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THE OLD AND THE NEW YEAR
➢Y R. E. WOODBURY
These as they change, Almighty Father! these
Aro but the varied God. The rolling year
Is full of Thee. ( Thomson.
The wheel of Time has rolled around once more,
Another year is gone—forever fled,
With all the joys or sorrows that it brought.
Sealed is the volume now; aye, all is passed,
And well may man with earnestness review
The varied records of the good old year.
Oh, what a fitting season for the heart
To scan its secret tablets, search itself,
And profit by its own experience.
It is a time for Hope and Memory
To weave fresh garlands for the Future's brow,
And deck with amaranthine wreaths the Past.
ki is the fittest period in Life,
When past forever is a fleeting year,
To form new purposes and high resolves,
And feel the soul exulted far above.
The Mires and tumults of this earthly sphere.
Oh, what a world of pleasure and of pain
is stamped upon the annals of a year!
Bright scenes of joy that made the heart most glad
With hopes of future pleasure unalloyed,
Have fled alike with those of sorrow's train
Into the portals of Eternity.-
Oh, lleavenly Father, Spirit all supreme!
Teach me Thy beauty in the rolling year,
Make me in this, Thy work divine, to feel
Thine Omnipresent majesty,
Thy wisdom unconfined, Thy mighty power
And trust confiding in Thy holy will.
4 4 .4 4 4 * *
Borne on the wings of Time, the New Year comes
With all its various train of hopes and fears,
Of sorrows and of joys.
hail bright New Year:
We bid thee welcome now, and fondly tiust
Thou wilt reveal more lasting stores of bliss
Than did the one that's gone.
Oh may the soul
Of restless, weary man, be brought to look
Above these scenes of evanescent joy—
To learn from sources pure of heavenly bliss
The lessons of its own hsgh destiny !
May it be taught the truth—that it shall live
When all the proudest monuments of art,
And noblest triumphs of the hUman mind
That e'er have graced the annals of our race,
Shall be submerged by Time's resistless force
_Beneath the waves of dark oblivion.
Aye, when the sun, the moon, the starry hosts
That lend their lustre to this mighty sphere,
Shall all have faded into endless night,
The soul shall rise immortal over all.
May this Now Year that dawns upon us now
Reflect bright beams of real happiness
Upon the human race—aye, even more—
Unseal the fountains of prosperity,
And, with an arm of giant force, o'erthrow
The barriers of sin and misery.
May man be to his follow reconciled—
Old feuds forgotten, and the bond of love
Bo strong as is the adamantine rock
Which braves the fury of the winds and waves
Last, but not least, may gentle Peace prevail,
To crown the labors of the rising year,
And make the nations feel how much of good
From universal harmony may spring. ,
These are the precious boons we ask of Thee,
Great Guide and Parent of the changing year.
Give us above them all a lively sense
Of our dependence upon Thee alone,
Thou who lost fill the measure of our lives
With blessings countless as the myriad stars
That gem the azure canopy of Heaven.
Thus shall each passing year that boars us on
But bring us nearer to that happy realm
Where all is loveliness and purity,
Since God, the Father, reigneth all in all.
THE FEMALE SPY.
A - REVOLUTIONARY STORY
In the District of Fairfield, South Caro
lina, there lived during the American Rev
olution, an honest old German faimer, who
amidst all the infections of a tory atmos
phere, remained true to the cause of the land
of his adoption, an earnest, ardent, uncom
promising advocate of Independence, and
although not under arms, a valuable auxil
iary in the struggle for American Nation
ality., His name was Hans Griger, and
although himself an emigrant, he had
reared around him a family of sons and
daughters of American soil, all of whom
partook of the old man's political senti
ments.
