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Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-01-03
Special Clothes.

yAnRRen N1ucc and Remember Iti-rbot I'm
s ip bnhEk Is not and will be- an Agent nv
i vs ioi LIE SPl Mhnc II remains In the hands OF -
"""u FOSS Il FARNUM
tho iads 5 inc undersigned returns many thanks 10
~, cs hlu gentlemen for the assistance rendered. ~
nav" t iast any earnestly hopes that similar aca
jy3 dIt $"'' W any 9 nnIi; ,o,,,,,.
, N0tce:The organization of the City Government Of
~ worcester for the year lS5g will take nlare
a . ine Nly lial on MONDAY, january 3d. lSj NJ len
WYNN u M Members elect Of the Bonrl of Ahcrmcn
@ Nunnpn Council. are requested TO assemble In tIcir
gcspeeve looms, at the city Hail. at that time On
zcns generally are invited to be present ' ~"
Worcester, Dec. 20, 1858 Hi ~ '', M
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-01-03

DR. y. Clnwson Kelley, AnalytlcnI phvsicinu
ms removed his office % No. l MAIN STnEFr tonnositr
the Post Oicc and will be in attendance thore ta vvo
vce % patients IN AL DISEASES, particularly dsensos
~ ine Lungs, LIVER Kidneys and OF other orpnns win
lnoir huenunR symptoms free of charge tho lat Thur
gentlemen are invited 10 call Willis ""'s ~"
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-01-03

nnncing;-MR. MRS. MOORE rcspoct0,lv nm.
nVunco tnat their mex term for Instruction IN nncn"
MNn confluence on SATURDAY Jan Bth nj Drnlrv tinh'
Hours Of attendance from 70 r. ,ISt. M, ni
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-01-03

The speaker then proceeded at length, in defence of
his theory answering objections and illustrating
by personal references &c. The discourse was fair
and candid in its tone, and was well received.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-01-03

CoURTo COMMON PLEAs.-In the case of Samuel
the city of Worcester, for the support of pauper
named Elmira X. Morse, the jury returned verdict
for the defendant, awarding the of $685.
The case of David f. Parmenter rs. Alonzo v.
Lynde was resumed. This was an action of replev-
in, brought to recover quantity of wood lying in
Rutland, valued at about $780, The wood was sold
by Parmenter to Taft, in the Fall of 1856, Taft
giving his note at six months. In March, 1857, and
before the note fell due, Taft gave the defendant
who is sawyer, residing in the vicinity of Boston,
a mortgage covering the wood in question, and 9TH
property, to secure the payment of the of f-
teen hundred dollars, alleged to have been loaned
Taft by Lynde. Lynde took possession of the wood,
and offered it for sale under the mortgage, and on
the day advertised for the SALE this action of repev
in was commenced and the wood delivered to Par
menter by the officer who served the writ. Parmen-
SALE by the terms of which Taft was not to have
possession of the wood till his note matured and was
paid. There were other grounds upon which the
plaintiff rested his claim to the wood but the above
was the principal one disclosed at the trial After
spending nearly day in the trial. the defendant
consented that the plaintiff should have Judgment
for the wood each party to pay his costs. Dew
ey & Williams for plaintiff, Devens & Hoar for de-
PENDANT.
The case of Peter Goulding WIN. o, SWEET was
given to the jury. They had not agreed upon YER
dict at the adjournment of the Court. Dewey &
Williams for plaintiff Dwight Foster for defendant.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-01-03

A HANDSOME pREsENT-On New Years day Mr.
S. C. Head of this city, the popular conductor of
the first train to Boston, presented by the
ticket holders and other patrons of the Boston and
Worcester Railroad, with the handsome sum of one
hundred and seventy dollars, as a testimonial of
their appreciation of his valuable services as care
full, prudent, and obliging conductor, and of their
regard for him man. The presentation
made ON the arrival of the cars at Worcester, by
G. z. Bancroft, Esq, of Boston, formerly of this
city, who placed in Mr., Heads hands, with the
pments of the season, sealed package, containing
the cash and friendly letter, signed by the DONORS
sixty in number,l expressive of their good WILL and
of the motives that had prompted the gift.
Mr.. Head, after perusing the letter. expressed to
Mr.. Bancroft, and the gentlemen associated with
him, his heartfelt thanks for their generosity, and
pledged TO them, the only return he could
make his best efforts in the future, as they had been
given in the past, to render much of "lfes jour
ney'' to each and all of them, might lie over the
Boston and Worcester Railroad, as comfortable at
all times, as the circumstances of the case would
allow.
Mr.. Head has long been considered by the travel
ing public, as model conductor, and we are glad
that he has received substantial and well deserved
testimonial of the public regard.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-09
WHAT THEY THINK AND SAY.

