laroxim NYmmo - TOWANDA: 41)ebncsban sllcrrninit, Julp 21, 12-V7. The Old Area Chair. et Mile, s. J. HALL • , There's pleasnreip the humble home,' 'if childhood's sthile is there, And comfort in the lowliek room, Where stands an old arm chair. We know that hope, with heaven-bright flame, Hath.-warni'd,the mother's breast : We know the tathee+ frail-worn frame Bath fotind a place of rest ; • Bright visons of the hotisehold band, ' Of love;lhd faith; and praYer Heart joined with heart and hand With hand, Surround the old arm chair. But . childhooti's happy grace can give A charm to home most fair; And wealth, 4f wise, will never live Without his hood arm chair. . It is a throne' of holy polder, If-hearts of love surround ; A refuge in the world-sick holit, Where soothing dreams are ll:Arid': What nerves the care-bow'd man With strength,., Life's battle-field to dace? That he and his may rest at length Within a good arm chair. The monarch gn his golden throne, Of hundred kings the heir, Can he as man compare with one Who wins his good arm chair ! With willing hand and mon mind, 11.oks,up, clear-eyed, to heaven; Str ne. pure and free, as mountain wind, And kind as dew of even. Ave. such the man that God hath bless'd, Whom ang els guard with care i• ' He'll rest, an d see his lov'd one rest, Within !)is own arm chair. jrrorn.llendkli' '• Wattlongion and hi. Geiletalt Putnam. At length the die Was cast at Concord and Lex u•ion, and entrained militia had chajed British re .:Aar, in affright I;iefoire 'them. Putmun was, then quietly pursuing his occupation at hoMe ; and the next day after the battle, a plain New England Far• mer might be seen in the field with his OM and e'en Ai ntwttim , stones together, mending his fence. The trarm April nen shone down upon his weather Ileatea lee, and all .was calm and beautiful an Traitt ever is. But suddenly a man wan !seen coming in a furious gallop along the road, beiaing harriedly a them as he rode—the call to arms which thrilled every ear that heard it. Stripping to amwer no enquirien, he hurried on, and reining up hi- pautimi and fimm•eovered steed opposite this platachul farmer, hurried across the field, anti stood b r amble s : with bast; and excitement before him. The exerts of Leimg/an anti. .Concord lave been uked in blood, and the country is in a blaze 11' Thus trial tale. , Putnam's brow grew L ilark as wrath at the recital. and leaving ltis Oxen Iwhere they stood. lee stayed not even to i:liatre ifis far.. mei. apparel: or hid farewell to . his family, but leaping on his swiftest horse was soon seen tearing the road to Boston. The first blood that was Flied roused all the lion within him, and thoge who Farr that mugh form fly past, knew that wild work would soon be done. Arriving at Cambridge in twernydatr hairs, a distanee of nearly a hundred aules.he immediately railed a comicil'fof war, and rave his stem voice for War to. the last extremity. He then hurried to 1.114 Assembly of Connecticut, to Limier with it on the best mode of carrying on hos._ tilities. and as soon as his htiShifiSS was drine, sped bark to the' army with the commissiori of brigadier :Poem' in hislumil. The forces kept pmfiiig in from every quarter—thaw from each state having at otiicer of their own to command them:lo4k !he ttiOvements of the wlmic were controller) 11 4 mane)) of war. • Putnam, from his lonTexpetrience rt pilitary matter:. - And knOwo bravery and lipnoes: , in bank, .7:Lila:illy assumed the general n.am , l. moil at lem_Mi lie was practically common- OF BIZN6F;11 HILL 11'1n1,.‘ this multitudinous ainay lay around Bos fn.a uleuff any it h of discipline except to shoot • ,, 14121,1, -o f any definite anti beyond the mere de. '"rolniatino to fi , ,dif ; the officers who corutuanded 'hem•lnnlsing on thin in a clearer light, were di. jl. tnlite best course to prsue. Putnam, with tNualtpromptness and boldness 4, and Preott, 'Vrlr il.r, a battle if they could get the militia behind 'qlrefultments. They thought, and justly, that an Ptiz.cze men i . o n te s .4 peculiarly disa4mus to the 111 m, ”rfflis. would gix•e them 'confidence in themselFeq,• ami kindle a spirit of resistance diroughont the Lind. The other officers were fearful Of a defeat, "And ir Pa , leti the re:gstat of one on the army and country. holder counsel of Ptitnant rind Prescott, how erer. prevailed. • The English ; in the mean time. feeling the -re grand of fileir position ; laid two different plans In 46 ancis inin till' xpen (joinery, hilt were in both turned back 'by the precautions of the Amerir 'aos• who were emistruitly informed of their Move ""'. XI length. alyanclonim.