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To Jan.*in it at the 4a.eanAt EMILY MEDICINE STORE POCKET BOOKS AND PURSES. ,NA LARGE lot of Pine and Common Pocket Roots 11 and Purses, at from 15 coma to two dollars each He 'thwarters and News Depot. COlumlua, April ICI Ake. tOUE =UM Ait=ITAL. '.nrAITING just received our first NEW SPR/Nt; BTOCK,ore would announce to rifle citizen• of Columbia and vieinilg,that it k NOW READY FOR INSPECTION, rto all whammy favor as with a call, feeling confident sure can offer goods atonal; prices at wall induce all to pamhaec. ErCALL AND SEF: THE . ..Ca STEAM' , & BOW FAS. Coeser'SecootS and Locust Street.; Cola. Map 9.'50. Opposite Odd Fellows' Ho& 311MIZEILIT, Italtizawsr. T ADlEEP,Gent'is Misses: and Boys' Haviery.in great varieir nowninnanding the ;great advance in•the or iee of geode, we wit/ sell alear avant low pri er . sr.c OVVE:RS. Calmer ol Second and LOCOPI Scream CaPa, July , 19, V& 4Colamlbia, Pa. PISS! FISZEI ACKEItEI, by the barrel. halt barrel mad quarter :barrel, of the best qualities. AMY' le B.F. A PPOLIt. Columbia; July It, wet C• 1114.1 Basin. CORN ,VMEGARI THR eery beet article of Vioestar in the market Is •Ai mows # Cir# CORN -rnvicAa,” - which may .bit had at the Saaaatactory, is *tested at., 4,4riiingoiscregalre usa, , : Det.4, d 3. .c..c. outuni co.. ligstrg. The Cumberland. el 50 131 r -11. W. LONGFELLOW. At anchor in Hampton Roads we lay, On board the Cumberland sloop-of-war; And at times from the fortress across the bay The alarm of drums swept past, or a bugle blast From the camp on the shore. Then far away to the South aproge A little feather of snow-white smoke, And we knew that the iron ship of our foes Was steadily steering, its course To try the force Of our ribs of oak. Mil Down upon us heavily run., ' Silent and sullen the flowing torn Then cornea a puirof smoke from her guns, And leaps the terrible death, With fiery breath, Fiala each open port. We are not idle, but rend her straight Defiance back in a full broadside! As hail rebounds from the roof of slate Rebounds our heavier hail From each iron scabs Of the monster's hide. '•Strike your flag!" the rebel cries, lolls arrogant old plantation strain. oNevarr' our gallant Morris replies; "it is better to sink than to yield!" And the wholc air pealed With the cbccrs of our teen. Then like a kraken huge and black She crushed our rib? in her iron grasp! Down went the Cumberland all a wrack, With a sudden shudder of deatb, And the cannon's breath For her dying gasp. Next morn as the suit rose over the bay, Still flouted our flag at the mainmast-head Lord, bow beautiful was thy day! E eery waft of the air Was a whisper of prayer, Or a dirge for the dead. Hot brave hearts that went down in the sear.: Ye are at peace in the troubled t , treata. Ho! brave land! with hearts like these, 'thy flag, that it rent in twain,. Shull be one again, And without a ream: grtutigno. The Enforced Duel Thoinas Colley Grattan, the well-known Irish author, has recently given to the pub lic a now work, entitled "Beaten Paths, and Those Who Trod Them." It consists of a series of desultory skctchoe, one of which wo take pleasure in transferring to our col umns. During a somewhat prolonged re:4- deuce at Bordeaux, some years since, chiefly devoted to literary pursuits, and to an ex traordinary plunge into revolutionary soci ety, which finally led to a hasty abandon ment of the neighborhood, Mr. Grattan made a visit to Begneres, where he was a witness to the following extraordinary inci dent: An Irish gentleman, whose name, like my own, began with G and ended with N, was certainly one of the most amiable and least quarrelsome among the visitors. Ile neither drank nor gambled, nor talked poli tics nor scandal, the great provocatires to disputation and ill-blood, and he led a most quiet and domestic:lWe with a young and pretty helpmate, as unlikely as her husband to excite any feeling that might involve him in danger. Mr. G—n one day strolled into the public billiard-room with a friend of his, a lieutenant in the British navy. They found a table disengaged, took up their queues, and began to play. Scarcely had theycem menced their game when two or three Frenchmen of good appearance came in; and one of them, a young man of military air, placed himself close to Mr. G—n, stared bard at him, followed his different movements, and watched every stroke be made with a marked and most troublesome attention. The player did not know what to make of it, but smilingly said something to his friend as to the singularity of the stranger's behavior. The other thought it equally odd; and as it