The freedoms Champion, Republican pa
per published at Atchson City, Kansas, speak
ing of ssOld John Brown" says:
s'knOwing the character Of the man, and fa-
miliar with his course for the past two years,
as ne arly all citizens of Kansas are, none here
will be surprised at his attempted insurrection
and its bloody termination. OF him, we might
say with truth, his wrongs have made him
| mad There was fine when John Brown,
the Pennsy ylyania farmer, and his sons, were
as peaceable and peace loving citizens as could
be found in our country. lie came to Kansas
early, and loving the cause of freedom, he was
an earnest Free State man. For this he suf-
fercd. He saw his home invaded and destroy
ed he mOurned the death of beloved son.
And these great wrongs craZed the old man,
aud made him fanatic. mono maniac, with
but one thought, one idea, one mpulse-ven-
geance on the slave power, which had destroy
troyed his peace, revenge on the men who had
murdered his kindred and friends. 1t is said
that he took an awful oath that while life re-
mained his hand should be raised against this
power, and he would war against it to the
death. No sane man, however strong in his
convictions against slavery, will pretend to
justify the mad course he pursued All will
unite in condemning it, and no Northern man
but would every effort to put down such
an expedition as he undertook. The termina-
tion of his foray will be the termination of
every such insane and murderous attempt to
None but madmen woieT ever attempt it, and
they will meet with mfhman's death.''
The Laurence Repubfs az, remarks: ssThe
telegraph reports servnI es.surrection in Vir-
ginia, said to be led by old John Brown, for
merly of this territory. 1t is doubted by some
whether the report is corTect-athough we
think it quite likely, as ever since the old
mans son was murdered by the Border Ruf-
fans, he has been regarded here as mono
maniac upon the subject of the slave power.
His often expressed belief has been that he
was dvinely commissioned Instrument for
the overthrow of the Slave power in the South.
If it indeed is true that the old man has en-
gagged in the insane attempt of carrying out
his wild scheme by the red right hand of rev.
olution, it can only be regarded as the expi-
ring effort of a brain maddened by repeated
injuries and bereavements sustained at the
hand of that remorseless power against which
he has at last turned with auch a reckless and
insane daring.''
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-09

THE NATIONS WITHOUT FIRE.-According
to Pliny, fire was for long time unknown to
some of the ancient Egyptians; and when
Exodus, the celebrated astronomer, showed it
to them. they were absolutely in raptures.
The Persians, Ph9nicans, Greeks and sever
al other nations, acknowledged that their an
cestorS were without the use of fire; and the
Chinese confess the same of their proge lltors.
Pomponus, Mela, Plutarch, and other ancient
authors, speak of nations who, at the time
they wrote knew not the of fire, or had
Just but learned it. Facts of the same kind
are also attested by several modern nations.
The inhabitants of the Marian Islands, which
were discovered in 1851, had no idea of fire.
Never was astonishment greater than theirs
when they saw it on the descent of Magellan
in one of their islands. At first they believed
il to be some kind of an animal that fixed to
and fe ID upon wood. The inhabitants of the
Philippine and Canary Islands were formerly
equally ignorant. Africa presents, even in
our own day, some nations in this deplorable
state.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-09

