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Gen, Snmnel Dale—liis Great Canoe Fight. .Icm-od their boat to movo leisurely dong
In 1784, whtn Samuel Dale was ycl a ' w ith the current. As the two neared each
boy, his fothor moved from Virginia, and ot^ er > the Chief arose, and with an ejacu
mude a soltlcrncnt near the sito of the pres- ln, 'on of defiance to “Big Sam,” levelled
ont town of Greensboro, Geo'gia. But a | his g u n 04 Smith’s breast; but before he
fow days had elapsed when the subject of coul() draw trigger, the latter directed a
our sketch—a youth of sixteen sufnmers— [blowat him which would have proved fatal,
found himself an orphan, and in/virluo of!* 101 ) it not been adroitly avoided. The ca-'i
his seniority, guardian of seven brothers ' nOL; s cnme.together with a jar, which threw
and sisters. Disposing of them in the best Austill slightly off his balance, and ere he !
way his limited rcsoursces would allow, ho coultl re Ss n in it, a well directed blow from
joined a company of volunteers, raised to n w nr-club, prostrated him across the boat. ; !
repel the invasion of tho Creeks; and hero , dolf a dozen powerful urms woro raised to }
commenced that military career, which com plete the work, when tho heavy rifle!
only closed when the difficulties of his ! o( 7 )alc came doun upon the head of the ‘
country ceased. Wo do not propose t 0 ’ chi«?l, with a lorce which sunk it deep into :
follow it up. Whoever is acquainted wilh lh e skull. Smith hnd not been less active,
the history of the Indian wars—with tho ; nn . d l, is trusty bnrrel hnd fallon with like';
bloody battles of Burnt Corn and Holy effect upon the head of another warrior
Ground—the terrible massacre of Fort nntl Iho two now felt their death throes in
Mims—the hazardous expeditions of Clni- the bottom of the canoe. AuslilL had, ir,
borne, and tho Seminole campaigns of *^ e meantime, recovered, and added his
Jackson—knows enough to appreciate the s,ren g'h in the work of destruction. The
iron nerve and daring intrepidity of Gen. l,old Cmsar held the boats together with
Dale. We will only notice a lew ofthose nn ' ro “ g RIs P. nnd wilh ono foot in each,
remarkable adventures with which his life our heroes fought. Two successive blows i
is so replete. - from Austin’s rifle dispatched two of the
His celebrated ‘Canoe Fight,’in the Al
abama river, in which he and two of his
company, brained, with clubbed rifles, nine
Indian warriors, in Inirnnd open combit,
is a kind of household word with nur sett
lers. Every old crony on the river could
rela'e io you Ihe incidents of this bloody
ci uflict ; whilo her aged partner, whose
head lia.i whitened with the growing im
prov incut of his State, would hobble down
io l.ic bank and point out the very spot in
the bright waters where the two canoes
ne t ; and if, perchance the reuder has ev
er re. do a trip down the river, on that beuu
tifui boat which bears our heroe’s name,
(Sam Dale,) lie has doubtless had desig
na'.cd to him, by the courteous captain, the
tme honored old beech which marks tho
spot, as ueli as the high projeciing hank
which had previously sheltered the name
sake of his boat from the fire of tho Indi
ans.
Soon after the bloody tragedy of Fort
Mulls, many of the w hites, urged by their
defenceless condition, and the increasing
hostilities of tho Indians, took refugo in
Fort Mudison. As Gen. Claiborne was
prevented from marching to their aid by
the hostile movements of the enemy, nbout
St. Stephens, Capt. Dale and Col. Curson
were left in command of As
S' on as wounds, received nt Burnt Corn,
were sufficiently honied, Dale determined
to change his lino o:’conduct from defen
sive to offensive. With 70 nun he pro
ceeded soulhwesiwnrdiy to Bruzu r’s land
ing on the AluLmn. Here l hiy found
two canoes, belonging to a negro named
Caisar, who informed them that there
were Indians above there on each side id
the river. He ulso tendered them ihe use
of his canoes, and proffered to act as pilot.
