! My fwient
Gwovcnaw and Lady Navy Snooks, sup
pose. Aw wondaw how the dinnaw wa
awwanged. But it is weally vewy distwes
sing that we should be twoubled with sucl
infewaiw things as silk cwops.'
He purchased paper and went home tt
read the fashionable news before retiring tt
rest
But the shop keeper had another customer
a member of the stock exchange.
'Here you, sir = he bawled out in sharI
voice, 'just give me the morning paper, vii
you Very glad to hear that the stocks have
arisen. Quick! quick | shall lose this op
portunity if don't look sharp. By-the-by
what pity it is you newspaper people ult
fill up the paper with such stuff as marriages
amongst the snobs-when nobody cares {
snap of the finger whether the bride went tt
church in the Queens chariot or in funcra
carriage. Nobody reads that kind of writing
you KNOW and out he went in tiuster
Jumped into cab, and rushed otto the tx
change to sell his stock at bargain.
The shopkeer looked after him with smile
and said:
All so you may sag, my fine fellow, but
know better and as he slapped his well flcC
pocket, he laughed until he grew red in tht
face:
MORAL.
The taste Of mortals are various.
The wise man despises none, but takes the
advantage of all.
CORNELIUS GRIFFITH.
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DANGER OF RUBBING WITH HBRANDY.
p We heard tha other dav of a sinoul,r n nd

We heard the other day of singular and,
we believe, new effect of the application
of brandy rs a medicine. A gentleman, con-
valescing from an attack of sickness, was
recommended by his physician to rub him.
self all over morning and evening with the
best of brandy.
The invalid accordingly sent for his family
grocer with whom he had dealt for years,
and ordered sample of the best old cognac.
Home it came, and that very evening it was
extraordinarily, of course. The conva-
lescent felt better much better, and he con-
tinued to feel better for n day or so, un-
til he awoke one morning, and to his horror,
discovered that his entire cuticle--at
least where in had been rubbed with the
old cognac-had become Of u deep crimson
color.
He sprang out Of bed in alarm. The fam
lily was aroused /; u servant dispatched in hot
haste for the doctor. The invalid's wits
were terribly shaken by this never before
heard of catastrophe. What could be the
cause of it He looked picture for paint.
er, as he sat before the large lookingglass in
an arm chair, and ruefully surveyed his GRIM
son covering. 1t was almost ludicrous; it
was quite as bad as Mr.. Tittlebat Titmouse's
predicament about his purple green hair
But this could be no laughing matter ii
must be some extraordinary phenomenon,
as he explained it to his wondering and
alarmed family.
'And just imagine, my dear, how shall
look all my life, if this confounded thing isn't
cured. Like boiled lobster!-like a boiled
lobster l shall 60 by no other name! oh
dear ! oh dear =
Tho 6nnr hol1 vopr fha frnpt inor opap
ed ; in rushed the doctor. For an instant he
could not contain himself he had to drop
into chair and laugh it out.
'Oh, it's very funny to you, no doubt,
Doctor; but how would you like to go about
all tho balance of your days, looking like an
over done lobstcr?'
The doctor burst out again at this; but he
saw that his sick man aud family were really
alarmed, and he soon sobered down to his
usual pulse feeling.
'Maybe it's the iodine, Doctor suggest
ed the anxious wife.
'Oh, it's ironed in, no doubt said the
patient, indulging the ruling passion strong
in death.
The doctor shook his head.
'IIad that rubbing been done as he pres
cribed =
Yes, faithfully
'Good brandy
yes, the very best-wc use no other.'
sLet me have it,
The brandy was brought. The doctor
tasted it, and shook his head again.
I'll take it home to examine it chemically.
There are so many tricks among the liquor
Dealers
'Oh, no fear of that with our grocer. lie
sells nothing but the best liquors, imported
direct by HIMSELF
sNo doubt. III look in it, nevertheless.
And, calming the family's alarm, the good
doctor departed, the pure old cognac in his
pocket.
That evening came note from him; 'Dear
l., make yourself perfectly easy: The
cognac is first proof whisky, and won't hurt
you. 1t was the logwood i'll it that did your
business
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ALAwYEE'S STORY,

Tom strikes Dick over the shoulder With
rattan as big as your little finger: 4 law
yer in his indictment would tell you the story
as follows:-''And that whereas, the said
Thomas, at the said place on the year and
day aforesaid, in and upon the body Of said
Richard, against the people of the State of
Pennsylvania, and their dignity, did make a
most violent assault, and inflicted great
many and divers blows, kicks, cuffs, thumps,
bumps, contasions, gashes, hyr,s, wounds,
cuts, damages and injuries, in and upon
the head, neck, breast, stomach, hips, knees,
hips and heels Of said Richard, with divers
sticks, canes, poles, clubs, logs of wood,
stones, daggers, dirks, swords, pistols, bow
ie-knives, cutlasses, bludgcons, blunder-
busses and boarding pixies then and there
held in the hands, fists, claws and clutches,
of him the said Thomas,o