But with all his zeal and whole-hearted
ness, Hans was constrained to do what he
did with great caution and secrecy, for he
lived among those who would catch at any
disloyalty to the king as a pretext for vio
lence and outrage. The safety not only of
his property, but of his person and the
persons of those who relied on him for
protection were at stake. There were tory
eyes upon him, and the vindictive hatred
of that class of spirits towards anything
like rebellion, is too well known to doubt
the result of any appearance of disloyalty
on the part of the quiet old farmer. So
he kept his own counsel, and when urged
by them to take part in the royal cause, he
excused himself on account of old age and
the duties devolving upon him in the career
of his young but up-growing family. But
on the other hand he lost no opportunity
in conveying useful information to the
officers of the patriot forces, which, from
time to time, entered the district in oppo
sition to invaders of the Province. Emily
Griger was the oldest child of this faithful
but unobtrusive patriot.
At the time of which I write, an organ
ized band of tories, sustained by a few
British troops, had completely swept over
the neighboring district of Ninety-Six,
and fortified themselves in a village of,
that name, from which scouts were contin
ually scouring the province, the whole
being under the charge of the infamous
and notorious tory, John Cruger, a native
of the city of New York, at that time
holding a commission of Lieutenant
Colonel from the enemies of his native
land.
To reduce this horde of villains and
drive them from their strong-bold, the
American General, Greene, was dispatched,
but with a force inadequate to the task.--
He had laid siege to the fortress•of Ninety-
Six, but finding it stronger than had been
supposed, was compelled• to submit to the
delay necessary to the erection of counter
works, and finally began the assault.
The tory commander was on the point
of surrendering when information was
conveyed to him that Lord Rawdon, having
heard of his critical situation, was at that
moment near at hand with a sufficient force
for his succor. The effect of this infor
mation, while it inspired the garrison with
renewed energy, was most disastrous upon
the besiegers, and General Greene found
;~~~
himself compelled to raise the siege, and
withdraw his little force. He hastily
crossed the Saluda river, and retreated in
the direction of the Enoree, leaving the
tories still masters of the district. Lord
Rawdon, after reaching the fortress of
Ninety-Six, and finding all safe, set out in
pursuit of General Greene, but eventually
deemed it prudent to give up the chase
and turn his attention to the occupation of
Friday's Ferry at Granby, and the concen
tration of a strong force at that place, with
the ultimate view of sweeping the entire
continental power from the province. To
prevent this plan, General Greene deter
mined to intercept the reinforc ments of
the British commander, and accordingly
halted the banks of the Saluda, in the
immediate vicinity of our old friend Hans
Griger.
To accomplish this precautionary meas
ure, General Greene found it necessary to
send instructions to Generals Marion and
Sumpter, who were then, with their sepa
rate commands scouring the country some
where between the Edisto and Santee
rivers ; but the precise position of either
was unknown, and as the entire district
was overrun with predatory parties of the
enemy, the conveyance of a message to
either was a trust of great difficulty and
danger. In fact, the attempt was con
sidered fatal to any one who should pos
sess the hardihood to undertake it. None
seemed willing to undertake the fearful
responsibility.
But at this moment a new and unex
pected character appeared. A girl in the
garb of a peasant presented herself to the
guard of the camp, and demanded audi
ence with the General.
It was hard for them to conjecture what
mischief might be brewing under that sim
ple and homely costume ; it was at once
gravely concluded that. she must be a spy
from the tory camp. She was, however,
conducted to the marquee of the General.
lie was in no enviable humor at the mo
ment of her arrival. The messages that
he wished to send to his two Generals
were of immense importance, and driven
to vexation by what he denominated the
pusilanimous spirit of his men, who, one
and all had, by a tacit silence, refused to
convey them, he was in the act of writing
an order detailing messengers to perform
the duty, when the unexpected visitor was
announced. Not partaking of the fancies
of his men, the General ordered that she
should be immediately brought into his
presence, and accordingly she was ushered
into the marquee. She was now really
embarrassed, but the General's vexation
had changed to a good natured surprise by
the unexpected visit, and he addressed
her with so much ease, that in a moment,
her confidence was restored, and she pro
ceeded' to make known the object of the
interview.