Cant. Dale immediately placed the cunues
m charge of Jeremiah Austil nnds.x
w ho were o' denii to ki ep parallel with
tho party on land. Arriving at t lie mouth
of Ruudcn’s Creek, the canoe parly dis
covered n boat filled wilh Indians, who,
however, immediately, paddled to ihe shore
mid tied. The land parly finding it im
possible to continue their route on uccount
of thick cane and vines, were ordered to
cross proceed up on jjie other side.—
While thev were effecting a passuge, Dale
and several of his men kindled a fire a
short distance from the river to prepare
their day’s meal. Thus engaged they
were fired upon by a party of Creeks, from
ambuscade. Retreating to the river, so
ns to gain the cover of the projecting hunk,
they discovored a large botnomed ca
noe, containing eleven nrmed'tmd painted
warriors. Tho party behind them now
retired, leaving Dale to enoose his own
course towards those in tho boat. As boih
of his canoes were on the opposite side,
Dnle ordered the larger one to be manned.
Two of the warriors now left their boat
and swam for shoro, but a bull from the
unerring rifle of John Smith perforated the
bkull of one, who immediately sank the
Other gained the shore and escaped. Eight
inen, in the meantime, manned the largo
canoe and were npproaching the Indiun
boat, but coming near enough to see the
number of rifle-muzzles over the edge of
the boat, they hastily paddled back to the
shore.
Dale exasperated by this “clear back
out,” us he termed it, of his men, shouted
lo them in a scornful tone, “to look and
see three bravo men do what eight cowards
had shrunk from,” and followed by Austill
and Smith, spVang into the smaller canoe,
which the faithful Cmsar had just brought
Over. Paddling their canoo directly to
wards their enpmies, they soon commenc
ed the ‘foanoo fight,” proper—so celebra
ted in Alabama tradition.
■ When within twenty paces of the Indi
uns, our heroes arose in their canoe, to
give them an open broadside, but unfortu
nately, the priming of their guns was wet,
nnd they failed to fire. Had not tho same
accident befallen the enemy, tho result ofi
tho canoe fight might have been very dift
ferent. Gen. Dale now ordered Cmsar to■
JJrin<? his boatnlongsido the other, and hold!
them together. The warriors confident ofj
their strength, nnd eager to grapple with
three men whoso guns would not fire, nl-
‘ ; -t’ k'^hV f .V 'W.*,
enemy, one of whom fell overboard.—
Thinking to make sure of his foe by a
second stroke, Austin leaned forward to
strike, when he wns again prostrated by
nn Indiun Club. Ihe exulting savage
never forgetful of n scalp raised the war
whoop— seized his victim bv ibo hair—
iho scalp knilc glittered in tho air, when
another timely blow from Dale’s clubbed
riflu divided his skull.
Tradition says, that from the force of
the blow the skull was split even to ihe
vurtebal column. In the meantime, Smith
at the other end of the canoe, grnppled
with two lusty warriors. He was a pow
erful man ; but the chances now were
against him. The iron clutches of one of
his assailants are upon his throut—the tom
ahawk of the other above his hoad. He
sees his danger ; one foot in one canoe,
one in the olher, with a desperato effort
ho gets both feet in ono canoe, and draws
one Indian nfier him, while tho sudden
movement separates tho ends of the
boats, nnd leaves tho other behind to
meet the fate of those who had already
come within the range of Dalo’s and Aus
tin’s rifles. Smith now hnd the enemy in
his power, and soon despatched him. The
conflict now became equal ! three to_ three.
The savages reduced in rftlmber from nine
to three, now fought with the energy of
despair. Light and active, they avoidod
ninny of the blows of the whites, and deal:,
in return, such well directed ones, that
they were beginning to tell in their Invor
w hen l)ule, c.nlling to Caisar to hold the
boats firmly together, sprung upon one of
the seats and dealt a blow which shivered
a club which had been directed to meet it
und levelled another warrior. Tho re
maining two were left to have destruciion
meied to them at the bunds of the
victorious Dale, who, whilo Smith and
A c nil leaned upon their bloody and brain
spattered rifles, despatched them nt two
auccessive blows. During the wliolo oI
this sanguinary conflict, the heroes were
encouraged by the continued cheers ol
their comrades on either bank. Of the
nine wnrriors, Smith killed two, Austill
two, nnd Dnle five. “Having laid them
low,” says Mr. Puckett, “these undaunted
Americans began to cast them into the
bright waters of the Alabama —their na
tive stream, now to he their grave. Every
time a savage was raised up from the bot
tom of the ennoo und slung into tho river,
tho Americans upon the banks set up
shouts loud and long, as some slight re
venge lor the irngedy of Fort Miins. —
The Indian canoe presented a sight unu
suully revoltiug—several inches deep in
savage blood—thickened with clods of
brains nnd bunches qf hair, &c.