EVIDENCES OF THE BIBLE.-Nature is a vast
tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has
its own significancy, and becomes poetry in
the mind when read and geology is simply
the key by which myriads of these signs, hith-
erto undecpherable, can be unlocked and
perused, and thus new province added to the
poetical domain. We are told by travellers,
that the rocks of the wilderness of Sinai are
lettered over with strange characters, inscribed
during the forty years wanderings of Israel.
They testify, in their very existence, of re-
mote past, when the cloud o'er-Shadowed tab
ernacle rose amid the tents of the desert, and
who shall dare say whether TO the scholar who
could drive into their hidden meanings they
might not be found charged with the very songs
sung of old by Moses and by Milan, when
the rolled over the pride of Egypt? To
the geOlogist, every rock bears its inscription
engraved in ancient hieroglyphic characters,
that tell of the Creators jouTneyings of old,
of the laws which he gave, the tabernaclcs
which he reared, and the marvels which he
wrought-of mute prophecies wrapped up in
type and symbol-of earth CULTS that opened
and of reptiles that hew-of fiery plaques that
devastated on the dry land, and OF hosts more
numerous than that of Pharaoh, that ''snnk
like lead in the mighty waters )" and, having
in some degree mastered the occult meanings
of these strange hiernglyphIcs, must be
permitted to refer, in asserting the poetry of
our science, to the sublime revelations with
which they are charged ,and the vivid imagery
which they conjure up.-Hugh Miller.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-09

Hon. John p. Hale has published letter In
reference TO the attempt of the n. Y Herald
TO implicate him IN the Harper's Ferry insur.
rection. He says that he shall not undertake
the task of vindicating the other gentlemen
whose names are mentioned, but so far as il
relates TO himself can only reply by DENYING
every word of the charge, and pronounces the
whole of it from beginning to end false, and
challenges testimony, either written or YER
bal, containing the charge thus made. He de-
nies ever having ahy knowledge or intimation
from any one that an insurrection or outbreak
was contemplated by John Brown or any one
else, in Virginia or elsewhere, and pledges
himself, if any evidence is laid before
Grand Jury of Mary land or Virginia, and they
find bill, to go there for trial.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-09

PROPERTIES OF IRoN.-In the year 1850 Mr..
March an able chemist, connected with the
Royal Arsenal, discovered that it is an invarI-
able rule with iron which has remained con-
siderable time under water. when reduced to
small grains or an impalpable powder to be-
come red hot, and ignite with any substance
with which it comes in contact This be
found by scalpng some corroded metal from
gun, which ignted the paper containing it
and burnt hole in his pocket. The knowl-
edge Of this fact is of immense Importance,
as it may account for many spontaneous fires
and explosions, the origin of which has not
been traced. piece OF rusty iron. brought
In contact with bale of cotton in a warehouse
or on shipboard, may occasion extensive con-
fagrations and the loss of many lives. 1t
ought to be added that the tendency of mois-
tened PARTICLES of iron to ignite was discover
ed by the great French chemist Lemary, as
far back as the year 1880.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-09
We TWO.

Let all your looks be grave and cold
Or smile upon me still
And give your hand. or else withhold;
Take leave howe'er ycu will.
No lingering trace within your face
Of loves'regard is seen:
We two shall never be
Whist we once have been.
1t IS not now longing day
Divides us nor year;
Your heart from mine has turn'd away,
Nor henceforth sh eds tear
The winter snow will come and go,
And summer shadows green:
We two shall never be
What We once have been.
Ah no-the busy hours that bring
Fuil many q chance and change,
MAY choose heggar boy for king,
Or burst mountain range E;
The salt sea tide may yet be dried
That rolls far lands between;
We two can never be
What We once have been.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-09

While Tom Corwin was addressing large
meeting at Springfield, Ohio, not long since.
and was soaring into the higher regions OF po-
Iitical eloquence, q black, middle-sIZed, and
morose looking bull terrier mounted the plat
form, and taking his place beside the speaker,
SURVEYED the assembled sovereigns with a
severe countenance and a melancholy wag OF
his caudal stump. His debut was greeted
with roars of laughter, and Tom Corwin pauS
ed in the middle of a sentence. Turning TO-
ward the iutruding animal, he waved his hand
courteouSly, saying: :scome, one at time,
if you please" The terrier retired fe# pa
ces. and glanced quizzically at the speaker,
when Corwin advanced to the edge OF the
stand, and said to the people, in very conf
DENTAL tone: ssI do believe he intends so leave
the other dogs and join the republican party !"
This palpable hit was received with tempest
of laughter and applause, in the midst Of
which his dogship trotted out OF the nall with
his tail at an angle of intense disgust
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-09

