voii.ni: NEW SERIES. THE BEDFORD GAZETTE ,< PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY MEYERS & BENFORD, At *!• fallowiri terms, to wit: 1.,*>0 per annum, cash, in advance. $2.00 44 44 it paid within the year. $2.50 " 4 " it not paid within the year. gjT'No Mibscription taken for leas than six months. tT3*"No pap'T discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the publishers. It has • -r: deeil<.'<l by the United States Courts, that the stoppage of a newspaper without the payment ot ar rearages, is prima facie evidence ot fraud and is a criminal offence. tjyThe courts have decided that persons are ac countable for tbe subscription price of newspapers, i> they take them fiom the |>o>t oihce, whether they fjbscribe for them, or not. {) o e t t g. THE THOUGHTLESS VOW. BV CECItCE P. MORRIS. She loved him— but she heeded not tier heart lud only room lor pride ; Ail other heelings vveie forgot, IVhen she became another's bride. As from a dream she then awoke, To tealize her lonely slate, And own it was Ihe vow she broke That h it her drtar and desolate ! She loved him—but the slanderer came. With words df hate that all believed ; A Main thus rested on Ins name— li.it he was wronged and she deceived! Aii ! rash ihe act that give her hand, That drove her lover Irorn her side Who bin! him to a di.-tant lacd, VV'itre, battling for a namA, he died! She loved him —and his memory now Was treasured f; ;>m the world apart . The shade d thought was on her brow, The seed* of d ath v.-ere in her heart. For a!! the world that thing forlorn I would not, could not be, and live That casket with its jewel gone, A bride who has no heart to give ! The Paraguay Expedition. A dinner was given by the commissioned of ficers of the squadron, some twenty-five in number, to Com. Shubricon March 9t'o at Mon te video. A Slate dinner was given by President Ur qttiza, in honor of Commissioner fi >wiin arid Commodore Shnbrick at San Jose, Feb. 20th. Pr -sident f'rquiza, in toasting the "mamory of Washington," said : \ .u *r> * vH/U Ka.<; -* J - >- i that ol ad ling a netv link t-> that I nion of tne two Americas, which is SJ vital to the progress of humanity. As tar as my country is concer ned, she draws closer to her great m ijel, and, to avail of the generous simile, you have sug gested, she throws herselt more tru-ting!y h rice/orth as a political jro'l-child into the arms of the great American nation. In raising my goblet to toast your most f>r tonute coming, and to wish voo a happy resto ration to the bosom of vour family, I entreat you bv the sympathies which hind in-* to each one of V) j bv tiie close friendship between the Lin ited States and the confederation, hv the honor 1 pay and the happin-ss f wish your actual President Mr. H ichanan, by the prosperity and grandeur of your nation, to suffer me to blend a'l the fund prayers and ardent wishes inspired by this anspscious moment in one deep health to the immortal memory of the sainted l \ ashing ton. To him we Argentines owe inspiration of the yre.it acts which it has been g-anled to me, mice our memoriable month of May, to esta' - hh ,n our land ; his life is our political gospel n ! hence it beseems us, as much as his fellow citizens, to pay a reverent worship to his rr.em- I 'ring, then to the First Soldier of ,1m rri' a ' to the most virtuous of citizens and most f "lunate of the sons of Liberty ! I invoke tiis n:i r•• in this libation to his memory, that from the il-av.-n of tin* just made perfect, the protec tion f bis Vnificienl influence may descend upon the detestines of my country and upon *': • American fraternity. A> a token of parting regard, the Argentine Pr i i-nt tran-'mitted to Commodore Shubrick a s.perb and valuable sword, hitherto worn on Su'.e occasions, as wei! Os in service, by him '• if. It was to General Lrquizza, i.t s cue notable period of his career, by an asso *) iti aof his admirers. The scabbard and hilt are of solid gold, and heavily carved. The New York Past publishes the follow ing narrative of the cruise of the Harriet Lane, gathered Iron: conversations with her officers, and ';i,irs on hoard. To If irriet Lane, a handsome new steamer built by W. H. Webb, of this city, for the rev enue service, after having been transferred to *>h" navy Department, sailed from New York "n her first cruise an the Dih day of October, nd arrived in Rarbadoeg in nine days. After r >a!ing, she left Harhadoes for Pernambuco, but off Cape San R >qne her coil (which was of a Yrry bi,{ qualitv) ga>'e out, and she was com pelled to pull in to, Maianharr, under sail. She ail-(5 admirably, making the distance—nine hundred miles—in a little over four days. While at Maranham they were visited