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thehypocrite.
The following description of the Hypocrite in
the Day of Judgment, is from Pollok'a "Courte or
Time " What a faithful daguerreotype it is of
thousand* who will appear in that "congregation
f vast
"Great day of revelatiou ! in the grave
The hypocrite had left his mask, and stood
In naked ugliness. He was a man
Who stole tbe livery of the court of heaven,
To serve the devil in ; in virtue's gaise
Devoured tho widow's house and orphan's bread ;
In holy phrase, transacted villainies
That eommon sinners durst not meddle with.
At sacred feasts, he sat among the saints,
And with his guilty hands touched holiest things ;
And none of sin lamented more, or sighed
More deeply, or with graver countenance,
Or longer prayer, wept o'er the dying man,
Whose infant children, at the moment, he
Planned how to rob. In sermon stylo he bo't,
And sold, and lied , and salutations made
In Scripture terms. He prayed by quantity,
And with his repetitions long and loud,
All knees were weary. With one hand he put
A penny in the urn of poverty,
And with the other took a shilling on t.
On charitable lists,—those trumps which told
Tbe public ear, who bad in secret done
The poor a benefit, and half the alms
They toll of, took themselves to keep them sound
ing.—
He blazed his name, more pleased to have it there
Than in the book of life. Seest thou the man !
A serpent with an angel's voice! a grave
With flowers bestrewed! and yet few were deceived.
His viitues being over-done, hia face
Too grave, his prayers too long, his charities
Too pompously attended, and his speech
Larded too frequently and out of time
With serious phraseology,—were rents
That in nil garments opened in spite of hiaa,
Through which the well accustomed eye could see
The rottenness of his heart. None deeper blushed
As in the all-piercing light he stood, exposed.
No longer herding with the holy ones,
Yet still b* tried to briug his countenance
To sanctimonious seeming ; but, meanwhile,
The shame within, now visible to all,
Hi* purpose balked. The righteous smiled, and
Despair itself some signs of laughter gave,
As ineffectually he strove to wipe
His brow, that inward guiltiness defiled.
Detected wretch ! of all the reprobate,
None seemed mafurer foe the flames of hell,
Where still hia face, from ancient custom, wear*
A holy air that says to all that pass
Ifim by, 'I was a hypocrite on earth.' *'
For the Inquirer
''LOCAL.*'
MR. EDITOR : —I have been looking for some
production from your Middle Woodberry corres
poudect "Sitter," for a long time, but not a line
appeared. Is -'Salter" dead! or baa he absconded?
Well, if ho is no uiere among the "local" scribbler
ina#, I wiil give you a few pen-scrapes of our "by
the way" interesting "local" community.
The "I'attonsville Lyceum" met according to the
usua' appointment on Saturday evening the 25d
iii.-t., end the followiug question was discussed
with much interest, and decided in the affimiitive.
"Resolved, That Politics have been tbe cause of
more blood-shed than Religion," Atf. Messrs.
Hays, Bonor and Eshelman, Ncg. Messrs. Prince,
Bute and Satteifb-ld. Among the speeches that at
tracted unusual interest by the Audience and the
Society, was the speech of D. D. fishleman, who
displayed his oratorical eloquence in a manner
creditable to him and the society, end whose pre
sence is always greeted with applause by the tuem-
Bcrs ot our Lyceum. Mr. Eahleman is a great
champion ot Literary Societies and is always ready
to lend an assisting hand in promoting the cause
of education ; and is the largest stock-holder in
ihe Waterstreet Library.
The Lyceum meets once a week and mostly on
Saturday evening. But this is net the only society
we have in tbis Township. We have a regular
•'Teachers Institute" and several minor Institutes
called "Shanghai Institub-s." brought into ex
stanco y tbe school boys throughout our Town
ship, independent of their old instructors, and if
your town boys wouid attend one of our "Shanghai
Institutes" they would find these rustic farmer boys
wot quite as ignorant as they might imagine.