On Friday evening. Oct. 2Sth a mob of some
thirty men entered the printing office of the
Free South at Newport, Kentucky. broke the
press, pied some of the type, and carried OFT
the forms. The offence of Mr.. Bailey, the ed
itor, was that he was auti-slavery His wife
and four daughters were present and begged
without avail that their property might be
spared. Mr. Bailey was notified to leave the
town and to quit publishing the paper, as the
community considered unsafe with it.
The paper was, it is stated. harmless sheet
IA family production, Mr.. Bailey writing the
articles, his daughters setting the type, and
his sons doing the press work. The females,
it is said, were insulted with foul language by
the chivalric bipeds who took part in DESTROY
ing the office. 1t seems almost incredible that
such wanton outrage should bs psrpetrated
in civilized country.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-09

The proprietors of several seminaries in the
neighborhood of Philadelphia have been swim.
died by shrewd scamp, who calls to ascer.
tain the terms, advantages, religious basis &c
of the school, with a view to confding son
and daughter to the charge of the pripciuaI
On becoming satisfied that it will be entirelv
safe TO send, he produces a draft exceeding
the terms of advance payment some fifty or
more dollars, receives the balance in good
money ana decamps. The dupes are not long
In learning that the draft is vaiue,ess
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-09

Hon. j. Il. Giddings delivered an address In
Philadelphia, on the 2Sth Oct, for the purpose
OF explaining what he knew about old John
Brown. He says that he invited him to JET
ferson, Ohio, where he delivered lecture one
Sunday, after church. telling his trials in Kan
sas. After the lecture, Mr.. G. prompted the
audience 10 contribute 10 the relief of Brown.
Afterwards Brown took tea at his residence,
where they had a conversation. Tho Brown
never said that he intended to visit Slave
States TO free the slaves, Mr.. Giddings inferr-
ed that he would il the opportunity offered,
mainly because lie had done so in Missouri
These were the only times Mr.. @. ever saw
Brown. He asserts that neither in his lecture
nor in conversation did Brown say that he had
assistants or associates. No mention was
made OF Harper's Ferry or Virginia. or the or
ganizatiOn of provisional government He
acknowledges contributing So to Browns son,
towards the necessities OF his father, after the
arrest of Doy from kidnappers, matter in
which Mr.. G. took a strong interest. In be-
slowing this gratuity, he had but little idea
that it was to fit out an expedition to capture
Harper,s Ferry, effect the conquest of the Old
Dominion, strike teri or TO the Executive, OF
to imperil the Government.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-09

Major Samuel NJ. Scott. of Dallas IT,.
lately finished thrashing his crop of wbess
winch amounted to upwards of four honssn5
ousheis, averaging more than sixtv-four Ibs-
10 the bushel. The yield averaged twenty.
four bushels to the acre
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-09

A Housemaid in the country, boasting of her
industrious habits. said on a certain occasion
she arose at four, made fire, put on a teaket-
tie, prepared breakfast, and .smade up all the
btds,' before single soul was up in the house.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-09

John g. Terrell has been convicted in Mari.
ooronsh Parish, 5. c., Of numbering his erea,
grandfather, and sentenced to be hing.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-09

A woman was fined $40 with costs at Mem
pns, Tenn, fof disturbing church by lsrpb
ing, ard refusing to step her nsrrimest.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-09

1t takes three editors to- start a paper IN
New Orleans-one to get killed in duel, one
to die with the yellow fever, and one TO write
an obituary of the defuuct two.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-09

Mrs. Mary Profit died at Nelson co. poor
bouso. Va, on the Sd inst, aged lo2 years.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-05-26
Ocean Cataracts.

This phrase is often used as a bold fig
ure in poetical compositions, and we for
get in reading it that it had for the an
clients a literal meaning. A writer in
the Edinburgh Review for January, re
ferring to this subject, thus observes
"The confidence of Columbus in tn
existence of a western continent, or rather
in the projection Of Asia towards the east,
and the ~incredulity which so long resisted
his faith, a perhaps be understood only
if we call to mind the prejudices of the
ancients, both learned and simple, re-
specting the Western Ocean. To them
the Fortunate Islands were the outposts
of the habitable globe beyond these the
Atlantic plunged down m~easureless prec
ipices nor were rumors wanting that
some hapless vessels had been hurried
over the brink into a Whirlpool below, in
comparison with whose thunders the cat
aracts of the Nile was like the breath of
the south wind in the first warm days of
spring. How profound that conviction
was may be seen in a passage Of Florus,
whose usually plain prose acquires some
thing akin to sublimity in speaking of
the Atlantic.
The Roman soldiers he says, when
from the sea board of Lusitania they be-
he'd the sun sink in the waves, and its
flames quenched in the water, recoiled
with terror as if they had seer or done
a sacriligious act"
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-05-26
Yistorital Skettbes,
For the Monmouth Weekly Herald.
LIVES OF
Distinguished Jerseymen.
governor Josiah Ma dy.

