IRICAN VOLUNTEER. IHED EVERT THDB9DAT MORNING BT JoHh B> Jfratton. TE.KMS. , tPTIOI ,._Onn Dollar and Fifty Cents, franco i Two Dollars it paid within the td Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, if not tin the year. These terms will be Ha ired to in every instance. No , sdb discontinued until all arrearages arc is at the option of the Editor. nsEBENTS —Accompanied by the oXsti, •xceeding one square, will bo inserted os for One Dollar, and twenty-five cents idditional insertion. Those of agreat in proportion; Intino —Such ns Hand-bills, Posting iphlets, Blanks, Labels, &c., &d,, exe ' accuracy and at the shortest notice. ffoeticnl. BETTER THAN THEM ALL. derate share of wealth is good Vo, J.'.' TO cheer ns on our way, fi ii3gor it has oftentimes the power ; ; -r,' ' ,To make December May j so is beauty, so is health, ' Or genius ut our call; pj.ut n happy, careless, loving heart, , ’ ‘ls better than them all. 1 1 . A heart that gathers hope and faith . From every springing flower, That smiles alike at winter storm And gentle summer shoWer; That blesses (iod tor every good, : Or whether groat or small; Oh! a happy, hopeful, loving heart, Js belter, than them all, iif L ’Tia well to hold the wand of power, Or wear an honored name,. And blush to hear the mighty world He-ccho with our fame t ’Tia well if on our path the smiles Of Kings and Nobles fall j , But to have a happy, trusting heart, Is better than them all. , A heart that, with the magic notes Of music is beguiled; A heart that loves the pleasant face Of every little child; That aideth weakness in distress, And licareilt duty’s coil ; Oh I such a loving, human heart. Is better than them'all. THINGS TO CHERISH. ic eye that looks with love on tlioc, That brightens with thy smile, r mutely bid thee hope again If thou art sad a while; 10 eyes that, when no words are breathed Gaze fqndly into thine— Oh, cherish them, ere they grow dim ; i, They may not always shine I Ka; The faithful hearts around thee, •=•'(•? That glow with love and youth, 1 ,y.j;fThnt time and care ne’er yet have scared, i C ; . Nor ravished of tlieir truth 5 . fieart whose beatings we have heard ' When throbtiing near our own— cherish them! those beatings hushed j t J-Sp Earth’s dearest tones are gone. jf* '% The days when there are hearts and eyes • , ; That throb and beam for thee ; ■'vijiThc few fleet hours when life doth seem i t .'. Bright as a sunimer sea; ’ the thrilling moments when to speak ’ i-The full heart’s joy is vain—. jiphj cherish them! once goho, alas! They ne’er return again I B| m Mlmllanmis; THRILLING ADVENTURE, We, question whether, in the history oF‘'!mir areadth” escapes, a parallel to following /can be easily found. The story was told lis &by an old atid valued Friend, now. residing in Jfthe country, bear this city, but whose early K days were spent near the tragic adventure here m-„ recorded. ... j m{'/. We give the story as related to its, in the Jpef-jwords of the hero: • , £ “It was about the year 180 S that t settled in g* Virginia, near the fall ■of the Kenawn. The country at that lime was an unbroken wilder , hess. But few settlements had been then made C-V’ ‘by the whites, and they were so far apart as to J ISSt-i’lfendcr vain nil hopes n( assistance in Case of an W&A attack from hostile Indians—numbers of whom Sspjsjv,still infested the neighborhood. I lived there alone with my wife for several ijWßhnUw unmolested, and by dint of perseve being ilien young and hardy, had suc- in making quite a large clearing in - the BK|£(>Hat.' which I had planted with corn, and 9H|| which promised an abundant yield. “ One morning after we had despatched our t humbly meal, and I had just prepared to ven , tufe forth Upon my regular routine of labor my ' attention was arrested by the tinkling ofa cow . bcll in the corn field. : tf stj TltWe, said my wife ( ‘the Cow is in the ■ Corn-Held.’ But the Bar of the back woodsman becomes. Si-V.fihy education, very acute, especially so from the ■K -V.ftct that his safety often depends upon the nice of that sense. I was tint so easily I listened—the sound was repeated. jspjKffihitt.* said t, in reply to the tetnark of my Wife, ‘was not the tinkle of a bell upon the neck mm a cow. It is a decoy from some Indian who to draw me into ambush.’ BelieVing this to be the Case, I took down ip|por old musket, (I had no rifle.) and seeing j it was properly loaded, I stole cautiously fe's|»round'the Held towards the point from which • iihe sound seemed to proceed. As t had sus ■jjleotcd. there in a cluster of bushes, crouched ;<n,lndian Wai ing for me to appear in answer] .to his decoy bell, that he might send the fatal j bullet to my heart. I without .tjdlscdvering myself to him, until within shoo ;*jqg distance, then raised my piece and fired.— S ';.Tbe bullet sped true to its mark, and'the Indi i#h fell dead; ’ *,“flol knowing hut he might be accompanied poj l others, I returned with all speed to the cab in, and having firmly barricaded the door, I .watched all day from the port-holes in anticipa tion of an attack from the Companions of the , Indian I had killed. To add to the danger and |ps : fseeming hopelessness of my situation, I discov- j fei'u.'bred that I had but one charge of powder left. I con'd hut make one shot, and then, if attack .-v V'.cd by numbers, I should be entirely in their | v power. Determined to do the beat with what J?lhad, I poured out the last charge of powder, V put it into my musket and then waited ‘be approach of night, feeling confident of '.tack. Night came at last. A beautiful hght night it was too, and this favored tally, as I would thereby be able to ob :ho movements of the enemy as they ap ted my cabin. It was some two honrsaf jhtfall, and as yet I bad-neither heard teen a sign of the Indians, when suddenly » startled by the baying of my dog at the . I knew.chat the Indians were coming, table stood a little to the west of the cab id between the two was a patch of clear I, upon which the light of the moon fell ,„uBtruete(l. Judging from the noise at the Stable that they would advance from that dree- Won, I posted myself at the port-hoie on that ftide of the cabin. Silt had previously placed,my wife on the -«RpkPOle in the chimney, so that, in case our enemies effected an entrance into the cabin, she might climb out through the low chimney and e?oct her escape. For myself. I entertained no • .tope; hut, determined not to be taken alive, I to sell my life dearly. . tgafty.Wltli breathless anxiety I watched at the t• bole. At length I saw them emerge (rom , ’SWO. shadow of the stable and advance across the ground; towards my cabin. One—two ’ Mit three great Heavens J six stalwart Indians, ;?