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A POETICAL. GE31.
"To MacShakb we are indebted for the
following stanzas, which seem to us to abound
in an artless pathos which is sought in vain
in more high-sounding poetry. lie heard
the author recite tho lines, was pleased with
ihem. aud obtained a cop3' of them for pub
lication in the Fheknax.J
LINES
Anlia'jalory of a visit to my native village i?i
Scotland.
BY WILLIAM II'OWEX.
I come o'er tho waste of waters.
Where the billows seethe and foam,
To gaze on the tombs of my fathers
To dream of my childhood's home.
To roam through the paths of tho wildwood.
Where I wandered long ago;
Plucking the yellov cowslip,
Gathering the "lossy sloe :
Wreathing the bonny bluebells
In gai lauds f.r sifter's hair ;
Trembling lest fury wanderers
Should find mo lingeiing there :
RubbiDg the gnarled huzels
Of their clusters (tf ruddy brown ;
Clambering o'er rocks and bracken
For bunches of scarlet rowan :
Threading each shady cover,
Where wimpled the mountain stream ;
Luring, with iod of hazel ,
The trout from his foamy screen :
To stand n-ain on the school green,
Where 1 wantoned in boyih glee,
Ard think of the jouth? and maiduvs.
That shared those s-p"rt3 with aic.
Ah! many like me hare wandered
Afar oYi the ocean wave.
And dwelt in the land of the stranger,
And C.lcd a stranger's grave.
Ab ! life r. a weary journey,
At least 1 have found it so.
But the greem't-t spot on that weary road
Are the memories of long ago :
For thpy come to tho sinking spirit.
Like rin to the withering fl wers.
Arid bear it away from low carking cares
To a brighter world than curs:
Where the friends we have loved and cher
ished In the days that are long gone by.
Lean o'er the walls of their blessed a bod a
And beckon us on to die.
CI1AZIAIE, AO. 1.
ORIGINAL.
Come when 3"our country ca-ls.
Should danger o'er her burst ;
Reckless what deadly strife appals
Arouse and do tuy frst.
And with that frst unn thefi.dJ
Where tytauts would enslave.
It will my second prove to wield
The weapon of the brave :
Within the State of Pen a
The Alleghenj'b roll ;
Winding through many a leve'y glen.
Washes and drains my whole.
Answer next week.
CIIAKiUG, ISO. 2.
SELECTED.
There is a thing in Amsterdam
ln Rune it doth appear ;
'Tis twice in every moment,
And not once in seven years.
CC? Answer next week.
ales, Slutejjts, nttbofts, c.
MOUND BUILDERS OF TENNESSEE.
STARTLING REVELATIONS WITH KE9PKCT TO
XI IK EAKI.Y IN JI A lilTANT? IDOLd
ANL liELICS EXOLMLD.
Dr. Joseph Jones, of our city, deliver
ed at Mwsonic Hall, last night, before a
large and intelligent assemblage of our
citizens, a most instructive and interesting
lecture upon the Mound-Builders of Ten
nessee. In almost all portions ot our
State are found large artificial mounds,
the product of a race of people very dif
ferent from the savages who were familiar
to the early settlers. The relics have often
excited the curiosity of those who saw
and examined them. During the war,
when the State was in the hands of the
Federal forces, the excavations made at
Chattanooga, Knoxville, Mgrfreesboro
and Nashville, revealed a great many
curious remains which were carried iMvay
to the North. Previous to the labors of
Dr. Jones, however, no systematical effort
bad been entered into to collect and class
ify the antiquities and remains of the peo
ple who constructed the mounds and built
the graves which are so numerous all over
Tennessee. The doctor commenced last
year a series of explorations which he
continued with unabated ardor up to with'
in three weeks ago. The re&ult of his
labors in tne antiquarian field has been
most gratifying, lie has succeeded in
collecting a finer array of relics and re
mains than ever was secured of any other
extinct American race The rostrum of
the ball last night was covered with a
large number of novel implements, human
remains, vases, ornaments, idols, etc.,
which had been exhumed under his super
vision from the mounds of our State.
