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OUR DARLING.
Here is a pretty little poem by a lady who
writes frpm her heart. There is where a woman
has the advantage i she possesses so much of
the .raw material. .
!Whitc arms clasping round my neck,
Blue eyes looking love in mine,
Little rosy, laughing lips,
Sunny brow was Madeline.
. Dancing to the bluebird’s note,
Tresses bound with rose and green,
' Never far more glad-and bright.
Sports in ellin-land, I ween.
Cupid nestles on her cheek,
' Dimples shut the blind god in,
■For tiic fairies, in her sleep,
Kissed her little, graceful chin.
■Epsy'lingers on my eyes,
lied lips pressing close to mine,
3lefry, little, laughing elf,
, you’re a darling, Madeline.
Rut the care shade gloometh down,
Darling, when I think of thee,
For the cold world darkest frowns ,
. On a spirit light and free.
Blossoms smile around thee how,
. Merry blue birds gaily, sing,
But theyo’s night for them and thee,
O, thou darling little thing.
Earth hath shades of light and gloom,
Be the gloaming glad on thee,
And the'darkness falling down.
Rest as how for aye on me,. '
Kneeling low I Breathe a prayer.
Grace bn earth to thee bo given.
And when life’s wild march is o’er,
May thy blue eyes ope in heaven.-
f ' Ellen Louisa Ciiandlee,
THE OLD, OLD STOB7.
Summer moon-bonms softly playing’, '
Light (ho.woods of Castle Keep; .
And there X see a maiden straying,
Where the darkest.shadows creep;
Slip is listening—meekly, purely, .
To the wooer at her side;
’Tis the “ old, old story,” surely,
-Running on like time and tide.
Maiden fair, oh 1 have a care;
Vows arc many—truth is rare.
lie is courtly, she is simple;.
Lordly,doublet speak his lot;
She is Wearing hood and whiniple—
liis the castle, hors the cot, -
Sweeter far. she deems his whisper
Than tho night bird’s dulcet thrill;
She is smiling—he beguiling—:
’Tis the “old, olcl story” still.
Maiden fair, oh ! have a cme ;
Vows lire many—truth is rare.
The autuirm sun is quickly going.
Btliind the woods of Castle Keep;
The air is still,' thenight wind blowing, .
. And there I see the maidep. weep.
Her checks rtrb white—her'brd'w is aching,
Th£ “.old, old sad and brief;
Of heart betrayed, and left, nigh breaking,
•In mute despair,and lonely grief,
Mafden fair, oh I have a care;
Vows are many, truth is rare.
3KWlan*snfl.
From the Washington Globe .
: THE ISLAND OP CUBA.
■ The-arguments lately made in various sec
tions of the Union in favor of the acquisition
of Cuba by individual or national force, and tbo
.denunciations, by Spanish journals brought by
the last'steamer, .of such supposed American
projects of forcible annexation, have suggested
to us that some account of that valuable island
may now prove of general-interest.
Chiba is the largest and most importantof the
West India Islands, and commands (ho entrance
to the Gulf of Mexico, whence it has been call
ed the’ key of the West Indies. It is about
seven hundred miles in length and seventy in
breadth, and contains, .with its dependencies,
32,807 square miles, being nearly equal in ex
tent to Great Britain. •
The.climate is delightful and very healthy,
for which .reason it is a favorite resort of inva
lids. Even on the fop of the Grande Antilla,
the chief range of mountains running through
the island from end to end, there bus scarcely
evjr been ice, and then only a few lines thick.
The seasons are not distinguished as summer
and winter, but as the wot and dry, though the
periods at which they begin and end are not
very well defined. The rainy season commonly
begins in May, but sometimes in April, and oc
casionally not till Juno.
■ The soil is very fertile, but, ns In many other
tropical countries, the people are-too sluggish
to cultivate it to liny groat extent. The chief
agricultural productions are sugar, coffee, to
bacco, manioc, and maize. The work on the
plantations is done almost exclusively by ne
groes, whose condition is far worse thah that of
the.slaves in the United States. The whipping
post is in constant use. As an instance of tiro
great fertility of the soil, Trumbull states that,
in the district of Sagua.la Grande, a caballcria
of land, which is nearly equal to thirty-three'
acres, has boon known to produce two hundred
and eighty thousand pounds of the fair-colored,
Muscovado sugar of that country, being nearly
equal to- four moderate sized hogsheads per.
acre.
Tho, population is made lip of Creoles and
negroes, the latter forming about one third.—
The Creoles, like their Spanish ancestors, are
intelligent, but indolent; the negroes are not
allowed to be either.
There are in the island several excellent cop
per, iron, and coal mines, which would be very
productive if well worked. Small quantities of
gold and silver have'also been found.. Since
the. introduction of boos, between sixty and
seventy years ago, honey and wax have been
Important articles of trade. Manufactures have
been much neglected.
Of domestic animals, the ox, the horse, and
the pig, are the most useful', and form ’a largo
part of the wealth of the country. The oxen
are so numerous that many of them have run
wild i and they are hunted for the sake of their
hides and fallow, which are sent to Spain.
Of domestic fowls, chickens are the most
numerous i though the goose, turkey, peacock,
and pigeon, are well known. The English game
cock is njuch prized for his lighting talents. It
will be remembered that Santa Annats chief
amusement, when In Cuba, was cock-fighting.
There are many flue turtles on the shores of
the island, from, which the beat tortoise shells
are obtained. Fresh dsh of various kinds
abound. Snakes and other reptiles are tew, but
noxious insects of all kinds are found in largo
numbers.
The island is divided into several jurisdic
tions, civil, judicial, ecclesiastical, nnd'military.