■-: !k -(V .' ■i Inwrifflii BY JOHN B. BRATTON. VOL. is. / armed lo the teeth, and urged on by the hope of revenge, and I alone to oppose them, wit h one charge of po'Svdcr. My case was desper ate; indeed. With quick yet stealthy step, in close single tile, they approached, and were aK ready in a few yards of the house, when n slight change in the movement of the forward Indians changed the position of theeniire six, SO that a portion of the left side of each was un covered. They were in a range—one aim would cover all. Quick as thought I aimed and fir ed. As the smoke cleared away. I could hard ly credit what my senses showed me as as the result of my shot. The fifteen slugs with which I had loaded my musket hnd.done their work well, five of the six Indians lay dead upon the ground, and the sixth had disappeared. • “ Although no enemy was now in sight, I did not venture forth until morning, There lay the bodies of five Indians undisturbed, to gether with the rifle of the other. Securing the arms and ammunition of the fallen Indi ans, I followed up the trail of the missing one until it reached the river, beyond which point I could discover no trace whatever. * From the amount of blood which marked the trail, to gether with the unmistakeable evidence (hat he had picked his way with difficulty, I was led to believe that he' was .mortally wounded! and in order to prevent'his body from falling into the hands of his white foe, he had groped his way to the river, and thrown himself into the current, which had born him away. “ The Indians had killed my cow, and that you may bp assured, was no trifling loss, yet, m my gratitude for my escape from the merci less savages, I would have been utterly willing to have made greater sacrifices. I was well provided—by means of arms arid ammunition taken from the six Indians—in cose of a second attack; but this, fortunately, proved to be ray last adventure with tbc savages. Not one of the baud had escaped to tell the tale and incite his brethren to avenge the death of his other comrades. “Ah!” exclaimed the old man, while the tears gushed from his eyes at the memory of that eventful night, ‘that was a glorious shot — the best I ever made. ’ ” The hero of this adventure lived to see the rude wilderness, where he had pitched his lone ly cabin, transformed into smiling fields and peopled by hardy and enterprising pale faces, among whom his last days were passed in peace and plenty, undisturbed by the presence of his old time foes. JEFFERSON’S SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC HABITS, In Randall's new Life of Jefferson we find the following graphic and interesting sketch, contained in a letter from the grand-daughter of Jefferson: “When he returned to Washington in 1809 I was a child, and of that period I have child ish recollections. He seemed to return to pri vate life with great satisfaction. At least ho was his own master, and could, he hoped, dis pose ofhis time as he pleased, and indulge his love of country life. You know how greatly he preferred it to town life. You recollect as far back as his “Notes on Virginia,” he says “Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.-’ -With regard to the tastes and wishes which he carried -with' him into the country, his lave of reading alone would-have made leisure and' retirement delightful to him. Books were at a.I times, his chosen companions, and his acquaintance with many languages gave him great power of selection. He read Homer, Virgil, Dante, Corne'iie, Cervantes, as he read Shakespeare ann Milton. In his youth he had loved poetry, but by the time I was old enough to observe, he he had lost his taste for it, except for Homer and the great Athenian tragios, which he cont nued to the last to enjoy. He went oyer thVworks of iEschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, not very long before t left Him. Of history he was very fond, and i his he Studied in ali languages, though always, f think, preferring the ancients. In fact," he derived tndre pleasure from his acquaintance with Greek and Latin than from any other re source ,-pf, literature, ahd t have often heard him to express his gratitude to his father for causing him to receive a classical education. I saw him more frequently wiih a volume of the classics in his hand than with tiny other book. Still he read new publications as they came out, never missed the new number, of a review, especially the Edinburg, and kept him self acquainted with what was being done, said' or thought in the world from which he had re tired. lie loved farming and gardening, the fields. , the orchards and his asparagus beds., Every . day he rode through his plantation and walked . in the garden. In the cultivation of the last he took'great pleasure Of flowers, too.he was very fond. Orie of riijr edrly recollections is of the attention which he paid to his flower beds. , He kept up a correspondence With persons in large cities, particularly, I think, in Philadel phia, for the purpose of receiving supplies of roots UUd seeds both for (It'S feitefffert and flower garden. I remember well when he first re turned 10 Monticello how immediately he began to prepare new beds fOr his flowers. He had these beds laid off on the lawn, under the win dows, and many a time I have run aftfer him when he went out 10 direct the Work, accom panied by oho of his gardeners, generally VVormley. armed with spade and hoe, while he himself carried the measuring line. I was too young to aid him. except in a small way, but, my sisterTMrs. Blankhead, then a young and beautiful woman, , . . . was his active and useful assistant. I remember the planting of the first hyacinths and tulips, and their sub sequent growth. The roots arrived, labeled each one with a fancy name. Inhere was Mar cus Aurelius, and the King of the Gold Mine, the Roman Enpress. and tne Queen of the Am azons, Pshche. the God of Love, etc. Eagerly and with childish delight.l studied this brilliant nonclemature, and wondered what strange and surprisingly beautiful creations I should see rising Irom the ground when spring returned, and these precious roots were committee! to the earth under ray grandfather’s own