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Columbia. J ludo 9.1-59
We Have Just Received
R. CUTTER'S Improved Chest Expanding
t:u-pentler rind Shoulder Brae, for ilaiatiiiint•n.
and Patera Skirt Supporter and 11rare for Ladle,.
the article that at thin time. Come
MO roe them at Faintly Medicine. Store. Odd 1 e:lrici,9o
[April:l.l-59
Prof. Gardner's Soap
yiTr. have the New I , ,w4lnud Soop for thoce who the
r not ablaut R from the z•oa;, %Inn; it I. plea-nut
to the nod min talks grea-e , pot- from Woo'en
Good 4, it in ihelejore Ito hum , orz. for you get the
worth of your Maur y 01 the Fatuity Mediefile :`to,
Columbia. June I , 1 tSO.
( 1 ,..11101, or, Bond's Boston Crackers, for
mol Arrow Hoot Crar,ket-.
valid, and eluldn•a—ucw omelet la Columba, at
the Family M edleille Store.
MMM
PREPARED GLUE.--The want of
...Veil 111111r:10e I, 111 every family. and now
It enn be supplied; ka [ll,ndto; 'di allure, ehnl:r
ware. osstatnessial work, soy,. [lsere I, lwooing
superior. We have Osumi st u•eful 111 rrisairsokrlnany
arsieleo which hove Leess us.sele,ss fur month-. YOU
inn Ain n ut the
la.ounA 1 , 311 LY 311:DIC IN 13 svronn.
IRON AND STEEL !
Tili;SUl,e raw, ree,i‘ed a Nev and Large
Lilock of all 1.1.04 out -In of
BAI: MON AND STEEL!
They ore coo-tautly ',twit:a with •tnelc to !la": brava It
of be‘ butoute“, nod can 111.11..11 it to ro.'onter. iit large
or 8 1 1111111111:111thleet, at the 11Me..1 Otte.;
J HUAI ,k SON,
TArti=t Farcet below tiettond, Columbia, Pa.
April 29, !et:to.
IITTER'S Compound Syrup of 11 , and
v Wild Cherry, r +tile
he Goldcii Moriar DrugSlore, Front I. [ lulyY
A_YER'S Compound Coarentrated ENtratt
Sareaparilla mr the vim, or Scrofula I Kole'.
Evil. and all ecrofolotie affection., a freub at, rle lust
received and for rate by
11.1VILLIANIS, Front el , Columbia,
Rcpt.:ll,lsM,
FOR SALE.
2 00 Ross Triettolt Matelies, very low for cash..
bide IL 1V11.1.1AN14
Dutch Herring!
ANY one food of u good Ilernnq con ho Anpptied at
t 4. F. En ERMA N'S
N0v.19,1859. Grocery Store, No. 71 Locu.t Ft.
LON'S PORE 01110 CITAIVIII BRANDY
and PURI; WI NMS e.peerally for Atedic inc.;
111.1 Sacramental pit rpo-e., a l rhr:
Jan.SS. I IX VI EDIMNI:STOI11:.
-N[Cl pi9 ist i Ns il for 8 cts. per pound, arc to
. _.
J=lll.Ers's Grocery Store.
No. 71 l.octpai st reet
March 10, MO
GARDEN SEEDS.--Fresh Carden Seeds, war
ruined pure, of all k•o la. Jo=t received ttt
ELIERLEIN'S Grocery Store,
No. 71 l=oan-t street.
March 10,1960
POCKET BOOKS AND PURSES
ALdRG❑ lot or Moe and Common Pm•kcl Nook:
and Purse.t,nt from 15 cent.. to two tloll.tr+ each.
He dquurters and New•- Depot
Columbia, April 14.1 .0.1.
HEW more of those beautiful Prints
lett, which will Ile ri t enp, nt
.....;AVLOR ec Alel/ONALD'S
Colomln.v. l'n.
April 14
Jnst Received and For Sale.
1500 SACKS Ground Alum Sall, in large
Or SOIIII go in tie-, at . . .
A PrOI.D'S
Canal 11:1.111
M ..Y s .' 41
['OLD CREIM OF GLITERINE.—For the cure
Riad preventvon In chopped hand.. Ar. Inc dale
at t h e GOLDEN JIOR EAR DRUG STORE,
Trout -trt.t.t. Coltitni”a.
Turkish Prunes!
