. .•—it • • • ! n o ..• t •• • r .I 'o 1 1 1 _ • , $ . _ • . _ . . . $ . . . A 1111. ..z. 11 1111 I I I I 10) •. • . • 0 lUEL WRIC HT, Editor and• Proprietor. VOLUME XXXIV, NUMBER 43.1 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING. Qlfice in Carpet Sal, N r orth-zee,vteorner of Front and Locust streets. Tems of Subsoiption due Copyperunr,um,i f paidin advance, •it •' f not paid w•nLuu hrce month groin comnicaccmeni o f the year, f.! 00 cc32a.t.ei Noe abserepnon receivedlora le,r time than six nontli; and no nape r wilthe di-continued until all r rearage Etre paid ,un.es sat the opti ono f the pub klier. irrAtonernayae:emlttedb yrnail a abep übltsb er 5 risk. - r Rates of Advetising. mart[6. nes]one wee!, , 8038 three weeks. . 75 eaeli•ubsequentiasertion, 10 1.1.11.' lee sione creek 50 .}hree_weelrq, 1 00 _ each4absequeniiniertion. 25 bargeradeerti.emfai , ln proportion Altbera lli.cou ntwilibc lead o to.l uaricrly, ball rule otgearlytciverlisere,who are sltretlyeontined o their bu”irle... II M. NORTH, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAM' Columbia.Tha Collecuoup r. romptlymade,t uLaneastclancl Yoe. 3ountles. Columbia, May 9,1950. H. H. ESSICK, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. COLCMIII.I. P. Clocks, Watches, Jwely, Silve r and Silver-Plated Ware. STIRFANER. s, SPERING, lIAvING taken the old eetablishea 'mod or John Fe 111 C, Mont tegpeellUlly incite the public to call and examine their large as'ortment CLOCKS, WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILVER 'and SILVER-PLATED WARE, CUTLERY, COMBS, PISTOLS, ACCORDEONS, and FANCY Analctas, 1! , ,.ch nu are usually kept In a fir,t-ela , sJes.velry :store. We will keep eonidantly on hand a large stuck of .45L1]10X1.40.1M312. "Viii r ClutCaLC)gal. In Gold and Silvei Cn-e'—A ppletnn, Tracy & Co. P. S Bartlett and Win Ul[rry inoveinent,—which we otTer to the puhlie al price! to -till tan . A cantina:nice of the (Cornier • paironaile iu re•ket lute -nheiled. • • 11,/ - tanuclia:vo eP ALL KINDS PRONIPTLX ATTENDED TO Uolunibla, July in. NOW FOR BARGAINS. have jlt-t ievolve-t1 another !Cu of 1111-wool De ' lailie4 it Ird plaid Mocambique- srhicit we offer at reduced t 4 TIS.ICI' S 1.10 Cola Jul.- Car 241 aunt I,oeti.t I'ol,ll CREAM OF GLYCERIN E. —.For the UM :11141 1 1 1VVe.11011 111 4.1.10,1,41 11.11111, &.• r 4 / 1 611 . 1 LI rite )1.1)ENOlt IA R MUM sT. Front et. Ca 411111,,l SALT! SALT! jUST rere, 11.. ',it), rd.cr t ut du 1r , tor", LocU.ll.l.vel below Seen.id. 100 BagS a Glon ad 2:lu In Salt, t. -t itito 1,1 let•it C July ( , 'GI. J ICU ti .4)Q 1 - 14,111A31, er, Bond's Boston Crackers. for k_A I)y.pervii,g,lsili4 Arrow HOW Ortitikt•lti. for io. .11,1 eillidiott—o••W Little 1., w Cilitnit Ina, tit 11..dietne :store, Aim! on mbian nk. I. .ttp,riurloci,.ly bk.( I:. :11.1 nl4 the per. .• - 'n Ile h ..e the Vuotatly Nle#ll,,le ',Lore, and I,:acke , ti. ,ostt Engll.ll liner ro•1 , 1t. J.... P. 1,59 risizr rxsiz! Arwr.ler t. by ill., fru to 1.118:f bnrrel tr:a I ter 131 batty.' ul _ Appty 1. C0 . 11111 , 1/1 .I ;2. rvP2 WALL PAPER! PAPER •CH EAPER THAN AVIIITI.:WASH. 1.1 h.,ve lu.i received :a I.ar4n Int of AV.!' Pap, ali In I,..tvt•-i t • 11.1.! 1.•••• vv. ; :1111., lu•lii, 11110.... till Llit: AZ Al C . PON.k.,/). linnk S'ore. LOC:/•:,1 . 1011.111.10.1.1. norr/I 2 'lit, NOTICE. Ide -ire to t.ettle oft the old honk arcount.t. erhoth Store. .111.1 reque-t nil per.ott- itatturtg theta• .elves indebted to pleas:: cult nett ape], the ~emo. 11. C. FONDE.IItIIIII.II'H. Colt Inbin, May 17. PA:- SZIALDING'S PREPARED GLEE—The want o ,Uell nil nrile le :slt hn hip y and 1,01.. II can be supplied; for mending tivnnntr, eh:nn• ware.ornaini - ninl work, toy. &e• 11,i11118 bUllerlOr.. We have found it u•eful Rl repair:it:4 in out arta•le' , whi eh have been u,cles. for months. Ye Jnn eSin it at the tri.onisA STORE POCKET BOOKS AND PURSES. A LA H lot Or Mlle •111.1 Common Porkel Book, a and Pura:Jolt from 13 coin. to two mieh lit .thiu a u•r , New: Dr pat COttllTlblal, April 14. 1 4111. _ _ Lawns, Lawns, Lawns. 1A DIES r.Ol nod :•ec our itettodful c,dl I,nwo I vrdoig, C V A: 01 t% June 2S. 1x62 Orporip• rht I 1 - rllntv-' Ilntl HOOPED SKITS. A NEW and splendid ioyle of lloopf.d 3,1.1 reeerVeclj Also, a full ts.mitmemof mb.••• Hy Very cheap • AIALTEIY d. CASE. Columbia, Apr-126, !S&L Locust titres;. FOR SALE, fl ASnekt t.. 7 A.Sall, lOU ityli+ Aslunn Salt Ap IiJI/U ply at APPOI.IYA Warehouse, Could Unto]. Columbia,Dec. 15131 ' RAISINS. AFULL: supply or Ral.itag—Sectllc.‘ and Layer twill he found at the Cor. of I 'rent nee Varna .tr. Nov ..22, SUIA,AII. JVST RECEIVED AND for sllle. by the hurr..l or larger quanatie., 100 barrels Monongahela Wlikky. nt AI'PULD'.I Warehouse. Cola. May li. 131. Could Bu-t For Sale at a Bargain. TIRE choice of Tw•o Fire and Burglar Proof Sil'r ,'— . 