Georgia Magazine.
The Coos Democral perfinenlly inquires :
—“lf political sermons are to be commen
ded, why not extend the same policy to
other parts of the divine service? Have
little psalms in honor of Abolitionism, and
hymns of denunciation of those whose
politics don’t suit the priest? obligations
to abuse the South, and vote against the
democracy, inserted as profess ions of be
liofin the creed, and little tracts commen
ding mobs and efligy-burning for distribu
tion among the congregation 7”
In another column of the same paper
we find the following, which is entitled to
a relationship with tho above :
“There is now-a-dnys a bigoted fanati
cism extant which thinks itself a living
branch of Christianity, but is a mere poi
sonous mushroom, springing from the
dead and decaying body of ancient super
stition, as the ordinary toadstool sprouts
from a black nnd rotton log.”
MaJ. Ca£B to uk Married. — The Puris
correspondent of the Cinclnnatti Gazette,
writing under the date of May, 29, says:
“A fashionable marriage, wiiich has been
for some (inop an interesting subject of die
cussion with the beau monde is at last de
finitely arranged to come offin a few days.
The partios are Lewis Cass, Jr., Charge
d’Afiairs at Rome, apd the beautiful Miss
Ludlum, of New Yprk, who after spending
the winter in Rome with her parents, is
now stopping In Paris till the wedding.
CLEARFIELD JULY 11, 1 85 4.
(published nv bequest.)
From Dickon* Household Word*.
MORAVIAN SCHOOLS.
Why do I look lovingly back on llie two
; years of childhood passed in exile from all
friends at home, among one or two hun-
I dred boys under the guidanco ofono or two
dozen masters? Why do I believe, as I
I do firmly, that I learned precious things
in that German school which suffered me
I to forget my little Greek, and to dwindle
I down from a precocious bolter of Virgil to
| a bad decltner of rex, regis ; which ad
j ministor its Euclid in homooeopathic do
isos ; which taught me to wrftc in mystic
characters that had to bo unlearnt at home;
land in which I cannot remember that I
ever did a sum ? Why do I believe I learn
ed more than ever in the snmeiimo before
or after, till I went ns a man into the
school of sorrow ? For the benefit of tea
chers, let me try to look at that school from
the boy’s point of view, and find out whatj
the lessons were by which I profited. j
; From several Englrsh boarding-schools j
through which I had been shifted with the
j vain hope of finding, at last, one that was \
; n proper place ofeduention, I went to New!
jUnkrant on the Rhine, a very little boy ; j
.experienced in the applications of the fag,;
[stones, nuts, whipcord in all its combina
tions, bumping against the corners of wall,
tommy and cane, and other means of tor
ture. 1 had leurned to be reckless about
blows, to regard a big boy or a school
master ns a natural enemy, and to feel
proud b.ccause there were few nthers so
prompt to defy or insult the teacher, or to
bite him while he plied the slick. I wns
familiar with filth and falsehood. lam
ashamed to think of all that I, a very
young child, had learned, and I wonder
at the little incidents belonging to that
time, which show bow hard a struggle
the good spirit thut belongs to childhood
had maintained in self defence, against
such miserable influences. But the seven
champions of Christendom defended me
from a great deal of harm. I should htye
been undone had not the genii nnd the
white cal, whom 1 nursed secretly, been
on my side, nnd given me good counsel.
Brother Mieth it wus lie who met me
onthe piorwhen I first landed at Now Unk
rant, with my smull portinuntuu, and there
welcomed mo in broken English as no
teacher had ever welcomed me before.
