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D. A. A. Wine gut drier, W'm. Vanderbelt, L. A. Mackey, Wm. Fearon, \. VViiite. Dr. J. S. Crawford, 'arne-> Like darkness at morn ; The roses are fading. Their beauties are gone. Those ones that were brightest , . Are passing away ; To cheer antato. , Kvi-n lhe fathers of the holy tabernacle arc not probf against this little weakness ; for jieople xvil' have passions, people will be ! long to meetin', and people will let their ; passions under the pulpit. IJul I we have no distinct re ollection of ever having known a misdirected, but properly interpreted letter , to settle a cliueklv ' plug muss,' so efficiently and h.'ppily a- the case we have in point. Old John Jlulkley (grandson ol the once famous President Chauncty ) \\v>' a minis ter of die gospel, and one of the G*—t id' ruled men of iiis day in the wooden nut meg State, when the immortal (or ought fo be) Jonathan Trumbull was 'around' and ! in his youth. Mr. Ilulkley was the first ■•settied minister in the town of his adop tion, Colchester, Connecticut. It was with him, as afterwards with good old brother Jonathan (Governor Trumbull, the bosom friend of General Washington), goofT l > confer on almost any matter, scientific, po , lineal or religious—any subject, in short, w herein common sense and genera! good to ali concerned was the issue. As a phi losophical reasoner.casuist, and proodcomi -1 selor, iie was 'looked up to* and abided by. , It so fell out that a congregation in Mr. ! Bulkiey's vicinity got to loggerheads, and : were upon the apex of raising ' the evil one' instead of a spire to their church, :.s i they proposed and split upon. The very ; nearest they cotdd come to a cessation oi hostilities, was to appoint a committee ol j three, to wait on Mr. Buiklev, state their case, and gel him to adjudicate. They ! waited on the old gentleman, and he iis- j toned with grave attention to their conflict- j © iiig grievances. •It appears to inc," said the old gentle man, • that this is a very trifling case—a very trifling tiling to cause you so much vexation.' * So 1 say.* savs one of the committee, j •1 don't call it a tufling case, .Mr. Bulk- j lev,' said another. ' No case at ali,' responded the third. 'lt ain't, eii liercely answered the first sjo;i kcr. •No, it ain't, sir!' quite as savagely re plied the third. ' It's anything but a trilling case, unv how,' echoed number two, ' to expect, to raise the minister's salary and that new j steeple, too, out of our smalltonijregation. ' There is no danger of raising much out of yov, anyhow, .Mr. Johnson,' spite- j fullv returned number one. 'Gentlemen, it you please—' beseech itigly interposed the sage. ' I haven't come here, .Mr. Bulkley, to quarrel,' said one. 'Who started this?' sarcastically answer ed Mr. Johnson. ' Not me, anyway,' number three re plies. ' You don't say I did, do you V rays number one. ' Gentlemen !—gentlemen ! —' 'Mr. Ilulkley, you see how it is; there's Johnson—' ' Yes, Mr. Bulkley,' says Johnson, 'and there's old Winkles, too, and here's lb .- con Potter, also.' ' I am here,' stifily replied the deacon, 'and I am sorry the Reverend Mr. Bulk ley finds me in such company, sir! ' Now, gentlemen— brothers —if you please,' said Mr. Bulkley, ' this is ridicu lous—' 'Mo I say,' murmured Mr. Winkles. 'As far as y oa are concerned, it is ridic ulous,' satd tiie deacon. This brought Mr. Winkles up, standing. ' Sir !' he shouted, 4 sir !' ' But my dear sirs—' beseechingly said the philosopher. ' Sir!' continued Winkles, ' sir! I am too old a man—too gorxt a Christian, Mr. Bulkley, to allow a man. a mean, despica ble toad, like Deacon Potter—' 'Do you call me— me a despicable toad/' menacingly cried the deacon. ' Brethren,' said Mr. Bulkley, ' if I urn to counsel yon in your difference, 1 inut I have no more of this unchristian-like Hiek i erin -' 'I do not wish to biqJier, sir," said John son. ' Nor I don't-want to, sir,' sMt.' the dea con, ' but when a man calls me a toad, a mean, despicable load —' 'Well, well, never mind,' said Mr. Bulk ley ; you are ali too excited now; go home j again and wait patiently ; on fSuturdny evening next I will have prepared and sent to you a written opinion of your ease, with a full and free avowal of most wholesome I advice for preserving your church from j desolation and yourselves from despair.' And the committee left, to await his issue. Now it chanced that Mr. Bulkley had a small farm, some distance from the town | of Colchester, and