'General,' she said, they tell us at the
farm that you want a person to carry a
message to General Sumpter.'
Ido indeed, my good girl, and 1 will
pay handsomely any one who will perform
that service for me.'
- 4 I will do it, if you please, General,
but not for pay.'
4 Well, you shall go after you have seen
your father again. There is my message
already written.. Should you lose this
dispatch, and afterwards succeed in reach
ing the camp, tell General Sumpter that
Lord Rawdon is moving towards Granby,
and he must hasten to throw his division
in advance of the enemy and defeat his
object. General Marion and Colonel Lee
will be at hand to assist him. Remember
these words, my brave girl, and depart as
speedily as you may. God bless you! Go.'
With these words he pressed her hand
heartily. In less than half an hour this
noble girl was on the back of a fleet horse,
and with the dispatch carefully concealed
in her dress, she dashed down the road on
the banks of the Saluda.
The first day of Emily's journey passed
away without any incident of moment, and
the night she passed at the house of a
planter. But before the close of the
second day, while passing through a wood,
she fell suddenly upirm a party of armed
tories. Coming from the direction of Gen
eral Greene's camp, their suspicions were
excited, they commanded her to halt. This
she did without hesitation, or any embar
rassment, when one of the fellows seized
the reins of the horse, demanding whence
she came and whither she was going.
4 I came from my father, Hans Griger,
and I go to my brother, who is near Or
angeburg,' was her brief response.
Before you proceed, will you go with
us to my house. lam sure my wife will
be glad to see you,' said the tory.
Assured by their manner that they in
tended no personal harm to her, she con
sented, with apparent cheerfulness. The
house to which they led her, lay about
half a mile distant, and having arrived
there, she was immediately locked up in a
close room. Apprehending that she might
be subject to a search, the quick-minded
girl ate, piece by piece, the dispatch that
had been entrusted to her by General
Greene, and scarcely had she completed
the destruction of the paper, when the ex
pected wife of the tory entered the apart
ment, and commenced a close and prying
scrutiny of her clothes, hair and person.
Finding nothing of a suspicious charac
ter upon her, she was at length permitted
to depart, and on the following day she'
arrived safely at the camp of General
Sumpter, and delivered to the officer word
for word the message with which she had
been entrusted. That message had much
to do in breaking the power of the British,
and closing the account of the Revolution
in South Carolina. The plans of the enemy
were frustrated ; the forces in the pro
vince were concentrated, and the battle of
Eutaw Springs followed. Emily Griger
was for a long time the toast of the patriot
army in the South, and was never forgotten
by that brave and faithful patriot, General
Nathaniel Greene.
Irxe The ptisoners in the Rochester (N. Y.)
jail had a general turn out on the night of the
12th inst., and all who desired made" their es
cape. Of the thirty five pris-ners in confine
ment, fifteen left ; the rest declined to leave.
The manner of escape was through the hack
window facing the river. They sawed off the
iron bars in five places, and sn made 'n open
ing about ten by sixteen inches, through
which they crawled, singly, and let themselves
down ten or twelve feet to the water. The
saws they used were made of watch springs,
and two of them were found in the jail after
the escape of the prisoners. How they ob
tained these implements is not known. They
were small, but very effective. The whole
process of sawing was not done in one night.
They had worked at it several nights, and
concealed the cutting by tallow and coal dust,
which would effectually fill the track of the saw.
"THAT COUNTRY IS THE MOST PROSPEROUS WHERE LABOR COMMANDS THE GREATEST REWARD."-BUOHANAN.
LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 1858.
For the Intelligenoer
THE CLOSING YEAR
IMEEM3
Farewell, thou closing year, farewell !
Lo ! now yon deep-toned solemn bell
Has rang for thee thy dying knell
In mournful tone;
And hark the fierce wind's wailing notes
Are murmuring—" Gone ."'
