The Camden Weekly Journal, 1853-05-24

g I W?I^I VgttVV biiv VHVU Id j'Ul U VI ?v?l J VIVUVIK Atl i night it comes with fearful distinctness from the dram shop. And yet you are as proud of youi foul-mouthed weakness, as though the vilest ol earth could not boast of the same. Chew Tobacco ! A loathsome spitting machine, eh! Beautiful and interesting apparatus, truly ! A self-spitting squirt-gun to eject the filthiest compound in creation ! A lama on two legs bespattering all within your reach, without ' piovocation even ! And because you eat tobacco and spit out the juice with mock dignity, you are a gentleman! Ho! Ho ! the race of fools are not yet extinct. Why you slavering beast, it is no rare accomplishment to eat tobacco!? You can't make your mouth fouler than the old ! vagabond who spends a shilling he has begged for the rum and a pound of plug. He can act as filthy as you can. Can't you believe it? Sec him spit once ! Mark the dark lines from each corner of his mouth, and the noisome 'tains 01 ^ his shirt busom. Rare accomplishment indeed : for n gentleman ! e Drir.k Champagne? Ha! Ha! Dear sir,the I whole land is full of just such suckers. The rag gedest, wiry haired, red nose, blear eyed ole ig bloat in Christendom, can get as rich and foolish and as drunk as you can. And what's the dif ^ ference ? From the actions, a looker on coulc n t determine what liquor the two had got drunl ^ on. The one spews in the gutter and the othei in his room. There is a difference in the quali r_ ty of the coats, but none in that of drtinkenness e The common sot can get as "owly" on commor j whisky, as you can on pure champagne. Yoi drink with respectable tipplers and drunkards g he with those who are graduated in the commor j whisky cellar. >r You are a gentleman, are you? Why an you ? Go well dressed, do you ? And so thai j makes a gentleman. Your whole aim of life i: ^ to adorn your person in a fashionable-suit o clothes, practice a most unnatural gait and whir ^ before the glass. A fine suit of clothes, sir, can ? not give a man a heart. You wear a moustache . or imperial! and so does a goat. A face mar

est depths of degradation and human folly; an we also find that in neatly every instance the are those whose minds are unimproved. The? are facts that defy all contradiction, and th? show in the most conclusive manner the supei lative blessings.of well directed education. Tli souls of our countrymen slain by infidelity an intemperance, with their associates in profligacy errors and vice, lifteth a cry high up into th Heavens. For these and kindred sins, the Ian mourns; and I can see no effectual remedy fc these giant evils, except in the proper educatio of the masses. Let us then as individuals, cac one contribute his part to stay the torrent ( corruption. A flood-tide of apparent prosperit may come as in the days of Roman glory, fillin up the channels of commerce, and satisfying th cravings of curiosity and ambition; but withot an enlightened public sentiment, it will soone or later have its ebb, and in its turn leave ot country a prey to the tempest, that has ovei whelmed in its resistless curse the mighties empires of the old world. History is a silent bi1 eloquent witness of its truth, and from her ur dying lamp sheds a stream of unceasing ligl along our pathway. The resources of this cour try are vast; her spirit bold and daring, and w can hut regard her as destined at no distant p< ri<xl, to take a more elevated and important st? lion in controlling the destinies of the work If she is but true to herself, she will stand in th front rank of the Sacramental Host, her Stai pouring light on the millennial morning, whil her spirit waking trumpet shall break upon th ears of slumbering millions. If we take a wide survey of the present cord tiou of man, and view him in every variety < character and condition, from the lowest depth rf fit rrrn flat inn and misery, to the mast enviabl