FOR /rat rate urttele of Pram , you, mnqt co to
S. 1.. IGIIIiItLEIN'S
No v. :9, 1r. 4 ../0. Grocery Stare, No 71 Locuo
GOLD PENS, GOLD PENS
J11..?T received a large and fine negortment of Gold
rene. of Neveton and r:rivsvold'c manufacture, at
SA VLOIt dc McDONA LI'S Book Store,
l • ront virect, above I,ocu-t.
MIMI
FRESH GRUCF.RI ES
IX' E continue to sell the be.l..l.evyr Syrup. 'While
and Brown Sugars.good Coffee. and choice Teas.
to be %ad 111 Columbia at the New Corner Store. op
poetic Ch/ • Fellows' Hall, and at the old stand adiont•
tug the `alt. 11. C. roNUERSMI:III. _
Tfic,
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ALOT of first-rate Segars. Tobacco and smor will
he tau/ad al the store of the subscriber. He Jeeps
only a first rate article. Call at.
S. F. EBE'RI.EIN'S Grocery Store,
Locust at, Columbia, Pa.
Oet6,N3 t
CRANBERRIES,
TT EW Crop Prunes, Neer Caton, at
111 Oct. P0.1e60. A. M. RAMBO'S
SARDINES,
W oreerlerddre Sauce, Refined Coro*, hr., jog re
retired and for sale by S. V. ELIEU LEIN,
Get. 20, LBOO, No. .71. Gor 01.4 St.
CRANBERRIES.
UST received afresh lot of Cranberries andNevr
J
Curranis.at No 7L Locust Street.
Oct 'A LSGO. S. P. EIIEaLE, IN
Dattrg.
* 150
Sing, bird, on green NI is,outi's
The saddest nor, of sorrow;
Drop tears, 0 clouds, in genile•t rain
Ye Dort the winds ran borrow;
Breathe out, ye, wind+, your softe , t sigh,
%Veep flowers, in dewy kplendrir,
For him who knew how well to die,
13ut never to surrender.
Uprose serene the August sun
Upon that day of glory;
Upeurled from musket and from gun
The war-cloud gray and hoary.
It gathered like a funeral pall,
Now broken and now blended,
Where mitr, the bugle's angry call,
And rank wit. rank contended.
EMI
Four thousand turn. an heave and true
As e'er went foil], in daring,
Upon the foe that morning threw
The strength or their despairing.
They reeled not death—men bless the Geld
That pntriot otdier. die on—
Fair Freedom'' , cane wan :word and 'hid,'
And at their head was Lyon.
Their leader's troubled soul looked forth
I'ro,n eyes of troubled brightnes , ;
Sad noel! the burden of the North
Had prei , ted out all its lightnes,
Ile gazed upon the unequal fight,
Ilk ranks all rent and gory,
And felt the -hadows close Ike night
hound his career of glory.
°General, Come lend lb.!" loud the cry
From n linive band 1.1:11 ringing—
'Lead and We will stop. or the,
That battery'. 'twin! ..ittging.,."
llc 4ptirred to where bit heroet :mod,
'twice wounded—no one knowing—
'rite lire orb:Intl! in In.; blood
An,: on his forehead glowing.
Oh. eur , ed for aye that traitor's haul,
And cursed that aim so deadly.
Winch smote the brave-t of the laud,
And dy ed lice.oan rellsl—
coy he lay while past loin pre...cd
The battle. furiou. bd low,
A. calm!! a, a babe in I y re-t
Upon it. mother%
So Lvov theil! and well :nay daw•ere
11,9 play: of burial rover;
I'or never had this land of ours
A more devoted lover.
Lit•inq. hi. country wu. li, bride,
Ilse tile Inc gave her
Life, fortune. love—ho n kogitt denied
To her and to her .sighing.
!Lem, patriot, In thy hilk.ide grove,
Ite.ide her form who bore thee:
Long moy the lowd thou die.rit to -ave
lit honoured -tor.; W3Ve o'er thee'
Upon her hint - }''' ptt.te,
And on fame . - glowing pored,
She'll Write thy gland, hetow rag',
And grove thy noow tintoortol'.
tor: Pot
-:gtiEttiolts.
From A: , the Your Round
A. Misplaced Attachment.
If we had to make a claqsi fieation of so
ciety, there is a particular kind of men
whom we should immediately set down un
der the head of "Old Boys;" and a column
of most extensive dimensions the old boys
would require. To w hat precise causes the
rapid advance of old boy population is to be
traced, we are unable to determine; it would
be an interesting and curious speculation,
but as we have not sufficient space to devote
to it here, we simply state the fact that the
numbers of the old boys have been gradu
ally augmenting within the last few years,
and that they are at this moment alarmingly
on the increase.