With thee have went our hopes and fears,
With thee have followed smiles and tears,
And all that life or hope endears,
Has passed away;
While, next in course, fresh trials and joys
Will have their sway
A peaceful journey to the dread
And mournful precincts of the dead
And bygone years, whose passing tread,
Whilst in their prime,
Is felt in this eventful life.
Old Year, be thine !
Yes! pass in peace the narrow bound
'Twist Past and Present ;—how profound,
.And mighty, too, the eternal round
Of "Father Time,"
Who nips the golden joys of youth,
In youthful prime !
iiICKORY WIOVE, December, 1858.
For the Intelligencer
LINES-By J. A. N.
Fond memory bids me linger now
Above another's tomb,
And muse upon the lovely form
Reposing midst its gloom.
My sister, friend so early called
To slumber with thy God,
Permit me now to sadly muse
Above thy covering sod.
Why pause I here above these graves
With feelings sad and lono ?
A wife's form lies buried here,
Whose soul to God hath flown.
While by her side my aged sire
In death's embrace lies low,
No more to share the common lot
Of mortals here below.
It may be long ore I again
Unto these haunts may come,
For duty calls me far away
' %I id other scenes to roam.
But wheresoever I may be,
Whatever fate attend,
I'll muse upon tho spot where rests
Each fondly cherished friend.
And Heaven grant that when this heart
!Lath ceased life's busy life,
I'll slumber in the arms of death
With those I loved in strife.
The Salt Mines of Cracow.
BY BAYARD TAYLOR
After descending 210 feet we saw the
first veins of rock salt, in a bed of clay and
crumbled sand-stone. Thirty feet more
and we were in a world of salt. Level gal
leries branched off from the foot to the
staircase ; overhead a ceiling of solid salt,
under foot a floor of salt, and on either side
dark gray walls of salt, sparkling here and
there with minute crystals. Lights glim
mered ahead, and on turning the corner
we came upon a gang of workmen, some
hacking away at the solid floor, others
trundling wheelbarrows full of the precious
cubes. here was the chapel of St. Anthony,
the oldest in the mines--a byzantine ex
cavation, supported by columns with altar,
crucifix, and life-size statues of saints, ap
parently in black marble, but all as salt as
Lot's wife, as I discovered by putting my
tongue to the nose of John the Baptist.—
The humid air of this upper story of the
mines has damaged some of the saints.—
Francis, especially, is running away like a
dip candle, and all of his head is gone ex
cept his chin.
The limbs of Joseph are dropping off as
if he had the Norwegian leprosy, and Law
rence has deeper scars than his gridiron
could have made, running up and down
his back. A Bengal light turned at the
altar, brought into sudden life this strange
temple, which presently vanished into dark
ness, as if it had never been seen.
I cannot follow, step by step, our journey
of two hours through the labyrinths of
this wonderful mine. It is a bewildering
maze of galleries, grand halls, staircases
and vaulted chambers, where one loses
all sense of distance or direction, and drifts
along blindly in the wake of his conductor.
Everything was solid salt, except where
great piers of hewn logs had been built up
to support some threatening roof, or vast
chasms, left in quarrying, had been bridged
across. As we descend to lower regions,
the air became more dry and agreeable,
and the- saline walls more pure and bril
liant. One hall, 108 feet high, resembled
a Grecian theatre, the traces of block taken
out in regular layers representing the seats
for the spectators. Out of the single hall
1,000,000 cwt. of salt had been taken, or
enough to supply the 40,000,000 inhabi
tants in Austria one year.
Two obelisks of salt commemorated the
visit of Francis I. and his Empress in
another spacious irregular vault, through
which we passed by means of a wooden
bridge resting on piers of the crystalme
rock. After we had descended to the bot
tom of the chamber, a boy ran along above
with a burning Bengal light, throwing
flashes of blue lustre on the obelisks, on the
scarred walls, vast arches, the entrance to
deeper halls, and the far roof, fretted with
the picks of the workmen. The effect was
magical—wonderful. Even the old Prus
sian, who had the face of au exchange
broker, exclaimed, as he pointed upwards :
It is like a sky full of cloud lambkins.'