The civil jurisdiction consists of two provinces,
With, two distinct Governors, entirely independ
ent of each other j the supremo military chief
of the ivholo island, with the title of Captain
General, being the civil Governor of the one
province only, called San Cristoval do la Hava
na; while the other, Santiago do Cuba, has a
separate Governor, who, in affairs purely politi
cal or civil, is not in any ;yay subject to the
Captain General. Besides, the island is divid-
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ed into throe mililnry divisions, whoso chiefs
take their orders from the Captain General. —:
At.Matnnzas, Tiinidad do Cuba, Puerto Princi
pe, and Cienfuegos, there are also otlicers with
the title of Governor, named by the Captain
General, whoso cilice is of a judicial nature, ex
tending to disputed .points of every sort—civil,
criminal, and military. Subordinate to these
are bight.'lioutonancies. . . •
The Captain General- has appellate jnrisdic-;
tion in military -matters.', In the. cities.', and
towns there are also municipal bodies, called
aymilamientos .perpetubs, or perpetudl.„unidns,
and, in the rural districts, pieces-.p'edanebs, or
potty judges, who are named by the local, Gov
ernors. These exorcise both judicial and min
isterial functions. r
The Captain General presides at themeetings
of tlie Havana Union, consisting of twelve mem
bers. The chief secular tribunal of Havana is
that of the Captain General, who has in military
affairs an auditor of war, and in civil disputes a
general assessor, who.likewise exorcise the du
ties of the ciyil magistracy. • The tribunal ot the
ordinary alcaldes has also cognizance, in the'
first instance, of civil and military disputes.—
The Union has also a certain judicial jurisdic
tion. There is, besides, acommercial tribunal,
whose jurisdiction extends only to mercantile
affairs.
The judges tiro all paid by fees instead of sal
aries. The judges’ fees depend oh their rank,
and the number and length of their sittings;
they are, therefore, remarkably- sedentary in
(heir habits. Judicial proceedings, as on the
continent of Europe, arc conducted wholly in
writing, viva voce pleading and trial by jury be
ing alike unknown. The lawyers are paid ac
cording to the number of pages they write; long
,pleas are, therefore, b3 r ho means uncommon..
The suitor in a Cuban court cannot a step
without paying a fee to a judge, lawyer, clerk/
interpreter, or crier. ■-
Some attention has been paid to education by
the Government, but very little Ims, been accom
plished; In 1840, there were 99,699 free chU-
dren in the island, between the ages-of five and
ten, of .whom only one tenth were sent to school.
There is no such thing as liberty of the press
in Cuba. Eveiything is subjected to the strict
est censorship.’ In 1837 eight newspapers wel‘c
published in Cuba, o/ which four were daily.—
During the constitutional crisis in Spain, when
the censorship'was, for a. time, suspended, a
number of papers with the most singular names,
which were some index to the wishes njid opin
ions of the people, were started at Havana; such
as, The Constitutional Tailor, The Itoars of an,
African Dion, Brilliant Strokes of Tyranny, The
Mosquito, The Fly, The Wasp, &c. .
Authorities differ as to the population of C’
ba. According to the census' of 1827, which
was, we believe, the last taken, the population
was 730,602. 01 these, the whites numbered
811,051; the free negroes, 57,614 j and the free
people of color, not negroes. 48,980. The num
ber of slaves was 286,942; of whom 183,290 were
males, and .103,652, females. Since 1827, tin)
population has, of course, greatly increased, as
is shown by the amount of imports since then,
and tho constantly increasing production o( the
island- It now amounts, probabh', to about
1,500,000. , 2
Tho trade of Cuba is excellent. Its situation.
the fertility of its soil, and the short distance—
not nioro than-thirty miles—from any point in
the interior to the sea-shore, all tend to give it
an^7ir > ’tfib'mtthy
injurious restraints.now imposed upon its trade
Were removed, it would soon become one of the
richest spots on earth.
. The island is very heavily taxed by the mo-
ther country.. The greater portion of (ho reve
nues is derived from duties on imports. A
groat difference is made between goods from
other countries. The duty on flonr, especially
on that from the United States, is very heavy.
If from Spain, and in Spanish vessels,' the duty
is two dollars per barrel; but if the same be in
foreign vessels, the duly is six dollars per bar
rel. it the (lour be foreign, but under the Span
ish flag, the duty is eight dollars and a half per
barrel; but if it be foreign, and under a foreign
flag, the duty is nine dollars and a half per bar
rel, '
■The United States flour is, however, so ft
superior to the Spanish, that, independently o:
the difference in price caused by the discrimi-
nating duties laid, it always, commands a ranch
higher price, selling, very often, for three dol
lars more per barrel. The only effect, of this
.high.tariff on American flonr has been to in
crease smuggling; for it is more used through
out tho island than it was years ago, and yet
leas passes through the" custom-houses.
Tho trade of tho United States with Cuba has
always been very large. The relative propor
tion pf goods imported and exported under the.
flags of Spain, England, and the United States,
has been stated as follows: Spain, forty-three
and ono-halfpor cent.; England, seven and one
half per cent.; (ho United States twenty-six per
cent. ■
Within tho last ton years, the interior of the
country has been much improved, and the means
of communican increased by railroads,-&c. The
first railroad. ever laid in tho island;, running
from Havana to the most important of tho sugar
districts, was constructed by Alfred Cruger, of
the United States.
Such, in brief, is Cuba. What she shall.be
in future, we,leave to bo determined.by tho po
liticians.
THE. TWO BROTHERS.
The following beautiful Arabian legend we
copy from the "Voice of Jacob.”
The site occupied by the Temple of Solomon,
was formerly a cultivated field, possessed in
common by two brothers. One of them was
married and. had several children; the other
was unmarried. . They lived together, however,
in the greatest harmony possible, cultivating
the property they had inherited from their fa
ther.
The harvest season had arrived. The two
brothers bound up their sheaves, made two
equal stacks of them, and left them on the field.
Curing the night, the unmarried brother was
struck with an excellent thought. My broth
er, said he to_ himself, has a wife and children
o support: is it just that my portion of the
harvest should be ag large as his ? Upon this,
he arose and took from his stack several sheaves
winch he added to those of his brother; and
this he did with as much secrecy as if ho hud
been committing an evil action, in order that
Ins offering might not be rejected.