Upon a general review of the subject, and
without considering it minutely in detail,
we should be disposed to subdivide the old
boys into two distinct classes—the gay old
boys and the steady old boys. The gay old
boys are paunchy old men in the disguise of
young ones, who frequent the Qoadrant and
Regent street in daytime, the theatres (es
pecially theatres under lady management)
at night, and who assume rill the fppi-lmess
and levity of boys. without the excuse of
youth or inexperience. The steady old boys
are certain stout old gentlemen of clean ap
pearance, who are always to be seen in tav
erns, at the same hours every evening.
smoking and drinking in the some company.
There was once a tine collection of old
boys to be seen roun I the circular table at
Oaley's every night between the hours of
half-past eight and half•past eleven. We
have lost sight of them for some time.—
There were, and may be still. fur aught we
know, two splendid specimens in full blos
som at the Rainbow Tavern in Fleet street,
who always used to sit in the 1.)os nearest
the fire-place, and smoked long cherry-stick
pipes which went under the table, with the
bowls resting upon the floor. Grand old
boys they were—fat, red-faced, white
headed old fellows; always there—one on
one side the table, and the other opposite—
puffing and drinking away in great state;
everybody knew them, and it was supposed
by some people that thsy were ba.h immor
tal.
Mr. John Dunce was an old boy of the
latter class, (we don't mean immortal, but
steady)—a retired glove and braces maker,
a widower, resident with three daughters—
all growu up, and all unmarried—in Cursi
tor street, Chancery lane. Ile was a short,
round, large-faced, tubbish sort of man,
with a broad-brimmed hat, and a square
coat; and had that grave, but confident
kind of roll, peculiar to the old boys in gen
eral. Regular as clock-work—breakfast at
nine—dress and titivate a little—down to
the Sir Somebody's !lead—glass of ale and
the paper—acme back again, and take the
daughters out for a walk—dinner at three
—glass of grog and pipe—nap—tea—little
walk—Sir Somebody's head again—capital
Lyon
"NO ENTERTAINAIENTIS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 16, 1861.
house!—delightful evenings! There were
Mr. Harris, the law stationer, and Mr. Jen
nings, the robemaker, (two jolly young fel
lows like himself,) and Jones, the barris
ter's clerk —rum fellow, that Jones—capi
tal company—full of anecdote! and there
they sat every night till just ten minutes
before twelve, drinking their brandy and
water, ani smoking their pipes, and telling
stories, and enjoying themselves, with a
kind of solemn joviality particularly edify-
Sometimes Jones would propose a half
price visit to Drury Lane or Covent Garden,
to see two acts of a five-act clay, and a new
farce, perhaps, or a ballet, on which occa
sions the whole four of them went together;
none of your hurrying and nonsense, but
having their brandy and water first, com
fortably, and ordering a. steak and some oys
ters for their supper against they came h,Tk,
and then walking coolly into the pit, When
the "rush" had gone in, as all sensible people
do, and did when Mr. Dounce was a young
man, except when the celebrated Master
Betty was at the height of his popularity;
and then, sir—then Mr. Ditunce perfectly
well remembered getting a holiday from
business, and going to the pit doors at eleven
o'clock in the forenoon, and waiting there
till six in the afternoon, with some sand
wii•hes in a pocket h tit lkerchi f and some
wine in a phial, and fainting, :trier all, with
the heat aid fatigue before the p'ay bsg en;
in which situation he was lifted out of the
pit into one of the dress boxes, sir, by five of
the finest women of that day, sir, who com
passionate,' his situation and administered
restoratives, an I sent a black servant, six
feet high, in blue and silver livery, next
morning, with their compliments, and to
know how he round himself, sir—by G—!
Between the . act Mr. Donner, and Mr. Har
ris, and Jennings used to stand up, and look
round the house; aad Jones—knowing fel
low, that Jones—knew everybody—pointed
out the fashionable and celebrated lady So
asd-So in the boxes, at the mention of whose
name Mr. Romeo, after brushing up Lis
hair, and adjusting his . neckerchief. would
inspect the aforesaid lady So-and-So through
an immense glass, and remark either that
she was a "line woman—very tine woman,
indeed," or that "there might he a little
mote of her—eh, Jones?" just as the case
might happen to be. When the Ca tieing be
gan, John Doonee and the other old boys
were particularly anxious to see What was
going forward on the stage; mulJones—wick
el dog, that Jones—whispered little critical
rem:u•ks into the ears of John Donner, which
John Dounee retailed to Mr. Harris, and
Mr. Harris to 311.. •lennings, and then they
all four lam:,hed till the tears ran down
out of their eye,'.
