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i ,-M# TITE LONG AGO,
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A BY B. P. TAYLOR. '' ‘
1 ' ,^S^.^wonflcrful strcnm is tho rivcr Time,, • ,
glides through.tho realm of tears, , ..,u ;.,
■ faultless rhyrath and a musical rhymoj^
v ;V^^^^K!> r(,a( lor sweep, and a surge sublime ;
*i .> ' with the ocean of years.- r 'i ‘
’ ! are drifting, like flakes.of snow. ,
summers like buds between,
r ’: “ year in the sheaf—so they conic and they
V' . ; breast, with its ebb and flow, 1
r\^sSS ! i€ t glides through tho shadow and sheen. '
.•, ■ - •
I, ’ magical isle up the river Time,, ■. •, •
,| jl^he^o i tho softest of airs are playing; ' .
[. - a clpiulless sky-and a tropical dime,
!j Ariawtfong as sweet as a vesper chime,
| , Junes with the roses are staying,
’’ of this isle is tho Bong Ago,,
, v. Arid We bury our treasures there; »
* ; ' Rrc ro "'? °f beauty and bosoms of snow—
Thero.'aro heaps of dust, but wo loved them sol
. > v'J&.v There arc trinkets, and, tresses of huir.
) .
i , are fragments of songs that nobody sings,
. '.a' part of an infant’s prayer;
t ' ''•?R^^'f ire broken, vows, and pieces of rings,
: *;AW.tho garments that «/ic used to wear.
v. ■ ’■ ?<■*.:, ■ • '
1, P'- , £ ‘lbere hrc hands that arc waved when tho fairy shore
thp mirage is lifted in air ; •
,■. wo sometimes hear, through tho turbulent roar,
t V . wo heard in the days gone before, .
lr>-'o^v-Wbcn the wind down tho river is fair.
: ' .. . -
f , Oh l femembercd for aye b<* tho blessed isle,
: -dAUitho day oflife, till night—
jl L;’ , Ayhoii the evening conics, with its beautiful smile,
■ All arc closing to slumber awhile,
. - 3fiiy>thut u Greenwood" of soul bo in sight.
•jWiml
AGrtICULTURAL ODE,
T ’ r in ages
r £ plbw wltlt wreaths was crowned,
’■ Sa g CS
the chaplet round ;
fatbn-of-spoil - . ■- - - •
: to- toil" • ~
T ' '' the world wQS nourished,
1 ; ;\\-/' ood and pillage were tho soil
u;,'/ tlieir'laurols flourished;
t|-V;■'. . World her fault despairs—
r;’; -i, ■ : yj; r VlTho guilt that stains her story, :
b-’i/, Vj'j’’nd weeps.her crimes amid the euros
formed her earliest glory.
; • .
tVi; V.lv ( ri.v'}Tbo throne shall crumble,
diadem’shall wane,
|.! tribes of earth, shall humble
f*{ rMgEho pride of those who reign,. .. t
And >far shall day
V;'-, pomp away; ”
fnmo that heroes chcrlshj * *
V. glory lamed in deadly fray
' i^.s’ Shall fade; decay and perish. : .
*-‘Honor waits o'er all tho earth,
~>■s} Through endless generations—
„ ,\v , Tho art that calls tho harvest forth
/And feeds, tho expectant nations.
.BY WSf. C. BRYANT.
Mmllnmmß,
- .. SAVAGE ORATORY.
Clnirbornc’s Life of General Satriuol Dale
Contains account of Tocuniseh, the
oelobratedindian chief, who exerted such re
ihnrkttble >ijnfiuonc6 over the Indian tribes.
Hia fato was sealed at Tippecanoe. . The fol
lowing is . of the war council,
.iThb Big Warrior and the leading men were
sitting there. The Shawnee chief sounded
his war-whoop—a most diabolical yell—and
each of. his .'followers responded, Tecumseh
then preson ted to the Big warrior a wampum
hclt ofifiye ■different colored strands, which
thoOrcek chief handed to his warriors, and
■it passed down the line. The Shawnee pipe
"~ tL tliprt produced; it was large, long, and
ited with shells, beads, and
id porcupine quills. It was
i fire in the centre, and slowly
Big Warrior along the lino,
t a word had been uttered;
still ns death; oven the winds
was only the gentle rustle of
ves. At length Tooumsch
>\vly and in sonorous tones;
impassioned, arid the words
ics from his lips. His eyes
ipornatufal lustre, and his
üblod with emotion; his voice
the multitude—now sinking
joal whispers, now" rising to
hurling out his words like a
indorbolts. His countenance
. ipeeoh; its prevalent oxpross
siofl .was „a, L sneer of hatred and defiance
rdorous smile; for, a brief in
it of profound sorrow perva
le close, a look of ebneentra
moh, I suppose, as distin
onemy of mankind,
idny great orators, but I ne
the vocal powers of Teoum
iommand of the muscles of
been deaf, the play of his
id have told mo what ho said,
wild, superstitious, untutor
issemblage may be conceiv
es said, but stern warriors,
woods," shook with emotion,
imahawks wore brandished
‘ t “.° Bl e Warrior; who, had
, . ... ■- wh,tos . jnd remained-fnith
fuldurmg the war, was for the moment visi
bly affepted, .and more than once I saw his
hugo hand clutch, spasmodically, the handle
of his. knife. All this was the effect of his
delivery; for, though the mother of Tecum
seh was a,Greek, and ho was familiar with the
language, ho spoke in tlie Northern dialect,
opefitiwas afterwards interpreted by the In
d>Oif lipguist to the assembly. His speech
lias beeto reported, but no one has done or can
do. it justice.* I think I can repent the sub
stance of he said, and, indeed, his very
words.
