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H T A 2s 1 • ' t *ltafi.i's setting sun, thev say, Hath naught to match its gentle ray— That naught in other climes can vie, With the hues of its evening sky; A thousand tints are glowing there, As if a thousand waves of light Were rolling o'er the mistless air, To lave the golden isles of night; While beauty's spirit walks the earth In every form of loveliness. That wins from sorrow, Woos to mirth, And smiles o'er all, as if to bless. 'l'is beauty all—beneath, above ; An Eden formed for peace and love; Yet ruin stands by beauty's side, A hoary groo nby vouthful bride ; And their cold sad bridal strain, llaik to the clank of thraldronrs chain ! II Ah! what avails, 0, Italy ! The beauty of thy land and sky, And thy renown in years gone-by I Since this fi all Ihy sons can claim, An heirship in thy mighty lame , Romans in nothing, save the name ; And great in nothing, save the boast Of glorv past, and empire lost ; Arid rich in nothing, save the strain Thy bards have sung—nor sung in vain ' For there is power in words of song, Repeated olt,and treasured long, To 'rouse with its sonl-stirring numbers, At last, a nation from its slumbers 1 111. Is that the sky, whose azure plain, Wide as itself, saw Rome's domain ? Is 'hat tbejmn that look upon No iatid that Rome made not her own I It meets not now a Roman's glance-- j bees now no realms won by his lance ! The glorious Roman—where is he ? Whose proudest boast was, "Rome is free !" 1 iie conquering Roman—doth he tread The -oil which none hut heroes bred ? Within thy breast, therejis his grave, .-! r/iv, the iootstep ol the slave. IV- , Italia!—long the buttle field Of nations ; thou the victor's prize, The only duty was to yield ; Who'er might fall, thou cculd'st not rise— Musing an hour oil thine and Thee, i hoped that thou migh'st yet be free ! That hope was lost when Austria won ; And sank with the declining sun, That saw thy broken legions' flight From Novara's disastrous fight 1 V . Sweet land ! even as a lover clings, At parting, with fond fingerings, 1 cleave unto thee—to what end ? For words will ne'er thy shackles rend. And yet, he, who hath pondered long Thy tale of wars and tide of song, May well be pardoned, if he be Too prone to dwell on tluiie and thee ; Thou wast his earliest love—the bride Of his young thoughts, for whom he sighed ; Sighed that thy beauty should but lure The spoiler's eye to lust impure; He loved thee for thy glorys ray ; And mourned that glory in decay, Revered thee for thy past renown, And wept that e'er thy star went down ! VI. Land of Music, of I'oeiry, Passion,and Love ! Witb all beauty below, and all brigtness above ! Viae the leaf is most green, and the wave is most clear ; V.'iiere the tints of the rainbow forever appear ; Where the breeze ever bears, as it wantons along, The sweetness of fragrance, the echoes of song ; Where the eyes of the maiden are darkest and brigh test, Ai.d their words ar.d their hearts are the softest and lightest ; Where there love is all fire and their veins all flame, Now burning to hate, and now melting with shame ; Where Revenge is a duty, and Murder scarce crime, Land of Evil and Good ! and in both most sublime! Land of Begguit and Nobles, the boast of their line ! Where the blood of dead heroes lemounts in the vina 1 Land of Gloiy—tuo' past ; land of Memory's spell! Land ol Greatness—tho' lost ; land of Beauiy, fare- Well ! — THE rumor that Mr. G'riffilh, "postmaster at Auraria," has been murdered by a mob of disappointed gold seekers, while on his way to take possession of his otiice, is untrue.— Henry Allen is postmaster at Auraria, and has lesided there lor some time. —IT IS STATED that the Austrians suffered so much from sickness, that they were car rying back as many disabled men as after a pitched battle. —THE Wheeling Times says the mountains near Uniontown are on fire, destroying much wood and rails. 1 . 7 , ■ ' 1 11 A THRILLING ADVENTURE WITH A LION. O It was a warm, pleasant evening in Novem ber, an J our ship was otT the coast of Tripoli. A party of us, who sat upon the quarter-deck, had been conversing upon various subjects con cerning the vast desert to the southward of us. 