When the curtain fell they walke I hack
together two lend two, to the steaks and
oysters, and when they came to the second
glass of brandy and water, •Jones—hoaxing
scamp, that Jones—used to recount how he
hat observed a l.vly in white feathers in one
of the pit boxes, gazing iotcntly on Mr.
Dounee all the evening, and how he had
caught Mr. Deunce, whenever he thought
no one was looking at him, bestowing ar
dent looks of intense devotion on the lady in
return; on which Mr. Harris and Mr. Jen
nings used to tangle very heartily, and John
Dunce more heartily than either of them,
acknowledging, however, that, the time lead
been when he might have done such things:
upon which Mr. Jones used to poke him in
the ribs and toll him ho had been a sad log
in his time, which John I) .nnec, with
chuckles, confessed. And otter Mr. Harris
and Mr. Jennings had preferred their claims
to tho character of having been sad doge,
too, they separated harmoniously, and trot
ted home.
The decrees of Fate, and the means by
which they are brought about, are mysteri
ous and inscrutable. pounce had led
this life for twenty years and upward, with
out wish fur change, or eve fur variety,
when his who!e social system was suddenly
upset, and turned completely topsy-tiirvy—
not by an earthquake. or some other dread
ful convulsion of nature, as the reader would
be inclined to suppose, but by the simple
agency of an oy4ter: and thus it happened:
Mr. John D ounce was returning one night
from the Sir S mrebody's Head, to his resi
dence in Cursitor street—not tipsy, but
rather excited, for it was Mr. Jennings's
birth-day, and they had had a brace of par
tridges for supper, and a brace of extra
glasses afterward, and Jones had been been
mare than ordinarily amusing—when his
eyes rested on ta newly-opened oyster shop,
on a magnificent scale, with natives laid
one deep in circular marble basins in the
windows, together with little round barrels
of oysters directed to lords and baronets,
colonels and captains, in every part of the
habitable globe.
Behind the natives were the barrels, and
behind the barrels was a young lady of
about five-and-twenty, all in blue, and all
alone—splendid creature, charming face,
and lovely figure! It is difficult to say
whether Mr. John Thunec's red countenence,
illuminated as it was by the flickering gas
light in the window before which he passed,
excited the lady's risibility, or whether a
natural exhuberanco of animal spirits proved
too much for that steadiness of demeanor
which the forms of society rather dictator
ially prescribe. But certain it is, that the
lady smiled, then put her finger upon her
lip, with a striking illustration of what was
due to herself; and dually retired. in oyster
ike bashfulness, to the very back of the
counter. The sad-dog sort of feeling, came
strongly upon John Dounee; he lingered—
the lady in blue made no sign. Ile coughed
—still she came not. He entered the shop.
"Can you open me an oyster, my deal?"
said Mr. John Dounce.
"Dare say I can, sir," replied the lady in
blue, with enchanting playfulness. And
Mr. John Dunce eat one oyster, and then
looked at the young lady, and then eat
another, and then squeezed the young lady's
hand as she was opening the third, and so
forth, until he devoured a dozen of those et
eightpence in less [hut no time.
"Can you open nie a half-a-dozen more,
my dear?" inquired Mr. Juhn Dounce.
"I'll see what can do fur you, sir," re
plied the young lady in blue, even more be
witching than before; and Mr. John Dounce
eat half-a-dozen m-are of those at eightpence,
and his gallantry increased.
"You couldn't manage to get me a glass
of brandy-and-water, my taear, I suppose?"
said Mr. John Dounce, when he had finished
the oysters, in a tone which clearly implied ;
his supposition that she could.
"I'll see, sir, said the young lad;; and
away she ran out of the shop, and down the
street, her long auburn ringlets shaking in
the wind in the most enchanting manner;
and back she coma again, tripping over the
coal cellar lids like a whipping-top, with a
tumbler of brandy-and-water, which Mr.
John DJunco insisted on her taking a share
of„ as it was regular ladies' grog—hot,
strong, sweet, and plenty of it.
So the young lady sat down with Mr.