TECUMSEIt’s SPEECH.
*''‘rV
' *in defiance of tho white warriors of Qiiio
and Kentucky, I have traveled through their
settlements, which were once our favorite
hunting grounds.- No war-whoop was sound
ed, buttheto is:blood on our Knives. The
pale-faces felt the blow, bqt knew not whenco
it. came.
. “Accursed bo the rnco that' has seized on
our country and made women of our warriors.
Our fathers, from their tombs, reproach us as
sieves and cowards. I hear them now in the
wailing .winds. .
“The Muscogee was oneo a mighty people.
The Georgians trembled at your war-whoop,
and the maidens of my tribe, on the distant
lakes, sung the prowess of your warriors and
sighed for their embraces.
“Now, your very blood is white; your tom
ahawks have no edge; your bows and arrows
were buried with your fathers. O, Miiscogees,
brethren of iny mother, brush from your. eye-,
lids the sleep of slavery; once more strike for
vengeance—once more for your country. The
spirits of the mighty dead complain. Their
tears drop from the weeping skies. Lot the
white rnco perish.
“They seize your land; they corrupt, your
women; they trample on the sacred ashes of
your dead 1
“Back, whence they came, upon a trail of
blood, they must bo driven! ,
“Back! back! ay, into the great water
whose accursed waves brought them to our
shores I
“Burn their dwellings 1 Destroy their stock!
Slay their wives and children ! The Red man
"owns the. country, and' the pale faces must
never enjoy it.
, “War now I War' forever 1 War upon the
living!. War upon the dead I Dig their very
corpses from the grave. Our country must
give no rest to a white man’s bones.
“This is the will of the Great Spirit, reveal
ed to my brother, his familiar, the Prophet of
the Lakes. He sends me to you.
“All the tribes of the North are dancing the
war dance. Two mighty warriors across the
seas will send us arms.
“Tecumseh will soon return to his country.
My prophets will tarry with you. They will
stand betwooeh you and the bullets of your
enemies. When-the white men approach'you
the yawning earth shall swallow, them up.
Soon shall you see my arm of lire stretched,
athwart the sky. I. will stamp my foot at
Tippecanoe, and the very earth shall shake.”
_ When ho resumed 1 his seat the Northern
pipe was again passed round in solemn si
enco. The Shnwhese then simultaneously
leaped tip with one appalling yell, and danced
their tribal war dance, going through the evo
lutions of battle, tho scout, the ambush, the
final struggle, brandishing their, war-clubs,
and screaming in terrible concert an infernal
harmony, fit only for . the regions of tho
damned. •
The Turkish Sultan.
Frederick Bremer, in a recent magazine ar
ticle, thus describes the Turkish harem:
\ tl A little in an in a'dark coat,-a dark-rod cap
with a long black tassel bn his head, and a pale,
unploasantcountenanco, comes down the steps,
with os little dignityas a shopman. , Can that
.reaUyboYho-Sultan-? •-Ydsi-it must be-thtfSal
tan; because the elderly military personages by
his side reply with an expression of deep rev
erence to some remarks of the little man, and
the stout lady with the children, steps hastily
forward into his path, as if she would stop his
further advance.He starts, makes a half stop
backwards, and- contracts, his eyebrows most
threateningly. Yet he listens to what she has
' 1 to.jsay, but listensyvith a gloomy expression,
and then easts an inquiring glance on hisbro
, ther-iu-law, the High Admiral. ”, He utters a
| fowwords of explanation; shrugging his shoul
dors, pod then another word or two, which
• seems , tp. say, ‘What do I know about your
i husband.?’—motions the stout lady out of the
way, and walks on to the shore, talking gaily
• with.the gentlemen whoattendhinn ifesteps
into the caique, from which the canopy has
been removed; puts on his gloves, distorts his
lace in looking up at. the sun, and so doing ex
hibits his. tobacco-stained teeth; while his
plain, uninteresting countenance assumes a
most disagreeable expression. This, then, is
the man who is called ‘God’s Shadow on the
Earth,’ and who rules with absolute sway over
the dives and happiness of 35,000,000 of hu
, uian ibpings.. . X .have seen- many crowned
. heads, ibut none who seem so devoid of digni
ty, so devoid of anything-as remarkable as
this “ Shadow of God on Earth.’’ Noverthe
less, the throne must produce an effect either
for good or for evil. Travellers who see Ab
dul Medjid only at public audiences, usually
merely, the lifeless, automatic charac
ter of his exterior. I now saw him under oth
er circumstances. Ho was lively, and his
countenance,, although pale, indicated more
youthful strength and health than I had been
led to .expect. That is, ; I was told, because
within the last few years he has dranksomo
thing stronger than champagne, and this has
given him strength. Besides, ho was to-day
in a good humor. But he generally looks very
gloomy. Abdul Medjidhas the Turkish fam
ily feature's, the oval countenance, with some
what prominent cheek bones, the nose broad
at, the nostrils and arched, the dark'brown,
well cut, but not largo eyes, and; the finely
penciled eyebrows. They struck me as finest
when contrasted with their threatening ex
pression, and the countenance then appeared
more significant. If they could contract with
a grave, earnestness, Abdul Medjid would bo
a man of high character. Naturally mild of
disposition, a good son and brother, unwilling,
though a deapot. to sign a death warrant, Ab
dul Medjid is not wanting in the softer feel
ings. 'That which he wants is real earnest
ness and real strength. So, at least, it seems
to me. Ho does not throw himself seriously
into anything, but lets all go as it may and
will. ‘Allah, Kerim T "
(C 7” Neither Patrick Henry, nor Henry
Clay, nor Daniel! Webster, nor Demosthenes,
nor Sheridan, nor, in fact, any. great orator
could speak when very young. Webster says
of his own boyhood: “There was one thing
(at school) I could not do. I,could not make
a declamation—l could not sneak before the
school. Tho kind and excellent Buckminis
tor especially sought to persuade mo to per
form tho exorcise of declamation, like other
boys, but I could not do it. Many a piece
did I commit to memory," and rehearse in,my
own room over and over again; but when the
day came—when the school collected, when
my name was called, and I saw all eyes turn
ed upon my seat, I could not raise myself
from it. * * . And when tho occasion was
over, .I went homo and wept bitter tears of
mortification.” Clay makes a similar state
ment.
