BY DAVID OYER.
o t 1 rq.
OUR COUNTRY'S CALL.
BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
Lay down the ax, fling by the spade ;
Leave in its tract the toiling plow ;
The rifle and the bayonet blade
For arms like yours were fitter now;
And let the hands that ply the pen
Quit the light task, and learn to wield
The horseman's crooked brand, and rein
The charger on the battle field.
Our country calls ; away ! away !
To where the blood-stream blots the green.
Strike to defend the gentlest sway
That time in all his course has seen.
See, from a thousand coverts—see
Spring the armed foes that haunt her track ;
They rush to smite her down, aad we
Must beat the branded traitors hack.
Ho! sturdy as the oaks ye cleave,
And moved as soon to fear and flight,
Men oi the glade and forest leave
Your woodcraft for the field of fight.
The arms that wield the ax must pour
An iron tempest on the foe;
His serried ranks shall reel before
The arm that lays the panther low.
Aad ye who breast the mountain storm
By grassy steep or highland lake,
Come for the land ye love to form
A bulwark that no foe can break.
Stand, like ycur own gray cliffs that mock
The whirlwind, stand in ber defense :
The blast as scon shall move the rock
As rushing squadrons bear thee thence.
And ye, whose homes are l>y ber grand
Swift rivers, rising far away,
Come from the depth of ber green land
As mighty in ycur march as they ;
As terrible as when the ruins
Have swelled tliera over bank and bourne,
With sudden floods to drown the plains
And sweep along the woods uptoro.
And ye who throng, beside the deep
Her ports and hamlets of the strand,
In number like the waves that leap
On Lis long murmuring marge of sand,
Cme, like that deep, when, o'er bis brim,
He rises, all bis floods to pour,
ADd flings the proudest barks that swim,
A helpless wreck against his shore.
Few, few wee they whose swords, of old,
Won the fair land in which we dwell,
But we are many, we who bold
The grim resolve to guard it well.
Strike for that broad and goodly Land,
Blow after blow, tiil men shall see
That Might and Right move hand in hand,
And glorious must their triumph be.
[ —N. Y. Ledger.
EE*. PATTERSON.
The Be?. Mr. Bmitb, Chaplain of Col. But*
terfield's Regiment, in a meeting, made the fol
lowimg statement in regard to General Patter
son:
Having aoted as chaplain of Col, Butter
field's regiment during the three months cam
paign, he was able to speak understanding!;
of certain military operations, and particularly
of the movements of Gen. Patterson, to
whose column the 12th Regiment (Col. Bute
terfield) was attached. Mr. Smith said that
Patterson was directed to do one of these three
things: either to attack the Rebel General,
Johnston, at Winchester, or, if be was Dot
strong enough to attack him, to at least keep
him in oheck, and prevent him from joining
Beauregard; or, in oaso Johnston gave hiin the
slip, to follow him to Manassass and attack
that position in the rear.
But Gen. Patterson said he did not wish to
shed blood, he conducted the war on peaco
principles. Co!. Butterfield was then aoiiog
as Brigadier-General, and appealed to Pat
terson, time after time, to be allowed, with hi 3
single Brigade, to attack Johnston in his in
trenchments. But Patterson steadily refused.
When pickets brought intelligence that John
ston bad left Winchester, and was in full march
to join Beauregard, Patterson discredited the
story, and resisted ail entreaties of officers
and men to follow. Instead of th*t, be uiade
• nigh: march of 20 miles in the opposite di
rection. and thus kept his 30,000 meu out of
harm's way until tha bloody disaster of Bull
Run, which be might have arrested, fell like a
pall upon the country.
The speaker said,there was but one opinion
of Gen. Patterson among ;be soldiers of bis
division. That was that he was a traitor.—
He bad beard the Rhode Island Begiment call
him traitor to hie face, and h>ss, and groan,
and hoot him back to his tent. Mr. 3. said
that Patterson left his eommuud at midnight,
and intimated very strongly that if be bad
remained much longer be would have been in
danger of assassination from Ins own men.
A bad wound may heal, but I bad name is
*W>et tors to kill.
A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Ac., &c—Terms: Que Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance.
"Call a Man.''
A LOVE AND SNAKE STORY.