found it necessary, the same day he wrote his opinion and advice to the brethren of the disalfectod churcfi, ' to drop a line to his fanner regarding the • fixtures of said estate. Having written a long, and ol course, elaborate ' essay' to his brethren, lie wound up ilie day's iiler arv exertions with a despatch to lhe fann er, and after a reverie to hiuisclf, he directs the two documents, and next morning des- I patches them to their several destinations. On Saturday evening a full and anxious synod of the belligerent churchmen took : place in their tabernacle, and punctual!v, as promised, came the despatclf from the Plato of the time and place,—Rev. John Bulkier. All was quiet and respectful at | tention. The moderator took up the doc ument, broke the seal, opened it, and—a pause ensued, while dubious amazement | seemed to spread over the features of the i worthy president of the meeting. 'Well, brother Temple, how is it—what does .Mr. Bulkier say?' and another pause followed. 'Will the moderator please proceed V | said another voice. Thf moderator placed the paper upon the table, took off his spectacles, wiped the i glasses, then his lips—replaced ins specs noon his nose, and with a very broad grin, said ; • BreJoreu, this appears to ine to be a vcrv singular letter, to say the least of it!' •Weil, read o—read it,' responded the wondering heart."*. • 1 will,' and the .moderator began : ' You will see to the repair of the fen ce-, that they be built. and strong, and you will take special care of the old blac 4 bvJi: There was a general pause ; a silent mystery overspread the community i the moderator dropped the paper to a ' rest, and gazing over the top of his glasses lor several minutes, nobody saying a word. ' Repair the fences!' muttered the mod erator at length. . ' Build them strong and high !' echoed ; Deacon Hotter. •Take special care of th e old black btill. n growled half the meeting. Then another pause ensued, and each . man eyed his neighbor in mute rnvslery. A tall and venerable man now arose from j his seat; clearing his voice with a hem, he ' spoke: 'Brethren, vou rccm lost in the brief and j eloquent words ol our learned adviser.— To me nothing could he more appropriate to our case. It is just such a profound and : applicable replv to us as we should have hoped and looked for, from the learned and good man, John Bulkley. The direc tion to repair the fences is to take heed in the admission and government of our mem bers ; we must guard the church by our Master's laws, and keep out stray and vi cious cattle ftorn the fold! And, above all thine?, set a trustworthy and vigilant watch over that old black bull, who is die devil, and who has already broken into our en closures and sought to desolate and lay waste the lair grounds of our church !" The effect of this interpretation was electrical. All saw and took the force ol Mr. Bulkley's cogent advice, and unani mously resolved to be governed by it; hence the old black bull was put hors du combat, and the church preserved its union ! 7". < Hird of tkt "Foiling Bdl.—Am ong the highest woods and deepest gluns of Brazil, a sound is sometimes heard, so singular that the noise seems quite unnat ural; it is like (he distant and solemn tol ling (fa church bull struck at intervals. This extraordinary noise proci iUs from the Arawougo. Ihe bird sits on the top of the highest trees in the deepest forest, and though constantly heard in the most desert places, it is very rarely seen, it is impossible to conceive anything of a more solitary character than the profound si lence of the woods broken only by the , meuilic and almost supernatural sound of : this invisible bird, coining from the air and seeming to follow wherever you go. The Arawongo is white, with a eircie of red around its eyes—its size is about that of a small pigeon. Philopaenp A correspondent of the Trenton Gazette, writes from Berlin the I following account of this game as practiced among the Germans: ' Here when a rou ■) pie exchange philopoenas, the object of . each is not to be first to pronounce the - common word at the next meeting, but with the exchange the sport has but begun. The object of each is to draw the other i into accepting some offer, and if* that is i done, the word 'philopnena' is spoken, am] t a forfeit required. To illustrate it better : - by example; *A and B exchange pliilopmnas at a par - ty, and a few days after A calls upon Bat his or he: house. B instead of waiting to - lie asked in, enters just before the invita i lion is given; if offered a chair takes a seal ; upon the sofa; if B presses the butter to - Aat the table, A takes cheese instead,and : so on, always taking care to accept noth- ! • ing, hut in a quiet way endeavoring to force I t die other party into the acceptance of some j i offer on his own side. ; 'lf at that visit either is successful, he j i immediately says ' philopmna,' hut if both ; should always be on the guard, the thing ; . may pass on to a subsequent occasion.