by the Viceroy, and complimentary salutes were ex changed. Tj,e President, Don Jose Paraguay, w d-scribed as a tall fine looking, soldierly man 8 1 /uit thirty or thirty-five years of age, and a bouii img in Spanish politeness. He drank a of champaign od board to the success of ♦he expedition. L iv ng Marannam, the Harriet Lan procee r" t'j Pi-rmmhuco, where she found the Water Witch mid Fulton. After coaling, she started C' "St. Catharine's, and the second da\' broke t "~' * crank-pin, and was compelled to put in *' Ri o Janerio tor repairs, which detairii-d her tiny*. While lying it Kio, aonva of the [officers visited the opera, and there saw th 1 Emperor and Empress. The Emperor vvor no Ribbons or decorations, but was plainly dres ■ sed in i black suit. 11 is box at the thejtr. v. as nut at all ornamented. As soon as hr came in, every mart in the theatre arose and . uncovered. The monarch bowed withaplea : s<'d smile, and the people were seated again.— He i-s said to be exceedingly friendly to Auier. cans, but not at all Jo mi of the English. Th- Empress is a very rotund, plump and pleasant looking laily. The opera was It Trnvttoer. and the primi donna, Madame Emily Ligru ! la, a great favorite of the Emperor, who re mainioed to the last, and paid great attention. Ihe singing, however, did not impress the A meriian* very favorably. The Harriet L in" next proceeded to M>nte viuoe, wheresli— artived about the 19th of De cember, and (ound the tlag ship St. Lawrence, Commodore French Forrest, arid the Sabine, which had arrived the dav before. On the 31 of December, thetleet commenced ascending the Rio de la Plata and the Parana. The fleet consisted of the Fulton, with Commis si mer Bowlin, the Water Witch, ill" I'-rrv, the Dolphin, the Bainbndge and the Harriet Lane. They proc-ed--d to Rosario ami there coaled. The Harriet Lane then took the Dd pliiti ami Rainbridge in tow, and the Fulton fol lowed. They were obliged to anchor at night, the river being so high that the pilots could not keep the channel. .War La Fez they lear ned that th- Fulton was hard aground below, and the Harriet Lane returned to get her off*. Urijuizza left Rosariu the day the Harriet Lane was th-re, and went up to Asunci >ll in one ut the river passenger steamers ahead of the fleet. The only steamer which pass-d th- Ful ton, while she was aground was the French steamer Bi*ori. The tieet proceeded without further trouble to Corrienles. Lb-re the Commo l>l e left the ti-et ia command of Captain Charles Steadman and proceeded with Com nodore fj-nvlin ti the Fulton alone to Asuncion, where they met with Urquizza, and tiie negotiations were com menced. Sometime a'ter a vessel came down with the news that the treaty had been signed, although it had been delayed some davs on arc mot of the death ol Bishop Lopez, a brother oi the President. A few days after that Urquizza himself came down in the Paraguayan war-st-am- r Taruara, and confirmed the news that a settlement had been a fleeted. The n-xt day he gave a grand reception to the American officers in the Correnles Senate 1 n >/ani.sh, and Captain St-admari replied. Jl x-as on the ">th of February, the annivesary of nine great South America battle. The display was magnificient, and was fol lowed by a review of troups and a grand TV Ueuni in the cathedral, which all the officials attended. A day or two after, the Water Witch went up to Fort Itapiru, to be saluted, in pursuance ol the treaty, and soon after the Commodore came down from Asuncion and the whole fleet left. I'he stay at Corrientes was very pleasant.— The officials on shore gave a grand ball, to which all the American officers were invited, and the officers returned the compliment by a ball on board the Harriet Line. The night be fore the fleet lelt, the Corrientes people gave another grand ball ol surpassing magnifi cence. The officers parted from these beautiful Snith American seno'itas with regret, but were were not sorry to get rid of 'he long-billed mos quitoes. The Harrmt Lane stopped first at M mievi rloe on the I'dth of March ; arrived in Alonte vidoe in nine davs ; remained there five days more, and sailed for tins port a week ago last Monday. The weather was pleasant nn the return voy age with one exception—a v; dent gale which -piling up last Sunday, and |j-'.ed lorly-eigiit hours. Some of the t ittie, with twenty-four pounds of steam, thep were handy able to turn Ihe wheels ;but the sea qualities of the little stearn-r are highly eulogized. Tiie officers are of opinion that if peace had notb-en concluded Paraguay would have given tli'-rn a world of trouble. I. >pez had an army of about 3D,000 men, with plenty ot arms and ammunition. Tiie South American soldiers are not tail, but they ate powerful, sinewy tei lows. fed 011 jerked beef, sallowy and haidy.