• every other project, f; " era t ( ; , *e directed all his efforts to force a pas l'Y the peninsula 'end neck of Charlestown .- 7 firs peninsula is little over a mile long, stretchink Iron' ea.-t to west. washed nu the north by the Mrs * nn the 'south jby Charles river ; while a nar-. tow ~h anr u -eparates it from 'Boston on the cast, 11 . e sPot . Where this peninsula joins thelinain land only about a hundred-yards across, and is called FAorn this.spot rises Thinker's Hill, and ;, hole farther in towards Boston, Breed's Hill. To the,egress of the British by thigfeek, the Plan of which they had rpeiverl from friends in , n; the American '-officers resolved t to fortify Bunker's Hill, which completely commanded it. c ttionel Preseolt Was ordered to occupy this height : 4 1 a thousand men, and intrencii strongly rs• Having assembled on the Green at C4m 4 br idge, they leaned their heads for i. tow moments no their trusty &clocks, while the solemn pmyet an the evening air in their behalfrand then I ``t )l, Iv their line of march.' By some, mistake, or N'om:iy, they went farther on, and oxuvied -AEI . • , . . • , ' : ' - I . • li i -. i.] .. , .. i . . . . . ORD . . , REPORTER, • . • - ..- • . . ..., v;e Breed's Hill. At midnight, those stem-hearted men stood on the top; while Putnam marked out the lines of the entrenchments. By daylight, they had constructed a redoubt about eight rods square, in which they could shelter .themselves. At four o'- clock in the morning, the people of Boston and the British. officers were waked up by a heavy cannon ading from an English ship of war, wluise corn manner first perceived the position which the Am ericans had taken up &trine the +iiight. The Eng lis officers cotild scarcely belies f their eyes, when the.yisaw this redoubt almost o*r their heads. Au immediate battle was inevitable, jor this height commanded Buster!, hell as soon as batteries could be erected, the cityAust fall. A ll now was bustle and confusion, kill each one knew that in a few hours a most deadly conflict' must take place,— Crowds begait to gather on the shore. and thousands of eager'eyes - were turned with intense anxiety and *cinder upon that low, dark redoubt that crowned the summit of the hill. In two hours, time ail 'the artillery of the city, and the ships of war and float ing bane:deft ; were pointed against that silent struc ture. The city shook to the thunder of cannon, and that lonely height fairly rocked under the bonibs and balls that tore up its side: It absolutely rained shots and shells upon its top ; still all was silent above and about it ; yet one near enough to Catch the sound, could have heard the heavy blows of the, spade and pickaxe, and the consmnt fall of earth, as those hardy men toiled as they wirer toiled be- Ibre. IletMless of the iron storm that rattled around them, they continued their werk. and by noon gad run a tK.iteli nearly down to the Mystic river on the north. The fire was too hot- to let them work in the open field, while Putnam saw at a glance that this must be closed up at all ha4ards: for the ene my marclung.swiftly along that smooth open ground could take him ie the flank and rear. This unpro meted spot was a meadow, freAfy mown, and stud ded thick with hay-cocks, all ready to be ;:athered into the barn. .A single rail fence cro,sed it from the hilt to the. river, of which Putnam, with that quickness of invention he had acquired in his long pa email Warfare, immediately took advantage. He I ordered the men to take the rails from another fence . near by, and running them through this one, lay the hay between. In a flatulent the field 'Was black with men, some carrying rails on their shouldtws, and some with arms full of hay, and all hurrying onward. In a short time that single fence looked like a huge embankment, This completed the line of defence of the , left_ Wing and centre, which ex : tended fronts the Myslic river up to the redoubt. Behind the redoubt lay a part or the right wing, the rest being flanked by the homsesof Charlestown at the base of the h il l. Thus stretched over and down'the I hill. like a hirm cord ) lay the American army,'nerv; I ed w ith the 'desperate valor of freemen battling for their native