4 11nrrine , or '•Liitire , Pain= Also. a I ,undo Horse. and a first-rate Carriage and Hume:ie. CaN n the store of • H. C. FONDERSMITH, Cola. May 17, IS3I. adjoining t:lc Houk _HO! FOR CHRISTMAS! - A Choice Baking Alo:uat . 7 l, llVvaliVgan n rl47.t at Cola. Dec 6, 1,966. Cor. ad and Locust St.: CLOAKING CLOTH. • , B EAUTIFUL MIMIC Cloth. ItOilaWe for Isidtrot cloaks STEA C F ac - • •-• Dec. Corne r Second and Loentl. Street.: Cola: c Oppotne Odd Fellows' Ball LIQUORS. WE have received a Supply Of Pure Wendy, ord Nye Wliteky, Old fort Wine, which we:offer for safe for Afedieinnloorocreei. A.I 1.1 r CO. Cola. July 6 ,'{, 1. ' Golden Mort ' er Drug store DRESS GOODS, I) alai ne.. Ca.kinereo. 131. ea Silke. Sack Flannel• Tieking., Cheek., llillt.iiin, She e lina• . rtinoke , Om .h.... RA BR C?i FIRS' • Cola. 0^ t tr. 16.10 Cor Third 131111 Union D iniE4 MCS.—Notwithetanding the advaurt in the prate of Geod.. per-nits will find ir to isei. achrionage to can and examine our stork of ni , Prints, Al uslin., Gingharns. Cheri/n. Tic k lug% Cra -h ,a6t .. "*C.' fart eaery claim of capita suitable for hew oesdanera at htioaelltoepior, and otd one. too. STEACY de EOWEIS, Oppordie Odd Fellows , Hell. MRS.MIISLOW'S Soo th ing Syrup tan be obtained at V WILLI/01:S', Lott 41Ft. =l=== getettins. EEO In the rural districts, when a man has the misfortune to run a nail in his foot, he finds the nail, carefully greases it, wraps it up, and lays it away in a safe and dry plaee. This is supposed to promote the healing of the wound and prevent lock-jaw. In like manner, an axe or chisel which has inflicted a wound is carefully wiped and protected from, rust. . . The philosophy of our day in not far-sight ed enough. to 'find out the relatiun_between the nail or axe which has given a wound, and the wonderful process by which nature repairs the injury ; but our tcnerated an cestors, for some centuries, had entire faith in this syMpathetie surgery; and, though long since rsjected by men of science, it still survives among that large class of peo ple who like to du as their fathers did be fore them. ' The vulgar superstitions of to day were the earnest faith of the most enlightened of our ancestors. As Shakespere has recorded the universal belief of his time in ,his de scription of the cure of scrofula by the touch of a king, in "Macbeth," so has Dryden in his version of the " Tempest," given us the method and operation of sympathetic sur gery. III:ppolito is wounded, and Arid says: "He mu•t to dres-cil agnia cc I have clone it. 1101fil the eword which, pierced him, wtth liii weapon :mice, and wrap it clo=t from air, till t have lilac 10 Vi , qt him again." The reader may wish, perhaps, to have it receipt for this same potent " weapon salve." Ariel may have had some potent nostrum of Isis own for arinuinting swords, but the fa vorite salve in these cases was made of hu man fat and blood, well simmered with mummy, and moss from a dead man's skull. Some held that the moss, to have its full efficacy, mast grow on the skull of a thief who had been bun,4 on thegallows. Others thought 11111 , i bons the skull of an holiest man who had io,t Lecn bung, might answer. which would be, in our mild and milk-and water era, a muse convenient doctrine.— There was a ding and learne 1 di em>ion as to whether it was necessary that the oint ment, while being compounded, should be stirred with It murderer's knife. So emi nent a wr iter as Van Ilelinont tells us that Dr. Gnnlimins was so nico its his pre•crip tioas. that be would use only the moss gath ered off the skull of a man of three letters; but tha•, Van ITelanint intimates. woe be ing "in .re nice than wise." At that period. more from dead mess's skulls was kept by rriporly a.rs srtel and le belkl, no doubt to suit all customers. It is to 1.-e hoped that the aroggists of that lay were as s?rupulotts as our own, in keeping genuine and unadulterated medicine.. The greet dramatist has not only made careful mention of this mode of surgical treatment, but in one of his ecn•atioa scenes, the force of which is very much diminished ! in our day, gives a tivid description of its efilea.cy in the following dialogue between Ilippolilo and Miranda: Mire—Oh! mr Wouo d mine me. B.l' A P Cana: D. 1.111 Iktir.-1 tun colon to case ou • 1,11 , wile:ors the nemd.j 'P . p.—Alas: I feel the coal air Come to we; \1 3 - wound -hoo . •vor-e than ever. it , he lorres and m woirrls the sword.) .7.lm—Doe. it still gricve 3 au? 1.14 p —Now mcn.inha U,ore sornethilig ,ust upon -1)n )01l find rn va=c upon 1110 sndJrn nil Um pant le.iving in.. 6 , vcet 11-.1v,11: box l a. 1.1 c.t•cd: Th• - tse who m iv be inclined to censure th , - improver of Shakspeare as a too su per.titi ous gentleman, or as one too much inc.