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THERE IS BEAUTY IN THE COUNTRY.
There i* beauty in the country!
Of the country* Wt mo sing,
With its bed* of brilliant flowers,
' - And gay birds upon tho whig—
When the trees put on their glory,
Aud array themselves in green—
When the woodland* ring with singing,
And the clover leaves are teen—
When the oichardt are in blbmom,
And tho lilac* crowned with blue,
Oh I I love the blooming country,
When the flowers arc sweet bud new.
Th(«e is beauty in the country
When the spring huo crosseddlia vale,
And h wreath of flowers aud garlands
Leave their breath ujkib thogole—
When thesummer crowned with brightness
Leaves her treasure on the plain,
And the waving golden harvest*
Wake our gratitude again— \
IVhen.the Autumn, sear and yellow.
Conies with chilly, frosty morn,
And brisk, busy hands at busking,
rile the bright and yellow corn.
There I* beauty in the country,
Whan the skies are bright4»bove,
Ami Icq thousand beauties tell u*
That the world is ruled by love;
Even Winter, with hi* mantle '
Of the purest, brilliant white*
Is u crown ofchrjaUil glory,
And a season of delight.
Yea, Xloye the glorious country.
For there’s living brightness there,
With its sunshine, tree* aud blooming—
Wlth.it* beauty .every where. '.
There Is beauty in the country!
Every leaf und every flower,
Is a constant living,wonder— ,
Isa miracle of pbwerj
Every tree with grand proportions—
Every happy, binging bird,
Every bramble.by the way-sidfe—
The contented, grazing hertlj
These arc tokens of Ills goodness,
Bright unfolding of Ills
So, 1 love the glorious country.
With its sccuoi orpare delight.
There Is tnauty in the country!
There is health- and vigor there;
TUero Is purity of feeling—
There Is less of gilded care;
[ For the purest, social pleasures, " x
There Is full and simple menus—
There U pure r%ud sweet contentment,
lu the midst of rural scenes—
There Is more to cheor and gjiuhlcii,
'■ There is lees to mar and blight —
Oh, I love the glorious country, ' -
With Its scenes of pure delight.
Hdfd llfoccllaiij).
THE DEADLY RIFLE.
The returns of tilled and wounded at
the Battle of Bull Hun are necessarily
imperfect, but enough have been received
to show that the losses ainong officers —
especially commissioned ones —are much
larger, in prtJpqrtiou to their number, than
those among privates. The killed are 2
Colonels, 1 Lieutenant-Colonel, 2 Majors,
1G Captains and 7 Lieutenants; and the
wounded are 2 Acting Major-Generals, 8
Colonels, 1 Lieutenant-Colonel, 3 Majors,
■l6 Captains,~aud 33 Lieutenants. The
casualties among Captains arc particularly
noticeable. Slaking every allowance for
the extra exposure of officers on horse
back and those on foot in front or at the
side-of .their companies, there is still no
doubt that a large number of the killed
and disabled on that fatal day were singled
out and shot by expert marksmen, who
were enabled to take deliberate aiip -from
rifle-pits or behind trees.
The distance between-the -hostile forces '
was repeatedly: small enough to permit
the picking off of individuals with per
fect .certainty by anypersou moderately
skilled in the .use of the rifle. What loss
was sustained among' the officer's of the
enemy, is ,net-known; by.t, .*» many thou
sands of the Tj uitcd States forces engaged
were also ruined with rifles; It may fairly
be supposed that the sharp-shooters in our
ranks used these weapons with deadly
effect upon the bearers of shoulder-straps
wherever they couW bo seen.
ja.lt is a bad sigo to sec a »an fly
into a passmj o^er
as tliougi -^ e »•
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ALTOONA, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1861.
AN AFRICAN PEST.
Du Chillu, in his recently published
travels in Africa, gives the following de
scription of a terrible equatorial ant, called
the “lahikeuay.” He says:
“It is their habit to march in a long
and regular line, about two inches broad,
and often ten miles in length. All along
this line are ants who act as officers—
stand outside the ranks and keep this
singular army in order. If they come/to
a place where there are no trees to shelter
them from the sun, whose heat they can
not bear, they immediately build under
ground tunnels, through which the whole
army passes in columns to the forest be
yond. These tunnels ore four or five feet
under ground and are used only in the
heat of the day, or during a storm.