hills. The tremenduous cannonade, which had .been kept up all the forenoon, having Tailed to dislodge the enemy,* it was resolved by the British comman ders to carry the height*, by 'assault. Putnain.' in the mean'time, had strained every nerve et add tb his means of defence. Almost constantly on horse ' back, he was riding'hither and thither, superinteed- I Ma everything and animating the men by words of eneburagment. During the night, While Prescott • Was hurrying forward the works on Breed's he sparred furiously off to Cambridge for reinforce ments. The thunder of cannon at four o'cloAr iii • the morning quickly brought him to the saddle, and In a few, mignites he as galloping up to the re 7 doubt. Ordering..ofl a detachment, to throw. up a -work on Bunker's which commanded the height on, which the army lay, he again flew to Cambridge to hurry up the troops, The Neck, over Which he wan compelled to pass. was at this rime I swept by the artillery of a ma n eny-war, and floati l ng . hatieries. Through this fire Petnam l (wildly galliv ! ed. and to hisiny found that S ark stud Heed were I on the. way to the scene of aetion. Disposing these troops to the besi advaidage. he coolly awaited the terrible onset, which he knew was preparing for him. The day was clear : not a cloud' rested on the summer heavens. and the earth seemed to pant under the fierce rays of the notiliday see. As he stood and grtzed with a stern. yet anxious eye, a s96te presented itself that mieht have moved the boldest heart. The British army had crossed the channel, surd now stood- in battle array on the shore. In the intervals of the roar of Artillery. which play ed furiously from Moreton's Hill, were heard the thrilling strains of martial muse, and the t‘tirring blast of the bugle, while pinnies (lanced and stan dards waved in the sunlight,' and nearly tire thou sand bayonets `eleatneil and shook over the dark mass below. Just then a single horseman, of slen der form, was seen moving over Seeker's Hill, and Making straight for Putna.M. It. was (leneral War ren, the gallani and noble-hearted Warren, Who had gazed on that silent redoubt and his brave brethren there, till he could no longer restrain his feelings, and had come to share their fate. Putnam with that genemsity for which lie was remarkable, Un meliately offered to put himself Under his order, 4- " No." said Warren, ".1 came as a volunterer,. to show those rascals that the Yankees can fight. 4. Where shall I be most needed V"The: fonder pointed to the redoubt as the most covered spot. "Tell me, - said Warren, while his lips quivered ' with the excitement, " where the onset Will be the keurie4t." "Go then,te tliC redoubt," said Putnam, .Prescott is there, and will do his duty—if we cad belt!' that, the day is ours." Away galloppei ,War ! . ren, and as he dashed up to the IntrenehMents, a loud huzza rent the air, and rolled iti.joYfUl accents along the lines. Nothing could exceed the grandeur and excite ment of the scene at thiti . moment. Strung over that hill and out of sight lay fifteen hundred sons of Liberty, cooly' awaiting the onset of the veteran thottsands of England, and sternly resolved to prove worthy Of the WO destinies intrusted to their care. The rdofe of the houses of Boston, the shores; and eirdry church steeple were black with spectators, looking now on the foniting columns upon the shore, and now at the silent intrencliments that PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, Fl, BY E. S. COODRICH & SON, REGARDLESII. OF DENUNCIATION Fft% QUARTER." spanned - the heights. Many of them had sons, and brothers, and husbands, and lovers on the hill, and the hearts of, all swelled high or slink low, with alternate hope and fear, as they thought of the strength and terror of the coming shock. Oh, how the earnest prayer went up to heaven and with what intense love and longing each heart turned to that silent Tdonbt. At length the English bet,rin to adVance in two dense columns. Putnam. then rode along the lines kindling the enthusiasm of the men already reused to the highest pitch, and ordered them to hold their fire till the enemy was within eight rods, and them aim at their waistbands• On came the steady battalions,: ever and anon halt ing to let the artillery play -on the intrenchments, and then advancing in the nest perfect order and beautiful array. To the spectator, that artillery appeared like moving spots of flame and