0“ A Quaker, had his broad brimmed hat
blown off by the wind, and ho chased it for a
long time, with fruitless and very, ridiculous
zeul. At last, seeing a rouguish looking, boy
lungnmg.at hjs,disaster, ho said to him:
Art thee a profnno lad ?"
Tho youngster replied that ho did a little in
that way.
. “ Then," said ho, taking a half dollar from
ms pocket, “ thee may damn yonder fleeing
tile fifty cents worth.”
A recent publication of the ministry pf Al
geria and the colonies makes some curious
statements relating to the pilgrimages to
Mecca during, the present year. The cere
monies at Mecca terminated on the 11th, of
last month, in the presence of about fifty thou
sand pilgrims of whom seventeen thousand
eight hundred and fifty had come by sea, and
thirty-two thousam}, one hundred and fifty by
land. In 1858 there .wore one hundred and
fifty thousand pilgrims; in 1857 one hundred
and forty thousand; and in 1856 one hundred
and twenty thousand.. This great decrease in
the number in 1859 is owing, the natives de
clare, to .the . events of Djeddah last year,
and also to the dread of the cholera, which
made extensive ravages in 1858. Ah soon as
the pilgrim sets his foot on the sacred soil
of Mecca, he must put on two pieces of white
cloth, ene tied around the loins, with ends
hanging down to the middle of the leg, while
the other is thrown over, the shoulders, so as
to leave the right arm free!. He must go bare
headed, and wear sandals. As long as he
wears this garment he is bound to lead a pure
and regular life. At Mecca he begins the
ceremonies under the direction of a guide.
They are ns follows.;
_ 1. Visiting the temple and going seven
times around the ICaaba, starting frorii the
Black Stone, which ho must kiss or touch in
completing each circuit.
2. Drinking the water at the well of Zein
Zem, at which, says tradition, Hagar and Ish
inael quenched their thirst.
,3. Braying at the station of Abraham, '
marked by a stone, on which he is said to
have stood when he went to sacrifice his son.
4. Stopping and praying at the place called ■
El Madjen, the spot where Solomon stood to
see mortar mixed for building the temple.
5, Running seven times between Mount
Safa and Merwa, within the limits of the city,
in commemoration of Hagar’s anxious search
for water for herself and her son. -
6. Repairing, on the 9th. day of tho month,
to Mount ‘ Ararat, about twelve jniles from
Mecca, after morning prayer. Mahomedan
tradition say that on this hill Adam built 1 a
temple, and Mahomet performed his devo
tions.
_ ,7. On the following day the pilgrims all go
in a body to the Valley of Mo'una, and there
sacrifice propitiatory victims; ‘they also out
their hair-and nails, devoutly burying the
portions cut off. After remaining two days
at Mouna, they again visit the temple, of Mec
ca, and then prepare for their departure.
Looking Up.
Mr. Astor, it is said, when once fording the
Susquehanna on horseback, found himself be
coming so dizzy as to be about to lose his seat.
Suddenly he received a blow on his chin from
a trapper, who was his companion, with tho
words, “Look Up.” He did look up, and
thereby recovered his balance. It was look
ing on the turbulent waters that imperiled
his life, tho blow he received and tho looking
up, saved it/ ' ■
A parallel anecdote, in reference lo 'a car
toon painter at St. Peters, is familiar to many
of our readers. He was working, on a tempo
rary platform, so constructed as to enable him
to touch the lofty dome’with his pencil.. In
order to give the last touches to a figure above
him, he was gradually backing untS he reach
ed the edge ef the platform. In a moment he
would have been precepitated on the marble
floor that lay at an immense distance beneath.
One of his associates saw his peril, and with
great presence of mind, threw a brush of
paint up against tho almost finished painting.
The painter sprang forward to arrest, if he
could, the injury. Ho was too late; the pic- ;
ture was ruined, but the painter’s life was
saved.
It is so, often with ourselves, under God’s
discipline. A sudden shook comes to our own
persons, or death descends on one of oiir
friends. At the moment, with our eyes fixed
on self, or on some object of earthly idolatry,
we may be nigh ruin. , Then God’s providence
comes and disfigures the idol, or forcibly
withdraws our eyes from tho path in which
we were seeking destruction. In earthly re
lations we would see in such interpositions
the presence not only of a wise but loving
friend. Shall we not, when ivo consider the
relations of the soul, infer the same thing
from God’s chastening providence ?