He took me into a school containing
about one hundred and fifty boys. These
were associated as close comrades in
groups of twenty, formed by herding to
gether those most nearly uliko in ago.—
F-iic.h herd had its own rooms superinten
ded by two brothers ; one brother to take
cliargo of the minds, the other of the bod
ies, of the children. The whole school di
ned and supped together in one hall ; we
all slept together in one mighty dormito
ry; each in the little bed thut lie himself
had made ; nnd we all mot at chapel. In
the classes that were changed from hour
to hour, we were formed together in sets
formed, of 'jourse, not according to our
nge, but our attainments. Out of doors
again, all were togolher, often in the com- 1
mon playground, u large garden outside!
the town. Of the play-gurden, be it said
that there was materiul provided there for
plenty of rough sport, and there were tern- 1
pies in it adorned with t ublets to the mem- 1
ory of dead teachers who had been much !
loved. F’or incidents occurring almost dai
ly, our imaginations were appealed to, and
our hearts were touched
Thai was the spirit of , the school. Its
power was immense. The multitude of
boys, ns u sort of federal
republic, was not only maintained in per
fect discipline without an act of violence,
but very few went away from among us
whose minds had not been, to some de
gree, enriched, enlarged, ennobled. Dur
ing tho two years that 1 spent there, not
a blow was struck, except tho few that
seasoned our own boyish quarrels. They
were lew enough.
Wb were not milksops. We braved
peril in many of our 6ports ; we were for
true knights, not for recreants ; we were
chevaliers without fear; but also, more
than is usual among communities of boys,
without reproach. A spirit of truthful- 1
ness, of gentleness, of cordiality between
the teachers and the taught, pervaded out|
whole body ; punishments of the most i
nominal kinds sufficed for the scholastic|
discipline ; insubordination, there wasj
none; secret contempt of authority, there!
wus none. New-comers brought vicesj
with them very often, or began thoir neW|
school life in the wrong tune; tj;p good
spirit so inlected them: they fell into the]
right harmony within a week or a month.!
And what was tho secret of the influence,)
exerted over us by these gentle Moravians? i
They lived before us blameless lives ; they j
had, in themselves, a child-like simplicity
of mind and purpose ; they were so truth-!
ful that they did not seem able to under-1
s'nnd deceit; and, as I have said, they won ]
our hearts /by suffering the free play ofi
our fancies.
These Moravians are said sometimes to
resemble Quakers, and there is not much
fancy in a Quaker perhaps. It may be
{said, for example, that the platj of burial
< used by the brotherhood is Qudker-like in
.' its simplicity. Thete'lr a square church-
yard with n brood walk down the middle.
The first brother who dies is laid in one
corner, and tho first sister who dies is laid
in the opposite corner ; the dead who fol
low nre placed in rows, ns beans are set
in a field. The rows ofbrothers multiply
on one the walk, the rows of sis
ters on the other, nnd no difference of
rank is shown. There is but n single
form for the flat stone that is laid, over
each grave as a lid. Formality (bis.rtiay
bo, but it did not seem formality to tis.—
Our hearts were moved at tho aspect of a
graveyard that was so much Ijke our own
dormitory with its rows of beds—n place
in which all rested ns equals, until the
time of tho awakening. It stirred our
fancies more than nny fancies could be
stirred by tho colossol tea-caddies in stone
and the stone tea-urns without spouts, tbnt
indicate, in English cemeteries, where the
respectable dead bodies have been placed.
Concerning them, a child can only won
der why there nre only urns and ten cad
dies, —why none of the tombs nre decora
ted with n cup nnd saucer, or a spoon, or
sugnr-tongues —whore the well executed
toast rack is.
Of this Moravian churchyard, 1 have
more to sav, for it whs in truth, part ofour
school. Not tbnt we learnt any gcogrnphy
lessons among the tombs, but’we did cer
tainly learn lessons there. lam about to
horrify some nervous parents. We boys
used to see corpses and attend funerals.