— i I I. tie reader will instantly see how prcfera i ble this method is to our own, where often- j • times there is a rude haste exhibited to be j ■ the first to speak, and where the person , j who has the least on his mind is genially • successful.' jfjfc -77, e Highest Mountain in the fVorld. —At a meeting of the •rtyStic Society of; Bengal, on the 6th of August, it was an- ' i nounced that Col. Waugh, Surveyor Gen ; eral of India, had completed his compu- 1 j tations of the positions and elevations of the peaks of the fliniilayas. The result j j was to depose the mountain Kanchinjtnea from its throne as the highest point on the i earth's surface. That distinction belongs ! for the pies* nt to a peak 100 miles from Kanchinjinga, and between that mountain . j and Katainantloo. This peak is ascertain ! Ed to be 20,002 feet above the sea level; Kanchinjinga is 28.156 feet, and Dewala eirl, the mountain which "school geogra phies" persist in calling "the highest in the known world," is only 26,826 feet.—- ! The mountain has no name intelligible to civilized man, und Col. Waugh has there ■ fore ventured to denominate it "Mount Everest," after a former surveyor general. djmbiit Canoe Jjiscovered. —Three | fisherman at Asnieres, I'ranre, have dis j covered an ancient canoe buried beneath a sand bank in the rt/er. From its form it is supposed th ,t it was used hv the Nor mans in iheir invasion of Paris. It is an | immense trunk of oak, about eighty feet i long, hollowed out, and capable of holding ! sixty men. It is well known that the I Normans, in addition to their large Wicker i work boats, had other very long ones for purposes of war, formed of hard wood, and it is supposed that this is one of them. There is a striking resemblance between this and the barks of the pirates of the ' ninth century. A If til Case. —The Columbia South i Carolinian states that thecelcbraledcase j of .Mr. V\ i llis.—who took a colored ivo ; man to Ohio, freed her, and bequeathed to her and ber children (who were also his own) all hi? property in South Caroli na, —has just been decided by Judge O'Neall, at the > late term o! the Court at i Barnwell. The jury gave a verdict against the validity of the will, —partly on the | ground that it was procured by fraud and j 1 insaniiv . and partly because it was oppos ed to the policy of the GGute, as declared b) the act of 1811. It has been appealed. A N ! MPA'ffEN'T JURYMAN. An Arkansas correspondent of the New i Orb aits Picayune gives the following as i authentic: You are nil fond of cracking jokes at the expense of Arkansas; now here is one on your .State, absolutely true. I got it from an eye witness: The dis'rict courtol one of your northern parishes was in session—'twas the lirst • day of the court; lime, utter dinner. Law yers and others had dined and were sitting out before the hotel, and a long, lank, tin sophisiocated countryman came up and unceremoniously made himself one of 'em, ! and remarked: 'Gentlemen, 1 wish you would go on with this court, for i want to go home— -1 left Betsy a looking out.' 'All,' said one of the law vers, 'and pray, j sir, what detains you at Court?' 'Why, sir,' said tfie touGtryman, 'l'm foiehed here as a jury, and they say if 1 1 go home they will have to find me, and thev moutn't do that, as 1 live a good , piece. •What jury are you on?' a.slwd a lavv \ or. 'What jury?' 'Yes, what jury? Grand or traverse / 1 jury. 'Grand or travis jury? dad-fetched if I know.' 'Well,' said the lawyer, 'did the judge charge you?' • 'Well, squire,' said lie, 'the little fellow that sits up in the pulpit and kinder bosses it over the crowd, gin us a talk, but 1 don't • know whether he charged anything or not.* The crowd broke up in a roar of laugh- , j ter, and the sheriff' called court From the Lock Haven Democrat. LETTER FROM TEXAS. Fort Clark, Texas, Sept. 19, 1656. I seat myself according to promise, to { give you a description of our last §c#ut. We left here about the 18ih of August.