The Old OakeV Bucket.— Tho following
reminiscence of Samuel Woodworth possesses
sufficient interest, we think, to warrant us in
presenting it. to our readers. It is a portion
of a private letter recently received from one
whose authority in tho matter cannot be ques
tioned. In reference to the period of tho pro
duction of tho “Old Oaken Bucket,” tho writer
says; V
“It was written in the Spring or Summer
of 1817. The family were living at the time
in Duane street. The poet came homo to :
dinner one very warm day, having walked
from Ilia .office, somewhere near the foot of
Wall street. Being much heated with the ex
ercise, he poured himself out a glass of water
—New York pump water —and drank it at a
draught, exclaiming, as he placed the tumbler
on the table, ‘That is very refreshing, buthow
much more refreshing would it bo to take a
good long draught, this warm day, from the
old oaken bucket I left hanging in my father’s
well, at home!’ Hearing this, the poet’s wife,
Who wim always a suggestive body, said, ‘Se
lim, way wouldn’t that be a pretty subject for
a poem ?’ The poet took the hint, and, under
the inspiration of the moment, sat down and
poured out'from his very soul those beautiful
lines which have immoralized the name of
Woodworth;” —Home Journal,
Insurue'ction in the Ohio PeniTEKWaiiv,
—A desperate conspiracy among the prisoners
in the Ohio Penitentiary, to rise en •masse,
murder the keepers and so escape, was frus
trated on Monday. Information of the plot
was given by one of the convicts, and tho ring-;
loader, one Blackburn, from Gallia county,
being secured, the remainder quietly submit
ted., ■
■ fi£a?°,A robustious countryman, meeting a
physician, ran to hide himself behind a wall.
Being asked tho cause, ho replied:
“It’s so long since I’ve been sick that I am
ashamed to look a doctor in the face.”
JSSy** A waggish constable in Albany last
Wednesday arrested a man under tho statute
against carrying deadly weapons; for going
into tho police Court room with a bottle of
whiskey in his pocket.
Cijffv says he’d rather die in a railroad
smaSh up than in a steamboat hurst up, for.
this roason. If you gits run off and smashed
up, dar you is.; but if you gits blowed up oh
do boat whnr is you ?”
DC7* A lawyer engaged in a case, tormented
a witness so much with questions that tho
poor follow-cried out for water. “There,"
said tho Judge, “I thought you’d pump him
drv ”
Thoro is a drcadfulambition abroad 6 for
being “genteel.”' :vWe;keep up, appearances,
too often af thß.yxpehse of honesty; and,
though wo may notborich, yet wo must seem
to bo'so. . Wemuttbo “respectable," though
only in the meanest mere vulgar
outward show.’ ; Wohovo not the courage to
go patiently onwarfcjh :tho condition of life
which'it has ploasedGod to call us; but must
needs live in soine’fashionable state to which
we ridiculously please 'to call ourselves, and
all to gratify tho.vanjty of that unsubstantial
genteel world of wCT£h wo form a part; There
is a constant atruggfeand pressure for front
seats in the social amphitheatre; in the midst
of which' nil noble; 1 self-denying resolves is
trodden down, and many fine natures are in
evitably crushed todjjpth. What waste, what
misery, what bankruptcy, come from all this
ambition to dazzle others with the glare of
apparent worldly: success, we need not de
scribe. ThetuisohievouS results show them
selves in a thousandways—in the rank frauds
committcd by meri w&p dare to bo dishonest,
but do not.dare to see them poor; and in the
desperate' dashes at fortuno. m which the pity
is not so.much for those who fgU. as for the
hundreds of
involved in their ruih.- ' r ' r \.
I Mr; Hume hit.the mark wicu.ho', once sta
ted in the House of his
words were followed 'by laughter—that the
tone of living in England is' altogether too
high. - Middle classes hfijlooplo are too apt to
dive up to their incomes, ; . if not beyond them;
affeoting a degree of style which is most un
healthy in its effect upon society at large.
'There is an ambition to bring boys up as gen
tlemen, or, rather “genteel” men; though the
result frequently is; only to make them gents!
They acquire a taatd fot dress, style, luxuries,
and amusements; which; can never form -any
solid foundation for Wanly, or gentlemanly
character ; and the result is that wo have a
;vast number of gingerbread young gentry
thrown'upon the world. jwh6 remind one of the
abandoned hulls sometinios picked .up at sea!
with only a monkey bn 1 board. ; "
HOLD; OS. ,
Hold on-to your tongue when you are just
ready to swear; lie, or.speak harshly, or use
iany improper word., ,i, '
Hold on to your you'are about
ready to strike; scratch,.Bteal, or do any im
proper act. , : ,t ■
Hold on to your foot when you are on, the
point of kicking, running away from study, or,
pursuing the patJi of error, shame or crime.
Hold on to your'tetnper. when you are an
gry, excited, or itnpoacdfhpon, or. others- are
angry about you. ■
Hold on to your-hoafjj'whon evil associa-
ficek your company, and invite you to
join in their games, mirth end revelry.
. Hold on to your good iamb at all times, for
it is more valuable to youfthah gold,*high pla-,
oes or fashionable attiro.li
! Hold on to the will sofve well,
;and do.yop v gQ,Qd,.tbtough^^tormtjUi, , x,;.„
Hold_ on to your vjftuo-iat is above all pried
to you in all times and places. \.
Hold on to your good character, for if is and
over will bo, your best wealth.