eye, with his beautiful granddaughter Anno, by his side, and a crowd of happy young faces, of younger grandchildren, clustering found to see the, pro gress, and inquire anxiously the name of each separate deposit. Then, when spring returned, how eagerly we watched the first appearance of the shoots above ground. Each root was marked with its own name written on a bit of stick by its side, and what joy it was for one of us to discover the tender green breaking through the mold, and run ,to grandpa to announce that we really believed Marcus Aurelius wjQtgpming up, hr the Queen of the Amazons walym3rc ground. With how t much pleasure compounds of our pleasure and i his own, on the new binm he would immedi- i ately go out to verify the vfact, and praise us I for our dilligent watchfulness. Then, when 1 the flowers were in blouimjtnd we were in cs- I taoies, ricjll nurple and crimson,or pure I while, or delicate lilac, or pale yellow of the i blossoms, how he would sympathize in our ad- i miration, or discuss with my mother and elder t sister new groupings and conbinatons and con- ,i trusts. Oh, these were happy moments for us ‘i and for him.! • ■ It was in the mornitig, immediately after our early breakfast, that he Used to visit his flower beds and bis garden. As the day, in summer, grew warmer, he retired to his own apartments, which consisted of a bedchamber and library 6petitng llVto each other. Here he remained un til about 1 o'clock, occupied in reading, wri ting, looking over papers, &o. My mother would sometimes send me with a message to him. A gentle knock, a call of ‘Come in,’ and I would enter with a mixed feeling of love and reverence, and some pride in being the bearerof a communication to one whom I approached with all the affection of a child, rind something of the loyally of a subject.. Our mother educa ted all her children lo look up to her father, as she looked up to him herself—literally looked up, ns to one standing on an eminence of great ness and-goodness. And it is no small proof of his real elevation, that as we grew older and better able lo judge forourselves, we were more and mote confirmed in'the opinions we had formed of it. About 1 o’clock my grandfather rode out.and was absent perhaps two hours; when he re turned to prepare for his dinner, which was about 3J o’clock. He sat some lime ‘at table,’ and after dinner, returned for a while to his room, from which he emerged before sunset to walk on the terrace, or the lawn, to see his grandchildren run races, or to converse jfillt his family and friends. The evenings, after candle light, he passed with its till about 10 O’clock. He had his own chair and his own candle a lit tle apart from the rest, where he sat reading; if there was no guest to require his attention, but often laying his book on his little round table or his knee, while ho talked with my mother, the elder members of the family, or any child old enough to make one of the family party. .1 always did; fori was . . . . a most active and ’the most lively of the young folks, and most wont to thrust myself forward into notice. The Freedom of the House, Most people are fond of having pleasant com pany, but few people know how to make their company feel, themselves at home. A great deal is said on the subject of hospitality, and great exertions are frequently«4nade to prove one's riches in this regard. But as a general thing, the more extra effort and expense you make, especially the more form and. gentility you get tip for the occasion t the more ill at case and unnatural in.mahncr you render your guests. True, hospitality, we opine, consists in the warm and hearty welcome of one's friends, far more than in all fuss and show which is made for their entertainment. Feed them well, of course, if you have anything to eat yourselves: but it is to be presumed that j-our daily fare is upon things that are pleasant to the taste and good for food, also that your board oleahly and even when you are alone; and if these presumptions' be correct, what is the use of an extra display. Any one who has mingled much in society, who has-tasted the curious economy of house holds, knows ,very well that he always experi ences the trues loom fort, and pleasure when vis iting those families which allow him to enler'as one of themselves, and to partake of ‘‘the freer dom of the house” with their own members. I ■ What a ;'limbo of vanity” is that house fa. which one,, when upon a visit, must be .always. f ! uppn ins’ best behavior, where he 'ihust be cori-’ . tmualiytentertaining or entertainedwhere he has no feeling of freedom in moving about, but must continue in.the parlors, though he shiver with cold, when there is a genial fire in the, basement or nursery ; where he must sit bolt upright when.he longs to lounge, and where he feels constrained to say “cannot” and “will not” when he wants to say ‘tcant”and“won’t J iJ r not to mention feelings expected to interlard his conversation with what a Certain young lady called “technical phrases,” and a smatter ing of Frrnch or Italian, when he would rather coniine himself to simple vernacular; where he must annoy and incommode himself by ridicu lous table forms, which are of no. possible use. As an elderly woman once remarked, “there hain’t no moral principle whatever.” ■That disregard of polished manners wlflch is vulgarity, and that ‘plainness’ which is coarse ness, are repulsive wherever they are foundry Yet many, both young and old, pride them selves. upon these disgusling ways. Such per sons have not yet learned what is religion. Than that councousness which springs spon taneously from ii truly refined and kindly na ture, few things are more beautiful. When wo hoar One scoffing at the idea of pol ish ahd refinement of thought and act, we won der that he does not consider of the company | which be is perchance, (if SO be that his white garments he not lorgotten) soon to keep.—• Would not a man about to be asked into the court of some grout king, to talk and walk with “t dukes and princes, take some thought about ■ how bo should carry himself before them t But i just before «j, every ono, there is a door which 1 will open to usher us into a court such ns no i earthly city oyer, held, and us are to walk and | talk with angels’and archangels, with principal- | ities we'shall have to do. Surely, wo all need < to “mend our manners.” 