John Jaokson was a very industrious, hard*
working young man, of twenty three years.- -
Being the eldest child and the only son he
had alwaya remained at home, assisting his
father on the farm. John was much respected
by every one in the neighborhood, and many a
bright eyed girl had searetly thought that she
would like to change her name to Mrs. John
Jackson. But John was no "ladies' man."—
The fact was, John was bashful. He would
rather hoe potatoes all day than undergo thg.
ceremony of an introduction to a young lady.
Not that John disliked the dear oreatures; far
from it. We believe that he, in common with
all bashful, well meaning men, entertained the
very highest respect and admiration for them.
And this, no doubt, was the principle cause of
bis bashfulness- He felt that they were su
perior beings, and that he was unworty to as
sociate with them upon terms of equality. But
we cannot stop to moralize. Nancy Clark was
the daughter of a very respectable farmer
whose lands adjoined the Jackson farm. Nan
oy was a pretty, saucy little witch, and she
liked John Jackson. When they were chil
dren tbey attended the same school, and as he
was a few years her senior, was usually her
companion in the childish disputes that arose,
and her oompanion in going and returning. —
At last John became so much of a young man
as to be kept from school, as she had been n
past years. John discovered too, that he had
been growing in stature and it seemed as if he
had been growing out of shape. His feet and
legs appeared awkward; he didn't know what
to do with his haDds; bis face pained him, and
taking it all in all, be was iuciincd to think ho
was not more than half put together.
Now the trutu was, John Jackson!was re
ally a fine looking yonog man, and nothing
but his admiration of Nancy could have sug
gested any each foolish thoughts about himself.
As novelists say, it was a lovely day in
August. The heavens were clear, serene, and
beautiful, the trees were laden with golden
fruit, and tbo beautiful birds twittered their
songs of love in the branches. Earth—(there,
we've slid down to earth once more: such lofty
Sights, they make our head dizzy.) We were
about to say the earth had yielded har boun
tiful harvest of ayer's grass, and clover, and
honeysuckles, which the noble yeomanry of
Cbesterville had gathered within their store
houses; but upon a seoond thought we have
concluded to word it thus: "The farmers of
Cbesterville were done baying."
John JacksoD's sister had a quilting that
afternoon. His father had gone to "Keith's
Mill" to get some wheat ground, and John
was left to repair some tools, to he ready on
the morrow to commence mowing the meadow
grss<. Suddenly it occured to Johu that if he
remained about the house in the afternoon be
would he called in at tea time and required to
do the honors of the table. To avoid this be
quietly shouldered his scythe aud stole awiy
to the meadow, half a mile distant, fully re*
solved that ha wolud not leave there until it
was so dark that he oould not see to mow, and
and thus avotd seeing the girls.
The meadow was surrounded on all sides by
a thick forest, wbieb effectually shut out what
| little breezes there might cbanee to be stirring.
The sun poured its rays as though tho little
meadow was the focus point where the heat
! was concentrated. John mowed and sweat
and sweat and mowed, until he was obliged
to sit down and cool off. Then it occurod to
■ John if he took off bis paDts he might be
1 much more comfortable. There oould be no
impropriety in it, for he was entirely concealed
I from observation, and there was not the slight-
I est reason to believe that he could be seen by
aoy person. So John stripped off, and with
j no cover save his linen—commonly called a
shirt—he resumed his work. He was juat con
gratulating himself upon the good time he was
having, and the lucky escape be had made
from meeting with the girls, whon he chanced
to disturb a huge black snake, a genuine twis
ter with a white ring around his neck.
John was no coward, but he was mortally
afraid of a snake. "Self-preservation" was
the first "pasaage" that flashed upon John's
mind, and "legs take care of the body" was
the next. Dropping bis scythe and spinning
aronnd like a top, be was ready to strike at a
240 gate, when at that moment the snake was
near enough to hook bis crooked teeth into
John's shirt just above the hem. With a tre
mendous spring he darted off with the peed of
a locomotive.
His first jump took the snake clear from tbe
ground, aod as John stole a hasty glance over
! his shoulder, he was horrified to find the reptile
securely fastened to tbe extremity of his gar
ment, while tbe speed with which he rusbad
forward kept the serpent extended to an angle
of ninety degrees with bis body.