“'When they get hungry the long file
spreads itself through the forest in a front
line, and devours all it comes to with a
fury which is quite irresistible. The ele
phant and gorilla fly before their attack;
the black men run for their lives;’ every
animal that lives in their line of march is
chased. They seem to understand and
act upon the tactics of Napoleon, and con
centrate with great speed their heaviest
forces upon, the point of attack. In on
incredibly short space of time, the mouse,
dog, leopard, or deer, is overwhelmed,
killed and eaten, and the bare skeleton
remains.
“ They scorn to travel night and day.
Many a time have 1 been awakened out
of a sleep and obliged to rush from the
hut, and into the water, to save my life,
and alter all suffered intolerable agony
from the bites of the advance guard who
had got into my clothes. When they
enter a house they clear it of all living
things. Roaches arc devoured In an in
stant, and rate and mice spring around
the room in vain. An over whelming force
of ante kills a strong rat in than a
minute, in spite of the most frantic strug
gles, and in less than another minute its
bones are stripped. Every living thing
in the house is devoured. They will not
touch vegetable Inatter. Thus they are
in reality very useful (as well as danger
ous) to the negroes, who have their huts
cleaned of all ihe abounding vermin, such
as immense roaches and centipedes, at
least several times a year.
“ When on their march the insect world
flies before them, and I have often had
the approach of a bashikouay army her
alded to'mo by this means. Wherever
they go they make a clean sweep, even
ascending to the tops of the highest trees
in pursuit of their prey. Their manner
of attack is an impetuous leap. Instantly
the strong pinchers are fastened and they
only let go when the pinchers give way.'
At such times this little animal seems ani
mated by a kind of fury, which causes it
to disregard entirety its own safety, and
to seek only the conquest of its prey. —
The bite is very painful.
“ The negroes relate that criminals were
in former times exposed in the path of
the basbikouay ants, as the most .cruel
manner of putting to death.
“ Two very remarkable practices of
theirs remains to be related. When, on
their line of march, they must cross a
stream, they throw themselves across and
form a tunnel—connecting two trees or
high bushes on opposite sides of the little
stream. ' This is done with great speed,
and is effected by a great number of ants,
each of which clings with its fore claws
to its next neighbor’s body and-hind claws.
Thus they form a high, safe and tubular
bridge, through which the whole vast jre
gimenb marches in regular order. If dis
turbed, or if the arch is broken by the
violence of some animal, they instantly
attack the offender with the greatest ani
mosity.
“The bashikouays have the sense or
smell finely developed, as indeed have all
the ants 1 know of, and they are guided
very much by it. They are_ larger than
any ant we have in America, being at
least half an inch long, and armed with
very powerful legs and sharp jaws, with/
which they bite. They arc of a red or
dark brown color. Their numbers are so
great that one doe£ not like to enter into
calculations; but 2 have seen one contin
ual line passing at good speed a particular
place for twelve hours. The reader may
imagine for himself bow many millions
on millions there may have been contained
there.” *■
A Nice Little Haul— Some lime
since, it will be recollected, a largo amount
of provisions and whiskey was taken by
our flotilla on the Potomac (on board tbo
Buena Vista,) on the Maryland side of
the river. It was, of' course, sent to
Washington, but owing to some expla
nation of the assumed owners, it was re
leased with the understanding that all the
property would be purchased by the Gov
ernment. In accordance with this ar
rangement the War Department bought
it—-the whiskey costing the Government
§4OO. “So far, so well.” A few days
since, it was discovered that the said whis
key barrcU. ; conteiued,, instead of the
dent," lots' of ths most
amounting to the value of some 95,000 .
i Not a bad speculation for Untfc Sum.
[independent IN EVERYTHINO-3
Few of our readers, have ever been
placed im the aituation in which our Doc
tor. once found himself. The following
is his story:
“ I believe, Captain,” said the Doctor, X
never told you about my adventure with
a woman at my boarding-houae, when I
was attending the lectures I”
. “ No, let’s have it,” replied the indi
vidual addressed, a short, flabby, fat man,
about fifty, with a highly nervous tempera
ment,and i very red face.
“At the time 1 attended the lectures, 1
boarded at a house in which there were
no females but the landlady and an old
colored cook.”