smoke ascending the slope, but not a sound broke thy ominous and deathlike silence that reigned arouid the heights. But for the flag , drooped in the hot summer air over the. redong, you would luive deemed it deserted. But flashing eyes were there bent in wrath on the enemy as slowly and steadi ly they' ascended the hill, and closed sternly in for the death-stniggle. •They - were noble troops—and as in perfect order, with gay standards and polished bayonets floating andflaAfing in the sun, they advanced nearer and nearer, their appearance was imposing in the extreme. Stopping every few yards, they delivered theirdeep and regular vollies on the embankments, but not a shot replied. .That silence was more awful than the thunder of can , non, for it told of carnage and death slumbering there. At length, when the hostile columns were almost against tlie intrenchmeuts, the signal Was !7ivert and the stern order ;•Fmr.," rung with slant - ing clearness on the air. A sheet of flame replied. runiiiii. , like a flash of light along that low dark wall, and the front rank of the foe went down, as if suddenly enmilphed in the earth.- But those be hind, treading over their dead companions, press ed steadily forward, yet the same temp e st of fire sn;oteAtheir bosoms, and they sunk amid their fallen comrades. Still the steady battalions nobly strug gled to bear up a;ainst the deadly sleet, but all in vain ; rank after rank Went down, like the sand bank as it eaves over the stream, and at length. furious• with rage and despair, the whole army troke•and fled for the shore. Then went up a.' long and fond linzza from that little redoubt, which was echoed the whole length of the lines, and ans wered by thousands of voices from the roofs, and. steeples, and heights of Boston. The dise omfitted troops never halted till they readied the shore, where their commanders attemp ted to rally them. %%Tilde they Were seen riding to and f o amid the ranks'. Putnam put spurs to his horse and galloped off, iq his shirt-sleeves, after re inforcements. But the Neek over }which they tinst p ass was now swept by such a galling _fire that they refused to stir. Carried away by his intense anx iety, he rode backwards and forwards several times ) to show there was no danger, while the balls toughed up.the earth In furrows around him : but few, however, could be induced to follow, and he hastened bark to the scene of action. The spectacle the hill now presented was terrific beyond description. That redoubt was silent again, while the dead and dying lay in ghastly rows near its base. The imposing . columns were again on the march. while Charlestown. which in the interval had been set .on fire by the enemy, presented a new feature in the appaling scene. The roar and crackling of the flames were distinctly heard in the American lines ; and the smoke in immense vol umes heavenward, blotting out the sun and shed ding. a Ftrar.ze and lurid light on the ,dead-covered field'. The British commander fondly hoped that the smoke would invhlve the heights, confusing the deadly itim ) ift the Americans,. and covering the assault ;,'but the blessed brezze changing, inclined it gently seaward. leaving the battle-field Onobseu red and open as ever. Again the drums beat their hurried charge and the celerities pressed gallantly forward. Advancing more rapidly than before, they halted only to pour in their heavy tellies, and then hurryhig on over their dead and wonrided compan ions. who had fallen in the first assault, seemed abont to sweep in a resistless flood over the en trenclurients. On, en they came, 'shaking Atte heights with their he ivy muffled tread, till t stood breast to breast With that silent redoubt, when suddenly it again gaped and shot forth flame - like some huge monster. VOT a moniefit,it seethed as if the atmosphere was an element of fire. ft was a perfect herricane of fire and lead, and the firm set ranks di::appeared like • mist lit its path. The lir: ing strove manfully to stem the fight, and file reel ing ranks bore up for a While amid the carriage; led by as brave officers as ever cheered tnen,nn to death. But that firey sleet kept driving fulVin their faces, smiting them down rank after,,trink ; with such fearful rapidity, that the bravefu/gave Way.