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r J Nebraska SUmctiisrc 0 i cBrciu jr. t. coLHArr. T. C. fi.ACKXB. r - I I c0rucn, coivnpp & cq? PUBLISHERS, Ucpnerson'sBlock, 2d Floor, Hall Entrance, TE R MS cvtjttT, In advance, - - . (2 00 S'tiot, must inaiiably, be paid In Advance . Book Work, and Plain and facer Job Work done Jfbet .tr'-e. a nd on abort notice. VCi"? Ay ax Ay Ay 4 fjT""- 'J Ay Ay c LIBERTY AND UNION, ONE AND INSEPARABLE, NOW AND FOREVER.' ADTEHTISirrG HATES, One eqtiare (10 lines er legist insestion $1 5 : Eaca anbseqaent iciertion, , ICO Business Cards, one year, Are llnei or leas 5 0O Each additional line 1 One Column, one year, 00 One Column, six months, 60 09 One Column, tbree nontns, SO 00 Half Colnmn, one year, 60 00 Half Column, six months, 0 09 Half Col nmn, three montas, 5100 Fourth Colnmn, one year, ' 33 O Fourth Column, lis months, St 00 Fourth Column, three months, 13 oa tljhth Column, one year, 21 03 Eighth Column, aix montii, IS CO Eighth Column, three-months, 10 CO Announcing Candidate for offlee 09 Stray Notice each head) M Local Notices Charged as Ti ancient IdTertiiemen VOL. XII, BROWNVILLE, NEBEASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1868. NO. 35, f BUSINESS DIHECTOKY. DRUG STORES, T HOLLADAY &. CO., rhoieale and Retail Deaier In MUGS, MEDICINE, PAINT, OIL, &c, P. O Building, Main St., WM. H. McCREERY, WTleea1e and Retail Dealer in Drrs, Boks Wall-paper and Stationery, Comer Main and 1st Sts.9 MERCHANDISE. GEORGE MARION, Dealer ii pry Goods, Groceries JSSS & Notions. Foot of Main Street near Levee, 558. Established 1850 WM. T. DEN, WTioleen'e and Retail dealer in GENERAL MEIl HANDISD, Corn Fhnters, Plows, Stoves, Furniture rOXXISSTOX A XD FOR WARDING MERCHANT SirM market pricf peid for Hid ft, Peltt, Furt and produce, by WM. T. DEN., G. M. HENDERSON," Dealer in Foreign aoJ Eomestic DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES Main let. ltt and 2d Sta., CHARLES BRIEGEL JJEEil HALL, LUNCH ROOM AND LIGHT GROCKRT STORK, Main bet. Ut and 2d Sta., J. L. McGEE CO., De alert in GENERAL MERCHANDISE. McWierw n's Work. Main met, PHYSICIANS. H. L. MATHEWS. PHYSICIAN ANP SURGEON, OFFICE CIT V DRUG BTORE A. S HOLLADAY M D. Graiur'.ed in 151 ; Located in Brotcnv 'Me in 1S56 ) Phwcian, Surgeon nnd Oletrician, Dr. II. ha on hanl comDlete ceti of Amputat- I jEf, Ticphinirg ani Obstetrical instrument. ! Office: Uoliaaayx Co's Drug Store. P. O. Y. S. Spec-al attention given to Obstetrics and U.f dieofg of women and children. x-44-1j C. F. STEWART. M. D rnrcioiviT mi QpnacoiT, OFFICE: Pooth East corner of Min and First Strete t'rricE HocRS 7 to 9 a. u. and 1 to 2 and fij t- p. m ATTORNEYS. FOREST FOKTErI ATT0RNE1 AT LAW AND LAND AGENT. OFFlCK-ln New Court House Building, withPro UieJudce. y 2-nU6 f. W.Tipton O.li.Uewett J.S. Church TIPTON, HEWETT & CHURCH, Attorneys at Law. Office inUcPbersoo s Block, Main ft. between 2d Si 3d I.W.THOXAS. t. C. BKOADT. THOMAS & BROADY Attorneys at Law & Solicitors in Chancery, Onkeover DorBey'a Clothing Store, wm. Mclennan ATTORNEY AT LiAW, t NEBRASKA CITT, XKBBASKA. 8. B. IIAKKLVGTON, Attorney anJ Counselor at Law, Beatrice, Gage Co., JTeD. B. F. PERKINS, ' Attorney and Counselor at km, . . Tecumtrl , John ton Co., Xeh. CHESTER F NYE. Attorcty at Law and War Claim Akcei, Paipii'e Citt. Xhraka. BOOTS & SHOES. C H A R L ES ilE L L ME R. BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Mm Street 2 doom below toe eontheaat corner of 2nd, Ha on band a auperior Btock of Boots and Shi eg ?djfce best material and ability for doing; hffCutom Wurl done trith Heatnrtt and d itpatch. A. ROBINSON, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Main Between lit & 2d Street Takeg this method of informing the public that bag on band a splendid assortnant of Uent'e and Wie'i Hisaes'and Chlldrens 13 uu i s est snuxo. f"Caton work done with neatneaa and dispatcb.13 r-i ug uddc on snort nuviov. m-u iuu SADDLERY. - 'V . rS J. H. BAUER. Manufacturer and Dealer la WRXESS, BRIDLES Sc. COLLARS tadinjdone to order Uisfact!on gaarrantied. , sltP on Main bet. Ittand id tti.. JOHN W.MIDDLETON Manuactarer and Dealer In HARNESS, BRIDLES, COLLARS, tiP and Laibet of every description, Plaatering Eair. Cat.h paid for Hides. Corner Main and M Sta.. HOTELS. 