1t is not unfrequently the case, that
whole families become distinguished for
ONE remarkable characteristics which
seem to belong to them, as their birth
right. So were the Hardies Of England
peculiarly eminent for their mercantile
and nautical skill, and naval enterprise.
Josiah Hardy was born in London,
about the year 1880. He was a defend
ant Of that able and celebrated naval
commander, Admiral Hardy, who had the
command of a large British feet, in the
reign of Queen Anne. His brother, Sir
Charles Hardy, was constituted royal
Governor of New York, in 1775; but did
not continue in that Office more than two
years, when, as his services were demand
ed in the Naval Department. he vas re-
called home to England. Sir Charles,
on his return. was appointed Admiral In
the British Navy, and had the command
of the great Western Fleet, in 1879. His
death occurred soon after, at Spithead.
One Of his descendants, Commodore
Hardy, was well known in the memora-
BILE blockade of New London, Connects
cut, in the war of 1872.
But Josiah did not seem to have in
herited the warlike propensities of his
ancestors. He would Lob have made
either a very brave or formidable sea
king" Nevertheless, he acquired a very
extensive reputation as an eminent Lon
don merchant. He embarked largely in
commercial pursuits, and in a few years,
amassed a r.neely fortune. At the sam
time, his mind was imbued with liberal
views in regard to the prevailing political
interests of the day. He was a true
specimen of a fine old English gentle
man of the olden times" Frank and
conciliatory in his manners, he possessed
a benevolent heart, and a laudable ambi-
ton to do good, from his innate love of
humt n'ty. He was The most popular Of
all the royal Governors of New Jersey.
Governor hardy entered upon the du-
ties of his Office in 1861; and the mild
pess of his administration was such as to
give general satisfaction to the people,
while it ~comported not with the ambitious
design and domineering disposition OF the
British Ministry, by whom he was sus
pected Of being strongly in favor of lib
eral principles, such as were calculated
to weaken the power and influence Of the
Crown. He did not wait for them to eff
feet his removal; but resigned his office
in 1852, and returned to London where
he spent the residence of his days in hon
orable retirement, and in the performance
of many charitable and munifcent acts,
which will forever render his memory
blessed. He was succeeded by Governor
William Franklin, a brlef sketch OF whose
life has already been given to the public.
Of the time and manner of his death, the
writer has no accurate data, OF which to
rely with certainty. One thing. however,
is true of him, that he lived to an ad
vanced age and was much respected and
esteened as a private citizen, at home,
and highly honored as a worthy Magis
trate abroad.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-05-26
Rather Thin.

A ludicrous incident occurred, this
past winter, at Woodlawn," on the
Bloomingdale road. Jones hotel, of that
place, is ornamepted with a hostler, whose
fun is as fearless as his face is ugly. One
day in January, while twenty or thirty
fast gentlemen were standing on the front
balcony of the hotel, an individual rode
up the path. on the thinnest horse mortal
eyes ever looked upon. Leaping from
this phantom steed, the equestrian saidj
turning to the hosller:
"Here, John, give my horse some wa
ter"
"sir?' said John, with a look of ass
constituent.
"Give my horse some water! p thun-
dered the stranger.
Your horSe!' calculated John, still
more surprised.
yes, fool, my horse" and the stran-
ger looked savagely at him, and COM
menced drawing the lash of his whip
through his hand.
John walked towards him as though he
would demand an explanation, and had
taken about six steps, when he he sud-
denly stoppfd, like n surprised beyond
expression
Bless my soulF" says he, i" I ak your
pardon il; but your hanimaI was stand
ing on a line with that ere hitching post.
and | didh't see him!"
The owner Of the spectral beast tiled
to frown, but a roar from the balcony
made him change his mind.