On the sartio night, the other brpther awoke
and said to his wife, “My brother lives alone
without a companion; he has none to assist
him in his labor, nor reward him for his toils,
while God has bestowed on me a wife and chil
dren ; is it right that wo should take from our
common field as many sheaves as he, since we
have already more than he has—domestic hap
piness? If you consent, we shall, by adding
secretly a number of sheaves to his stack, by
way of, compensation and without his knowl
edge, see his portion of the harvest. This ob
ject was approved and immediately put in exe
cution. -
In the morning, each of the brothers went
into the field, and was much surprised aXsce
ing the stacks still equal. During several/kuc
cessivc ■ nights -the same contrivance w*as re
peated on each side ; cadi kept adding to his
brothers store; the stacks always remained
the same. But one night both having stood
sentinel to uiv.ino the miracle, they met; each
bearing the sheaves mutually designed for each
other. It was thus, that all was elucidated, and
they rushed into each, other’s arms, each grate-.
ful to Heaven for having so good a brother.
Now', says the legend, the' place where so
good an idea had simultaneously occurred to
the two brothers, and with so much pertinaci
ty, must have been aoceptibio. to Cod, Men
blessed it, and Israel chose it, there to erect
the house of the Lord!— Lamartine.
TIIE CEDARS OF LEBMOS.
• A correspondent of the Boston Traveller,
writing from Beirut, Syria, under date of March
6th, 1857,says: . '
Dismounting, I surrendered rhy horse to the
guide, while I made my way as best I could
down to the Cedars, a descent of more than
3,000 feet. For a long time no cedars appear
ed ; and when at last they were seen in the dis
tance and fur below me, I confess to a feeling
of disappointment; for they appeared like-a
sorry clump which §rew in my boyhood in my
sainted, father's cow-pasture. At last we ap
proached them; wo entered among them; we
walked under them ; we Ipokcd up into them ;
and we sat down under their amazing branches
and midnight shade: and then, and not till
then, I at last began to feel the'awfulness and
sanctity of their presence; for my two Arabs
cared not a straw for- them, and only wondered
at the folly of such pains-taking to see them.
I approached-some of the most venerable fohns:
I attempted lo embrace them, when half a doz
en men could barely throw their united arms
arourid thern., I wished to address them, njid
thinking they 'understood Arabic ns well or
better than American , ,1 cried out: *• Kaiif
hallackV ’ How are you, old fellows ?. What
nows from before tlie flood ? But they deigned
to make no reply, only seeming to frown upon
they would-have deemed irreverent and
impcriinent some thousands of years ago..
The cedars stand .upon three or four rocky
hillocks or knolls which join each other, and
cover a space ,about thirty rods in diameter,
forming- a thick forest without underbrush,
fern, or flowers, and by the' smoothness of the
soil and the compactness of the branches, inn-;
king a cool-and agreeable promenade. The
'number of the trees has been vafiodsty estima
ted., on account of the different modes of reek-,
onirig, the oldest trees all having several trunks,
which some travellers - have reckoned individu
ally, while others have taken the whole as one.
Burkhnrdt, who is regarded as good authority,
says he counted 11 of the oldest and best look
ing;.2s which were very large » about 50 of
middling size,.and more than 300 smaller and
younger ones. Bey, Mr. Calhoun, Principal of.
| Abeih Seminary, who had "repeatedly .visited
the Cedars apd; studied them, reckons only
seven or eight as among the forest'.—
But cyeh the descendants of the second and
third generation, or later, , are. .generally of
largo ; dimensions and wear a venerable aspect.
As to size, Maundrcll, the celebrated traveller,,
measured the trunk of. one, whose girth-he
found to be 12 yards and 6 inches, or 3G£ feet-
Mr. Calhoun made one 40 feet.! The.branches
shoot out not above ten or twelve feet from the
ground, and almost, at fight angles, the low
er ones bending so low that ; I easily broke off
-iho-ewXtranwtiesJ---:i®fchcighU6&th^truihk^can r
not exceed 40 feet, if oven 30, while the spread
of the branches Is often 37 yards, or about 110
feet, apd so thickly mtenvined, and rising story
above story, that the; Sun cah hardly penetrate
them
.The youngest trees are some centuries old,
while the patriarch seven have usually been re
garded as contemporary with Solomon and his
temple. Rev. Mr. Calhoun, a gentleman of
science as well ns an excellent missionary, cal
culated from the diameter of one of the trees
and the layers of a block which had been cut
out of it, that according to the unerring chro
nology of its growth, it must bo fully three
thousand years old, if not indeed older, as he
was inclined to suspect. So slow is the growth,
that where, on a certain tree, a traveller, about
two hundred years ago, cut away a piece to
inscribe his name, the growth is almost imper
ceptible. an any rate riot thicher than the thick-
ness of the bark.. Some of (he trees arc hollow
high up the trunk into one of which f succeed
ed in throwing a stone which may confound
the learned, as though a part of the natural
growth, or,lead to some neiy geological theory
of the age of the world, when the tree shall fall
and be cut tip, some three thousand years
hence. -Some arc gnarled and twisted into
strange shapes by the storms of twenty or
thirty centuries, while others have been shiver
ed by the lightning. The hoary patriarch and
father of all, above twelve feet in diameter,
stands nearly in .the centre of the little forest,
on a gentle eminence, spreading abroad his
ponderous and wide spread arms, each one a
tree iii itself, above the heads of all generations
which have growri up under them, as if in the
instinct of love and protection of his children.
Tho King of Delhi’s Mode of Execution.