— Their cavalry are the fi-st rule-s in the world and a troop ot them will mak- nothing of swim ming a river a mile in width. Pen and Type. All through the olden time, and down the ages of our Christian era, till four hundred ago, books, whether on rollers or in leaves with covers, were made by copying them, letter for letter, wph a pen. And to add to their beau ty and worth, they were adorned with letters and 15 Mirej in colors and gold. f his work is called illumiua!ion. The title-pages, the margins, the initials or fir.-', letters of chapters as you olten seethem now—were brightened with gold and purple, crimson, green and blue figures of angels and men, beasts and birds, and vines and flowers. Thus the scribe and artist gratified his taste, and expressed his devo tion, by spending labor on the precious leaves 0 4 Holy Writ. Where parchment was scarce, a writer who wished to put his own thoughts down in ink, has taken the 1.-avepof skins already written, and with a sponge rubbed out lines of words, page after page, and then would write, anew !on the cl-anpd surface. Ihe old writing was nut thoroughly eflaced, and und-r the fresh ! ink the former I*tters might be seen. • Sixty years ago, th* libramu of TriDity BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 13, 1859. Allege, in Dublin, found a manusciipt on vel um, containing -ome monk's f.ible, perhaps ive hundred y*ars old. But under the later ••gen Ihe saw lhe faint traces of older letters tot perfectly sponged out. He set to work, to -tody them with pitient care, and aft-r long abor he succeeded in copying them all, (the 'arge old letters,) and printing them in their >wn shapes. They made a part of the prophesy >( fsai ih, and of the ( >spe| of St. Matthew, tnd ot a Greek father's sermons, and were •opied nearly a thousand yean earlier than the legend written over them hy the monk. but by-and-'oy, in the course of God's provi l-rnce, an easier, swifter, way of making books ■vas found. Instead of the weary work of copying volume utter volume with a pen, types should soon be carved of wood, and then cast with lead and otner metals. You may fancy Dutch Laurence, a thought ful man culling ftiv name upon a tree. In the vear i FJ). near Huerlem, in H dlaoil, he walked alone meditating in a grove of beeches. Presently li-s,-i/.ed a hit of bark ; he thought, arid cut it, and shaped it. fie paused beneath a tree and with his knife graved on its trunk uis name, Liuientius. Still thinking, working his device out in his mind, he walked home ward, cut out of VVOJ I letters and words enough to make a sentence. With his to make an impression, such as you rntd upon this printed page, thsir IJC-U must be cut backwards, or rather shaped as you see them, looking towaid the light, through a leal printed on one side only. Laurence dipped his wooden types in ink, 3nd stamped them on the and th--re, behold the sentence he had caived— printed ! and he read it. There was the germ <>( a new art ; and he dreamed how sheets and volumes might be multiplied, and labor saved, and mil ions helped with m-ans to make them cch dors, and to read the words of heaven. In Stras bourg, ten years alter, Guttenburg printed with single types of metal ; an i in IH9, making John Faud, a frun ler, hn partner, his inven tion was complete. lingular Monstrosity. The Philadelphia correspondent of the New York Tribune, under date of April 2:1 has the following : "A child, seven months old, was recently biought to the Jeifersan College Hospital from the western part ol the state, having append* ed to its left cheek a large mass of flesh, some what resembling a turn ir. This mass grew more rapidly than the child ils-lf. At birth it was no target ihan an appl-, but when brought Mf. r &s!* s L ffiWfMV FreVoVhf- J* ditfiled into several globular mass-s, while pul sation was distinctly perceptible, regular and uninterrupted, from forty t a hundred beats per minute. It was traversed by a laige arte ry, showing that it was largely supplied with blood. The tumor was connected to the cbilds cheek hy a peculiar caul-like membrane, pier ced with holes and its presence ua a source of constant irritation to the child, though sup ported bv the mothers hand. How to jeroove this large tumor without destroyrng the life of the child was a great surgical problem. The parents, warned of the danger, w-re yet ex tremely anxious to have the frightful parasites taken off. Dr. Pancoast, under whose charge tile patient had been placed, decided that the use of the knife would result in a fatal hemorr hage, and drtermim d to divide the caul-like membrane bv using a