& td to humor the fantasies the people for whom his dramas were written, may be pleased to know that this theory and prat:- tom had the learned support of not only the illustrious Van Helmont, but such eminent authorities as Descartes, Father Kircher, Gilburtus, Magnus and many others. One of the most famous teachers and prac titioners of sympathetic surgery was Sir Keaelm Digby, a gentleman of the Bed chamber in the court of Charles I. Ile not only taught and practiced this mode of cure with distinguished success in England, but bad the honor of defending it in foreign countries. and especially before the nobles and lea: nod men of Montpelier. Mr. James Howell has carefully reported an interest ing case in his own experience. In endea voring to part two of his friends who were lighting a Mr. Rowell was severely wounded in the hand by the sword of one of them. This incident suspended the fight, and one of the combatants bound up the wounded hand with his garter, took the patient home and sent for a surgeon. But the wound became inflamed, and, lockjaw• being apprebened, Sir Renelm Digby was sent for. The great man—the man of science, the court physician—came. We aro not tall that he even tanked at the wounded hand, much less that be made way application to it. That would have been a very empirical. unscientific and altogether quackish mo , thod. Even Dryen's know better than that. Sir Kenelm gravely asks if there was anything which had the Wood upon it. They ands diligent search and found nt bast the zarter, stiff with the gore clotted and dried upon it. The gnat Burgeon then asked for a basin' of water—common water, we are 'eft to atippose—in which he dissolved a handful of 'powder of Titrioi,' which wear pro Sympathetic Surgery "NO ENTERTAINMENT SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASIJfIE SO LASTING." COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 23, 1863. pared by exposure to the sun for three hun dred and sixty five days. In this solution ho immersed the bloody garter. The effect was almost instantaneous. Tho wound lost all its pain. A pleasant kind•of freshness, as of a cold wet napkin, passed over the hand, and all the inflamation vanished. The wound having been so wonderfully relieved, after dinner—but how long after the application we are not accurately in formed—the garter was taken out of the I basin and hung up to dry before a large lire; but no sooner was this done than the hand began to inflame, and was soon as bad las before. The servant ran for the surgeon, but while ho was gone it occurred to some I one to put the gaiter again in the liquid. This was no sooner done than the hand again recovered, and before the arrival of the sur geon or even of the servant who had gone fur him. In five or six days, by keeping I the garter in soak, the cure was completed. This case of Mr. Howell, given by Sir Kendra, with a most luminous explanation of the rational: of the cure, is what is called the cure by the wet way—a sympathetic surgical hydropathy which may be com mended to the people who do not take kii.dly to their wet sheets, packs and douches.— The dry way is the one described in the " Tempest," and was, as it continues to be, the popular method. Lord Gilhourne, an English nobleman, ' appears to have been an amateur practition er of this method, and his success was quite equal to that of oriel. Strauss gives an ac count of the case of a carpenter, working upon his lordship's estate, who had severely cut himself with an axe. The axe, smear ed with blood was sent for, anointed with a .potent ointment, wrapped up warmly and hung up in a closet. The wound, we are told, did admirably, and was fast healing up, when, all at once it became exceedingly painful. Word was sent to his lordship, who, we may imagine went immediately to see his poor patient. No he did not. Noth ing of the kmd. Ile went immediately, and made a solemn visitation to the axe. What did he behold? The unfurtumitc tustruat-nt of all this mischief had fallen on the floor and partly escaped from its covering. No wonder the p mer foot was inflamed and pain ful! Such a fall must have been a dreadful shozlt to it. Of course, the axe was properly treated, wrapped up again, and more care fully suspended, also of course, the pa tient recovered rapidly and without any fur ther drmcantGrrt• These facts, and hundreds of a similar ! character which mi,;ht be given, seem just ae g , 0r..1 tleisc wise i are brotiAlit to sup port every medical thcory, and which attest the cures of every kind of practice and med icine. }very system, in whatever it may be weld:, is strong in its facts. In our day allopathy, homceapathy, hydropathy and all contradictory systems, are alike in the one itnportant feature. They all appeal to a multitude of unquestionable and truly le inarkable cares. Judged by the testimony of its opponents, every medical system is false, a miserable delusion and quackery ; but, tested by facts and cure., every system is true and a boon to humanity. The usual mode of accounting for such cures as those which were explained as re sulting from sympathy, is by attributing them to faith hope or