1 Beautifully Said. We Fake the following beautiful extract' on the Homestead Exemption law, from a letter written by a distinguished Judge of the State of Tennessee: “Secure to each family whose labor may have . acquired.it, d little Spot of fresh earth that it can call its^own —that will be an asylum in times of adversity, from which the mother and the children,- Old age and infancy .can Still draw susteflance and obtain protection, though mis fortune may rob them of all else, and they feel they still are free—still entitled to walk the green earth and breathe the ptfrfe aif of heaven, in defiance of the potency and power of accu mulating wealth and domineering of the pre tending and amhi.ious. The sacrcdness of that consecrated spot, wilt make them Warriors in time of external strife. Those shocks of corn, said Xenophon, inspire those who ra'sed them to defend them. - The largest of them in the Held ts a prize exhibited in the middle of the State to crown the conqueror. Secure a home to every family Whose labor' may obtain®!!?, against the weakness, vices, or misfortunes of the fathers, and you rivet the afflictions of the child, in years of manhood, by a stronger tie than any consideration that could exist. He will remember where he gambolled in his early youth, the stream upon whose banks he felt a mother’s bve, and the green spot within that little hoinesteadwvhere sleep' the loved and the lost:” • . _ Tub Fifth Husband Gonb.—A few weeks since says the New Orleans Crescent, wo men tioned, as a singular circumstance, the mar rirge of a German widow in the third district to her fifth husband—no one of the previous four having outlived his wedding a year. Well, a few days since this fifth husband'took the yel low fever. HeTfled, and on Friday he was bu ried. This singular and most remarkable fa tality among the husbands of one lady would create doubtful talk among that lady's acquain ts, were she not well known and respected, and the causes of the death of her different hus bands well known to their, friends.. As it is, it is one of the most curious* instances of fatali ty wo ever heard of. . , ......,...i -- - v -----.4 \1 • ... - . -- --- 7 —... — Z . -7. • -_ - ' " 7 - - - --, •,_. ,-4____,:--= ' '---_' • —.., , _T _ - - -'.--'-:___ .7-_-_, '..._-_' . 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Seats were ranged on each side for the Europeans.— We came in at nbouta eleven and had. to wait more than two hours before the Sheikh arrived. During the interval a number of jugglers and serpent-tamers performed their evolutions— Two men. very wildly dressed, went through some very, bad sword-andbuckler exercise.— Then men came in with pointed iron spikes, about fifteen inches long, with a large knob of iron at one end, garnished With short chains.*— '• These they stuck in the corners of their eyes and twirled them around: then then they dug the pointed end against their beads and bodies; then a man lay down and they placed the poin ted eiid on his stomach, whilst a man stood upon it; then they held four or five on the ground, point uppermost, and the juglers walk ed on them;, they then brought in their skew ers, and thrust them through their checks and arms, and through the flesh on their bodies, having stripped to the waist; The performance now began to bo very dis gusting; they'foamed at the. mouth, and seem ed to become intoxicated, facing back into the arms of those behind themi apparently faint ing. One man howled, growled like a lion, and rased like a maniac. This Continued for some time, when the serpent men}!came in With the asps around theirnecks. antj.lhen some of the fanatics rushed on the snakes, and tore them with their teeth: and four or five men held them each, they Struggled, fearfully, and tried to bite them. As the; banners now ap peared, the lower order of them lay down side by side on their faces, whilbthe others, better dressed, took them by the I&s and shoulders, and pressed them plosely jtogether. By the time that a compact mass was farmed, half-a dozen turbaned Dervishes,i;with long sticks, rushed in over them: and tpen the Sheikh, on horseback, a man leading big frightened horse, who trod heavily and quickljr, like a horse pas sing through a bog. He swerved, and trod on one man’s head, and on the; legs of others.— The Sheikh sat lying back, as if stupifled and in pain, dressed in a huge green turban, and supported by a, dervish on each side. Some of the men were lifted up as if hurt, and all seem ed to be, or to sham an intoxicated ccstacy. ” A Exanij)le to Imitate. The Memphis Appeal relates the following very interesting incidents in ! \he history and ad ventures of a boy, one of <ihe noblest ot his kind: ■ ; . ■//. \ Some weeks ago, on Twenty-six, up the river.’ the father and of eight'sniall%hildrS»i"^-whflpjMW 1 1 tajS'-vrere-Will iams, died at nearly the J |, i- of one of the fatal fevers wbicli so frequently make havoc among the population of low and unhealthy districts- , . I The eldest of the poop orphans was a boy, Thomas Williams, twelve years of age, but so : weakly from ague and Sts attendant suffering that he dues not look so old as that. The oth ers were graduated by small intervals to little more than infancy in the youngest. The island was no place for the helpless babies, and the only relatives they had in the world lived in Eastern Tennessee, at Sweetwater, thirty miles from Chattanooga, two hundred miles from this city. To these relatives Thomas resolved to go, and tell his storv of sorrow. The neighbors undertook the care of the little ones, and- step ping on board the Falls City; when it stopped to wood, the boy made the clerk aeqainted with -the state of the orphan family. That gentle man not only gave him a pass to. this city, but 1 a letter of introduction, which obtained for him the kind hospitalities of the Worsham House, and a free passage on the Charleston railroad to the end of his journey, which was gifen him by the generosity of Mr. Ayres. The little fellow found his relations. They were not rich in money, but tney promised to raise the family if they were brought to them. The young hero then set off to bring to their' new home his seven little brothers and sisters. He passed again over the railroad to this city; the Philadelphia was going up the river: he went on board and informed Captain 'Marshall of his situation. * * * • -The kind captain not only gave him a passage to the island, but told him to have all' ready to bring the little, ones under his