The doctor gave an account of his re
searches into a large mound In Gilts couu
tr, Herj ia th pntr of tb pyrnrairL,
he discovered the remains of a great chief,
buried with numerous relics, and around
hirn the skele'ons of some of his subjects.
Drifting into the sides of the artificial
mounds, ashes, bits of pottery, and bones
of both human beings and animals were
found, mixed up in one incongruous con-
glomeration, often with beautiful speci
mens of vass and shell ornaments. Spe
cimens of the burned ciust of these
mounds, beneath the present soil, were
exhibited. Two large stone idols were
shown, carved out id a dark iron-colored
rock, the largest some thirteen inches in
height, and the others pcihaps four inches
less in stature. One represented a female,
and has the hair gathered up behind under
a diminutive sort of a watetfall, while in
t he longer specimen, that of a male, the
hair was represented twisted into a sort of
queue, not unlike the style of our fore
fathers in the revolutionary times. The
lecturer, to please the lady bearers, gave
a short description of the tout-ensemble of
one of the female mound-builders. With
hair gathered in a graceful knot behind,
ears pierced and filled full of rings of
shell or bone, nose likewise ornamented
with an enormous balancing weight, she
most have been an enchanting creature.
Two copper crosses were exhibited, to
gether with three vases, the outsides of
which were divided into three regular
compartment.3, having three eros-os and
three crowns, symbolic, the doctor rUim
ed, of the cbtistiun religion, the Trinity
and the Yir-iin Mary. The signs of the
Catholic religion, he fctalcd. were wonder
fully prominent in a great many of the j
relics thus far brought to light. On the j
gn jit mound near Franklin, two hundred j
und thirty feet in diameter, evidently j
stood a gigantic temple of tho f-un. 11 j
ligious fyrnbals were plentiful there Two j
remarkable vases were exhumed, cru not J
unlike a child's foot, v.iih ihe op-ning at !
the heel, and ihi other surmounted with a !
carved bead with a helmet, having a re- j
markabio resemblance to that of a Spanish j
cavalier. The speaker inferred from this
that the extinct j topic were n jt nnfiuiniar
with the haughty race whose conquestof
Mexico and Peru read almost like a ro-
malice of the wildest character. Here i
he found, too, the skeleton of a child. lh :
face of wYich wa covered witli a vutious i
shell bearing occult hieroglyphics, among i
which could be distinguished perfect tri- j
angles. This mound was graced with the ;
stump of a tree, which, when cut down
twenty years ago, could not hae been less
than two centuries old An idol exhumed
from the mouth of Lick Iiranch, Nash
ville, was also displayed, and a small fe
male effigy in white clay, with the marks j
of the cross upon tho shoulders. The j
doctor everywhere found truces that the j
Aborigines of the country may have come
in contact with civilized nations long be
fore the discovery of America by Colum
bus. He cave a short sketch of some of
the explorations of the Scandinavians,
Danes, and Icelanders, and the colonies
they foundod in the new world. Lot to
these fearless navigators could not be as- J
cribed the knowledge the mound-builders ;
of Tennessee had of the cross ami the
symbols of religion. It was rather to be I
referred to a later period, when the early
Catholic missions were founded upon the
shores of the new world, sumc three Iiud
drcd years ago
In 15G4 the Catholic Fovereizn of Spain
was attacked with a terrible religious zeal,
and he sent out one Francisco with a lanre
body of co-workers to convert and evan
gelize the Indians. They planted them
selves at St. Angustine, on the shores of
Florida, and for twenty-live years the
missionary was very successful. He
founded a gieat many missions, and par
tially christianized a great many of ihe
savages. Delegates were sent to the pa
rent society of St. Augnstine and to the
convent' of Sr. Helena. The Spaniards
appear to have encouraged marriages be
tween the yourg people of their own race
and those of Ihe Indians, and lo have
lived with them on terms of the greatest i
inimacy. The mound-builders of Ten
nessee, the doctor thought, must certainly
have belonged to the great Natchez tribe,
who, coming from ihe bouth, spread
themselves throughor.t the 'valley of the
Mississippi and the larger branches. When
in the heijht of their empire ihey proba
bly numbered five hundred thousand.