It is now one year since the Watersteet Library
has sprung into existence, and by its increase num
ber of member* and accession of books, has proved
to be of such a beneficial medium of resource to
eur young, ambitious and aspiring readers; that
we intend getting it chartered by next Court, which
will place it on a footing that wiil give it more life
iiid vigor and that eventnally it will become the
p-eat treasure for the diffusion of useful knowledge
among our nsing generation.
Middle Woodberry is turning up strange freaks
.i this trying crisis, by trying to secede from Bed
ord County, and no doubt in a few days we wi'd
see them popping around with blue cockades on
heir hats, and palmetto flags in their hands, and
plant "pop guns" about Woodberry to defend her
benighted cause. We will never let her go in such
a bluster tor all one of her extreme secessionists
remarked that Middle Woodberry was getting so
dull that tln-y could scarcely get up a respectable
funeral any more. It is no wonder after acting the
part of a runaway cub of a comet tipificd in fash
ion with rebellious South Carolina. Ha ! Messrs.
Woodberryites you hav'nt absconded yet and will
show you tight belore we will let you go. Nodoubt
your correspondent "U. G." is playing a con.
spicious game in the programme, but he is not quite
snarp enough, to draw the wool over onr eyes.—
My advise to those troubledsecessieuists would be,
to draw in their horns, and ease their fantastical
notions, and cultivate their belligerent spoils to
more loyal feeling towards Bedford County,
and on next 4th of July we will drink bumpers
with you as a token of our friendly alliance and
sing songs written with a quill, piucked from the
ta:i of the American Eagle, in honor of our Union,
harmony and the ever-lasting prosperity of our
noble Bedford County. TYRO-
V*TTON*VRII K . Feb. 27, 18tl
A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arte, Sciences, Agriculture, <&c„ &c—Terms: One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance.
AFRICAN LIFE.
From Dr. David Livingstone's Minstona r y Tra
vels and Researches in South Africa.
Missionary zeal, trading, enterprise, and love
of sport, together with the native restlessness
and spirit of adventure animating the Anglo-
Saxon race, will soon bring us acquainted with
the whole habitable snrfsoe of our globe, and
with all the varied forms of human society—
savage, semi-civilized, and civilized.*- We are
gradually mapping the whole earth; and our
children may live to see railroads across the
desert, unless some new method of locomotion,
as superior to railroads as railroads are to
coaohes and caravans, should arise meanwhile.
Africa, in the last few years, has been explor
ed with great euergy and great success, by
missionaries, geographers, and hunters. Be
sides opening new prospects for oonuncroial
and missionary enterprise, these explorations
havo furnished a mass of precise information
which materially modifies our previous concep
tions of the Afrioan race; and conspicuous
among all those works staud< the admirable
narrative of Dr. Livingstone, the missionary,
who is an honor to our country
THE LION.
Of all the stories we have read of encoun
ters with HODS, it is by untiy degrees the moat
valuable. An alarm of lions had called him
out with bis meD, and on returning unsuccess
ful to the village be saw a lieu sitting on a
rook behind a bush, at a distance of about
thirty yards. He aimed deliberately, and sent
the contents of both barrels into the animal's
body.
"The men then called out, 'lie is shot, be is
shot!' Others died, 'He has beon shot by ao
other man, too; let us go to him" I did not
see any one else shoot at biui, but I saw the
lion's tail erected in anger behind the bush,
and turning to the peopie, said, 'Stop a little
till 1 load again.' When in the act of ram
ming down the bullets I heard a shout.—
Starting, and looking half round, I saw the
liou just in the act of springing upon m. 1
was upon a little height; be oaugbt my shoul
der as he sprang, and we both came to the
ground below together. GrowliDg horribly
close to my ear, he shook ine as a terrier dog
does a rat. The shook produced a stupor si
milar to that whioh seoms to be felt by a mouse
after the firt shake of the est. Il caused
sort of dreaminess, t which there uses na *tw*
of pain nor fetlmg oj terror, though quite
conscious of all that was happening. It was
like what patieuts partially under the influ
ence of chloroform describe, who see all the
operation, but feel not the knife. This singu
lar ooudttion was not the result of aDy mental
process. The shake annihilated fear, and al
lowed no seDse of herror in looking round at
the beast. This peculiar stale is probably
produced in all animals killed by the oarnivora,
aod if ao, is a merciful provision by our bene
volent (Jr9ator for lessening the paiD of death.