protection on board with him at the return of the boat from St. Louis, and, whether it was night or day, the boat would stop for them.. Accordingly, On the down trip, the Philadelphia took ou the eight little orphans. Their condition was dis tressing in the extreme, not - one of them -was free from sickness, and Thomas was suffering from ague and fevef-r-proslrated with it. wfe were going,to say—but the gallant little fellow was not made of the stuff that submits to pros tration; He was bright, ready, active, and thoughtful, attending with Unwearying care to the wants and wailings of the sick, helpless lit tle ones, OH Monday last Mr. H. M. Worsham was on board the Philadelphia, when Captain Marshall invited him to look at some pets he had, and stretched on mattresses lay the truup of sick Ittlle ones, their wants carefully, attended to, for there was not an officer, not a cabin-boy. on the boat that was not doing hfs best to show kindness to those who might be called God's little ones, for He was their sold father, and wonderfully lie “tempered the wind to the shorn lambs.” Mr. Worsham immediately, recognized his former guest, and at once sent to work to facilitate his further progress. He saw Mr. Ayfcs, Of the Railroad, and shflWed him a letter with which the boy had been furnished; that gentleman gave directions that the whole should have a passage on the road to their journey's end. . f , A whole family, brought to destitution in Eftgland, has had all its misfortunes clearly traced by the authorities to Sri ungovernable passion for novel reading, entertained by the wife and mother. The husband Was sober and industrious, but his wife was indolent and ad dicted to rending everything procurable in the shape of a romance- This led. her-'to utterly neglect her husband, herself arid her eight chil dren. One daughter, in despair, fled the pa-' ternal home, and threw herself into the haunts of vice. Another was found by the police chained by the legs to prevent her from follow! ing her sister’s example- The house exhibited the moat oflensive appearance of fiiih and indi gence. In the midst of this pollution, priva tion and property, the cause of it sat reading the last ••seneation work’’ of the season,-arid refused to allow berseljT to be disturbed in her entertainment.—Courier and Enquirer. Fanaticism in Egypt, Novel Bending. 1 oiuntffr. A Spread Eagle Toast'. At Prcatico Centre, Me., the following was the second regular sentiment "Our Nation. —Begotten amidst the storms of the sixteenth century, its infantile move ments were dimly and indistinctly seen on board the May Flower,on the rock of Plymouth, at Jamestown, on the Plains' of Monongahela, and on the Heights of Abraham ; the ‘caprici ous squalls’ ol its infancy were heard in the tea party of Boston, in Faueuil Hall, On the plains of Concord, Lexington and Bunker Hill; in his boyhood he fan barefooted and barehea ded over the Helds of Saratoga, Trenton.Princc ton, Monmouth and Yorktown, whipping his mother, and turning her out of doors: in his youth he strode over the prairies of the bound less west and called them his own, paid tribute to the despots of Barbary innowder and Vtilt; spit in his father's face frßtn behind cotton, bales at New Orleans, whipped the mistress of the ocean, leveled, in the halls of Montezuma, straddled the Rocky Mountains, and with one foot upon golden sand and the other upon cod fish and lumber, defied the world : in his man hood. clothed in purple and fine linen, he rides over a continent in cushioned chairs, rides over the ocean in palace steamers, sends his thought on wings of lightning to the world around, thunders at the door of the Celcstcal Empire, and to the portals of distant Japan, slaps his poor old decrepit father in the face, and tells him to be careful how he pecks into any of his' pickaroons, and threatens to make a sheep pas ture of all the land that joins him. JVhat he will do in his old age, God only knows. May he live ten thousand, years,‘and his shadow never be less.’ ” A Hint About Homes. There is a general lack of- knowledge among farmers concerning the nicer parts of garden ing, apd, besides, the press of farm-work is so great in spring and summer, that the’garden usually receives very'little attention. These facts suggest the propriety of establishing among us schools of horticulture, the pupils to be taught practically all branches of common and ornamental gardening, with the object’ to qualify them to earn a livelihood by their skill, and to disseminate among the rural population generally, such instruction concerning there as cannot easily be gained by theoretical leaching. The country might afford abundant encourage, ment in as many accomplished gardeners, as several such schools could turn out.' Indeed a skillful gardner would,.doubtless, find pretty constant employment in almost every thickly settled neighborhood, to the advantage of him self and the community. The impulse which the influence of such a class would naturally give to amateur gardening, besides cultivating the taste of the people, would do much toward increasing the attachment of the young to their homes. If farmers who wish to keep their sons with them, would encourage them to plant trees and make other improvements about the homestead, instead of, in elleot, teaching them to,regard it as of use only to make money out of, they would less often be left alone in old age. If one had done little toward beautifying his home, and making it a pleasanter spot, that little would embitter the necessity of leaving it.' Who iyould not sadiy iresign to.a stranger the owneraliip:of the trasandviries In’Sliands had planted ?