Distemper in the Horse.—la an eruption
foyer peculiar to. the horse, -attacking him
chiefly when young, contagious, but probably
also producible by other causes. It is char
acterised by sore throat and cough ; a thick
yellow mucopurulent discharge from the nos
trils some difficulty of breathing; and the
eruption of a hard inflammatory tumor in the
subcutaneous cellular tissue, between the
branches ,of the lower jaw, which matures
and, in about ton days from the first appear
ance of the disease, bursts. This is the.no-'
tural form of the , but in some sea
sons it assumes various forms. It is nearly,
.allied to those contagious eruptive fevers, such
as strangles in horses, inurnan in cattle, dis
temper in dogs, and scarlatina, in the human
subject. Fever, catarrh or sore throat some
times precede the formation of the intermax
illary tumor, sometimes * tumors come very
slowly, or does not suppurate properly, goes
hack and .appears in some , other , part of the
body, as inside the thigh, under, the shoulder
;blade, or, worse, in. some of , the internal or
gans. This, last form may be suspected when
the tumor beneath the jaw. do.es not come, pro
perly forward, when there is weakness and
loss of flesh, with derangement, either of the
respiratory or digestive organs.
Treatment,—-} The' great -aim. is the healthy
idevelopemont of the abscess in-the natural
site, between the branches of the Idwer jaw;
keep the animal cool, blit not cold; Let un
der warmth bo avoided.-' Encourage the ani
mal to eat bruised oats,-boiled barley, carrots
and green food. Except in mild cases, steam
the head and foment. -The abscess may be
safely allowed to burst of itself, unless symp
toms of suffocation appear; when the thicken
ing and knottihess of the skin, the result of a
premature opening, is avoided. -Vesicants
are only requisite when’the tumor is slow in
maturing; and is not Hastened by steaming
and hot fomentation. When the animal loses
its appetite, its.flesh and its'strength, admin
ister a preparation of iron and ginger in warm
ale, beer dr gruel.— Weekly Pennsylvanian.
A; Dog's Journey. —The following trait'of
sagacity in the canine race has.bcon given us
from an authentic source: : >
, ‘A brother of Mr. Esler, of the Johnson
Roof, n short time since'left the District, and
oyerland to Adelaide, taking with liima
dog belonging ’ to his brother. On arriving
there, the dog appeared ill at ease ; he deter
mined to see whether ho , would return, and
accordingly wrote a letter to his brother, and
enclosing it. in a handkerchief, tied it to, the
neck of the dog, which then , started. A let
ter was then posted to the brother hero, with
the somewhat laconic Contents of—‘Dear Bro
thor,—Arrived safely. Farther particulars
see dog.’ This was, of course, perfectly un
intelligiblo to Mr. Esler till, the day after re
ceiving the letter per post the four-footed mes
senger arrived with his‘‘further particulars’
round his nock. After his lonely journey of
COO miloS he did not appear much fatigued,
but seoniod overjoyed at regaining his own
town again.’ —Bendigo Australia Advertiser.
O’ “ Main’t I see you homo from mootin'*
Peggy?”
“ JNo, you shan’t do no such thing, I am
otherwise .engaged,” ,
, “I swanny, 1 guess you’ve missed it this
time, for I’ve my trouser pockets full of gin
ger-broad.”
“ You may take my arm, Bill, I only said
Rrt }>
O“Tw6 school girls, residing in Jefferson
county, Mo., wore obliged to pass through
some burning woods. The clothes of one of
them caught fire, and before aid could bo ren
dered the little one was burned to death.
(£?■ The man who was injured by a burst of
applause, is recovering.
When Dr, Bodge, an, eclectic physician, was
lecturing the .State on the laws of health, and
particularly on the evils of tea and coffee, he
happened to meet one morning at the break
fast table a witty son of Erin,: of tho bettor
class. , ■ .
. Conversation turned on the doctor’s favorite
subject; he addressed our Irish friend as fol
lows:'
• ‘‘Perhaps you'think I would bo unable to
convince you of the deleterious effect of tea
and coffee I”
“I don’t know,” said Brin, “but I’d like
to bo there when you do it I"
“Well," saijl the, doctor, “if I convince
you that they, are injurious to your health,
will you abstain from their use ?”
“ Shure and I will, sir.”
“How often do you use coffee and tea?”
asked the doctor.
“ Morning and night, sir.”
“ Well,” said the doctor, “do, you ever ex
perience a slight dizziness of the brain on go
ing to bed?" - ■ ' ' -
“I do—indado I do,”replied the noble son
of Erin.
. “ And a sharps pain through the temples,
in and about the ■ eyes in the mornln n- .”
“ Troth, I do, sir.” . °'
‘ Well,” said tho doctor, with an air of con
fidence and assurance in his manner, “ that is
tho tea and coffee.” ' .
. “Is it, indeed ? Faith and I always thought
it was the whisky I drank.”
Tho company roared, with laughter, and the
doctor quietly retired. He,was beaten.
■ The Eyes. —An eye can threaten like the
loaded gun, or can insult like hissing or kick-.
i“g; or in its altered mood, by beams of.kind
ness can make the heart dance with joy.
The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.
When a thought strikes up, the vision is fixed,
and remains looking at a'distance; in enume
rating .names of persons or countries, as
France, Spain,-Britain, or Germany, the eyes
wink at each new name. There is an honesty
in the eye 1 which the mouth does not partici
pate in. “The artist;” as Michael Angelo'
said,'“must haye his measure in his eye.