Gentle Brother Mictli was but a young
man. At one lime of his life lie hud been
to the Greenland mission ; but, failing
health had warned his companions to send
him home to his own milder climate ; so it
chanced, therefore, that he ended his life
ns a teacher at New Unkranl. He tuught
and lie was prompt to learn, while holding
friendly talk with boys from all parts of
the world, assembled in the school. There
were a great many of us English—all sad
brnggers about our country ; new comers
too, who had not been down, went
so far as to invent matter for the glory of
old Englund in general, nnd of their homes
in particular. I myself had not been long
added to the community before I had ex
ecuted n rude pen nnd ink sketch of n
spacious turreled castle with four corner
towers of such heigth as would enter only
into the inind of Mr. Marry to conceive,
nr.d hud confidently displayed it to some
young Gorman and French friends, oven
to Brother Mietli nnd a few teachers, as a
, sketch from memory of my native hulls
in Gower street, London. An English
boy who had been my companion at home
bore witness to the accuracy of tho pic
ture, and obtained from me, ns his re
ward, ihe decision that his futher’s park
must Ik about three times larger thun the
princijjnlily of Unkrant. Brother Meilh
never doubled us, or never seemed to
doubt. When, during a long walk on tho
nllec borderod with apple trees that led
from Now Unkrant to Schneiderdingon, I
described to Brother Meilh a domestic
ceremony that I had lutoly witnessed at
home, luking tho whole muss of my start
ling dotnils out of a tale in the Romance
of Spanish History, Ihe good brother man
ifested not a trace of doubt. Ho had seen
strange things in Greenland; nnd in Eng
land tilings might possibly bo stranger. —
Against ibis quiet trustfulness, no child’s
spirit of untruth could maintain itself. I
remember only ono or two in our whole
mass who did not become, under its influ
ence, completely candid and trustworthy.
I seem to have wandered from the sub
ject of the dead bodies wo went to see,
and yet have not wandered very far.—
: Brother Mieth disappeared from his desk
land joined tho men and children, tenant
ing a portion of our building called the
' sick-room. What pleasure we all thought
it to be sick ! A battered old soldier was
the ministering nurse—no woman could
be gentler in tho office than he was, —and
| theiuivhat tales of battles and the deadly
breach he liked to tell ! We did
not pity brother Meilh for being in tho
sick-room, till the rumor grew among us
that some best authority had said that he
would die. Wo began then to pay him
visits, and I do not think we were the
worse for the shofi texts he used to show
us in his unaffected way. We all kept al
bums, little boxes of loose coloured leaves
on each of which a friend was to inscribe
some syllables in token of his love. We
went to Brother Meith with blank leaves
in our hands. It must hnve been solemn
yet not sad work for him, sitting at his lit
tle table in the sick-room, strewn with
blank leaflets, pink and blue, and white,
and yellow, and crimson, and to write up
on each one his farewell to a child who
loved him, and whom he had loved. Oft
brother Mieth, brother Mieth! Glad um
I that I have my leaflet still
Our friend died, and they look his body
ns they took the body of every brother
who died, to a little room in a garden,
built aguinst the garden wall, a place to
which we went between the garden flow
ers, by a trim walk, under trellised vines,
[n that building, on certain days, accor
ding to the custom of the school in such
cases, we were permitted (not compelled)
to go and be with our friend for the last
time. And with what fiilt hearts we pas
sed the threshold of the little rt)om, to And
Brother Mieth placidly sleeping in a pret
ty bed, one of his hands lying on the
countorpano with roses in it. We felt no
horrors at tho stillness nnd whiteness of
his face ; our thoughts of Death nnd Hea
ven were allied too closely for that.
Then camo the funeral. Before we
journeyed to tho graveyard, all met in the
quiet chapel, where there was a short ser
vice, and a hymn ; sung to stirring music
of wind instruments, stringed instruments,
and organ. The minister then opened a
small paper, and read from it a brief me
moir ofour friend, through which wo heard
for the first time what had happened to
him, nnd what work he had found timo to
do in all the years beforo his grave was
ready. Knowing then, better than ever
whom we followed, nil the men of the
brotherhood, nnd all tho boys ofthe school
two by two, with no pomp but the pomp of
numbers, followed the bearers of n sim
ple coffin. Arrived at the ehourchynrd
we there formed n great square that al
most corresponded to the square of its
four hedges. Brother Mielh was commit-J
led to the earth with blessings, and to this
day I can tell by the thrill in my heart
how we felt when immediately afterwards
the trumpets were blown over his grave.