Here the Doctor made a slight pause,
and the Captain, by way of requesting
him to go on, said —•
« Well.”
“I often felt the want of female society
to soften the severe labor of study, and to
dispel the ennui to which I was subject—”
“ Well,” said the Captain.
“ But as 1 feared that forming acquaint
ances among the ladies might interfere
with my studies, I avoided them all.”
“ Web.”
“ One evening, after listening to a long
lecture on physical anatomy, and dissect
ing a large negro, being fatigued in body
and mind, I went to my lodgings.”
“Well,” said the Captain.
“ Went into the hall, took a large lamp
and, went directly to my room, it being
somewhat after one o’clock.”
“Well.”
“ I placed the lighted lamp on the ta
ble, and commenced undressing myself.
I had hardly got my coat off when my
attention was attracted to a dress and a
quantity of petticoats lying on a chair.”
“Well," said the Captain, who began
to show signs of being deeply interested.
“A pair of beautiful small shoes and
stockings were on the floor. Of course
I thought it strange, and I was about to
retire, bat thought It was my room, and
that I had at least a right to know who
was in my bed.”
“Exactly," nodded the Captain—“well.”
“So 1 took the light, went softly to the
bed, and with a trembling hand drew aside
the curtain. Heavens! what a sight. A
pretty young girl, I should say an angel,
was in there asleep!
“ Well,” said the Captain, giving his
chair a hitch.
“As I gazed upon her I thought I never
witnessed anything more beautiful. From
underneath a little night-cap, rivaling the
snow in whiteness, fell a stray ringlet over
a neck and shoulders of, alabaster."
“ Well,” said the excited Captain, giving
his chair another hitch.
“Never did I look upon a bust more
perfectly formed. I took hold of the co
vering and softly pulled it down —” -
“ Well!” said the Captain, betraying
the utmost excitement.
“ To the waist.”
“ Well,” said the Captain, dropping the
paper; and the position of his
legs. ■
.“ She had on a night-dress, buttoned
up 'before, but softly I opened three or
four buttons—”
“Well I” said the Captain, wrought up
to the highest pitch of excitement.
“And then-—ye Gods! what a sight to
gaze upon! A Hebe —pshaw! words fail.
Just then-—”
' “ Well!'* said the Captain, hitching his
chair right and left, ana squirting his to
bacco juice against the stove.
“ I thought that was taking a mean ad
vantage of the girl, so I seized .my coat
and boots and went and slept in another
room.”
“It’s o, lie!” shouted the excited Cap
tain, jumping up, and kicking over Jus
chair—“ by golly it’s ahe !”
A Rich Child. —Little Nellie L———
bad lost her father, and her mother was
poor. Her sweet temper and her winning
ways gained her many friends. Among
these was an excellent lady, Mias N ■—
A glimpse of Nellie’s bright face peeping
in at the doors, always brought a smile of
peculiar tenderness over Miss N.’s plach
features. ■ * '
She loved to sit by . the child and softly
stroke her hair, and while looking thought
fully into her smiling eyes would often say,
“ Poor, poor Nellie!”
When Nellie shook her head, witlr her
heart too happy to forebode evil, her friend
would caress her more fondly, and then say
“ Poor, little Nellie 1”
The child’s heart seemed troubled by
these pitying words, for she asked: one
day, “ why do you call me poor ? Please
don’t, Miss N———. I'm not poor—
why I’ve got twenty-five cents and a good
mother /”
SOMEBODY IN MY BED.
“ Rich little Nellie,” said her friend.
“ A good mother! Ah! how long I was
learning what this little one knows.”
“ A good mother!” could any earthly
treasure have made her Bo truly -rich 1
Bjsk, Always work for the attainment of
some object. If the object itself is not
import#* *lte pursuit |<«: A fox is worth
nothing when caught; he is followed for
the pleasure of the pursuit.
Practical Joke of a Chicago ZouaVe.
A member of the New York Fin Zou
ave?, who went from this city to join Col.