— I think there were thirtv of our company, and twelve Artillery men with us. Capt. j Oakes was in command. We had with ; tu> Lieut. Clawson, of the Artillery, and ; J.ierit. J. B. Withereli of oyr own compa- ! ny . Wf took the El Paso roatfj .here, aod followed it to the second crossing of Dev-q ii's River, now known as camp Gilbert. When we arrived at the first crossing of the river weJialted—as we supposed, for i the night—but as there was no grass for ; our animals, the Capt. concluded to re- j ; main only until the moon would rise to i give us Jight to travel. We had forty j miles to go without water, and we thought i it best to travel as far as possible that night, ■ | and rest in the morning a short time and i start on. We struck our camp and started,, 1 , after some trouble, for our mules werej[ very wile! and gave us some (rouble ' I we could bridle and saddle them. V I ~~ b " wc had made every arrangement to star j we discovered that one of our men was*' ; missing, his horse was there but no saddle 1 or rider. We hunted round, thinking lie I had laid down some place and fell asleep, i but cod id not find him. We then thought ; that lie had saddled a mule and started, so I off we started a nil went to a place called j j California Springs, and remained there to lake a couple of hour's rest, and to let the | horses and mules graze, as the grass was excellent. We had with us, at this time, i a portion of D company of the rifles, on ; their way to New Mexico, as an escort to Capt. Jones, i When twilight appeared we roused up ' J to pursue our journey twenty miles, with out any water, or anything to eat. for when j you have no water, you will not eat much : of Uncle Sam's salty victuals. When we were ready to start, to our surprise, i Thompson —the missing man — made his appearance. He had walked every step ; of the twenty miles, after night, carrying j a heavy rifle, ammunition and canteen, j which was a pretty good load. He had to j leave his saddle kit behind. We were j rejoiced to see him coming. The first words he uttered was, to give- him water, for he was nearly dead. U e continued our journey, for twenty : miles to the river, tinder a scorching hot ! sun, (for there are no shade trees here,) i and were almost dead (or the want of wa- ; ter, and something to eat. M> friend, ! Johnson, had a canteen of molasses which I sufficed us lor drink until we arrived at i toe river. We ali hailed the sight of it. Devil's River is a very beautiful and ro mantic looking stream. 1 thought it die mildest looking stream in the world, but was afterwards undeceived. We stopped at camp Gilbert five davs. On the fourth day after our arrival. Cant, i (Jakes took twelve men, mounted on mules, j and struck across ihe country to sec if he j could get tlie horses along, and to see if he 1 could discover any signs ol Indians. Capt. ' Gilbert was with him. They went to the Fecas River and then turned back to bring on the remainder of us. We started from camp Gilbert on the sixth day after our arrival, and would have suffered for the want of water had not a few showers of ram followed us up, which j satisfied, for the time, us and our animals. I he water would collect in the crevices of rocks, from which we made out to quench our thirst. We arrived at the IVcas without any- ' thing transpiring worthy of mention, climb ing hills that you would think, to look at ' them, were impossible lor man to asceud them, without horses or mules. It rem hal ed me of the pictures 1 have seen cf Na- j poleon crossing the Alps. When we were : at the bottom the tups were almost invisi ble. When we came to the river we received orders to cross, it is so swift that there i? danger attending the crossing of it, and is very narrow. In some places it is very deep with rough bottom. The bottom is not to be seen as the water is as red as Red River, (fur guides, who were Mex icans, pitched into the stream and seemed to cross it with ease. The Captain tried it and got out a short distance but the cur rent was too strong for him. He had to have a larriette thrown to htm in order to draw him back. We tied several larriettes together and stretched them across, and at last we were safely lauded on the other side. But we had all our provisions wet by the pack mules falling and going under water. Gur hard bread got very soft by the soaking. After crossing we struck across towards the R:o Grande, climbing over some of the loftiest hills in Texas, and not as much shade ns would shelter a cat, for as far as