Here wag a quandary. If he stopped, the
snake would eoit around his body and squeeze
him to death; if he continued his race, he
urnst soon fall from sheer exhaustion. Oa he
flew, scarce daring to think bow this dreadful
race was to end. Instinctively be had taken
the direction for home, a feeling- of security
came over him. Suddenly flashed across bis
mind tbe trne state of affairs—his father gone
—tbe quilting, aod worst of all, ths girlt!—
This new horror sent tbe blood back, curdling
•boat bis heart, and ha came to • dead halt.—
Tbe next moment be felt tbe body of the cold
•Ummj monster in contact with hie bare legs,
bis tail creeping around tbem in a sort of a
cozening way, as though bis aoakeehip only
meditated a little fun, byway of tickling John
upon tbe knees.
This waa too much for bum&n endurance.-
With a yell, such as men never utters save
1 when in mortal terror, poor i?ohn again set
BEDFORD, PA. FRIDAY. NOV. 1,1861.
forward at break neck speed, and onee more
had the pleasure of seeing tße snake resume
his horizontal position, somewhat after the
fashion of the tail of a comet.
On, on they flew! John forgot the quilt
ing, forgot the girls, forgot everything but the
snake. His active exercise, (ho paid particu
lar attention to bis running,) together with the
excessive heat, had brought on the nose bleed
ing, and as he ran, ears ereot and head thrown
back, bis chin, throat, and shirt bosom were
stained with the flowing stream.
His first wild shriek bad startled the quilters,
and forth they rushed, wondering if some mad
Indian was urt prowling about. By this time
John was within a few rods of the barn, still
running at the top of his speed, his head turn
ed so that he might keep one eye on the snake,
and with the other observo what oourse he
must take. The friendly barn now concealed
him from the eight of the gitls. He knew
they were in the yard, having caught a glimpse
of them as they rushed from the bouse. A
few more bounds and he would be in their
midst. For a moment modesty overcame fear,
and he onee more halted. The snake, evident
ly pleased with his rapid transportation, man
ifested his gratitude by attempting to enfold
the legs of our hero within bis embrace.
With an explosive "ouch!" and urged for
ward by "oireumstanees over which he had
no control," poor John bounded on. The
next aiomant he was in full view of the girls,
and as he turned the corner of the laru, the
snake oaine round with a whiz, somewhat after
the fashion of a coach-whip.
Having roachad the barn yard, to his dis
may, ho found the bars up. But time was too
precious to be wasted in letting down bars.—
Gathering all his strength he bounded into the
air, snake ditto, and as he alighted on the oth
er side, his snake-ship's tail cracked across
the upper bar, snapping like an Indian cracker.
Aguin John set foiwurd, now utterly re
gardless of the girls, for the extra tiekle from
the snake's tail, as he leaped the bar 9, banish
ed all his basbtulness and modesty, and again
he bad the pleasure of finding the snake in a
straight line, drawing steadily at the hem of
his solitary garmeut.
The house now became the centre of at
traction, and around it he revolved with the
speed of thought. Four times in each revo
lution, as be turned the corners, his snakeship
ouiue around with a wlrz that was quite re
freshing.
While describing the third circle, as he
came near the group of wonder-struck girle,
without removing his g-ze from the snake, he
managed to cry out— "cutl a mm!"
The next moment ho had whisked out of
sight, and, quick as thought, reappeared upon
the other side of the house—" call a man;"
And away he whirled again, turning the cor
ner so rapidly that the whis of the snake
sounded half way between a low whistle and
the repeated pronunciation of double-o.
Beforo either of the girls hud stirred from
their tracks, be had performed another revolu
tion — "call a mm!"
Away be flew onee more, bat his strength
was rapidly failing. Nancy Clark was the
first to recover her preseuce of mind, and
seizing a hoop pole, she took her Btatioa near
the oorocr of the house, and as Jobu reap
peared she brought it down upon the snake
wiib a force that broke bts back and bold up
on John's garment at the same time.
John rushed iuto the house and went to his
room, and at teatime appeared in his best Sun
day clothes, but little the worse for bis race,
and to all appearances entirely cured of bash
fulness. That night be walked home with
Nancy Clark. The next New Year they were
married, and now whenever John feels inclin
ed to laugh at bis wife's hoops, or any other
peculiarity, she has only to say "Call a man,"
when be instantly sobers down.