'T think you have traveled across the des ; ert said one of our number, addressing the captain. "Not exactly," replied Captain Bushwick. '•Some years ago I spent a few months in Abyssinia, and the country south of it." " Was it then you had your adventure with the lion?" . "Ah—you've heard of that scrape, eh?" "Only that you had sucli an adventure, cap i tain. Your mate told me you had met the animal." "Weil, 1 have; and if you would" like to hear the varn, I will tell it." A vote was immediately and unanimously cariied that Captain Bushwick had permission I to relate his adventure; and without further ; preliminaries he proceeded : "It is now five-and-twenty years since I i took the notion to travel among the African j natives. I had an uncle living in Mocha, en- I gaged in trade there, and I had gone out to see him. He was going into Abyssinia on busi ness, and I accompanied him. Our party con- 1 sisted of six —my uncle and self, and four Nu bian servants. These Nubians were faithful fellows, and long tried, and were, moreover, strong and fearless, having lived with mv rela tive several years. When the business was over, I proposed that we should take a trip to the southward, and see the countrj'. The Nu bians were anxious to go, and, after a deal of persuasion, my uncle consented to the arrange ment. "On the seventh day we reached a lake upon the extreme southern border of Abvs- j .suiia, where we pitched our lent, and then went hunting for game, we having been infor med that we should find plenty of both fish— much more so than I had expected,—and fowl in this region. Our luck was moderate, my uncle was bent on returning, but I was deter mined to have a few more trials. "Theonly boat we had been able to find was a small canoe, fashioned from a log, and one morning 1 declared that I would take a cruise in it if somv one would accompany me. The canoe would not carry more than two of us j with any degree of safety; and as all four of the ' Nubians offered logo, T wa3 obliged to make i my own selection. So I took Lari, the youn gofrrTn the for, tiTTTTtie Drigtuesi UnU morrt vful ! and brave in the presence of danger. I took i my iifie and pistols, while Lari took his rifle' and spear; and thus equipped, we set out.— The canoe was easily managed while we kept our proper places, and all went on finely until afternoon. It was ver v warm and sultry, and • I had removed my pistol-belt, and laid it in the j bottom of the boat with my rifle. Lai i had' jut proposed turning back, when I saw a large ! (lock of birds settle down upon a tree close by the shore, and I bade iny companion to help me paddle in that direction. He did not object, tor he wanted a shot at them himself. "We had become to within a dozen fathoms of the shore, when a quick, loud cry from Lan startled ine from my aim, and in the next in- j slant the canoe struck upon some hard sub stance. "'A rock ?' 1 asked. "A hippopotamus!'the Nubian shouted, spring ing back toward me. "Hardly had the words escaped his lips be fore a huge black head was lilted above the gunwales, and as I cast my eyes over into the water, I saw the whole body ot the monster.— It was as large as an elephant, but ten times more hideous in look. Its mouth was opened to a distance of three feet, or more, and its great teeth, ail of a foot in length, looked like destruction itself. He seized the bow of our boat in his capacious jaws, and crushed it like an egg shell. With all the force I could mus ter 1 leaped into the water and struck out for the shore. I never swam faster, though when I reached the laud I found that the hippopota mus had not followed us, having sunk to the bottom, probably as soon as he had destroyed the canoe. "We were in a quandary. We had come quite twelve or fifteen miles from the camp, and we must foot it back the best way we could. If we could have loiiowed the shore, the task would have been easy enough, but this we could not do, for a deep, dark swamp over grown with reeds and bushes, and gnarled trees, lay between us and our tent, so we must strike up into the wood upon the higher land and make tfie best of it. Our only weapons were two knives and Lan's spear. The latter he had grasped as he started from the boat, but the rifles and pistols