imagination. These are powerful agents over the physical sys tem, though it must be confessed that they do not account fur all the facts. What had time imagination to do with the f , ll of the axe, bang op in his lordship's closet? But it is doubtless true that expectation is a po te.a element of cure, and it is one every physician, as well as every mercenary quack, makes full and constant use of. In many instances of sickness, it makes no dif ference what medicine is .4imot), so .hat it is not absolutely hurtful, or whether we only pretend to give a remedy. Dread pills pro perly administered produce a great variety of decided operations. Chalk powders, or a few drops of colored water, act with great efficacy. They are emetic, cathartic and sedative. as the physician may desire. Fear is believed to kill men in a pestilence by be coming a predisposing cause. Hope cures desperate cases. Lord Anson's expedition to the South Sea had met with many mis fortunes, and his ships that escaped storm and wreck lost almost their entire craws by scurvy. " Whatever discouraged the sea men or at any time damped their hopes never failed to add new vigor to the distemper, for it usually killed those who were in the last stages of it, and confined those to their ham mocks who were Isefore capable of some kind of duty." Captain Cook went into the same seas on voyages of discovery, in which ' the sailors were constantly excited with the adventures or the hope of them, and scarce ly suffered from scurvy at all. "A merry heart," says the wise monarch, " doeth good like medicine ; but a broken spirit drieth the blood." The sweet influence of faith and hope was scarcely ever shown more remarkably than in 83ITIC irlrigirlatiVe medical practice of the Prince of Orange, in the siege of Breda,, in 1625. That city, long beseiged, had suffer ed all the miseries that constant fatigue, anxiety and bad provisions could bring up on its inhabitants. The scurvy broke out and carried off great numbers. This, and the seeming hopelessness of the .defence, disposed the garrison to a surrender; bat the Prince of Orange, not willing to lose the place, but unable to relieve it, contrived to send letters to the soldiers, promising them speedy' assistance, nod sending pretended medicines against the scurvy, said to be of great price and still greater efficacy. Three small vials were girl to each physician, and it was said that three or four drops was sufficient to give a healing efficacy to a gal lon of water. Not even were the comman ders let into the secret. The soldiers and people flocked around the physicians in ' crowds. Cheerfulness was upon every coun tenance. Many of the sick were speedily and perfectly recovered. Such as had not moved. their limbs fur a month before were seen to walk, with their limbs straight, sound and whole, boasting of their cure by ' the Prince's remedy. When we have such facts as these, how are we to discuss or examine the preten ',ions' of any medical system? And the ex perience of almost every person can furnish facts of a similar character. For example, the hands are covered with warts. You try acids, caustic and the actual cautery, but with no benefit. The old ones grow out again, and new ones are coming. They are uncomfortoble and hideous, and you aro in despair. Some day a stranger offers, for a sixpence, to send them all away. Ile counts them, and writes the number on a slip of paper, which he puts in hie pocket; and you see him no more. In a fortnight all the warts, new and old big and little, have disappeared, and never again return. The man did nothing to the warts—perhaps he anointed the paper; or was it tho expecta tion of cure? You had faith enough t/lr give the sispenc - c, which you were assured was a mere formality. As to expecting a cure, you probably quite forgot it, until, one day, the annoying excrescences were gone. A friend of the present wr;ter, an artist and a man of buisness, had an, attack of fever and ague, which, fur several months baffled the ordinary means of cure. Some one told him of an old German, who had cured many cases, and, at last, out of an noyance and curiosity, he went to sco him. It is hard to say nether he had faith or hope in the old German; but ho knocked at his cabin-door. "Goom in," grunted Mein Herr. Our friend entered. "Ah! you got der shills and fever," said he. without moving from his chimney-corner. " Well, you can go yon wan't have dem any more." lie went as he was bid and did not have another lit of ai m °. Thert, could scarcely he a cheaper or less troublesome cure: but it iv not very easily accounted for. Eties Ashmule wrote in his D:ary, April 11, 16':7 "I to )k, early in the morning, a good dose of elixir, and hung three spiders about my neck, and drove my ague away. DeJ Grativsl" Now, what drove away the ague? The chips of a gallows, sewed in a b.tg and worn around the neck, are good fur ague: and the shoes in which a matt has Leon hanged, as well as the rope, have great ef• fieaoy. Sir Robert Boyle gives a favorite receipt for afve:—Beat together salt, hops, arid blue currants, and tie them upon the wrist. A learned author reports fifty cases cured by writing tire words •febra fuJe," and cut ting a letter from the paper every day.