—Rural New Yorker. Singular Dare Hunt. The Petersburg Democrat has the following in teresting particulars of a chase between a hare and a Weazel: “A few days since, as Mr. Charles Warner, of this city, was going a short distance into the country bn foot, to visit a friend, he observed a hare in the road, just beyond the bridge which crosses Lieutenant Run, in the rear of the heights, that appeared to be listening, and look -1 Ing back for something which pursued it. He stood still, and hearing no dog. was curious to discover the cause of its alarm, when, to his 1 surprise, he discovered the object of it to be a small brown animal which he took to be a wea sel, and which hunted the footsteps of the hare with the utmost precision. Mr. W. wishing to know if so diminutive an animal could cope successfully with the speed of the hare, retrea ted to a bush near by, where he was an atten tive observer of the hunt for nearly two hours, during which time he is certain he saw both the hare and the weasel at least forty times. - They were frequently out of sight lor several min utes; but the hare still unwilling to leave the place where it was found, Came round again, and with the little enemy sometimes close at its heels. Toward the end of the remarkable chase, which became uncommonly Interesting, the bare took advantage of the thickest covert that the place nltordcd, and made use of all her i cunning to escape, but without effect; until,at i length wearied out by the perseverance of her I pursuer, it was heard to cry for some time. At i last the cries coming from one point, he con- I eluded that it had become the victim of the 1 chase, and went to the spot, where he found the 1 hare quite dead, and the weasel so intently fast 1 on its neck as not to observe his approach, and I which became a victiaMo Ins cane." ! icciprofsl Influence of ilge and Yontli Dr. Hufcland, the German pbyisoiogist, at tributes the'frequent longevity of schoolmasters to their daily association with young persons. Invalid mothers often prolong their existence by daily contact with their children. I once knew a woman who, by weak lungs and mineral doc tors, had been prostrated with incurable con sumption. Her infant occupied the same bed "with her almost constantly day and night.— The mother lingered for months on the verge of the grave, her demise being hourly expected.— Still she lingered on, daily disproving the pre dictions of her medical attendants. . The child, meanwhile, pined without any apparent disease Its once fat little cheeks fell away with singular rapidity, till every bft'rio iii its face was visible. Finally it had imparled to the mother its last spark of vitality, and simultaneously both died. I saw it recently stated in a newspaper, that a man in Massachusetts had lived forty-one days without eating anything, during which period bo had been nourished altogether by u little cold watfcr, nndL“by the influences absorbed by him while dailytholding the hand of his wife.” An Ancient Goose, A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, writing from Hunterdon county, New Jersey, says; ‘.‘There is a goose in my neighborhood that has seen the frosts of eighty-three winters, owned, by one Mr. Stomp. This goose,famous for its great age, has been kept in the Scomp family ever since the Revolutionary war. When the news, came to the people of Rcddington township, HuntcrdOh county, that the war vVas ended, and that they were a free people, they collected h> have a general drinking jollification. There being sotrie cause for a geiVcral rush into the yard, where there were four geese, three of these were killed, and the one that escaped is that which I, now speak of. Two years ago' she laid four eggs, Which she hatched, the young family are living and doing remarkably well- I was informed by Mr. Scomp, who has owned the gooSc for the fast fifty years,of these .facts. AT $2,00 PER ANNUM •‘CUT CElltoft” , tVheif Genital O’Hara was Governor of Gib. raltaf, ho was said to bo perfectly crazy on mat ters of military discipline. He wont so Aft as to have the shoes taken oil'his mule, on purpose that ho might go night-rounds and visit the guards in the most silent manner, ■Without be ing heard until lie VvU'.s 616'sfe'A'pon the sentinel. As had been the long established practice,. 'O’Hara always attended to the guard mounting parade on flife sands, at six or s'eveA o’tloCk in the Aifftafng; and he took s'o much noliftb of the offioeta of <hA aevofaf gAafds that he could generally, during the remainder of the day, name them all, Ono day ho was proceeding out of South Port in his carriage, when lie pass-, ed an officer going into the town, and whom; at the instant, ho remembered as having passed in review before him flint morning, as command ing fho south guard. Upon this, fho general immediately determined on satisfying himself as to the fact, arid so convict him of the heinous critno pf quitting.his guard; and ordered his coachman to drive With speed 16' fho south guard. Away they went, at the rale of fen to eleven miles an hour, along the saluting battery; and in a short time the horses,.out of wind and foam, reached the south guard, a miloor more from the place where fho general had passed the suspected officer. At the .usual distance) Hie running sentinel called tho guard to “turn out,” which was obeyed with all the alertness' desirable; and the officer advancing, unobserved by the general, at a quick pace from near the carriage, drew his sword, then opening ranks, presented arms, and saluted in the best man-, nor. At the sight of this officer every dotfbf had been removed. “By Jove! it is himself!” thought the general, as ho ordered him to turn in the guard, arid beckoned him to come up to to the carriage. “ Pray, sir,” impatiently inquired O’Hara, “ did I not see you, but a very few minutes ago, walking very deliberately info tho town near South Port f’l . , “Me, sir!” exclaimed fho officer, pretending the greatest simplicity and extreme surprise at tho question. “I am giiard hero, sir.” “ Well, well, I know that; you need not have supplied me with that valuable piece of infer, mation. Did I not, sir, X ask you again, did I not see you going into town as X camo out by South Port?” said his excellency, raising bis voice, arid his face reddening.with anger at the otfender’s attempt to conceal the fact by his' evasive reply. The officer, after n moment, in do way dis. concerted or showing any symptom of timidity, looked tho general full in tho face, and then with great politeness, said, “Will your excel lency have the goodness fo state to ,mc whether that question is put. to me by his Excellency, General O’Hara, Governor of Gibraltar, or from yourself, in the capacity of a private gentle man ?” The off-hand manner in which this question was put to O’Hara struck the right, chord; and, alter a few minutes’ hesitation, ho replied, with a smile on his countenance, “ Well, sir, ns a private individual, I wish to obtain the infor mation.” “Then, sir, I freely confess that you didmool mo at the Smith Port.” “ Well, sir, that is honest,” said the general. “Now, sir, I want to know how you could got ' here on foot as quickly as I did in my carriage, and that, too, without any apparent fatigue ? 