Aided by that music, presently our funer
al hymn rose from the voices of many
men and boys, and spread through the
silence of the country round about.
(Conclusion Nrxl Week.)
Cholera—Narrow Escape of being
Buried Alive. —A correspondent of the
Boston Journnl, writing under date of Mnn
epy, Jaffna, Ceylon, .April 12, furnishes
the following melancholy nnd thrilling in
cidents :
I have alluded to the prevalence of chol
era. The ravages of the disease in the
parish of Manepy havo been fearful. 1 j
never before realized the presence of death, j
as for some time when tho pestilence was
at its height. In some instances, the at
tack seemed to be nothing but death itself
from the outset, and tho victim was huK |
tied into the grave within six hours’ and ;
even less, from the time of the first appear
nnce of disease. The people have such a
fear of having a corpse in the house, that
they bury ns soon as possible, after the
brenth ha» left the body, and in some cases,
we have great renson to believe, even be
fore lifo is extinct. Several instances of
this kind have been reported, nnd in re
gard to the death of some of the native •
Christians by this disease, we havo had
most painful suspicions and fears. I will j
mention ono or two authentic cases where
| persons narrowly escaped being buried.
1 alive, ns such instances may not be with- i
out use ns warnings, even in America.—
One occurred in February, in a village,!
Aslavory, adjoining Manepy. A person J
who was attacked with cholera requested I
his friends not to bury him at once if he
died, but to wait for some timo. He died
within eight or nine hours, as was sup-j
posed, when his friends, without regarding '
his plainly expressed wish, prepared for
the interment; but ono of them having ro- ,
called the dying man’s request, delayed the i
funeral three or four hours. Meanwhile '
the body moved, nnd the man askod for
congy or gruel; the heat of the body ry
lurned, und the man has since regained
his usual health. Again, only a few Sab
bath mornings since, a teacher in the Sab
bath school at this station—which school,
by the way, has been entirely broken up
for more than threo months by the cholera,
pointed out to me a littlo girl, a member
of his class, who was supposed to die, but
os it was late in the afternoon, she was
wrapped in a mat—nearly all are buried
here without coffins of any sort—and tho
corpse left till ffiorning for the interment.
During the night tho poor little crooturo
revived so much os to complain or the cold,
or to ask for food, when she was cared for
and has since become so well as to be able
to attend tho Sabbath and duy schools.
United States Revenue. —lt appears
from a Washington letter in the New York
Courier that the receipts from customs for
the month ofMny, at the principal ports of
the country, amounted to $4,552,000, u
gainsts4,l79,ooo in May oflastvear. At
the port of Baltimore the receipts for May
nmounted t 0537,000, and for May oflast
year $68,000. The receipts at this port
also for the first ten days of the present
month of June reached $21,000, against
$19,000, for tho number of ‘ ,,, ys in last
June. At New York l>~ receipts in May
amounted to $3,175,000, against $2,993,
000, in May ot last year. The increased
receipt” at Philadelphia reached $30,000
pud at all tho other ports except Now Or
leans there is an increase. The total re
ceipts from customs, lands, &c., for the
fiscal year ending the 80th ull., will be
about $74,706,204, which will be an in
crease over last year ofs 13,760,264. It
is estimated that on the 30th ult, the bal.
ance in the national treasury will be $32,
000,000,'0r $10,057,108 more than was
on hand at the same period lust year.—
The public debt paid off during
the fiscal year now closing is about $2O,
000,000. • Of the entire revenue of tho
year the existing tariff has produced $6B,
000,000, and the public lands $7,700,
, 006. —Daily New*,
NUMBER 22.