The following lias been communicated to the
Poona Observer :. It appears from a journal of
European traveller that a now and fourth mode
of execution had been adopted by the King 0f
Delhi. Tho instrument and process are thus
described .- A box, each side of which is 16 feet
square, is constructed of timber eighteen inches
thick, dove-tailed together, and braced with
iron rods. This outside of the bottom of the
box is covered with a plate of heated iron, one
inch in thickness. The interior is tilled with
perfect cubes of granite, weighing in the aggre
gate several thousand tons. A‘ machine is
erected after the manner of an ordinary pilodri
vor, but of conrsp on an enormous scale, and of
tremendous strength. The mass is raised by
powerful machinery cast in Birmingham for the
oxpresAjmrposo, though it is to bo pres'umod
that the machinist by whom it was furnished
had no idea of the horrid purpose for which it
was intended. The human victim is placed up
on a block of granite, of a corresponding surf
ace, buried in the earth immediately beneath
o enormous mass, and covered with a plate
At a signal given by the vicramadack
of iron,
the executioner touches a spring, the mass
falls, and the victim, crushed at once, is sud
denly annihilated, and spread out like a sheet
of pasteboard; the Inigo weight being again
raised, the flattened body is withdrawn and dried
in the sun, When completely prepared it is
hung over the wall of a public building, there
to servo as a warning to the multitude.
Eclipses. —There will bo four eclipses du
ring the year 1858, two of the sun and two of
the moon :
- —A partial eclipse of the moon, February
2 1 . only partly visible in the United States.—
The moon will rise partly eclipsed, which will
take place generally after the time of the great
est phase. , ,
r i -u—An annular eplipse of the sun, March 15.
The sun will be centrally eclipsed on the meri
dian in long. 8.45 west of Greenwich. lat. 45.54
north. Iri some parts of the United States the
sun will be partially eclipsed.
3d—A partial eclipse of the moon, Angusl 24.
At some place the first contact with the penum
bria will not be visible; but to most places in,
the United States the whole eclipse will bo vis
ible.
4th—A total eclipse of the sun, September 7.
■This eclipse will be total on the meridian. The
sun will be centrally eclipsed only in the south
ern hemisphere.
■ “OUli OO UN TUT—MAT IT ALWAYS BE IiIGUT—BtJT EIGHT'OK WRONG, OUR COUNTRY.”
CARLISLE,-PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 28,1858.
IT ONLY SEEMS THE OTIIM DAY,
Though swiftly Time,, with ftSjpwirga,
Has borrtc us from old scenc!&j|,knew,
Let memory 6ft the picture bfinjp.'^
In glowing colors back toviejt?.; ,
Thus early friends remcmberVhen,
They first as schoolboys met ip play,
"And yet, though tears have passed since then
It only seems “ the other day.’’
The ,form of her we loved of yore, :
To whom we pledged affections vow,
Will glide before our eyes once wore,
Though but in memory living^Uow;
Of.that dark hair one trcssaloncr-^
A treasured gifti-Lus spared dc§ay ;
Yet words m that Ojijniliar toijp'd'
Seem onl}' breathed “the othcVday,
.’.. ? 1 < .
Those friends appear no more Hits same
That shared our mirth, and drijd our tears,
Or taught us childhood’s favoritf game—
The dear old friends of early j^ars;
But when we aslc, if they forgot.'Y
Those memories'of the past, they say—
“ Though time lias wrought some changes, yet
It only seems ‘the other day.’”
The London Times publishes t)jk following
letter, from Ahmedabad, dated October 20th,
which gives a graphic account of, alpublic cxc
ouiion in India :
I have just returned from the calfn eye-wit
riessing of a sight of which Sot many months
ago it would have sickened-me evenib hear. . I
shall never see such another, nor you ever sec
such an one at all: and; ns all soenctji-havo their
profit, I will fix it while' theJetaiigSre fresh!
You know, generally, w’hat I amJjS'rig 'ode
soribe. It is (he result of more thaji.a week’s
continuous court martial, in which. cighieen;
men were sentenced to death. Tljiijr! suftcrcd
this morning.. ?•£;.
Erode down at five; and day dawned as I
cantered along, ’ I know nothing su' ( 6ad as that
slow dawning on of the-sunrise'.which is to bo
the signal of an execuiion. 1 TherejWcro many
groupes of natives moving parade
ground, which is four-miles from the city, and
every now and then, a carriage with .the lamp
■stin,lit. '
When I reached the ground, the bugles wore
only sounding, and there was little, to-be seen
but the galjows with ten nooses,'ancl the miser
able prisoners sealed in .a double rnifin front of
it. ‘ I rode slowly, past' them, andi could see no
signs of emotion, except that one dritwo .were
very pale. /' . ' - .
Ba The regiment in which the munijy occurred
was the first to take up its ground,-Opposite the
gallows. The other native regimeijtj drew up
at right angles to it, and the English regiments,
, behind the'gallbws,Completed the third side of
a square. Between, them were'fourjguns. :At
the fourth side were drawn up five gqns, point
ing outward-across the flat level! Td these the
sentenced men were to bo bound. The urea of
the square w-as now ,cavc-ml with mOiliiU:d offi
pers,.a few civilians, tho^Gehefai-ai®his stall..
f Ttie«Tiole''cfglK&h ;, [msm^^^
1 before the native regiments;-andl offence
and sentence read in tv clear.Voice;'which reach
ed all,spectators--' -This' over. the hist terrible'
preparations were commenced. - _
The ten mounted ttr theipplaocs jjhthedrop,
and stood there while and shadowy'against die
pale sky, but firm and quiet, their'faces hidden
in white caps. A firing party- of .twenty mov
ed up to a spot within twenty yards of the
place where I stood, facing outwards, as the
guns did, bn tbehind them, further back into the
square. The three men who were to be shot
were placed in front, and fearfully- near them,
not more than twelve paces from the muzzles
of the muskets. They knelt down', their eyes
were bandaged, and their- hands ;tied. Mean, 1
while the doomed five had been marched to the
fatal guns. They were hound by the arms to
the wheels, but their legs were frey and die end'
man—the only one whom I could; entirely sec
from my place on the flank—leaned his back
against the muzzle, as loungers lean against a
mantel-piece.