— The disease gradually diminishes and disap- Nars with the last le , ter. Should this fail to cure, you can bury a new-laid egg at a cress-road in the dead of the night; or break a pcico of salted bran bread and give it to a dog; or, if you prefer a classic cure, place under your pillow the fourth book of the "Iliad." The powers of colors over diseases, once supposed to twist, may be considered as a branch of sympathetic medicine. White sub stances were considered refrigerant, and red heating. Lied flowers were given for diseases of the blood, and yellow ones for the bile. In small-pow, red. coverings, bed curtains, &e., were used. to bring out the eruption. The patient wee only to look at red substance 4, and his drink was colored red. The physican of Edward II treated the king's on successfully by this rule; and as lately as liT6, the Emperor Francis I, when sick of the small-pot, wan, by the order of his physician, rolled up in scarlet cluth,but he died notwithstanding. Flan nel, nine times died blue, was used for glan dular swellings. To this day the tradition remains that certain colors are good force:- min disorders. Thousands of people believe that red flannel is better than white for rheumatism. A red string worn around the neck is a common preventive of nose-bleed. We smile at these facts and fancies; we plume ourselves upon our superior wisdom; but it may be doubted whether medicine can yet take its place among the certain sciences, or whether any one in modern times has written a wiser sentence than that of Plato, where he says: "The office of physician ex tends equally Co the purification of the mind and holy; to neglect the one is to expose the other to es Went peril. It is nut only the body that by its sound constitution, strength ens the soul, but the well-regulated soul, by its authoratire power, maintains the body in perfect health." . Nay in England.. ray brings with her the beauty and fra grance of hawthorn blossoms and the song of the nightingale. Our old poets delighted in describing her as a beautiful maiden, cloth ed in sunshine, and scattering Sowers on the earth, while she danced to the music of buds and brooks. She has giren.such greenness to ths wry', add the grass is now tall enough for the flowers to play hide-and-seek among, as they are chased by the wind.— The grass also gives a softness to the daz zling white of the daisies, and the glittering gold of the buttercup, which, but for this soft bordering of green, would be almost too lustrous to look upon. We hear the song of the milkmaid in the early morning, and catch a glimpse of the white milk-pails she balances on her head between the openings in the hedge-rows, or watch her as she pa ces through . the fields, with her gown drawn through the pocket-holes of her quilted pet ticoat to prevent its draggling in the dew. We see the dim figure of the angler clad in gray, moving through the white mist that still liugers beside the river. The early school-boy, who has a long way to go, loit ers, and lays down his books to peep under almost every hedge and bush as he passes, in quest of birds' nests. The village girl, sent on some morning errand, with the cur tain of her cotton-covered bonnet hanging down her neck, "buttons up" her little eyes to look at us, and faces the sun, or shades her forehead with her hand as she watches the skylark soaring and singing, on its way to the great silver pavilion or clouds that stands amid the blue plains of heaven. We see the progress spring has made in the cot tage gardens which we pass, for broad-leaved rhubarb has grown tall; the radishes are rough-leaved; the young onions show like strong grass; the rows of spinach are ready to cut; peas and young potatoes are hoed-up, and the gooseberries show like green beads on the bushes; while the cabbages, to the great joy Of the cottagers are beginning to "heart." The fields and woods now ring with incessant sounds all day long; from out the sky comes the loud cawing of the rook es it passes overhead, sometimes start ling us by its sudden cry, when flying so law we con trace its moving shadow over the grass. We hear the cooing of ringdoves, and when they cease for a few moments, the pause is filled up by the singing of so many birds, that only a practical ear is able to distinguish ouc from the other; then comes the clear, bell-like note of the cuckoo, high above all, followed by the shriek of the beautifully marked jay until it is drowned in the louder cry of the wood-pecker, which some naturlists have compared to a laugh, as if the dird were a cynic, making a