Turning rouml to relieve myself of the weight,
as he had one puw on the back of my head, 1
saw bis eyes directed to Mebalwe, who was
trying to shoot him at a distance ot ten or
fifteon yards. His gun, a flint one, missed fire
in both barrels; the lion immediately left tue,
end, attackiug Mebalwe, bit bis tbigb. Ano
ther man, whose life I had saved before, after
be had been tossed by a buffalo, attempted to
spear the lion while lie was biting Mebalwe.—
He left Mebalwe and caught this man by the
shoulder, but at that moment the bullets he
had received took effect, and he fell dowD
dead. The whole was the work of a few mo
ments, and must have been bis paroxysm of
dying rage. In order to take out tbe charm
from bini, the Bakatla, on the following day,
made a huge bonfire over the carcase, which
was declared to be that of tbe largest liou
they had ever seen. Besides crunching the
bone into splinters, he left eleven teeth wounds
on the upper part of my arm."—pp. 12, 13.
CHRISTIANITY.
Dr. Livingstone attached himself to the tribe
of Bakwaius. Their chief, Sechele, embraced
Christianity, and became an assiduous reader
of tbe Bible, the eloquence of Isaiah being
peculiarly acceptable to birn, and he was wont
to say, "IJe was a fine mau, that Isaiah; be
knew bow to speak." But bis people were
not so ready fur conversion, although he cairn
ly proposed to havo them flogged into faith.
"Do you imagine," he said, "these people will
ever believe by your merely talking to thetu?
I can make them do nothing except by thrash
ing thorn; and if you like, I shall eall toy
bead men, and with onr litopa (whips of rhi
uocerous hide) we will soon make them believe
altogether." As this was declined, conversion
did not extend.
"in the hope that others would be induced
to join him m his attachment to Christianity,
he asked me to begin family worship with him
in bis bouse. 1 did so; and by-aud-by was
surprised to hear bow well he conducted tbe
prayer in his own simple and beautiful style,
for he was quite a master of his own language.
At this time we were suffering from the effeet.
of a drought, which will be described further
on, and none except his family, whom he or
dered to attend, cttue near his meeting. 'ln
former times,' said he, when a chief was fond
of hunting, all bis people got dogs and be
came fond of bunting too. If he was fond of
daocing or music, all showed a liking to these
amasemeuts too. If the chief loved beer,
they ail rejoiced in strong drink. But in this
raqp it different. 1 love the Word of God,
and not one of nay bretbreo will join ue.'
One reason why be bad no volunteer hypo
crites was tbe hunger from drought, which was
associated in tbeir minds with tbe presence of
Christian instruction ; and hypocrisy is c>t
prone to profess a creed which seems toen-yrc
an empty stomach."
TILE BUSHMAN.
Tho inhabitants of the desart are Bosh uea
BEDFORD. PA.. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1861.
aud Bakalabari. Respecting tho Bushmen,
Livingstone dissipates many an error current
in Europe. They have not the striking affini
ty with the baboon whioh wo have been taught
to believe ; nor are those specimens winch
have been brought to Europe to be considered
as representing the raoe moro accurately than
the English raoe would be represen ted by the
squalideat and ugliest specimens a Barnum
might pick up for exhibition. Thoy are often
small, but not dwarfish ; are exceedingly en
during, and their thin, wiry frames Bre o#pa
ble of great exertion. An unconquerable love
of independence makes tbem a nomadio hunt
ing race, feared by their neighbors on acoount
of their warlike ehuracfer. They are dreaded
by lioDs as well as by men. When they ob
serve evidence of the lion's having made a
full meal, they follow up his spoor so quietly
that his slumbers are not disturbed.