A NICE I'LACE TO LIVE. —Tho disputed
territory between the two armies south of the
Potomac mu3t furnish anything but quiet and
peaceful places of residence. What with
pioket skirmishing and the depredations of
marauding soldiers, to say uothiugof the con
tingency of a furious battle, one would think
that the region would be oompletely deserted
by all save the eoutcndiog armies. Yet it
seems not to be so. The army correspondent
of the New York Post srys that a Connecticut
gentleman who owns a small estate near Falls
Cbarch went over a day or two since to look
at his tenant. The family has remainedMn the
dwelling through all the troubles of picket
skirmishing, aud source a day bus passed for
a month that they have uot witnessed sanguin
ary scenes from their windows. The building
lay between the pickets, neither party vcutur
ing to it. On one occasion a Federal soldier
vontvrcd down to the well for some water, and
was shot dead by a rebel bullet while drinking.
There the body remained for a day or two.
The house itself has been pierced with bullets,
but ooue of the couragoUs family were harmed.
CURE FOR THE BACK ACHE,
It is custom in Brewickshire, Scotland,
among women-workers in the field when their
baoka become sore by bowing low down while
singling turnips with short a sbanked hoes,{to lie
down with their faces to the ground allowing
others to step oo the lower parts of their backs
with one foot, several times, until the pain of
fatigue is removed.
Burton, in his •First Footsteps in Eastern
Africa,' narrates a very similar custom of fe
males who lead the camels, who, on feeliog
fatigued, 'lie at full length, prone, standing
upon each other's backs, trampling and knead
ing witb their toes, and rise like giants re
freshed.' This custom is aalled *fogsi,' in Afri
ca, and in our country, it is sailed 'straight*
eoing the baolf.' — JVoJm and Queries,
A Sketch of Manassas Junctioo*
The village ot Manassas, or Tudor Hall,
as the Post Office is oalled, is very much smal
ler tnan is generally imagined, in the vil
lage proper there are not in abovo three or four
miles, perhaps not more than five or six innab
itants. The statioD is situated on the Orange
and Alexandria Railroad, some quarter of a
mile from its juootion with the Manassas Gap
Road. There is no regular depot, but a rude
ly constructed building answers the purpose at
present. One plain two-story house, with a
porch in front to which you mount by half a
dozen steps, was formerly the hotel, while the
only remaining roofs the place can boast is a
etnali white cottage, now used as a hospital,
and a small rough office occupied by the Adams
Express Company.
The telegraph is in two horse oars, like those
used ou the city raHroads, on one of which the
battery is placed, and in the other is the op*
eraiing room, receiving room, baggage room,
dining room by day and lodging room by night
of the busy operators. These ears are placed
at right aDgles with each ether, closely con
nected, and over tLeui, among the numerous
wires which radiate from this common centre,
floats a large and very handsome Rebel flag.—
Close beside the cars stands the field telegraph
with its large coil of wire wouud upon the
cylinder ready at a moments notice to be laid
Irom headquarters to any point. The chief
here is Mr. Barnes, and lie and his assistants
are constantly kept as busy as bees.
Just beyond the telegraph office is that of
the Express Company, which has quite the ap
pearance of a curiosity shop. The building
itself is filled up with all kiods of eurious
boxea and parcels, addressed principally to
men in tbe army, and which bad remained here
for some time uncalled for. Outside a large
reetaogler shed has been built, beneath which
the larger boxes and barrels some three hun
dred in number, are retained till called for by
the owners; notwithstanding the seemiog con
fusion of the place the greatest disorder pre
vails. AH the vacant space is now filled, and
a new board bouse is being built for winter
quarters. The Express messenger leaves here
but once a day on sevon A. M. train.
I said there was no regular depot building,
but I am mistaken. There is ouo—a low,
dingy looking house, extremely dirty, one end
of which is used as tbe Tudor Hall Post Offioe.
and the other a variety store, where, by the
way, a soldier can apend a great deal of mon*
ey with as little satisfaction as in kvy place
this side of Kansas. The trade here is prin
cipally in matches, pipes, tobaooo, shou strings,
thread and buttons, and is divided betweeu
this store and three sutler shops or tents in the
immediate vicioity. There is a long triangu
lar platform beyond the depot building, upon
wbieb is piled a large amount of freight, which
is received for the different regi uents. Three
or four sentinels are constantly on guard here,
but these are not vigilant enough to prevent
about one third of freight soDt here from being
stolen. Many things have been taken within
tbe last few days.