1 “ Sir, I,shall conceal nothing from you in'the private capacity you have selected,” replied the officer. “On meeting you, I strongly suspected that you know me; and when you stopped the carriage to speak to your coachman, I guessed your motive:, so, feeling that my conjectures were correct, and ns i had no means of my own at arriving at my guard at the same time as your, self. X got up behind your carriage, the only moans left mo of securing that object.” “By Jove, sirl” exclaimed O’Hara, <• I like your candor, and still more the dexterity and readiness you have displayed in extricating yourself ifom a position of the greatest danger, without -which yon would undoubtedly have lost y6ur commission. I admire a man, who, when ho gets into a scrape, can jump out of it at once. You must dine with mo, sir, to-mor row,” giving him a most hearty shake of the hand. -‘But, take care ! Ton must never leave your guard again, of, by Jove, I’ll.break you!” lost Stars. •Those who study tho heavens say that often a star drops out of the firmament or. dies there, and is lost to sight forever. It may have been the bright star of hope of ninny mariner on i tho uncertain sea of life. Its calm, genllo ra diance may have shed good choer and comfort upon many a path, dark with doubt, and sorrow and dread. Like these dropping, dying stars our loved ones go away from our sight. The stars of our hopes, our ambitions, our prayers, whoso light shines ever before us, leading on and up, they suddenly fade from the firmament of our hearts, and their place is empty and dark- A mother’s steady, soft and earnest light, that beamed through all mu' wants and sorrows j" a father’s strong, quick light, that kept our feet from stumbling on the dalk and treacherous ways; a sister's light, so mild, so pure, so constant opt! so firm, shining upon ns from gentle, loving eyes, and pursuadinp us to grace and gtfodneSi a hi other’s light, bold, and honest • a lover’s light,fdtever sleep ing in onr souls and liiuminating .outgoings and comings—gohe-out—(orever? No! no! the light has not gone out. It is shining beyond the stars, where there is fib' night and no dark ness, forever and forever. ilflODt Colli, Foe every mile that wo leave the surface of the earth, the. temperature folia five degrtes. At forty niiles distance from the globe we get beyond the atmosphere, and enter, strictly speaking, into .the regions Of space, whose tem perature is Sl2d degrees below zero; and here cold reigns in all its potter. Some idea bf this intense cold may be formed by stating that the greatest cold observed in the Arctic Circle is from 40 degrees and CO degrees below zero: and here many surprising eflecls are produced. In the chemical laboratory, thfe greatest Cold that we can produce is about 150 degrees below zero. At this temperature carbonic gas becomes a solid substance like snow. If touched, it produces the some efleet on the skirt ns a red hot cinder, it blisters the flriger like a burn. Quicksilver or mercury freezes itt 40 degrees below zero, that is,- 72 degrees below, the tem perature at -Which water freezes. The solid mefCttry turfy then be treated as other metals, hammered into sheets, or made into spoons : such spo'ons would, however, melt in water as warm as ice. It is pretty certain that every liquid and gas. that' wo are acquainted with would become sWid if exposed to the cold of the regions of space. The gas we light in oOr streets would appear like wey : oil Would be, in reality ‘‘as hard as a rockpure spirit, which we have never, yet solidified, would ap pear like a transparent crystal; hydrogen gas, would become quite solid, and resemble a met al, We shoVtiq bo able to turn batter in a lathe like s piece of ivory, and the fragrant odor of flowers would have to be made hot before they would yield perfume. And these are but few of the astonishing effects of cold. tt?" The/ rider of a palo horao comes with the’ command, “bride, maiden, infant, give mo thy . breath. Another angel i» wanted in Heaven— oho crown tbero is incomplete without another jcweli”' A correspondent of the Pfettytint, trriting from Utah, does jjot gitrd a flattering pitthro of '■ Indian life in that .quarter, but it-is no .doubt »- truer description than is usual)}: found InlhdfaiTj’ totUftnics. • ‘ - The Utah's life the most degraded. If ; any man.in camp was generous enough to dividohls.. greatly nbbreyldltd fatlbn frith oho of (lie mrs crable looking, half starred red debits, the day following was sure to find his tent swarming with Indian bucks, sqnaws, papooses and dogs, all expecting to be fed. Knther than, (intiergo'/ the fatigues of hunting, they would .devour the entrails'of miserable cattle butchered tor the army, picking them from the tilth in which thhy . ; had Inin sometimes tor weeks. This will be at tested by every olliccr or soldier who spent the lust winter here. These Indians scarcely over wash themselves, and their hair is permitted to hang in matted masses, filled with, dirt anddis.", gusting lied, lied paint they daub prolusely over their faces. Loathsome disease, constitu- " (ionnl and hereditary, is rapidly wasting them away; and a few generations will extinguish them; So] ib'iS;. tffro game which once coveted Ilia valleys and mountains of thoir wilderness homes, is rapidly disappearing.- Not n solitary buffalo is now to bo seen, and the oik, the deer and antelope, also are failing. $OrU. .The first,thing attracting the attention of fho Visitor ns ho approached their camp, was the multitudinous bear, hnfTalo, elk, antolojxr and doer skins spread" out upon poles, being slllf ported by forked sticks, which the squaws were bpslij 1 engaged IA tfteasing. A skin, after being, th'rffoftghly saturated with walbly scraped on tho J fleshy sitrface with ,a Hat stond having sharp edges, until ail tho fleshy mattef is removed.— It is ncSt spiead out smoothly np'on a flat sur face, ana rubbed with the brains of some ani mal uA'tit it becomes mcaeftrabTy dty and very s'6'll, wliltb cofiipiotcd the' bperation. The nest scene was that of a number of; squaws seated in a circle upon the gronnd, each,'' with a solitary exception, having an Mffafat strap* ‘ ped upon her back with its black eyes peeping' over'the motlici;!<ns)ioalt]cr,.so Completely ab- ; s'otbctl in d gatno of “slick”as scarcely to bo conscious of tho apprtfaCb of strangers. Tito parties were Bannocks and SomClJte visiters.