I fixed my, eyes intently on that man, not
fifty yards away, and in a moment the signal
was given. There was a roar, and Ihe whiz?
zing of a bullet, far away from the firing par
ty ; a bank of white smoke and a jet and show?
er of black fragments, sharp 'and clear,
which leaped and bounded into-the air; this
and a fearful sound from the spectators, as if
die reality so far exceeded all previous fancy
that it was intolerable; then a dead silence.
I walked straight to the scattered and Smok
ing floor before the guns. I came first to an
arm, torn oft above the elbow, the'fist clinched,
the bone projecting several inches, bare. Then
the ground sown with red grisly fragments,
then a black haired head and the other arm
still held together. This was the man I had
watched; close by laid the lower"half of the
body of the next : torn quite in two. and long
coils of entrails twined on the ground. Then a
long cloth in which one had been dressed rolled
open like a floorcloth on fire. ’■ One than lay in
a coinpleto and shattered heap, all but the
arms; the legs were straddled wide apart, and
the smashed body on the middle of them : the
spine exposed ; the head lay close by, too. The
last body was that of a native’ officer, who was
the arch-fiend of the mutiny ; he was a short
man, with a cruel face. His head had been cut
clean off, but the muscles of the heck had con
tracted round the throat like a frill. His face
was half upturned and calm, the eyes shut. I
saw no expression of pain on any of them.—
What had been- his body lay on its face, the
legs ns usual not shattered, but all the flesh
torn like cloth from a sharp angle in the hollow
of the back, oft'and off, till it merged in one
mangled heap.
I turned next to 1 the thrto who had been,
shot. One had been.struck in the heart, and
only bowed slowly over on his face. The oth
ers had been pistoled afterwards through the
head. All, I think, however, had been badly
hit, as all wore prostrate when I ran forward to
the guns, f
And only now—this was so much more ter
rible—did I look up to the ten white figures
slowly swinging and revolving over this scene
of blood.. I hope they died quickly, but the
ropes wore very short.
The troops immediately, marched off, and 1
rode home at speed, and when I dismounted the
dogs came and licked my feet."
Wanderer from your childhbOc|'B home, al
most lost in the meshes of a busy world, do you
ever recall the words that fell from your listen
ing- ear, ns you bade adieu to the loved ones who
lingered around you at the parting “return
soon?” Do you feel that the yearning spirit
of tljcso syllables is nightly embodied in a
prayer for you ? And will you return ? The
boy that issued from the old farm gate a few
years ago, untried, full of hope, sanguine ,for
the future, will never return. That which ho
has become, will go back perhaps for a season.
Blit he carries with him the mark of a contact
with “life" in which ho either defeats or. is de
feated. The hopes ho entertained then urb eith
er subdued, by experience, or driven away for-
EXECUTIONS IN INDIA*
BBTDRJI SOON.
littett.
ever; the reward he sought for his high' enter
prise, may have eluded his grasp ; the sanguine
temperament have grown more calculating.—
These changes ai-e perceived by-those, who wel
come, him,'yet they arc regarded as the devcl
opement of time, rather than an alteration of
their Ipved one. “Return soon !” ’tis whisper
ed into the ear of the lover, as he presses in sad
ness the lips that utters it. It is the wish pre
dominating in the heart of those who remain,
coined into, words. . .
[From Morris and Willis’s Home Journal .]
JOHN ANDERSON/MY JO,
This exquisite ballad, constructed by Robert
Bu
tionahjd'lyflfc, has always left something to be
wished for and regretted : it is not complete.—
But who would venture to add to a song of
Burns ? As.Butnß left it, it ruus'thus: ’
John Anderson, my jo, John,"
When we were first acqiient,
. Your locks were like the raven,
Your bonnie brow was brent; .
But your brow is bald, John,
.Your locks are like the Snow;
Blit blessings on your frosty pow,
John Anderson, my jo.
John Anderson, my jo, John,
Wo clainb the bill thcgilher ;
And mbny a canty day, John,
We’ve had wi’ ane anither;
Now we maun totter dow'n, John,
But hand in hand we’ll go,
And sleep thcgilher at cho foot,
John Anderson, my jo.
Fine as this is. it docs np.t ( qnitc satisfy a con
tcmplativp mind ; when one has gone so far, he
looks and longs for something more—something
beyond the-fool of the hill. Many a reader of
Burns must have felt this ; and it is quite prob
able that many have attempted.to supply the
deficiency ; bat we know of only one success in
so hazardous an experiment. This is the add
ed verse:
John Anderson, my jo, John,
WHetl we have slept thegithor.
The sleep that a’ maun sleep, John;
We’ll wake wi’. one anither
Arid,in that better warld, John,
Nae sorrow shall we know ;
Non fear, we e’er shall part again,
John Anderson, my jo. ■
Simple, touching,'true—nothing wanting, and
nothing to spare; precisely harmonizing with
the original, stanzas, and improving them by
the fact of completing them. This poetical
achievement is attributed to Mr, Charles Gould,
a gentleman Of our town, jvhoso life’has been
chiefly devoted to the successful combination of
fgures-r-bal not figures.of rhetoric. Thevcrse
was written some years ago, but it has not
hitherto found its way into ,print; yet it' well
deserves to be incorporated'with the original
song ih ariy future edition Of Burn.’s Poems, and.
A Aiding. PJaca of Robespierre,
A curious discovery has - lately been '- made,
while repairing the house formerly occupied by
the Jacobin Club during the groat revolution,and
now known as, tho-Hotel de Lohdress, in the
Rue St. Hyacinthe, Si. Ilonoro. The Club
which guided the destinies of the revolution du
ring some few years have often boasted of al’ .v
-ihg the ambition ot Robespierre and other lead
ers to progress so far* and no -farther, and the
members by vote had passed a law which enti
tled the majority to exclude from any particular
sconce any-particular member whose interests
might lead him to sway the opinions ol the club.