French surgical instru ment, the emse'/r, which, by forcing down the skin, arid bruising the vessels thoroughly b lore the chain of the instrument cuts through the mass, effectually prevents all serious bleeding. The operation was performed in presence of an immense assemblage of medical men, students and others. The child was placed under the influence of ether, w lien all pulsation in the pariute wa observed to cease. The instalment being ap plied, the chain was rapidly worked until the parts were well compressed, and afterwards very stow Iv. In fifteen minutes the tumor came away with the instrument, the chain having worked through the connecting mem brane, while scarcely a drop of blood followed tr.e removal, and hut one small v-ssej required .a ligature. The surface left on the cheek wja about two inches square, and the tumor weigh-' ed Iwo and a half pounds. The whole op-ma-! tion was entirely successful, and the child lives and has fully recovered. But the extraordina ry p*rt remains to be told. The tumor thus taken of! was found to contain a living child, imperfectly developed it is true, but still a liv ing child. Fingers were seen and a portion ol a rudimentary arm. The intestines were writ developed, and nodonbt was entertained of its being a male child. A body, presumed to be the heart, contained, imperfectly formed, auri cles and ventricles. The messenteric aiteries and veins were of large size. The dissecting knife came repeatedly in contact with the ass*-- oos matter of a rudimentary skeleton. Fat was found in large quantities everywhere. It was, in fact, a repetition of the Siamese Twins, only j less perfectly developed. These result* were received with profound astonishment by the crowded audience who witnessed the operation.; The case is said to be unique in the annals ofl human malformation. ugliest trades"sai l Jerrold. "have their moments of pleasure. Now if I were a grave digger, or even a hangman, there are lome people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment." (EF*""Put out your tongue a little farther," said a physician to a female patient ; "a little farther still." "Why, doctor, do you think there is no end to a Woman's tongue ?" cried the fair invalid. cannot manufacture a conscience oot of expediency. Freedom of Thought and Opinion. WHO WRITES OUR SONGS. [From the New York Evening Post.] Hi* musical composer who really furnishes thegreat majority of our song*, ami wit jie pro ductions have the widest popularity among the masses of our people, is known to very few of them, even i>y reputation. The new melodies that greet the public ear month after month, and are song, whistled, and hummed by thou sands— that are thumped on piano- fortes, thrum med on banjoes, breathed on flutes, tortured into variations, and enjoy a wide, though, alter all evanescent popularity, are chiefly the product of one fertile biain—and that brain, as .Mr. .Jtea-vher would say, is the brain appertaining to Mr. Stephen (i. Fester. This gent.'niian is a native of Pittsburg, and has spent ail his days there, excepting three years in Cincinnati, and two at New York. He was born on tf|e +th*of July, 1826, (the very day that John v\dan>s and Thomas Jefferson died) and is therefore, now in the thirty-third year. His father, Mr. William If. Foster, was a Pittsburg merchant, a member of the Slate L-gislature, afterwards a mayor of Allegheny City, and subsequent ly occupied an oflicial post under the federal government. His oldest sister is the wife of the Rev. E. Y. Buchanan, the only'brother of the President of the United •States. Stephen C. Foster is the youngest of his family. He enjoyed but limited opportunities for mu sical instruction, and took but few lessons.— H hen nineteen years old, he composed for a social quartette club of which he was a member his fust successful song, Ihe [>opular favorite, "I Ned." It was shortly afterwards sur.g at a public conserf in Cincinnati, and received such applause that Mr. Win. C. Peters, the music publisher in that city, requested the privilege of publishing it, which was at once granivd. Mr. Foster next composed '•Susan na/' which was more rimple m its style, arid became even more popular. In a private letter Mr. Fosfter writes : "I had f np to this time neither recived nor U night of any pecuniary remunneration for my efforts in the musical line. Imagine my d "iglr, therefore, on receiving fir my next song i,in- hundred dollars in cash ! Though this a >ug was not successful, yet the two fifty do'lurs notes which i received, far if had the eb it of star', ng m" in my present vocation of as .fij-w i iter." It would rend.