Eyes are bold as lions—bold; running, leap
ing. They speak all language; they need no
encyclopedia to aid in .the inteipretation of
their language; they respect neither rahk nor
fortune, - virtue ,nor ; sex,, but they go", through
and through you in a moment of time. You
can read in the eyes of yoiir companion, while
you talk with him, whether your argument
hits, though tongue will not confess it. There
is a look by whioh a man tells you he is going
to say a good thing, and a look which says
when he has said.it.
Vain and forgotten are all ,the fine offers of
hospitality, if there is no holiday in the eye.
, How ■. many inclinations arc avowed by the
eye, though the lips dissemble I How often
does one come from a company in which it
; may easily happen he has said nothing; that
no important remark has been addressed to
1 mm, and, ,yet in his sympathy with the com
™ seems hot to have a sense of this
fact, for a stream of light has .been,-' flowing
1 him through his eyes. As soon as men
are off their centres the eyes show it. • There
ape eyes, to be sure, that give no more admis
sion into the man than blue berries.. There
are liquid and deep wells that a man might
tau into; there are asking eyes, and assorting
eyes, and prowling eyes, and eyes full of faith!
ond-some of good and. some of sinister'omen,
the power of eyes to charm down insanity or
beasts, is a power behind the eyes, that must
be a victory achieved in the will before it can
be suggested.to the organ; but the man at
pdaee or unity with himself would move
through men and nature, commanding all "
things by the eye alone. The reason men ,
don’t obey us is, that they see the mud at the ,
bottom of our eyes. Whoever looked on the ,
hero would consent to his will being served • I
he would be obeyed,— R.- JK Emerson . (
Interview with a Polar Bear.— lt seems
hardly right to call polar hears land animals;
they abound here one hundred and ten geogra
phical mile's from the nearest land, upon very
loose, broken up ice, which is steadily drifting
into the Atlantic at the rate of twelve or four
teen miles daily. To .remain upon it would
be to insure their destruction, were they not
nearly amphibious. They hunt by scent, and
i are constantly seen running across and against
the wind, which prevails from the northward,
so that the same instinct, which directs their
search for prey, also .serves the important pur
pose of guiding them in the direction of land
and more solid too. I remarked that the up
per part of Bruin’s fore paws are rubbed quite
bare. Peterson explains, that to surprise the
seal a boar crouches down with his paws
doubled underneath, and pushes himself noise
lessly forward with his hinder legsuntil with
in a few yards, when he springs upomthe un
suspecting victim, whether in the water or
’upon the ice. The Greenlanders are fond of
bear’s flesh, but never can oat the , heart or
liver, and say that these parts cause sickness.
No instance is known of Greenland bears at
tacking men except when wounded or provo
ked; they never disturb the Esquimaux graves,
although they seldom fail to rob a cache of
seal’s flesh, which is a dimple construction of
loose stones above the ground. A native of
Uppornavik, one dark winter’s day, was out
visiting his seal nets. Ho found a seal en
tangled, and whilst kneeling down over it
upon the ice to get it clear, ho felt a slap on
the back, from his companion, as he supposed;
but a second and heavier blow made him look
smartly round. Ho was horror-stricken to see
a peculiarly grim old bear instead of his com
rade 1 Without deigning further notice of the
man, bruin tore the seal out of the not, and
commenced his supper. Ho was not , inter:
rupted; nor did the man wait to see the meal
finished.— Copt. McCliniock's voyage in search
of Sir John Franklin.
H 7" Some years since, a boy in -county
Va, named Timborlake, was sent to school
gratuitously, by a gentleman of the nemo of
Starke. This boy was plowing one day with
a one-horse team, and liis horse, being dis
posed to turn 1 aside from the true course, ho
bawls out to him:
“ Why don’t you come hither, I tolls you f”
A gentleman happening to bo near, and
overhearing the boy’s exclamation, calls to
him and says;
“ I thought Starke sent you to school toloarn
grammar!”
“ Humph 1” retorts the boy, “you think
that Xam such a fool as to' talk grammar to a (
horse ?”
Governor Packer has issued his war
rant for the execution of Henry Pritts, con
victed of murder in the first degree, in Somer
set county. The execution is fixed for Friday,
The Coroner of Chicago hold an inquest
on Sunday, the Bth inst„ on the body of a boy
thirteen years of ago, who had committed su
icide by hanging, to relievo himself of the
harsh treatment of his father.
Carlinvillo, Illinois, April 17.—This city
and section of country wore visited Cn yester
day evening, about six o'clock, by onb of the
most terrific storms that was ever experienced
in this country. There seemed to bo two dis‘
tinct currents of air, both of which came in
contact when about over this village, creating
a most terrific and appalling scene. . A num
ber of houses wore blown down, and roofs by
the quantity were torn from dwellings, store
houses and barns, and carried to an incredible
distance.
Tho roof of the Protestant Lutheran Church
was blown some distance, and- the walls some
what injured. A dwelling House in tho West
part of town was demolished by a roof from a
large store-house, the roof having been carried
about fifty yards, striking the top of the dwel
ling,, crushing it nearly Jevel with the earth.
The family narrowly escaped with their lives
—-one child was badly burnt in making its es
cape from the building. A roof from a dwel
ling was seen flying through the air; afan an
gle of two hundred feet, supposed to have been
carried about a mile and a half. One large
two-story frame house was twisted around,
making it almost a total .wreck.