was persevered in for some minntee longer, Mr. G—n felt irri tated, stopped, turned short, and begged his friend (fur he did not himself speak French) to ask the meaning of this conduct, now evidently intended as a personal insult. The lieutenant, fortunately a man of great coolness, and of some experience in such affairs, fulfilled his mission 'with politeness, tolling the Frenchman that be was convin ced he had mistaken Mr. 0— for some other person, as he could bare no reason for pursuing so offensive a line of conduct to a gentleman who had never before seen him. "Pardon monsieur," replied the French man, with a perfect sang froid, and an air of provoking ,pdlitesse. .am not at all mistaken. I know who Monsieur G—n is quite veell, and I beg jou will do me the honor to tell him de ma part, that he is a colomniatenr and a coquin; and there is my card, so.that he may .know where to find me in ten minutes from this time—and these two gentlemen are my friends." " It was not easy to translate all this to G—n without rousing him to knock down his unknown insulter, with the queue which he still held in his hand: for mild and hu mane men are at times very subject to en excess of rzwo on went provocation. Se was agtounded. Ile knew the meaning of the' two epitllta erideutly.applied to him. Bat he still believed s.'s his friend had done, that he bad been mistaken for somebody .else. •let us - go out and Akiak what is to be done." esti( be to his "friend: , They_ltook their hats and went out on the promenade (I forget tbe name) in which the Cafe-Biliard stood. Half the beau-monde of Bagneres were walking or lounging about, ladies and gen tlemen together. The two friends, arm-in arm, took a couple of turns, discussing the strange and embarrassing occurrence, when suddenly the three Frenchmen met them ant stopped; and the one whose behavior had so outraged Mr. G—n deliberately spat in his face—a beastly form of insult then rather national in France (and very lately resorted at a scientific meeting in London by a traveled foreigner, and to his own great disgrace) saying: "I hope you understand that, if I was not sufficiently explicit just now. That requires no interpreter." G—n rushed at the fellow—he had dis inherited himself of his title if he was a gentleman born—but before he could strike a blow the two companions and some other persons interfered. "There is nothing for it now but an im mediate r^qating—explanation or apology are out of th.l ganstion. Let's follow them!" exr:laime(l o—n, as , the Frenchmen walk- ei r BP "Stop a bit,"-replied the lieutenant; "I'll settle the matter in a minute." And be stepped after the ,party. He returned al most immediately to o—n. "It's all ar ranged—they are going to the old burying ground—emelt° my lodgings—my pistols are there—you must shoot him dead." 'Clieletv.words struck wildly on G—n. They fellaiith an ominous sound on his mind. lie bad never fired a pistol in his life. The place of .meeting was awfully suggestive. The name on the card was that of a young offioe_T en disponsabilite, a notorious duelist—the pest of the neighbor hood—a crack shot, who had killed and wounded several, and insulted most wanton ly almost every one he had quarreled with. G—n felt himself a doomed clan. He thought of his wife, just then expecting him home for his usual walk. "Come:quicker," said he to Iris friend. "There's not a mo ment to be lost—she will be sure to hear of it—every one saw what passed—somebody will, no doubt, tell her. For God's sake make haste before the police can know any thing!" G—n's friend had picked up an ac quaintance as they hurried on, and engaged him to stand by him as second temoin. Ile acceded willingly to the request. Ile did nut dislike a fight, and he said openly he hoped to Heaven G--n would rid the neighborhood of its worst disgrace. Poor G—n shrugged his shoulders, cast up his eyes towards Heaven, and pushed on with out saying a word. The conditions were soon arranged. Two lines were drawn at ten paces apart, a walk ing cane was laid down on each. The com batants were placed each at ten paces farther back than the respective lines, so that they stood thirty paces distant from each other. They were then left to their own discretion to fire when they pleased, with liberty to advance, each before doing so, up to the respective canes, but on no account to put a foot beyond them, so that in any case they could not 'approach each other closer than ten paces; and supposing them to reserve their fire till they got to that short distance, even then they might stand, take aim, and shoot without any sig nal, whenever they chose. This