-i' this article too much like a "catalogue of popular and standard music" to giv-- a u>t of Mr. Foster's songs. "Masra's in th •Co 1 Ground," ' Old Kentucky Home," ->, C- r i> :ve 'Long," "Nelly was a f.v: .*/ , - f r "Su-anni m-lojy has been seized by many piaui*l<, (a:r. >ng whom may be mentioned Her? and f halberg) as a rneloilic theme peculiarly suited fjr teatinent with variations, and some of the other negro melodies hav obtained an equal popularity. Nor is this popularity merely a local one. In many o! the Suit hern Stales Mr. Foster's songs have h-en a.'opted by the slaves to enliven them in tli-ir corn huskings and field labors. Their faire .ns also crossed the ocean. In a private letter lorn one who has secently returned from an extended pedestrian tour through the border land <• Scotland, where the songs of Burns and Hi' older oral Scotch ballads are known and suig by every one, occurs the follow-in" [tassagl: "I -Vent several weeks among the poetic hi!l> <>t Kttrick, along the braes of Yarrow, so fimedu Scottish border minstrelsy, and here ] t'Mind r.nie of Foster's earlier melodies were almostdisplacing, in the estimation of the sVphfd boys and cottage girls, the sm"s id Buns and Ramsay. Often, in the Scottish cottaajs, after the bag pipes have droned out M"ir jccompaniimmt to 'Scots vvha hae' and LordAthol's Cou"tship/ a voice will take up ne 4 these American melodies, and all atheed around the ingle-sid- will join in the imp/I refrain ; and thus the plaintive, toucliing rain;that are first sung in the dark, sooty IWII ol Pittsburg, on the Mmongahela, rise vsy al.ove the smoke and steam of city life, at across Ihe Atlantic, heard upon u fieathery hills of Ettrick, and among the rks that grow on the 'braes of Yarrow." ivorahle mention has also h-en inadeof them m California, Ctiina, Australia, and even ■ deei is of Africa, through the foreign and ine correspondence of our newspapers. Ethiopian minstrelsy, as it is called, has wever, culminated, and is now in its decline, •predating this fact, Mr. Foster has lately newhat changed his style, and abandoning ■use of negro jargon, he now writes songs for adapted for general use. While the Indies exhibit a decided improvement, the rrls are rythmical, always unexceptionable point of moral, anil as good, poetically isidered, as the majority of songs. We do -ay that Mr. Foster's "melodies" can be ripared with those that have immortalized names of Burns, Barry Cornwall, or Ttio s Moore : but we do maintain that the com er who produced such popn'ar and pleasin" gs as "Gentle Annie," "Willie we have sed Yon," "Maggie !>v mv side," "I See • Still in my Dreams," "Old Dog Trav," annie with the Light Brown Hair," ike., ■rves an honorable mention, as one of those o has enlarged the pleasure of thousands, 'he reason of the popularity of Mr. Foster's gs jes in their easy flowing melody, the ereice to plain chords in the accompani es aid the avoidance of intricary in the imont or embarrassing accidentals in the iody. They have a family resemtdance, (not jteater than the simpler melodies of ilini ad Donizetti, and the composer is no e triy open to the charge of self-plagarism tp arehose Italian melodists. And, as Mr. Iter istill young, he may improve and elate i style, til) he attains a musical rltatk'.hat will be more thao ephemeral. A HAPPY MAN. The following parable delineates that con-' dition of mind and heart which makes God the object of love and happiness. It presents the Christian standard—'God all in all A zealous divine, who had prayed earnestly that God would teach him the perfect way of truth, was directed, in a dream, to go to a certain place, where he would find an instru tor. When he came to the place, he found a man inordinary attire, to whom he wished a good mcrning. 'I never had a bad morning ;' —replied the man. 'That is very singular : I wi.h you may al ways be so fortunate.' 'I was never fortunate,'said he. '1 hope you will always be as happy,' said the divine. '1 am never unhappy,' repli-d the other. 'I wish that you would explain yourself a little,' said the divine. ' 1 hat I will cheerfully do,' said he. 'I said that 1 never had a Lad morning ; for every morning, even if lam pinched with hunger, I praise God. If it rains, or snows, or hails, whether the weather is s?rer.e or tempestous, lam still thankful to God, and therefore I never have a joyless morning. If I am mis erable in outward circumstances, and despised, I still praise God. You wish that I might always be fortunate ; but I cannot be unfortu nate, because nothing befalls me but according to the will of God ; and I believe that His will is always good, in whatever He -Joes, or permits to he done. You wished me always happy ; but I cannot be unhappy, because my will is always resigned to the will ot*Gad.' 