2 rm K?S0H. J). O. jCEOSS. STAR HOTEL, ; BTn7,ENsOK' & CROSS, Proprietor!, tti, n 16t., between Main & Atlantic. B4 th.k l convenieut to tbe Steam Boat Landlmr, tioi. ifl.neM ,art '?tb Td best aecommo. Jar r " l.n the City. Ko pains win be spared in mak-aiatt!l?I!lnrortb,e- Good Stable aDd Corral con- PENN'SV? VAVij imncr . MICTT A T?T. T'TTCTTT" -n I Heal between 1st and 2nd treet, I tta n, , fcU Hott", or for Regular Boarders , at t AMERICAN HOUSE, I ltrh D- EOBISOir. Proprietor. ' fionae 7 ,od Liery ElabUin connecUon with tbe j Es:;lPt street, between Main and Water, j J. K. BEAR. ! i. AQENT FOR THE j Merchant's Union Express Company !. A H D : STErn union teleorafh coup ant In K'ptr40n'i Block, M floor, Hall Entrance. STOVE JTINSTORES. JOHN C. DEUSER, Dealer In STOVES, TINWARE, PUMPS, &c. Opposite JicPberson'a B'ock, SHELLEBERGER BRO'S Manufactttrertand Dtaltr in TIXJFARE STOVES. HARDWARE. CARPEX . TER'S TOOLS RLA CKSMITH' S FVRXISHIXGS ie. McPberson'a Block BrcwtiVilie.'Keb. BLACKSMITHS. J. H. BISON, WilldoBLWKSMITIflNGof all kinds. Maket Hone Shoeing. Ironing of Wagon and Sleight and Machine Work a Specialty. m Shop on Main St., west of McPberson'a Block, J. W. fir J. 0. GIBSON, B I; A C K S M I. T H S SIIOP on lit between Main and 2d, All Work done to order Satitaction Guarrantied. JOHN FLORA, BLACKS M I T II Shop on Water Street South of American Douse rjF"Oustoro V.,rk of all kind? solcid. 12-12 CONFEOTIONARIERS. WILLIAM ROSSELL, CONFECTIONERY AND TOY STORE Fresh Bread, Cakes. Oyster , Fruit, Ac, on band. Sonthside Main between 1st and 2d streets, J. P. DEUSER, Dealer In Confectionaries, Toys, Notions, Sec, Main tot. 1st and 2.1 St., WM. ALLEN. Proprietor of tbe CITY BAKERT. Fancy Ted tling Cake furnibed on sbort notice. Dealer in Confectl nariea. Fruita and best Family Float. Main Street bet. Itt and 2d, MISCELLANEOUS. G. P. J3ERKLEY, CARRIAGE AND SIGJT PAINTER, Grainer, Gildrr, Glazier and Paprr-IIanjer. All work done on Short Notice, Favorable Terms and Warranted. OfSce over Teare & Oo's St -re. Main St., BROWX VILLE, XEaRASKA. 12-21-ly BATH ROOMS. ' J. L. ROV, BARBER AND HAIR DRESSER, Kortb f iJe Main St., opposite Furniture Store, Tfas a splendid suit of Batb Rooms, AUo a choice stock of Gentlemen's Notions. Probate Jcdc & Justice of the Peace, Court House Euildhft, Main St. J. C. McNAUGHTON, Notary Public and Conveyancer, Agent for "National Lift" end "Hartford Live btocK mturance" vompanict. Office In J. h. Car6on's Bank, OARRISON & RO HERTS, BILLIARD HALL AND SALOON, Whitney's Block, Main street, bet. 1st &. 2d. The best Wines and Liquors kept const antly on band. T12-L25- tf R. V. nUGUES, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE & REAL ESTATE AGENT, OFFICE Ceurf Houte Building, firtt door, wett tide. Tl2-nM R.' F. BARRETT, GENERAL LAND AGENT, AND LAND WARRANT BROKER, "Will attend to paying Takes for Non-residents. Per sonal attention given to making Locations.. Lands, improved and ucinicroved, or sale on reasonable terms. v!2-n2o-Jy WM. II . HOOVER, REAL ESTATE. AND TAX PAYING AGENT, Till give prompt attention totbesale of Real Kstate and payment, of Taxes thronRhout the Nemaha Uana District. OFFICE District Court Boom. . vi-do A. D. MARSH, CITY BOOK STORE SCHOOL' BOOKS, STATIOEKY, &c, Post Office, Main St., E. H. BURCHES, LANDSCAPE GARDNER Will tbe coming Spring plant crops in Gardens and n Uivare same by cuntraci. WiU aisofcaveon hand weet Potato, Cabbage, Tomato & Pepper plants for sale "WORTHING & WILCOX, STORAGE, FORWARDING AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS. Anddealert in aJl kind of Grain for which they pay the Highett Market Price in Cath. FRANZ HELMER, WAGOISf MAKER OPPOSITE DEUSER'S TIN-SHOP, WAGONS, BUGGIES, PLOWS, CTJLTI VITOU3, &c, Eep&ired on short notice, at low rates and warranted to give satisfaction. z-12-f n nn JONAS HACKER, Tax Collector for the City of Brownville, Will M-ttend to the payment of Toxetfor non-retident landowner! in Nemaha County. Corrtt pondence Solicited. Office on Main bet. 1st and 2d, SMITH P. TUTTLE. rr Aitiitani AttnttrandCUimAaent.