mock ery of the whole of this grand, wild concert. In the rich green pastures there aro sounds of pleasant life; the bleating of sheep, and the musical jingling of the bells, as they move along to souse tempting patch of her bage, the lowing of the full-udderd cows, that morning and night brim the milk palls, and mike mock extra labor in the dairy, whom, the rosy-che •Ited sing merrily over there ph?a,ant work. We see the greet s faritt-hotp , e in the centre of rich milk.yield i s meadows, and drink of cooling curds end whey. luscious cheese cakes and custards, cream that 3 - ea might cut, and strawberries growing in rows betoro the beeldeves in the garden, and we go along licking our lips at the fancied taste, and thinking how plea ant d unties lose all their fine country flavor when brought into our smoky cities, here they seem as if— Coord n long nge in the derp.d,lved Tasting of Flora country giiica." Every way bees are now flying across our path, after making "war among the velvet buds," out of which they came covered with pollen, as if they had been plundering some golden treasury, and were returning home with their spoils. They, with their lumin ous eyes—which can sec in the dark—are familiar with all the little inhabitants of the flowers they plunder, and are only visible to us through glasses toot magnify largely.— What a commotion a bee must make among those tiny dwellers in the golden courts of stamens and pistils, as its green eyes come peeping down into the very bottom of the calyx—the foundation of their flowery tower. But beyond all other objeCts that please the eye With their beauty, and delight the sense with their fragrance, stand the May-buds, only seen in perfection nt the end of this pleasant•month, or a few brief days beyond. All our old poets have done reverence to the milk-white scented blossoms of the hawthorn —the May of poetry—which throws an un• dying fragrance over their pages ; nor does any country in the world present so beauti ful a sight as our long leagues of English hedgerows, sheeted with May blossoms.— We sea it in the cottage windows, and rare ly does any ono return home without bring ing back a branch of May, for there is an old household aroma in its bloom, which has been familiar to them from childhood, and which they love to inhale bettor than any other that floats around their breezy home steads. The nightingale comes with its sweet mu sic to usher in this month of flowers. But. terflies are now darting about in every di rection, hero seeming to play with one another—a dozen together in places—there resting with folded wings on some flower, then setting off in that zig-zag, flight which enables them to escape their pursuers. By the end of this month most of trees will have donned their new attire, nor will they ever appear more beautiful than now, fur the foliage of summer is darker: the delicate spring green is gone by the en I of June, and the leaves then no longer look fresh and green. Nor is the foliage yet dense enough to hide the traces of the branches, which, like,Traceful maidens, still show theirshapes through their slender attire—a beauty that will be lost,:i!liia :they: attain the full ma tronlineas,orsciinmer. 81,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANE; $2,00 IF NOIN VANE' A Battle Between Ants. " Walden,"-a, by the late Henry D. Thor eau, contains, in the chapter called "Brute Neighbors" the following account of an ant fight. "One day, when I went to my wood pile, I observed two ants, the one ref, and the other much larger, nearly a half an inch long, au•d black, fiercely contending with each other. Ilacing, once got hold, they never let g), but struggled and wrestled and rolled on the chips incessantly. L)oking further, I was surprised to find that the chips were covered with such combatants, that it was not a ducllunt. but a bctlunt —a war between two races of ants, the red al ways pitted against the black, and frequent. ; ly two reds to one black. Thu legions of! these myrmidons covered ail the hills and vales in my wood yard, and the ground was already strewn with the dead and dying, both red and black. "On every side they were engaged in deadly combat, yet without any noise that I could hear, and human soldiers never fought so resolutely. I watched a couple that were fast locked in each others embraces in n little sunny valley amid the chips, now at noonday, prepared to light till the sun went down or life went out. The smaller red ant had fastened himself like a vice to his ad• versary's front, and through all the tumb ling on that field, never fur an instant ceas ed to gnaw at one of the black one's feelers near the root, having already caused the one to go by the board; whilo the stronger black one dashed him from side to side, and, as I saw on looking nearer, had alrea dy divested him of several of his members. They fought with more pertinacity than bull dogs. Neither manifested the least disposition to retreat. In the meanwhile there canoe along a single red ant on the hillside of this valley, evidently full of es. citement, who either had dispatched his foe, or had not yet taken part in the battle-- probably the latter for lie had lost none of his limbs. lie saw the unequal combat from afar—for the blacks were nearly twice the size of the reds—he drew near with rap id pace till he stood on his guard within half an inch of the combatants ; then, watch. log his opportunity, he sprang upon the black warrior and commenced his opera tion near the root of his right fore leg.