Robespierre, whose ambition had rendered him
an object of suspicion,, had olten' been voted
out of the assembly ; ■ and it has been a matter
of surprise. to the historian of the lime, that lie
could so long have maintained his influence in
- s pi to of the violence of the opposition thus per
mitted, The soq&t is now revealed: A small
room—a hiding place in the thickness of the
j wall-alias just been- discovered, opening by a
trap-doorinto the very hall whore the .delibera
tions wore being carried on,, and whence die
could listen to the.measures fo be taken against
him, and thus forearmed, hare power to defeat
them. It is evident that this hiding place must
have been occupied by Robespierre; and when
first entered by the workmen, the traces of his
presence wore stil] visible in the journal which
lay upon the (able, and the writing paper, from.
which had been, torn a sniall, portion, as if for
the purposePof making a memorandum. The
only book which was found in the place was a
volume of Florain, open at the 2nd chapter of
Claudine. It was covered with snuff, which
had evidently been shaken from the reader’s
shirt-frill, and bore testimony of the truth of
history which records the simplicity of the lit
erary tastes of Robespierre. Ilia presence
soonicd still to, hang about that small space, ns
though ho had Ipiitted’it but a moment before;
and.singiilar enough, the marks of- his feet, as
though ho had recently trodden through the
mud, were .still visible'on the tiles with whicl
the flooring is composed.
Occupation.
What a glorious thing it is for the human
mind .' Those who work hard seldom yield
themselves entirely np to fancied or real sorrow.
When grief sits down, folds its hands, and
mournfully fepds upon its own tears,, weaving
dim shadows that a little exertion might sweep
away into it funeral ball, the strong spirit is
shorn of its might, and sorrows become our
master. When troubles flow upon you dark
and heavy, toil not with the waves, wrestle not
with the torrent, rather seek, by occupation to
divert the dark waters that threaten to over
whelm you into a thousand channels which the
duties of lifealways present. Before you dream
of it those waters will fertilize the present, and
giyo birth to fresh flowers that may brighten
the future—flowers that will become pure and
holy in the sunshine which penetrates to the
path of duty, in spite of every obstacle. Grief
after alhis but a selfish feeling, and most self
ish in the man who yields himself to the inditl
gence of any passion which brings ho joy to his
fellow man.
Myrrh,
This substance is an agreeable perfume and
is much valued by eastern nations for its anti
septic qualities as well as for its delightful odor.
It was and is largely used as a component part
of incense, and also in the embalming- of the
dead. In the tombs of Egypt, whore ’the mam
mies of the great have lain in preservation for
ages past, the odor of myrrh is very strong, and
we have every reason to believe that it was one
of the chief ingredients in the preparation of
mummies. It is a gum resin, and occurs in
teats of various sizes. They are reddish brown,
semi-transparont, brittle, of a shining fracture,
appear as if greasy under the pestle, have a very
acrid and bitter taste; and a strong smell. Myrrh
flows from tiio incision of a treo-not well-known,
which grows in Arabia andAbyssiniu, supposed
to be a kind of a)nyria or mimosa. It consists
of rosin and gum in the proportions of 30 of the
former to 06 of the latter. Wo nse it only us o
modlcino. ’ I
IRISH DROLLERY.
. .An amusing story of Dainca Barrington. Re
corder of Bristol, is related by one of the Bri
tiah press. Having to appear for the plaintiff
in a case at a winter assize at he “ let
into” the defendant in no measured terms.—
The individual, inveighed against, not being
present, only heard of the invectives. After
Barrington, however, had got back to poublin,
the Tipperary mani loaf no .'time in paying his
compliments id the counsel. He rode all day
and night, and. covered with sleet, hrrived. be
fore Barrington’s residence, in Hafcourt street,
Dublin. Throwing the bridle of Ids smoking
horse over the railing of the arca. he annoupced
his arrival by. a thundering knock at the door,
which nearly shook the sirecti..,,Barrington’s
valet answered the summon^.nnd,>opem'ng the
street door, beheld the
coaled Tipperary fire-eater, with-it
under his ami, and the sleet sticking to Ida
bushy whiskers-,..... .. .
"- r master up.” demanded thFyisi tori'
in a voice that gave some intimation of the ob
ject of his journey. .
1* No,” answered the man. .
Then give him my compliments, and say.
Jlr. Foley (he’ll know the name), will be glad to
scohiin.”
The valet went up stairs and ibid his mas.
ter, who was in bed, the purport, of his.visit
11 Then don’t let Jlr. Foley in for your life.
said Barrington, “for it is not a hare and,a
brace of ducks he has come to present mo
With.”
The man was leaving the bedroom, when a
rough wet coat pushed by. him, while a thick
voice said, "by your leave.” at the same mo
ment Mr. Foley entered the bedroom. :
“ You, know my business, sir.” said he to
Barrington ; “ I have made a journey to leach
yon manners, and it is not my purpose to re
turn until I have broken every bone in j’oiir
body," and at the same time he cut a-figuro of
eight with his shillelah, before the sheval glass.
. ‘‘ You do not njean to say you would murder
mein bed,” exclaimed Dailies, who had asmuoh
honor ns cool courage. •
“ No,” replied the other, “but get up ns soon
ns you can.”
“ Yes,” replied Dnines, ‘“that you might fell
me the moment I put my body out of the blank
ets." .
“No,” replied the other, “ I pledge you my
word not to touch you till you" are out of .bed,
“You won’t?”;
“I won’t.”
“ Upon your honor ?•”
“ On my honor.”
“ That is enough,” said Daines, turning over
and making himself very comfortable, and
seeming as though lie- meant to fall asleep, “ I
have the honor.of an Irish gentleman, and may
rest as safe as though; I were under, the castle
guard.” ;
The Tipperary salamander looked marvelous
ly astonished at the pretended sleeper;; but soon
Dailies began to snore.
“ Halloa 1” said Mr. Foley, “aren't you .go
ing to get'lip ?”