was a well-established way of set tling these affairs in France, trying to the nerves of the coolest and most experienced duelist, terrible to the uninitiated. Each of the parties were provided with pistols. Those of the Frenchman were of ordinary make, rather old and battered, and both of them marked with two or three slight notches, to note the number of times they had been used by their owner, G—n's antagonist- He poised one of them care lessly in hie hand. But when his eye fell on the beautiful English "feather-spring weapons which the lieutenant took calmly out of their case, it glistened with delight and ferocious longing. "1 must fight with one of those," said be: "No, monsieur," replied the lieutenant; "we are not to provide you with weapons." And be explained to the impatient o—n the request and his refusal. "Oh! let him have it, for God's sake— what matter? Do go on quickly. She will be sure to hear of this, and—" "Take it, sir," said the lieutenant; "my friend is too generous." "He'll be a dead man in two minutes," was the fierce and ruffianly reply, as he snatched the proffered weapon. And the four pistols were loaded by the seconds. "Be steady, for Heaven's sake! On no account fire till you both reach 'the canes. I The short distance is your only chance," ' said the lieutenant, as be placed a pistol in O—n's hand. An instinct of common sense made him point itstraight before him; hat he was afraid to pat his finger on the trigger, for be was warned that the slight est touch on the feather-spring would cause it to go off prematurely. The Frenchman flourished his weapon, leveled it with a theatrical air, called out loudly some words that G—n did not un derstand; but alI was done clearly with the object of throwing him off his guard, and hurrying into firing at the farthest distance, with a certainty of' missing. Failing in this design,the tereochman then stepped rapidly up to the cane, his terrier, his arm at fall length, and G----ticould see into the barrel of' thesoistol leveled -straight at i?ist._ lie —.ltlantic Monthly "NO ENTERTAIN BIENT SO CRAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER . 6, 1862. . • , t had just presence of mind ect that a good shot atrtwenty.paces distance now between them—was sure to hit his man, while he would be as certain to miss; so by a sudden impulse he ran impetuously up to his barrier, giving the idea to all the specta tors that be had utterly lost his head, and was rushing full tilt against his foe, whom he covered straightly enough. So thought the latter. And he, astonished and startled by the extraordinary movement of his inten ded victim, unconfeiousiy pulled the trigger with a jerk—the sensitive feather-spring threw the bullet wide at its mark—and at the same instant the report of G—n's pistol told that he, too, had fired, having stopped firmly and steadily at the barrier; and with scream of agony the desperate duelist bounded into the air, shot through the brain, and he dropped forward stone dead, on one of the weod.eovered mounds which dotted the burial-ground. G—n stood utterly stupefied. lie knew no difference between life and death, or who had fallen, who escaped. From first to last he had given himself up as lost. He never• dreamt of killing his enemy with Lis un practiced hand, nor of having a chance of safety from the unerring skill opposed to him. There was now no time for thought. His friend rushed up to him. "Come, come on, come on; don't you see the wretch is dead? Ti l p people will tear us to pieces." And so it would have been had not the two friends bolted through the crowd that, insatiably curious, thronged round the corpse; and, before they could disengage themselves to look for the two foreigners, they had scrambled over the broken wall, ran through some narrow lanes, and found shelter in Cdr. G—n's house, where ho met his•wife, entirely ignorant of the fearful scene that had been acted. The second temoin had escaped by another route. Almost immediately the yells of the people Lsrwe heard outside. Their fury against the Englishmen was roused to the highest pitch, and could not bo controlled by the few gentlemen who were present at the catastrophe, and not one of whom lam ented it, for the lot had fallen on him who de served it, and who left none behind to mourn fur him. G--n and his friend fastened up the doors and windows as best they could; but they would not have long resisted the assaults of the crowd, had not fortunately a small detachment of mounted gendarmes ga.l.'oped up and surrounded the house. The officer. commanding it demnaded admission, which was gladly given to him. Ills conduct was admirable. Ills first care was to tranquilize the lady, who, like a true woman, was calm, resolute, and active fur her husband's safety; generous and unselfish fur her owe. The officer assured her of his protection, and also, undertook to guarantee the safety of the lieutenant; but as he was unable to answer for that of the principal in the homicide, knowing the nature of the infuri ated mob and the state of national feeling at the time, he devised the only plan for his escape, in case they overpowered the half dozen gendarmes and forced an entrance.