- Will at tend to the Protecution of Claim befort the Depart ment for Ad Bounty. Back rarf ana rtmiv to the Collection of Semi-Aunual duct on Pentxcnt, . i; Office over Carsona Bank Main etreet, A. STAFFORD, PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST Pertont vnthing Picturet executed in the latett ttyle of the Art will please cell at ijy Art Gallery. Main stieet bet. 1st and Jd street. KEIS WETTER & EARSMAN, Bntcberb, GIT Y MEAT MARKET, Main bet. 1st and 2nd Sta., GEO. W. DORSET. LDTHSB HOADLST. CEAS.G.DORflll DORSEY HOADLEY & CO.. REAL ESTATE AGENTS, AND HEALERS IX LAND WARRANTS AXD AG RICULTURAL COLLEGE SCRIP. Office lo Land Office Building, Buy and sell Improved and unimproved Lands. Buy, sell and locate Land Warrants and Agricultural Col lege Scrip. Make careful selections of Government Lands for Location, Homesteads, and Pre emptions. Attend to contested Homesteads and Pre-emption caes la tbe Land Office Letters of Inquiry promptly and eareXnlly answered. Correspondence solicited. 2otI 1?reh Tomatoes, ia two and tbree pound cans, a ? . SWAN & PRO'S; For the Nebraska Advertiser. Farmlrft Witlioat Fences. BT A WESTERN WOMIN. Now I think I bear you saying, . As you read this caption o'erv "TVestern Woman, better study Something that concerns ber more. "Let her mend ber husband's stacking!, "Wash and sforoli his Sunday shirt, Teed her chickens, weed her garden, "Keep her kitchen froe from dirt. "Then if she has time to scribble' ' .Stop say nothing more t( tine ; Tis not lack of occupation Makes me try my band at rhyme. I hare work enough for seven, House and garden both in charge Then the field, it must be guarded Colts and cattie ran at large Think of raising corn and cabbage, Turnips, pumpkins, oatr and wheat, Where tbe cattle rnn at pleasure Trampling all beneath there feet Pawing up the young potatoes, While the horses roil tho grain, 'Tis enongh to rouse ones temper ; Tell me, who would not complain. Husband goce from homo on business Learing me with home in charge ; Neighbors knowing law protects them Let their cattle run at large. Think of driving twenty horses O'er the hill a mile away ; Coming back find fifty cattle On the whet and boun to stay. Only get them fairly star ted When tbe baby wakes and cries, Have to quit and take my darling, Blesg aer little bright black eyes. Ab, she has a magic power, And I think she's half aware That her ple3ant tearfull welcome For the moment drives dull care. Butl've really left my subject, Baby threw me off the t-ack, Eu . Ill call my thoughts a moment, Only for a moment back. I've a cotion to petition ..j a j....li m pvwwr Nemaha should have a herd-law If the power to rote wore ours. Experience of a Conntrj School Teaclier. "I cannot begin my story in the de cisive language of a humorous story- writer. 'I once took a school, and good ness knotys I'll never take another' as my firet experience in teaching was any thing but agreeable. I was a graduate of the Slate Nor mal School, and considered myself profi cient in the art ot teaching before I ap plied for a school. I applied for sever al schoolr, but was unsuccessful. At last, I applied for a school in Bushy Hol low, and in due time received the follow ing note : Miss Flora Fitzjerset 1 have been trying for two months to obtain a teach et for our school. I at once laid your ap plication before the board of trustees, and it was voted, 4That Miss'Fitzjersey teach the school in Bashy Hollow, at a compensationpf two dollars.' I deem it but honorable to state, that this school has a bad reputation. No one ever applied for it a seccond lime, or was ever known to make teaching.a profess ion after trying the experiment here. I will advise how to conduct your school when yor arrive. You may begin next Monday. You may board with me. Very respectfully, Solomon Straight.' ' "Bushy Hollow, June .' 'The next Monday morning I started bag and baggage the former, like the effects of most country school-marms, including the latter for Bushy Hoflow. Having arrived at that interesting local ity, I proceeded at once to the residence of Mr. Solomon Straight. 'Mr. Straight was a hard-looking man. He informed me he used to keep school was an old fashioned schoolmaster, and that he had a very high opinion of the old-fashioned way of teaching. There had been much difficulty in the school you are about to take,' said he. 