'But what if God should thrust you down to hell ?' 'I have two arms—faith and love—with which I would hold on to my God and Sa vior, and not let Him go ; and I would rather be in hell with God, than in Heaven without Him.' The divine, astonished at the man's answers, asked him whence he came. '1 came from God,' he replied. 'Where did you !ind Go ! ** Where I left the world.' 'Where did you leave Him V 'With the pure in heart.' i 'What are you V •I am a king.' 'Where is your kingdom V •It is within mv own bosom. I have learned to rule my appetites and passions; and that is better than to rule any kingdom in the world.' 'How was you brought into this happy condi l tion ?' 1 tjnion" wifYi"?,W ?r e meditation, and union u tin uox Nothing oeiow croj tou ui satisfy my desiies. I have found Him, and in him I have peace and rest.' AMIABLE AMUSEMENT Of THE LION. Among the numerous fearful stories with which Gerard, the Lion tamer, regales his readers, we find the following description of a trait in the character of the king of beasts: " The Lion treats a man very different from any animal that he is a< customed to kili for food. Jf he kills a person vvho has fired at him, he never eats the body. If he meets, in his' nightly promenade, a man well clothed in Burnos, his experience shows hiin that he is not a marauder,Jaitd he may either kill him lor food,or, if the fancy happens to take him; he will kill him by fear, little by little, jut as a passtirne. In the first case, he will give him barely time enough to say his prayers, and then bounding on him, will crush his liea.l with a single bite, instead of strangling him, as he is accustomed to do with other animals. In the second case, he sometimes will bar the passage of the unfortunate fellow, hy lying down be-, fore him, and then he will walk along by his side, purring and showing his teeth like a tiger. Sometimes he makes him believe he will go away and leave Li n . and then frisking a long detour he will conceal himself along the path, and charge at him with a roar. Sometimes he crouches down like a cat and bounds on his victim, who gives himself up for lost, but the tantalizer only knocks him over with his paw, or walking around him, strikes him in the lace a blow like a flail with his muscular tail. At last, the victim succumbs to the agony that is greater than a thousand deaths, and dies of fear. These pastimes of the Lion, that as one can well imagine, have never been told by the victim himself, are reported by his comrades, who, having sought safety hy flight, by tak.ng refuge on rocks or trees, while the poor soul that was captured, too much frightened to imi tate their example, died before their eyes of terror, while they could do nothing for his relief hut pray to the prophet, who only heard when it was too late to save. These attacks, so horrible in their fascination, have given a certain semblance of proaf to (tie universally accredited belief in the magnetizing power of the Lion." A COLT WITH A HUMAN HEAD. On Monday afternoon last, we saw a freak of nature which biJs fair to out-iiva! all crea tion, and however Munchausen it may appear to our readers, having seen it with our own eyes, and felt it with our own hands, u e can vouch for the truth of all the particulars made in t lie subjoined statement, which we compiled iri the main with the animal before us. On the 13th inst., in the northwest part of this township, a mare belonging to Mr. B. T. Day, foaled a colt having a head resembling that of a human being. The frontal, parietal, occepitai and temporal bones are formed and united like those of a man. Phrenologically physicians have decided that its head indicates more intelligence than the heads of most chil dren at birth. Its physiognomy varies from that of a man in having a nose that resembles that of a bull-dog, and has hut one slit like W HOLE \IJIBER 9849. nostril extending across the middle of the note. The nose projects abruptly from the lower part of the face about two inches, under which h an upper and lower jaw, rraembling that of a horse. It has a horn on the inside of tho mouth, situated above the middle of the upp.