The lecturer thought it extremely curious,
the mixture of Christianity and idolatry
found among these people. While the
great fundamental principles of the true
religion was so familiar to them, (hey
worshipped stone effigies and adored the
sun, and were probably guilty of human
sacrifices. The doctor exhibited a great
number of implements of warfare, such
as stone axes, arrow heads, knives, spears,
&c. Also culinary utensils, mortars used
for grinding Indian corn and paint. The
lecturer was listened to throughout with
the greatest interest, but time fails us for
more than a passing sketch of its riches.
Wc understand that a scientific society of
the East will soon publish a book, from
the pen of Dr. Jones, on the antiquities
of our State, with particular reference to
the mound-builders of Tennessee. We
feel assured that it will prove one of the
moft interesting. books of the kind ever
published in this country. . .
Elm Hark is very generally used in
Norway for making leather, and it is said
tbe fine Norway gloves are prepared from
it, and that tbe softness and beauty are
attributable to this bark.
Ueutli of Joau O'Arc.
UT MART COVFIH-.N CLAKKU.
There is something infinitely touching
in the saint's and hero's relapse into sim
ple humanity and womanhood on that
dark, unnatural May morning, when the
heavy news was told here that she must
die before sunset. She wept bitterly.
Like Jeptha'8 daughter, she mourned that
her pa;e and beauteous body should be
thus early sacrificed, exelaiming, "Hela? !
me Imitation ainst horriblement et crutl
lement, qu'il faille que raon corps, net et
eutier, qui ne fut jamais corrompu, soit
anjour d'hui consume et rendu en cen-
.Iriu I" S:l.n clranl. 1 !. 1
... j . ., , -
writhed at the thought of the flames, mtv-
ing herself for the pain. Hut the saint j
triumphs soon even through the fiery i
vista before her she sees abetter kingdom j
than France, a better home than Domre- J
my. Even in this death she recognizes j
the "deliverance" promisud her by "the '.
voices " i
She appealed to God from the injustice j
and cruelty of earth ; she partook of the I
holy sacrament ; with many tears she j
uttered her touching and tremendous words !
to the Hishop of Beauvais, a summons to !
answer for her death before God. What a '
childlike naturalness! A plaintive nai
vete marked the words she addressed to
one of the preachers standing by : "Ah,
Mail re i'erre, where shall I be this even
ing V
We can fancy the tearful, wistful look,
the lerrifiVd tremble of the hands, and ail
the voice broken in sobs, with which s-he
said this. Then, as the priest replied.
"Have you not good hope in the Saviou:?"'
the
!.
light vt re-assurance, tha smi.'
c
e;i nanus me ncavenwaru j.nz
the
o,
tr"
voioo clear and ferxid, as
she sai I
yes, God aiding, I shall be in l'aradise !"'
Bound and borne in a cart, like a v.om-
moil malefactor, surrounded bv a guard of
f I
eight hundred English Soldier.", Joan
D'Are passed through the streets of Rouen
to the ma: -Let-place ; but in the eyes of
the angels that awful hour must have
thrown into ihe shade all foregone hours
of triumph grander to thetn than the
proudest conqueror in his triumphal car,
followed by princely caotivca and the
spoils of kingdoms-
At the stake the maid again bravely
proclaimed her faith in "the voices," and
nobly defended her Ling- Her sublime
yet meek composure, her marvellous wo
manly sweetness, filled many of her per
secutors with wonder, pity aud vain
remorse
The people looked on as in a
honible dream, weeping, groaning, pray -
ing, but powerless to help. One last word
vi reproacn smvere.Q tne peirineu ueari ot
the Rishop of Heat.vais, cleft its way to a
iL;on iinaiiOA(nl - i n Vt rv n rt i n.T
and let it out in tears.
The scaffold towered high above the
crowd, a huge pile of fagots lit at the base,
a gigantic
Calvary.
altar of ihe sacrifice, a fiery
When the flames uncoiled themselves
from below, and darted up in angry,
Hashing lengths, hissing and writhing;
when they struck their fangs into her fl-jsh,
the flesh cried out in shrieks that must
have echoed forever through the guilty
souls who heard.