MRS. FREMONT*
Mrs. Jesse Fremont is one of the leading
women of this country. She possesses, in a
remarkable degree, those qualities which dis
tinguished her father, Hon. Thomas H. Ben
ton. She has an energy which is unconquera
ble—a will which is entirely her own; her face
is an evidence cf superior intellect, and her
whole bearing is tbat of one
•Who knowa ber rights,
And knowing, dare maintain.'
Mrs Fremont is acquainted with several of
the modei u languages of Europe, and is well
read in the history aud philosophy of ancient
and modern times. In all the relations of
life sbe appears as the elegant lady. She
married Colonel (aow General) Fremont be
cause she loved him, and she has followed him
through evil and good roport. She has been
bis support in tbe brightest hours, and she
does not desert him when the dark olouds of
envy and malice gather about him.
Mrs. Fremont is a noble woman; her heart
is enlisted in a noble cause; sbe realizes the
tremendous responsibilities resting upon ber
husband, and she rises to tho dignity of the
great occasion. We sincerely respect ber,
and hope for her success. General Fremont
may be superseded, but the true men of this
oountrv will understand the caases, and do
justice to his memory. We trust that the
good sense of the Administration will prevail,
and that General Fremont will be permitted to
demonstrate —as we are satisfied he can dem
onstrate—his ability to oommand a great ar
my.
Mrs- Fremont is doing her duty; she is sus
taining her husband in the hour of trial—
When the battle shall come—as ootne it must
at an early day—Mrs. Fremont will be found
a* near as womto can approach, to the elasb
mg steel and the bursting bomb; and may ha
who watched our Israel
'Through the foaming flood,
And o'er the desert sands,'
protect ber in this hour of trial.— Cincinnati
Timet.
The great Comet which attracted so much
attention last summer, is still seen with a tel
escope, not far from the star Eta, in the con
stellation Hercules. It is entirely shorn of
that wonderful appendage known as tbe tail,
and nothing rcuoaius but a nuelues enveloped
in a nebulous shroud, the whole not unlike in
appearance of a small plaooetary nebula.
The philosopher Fraser say a that, "tbongh
* man without money is peor, a man witb
nothing hut money is still poorer."
SHE WILL AND SHE WONT.
Doestieks seems to be resusoited by mar
riage, though too much disposed to imitate his
mother-in-law. He says;
"One reason why it iff so difficult to please
a women iff that she seldom kuows herself what
she wants. In most cases it is as hard to sat.
isfy a woman as it wouldjbe to content a cap
taio who should tell you to steer bis ship and
wouldn't tell you whether he wanted to go to
Jersey or Japan. They wouldn't be satisfied
whatover you do.
"Especially in the matter of war.
"Particularly in the matter of the present
war. Your wife, or mother, or sister,-or who
ever may be the woman that owns you, refo. j
sea to be content, no matter what you do. If
you don't join a military company, she sulks,
insinuates you are a coward, turns up her nose,
and 'wishes she was a man,' It you do join
said company, she scolds about the expense,
grumbles about the loss of time, aDd growles
whenever yoa go to drill—though, in spite of
her growling, she always saves the chcisest
part of the dinner when you do come.
"Then she laughs at you, and call* you a
dressed-up monkey,' the first time she sees
you in uniform; and then, as soon as you are
gone out of the house, she rushes over to Mrs.
Jones to tell what a 'splended officer' her hus
band is, and how magnificient be looks in bis
new military dress.
"Then, if your regiment is ordered away,
aDd you insinuate that 'business affair.-' will
keep you at home, ail ber fire is blazing in an
instant, and she upbraids you for 'backing out'
at the critical moment, and insinuates that you
are a play-boy aoldier,' and then she wishes
that she were a man —she'd show folks how to
fight. Then, when you finally make up your
mind to go to the seat of war, she bursts into
wet tears (which spot your new uniform and
tarnish the gold lace on your sleeves) aud
thinks you, ought to be ashamed to go off aud
leave your family.' She vows she 'don't be
lieve you care a straw for your wife, or a cent
for your sweet children;' she 'knows you would
rather he anywhere tbsu at home,' and 'wish*
es she were a man, she'd teach the President
better lhaD to send men away from their fami
lies.'