-r jaw; in front ol this horn the entire inside of the mouth is like that ola horse—hack of it, it resembles the human mouth, and placing the hand so as to cover the parts in front of thrs horn in the mouth, the human head is com plete, with the exceptions ol the ears, which are back of the head, at the extreme upper end of tile neck, and resemble those of a horse. Ihe eyes are a decided mixture physicians being ol the opinion that in some respects they resemble those of a horse, in others those of a dog, while i.i others those of a man. Tho bones of the neck are like those of a horse, while inshaoethe neck resembles that of a man. Its body and limbs are like those of a horse. Altogether it is certainly the greatest wonder of the nineteenth century. It is carefully preserved in spirits, and pre parations are being made for its exhibition te the public. Fuirjield Gazette. A PEN PICTURE, FAITHFUL AND ACCEPTA BLE TO ALL. From one of a series of "Rustic" sketches in the Erie (Pa.) Observer, we glean the fol lowing : Ihe Poet Cray oncp said, "I have discov ed a thing very little known, which is, that in one's whole life one can never have more than a single mother." I said to a young artist once, in allusion to the kiss that Denj. West, when a boy, re ceived Irom his mother, tor his picture of the baby, "Sir, your mother ought to kiss you." '•I have no mother !" said he, and the emotion that tidied his voice revealed the true man.— .No mother ! Badly off is he whose mother cares not for him—still worse off" is he, who cares not for his mother. Can a mother forget ? Not a morning, noon or night but she looks into the corner of the kitchen where you lead Robinson Orusne, and thinks of you as yet a boy. Mothers rarely become conscious that their children are ;rowu out of their childhood. They think of them, advise them, write to them, as if not lull fourteen years of age. They cannot forget • the child. Three times a day she thinks who are absent from the table, and that next year, at farthest, she may have '-just her own family there"—and if you are there, look out for the fat limb of a fried chicken, and that coff-e, whicti none but everybody's own mother can : make. Did Hannah lorget Samuel ? A short sentence full of household history, and running over with genuine mother love, is telling . leauilltll. "ivljlruvri, ti Is mother m-wt-fcim ft little oat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with tier husband to the yearly sacrifice." A mother mourning at her first borns grave, or closing the dying eye of child after child displays a grief whose very sacredness is sub lime. But bit'erer, heavier than the death stroke, is the desparation of a son who rushes over a mother's crushed heart, into vices, which he would hide even from the abandoned and the vile. Napoleon once asked a lady what Franco needed for the education of her youth, and tba short, profound reply was "MOTHERS !" A GOOD ANECDOTE In the early days of tfie Slate of Indians, the capital was Corydon ; and the annual ses sions of the General Assembly usually brought together a wild a set ol mad wags as could he found in the Stat", who had to rely upon their own resources for amusement, for their Were than few theatres, concerts or shows. These lovers of mischief had established a Mock .Masonic Lodge , into which thev would enl ice such as were a litt legreen, and lake t hem through a variety ot ridiculous ceremonies, to the infinite amusement of the crowd. On one of these occasions, it being understood that a good natured, athletic young man, about half a simpleton, was to "be iniliated, the room was crowded. Judge Grass (it being a character in which lie was peculiarly happy) hud consented to act the role of the devil ; and to make the services more impressive, had put on a false lace and a large paper cap, surmoun ted with horns, and wilh some chains in hia hands, placed himself behind a screen. After taking the candidate through a variety of ceremonies, he was brought to a stand be fore the screen, and told that he had then to coti less all the crimes he fiad committed during hia Ide. Ihe candidate confessed some trival of fences, and declared that he could recollect no more. At this the Judge came out from hia hiding place, groaned, and shook his chains. The frightened candidate related some other small matin®, and dec'ared that he had disclo sed all the crimes he had • ver committed. At this the groans of the pretended devil became furious, th" chairs rattled and he shook hia horns in the face of the the terrified candidate, who, star- ing back in alarm, cried out : "H-h-ho!<J on, JM-m-mister D-al-devil, if I m-m-musf t-t-te/t you. I d-d-did k-k-kiss J-j-judge G-g-graa$ y s ww-wifc a c-c-coupit t-t-times The groaning ceased. u/*Two lawyers dined together, and aAer dinner they called in the host, whose name waa Honor, and taking their glasses, drank the health of "Honor and Honesty." The host, in response, drank the health of "Our absent friends !" 'LP*Pooh ! pooh raid a wife to her expi ring husband, as he strove to utter a few par ling words, "don't stop to talk, but go on with your dying." XP'Tbe pleasure of doing good is tbe only one that never wears out. VOL. 2, NO. 41
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