Well had the young martyr learned the
self-forgetful spirit, lu her agony, through
the flame and smoke of her toimenf, she
saw the danger of ihe faiihful priest who
held the crucifix aloft, and entreated him
to leave her. Ha went ; he bore from
her sight the image of her crucified Ixird
but he left beside her, in the midst of the
flames, the Lord himself. May not her
last cry of "Jesus!" have been, not a cry
of fear or supplication, but of joy and
recognition, as she sprang through the
fiery gate of martyrdom into the welcom
ing arms of His compassion into the
bosom of His infinite love ?
A Touching Scene In Court.
Mr. D. G. Gibbon, student of medi
cine, was called up before one of the Ran
dolph street justices in Chicago last week,
on a disorderly conduct warrant, sworn
out by Miss Susan Neil. The complainant
was a very pretty girl. She blushed, hid
her face, and stated that she was forced
to take the present step only by the obsti
nacy of the prisoner. These two had been
engaged and many gifts and notes had
passed between them. One day, for the
merest nothing, he had picked a quarrel,
broken the match and her heart, and yet
refused to return the seven love letters,
the old glove, the curl and the ribbon she
had given him She supposed he kept
them, and showed thetn lo his wicked as
sociates, and boasted of them as trophies
of his conquest of a fond and girlish heart.
His Honor looked gloomily at Mr.
Gibbon there was a Lridewell in his eye.
Mr. Gibbon replied that he greatly pre
ferred attempting an amputation at the
hip joint to falling in love with a woman.
If a fellow had any feeling of sccu ity
about it, it might be different, but there
never was any telling w here one was to
fetch up. lie had tried romantic young
ladies, and literary young ladies, and had
come to grief in every instauce. Finally
he had settled on Miss Susan, who-was
described to him to be a matter of fact,
biscuit-baking young wom-.m. He had
paid her addresses, making little gifts of
saleratus and blueing, and . receiving in
return tome ginger cakes. Sbe was not
to bo led too deeply into sentiment. If be
poke of poetry, (he ppoke of p?try. If
ho talked of radiant hopes, she spoke of
washing soap A few days ago be went
to sco her, tind found her preserving
Something in the looks of the paper which
she had put over the cans struck him, and
he looked and found she had used his
love letters for that pur pose. That seemed
a little too cool, and he spoke of it to her.
She replied that it was a wise idea of
hers.
All those beginning "Dear Susan" j
went over the peaches, and
11 those be- i
ginning "My own love" over the apples, i
She wished he would write one more of
the latter, in order to make up the number
'
she wanted. He felt such a woman would i
never do for him, and has bruken olT the
match. As lor returmnn her letters, it
I was ojt ot the question
. .. ...
The words of
love they contained were a part of him
self. When he saw them it brought the
old days back the melodies of the youth
of their love, heard before the roses had
withered, before he had ceased giving her
yak-rat us
j During these rematks the court wiped
j its eyes, took from its pocket a spare hand
kerchief, a small dictionary, some blank
, forms, r;n almanac, and at last, a small tin
! box, which looked as if it might, at some
i time, have held Seidlitz powders. This
j box the court opened, and took out a little
j parcel tied up in red tape, on which it
I dropped a tear ard then said :
f "Twenty -four years ago Ibis court
j loved a girl living near Downer's Grove.
; Phis cou:t corresponded with that girl by
i the weekly st:e. In a moment pf frenzy
; that girl jilted this court, nnJ demanded
her letters and a string of beads. This
jcou:t replied it would, not rstum the
: beads, which it had traded-at a grocery
j store, and that it would not return the let
i ters, when entreated by a brother to cive
them up. This cour t, to iho great Iarcer- J
! ation of its feeling, knot Led down that j
j brother and stamped upon him. It still j
retains ibot-e letters, though she who j
wrote theru has emigrated to Missouri '
Now this court does not intend to stultify j
itself by taking any action against thede- j
fendai. t, who will be discharged. As for
the complainant, she will be fined 10, I
which sum this court would assess on the !
person li:at jilteu it, it il couia get hold ot
wcr.