"One discharges & poisoned arrow from a
distanco of only u few feet, whilo his compa
nion simultaneously throws bis skin cloak on
tiie beaet's head. The sudden surprise makes
the lion lose bis presence of miud, and he
bounds away iu tbo greatest confusion and
terror. Our friends here showed me the noi
sou which they use on these occasions. It is
the entrails of a caierpiiier oailed N'gwa, half
an inch long. They squeeze out these, and
place ikein all around tbe bottom of the barb,
and allow the poison to dry in tbe sun. They
are very careful in clcauing tbeir nails after
working with it, as a small portion introduced
iuto a scratch acts like morbid matter in dis
section wounds. The agony is so great that
the person wbe cuts himself, oalls for his mo
ther's breast as if h# were returned in idea to
bis childhood again, or flies from human habi
tious a raging mauiao. The effects on the iioa
are equally terrible. He is heard moaning in
dmtre.vs, aud becomes furious, bitiug the trees
and ground in rage.
"As the Bushmen have toe reputation of
curing the wound* of this poison, I asked how
this was effected. They said that they admin
istered the caterpiller in oombiuation with fat;
they also rub fat into tbe wound, saying that
•the N'gwa wants fat, and, wlieu it does not
find it in the body, kills the man : we give it
what it waDts, aud it is content'—a reason
which will commed itself to the enlightened
among ourselves."—p. 171.
COLOR.
people who inhabit the central region j
are cot all quite black in color. Many incline '
to that of bronze, and others are as light in
hue as the Bushmen, who, it may be remem
bered, afford a proof that beat alone does not
cause blackness, but that heat and moisture
combined do very materially deepen the color.
Wherever we tied people wbo have xontiuued
for ages in a hot buiuid district, they are deep
black, but to tbis sppareut law there are ex
ceptions, caused by the migrations of both
tribes aud individuals ; tbe Makololo for in
stance, among the tribes of tbe humid central
basin, appear of a sickly sallow hue, when
compared with the aboriginal iubabatauts : tho
liatoka, also, who live in an elevated region,
are, when seen in company with the Batoka
of tho rivers, so much lighter in oolor, they
may ba taken tor any tribe; but their lan
guage, and the vory marked custom of knock
ing out the upper front icetb, leave no room
for doubt that they are one peopie."—pp.
338, 339.
WITCH ES-- WITCH-DOCTOR.
"When a man suspects that any of his wives
have bewitched bim, be sends for the witch
dootor, and all the wives go forth into the
field, and remain fasting till that person has
made an infusion of the plant. They all drink
it, each holdiug up her band to heaven in at
testation of her innaoehey. Those who voinit
it are oousidered innocent, while those whom
it purges are considered guilty, and pat to
death by burning. The innoeent return to
tboir homes, and slaughter a oock as a thank
offering to their guardian spirits. The prae
tioe of this ordeal is common among all tho
nations north of the Zttnbesi. Tbis summary
procedure excited my surprise, for my inter
course with the natives here had led rue to be
lieve that the women were held in so much es j
tiwation that the tuou would not daro to get
rid of tbem thus. But the explanation receiv
ed was this. Tho slightest imputation makes
tbem eagerly desire the test; they are con
scious of being innocent, and have tho fullest
faith in the neauvi detecting the guilt alone ;
hence they go wiliiug, and even eagerly, to
drink it. Wbeu in Angola, a half caste was
pointed out to me, who is ouo of tho most suc
cessful merchants in that couo'ry, and tho
mother o( this gentleman, who was perfectly
free, went, of her own aocoru, all the way
trom Ambaoa to Cassangc, to l*e killed by the
ordeal, her rich son making no objection. —
The same custom prevails among the Barotse, ;
Bashubia, and Batoka, but with slight varia
tions. Tbe Barotse, for instance, poke the
medicine down the throat of a cook or a dog,
and judge of the innocence or guilt of the
person accused according to tho vomitiug or
purging of tbe animal. 1 happened to men
tion to my own men the water test for witches
formerly in use in Scotland; the supposed
witch, being bound hand and foot, was thrown
iuto a pond ; if ihe floated, she was consider
ed guiity, taken out and burned , but if she
sank'and was drowned, she was pronounoed
innocent. This wisdom of my ancestors ex
cited as much wonder in tbeir minds as tbeir
custom did in mine."—pp. 621, 622.