John Dounce in a little red box with a green
curtain, and took a small sip of the brandy
and-water, and a small look at John Dounce,
and turne 1 her head awoy, an•l went through
various tither serio-pantombnic fascinations,
which forcibly reminde I Mr. John Dounce
of the lir.t time he courted his first wife,
and Whiell male hint feel intro affectionate
than ever; in pursuance of witich affeetion,
and actuate I by which feeling, Mr. John
Dounce sounded the young lady t n her mat
rimonial engtgetnent, when the young lady
denied it tvin ; tortne i any such ci.gagements
at all—ho couidn'r hear the men, they
were -itch le thereupon Mr. 4.11111
D u tee inquired whether this sweeptuglitill
, detonation was incaut to include other titan
very young men; on which the young lady
blushed deeply—at lea-t she turned away
her head, and said Mt Jowl nonce had
made her blush, so of course Ate cal blush
—an 1 Mr. Jain Daunce was a lung time
drinking the brandy-and-water; and the
young lady s ti.l, " is done, sir," very often;
and at lost John I) 'once went home to bed,
and dreamt of his first wife, and his second
wife, and the young lady, and partridges,
and oysters, and brandy-and-water, and dis
interested attachment..
The next Merning John DJU nee was
rather feverish with the extra brandy-and
water of the previous night; and tartly in
the hope of cooling himself with an oyster,
and pertly with the view of ascertaining
whether he owe 1 the vAang It ly a.nt thing
or not, went b volt to the oyster-shop. It
the young lady had apppeared beautiful by
night, she was perfectly irresistable by day;
and from this time forward a cluinge cime
over the spirit ofJohn Ihunee's dream. lie
bought shirt-ping; wore a ring on his third
finger; read thetry; bribed a cheap minia
ture-painter to perpetrate a faint resem
blance to a youthful face, with curtain over
his head, six large books in the backg:ound,
and an open country in the distance.(this he
called his portrait:) "went on" altogether in
such an uproarious mannner that the three
Miss Pounces tvent off on small pensions, he
having made the tenement in Curistor street
too warm to contain them; and, in short,
comported and demeaned himself in every
respect like an uatnitigated old Saracen, as
no was.
As to his ancient friends, the other "Id
boys, at the Sir Somebody's Head, he drop
ped off from them by gradual degrees; for
even when he did go there, Jones—vulgar
fellow, that Jones—persisted in asking
"when it was to be?" and "whether he Ml.+
to have any glove'?" together with other in
quiries of an e q ually offensive nature, at
which not only Ilarris laughed, but Jennings
also; s•o he cut the two altogether, and at
tached himself solely to the blue young lady
nt the smart oyster-shop.
Now comes the moral of the story
--for it has a moral, after all. The
last mentioned young lady, having deri% el
sufficient profit and emolument from John
Dounce's attachment, not only refused when
matters came to a crisis to take him fur bet
ter or worse, but eapressly declared, to use
her own forcible words, that she "wouln't
have him at any price;" and John Dounce,
having lust his old friends alienated his re
lations, amid rendered himself ridiculous to
everyb,dy, made offers suscessiveely to a
schoolmistress, a landlady, a feminine to
bacconist, and a houskeeper; and being di
rectly rejected by each and every one of
them, was accepted by his cook, with whom
he now lives, a hen-pecked husband, a mel
ancholy monument of antiquated misery,
' and a living warning to all uxorious old boys.
Singular Intrepidity
In 1770 Admiral Watson, having sailed
with his tquadron and the King's troops
from Fort St. David to the assistance of
Calcutta, in the East Indies, stopped at
Mayapore, on banks of the Ganges, where
the enemy had a place of considerable
strength, called Bougee Fort, which it was
necessary to secure before he proceeded any
further in the expedition. The action was
begun by a brisk cannonade from the squad
ron, which soon silenced the cannon of the
fort; but the garrison not offering to sur
render, and continuing to discharge lire-ar
rows and small arms, it was determined in
a council of sea and land officers, that Colo
nel Clive should endeavor to take it by ns-,
sault. For this purpose, at five in the eve
ning the Admiral landed an officer, two
midshiptneri and about forty sailors from
each ship, under the command of Captain
King, to assist the Colonel in storming the
fort, which he intended doing just before
daylight, under cover of two twenty-four
pounders, mounted close to the ditch. In
the meantime, the Colonel had given direc
tions that the whale army—the necessary
guards excepted—and the detachment from
the ships should rest on the Bound, in order
to recover themselves as much as possible
from the fatiguet they had undergone in
the preceding day's service.