'It is somewhat peculiar. It is successful only as long as the scholars stand in fear of the teacher.. If a teach er would succeed in this locality, he must neither allow himself to become attached to his scholars, nor allow them to approach him in a familiar manner. When I used to teach school, a scholar would have as soon thrown sticks to a bear as to have disobeyed me, or even to have brought me a bunch of flowers.' Judge Taney, ss.id he, looking very solemn, 'announced the principle that negroes have no rights that white men are bound to respect ; it is a principle equally true that scholars have no rights that teachers are , bound to respecC The reason in both cases is the same. Scholars, like black men, have no legal rights, nor any discretion nor judgment worthy of the consideration of their sup eriors. I would remind my pupils of these grave facts in my opening speech:' "I endeavored to fix these important ideas in my mind. On going to school he conticed, 4I would find a large prickly stick, and take it with. me. I would show it to. my scholars in my opening address and give them to. understand at the outset, that I meant to enforce discipline. Such , an exhibition as that would at ence pro I duce a wholesome effect. I would say to mv scholars something like this : . 'Scholars, if need be, I shall break your backs, and I shall break your heads, but no rule of. mine shall ever be broken with impunity.' I endeavored to impress this forcible remark upon my mind. As soon as a scholar,' continued my adviser, 'violates one of the rules of the school, I should chastise him most severe ly, as a warning to others.' 'Mr. Straight's ideas of teaching were not exactly mv own. but it was necessary for me to teach somewhere, and this was the only situation thai off ered itself; I therefore determined to obey my instructions most implicitly, in order to give satisfaction and to succeed. There is one advantage, thought I, in having a hard school if I succeed, the greater will be my triumph and ray re putation. Mr. Straight directed me to the schodl-house. I started, feeling rather faint-hearted, and looking on both sides of the way for . a suitable stick. I en deavored to arrange in my mind my opening address, which was to consist of a dramatic show of the stick, an allusion to the defunct Judge Taney, and the startling announcement about the broken backs and heads. 'I at last found a stick that I thought would do, and went along, waving it in a most authoritative manner, and ex claiming: 'Scholars, if .need be, I will break your backs, and I will break your heads, but no rule of mind shall ever be broken with impunity.' "Hooray !' shouted some one over the wall. 'That's the talk ! Smart gal that ! Guess she'll make urn toe the mark',' 'I looked around, dreadfully frighten ed, and saw a rusty old codger, with his mouth wide open and his hat in hand. 'Hooray!' shouted he, swinging his hat. 'I stepped very quick for the next half mile, casting furtive glances behind. 'I at last lost sight of ray enthusiastic admirer, and come in sight of the school house. Here I mustered up all my courage for my debut.' I marched into the school-house with the air of a duchess, and violently rung the, bell. "Scholars, saidI, as soon as taey were assembled I felt violently agitated 'Scholars, you see thai ' 'Here I held up the slick. 'Judge Taney says,' I continued, feel ing very shaky about the heart Judge Taney says ' 'Here followed a long pause. I began to shake all over from 'head to f oot. J'Judge Taney says,' I, spasmodically, determined to say something; 'Judge Taney says, thit yor have no rights that I am bound to respect. 1 11 break your backs and I'll break your heads, but ' 'Here I trembled so all over that I lost my idea, an was obliged to sit down. So this was my opining speech. The next thing was to adopt rules for the school. I had an hundred and twenty-four with me in my portfolio, all good ones, which had been written down while at the Normal School. I conclud ed, however, that, before I adopted any rules, I would submint them to my sup erior, Mr, Straight. So I ordered the scholars to fol4 their, arms, and pointed significantly at the stick. I resolved to be systematic, and, therefore, to assign no lessons until the rules were adopted. So I looked as sour as I possible could un til noon, the scholars silting before me with folded arms, and looking quite as cross as their teacher. At noon I went to Mr. Straight and told