•Dora, what did you do with that tallow that
Mr* Jones greased his boots with this rnoro
ing?" .
'Please warm, 1 greased the griddle with
it.'
'You did? That was right —I was afraid you
had wasted it.'
f PHILADELPHIA IN 1730.
' The November number of tho Historical Maga
zine, which Mr. Zieber has banded to us. contains
a poetical description of Philadelphia in 1730, from
"Titan's Almanac," which we bore subjoin:
Goddess of Numbers, who art wont to rove
O'sr the Gay Landskip, or tbe smiling Grove j
Who taught me first to sing in humble strains,
Ot murm'ring Fountains, and of flowery Plains,
Asstst me now: whilo lin Verse repeat
Tb* heavenly Beauties of thy Far'rite Seat.
Tecch me, O Goddess, In harmonious Lays,
To sing thy much-lov'd Pennsylvania's Praia* j
Thy Philadelphia's Beauties to indite,
In Verse as tuneful as her sous can writo.
Such as from B****l's pen are wont to flow,
Or more judicious T"**r's used to show.
Stretch'd ou tbe Bank of Delaware's rapid Stream
Stands Philadelphia, not unknown to Fame :
Rffe the tall Vessels sale at Anchor ride,
And Europe's wealth flows in with every Tide :
Thro' each wide Ope tho distant Prospects clear ;
The well built Streets are regularly lair :
The Plan by thee contriv'd, O Penn, the scheme,
A Work immortal as tho Fourder'a Name.
'Tis here Apollo does erect his Throne,
This his Parnassus, tbis his Helicon :
Here solid sense does every Bosom warm,
Hers Noise and Nonsense have forgot to cbarm.
Thy seers how cautious ! and hew Gravely wise!
Thy hopeful Youih in Emulation tise :
Who (if tbe wishing Muse inspir'd does sing)
Shall Liberal Arts to such Perlection bring,
Europe shall mourn her ancient Fame deolin'd,
Atfi Philadelphia be the Athens of Mankind.
Thy lorc-ly Daughters unaffected shine,
In each Perfection, every Grace divine:
Barmy triumphant sits in every Eye.
Afid Wit shines forth but cbeck'd with Modesty ;
Decently Grave, which shows a sober Sense,
And cheerful, too, a sign of Innocence.
But what, O Pennsylvania, does declare
Thy Bliss, speaks thee profusely happy; hero
Sweet Liberty her gentle influence sbeds,
And Peace her downy Wings about us spreads :
While War and Desolation widely reigns,
And Ciptive Nations groan beneath their chains,
While half the World implicitly obey
Some lawless Tyrant's most imperious Sway,
No threatening Trumpet warns ns from afar
Of bast'nirg Miserjes or approaching W r ar ;
Fearless the llind pursues his wonted Toil,
And cats the Product of his grateful Soil;
Ao uftf' t hav.* cati.se to fear.
No arbitrary Monarch rules us here.
Our L,ives, our Properties, and all that's ours,
Our Happy Constitution here secures,
What Praise and Thanks, O Penn! are due to thee.
For this first perfect Scheme of Liberty.'
How shall the Muse thy just Applauses sing
Or in what strains due Acclamations bring t
Who can thy Charter read, hut with surprise
Must strait proclaim thee Generous, Just, and
Wise 1
Thro' every Page, thro' every careful Lino,
How does the Friend, the Nursing Father shine!"
The Historical Magazine annotates this curious
effusion as follows :
It is probable that Titan himself was the author
of the above poetic effusion. Tho B"**l alluded
to as a poet, was doubtless Joseph Breintnal, a
friend of Benjamin Franklin's. He was a copier
of deeds tor scriveners. He is represented as be
ing a good-natured friendly man, very fond of read,
ing poetry, and writing some that was considered
very ingenious. The "more judicious T****r" re
ferred to, was probably Jacob Taylor, a schoolmas
ter and physician. He was at one time surveyor
general of the province. He enjoyed a. good repu
tation as an almanac-maker. lie wrote the poetic
effusions for his own almanacs. He was also author
of " Pennsylvania," a poem published in 1728
Mr. Taylor died in 1736.