All was now quiet in the camp, and we
on board the ships, which lay at their an
chors but a small distance front the shore,
had entertained thoughts of making use of
that interval to refresh ourselves with an I
hour or two of sleep, but lenly a loud
and universal exclam ttion was heard front
the shore, and soon after an account was I
brought to the Admiral that the fart had
been taken by storm. This was a joyful
piece of news, and the mwe so as it was
quite unexpected, bat when the particular
circumstances that ushered in this success
were related, our exultation was greatly
abated, because we found that the rules so
indispensably necessary in all military ex
ploits had been entirely disregarded in the
present instance, and therefore could not
help looking upon the person who had the
principal hand in this victory rather as an
of of chastisement than of applause.—
The case was this:
Daring the tranqoil state of the camp one
Stroh, n, n common sailor belonging to the
ICNit, having just been served with a quan
tity of grog (arraok mixed with water), had
his spiri to too mach elated to think of taking
any rest; ho therefore strayed by himself
towards the fort, and inTherceptibly gat un
der the walls. Doing advanced thus far
without interruption, he took it into his head
to scale at a breach that had been made by
the cannons of the ships, and having luckily
gotten up in the bastion, he there discovered
seven.' Mour men sitting upon the platform,
at whom he flourished his cutlass and fired
his pistol, and then, having given three loud
htmas, cried out "Vic place is mine!"
The Moorish soldiers immediately attacked
him, and he defended himself with incredi
ble resolotion, Lot in the encounter had the
misfortune ti have the hhade of his cutlass
cut in two about a foot from the hilt. This
mischance, however, did nut happen till he
was near being supported by two or three
other sailors who had accidentally strap. ;
gled to the same part of the fort on which
the other had mounte I. They, hearing
Straho's cries, immediately scaled the
breach likewise, and echoing the triumphant
sound, roused the whole army, who, taking
the alarm, fell on pellonell, without order
and without discipline, following the exam
ple of the sailors. This attack although
made in such confusion, was followed with
no ill consequence but the death of the
worthy Captain Dougal Campbell, who was
unfortunately , killed by a musket ball from
one of our own pieces in the general confu
sion. Captain Coots commanded the fort
fur that night, and at daylight the fort sa
luted the Admiral. It was never exactly
known what number of Moors there were
in the fort when our peep le first entered.—
We took in the fort eighteen cannon, from
twenty-four pounders downwards, and forty
barrels of powder.
Stralin, the hero of this adventurous
action, was soon before the Admiral,
who, notwithstanding the success that
had attended it, thought it necessary to
show himself displeased with a measure in
which the want of nil military discipline so
notorionsfy appeared. Ile therefi.re angrily
inquired into the desperate step which he
had taken.
"Mr. Strahan, what is this you have b3en
doing?"
The fellow, after having in tdc his bow,
scratched his head, and with one hand twirl
ing his hat upon the other replied:
"Why, to be sure, sir, it was I who took
the fort, bt.t I hope there was no harm in it."
The A lodral, with dillicalty, w.is prevent.
ed from smiling at the simplicity of Stra
han's answer, an I the wld,le company were
exceedingly diverted w th hie awkward ap
pearance and his language and manner in
recounting the several particulars of his mad
exploit. Mr. Watson expatiated largely on
the fatal consequences that might have at
tended his irregular conduct, and then, with
a severe rebuke dismissed him—but not be
fore he had given the fellow some distant
hints that at a proper opportunity he would
be certainly punished fur his temerity.—
Strahan, amazed to find himself blamed
where he expected praise, had no sooner
gone from the Admiral's cabin, than he
muttered these words:—"lf I am flogged for
this ere action, I will never take another
fort by myself as long as I live, by G—!"
The novelty of the case, the success of the
enterprise, and the courageous spirit which
he had displayed, pleaded strongly with the
Admiral in behalf of the offender; and yet,
at the same time, the discipline of the ser
vice required that he should show him out
wardly some marks of his displeasure. This
t 51,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT IN ADVANCE
the Admiral did fur some little time, but of
terwards at the intercession of some officers,
which intercession the Admiral himself
prompted them to make, he most readily
pardoned him. And it is not improbable ,
that had Strahan been properly qualified for
the office of boatswain, he might, on some
other pretence, before the expedition had
ended, have been promoted to that station
in one of his majesty's ships. But unfortu
nately for this brave fellow, the whole tenor
of his conduct, both before and after the
storming of the fort, was so very irregular
as to render it impossible for tho Admiral
to advance him from his old station to any
higher rank, how strongly soerer his incli
nation led him to do it.
Speciu) Corre.pond.nme ,$i C nn n stn!a!