— The lines bent bar ig to their pla ces again. atiin at last riddled through and lint thing fire, the whole mass gave cliff, and broke furiously down the triumphant Initzas rocke,cl the heig,htsi And the dopes of that hill filmed red a ith floWing blood. A staldeff ;deuce followed this strange uproar, broken only by the smothered groans and cries of the wounded. lying almost within reach of the re. doubt. • On that fatal shore the English Comman ders rallied for the third and pat time their disor dered troops ; while the Amer' icais, burning With indignation and disappointment; drove home their Irst cart I lg's. ~ The st ere, the hour, the immense result atie, ark combinedno* to fill the bosom of every spec tiator with emotion of the deepest sadness, anxiety ; joi fear. The smoke of the battle hung in light around that dark redoubt, while. near by ; C rlestcrwn was one mass fit billowy flame and suteke. The slope in front of the breadtvork'trita 'otted with the slain, and ever and anon cane the booming of cannon as they still thundered oa the American intrenchments. The sun now stooping to the wtem horizon. bathed that hill-top in its gentle light, and the mild summer evening was hastening on. The hills looked green and beauti ful in the distance—all nature was, at rest, and it seemed' impossible that such arcnage had wasted there a moment before. But anotheF sight soon arrested everi eye : •the re-formed ranks of the enemy were a rain in -mo tion. Throwing aside their knapsacks to lighten their burdens, and reserving their tire, the soldiers, with fixed bayonets, marched swiftly and steadily over the slope, and up to the very intrencliments. Only one volley smote them, for the Americans, alas, had fired their last Catridge, and worse than all were without bayonets! Clubbing their mus-. kets, however, they still beat back the enemy. when the reluctant order to retreat was given.--; The gallant fellows behind the hay and fence be low still maintained their ground, and thus saved the rest of the army. Putnam, riding amid the men, and waving his sword over his head, endea vored to ,make them rally again on Bunker's UR Finding all his efforts vain. he burst forth into a tor rent of indignation. His stout heart could not en dure the day, so nobly battled for, should be lost at last. He rode between them and the enemy. be fore which they fled, and there stood in the hottest of the fire. But neither words nor example could stay their flight. Without ammunition or bayonets, Or breastwork, it was a hopeless task. Warren too, interposed his slender from between his own troops and those of the British. Moving slowly dew,' the western declivity olthe hill. he planted himself all alone, before the ree and pointing to the mottoes on theiestandards, strdite by his stiring eloquence, to rouse them to another effort. Carried away by a lofty enthusiasm. he reminded them that Heaven watched over their cause, and would sustain their efforts. While he thus calmly stood, and bent his flashing eye on the advancing battalions, an E ()dicer. who knew him, snatched a musket ft:om a soldier. and shot him dead in his footsteps. Although the Americans were compelled to re treat across the Neck, which was swept by cannon, they suffered comparatively little, and finally took their position qn Winter and Prospect Hills. and ni.ght,.soon after shat in the scene. It had been a tearful day ; nearly two thousand men lay fallen across each other on that hei.tht, fifteen hundred of whom were British gobblers. The battle-field re mained in the hands, of the English. but the victo ry was ours. The news spread like wild-lire over • the land, and one long shout went np, the shout of liberty : which the human soul heard and angwer ed, and shall answer the world Over. Anv ENTICRE WITH AN A NT-BEA R.—ln pAS,ltig thmtigh a wooded Campo (Taboleira coberta) we mine upon a large ant-eater. (Nlyrmecopluza ju bata,) which Mr. Walker followed, With the linen- lion of 4iooting. But his ::un nUssett fur. IVe a pursued it on foot, with sticks, as none of our gun happened to be loadcxl.