Ellsworth, in April, and who, until then,
bad been an industrious typo in the Chi
cago Tribune office, was on picket duty
one day last month, when the following
incident occurred: '
Ah F. F. V., with rather more than the
usual supereillionsness of his nee, rode
up in. a carriage from the direction of Al
exandria—driven, of course, by his ser
vant Zoosoo stepped into the road, hold
ing Lis bayonet in such a way as to threaten
horse, negro and white man at one charge,
and roared out— “tickets!” Mr. V.
turned up his lip, set down hit brows, and
by other gestures indicated his contempt
for such “ mud-sills” as the soldier before
him, ending by banding’ hls'pass to the
darkey and motioning him to -get out and
show it to Zoosoo.
“All right," said the latter glancing at
it, “move on” —accompanying the order
with a jerk at the coat-collar of the colored
person, which sent him spinning several
paces down the road., “Now, sir, what
do you wont ?” addressing the astonished
white man.
White man by this time had recovered
his tongue: “Want? I want to go on,
of course. That was my pass.”
“ Can’t help it," replied Zoo; it says
‘ pass the bearer,’ and the bearer has al
ready passed. You can’t get two men
through this picket on one man’s pass.”
Mr. V. reflected a moment, glanced at
the bayonet in front of him, and then
called to his servant to come back. Sam
bo approached, cautiously, but fell back
in confusion when the “ shooting-iron”
was brandished towards his own breast.
“ Where is your pass, sir V‘ asked Zoo
zoo.
“ Here, massa,” said the “chattle,” pre
senting the same one he received from the
gent in the carriage.
“ Won’t do,” replied the holder of the
bayonet. “That passes you to Fairfax.
Can’t let any ope come from Fairfax on
that ticket. Move on !” A stamp of
the foot sent Sambo down the road on a
gallop.
“ Now, sir,” he continued, “ if you stay
here any longer, I shall take 1 yon under
arrest to headquarters.”
Mr. V. grabbed up his lines, wheeled
around and went off at the best trot his
horses could manage over the “ sacred
soil.” Whether Sambo ever hunted bis
“ massa” up is not known.— Chicago Pa
per.
Pkoposal bt Pboxy.— :! ups and I
tells Mose all about it; and says 1 to
Moso, says I:
“ Hadn’t you just as leave ask her for
me?”
He said he had. So, to make a long
story short, one bitter cold night Mosc
and I started for the house where Liddy
ived. It was agreed that; I should stay
in the wood-shed while Mose went in and
sot matters right. Mose■ knocked at the
door and went in add I sot down upon a
chopping log to await the issue. Mose
bought ho could fix 'things is about
mlf an hour, and it was eight o’clock
when he went in; I calculated to be in
Paradise half after; but there I sot, and
sot till I heern the clock struck nine,
then I bad to get up and stomp and thrash
my hands to keep from freezin’. Ten
o’clock, then eleven struck, and still no
Mose. At last, just about mid-night—
when I’d got to be little bet ter*n a half
froze tater, out he comes.; I rushed up
to him an’ with a shakin’ Voice,’ “ Mose,”
says I, “what diiz she say?" “Jake,”
say he, “ ’pon my soul l forgot to ax her!"
Just six weeks' arter, Mose and Liddy
were made one flesh!
“ Lex Philadelphia Pbepabe.”—
So says the Charleston Mercury. Hero
is the paragraph : .
) “It is to bo hoped that within a very
short space of time the army of the Po
tomac will bo increased to an extent that
will render all efforts of the enemy futile
beyond contingency, and enable bur skill
ful generals to carry the war across the
border. In this latter point of view, the
obtainment of so many fine wagons and
horses is an exceedingly fortunate circum
stance, saving much time and u great ex
penditure of money. When Washington
falls, mid Maryland is redeemed, let Phila
delphia prepare, to r this is a game of two
countries.”
No Compromise!—a 'patriotic Irish
woman, who hadjreached nxty
and accosted the proprietor with
« Misthur, is it true, they’re egan to
Compromise - .... J. ,
«Ithjnk not, Mrs. D. ;I have no cop
fidehcbm any such ? ? ’
“Well, I hope they won’t too; Pyegot
one hoy id the army *hw, fi»hlih’ fhrhis
counthry; and I tell yea; if I ever takes
to havin’ children an’ they CogJpro
mise, tho divil a solaidr'Will Tovcr’raise
Ibr em mwe. f r
must he pmerved.