Presently we entered another and loftier
chamber, yawning downward like the
mouth of hell, with cavernous tunnels open
ing out of the further end. In these tun
nels the workmen, half naked, with torches
in their hands, wild cries, fireworks and
the firing of guns (which here so reverber- •
ate in the imprisoned air that one can feel
every wave of sound,) gave a rough repre
sentation of the infernal regions, for the
benefit of the crowned heads - who visit the
mines. The effect must be indeed diaboli
cal. Even we, unexceptionable characters
as we were, looked truly unearthly in our
ghostly garments, amid the livid glare of
the fireworks.
A little further, we struck upon a lake
four fathoms deep, upon which we embark
ed in a heavy square boat and entered a
gloomy tunnel, over the entrance of which
was inscribed in salt letters Good luck to
you !' In such a place the mptto seemed
ironical Abandon hope, all ye who enter
here,' would have been more appropriate.
Midway in the tunnel, the halls at either
end ware suddenly illuminated, and a crash,
as of a hundred cannon bellowing through
the hollow vaults, shook the air and water
in such wise that our boat had not ceased
trembling when we landed in the farther
hall. A tablet inscribed Heartily wel
come !' saluted us on landing. Finally,
at the depth of 450 feet, our journey ceased,
although we were but half way to the bot
tom. The remainder is a wilderness of
shafts, galleries Mid smaller chambers, the
extent of which we could only conjecture.
We then returned thro' scores of tortuous
passages to some vaults where a lot of
gnomes, naked to the hips, were busy with
pick, mallet and wedge, blocking out and
separating the solid pavement.
The process is quite primitive, scarcely
differing from that of the ancient Egypt
ian= in quarrying granite. The blocks are
first marked out on the surface by a series
of grooves. One side is then deepened to
the required thickness, and wedges being
inserted under the block, it is soon split
off. It is then split transversely into pieces
of 1 cwt. each, in wnich form it is ready
for sale. Those intended for Russia are
rounded on the edges and corners until
they acquire the shape of large cocoons,
for the convenience of transportation into
the interior of the country.
The number of workmen employed in the
mines is 1500, all of whom belong the
upper crust '—that is, they live on the
outside of the world. They are divided
into gangs, and relieve every six hours.—
Each gang quarries out, on an average, a
little more than 1,000 owt. of salt in that
space of time, making the annual yield 4,-
500,000 cwt ! The men we saw were fine
muscular, healthy looking fellows, and the
officers, in answer to my questions, stated
that their sanitary condition was quite
equal to that of the field laborers. Scurvy
does not occur among them, and the equal
ity of the temperature of the mines—
which stands at 54 deg. of Fahrenheit all
the yeararound, has a favorable effect upon
such as are predisposed to diseases of the
lungs. He was not aware of any peculiar
form of disease induced by the substance
in which they work, notwithstanding where
there the air is humid salt crystals form
upon the wood work. The wood I may
here remark never rots, and where untouch
ed, retains its quality for centuries. The
officer explicitly denied the story of men
having been born in these mines, and hav
ing gone through life without ever mount_
ing Lo the upper world. So there goes
another interesting fiction of our youth.
It requires a stretch of imagination to
conceive the extent of this salt bed. As
far as explored, its length is two and a
half Engish miles, its breadth a little over
half a mile, and its solid depth 600 feet be
low the surface, and is then uninterrupted
by sandstone, such as form the peaks of
the Carpathian mountains. Below this there
is no probability that it again re-appears.