• I was the first to come? u with it ; and, being well aware of the harmless na ture of h. mouth. I seized it by its long snout, by which I tried to hold it, when it immediately rase up on Hs hind legs, and clasped me round die middle with its powerful fore paws ; complete brought me to a stand. One of the men now corn ing up, struck it a blow on the head with a thick stick, which brought it Itir an instant to the ground. Notwithstanding it was freqeently stunned by the blows it received, it always raised itself again and ran off. At last I recollected the small pistol?: which I always carried in my pocket loaded with ball, when, by the first elicit thmtigh the breast, it fell dead. It was a very large animal, Measuring about six feet, without including the tail, which to gether with the long hair by Which it is entered, measured full four more. It rein very slow, (tm ing to the peculiar or.mnizaiion of its fore feet, tom of the claws of which are very lar.ze and doubled up when it walks or runs, causing one side of the foot to rest on the ground. The proper. or rather the principal, use of these powerful claws is to as.-ist In-obtaining the white ant, the food on which it lives. The lame clay nests of these insects are ve ry eommoif in these upland Campos and when the ant-bear waits a meal, he attacked one ofilie743- hillocks With his fore claws, tearing' nut a portion of the side, and pushes in his long. slender tongue, which is covered with a viscid saliva to which myriads of the ants adhere, and opening his little mouth, he draws it in. Now, shutting his lips push mit out a second time. retaining the ants in his outh till his tongue has been completely • cxser ted, when lie swallows them. AND NTIIAT NEXT.-21 gentleman riding near the city overtook a ell-dressed young man, and invi ted him to a seat in his carilagr. - • "And what, -. said the gentleman to t h e young stranger. " are your plans for the future ?" ". I am a clerk, - repligd the young man. " and my hope is to succeed and to get nun business for myself." And what next r' said the fzentleman. a Why ) I intend to merry and set up an c:ltab lislipient of my own, - said the youth. "And what next r' continued the intermgntor. a Why. to continue in bt.>`•inest and itentmulate Wealth:' " And what ne l xt ri it is the lot of all to 'die, and I of cmirse can not escape," replied the young ►Hari. " And what lice ?" otirelpore asked the 26n tleman ; but the young. man had no answer to make=he had no purposes that. readied beyond the present liter 4ldsr my young men am in precisely the same cOna an ition ? their plans embrace Only this life what pertains to getting wealth and enjoy life.— What pertains to the world to come has no place in antheir plans: It is thought to he A : pre v entiv e to the Unhealthy itifluenceof cucumbers Meld the slices very thin, and drop es eh one intu cold water an S - ou cut A few Minutes in the.water takes out •a large pcir. [ion of the slimy rnatter,so injurious to health. They should be eaten-with high seasoning., IrnAu roc .7.l4lWairitaigni4 Gloria Deo. Glori,t in alti.rimis Deo: The m rcies, Lord. which thou halt sent, To e. less me, since my life began. Of h eal th and ease, peace and content, In y nth and age, boy and man,. . 4 . Light my heart a sacred dame, - Make e adore thy holy name. Wit gratitude my soul o'ertlow i T. use to thank thee, Heavenly King, T e sweet refrain the apgels sing, Clot a Deo, gloria Deo. Whin or obedience to thy will, Thu giv'st the sweet reward of peace. And v.. en my duties I fulfil, Thoi send'st for help, thy saving grace; 'Tis lille the mild, refreshing show'rs,, Upon the languid, drooping &piers, Thrblessings make my virtues grow ; r use to thank thee, Heairenly King; . ' T. e sweet refrain the Angels sing. 1 Ulu; a Deo, gloria Deo. • ; s and beats, the platits and trees, hills and vales, the verdant sod • odlike man, the'skies and seas, •d sing, Glory to God. n and planets bless thy name,. E:rs thy sovereign power proclaim, lence laud thee, as they glow : I use to praise thee, Heavenly King, e sweet refrain the .angels sing, is Den, gloria Deo. The b • Th , With Uni The s The s Whent Nature lifts her drooping head. Just ; freed from Winter's icy band,.. And, 4% if rising from the dead, Shege.oines to life, at Spring's command, Thy „goodness tlwn pours genial showers, Givesismiling fie:ds and gaudy.flow'rs— Proin thee all earthly blessings flow: 1 4 1 use to thank thee, Heavenly King, he sweet refrain the angels sing, Glo-ia Deo, gloria Deo. The summer rain, the cooling dews, The cheerful sun, the fanning breeze, Pleasure and health and joy diffnse; With fruit gray Autumn loads; the trees, Thy goodness fills the world around, Thy mercy every where is found, Thy bounty's seen where'er I go: t# I'll use to thank thee, Heavenly King, The sweet refrain the angels sing, Gloria Deo, gloria Deo. Winter has bound the earth in chains, The streams