Stock was killed in every direction. Con
sternation was seated upon every countenance
of the inhabitants. Trees, fences, brick chim
neys, &c., could have been seen flying in every
direction. _ A small child was carried at two
different times quite a distance in the air, but
was not seriously injured. It was blown from
/off.a porch where it was standing. Small out
houses went tumbling about as if their weight
did not exceed that of a feather. A man by
tho name of Love, while plowing,-was instant
ly killed by ligtning. We heard of another
that was plowing, and had both of his cattle
killed, one by lightning, and the other by the
falling of a tree—the driver was uninjured,
Tom 'Sayers, Tlir Pugilist.
Tom Sayers can, physically, be best describe
cd, says a London correspondent of ‘f Porter’s
' Spirit,” by the word “sturdy." Ho stands
like a rook; walks with his haunches on a
firm, easy wing; makes: you fancy that “it’s
no use knocking that chap down; he’ll bo up
again before I can say ‘Jack Robinson/ and,
likp the Titian, twice as strong for having
kissed his mother earth." That’s where the,
chief point of difference between , the rival
champions lies. Sayers’ face, when he is put
of condition,, is large, and somewhat inclined
to be puffy. His eye is of the ‘pig’ order
small, deep-set, and inscrutiable. Jt is most
dangerous because you cannot understand the
bearings of its expression. It does not inten
sify in gaze when ho means' mischief, and so
give yon warning of the coming “ auctioneer,”
jut is the same—stoical, imperturable—-either
when he has just been floored, or the moment
before he propels the terrific right hander that
ids to grass the. “ candidate" who standsbeforo
.him,. . ■ .
■ ®S' lt ' n S T '® Tt !r wasratluccd'lo such,
coldiblooded, matter-of-fact science ’os it has
been by Tom. From the moment ho enters
the ring, he regards his opponent ns a “ sub
ject” that it is his duty to dissect. This idea,
in the stolid way it is impressed upon his
j.mind, never leaves him until ho sees the
I sponge thrown up by somebody", whether by
his own or the others side it docs not matter,
as those who saw his fight with Nat Langham
I remember. Such power of self-devotion
.to, and conoehtrativo energy upon a given ob
ject, renders him tor the time, in-my opinion,
invincible. You cannot by severity of punish
ment, divert his mind from the ono undivided
idea and intent of ultimate victory; and his
body is so tough that you cannot wear that
out before you have demoralized the loss ma
terial part of his organization. To beat him,
an antagonist must do one of two things
blind him or stun him. Quid Nat” had sci-'
once and strength enough to do the former,
and came off conqueror. lam told that the
Benicia Boy has the roquisite.amount of sledge
hammer in his fists, his flexors and extensors
to do tho latter. We shall see, :
, Tom has been taken off his pins with ”• rib
roasters" and “jaw-breakers” before now;
yet he always managed to shake himself up.
; m the thirty seconds allowed between rounds,
and come up to the scratch at the time-keep
er’s call in a rough and ready sort of a way
that was not to be trifled with. In his second
fight with; Aaron Jones, for instance, some
sporting lord .{Drumlanrig, I think,) offered
Jones, a pretty round doucuer if ho would get
first knock-down in a certain indicated round.
Jones, who was as plucky as tho what’s-his
name, went in to edrn his money with a will,
and regardless of consequences, gave the gen-,
tle Tom such a straightonor bn the tide of the
neck as not only, “ stretched him prone,” but
caused his backers serious doubts as tq wheth
er ho would ever get up anymore. But Jem
my Massey spoke up sharply to him, gave him
an extra squeeze of the sponge, and ho woke
up somehow, astonishing everybody round tho
ring.by his steady march to the scratch. Old
hands exclaimed at the time, “By Jingo, if it
wouldn’t take a Ilindian club to knock the
senses hout o’ such a cove as that !" Ex.
Effect op Blce Window Glass.— lf green
leaves are viewed through the ordinary blue
. glass used in ornamental windows,- when the
sun is shining, all those through which the
light is transmitted appear orange red, while
those from which it is reflected appear of a
grayish tint. On a favorable day, trees so ob
served seem covered with brilliant blossoms.
Death Penaltv in New York.—A bill
has passed both branches of the State Legis
lature of Now York essentially modifying the
death penalty. Executions hereafter are only
to bo for.trcason, arson, and murder in the
first degree. In cases of death sentences, tho
execution shall hot take place until one year j
after sentence shall have been passed, nor un
til tho issue of the Governor’s warrant,
JBQ?" John ITaylor, for killing William
.Graves at Richmond, Va., has boon convicted
of involuntary manslaughter, and fined $5OO.
Kieled. — A slave, owned by Mrs. Mary
Gilliam, of Dinwiddio county, Va., was shot
I and killed on Wednesday last, by Dr. Anson,
his hirer, whom he was attacking with a club.
B®“In exhuming some bodies at a family
graveyard, near Crawfordsvillo, S. C., lately,
the body of a woman, buried- some twelve or
more' years, was found a petrifaction, with
each article of dress perfect,
A
SjnCui.au Death.— Mrs. JanoGamblo, a
widow lady, of Eatonton, Ga., under the influ
onco of monomania, starved herself to death,
oho died on the Bth inet., having lived twenty
days without a particle of food.
ter
- , Beutzo is about to paint the landing of
of tho Cathojica in Maryland under Ix)rd Bal
timore. 1
BfiT" Tlio Parker Mills, at Wnrolmm, Mass.,
arc cutting 10,000 kogs of nails per month.
party.