Mostly About Mules
CAllr Minutiv, BAIL, Sept. 2
At Perryville, opposite Havre de Grace,
a great mule and wagon depot has been es
tablished. The .tmerican flag at that point
waves in triumph over six thousand mules
and three thousand wagons, with fresh ar
rivals every day. A thick, heavy cloud of
dust hovers over the region round about, and
the air is resonant with multitudinous brays,
intermingle I with the hoarse erica of the
mule breaks.
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Coming down front Port Derisit in a
bug 4y by the river roe 1, in the outskirts of
the city, we came upon a vast corral of Uni
ted States wagons, enclosing a space of five
or six acres. Insi is the enclosure wa no
ticed a perfect forest of long cars and a
compact mass of black hides working and
surging to and fro. There are quite a num
ber of those pens near Perryville, each con-
Lining fifteen hto are lnr ) thmsani
mules collect° 1 from all p trti of the coun
try, and store I in these pens to aw.tit the
process of breaking.
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Some distance from the pea we found the
breaking ground, where about a hundred
lusty darkies were engaged in the work of
taking the mules through a rudimentary
course of instruction, proparatmy to fitting
them for duty in harness. The process of
breaking is exciting and interesting, and
not unattended with d vigor. The mule is
driven into a "chute" jast the width of his
body, with strong wooden bars on each side,
which prevent his kicking out literally, and
at the same tins 3 a Imit of his being It trolled
through the cracks. A rope is then fast
ened t+ his jam, al I another tied as a girth
around his belly; after which one is attached
to his fore:u et, an I passes under the girth
and out at the. ro Ix, in which condition lie
is t irne 1 out fir tho preliminary exercises,
c msisting of a series of fmntie plunges,
with mom ) to lieroes ground and lofty tum
bling, vicious atte opts to bite, and strike
with his fore feat. This exercise continues
for a lungor or sh p3riod of Lime, ac
cording to the intelligence and obstinacy of
the subject. Bit your mule is not altogether
such a fool as looks, an I after c moing to
grief a matter of a 1 men times by means of
the chock-rope, he wisely condo les that
plunging an 1 re 'ring, is not remnnerative,
either reflecting or groaning pite msly. If
unusually obstinate through the first course,
he is trotted aria 1l the c muse at it double
quick, ant his hide copiously annointed
with a stout cudgel.
After the first course, the mute then being
supposed to have absorba 1 something of the
rudiments of his education, is reconducted
to the "chute," where he is invested with
harness and ag lin led forth, and another
series of gymmstic exorcises takes place.
'After boa 'ming somowhat accustomed to
the harness, the miles are hitched up to the
large wag .11%4 nod driven around the course.
The opf,ration of hitching up is a delicate
one, requiring gre tt c ire. The negro ap
preaches ertts.nsly no I gingerly, with his
eyes lice Inn the ,ro ilu's c trs. A suspicions
m , veinit of th rienlar L4es is
seen, an I the startle I African springs back
war I (pia as lightning. just in time to
spe all tsliing pair of heels. Again he
anpr :hes, ao Iti sully succeeds in hitching
ill3ll up. A brace, of broken mules are put
in the rear, with a team of wild ones in
front.
Different pluves of mule character are
deceive lin the process of starting. Some
plunge and rear all the time. others lie down
and obstinately refuse to move, others kick
out of the tr.t tea, face on the driver riding
the saddle mule, rear up and viciously strike
at him with their fore feet. Again ono will
remain pr merly tiet for a time, and then
spring forward to the full length of his
traces with sash violence as to bring him to
his knees. Nothing but the natural obsti
nacy of the mole prevents .t general smash
up. Fortunately. while one plunges for
wrd, the other, through sheer perverseness,
will pull hack. Sometimes a f irward mule
will torn round in his traces. come to a dead
halt, and st.tre at the driver in the most lu
dicrous and side-splitting manner.
A broad leather belt is passel around his
belly, and the mule lidiste 1 clear, when his
feet are drawn back and fastened, when he
helplessly submits to the operation of shoe
ing, entering sundry protests in the way of
snorts and groans.
EIKEEEM
This is an operation which hardly pays
for the danger incurred. The mule is alto
gether too handy with his heels to render it
desirable employment. Sometimes a curry
comb is fastened to an eight toot polo, when
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the groom stands out of range it'd rakes him
down from "long taw."