have its frozen breath, Now cold inanimation reigns, And Nature seems to sleep in deaths Vet soon it will revive again, Warm'd into life, no mo re remain Enchain% by ice an d frost and snow.t • I will for this, to praise mfKing, ,Use the refrain the angels sing, ' Gloria Deo,"gloria .Deo. When Death, thy messenger, shall come ; He'll come to bless, not to destroy ; ' Glory and life spring from the tomb, .And 'tis thro' Death we reach true joy. Then, from our mortal fetters free, Weilll lea; e the earth, and Ely to thee, No'inore oppressed by sin and wo We will unite to praise our King ; lase the refrain the angels sing ; Gloria Deo, gloria Deo. NECK AND NIA:K.—The following story is told of Count Pulaski. of revolutionary m emo r y :—The hero was as,adroit a swordsman as he was perfect, in horsemanship. and he ever rode a powerful and fleet charger. During the retreat Of the American army through New Jersey, in the darkest hour of our national adversity, Pulaski was, With wsmall party of horsemen pursued by a large body of Bri• ish cavalry. the leader of which was % good horse man, and mounted nearly as well as Pulaski.— Pulaski rode in the rear of his detachment, and the British captain in advance of those he commanded. The morning sun was shining, brightly,. casting obi thine shadows, and as the pursued party entered a long. narrow lane, Pulaski having satisfied himself of the superior speed and command of his horse over that of his pursuer, slackened his pace, and kept his horse to the side of the lane fartherest from the sun. The purstUng officer came up in hot haste, his sword elevated so as to make • the decisive cut upon Pulaski as S,OOll as he could reach him. Put ttskt r ode as though lie heard not the. advance Upon him...yet lie kept his eyes thed mpon'the ground on the side of his horse towards the sun on his right. As soon as 6e s aw th e shadow o f hi s pursuer's hortie agalit upon him, and found that the horses' head. hr the shadow, hail gained about half the length of his own horses body, he gate the sudden sword etito(St. George with his powerful ann, and saw the decapitated bead of the English officer follow the stroke. His mathematical et e.ltad meastired the distmic by the position of the shadow so nocunr_ely, and his po-[lion giving a long back reach . to his right arm, while the eras i stmke of his pursuer must have been math- at a much shorter distance to have taken Oleo, that the pursuing offictir lost his head before Lc suspected that his proximity was known, or that a blow Was meditated. FA(le IN. A NUT-SII r.u..-=-Texas was annexed be ore Mr. Polk was hiling - urated as President. It wits his sworn duty to prritevt Texas ; as mtic as am- other Slate ,Mexieo commenced an ' , invasion of Texas, for O l e a vowed o b j e v t of eonquerina Had he refit-cd such prow Ilion, he would have been guilty of subornation of perjury, and justly ha- Me to impeachment, The Itirxicans comtnenced the war hv and uiva sion of Texas 'llw Atnerieang are brinaiti_ it to a close. , 'tiered or. Arnekman ri2lits still be respected by Mexico. •Ileretotere they have been meat foully rampleg I upon. , • Thee assettions are all true. and present the mattel in as few:words as possible. Ira man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend 'Ten it be is sinking dOvniwartti to be a cieril. lie cannot• «top at the beast. The, inost savage igen are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal Worse. Franidin tecommeruls in the choke ore wife to -elect trom a bunch. A down. cast editor say the common practice now is to soloalwith a bunch. Camino Ilhotory of the nglish Ihe history of the English ble inclailes a pp riil nine hundred years. e venerable Bede translated the Pwaiter and-he - pel into the Ar6ii- 154N.0ff by order of King Alfre.. The price of a Bible in 1274 ; fairly written W, from $l5O t0 E.1 5250, though in the year 1840, two es of the London • Midge were built for 8123. Richard Holies was ono of th, translation of the Bible into the as, it was spoken• after the con paraphrase in verse onAtio boo' upon the Nailer, but the whole I appeared in 1360 and 1380 A bill in the year 1491), Was b ,ught into the House of Lords, to forbid the use of E glish Miles.; bait did not pass. A decree of Ar , cl Archbishop Of Calterbury i.i 1403 forbade una thorizod , potsatiste . translate any text of Holy Seri stores into English as well as - prohibited the readi ~..