“ No,” said Daincs,
i,lrish gentleman' that he will not strike me in
"bed.-and .X atesure j-hrn not! going'to get up 16
have my bones- broken; I will never, get up
(again. In the meantime, Mr. Foley, if you
( should want your breakfast’, ring the bell ; the
best in the house is at j - our service. The
morning,paper will be..here presently, but be
sure to air it before reading, for there is nothing
from.which a man so quick catches a cold, as
reading a damp journal,” and Daines once
more atieelcd to go asleep.
The Tipperary man had fim in him as well
as ferocity, he could not resist the cunning of 1
counsel, so, laughing aloud, he exclaimed,: ■ ■ i
“ Get up, Mr. Barrington, for in bed or out
of bod, I have hot the heart to hurt so droll a
heart.”
The result was that in less than an hour af
:er\yar(j, Caines and his intended murderer wer
silting down lo a warm breakfast, the latter
only'intent upon assaulting a dish of smoking
chops 1 , * ■
• [From /he N. O. .Picayune of December. 28tfi]
Moral Effects of tiie Play of “Camille- I —A
■-■•■■■■■ Dreadful Murder.
Yesterday a most vile murder was committed
in a house of-ill-fuine,' on Basin street (late St.
John) between Perdido and Gravicr streets.
The victim is a young man named Lewis Byrant,
from Mobile, where, it is said, he is respectably,
connected. When ho came to this city he ob
tained employment ns a clerk in an extensive
tanc) 7 and dry goods store, but becoming ac
quainted with a woman of bad repute, named
Emma Pickett, his intimacy lapsed into infatu
ation, and flttelcclirig his business, ho lost his
,place as a /lerk at once with his position in so
ciety. Finally, after seeing the play of ‘'Cam
ille” several times performed, lie concluded that
he could trust'his happiness to the safe koep
ot Emma, and so married her.
Since that time Emma has figured as the pro
prietress of a house ol ill-fame and Byinnt as
‘‘her man.” On Sunday morning the house
was visited by a rowdy crew, consisting of
Charles Coulter, William Reno, and orio Skilly
ings. They.wore somewhat intoxicated, amf
behaved rudely, especially Coulter, who quar
relied with one of the women, and amused him-.
self by frightening the others by pointing Ms
revolver at the.. . They, of course, screamed
and ran, and Emma entered for the purpose of
restoring quiet, threatening.to go for the police
unless her visitors conducted themselves like
gentlemen. This induced Coulter to become
extremely abusive, calling Emma foul names,
and inviting her to bring out her bully, (mean
ing Byrant,) and 'he would see some sport.
In the meantime Byrant, who was in an ad
joining room, opened the door to sec what was
the matter, when at once Coulter turned the
current of abuse on him, calling him all the
blackest names in the vocabulary ol blackguard
ism. Byrant told him to go away; that he did
not Want to have anything to do.with him. and
.as be did no, dbulfer advanced on him and
struck him in Ins face. One of the 'women
then tried to pull the infuriated rutiian away,
but ho pushed her, aside with a bloody threat,
and-atated with an oath that he intended to kill
the son a b . He then dyew his revolve]
and tired, the bullet entering the left side of
Byrant’s head just nbovothe oar. The wounded
man reeled and fell, closing the door with an
involuntary movement, and as it closed the
murderer discharged another shot, which passed
through a panel and went harmless on. Coulter
and his friends then escaped, but the noise of
the firing had attracted the attention of the po
lice, who succeeded.in arresting Coulter and
Deno. Deno is the than who was indicted ns
one of the parties concerned in of
the Greek sailor, Gerbnomio Dimitf*y, and who
(with Forbes, his associate.) was sometimosinco
admitted to ball. As he was running, .ho throw
away a sot of metal knuckles', which have since
passed into the hands of Corporal Hyatt.
After the escape of the trio. Byrant was ex
amined and found to bo fatally wounded. Ho
was taken to tlio Circus street Infirmary, with
brain and blood coming commingled from his
wound. At the Infirmary lie lingered till 9 o'-
clock last night, when death put rt period lb
his career on earth.
(£3?" Some genius has conceived the hri'linnt
idea to-press all the lawyers into military ser
vice. in case of war—because their 'charges arc
so .great that rio bud could stand them.
AT 52,00 PER ANNUAL
NO. 33.
“T have the honor of an
Jit7BDEnot;s Assault —-On Sunday evening.
R. Crossan. a resident' of Pittsburg, Pa:, went
to the residence of Henrietta Griffjih, bis,for/-
ntcr wife, from wliom lie had been divorced fop
more limn a year, and accused her of improp
er conduct. whereupon she stabbed him in the
side, inlliciihg a dangerous (round. Grossman
was taken to the hospital,'but ho hope of his
recovery is entertained. The woman was ar
rested, and Andrew W:ebb', in' whose libuseshe
resided, was held o hail.
RC7" The tallies of morality show' that the
lives of edi nrs. Compnied with other men. Sro
comparatively short. They wear out before
OCT" Widow Stodard died in Pulton' Co., tt,
Y., on Christmas day. Site was horn hi con-
nection'.in the year 1770 on Christmas day—
was married mi Christinas day, and died on
Christmas day. age 91 years. ■ '
OCT" It is staled iil the New'Orleans Orescent
I bai ibe sugar ci op of Louisiana for 1857 will
bo from 225.1100 >o 250 000 hhds., against
about 75,000 blids.' in 1850 ' '• *■
DCT’Tbe worst featureTii ti man’s face is his
liuse—when stuck in other pcople’s htialness'
Remember that—you whit are tu the habit of
bobbing lound. - .
IE?” There has been some (all dying at Gin
eiii.itli. Tiie giraffe beirnigingto the menagerie
'of Drle«b.iek & C" .and Said'to lie the only an
imal of the kind in America, died recently. It
was valued ut $5090.
OC/*’Wlint are wages heic ?" asked a labor
ei* ol n bbv. - “I don’t know, sir.” *What
does your father ge* oh Sauttdny night?"-
‘ Get.’’ said the boy, **why hegets.as light as
a brick.” , .