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This is not the least interesting of
operations I witnessed at Perryville. Tho
mule., to the number of a thouFand at a
time were driven down a tmall ravine
in front of the hotel, spreading at its
mouth to a width of about a hundred
yards into the river. They rushed far out
into the stream so that most of them were
covered with the exception of their heads
floundering and plunging, and lashing the
water into foam, and all braying continually.
They reminded me forcibly of a school of
immense porpoises sporting in the water.
Negroes are exclusively employed in the
breakiry , and training of mules at Perry
ville. I asked one of the men superintend
ing the matter why this was so. "Well,"
sail he, "a nigger is the next thing to a
mule, anyhow. They understand each oth
er better, and there is a natural affinity of
character between them. The nigger:. l ike
it, and if I don't believe the mules like
it, too. At any rate, a nigger can break a
mule twice as quick as a white man, and
get more out of him after he is broken. Wo
tried white men, but it wouldn't do. The
mules hove no confidence in them."
They break about a hundred and twenty
long ears a day at Perryville.
A great many pa Tie womler why Gen
eral McClellan does not make a forward
movement. If they will go to Perryville,
and see the vast pens of mule flesh, the
wagons and the stores of forage, forges, har
ness and equipments, they can soo what ho
is waiting, for
CONCLUSION Or Tan DiSinitTATION ON MULES
Notwithstanding all I saw at Perryville,
as yet, I have had no cause to modify the
opinion I have long entertained of this in
teresting animal: "Well, a mule any
how!"
A :cover. Duer..—There is scarcely any
subject on which more discordant opinions
are entertained than on that of duelling; and
while one party condemns it as a flagrant
violation of all the laws both of God and
man, others are contented to represent it as
a necessary evil. Without, however, dis
cussing at present the expediency of the
practice, it appears that if an appeal inu:4,
in any case, be made to arms, the great ob
ject should be to place the champions on an
equal footing, and prevent, as far us possible,
the better cause from yeilding to the more
skilful combatant. In one single, solitary
instance, has this been attained. On the
borders of Austria and Turkey, where a
private pique, or private quarrel, of a single
individual might occasion the massacre of a
family or villiage, the desolation of a prov
ince, and, perhaps, even the more extended
horrors of a national war, whensoever any
serious dispute arises between two subjects
of the different empires, recourse is had to
terminate it in what is called the custom of
the frontier. A spacious plain or field is
selected, whither, on an appointed day,
judges of the respective nations repair, ac
cimpanied by all those whom curiosity or
interest may assemble. The combatants
are not restricted in the choice or number of
their arms, or in their method of fighting,
but each is at liberty to employ whatsoever
he conceives most advantageous to himself,
and avail himself of every artifice to ensure
his own safety, and destroy the life of his
antagonist. One of the last times that
method of deciding a quarrel on the frontiers
was resorted to the circumstance 3 were suf
ficiently curiou., and the • recital of them
may servo to illustrate what is above men
tioned: The phlegmatic German, armed
with the most dangerous weapon in the
world—a rifle pistol mounted on a carbine
stock—placed himself in the middle of the
field; and, conciuus that he would infallibly
destroy the enemy, if he could once get him
within shut, began very coolly to smoke his
pipe. Tho Turk, on the contrary, with a
pistol on one side and another pistol on yto
other, and two more in his holsters, and two
more in his breast, and a carbine at his back,
and a sabre at his side, and a dagger in his
belt, advanced like a moving magazine, and,
galloping round his adversary, kept inces
santly firing at him. The German conscious
that little or no danger was to be appre
hended front such a marksman with twat
weapons, deliberately continued to smoke
his pipe. The Tnrk, at length, perceiving
a-sort of little explosion, as if his adversary's
pistol had missed fire, advanced
ning to cut him down, and almost immedi
ately was shot dead. The wily German had
put some gimprwrdler into his pipe, the light
of which his enemy mistook, as the other
had (omen wont] be the case, for a flash
in the pan: and no longer fearing the supe
rior skill and superior arms of his adversary
fell a victim to them both, when seconded
by artifice.
sEirThe Creek Professor in the Rochester
University has wit as well as words, and of
ten delights the students of that institution
with his clever and sparkling bon mote. Tho
man who can make his own verbal blunders
an occasion for a good juke is certainly a
lucky fellow; and Prof. K. is ono of that
sort, as appeared the otherday in the course
of some remarks in the recitation room.—
The Professor spoke of "a calf nine years
old." The remark struck tho class as an
odd one, but before the general smile had
broken out in laughter, the Professor added,
"That's a bull!" Well, sop it was; and the
boys thought it a remarkably fine one.
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