- of any translation till approved of by the bis, , - or a Council.— Severalltersons were burned fo reading the word of G 04.1 ' • . •In the reign of Henry the "'What Fif, 1, a law was pass ed,t "'What whoever should re the Scriptures in their Mother tongue, should orfeit land, cattle, blily, life and good., from thei heirs for ever, and be condemned for heretics to I, enemies to the crown, and most' arrant traitors Ito the land." And between ylf; 1 and 1193 ; Faust, ,or Faustits who un dertOok the sale of Bibles at litris, where printing was then unknown. narrowly escaped punishment. He was taken for a magician because he produced them so rapidly, and ; hecause '.one copy was' so much like another. - . The Latin Vulpte, • printed . Nlayntz, in 1462, was thr very first printed edit] of the whole Bi- • hie in any language, baring the date arid place of s execution, and the name of the printer. - The first'printed edition of t e Holy Scriptures in any modern languagr, was year 1167. TI) Neal'Te.tam i wised by Malat thou, appeate(l Tyrttlal, in 1536, printed his E Antwerp : but those who sold i l l condemned by Sir Thomas M ,cellar, to ride with their faces with papers on their heads, books and themselves into the Tyndal himself . was strangle( dying prayer was : !Rid ope land's eyes." John' Fry, or Itoe who as steel Tyndal in burned' for heresy., Cranmer obtahmil a commis lon from the Xing to prepare with the assistance of learned men, a translation of the Bilile, It w. tobe printed al Pa lir,, : bur the - inquisition interfe •d. and 2500 copies were seized and condemned t , the flames. SoMo of these, however. beim!, throlgh avarice, sold,for waste paper, by the officers who superintended the ; . ling, Were recovered, and brought to England, to the great delight of Crantne7; who. on receiving Some copies, said' that it 7,ave,him more pleasure than if he had received two thousand pounds. 'lt_ was coMmanded that a bible should be deposited in every parish church, to be read by all who plea_ a 1 and permission sheen people. to purchase the Eng lish Bible for themselves and families. In the sear 1535, Covenlale's folio Bible was peblishesi, In the reign of Edward the' Sixth; new editions appeared. In May's reign, the Gos pellers, or reformers, fled abroad. but a newtrans !anon of the New Testament, in English. appeared at Geneva, in 1587, the first wine) bad the'distinc tion of verses, with figures attached to them. A gilarto edition of the whole Bible was printed at Geneva, 1260, by Rowland Ilarte. A New Tes tament in Welsh, appeared in 1269 : the whole Bible in -1588, and the English -translation called the Bishop's Bible, by Alexander Parker, in 1568. It was in 1582 that the Roman Catholic Rhenish Testament appeared, and in . 1609 and . 1610, that their Doway Old Testament was printed: In 1607 was began, and a din 1311 was completed, new and more correct traaslanon, being the present author ized version of the lioly Scriptures, by forty-Seven. learned persons, (fffiy-four were appointed.) eho.: ' s"n f r om the two Universities. This etliti , ai has . been truly styled, " not oily the glory of the rich, and the inherit:nice of the poor," I:3in the "guide of the way-worn pilgrim, the messenger of grace, and the means of knowledge, holiness, and soy to , millions.", I A Great SNOW STORM.—The followingareount of tremendous snow storms in the year t 77 7 ;; is taken from the '• History of Lynn, - by Alonzo Levis, 'published a numb tr of years ago :. .. "Two great storms, ,on the twentie h and twenty hunt)! of - February. covered the g,tonnd so deep with snow that people for some days could notcass from one house to anothei. Old Indians, of an hun dred years. said that their fathers. had never told them of such a snow. It was from, ten to twenty feet de6p, and generally covered the lower stories, of the houses. Cottages of one story' were entirely buried, so that ;he people dug patio:from one l house; to mintlier mulcr the snow. Soon after, m 4 slight rain fell, and the frost c used the snow ; and then , the people went ,out of theirliariaber-windoit . -s and' walkei over it. Many it the farmers loot dicta over _it. ; Mid n ost of the stiep and swine ~which • were s'aved I . -ed from Otte to two weeks without to, One la an hail s Intel hens bulled near he, barn, which s ere dug, out alive eleven days. after. During, this .; t ow a great aninber of deer came front tiv... Wo