IET* “Yon need's little sun and air.” said a
physician to a maiden patient. "Ifl do," was
the cute reply, ••I'll wait till I get married "
Bolas looked thoughtful, and thought it was
best.
\CP The tradesman who docs not advertise
liberally lias been very appropriately compared
to a man who has a lan'ern, but is too stingy
io buy a candle.
jjy A student in a neighboring college, be
ing recently rather “short,"'sold his-books,
and wrote to his father that ho was subsisting
on literature! •
(£7* ’A jockey flic Maze races. England,
asked-a Yankee if thee had any swift horses in
' Swift ?" said Jonathan, ‘T’vcseen
a horse in Baltimore heat his own shadow a
(quaver of a mile the first heat.” ■
A Smart Minister—A minister is on, trial
at Seneca l*'alls New York and line of the chqr
ges is. he lir d a hvery horse and wagon, Was
gone iwo days swapped horses six times, and
came back to the stable with the same horAeho
took out. having rnatlc one hundred dollars by
the opera don. The best of the joke is that it tr
perfectly true,”
A Horribrc i/fair ih Madison County, S. ti
TVe mentioned briefly, the murder at Poof*
vilie, Madison cp., N. Y., of'Jared Comstock
and Clarissa,' his wife., by their own son. ffm.
Comstock. The parricide was arrested. Hp
is a man about. 37 years of age.about 5 feet . 7
inches in height. His clothingiwas besmeared
with blood when, he was found. .He has al;
ways rcsided-wilh his parents in Haniilton and
is unmarried. He had been drinking fop some
time, and is evidently laboring, undyr mania
. potu. He conversed calmly in relation to, tho
awful deed, manifesting no concern for
speaking of the manner in which he deprived
his parents of life as if he had been butchering
hogs.
Ho. says that for four or five days, something
seemed to,tell him he must have a nnmberof
hearts.. This was repeated to him many times.
He seemed to live in Sh'erburhe, nnda wire came
oyer the hill connecting with the room telling
him he must have h number of hearts. Some
one who lived in Sherburne seemed to telegraph
for. them three or four days ago. ...
I attempted to kill my father to get his heart.
Yesterday ! went and. placed an axe in the -
room, intending if! could find nay brother and
his wife sitting down, to kill them both at once.
It seemed as if I must have both their hearts.
About dark I went over to my father’s and
found him and my mother sittingr. she woa
sewing. I immediately struck her with a skil
let and broke it. I then struck my father over
the head three or four times with the remains
of the skillet and attempted ,tb..g£t_, the axe.'—
After knocking cny fa;her down. I got the axe
and out out their hearts and put them in flip
stove and burned them, The voice seemed, tb*
tell me that the hearts must be burned.
, After the,deed I-washed my hands, and after
remaining in the house a short time,’ left and
went down to A. Goslings’; when I arrived I
%>wjjtony brother and his wife there visiting,
JJfad some fresh meat rip’ tb;fa
tefmaining there a short time,,t
wefit'down to the house of H. dustings ; told:
I’them to get. me a qiiarj of cider and a bottle ;
and after obtaining it (eft fflr.my, father's honip
without mentioning anything concerning the
deed.
On arriving. I lay the lounge*,
near my father and mother for some
time—until near morning. Qn aVya'kerring, .X
lehlhg house and met several persons empingf
towards it. Ido not recollect who I in
formed of .the deed previous .to this. As they
approached me some one said “there is. Bill.”
This was about eight rods west of my father's.
They asked me what,l had been doing. 1 told!
them it was 1 none of their business. Part of
the company held me, while a couple of them
went to the house, and afterwards took nte to
Poller’s where I was arrested. ,
During the night, and after the deed* I at
tempted to take my own life, and thus close
the tragedy. Afterwards I went to my broth-,
er’a house to kill him and his wife. I kicked
the panels of the door itr, but they had' gone
away. ' '■■■-.
dbbbs anb ob&
017“ Dr. Hall recommends, by way of pfe l
venlidn taking cold itint persons going out of*
heated rooms should “keep their mouths'shut.”.
The caution 1 may be. very wise and judicious*
but what arc tbe ladies to do ?” - :
o”The Sacramento. Ttrties. says, in' the
course of a report of at a public
dinner, “The Mayor of the day: and ladies,
etc., wore appropriately and elegantly drunk,
and the party separated in line cheer.
Riot at Midijustown. Pa. : — The Harrisburg
Telegraph says there was-a serious riot nit W&'
dletown on Sunday evening, amongst the ooloi>
ed population. up account of die sudden disap
pearance of a fugitive female slave; who, as
they believed; had been sent back to her mas-
ter. Two-colored men were seized by thc ; mob,
as the kidnappers were very badly, beaten.'aud
they, tn turn procured the arrest of twelve no-
groiiji.ifor assaulting them,
I CC7“ The question is discussed in Sonic of the, ■
I JJissonrj papers, whether raising hemp is rt
good business. 'A much better business. cer-‘ '
.tainly, than being raised by it..
Wild O.vro.vs.—California that
onions, growing wild, have boon discovered; in
that State, nn inch anil a half in diameter, cov
ered with a Illicit bush, like the Kbapfoot.—
They are palatable, and Said to be even preferT
nble.to garden onions, and will. nodoubt.'ptoVß
,a valuable addition to the cultivated varieties.
C!7" The best cure for dvspepsid'is to collect
bills for a newspaper, , If that don’t give you
an appetite, you might ns well sell your stom
ach for tripe, and have done with it,
.017” Speaking of lions—that was. an idea' of
the hard shell preacher, who was discoursing
ot Daniel.in the den of lions. •- Said he:
“There he sat all night, looking at the show
for nothing ; it didn’t cost him a oent ?”
DCT” A fellow out west being asked what
made him bald, replied, “The girls had pulled
his hair out by pulling him into their wind
ows.”
tetr tune.
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