him, that, in order to be systematic, I had thought best to assign no lessons before adopting rules for the government of the school, aod that, before adopting rules. I had deemed it prudent to submit tue mauer to him. He gave me credit for a prodigious amount of wisdom and discrection. I submitted to him the one hundred and twenty-four rules of which I had made memoranda at the Normal School; he approved of them all, and added twenty more, making in all, one hundred and forty-four needful rules and regulations. Only enforce these,' said Mr. Straight 'and, in one week, your school will re volve around you like satellites around their luminary.' In the afternoon I established my grovernment, which was an absolute monarchy. The rules and regulations were very explicit. The scholars were forbiden to look behind them, or before them, or on either side of them, or to move their arms, or their legs, or their lips. They were to come . in military order, and to go out in military order, and to go into their classes at the sound of a bell, and to be dismissed, singing : Children go, :. -To and fro, In a mery pretty row, footsteps ugm, Faces bright, .'Tis a happy, happy sight !' which doggerel is a fair specimen of the poetry found in most of our school music books. If I were to prepare a music book for schools, I would put in Watts's hymns or Moore's Irish melodies al most anything but the senseless twaddle now in vogue. . 'In about five minutes after I' had an nounced my regulations to the school, Tim Flounder turned round, thereby violating1 rule No 144. I seized my stick and made a dive for him. He at tempted to run out of the door, but I was too smart for him ; be then dogged me and crawled under the desks. I run the stick under after him, and thrashed it hold of that there stating across the get hold of that about in a furious manner, but whenever it was in danger of hitting him, he caught hold of the end, and time he caught hold of it he broke off a piece. This was perplexiDg. At last I crawled under the desks after tbe little rascal, but he was very small, and thereby had the ad vantage of me in a race under them, and so kept out of my reach. I therefore emerged, covered with dirt and very red in the face. If I ever do get young one said I, room, 'if I ever do there young one ' Just then I stumbled over a half bushel of feet and legs, and fell sprawling on the floor. Jerusha Bowen had broken the one hundred and forty-third regula tion, moving her feet into the aisle. Here was a case for disipline that I meant to improve. ' WThen I arose, which was pretty quick, for I was mad, I looked at my stick, and found it 60 badly broken as to be unfit for "service. That little boy Tim had rendered it a noncombatant most effect ually. While I was deliberating what to do, Tim escaped out of the door, ex claiming: "If you ever do get hold of this young one agin, you just let us know, wopt ye!' He was gone, and my first case of discipline had proved a failure. What was to be done with Jerusha? I would shake her. I laid violent hands on her, telling her I would shake her daylights out. She looked very calm, and said. Well, shake." I undertook it, but, as she weighed a hundred and eighty, and I only ninty-five, the attempt proved very un satisfactory. By this time all the school were in confusion and laughing. The one hundred and forty-second rule was broken, and that, too; by the whole school, Jerusha included. I resolved to send for Mr. Straight, and accordingly sent one of the little girls for him. It was not long before I saw him coming, bring ing a monstrous stick, and showing by his gait that he was much excited. The schojars saw him, and began to smell a pretty large mice. The big boys started for the door without singing the dainty song I had taught them, and made, the best us6 of their wits and legs, ditto the small boys, ditto the girls, all but Jeru sha. She sat perfectly calm. 'Mr. Straight came in excitedly. "Wnere are the culprits?' thundered he. "All are fled, but Jerusha,' said I. She deserves hanging, she does, a good for-nothing huzzy !' Here I sat down and began to cry. . Jerusha,' said he, 'come into the entry. Jerusha obeyed. He shut the door, and I was left the sole occupant of the school-room. 