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A Waterspout in
A correspondent of the Mudwte
Minot gives the following account of a
terrific mteMpoot on tie Haanbcaie
pond:
July 12, 1851.—ahput fire
o’clock, as a tijundcr-showorwasabbut
leaving the pondjUm water ecunmpUced
rising from near the Ishodi Pond Howe, ;
and very soon ttformei [££s&&&&*,
ted to be at least one thousaiKiie** high.
The spout was tapering
very gradually fromtne water surface
until reaching about oigit hundred feet
elevation, then it spread, ftto the shape of
an umbrella top, extending hundreds of,
feet in diameter, and in contrast with the
black clouds beyond, of
Nature’s most beautiful scenes. It re
mained stationary about ten minutes, and
then moved towards Johnson’s beach,
where a pic-nic party wore in the nick or
time to get a duckings see and feel tits
spouting. '
As it approached the hflaoh, and-while
passing, it carried off all the boats along,
the shore, and a)so twisted off branches of
trees three or four inches through, and iu
about tbe twinkling of an oyc took off the
dishes used for the table* and cooking,-
that Lad been hastily thrown on the table
as the shower eaino up, and sent them in
all directions through tho woods* Some;
one sang out, “ Lie down on your faces, .
and it was well we did so, for as the whirl
passed, the trees were actually bent doWU
to the ground, touching tiie backs of the
prostrate persons. Tbe spoul <wming ilt
contact with some woods near the shore,
fot “aired” and. broke with the noise of
istant cannon, and then, far and near',
the air was filled with branches of trees,
leaves,' sticks, etc. The whole perform
ance, 1 should judge, lasted about fifteen
minutes. The water-spout tore down the
fences, tipped over the bath-houses, and
made clean work in its course just cast of
the Island Pond House, btft fortdwtely
did not reach that structure. It was ter
rific,'frightful, to all who saw ft.
Training at West Point.
At West Point tho Cadets are daity (raftf
ed tophoot at a target with a mnsket dr a
rifle. The; fire at ten targets the ske and
form of a mao,
in lines, so that each CM? 1 ..
is reedrded, so that the qualities or each
as a marksman arc well known to the in
structor.
While on a visit to this famous milita
ry school, last summer, wo paid close at
tention to the rifle shooting of the Cadets.
It was what may bo called in general, loose
firing; yet we cciuld not fail to notice how
Some of the Cadets appeared to bobom
marksmen, while others appeared ta.be
naturally incapable.of learning the art.
One Cadet, wbom wc watched, tried ip
vain to hit his target at a moderate dis
tance. Not believing the fault was In huir
self, ha complained it must he in the rifle.-
He was convinced of his error by the in
structor taking the rifle anfl planting >
bullet right in the ‘ f buh’3 eye.” r?e
made some Inquiries of the instruetor re
specting the qualities of-the Cadets ih'
learning to shoot, when ho told us thftt
the youth to whom we. had just inferred
could not make a marksman.
Chapman, in his book bulled “The
American Rifle,” states thatallmen dodge
in firing —some before, and others just af
ter the shot is fired. The latter class my
learn to De marksmen, the former never.
In learning to shppt with a riflc c a poison
should endeavor to acquire a steady, cool
demeanor, with a true, qhlck eye anvnftd-
Me finger. nothing but prac
tice, eanmake a good marksman. At tits
« npttimenly ptap
tjpe necessary. ( .
A Habd Roin to TeAve£.—A cou
rier al^f>^fcks^
from BuIKoWU, having'-dmenNdtiEW'Sau
riogthejoarneyapless. thanthtoc times
by concmded “ Bec«^e?|^
.him on the side, passed
papers in his side pocket, ana glanced off
Upon a button
breaking the skin so as to bringthobfepd.
Another ball passed through fta coafeteil,
and another tiiroi«h,onB
Saloons. The road between Bafltown and
Clarkesburg todSt* - be lird rtid to
travel.”'- '
Ons Hand rofc la tbe
battle of Bull's Bun, Henty^gsm
Keposha coiipfo^
an3’ eMlaito^ ; ‘‘ffl*e*B ! g66tfonebfn4 *® r
if he Uaioa- WiJ, hm
r $9.
near tao oo»$. Ho uieu, „
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tST Tbe editor ef Mi-
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announcing the ||Ct4s P
not be called for.
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