Scene in a Police Office.
The prisoner in this ease, whoso name was
Dicken Swiveu, alias, "Stove Pipe Pete," was
placed at tho bar and questioned by the Judge
to the following effect:
Judge— Bring the prisoner into court.
I'ete—Here I am, bound to blaze, as the
spirits of turpentine said, when he was all a
fire.
We will take a little tire out of jou. How
do joa live?
1 aiu't partiular, as tbe oyster snid when
tlcy asked him if he would be roasted or fried.
We don't want to hear what tbe oyster said,
or the spirits of turpeatine either. What do
you follow?
Anything that oomcs in my way, as the lo
comotive said when be ran over a little nigger.
Don't oara anything about tbe locomotive.
What is your business.
That's various, as Ihe cat said when she stole
the chicken off the table.
If I hear any more absutd comparasons, I
will give you twelve mouths.
I'm dons, as tbe beefsteak said to the cook.
Now, sir, your punishment will depend on
the shortness and correctness of your aoswers.
1 suppose you live by going around tho docks?
No, sir, 1 oau't so around tho docks without
a boat, and I bain't got none.
Answer me, sir. How do you get your
bread? j
Sometimes at the baker's, aud sometimes I j
eat 'taters.
No more of your stupid nonsense. How do
you support yourself?
Sometimes ou my legs and sometimes on a
cheer.
How do you keep yourself ahvc?
By breathing, sir.
I order you to answer tbis question correetly.
How do you do?
Pretty well, 1 tbauk you, Judge. Hew do
you you 7
1 shall have to commit you.
Well, yo'vo oouimitted yourself first, tbat'a
some eonsclation.
The credit that is got by a lie only lasta till
the truth coutes cut.
Indian Juggling
Tbo fort of Calcutta, oouimouly known as
Fort-William, is one of the most splendid and
convenient military establishments to be found
in any quarter of the globe. It is vory spa
cious, aud somewhat resembles the Tower of
London, in that it consists of various streets
and squares, adapted for different military pur
poses. On all sides it is guarded by a high
and strongly built rampart, whiob is surround
ed in its turn by a broad and deep fosse, over
which arc placed draw-bridges, leading to the
principal gateways. Arrived in Calcutta, a
raw griftio, of course I wont to inspect the lions,
and among others tho fort.
The fort is often the scene of animated fes-
I tivity, from tho preseneo of native jugglers,
i renowned for their surprising skill and dexter-
J ity. Tbe performances of these strange people
| have been so often described, that 1 shall only
make mention of a few, for otherwise I might
tire the reader. One of them struck uie as
being curious from its having a strong resem
blance to the feats recorded in sacrod history,
as having been performed by the magicians of
| Egypt, in the tirno of Moses, and in tbe prea
| ence of Pharaoh. Indeed, as it is well known
that tho Hiudu tricks have been handed dowu
| from the most distant ages, from father to son,
there is little wondnr that such a similarity can
exist. The particular trick alluded to, is the
apparent conversion of a trass coin iuto a
snake. Tbe juggler gave me the coin to hold,
and then seated himself about five yards from
i me, on a small rug, from whieh be never at- j
tempted to move during the whole periorm- i
ance. i showed the eoin to several persons
who were close beside mo, on a form in front of i
tho juggler. At a sign from him, 1 not only j
grasped the coin 1 held firmly in my hand, but j
crossing that hand with equal tightness with
my left, I enclosed both as firmly as 1 could
between my knees. Of oourse I was positive
ly certain that tho small coin was within my
double fists. The juggler thou began a sort of
incantation, accompanied by a monotonous and
discordant kiud of recitative, and, repestiug
the words, Kara, Summu, during somo minutes.