were at the bottom ol the lake. 1 bade my companion take the lead, aud he did so. "For three hours we tugged on through a thick, matted forest, and at the end of that time we reached the end of a wide expanse of rocky desert. There were clumps ofbushes scattered over the place, but they looked dry and parch ed. Here we took an observation, and finally decided to keep down on the right hand side of the rocky plain, knowing that the lake must lie in that directioo. By the time we had passed over half the length ol the barren waste the sun was behind the trees. A little while after wards, just as the dark shadows spread over the whole width of the plain, Lari uttereu a low 'hist' and placed his hand upon my arm. "'Do you hear anything?" he asked me. "I listened a moment and told him, 'Yes; perhaps they are coming after us.' " ' Who ire they V said he. " 'Our party,' I answered. "'That fellow walks on four feet, and has a weight equal to all the men we have left be hind. Hark again.' BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 17, 1859. I "I did so, and could now plainly distinguish the tread ot some heavy animal. " 'ls it a lion, do you think ?' I asked. "Lari hesitated a moment, and then, gras ping me by the arm, he pointed into the wood. ' ' j " 'Look ! —See ! —There !' tie cried, whirling ' me half around as he spoke. "I did look—and I saw a sigh!—a sight that 1 made my hair stand and my heart leap. Not a j * rifle J —nut even a pistol!—and yet there—not twenty yards distant—was a huge Nubian lion crawling toward us. I could see his eyes bum; ; I could see hp long tail sweep the grass; and I could see tha'fJhe was advancing for a spring. "'He's hungry,' aaid the Nubian, or I would not be coming on in that way.' " Then he'll attack us,' I suggested. '"Of course he will." " 'And not a weapon for defense!', '' 'I have my spear,' returned Lari. 'Now to the back ol those bushes—quick—and let j him come. Have your kniie out in need. "J hardly knew what my companion meant, but I saw,just upon our lelt, a clump of! , bushes bearing a small red berry. They were ' not over four leet high, and occupied a space j some eight feet long by four wide. When v.e , had gained a position behind them, I looked j for the lion. He had stopped as he saw us j take this covert, but we were hidden'lroin his i sight, as there were openings in the foliage through which both parlies could obtain a view of each oiher. " 'We are gone !' said I, trembling with fear, , as I saw the huge monster settle upon his belly i and move toward us. " 'Perhaps not,' whispered Lari, without taking his eye troin tfie lion. 'Keep still— j don't move, for your life !' 'But what can you do with that spetfr ?'* I |, asked. " 'Perhaps nothing—but wait and see !' I, i "I did wait ; but though it was only a lew | moments, yet it was a season of terrible sus- ' , pense to me. lam not a co ward, nor was i; ] j ever one ; but come to be situated as I was then, \, with a full-grown lion before you, not twenty : yards off and only a little patch of bushes as an , apology for a shelter, through which the beast , could watch your every movement, and with thai unearthly purring, roaring growl, hardly ! perceptible in tone, but making the air tremble with its intensity—have all this, as I had it 1 then, and it you don't tremble, then you are J i made of sterner stufl than most men. ! "Once I cast my eyes upon Lari, who was at ' . my right, and I saw that he was as calm as a * rock. His great brown eye was fixed upjo If, , lion with a burnnv eaze. am! his V+eth j set like the jaws of a vice. He was upon his , l right knee, with his left fool braced before him, j i and his long spear, which he held with a firm f grasp, had the end of the shaft set against the ) hard ground behind him, with the sharp steel bead elevated just to the top of bushes. "'Hist!' he uttered, gathering himself for an effort ; and as I turned I saw the lion ; cautiously advancing upon his bellv. When about five yards off he stopped and gathered himself for a spring. I saw his huge claws i settle into the ground, and I saw his great ! shaggy head start upward, as he lelt his couch, i With my heart as stiil as death I bowed my i | head and shrank down toward