A Sl:ccp Story.
V few weeks since a statement went
j the rounds of the preps that the hay-seed
j which was ca'tered in the wool of some
I sheep belonging to Richard Hatchelder, of
1 Salisbury. N II . while feeding them in
j the winter, had sprouted on turnins them
jo lt in the spring, and the sheep were
bearing about with them a crop of grass
two inches in lenrrth. This story proba-
, bly reached the poetical editor of the New
1 nrlr J.r.' tftl n .'k Anr tij-ir lci a
. - r . . .....
and this is the way he tells it. This ver
sion should be read aloud :
''This is the most interesting story that
ever we have seen, concerning some New
Hampshire sheep who are wearing of the
green. 'Twas related by a person on
whose honr we rely, ho never hack-ed
cherry-trees, and shouldn't tell a lie.
Robert liatchelder, this was tho shep
herd's narnp, and he pastured twenty
eight sheep on Salisbury Plain. But when
the leaves had fallen, aud November
winds were chill, why out on the open
world they couldn't get their fill. So
Lobby kindly put them in a we'd protects
ed shed, with hay enough to feed them in
the mow up overhead. And the seed it
sifted down and it lodged in there wool,
and there it did remain till the April moon
was full. And then out went the mutton.
all in tho rain, jou know, and, in less
than twenty-one days, the seed began to
grow ; and it grew, and it grow-cd like
the bean in fairy song, and now the grass
upon their backs is more'n two inches
long. And, it is expected, that, later in
the year, red, fragrant clover blossoms
will appear. Tho moral of ibis lale is
clear to every eye, that by judicious man
agement, if a person cared to try, he
might, with little trouble, and with aid ot
rainy weather, have his lamb and peas
growing up together."
I'cnctual Eves Usro Makruge. A
young man in Dent county was engaged
to be married to a handsome 3-our.g lady
recently. Now, it so happened that Jack
and the handsome young la ly in question
lived on oppos'ne sides of the uncertain
stream called Dry Fork. It happened
also that on Saturday night it rained, and
Sunday morning found Dry Fork up
booming. The handsome eirl on one side
was in a peck of fidgets lest Jack Rlack
on the other side would not be able to
"make tte ripple." Rut Jack was a bravo
fellow, and was bent on getting married.
Ho accordingly mounted and set out for
the bouse of his intended. Arriving at
the creek, and finding it past fording, he
followed up its bank until be reached a
point above the confluence of the three
forks forming the main stream of Dry
Fork, hoping to cross there without swim
ming.
Hut his trip did not save him from
a ducking. On the contrar)', it increased I
his misfortune to the extent of two extra
duckings. Instead of one bo had threo
creeks to cross, all up swimming. He
plunged in and swam them, through, like
a man ; and, wo are happy to say, arrived
just in time to be married at the appoint
ed time.
The nations speaking English own three
fourths of all tbe coal in the worid--
The Mysterious lied.
A traveler while wending his way
through the eastern part of the State of
New York stopped over night at the vil
lage1 of S with some friends, who
were great wags. In one of the bed rooms
of the house there was a bedstead fastened
by pullies to the ceiling. Night time
came, and the traveler was shown to this
room. A girl led the way, candle in hand,
and after pointing out tho bed, departed
with the light, saying that she needed it
fvr the olher 1'jdgera. The traveler un-
.1 1 ! ..ill
"resscg, du gropea ms way to tne r.oa.
or to the spot where be had seen it, but
! was amazed to find that it had disappear,
i ed. From coi ner to corner lie groped,
! but the search was useless. Somewhat
! frightened, he commenced shouting, pro
; claiming that the house was bewitched.
' The landlord and two or three of his
guests, bearing lights, answered his era
j j batic summons, and just as lie was about
i tell the story of the missing bed, be looked,
I and lo ! there it stood, as it was before.