ington for several weeks. In the winters they uartered themselves in wigwams, in the tieighorhood of some village, sulisistiug on rabbits nd other small game, and feasting sometimes n bullfrogs. They manufactured baskets, with rliich they often sent the boy to ti?-> nearest ;rocery to buy whiskey. lie rememhe *ed par ieularly living near Detroit, Utica, Broihertown, )..tskill and Hudson, and being several months t Hillsdale, in New York. Both in summer nd winter, in all their wanderings, he travelled are-foot. sutiering often from cold, hunger and itigue; but the kindness of his Indian sister, dio was very much attached to him, made his ife cheerful. The circumstances of tlie case rendered ithigliy probable that this was the lost boy ; age and ppearance corresponded, and the father's first onviction was that he indeed embraced his son ; loubts afterward arose as to his identity. Filley eturned to Michigan without the boy, to the stonishment and chagrin of his friends; and in ime circumstances came to light which tended oshow that this lad was the son of an Indian rnman bv a man of wealth and high political landing in Columbia county, New York, who md threatened th<* mother with punishment if he revealed the child's paterni y. The my>tery that enveloped this case has lever been cleared up. Filley does not believe he bov his own, though many of his neighbors l: d friends are inclined to to think otherwise, .nd suppose him influenced by the step-mother's inwillingness to receive the young stranger.? lis relatives, on the other hand, cling to the boief that it is the knt William, and the boy is iOw redding with Filley's sister, in Windsor, Connecticut. Exposurk of Sick Hivdoos on tiik Banks /< u;.. ?i r..n

umber of bands of music, marched through ; le streets, to lay the corner stone of-a Catho- ^ c church. The Catholic cbqrch hefts- were b ing during the whole time, the brass bands, oirtprehejiding nearly all* in the City1-were laying, and the.procession marched through' alf the town, blocking up tbe-streetf, making n ostentatious parade, which .created a grejti eal of excitement, sufficient to render some f the streets impassable to church gou^ pe^ ' le, and to disturb the stillness of J 'he Mayor had out a large police fpre.etopA!ct the procession, These tircomstan^es fed | > the holding of a large public meeting* vrhteto enounced the conduct of the Mayoji and. led" > the appointment of a hundred' ci$jj#ji?>bi>' 'ait upon him, and request his imiue&ater t$r gnatiun. The object of the Mayor appear* j > have been to prevent a riot.on the occasion 1 f the Catholic procession, but, in. doing.-so,- j e has thoroughly aroused the. Protestant popa ttion, and added fuel to a religious excitement 1 'hich was already very deep and bitter. Nat. Intelligtncer. Cdrious, tirr not AoBEEABtE.?I bav4pot pmpathy for machinery; the action of machines j f great power terrifies me by its impossibf&y. ^ 'here are some, above oil, employed for beat)g out metals, which do so to an alarming ex-, } ent Whatever these may happen to seize be- i: iveen their ~ron teeth, once seized, the thing j lust pass through a hole mofe or less great, awards which all fabricahle substances are ondurted. Of whatever size tbe thing may e when it goes i?, let it be a beam of the great- j st thickness, it will come out stretchedinto a / nitting-needle of the greatest- fineness. At __ 4L. i

- been removed. k * Do not fear to speak, young Christian, of p( i your new hopes and desiies to your dearest ^ i friend ; but speak tenderly, naturally and con- v ) fidingly, I need not add with humility also; for a i when was ever a human soul filled with the n love of Jesus, that it was not softened humj bled by it, and made'meek and lowly. n t is ? The Religion of the American Indians, v f ?Their religion is verv confused, and no two v 1 Indians have entirely the same belief. They h believe in a good and evil spirit; they pray to S i the latter to avert evils, but never to the former, tl ' saying that the good spirit only confers bene- 1. . fits, and, therefore, does not require praying \ r to: they are fire-worshippers, and believe in fi the transmigration of souls. The Natches it worshipped the sun, and kept a sacred fire con- 2 tinually burning; so that the sun and fire-worr shipper of Persia, the Brahmins, the Buddhists of India, as well as the Jews, and the devil j, t worshippers of Arabia, can each bring forward a claim of parentage! Their worship of fire j( i is partial, but very peculiar; they take it as g their " totem," or " tutelary deity," and will j( ; not on any account treat, a fire roughly, aU a ways replenishing and adjusting it with their . hands, believing that if it is touched with a n hatchet, knife, or any other instrument used in 6 i war, some one of the lodge will die. Other ? Indians take wolves, foxes, buffaloes, in fact j, s nearly every animal, for their totem, being care- jj ful never to injure one of the species unneces j; 1 oarilu Wh?n ?n fnHinn u/lincn tntnm ia thp