— lle therofura eaffied on one of his men to come inside ; while the rest sat on their saddles, sabre in hand; and he made G—n at once change eluthes with the soldier policeman. This was done quietly and speedily. Then leading him to the door, he saw him mount the horse of the man lie personated, putting an apparent letter hastily prepared into his hand, professedly fur the magistrate of the town. G—n well played his part. Ile rode elamly through the people, who offered no remark, trotted along in the direction he was told to take, and very soon left Bagneres behind him, re lying on the courage and the chivalry of the Frenchman who saved him, to protect his wife, and the friend less compromised than ' he was. He seas joined on the same evening "by both those -objects of his solicitude, who came under safe escort, and he turned his back forever on the place where he seemed to have experienced such a fearful dream. And now comes the explanation oftbe start ling event. Mr. G—n, naturally, for a man of his quiet habits, was fund of reading. He was a subscriber to the circulating library; and ho one day had in his turn a volume that touched on the great war against Napoleon, and contained some sentence rather dispara ging to the French army in connection with the battle of Toulouse. Some reader of the book had written in pencil a short remark on the passage, approving its tone and-et:abr. eing its truth bye severe epithet. Mr o—n scarcely observed this, if he saw it at all; but be in due time returned the book to the library, and forgot all about it. Passing from one subscriber to another, the volnan; fell into the hands of the young fire-eater whose unhappy fate I have just related. Hurried away by passion, by furi ous hatred of all Englishmen, so indiscrimi nate that he cared not on whom he vented it, he rushed to the circulating library, in quired who among the subecribers last had the volume, and was answered vaguely; but tho name of Mr. o—n was mentioned as one of the last, and the person in the shop pointed out that gentleman, who happened to be passing at the time. That was enough. The self-doomed victim, the virtual suicide rushing on his fate, darted out, engaged his two attendant friends to accompany him, followed th - e two unsuspecting Englismen into the billiard-room--sod the reader knows the rest. The Robinett Battery. AN INCIDENT AT CORINTII Traveling the other day, I fell in with a smart, bright black-eyed fellow witb one arm. He had just filled the pipe—a well smoked brier-wood—and I was just lighting mine, so he asked for some fire. It was on a steamboat; one of those whereon we poor smokers are compelled to shiver in winter and roast in summer, anywhere except "abaft the shaft," and we had recourse to the casing of the boiler, which kept us warm when we leaned our-backs against it. Being thus brought into propinquity, we mutually anathematized the wretched mean ness of nearly all steamboat companies, as exhibited in the total want of accommoda tion for a very largo and respectable class —the users of tobacco. With one exception, I never saw a decent place allotted to gen tlemen who smoke, on any boat. This ex ception was the old "John Potter." All this, en passant. It served to open a conversation, and before we got to the port where our paths diverged, I had learned something from my chance acquaintance. no was, I discovered, a sergeant of artil lery, wounded at Corinth. His arm, shat tered by a musket ball, was amputated has tily, in a field hospital, and he was then on his way to New York, to have another am putation performed. Happy to servo him, I gave him a note to my old friend, Charley [lowland, ono of the best fellows, greatest story-tellers and most skillful surgeons in America. Of coarse, my artillery-man was grateful enough; especially as, with my recommen dation, his treatment would cost him noth ing, and he begged me to tell him what be could do to prove how he valued my favor. wren me about the fight at Corinth," I said. ''Givo me some sharp incidents that I can write up. It is my