•'Then when the day comes for you to start,
she vows that she will 'never epe*k to you
again if you persist in going.' Then, when
you take a paper out of your pocket and pre
tend to read a furlough from the oomaianduu',
excusing you, and giving you leave to stay at
borne, she throws her aproD over her bead, sits
dowD on the floor, and howls aloud,'to think
that she should have a coward for a husband'
—'that ber husband should be afraid to go to
th* war.' AD i tea, wl e i yoa tell her that its
alia mistake, aud that you are going alter ail,
she bowls louder than ever, because sbc knows
you willj be killed,' or sbe feels it in ber bones
that you'll come home with two woden legs,
and then how esn you take her to the Acade
my on opera nights? Then she tesoits in turn
to every one of the immense list of female tac*
tics to keep you at home—she weeps, she ban
ters, ebo pokes fun at you—she wishes she was
a man—she gets mad—she sulks—she threat
ens to go home to her mother—she coaxes—
she 'won't ever live witb you another day'—
she scolds,she entreats, and, as a last resort,
she faints —in this case she always falls into ;
your arms, if you mr.ks an offer to catch her,
if you don't offer, aod if it's early in the morn
ing, and she hasn't made her bed yet, she'll
fall on the carpet so as not to muss the bed; if !
the fainting dodge don't work, aud you still
are resolved to go, sbe vows she 'hates you
and that she'll never speak to you again,' and
then, to prove the bitterness of her bate she
goes off packs your havetaack full of all the
dainties and delicacies cf the season, then, af
ter all, at the very last moment, sbe comes and
throws her arms around your neck, and whis
pars that she 'loves you best of all in tbe
world,' and that she'll 'be such a good girl till
you come back, aud that she'll 'take such good
care of tbe children,' aod that you mustn't
fret about ber, and that she'll write every
blessed day, and that you must write just as
often as you eaD, and tbat she 'loves you best
best, best,' and a thousand messages only for
you, but all kind and loving aud all told with
out a tear, for she deesu't cry sow until you
are out of tbe house; and when you are gone
she weeps like a shower bath tor half an hour,
then suddenly stops short, wipes her eyes, and
doesn't waste another tear till she sees you a
gain-
"That's the way they all do; and, talk as
peacefully as you oan, she is never satisfied iu
her heart till she sees you in uniform."
issanlt aod Capture of a Castle of
tbe Knights of the Koldea Circle.
The Uhio State Journal contains au account
lof the saekiog of a castle of the Knights of
tbe Golden Circle, in Marion, Ohio—where,
and in the vicinity, there are supposed to be
some nine hundred of the fraternity—and tbe
capture and incarceration of a 'commander.'
The scheme of eutrappiog the members of tbts
treasonable organixation was brought about
by the aid of a man named Samuel Cheneye,
who got himself initiated into the gang and
then exposed the purposes of the organization.
This man, at his initiation, had to s'wear,
amongst other things, that he would not 'rest
or sleep until Abraham Jjiocoln, now Preai
dent, Bhall be moved oat of the Presidential
chair; and 1 will wade in blood np to ray koeos
as soon as Jefferson Davit sees proper to
march witb his army to take tbe oity of Wash
ington and the White House.' The records
of the fraternity have been aeiaed, and tbe
people are greatly excited against tbe Koights,
yrhom they are determined to crush out.
V0L.34, NO. 44
1 Natural Bridge io Wisconsin.
A correspondent of a Philadelphia paper,
writing from Pine river, Wisconsin, gives the
eubjoioeri description of a natural bridge, dis>
covered in that region: At the mouth of the
west branch of Pine river is a great curiosity
— a natural Oridgt almost as wonderful as the
oue over Cedar ereqjc, in Virginia. Here •
stream much larger than Cedar creek,is span
ned by a bridge of rook and earth, tbo handi
work of nature berself. The west branch of
Piue river flows through a most beautiful and!
fertile valley, eastward, until it nears the main
stream, when a high bluff seems to forbid tha
blending of tbeir waters. But 'where there is
a will there is a way,' and the branch find* an
opening through the high bluff which skirts tbo
western shore of Pine river, and tbeir waters t
mingle and murmur on toward the 'father of
rivers.' Here is a natural tunnel, from fif
teen to twenty feet wide and twelve feet high,
right through a rocky hill, who*a altitude is
80 feet. The hill is covered with tall pines
aod foliage down to both rivers with a dense
growth of evergreene. The bridge is wide
enough for three teams to drive abreast, and
from its location I have no doubt but a through
fare will at some future time be established
along this romsutic way: Sufficient water
passes noder the bridge, even £io ihe sultry
month of July, to set a rolling and a rumbling
a dozen of tbe largest mills in the State.