He then suddenly stopped, and, still keeping
his seat made a quick motion with bis right
hand, as i; throwing something at me, giviug
at the aino titnc a puff with his mouth. At
that instant 1 felt my hands suddenly distend,
and beoome partly open, while I experienced a
sanitation as tf a cold hl! of dough, or some
thing equally soft, nasty and disagreeable, was 1
now between tny palms. I started to my feet;
in astonishment, and also to the astouishmont
of others, and opening my hands, found there
no coin, but to my uorror, and alarm ('ot of
*ll oreated things I detest and ioatho the genua)
I saw a young snake, nil alive, oh! aud of all
snakes in the world, a oobra-di-oapello, folded,
or rather coiled, roundly up. 1 threw it in- j
stantly to the ground, trembling with rage and '
fear, as if already bi by tbo deadly reptile, j
which began immediately to crawl along the ;
ground, to tho alarm aod amazement of every j
one present. Tbe juggler now got up for the
first time since ho set down, and catching hold '■
ot the suake displayed its length, which was
Deaily two feet—two feet ail to an inch and a ,
half. He then took it cautiously by tLo tail, f
and opening bis mouth to its widest extent, let
the head of the snake drop into it, and deliber
ately commenced to swallow tbe animal, till the
end of tho tail only was visible; then making a j
sudden gulp, the whole of the snake was tip- I
parently swallowed. After this, be came up
to tbe speotators and opening his mouth wide,
permitted us to look into his throat, but no
snake or snake's tail was visible, it was seem
ingly down his throat altogether. During tbe
remainder of tbo performances, we never saw
tbis snake again, nor did the man profess bis
ability to make it re-appear; but he performed
another snake trick, which surprised us vory
much. He took from a bag auothor cobra-di
capallo, aud, walking into tbe c<.utro ot the
roots, enclosed it in his hands in a folded state.
He waved or shook it for some tirno in this con
dition, and then opened his fists, when, bey,
presto!—tho snake was gone, and in its place
appeared soveral small ones, whioh he suffered
to fall from his hands, when they glided, with
their peculiar undulating movemont, almost
like the waves of the sea, about the floor.
F. SWAN WICK.
WOMEN BORN TO DO TUB LOVING.— That
nature has ordained love as woman's task, more
than man's, is thus declared, by a late moral
ist:
"With man, love is never a passion of such
intensity as with woman. She is a being of
sensibility, existing only in the outpourings and
sympathies of her emotions. Every earthly
blessing, nay, every heavenly hope will be sac
rificed for her affections. She will leave the
sunuy homo of her childhood—tho protecting
home of her kindled—forget the counsels of
her sire, tbe admonishtug voice of that mother
OQ whose bossom her head had been pillowed—
do all that woman oan do consistently with
boner—forsxka all that she haa clung to in her
girlish aiiophoity for years, and throw herself
iuto tho arms of the man she idolizes. He that
would forsake a woman after these testimonies
of affection, is too gross a villian to be called a
man.
Among tho letters lying in the New York
post office, is one addressed to John Otieubau
bcngmpenateinersshobsnbicker.
That gentleman must be a relative of the
famous Ghrononbotonthologos, and also of the
reuowed Aldiboronthophoscophornio. He is a
literary man, in the sense of being a man or
letters.
When ycu dispute with a fed, he is very
certain to be simtlary employed.
VOL 34, NO. 10.
I to!*! Watch in a Rag Sag.
A lady in the vioinity of Bridgeport, (Jt ,
WHS IU the babit of putting oat shirts to make
for a Urge clothing establishment to & number
of women in Ike neighborhood. In the out-
I ting of these, there were a great many littie
; odds and ends of cloth left over—pieces too
i small to he of use, and the first thought was,
jof course, to toss them into the fire. "No,"
; .he reflected, "I will save tbern as they aeon*
i mulate, and perhaps I may get enough to ex
i change with the tiaman for some kitobon arti*
I cle or other." So she let them lie, housewife'
I life, aud in a few weeks there was quite a pile.
One day a neighbor came iu, and on hearing
of the destination of the scraps, advised that
they should be eeDt to a paper mill, at some
iittle distause. "They wiil give you three or
four cents a pound for them," said he, "and
that is better than exchanging them for tiD.*
She asked her t hushand's advice. To him
& few rage more or lees seemed a trivial af
fair.