profession, and nothing but war stories will do now-a-days." "That I can do, easy enough," said he. "I'll tell you about the battery I was in— the Robinett Battery—and how the Rebels didn't take it; although I can honestly say, they fought a blessed sight better than some of our troops fight, now and then." "That is just the sort of thing I want, sergeant. Tell me simple facts, now, and never mind the pathos and rhetoric. I'll put them in." Thus warned, the took a few vigorous whiffs, straightened his back up against the warm boiler-casing, and began tho follow ing narration. I can't do better than to give it just as he told it, per et simple. Great deeds do not always require great words: "Well, you see the battery I was at work on was one of aline of earth-works that we had built around the town. Our troops were outside of the batteries—between them and the Rebels—and on Friday morning, the first day of hard fighting, the enemy made a very plucky attack along our line. "I don't believe our fellows could have stood it alone. They hadn't enough artil lery, except in the redoubts; and we couldn't open on the Rebels, of course, without hurt ing our own men more than them; so our line gradually fell back, fighting likelgoed fellows, but not quite able to stand before the heavy guns of the rebels. It was in this fight that Gen. llackleman was killed and our Gen. Oglesby was wounded. "Finally, Oliver, who was in command of our left, sent for re-inforcements. They ought to have been.sent to the right, instead, fur that was tho weakest, and directly the rebels found it out. They flanked us there about noon, and for awhile we came about as near being whipped us I ever want to be. I have beard, too, that a couple of our regi ments anode a mistake about that time, and fired into a charging column of their own side. Some say they di•l and some say they didn't; but if it was true, it's a wonder we held out at all. ••The enemy had the advantage, anyhow, that day, and our boys were pretty glad to see tbosi haul off, toward dusk, and prepare to bivouac in tho woods in front of our line. "We didn't do much sleeping. that night, I can toll you, air. We received ro-in force manta and disposed them on our weakest points, picked up our wounded, and buried our dead, till near daybreak. "By morning, we had got our forces in close enough for the batteries to play over their heads, and then came the turn of us artillerymen. "My battery was a good strong roiDubt, mounting Parrott—guns--t 'zirty—pounders —and some eight-inch howitzers. We opened the ball by giving them a volley from the Parrots, about four o'clock. They answered, but did no damage, and advanced their lines a little too far, for Williams' and Phillips' batteries were able to give them an enfilading fire besides ours in front. I never MR such a scattering. Their guns were silenced right off, sir, and they got back to the woods again as quick as the Lord would let them. The Sizty•third Ohio infantry rushed in and got a lot of their caissons and ammunition that they had to leave, and a detachment of regulars took a rifle gun. The Thirty-ninth Ohio took back some guns they led captured from us the day before, and about a hundred .prisoners were brought in at the same time. "This was a little more encouraging, as you tuapbelieve, sir; and the rebels began to see that our battery was a bad customer for them to book against. Lieut. Itobinett who was in command of oar work, knew well enough that they would make a bard kick to take it, as it was the trout door to $1,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT IN ADV orinth and all its defences. If they could have driven us out, good-bye victory! The other batteries couldn't have stood tea min utes. "Then began some pretty work. The reb els took a new position and charged our lines across the railroad to reach the village. Our men couldn't begin to make a show be fore them. There wasn't any such thing ns checking thorn. Our light artillery made no more impression on their front than throwing peas would, and our line was driv en neck and heels into the village. "The two lines were formed over again, about the public square, and a regular' rough-and-tumble fight began, hand to hand and foot to foot. Still, the rebels seemed• the strongest. Our men fell back again un til they gut to the Corinth Muse, when the enemy's reserve came in range of our heavy guns, and we began to drop some big shells among them. They fell into confusion at this, and Gen. Rosencrans rode up and down our line, encouraging the boys to make a good, square, old fashioned charge. They went into it with a will,.and