> """* vw *" y ci "* / I Isual attention to my books, to. forget the cir- h . cumstance altogether. But a sense of my in- a justice stnote me, and in the course of the fore- d f noon I drew forth the note intending to read o it, but determined that it should exert no in- p . fiuence over me. I had even planned a reply '1 to it, in which I should beg her never to let tc . that subject be spoken of between us. And t< , yet my heart was so melted by the contents of d ; that little note, that before it was finished I t< . was forced to bow my head over the desk to ? i conceal my tears. It touched the right chord si i in my heart. She said she had told no one of t( ( the new hope of Heaven which was in her o . heart, because she must first speak of it to hi | me, as she had always done of-other feelings, la | and that she could not fully enjoy it without w , my sympathy. Yes, she was my own trusting, . loving Anna still. Becoming a Christian had i not made her cold and distant, as I had fanf cied it would; and when I went home I had g, I a long, frank conversation vj-h her. From J that point I date my first religious impressions -j ; ?to that dear sister's love and prayers I owe j, . my soul's salvation, so far as any human in- ^ [ stramentality is connected with it; and I need i not say that she was henceforth dearer to nie n . than ever. Yet, had she remained silent at u | this point, and had I learned the state of her c i feelings from others, a barrier would have been ^ r raised between us which might never have e

VlK'iu, jrt uv uau vvvii iu %?.v. v. ...... his companions and helping himself at his house \ to what he liked. Filley had remonstrated li against this intrusion and robbery several times: ( and when he enforced his reproof with blows, t the savages departed with threats of vengeance, t The little boy had always been fond of them, * and it might be that they had retaliated by steal- j ing him. Another causse of resentment is said r to have been Filley's having ploughed up an old \ Indian burial ground. c Inquiries were made among the different tribes t and families in the vicinity, and large offers of r reward tendered to the chiefs and leading men, t but no satisfactory result followed. Mr. Filley i left his home and traversed the wilds of Michi- f gan, Wisconsin and Iowa, in the hope of gaining j some intelligence, but all his efforts were vain, ^ and he returned to the heartbroken mother with t the sad certainty that their little William was f lost! j For several years the stricken family endured 1 this worse affliction than the bereavement of ' death; for had they buried their child, time ( would have softened grief, and the certainty tjiat c his pure spirit had taken its departure to a world of happingts, would have been a deep consola- . tion. But the awful uncertainty that hung over r his fate, aud the reflection that he might have fallen into cruel hands, or be brought up amidst scenes of violence and bloodshed, caused an abi a ding sorrow. As time rolled on, ho >e was ex- ( tinguished, but the lost one was not forgotten, ^

she proceeded to Mr. Filley's, but found that he c had uot returned. The alarmed parents instant- d ly set out to search for him, and were assisted r by the neighbors, for the news soon spread * through the village and its vicinity ; watebfires t were kept up all night, and though in the midst ll of harvest, all labor was suspended, in the anxie- ' ty every one felt for the Recovery of the child. s For more than a week the search was kept up, h day and nigkP, and every rod of ground, every * Dook and thicket, were thoroughly examined for more than thirty miles around. Every pond and 11 stream was dragged, and, and as an encourage- ' ment to continue the search, Filley offered a re- a ward for the recovery even of the body of his a child, in the papers printed in different parts of v the country. , I Some had sU8$ciohs of foul play, and a care- ' ful search was made, not only in the swamp, but' 11 on Mount's premises; even the floor of his cellar ' was taken up: but nothing was found to justify proceedings against the girl. One circumstance pointed conjecture in another direction k Two c miles from the swamp, on an Indian trail, a pa 1 per with a picture was found, which it was remembered the little fellow had as a plaything 1 when last seeu. .. When asked if lie had ever any i difficulty with the Iudians, which might have v caused feelings of animosity towards him, Filley i called to mind that he had once struck one ot f tK.irl t*? lliu liohi'l nf mmtinor until u