'Presently I heard a thrashing in the entry. He is giving ber a dreadful cast igation, thought I. I began to feel sorry for her; her fault wasn't very great, after all ; . I couldn't bear to have her beaten with a cudgel ; so I thought I would 'open the entery door, and say something to mitigate her punishment. What do you think 1 saw ? Mr. Straight with one hand was thrashing an old shawl belonging to one of the fugitive scholars, with the other hand he was drawing Jerusha affection ately towards his lips, and she was in the act of imprinting upon them Pshaw ! ,I took my bonnet and started for Mr. Straight's I took my budget and started for home, resolving never to apply for a school again. 'But my resolution was not kept. My Cousin Ellen took the same school and taught it successfully.' She came to visit me at the close of the term. 'Ellen,' said . I, 'how did you ever succeed in keeping that school? 'I found no difficulty. Scholars have rights, and they respect and are pleased to obey the teacher who respects those rights.' 'O!' He aroused the worst passions of his pupils who theatens a school. Hatred begets hatred, and love love. A kind and considerate example on the part of the teacher is always met half way by his pupils. The teacher who wins the aff ections of his pupils, possesses the true element of success,' "O !' 'A school kept in subjection through fear of the rod will sooner or later cause the teacher and the community trouble. Scholars should be so educated morally that their sense of obilgation to' them selves, to their parents, to their future, both in this life and in the life which is to come, shall be so keen that they will govern themselves A . teacher . whose chief aim Is discipline, makes his school, not a seat of learning and moral advance ment, but a house of correction, and the moral influence of such a school js bad. There is nothing that promotes moral strength and exalts character in mere eye-iervice.' OI' What kind of a scholar did you find Jerusha Brown?' I inquired a few days after-wards. She did cot attend my school. She was married about a week after it op ened.' ' ' :'- Married ! Mercy ! to whom ?' .'To Solomon Straight, the district trustee.' . Q!' 'I took another school, and applied Ellen's principles, and succeeded.' The Fenians are other raid on Canada. preparing for ac-j Sclinyler Colfax. Schuyler Colfax was born at a house in North Moore street, near West Broad way, in the City of New York, March 23, 1S23. His mother is but sixteen years his senior. He received a good common school education; was bred a printer, and settled in Indiana in 1S36. He soon became foreman and assistant editor of the village paper of South Bend. It was then a very small sheet, such as every Western settlement issues, as a sort of flyer to a job printing business as it has got its school-house, grocery, hotel, and blacksmithshop, and begins to think about having a meeting-house. The 'type' out West frequently gets the start of the preacher, though the race is close. Those who saw Colfax then "at the case' describe him as a light, spindling, flaxen-haired, boyish-locking youth clever rather in the Yankee than the English sense with a delicacy of temperament which suggested a doubt whether he had the stamina to live to manhood, without the faintest suggestion that in his mature years he would be Speaker of the House and the second choice of the country for President. Tne news then came to South Bend by stage from Detroit, or up the St. Jo River from the Lake. There was but little of it, and though Mr. Colfax became the editor and pub lisher of the South Bend Register as seon as he became of age, other and sub sequent evidences were required to est ablish his claim to intellectual superity. In 1848 he was a delegate to and Sec rotary of the VVhig National Convention. In 1850 he was a member of the Indiana Constituational Convention. In 1S52 he was again Secretary of the Whig Nati onal Convention. He was elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress, and has been 'regularly reelected to every subsquent Congress. He was elected Speaker of the Thirty-eight Congress, and has been reelected Speaker of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth. He was urged but he de clined to accept a seat in United States' Senate, preferring his presiding chair in the