drove the reb• els 'clear back to the timber, bayonetting them by scores as they went. Meanwhile, we kept up a good shower of beery shells that made some of them see stars, I suspect. "Before this charge; the enemy had form ed a line of reserves to attack our redoubt, and when the first lino was driven back, the second advanced. It was a risky bit of bu siness, and the troops that led the assault, were volunteered for a forlorn hope. They were Arkansas men, and from what they did, I should say there wasn't a soul of them that -bed ever known whet it was itic be scared. "They formed in line eight deep, I think, and came up in close order, just like a ma chine. You might just as well have tried to frighten a locomotive off the track, as to turn that line. "Battery Williams opened on them, throw ing shells into their front, and every explo sion must have knocked over twenty men at least, killed and wounded; but that did'nt make any difference that you could see.— When a man fell, the ranks closed up, just as even as before, and kept straight on, as if they had been on dress parade. "That's the way they attacked us. They came up squarely the first time, to within fifty yards of the outer works, where our fire was a little too hot for them. You can imagine, air, what mischief a good stout battery could do against such a close column of then. I think it wouldn't have been so bad, if they had advanced in open order; but I don't pretend to know much about in fantry tactics. Artillery's my business. "They fell back a little, and we, inside the redoubt, raised a cheer, thinking we had driven them. Bet they weren't whipped yet. They re-formed and came on again a bit faster, but we mowed them down so that they could hardly march for the dead and wounded , erider .foot, so they had to retire once more. "The third charge, sir, you'd ought to have seen. The principal batteries kept up a perfect shower of shot and shell, front and flank, and the infantry supported them with close volleys of musketry, firing by file the whole time. The noise was awful, and the fire and smoke filled the space between us and the timber., so thick that we couldn't see a thing. Would you believe it, sir, they took heart all the more, and made their best assault through all that. It was like charg ing through hell, sir; but they did it. Be fore we knew where we were, they were upon as, tumbling up over parapets and planting their cursed flag there. It was shot away twice, and set up again both times. The fired on us. shooting down our gunners, through the embrasures and hung on to the work like a swarm of bees on to a hive. I never saw such desperate pluck and daring before, and I never want to see such fight again. "It was no use for us to stay by the guns; we should all have been killed on the spot. We fell back, then, to our supports, and the other batteries turned their guns upon Rob iaett. For some time they kept their big shells popping off every second inside the work, and flesh and blood couldn't stand it, no way. The rebels staid as long as any live men could, but they had to leave, and not over half of those who entered, went out again. "They poured out of the redoubt in some confusion, and made for the timber. Jest as they got started, the order was passed to the two regiments that had supported us to charge. "They went tearing down cn the rebel rear, into a perfect river of smoke and fire, and you couldn't see either friend or foe for five minutes. All we know, was that the rebels didn't get to the woods again in force. Only a scattering few of that Arkansas bri gade ever got off that field alive. It was the bravest charge and the bloodiest defeat of this war, sure. "After the battle—which was ended then —we had a chance to see what we had done. Onr intrenchments were full of the enemy's dead and piles of them lay along the ranks, just they were marching when they fell. An officer told me that nigh unto three hundred of their dead lay in a narrow space a hun dred feet long! What do you think of that, sir?" "It was a reception worthy of a valiant foe," I said, "but, sergeant, you haven't said a word about yourself—bow you lost your arm—what you did, and so on." 'IA, there's nothing to tell alma that." [WHOLE NUMBER 1,685. said the bravo fellow, modestly; "I stood by my gun, and we worked her well enough till a cursed round-shot came through an 'embrasure, from one of the rebels' field pieces, and happened to smash mi:elhow. I was a fool to have my elbow in the way, I suppose, Can you spare me a pipe full of your tobacco, sir? Mine seems to have given out." SINGING SANDS AND SOUNDING MOUN TAiNs.