— leaving the fm to select among his own members, ant so there were three united fur life, as if a 13.3 W kind of attraction had been invented, which put all other locks and Cements to shame. "I took up the chip on which the three I have particularly described were etrug,- glin,g, carried it to my house and placed it under a tumbler on my windowsill to see the issue. Holding at iniersoeope to the first mentioned red ant, I yaw that, though he was assidnlusly gnawing at the near fare leg, having severed his remaining feeder, his own breast was all torn away, exposing what vitals he hal there to the jaws of the black warrior, whose breastplate was ap parently too thick for him to pierce, atsl the dark carbuncles of the sufferers eyes shone with ferocity such as war only could excite. They struggled half art hour longer under the tumbler, and when I looked again the black soldier had severed the heads of his foes from their bodies, and the still living heads were hanging on either side of him, like ghastly trophies at his saddle bow, lip. parently as firmly fastened as ever, and he was endeavoring with feeble struggles, be ing without feelers, and with only the rem nant of a leg, and I know not how many other wounds, to divest himself of them, which at length, after a half an hour more, ho accomplished. I raised the glasJ, and he went over the. windowsill in that crip pled state. Whether he finally survive 1 that combat, and spent the remainder of his days in some Hotel des lova:ides, I do KU' know, but I thought that his industry would not be worth much thereafter. I never learned which party Caine off victerious, nor the cause of the war; but I felt for the rest of that day as if I I-ad had any feelings ex cited end harrowed by witnessing the strug gle, the ferocity and carnage ut a human battle before my door." Persian Stories of Husbands A monied man presented himself trem bling and sorrowful at the gates of paradise. Ile bad heard so often of his faults and short comings while upon earth, that he believed in them devotedly, and had no hope of be ing admitted to the habitations of the bia sed. Ooe wile lie hal been repeatedly in formed, was a blessing far beyond her mer its while in the flesh; how, then could he hope for the smiles of seventy bootie. But the prophet, when he presented himself at the gates of heaven, to his great surprise, greeted him with a smile of ineffable com passion. "Pass on, poor martyr," said Ma homet. "You have indeed been a great sin ner, tut yen have suffered enough upon the earth, so be of good cheer, for you will not meet your wife here." A man who had hitherto crept up to he:, can, now stood up confidently and presented himself to the prophet upon the ground that he bad been twice married. "-Nay," said the prophet, angrily,- "para dise is no placo for fools." A raiding young fellow married the wid ow of a great lihan. On the wedding•night ~he determined to assert her authority over Lies. So she treated him with great con tempt when ho came into the ante-room, and sat !art:misty-0y imbedded in rose-leaf cosh- [WHOLE NUMBER 1,708.- ions, caressing a large 'white 8t: of which . she pretended to be dotingly fund. She ap- - peered to be annoyed at her husband's en- , trance, and looked at him out of the corners of her oyes with a look of cold disdain. "I dislike cats," remarked the young sol dier, blandly,'as if he was making a Mere' casual observation; "they offend my. sight" If his wife had looked at himwith .a • glance of cold disdain before, her eyes now wore an expression of anger and contempt such as no words can express. She did not even deign to answer him, but she took the' eat to her bosom and fondled it passionately. Her whole heart seemed to be in the cat, and cold was the shoulder which she termed .L to her husband. - Bitter was the sneer upon:. her beautiful lips. "When any one offends me," continued the gallant, gayly, "I cut off his head. t 4 is a peculiarity of mine which I ain sure 4 will only make me dearer to you." Thdtt drawing. hie sword, he took the cat gently • but firmly from her arms, cut off its head,- * wiped the blade, sheathed it, and sat donti , continuing to talk affectionately to his wife. as if nothing had happened. After whieh,- says tradition, she became the mostaubmis sive