3C7” Whatever career you embrace, propose
to- yourselves an elevated aim, and put in its
service an unalterable constancy. • •
DC7" “ How did you like your visit, to your
sweetheart?" “Oh, I.didn’t like
witji which I was received by her father."
O’" Suspicions among thoughts are like hats
among birdsi that over fly by twilight. They
are defects, not in the heart, but.in the brain.-
. ®> B tonclonoyof excessive reading ofteU
is not only to indispose us for conversing our
selves, but to make the general conversation
of others insipid.
C 7” Men are: frequently like tea—tho real
strength and goodness are not properly drawn
out of them till they have been a short time ia
hot water.
BIT’ Years are the sum of hours. Vain is it
at wide intervals to say, “ I’ll save this year,”
if at each narrow interval you do not say, “I’ll
save this, hour,"
Let the day have a blessed baptism by
giving your first waking thoughts into the bo
som of God. The first hour of tho morning
is tho rudder of the day. °
BIT’ Don’t despond.. Let not anxiety ’ "have
you on the./iip."- Consider your health ns
your best frjend, and think as well of it. in
spite of its foibles, ns you can.
Dp* Men don’t generally like to be hamp
ered, but if you are going out to spend a week
If 10 had bettor hamper your-
. BKeep a scrap book if you like, but
don t put into it every thing you can manage
to scrape up; that is, don't lot your scrap-book
bo.a mere scrap-book.
E 7” When men and women get very-old,
they are generally, for the -best of reasons, in
ao danger of having their misdeeds thrown in
their .teeth. , . '
DC7' A single piece of ordnance would have
secured to Pompoy the battle of Pharsalia,
and a single frigate at Actium would have
given Antony the empire of the world.
! y7" It is not proper for a young lady to
leave her partner in the ball-room to dance in
anothorpart of the house. At least m?t with
out acquainting him with her intention. .
O” Men with a strong appetite for land
I generally. take it by the acre ahd willingly
swallow it greedily by the thousand; acres.—.
They satisfy their appetite, at last, on sis feet
of it. ■ ; . .
C - That person who views what ho dis
likes with suspicion, or treats what, after all,
may only ho zeal for his welfare with anger
or at all events with ah ungracious petulance!
does not deserve to havo a friend. ,
ICT* Surely n woman may bo able, or, as a
Yankee would say, raising
Cain and making one fool like throwing a veil
over her and withdrawing her from the public
gaze lor her own mother’s sake.
w ? r . k for thc attainment
of an object. If the object itself is not im
portant, the pursuit is. The fox, when caught,
is worth nothing—ho is followed for the plea
sure of the following. 1
tD“ Do not cat or drink anything that your
stomach dislikes, and clean your teeth every
day and you will probably soon bo rid of your
bad breath. Camphor and chalk make a good
powder for cleaning the teeth.
i ® u ? °t ?ho duties of friendship is calm
ly to advise, instruct, sustain, and console;
and when this duty is performed prudently,
the object should fool grateful, and bo pro
pared, when needful, with a rcciprooatory
compliment.
(Wb anl
C 7" Tho heart is a hoot which wo ought
not to tear in bur hurry to get a,\ Its contents.-
fc7* Yoif ehpfild deal aid ten
derly with a he’art still your bwii,-
iy A policy: of itfStirnncb is.bfttpijrenddred
void by impolicy,- ■ V
C7’ Pickles in glazed pahs,gross' flogs, and
delays, are dangerous.- : • -
_ O" Physical beauty ip, a, fitting envelope of
Intellectual and moral beauty; " ' ’ *■
O’ It is no unoommonihing thathot words
produce a coolness.
O’Don’t locate yourself on the hook of a
wild horse unless'you want to bo dislocated. *
[O* A stitch in tho side, takon in time, may
save nine spasms. . ■
(O’ Corn and wflicftt, like . very slovenly
people, often have smut in their ears.
(O’ The first draught serveth for
the second for pleasure—the third for, shame'
—and the fourth for madnosSi
(O’ My books speak to my mind, my friend's
to my heart, heaven to my soul, and all the
rest to my ears. •
CC7“ Never answer a calumniator. If yorf
will only give a rattlesnake time enough,’ha
will sting himself and die of his own-vdnom.
DC7* Man’s riches are to be estimated rather
by the, fewness of his wants than the great
ness of his possessions. ,
DCT” A load of epistolary liabilities is tho
heaviest baggage that a traveller can bear
about with him.
. DC7* Idle men are more burdened with their
timo than.the most busy are with their busi
ness. ■ . . ~
Bl7* Praises are valuable only wheU they
come from lips that have tho courage to cops
deinn. • :
DC7“ There is a kind of. fortune, called 91
luck! so ill, that you hope it will die—but it
doesn’t. ■ 1
O” A faithful, genuinß friend, who will
neither flatlet nor cajole, is a rarity'in the
present day. . ,
D-T” When a girl, for any reason, advises
you to " marry another,” you may as. well go
and take her advice.
DC/’The misery of idleness is nearly'os '
manifest in high life as in the rags and filth
of extreme poverty.
jCT" Mon of correct principles are disgusted
with flattery, , and denounce the venders of that
nauseous article as “ toadies.”
10“ A Massachusetts editor says.that there
are one thousand six hundred tin nedlars in
that enlightened State.
' -XT' iTh-c-mouicnt anything assumes the
.shape .of a duty, spnie persons feel themselves,
incapable of discharging it,
jCT” Life should be fortified by many friend-,
ships; to lovo and to be loved.is the greatest
happiness of existence. ,
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