—Thousands of years ago the pillars of Memnon were famed for giving musical sounds. Sounds like those of bells have have been heard, at different localities, to come from the depth of the ocean, and now we hear of musical mountains and singing sands• rive such lozalities are already on record. The first is Dschehel Nokus (Bell Mountain,) upon the peninsula, Sinai, on the shores of the Red Sea, northwestward of the city of To. The celebrated traveler, Seoteen, of Oldenburg, was the first European savant who ascendad*lt. Ile found it consisting of a brittle white sand-stone, covered on two sides with loose sand. This sand when brought into motion, produces the sound.— - The traveler, when ascending. passed over this region of loose sand, and ho soon dis covered that the noise it made by gliding down the slope became by degrees louder and louder. When he reached the summit such a frightful sound was heard that it shook the whole mountain, and ho himself becatno excited in the highest degree. Some time afterwards this same mountain was visited by Mr. Gay, of Oxford, and more recently by Mr. Ward, both English. men. They give very nearly the same ac count of this phenomenon. All ascribe the cause of the fact that the sand glides down the bare mountain sides. Ward heard at first only a feeble tone like that of a flute suddenly it became strong like that of an organ, and the whole bill began to vibrate. The sound became louder in proportion to the quantity of sand set in motion by the steps of the traveler. Alexander Burns visited in 183 T, a similar hill. This was the Ray Rawan, (the mov ing mountain,) which is also about four hundred feet high. Its ascent is an incline of about forty degrees, covered with a layer of sand, sarrotanded by a still deeper border of lime and sandstone. Gliding down on this sand, it emits a loud, hollow tone, similar to that of a great drum. This was already known in the fifteenth centnry. A third mountain of this kind is the "El Bro mador," the yelling, barking mountain in Chili, in regard to which Charles Darwin made similar observations. Charles Mayer, in his book, "Towards Sacramento," mentions another to exist in California, and recently a fifth locality of this kind has been discovered by llugh Miller, upon the small island Eigg, on the western coast of Scotland. According to Miller, a geologist of great renown, a etre- , turn of colite exists on. this island. .This substance, when reduced to sand, becomes a white, mealy mass. Miller observed, that on every step be took, the sand gave a pe culiar musical sound. It is, however, not proven that colite sand alone produces sounds. The above mentioned Mr. Ward says that the friction of the sharp edged grains of siliceous sand, exposed to tiro says of a tropical sun, caused the resonant quality of the sand. Facetitm lonss, the other day, asked Smith the . following question: "We have had the ago of Iron, the ago of gold, and the age of bronze; bat what shall we call the ,present age?" "Why," says Smith, licking the back of a postage stamp which ho was about to apply to the envelope of a letter, "I think we had better call this the mucil-age." Since the Army of the Potomac has changed its Base, the Press has changed its Tenor. One Comfort—That if we haven't thrash ed the South yet, we can Lick our new cur rency, at any rate. Motto—For the Whtering Places Belles and Beaux—"llop" deferred maketh the heartsick! If p.m warn to lose your nose, what kind of one would you got? The first one that turned up. "Post thou clean furniture, fair ban& maiden?" asked Broadbrim of his pretty servant, who was polishing his book-ceae.— "I dust," replied the maiden. Why is it vulgar to sent a telegram?-- Because it is making use of flash language. A modern writer says—"lt may seem strange, but it is a fact, that men generally are much more afraid of women than women are of men." Brown remarks, that the fact is not strange, at all, for in both cases the fear is proportionate to the &waiter? Why is there always a great rush far "Prentice's last" among shoemakers? Be cause it gives fits to every-body. The Lightest of all Garments.-4 shift of the wind. The "Pink of Fashion."—Rouge. A great Game in a email Compass.— Cricket on the hearth. A public writer thinks that much might be gained if speakers would observe • the miller's creed —always to stint they gate when the grist is out. i An alarming instance of th row tog one' self about was witnessed a few beatings ago at a party, in thecass of a7oung .who. vibe° asked to sing.. Ant. tamped.: her head and then pitched her
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