— ' The game resembles in its general features tho; well kno'ffft tfCsfern game of “nuts in hand.” The tribes ot Utes are passionately fond of it. They bet their horses, their skjns, lodges, frin-' kits, ana efen (heir clothed, frequently return ing homo With nothing save a scanty breech cloth to cover their nakedness, even in' jflie cold est weather. So violent are they in thoif ghs*. , tictilaffonS aha Ihefr eXcitCrnenf at. tiiiieS while engaged in this gamp, that the.blood gushes from tlioir mouth and nostrils. They will con tinue fho game night and day until one of tho. party is redtiCcd to beggary. ' Rcraatlsaiilc (lure of a lunatic. Dr. Timber, oit Xhtifsday performed a surgi cal operation on a IfmatiC. The man h-as thrown from a wagon about five years since, fracturing his Scull against a fence stake, the; injury bringing oh violent dorUngfemcnt, which, became permanent. Ho was taken to the luna tic asylum where ho refuainea a .considerable time, until he was discharged as incurable, ana finally remanded io the jail of this county, Where ho lias remained for a vca,f past. His wife engaged the services of Dr: Thayer, toot-, tempt the cure of her nnfprtirtihto hnshand.—. After examining the case, Dr. Thayer fouhd a p'brtib'h 61 the skull much depressed,-and re solved to remove it. da entering the ceil frith his assistants for tho purpose, on Friday,’ tho man became greatly enraged, and poured 6nt Volleys of execrations on Df. Thayer, as though he was awaro, of fho bfrs'irfc's's'ho Caufo on. At the Order of Jailor France, the limritif; /aid down on his bed, when ho.was immediately Cohflnod, and copious doses of chloroform administered, until ho became perfectly itisefudbltu Tho dm. pressed portioti of tho skull fotinififj it piece a little smaller thaff a quarter dbllHr, tVhich had been pressing on (no brain, was (lien taken out, and found to haVb thickened considerable on one side. The head was■fhon hound with a bandage saturated frith water, and tho patient led to recover from Ida stupor. On Saturday he awoke, arose from his bed, and walked up and down the room, perfectly ratihnal. Ho 1 complained that tho bandages, which were for ’ some reason that hd did noi Understand had been put on his head, hurt him, arid asked tho attendant if they might he looseb'b<r.’ As soon hs relieved from the pressure, ho my flolvn on his bed and went to sic Up. On hi.-i nga i n wa king, ho asked if ho would like his frifi? to see him.’ She had a child hut a fe# days before the accident, and he now-expressed a doubt ’ whether she would ho able to get out of ‘bed, On her entering, ho was astonished to And he# so well after her recent ilncss, and feared ti nt her health W6fdd suffer from exposing herself so early. . . He asked after tho child and .fished to see if, hut was pat off with an evasive answer, until it was considered advisable to cxplaih fnattet* id explain matters to him. Ho then commenced, talking ol tilings that happened flvo. years ago, ns if having occurred hut yesterday. It was s long time before ho could be ffware of the fact of his long illness and insanity, and when at j. last convinced of it, stated that he had ho rec ollection ol anything other thpn a kind bf dream. Ho recommended his wife to go homo to her friends until ho whs well, ns her stay in Cleve land would bo expensive. He is frow on a lair way of recovery, fitid will probably do well, un less infinmation shb'uid supefbeno.- —C Herald, Jlug. 9. Somebody has given the fWlbtfing extbihstit advice, which is worthy of being treasured up by everybody: 7 “ Never omit any opportunity to learn ail you ■can. Sir Waller Scott said, oven in a stage coach hq always fOnnd somebody (bjblf him something ho did not know before. - Cb'ui'drsat. tion is generally more useful than books fttf the purpose of knowledge. It is (hei'eiofe, a iSis takc to he moffa'sc or Silent, wheh von ate among I arsons whom yoil thitik ignorant; fbf a socia. bility oil yoftf- part will draw them out and they «l!l be able to teach yon something, no matter how ordinary their employment. Indeed Some of , the most sagacious reth'afitS are made by per sons ol tlifs description, respecting theif parti cular pursuit. “Hugh Miller, the famous ScotCli geblbgisf, oxte's not a lit tie its :the fame of ttbServaflon, made Whert Hs was a Jofirnefniafi stone-mason, and worked in a quarry. Socrates well said that there is but one good, which is nrtd bnt tints evil, whidit is ignorance. Every grain of sand helps to make the heap. A gold digger fakes tho smallest nhggots, and is not fool enough to thro# them rfway because ho hopes to llnd-ii large lit fuff Sometime. 30, jn acquiring knowledge, no Shbnld never despise ati Opportunity/ hoftetet Utipfomlsihg. If there Is a ttftrtrient’s leisure, spend a good or instructive thiftg with the flrSt perSoii ytUimeot.** The Satrannah NettS Says i , Onool Hid city plij-siciaUs has liufided us the following extract from a letter written to him uy a professional brother In.the upper country, describing a Singular cose of rare occurrence In surgical practice: . ; ; . . “I mast put in a slip, to give yon an instance of death from the raj)id accumulation Of fat, Wehadajoung man residing eighteen tnlUta from this place who was one of the fnitacles of nature. At the ago of 22 years lie weighed 565 pounds; ho continued gradually to incrcoao in flush until ho reached over 600 pounds} he was able to get about with tolerable ease to himself, andnttondfcd to his planting interest. Sorho Weeks ago ho commenced increasing in flesh very rapidly,and gained a little over two pounds per day. Last week hoi died suddenly, ip his ebaiso, I think, from the accumulation of fat dround his heart. Three days prior to'his death lie weighed 646 pounds; and had ho.hoen weighed Iho day of his death,no doubt howonid have gone over 6CO pounds. I have niton seen frira, and yiSifed Ills family a few months ago professionally.” fs a secret belief among-.some men, that God is displeased with man’s happi ness; and In consequence they slink about ere. alien; ashamed and afraid to enjoy ftnythings shortest aid surest way to live with hpnor in the world is to bo in reality what, wo appear to bo; and if wo observe,'wo'shall find that all human virtues Increase and gtteigthen themselves by the practice and cSperioficolof them. . The Utah llullatii. Ixtita All ton Cato 4 Miracle dl {JattireV
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