"Do as you like,' said he laughingly—you
may have all the money you can make out of
the rags.
She took him at his word, and io two or three
months, soma half a dozen barrels of rags were
seut by some one who was going iu the direc
tion of the paper mill. To her surprise and
pleasure, a new rustling five doliar biil e&me
back.
Again the impulse to epeud it for some little
ornament was checked. "No," she resolved;
all my rag money shall go into the saving
bank.
And into the saving bank it went according
ly. Years rolled by—more rags were savod
and sold—interest and .principal accumulated.
At length an unusual opportunity presented
itself for the purchase of a beautiful gold wateh.
Forty dollars was the price.
"I will not ask toy husband to withdraw any
necessary funds from bis business," she thought,
"but new is the time to make my rag money
useful!"
The gold watoh was purchased—literally with
rags!
Y'et this was not the ond of it. The bank
fund, of which the bundle of rags was the ori
gin, now amounts to over, twenty five hundred:
dollars.
"I do not know how it accumulated," said
the lady to us. "A few outtings and scraps
laid aside whenever I out out 6hirts—a few
dollars carried to the bank when I went to the
city—it has grown op, almost without any oare
on my part.
IXURKDIBLE Nxwrs FROM MEXICO The
Corpus Christi (Texas) Ranc/iero of January
12th, has the followiug singular statement:
Great excitement exists at the present time
among the Mexicans in Western Texas, and,
indeed, among many Americans, occasioned by
a report tbat a Saint has mysteriously appeared
in Mexico, at some point near Camargo, who
possesses the power to feed thousands of people
with two or three tortillas, (little cakes,! each
getting all be can eat; cures all diseases flash is
heir to, restores sight to the blind: in fact, per
forms all kinds of miracles. No one can telt
his name or where he oame from. He says that
he will be killed in Mexico, and requests that
bis murderer may not bo punished. He claim*
he is sent on an especial mission to the Mexican
people, and that he shall perform many won
derful things and make many disclosures be
fore he closes his career. Apparently but six
teen or seventeen years of age, he has a great
beard of patriarchal length; and as an evidence
that he is no imposter, it is reported that Geu
Vidaurn had him oleanly shaven, and then told
him if he was really a man of God; as he pro
fessed, to cause his beard to reappear upon his
face. The saint requested his interrogator to
tnru his back for a few moments, which be did,
and after making a prayer and going through
some mysterious ceremony, prests! his face was
covered with beard tbe same as before.
Thus the story goes, and if not true, certain
it is that the Mexicans of this and the adjoin
ing sounties are swarming thither in large num
bers, and some Americans are preparing to
go
Trace the Traitors Back
Parson Hrowalow prints a long list of names
of the South Carolina Tories of the Revolution.
He says:
We print the names of those infamous Tor
ies, because their descendants are spread all
over the South, and a portion of them are now
figuring in this secession movement, and some
of them even n their late Convention. They
have a hereditary title to the contempt of all
honest and patriotic men. dF"l)id not a man
by the name of R. Barnwell Smith, some tweo
ty-Sve or thirty years ago, have his nauja
changed to that of Rhett, by the Legislature,
end if so, what was the motive? Was he not
promiucnt in the late Convention, in deolaring
oat of this Union l We ask for information
because there have been more names changed
in Soarh Carolina, by the act of General As
sembly, than in any State in the Union'
a m *
In the spring of 1780, Sir Henry Ciintou
and Vice Admiral Arbuthnot, appeared before
Charleston, aud demanded a surrender to His
British Majesty's foroes. The gallant General
Liatoln, in command of the American forces,
repulsed tins arrogant demand, with the scorn
aud ociiU'Uipt of a brave offiecr. They hav*
hated the name of Lmcol'i ever since! The
people of Charleston, and nearly all South
Cat olios, being Tories, of the basest oharuoter.
took the matter into their own bauds, and
threatened the gallant Lincoln with betraying
hiui into the hands of the British forces, if ho
i did net couie to suob terms as pleased them.