REBEL I.IBRATITIIBR
The following case of ingratitude has few
paralells: A soldier called wet, weary, and
hungry, at the bouse of Henry Kerooll, a far*
roer in Fairfax county, Virginia, and asked to
be sheltered from the storm. It was a few
days af'cr the bull Bun affair. The farmer
took him in. The soldier said he belonged to
the Union army, and showed tho Union army
uniform to corroborate his statement. The
farmer fed and wajtued him, and offered hnn
bis parlor, where be oouid securely conceal
him, in case his house might be visited by the
rebels. After receiving tbe farmer's hospital
ities the soldier said he would go to the barn,
where he oould better conceal himself from the
rebels. From there he disappeared, and not
long at'tor the farmer was arrested and oarried
to Manassass LUp, where the soldier, who
proved to be a spy, appeared before him, and,
ut a mook trial, swore to a issue o falsehoods.
He was tbe cause of the old man's arrest and
'ruin. After being detained several weeks, tbe
farmer was sent to Richmond snd incarcerated
:n the common jail, a filthy hole. He was re.*
leased a few days ago, and reached Washing
ton ou Saturday night.
THE FOOT OF A HORSE-
The human hand has often been taken to
illustrate Piviue wisdom —and very well. But
have you ever examined your horse's hoof? It
is hardly less curious in its way Its parts are
somewhat complicated, yet their design ia sim
ple and obvious. The hoof is not as it ap
pears to the careless eye, a mere lump of in
sensible bone fastened to tbe leg by a joint. It
is made up of a serios of thin layers, or leaves
of boru, about five hundred ia number, nicely
fitted to each other, aDd forming a lining to
the foot itself. Then there are as many more
layers belonging to what is called the'-coffia
bone," and fitted into this. These aro elastic.
Take a quire of paper and insert tho leaves
one by one into those of another quire, and
you will get some idea of the arrangement of
tbe several layers. Now the weight of tbo
horse resta ou as many elastic springs as there
ar® layers in his four feet—about 4,000, and
all this is cootrived not only for the easy con
veyance of tbe horse's own body, but for what
ever burdens may be laid on him,
AUTUMNAL TINTS.—No one oan maintain,
after this year's experience, that frost has any
special agency m tbe autuma coloration of
leaves. Scientific men have long understood
the matter, and have explainod the ripening of
the leaf as a simple prooess of vegetable growth,
though the coloration of the leaves at matori*
ty can no more be accounted for than tho red
of the rose, the blue of the violet, or the or
ange of the lily. The color which leaves as
sume in the fall is due to tbe same causes.
But the popular idea that the leaves are chan
ged by tbe host is so firmly established in tbe
minds of uosoientifia and unobservant people,
that it is difficult to dispel. This year the
foliage has assumed the most gorgeous color
ing without a sign of frost, and, indeed, seems
to be more brilliant on account of its non-ap
pearance. This is perfectly natural, a the
leaves have beeu able to gradually assume the
colors which belong to their ripeness, unob
structed by cold.
A CAUTIOUS JUDGE..—-Au Irish Judge tried
two most notorious fellows for highway rob
bery. To the astonishment of the Court, as
well as the prisoners themselves, they were
found not guilty. And as they were being
removed from the ,bar, tbe Judge, addressing
the gaoler, said:—"Mr. Murphy, you would
greatly ease my mind if you woul d keep those
two respeotabls gentlemen until SOTOD, or half
past seven o'clock, for I mean to set out for
Dublin at five, and I should like to have at
least two hours start of them."
Eanoy Fern says that it is just as sensible
a move to get married without courting, as to
attempt to suooeed in business without adver*
tising.
"Is anybody waiting ooyou v ' said a polite
dry goods olerk to a girl from the country.—
"Yos, sir, ssid the Washing damsel, "that's my
feller outside. He would not come uu"