House. His open, pleasant face, has become familiar to large audiences throughout the country, who have listen ed to his addresses upon political topics, upon the late President Lincoln by whom he warmly lived, upon his tour across the continent to the continent to the Pacific, or upon subjects connected with the work of the Sanitary and Chris tian Commissions. He is pure in hi3 personal and moral habits, has a broad, outspoken, and ca'hohc sympathy with every good work of reform, whether political, moral, intellectual, or religious, and has the warm and enthusiastic con fidence of Chrstians and temperance re formers throughout the country. He attends, and we believe is a member of the Reformed Dutch Church, and is a thorough teetotalist. Without being educated as a scholar, industrious reading has given much of what is scholarship unalloyed by its pedantry, its clannish ness, or its egotism. Without being bred a lawyer, practical farailirnty with legislation has taught him all that is most valuable in law, freed from the con servatism and inaptitude for change and reform which rest like an incubu3 on so many of those minds which are bred by the habits of the legal profession to look for precedents which show what the law has been, rather than to broad princ iples which settle what the law ought to be. yet Mr. Colfax has frequently shown the happiest familiarity with pre cedents, especially in questions of parlia mentary practice. As a presiding offi cer he is the most popular since Henry Clay. His marvellous quickces3 of thought, and talent for the rapid ad ministration of details, enables him to hold the reins of the House of Repre sentees, even in its most boisterous and turbulent moods (and with the exception of the New York Board of Brokers, the British House of Commons, or a Fair at Donoybrook, it is the mpst uproarious body in the world), with as much ease and grace as Mr. Bonner would show the paces of Dexter in Central Park, or as Gottschalk would thread the keys of a piano, in a dreamy maze of faultles3, quivering melody. As an orator, Mr. Colfax is not argumentative, except as clear'atatement and sound judgment are convincing. He rides no erratic hobbies. He demands few" policies which the aver ege sense of intelligent men cannot be made to assent to on a clear statement of bis position. H is eminently repre sentative. A glance at his broad, well balanced, practical brain, indicates that his leading faculty is the sum of all the faculties judgment, and that what he believes the majority of the people either believe or can be made to believe.' Some men may be further ahead ot the age. Mr. Colfax finds sufficient occupation and usefulness in adapting himself to times and things as they are, without cuting his throat with paradoxes or steal ing a march on mankind with some new light, which they are very likely to re gard as a will-o'-the-wisp." He ha3 no eccentricities, but great tact. His tal ents are administrative and executive, rather than deliberative. He would make good appointments, and adopt sure policies. He would cake a better Pres ident, or Speaker of the House, than Senator. He knows men well, estimates them correctly, treats them all fairly and candidly. No man will get through his business with you in fewer minutes, and yet none is more free the horrid brusqu ene$3 of busy men. There are heart and kiudness in Mr. Colfax's politeness. Men leave his presence wi-.h the im pression that he js at once able, honest, and a kind man. Political opponents like him personally, aj well as his'politicl friends. We have never heard that ha has any enemies. The breath of slander has been silent toward his. fair, spctl83 fame. The wife of his youth, after be ing for a long time an invalid, sank tt her final rest several years ago, leaving him. childless. His mother and sister preside at his receptions, which for many years have been, not the most brilliant, but the most popular of any given at the Capital. Socially, Mr. Colfax is frank lively, jolly. It may be that he feeJs his oats in some degree, but dign ity hasn't spoiled him. The everlasting I-hood and Us-nes3 of great men is for gotten in his presence. His manners are not quite so familiar as those cf Lincoln, but nearly so. They are gen tle, natural, graceful, with a bird-like