we could see, there was not a tree or a large bush to be seen. When we would get into camp we would take the stalks of some wild weeds that grow very strong, and spre.tu our blankets over them to make a shade (vhfi.i was nearly as warm as the sun. On our route we charged on several vil j !ages, but discovered no Indians. They had retired at our approach. At last we ' arrived at the Rio Grande, where we were ceriaih. of finding thofn ;>t homo, but wa/" disappointed. But when our goec for Indians, and jf there me any r wants them ami will have them. Indians had crossed into Mexico. j'° r though our provisions were getting s' /%✓ we pushed ahead, as it was rumoreu > 4 i there was an Indian town at the mouth of \ j Pec as containing 150 or 200 Indians all jgood warriors. The number however, 1 X i would make no difference with the Capt. when he had sixty men; we having receiv |ed an audition to our party of eighteen | men, of a number under Capt. Gilbert. We pushed down the Rib for a con?if}, j erable distance, when we saw a fresh In i dian trail leading to the Rrver. We fol lowed it till we came very near the river, ■ when we saw seven head of cattle. The i Capt. divided the forces. He took the ; horsemen, and Lieut. Clawson the raule ; leers, and, up the river we charged, with ! the hopes of getting something for our i lr ukle, but no go. I was with the jmule. . :.,~do 8^A ' SnSin> a| Lp the river a considera i my own practice l vered where the fn ut *i:iee its t it and wonderful virtmflpver to trie Mexican side. *er suspected. ojck to the rest. They had everai c&3Btif successful than us, for they had • chased two into the river but did not suc- Qted in getting them on account of the Jt, bank being so sleep that they could not fol low them on horseback. They dismoflpt ed and ran down the banks to the water's JBH| ' edge, the Captain ahead, leaping from one'CSpC : foothold to another, like a wild man, wa- iff *' i ving his hat, but when fie arrived at tpe water s side there were no Indians there. , They had taken to the water, ami when j an Indian gets into water U.-u is swift they | are like a fish, and it is almost impossible ;to shoot tliern. We secured a large nuni ; ber of baskets and such things, in their camp, but they were poor plunder. We then struck across l!u country to the Pecas, which was not more titan five miles from the iiio, taking all the rattle with us with the exception of one Lrge ox, which the Captain ordered to be killed for a feast that evening. When we arrived at the Pt-cas our path led to a small village.— There were tracks there which were fresh, i The'guides slipped to the bank ant! looked | over, and below us, almost one thousand i teet, (for the banks are that lngli in man. : places,) was camp of those ted devils ! cooking their meals over their fires. I \ myself counted nine, of them We crwd ; ed to the edge of the precipice and deliv- I ered a volley upon litem. They never looked up, but ran off vnhoiit taking auv thing with them, with iho exceptions of one who took his bow and arrows with him, and the squaws, two in number.'pick ed up their basket with a papoose in it.—• They succeeded in unking their escape without any of their number being killed, but three of them were very badly wound ! Ed, from which, I am confident they will never recover. We then ran down to the river to see if we could not discover more, but they had nil lied. The two guides plunged into the river, and we stretched a rope bridge across as before, and the fir*-: . men over got the plunder. A great num ber of tbe men crossed, but Lieut. Clawson and W rtherell were almost the first to land on the other side. ihe former is a very small man a,-id had some difficulty in cros sing. he heing so light that the current ' swept him off his feet. They had to have their pistols thrown to them froth the side we were on. 1 he Captain called tor the men that were idle to come to il,r tup of the lull where the guard were with the pack mules and our animals. We had not been verv long on the hill till we heard some sinking down the river, lie mounted tbe men and gave Capt. Gilbert instructions to move on the top of the hill with his men and get in ambush. They did so, but were not kept there long until the singing became plain, and at last six head of cattle made their appearance and immediately two mounted Indians appeared behind them, driving them ahead. The foremost was singing, very cheerfully, one of his Indian songs. I think it must have been •• U>u