The general direction is east and west,
dipping rapidly at its western extremity,
so that it may, no doubt, push much fur
ther on that direction. Notwithstanding
the immense amount already quarried—
and it will be better understood when I
state that the aggregate length of the shafts
and galleries amount to four hundred and
forty miles—it is estimated that at the
present rate of exploration, the known
supply cannot be exhausted under 300
years. The tripartite treaty, on the par
tition of Poland, limits Austria to the pres
ent amount-4;600,000 cwt. annually—of
which she is bound to furnish 30,000 cwt.
to Prussia, and 800,000 to Russia, leaving
3,400;000 cwt. to herself. This sum yields
her a net revenue from the mines, of two
millions of 'florins, 51,000,000, annually.
It is not known how this wonderful
deposit—more precious than gold itself—
was originally discovered. We know that
it was worked in the 12th century, and
perhaps much earlier. The popular faith
has invented several miracles to account
for it, giving the merit to favorite saints.
One, which is gravely published in " The
History of Cracow," states that a Polish
King, who wooed a princess Elizabeth of
Hungary (not the saint of Wartburg) in
the tenth century, asked what she would
choose as a bridal gift from him. Some
thing that would most benefit his people.
The marriage ceremony was performed in
a chapel in one of the salt mines of
Transylvania. Soon after being transferred
to Cracow, Elizabeth went out to Wiclieka,
surveyed the ground, and after choosing a
spot, commanded the people to dig. In
the course of a few days they found a salt
crystal, which the Queen caused to be set
in her wedding ring, and wore until the
day of her death. She must have been a
wonderful geologist for those days. The
bed actually follows the Carpathians,
appearing at intervals in small deposits,
into Transylvania, where there are exten
sive mines. It is believed, also, that it
stretches northward into Russian Poland.
Some years ago the Bank of Warsaw
expended large sums in- boring for salt
near the Austrian frontier. There was
much excitment and speculation for a
time ; but although the mineral was found,
the cost of quarrying it was too great, and
the enterprise was dropped.
AN INCIDENT.-Mr. B—, a young
gentleman of fine talents, was years ago a
chief clerk in a bank in Virginia. He
was a good scholar, an a courageous and
honest young man, but was the leader of
an infidel club, and had nearly succeeded
in throwing from his mind the last shackles
of what he used to call the " nursery su
perstition," which was the religion his pious
mother had taught him.
On one occasion upward of one hundred
thousand dollars in bank bills had to be
carried to Kentucky, and he was selected
to carry them. As he was obliged to pass
through a part of the country where high
way robbery and even murder were said
to be frequent, he arranged to pass it in
the daytime. But he took the wrong
road, and having lost himself, was glad to
find a shelter anywhere. He rode about
a long time in the forest, amid the dark
ness and chilliness of a starless October
night.
At length he saw a dim light, , and
pushed his horse forward until he came to
a poor, wretched-looking log cabin. It
was now near ten o'clock. He knocked
and was admitted by a woman, who told
him she and her children were alone, her
husband had gone out hunting, but she
was certain be would return, as he always
came according to his promise. The
young man's feelings may well be imagined.
Here he was with a large sum of money,
alone, and perhaps in the house of one of
those robbers whose name -was the terror
of the country. He could go no farther—
what was to be done 1 The woman gave
him supper, and proposed his retiring to
rest. But no, he could not think of per
mitting himself thus easily to fall into
the hands of robbers. He took ont his
pistols, examined the priming, and deter
mined to seR his life as dear as he could.
In the mean time the man of the house
returned • he was rather a fierce, uncouth
looking hunter ; he had on a dirty skin
hunting-shirt and a bearskin cap, and
seemed to be much fatigued, and in no
very talkitive mood, all of which boded
our young infidel no good. He asked the
stranger if he did not wish to retire : he
told him no, he would sit by the fire all
night. The. man of the house urged him.
But ne, he could not think of such a thing.
He was terribly alarmed, and expected
this would be his last night on earth.—
His infidel principles gave him little com
fort. His fears grew into perfect agony.
What was to be done ?