: 113 tried to inform them of his inability to
1 find the bedstead, but they only laughed
j at him, telling him he must be crazy.
: Lidding him good night, and advising him
to go to bed at once and sleep utT his d;li
: rium, they left him As soon as they had
j shut the door he made a dive for the bed,
;.aiid. landed on tho lluor. He then began
. to halkra and yell louder than ever, and
! darted for ihe door. In attempting to
; descend the stairs he fell headlong to tho
j notion?, making such a terrible noise that
! ali tho icmates rushed to him to learn the
I causa of the disaster. Again he told his
I story, but it was received with ridicule.
! To satisfy him that he had been mistaken,
j one ef the guests proposed to erjter the
room with hirn and remain there uutil ho
ehou'.d fall askep. Tbj preposition was
gladly accepted, srd in about twenty mins
utes the traveler was tojnd asleep. The
wags then gently hoisted the bedstead al
raoet to the ceiling, and commcncid shouts
ing, "fire, murdir. etc." Thorouchlv
alarmed, lie sprang out of bed ; but tho
distance bt.ing fully six times what he had
calculatc-J, be imagined that he had fallen
over fifty feet. Fear scem-.cl to strengthen
his lungs, and he shouted like a trooper,
proclaiming that the bouse was haunted,
and that the imp of darkness bad attempt
ed to fiy ftway with him. The other
guests who had entered ti e room, coolly
pointed to the bedstead, saying that it
could not have moved ; but they wenj
unable to shake Ihe belief that his infernal
majesty had taken refuge in the mysteri
ous bed.
Romastic Advkntl'KE. Soma years
cf our wealthiest and most 'respected citi
ago, says the Chicago i ost, a son ot ona
zens one day very suddenly left his homo
and every comiort that wealth and the
meet indulgent and alfoctionate parents
could procure, and disappeared with a
traveling circus troupe. The young man
was then nearly twenty-one years of age
and seemed to be prompted to this strange
freak by a pure dislike of control and a
desire to see the world. Years passed
away, and no tidings were beard of the
wanderer, and the parents, now approach
ing old age, had begun to give up all hope
of ever seeing or hearing of hin again.
About a year ago, a citizen of Chicago,
being in Savannah, Ga., chanced to meet
the truant upon tho street, and accosted
him by name. The young man, however,
denied his identity, but the gentleman told
hitn that it was needlesa to try and deceive
j him, as he knew him too well, and finally
the wanderer acknowledged his name.
Ho soon blipped away, however, and wa
again lost sight of. The other day liai
ley's Circus Company pitched their tent
here, and among tho performers was the
long lost son, who presently sought Lis
father's house in company with hi wife,
a very worthy young lady who had bee-ii
connected with the establishment, and
whom be had married some lime ago.
They were welcomed and made at once at
home, nd the young man has settled
quietly and sensibly down after his wan
derings, and w ill cheer tho declining year
cf bis aged parents.
FiitTrr Gooin Many incidents of on
amusing character happened during th8
late war, w hich have never found their
way into print, but which are too good toT
be lost. Tiie following, we believe, Los
not heretofore met the public eye :
Va.-h Petty, a noted bushwhacker,
whilst foraging in Southwest Missouri
with his follower?, rode up to a farmhouse
whose owner was known to hnve ample
provisions for mxn and beast, but whosi
politics were best known to himself.
Petty and bis men being dressed in Federal
uniform, were mistaken by the farmer for
jaybawkera. He began to declare most"
positively that he was a "Union man ;
God never made a better." Petty said,
"We are hunting your eort ; we are rebtl
buahwackers." Whereupon the farmer
changed hi3 tactics and declared just ad
; positively that he was a "Southern man.
Look here, old man, said Petty, "you
don't know to which sidj wo belong, and
you must take one eide or the other, and
slick to it ; if you happen to take tho
wrong side we'll kill you." This staggered,
the old man considerably, but after think
ing a minute, he said; "Well, I said at
tho start I was a Union m in ; 1M stick to
it if it is u d d lie "
He was left lo enjoy Lis peculiar opin
"sn vri'.hcut furthar ieohrfta.tipn'