the earth. *1 ; heard a_ shock—a momentary struggle—a j , crashing sound, as of the breaking of wood— ' and then I was knocked over by a heavy body j , i coining in contact with my shoulder. With a powerful effort I struggleii from beneath the weight and gained my feet, j "The first thing i saw was Lari, for it was he who had fallen against me. The next was the lion, who lay only a few feet off, with Ihe head of the spear buried deep in his throat, the shaft being broken off about midway. lie was roaiing with a deep hoarse sound, and tearing i the dirt up with his claws. "'[ think that found his heart before it broke, 1 said Lari, as he gained his feet. 'lf the i shalt had held I would have pinned him through the heait, and sent him twenty feet over behind us. But, I tell you, lie's a heavy I one to lift. "The monster was dead ir. a few minutes, I and we then held an examination. The lance head had entered the lower paitof the throat, ! directly beneath the ioreshoulder, and gone j clean through the heart. " 'You must have had a good aim,' sai 1 J." "'But it was a good mark.' replied Lari.— 'When I saw him coming, I had just turned the point light for his heart, and he killed himself.' t "It was all very simple, and it may havC been very easily done ; but, I assure you, a man must have a pretty steady nerve to do it effectually. "We could not move the lion then, nor could we stop to take his skin off, for it was j very nearly dark. So we resolved to wait until morning, and then have help. "When we reached the lower corner of the waste, we saw a glimmering of watpr through : the trees ; and, upon pushing our way down, we were lucky enough to find ourselves only a lew rods from the tent. On the next morning we all went out together, and found the lion ; just as we had left him. His body measured, from the end of his nose to the insertion of his tail, eight feet and nine inches, and when stan ding, he must have been nearly five feet high. We took off his skin very carefully, and i when I reached home I had it stulled and set : up. It looks very innocent now as my chii \ dreii pat it with their hands ; but 1 never look at it without thinking of the time when it looked terrible enough to me." | —7 he Williamsport Gazelle , Governor Packer's home organ, last week raised the names of Wright and Rowe to its mast-head. l'he arrangements of Austria were so gol ; lossal that it was expected by the end of May, 1 she would have 750,000 men under arms. Freedom of Thought and Opinion. [Froia Porter's Spirit of the Times.] HOW OLD IKE WAS CURED OF LOVIN' WIMMIN. DEAR SPIRIT :—ln one ot my rambles among the mountains of Pennsylvania, I made the acquaintance ot one of the old hunters ol that region, and some lew years after, was in compa ny with him, hunting on the Eastern, or Blue Ridge, some twenty odd miles distance west of Carlisle. "Isaac Cassin' "Old Ike," as he was mos! Igenerally called, had, lor forty years, livsjd in It he woods. Privation and exposure had not Tevcu hjs looks, nor soured his disposition, frie was tiTro-featured, but kind hearted, "fjbf- We had been encamped oa the Ridge for some days, and, although with only pretty fair luck in hunting, were well pleased with what we had. There were five of us in all, and you may, therefore, well believe, that, where so many were in one camp, there would be no lack ot "yarning" in the evenings. Our camp did not differ, in the extent of "yarn business, 1 ' lrom other camps, and *very flight wa's entertained with some reminiscence of past, such as hunters talk about, that is, of fin, fur, leathers, and fun. In lieu of an account of our success in hunting, 1 propose to give you some ot the "yarns" of the carnp, and to begin with, "how Old Ike' was cured of lovin' wimmin." "Talkin' 'bout courtin'," said "Old Ike," "talkin' bout courtin' put me in mind of old times, and how I war cured ov lovin' wimrnin. I war young then, an' the weather hadn't spiled my perty. You needn't laff, Jerry, 'kase what I say ar' true to the handle. I war a per fee' hoss 'mong the gals then, an' nary one on'em but used to spread io "-e fact furnishes a test of its piv : .tiat he can 1 A ter an, h snufTnut in l " an an y otber n^, ir ' destroy ' Jiates- [ mar2 Vs9-3m coo A pe?i,;A : * "ALLS!t hf£HLARK & CO., Sow ? cover them foK ~ '* ,c 4y , side. as soob 4 * Ao,„ "t WHAT We think a cow that comes 4 ard of that owned by Otis Hunt o&4 lage, New York, will pass for a good gives the following statement of the an. butter made from her : "Amount made from April 7 to July 8, , pounds ; amount made during the month o. June, 74 pounds ; amount made during tbe year, 515 ; besides furnishing all the millc an., cream used in a family of four persons (and oc casional visitors) all the time." Ihe breed of this good cow is given as "na tive,' and the quality of milk and butter excel lent. (CF-The following is too good to be lost— of a schoolmaster and pupil : "Joseph, where is Africa ?" "On the map, sir. "I mean, Joseph, in what Continent—Eastern or Western ?" "Well, the land of Africa is in the Eastern Continent ; but the people, sir, are all of 'em South." "What are thp products ?" "Of Africa, sir, or down South V* "Africa, you blockhead." "Well, sir, it hasn't got any; it never had any." "How do the African people live V "By drawing." "Drawing what—water ?" "No, sir, by drawing their breath." "Sit down, Joseph.'' "Thomas, what is the equator "Why, sir, it is the horizontal pole running perpendicularly through the imaginations o' old astronomers and old geographers. "Go to your seat, Thomas." .'Z'"' I j.n. what w9n - „ _ „ i ... "An old race norse, sir. "Silence. Next, Jack, what is an eclipse " "An eclipse is a thing as appears when u.y moon gits off on a bust, and runs agin the sun, consequently, the sua blackens the ILJCM . face." "Class is dismissed." ANTI-SLAVE TRACE MEETING AT VICHSBUBG. The citizens of Vicksburg, Mississippi, held a mass meeting on the 21st instant, to express the public sense regarding the course of the late convention in place in reference to the opening of the slave trade. Strong resolutions were passed. The IV/iig says : "The speeches of Judge Sharkey, William C. Smeedes, Esq ~ Col.T. S. Martin, Rev. Dr. Marshall, an others, were rapturously applauded, which plain!}' showed that the popular heart was w;;:> the conservative cause, in favor of maintaining the laws of the land and respecting the rights of humanity, as against the introduction of "Guinea niggers" to reduce the price of labor." rCF""Bob, where is the state of matrimony "It is one of the United States. It is boun by hugging and kissing on one side and era ;ie., and babies on the other. Its chief products u;e population, broomsticks and staying out late a: nights. It was discovered by Adam and I while trying to find a northwest passage out Paradise. The climate is sultry till you pu.v, the tropics of housekeeping, when squa! weather commonly sets in with such power u to keep all hands as cool as cucumbers. Foi the principal roads leadiug to this interesting State,consult the first pair of blue eyes y„u run against." a banquet of officers in Milan rules various toasts had been drunk in allusion t . the impending war, a zealous young Austrian otiicer proposed the following :"To the Austrian Army ! The French and Sardinian batti.li shall break against it like this brittle glass !" Su saying, he tossed the glass, which he had just emptied, iuto the air* that it might fall heawiy upon the tabie. It did so, but without breaking The young soldier stood aghast. and his wile were silting, a few days siuce, quite clo6e to each other, in their home ; the husband ieeling somewhat loverlike, although for years a married man, put his arm around his wife and saluted her affectionately. The wife pushed him away sayiog : "You should not do such things wlieu the door is open and people are passing. They will think we are not married if they see us kissing each other." —The city ol Nashville, Tenn., was visited on Monday night by a terrific storm of wind and rain, which resulted in the loss ot about §20,000 worth of property. A lew hours at terwards a half block oi buildings on Main St., valued at $250,000, was consumed by fire. my son, do you know that you have broken the Sabbath ?" | ('Yes, daddy," said his little sister, '"and mother's big iron pot too, in five or six pieces." Arabs ajlow a man to divorce bim selt fiom a wife who does not bake good bread. VOL. 2, KG.