At length the rough backwoodsman
rose up, and reaching over the stranger's
head to a shelf, took down an old book,
and said, "Well, stranger, if you wont go
to bed, 1 will : but it is my custom always
to read a chapter out of God's word before
Igo to bed." A load was at once re
moved from him. Though Avowing him
self an infidel, he pow had full confidence
in the Bible ; he was at once safe ; he
felt that the man who kept an old Bible
in the house, and read it, and bent his
knees before his Maker, would do him no
harm. He listened to the prayers of the
good man, at once dismissed his fears, and
laid down in that rude cabin and slept as
calmly as he did under his father's roof.
"Old Zeke's" Buffalo Ride.
You probably do not know Ezekiel Bai
ley, or, as he is familarly known, ' Old
Zeke.' He loves whiskey, although he
says he can do " edzactly as well without
it," and is wonderfully fond of relating
incidents of Western adventure, and other
stories stunning to human credulity.—
Twenty years ago he followed the business
of trapping in the Rocky Mountains, and
subsequently familiarized himself with the
Independence and Santa Fe trading trail
by frequent journeys over it. Such being
the case, it is not strange that he should
have met with many remarkable adven
tures ; yet, by invariably making himself
the hero of his stories, the impression is
prevalent that he sometimes gives the
adventures of others as his own, even if he
does not commit the greater enormity of
drawing them entirely from the imagina
tion. Permit me to make mention of one
of his stories—a true one, I am almost
inclined to believe, for I have heard him
relate it at least a dozen times, and the
different recitals substantially agree in
fact.
In 1842, in returning from the head of
the Sweet-water, the party of which he was
a member were compelled to lay by' for
a week in the neighborhood of the Black
Hills, in consequence of i he sickness of one
of their number. Buffalo were abundant, as
the immense herds roaming the plains at
that time were on their annual journey
southward, and Bailey amused himself by
mounting his mustang and giving them
chase. This he could do with safety, as'
the Sioux at that time were friendly. One
day having ridden five or six miles from
()amp, and reached a pretty rugged scope
of country at the foot of the hills, without
discovering any traces of his favorite game,
he dismounted from his poney in a little
valley where the grass was rank and green,
and twisting one end of the long riata
around his wrist, which afforded die
animal a circuit of more than an acre, he
threw himself under the scanty shade of a
stunted cedar, and in five minutes was
asleep. How long he slept he does not
know, but he was awoke by a determined
tugging at his wrist, and a noise like the
sound of distant thunder. Jumping to his
feet and grasping his rifle, he saw a herd
of buffalo rolling over the hills in huge
waves and bearing directly down upon him,
while his pony, which had taken fright at
their approach, was galloping off at full
speed.
What was to be done To avoid them
was impossible, and as they were already
within two hundred yards, no time was to
be lost. With the coolness characterizing
the western hunter, he raised the rifle to
his shoulder, with the view of c , dropping"
the foremost of the herd, and finding
security in a diversion over the fallen body
of the animal of the frenzied avalanche.
Nearer and nearer they approached, shak
ing the solid earth in their course, and
when within fifty yards, a sight' was
drawn upon one of the largest by the
hunter and the trigger pulled. Horror !
the cap exploded without igniting the
powder ! To replace the exploded cap
with another before the herd would reach
was impossible. To save himself from
complete annihilation, but one chance
remained, and that was as desperate as
can well be imagined. Firmly bracing
himself, he awaited the approach of the
foremost, a large bull, and aiming a blow
at his head with the rifle, attempted to
bring him to his knees. The animal was
staggered but did not fall, seeing which,
the hunter dropped the weapon, and with
a desperate bound cleared the head of the
buffalo, alighting firmly upon the back of
the terrified animal. He reared, plunged
and bellowed, but with the clutch of death
Bailey clung to his shaggy mane, and
could not be shaken off.
He heard a shout behind him. He had
too long been a hunter in the western
wilds not to comprehend its awful meaning.