Col John W. Forney. —The following
eloquent tribute to Col. Forney, by one of
the ablest men ofPennsylvania, Governor
Reedf.it, we clip from the proceedings of
the serenade given to the latter by the citi
zens of Easton, when informed of his ap
pointment ns Governor of Kansas: ~
“There is one man whom, on this oc
casion, and in this connection, I am sure
you do not wish to overlook, and whom I
cannot allow to be forgotten, where manli
ness and worth and nobleness of soul are
appreciated. I must ask therefore, to fill
for the health of a refined and exalted in
tellect—of untiring mental force and
activity—of warm and generous impulses,
of unquailing moral courage, and of self
sacrificing devotion to his friends. Faith
ful as fidelity itself—generous ns the show
ers of heaven—he would make efforts and
sacrifices for his friend which he never
■would make for himself-nnd confer his
benefits without a moment’s consideration
whether they left him an uncounted hoard
or an exhausted store—the very soul of
honor, and faith, and pure unselfish gener
osity; nnd with this merited and introduc
tory tribute, given in the sincerity of my
henrt, I propose.—
The Health of Col John W. Fornev,
Clerk of tho National House ofßepresen
tatives.
Another Cure for the Cholera.—
The following extract from the fetter of a
clergyman to the Lord Lieutenant oflre
land, presents a very simple, and, ho says,
effectual preventative of cholera, as well
ns a remedy of great power:
“Tho preventative is simple: a teaspoon
ful of powdered charcoal taken, three or
four times a week in a cup of coffee or li
quid in tho morning.
“When attacked with cholera, a mix
ture of an ounce of charcoal, an ounce of
laudanum, and an ounce of brandy, or any
other spirits, may be given as follows —
after being well shaken: a teaspoonful ev
ery five minutes. In half an hour 1 have
known it effectually to relievo nnd stay the
disease. As the patient becomes better,
the mixture may begiven at long intervals.
“I have known n patient in the blue
stage, and collapsed, perfectly recovered
in a few hours.
“The charcoal was tried as a preventa
tive on a large plantation in tho Mauritas,
and not a single individual out of eight
hundred was attacked with cholera.
| sec a number of whig and free
soil editors at the North advocating a dis
j solution of the Union, and we nre rather
amused at their apparent idea that when
' they speak, tho entire sentiment of the peo
pie, North, East, and West, is proclaimed;
for instance, the New York Tribune and
i its faithful echo, the Ohio Stale Journal,
j have presumed to inform “all the world
land the rest of mankind’’ that the idea of
dismemberment of the Union is received
with particular favor by all citizens ofthe
United States north of Mason and Dixon’s
line. But let the Tribune but make a roll
call, and it will find that it is but a com
parative few reckless spirits who are rea
dy to answer aye to disunion. And the
idea that the people of a single sovereign
Sluto would at the ballot-box say ‘separate'
is as absurb and ridiculous as for anyone
'.o seek continueJ preservation by resorting
to well-known destructive agents. North
or South, the mass of the people of these
States place a valuo upon the Union which
will provo a never failing bar to a surren
der of those blessings at the instigation of a
horde of gambling, speculating, knavish,
and fanatical politicians.— Wash. Union.
Danger of Painted Pails. —The editor
of tho Scientific American publishes the
following communication from James
Manleo, of New York, with the advice for
all persons to avoid painted pails. A coat
of varnish on the outside, is all the embel
lishment we over desire to see on a water
pail;—
“The oxide of lead with which pails
are painted, is n dangerous poison, and I
know that it is productive of evil in many
cases. Last week, having occasion to
take a drink of water fiom a painted c** 11 '
which had been in use for so*—' mo **lns,
I was convinced by tast’-e the water, that it
had taken up a (,on of ‘he point, and
having ana 1 .; ‘ho water, I found it to
coni'”** a very minute quanty of it, suffi
cient, however, if a large amount of water
were taken, to produce those fearful diseas
es peculiar to lead poisonings.”
Mr. Brown to tub Tendeu-Heauted
Watchman. —“Watchman,spare tbatjug.
Touch not a single drop. It has served
me many a tug, and I will bo its prop. —
’Twas my fore-father’s hand that placed
it in his cot. There watchman let it stand
—thy club shall harm it That old
family jug, whoso credit nnd renown are
known to many a mug, and would’st thou
smash it down 7 Watchman, forbear thy
blow!—Break not its earth-brown clay :
nor let the liquor flow. But let the old jug
stay.” -
To keep Preserves, apply the white of
an egg with a suitable brush to a single
thickness of tissue paper, with which cover
over the jnr.ijverlapping the edges an inch
or two. No tying is required. - The whole
will become when dry, as tightas a drum.