wife in the world. A henpecked fellow meeting him•nesldar: as he rude with a gallant train through the market-place, began to condole with him. "All!" said the henpecked, With deep feel ing, "you, too, have taken a wife, and got aF tyrant. You had better have remained the • pour soldier that you were. I pity you from, very heart." . . "Not so," replied the rufHer, joyfully, "keep your sighs to cool yourself next" sum- - mer." He then related the events of his wedding-, night, with their satisfactory results. The henpecked man listened attentively, and pondered long. "I also have a sword," said he, "though it is rusty, and my wife is likewise fond of cats. I will cut off the head of my wife's favorite cat at once." He did so, and received a sound beating. his wife, moreover, made him go down upz , on his knees and tell her what ghin, or evil. spirit, had prompted him to commit the bloody deed. "Fool!" said the lady, with a vixennh smile, when she had possessed herself of the henpeekett's secret, "you should have" done it the first night." Mormr..—Advice is useless to fools. The Dead of Pompeii Exhumed. A correspondent of the London:A/her/mum gives some interesting particulars concern ing the exhuming the dead of Pompeii. lie _ . sas - Further researches led to the discovery of. a male body, another woman, and thatof a. young girl; but that which first awakened the interest of the excavators, was the find-, ing of ninetrone pieces of silvet money. I four ear-rings, a finger-ling, all of gold; to gether with two iron keys and evitlentre mains of a linen bag,. These interesting, relics have been now successfully removed, . and are lying in a house not for distant.— They are to be preserved in Pompeii, Mid four bronco tables, of an Antique fashion,' are preparing for their reception. The first body discovered was that of a, woman, who lay on her right side, and.. from the twisted position of her body, had been much convulsed. tier left hand an I arm were raised and contorted, and the knuckles were bent in tightly: the right arm was broken, and at each end of ,the, fragments the cellular character of bones was seen. The form of the head-dress and the hair were distinctly visible. Oa the bone of the little finger of the left hand were two silver rings, one of which was a guard., The sandals remain, or the soles, at least, and iron or nails are unmistakablyto be seen. Though the body was much bent, the legs were extended as if under the itnluence of extreme pain. In an inner chartiber was found the figure of the young, girl lying on its face, resting' on its clasped hands and arms; the legs drawn up, the left lying over the right— the body thinly covered over in some parts by the scoria?. or the plaster, whilst the skull was visible, highly polished. One' hand' was partially closed, as if it had grasped' something„ probably her dress, with which it had covered the head. The finger-bones , protruded through the incrusted ashes, and on the surface of the body in various parti was distmetly visible the web of linen witlr which it had been covered. There was •ly- • Mg by the side of the child a full-grown we-, man, the left leg slightly elevated, whilst the r;ght nrm is broken; lint the left,' Which ' is bent is perfect, and the hand is closed. The little finger has an iron ring; the left ear, which is uppermost, is very conspicuous, and-, etandsoff from the heed.—The foldi of the, drapery, the very web. remain, and a nice ob server might detect the quality of the dress's,' The body of the man lay upon its beeirs - with the legs stretched out to, their, full, length. There was an iron ring on the lit tle finger of the loft hand, whielt, - tegithee with the arm, was supported by the elbow- - The folds of the dress on the arm and over tire whole upper part of the body, wore,visi- T , ble ; the sandals were there, and tire bones, of the foot protruded through what might' have been a broken sandal. The tracesrof. the hair of the head and beard were thanks , and the breath of life, adds the writer, bads only to be inspired into this and the other three figures to restore to the world of the' nineteenth century the Romans of the first t century. They might have fallen burgs-, ' terday, for were there not still remaining , their sandals, their dress, the very .tracery of their hair? They were trying ter etthe'pe• from destruction, for the bodies were.foand at a short distance one from the other, wit', in the act of running. `Plait could have in- . ; dated them to remain ise• tong it ie'only peg— mined to imagine. They were three women 4 who, terror struck, bad been upahltb oPT: - haps, to act, until aided and urged fermi. by the man. It may be that with' theXec.n ttichment which hinds - UP gilt*, , emitd,tletif our native homes with the hope that LIMA storm would soon pass away. .; •i; -• 1, !,-; IS El MI ISEEI .L
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