The herd was being driven over a preci
pice by the Indians! His only hope had
been, that the animal he was bestriding
might fall exhausted, but now that was
dissipated, and certain death looked him
in the face. All doubts as to the character
of the stampede were soon removed by a
sight of the precipice over which he was
being borne. Louder and louder came the
shouts of the savages from behind the
surging sea of flesh, and more furious
became the speed of the maddened herd
and more appalling the thunder of their
untiring feet. The animal Bally was
riding, lashed frantic at his burden, had
left the herd a hundred yards behind. He
had approached within thirty feet of the
declivity, and his determination to plunge
headlong over it seemed evident, when he
suddenly wheeled and darted along the
brim of the precipice, anxious, apparently,
to escape the overwhelming surge gather
ing in might around him. But all his
efforts were vain. In a moment a com
pact mass of shaggy heads dashed to the
edge of the chasm. A momentary check
ensued, but in an instant the van, with a
wild bellow, was crowded over the steep,
and the whole moving mass became a
cataract.
Seeing escape impossible, the animal
ridden by Bailey leaped head foremost
down the descent, which could not have
been less than a hundred feet. How he
struck, or how he escaped death, is more
than Bailey is 'able to say. Ho evidently
fainted in making the descent, and when
at last he came to his senses was lying,
considerably bruised, beside a large rock,
which`had probably protected him from
the deluge of falling animals, and thus
saved his life. The sight presented to his
gaze was appalling. No less than five
thousand animals were lying around the
base of the precipice, and in some places
their bodies were piled in masses twenty
five or thirty feet in depth. The Indians
soon made their appearance, and after
learning, with no little astonishment, of
the na!trow escape of Bailey, conveyed him
to the camp of the trappers. This is Old
Zeke's" story. Is it true ?
YOUNG MAN, SAVE THAT DOLLAR
Keep out of that coffee-house, and let
your friends treat themselves. They,
doubtless, can afford it better than you.
Keep your eye off that omnibus, too ; you
are young—your legs are stout, and you
can foot it, wherever you want to go.—
Nor look so languishing at the clothing
door, or hat window, or boot case, as you
pass along; all extravagances, catchpen
nies for spendthrifts and fashionable but
terflies. You can get along without them ;
your old clothes are nice enough for sev
eral months yet ; whiskey and tobacco are
deleterious, and it is a positive orime to ride
when you can walk, or go out frolicking at
night, to the great scandal of your virtu
ous bed at home.
Again we say, bold on to that dollar—
squeeze it till the eagle shrieks, and save
it till it rusts. Grab all the other dollars
you can, and when caught serve them the
same way. Do this, and you will some
day be rich. If you don't hold on to your
dollar when you have it, there's no know
ing how soon you may be floored. Pover
ty hangs like the sword of Damocles over
many a head invisible, and letting go the
dollar is too often the act which snaps the
fatal thread. Be temperate, be wise, be
economical ; a penny saved is a penny
made ; collect the dibs ; gather the :Ton
dulics ; accumulate the mopuses ; do
anything, everything that is honest, to be
come the owner of untold pewter, and in
after years repose your head upon a moun
tain of golden rhino. The best way to
liegin all this, is to f hold to that dollar
while you have it;:f and let your fancy
friends and the fancy shops and stables go
to the ancient Nicholas.
Are you ashamed to be economical ?
Why, man, we don't mean for you to be
mean and stingy, but only saving and
economical ! Don't spend it for whiskey
and cigars, for ale and tobacco, for fancy
horses and fancy women ! Hold on to
that dollar, we say. How's your grip ?
Do you hold well? You don't! Well
just give one more hard squeeze, whilst we
clinch it for you. Imagine yourself a
gray-haired old man, leaning upon a staff
for support, unable to labor, and without
a red cent in your pocket ; and then think
of the many, many times you've let a
dollar—one dollar—slip through your
fingers ! Think how happy you would be
if you had them all back !—how wretched
and miserable you are without them.
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