or business like quikness of thought and motion But they are very far . from the high and mighty style of Sumner, or the judicial coldness of Fessecden, Sherman, and Trumbull. Though manly, they are genial and winning. American mothers believe in Schuyler Colfax. There are more babies named for him, than for any public man since Clay. It is a sure test of greatness when mothers are willing to take the name cf a public man to the baptismal font, and sacredly link together that oft-repeated name and that tender, unfledged life, with holy prayer. They know that, corcie what will, that name, however tried and temp ted, will never disgrace the offspring. What more shall wa say of Schuyler Colfax ? The nation honors him, by selecting him as the vice President of the U. S. A. The New Fashions. There have been some changes in the toilet administration this spring, and bon nets those marvels of the milliner's art have shrunk to such a degree that the Queen of Liliput would have some troub le in trying one on her head. Yet thg modistes have endeavored to effect a compromise by making the trimming cf one of those fearfully and wonderfully made" articles as extensive as possible. The back of the head and the necit are now sheltered by a lace vail tfead cf the time honored cape, and a coronet bridges the bump of benevolence in front' of the bonnet. The fanchon may be con sider the General Grant of bonnets in point of popularity, and poor Marie. An toinette, whose head sat so uneasily oa her shoulders during the dark days of the san cu!otte3, untill it fell at last a victim to their fury has now a namesake nest ling amid the curls of our most distin guished belles. In the matter of cloak?, the modistes deserve a unanimous vote cf thanks for the handsome styles they have brought out this spring. La3t year a lady carried on her back a bushel load of jet and beads, wnich had a disagreeable habit of fastening themselves in every thing and the cloaks looked for the world like propositions in Euclid worked out in silk and pas3ementeri. Now the ladies have charming little sacks, ba3quine3 and paletots, with surplice or mantilla fronts, lapels like those on a gentleman's frock coat trimming of silk satin and lace, and a coquettish sash tied behind. Since the spring weather oar thoroughfares have again become fit for pedestrians, Broad way and Fifth avenue are constantly dotted with those exquisite cloaks, and the ends of the sashes flutter in the May breeze like flags and streamers on the shipping on a national festival. J) Y. Herald. At a meeting of the penological society of the state of Ohio, it was reported that the apples in Northern Ohio have greatly deteriorated in the pa3t thirty years. Peaches, from general and spontaneous growth, have come to need care and cultivation. Three thousand acres of grapes are under cultivation in Erie aci Ottawa counties, including the islands of Lake Erie, from which it is estimated that two hundred thousand gallons of wine were produced during the last year. The pursuit or agriculture, with dili gence and prudencet seldom fails of yield ing, if not wealth, a moderate indepen dence, ror the farmer who 13 not m debt, and the produce cf whose farm is sufficient, with industry and frugality, to support his family, is in reality, indep endent in his" circumstances as though he were worth a million. The latest horticultural device is tilt of removing the stohes from fruits by a process of gradual reduction, by extract ing the ptt3 from shoots and grafting them on stocks, and their own branches, for successive seasons. The experiment has been perfectly successful with the Malaga grape. Never feed your cattle in the yard without' a 'rack,' Economy rightly enough shrugs her shoulders at so slov enly a practice. The actual loss to the half a dozen racks and the expense cf keeping them in complete repairs for years. Any farmer who has an axe, saw and auger, can make one. After the horse i3 nine years old, it is said that a wrinkle comes an the eye lid at the upper corner of the eyelid ; a year thereafter he ha3 one well-defined wrinklofor each year over nine. . If, for in stance, a horse has three wrinkles, ho is twelve, if four, he is thirttoeD, fet?. )1 o n o o tt ' o o o o o 8. 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